In fact, it is to talk about the three sisters of the Song family, but at the beginning of the story, we have to start with a man.
This man is Song Jiashu.
This man, where did he come from?
His original hometown is actually Hainan, specifically, Guluyuan Village, Changsa Town, Wenchang City, Hainan Province.
In the Song Dynasty, among the descendants of the famous minister Han Qi, there was a man named Han Xianqing, who went all the way south and became a magistrate of Lianzhou, and this Lianzhou was in present-day Guangxi. Further south is Hainan, the island of the end of the world. So this Han Xianqing, because he saw the endless war in the Central Plains, finally took his family and family across the Qiongzhou Strait and came to this land of Wenchang.
And a family like Han Xianqing, who moved south all the way, was called hakka in later generations. After the death of the Song Dynasty, it continued until the late Qing Dynasty, and his family naturally had branches and leaves, some of them had a good life, and some of them had poor families, and Song Jiashu's father Han Hongyi (another said: Hongyi) belonged to the latter.
Han Hongyi had land, but this land was only an acre and a half of thin land, and he could not raise a family or make a living, so he would burn a kiln or pick some coconuts to sell in his spare time, just to supplement the family and make his life go on. Such a family, at that time in the Hainan area, if you want to find a way out, there is only one choice, that is, to go to the sea, that is, the so-called South China Sea. Song Jiashu, at the age of nine, followed his brother on a ship across the ocean, ran to the East Indies at that time, specifically java, found a distant relative, apprenticed him, and contracted for three years.
Song Qingling and Song Meiling, who looks more like her father?
It is reasonable to say that if he were an apprentice, he would reluctantly eat food for the rest of his life, but at this time his luck came. It turned out that although the Han family was poor, they had an uncle who ran to the United States on the other side of the ocean, first working as a worker in California to build a railway, and slowly came out of the misery, and finally ran to Boston to open a tea shop.
This uncle was going to Hainan Province, but halfway there may have been a hearing that the brothers were suffering in Java, so they came here to visit first.
Of course, at this time, his name was still called Han Jiaozhun.
This uncle who returned from overseas naturally has a well-off family, and he can't eat and use it all, but he has an unknown trouble, that is, there is no child. At this time, he took a fancy to Han Jiaozhun, who was clever and clever and had seen some of the world's faces, and said to the child: "Nanyang is no longer good, San Francisco and Boston have heard of it, that is the United States, you are still young, the future is great, hurry up and follow my uncle to the United States, so as not to delay my life!" ”
So Han Jiaozhun bid farewell to his brother and followed his uncle across the Pacific to Boston. He was originally a clever and sensible child, who was very popular with his uncle and aunt, and later, his aunt let him follow his surname, that is, Song!
Therefore, the three sisters of the Song clan, like Song Xialing, Song Qingling, Song Meiling, were originally surnamed Han. But if the surname is Han, most of them stay in Hainan or Nanyang, and there are not so many stories later.
The surname has been changed, the name must naturally be changed, what is the teaching accuracy? There is no allusion to the source, then it is not the same as the common name of the stupid root erzhu, shouting out and falling! Therefore, the aunt and uncle looked for such a sentence in the book. What book? "The Left Handbook". Everyone knows this book, the Han Dynasty changed its name to "Spring and Autumn ZuoShi Biography", an ancient Chinese narrative complete chronicle, together with "Ram Biography" and "Gu Liang Biography" called "Spring and Autumn Three Biographies". According to the old tradition, this book was specially written by Zuo Qiuming in the late Spring and Autumn Period to explain Confucius's "Spring and Autumn", so the status is extraordinary, and the uncle gave Han Jiaozhun a new name from such a book of special significance, which in itself shows the solemnity of treating this matter.
So, which sentence is in the "Left Biography"? "Enjoy, feast on the Ji clan, have Jia Shu Yan, Xuanzi reputation." The person who named it said that Jia has a beautiful meaning, and the tree is a symbol of tallness and vigor, as the name suggests, Jiashu is the meaning of a beautiful tree, and it is used as a boy's name to mean auspiciousness and high vitality, which is really a good thing. In fact, it is also true, Han Jiaojun did not have anything out of the way in the early years, but he changed his name to Song Jiashu, and he immediately had a future!
For example, where did he see penguins before leaving Nanyang? But when I came to Boston with my uncle, I had to take a boat around the southernmost tip of South America (the Panama Canal was not navigable until 1914), so I saw penguins on the snow and ice.
However, Song Jiashu did not stay in his uncle's shop for too long, after all, the boys still had to go out and break in, especially if he was full of new ideas, and he had too many expectations for the outside world.
Her father's experience in the United States undoubtedly added an American background to Song Meiling
The opportunity came, in 1879, in the fifth year of Guangxu in the Great Qing Dynasty, Song Jiashu met a group of international students from the motherland. It was also this group of international students who changed Song Dad's life.