The ancients said: "Filial piety is greater than three queens", everyone knows that in the past thinking, it was very important to pass on the lineage, but Yan Xishan's wife was infertile, but he refused to take a concubine, what is the matter?
Yan Xishan, born in 1883, is a native of Wutai County, Shanxi Province. His father was a small landowner, educated in his early years, then dropped out of school to do business with his father, and after the failure of the business, he was heavily in debt and was forced to go to Taiyuan to hide his debts.
In Taiyuan, Yan Xishan performed well, got the opportunity to study in the Japanese army non-commissioned officers, he was influenced by the bourgeois democratic revolutionary trend, joined the Chinese League, and stepped onto the political stage.
In 1909, he returned to China to carry out secret revolutionary activities, and after the outbreak of the Xinhai Revolution, he became the governor of Shanxi.
Yan Xishan, who had outstanding academic qualifications and courage, led his troops to shanxi and became a well-known warlord and a hegemon of power. Moreover, he did not advocate war, and under his rule the people lived a valuable and stable life, and the economy flourished.
But Yan Xishan's success is also inseparable from the help of his wife Xu Zhuqing, when he was still a fallen brother, Xu Zhuqing was a famous girl, she was not only beautiful, but also proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. They had a marriage contract earlier, but the two had a common topic after marriage, admired each other, and gradually changed from strangers to acquaintances and love each other.
When the two married, the family was very poor, from a young age, she did not complain, sold the dowry to help her husband pay off debts, and gently encouraged him, he wanted to study abroad, Xu Zhuqing was very supportive, and then took care of the family affairs at home, silently waiting for him to return.
Yan Xishan was obedient to her, and the warlord who was fierce outside became a considerate husband when he returned home, and the two lived a sweet life, but after a long time, they had no children. They went to check their bodies, and it turned out that Xu Zhuqing had no way to be a mother.
Xu Zhuqing was very sad, she was very remorseful, Yan Xishan's parents urged their son to take a concubine, but Yan Xishan refused, he knew that once the concubine Xu Zhuqing must be more painful, he was not willing to deny his wife's years of efforts for the sake of the child, let alone turn a blind eye to the sincere friendship between the two for many years.
Yan Xishan wrote: "It is easy to be worthy of parents, but it is difficult to be worthy of wives. It is easy to be worthy of everyone, and it is worthy of the difficulty of intercourse. ”
The two old men of the Yan family did not want to give up, they found Xu Zhuqing's father, he also felt a little ashamed of the Yan family after learning about it, after careful consideration, he adopted a 14-year-old poor girl as an adopted daughter, named Xu Lansen, and sent to Yan Xishan's family. Yan Xishan still refused, but the people of that era were very paranoid in their thinking, Xu Zhuqing was no exception, her husband could accept that there were no children, but she could not watch him being ridiculed, so she repeatedly persuaded her husband, and Yan Xishan had to nod.
Fortunately, Xu Lansen is also sensible, she has given birth to 5 sons and 1 daughter, all of whom call Xu Qingzhu's mother.
Among them, the eldest son Yan Zhigong and the third son Yan Zhixin died young; the second son Yan Zhikuan died in his 20s; the fourth son, Yan Zhimin, was brilliant and brilliant, went to the United States to study in 1949, obtained a master's degree, and participated in the development of computers and space satellite communications; the fifth son, Yan Zhihui, moved from Chongqing to Taiwan with his father, and then lived in Japan and the United States.
At that time, most of the warlords were taking in multiple concubines, Yan Xishan was so, to a small extent, he was definitely a good husband, to the big, the attitude of being responsible for marriage also showed his way of doing things, personality charm is also a big reason why he can gain a firm foothold in Shanxi, he is indeed a special warlord.