Some people will always show wisdom at some key points of life, and when these wisdoms are strung together, they become a chain belonging to them, like a necklace, worn by them, achieving a lifetime of warmth and beauty.
Lao Junzhan (1900 – January 3, 1976), female, formerly known as Qirong, a native of Changsha County, Hunan Province, was born in 1900 into a family of eunuchs and one of the founders of the Jiusan Society. Graduated from the University of Lyon and the University of Paris. She is the wife of Xu Deheng, a famous patriot, political activist, educator, scholar, founder and outstanding leader of the Jiusan Society; she is also an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a famous nuclear physicist, a pioneer and founder of China's nuclear weapons research and development work, and has made important contributions to the research and development of China's nuclear weapons and atomic weapons; the mother-in-law of Deng Jiaxian, known as the "founder of the two bombs"; or a Chinese female student of the famous scientist Madame Curie.
Xu Deheng and Lao Junzhan in Paris, France
With her brilliant achievements and selfless dedication, Marie Curie has won the respect of the whole world, and many people admire her fame, and few students she personally cultivates. Lao Junzhan is not only her Chinese female student, but also her only Chinese female student. Many people have written this story about The days when Lao Junzhan worked as an assistant at Marie Curie's Institute of Radium Studies, but few people mentioned that Lao Junzhan learned a lot of things other than radium in Marie Curie, such as marie Curie's endurance and calmness.
Xu Luxi, the daughter of Lao Junzhan, once said in a reminiscence that her mother, as Madame Curie's assistant, saw Madame Curie immersed in the Radium Research Institute all day long, and failed again and again, so indifferent, especially in the face of honor, the attitude of not caring, these details touched the mother. Mom followed Marie Curie's attitude towards life, becoming more rational and unhurried... Mom's endurance and calm self-sustainability were all polished at this time. The friendship with Madame Curie has also become the background of her mother's life that will be difficult to erase in the future (Wu Tingting Cheng Bowen, "Lao Junzhan: Madame Curie's Chinese Female Disciple", Xiangjiang Morning Post, April 3, 2017).
In addition to learning from Marie Curie and being influenced by Marie Curie, there are many shining wisdom points in Lao Junzhan's life, which is enough to string together the chain of her wisdom life.
Lao Junzhan was born in 1900 in Changsha's prominent and wealthy family, his grandfather Lao Chongguang was the governor of Liangguang, his father was a very talented and learned scholar, and his brother was also respected in society. Junzhan was originally named Qi Rong, who has been studious since childhood, familiar with ancient books, and she is the darling of the family. In the society at that time, her life path could naturally be Miss Qianjin, be Mrs. Kuo, enter the home of the rich and powerful, and enjoy everything a woman needs, but she despised wealth and power, never pursued personal enjoyment, and chose the starting point of her life path with her own wisdom.
In 1918, Lao Junzhan was admitted to Hunan Zhounan Girls' High School. This is a private school founded by socialite Mr. Zhu Jianfan. Mr. Zhu is a native of Hunan, a patriot, who studied in Japan, and deeply feels that Chinese women are oppressed by feudalism and have no social status, he promotes new ideas, encourages independent thinking, and supports the women's liberation movement, which has aroused strong repercussions in society. Lao Junzhan and Cai Chang, students in the first class of Zhounan Girls' High School, quickly became close friends and often talked together about the future of the country. The May Fourth Movement ignited a fierce fire in Hunan, and Zhounan Girls' High School became the vanguard of progressive youth.
Lao Junzhan and his work-study friends in France are photographed in France, from right: Xu Deheng, Lao Junzhan, Wei Bi, Wu Mengban.
At this point, Lao Junzhan firmly took his fate into his own hands. Seemingly weak, she served as the propaganda director of the Changsha Student Federation, and also participated in the Xinmin Society organized by Chairman Mao and others in Hunan, and continued to be responsible for propaganda work. During this period, she changed her name to "Ji Ru" and often published articles in the Xiangjiang Review founded by Chairman Mao. Soon, the people of "Ji Ru" received attention from all walks of life, and she simply used this momentum to create the "Female World Bell", and for a time, she became a famous fledgling Changsha bridesmaid.
