During the Republic of China period, literati and poets and politicians were born. Speaking of the name Ma Yinchu, most people may not be familiar with it. This person's life is full of legends, in order to learn, he left a huge family business, and finally completed his studies, becoming all the demographers in China and the pioneers of family planning in China.
His life is a life of contradictions, and listen to me in detail.
First, study hard, and vow not to inherit the family business
Ma Yinchu was born into a winemaking family with very good family conditions. His father, single-mindedly hoping that this son would inherit the family business and carry forward their family's brewing technology and family business.
However, Ma Yinchu was not interested in winemaking since he was a child, but he was bent on learning, and even under the oppression of his father's beatings, he did not change his mind, he was very stubborn, and even died to mingzhi.
His father's thinking was also more traditional, believing that reading was of no use, and it was better to pass on the family's technology so that he could live a rich and carefree life.
Both father and son are very stubborn, even if the son is destined to learn, the father's still has not let go.
Ma Yin and his father could not reach a consensus at first, so at the age of 16, he ran away from home and embarked on the road to study. After that, Ma Yinchu traveled to Shanghai, Tianjin and the United States to learn knowledge and culture.
His father cut off all financial support for him in order to force his son to return. Because of this, Ma Yinchu in his youth lived a very poor life.
The time during the day is completely insufficient for Ma Yinchu, who loves to learn, so he also has to study at night. But because he had no money and couldn't afford to use electric lights, he could only use oil lamps.
One day, his friend came to visit him, and thinking it was too dark in the house, he lit two wicks for his oil lamp. After that, Ma Yinchu found out, and quickly snuffed out a wick, while apologizing to his friend:
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I can't afford to light two wicks, please don't laugh!
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It can be seen from this that At that time, Ma Yinchu was poor to what extent!
Fortunately, because of the diligence and persistence of that period, he finally succeeded in his studies and became a university lecturer on the campus of Peking University at the invitation of Cai Yuanpei.
Second, advocate having fewer children, and have two wives and eight sons
As China's "first person in demography", Ma Yinchu was the first to propose controlling Chinese mouth. According to the population size and growth efficiency at that time, Ma Yinchu believed that China's population was reproducing too fast and needed to be regulated, otherwise food and resources were likely to cause a crisis.
However, Ma Yinchu himself married two wives, one wife and one concubine to be precise, and had a total of 8 children, one of whom died at an early age.
Ma Yinchu's original wife was ordered by his parents, and the name of Zhang Tuanmei was determined by the words of the matchmaker. In fact, according to his knowledge, he should not be satisfied with arranged marriages. However, because of the matter of studying before, he almost broke with his family, this time, Ma Yinchu compromised, did not resist, but chose to marry honestly.
Zhang Tuanmei is gentle and considerate, virtuous and generous, although she has no culture, she knows how to be filial to her in-laws, care for her husband, and raise children, which can be said to be Ma Yinchu's virtuous help.
The two of them also spent a long time of tender affection.
After marriage, Zhang Tuanmei gave birth to four children, three daughters, and one son for Ma Yinchu, who died at an early age.
Later, when Ma Yinchu was 35 years old, he took a concubine named Wang Zhongzhen, who was exactly 22 years younger than him.
Wang Zhongzhen was better than Zhang Tuanmei in terms of knowledge, knew characters, and after marrying Ma Yinchu, bore him two sons and two daughters. At this point, Ma Yinchu already had two wives and seven children.
I don't know whether Ma Yinchu is too attractive, or the two wives have a good personality, anyway, the three people live together very harmoniously, and the relationship between the family is very harmonious.
Third, responsive, witty to resolve embarrassment
Ma Yinchu was also the president of Peking University, and during his tenure as president, a teacher named Guo Liangfu in the school wanted to get married, and Ma Yinchu also went to participate.
After all, it was the principal in person, everyone was very excited, in one link, the host invited Ma Yinchu to get up and say two words.
No one had told Ma Yinchu to speak before, and he himself was not ready. However, although it was suddenly mentioned, Ma Yinchu still stood up very calmly and said:
I would like to reassure the bride that he must be a good husband according to the groom's name.
Ma Yinchu's words were very humorous. Instead of speaking the festive words that everyone often talks about, nor did he hold the headmaster's shelf, he used the name of the groom and enlivened the atmosphere with wit.
Throughout Ma Yinchu's life, he had insight, knowledge, patriotism, and even was imprisoned for not fearing power. Such a person embodies another kind of pride in the Republic of China period.