After the opening of the third child, the couples of childbearing age in the Zengtong family did not dare to have children, because of the high cost of living, the high cost of talent training, followed by the change of traditional concepts. If you have the conditions to have a family with more than three children, either you are rich enough or you are poor enough. If you are poor enough, you will be born to nurture, whether your children grow up to cultivate the fields or move bricks, or if you are rich enough, you must spend money to cultivate. Of course, the process of talent growth involves all aspects, and it is not necessarily said that rich families can produce talents.
Taishan late Qing Dynasty Huang Songling with his family
You think, How can a man have ten cubs and ten dragons, and one boy and one pit worm of his own. You will also think: "Dragons give birth to dragons, phoenixes give birth to phoenixes, rats give birth to holes." You will think even more: "The water snake is out of the newspaper". But this is only one reason for genetic inheritance. In our Taishan Ten Girls Non-Dragon Zefeng should be counted late QingQi huang Songling.
At this time, Huang Songling's eyes were already unable to see the east
Huang Songling (1871-1944) was born in Nanlong Village, Taicheng Subdistrict, to a family of scholars, he was a student of Kang Youwei, a scholar on the bus, a member of the Qing government's Sanpin Da, an official of the Beiyang Government's Ministry of Transportation, a builder of the Guangdong-Han Railway, and the speaker of the Guangdong Provincial Assembly during the Republic of China. He originally had thirteen children, and the ten who grew up were Huang Jianxun, Huang Shikun, Huang Zhenting, Huang Yukun, Huang Qianyi, Huang Bofei, Huang Fukun, Huang Bikun, and Huang Bonan. Five people studied in Europe and the United States, and five graduated from domestic universities. They are engaged in politics, water conservancy, medicine, military, education, industry, music, literature and other fields.
As for Huang Songling's personal formation, I will not elaborate on it here, he is like many outstanding talents from Taishan. It is through reading books to change the fate of individuals and thus serve the country and the people. Here, I believe many people admire his education of his children. When his ten children grew up, they were all top talents who were outstanding and dedicated to the country. Then in the process of talent growth, in addition to genetic inheritance, let's look at the factor of spiritual inheritance.
Huang Songling has 10 children
When he was young, he had discovered the shortcomings of China's feudal imperial examination system, which was stubborn and stubborn, and believed that the root cause of China's backwardness lay in its educational backwardness. During his participation in the "Penghu Reform Law", he proposed educational reform to the court with the reformists: abolishing the Eight Shares, Xingxi Studies; founding the Beijing Normal University Hall; setting up a translation book office, sending students abroad; and rewarding scientific works and inventions. He once wrote to the Guangxu Emperor and asked him to take students to study abroad at his own expense, so as to cultivate talents for the country. Unfortunately, for various reasons, Huang Songling did not want it. His recital is still preserved in China's first historical archive. Huang Songling was a Guangdong scholar and a reformist, and together with Kang and Liang, he struggled to promote the idea of reform and reform by changing the law and trying to be strong.
Huang Songling's former residence
His feelings of home and country naturally affect his children, and his education of his son also tends to be civilized, especially against women's foot binding, he believes that women should be self-reliant and self-reliant in society, he encourages his daughter to study, cultivates an independent personality, and expects her daughter to have a skill, not to rely on men to support, and to be respected. In 1937, the Anti-Japanese War broke out, and Huang Songling supported his son to join the anti-Japanese war. In 1942, Huang Songling and his family had a dispute with japanese soldiers on their way back from Hong Kong to Guangzhou, and the 71-year-old Huang Songling was beaten to the head and bloodied, and soon after being cured, he became blind in both eyes, but still insisted on taking care of the affairs of Qianqing Academy, and repeatedly negotiated with the Japanese who occupied the academy. Huang Songling's educational philosophy and spiritual will, children in the process of growing up to hear, naturally inherit the legacy of their fathers, developed the spirit of hard work and self-reliance and self-reliance. Huang Songling is a role model in front of the children, and his influence on the growth of the children is also the inheritance of the spirit.