In the autumn of 1919, Lao Junzhan was admitted to Shanghai Southeast University. At the end of the same year, he went to France to study work-study and entered the University of Lyon to specialize in mathematics. At that time, to go to France by ship, the environment was harsh, and the trip took about a month. Lao Junzhan did not understand French, so he used his time on oil tankers to learn, and although he mastered some French knowledge, it was still very difficult to use it to communicate with people. Therefore, Cai Yuanpei, who was the president of Peking University at the time, arranged for Xu Deheng, who came to France a year earlier than Lao Junzhan, to help Lao Junzhan learn French, and naturally, the two met.
At that time, Xu Deheng gave himself a name called Chu Monk, Chu means Chu in China, and the monk is about a monk, saying that he does not want to get married, but wants to be like a Buddhist disciple. In addition to tutoring Lao Junzhan in French, Xu Deheng also had correspondence with Lao Junzhan and also used the name Chu Monk. Over time, the two had some feelings for each other, and Lao Junzhan's expression was very special: once, she received a letter from Xu Deheng to Chu Monk, changed the Chu monk to Chu Sheng, and returned the letter to Xu Deheng. After seeing this, Xu Deheng understood the meaning of Lao Junzhan, from monk to student, and the two married in Paris on April 16, 1925 after a period of interaction.
At the time of her marriage, Lau received a master's degree from the University of Lyon and entered the University of Paris, but she was not yet a direct student of Marie Curie. Xu Luxi said: "At that time, French public universities did not need to pay the lecture fee, and Marie Curie's mother listened to the lectures when she lectured. At this time, Lao Junzhan and Xu Deheng both had the idea of returning to China, and Sun Yat-sen University also sent them a letter of appointment and travel expenses, but because the road fees sent by the school were too small, it was simply not enough for the two of them. In this case, Lao Junzhan proposed that he could return to China later, wanted to study with Marie Curie, and then became an assistant to Madame Curie's Radium Research Institute.
Xu Deheng recalled: "At that time, Marie Curie was presiding over the work of the Institute of Radium Studies at the University of Paris, and there were not many people majoring in Chinese studies, but Lao Junzhan was very interested in it. Therefore, it has become a very normal thing for Lao Junzhan to be influenced by Marie Curie in her studies, and the perseverance shown by Lau Junzhan has also made Marie Curie expect her. One day in May 1926, Madame Curie also visited Lao Junzhan and Xu Deheng's apartment.
Madame curie
In 1926, He graduated from the University of Paris. In the spring of 1927, encouraged by the revolutionary situation in full swing in China, he and Xu Deheng's husband began to brew a return to China, and the two returned to China one after the other. Xu Deheng first served as an instructor in Guangzhou, the revolutionary center at that time, teaching materialist views on history and socialist history, and then was invited to serve as a professor at wuhan Fourth Sun Yat-sen University. Lao Junzhan is a professor in the Department of Mathematics at Wuhan University. Teaching and educating people is a good profession, but in that chaotic era, intellectuals always have the responsibility to save the people from water and fire. And Lao Junzhan and her husband had to be displaced from Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Beiping.
In 1931, Xu Deheng was hired by Peking University to teach in Beiping, and Lao Junzhan came to Beiping with her husband, at this time, they already had two children, a family of four, planning to live a peaceful life in Beiping, but soon, the September 18 Incident broke out, and they all actively participated in the anti-Japanese rescue activities. At the end of 1932, Kuomintang agents arrested progressive teachers and students at Peking University, who claimed that Xu Washeng was hiding guns, arrested him, and searched the house. The young children were frightened and cried, And Lao Junzhan showed a strange calmness, and although she did not use much professional knowledge after returning to China, she learned Marie Curie's sanity, and used it at that time, and did not panic at all.
