Chapter 162 raise children

Cai Yuanpei has many children, but he loves and nurtures each of them carefully, but he also advocates teaching according to their talents and developing freely, so they have become more talented and have made contributions to the country and society.A friend of Cai Yuanpei once said that those who are officials now let their children learn law; politics, so that they can be officials in the future; but Mr. Cai Yuanpei let his children learn agriculture and engineering. Cai Wuji, the son of Mrs. Wang Zhao, studied agriculture, animal husbandry and veterinary medicine in France.After returning to China, he taught at Central University and other places, and believed that China's agricultural issues were the most important.He not only taught agronomy, but also worked in related animal husbandry and veterinary medicine.Cai Yuanpei learned that Wuji was suffering from duodenal disease in Hong Kong, so he bought imported medicine in Hong Kong and entrusted someone to bring it to Wuji.After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Cai Wuji served as the deputy director and consultant of the General Administration of Commodity Inspection of the Ministry of Foreign Trade. He was a member of the China Democratic League.

Huang Zhongyu's eldest daughter, William, has been fond of painting since she was a child, and has a talent for art. She went to Europe with her parents twice and was influenced by Western art. In 1923, he first studied at the School of Fine Arts in Brussels, Belgium, and then studied oil painting at the School of Fine Arts in Lyon, France. He returned to China in the winter of 1927, and the following year he was appointed as a professor of the Oil Painting Department of the National West Lake Academy of Art.William married Lin Wenzheng, a student studying in France. On May 5, 1939, William died of scarlet fever in Kunming.Only 35 years old.Mrs. Zhou cried for several nights when she heard the sad news, fearing that Mr. Cai would be too sad to hide it.Later, Cai Yuanpei saw the special issue of Ms. William Cai’s posthumous exhibition in a newspaper sent from Kunming. He knew that his beloved daughter was no longer alive, and was hit hard mentally.

Huang Zhongyu's son Bai Ling first studied mechanical engineering in Belgium, and then went to France to study magnetism and obtained a French national doctorate.He won the silver medal of the French National Academy of Sciences for the first discovery of antiferromagnetism together with a French scientist and an American scientist.When Cai Yuanpei was in Hong Kong, because he had not received a letter from Bai Ling for a long time, he asked the Chinese embassy in France to inquire, and asked his friend Mr. Li Shizeng to inquire.Bai Ling has lived in France for a long time and married a French woman, but has always maintained Chinese nationality. After 1950, Cai Boling was responsible for the magnet design of the cyclotron of the French Atomic Energy Commission.Premier Zhou Enlai tried many times to get him back home but failed.After retiring, Cai Boling returned to China several times to participate in National Day ceremonies and various commemorative activities. He died of illness in Paris, France in January 1993 at the age of 87.

Cai Yuanpei and Mrs. Zhou Jun had one daughter and two sons, both born in Shanghai. The eldest daughter is Sui An, the second son is Huai Xin, and the third son is Ying Duo.Cai Yuanpei has deep meaning in naming his children.When the eldest daughter was born, there was a school named Joan Dac run by the French Catholic Church opposite the house.Translated by Joan Duc, Joan of Arc is a French national heroine who was burned and sacrificed heroically because she fought against the British invaders.Cai Yuanpei took the word "脺阿" from "Mencius" in the sentence "脺然见在面，脺重" in "Mencius", which is homonymous with "Ruo'an", hoping that the eldest daughter can learn from the heroine.The name Huaixin comes from Tao Yuanming's poem "A good seedling also has a new heart".Yingduo's name comes from the Chinese saying "his person is Lei Jie and Yingduo".

Cai Yuanpei is a gentle elder who treats his young children like close friends. In 1935, when he went to Nanjing for a meeting, Cai Yuanpei wrote in a letter from his family: "Every one of you gave me a painting, which is very precious to me. I wish you a lively and progressive life, just like the Asahi and flowers painted by Anger; Yi, is the same as the airplanes and buildings painted by Xiner; I wish you health and beauty, just like the horses painted by Duoer." Cai Yuanpei firmly believes that aesthetic education can cultivate people's noble sentiments and cultivate good morals, and he will definitely encourage children's hobbies.Cai Suian loved music since she was a child, and Cai Yuanpei and his wife asked her to learn piano at the home of a Russian female teacher; there was no piano at home at that time, so she usually went to Mr. Ding Xielin's home to practice piano.After arriving in Hong Kong, Mrs. Zhou Jun bought an old piano for HK$50.Huaixin was good at painting and calligraphy, so Cai Yuanpei asked Huaixin to practice calligraphy on the stele of Wei Dynasty.Yingduo loves painting, especially horses. He once drew a painting according to Lu You's poem "The man who rides a donkey in the drizzle at Jianmen". Cai Yuanpei admired it very much. He showed his painting to Mr. Liu Haisu and asked him: "Do you think my youngest son is a bit talented?" In 1937, Cai Yuanpei went to a meeting in Nanjing to buy back three exquisite commemorative books, and wrote inscriptions to express his hope.The inscription for Suang is: "The wise do not confuse, the benevolent do not worry, and the brave do not fear." The inscription for Huaixin reads: "Wealth and honor cannot be promiscuous, poverty and lowliness cannot be moved, and might cannot be subdued." The inscription for Yingduo is: "Easy to learn It is close to wisdom, hard work is close to benevolence, knowing shame is close to courage."