The eldest son, Huang Qianyi, went to the United States to study in the 1920s, majoring in "urban and harbor design". In 1929, Huang Qianyi returned to China and served as the chief engineer of the Pearl River Water Conservancy Bureau in Guangdong Province. Tributaries of the Pearl River, every year during the rainy season, floods are infested, and Huang Qianyi redesigns and guides the river, saving many people's property and lives. In the 1930s, Huang Qianyi supervised the construction of a Haizhu Bridge across the Pearl River. When Guangzhou was liberated and the Kuomintang was defeated, the bridge was blown up. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Huang Qianyi served as a liaison adviser to the Allied Army and formulated strategic plans. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, as one of the representatives of the Allied forces, he participated in the surrender ceremony in Guangzhou. In 1946, he was awarded the Medal of Freedom by President Truman. He was one of about 50 Chinese who won the award. The second son, Huang Jianxun, graduated from Tsinghua University and later studied at the University of Illinois. He served as Sun Yat-sen's English secretary, treasurer of the Grand Marshal's Office, and director of the Salt Bureau at the base camp. In 1925, he accompanied Sun Yat-sen north, and when Sun Yat-sen was dying, he and his wife Wu Zhimei accompanied him all the time. The third daughter, Huang Shikun, studied at the official expenses of Gengzi in her early years, and was the first female Chinese student at the Sino-French University of Lyon in France, influencing a group of young women. Her husband, Yuan Zhenying, was one of the early founders of the Chinese Communist Party. The sixth son, Huang Zhenting, successively served as the secretary of Li Zongren and Li Jishen; The sixth son, Huang Zhenting (1905-1989), studied at the University of Berlin in his early years and taught at Sun Yat-sen University after returning to China. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he successively served as the secretary of Li Zongren, Li Jishen, and Bai Chongxi. He was promoted to the rank of general in 1946. Soon after the victory of the War of Resistance, the civil war swept in. Huang Zhenting believed that he had joined the army to resist Japanese aggression, but now he was fighting a civil war, killing his compatriots, and going against his original intention, so he resigned and returned to Guangzhou. The tenth son, Huang Bofei, is a professor at Yale University, and served as an ambassador for Sino-US cultural exchanges in the early days of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States.
Huang Qianyi supervised the construction of the Haizhu Bridge
Huang Songling's children have their own achievements, in addition to genetic inheritance, spiritual inheritance. It also depends on how Huang Songling practices his educational philosophy. Huang Songling attaches great importance to the growth and education of his children, and specially wrote family rules and family trainings such as "Training Son", "Poetry for Abstaining From Children and Grandchildren", and "Showing Your Children and Grandchildren". Among them, the "Xunzi" wrote that "reading is the most feared to be impermanent, and it can be learned with perseverance." Hugh envied the thousands of miles, and the Sacred Gate Avenue was passed down alone. Huang Songling often told his children the principles and methods of learning knowledge through poetry books, and he established a family style and family training, so that children follow the rules and uprightness, but they do not conform to the old ways in learning, he integrates traditional Chinese culture with advanced Western educational concepts, and encourages children to seek knowledge from the outside. In 1928, at the age of 57, Huang Songling resigned and returned to his hometown, serving as the chairman of the Huang's Office and Qianqing Academy in Guangdong Province in Guangzhou, and also used his savings to build a three-story house named "Chunsheng Caotang". Reading, writing poetry, and cultivating his children have become the focus of his later life. In 1944, Huang Songling died in Guangzhou. In his last words, he admonished his children: "My children and grandchildren must all be self-reliant and self-created, and if there is any dependence, it is no ambition, it is no lofty plan." ”
Photograph of Huang Songling and his family at the exhibition
On March 16, 2018, the "Dun Family Style, National Fortune - Huang Songling Family Centennial History Exhibition" opened at the Wuyi Overseas Chinese Museum in Jiangmen City, reproducing the vivid story of this century-old family member who has struggled unceasingly, inherited the family style, and abided by the family rules. Huang Songling's father is a teaching craftsman, he and his children can be regarded as the door of books, it can be seen that the growth process of talents is inseparable from good family education, and the formation of Huang Songling and his children is the inheritance of family style. We can think of homeschooling as part of social inheritance. Because during the late Qing Dynasty, there were also scholarly families such as Wen Qingxi (Zi Wen Bingzhong), Lin Benwei (Zi Lin Wei Gan), Lei Zichang (female Lei Jieqiong) and other scholarly families in Taishan, and their descendants were equally outstanding. Family education is inseparable from geographical culture, which is also the result of the inheritance of traditional culture in overseas Chinese.
In Nanlong Village, one of Huang Songling's flag stones and another person, Huang Zhiyun, have been found
Finally, let's talk about the relationship between talents and the family environment in the process of growing up, and the famous Guangdong aide Liang Dingfen once said this about the reasons for the abundance of talents in Guangdong: Guangdong is a magic place. Before 1929, Taishan's annual remittances of overseas Chinese were more than 10 million US dollars, accounting for 1/8 of the total number of overseas Chinese in the country that year (more than 81 million US dollars per year in the country); from 1930 to 1937, it soared to 30 million US dollars, accounting for almost 1/3 of the total number of overseas Chinese in the country (95 million US dollars). Overseas Chinese in Taishan have a lot of knowledge abroad, and they generally believe that as long as education is revitalized, they can revitalize the country, and education is a quality investment project for personnel training, and the process of talent growth is inseparable from the family environment. Poor families can produce filial piety, but it is difficult for families to produce talents. Huang Songling's children can also become talents because they have a fairly good family environment.