Watching the head of the secret service report to his superiors by telephone, because the phone at that time needed to be called, Lao Junzhan secretly wrote down the number. After the agent left, she inquired about the location of the number, put on the beautiful clothes she had brought when she returned home, dressed herself up as a mrs. Kuo, and rushed over alone. Sure enough, the sentry regarded her as the wife of a certain commander, so she entered the door with a big wave, and let the "reception" soldiers bring the roster of "prisoners" and determined that the place she found was the place where Xu Deheng was detained.
Subsequently, Lao Junzhan mobilized the famous journalist Sa Kong to write an article exposing the kuomintang's reactionary crimes, and also asked Song Qingling, Cai Yuanpei, Lu Xun, and other well-known figures to rush to the rescue in many ways, and finally Xu Deheng and other progressive teachers and students were released from prison. In this regard, her daughter Xu Luxi said: "That time, it was my mother who saved my father's life. ”
Newspaper of the year
After the outbreak of the 129 Movement in 1935, Lao Junzhan served as a member of the Peking Women's Salvation Congress formed by the Ccp. Under the leadership of the underground party organization, she fully supported and actively participated in revolutionary activities regardless of her personal safety. The leader of the Northern Bureau often called important meetings in her home. Whenever there was a meeting at her house, she carefully planned the arrangements to keep her safe. During this period, she made a wish: "As long as the country can be strong, no matter how great the sacrifice, there will be no regrets!" ”
In October 1936, when Lao Junzhan learned that the Red Army's Long March to Yan'an was in short supply, and there was no watch when the cadres commanded the battle, it was winter, everyone was still wearing straw shoes on their feet, and the living conditions were very difficult. She and her husband immediately decided to buy something for the Red Army and Chairman Mao. At that time, there was a car going to Yan'an, and Lao Junzhan took out all the family's savings, more than a dozen pocket watches, more than thirty pairs of cloth shoes and some ham. After packing up her things, the person who brought the things asked her if she wanted Chairman Mao to write a receipt after the things were brought in, and she said, "How can I get a receipt for what I gave to Mao Runzhi?" Or anonymous. ”
Later, her grandson Xu Jin wrote an article about this matter: "My grandfather and grandmother have mentioned several times that the little items we bought from our meager salary savings are incomparable with the hundreds of thousands of yuan and 10,000 or 20,000 sets of cotton clothes that Mr. Zhang Xueliang gave to the Red Army and the 600,000 yuan lent to the Red Army; the large number of medicines and medical equipment collected by Ms. Song Qingling for Yan'an in the name of the Red Cross Society of China; and the righteous deeds of Mr. Chen Jiageng who donated funds and materials to Yan'an. (Centennial Tide, No. 04, 2005)
Xu Deheng and grandson Xu Jin Xu Deheng and grandson Xu Jin
Chairman Mao knew that these things were sent by Xu Deheng and his wife in 1945. That year, when Chairman Mao went to Chongqing for negotiations, he invited Lao Junzhan and her husband Xu Deheng to the Hongyanzui Eighth Route Army Office for lunch. Chairman Mao said to Xu Deheng: I remember that we seemed to have an organization at Peking University. Xu Deheng said: We are all members of the Young China Society. Chairman Mao said to Lao Junzhan again, "You know, how can I, the man, fight a war?" I just open the way to the mountains and build bridges in the water! After that, Lao Junzhan asked Chairman Mao, we brought you some daily necessities back then, did you receive them? Chairman Mao said humorously, Oh, you sent it? They pinched and I pinched. At the farewell, Lao Junzhan said to Chairman Mao: "Chongqing's climate is not good, and the mountain city cannot stay for a long time. ”
After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Lao Junzhan and her husband contacted well-known figures in the cultural and educational circles and initiated the establishment of the Jiusan Society, which was one of the founders of the society. After the founding of New China, she successively served as a professor at Chinese Min University and Peking University, a researcher at the Ministry of Higher Education, and a counselor of the Ministry of Education, and did a lot of work for the cause of socialist revolution and construction.
