There is an old saying in the mainland, which is called a tiger father without a dog. Of course, this is not absolute, nor is it a literal emphasis on the inheritance between father and son. Rather, it means that the character and education of parents have a very crucial impact on their children and future generations.
This can be seen from the family mottos and family letters left by many celebrities in the history of the mainland, such as the sentence in Liu Bei's edict to Liu Chan: "Don't take evil as small, don't do good as small." Zhuge Liang's "Book of Commandments" wrote: If you are not indifferent, you will not have a clear ambition, and if you are not quiet, you will not be far-reaching.
Recently, in the "Letter to Fu Lei's Family", it is recorded that Mr. Fu Lei, a famous educator in the mainland, wrote a letter to his son Fu Cong in the United Kingdom in 1959, in which he said earnestly: The personal honor and disgrace are small, and the country's honor and disgrace are big.
These words are full of words and true feelings, not only for the author's own life experience and experience, but also for the education of their children and future generations, and also for us readers.
However, not every "hero" can educate their children to be what they want, or rather, with the changes of the times, the behavior of some heroes' descendants is also puzzling.
1. A red family letter that has been sealed in the dust for many years
November 14, 2007, is the 58th anniversary of the sacrifice of Sister Jiang and Jiang Zhuyun.
This is the inherent impression brought to us by all kinds of red works and materials, but we should know that Sister Jiang is a vivid person, she is not only a revolutionary martyr, she is also a woman, a mother, and she also has her own tender side.
In that year, in order to hold an event to commemorate Sister Jiang, the Three Gorges Museum rarely publicly displayed their treasure - Sister Jiang's suicide note.
According to the leaders of the museum, this suicide note is very special, it is not written with pen and ink, but the bamboo chopsticks used for eating in prison are sharpened, the cotton wool covered by the sleep is disassembled, and the cotton is burned to ashes.
In the end, it was passed on through a guard who was moved by our party's advanced theories and rebelled, and it was transferred to Sister Jiang's cousin Tan Zhu'an, who handed it over to his sister Tan Zhenglun.
At the time of the exhibition, the letter was kept in a glass case, but the contents of this crudely made piece of worn-out yellow paper with a length of no more than a centimeter can be clearly seen:
If you are unlucky, Yun'er will give it to you, hoping to follow in the footsteps of your parents, take the construction of New China as your ambition, and fight to the end for the cause of the communist revolution...... Don't be arrogant, rough clothes and light food are enough......
These few strokes are deathbed orphans (the situation was tense at the time, only 2 months after Sister Jiang was killed), and they are also ardent expectations for his son, and they also reveal a firm belief in the victory of the revolution, which is moving.
However, after the content of Sister Jiang's suicide note was made public, it also set off another wave, that is, everyone was very interested in how Sister Jiang's son "Yun'er" is now, and whether he is struggling to contribute to the revolutionary cause as Sister Jiang expects.
However, the news that came out in the end made everyone talk about it, and some people even criticized him, it turned out that Sister Jiang's son's full name was Peng Yun, who was sent abroad to study because of his excellent grades, but later settled and worked in the United States and became a tenured professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland.
This makes netizens unacceptable no matter what, as a child of a martyr, enjoying publicly-funded study, or the first batch of publicly-sent students in the mainland, he didn't return to the motherland to contribute in the end, isn't this a betrayal?
Sister Jiang's son formed a strong contrast with the non-return in the United States, and a lot of public opinion turmoil was formed on the Internet. Could it be that this Peng Yun is really so unbearable, betraying his parents' beliefs and betraying the cultivation of the motherland? To understand this, we have to start with the deeds of Sister Jiang and Peng Yun.
2. Orphans of martyrs
Some friends may not know that Peng Yun's mother, Sister Jiang, is a martyr, and his father Peng Yongwu is also a martyr, and died earlier than Sister Jiang, in 1947, in the political appointment of the Xiachuan East Guerrillas, died in the Dabie Mountains.
In May 1943, Jiang Zhuyun, who was lurking as a clerk in the Chongqing Ministry of Finance, was arranged by the organization to pretend to be husband and wife with Peng Yongwu, who was working in the Chongqing Municipal Committee of our party at that time, mainly to provide the latter with a safe identity and a stable place to live.
Because Jiang Zhuyun had been studying and working in Chongqing for a long time, his identity was very hidden, and soon the residence of this "couple" became an important stronghold of our party in Chongqing. Against the backdrop of the Kuomintang's brutal search and suppression of our party figures, Jiang Zhuyun and Peng Yongwu risked their lives to complete various tasks.
However, it was also this experience of supporting each other under high pressure that made the two fall in love with each other. In 1945, two years after living and dying together, the two officially applied to the organization for marriage and were approved, and the following year, their son Peng Yun was born.
