In 1995, Yang Zhenning first met Weng Fan at Shantou University, when Weng Fan was still a first-year student, Yang Zhenning went to Shantou University to participate in the first World Chinese Physics Conference, and the school arranged for Weng Fan to be a guide for him and his wife Du Zhili.
In the short period of time together, they both left a good impression on each other, and for many years after that, Weng Fan and Yang Zhenning and his wife maintained correspondence.
In 2003, Du Zhili died of illness, and Weng Fan and an ordinary employee in Hong Kong ended a marriage that lasted only two years.
One day in February 2004, Weng Fan suddenly received a call from Yang Zhenning inviting her to meet at Sun Yat-sen University, and Weng Fan gladly went there.
After 8 years, Yang Zhenning is still energetic and walks quickly, no different from 8 years ago, which makes Weng Fan, who was prepared in advance to support him, feel a little surprised.
After this meeting, Yang Zhenning was deeply attracted by Weng Fan's gentleness and frankness, unforgettable, and in the following days, as soon as he had time, he could not help but call Weng Fan's phone.
Gradually, receiving Yang Zhenning's phone calls every day became the most important part of Weng Fan's life, and once she could not receive the call as scheduled, she would have a deep sense of loss.
Once, Weng Fan was shopping with a friend, and then received a call from Yang Zhenning, seeing that the two were chatting so intimately, after hanging up the phone, the friend jokingly asked Weng Fan: "Is Professor Yang in love with you, with his identity and status, if he does not like you, he will not call you so frequently, right?"
This ridicule made Weng Fan blush instantly.
In many exchanges, Weng Fan and Yang Zhenning have learned more about each other.
Yang Zhenning invited Weng Fan to tsinghua university to be a guest at his "Guigenju", and when Weng Fan took a taxi, Yang Zhenning had already instructed the nanny to make Weng Fan's favorite meal.
After a short stay in Beijing, Weng Fan went on to travel to Shanxi, and Yang Zhenning's kind smile appeared in her mind from time to time.
Yang Zhenning is a full 54 years older than himself, how could he fall in love with him? After realizing this, Weng Fan was very flustered in her heart, but she calmed down and thought about it, Yang Zhenning was no worse than young people except for his age, mentality and charm.
Weng Fan had to admit that although she had left, her heart had remained with Yang Zhenning.
Weng Fan, who originally admired Yang Zhenning, happened to meet Yang Zhenning, who liked her and loved her, and unconsciously, her feelings had changed from worship and respect to love.
The two people, who were deeply emotionally tormented, went on a trip to The Guangxi Northwest Sea together during the Golden Week of November 2004, and the two of them rode their bicycles happily through the coconut grove trail.
After returning to Beijing from Beihai, Yang Zhenning, who couldn't help but miss him, proposed to Weng Fan by phone, and at that time Weng Fan said, "Where is there any marriage proposal that does not send roses?" Yang Zhenning smiled and promised, "I'll make up for you next time we meet."
Weng Fan's family is superior, her parents have loved her since childhood, when Weng Fan slowly told her parents about the things between himself and Yang Zhenning, his parents were surprised, and under Weng Fan's explanation and enlightenment, the enlightened old man finally nodded in agreement.
Yang Zhenning's three children, although they are all older than Weng Fan, understand and agree with their father's choice, and they are very optimistic that Weng Fan, who has a gentle temperament, can accompany his father to take care of him.
On December 24, 2004, Yang Zhenning and Weng Fan went through marriage registration procedures.
Yang Zhenning is one of the most important masters of physics today after Einstein and Dirac.
In 1957, at the Nobel Prize ceremony held in Sweden, the 35-year-old Yang Zhenning, with the "cosmological non-constancy theorem", won the Nobel Prize in Physics together with another Chinese physicist, Li Zhengdao, whose theory in physics was so profound that ordinary people could not understand it.
However, his marriage to Weng Fan caused an uproar all over the world.
