Yang Zhenning
On December 10, 1957, Yang Zhenning and Li Zhengdao were on the Nobel podium together in Sweden, and this was the first time that Chinese won the Nobel Prize.
When the news spread, Chinese people around the world were proud and excited.
Later, when Yang Zhenning recalled this incident, he said excitedly: "The most important contribution in my life is to help change the psychological state of Chinese and feel inferior to others." ”
Indeed, it is precisely because of Yang Zhenning's achievements that Chinese people have the mentality of daring foreigners to compete for strengths and weaknesses.
However, at that time, the mainland and Taiwan were in a state of confrontation, and Yang Zhenning's wife, Du Zhili, was the daughter of du Yuming, a famous Kuomintang general.
At that time, Du Yuming was also being reformed as a war criminal in beijing Gongdelin war criminals, and Yang Zhenning's mother-in-law Cao Xiuqing and the rest of his family were in Taiwan.
Suddenly, whether Yang Zhenning went to Taiwan or the mainland has received widespread attention from all sides.
Yang Zhenning and Li Zhengdao
After the news reached Beijing, Premier Zhou Enlai immediately sent a delegation to offer condolences.
However, Yang Zhenning did not return to China because of his nationality, but stayed in the United States.
Later, it was not until 1971, when Sino-US relations improved, that Yang Zhenning returned to China safely.
On July 28, 1971, Premier Zhou Enlai hosted Yang Zhenning's family at the Great Hall of the People.
But the strange thing is that when they first met, Yang Zhenning affectionately called Cao Xiuqing "mother", but when he arrived at Du Yuming, he only respectfully called "Mr. Du".
Du Yuming also thought that his son-in-law was disgusted with his Kuomintang identity, so his face had not been very good-looking.
When Premier Zhou saw the situation, he quickly smiled and said roundly: "You are not right to call it, you should call it your father-in-law." ”
At the banquet, the crowd laughed and laughed continuously, and the topics discussed by everyone rose from physical science to national events, and they were happy and harmonious, like a family.
However, when Yang Zhenning was just with Du Zhili, he was criticized by many Chinese people.
According to common sense, Du Zhili is the daughter of the famous general Du Yuming, and Yang Zhenning is the son of the famous mathematician Yang Wuzhi.
The two of them are married, not to say that the door is right, but it will not cause controversy. So why were the two together when they were criticized by many Chinese people?
Everything has to start from the beginning.
In August 1944, Yang Zhenyu was admitted to the sixth session of Tsinghua University's public funds in the United States, and he was also the only public student in physics at that time.
However, at that time, the education department stipulated for students studying in the United States on public expense, "All students admitted should serve in the original organ and leave hou xin." ”
Moreover, Yang Zhenning's retention period is a full year, so he can only return to the Southwest United University first.
It was during this year that Yang Zhenning and Du Zhili met.
At that time, Yang Zhenning stayed too long, so he went to the affiliated middle school of Southwest United University to substitute for classes, and Du Zhili was one of his students.
Du Salute
But at that time, Du Zhili was still a yellow haired girl who had not grown up, and Yang Zhenning was all focused on preparing for class.
Therefore, at that time, the two people were just teachers and students, and there was not much intersection at all.
In 1945, Yang Zhenning, who came to the United States, went to the University of Chicago in order to learn from the greatest physicist of the 20th century, "Professor Fermi".
It is also a coincidence that Yang Zhenning entered the University of Chicago with Li Zhengdao. Moreover, Li Zhengdao is a full four years younger than Yang Zhenning, so Li Zhengdao's shift is several levels lower than Yang Zhenning.
But after all, they are in a foreign country and are all Chinese, so after Yang Zhenning and Li Zhengdao met, they soon became good friends who talked about everything.
For a long time after that, they both studied physics together and concentrated on their studies.
Lee Jeong-do
In the summer of 1949, after completing their studies at the University of Chicago, Yang Zhenning and Li Zhengdao came to the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton together, and it was here that they met the world's physics giant, Einstein, which was also the pride of their lives.
