Chapter 30 Section 3 Changing Men to Make Women Brand New

Just when "Southern Zeng Beixia" was making great achievements in the field of cultural relics and archaeology, unexpected political movements followed.Under the turbulent political background, as a free intellectual who has stepped into the threshold of the new regime, if he only devotes himself to academic research, he is considered to be outdated or even a bad performance against revolution, and ideological remolding has become an inevitable life. Way.As early as October 23, 1951, Mao Zedong clearly stated at the Third Session of the First National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference: "Ideological remolding, mainly the ideological remolding of various intellectuals, is an important step for my country to completely realize democratic reform in all aspects and gradually enter industrialization. One of the conditions.” As for why “thought remolding” is needed, Zhou Enlai once explained: “Because our past thinking was either bound by feudal ideology or eroded by imperialist enslaving ideology. As long as we have some knowledge, Just being affected by these.” “This requires each of us to constantly seek to transform our minds to suit the needs of our new China today and the interests of the people.”

On December 23, 1951, Nanjing established the Nanjing Mao Zedong Thought Study Committee in order to welcome the "Ideological Reform Movement", and Zeng Zhaoyu was hired as a member of the committee.In the winter of this year, she voluntarily asked to join the land reform team in Taihe, northern Anhui, and went to the grassroots to accept "transformation".According to the memory of Luo Zongzhen, who had just been assigned to the Nanjing Museum from the school at that time: the first batch of personnel from the Nanjing Museum went to the Taihe area of ​​Anhui to carry out land reform. He sleeps with a pistol under his head, always in case something unexpected happens.After a young man wrote a letter to report the situation to Zeng Zhaoyu, Dean Zeng said that he would come to Taihe as the second batch of team members to share the joys and sorrows with everyone and create the great cause of the ideal reform movement.Luo said: "At that time, she came from a family of officials and landlords, the vice president of Nanjing Museum, the vice chairman of Nanjing Women's Federation, and a well-known democrat with a certain reputation. She took the initiative to ask to come down to participate in the land reform movement, experience life, and receive education. It was not easy. After approval, she finally came down....It gave people the impression that she strongly demanded ideological remolding in order to eliminate the stigma of the landlord class on her body. This is consistent with her subsequent closeness to the party, and in 1960 It is her consistent ideological development track to apply to the party many times before and after, asking to join the Communist Party organization." Like many intellectuals, when the five-star red flag was hoisted on the thick and tall flagpole of the Nanjing Museum, the thin figure of Zeng Zhaoyu under the starlight , Looking up at the hunting banner that represents the victory and glory of the CCP, I suddenly felt my own insignificance and the "evil" in my body and mind, and a shadow of terror and ominous permeated my heart.According to the instructions of her superiors, she must honestly explain her family background and life experience to the CCP organization, and unreservedly explain what detrimental things she has done to the CCP.When the order was issued, Zeng Zhaoyu was as heavy as a mountain, with shortness of breath and chest tightness. Whether it was family background or life experience, at the historical reincarnation moment of changing hands and changing dynasties, she felt short of breath and felt guilty.If he returned from London back then, instead of going to Kunming, Cangshan, Erhai, or even a small town in Lizhuang, Sichuan to conduct field archaeological excavations and research, but to cross the Wuhan battlefield where the Kuomintang army and the Japanese army fought bloody battles like Liu Yao who later changed his name to Yin Da , dressed up all the way, crossed the Kuomintang's blockade in Shanxi and Shaanxi, and ran to the cave dwelling in the Pagoda Mountain in Yan'an to study Marxism-Leninism. What a glorious and great revolutionary cause that would be?How bright would that be?The history is over, it is too late to regret, the youthful years are like the tide flowing eastward, gone forever.All that needs to be done now is to make meritorious deeds and atone for crimes, to win the forgiveness of the party and the people, and to work hard and keep a low profile.However, this Gou Quan was not as comfortable and unrestrained as Zhuge Kongming who was farming in Nanyang back then. He had to keep an eye on six roads, listen to all directions, be cautious in every detail of life, and think twice before acting, otherwise, the consequences would still be disastrous.

With this clear understanding, the strategy adopted by Zeng Zhaoyu in explaining the materials is to describe his family background and life experience as truthfully as possible, but at the same time, he must pay attention to the expression of titles and emotions, and clearly express what should not be done. What did they do, who are counter-revolutionaries, counter-revolutionaries such as Fu Sinian who have done wrong things in the past and have come into contact with them must be reprimanded and condemned to show their resolute attitude and loyalty to the party.Only in this way can we reach the state where all the organs can be exhausted and Qingqing's life can't be missed.Under the guidance of this idea, "Autobiography" similar to "Li Xiucheng's Confession" was released.

