Speaking of Jiang Ying, the most familiar identity is that of a world-famous scientist, The "Father of Aerospace" and "Father of Missiles" in China, and the wife of Qian Xuesen, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
However, many people do not know that Ms. Jiang Ying is not a traditional "housewife", she is a well-known bridesmaid.
Jiang Ying is a high-achieving student at the Berlin University of Music in Germany, and is also a famous female vocal educator and soprano singer in China.
She has been teaching at the Central Conservatory of Music for many years and has trained many singers who are famous in the international music scene, Wu Yanze, Fu Haijing, Zhu Ailan, Duoji Tsering, Yang Guang, and Li Shuangjiang are all disciples she personally brought out.
The most enviable thing about Ms. Jiang Ying is her deep relationship with her husband Qian Xuesen for 62 years, and the story of this pair of "immortal couples" has also touched countless people.
Zhuo Wenjun wrote in "White Head Yin": May one heart be won, and white heads are not separated.
Jiang Ying and Qian Xuesen are playmates of Qingmei Bamboo Horse and like-minded couples, who have both crossed the ocean to make a name for themselves in foreign countries, and returned to the motherland in the most difficult time.
In their careers, they encourage each other, and in life they are singing and singing, and their love is the most beautiful story in this world.
They are dependent on each other and will never abandon each other.
Now that both of them have passed away and are reunited in another world, hand in hand, the next life is still husband and wife, and there is a lifelong agreement.
In 1919, Jiang Ying was born in Haining, Zhejiang.
"The department is famous, the talent is excellent, the learning is consistent in The East and the West, and a generation of famous women" is people's evaluation of Jiang Ying.
Her great-grandfather Jiang Guangxu (Jiang Guangxu) was a famous bibliophile and engraver in the late Qing Dynasty, and built a library building with 100,000 books.
Jiang Baili's family
His father, Jiang Baili, was a general in the National Revolutionary Army and a famous military theorist and military educator during the Republic of China period.
He was also a disciple of Liang Qichao and a classmate of Cai Yi, who graduated from the Japanese Army Non-Commissioned Officer School with the first place, and during his visit to Germany, he was called "the outstanding general of the future of the East" predicted by napoleon by the German commander at the time.
Jiang Baili's original wife, Cha Pinzhen, and the martial arts novel master Jin Yong were the nephews of the same emperor, and although Jiang Ying was the daughter of only his Japanese wife Jiang Zuomei, she could also be regarded as Jin Yong's cousin.
Jin yong 's
Although there is no blood relationship, the two families still move around as relatives.
In 1957, Jin Yong also wrote an article in Hong Kong's Ta Kung Pao entitled "Articles by Mr. and Mrs. Qian Xuesen", mentioning his cousin Jiang Ying:
"The singing of the roof tiles is entirely the style of singing a grand opera in the opera house, which is indeed extremely rare among sopranos."
Jiang Ying has had a strong interest in music since childhood, and in 1936, at the age of 17, Jiang Ying began to travel with his father to various European countries.
Her enlightened father was very supportive of her hobbies, and the following year she was admitted to the Berlin University of Music in Germany.
In 1941, after graduation, Jiang Ying was offered an offer to sing at the German Grand Theatre in Berlin, where he sang on stage, and later went to Switzerland to continue his studies of "harmony and phonology".
At the 1943 Swiss "Luchen" International Music Annual Conference, Jiang Ying won the first place in the soprano competition of various countries, and was the first person to win in East Asia.
After returning to China in 1955, she taught at the Central Conservatory of Music for many years, successively serving as the director of the teaching and research department of the Vocal Music Department, the deputy director of the Opera Department, and a professor, and cultivated a large number of outstanding musical talents.
Wu Yanze, a tenor known for singing "The Rising Sun of the Grassland", is one of her students.
After Wu Yanze was admitted to the alto, the first teacher was Professor Jiang Ying, Qian Xuesen's wife, and Wu Yanze recalled that the biggest gain Professor Jiang gave him was to cultivate a sense of music.
Professor Jiang Ying's interpretation of "pronunciation should be as soft as velvet" was the highest point that Wu Yanze pursued for many years afterwards.
Wu Yanze and teacher Jiang Ying
This "high point when vocal music opens the door" eventually became a lifelong teaching for Wu Yanze.
Under her careful teaching, Fu Haijing, Zhu Ailan, Dorjee Tsering, Yang Guang, Li Shuangjiang and others have become famous musicians in the world of music.
Ms. Jiang Ying passed away in Beijing on February 5, 2012, at the age of 92.