At that time, Einstein, who was already over the age of ancient, suddenly had a new theory ,"unified field theory."
Therefore, he gave a public speech to all the scholars in the American physics community, and Yang Zhenning and Li Zhengdao were also honored to participate.
However, Yang Zhenning, who is swimming in the ocean of physics, did not pay any attention to his marriage problems.
However, Yang Wuzhi, who was far away on the mainland, could not wait no matter what.
In 1949, Yang Zhenning was told that Hu Shi wanted to see him.
Hearing this news, although Yang Zhenning was very confused, Hu Shi was after all his father's friend for many years, and he had seen him when he was a child, so he still went.
Hu shi
But Yang Zhenning never expected that Hu Shi came to see him, on the one hand, to see this physics talent, on the other hand, it was his father To Hu Shi to find a girlfriend for him.
After knowing the truth, Yang Zhenning suddenly cried and laughed.
But Hu Shi smiled and said, "Your generation is much smarter than our generation, and we don't have to worry about such a thing at all." ”
It is also fate, it is on Christmas day of this year that Yang Zhenning and Du Zhili met again.
At that time, Yang Zhenning and a few friends went to a small town in Princeton to eat together, and just happened to run into Du Zhili.
Seeing each other again, the little girl who was once there has been a big deal.
In the restaurant, they ate while talking about the latest situation.
It turned out that in 1947, Du Yuming, who was serving as the commander of the Northeast Security Command, was preparing to go to the United States for medical treatment, and by the way, he took his eldest daughter Du Zhili and went to the United States to study.
Du Yuming
However, just as the plane was about to take off, Chiang Kai-shek's urgent handbook ordered Du Yuming to be treated in Shanghai and not allowed him to leave Shanghai.
Therefore, Du Zhili could only go to the United States alone and enter the Methodist College recommended by Song Meiling to study.
In January 1949, Du Yuming was defeated and captured in the Battle of Huaihai, and Cao Xiuqing was an ordinary housewife with no income at all, so Du Zhili transferred to the free St. Vincent's College and continued his studies.
It is precisely because of this that there is this encounter between the two.
Du Zhili's gentle temperament and idyllic countenance immediately attracted Yang Zhenning deeply. Coupled with the fact that they were in the same foreign country, the two were together not long after.
At that time, Du Zhili also specifically told Yang Zhenning that he was Du Yuming's daughter and that there might be trouble with her, but Yang Zhenning did not care about it at all and insisted on being with her.
When they were in love, they walked together on the streets of the United States, talented and beautiful, like a pair of fairy lovers.
Photo of Yang Zhenning and Du Zhili's newlyweds
After a year of love, they entered the palace of marriage.
After that, the couple worked hand in hand and spent more than 50 years of ups and downs.
At first, the marriage between the two of them was not favored by people, because they used to have a teacher-student relationship, which was criticized by countless people at that time.
And Du Zhili is after all a big bridesmaid, whether she can put herself in the right position after marriage, this has always been a concern.
However, they did not expect that Du Zhili after marriage not only changed the life of a big miss, but also took care of Yang Zhenning' large and small affairs in the family.
Once, Du Zhili's son was seriously injured and in urgent need of medical treatment, but Yang Zhenning was still lecturing in Poland at this time.
In order not to disturb Yang Zhenning, the woman sent the child to the hospital for surgery alone.
Fortunately, the child didn't have anything to do, just a false alarm.
But this kind of thing is not just once.
It is hard to imagine how much role Du Zhili played behind Yang Zhenning.
Yang Zhenning and Du Zhili
It can even be said that if there was no such considerate Xianneisuke as Du Zhili, there might not have been Yang Zhenning, who later became famous in the world.
On December 10, 1957, 35-year-old Yang Zhenning and 31-year-old Li Zhengdao took the podium of the Nobel Prize because of the law of conservation.