However, the family did not live together for long, and in 1947, due to the needs of the mission, the couple had to leave behind their one-year-old son and go to eastern Sichuan, lurking in the Daba Mountains to lead the local armed rebellion.
Later, in order to send our party cadres to the eastern part of Xiachuan, Jiang Zhuyun returned to Chongqing to work, but soon after, in January 1948, she received a bad news: the guerrillas in eastern Xiachuan were surrounded by the enemy in Anzishan, and Peng Yongwu died heroically when covering the comrades to break through!
Considering the special situation in Jiang Zhuyun's family, the organization canceled her previous task and rearranged her to lurk in Chongqing, mainly to make it convenient for her to take care of Xiao Peng Yun.
But Sister Jiang was unwilling to stay in the rear like this, she had just sacrificed her husband and her heart was like a knife, and she endured her reluctance to her son, and resolutely applied to the organization to "go to the place where Lao Peng sacrificed to continue fighting".
The eastern Sichuan party organization agreed to Sister Jiang's application, and the heroine returned to the front line of the struggle against the enemy. Regrettably, five months later, Jiang Zhuyun, who was working in Wanxian County, was arrested by agents due to the betrayal of a traitor and subsequently taken to the notorious Dregs Cave Prison.
This news was quickly reported to Xu Yuanju, the Kuomintang intelligence chief in Chongqing, and after he learned that Sister Jiang was Peng Yongwu's wife, he immediately interrogated him personally, hoping to find out from Sister Jiang's mouth the party's armed insurrection plan and the list of underground workers in eastern Sichuan and eastern Sichuan.
Everyone must have heard of the details of Sister Jiang's trial, and the red novel "Red Rock" has also described it, those terrible tortures are not fiction, Xu Yuanju used a series of torture tools he could think of, such as tiger chairs, electrocution, bamboo sticks, finger splints and soldering irons, but Sister Jiang did not confide in a word, and left a bold statement that went down in history: The sticks (inserted into the nails) are made of bamboo, and the will of our Communist Party members is made of steel.
In the face of Sister Jiang and her cellmates' iron-clad beliefs, Xu Yuanju had no choice but to abuse and vent his anger, but Sister Jiang insisted on propagating our party's national salvation theory with the guards in prison, and also rebelled against many guards, which is also the reason why her suicide note was later transmitted.
In November 1949, Sister Jiang and other martyrs were killed by the order of Xu Yuanju, who jumped over the wall in a hurry, but before she was killed, she had already learned the news of the founding of New China, and also made a five-star red flag with her comrades in prison.
Sister Jiang is smiling in the face of the enemy's butcher's knife, the establishment of New China allowed her to die safely, if there is any regret in her heart, it is only one - she can no longer take care of Peng Yun to grow up.
At this time, Peng Yun, who was more than three years old, was being taken by his "Mother Tan" to inquire about his mother's news in Chongqing - they didn't know that Jiang Zhuyun had sacrificed.
3. Grow up under the halo of martyrs
Peng Yun was received by "Tan's mother" in February 1948, when Sister Jiang was approved by the organization to return to work in eastern Sichuan, so she wrote a letter to her best friend Tan Zhenglun, explaining her situation and asking Tan Zhenglun to pick up Peng Yun in Chongqing.
In fact, Tan Zhenglun and Peng Yun have a very special relationship, she is friends with Jiang Zhuyun, and she is also Peng Yongwu's ex-wife, and the two also have a son Peng Bingzhong, that is, Peng Yun's half-brother.
This kind of relationship may still be a little embarrassing now, but Tan Zhenglun did not hesitate at all. After receiving the letter, he immediately set out, braved the grim threat of white terror, picked up Peng Yun from Chongqing, and took care of him until he grew up.
After Sister Jiang was arrested, Xu Yuanju knew that she had a son, so he sent spies to search for her, wanting to use Peng Yun to coerce Sister Jiang into submission - in Xu Yuanju's opinion, maybe Jiang Zhuyun can ignore his own life and endure his own pain, but can he ignore the life and death of his own flesh and blood?
During this time, it was Tan Zhenglun who took Peng Yun to hide around Chongqing, and narrowly escaped the search of the spies many times and avoided the tragedy.
After the liberation of Chongqing, Tan Zhenglun immediately took Peng Yun back to the city to inquire about Jiang Zhuyun's news, and they ran through dozens of 'registration offices for comrades who escaped from danger' set up by our party, and finally learned from others that Sister Jiang had died on the eve of the liberation of Chongqing.