For a time, some people blessed, some people questioned.
Weng Fan's father, Weng Yunguang, said in an interview with the media: "Fully understand and support her daughter's choice, Xiaofan is willing to make sacrifices to take care of Professor Yang's later life, this is a virtue and an honor, I hope that everyone will respect Xiaofan's choice and not put pressure on her daughter and son-in-law."
For his father's words, Weng Fan believes that from the perspective of parents, they will have very complicated feelings, although they will have worries and concerns about their daughter's choice, and finally give blessings.
Yang Zhenning said: Xiaofan and I are together, I do not feel that she is making a sacrifice, do not use the term sacrifice, because sacrifice contains a lot of meaning, although I am much older than Weng Fan, I am not in the future, she will live for decades, my attitude is to try to do something good today, so that the future problems are less.
In 2015, Weng Fan and Yang Zhenning were guests in "Yang Lan Interview", Weng Fan said from the bottom of his heart: "Looking back on these eleven years, I feel that my life is very calm and stable, I enjoy it very much, I feel that I am in the ivory tower, I did not expect that I would like this state so much, he gave me a very pure world."
Like many ordinary couples in the world, Yang Zhenning and Weng Fan live the home life of ordinary people, and in the "Guigenju" courtyard of the Qinghuayuan residence, there is a stray cat, from a few months old, he has gone to their home every day to rub rice, and gradually has feelings with male and female owners.
On the wall of the house hangs a group photo left by the husband and wife when they travel together for many years, and in the face of the reporter's visit, Weng Fan points to the source of the photo one by one, and the tone is full of warmth and happiness.
Before getting married, Weng Fan's lifestyle was completely Westernized, he liked to drink coffee, chatted with friends online in the middle of the night, and got up late in the morning.
After marriage, Weng Fan adjusted the work and rest time like her husband, going to bed early and getting up early was very regular, and the white skin became smoother and redder.
Every day at 8 o'clock on time, Weng Fan began to prepare for the breakfast of two people, two glasses of milk, a few slices of toast, two omelettes, simple and nutritious.
Yang Zhenning's father, Yang Wuzhi, also studied in the United States in his early years, was the first scholar to introduce modern number theory to China, and Yang Zhenning, whom he taught from childhood, should be loyal and generous, so that he should always remember guo Enlong in his lifetime.
Some people in the society do not understand Yang Zhenning's admission to the United States after completing his studies, and the real situation is: Yang Zhenning was ready to return to China in Princeton, and after US President Truman knew about it, he immediately issued an order, all people of Chinese descent who have obtained a doctorate in the United States should not let them return to China in science and engineering.
To this end, Yang Zhenning's footsteps back to China were helplessly blocked in the United States. He knew that his father could not forgive him for abandoning his country until his deathbed.
In the 1960s, when Yang Zhenning heard that China had successfully developed atomic and hydrogen bombs, his friend Deng Jia, who studied in the United States with him, was an important developer of them, and he was so excited that he burst into tears.
Out of his attachment to his homeland and the wish of the old Ji Futuo, at the age of 81, Yang Zhenning resolutely embarked on the journey back to China, returned to the Tsinghua Garden where he lived as a child, and accompanied his dear wife Weng Fan, who has been working until now.
For this eighteen bride and eighty lang, white-haired cangcang to red makeup style marriage, Yang Zhenning and Weng Fan never cared about the discussion and questioning of outsiders.
Yang Zhenning said that Weng Fan "is the last gift god has given him." ”
A good friend of Weng Fan for many years said: Weng Fan looked at Yang Zhenning's gaze, absolutely unprecedented gentleness.
Yang Zhenning believes that youth is not only related to age, but also related to spirit, which is also one of the important reasons for attracting Weng Fan.
Time flies, from 2004 marriage to now, Yang Zhenning is a hundred years old, Weng Fan has reached middle age, but they still hold hands, telling the past, looking forward to the future, this picture is not beautiful enough?