What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
As the old saying goes, "three generations are expensive", but Liang Qichao's grandchildren and grandchildren are all Chinese celebrities, Liang Qichao himself is a famous political activist and enlightenment thinker in the late Qing Dynasty, his son Liang Sicheng and daughter-in-law Lin Huiyin are architects, who protected many ancient Chinese buildings during the war years.
Lin Huiyin and Liang Sicheng gave birth to a son and a daughter, the son was named Liang Congjie, and the daughter was named Liang Zaibing. Liang Congjie was born in Beijing in 1932, and Lin Hui was very happy because of his arrival, and wrote "You Are the April Day on Earth" for him. Liang Sicheng and his wife had high hopes for Liang Congjie, and there was an architect in the Northern Song Dynasty named Li Zhi, and Liang Sicheng and his wife named him "Liang Congjie", hoping that he could become an architect like Li Congzhi. When Liang Grew up, he also hoped to be admitted to the Department of Architecture of Tsinghua University, where Liang Sicheng was the head of the department, as his parents thought, but because he was only two points away from the admission line, he had to change to the history department.
Three generations of the Liang family, each generation chooses a different occupation from the previous generation, Liang Congzhi created China's first private environmental protection organization "Friends of Nature", he founded this environmental protection organization is not just lip service, is to use practical actions to prove that he goes out to eat, whether it is a small restaurant or a high-end banquet, never use disposable utensils, carry his own tableware and paper towels, so that you can reduce a little white garbage. Even if it is used waste paper, he must make full use of it, make the waste paper into a business card, and generously and naturally hand over the business card to the other party.
Liang Congjie's travel tool is his bicycle, once he rode this worn-out bicycle to report to a meeting, the doorman was stunned that he did not recognize him, thinking that he was the uncle who came back from buying vegetables, and turned him away, no matter how Liang Congjie explained the doorman did not believe, until he took out the certificate issued by the venue, the doorman was not willing to believe. Liang can't see new things from the office of the admonition, they are all things that are not wanted but can still be used, he picks them up for his own use, the sofa in the office is still picked up from the garbage heap, he saves so much that even the water is poured half a cup for the guests, it is not that he looks down on the guests, but the guests just sit for a while and leave, pouring more wasted water.
Liang Congjie's son Zhou Zhibing is engaged in a different profession from him, and is a standing director of the China Cultural Relics Society, and some people can wonder why Liang Congjie's son is not surnamed Liang and surnamed Zhou, in fact, there is a story here. The Liang family and Zhou Peiyuan, the provost of Peking University, were friends with each other, Liang Congjie and Zhou Peiyuan's daughter Zhou Rumei were green plum bamboo horses, and the parents of the two families referred to them as marriages, Liang Congjie married Zhou Rumei in 1955, and the next year had a son Liang Jian, and Liang Jian was the original name of Zhou Zhibing. Liang Cong's admonition that the couple had a respectful relationship after marriage, and there was no contradiction, but after that, an incident between the fathers of both sides led to their implicated divorce.
In 1953, the ancient buildings in Beijing were demolished, and Liang Sicheng, who was bent on protecting the ancient buildings, was of course opposed, while Zhou Peiyuan presided over a criticism conference against Liang Sicheng at this time, and liang Zhou's relationship broke down, which brought Liang Congjie and his wife, and the feelings between the husband and wife were not as good as before, and they were forced to divorce in 1969, Liang Jian was brought back to his mother's house by Zhou Rumei, and his name was changed to "Zhou Xuebing".
On October 28, 2010, Liang Died of Internal Organ Failure at the age of 78. The three generations of the Liang family have left an indelible mark on history, but in his view, they are all losers, and they once used two sentences to describe their family in two sentences before his death: "The three generations of our Liang family are all losers" and "the biggest tragedy of our three generations is that the choices faced are getting smaller and smaller." Three generations of the Liang family, Liang Qichao is engaged in changing the law, Liang Sicheng is engaged in ancient architecture, Liang Congjie is engaged in environmental protection, but Liang Qichao's penghu reform method only lasted for 103 days and ended in failure, Liang Sicheng failed to save the old city wall of Beijing, Liang Congcheng did not solve the environmental protection problem, pollution is still happening, which may be the reason why he said that their three generations were losers.