As the "Father of the Nation" of Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew's family members have always received great attention from all walks of life.
Lee Kuan Yew's three children also achieved great success, but although Lee Kuan Yew lived a glorious life, he was always worried about the marriage of his daughter Lee Wei Ling. Failing to fulfill Lee Kuan Yew's wish has also become a regret in Lee Wai Ling's life.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="8" > excellent and tough Singapore princess</h1>
Lee Was born in 1955, and at the age of 4, her father, Lee Kuan Yew, became Singapore's Prime Minister. At that time, the nanny of the family quipped to the young Li Weiling: "Your father has become the prime minister, and we will call you big miss in the future."
In the face of the nanny's joke, Li Weiling thought about it and replied seriously: "My father is the prime minister, but I am not the prime minister, please don't call me that."
Since her father became prime minister, Li Weiling and her family have lived in the spotlight. Everything she says, everything she does gets noticed and amplified.
Lee Kuan Yew once criticized Lee Wei Ling for not doing housework, and when this sentence was heard by reporters, it immediately made headlines. It can be seen that for Li Weiling, her life has almost no privacy from childhood to adulthood.
Faced with this invisible pressure, Li Weiling once complained to her mother about her distress, saying that she felt like she was in a glass house without walls.
Her mother comforted her at that time: "Father Lee Kuan Yew is like a giant panda that everyone wants to see, many people can't see giant pandas, for these people, it is also good to meet children who meet giant pandas."
Her mother's words were easy to understand, allowing Li Weiling to understand her situation as a celebrity. Since then, Li Weiling has hardly been bothered by the sounds of the outside world and began to concentrate on studying.
After entering the school, Li Weiling's grades have always been among the best. Since the first grade of primary school, Li Weiling has been constantly skipping grades. After the jump, Li Weiling's results are still at the top.
At the end of primary school, Lee Wai Ling took the stage as a representative of the graduates to give a speech, which made Lee Kuan Yew very happy and took time out of his busy schedule to attend the graduation ceremony. Li Weiling's recognition made Li Weiling feel extremely proud, and this pride made her full of motivation for learning.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="12" > she is the child who most resembles Lee Kuan Yew in personality</h1>
Growing up, Lee Kuan Yew rarely had time to spend with his children due to work reasons. Even the most ordinary birthday party will always be only her parents and two brothers.
Contrary to the imagination of ordinary people, Lee Kuan Yew's family did not live in a mansion, but five people huddled in an old building, and the family's food and clothing were all based on their mother's income.
As a father, Lee Kuan Yew was actually incompetent. And her mother, Ke Yuzhi, is also a career-type strong woman, who spends most of her time on her career. Her career-focused parents did not take care of Li Weiling's time, which allowed her to develop an independent personality from an early age.
Lee Kuan Yew has two sons and a daughter, and among the three children, Lee Kuan Yew values Lee Wai Ling the most, because Lee Wai Ling is most like her in personality. Moreover, Li Weiling also has tenacity and insight beyond ordinary people, and can often make judgments that directly attack the essence of things.
Sometimes Lee Also dared to refute her father, which made Lee Kuan Yew think that this daughter had an unusual talent in politics.
Although she cares about society, Li Weiling did not choose political stepping stones such as law or sociology after graduating from high school, but resolutely chose medicine and became a doctor.
Over the course of her long years of work and study, she has grown into a renowned medical expert and is now the Dean of the National College of Neuroscience and Neuroscience in Singapore.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="14" > insist on ning que rather than indiscriminate feelings mostly end in vain</h1>
Li Weiling in her career is a real expert, but in her feelings, Li Weiling's resume is very simple. Since there is no suitable object, Li Weiling is still alone. More than a decade ago, Li Weiling's marriage and love issues often aroused heated discussion in the Singapore media.
In her youth, Li Weiling had short hair, often wore professional clothes, and looked very capable. In the midst of a show of hands, she can always inadvertently exude intellectual charm. At the age of 21, Li Weiling was pursued by a colleague of doctors, and the two soon developed a romantic relationship.