Du Zhili looked at her husband who received the award on the stage, and his pride and excitement suddenly sprang up.
It is precisely because of Yang Zhenning's award that the father-in-law and mother-in-law who are separated on both sides of the strait can enjoy their old age in peace.
Before Yang Zhenning won the award, he also sent a letter to his mother-in-law Cao Xiuqing, in which he said bluntly: "Your old friend has corresponded with me, and he is very worried about your safety." ”
Cao Xiuqing knew in his heart that the old friend in this letter was her husband Du Yuming.
At this time, Du Yuming was still on the mainland, and if he wanted to see him, he could only leave Taiwan first and then make other plans.
So she made a request to Chiang Kai-shek to visit her daughter in the United States.
Chiang Kai-shek
However, Chiang Kai-shek said: "Du Yuming's wife and children are not allowed to leave Taiwan again." ”
However, not long after, Cao Xiuqing's mother-in-law died, and the Kuomintang top brass, who had ignored their family, gave the funeral a very high standard.
Later, Cao Xiuqing learned that it was his son-in-law who won the Nobel Prize, which changed Chiang Kai-shek's attitude.
However, just a year ago, Du Zhiren, who went to study in the United States, committed suicide in the United States because of tuition fees.
At that time, Cao Xiuqing also went to Chiang Kai-shek for help, but Chiang Kai-shek casually sent her away.
At present, the son-in-law has just won the award, and he has come here to ask for warmth.
At this point, she could be considered to have completely seen through the Kuomintang.
But instead of showing her dissatisfaction, she once again made a request to Chiang Kai-shek to visit her daughter.
When Chiang Kai-shek saw the situation, he was very excited in his heart, and immediately agreed, and also asked Cao Xiuqing to persuade Yang Zhenning to come to Taiwan.
Cao Xiuqing
In order to cope with Chiang Kai-shek, Cao Xiuqing could only superficially agree, but after she arrived in the United States, she did not say a word about persuading Yang Zhenning to come to Taiwan.
Chiang Kai-shek in Taiwan, seeing that Cao Xiuqing did not move on this side, also knew that he had been deceived, and he was immediately furious.
But he didn't want to think about how he had treated Cao Xiuqing's family since Du Yuming was captured.
Soon after Cao Xiuqing came to the United States, Du Yuming was pardoned, and he was also appointed by Premier Zhou as a member of the Cultural and Historical Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
Because Zhou Enlai had previously served as the director of the political office in the Whampoa Military Academy, Du Yuming saw Zhou Lai and said with shame on his face: "The students are sorry for the teacher, they did not listen to the teacher' words." ”
However, after Premier Zhou Enlai listened, he did not blame Du Yuming, but said gently: "This is not to blame you, blame me for not teaching you well." ”
Premier Zhou Enlai
When Du Yuming heard this, he could not help but burst into tears when he had already spent half his life on horseback.
After Cao Xiuqing learned the news of her husband, Cao Xiuqing looked forward to seeing her husband every day.
Finally, on June 3, 1963, Cao Xiuqing, who rushed to Beijing, finally met her husband who had been separated for many years, and she finally got her wish.
In 1971, as Sino-US relations improved, the United States lifted its ban on the mainland.
Therefore, Yang Zhenning hurriedly sent a letter to his father, saying that he wanted to return to China to visit his relatives.
After reading his son's letter, Yang Wuzhi was also very excited at the moment, and immediately reported the news to the State Council.
As a world-renowned physicist, the country welcomed Yang Zhenning's arrival.
Prior to this, no well-known scholars had returned to China, and Yang Zhenning's return to China this time can be said to have set a precedent.
In the summer of 1971, Yang Zhenning and his wife went to Paris to apply for a visa.
Young Yang Zhenning with his mother
At that time, Yang Zhenning's heart was still very worried, and he was afraid that he would not be able to leave, but he did not expect that it only took a cup of tea to apply for a visa.
Later, he learned that all this was the care of Premier Zhou.
