introduction
A person's success is inseparable from the family education he received. As Zhao Qi wrote in the "Inscription of Mencius": "Mencius was born with a lady, and was taught by the three migrations of the loving mother at an early age." If it were not for his mother's foresight, Mencius would not have been able to achieve so much when he grew up.
Mr. Liang Qichao is a great thinker, educator, politician, historian and writer in China's modern history, who dedicated his life to the motherland and devoted his life to the prosperity of the country.
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Mr. Liang Qichao's life has experienced countless ups and downs, in the fifteenth year of Qing Guangxu (1889), Mr. Liang Qichao took the township examination in Guangzhou, successfully, the chief examiner saw the talent of this young man at a glance, and assigned his cousin Li Huixian to him. When the two were married, Li Huixian brought two dowry maidens, one named Ah Hao and the other wang Laixi.
▲Liang Qichao old photo
Ah Hao had a bad temper and did not listen to the call, and was soon driven out of the house by the Liang family. The other lady, Laixi, was clever and diligent, and was deeply loved and trusted by the Liang couple, and even the couple handed over the financial power to her.
The only thing that makes Mr. Liang Qichao feel inadequate is that the name "Wang Laixi" is a bit too cheesy, it is really not beautiful. So he changed her name to Wang Guiquan.
▲ Wang Guiquan
Although Wang Laixi, who has not read a book, does not understand the inner meaning of this name, in her eyes, the name given by the talented old master is naturally not bad. So, for the rest of her life, she used the name.
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It was not until the tenth year after mr. Liang Qichao and Li Huixian got married that they welcomed their first child, later Mr. Liang Sicheng. This is undoubtedly a great joy for the couple, because with a son, they no longer have to worry about the Liang family's incense.
▲Portrait of Liang Sicheng
But there is another problem in front of the couple - just like the mother, the son's body is still very weak, making people feel that they will die at any time. In this regard, Mr. Liang Qichao can be described as sad.
As a wife, Li Huixian was also anxious, but she quickly came up with a method - taking concubines. And the object of this concubine is not someone else, it is her dowry Wang Guiquan. From this point of view, Li Huixian is actually very clever, she knows that in order to continue the liang family's incense, the possibility of her husband taking concubines in the future is very high, and she is not easy to stop. Since it can't be stopped, why not choose someone who won't go against them? Moreover, in that era, it was very common for the dowry to become a side room, which would not be surprising to outsiders.
Therefore, with the mediation of Li Huixian, the eighteen-year-old Wang Guiquan became the side room of Mr. Liang Qichao in the twenty-ninth year of Guangxu (1903). After joining the Liang family, she also "lived up to expectations" and gave birth to a total of four boys, two girls and six children.
▲ Liang Siyong old photo
However, although Wang Guiquan has become Mr. Liang Qichao's side room, it is strange that Mr. Liang Qichao rarely mentioned her publicly during Li Huixian's lifetime. It turns out that Mr. Liang Qichao has always advocated "monogamy", but he himself already has a side room, if this is passed out, then how to serve the public? Therefore, he always avoided talking about Wang Guiquan.
Wang Guiquan did not care much about fame, and what she hoped was that the family could live in peace and security. She also hopes that she can help her family in other ways, and she has done so.
▲ Li Huixian old photo
In the twenty-fourth year of the Qing Dynasty (1898), after the failure of the Penghu Reform Law, the Liang and Li families fled to Japan. What no one expected was that Wang Guiquan, who was still a little girl at that time, was the first to learn Japanese, which was of great help to the life of the whole family.
It can be said that Wang Guiquan has gradually become the top pillar of the family, whether it is Liang Qichao Li Huixian and his wife, or the children, they are inseparable from her, which is also reflected in later life.
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Both Mr. Liang Qichao and Li Huixian died in the 1920s, leaving Wang Guiquan alone, alone with 9 children, living in this world with difficulty. She understood the importance of knowledge, and in order not to let her children drop out of school, she worked hard to provide tuition for all the children in the family.
▲A recent photo of Liang Sili in his later years
With the efforts of Wang Guiquan, all 9 children have grown up smoothly. Among them, Mr. Liang Sicheng became a well-known architect and was known as the "father of modern Chinese architecture"; Mr. Liang Siyong was the founder of modern archaeology and archaeological education in China; Mr. Liang Sida became an economist; Mr. Liang Sizhong participated in the War of Resistance Against Japan, bravely killing the enemy on the battlefield, and ma ge shrouded the body; Liang Sili became a missile control expert and one of the founders of china's missile control system development. It can be said that their achievements are inseparable from Wang Guiquan's efforts.
Regrettably, however, during the Cultural Revolution of 1968, she was separated from her children. Due to years of fatigue and the torment of illness, she could not afford such a rush and labor, and died in a grass hut at the age of 85.
▲Tomb of Liang Qichao
After the end of the Cultural Revolution, the children planted a "mother tree" next to the tombs of Mr. Liang Qichao and Li Huixian to commemorate the great mother who worked for the family all her life.
epilogue
"Poetry" said: Mourn your parents, give birth to me. The love of parents for their children is the most selfless love in the world, and I hope that everyone can accompany their parents more when they are still alive, and do not wait until the day when "the son wants to raise and does not wait".
Resources:
The Book of Verses
The Language of Confucius
Mencius Inscription
The Biography of Liang Qichao