After dating for a while, Li Weiling found that the doctor liked to participate in the social activities of the upper class, which made her very disgusted, and the relationship between the two came to an abrupt end. After that, Li Weiling also tried to associate with others, but to no avail.
In 2005, Li Weiling was traveling in Africa, and a colleague who traveled with her made a list of those who had pursued Li Weiling. Li Weiling admitted that there are three re-elections. Two of them eventually went from lovers to friends, and the other was no longer in touch.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="16" > identity and personality make her choose between marriage and love very narrow</h1>
According to ordinary people, Li Weiling is from a noble birth and an expert in the field of medicine, so she should not worry about marriage. However, Li Weiling is still alone at the age of 66, which is related to her independent personality and the perfect love of her parents.
Li Weiling was born in the Prime Minister's house, and her father and brother are important figures in Singapore. This doomed her to marry into an ordinary family, and among the upper-class people, there were not many people who could fit Li Weiling in terms of insight, knowledge, and career. Therefore, from the perspective of choice, the range of choices that Li Weiling can choose in marriage and love is very small.
Due to the instilling the concept of independence from an early age, Li Weiling has developed a solitary personality. In terms of people, she always clicks to the end, maintaining a certain distance and courtesy.
She never relied too much on people, and she never wanted to trouble someone. In the process of interacting with people, Li Weiling herself carries multiple auras, coupled with sharp insights, which makes people feel almost perfect, which makes her gain the respect of countless people, and also makes people feel that it is difficult to enter her heart.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="18" > parents' feelings profoundly affect Li Weiling</h1>
Li Weiling once wrote an autobiography called "The Singapore Story of a Hakka Woman". In this book, Li Weiling believes that her parents' feelings have a deep influence on her.
Like all love stories, Lee Kuan Yew and Ko Yuk-chi met at Raffles College, when both were top students at the school and often competed for places. In school, Ke Yuzhi was often able to overpower Lee Kuan Yew, and the two began to know each other in the academic competition.
After the outbreak of World War II, the two began to communicate, and as their feelings deepened, they both considered each other to be the best candidates for a lifetime. While studying in the UK, the two were privately destined for life.
After forming a family, Ke Yuzhi has been running between family and career. For his wife, Lee Kuan Yew did not ask her to be a housewife, but supported her to continue her career as a lawyer.
For Lee Kuan Yew, Ke Yuzhi has always been the best secretary. His important speeches, materials and reports were drafted and revised by Ko Yuzhi, and it can be said that although Ko Yuzhi does not hold a public office, he is the de facto assistant to the Prime Minister of Singapore.
In order to express his gratitude to his wife, Lee Kuan Yew once gave Ko Yuzhi a pair of gold pendants: one of which reads "Virtuous Wife and Good Mother" and the other reads "Inner Virtuous And External Help".
In the long years, the relationship between the two has been good. In Li Weiling's view, parents are not only lovers, but also friends, but also family. No matter how the times change, Lee Kuan Yew is outside to shelter Singapore from the wind and rain, while Ko Yuzhi is at home to stabilize Lee Kuan Yew's rear.
The two are like partners with a clear division of labor, but they support each other. It is a love from the heart, but also an unconditional love.
This is the love that Li Weiling wants, in her opinion, without such love, it is better to remain single.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="20" > choose to be single but persuade others to get married early</h1>
This is why although Lee Kuan Yew understands his daughter's choice of celibacy, as a father, Lee Kuan Yew is inevitably anxious about his daughter's marriage.
When Li Weiling was still likely to get married, Lee Kuan Yew said to Li Weiling with emotion: "My mother and I are a little selfish, we hope that you have not married out, and have been around to take care of us until we are old." But it will make you feel lonely, and I can't bear it. ”
In addition to expressing concern about his daughter's loneliness, Lee Kuan Yew also believes that her daughter is too much like herself in some aspects, too masculine, and does not have the tenderness that a woman should have, which has become a shortcoming of marriage.
In Li Weiling's view, once there is a family, it is necessary to give up many things, and it must also be bound by family and love.
She understands that it is impossible to have the best of both worlds in this world, and what she wants more than the family's chai rice oil and salt is freedom, and she is fully committed to her career. Of course, she also understands the cost of making this choice and is willing to bear it all.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="22" > wept at his father's memorial service</h1>
In 2015, Lee Kuan Yew passed away. As the founding father of Singapore, the death of Lee Kuan Yew has plunged Singapore into mourning.
