In 1914, the 25-year-old Mei Yiqi obtained a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the Worcester Institute of Technology in the United States, and was selected as an honorary member of SigmaXi, and the next year, he returned to China as a physics teacher at Tsinghua University.
But what makes people feel meaningful is that for the kind people who give themselves a marriage, Mei Yiqi refuses one by one, at this time, people realize that in Mei Yiqi's heart, this is a deliberate person, and soon, people with hearts know who Mei Yiqi's crush is through clues, and she is Mei Yiqi's green plum bamboo horse Han Yonghua.
Mei Yiqi, whose ancestral home is Wujin, Jiangsu, but was born in Tianjin, his father was Xiucai at the end of the Qing Dynasty, but he became a salt shop clerk, Mei Yiqi in childhood, life is not rich, but fortunately, Mei Yiqi's parents attach great importance to Mei Yiqi's education, and Mei Yiqi was able to enter the Tianjin Yan's School when he was a teenager.
In 1902, Yan's School founded a women's school, only 10-year-old Han Yonghua entered Yan's Girls' School, although the two did not go to school in the same classroom, but the 14-year-old Mei Yiqi still attracted Han Yonghua's attention, and Mei Yiqi also began to pay attention to this 4-year-old younger sister.
Later, the male and female schools of the Yan School were separated, Mei Yiqi and Han Yonghua were also separated, and later, Mei Yiqi studied abroad, and after Han Yonghua graduated, he became a teacher in Yan's Kindergarten...
One is a returnee student, the other is a kindergarten teacher, there is a big gap between the two, but even so, Mei Yiqi has never forgotten her own sister.
Finally, Mei Yiqi plucked up enough courage to write a marriage proposal letter to Han Yonghua, but this proposal letter was written too concisely, and after Han's father read it, he felt that there was no sincerity, and Mei Yiqi did not receive a reply for a long time, which made Mei Yiqi a little disappointed.
But Mei Yiqi really liked Han Yonghua, although he was rejected, but he was not discouraged, and he wrote a marriage proposal letter to Han Yonghua's father, this letter was sprinkled with thousands of words, Han's father read it, was impressed by Mei Yiqi's talent, clapped his hands, and finally agreed to the marriage.
In June 1919, the 30-year-old Mei Yiqi and the 26-year-old Han Yonghua were happily married, after marriage, the husband and wife loved each other, life was very harmonious, Han Yonghua gave Mei Yiqi 4 daughters and 1 son, a family of 7, and they were happy and harmonious.
In 1937, the Outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, at this time Tsinghua University, has been unstable, in order to save talents from the flames of war, Tsinghua, Peking University and other schools formed the Southwest United University, began to exile.
In the days of upheaval and displacement, everyone lived a very hard life, and Mei Yiqi, as the president of Tsinghua University, took the lead in abolishing all the privileges and subsidies of the president, which made Mei Yiqi's already miserable family even more miserable.
In order to subsidize the family, Han Yonghua decided to sell pastries on the ground, for Han Yonghua's move, Mei Yiqi did not oppose, but Mei Yiqi is the president of Tsinghua University after all, considering her husband's face, when Han Yonghua sells pastries, Han Yonghua will always wrap his face with a turban, some people asked, never said that his surname is Han, never mentioned Mei Yiqi.
But there is no impermeable wall in the world, and the wife of Mei Yiqi, the principal of Tsinghua University, still spread the word about setting up a stall on the street to buy pastries.
Mei Yiqi is a person who hurts his wife, his wife is running for the livelihood of the whole family, he looks in his eyes, it is painful in his heart, as long as he has time, he will tie an apron and help his wife in front of his wife's pastry stall.
Mei Yiqi is a very self-disciplined person, but once, he was supposed to go to class, but he was late, and as soon as he entered the classroom door, he gasped and said: "In the morning, my insider went to run errands, and asked me to help her watch the pastry stall, but she couldn't finish things, so I lost the stall and ran over." But today's business is really good, and there are many people who buy cakes. ”。
With Mei Yiqi's considerate husband, although Han Yonghua lived a poor life, he was as willing as a glutton, and in 1945, after the end of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Mei Yiqi and his wife returned to Beijing and lived a relatively stable life.
However, in 1948, when Peiping was liberated, Mei Yiqi was taken to Taiwan, and after arriving in Taiwan, the Republic of China government wanted Mei Yiqi to join the cabinet, but Mei Yiqi politely refused, mei Yiqi told reporters: "If you don't come out, you will not go to the southern friends, you will become an official when you come, and you can't account for the friends in the north." ”。
In the second year of Taiwan, Mei Yiqi went to the United States, and it was not until 1955 that she returned to Taiwan to establish the "Tsinghua Institute of Atomic Science", which was also the predecessor of Tsinghua University in Hsinchu, Taiwan.
When he returned to Taiwan, Mei Yiqi did not take his wife Han Yonghua, but left Han Yonghua in the United States, because Mei Yiqi was intoxicated with academics, coupled with the salary itself is not high, in the United States Han Yonghua, life is very poor, had to go out to work at the age of 62, clothing and hat factories, jewelry stores, hospital nurses, blind children's schools, these places, Han Yonghua has worked.
In 1960, Mei Yiqi was seriously ill, and when he received a notice, Han Yonghua came to her husband's side, and under Han Yonghua's careful care, Mei Yiqi's condition improved slightly, but in 1962, Mei Yiqi still completed her life journey at the age of 72.
After Mei Yiqi's death, Han Yonghua returned to the United States and did not return to China until 1977, when he died of illness at the age of 100.