According to the requirements of the higher-level organization, in this confession, Zeng Zhaoyu needs to focus on explaining, of course, that the CCP considers that the dog sits on a sedan chair-he does not know how to flatter him, runs around with the Kuomintang government and Chiang Kai-shek, and was named and reprimanded by Chairman Mao. Hu Shi, Fu Sinian, Qian Mu and others, these reactionary elements who are regarded as "going to see God with a granite head", are naturally Fu Sinian who has the closest relationship and close contact with Zeng Zhaoyu himself and Zeng's family.Therefore, the "Fu Dapao" whose tomb has been buried in grass has become the top priority of the confession.For this reason, Zeng Zhaoyu first admitted that Fu Sinian was a person who had a great influence on him, whether in thought, academics or life, and then described his inner feelings and evaluation of Fu:

…It wasn’t until recently that I carefully analyzed Fu’s life that I realized that he was always on the side of the counter-revolutionary, and that he was an accomplice of the Kuomintang’s Jiang bandits, and that my memory of him was purely based on personal feelings. Strictly speaking, this is an anti-people consciousness and behavior. While scolding Fu Sinian and "bathing" himself mentally, Zeng Zhaoyu, who is not considered confused, is not stupid enough to reveal all the old things and personal affairs of the past.In fact, there are some secrets related to family honor and disgrace and personal life that cannot be easily disclosed.The entanglement and fermentation of this complex became the factor that Zeng's pressure and fear continued to increase in the future and finally led to a dead end.

On March 6, 1956, Zeng Zhaoyu conveyed the content of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference to all the staff of the hospital, saying: "The issue of intellectuals is the most central issue, especially the issue of ideological remolding. Guo Lao quoted Zeng Zi's "I examine myself three times in a day" said, Every intellectual can ask himself three times a day: 1. Is there anything I am not active enough in serving the people and socialist construction? 2. How much have I done to expand the ranks and strengthen unity? 3. Have I learned Marxism-Leninism? A high degree of motivation and self-awareness?"

From then on, Zeng began to sincerely "examine myself three times", reflecting and checking whether her words and deeds conformed to the political situation and the requirements of the party every day.When the CCP proposed to "complete the great cause of the reunification of Taiwan and the motherland", Zeng Zhaoyu immediately followed the request of "above" and broadcast to Taiwan over and over again through the international radio station, using his own words to persuade the other party to "abandon the dark and turn to the bright", and quickly try to leave that "island in dire straits." , Return to the embrace of the people and enjoy a happy and free life.Zeng Zhaoyu, who was in the broadcasting room, knew in his heart that the reason why the authorities chose her to broadcast to the station was not because her Beijing or Nanjing official language was authentic, nor was her official hat enough to deter Taiwan's bureaucrats, but because of her The family has many important relatives and friends gathered in Taiwan.These immediate family members are also inextricably linked with many KMT bureaucrats, such as Zeng Zhaomei, who graduated from the Department of Biology of Southwest Associated University, and her husband is Tan Yankai’s son Tan Jifu, and Tan Jifu’s younger sister Tan Xiang is the "Vice President" of the KMT government in Taiwan Chen Cheng's wife.Although Zeng Zhaoyi's second sister-in-law Yu Dazhen stayed at Peking University to continue teaching in the Department of Western Languages, she was the sister of Yu Dawei, the "Minister of Defense" of the Kuomintang in Taiwan, and the sister of Yu Dacai, the wife of Fu Sinian.These intertwined relationships have made the authorities attach great importance to Zeng Zhaoyu and feel at ease. She must truthfully explain and express her attitude.

