Yang Zhenning was a famous physicist and winner of the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics; Du Yuming was a famous anti-Japanese general who resisted foreign insults and was a hero who crossed the waves.
How are they connected?
In fact, it looks complicated, it looks simple. Yang Zhenning is the son-in-law of Du Yuming, who is Yang Zhenning's father-in-law.
Du Yuming was a native of Shaanxi and was born on November 28, 1904. In August 1923, 19-year-old Du Yuming married Cao Xiuqing, who was two years older than him. After Du Yuming and Cao Xiuqing got married, they had 3 sons and 3 daughters.
That is, the eldest son Du Zhiren, the second son Du Zhiyong, the third son Du Zhiyan, the eldest daughter Du Zhili, the second daughter Du Zhiyi, and the third daughter Du Zhilian. The last word of their names, respectively, is "benevolence, courage, righteousness, strictness and honesty", which pins on du Yuming's and his wife's ardent expectations for their children.
Du Yuming was promoted from a scholar to another, successively serving as battalion commander, regiment commander, division commander, army commander, and commander, and gradually became a cadre under Chiang Kai-shek. And Cao Xiuqing is virtuous and kind, raising six children to grow up healthily. In 1949, Du Yuming was captured in the Battle of Huaihai, and Cao Xiuqing heard that Du Yuming had been executed by the Communists, so he came to Taiwan with his children in panic. [Data expansion: Du Yuming wanted to shoot 7 PLA people and was stopped by one person Many years later, Du Yuming was grateful to him endlessly]
Previously, Du Yuming's eldest daughter Du Zhili had gone to the United States to study alone. In the United States, she met Yang Zhenning, a mathematics teacher at the High School Affiliated to National Southwest Union University.
On August 26, 1950, 28-year-old Yang Zhenning and 23-year-old Du Zhili were married in Princeton. By the way, 54 years later, in 2004, when 82-year-old Yang Zhenning entered the marriage hall with his second wife, Weng Fan, Weng Fan was just 28 years old.
After that, Du Zhili moved to the United States and lived with her husband Yang Zhenning.
We know that at that time, Du Zhili's father, Du Yuming, was undergoing reform at the Gongdelin War Criminals Management Center in Beijing, while her mother, Cao Xiuqing, was living a turbulent and displaced life in Taiwan. That is to say, Du Zhili is in a state of loss of contact with his parents. Under the care of Zhou Enlai, a letter was delivered by Zhang Wenyu, Yang Zhenning's teacher who had returned from the United States, and Du Yuming and Yang Zhenning had made a letter contact, through which They informed Du Yuming of all the good things in Beijing, informed Du Yuming's family and classmates and friends in Taiwan, and relieved their worries and worries.
In 1957, when the news of Yang Zhenning's Nobel Prize in Physics reached Beijing, Zhou Enlai immediately decided to send a delegation of Chinese scientists to Sweden to congratulate him. Du Yuming wrote a concise congratulatory letter: "Dear Son-in-law Ning: I congratulate you on winning the Nobel Prize. This is the glory of the Chinese nation. Du Yuming is the grass"
In 1959, Du was granted an amnesty. After Cao Xiuqing heard the news, he resolutely returned to the mainland through the United States and reunited with her husband Du Yuming.
In the summer of 1971, Yang Zhenning and his wife Du Zhili returned to China for a visit. He was the first person to visit New China by a well-known American scholar.
At that time, China and the United States had not yet established diplomatic relations, and Yang Zhenning needed to go to the Chinese Consulate in Paris to apply for an entry visa. Under the care of Premier Zhou Enlai, Yang Zhenning "did not finish a cup of tea" at the consulate, and the visa was already processed.
After returning to China, Premier Zhou Enlai took the time to receive Yang Zhenning and his relatives at the Great Hall of the People. During the conversation, Yang Zhenning called Cao Xiuqing "mother" and Du Yuming "Mr. Du", and Zhou Enlai quickly corrected: "It should be called your father-in-law." [Data Expansion: Where Do The Kuomintang War Criminals Go After They Are Pardoned?] Zhou Enlai came up with a genius solution.
During the banquet, Zhou Enlai said to Cao Xiuqing humorously: "You sit next to your son-in-law, and your mother-in-law loves your son-in-law the most!" Everyone laughed.
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