Family photo of Yan Xishan taken in 1947
Yan Xishan and his second wife Xu Lansen had five sons: Yan Zhigong (eldest son), Yan Zhikuan (second son), Yan Zhixin (third son), Yan Zhimin (fourth son), and Yan Zhihui (fifth son). Yan Zhigong (字敬斋) and Yan Zhixin (字實zhai) died young.
Xu Zhuqing took a group photo with his sons, the back row is the second son Yan Zhikuan and the second daughter-in-law Zhao Xiujin, the front right is the fourth son Yan Zhimin, the front left is the fifth son Yan Zhihui
Yan Zhikuan, zi shang, born in 1919, wife Zhao Xiujin, Xugou County Zhao Jiabao village, graduated from Taiyuan Guanghua Girls' High School. Zhikuan suffered from "lamb madness" and died in 1940 in Yan Jian's apartment in Sichuan. There is a son and a daughter, the child name tree tree, the female name tree banyan tree.
Yan Shuyao died in Taiyuan when he was in his 10s. In the summer of 1948, Zhao Xiujin came to Shanghai with his daughter Yan Shurong, went to Taiwan in April 1949, and later immigrated to the United States. Yan Shurong worked at Kodak in New York before retiring.
Yan Xishan took a group photo with his fourth son Yan Zhimin and fifth son Yan Zhihui
Yan Zhimin, born on March 7, 1926, was brilliant since childhood and taught himself to install radios. In 1946, he married Pei Bin, the daughter of Pei Jianquan (Pei Qingyuan) in Taiyuan, who graduated from Fu Jen University, and his father was the director of the Department of Education of Shanxi Province in Japan and the puppet governor. After Japan's surrender, he was imprisoned for adultery, and after being released on bail, he died of illness shortly after. In 1948, Yan Zhimin and his wife left Taiyuan and came to Shanghai to live in No. 10, Jing'an New Village, Nanjing West Road. At the end of 1948, the couple went to the United States to study together. Yan Xishan's tongji company, which specialized in foreign trade when he was in Shanxi, was initially operated in cooperation with the Germans, with strong funds and profits, and after the funds were moved to Taiwan, most of the rumors were transferred to the United States, and Yan Zhimin was fully responsible. After Obtaining a Master's Degree in Electrical Motor Mathematics in the United States, Yan Zhimin joined IBM to study television manufacturing, and later developed high-tech projects such as computers and space satellite communications. After retirement, he and Fei Bin lived in seclusion in Upstate, New York, enjoyed a rural life, and continued to study radios. Fei Bin holds a Master of Education and has been teaching at a local secondary school for more than 40 years. Yan Zhimin died of a heart attack in Upstate, New York on March 16, 2010.
Yan Zhimin has a son, Yan Dayou, who holds a bachelor's degree from Yale University and a doctorate in law from the University of Pennsylvania. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1975, he worked as a clerk in the courthouse in Capme County, New Jersey, and then specialized in providing legal aid to low-income people in New York, Alabama, illinois, and elsewhere. Since 1987, he has been the head of bankruptcy counsel at the Chicago Legal Aid Foundation.
Yan Zhihui and Zhao Jinxiu's family
Yan Zhihui, also spelled Huaizhi, was born on September 13, 1927 (the eighth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar) from an early age, handsome and handsome, with a lean figure. In the summer of 1948, Taiyuan was besieged by the People's Liberation Army, Yan Zhihui and his family left Taiyuan, and in April 1949, Yan Zhihui went to Taiwan and later went to Japan to do business. After the relocation of Shanxi Trading Company to Taiwan, it was renamed Yuhua Company, specializing in trade with Japan, and set up a joint name in Japan - East Asia Co., Ltd., and Yan Zhihui served as the president of East Asia Co., Ltd.
Yan Zhihui married ms. Zhao Xiujin, the widow of the second brother Zhikuan, and gave birth to a daughter, Shu Fang, Zi Shu Nan, and the family immigrated to the United States, living in New Jersey, and later moved to California.
Because Yan Zhihui's marriage to Zhao Xiujin was fiercely opposed by Yan Xishan, after the marriage, Yan Xishan did not help and support them financially. After Yan Zhihui arrived in the United States, he went to Brazil to open a small bar, then to a new York insurance company, and after retirement, opened a small shop and operated various greeting cards. When the children become adults, the daughters marry each, one son and one daughter each.
Yan Zhihui and Zhou Jinyu
After Zhao Xiujin's death, Yan Zhihui lived with Ms. Zhou Jinyu. After Zhou Jinyu's husband, Jin Wuxi, died in 1986, Yan Zhihui's wife, Zhao Xiujin, also died. The two old men have come together since then, although they have no name, but they have spent the last 25 years of their lives together.
In the early 1990s, Accompanied by Zhou Jinyu, Yan Zhihui returned to China to visit his hometown of Shanxi, and after a short stay in Taiyuan, he went to the former residence of Yan Xishan in The Riverside Village (formerly Wutai County) in Dingxiang County. They did not alarm anyone, bought two tickets, visited Yan Xishan's former residence as an ordinary tourist, and were very happy to see that the local government had repaired the former residence very well. This was Yan Zhihui's only trip to find his roots in Shanxi. Yan Zhihui was hospitalized for heart disease and died in California on March 25, 2011. Zhou Jingyu died on April 1, 2011.
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