Song Yaoru, who came from a humble background and was not good-looking, is well versed in the ancient adage: "The beloved son of his parents has far-reaching plans." Song Yaoru, who came from a poor family, went to Nanyang as an apprentice at the age of 9, and went to the United States with his cousin and adoptive father at the age of 12 to work as a silk tea clerk.
Song Yaoru's family photo
In her early 20s, Song Yaoru returned to Shanghai as a missionary in Shanghai, China, as a superintendent of meeting with pastors. As a conscientious Chinese and American missionary, Song Yaoru did not have a good life, earning only $15 a month and suffering discrimination, but finally made a fortune by printing the Bible, and gradually became a rich and powerful man in Shanghai.
Song Yaoru was a devout Christian, a revolutionary determined to overthrow the Qing government, a close friend and long-term sponsor of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, and a father of six children, three of whom were prominent figures in the Republic of China.
The three Song sisters
Miss Song, who went to the United States to study at the age of 15, studied at Wesleyan Women's College, was the secretary of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, and combined with Kong Xiangxi, a Shanxi businessman who is known as a descendant of the Confucian family, she is a veritable eldest sister of the Song family, shrewd and capable, good at calculation, and arranged the marriage of the younger sister and Chang Kaishen. It is rumored that Miss Song Er once commented on the eldest sister: "If the eldest sister were a man, I am afraid that the chairman would have died a long time ago, and she would have ruled China 15 years ago." ”
Song Ailing and Kong Xiangxi
Miss Song Er, who went to the United States to study at the age of 15, studied at Wesleyan Women's College, succeeded her eldest sister as the secretary of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, and became Dr. Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary partner.
Miss Song San, who entered the Chinese and Western Girls' School at the age of 5, went to the United States with her second sister to study at the age of 10, followed her two sisters to study at Wesleyan Women's College, and later Wellesley Women's University, and graduated with the highest Duran honors degree in the school. After returning to China, Miss Song San made a name for herself in her talent and beauty, and she had strong political ambitions to find a hero who would change the situation and realize her dream. coincided with the meeting, the second brother-in-law Sun Yat-sen recommended his henchman Chang Kaishen who had just made great achievements to Miss Song San, and married with the assistance of the eldest sister, and started a legendary life.
In 1943, Miss Song San gave a speech to the U.S. Congress
Song graduated from St. John's University in Shanghai, and after graduation, he went to the United States to study economics at the prestigious Harvard University. Song Dagongzi was the head of the executive of the Nationalist Government, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and a famous banker.
Song Yaoru's tortuous experience in his early years forged a unique vision.
Song Yaoru's tortuous resume shows that he was bold and courageous, whether he ran away from home overseas as a teenager and converted to Jesus, or married Ni after returning to China, and followed Sun Yat-sen's revolution. Song Yaoru's experience has had a great impact on her children, and her overseas background makes her unique vision and long-term plan for educating her children. The three daughters attended the famous Chinese and Western girls' school in Shanghai, the Mactier School, which was the first fee-paying girls' school run by the American Church in Shanghai and was a preparatory school for studying in the United States. Song Yaoru later sent her three daughters to study in the United States and study at Wesleyan Women's College, which is another good story.
Song Yaoru with her family
Song Yaoru teaches by word and deed, and pays attention to personality education.
Song Yaoru, who has received Western education, resolutely opposes the traditional education method of suppressing individuality, cultivates various specialties of her daughters, such as piano, dance, singing, painting, and newspaper, pays attention to social practice, and cultivates patriotic sentiments. Pay attention to English learning to help their daughters study abroad to see the outside world, learn traditional Chinese and be familiar with brush writing, so as to lay a foundation for their daughters to enter the political arena in the future. Song Yaoru's family and country feelings, generosity and strong dedication, Ni's strict discipline and gentle kindness, words and deeds have deeply affected the growth of their children.
Sun Yat-sen and his wife took a group photo
I have to admire that at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, a Chinese had such courage, contempted the secular prejudice of male superiority and inferiority, gave three daughters and men the same learning opportunities, and let them receive traditional and Western-style teaching from an early age, and sent them to the other side of the ocean to receive the baptism of modern scientific and technological knowledge and values, and achieve their own extraordinary lives.
To create the first family of the Republic of China, Song Yaoru is proud enough.
The marriage of the eldest lady of the Song family was facilitated by Song Yaoru when the revolutionaries were in exile in Japan. It was Song Ailing's love that caused Song Qingling, who took over as the eldest sister's secretary, to have feelings for Sun Yat-sen.
The glory of the second lady of the Song family is complicated for Song Yaoru, after all, Sun Yat-sen is a close friend of the same age and a guide to the revolution. From a moral and ethical point of view, there is still a lot of controversy among the revolutionary colleagues, not to mention that he is a father.
In 1923, after receiving a telegram invitation from the second sister and his wife, the talented Miss Song Jiasan decisively withdrew from Shanghai and went south to Guangzhou to meet Chang Kaishen, and finally found his own glory.
Miss Song San
It's just that Song Yaoru died of stomach cancer as early as 1918.