At the memorial service, Li Weiling made a speech. She listed in detail the great things her father had done for Singapore, and when she recalled the bits and pieces of her relationship with her father, Li Weiling couldn't help but cry.
Although she has become a tearful person, Li Weiling has always tried her best to maintain her emotions until she is finished. She once said at the memorial service that she was a Hakka and that she had to be strong.
In Singapore, it is not easy for Li Weiling to take the initiative to publicly promote herself as a Hakka. After Independence in Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew implemented a cultural policy of promoting English culture and suppressing Chinese culture.
Under the pressure of Lee Kuan Yew, all Chinese language schools were closed, and the famous Nanyang University was transformed into an English school. Under Lee Kuan Yew's tough policies, most Of Singaporeans spoke English, and Chinese culture was once a weak culture in Singapore.
Lee Kuan Yew's suppression of Chinese culture has its own reasons as well as practical reasons. Lee Kuan Yew's great-grandfather was a Hakka family from Guangdong, and by the time lee kuan yew arrived, his family was in its third generation, and the family was fully integrated into Southeast Asian society and defected to British colonists.
Chinese such as Lee Kuan Yew are known as Strait Chinese, and Strait Chinese have little affection for China.
The real reason was that at that time, Singapore was kicked out by Malaysia precisely because there were too many Chinese, and Singapore, which had few people and no resources, would not be able to participate in the world economy if it did not quickly integrate with the Western world culturally, and Singapore fell into a poor situation.
After Lee Kuan Yew retired, Lee Wai Ling's older brother Lee Hsien Loong took over as prime minister. In foreign policy, the Lee Hsien Loong administration is clearly closer to the United States.
Under the guidance of public opinion in the United States, the Singapore people are also full of many anti-China ideas, so they bravely admit that they are Singaporeans who Chinese, and the pressure they bear is beyond the burden of ordinary people.
Li Weiling never cared about these pressures, because she has always been proud of hakka, and has written articles praising Hakka women for their tenacity and tenacity, which is a praiseworthy example. She also called on Singaporeans to learn the spirit of the Hakka people so that they can better build Singapore.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="24" > publicly criticized his brother for abusing his political rights</h1>
After Lee Kuan Yew's death, the Singapore government held dozens of mourning events. At the beginning of the death of the Founding Father, it is understandable to hold such a commemorative event. However, one year after Lee Kuan Yew's death, the Singapore government still held a large number of mourning activities.
Li Weiling was very disgusted by these activities, and she publicly criticized the government of her brother Lee Hsien Loong, believing that if her father was still alive, she would probably be bored to see these endless memorials about herself.
Lee said the extra tributes not only wasted resources, but also went against Lee Kuan Yew's original intentions. Because Lee Kuan Yew never asked for heroic worship, he was also disgusted by those who praised him.
Lee also mercilessly criticized her eldest brother, Lee Hsien Loong, arguing that the best way to honor her father was to make Singapore a better place.
She also pointed out that Lee Hsien Loong did not do so out of commemoration, but to obtain more political resources for himself through these activities.
In addition, Lee Wai Ling and second brother Lee Hsien Yang also issued an open letter accusing the eldest brother Lee Hsien Loong and sister-in-law Ho Ching of abusing their power to restrict and interfere in Singapore's media freedom, believing that these measures would have a very negative impact on Singapore.
The open letters of Lee Wai Ling and Lee Hsien Yang caused a big wave of exaggeration in Singapore, which once embarrassed the Lee Hsien Loong government.
It is often said that Taoist ugliness cannot be publicized, and ordinary people who make mistakes against their families are solved behind closed doors, and do not want to make a storm in the city. Li Weiling, who has always advocated independence, does not have this concept, in her eyes, right is right, and wrong is wrong.
In her eyes, the big family of Singapore will always be the priority, and the small family of Lee Hsien Loong cannot engage in privileges. Because if this continues, Lee Kuan Yew's hard-earned Singapore will be in crisis.