Recently, I read the story of Liu Wencai's family, and I feel quite amazing, why has their Liu family experienced a hundred years of ups and downs, and their descendants have produced so many outstanding talents?
Liu Wencai, a large landowner in Sichuan, left the impression to the world that he was a notorious landowner who had a hideous face and did all kinds of evil.
But later, Mr. Xiaoshu wrote a book "The Truth of Liu Wencai", which restored a more objective and real Liu Wencai to us.
In short, Liu Wencai in the book is not bad enough to use cruel means such as water prisons, chili water, and tiger chairs to harm others.
The real him, who is insatiable and desperate to collect money, also takes out a small amount of money to do charity, runs a school for children to study, and shows his kindness from time to time to help the poor people (I feel that this recipe is very familiar).
Compared with the children and grandchildren of other brothers, Liu Wencai's children and grandchildren can be regarded as the worst. Liu Wencai died of panic on October 17, 1949, and his four sons fell ill because of him.
Liu Wencai and children
The eldest son, Liu Yuanlong, liked to smoke and caused serious lung lesions, and died before the age of 30.
The second son Liu Yuanhua is very smart and also studied at the Whampoa Military Academy, but because he was implicated, he had to be an unknown ordinary person all his life.
The third son, Liu Yuanfu, was accustomed to Liu Wencai's illness as a young master, eating, drinking, prostituting, gambling, and smoking, and he also fell in love with Liu Wencai's woman, but in the end he was trapped by love and committed suicide.
The fourth son, Liu Yuangui, has a good temperament, is a down-to-earth and hard-working young man, works on the railway, but who knows that he died because of a train collision.
Liu Wencai has a grandson named Liu Shiwei, because his grandfather's reputation in the local area is too bad, so he fled to Xinjiang for refuge, who knew that he was recognized by the locals and strangled him to death.
Liu Wencai also has a grandson named Sun Xiaofei, born to Liu Wencai's second son Liu Yuanhua, he and his two younger sisters worked in the oil department, and later ran to correct the name of his grandfather Liu Wencai, and also held large-scale ancestor worship activities.
Liu Wencai has six brothers, he ranks fifth, and he has a younger brother named Liu Wenhui, who ranks sixth.
Liu Wencai's father, Liu Gongzan, was born in the late Qing Dynasty, and his family background was above average. But the strange thing is that it is said that Liu Wencai was quite poor after getting married, and his original wife and a son and daughter born to his original partner died of illness because of a difficult life.
Liu Wencai's eldest brother, Liu Wenyuan, was a scholar who was admitted to the Xiucai examination, and later served as a member of the Sichuan Provincial Advisory Bureau and the director of the Provincial High Trial Hall.
Liu Wencai's sixth brother Liu Wenhui liked to dance and play with guns and sticks since he was a child and was very smart, he applied for the Chengdu Army Primary School at the age of 13, and was appreciated by the principal, and later studied at the Baoding Army Military Academy.
Liu Wencai was able to quickly amass a huge amount of wealth, relying on the support of this younger brother Liu Wenhui.
Liu Wenhui later became the commander of the mixed brigade, the two brothers helped each other, Liu Wenhui escorted Liu Wencai's tyranny, Liu Wencai gave the money to his younger brother Liu Wenhui, and asked him to work up and down, in order to be promoted to the third level.
Liu Wenhui really lived up to expectations, and later became the chairman of Sichuan Province.
Liu Xiang, the king of Sichuan, led his troops out of Sichuan to resist the war after the July 7 Incident
At the peak of the Liu family, there were 3 army commanders, 8 division commanders, 15 brigade commanders, as well as 1 provincial chairman and 1 theater commander. There are nearly 50 military and political officials at and above the county and regimental levels, and they are known as "the nine brigades and eighteen regiments of the three armies, and the battalion commanders and company commanders are innumerable."
"King of Sichuan" Liu Xiang is also a child of Liu Wencai's clan, and Liu Wencai and Liu Wenhui are uncles and nephews, which shows that the Liu family was a god-like existence in Sichuan at that time.
Compared with Liu Wencai, Liu Wenhui is kinder, and he doesn't look down on some of the fifth brother's styles, especially for his rampant conquest.
Liu Wencai's grandson Liu Xiaofei led the clan to worship their ancestors
Once, he said to Liu Wencai: "If you continue like this, maybe someone will beat you to death halfway, you should quickly restrain yourself." ”
In 1941, Lao Jiang had a conflict with Liu Wenhui, and Liu Wenhui moved closer to the CCP from then on, and finally led his troops to revolt. In 1959, Liu Wenhui was transferred to the Minister of Forestry. He died in Beijing on June 24, 1976 at the age of 82.
Liu Wencai's grandson Liu Xiaofei
Liu Wenhui is very smart in his life, good at judging the situation, and he also got a good death.
When Liu Wenhui led his troops to revolt, the wife of Liu Xiang, known as the "King of Sichuan", took a son and a daughter overseas, and it is said that Liu Xiang's son, Liu Jiyin, and daughter Liu Weiwen, now live in Los Angeles.
Liu Wenhui's grandson, Liu Shiding, born in Chongqing in 1951, is the deputy dean, professor, doctoral supervisor of the Department of Sociology at Peking University, and the director of the China Center for Social and Development Research.
Liu Shiding, the grandson of Liu Wenhui
His other grandson, Liu Shizhao, was born on December 6, 1948 in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, and now lives in Beijing, where he is the chief photographer of a magazine.
Since 2000, he has been in charge of the "World Heritage Tour of China" column of "People's China" magazine, and in 2002, he photographed and wrote the book "Trekking the Three Gorges".
Liu Shizhao, the grandson of Liu Wenhui
Liu Wenhui's fourth grandson, Liu Shixin, was originally a basketball player of the Chinese national team and a coach in Guangzhou. Granddaughter Liu Shixu is a former female table tennis player and is now a coach.
Liu Wenhui's eldest brother, Liu Wenyuan's son, Liu Yuanqi, was a member of the Qingbaijiang District Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference in Chengdu, and Liu Wenyuan's eldest grandson, Liu Shiyuan, was a teacher at a university in Henan.
Liu Wencai's third brother Liu Wenyuan, Wenyuan's grandson Liu Shijie, about 80 years old, was a professor at Xi'an Jiaotong University before retiring.
Liu Wencai's fourth brother, Liu Wenzhao, and his son Liu Yuanshu, were professors at Southwest University for Nationalities before their retirement. Liu Yuanshu's son, Liu Shi, is the head of the Department of Chinese at Tsinghua University and a doctoral supervisor. Liu Cui, the daughter of Liu Yuanshu, is a teacher at a university in Hefei, Anhui Province.
Looking at so many outstanding descendants of the Liu family, people can't help but wonder, can genes really be inherited?
Some people also say that the feng shui of Liu's ancestral tomb is good, so there are many talents.
Whatever the reason, it's really amazing that one family has so many talents.
It is said that when Liu Wencai's grandson Liu Xiaofei worshipped his ancestors, he was afraid of destroying the feng shui of the ancestral tomb, so he did not reach the place of the ancestral tomb, and carried out the ancestor worship ceremony two or three miles away.