Back then, when Zeng Zhaomei was studying at Southwest Associated University, his mother died of illness in Kunming Huidian Hospital in the winter of 1939. Zeng Zhaoyu, who was organizing archaeological excavations with Wu Jinding and Wang Jiechen in Dali at that time, got the news on November 23. It is recorded in his diary: "Return in the afternoon, connect two telegrams, one is that the mother is seriously ill, the other is that the mother has abandoned her, the thunderbolt from the blue sky, I never thought of it in my dreams!!! Sad! So I am a motherless person, what is the fun in this life! On the 26th, Zeng Zhaoyu hurried back to Kunming to meet his relatives and friends, "only crying bitterly."After taking care of his mother's funeral, Zeng Zhaoyu took the initiative to take the responsibility of caring for his two younger sisters, Zhaolin and Zhaomei, who were studying at Southwest Associated University.In this regard, Zeng Zhaomei recalled: After my mother passed away, "Sister Xun treated me, and she was also a mother. She saved money and remitted my expenses every month. If there was a bombing in Kunming, she would send a letter from Dali to inquire. After I get married".It is precisely this dual identity of sister and mother that Zeng Zhaoyu did his part to intervene in his sister's marriage and had an impact.

Regarding the marriage of the fourth sister Zeng Zhaomei, Zeng Zhaoyu said in "Autobiography": "After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War in 1945, she was engaged to Tan Jifu who had just returned from Europe in Chongqing. Tan was the son of Tan Yankai, who was the chairman of the puppet National Government. At that time, I was the younger brother of Tan Boyu, the Deputy Minister of Economic Affairs, and the younger brother of Chen Cheng, the Minister of National Defense. At that time, I was coming to Chongqing from Lizhuang in western Sichuan. Zhao Mei and Tan Jifu were already married. I had no objection to this marriage And after they got engaged, I made them get married in October." In fact, for this marriage, Zeng Zhaoyu not only did not object, but also did some matching work.According to Yu Dazhen's daughter Peng Hongyuan, Zeng Zhaomei contributed a lot to the marriage of Zeng Zhaomei and Tan Jifu because "my mother Yu Dazhen had a very good relationship with Chen Cheng's wife, the daughter of the Tan family."Through the connection between Yu Dazhen and Chen Cheng's wife, Zeng Zhaomei and Tan Jifu got connected.After Zeng Zhaoyu heard the news, he expressed his approval of this marriage, and added fuel to the fire again, making the fire of desire between the young lovers burn more and more intense, and the lovers finally got married.Why did Zeng Zhaoyu play such a role as a sister, she explained in "Autobiography" as follows:

Tan Jifu is an engineer who has studied metallurgy abroad for 14 years. There is no problem with his knowledge and technology. I have also thought about the relationship between the Tan family and Chen Cheng.I think Chen Cheng is a relatively honest person among the Kuomintang soldiers.Without the many bad habits of the old warlords, Zhaomei would not learn bad habits there.Moreover, when Chairman Mao arrived in Chongqing, I still had many illusions about the KMT-CPC peace talks, thinking that under the unanimous request of the people of the whole country, this battle could not be fought.Taking a step back and thinking about it, even a fight is a major national event, and we can't control it.Fortunately, Tan Jifu is a technician and doesn't necessarily rely on relatives for food... I still retain a strong sense of feudalism. I just dote on my sister, and I only hope that she can marry a rich and capable husband and enjoy the blessings.

