Mr. Peng Yun is 73 years old this year, with strong spirits and good health. Not many people know the identity of this old man, but when it comes to his mother's name, many people are familiar with it.
Peng Yun is the son of Peng Yongwu, born in 1946, and his mother is Jiang Zhujun.
Jiang Zhujun, formerly known as Jiang Zhujun, alias Jiang Xueqin. Born in Zigong in 1920. After joining the revolution, she made many contributions.
In 1945, Jiang Zhujun married Peng Yongwu. After that, she assisted Peng Yongwu in her work, responsible for handling women's affairs and internal and external liaison work in the party, and from then on, comrades affectionately called her Sister Jiang.
In April 1946, Jiang Zhujun gave birth to a son Peng Yun in Chengdu.
In October 1947, due to work reasons and safety considerations, Sister Jiang wrote a letter to Tan Zhenglun (Peng Yongwu's original wife), asking Tan to come to Chongqing as soon as possible to take care of Peng Yun.
On the eve of the Spring Festival in 1948, Peng Yun's father, Peng Yongwu, was killed in battle. Sister Jiang endured her grief and resolutely took over her husband's work.
In February 1948, Tan Zhenglun braved the threat of white terror to come to Chongqing and take over the one-year-old and ten-month-old Peng Yun from Sister Jiang's comrades-in-arms.
On June 14, 1948, due to the betrayal of traitors, Sister Jiang was unfortunately arrested. After her arrest, she was held by the military commanders in the Slag Cave Prison of the Sino-AMERICAN Cooperation Institute.
In prison, Kuomintang military agents tortured her in all kinds: wearing heavy shackles, sitting on tiger stools, hanging ducks floating in the water, pinching fingers...
In "Red Rock", Xu Pengfei interrogated Sister Jiang with this line: "Don't forget, this is the Sino-US cooperation office!" Do you really want to taste the dozens of criminal laws of the Sino-US Cooperation Institute? To tell you the truth, when you enter the Sino-US Cooperation Institute, you are a dead body, and you have to open your mouth to me! ”
In the face of torture, Jiang Zhujun was unyielding and kept the secrets of the party organization and all party organizations. True gold is tempered in the fire of the ghost, and her heroic and indomitable image educates the victims of the whole slag cave.
On November 14, 1949, Jiang Zhujun died heroically at the Arashi Execution Ground of Geleshan Radio at the age of 29.
Sister Jiang sacrificed her precious life for the revolutionary cause. She is like the red plum blossom in the snow on the red rock, forever shining in the history of China's revolution.
When Sister Jiang walked to the execution site, the only thing she carried was a picture of her son Peng Yun.
Sister Jiang wrote a suicide note to Tan Zhenglun before she was executed, which was full of sister Jiang's strong longing for her son as a mother: "If unfortunate, Yun'er will send you, hoping to teach you to follow in the footsteps of her parents, to build a new China, and to fight to the end for her career." Children should never be pampered, and it is enough to eat rough and light. ”
In the nearly two years before the liberation of Peng Yun in February 1948, Tan Zhenglun took Peng Yun to escape one disaster after another. And fully protect Peng Yun.
In this regard, Peng Yun once said: "Although sometimes when I mention it to others, in order to distinguish my biological mother, I call her Tan Mother, but in fact, my relationship with Tan Mother is no different from that of my own mother and son, I have always called her Mother." ”
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, once, the drama "Sister Jiang" was performed. This was the first time that Tan Zhenglun told his son Peng Yun that the heroic and indomitable Sister Jiang on the stage was his biological mother.
Peng Yun is the only son of Sister Jiang, he did not live up to his mother's expectations, he studied seriously since he was a child, and his grades were excellent.
In 1965, at the age of 19, Peng Yun became a sichuan science champion. He gave up Tsinghua University and chose to enter the Kazakh military industry.
In 1977, after the resumption of the college entrance examination, Peng Yun was admitted as a graduate student at the Institute of Computing of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Subsequently, Peng Yun was admitted to the first batch of public students and obtained a doctorate from the University of Maryland in the United States.
In 1987, Peng Yun went to the United States after more than a year of research at the Institute of Software of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He has been working and living in the United States ever since. He became an expert in the field of computing and was a tenured professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland.
After Sister Jiang's death, her only son settled in the United States. Why didn't you return to your motherland? During the interview, Peng Yun explained why.
Once, in an interview, Peng Yun answered this question.
Question: "Sister Jiang suffered a lot in prison and wrote down her last wish, 'If you are unfortunate, Yun'er will give it to you, hoping to teach in the footsteps of her parents, with the goal of building a new China, and fighting to the end for the revolutionary cause', what do you think of your mother's last wish? Have there been any contradictions and struggles in life choices? ”
Peng Yun replied: "In terms of being a person, I should say that I have met my mother's requirements, I am a decent person, and I am also working hard to do academic work." However, to say that to contribute to the motherland, indeed, there is not much. In this way, I only did half of my mother's last wishes. My mother may still hope that I can develop better in China! But as long as I don't do bad things, I don't do anything sorry for the country, relatives, and friends, I don't think she will blame me, but there are regrets. I only did half of my mother's last wishes. ”
Q: "Why did you stay there after you went to the United States?" As a descendant of martyrs, settled in the United States? ”
A: "I just wanted to do some research, I didn't have much ambition, in fact, I didn't want to stay in the United States at the beginning." Later, the research was quite OK, so it went on, and the matter of returning to China was dragged down. From the content of the study, at that time, I felt that the domestic government paid more attention to two ends, one was pure theory, and the other was completely applied, while most of the American schools were doing the middle section, which was suitable for me. ”
Q: "Do you often wonder whether to return home?" ”
Peng Yun replied, "Actually, I'm always wondering if I should go back." I have also tried, but I don't want to do anything back to my country. I can't seem to find a focal point. Originally, I wanted to make something big and go back to my motherland, but I was old before I could make it. ”
Q: "Do you often think of your special status when you are abroad?" Do the people around you know? ”
Peng Yun replied, "I often think about it, because that is a part of my bloodline, how can I forget it?" Colleagues and students around me also know that there is no way to keep this matter a secret, but people rarely talk to me about it in person. ”
Q: "Will you return home after you retire?" ”
Peng Yun: "I think so, after all, my relatives and friends are here (in China), and my son is here." I am very excited to see the development of the country. ”
Peng Yun also said frankly: "I am a person who loves to study and wants to find a quiet place to do some research in a down-to-earth manner." Although the school is also very busy now, it is quiet and the environment is relaxed, which suits me. Teaching at the University of Maryland, taking graduate students, and doing some administrative work at the same time, life is very fulfilling. ”