When the plane arrived in China, Yang Zhenning looked at the familiar land under his feet and couldn't help but sigh with emotion.
He has been away from his hometown for 26 years since he set foot in the United States in 1945.
After the plane arrived in Shanghai, he met his parents, his mentor Wu Youxun, whom he had not seen for many years, and his good friend, "Deng Jiaxian", the founder of the two bombs.
On July 28, 1971, Premier Zhou hosted a banquet for Yang Zhenning's family at the Great Hall of the People.
And this is also the first time Yang Zhenning and Du Yuming met.
But at the banquet, Yang Zhenning has always called Du Yuming Mr. Du instead of his father-in-law.
Premier Zhou, who was next to him, saw the situation and laughed and said, "Your title is not right, you should call it your father-in-law." ”
Yang Zhenning and Premier Zhou
At this moment, Yang Zhenning opened his mouth to call his father-in-law.
It turned out that because of the complicated political situation and the fact that Yang Zhenning had just returned to China, he did not know much about the situation at home, so he did not know what Premier Zhou's attitude toward Du Yuming really was.
Yang Zhenning, who was nearly half a hundred years old, decided to use "Mr. Du" to call Du Yuming first, but he was really too careful.
After the end of his family visit, Yang Zhenning, who returned to the United States, often gave public speeches in the city to publicize traditional Chinese culture and contribute to the friendly exchanges between the Chinese and American peoples.
Because of the particularity of Yang Zhenning's identity, his speech not only changed the concept of China in many Americans, but also attracted many Chinese scholars to return to China.
In 1971, Yang Zhenning participated in the fishing protection movement, and he gave speeches in many colleges and universities in the United States, expressing China's determination to defend national sovereignty to the fullest, and it also infected a large number of young students.
Yang Zhenning during the speech
In October of that year, Yang Zhenning participated in the dialectical meeting of the "Okinawa Agreement", at which he said that a group of American scientists could not lift their heads, and forcefully dialectically argued that the Diaoyu Islands were Chinese.
In the years that followed, Yang Zhenning returned to China with his wife to visit his family.
In 1973, Yang Zhenning was even received by Chairman Mao.
When they talked about physics together in the study, Yang Zhenning introduced a particularly interesting conclusion to the chairman, saying that the smallest unit of matter is the "virtual son", and it almost broke the conclusion that "matter is not extinguished".
Although the chairman did not know much about physics, he understood this conclusion philosophically and proposed that there must be a process of this from scratch, but we do not know it yet.
Immediately after that, Yang Zhenning agreed, saying that he had also thought about this problem, but he was not sure.
Chairman Mao and Yang Zhenning
At the end of the meeting, Yang Zhenning said goodbye to the chairman with a smile and wished him a long life.
But after the chairman listened, he just smiled and said, "Your words are not right, not scientific." ”
This meeting between Yang Zhenning and the chairman soon caused an uproar in the world.
Later, under the guidance of Yang Zhenning, Niu Manjiang, Li Zhengdao, Wang Hao and others all came to China to visit their relatives.
In 1977, Yang Zhenning became the main person in charge of the "National Chinese Association" and actively promoted the idea of the reunification of the motherland.
Later, when Deng Xiaoping visited the United States, Yang Zhenning made a public speech as the chairman of the National Chinese Association: "Everyone agreed that there is only one China, and Taiwan is a part of China." ”
On May 7, 1981, Du Yuming died of illness, but before his death, a special will was made, saying:
"I hope that my relatives, friends, and classmates in Taiwan will attach importance to the great national righteousness, promote the reunification of our country at an early date, and build our country into a modern power for the benefit of future generations."
Yang Zhenning gave a speech at Peking University
When Yang Zhenning learned of the news of his father-in-law's death, he was very sad and immediately rushed back to China with his wife and attended the funeral.
After that, he adhered to his father-in-law's legacy and wholeheartedly contributed to the prosperity and development of our country.