Chapter 34 lovers

Zhao Yuanren's wife, Yang Buwei, was the first female doctor in China. She had a rebellious personality since she was a child, but the two with very different personalities have gone hand in hand for 60 years, making them a good couple. Yang Buwei declared: "I am who I am, not someone else. I am five feet one, not five feet four." Yang Buwei said: "I am short-tempered. When I fight against others, I will fight against them. If I am tough with others, I will be tougher. If you want to fight with me, I will be more cruel than you; if you are reasonable, I will be more reasonable than you. I love to stand up for the bullied People fight against injustice and always like to meddle in their own business."

Yang Buwei was originally named Lanxian, nicknamed Chuandi, and scientifically named Yunqing. He was born in a prominent family in Nanjing. His grandfather was Yang Renshan, the founder of the Buddhist Association of China.She was born with two sets of parents.The biological father is the eldest son, and Yang Buwei is the youngest of nine children.The adoptive father is his second uncle and has no son.Yang Buwei was adopted to his second uncle when he was born. Before he was born, he was married by his parents and betrothed to his aunt's cousin. When Yang Buwei was one year old, her family asked her to "grasp the week", and what Yang Buwei grasped was a ruler.Yang Buwei's explanation for this is: This means that she will be upright in the future, or predicts that she will "measure this, that, body temperature, pulse, etc."

When he was enlightened in the family school, Yang Buwei's enlightenment teacher said that Confucius said: "If you don't cut it right, you don't eat it."She criticized Confucius for wasting things at the dinner table: "He only eats cubes of meat, so who will eat the leftovers?" As a result, her parents scolded her for being disrespectful to the saint. Yang Buwei was mischievous, teased Mr., and sang behind his back: "Zhao Qian, Sun Li, Mr. has no rice. Zhou Wu, King Zheng, Mr. has no bed. Feng Chen Chuwei, Mr. has not been. Jiang Chen, Han Yang, Mr. has no mother." The elders denounced it as a "thousands of people" who have no rules.

Yang Buwei had many nicknames since she was a child: "Big Foot", "Sky Lantern Pole", "Troublemaker", "Thousands of People" and "Prodigal Son". From these nicknames, she can see her personality since she was a child.Yang Buwei nicknamed "Chuandi" because she wanted her to bring a younger brother to her adoptive father.Call her "Bigfoot" because of her big feet; call her "Sky Lantern Pole" because she was thin and tall when she was young; call her "Troublemaker" because she is too naughty to do things that others dare not do , as soon as she is teased, she dares to do it.

Yang Buwei's uncle (biological father) was in charge of the Nanjing Lion Mountain and Shogunate Fort projects.At that time, foreigners were invited to work on the project, and Li Yuanhong served as translator and secretary, and lived in Yang's house.When it was snowing, little Yang Buwei made a little snowman and put it under Li Yuanhong's quilt to tease Li.Li Yuanhong was not annoyed, he just hit her palm five times with a ruler, it was regarded as punishment for her wetting his quilt.After the beating, Yang Buwei grabbed the ruler and spanked Li Yuanhong's butt five times. He said confidently, "Your butt is bad and you wet the bed."

Yang Buwei was self-willed and wild since she was a child. She and her family brothers went to the Qinhuai River to swim in flower boats and play games. When Yang Buwei entered Nanjing Lvning School, the title of her entrance examination composition was "The Benefits of Reading for Women". She wrote: "Women are the mother of the nation." When Yang Buwei was 16 years old, the family set a date for her to marry her second cousin who was married to her fingertips.She insisted on retiring the engagement, and wrote a letter of resignation on her own initiative: "In the future, it will be rare for Wenggu's intentions, which will bring shame to the parents. If you regret the future, it is better to save the present." Because of Yang Buwei's insistence, the adoptive father was forced to have no choice. , agreed to cancel the engagement, but made her swear not to marry for life.The biological father was so angry that he threatened to arrest her and marry her, "If she doesn't marry, she will be executed."In the end, it was the grandfather who came forward to calm the matter down.After retiring, Yang Buwei felt that "for the first time in my life, I am my own person".

The name "Buwei" was given to her by Yang Buwei's classmate and good friend Lin Guanhong.Lin Guanhong saw how extraordinary she was when she was a teenager, and said to her, "You must be a great person in the future. You should be called Buwei." Yang Buwei refused to accept it.Later, Lin Guanhong died of an infectious disease. To commemorate Lin Guanhong, she officially changed Yunqing's name to "Buwei". After Yang Buwei's classmate Lin Guanhong died of illness, in order to send her body back to her hometown in Fujian for burial, Yang Buwei sold his pair of gold bracelets and four rings behind his parents' backs to support the relatives of the deceased.As a result, she got the nickname "Prodigal Son".

