It seems that there is always a convention that good people can always run their families well and, in the end, make their lives more perfect. Qian Xuesen is an aerodynamicist and systems scientist in China, one of the founders of engineering cybernetics, a member of the Faculty of Chinese Academy of Sciences, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and a recipient of the Medal of Merit of Two Bombs and One Star. In this string of dazzling honors, he clearly did this.
Qian Xuesen's wife, Jiang Ying, is a professor at the Central Conservatory of Music, a Chinese female vocal educator and soprano singer. She is the third daughter of the military theorist Jiang Baili and Jiang Zuomei, the cousin of the martial arts novel master Jin Yong, and the cousin of the poet Xu Zhimo... But her most important identity is the wife of the scientist Qian Xuesen.
The difference between the two people's majors is so big, but they have accompanied each other through a sweet and beautiful life, as for the secrets and answers in the middle, Qian Xuesen also gave it out. On October 16, 1991, the State Council and the Central Military Commission decided to award Qian Xuesen the honorary title of "National Outstanding Contribution Scientist" and the First Class Heroic Model Medal. It was at this grand award ceremony that Qian Xuesen fondly mentioned his lover Jiang Ying. "We've been married for 44 years, and our family life has been very happy for those 44 years," he said. He also said that it was precisely because his wife introduced him to the art of music that he enriched his profound understanding of the world and learned a broad way of thinking, "or, rather, because I was influenced by these artistic aspects, I was able to avoid dead eyes, avoid mechanical materialism, and think that the problems could be broader and live a little more." ”
Here, it is not difficult for people to see that Jiang Ying's musical art has also added incomparable color to Qian Xuesen's scientific career. The common interest makes the emotional life of the two more harmonious, warm and colorful, and also makes their careers complement each other. It is also for this reason that in 1999, at the seminar on the 40th anniversary of Jiang Ying's teaching, 88-year-old Qian Xuesen wrote a written speech and asked his daughter to read it on his behalf, once again expressing his feelings and voices: "When I encounter difficulties in a job and can't figure it out, it is often Jiang Ying's singing that makes me suddenly cheerful and enlightened. ”
The study of the art and science of music has become interconnected here, and this communication has also become a realm for excellent people to run their lives and even their families, and Qian Xuesen and Jiang Ying can come together to distinguish that there are still some legends and twists in romance.
Qian Xuesen was born in 1911 and Jiang Ying was born in 1919, and the difference between the two is 8 years. Qian Xuesen's father, Qian Junfu, and Jiang Ying's father, Jiang Baili, were close friends in their early years, and later went to Japan to study together. Qian Junfu later became a famous educator, and Jiang Baili later became a famous military scientist. Qian Xuesen is the only son in the family, and his parents are very much looking forward to having a daughter. The Jiang family had five daughters (Jiang Ying was the third eldest), and the Qian family saw that Jiang Ying was beautiful, innocent and lively, and begged the Jiang family to pass her on to them. This was agreed by the Jiang family, so Jiang Ying passed on to the Qian family and once changed his name to Qian Xueying. As a result, Qian Xuesen and Jiang Ying were once known as brothers and sisters.
Jiang Ying "inherited" to the Qian family, only 3 years old, which means that she should be called 11-year-old Qian Xuesen "brother", and the two have been very familiar since childhood. At that time, Jiang Ying came to qian's house with her nursing mother who had brought her since childhood, because of her young age, her parents were always a little uneasy about her, and the two families always got together. It is said that once at a gathering between the Jiang and Qian families, Qian Xuesen and Jiang Ying sang "Yan Shuangfei" in front of their parents, singing very naturally and harmoniously, and the four adults all laughed happily. But no one expected that this would become a prophecy for Qian Xuesen and Jiang Ying to become a couple in the future, and it would also become a true portrayal of their travels for thousands of miles.
Later, Jiang Ying lived in the Qian family for a while, and her parents began to regret it, thinking that Jiang Ying should not have been "passed" to the Qian family in the first place, and several of her children were together a lot, and it seemed that the family was very lively and popular. Thinking about it, Jiang Baili and Jiang Zuomei decided to take Jiang Ying back from the Qian family. Jiang Zuomei came to Qian's house and mentioned this matter to Qian Xuesen's mother with some embarrassment, Qian Xuesen's mother felt that this was the affection of people, but she was very reluctant to Jiang Ying, so she made a deal with Jiang Zuomei: "You old third, when you grow up, I am my daughter, and I will have to be my daughter-in-law in the future." ”
Qian Xuesen's mother's words may have found some kind of balance for her own psychology at that time, almost joking, and Jiang Zuomei was eager to take her daughter back, although she agreed, but no one really took this seriously. In his later years, Jiang Ying recalled this experience and said: "Later, I called Xuesen's parents Gan Dad and Gan Ma, and Qian Xuesen called Gan Brother. When I was in middle school, he came to see me and introduced me to my classmates, and I was a brother, and I felt very awkward. I was already a big girl at that time, and I remember playing the piano for him. ”
Play? What's going on? In 1935, Qian Xuesen went to the United States for further study, originally majoring in aeronautical engineering, but he planned to study aerospace theory next. His father wrote back to him that China's aerospace industry is backward, and if it is backward, it is better to study aircraft manufacturing technology. Qian Xuesen told his father that China is too far behind the West in the field of aircraft manufacturing, and only by mastering aerospace theory can it be possible to surpass the West. In this way, the father and son quarreled over the issue of continuing their studies. After jiang Baili learned of this, he told Qian Junfu that aviation research in European and American countries tends to unify engineering and theory, and engineering follows theory. Qian Junfu listened to these words and finally agreed to allow his son to continue to study aerospace theory. Qian Xuesen was relieved and very grateful to Jiang Baili.
