Father Yan Yuan, a foreign student in China, was a magistrate. Tonghe is very smart since he was a child. Teenagers often compete with their classmates to read The Amethyst, Hundreds of Surnames and Travel in Qionglin. After his father died, he went to Guangzhou to study with Taoist Yi Tong and studied under the famous scholar Tao Bifeng and others. In the 19th year of Guangxu reign in Qing Dynasty (1893), Gui Zhong took part in the rural examination in Shuntian, and was among the best in the imperial examination. When Gong was admitted to the palace entrance examination in Baohe Hall, he was asked about the major policy of "seeking talents, learning martial arts, following the fate and managing money". In "Countermeasures for Palace Examination", he traced back to the source, followed by reform, and clarified that "Tiangong is a generation of beautiful men" and "it is better to research by name". "Military salute is one of the five rites", and lists books such as Zuo Shi's Art of War, Zi Zhi Tong Jian, Wu Beizhi, Twelve Tactics of Jintang, Ji Xiaoxin's Book, Practical Discipline of Training, Competing with It, Books on Diseases in Counties and Countries, and Compilation of Charts. "No soldier can win, and there is no system to win." Open source and reduce expenditure ","the way to make money is easy ". Yangyang has more than 2,000 words, and won the appreciation of eight ministers, including Sun Jianai, the official department minister, and Kungang, the marking officer. Guangxu

Emperor: Xia Tong and a champion of the Reform Movement of 1898 (No.1), according to the Huang Bang, "Dakui Tianxia" is one of only two literary champions (Guiyang Qingyan Zhao Yijiong) since the establishment of Guizhou Province. Give the champion a triangular hat, a feather, a ribbon, etc. And give the academician courtyard an editing job.

In the 28th year of Guangxu (1902), the Ministry of Rites appointed Tonghe as the Boxer Rebellion and Xin Chou as the deputy examiner in Hunan. After returning to Beijing, he was appointed as the school supervisor. Under the influence of western culture and industrial revolution, in the thirty-third year of Guangxu (1906), the Qing government sent a Tonghe delegation to Japan to study and inspect, and spent six years in Japan, mainly studying courses in industrial and economic construction. He returned to China in the first year of the Republic of China (19 12). He became a person who won the double academic qualifications of being the top scholar in China and studying in Japan since the implementation of the imperial examination system in the Sui Dynasty (15 18).

After the victory of the Revolution of 1911, Guizhou Autonomous Council came to power. Xia Tonghe lived in a private house in Guiyang, and learned that the Constitutionalists were plotting to usurp power and framed the autonomous region as bandits, pleading with the Yunnan military government to send Tang troops to suppress it. Xia Tonghe thought that the Constitutionalists were plotting to get on the right track, that is, secretly telling Zhong Changzuo, a close friend of Yunnan, that Zhong Changzuo had written to the Yunnan military government and Cai E agreed to a truce. However, Tang, who was on his way to Guizhou, brazenly sent troops to Guizhou on the pretext of "not accepting your life". Later, Xia Tonghe was wary of the constitutionalists and did not participate in Guizhou politics.

19 13 Spring, the National Government launched a constitutional movement throughout the country. Duyun elected Tonghe as the representative, one of the 23 members of the Senate and House of Representatives elected by Guizhou, and Tonghe served as the representative. In the same year, Wang Tianpei went to Beijing with Mu Yongkang and Wu Guoliang. Because of their indiscretion, they were arrested and imprisoned. Tianpei "took the blame" and went to prison. Tonghe learned that he had rescued Tianpei and returned to Baoding Military Academy.

From 1920 to 1923, Xia Tonghe became the director of Jiangxi Provincial Industry Department and returned to Beijing two and a half years later. His godsons Yin Bo and Su Chu both graduated from Waseda University.

Tonghe Gongwen Mountain Book, Guangdong Qiuqian Monument Ink and Lingnan Literature and History are all preserved by photography. In order to make more friends, the couplets of "the last to make friends, the anniversary" are collected by Guizhou Provincial Museum. Xiao Fang's inscription for the Xieshi Festival in Guandu County, Chishui: "Striving forward in a down-to-earth manner, listening to the folk songs, all vying for the fragrance of catkins and being trained by ash; Religious family style, hanging down the square table, reflecting with my father Dehui, talking about the ice and snow festival and lying in the snow. " Very well protected. The original calligraphy plaque of Gaojian's former residence "Champion" and the couplet "Strive for the virtue of Chongming and love Jingguang at any time". In order to praise the reputation of the champion, Tuanjie Lane in Guiyang City, where Tongheju lived, was renamed Champion Street in the early Republic of China. After liberation, it was renamed Xia Zhuangyuan Street to distinguish it from Cao Zhuangyuan (Wu) Street.