At that time, everyone who studied abroad was for the sake of the fate of the country! They are poor but do not change their ambitions, they are ordinary but great people.
For the term returnee, it is also a term that everyone has been looking forward to in the past 20 years. Returnees not only represent academics and diplomas, but also an ideal, an ideal that makes the motherland stronger. And today's returnees are more than 160 years ago.
Young Rong Hong
"Ideal" is called "ideal" first of all because you have an ideal.
This ideal premise is that it is the right direction. Although it may feel like there is no hope at the time, you believe in your ideals, and you are willing to put it into practice and keep working hard. It will provide a steady stream of motivation for your struggle and help you turn that original ideal into reality.
In 1828, a poor family in Xiangshan County, Guangdong Province, China, welcomed their second son, named Rong Hong.
By the age of 7, Rong Hong had been sent by his father to the preparatory class of a Morrison school in Macau, which was an inherent territory of China, but unfortunately it had been occupied by Portugal for almost 300 years.
Rong Hong's brother had earlier been sent by his father to a private school, and Rong Hong was sent by his father to a school opened by foreigners, probably according to the traditional concept of many people, his parents favored the younger son. However, the thing is that Rong Hong's father can only afford the tuition of one child, sending his brother to a private school, but also hoping that he will get a meritorious name in the future. As for the school that my brother sent to the church, it was because it was a free school run by philanthropists. After graduation, you can still deal with foreigners and earn some extra money.
Elderly Rong Hong
Unexpectedly, Rong Hong was talented and intelligent from an early age, excelling in school, and the teachers liked it very much. By 1846, The Rector Brown needed to return to the United States for his own reasons. However, he left 3 places to study with him in the United States, and Rong Hong was the first to be selected.
It should be noted here that Principal Brown is really a caring philanthropic educator who not only bears all the costs of going abroad for 3 children, but also gives them a lot of alimony for each family, and finally sets foot on American soil with 3 children.
Honestly, taking a son out of the senior building and giving alimony to the father should not have been understood at the time, even if it happens today, it should not be understood. Poverty limits the imagination upwards; wealth limits the imagination downwards. But Mr. Brown should be a wealthy and well-versed man—rich, because he can afford the cost of three students' further education; and because he can stand in the shoes of the parents of the three students. After all, for the parents at that time, the consequences of the son's long-distance journey were unpredictable, and there might be one less person to die in the future, Mr. Brown thought of this, so he relieved them of their worries.
Rong Hong, who entered a foreign country, was sent to the most famous Mengsong Middle School at that time. Later, the school had a policy of poverty alleviation to subsidize university attendance, but the condition was that students must become missionaries after graduation. For such a preferential policy, Rong Hong, who was worried about tuition fees at the time, still refused. He later wrote in his "Chronicle of The Gradual Study of the West and the East": "Although he is poor, freedom is inherent, and he learns every day, no matter what his karma, he will choose the one who is most beneficial to China." ”
After seeing a lot of feelings, the rich cannot be adulterous, the poor and the strong. Such a ambitious teenager must have a career. It is precisely these people who, at a time when the decaying wood of the Great Qing Dynasty is about to fall, have become the vanguard of China's reform and restoration, and have continued the flame of the nation, which can be called the backbone of the Chinese nation.
Later, thanks to a georgia women's club willing to be unconditionally qualified, he was able to get the opportunity to continue his studies. And eventually admitted to Yale University, which is the university that many Americans dream of.
When the school season began, Rong Hong walked on the university campus wearing a long coat and long braids, and once became a talk of local students after dinner. But a year later, Rong Hong lost his braids. Like many poor students, Rong Hong studied while working and studying in his spare time, and his grades in various subjects were among the best.
Yale University
In 1854, Yung earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors, becoming the first Chinese to graduate from Yale.
At the time, with a Yale diploma, it was easy to find a casual and well-paid job. But Rong Hong was not moved, and was bent on returning to the motherland, because this was the wish he had made when he once went abroad:
"If one gives is educated by this civilization, he who gives after him shall also enjoy the same benefits." With Western scholarship, instilled in China, China is becoming more and more civilized. ”
A strong youth is a strong country! Rong Hong, the first student to study in the United States in China's modern history, the first batch of returnees, patriotic all his life, is known as the father of international students.