Lao Junzhan in his later years
At this point, one might say that these have little to do with wisdom anymore. But what we want to say is that too many ancestors came out to do things or work because of their ideals and love, and in this process, they never worried or feared bloodshed or even sacrifice, which just reflects their realm and wisdom. It is also in this process that the ultimate meaning of life becomes dedication, and the reason why dedication can shine brightly is because of the Force.
The so-called Force, in today's Star Wars, has given it a core explanation: it is a supernatural and ubiquitous mysterious force. It is also said that it is an energy field created by all living things, which surrounds and permeates us. There is the energy that condenses the entire galaxy. It has been translated as power, divine power, and might. This word comes from the driving force, which is a metaphor for the force that drives work, career, etc. forward and development. For example, faith is the driving force for overcoming difficulties; the people are the driving force behind the creation of world history; and so on. Therefore, the Force is not passive, it must be selfless. However, as an individual life, the acquisition of this power is often not vigorous, but it can be transformed into wisdom that is often talked about through knowledge, experience, cultivation, and so on.
Lao Junzhan took a group photo with his family
Intelligence is a higher creative thinking ability that life possesses based on physiological and psychological organs, a skill that is part of life. Reflecting daily life is the ability to better solve problems, and it can also be manifested as foresight and correct judgment of the future. In addition, there are no longer too many mysteries in life and survival and continuation, just as no one can resist life, old age, illness and death. However, the lives of some individuals can take on such a state:
Like a tree growing on the earth, looking at or not looking at him (her), they can make people feel that they have always grown in people's hearts, and, year after year, they have grown endlessly, but they have always radiated a radiant humanity. Therefore, it has become kind and warm, and it has become inseparable and inseparable. And they have also become simple and even ordinary people, so that people can always love, or always be lovely.
This text is not tailor-made for Lao Junzhan, but she must be one of them,her life must be like this. In 1958, Lao Junzhan fell seriously ill, that is, that year, her son-in-law, Xu Luxi's husband Deng Jia, first went to the inaccessible Great Northwest. At that time, because of the reason of secrecy, including Xu Luxi, he did not know what Deng Jiaxian was doing, and Lao Junzhan did not know even more.
Because, the number of times Deng Jia went home first was very, very limited, and he came and went in a hurry. And because the children are very small and the time is long, Xu Luxi will inevitably not be sad and sad, but Lao Junzhan, who is lying on the hospital bed, has been encouraging his daughter, and his son-in-law Deng Jiaxian must be doing big things for the country and must support it. He died on January 3, 1976.
In 1986, before Deng Jiaxian's death, his identity was truly made public. At this time, it had been ten years since Lao Junzhan's death. Daughter Xu Luxi said that her mother had too much influence on me, and after Deng Jia first "disappeared", she gave me too much encouragement. In a word, it can make the daughter get more support, which is the spiritual connection between mother and daughter, and there is a certain foresight and judgment in the trust of Deng Jiaxian. At the beginning, Deng Jiaxian's marriage with Xu Luxi was promoted by Lao Junzhan.
Deng Jiaxian's sister once had such a memory: "Peking University has a dormitory in Fuxue Hutong, where more than twenty teachers live. There are no walls in the houses, and the children play in the yard, which is very kind. After liberation, my house with Mr. Xu Deheng was next to each other, and Mr. Lao Junzhan, my aunt Xu, met me often, she was a French student, specializing in mathematics, and was amiable. (Hu Yinfang, "Xu Luxi and Deng Jiaxian", May 1, 2013)
Deng Jiaxian's sister said that at that time, her younger brother Deng Jiaxian often went to her house to eat, and Lao Junzhan had also seen him once, knowing that Deng Jiaxian was very serious in teaching, and seeing Deng Jiaxian's talent, he was very appreciative. The sister told Deng Jiaxian about this, and also told him that Aunt Xu (Lao Junzhan) had a daughter named Xu Luxi, who studied medicine and was in the class led by Deng Jiaxian. Deng Jiaxian said that there were two girls in his class, and the results were very good. Later, "after me and Aunt Xu facilitated, Jiaxian and Xu Luxi became lifelong partners."
Lao Junzhan
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