Zeng Zhaoyu thought that the "national affairs" that he couldn't manage back then fell on him like a sharp sword, let alone let her say "to take care of it".She has to stand upright and express her position, and in her public political statements and radio speeches to her relatives and friends in Taiwan, she appears to be extremely fierce, like ice coal and even enemies, so that she can pass the test.Zeng Zhaoyu did this, and he did it to the satisfaction of the authorities, so he hasn't caused any major trouble.What she didn't expect was that when the relatives overseas just pressed down the gourd, "accidents" occurred one after another in the relatives in China, and the pain and panic deepened and aggravated. In 1957, Zeng Zhaoyu's most respected second brother, Zeng Zhaolun, was labeled as a rightist for proposing the so-called "anti-Party and anti-socialist scientific program".Two years later, in 1960, Zeng Zhaolun suffered from reticulocyte carcinoma and atypical leukemia. His life was seriously threatened and he had to be hospitalized.This misfortune, apart from Zeng Zhaolun and his wife Yu Dayi, also brought great pain to Zeng Zhaoyu in Nanjing, and this pain and anxiety have just begun. After Zeng Zhaoyu's elder brother Zhaocheng went to Taiwan, his son Zeng Xianluo went to Taiwan with his father, and then returned to Nanjing to welcome the liberation of the Communist Party.Unlike Hu Shi's son Hu Sidu, Zeng Xianluo, who was studying at Jinling University, became an underground member of the CCP in the late 1940s and began to carry out political activities according to the requirements of the CCP.According to Zhang Kaiyuan, who graduated from the history department of Jinling University in his early years, recalled: Around 1948, "the underground members of the Communist Party of China in Jinling University used the form of Christian fellowship to unite and educate progressive students according to the characteristics of church schools. I once participated in the ' The Huo Huo Fellowship' is mainly composed of students from the history department of Jin University and Jin Women's University. The underground party member Zeng Xianluo is responsible for contacting this small group. The activities of the fellowship are generally reading clubs, reading progressive books and periodicals together and exchanging ideas. Remember We have a large suitcase of books, including Moscow’s Chinese version of “State and Revolution,” “The Question of Leninism,” “History of the Communist Party of the Communist Party of China,” and “On New Democracy” and “On Coalition Government,” which were published in Yan’an on rough-edged paper.” Around 1955, in the late period of the "Eradication of Counter-revolutionaries", Zeng Xianluo was "persuaded to withdraw" (ordered to quit the party) by the organization because of his family background, and Zeng Xianluo lost his party membership since then.He himself thought that he had always pursued the CCP, but because he was regarded as a class dissident because of his "bad background", he was hit hard, his mood was bad, and his body gradually weakened.In June 1957, Zeng Xianluo and his friend Xiao Yiwu initiated and organized a publication called "Jiangnan Grass" and wrote some political articles. In August, they were named and criticized by the newspaper. Zeng Xianluo was labeled as a rightist. He was criticized and besieged, and then exiled to a remote farm for labor reform. In 1961, Zeng Xianluo couldn't bear the inhuman life of the labor reform farm. On a dark and stormy night, he climbed over the fence and iron fence, fled back to Nanjing, and entered Chen Fangke's house over the wall.Chen Fangke is the seventh younger brother of Chen Yinke. He is the only suave and casual literati among the brothers of the Chen family. He is proficient in the study of editions.The Chen family and the Zeng family were "friends of the third generation". At this time, Chen Fangke was shocked when he saw Zeng Xianluo sneaking in late at night. After asking about the situation, he realized that the matter was of great importance. Accept the transformation honestly.But since then, Zeng Xianluo's whereabouts are unknown, and his life and death are unknown.When Zeng Zhaoyu, who had always regarded Zeng Xianluo as his son, heard the news, his spirit was greatly stimulated, and he couldn't control his grief. In March 1962, Zeng Zhaoyu's most respected mentor, Professor Hu Xiaoshi of Nanjing University, took several students to eat at the Confucius Temple. After returning, he died of a stroke, which dealt another severe blow to Zeng's spirit.The Hu family enjoys a high status in Nanjing and even the whole country's literary and historical circles, and the Zeng family will remember it all his life.Hu was also a consultant of the Nanjing Museum during his lifetime. When the Second Tomb of the Southern Tang Dynasty was excavated, Zeng Zhaoyu specially invited him to do a survey, and later invited him to give a series of lectures on "Chinese Characters and Calligraphy" for the staff of the Nanbo Museum.Zeng's some important articles.For example, "Discussion on the Age of Ancient Pictorial Stone Tombs in Yinan" and "Two Issues in the Ancient History of Jiangsu" were all published after reviewing by Hu Xiaoshi.Academics are an important part of Zeng Zhaoyue's life, and now he suddenly loses a teacher with whom he can discuss knowledge and communicate sincerely, and the sadness is self-evident. Zeng Zhaoyu was unmarried all his life, so it is inevitable that there will be discussions and speculations behind his back, especially in the ignorant age when singleism is still not understood by the public, there are even more malicious people who use "little people" to treat Zeng's