Before leaving, Jiang Ying went to Qian's house with his parents to visit Qian Xuesen. At this time, Jiang Ying was 16 years old, Qian Xuesen was 24 years old, and Jiang Ying played Mozart's Sonata in D major for Qian Xuesen, and Qian Xuesen listened to it like crazy. Jiang Ying also gave Qian Xuesen a copy of Tang poems, and Qian Xuesen put it as a precious gift in a rattan suitcase and brought it to the United States. At that time, Jiang Ying did not understand love very well, but Qian Xuesen clearly understood, perhaps, he began to "worry" about this sister who called himself "Brother Gan" from that moment on. However, the situation in the second year was that Jiang Baili was sent to visit European and American countries to investigate the military, Jiang Ying went with his mother and fifth sister Jiang He, and Jiang Baili arranged for Jiang Ying, Who liked music, and Jiang He to stay in Berlin, Germany, to study. One in the United States and one in Germany, Qian Xuesen and Jiang Ying's contacts were interrupted.
The reconnection came 10 years later, when Jiang Ying ended her european studies and returned to her homeland, where she held a solo concert at the Lyceum Theatre in Shanghai in May 1947. This concert was also a debriefing performance of her return from studying abroad, which caused a sensation throughout Shanghai, and the Shanghai press made such a comment: "Her excellent singing art" made people see that "China has superior artistic genius, good qualifications and intelligent brains". Subsequently, she met Qian Xuesen, a "dry brother" who also returned from her studies and was also a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States.
When the two met, the first person to be "alert" to this was Qian Xuesen's mother, on the one hand, her son was more than 30 years old and had not yet found a partner; on the other hand, the beautiful and excellent Jiang Ying made her think of the "deal" that Jiang Ying made with Jiang Ying's mother Jiang Zuomei when she was taken back from the Qian family. So, she asked Jiang Zuomei: "Does Xiao San have a boyfriend?" Jiang Zuomei somewhat did not recognize the "account" and said: "More to go!" The fact is that Jiang Ying had no object at that time, although there were many people chasing her, but her vision was very high, and none of them looked at her. Qian Xuesen's mother mentioned the old matter again, Qian Xuesen's father began to send some snacks to Jiang Ying's Hangzhou home every week, and Qian Xuesen also began to run to Jiang Ying's Hangzhou home, but no one made the "transaction" of that year clear.
Jiang Ying later recalled: "At that time, he was only 36 years old and was a full professor, and many people respected him very much, so my sister and I introduced him to his girlfriend. My sister and I did introduce him to one later, and he sat in the middle, embarrassed to look at the girl we had introduced to him. "Why are you embarrassed? Not because of the girl introduced, but because for many years, Qian Xuesen's heart has not let go of his "dry sister".
Jiang Ying said that the girl sat next to him, "He looks at me very generously, but I feel that something is wrong... Later, he came to our house and said that he had come to visit Aunt Jiang... Later, he said to me, "Come with me to the United States!" I said, why are you going to america with you? Let's get to know each other again and communicate first! But he kept repeating the phrase: 'No, go now.' Without saying a word, I 'surrendered'. ”
In this way, Qian Xuesen completed a very special confession of love in front of his "dry sister", Jiang Ying said, at that time, I admired him from the bottom of my heart... I thought that learned people were good people. At the bottom of this sentence is that the two families were once friends of the family, and the two were also young plum bamboo horses, so a week later, the two were married in Shanghai.
In 1950, when Qian Xuesen went to port to return to China, he was stopped by American officials and imprisoned, detaining him on Themina Island for 14 days until he received a huge bail of $15,000 from the California Institute of Technology. In 1955, after Premier Zhou's continuous efforts in diplomatic negotiations with the United States— even including the release of 11 U.S. military pilots captured in the Korean War in exchange; on August 4, Qian Xuesen received a notice from the U.S. Immigration Service to allow him to return to China; on September 17, Qian Xuesen boarded the "President Cleveland" ship with his wife Jiang Ying and a pair of young children on the journey back to the motherland; on October 8, Qian Xuesen's family finally returned to their dreamed motherland.
The most worth mentioning among them is that in those 5 years of gray days, Qian Xuesen played the bamboo flute, Jiang Ying played the guitar, and the two used music together to relieve the loneliness and boredom in their hearts. The husband and wife suffered together, and she said to Qian Xuesen: "Your decision is correct, and I will always be with you!" "Today, rather than saying that Qian Xuesen plays the bamboo flute and Jiang Ying plays the guitar, it is better to use music to relieve the loneliness and boredom in the heart, but rather that they have obtained the philosophy of life in music, and thus have a peaceful and far-reaching life realm."
Few people today know that the great scientist Qian Xuesen also cooked a good dish. Jiang Ying said to his visiting friend: "Our family Qian Xuesen is a master, and I can only give him a hand." And because Qian Xuesen undertook the important scientific research task of the country, she worked in the field for a long time, willing to give up her favorite singing career and began to engage in teaching work, and she worked for more than 40 years. In these 40 years, in addition to her dedication and dedication to her husband, she also washed and attended classes for the children, and she did whatever she needed, and she was the most qualified mother in the hearts of the children.
This may be an important reason why excellent people are excellent, they can always be very good at opening up all aspects of life, so that their excellence does not only stay in a certain aspect, and then in their outstanding achievements, let the excellence become a kind of happiness and satisfaction. Music and science are connected between Qian Xuesen and Jiang Ying, not only because they are excellent, but also because they have love in their hearts, in addition to small love, there is also big love.
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