In 2017, Yang Zhenning gave up his American citizenship, regained his Chinese nationality, and became an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Facing the interview, Yang Zhenning said: What is circulating in my body is my father's blood and the blood of the Chinese nation.
Now, I have finally been able to regain my Chinese citizenship, which can also be regarded as fulfilling my father's last wish before his death.
Then, Yang Zhenning's name, we are like thunder, then what kind of person is Yang Zhenning's father Yang Wuzhi?
And why, until his death, Yang Wuzhi was still angry because his son Yang Zhenning refused to return to China?
Although Yang Zhenning's father, Yang Wuzhi, failed to win the Nobel Prize, his fame was much greater than yang Zhenning's.
He was a brilliant mathematician and, more importantly, a brilliant mathematics educator.
Chen Shengsheng and Hua Luogeng were both from the door of Yang Wuzhi's old man.
Born in the late Qing Dynasty, Yang Wuzhi's father was a talent who saw the corrupt Qing government.
Without hesitation, he gave up his meritorious name, because of his father's reasons, Yang Wuzhi received attention and high expectations.
His life experience is rich, and his daughter, Yang Zhenning's sister Ms. Yang Zhenyu, once evaluated Mr. Yang Wuzhi.
He said: My father experienced the decaying Manchu Qing, the Xinhai Revolution, and the warlord melee.
Experienced the era of the War of Resistance Against Japan and the War of Liberation.
However, no matter how the world changes, he has always had the country in mind and has influenced our generation.
Indeed, at that time, Yang Zhenning had just won the Nobel Prize in Physics.
He was ready for further academic research, and his wife Du Zhili was with him.
At the same time, the construction of new China is also proceeding in an orderly manner.
Father Yang Wuzhi knows that his son Yang Zhenning is a rare talent,
Therefore, Yang Wuzhi twice persuaded Yang Zhenning to return to China.
However, Yang Zhenning refused his father's request because of the political environment at that time and the conditions required for academic research.
Mr. Yang Wuzhi, who has not been able to achieve his wishes twice, has always been grumpy about this matter.
There was even a time when the relationship between father and son fell into a freezing point.
Until the day when Mr. Yang Wuzhi died.
Still full of talent for his son, but he can't put it into the motherland, and he feels that it is difficult to let go, and he ends up with hatred.
Yang Wuzhi, a native of Hefei, Anhui Province, was born in April 1896, his father was a talented man who attached great importance to the education of Yang Wuzhi.
Under the influence of his father, Yang Wuzhi was academically unstoppable.
In 1914, he was admitted to the preparatory department of Beijing Higher Normal School, and in the same year, Yang Wuzhi married Luo Menghua of Qingmei Bamboo Horse.
In 1922, the eldest son, Yang Zhenning, was born.
The following year, Yang Wuzhi was granted a government-funded study abroad quota, and three years later obtained a master's degree in the Department of Mathematics at Stanford University.
With a master's degree from the University of Chicago, he became the first person to study Chinese factor theory.
In 1928, after Yang Wuzhi completed his studies, he rejected the olive branch thrown by countless organizations and companies in the United States.
He chose to return to China to work as a professor at four universities and devoted himself to education.
A large number of mathematical talents were trained, and the Chinese mathematical community at that time was added to the tiles, which made the mathematical community full of vitality.
In his life, Mr. Yang Wuzhi actually had many opportunities to join the American citizenship that everyone envied in that period.
In his youth, he was admired and retained by many professors in the United States.
At that time, people said to Yang Wuzhi: Stay in the United States, your achievements will be unlimited.
There is state-of-the-art equipment and plenty of money to support you.
Why would you want to go back to your country and become a very low-paid, exhausted teacher?
For a mathematician like you, it is your mission to pursue the ultimate in scholarship.
And being a teacher is nothing more than what half-baked mathematicians pursue.
As long as you stay, I guarantee you will be able to become a U.S. citizen.
And, with your talents, it's not impossible to become america's youngest mathematician.
Yang Wuzhi's answer to this is only one sentence: that is, I am the Chinese, I am the Chinese nation, and the motherland is my mother.
I chose to return to China as a teacher, not because of anything else, but because I really wanted to be an educator, not a mathematician.
I want to dedicate what I have learned in my life to the country and cultivate talents for the country, which is my value.
Yang Wuzhi's temper was very gentle, and he had never even been angry with people.
The only anger was when the eldest son, Yang Zhenning, became a U.S. citizen.
Fortunately, 30 years after Mr. Yang Wuzhi left us, the eldest son, Yang Zhenning, returned to China.
Seeing this scene, may he be satisfied in heaven, right?
Mr. Yang Wuzhi's life is a great life, he bowed down for the motherland, and died later.
Today, Mr. Yang Zhenning has returned to the motherland and added bricks and tiles to the development of China's physics community.
However, there are still many Internet trolls to spray Mr. Yang Zhenning.
He said he left the best scientific career for the United States, and came back to find respect when he was old.
It is also said that he, a person who has been half-cut into the ground, has returned to enjoy the treatment of the old cadre department.
Others say he is a pure egoist, saying he is unpatriotic.
After Yang Zhenning and Weng Fan joined hands, the insults against Yang Lao continued.
Of course, there are also some netizens with extremely positive views who stand up and speak fairly.
However, some of these insignificant people have been drowned in the crowds by those internet trolls.
In fact, if we are willing to deeply understand the life of Mr. Yang Zhenning, this will not be the case.
Mr. Yang Zhenning is known as the first person in the world of physics, and his Nobel Prize-winning theory has subverted the entire physics community.
Moreover, before the founding of New China, those Chinese students studying abroad felt inferior and not respected by others.
It was Mr. Yang Zhenning's help and enlightenment that made them dispel this idea.
And these Mr. Yang Zhenning never mentioned.
Before Mr. Yang Zhenning returned to China, he had already assumed the responsibility of bridge communication between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait.
And donated all his savings to introduce talents to Tsinghua University, but we just don't know.
For these ancestors, we should respect and learn.
Instead of self-deception, self-righteousness comes and goes spraying them and criticizing them with self-righteousness.
They are the backbone of the Chinese nation and the outstanding representatives of China.
It is the proud son of heaven bred by the great China of more than 9.6 million square kilometers.
Whether it is Mr. Yang Wuzhi or Mr. Yang Zhenning, they are all examples for us to learn from and pay tribute to them.