teachers, students, colleagues and her secretary. He speculated wildly, saying that Mrs. Zeng had a male-female relationship with XX, and there were as many as four or five men listed, which caused Zeng Zhaoyu another distress.And this distress is not just that a person's choice of marriage is not understood. In the harsh environment where politics and "lifestyle" issues are pervasive, it is very likely that one will be accidentally stained with various colors and thrown into the abyss of eternal doom.Therefore, Zeng Zhaoyu felt a dull and inexplicable pain from the bottom of his heart whenever he faced the inquisitive inquiries and malicious eyes and smiles of some people who didn't know what to do or what to do.Decades after Zeng Zhaoyu's death, some researchers followed Zeng's life path to investigate and research carefully, only to find out that her celibacy concept and her understanding and perception of social suffering, as well as her family background and the attitudes she accepted in her youth Education and cultural edification have a significant relationship.Regarding this point, Zeng Zhaoyu revealed it before her death. She said: When she was a child in her hometown, "I saw many middle-aged mothers, with a group of scrawny and poorly clothed children, begging from rich families, crying 'Master "My wife is doing good deeds", I called for a whole day, but I couldn't get any leftovers... I also heard that a daughter of a poor family, who had already settled down, was about to go through the door, and was robbed by a landlord to become a small child. After more than a year, a son was born. The eldest wife was jealous and cut her throat with embroidery scissors. She died. After saying a few words, my husband saw her and my brother-in-law. He beat her with a door bar until her head was bruised and bruised, and she was punished to kneel all night. At that time, I thought: Why is there such a thing in the world? How unfair is it?" From this account, we can see that the tragic life of Chinese women has left a deep imprint on Zeng Zhaoyu's young mind.When she went to Changsha to study in middle school, "what I saw and heard was the same thing. The fate of female students was not much better than that of rural women. There was a student in a certain girls' school who was very beautiful and good at homework. The warlord took a fancy to her and forced her to be his ninth concubine. She hugged her parents and cried for a few days, but was finally forced into a sedan chair. From then on, she lived a life like a plaything, too ashamed to meet her classmates. ".He also said: In Chongqing and Nanjing before and after the Anti-Japanese War, "I saw with my own eyes the female staff of many agencies, dressed up coquettishly, to please their superiors, willing to accept the title of 'vase' without hesitation. Some civil servants, in order to keep themselves If they want to get a job or want to get promoted and get rich, they let their wives dress colorfully and go to the mansions of high officials to play cards and dance with them.”Faced with such a living situation and situation, Zeng felt only disgust and hatred, and his heart was heavy, "even a little scary".This kind of feeling makes her feel a kind of sadness in the heart of the woman's own fate, and the beautiful illusion of marriage is gradually melted by this tragic fact and the smoky social life scene. What she saw, heard, and felt just left a huge shadow in Zeng's heart. It cannot be said that it was all about her clinging to celibacy. What prompted her to make this decision was also fueled by the trend of the times. The era in which Zeng Zhaoyu lived was a period of drastic transformation of Chinese society, "a major change unseen in three thousand years". Educated women began to pursue individual liberation and want to be economically independent, get rid of the shackles of men, not rely on men for support, and have the same level as men. Equal social status—that is, "there must be equal status before there will be real women and men, and then sighs and pain will disappear" advocated by Lu Xun.On the road to pursuing equality, marriage is regarded as a major obstacle. Once a woman gets married, it is like entering a grave, burying a lifetime of pursuit and happiness.Pushed by this trend, Zeng Zhaoyu recognized and accepted this idea, thinking that many women are busy with housework all day after marriage, burying their intelligence and wisdom, and for the sake of their desired career, they are determined not to get married and live their own life of celibacy .According to available materials, this idea came to her when she was studying in Changsha Yifang Middle School, and it is closely related to her family background and education. As far as the members of the Zeng family are concerned, Zeng Zhaoyu's second younger sister, Lin Qiaozhi's favorite student and Zeng Zhaoyi, who later served as the director of Beijing Third Hospital, was also unmarried all his life.Both Zeng Baosun and Zeng Yuenong, who were in charge of Changsha Yifang School, were never married. They still depended on each other after they went to Taiwan.Zeng Baosun once explained to himself that he was unmarried all his life: "When a person gets married, he can only educate three or five children at most... If he devotes himself to education, he can educate thousands of people." Like Zeng Baosun of the same generation, he was also unmarried all his life, and later adopted Fu Sheng, the adopted daughter of his sister Baohe, and when Fu grew up, he was also unmarried all his life.Celibacy seems to have become an unavoidable complex in the Zeng family. This kind of complex was not unique to the Zeng family. It was not uncommon in society at that time. For example, Wu Yifang, the