In 1919, Bai Wenwei, the governor of Anhui and the commander of the First and Fourth Armies, wanted to run Chongshi School for the 500-strong women's Northern Expedition, and asked Yang Buwei, who was only 20 years old at the time, to be the principal.She resolutely took up the post, leading the students to learn weaving, velvet rope, embroidery, vigorously, and took the command to quell an attempted rebellion. Yang Buwei later went to Japan to study medicine. After returning to China, he and his classmate Li Guanzhong opened Senren Hospital.Because the surnames of the two of them and Lin Guanhong, the deceased classmate, were all Kibe, Miki became "Sen", but one of them died, and only two of them survived, so they were called "Ren", and the name "Senren Hospital" came from this come.

After marriage, Yang Buwei devoted herself to being a virtuous wife who took care of her husband and taught her children, and no longer ran the hospital, but she couldn't stay idle.During his four years in Tsinghua University, in order to improve the food for teachers and students, Yang Buwei invested in the establishment of "Santai Company" and "Xiaoqiao Food Club" with the wives of two other professors.For this reason, some people ridiculed Zhao Yuanren, saying that his wife has opened a small restaurant!Zhao Yuanren didn't mind either, pretending to be ignorant and ignoring, Yang Buwei followed suit.But "Xiaoqiao Food Club" not only failed to make a profit, but finally closed at a loss. Yang Buwei lost all the 400 silver dollars invested, so she made a couplet to laugh at herself: the business is booming, and all the capital has been exhausted.

The small restaurant was unsuccessful, and Yang Buwei was busy promoting birth control again. He gave lectures at the Women's Association, the Staff Association, the Mother Association, and the Young Women Association. After the "March 18th" student unrest in 1926, Yang Buwei's clinic became a refuge for progressive students. He was accused of "encroaching bandits" and finally closed down on Hu Shi's suggestion. Later, Tsinghua established "Chengzhi Primary School" to solve the problem of children's education of teaching staff, and asked Yang Buwei to be the chairman.Tsinghua University was far away from the city, and the transportation was inconvenient. Yang Buwei also wanted to start a car company, but in the end it was nothing.

Yang Buwei has a straightforward personality and talks a lot, but every time he sees Wang Guowei, he always keeps silent.On Wang Guowei’s 50th birthday, he held a banquet for colleagues from Tsinghua University. Yang Buwei insisted not to sit at the same table with Wang Guowei: “No! No! I will not sit at the same table with Mr. Wang.” Sure enough, Wang Guowei’s table was always silent , but Mrs. Zhao's table was full of laughter. Since 1938, Zhao Yuanren's family has settled in the United States. For decades, the Zhao family has been the "reception station" for Tsinghua students studying in the United States.Famous scientists Zhou Peiyuan, Qian Xuesen and many other scholars who studied in the United States in the early days were guests of the Zhao family.International students always feel at home when they arrive at Zhao’s house.Yang Buwei is hospitable, and he cooks well-known Huaiyang dishes.She once compiled her decades of cooking experience into a book "Chinese Cuisine", which has been selling well in the United States. Yang Buwei has been in the United States for many years, but he has not been able to learn English well.When Fu Sinian was in the United States, he heard Yang talking to Americans so fluently and so wrongly. He said that Mrs. Zhao was really brave, and when Yang answered him, how could I not be bold? When she was in the United States, Yang Buwei was a full-time wife and usually had nothing to do, so Zhao Yuanren asked her to translate books.Yang Buwei began to translate "What Every Woman Should Know" by Margaret Sanger, which was called "Knowledge Women Should Know".Whenever Yang Buwei came across an English word he didn't know, he would ask Zhao Yuanren.Yang was unwilling, saying that I would not do it if I had to spend so much time, and just set up a living dictionary here and just asked.One day it was translated that a woman has about 2,000 eggs (ova) in her life, and Yang Buwei translated it into eggs.After Zhao Yuanren saw it, he was overjoyed, and would often make fun of Yang Buwei about it—a woman has two thousand eggs. Yang Buwei spent three or four months writing his autobiography "Miscellaneous Notes on the Zhao Family" in his sixtieth year.Hu Shi looked at it, praised her and said, "Yunqing, you really have skills."