Author: Shanjia
It is said that fate is predestined, and Yang Zhenning, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics, must be deeply impressed. Considering his chance encounter with his original wife Du Zhili, it really confirms this.
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In 1945, Yang Zhenning went to the United States to study and received a doctorate at the University of Chicago, which made his father, Tsinghua professor Yang Wuzhi, overjoyed. Because Yang Wuzhi is also a doctor at the University of Chicago, but a mathematics department.
The male university should be married, the female university should be married, the son's doctorate has been obtained, and it is time to consider personal problems. In the spring of 1949, when Yang Wuzhi heard that His fellow Anhui compatriot Hu Shi was going to the United States, he asked him to take care of his son's lifelong events, which meant that if there was a suitable girl, don't forget to tie a line for my son.
When Hu Shi arrived in the United States, he asked Wu Dayu (Yang Zhenning's teacher at Southwest United University) to bring a message to Yang Zhenning to meet. Yang Zhenning met Uncle Hu Shi, who spoke Yang Wuzhi's original words and humorously added a suffix: "Your generation is much more capable than we are, where can you use me to help!" "This is the story of spring.
Before Christmas 1949, at Princeton's only Chinese restaurant, Yang Zhenning went to dinner with friends. Unexpectedly, a well-built, dignified and beautiful woman came to greet her and called her "Teacher Yang".
Suddenly, Yang Zhenning was stunned, where did the beautiful woman come from, how could she still know me and call me Teacher Yang? Looking at it, Yang Zhenning suddenly remembered as if he had passed away that the beauty was Du Zhili, a student of his Southwest United University High School.
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Speaking of Du Zhili, it is really famous. Father Du Yuming, a well-known anti-war hero, his ancestral home is Shaanxi Rice Fat. The ancestors of the Du family have all been squires from the reading family for generations. From Du Yuming's name for his three sons and three daughters "Etiquette, Righteousness, Honesty, Benevolence, Courage, and Strictness", we can see the genes of the Du family's poetry book.
Du Zhili is the eldest daughter of the family. From childhood, his father led the soldiers to fight, and disappeared, and all the affairs of the Du family were decided by the old mother Cao Xiuqing. Vulgar clouds, rice fat out of the beauty, cao Xiuqing when he was young, is a proper talented woman and beauty.
There are elderly mothers-in-law on the top, young children and young girls on the bottom, and there are greetings and sending between husbands and colleagues, but Cao Xiuqing responds to them appropriately one by one, and also relieves her husband's worries.
In the subtlety of day by day, the gift not only appreciates the mother's industrious and capable family management skills. Moreover, since she was a child, she has been reading poetry books, and she is particularly fond of literature and music, and has a deep artistic attainment.
It can be said that the gift completely inherits the stubborn and resolute character of the old mother.
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In August 1944, Yang Zhenning was admitted to the 6th batch of public scholarship students at Tsinghua University. In the year of waiting to go abroad, Yang Zhenning came to the Southwest United University Affiliated Middle School as a substitute teacher.
No coincidence, no book, the gift is in the class taught by Yang Zhenning. The beautiful and virtuous her, as the door is golden, is exceptionally eye-catching. There is no doubt that Yang Zhenning also noticed this special girl.
In 1947, under the arrangement of the first lady Song Meiling, Heli went to the famous Wesleyan College in the United States to study English literature. Originally, the father Du Yuming was going to the United States for medical treatment, and he happened to go with his daughter. At the moment of boarding, General Du was stopped by an order from Jiang Gong in preparation for a civil war.
And the salute, without compromise, "Isn't it just going to study in the United States?" Without dad, I can do it myself! "With the dream of studying in a foreign country, I came to a foreign country.
Two years later, General Du was captured in the Huaihai battlefield, and his mother took a large family to Taiwan. The storm changed, and the gift lost its financial resources. Limited to Wesley's high tuition fees, the gift was transferred to St. Vincent's College in New York, which did not charge much.
The script arranged by fate is always so caught off guard. He wouldn't have thought that he would meet his high school teacher Yang Zhenning in a foreign country? A talent, a beautiful person, looking at each other, feelings of friendship with each other.
ZhiLi and Yang Zhenning left contact information for each other, and since then, the two have opened the rhythm of love. In Yang Zhenning's own words: "In the end, I made up my mind to stay in Princeton, because I was in love with Miss Du Zhili, she was studying in New York, and I took a ride from Princeton to her place for only an hour." ”
Many years later, Yang Zhenning recalled this encounter, and it was still difficult to hide the excitement in his heart.
I didn't know that when Du Zhili arrived in the United States, I accidentally walked into the hotel. If I arrive early or late, I will miss the opportunity to meet Du Zhili. If we can't see it, we can't talk about a lifetime of marriage. But the god of fate arranged for us to meet at that place on that day, which cannot be said to be a miracle. Of course, there are objections. Who exactly is it, who to say hello to first, this is always the focus of debate between the two.
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On August 26, 1950, in Princeton, Yang Zhenning and Du Zhili married. Hu Shi, on the other hand, was then taking over as director of the Gusder Oriental Library at Princeton University. Therefore, Hu Shi came to Yang's house as a guest, and he did not forget to ridicule Yang Zhenning: "Sure enough, as I expected, you found such a beautiful and capable wife." ”
Indeed, after Zhi Li married Yang Zhenning, she became her husband's xiannai assistant. Yang Zhenning is a scientist in the end, busy is no day and night, coupled with poor self-care ability, everything in the family is decided by the planning of gifts.
The gifts with strong literary and artistic cells have added a lot of color to Yang Zhenning's life. She brought music, art, and literature to life, making the family full of vitality, and also making the life of a scientist with one board and one eye more interesting.
After marriage, the eldest son was born, and the father Yang Wuzhi named his grandson "Guangnuo". Apparently, Yang Wuzhi borrowed his grandson's name and hoped that his son would win the Nobel Prize.
If you don't forget it, there will be an echo. In 1957, Yang Zhenning joined hands with Li Zhengdao to win the Nobel Prize in Physics, and you can imagine the degree of joy of his father Yang Wuzhi.
At the award ceremony, the ceremony wore a cheongsam to present the intellectuality and elegance of oriental women to the world. People exclaimed that she was the "woman behind the successful man".
Yes, with her weak shoulders, Zhi Li took on all the complicated affairs of the family and fully assumed the role of wife and mother. You know, she has been at the State University of New York in the United States as a Chinese teacher.
The eldest son, Mitsuno, graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in computer science and later worked as a financial advisor in West Chester County, New York.
The second son, Guangyu, is a doctor of chemistry, but has a deep study of celestial objects, has found many asteroids, and is a composite talent.
The daughter also lied, and when she looked at it, she knew that this "li" word came from her mother. The only little cotton jacket in the family is a doctor.
In October 2003, Zhi Li died of illness.
In the middle of Yang Zhenning's former residence in Sanhe Town, Hefei, Anhui Province, there is a very striking inscription, that is, after Yang Zhenning married Zhili, when he met Hu Shi, Hu adapted to the invitation of the two small mouths and gave them the inscription ——
Praise from heaven, and use it with the mandate of heaven.
And Yang Zhenning, in recalling the past years, still can't help but feel proud of his luck: "In this life and this life, it is my blessing to be able to marry Du Zhili..."