Jiang Ying and Qian Xuesen, one is the "authority of European art songs", one is the "father of spaceflight", one is a romantic artist, the other is a rigorous scientist, how did two people who are so different come together?
Speaking of the love between Jiang Ying and Qian Xuesen, this must start from their fathers.
The Jiang and Qian families are family friends.
Qian Xuesen's father, Qian Junfu, served for many years in the Ministry of Education of the former Republic of China government, and later became the director of the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Education, and he was friends with Jiang Ying's father, Jiang Baili, for many years.
The two were once the same window of Hangzhou's "Qiushi Academy", the Jiang family had five golden flowers, and the Qian family only had one son, Jiang Ying was inherited to the Qian family when he was 3 years old, changed his name to Qian Xueying, but later Jiang Baili missed his daughter and wanted to go back.
Unexpectedly, Jiang Ying returned to the Qian family as a daughter-in-law.
In 1935, on the eve of Qian Xuesen, who was 23 years old at the time, went abroad with his parents to visit qian's house.
On that day, Jiang Ying captured Qian Xuesen's heart with a Mozart sonata in D major.
Qian Xuesen also brought a copy of Tang poems given to him by Jiang Ying as a treasured gift to the United States.
This difference is ten years.
On May 31, 1947, Jiang Ying, who had ended her 10-year study abroad career in Europe, held her solo concert at the Lyceum Theatre in Shanghai.
On that day, among the people who congratulated her in the audience was Qian Xuesen, a young professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States who also returned from school.
This time, they felt that each other's hearts were still firmly tied together, and in the same year, the two married happily in Shanghai, and then went to Boston, USA.
Qian Xuesen, who was in the United States, soon showed his extraordinary talent in the field of aerospace, but due to the influence of Truman's xenophobia act, Qian Xuesen moved the idea of returning to China.
However, the Americans did not want to let Qian Xuesen leave so easily, and some senior officials in the US military circles once said that Qian Xuesen would never be allowed to return to China, because he alone could withstand three or five divisions.
On September 6, 1950, two U.S.C.I.S. inspectors broke into Qian Xuesen's home in California with a gun and arrested him on trumped-up charges.
The alert Jiang Ying immediately got in touch with the California Institute of Technology to enlist the help of the school leaders and gain the support of public opinion.
She also took her own meals to visit Qian Xuesen, who was imprisoned on the desolate island of Termina, to give her husband confidence and encouragement.
She actively rescued her husband through lawyers and friends, raised $15,000 bail, and saved Qian Xuesen in just 14 days.
The US Government could not catch any "incriminating evidence" of Qian Xuesen, and did not want to let him return to China, so it put them under house arrest.
Around their home, there were spies watching day and night, and there was no freedom in speech and action.
In order to get rid of these "eyes", Jiang Ying put a small table and sofa chair in the windowless bathroom around her, and let Qian Xuesen sit there every night to concentrate on reading, researching, and continuing to do scientific research.
Sometimes the agents could not see Qian Xuesen's whereabouts from outside, so they forcibly entered the house under the pretext of asking for directions.
Every time Jiang Ying burst out scolding, "You dog agents, get me out!" Frightened, the agents were stunned and retreated step by step.
Jiang Ying later said triumphantly: "In those days, I was really like a 'chameleon', at home I was a docile little sheep, and in front of the enemy I became a fierce tigress!"
During the five years of unjustified detention by the US government, in order to protect her family, Jiang Ying never hired a nanny, she did not hire a nanny, and took on all the household chores herself.
She drives Qian Xuesen to and from work every day, picks up her two children to kindergarten, and buys vegetables and cooks to do housework, completely without thinking about her music career.
Just to avoid abandoning what he had learned, he still took time to practice vocal music at home. She sang for him with a sweet singing voice, nourished his dry heart with the sound of a clear spring, and brought him some spiritual comfort.
In order to be able to return to China smoothly, Jiang Ying had to find a way to avoid the search of the secret agents, she imitated the handwriting of the child and wrote a letter, put it in the mailbox of the black residential area, and sent it to her sister's home in Belgium for her to transfer to China.
Later, the letter was written and transferred to Premier Zhou Enlai through Chen Shutong, and under the strong condemnation of the Chinese government and the interference of international public opinion, the US government had no choice but to release Qian Xuesen and his wife to return to China.
Qian Xuesen is not a dull scientist who only knows how to do scientific research, he is also full of interest in literature and art, which also benefits from the transformation and edification of his wife Jiang Ying.
On the first day of going to the United States after the two got married, at breakfast, Qian Xuesen said to Jiang Ying, you are familiar with it yourself, turn around and go to work.
