In 1982, Ma Yinchu, a famous economist, educator and demographer who had served as president of Peking University, died at the age of 100. His 100 years are also such wonderful, he was an academic expert, he was the principal of a famous school, he also jumped into the river to commit suicide, squatting in prison for the country, but he also had many children and many blessings...
In order to study, I fought to the death
If we say that after the reform and opening up, "I am the master of my work" Ma Yinchu has long realized "my study is my master." He was born in Shengxian County, Zhejiang Province, and his family was engaged in winemaking, and his business was booming and his family was well off. In his father's opinion, he was the smartest of the five brothers, so he had long been designated as the heir to the family's business. Since the family business needs to manage the accounts, my father did not intend to let him have any breakthrough in academics, and he studied in a private school, as long as he could manage the hotel accounts. However, the young Ma Yinchu wanted to go to the city to study in the new school, and had no interest in the old Four Books and Five Classics, so he often showed resistance by neglecting his studies. In the case of repeated persuasion by his father, he could only beat him and scold him, and finally in a desperate situation, he chose to commit suicide and jumped into Huang Zejiang, fortunately he was rescued. Unexpectedly, this death struggle ushered in a turning point in his life, and with the help of his father's old friend Zhang Shengsheng, he was finally taken to Shanghai to study. From then on, his path of study turned to the open and hanging mode, and in 1905 he was actually admitted to Tianjin Beiyang University. In 1906, he went to the United States to study and received a bachelor's degree in economics from Yale University. In 1914, he received a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Columbia University's School of Political Science, and his thesis became a teaching reference material for Columbia University's first year of undergraduate studies. He tells himself with facts
"How important is the right choice" "How important is the quality educational resources of big cities". Otherwise, he can only be a mr. bookkeeper for a lifetime, and at best a private small boss.
Never feared anyone in the face of truth
In 1916, Ma Yinchu refused to stay and returned to China after completing his studies. Soon after, he became a professor of economics at Peking University. In 1938, during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Ma Yinchu came to Chongqing University as a professor, and his research direction was china's wartime economic problems. During the Kuomintang administration, inflation was severe, and many people dared to be angry. However, as an economist, Ma Yinchu repeatedly scolded the senior officials of the Kuomintang in his speeches for making it difficult for the country to make money, and forgetting righteousness. In 1940, Chiang Kai-shek could not bear it any longer and ordered his subordinates to secretly imprison Ma Yinchu, and from then on he began several years of squatting and prison.
In order to continue the incense, 8 children were born in a row
To continue the incense, he married two wives and had eight children. His first wife, Zhang Tuanmei, was introduced to him by his family. Zhang Tuanmei had no culture and gave birth to 3 girls in a row, one of whom unfortunately died. After Ma Yin returned to China after completing his first school, his second daughter was 10 years old. In that era of son preference and strong demand for continuing incense, Zhang Tuanmei strongly persuaded him to marry another room to continue the incense. So he married a second wife, Wang Zhongzhen, who was a classmate of his second daughter, 22 years younger than himself, and fortunately the two wives lived very well together. After marriage, Wang Zhongzhen gave birth to three sons and two daughters.
At that time, productivity was low, and all work needed to rely on manpower, so food shortages were the norm at that time, and no one could guarantee that every child would thrive. Population and materials were the main contradictions in society at that time, but Mr. Ma Yinchu realized it in advance, but it was not adopted until his death.