“震东机”寓言振兴东方工业之意 19世纪末、20世纪初,在广州市针织工业的发展中,旅日华侨杨高臣先生做出了重要贡献。他是广东省惠阳县良井人,年少家贫,十多岁时在淡水一间学校里当炊事员,后来到广州做工。这期间,正赶上清政府派人去日本学技术,他被选上。在日本学习的多年里,他专门研习针织机械和针织品的生产。清朝末年,杨高臣从日本带回川龟牌、川长牌手摇织袜机,到广州开办纺织作坊,命名“震动”。后来,他发现仅仅用日本的机器生产,受制于人,振兴东方工业之意难以实现。于是,他大胆仿造了日本手摇机并出售,从而使“震东机”成为广州市第一批自造织袜机。这是辛亥革命前后的事了。 The Meaning of “Zhandongji” Fables to Revitalize Oriental Industry In the late 19th and early 20th century, during the development of the knitting industry in Guangzhou, Mr. Yang Gaochen, an overseas Chinese from Japan, made important contributions. He is a man in Liangjing County, Huiyang County, Guangdong Province. He was a young man, and he was a cook in a freshwater school in his teens and later worked in Guangzhou. During this period, he was caught up with the Qing government to send people to Japan to learn technology. He was chosen. For many years studying in Japan, he specialized in the production of knitting machinery and knitwear. In the last years of the Qing Dynasty, Yang Gaochen brought back Sichuan Turtles and Sichuan long-term hand-rolled socks from Japan and set up a textile workshop in Guangzhou to name it “Vibration.” Later, he discovered that it was difficult to achieve the purpose of rejuvenating the Oriental industry because it was controlled only by a Japanese machine. As a result, he boldly imitated the Japanese hand crank machine and sold it, making the “Zhendong Machine” become the first batch of self-made hosiery machines in Guangzhou. This was before and after the Revolution of 1911.