Until I came back at five or six o'clock in the evening, after dinner with Jiang Ying, I made a cup of tea, said "see you back", did not chat with Jiang Ying, and went into my own small study to read a book, this habit has been maintained for more than sixty years.
Jiang Ying felt that this was not okay, and she could not argue with him, so she decided to "transform" Qian Xuesen and turn him into her ideal husband.
One night, when Qian Xuesen was about to read again, Jiang Ying pulled him aside and said, "I won't read tonight, I'll teach you to play the piano." ”
Unexpectedly, it didn't take long for Qian Xuesen to play like a model.
Sometimes, Jiang Ying would let Qian Xuesen call his colleagues and friends to his home to party, and everyone would sing and dance lively, and slowly Qian Xuesen would become lively.
The late writer Zhang Chunru once mentioned in Qian Xuesen's biography that Jiang Yingren at that time was beautiful and sang well, and everyone fell in love with Mrs. Qian.
At the seminar on the 40th anniversary of Jiang Ying's teaching, 88-year-old Qian Xuesen wrote a written speech and asked his daughter to read it on her behalf.
He wrote: "When I encounter difficulties in a job and can't figure it out, it is often Jiang Ying's singing that makes me suddenly enlightened and enlightened..."
Qian Xuesen likes fine art, especially for philosophical works, the couple has a common art hobby, often go to listen to music and go to art exhibitions together.
During the development and launch of the "two bombs and one satellite," Qian Xuesen put particularly great pressure on himself due to his tight schedule and heavy tasks.
In order to help him reduce his pressure, Jiang Ying took advantage of the gap when he returned home to pull him to listen to the concerts of his colleagues or students, or to accompany him to the concerts of the elegant Chinese foreign ringing band.
In her rare years, she also personally participated in the organization of a large-scale concert "Starry Stars", which was used to celebrate the hard-working astronauts.
Jiang Ying not only gave Qian Xuesen a lot of help in his career, but also took meticulous care of his life.
Especially in his later years, Qian Xuesen was inseparable from Jiang Ying's care.
Due to the perennial rush in the northwest desert, 86-year-old Qian Xuesen has severe osteoporosis and severe pain in his waist and legs.
A doctor once told Elder Qian that he was afraid that he would need to stay in bed for a long time.
This was the last thing Qian Xuesen wanted to hear, and for a moment, he suddenly felt lost and sad, and fell on the bed and murmured:
"I can no longer serve the people, and the state has to pay money to take care of me, what is the point of my life?!" After saying that, I couldn't help but burst into tears.
Mrs. Jiang Ying understood most of her wife's pure feelings of serving the country and the people, so she gently put her arms around him and comforted him:
"Xuesen, don't think so, you are only 86 years old this year, the days are still long, you must be able to live to a hundred years old, I accompany you, I accompany you."
After speaking, Jiang Ying gently kissed his face.
Qian Xuesen was originally an optimistic and strong person, and after listening to his wife's advice, he quickly controlled his emotions and broke into a smile.
He also said to his wife with a slightly proud look, "I'm still working in my brain, and I want to live well for my brain."
On October 31, 2009, Qian Xuesen, a giant of science, died in Beijing at the age of 98.
On February 5, 2012, Jiang Ying, who was lying ill in bed, looked at the blooming phalaenopsis orchid on the windowsill and said to the relatives around him:
"Xue Sen likes this lilac orchid, he has been alone there for a long time, it must be very lonely, I should go with him." ”
It wasn't long before the loving old man walked away quietly with a smile on his face.
The love between Elder Qian and Ms. Jiang is not just a combination of door-to-door pairs, it is the loyalty and understanding of two people to each other.
The trivialities of life and the hardships of the environment did not defeat the romance of their feelings.
During his house arrest, Jiang Ying would find ways to relieve her husband's depressed mood; and Qian Xuesen would sometimes be happy and would take out a flute to play a song with his wife.
Jiang Ying was not angry because Qian Xuesen was intoxicated with work and alienated himself, but was proud of her husband's persistence.
Qian Xuesen also never interfered with his wife's interpersonal interactions and gave his wife all the trust.
To love someone is to believe in her (him) for a lifetime, which is the promise of two people to each other.
After 62 years of ups and downs, the two hearts have been firmly integrated.
"Once the vicissitudes of the sea were water, except for the Wushan Mountains, it was not a cloud."
Qian Xuesen's name has been written on the monument of Chinese history, and Jiang Ying's name has been deeply rooted in Qian Xuesen's heart.
Isn't the envy of love that we can hold hands and slowly grow old together!