Since then, Peng Yun has lived with Tan Zhenglun in Yunyang County, Chongqing City, and because of the identity of the martyr's orphan and the influence of Sister Jiang's heroic deeds in society, he has enjoyed unusual treatment since he was a child.
According to Peng Yun's classmates, when they were in middle school, their class enjoyed over-standard treatment because of Peng Yun, the child of a martyr, and the school specially arranged for the best teachers to teach and create better learning conditions for them as much as possible.
Including when the city organizes some student activities or group activities, they will be invited to participate in the class. There are also letters from all over the country and even abroad that care about Peng Yun's growth, and they continue to be sent to their classes.
The most memorable thing for the students is that once the school organized everyone to go to the scum cave for red education, I don't know who shouted out Peng Yun's identity, and suddenly their group of people was surrounded by tourists, and finally some classmates exchanged clothes with him, so that Peng Yun was able to "get out".
This level of care gave Peng Yun a lot of warmth, but it also brought a lot of pressure. However, he seems to have inherited the intelligence and mind of his parents, and he has not been fluttering because of this, and he has never disappointed Tan Zhenglun and his teachers in learning.
Peng Yun took the college entrance examination at the age of 19 and was admitted to the Harbin Military Engineering Institute (which was later split into the People's Liberation Army Engineering University and Harbin Institute of Technology) with excellent results, becoming everyone's pride.
After graduating, Peng Yun was assigned to work in a factory, married Yang Kaihui's niece, Yi Xiaoye, and later transferred to Beijing to work at a research institute of the Ministry of Machinery Industry.
Peng Yun has a tireless pursuit of scientific research, after the mainland resumed the college entrance examination, he was soon admitted to the graduate school of the Department of Computer Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and then because of his excellent grades, he was selected as the first batch of public students in the mainland to study in the United States.
In fact, Peng Yun received his master's and doctorate degrees in the United States, and then served as a visiting professor for a year, before returning to China and joining the Chinese Academy of Sciences to engage in computer-related research.
Later, a large American publishing house wrote to invite him to become the chief editor, and after thinking about it, he went to the United States, and later was hired as a tenured professor at the university, and then settled in the United States with his wife.
You can see from Peng Yun's growth experience that he has been treated favorably by the motherland since he was a child because of his parents, and it can be said that if it were not for Jiang Zhuyun and Peng Yongwu, the two martyrs, who sacrificed their lives for the country, Peng Yun would probably not have been able to receive such a good education, let alone have the opportunity to study abroad on public assignment.
Therefore, netizens had a great reaction to his final settlement in the United States, and for this reason, a reporter made a special trip to interview Peng Yun and asked this question: Why didn't you choose to return to China? How did he answer?
Fourth, a two-word answer
Peng Yun was not surprised by the reporter's question, and it was clear that he had heard about the controversy he had caused. Peng Yun admitted to reporters that in fact, he has also thought about this issue many times, and he can finally say it through the reporter's interview.
After studying in the United States, Peng Yun returned to his motherland for the first time, and hoped to carry forward his learning results in his motherland, but it was difficult to make breakthrough results due to the constraints of his research.
Later, when he was faced with the opportunity to go to the United States, his original intention was to successfully promote further research and achieve greater results to serve the motherland.
Peng Yun has never forgotten his mother's instructions to fight for the cause of communism, and he has always hoped to make a big achievement, just like Qian Xuesen, so that the motherland can develop by leaps and bounds in this field.
However, as time went by, he never achieved satisfactory results, during which he also considered returning to China, but he was very confused, did not know what to do after returning home, and missed the best time to return to China. According to his own estimates, his mother's expectations for him were only half fulfilled.
Speaking of this, Peng Yun sighed helplessly and said two words to the reporter: old. I'm too old to probably never fulfill my mother's last wishes. But no matter where I am, I am a Chinese and still retain my Chinese nationality.
Later, the reporter reported Peng Yun's remarks, which may not satisfy everyone. But what we have to admit is that there are indeed different ways to serve the motherland, and we can't assume that Peng Yun is a "traitor" just because his choice is different from what we imagined.
And from Peng Yun's education of his son, we can also see that he really misses the motherland. He and Yi Xiaoye's son Peng Zhuangzhuang, when he was a child, has been going to school in Beijing, until high school, college did not go to the United States, after graduating from Harvard University in the United States, Peng Zhuangzhuang returned to China to work, is currently the president of the Good Future (former Xueersi) Group, also did not become an American citizen.
Perhaps Peng Yun's choice is puzzling, and his explanation may not be convincing to everyone, but we can't use the identity of "martyr's orphan" to limit his choice, and not all people who go abroad to develop are betraying the cultivation of the motherland. As long as he always has a Chinese heart, he will always be a son and daughter of the motherland.