Taicang, Jiangsu (Source: Visual China)
Jiangsu has developed and prospered economically since ancient times, and the literati have emerged from generation to generation, according to statistics, the hometown of the ten great titles in ancient China occupies three yuan exclusively.
Five generations, two Song Dynasties, especially to the Ming and Qing Dynasties and modern times, Jiangsu has become the focus of China's economy and culture, playing a decisive role in the development of various fields of science and technology education in China.
Jiangsu is the hometown of Zhuangyuan and the hometown of academicians.
During the Ming and Qing dynasties, of the total 50,000 jinshi, Jiangsu and Zhejiang each accounted for one-ninth. Under the examination system at that time, most of the scholars who could pass the examinations at all levels were diligent scholars.
In the 1990s, academicians from East China accounted for 60.8% of the country. According to provincial statistics, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Fujian and Shanghai are in the forefront; among them, Jiangsu academicians account for 20.8% of the country, and they are the national champions.
Former U.S. Secretary of Energy and Nobel Laureate in Physics Steven Chu and his family, with 12 doctorates in one discipline and a Nobel Laureate, can be called "the first Chinese academic bully family".
Taicang Chu Steven Elementary School
Chu's family originated in Jiangsu, the province where China reads seeds.
Chu's grandfather, Zhu Zhunian, was a scholar in Chengxiang Town, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, who attached great importance to cultivating future generations.
He encouraged his son Zhu Rujin to study science, and in 1936 he was admitted to the Department of Chemical Engineering of Tsinghua University, and the following year, when the Anti-Japanese War broke out and Peiping fell, Zhu Rujin traveled to the southwest with a large number of teachers and students to complete his studies at Southwest Union University. Later, he was admitted to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States and went to study in the United States.
The genes on the father's side alone are not enough to guarantee the success of Steven Chu. Any successful family pays attention to "door to door", and the marriage of intellectual families naturally values the knowledge and literacy of each other's families.
Chu talks to students at Chu Junior High School in Taicang
Chu's mother also came from a family of scholars.
Her mother, Li Jingzhen, was an alumnus of her father and graduated from the Department of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At that time, behind a middle school was more than two thousand illiterates, a female student, who could get a doctorate at a famous school in the United States, and it was conceivable that her family would not be bad.
Li Jingzhen's father, Chu's grandfather, was Li Shutian, a well-known hydraulic scientist at that time. He has served as the President of the National Guizhou Agricultural and Technological College, Tianjin University, and the Minister of Education of the National Government.
In addition to these figures, the Chu family also has the following "scholars": Grand Grandfather: Li Shuhua, a physicist and academician of academia Sinica. Great aunt, Zhu Ruzhao, a Japanese student. Second aunt, Zhu Ruhua, chemist, professor of chemical engineering at the University of Chicago. Third aunt, Zhu Rurong, professor of chemistry. Older brother, Zhu Zhuwen, Ph.D. of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, professor of medicine at Stanford University. Younger brother, Zhu Qinwen, doctor of political science, doctor of law from Harvard University, top lawyer in the United States. Wife, Gene, Ph.D. in Physics, Director of Admissions Office, Stanford University.
In January 2017, Chu's relatives met in Taicang
Looking at the background of the Chu family, you will deeply understand his words: "Living in a family with many outstanding talents, you often feel that you are an idiot."
From the example of Steven Chu, it can be seen that genes are important, but more importantly, the cognition of Steven Chu's parents makes them pay more attention to the impact of the environment on their children. In order to give the children a better learning environment, the family did not hesitate to move to an unfamiliar community, and the doctor's mother even gave up her career to become a full-time housewife.
Even in a bully family like Steven Chu, such sacrifices must be made for the sake of their children. Do Jiangsu people deeply understand such a story?