Qian Xuesen is a well-known two-bomb and one-star founder in China, speaking of his name, you can appreciate the pride of being a Chinese, and the deep marital love between Qian Xuesen and his wife Jiang Ying is a good story in history, Jiang Ying is a well-known high-pitched female musician, who has cultivated many talents in the field of music, and when it comes to Jiang Ying, it is bound to say that her father, a famous figure in the Republic of China, a famous military figure, Jiang Baili.
Jiang Baili is a native of Haining, Zhejiang, born in 1882, when he was a child, in the face of the situation of the country breaking mountains and rivers, Jiang Baili was very distressed, and the failure of the Penghu Reform Law made him deeply shaken, in 1901, with the financial support of others, Jiang Baili went to Japan and entered the Army Non-Commissioned Officer School to study, where Jiang Baili was elected as the officer of the Chinese Student Conference for Studying in Japan with excellent results, and he was called "China's Three Masters" together with Cai Yi and Zhang Xiaozhun.
After returning to China, Jiang Baili served in the army, officially began his military career, after the founding of the Republic of China, Jiang Baili was appointed as the principal of the Baoding Military Academy, his tough style, so that the school atmosphere changed greatly, taught many military generals, in 1913, Jiang Baili had a dispute with the War Department because of military expenses, he raised a gun to commit suicide, fortunately did not hit the fatal place, retrieved a life, it is also because of this matter, he got acquainted with the Japanese female nurse Sato Yadori, the two developed feelings, married, Jiang Ying is Sato Yaden was born.
Although Jiang Baili entered the military circles, but he never commanded a battle alone, he spent most of his time as a senior staff officer of those warlords, such as Wu Peifu, Sun Chuanfang, etc., in addition to military achievements, Jiang Baili also had outstanding talent in literature, his "History of the Western Renaissance" is still a textbook of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, in 1923, Jiang Baili and Xu Zhimo together founded the Crescent Society, the two were introduced as confidants, and later Jiang Baili was imprisoned by Chiang Kai-shek. Xu Zhimo even prepared a quilt to go to jail with Jiang Baili.
In 1937, Jiang Baili published the most important work of his life, "On National Defense", he did not have a high military evaluation of the Japanese, in the second half of Jiang Baili's life, he had a lot of ties with Japan in the second half of his life, he even knew that China and Japan would inevitably break out a big war, so on the title page of the book, Jiang Baili wrote, "Ten thousand words, just to tell everyone a word, China has a way!" ”
In 1938, Jiang Baili acted as president of the Army University, and on the way to the school, Jiang Baili unfortunately died of illness, and after his death, the Nationalist Government gave him a high evaluation, although Jiang Baili never commanded a battle in his lifetime, but the Nationalist Government still posthumously awarded him the rank of general of the army in recognition of his outstanding contributions to China's national defense cause.
After Jiang Baili's death, her wife Sato Yadori stayed in China, living with her children, and in 1978, Sato Yadeng died, and on her tombstone, there were only three words, Jiang Zuomei, which was the Chinese name that Jiang Baili gave her.
In 1947, Jiang Baili and Jiang Ying, the third daughter of Sato Yadori, were married to Qian Xuesen in Shanghai, and the two became a famous model couple in modern times.