president of Jinling Women's University, and Xian Yuqing, a professor at Lingnan University, were all unmarried for life. celibate scholars.A notable feature of the above-mentioned characters is that each of them has a background in a church school, or is simply a devout Christian.Under this kind of spiritual baptism, these women not only disapprove of marriage, but also regard marriage as the fetters of life and career.Wu Yifang had the ambition of "providing the best education for Chinese women" with the school as her home and the students as her children.Zeng Zhaoyi, who was deeply influenced and inspired by the spirit of Christ, also takes this spirit and attitude towards life as a model, and regards career as the sustenance of the soul and the place where he lives and lives.Zeng Baosun also held the same point of view as Wu Yifang, and personally said to Zeng Zhaoyu: "If you get married, you can only serve a few people, but if you are not married, you can serve countless people."——All these internal and external emotional entanglements , is the clue to the formation of Zeng Zhaoyu's celibacy and the reason why he never married. Accompanied by this reason, there is also a little-known episode related to Zeng Zhaoyu, that is, during the Anti-Japanese War, Zeng Baosun and Zeng Yuenong escaped to Hong Kong with their father. After the Pearl Harbor incident, the siblings followed His father escaped from Hong Kong and returned to live in his hometown in Heyetang, Xiangxiang, Hunan. In 1944, the clan elected Zeng Yuenong to preside over the fifth revision of the genealogy of the Zeng family.At that time, Japanese invaders invaded Hunan, "the wind is rumbling, bullets and guns are raining", however, Zeng Yuenong readily accepted the appointment and devoted himself to sorting out family files and genealogy. . It was completed and published in 1946, and the abbreviated name is "Five Revised Genealogy of the Zeng Family in the Great World".There are nineteen volumes of Shipu, and the first volume is a woodcut movable type book of Sanshengtang, which is the version with the richest content among the successive genealogy of the Zeng family in Xiangxiang.In addition to the prefaces and postscripts usually included in the calendar, the "Comments" includes the imperial plaques, envoys, imperial sacrificial inscriptions and inscriptions given by the Qing emperor to Zeng Guofan, his brother and his son Jize; "Wen Zhenggong's Legacy" is included in the "Biography" item; the tomb list, birthday preface, sacrificial text, and biography written by Zeng Guofan, Li Hongzhang, Guo Songtao, Zeng Guoquan, etc. are included in the "Biography" item; A large number of relevant regulations, deeds and other materials, Zeng Baosun also wrote a postscript specially for this purpose, so that the quality and use value of this genealogy have been comprehensively improved, and it has become the Chinese espionage culture and Zeng family figures, as well as Xiangxiang and even Hunan. Important historical material for cultural studies. One of the most striking features of "Five Revised Genealogies of the Zeng Family in the Great World" is that it breaks the folk custom of privately repairing genealogies and allows women to enter the genealogy.In the past Chinese genealogy and genealogy, women could only be entered as subordinates of men, without a name, and only referred to as X or XX.In the genealogy "Fan Li" majored by Zeng Yuenong, it is stipulated that "women do not have characters, and are recognized by their relatives, and those who have the right to inherit can follow the male rules." Herald.But after all, due to the limitations of history and customs, even though it was the first to open up the atmosphere, there are reservations. Only "buzi" women are eligible, that is, women who have never married are eligible to enter the spectrum.Therefore, there are Zeng Baosun, Zeng Baohan and other names in the spectrum "according to the male standard" into the spectrum.In the "Chuan Zan" section of the genealogy, there is a "Family Sacrifice" written by Zeng Zhaoyu. For some reason, her name was not included in the genealogy.Perhaps the family members thought that Miss Zeng, who was only 36 or 7 years old at the time, still had a chance of getting married and having children, but it was unexpected that Zeng Zhaoyu was never married. Later in Zeng Zhaoyu's life, the elders of the Zeng family in Heyetang, Xiangxiang asked Zeng Ning (son of Zeng Xianluo), his nephew who was raised by Zeng Zhaoyu, to call Zeng Zhaoyu "grandfather".Zeng Ning said: "Because she was never married, according to the customs of my hometown in Hunan, my family called her 'Grandpa'. It is said that when my grandfather was born, a fortune teller came and said that my grandfather's hit lacked 'fire', so the elders in the family paid for her. Name it 'Zhaoyu'." When Zeng Ning said this, he might not know the real inside story.It is not a custom in Hunan to call unmarried women "grandpa" by younger generations, but it may be a rule of the Zeng family, and this rule should have started when Zeng Yuenong presided over the revision of the genealogy.Zeng Zhaoyu, as a woman with a "buzi" name, was not included in the genealogy at that time, and a few years later, the genealogy of the Zeng family was regarded as "changing accounts", "feudal capitalism" and "ironclad evidence of counter-revolution" in the political movement. Censorship, under the rule of the new regime, it is impossible to continue the family tree, so it can only be used as a male title to make up for the debts of the year, and in form, Zeng Zhaoyu was given the status of a "sovereign" in the family to establish incense In Zeng's ancestral hall, future generations will never forget it.