Liang Luzhu has always been labeled as a "lady". After all, she is the mother-in-law of Mingyao Department Store in Taiwan, and she is a "rich lady" who can collect Japan top railway tours. But she is an academic master, can write and draw, has taught outstanding children and has become a parenting guide for many parents. She was also a host who won the Golden Bell Award.
Shed away all external labels, Liang Luzhu wore Uniqulo and happily showed off the handmade wool felt decoration she added on it. It was her latest pleasure. She casually clicked on the LINE stickers and saw the cute traveling pig. Achievement.
"I'm just lazy. I don't have lofty ideals. I'm not a person who strives hard or strives hard." Liang Luzhu said: "I am not a winner in life, I am a lucky person in life. I don't fight, but I work hard to give what God has given me." Do a good job."
The lucky little pig
Liang Luzhu's current official title is the person in charge of "Mingyao Parent-child Center". He has published many travel books, including "The Ultimate Hotel: 50 Famous Hotels in Japan" and " "Those Sparkling Moments in Travel", "Japan's Fantasy Famous Places - Beautiful Travels with Hot Springs, Food, and Architecture", and because of his success in raising children, he has published education books such as "Teaching Good Children with Liang Luzhu", and the articles have been scattered in major media column.
Liang Lvzhu has been cute since she was a child. She is always stopped on the road and asked, "Where did you get your double eyelids?" Her family runs a travel agency and is not considered rich, but her life and outlook are still better than those of ordinary families. She has already won the starting point in life, but she has a problem: "When I was a child, I hated the word "zhu"." I don't understand why her father chose a special word "trip" for her, and then followed it with the tacky word "zhu". , causing her to always be teased by boys as a "pig".
She seriously suggested changing her name, but Liang’s father explained, "Travel means being generous and wearing a lot of clothes; pearl means the jewel in your eye." Liang's father happened to own a travel agency. Unexpectedly, the name he chose for his daughter echoed her later life of traveling around the world, and "Pearl" indicates that her daughter will shine like a pearl in her studies. has always been an academic master
Liang Luzhu was a model student in Peking University, graduated first in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature at National Taiwan University, and then went on to get a master's degree from the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. She is an "academic master".
"I may be what people call precocious, a little smart, learn things quickly, have a little talent, can sing and dance well, read well, and can pass the exam by cramming." Liang Luzhu said: "This I have developed a lazy habit, that is, when there is a crossroads in life, I will definitely choose the path that I think is easier. "The reason why
became a top student all the way is as simple as this: "Studying is the easiest." Liang Luzhu. She admits that she was just playing around in her first and second years of high school, and did not study seriously until her third year of high school. At that time, most girls studied in the literature group. She just entered the foreign language department of National Taiwan University. She had no lofty ideals and no intelligent choices. She just remembered to register. At that time, I saw that the senior sister was smart and a little timid.
But Liang Lvzhu also discovered that although there were many classmates who passed the exam with high scores at that time, perhaps due to the urban-rural gap, she grew up in Taipei and her family ran a travel agency. Her English was relatively good, and she was ranked among the best in high school. The literature department was even more popular, and she almost won a book award without studying in the first semester, so she decided: "I will study harder in the next semester." From then on, she won a book award all the way to graduation.
considers himself "the laziest person who messes around every day". In fact, as long as he works "a little", he will get good results. This also reflects Liang Luzhu's self-disciplined attitude.
For example, she admitted that she had been busy with drama performances for almost all four years of college. She once learned to smoke in order to play "A Streetcar Named Desire" and quit decisively after the performance, "because I knew what I was doing. I thought, If I have any merit, maybe I still have a little ability to think independently."
No matter how good he is, Liang Luzhu still has nothing to pursue. He started applying to schools after graduating from college, planning to enjoy a one-year vacation. Go abroad again.When I was traveling to Kenting with my parents, I saw TVB looking for "hosts who can speak English" at the hotel in the evening. The mother thought it was an English teaching program and suggested that her daughter go.
So Liang Luzhu, who had numerous stage experiences in school, became the host of "What a Wonderful World" and partnered with Ke Zhien. It was the first self-made travel program in Taiwan. That was an era before people were allowed to travel abroad. As a host, she traveled for a month, traveled to various places, and even met the president of Swaziland. But Liang's mother was very worried. Firstly, communication was difficult at that time, and secondly, she always had doubts about the entertainment industry.
It wasn’t just Liang’s mother who had doubts. Liang Lvzhu’s boyfriend at the time, now her husband, was also nervous. He went abroad to study first and accelerated his degree in one and a half years. “He came back to keep an eye on me and kept an eye on me until I left the country,” said the program. After one year, they won the 23rd Golden Bell Awards Education Cultural Program Host Award. Liang Luzhu and Ke Zhien both advanced and retreated, and both went to the United States to study.
"At that time, there were not many hosts with high education and good image like us, and the format of the program was also very special, so we won the Golden Bell Award in half a year." Liang Luzhu said with a smile, "So I am just lucky. To be honest, I didn't work hard at all."
Highly educated and returning to the family.
grew up in a conservative era and environment. Since childhood, she was the representative of the "relatives and friends group" that adults would take with them on blind dates. Liang Luzhu said with a smile: "After watching too much, I feel scared. She can’t get married, so she wants to get married as soon as possible.” Her elders introduced her to her husband Gao Zhijia, who is also from National Taiwan University and whose uncle is the founder of Yimei Group.
Liang Luzhu felt: "His tutoring is very strict and his life is very regular. He is a very honest and simple person. I think he is a very down-to-earth person and very trustworthy."
The two of them got married, and originally wanted to wait for three years before they got married. The two of them lived together, but due to various reasons, they welcomed their children in advance. Liang Luzhu also quit her job and stayed at home to raise her husband and children. She laughed and said that there were so many outstanding students among her classmates, but she was the only one. "Everyone thought I would become a strong woman, but in the end I was the weakest and was locked up at home."
Learned from Liang Luzhu
Liang Luzhu has appeared in A book "Liang Luzhu's Educational Book: Tips for educating daughters admitted to , Harvard, and Stanford's seven prestigious schools". The focus is not on how to become a tiger mother or how to teach a top student, but on a mother’s careful cultivation of her children.
Liang Luzhu looked back at herself. Her father was handsome and artistically gifted, but he was also a lazy person. After suffering dementia in his later years, he would stand up and conduct in the restaurant after listening to music, which was like going back to the glorious days when he was a conductor at Kaohsiung Middle School. She said: "It was a bit sad to see that his sense of accomplishment was still there so long ago. I very much hope that we can all encourage ourselves to keep moving forward, and there will be many achievements to recall in the future."
Then Liang Luzhu saw that his "not enough" "Work hard" will encourage children to have more self-requirements. "I will praise them for their self-requirements. I will not praise them for being so cute or awesome, or for taking the test of 100 without studying. Whatever God gives you is your luck, but you cannot Feeling proud, you still have to work hard. "
At that time, "love education" was the right thing to do. Liang Luzhu did not follow the social atmosphere, but established her own goals and methods after a series of self-examinations, "I did not default to having children. Going to a prestigious school, I just taught her the way I thought I should be educated." When her daughter entered Peking University and faced strong people from all walks of life, Liang Luzhu told her: "Study well in the first semester, and you must first know where you are. Your position in the new group. This weakness does not indicate whether you are good or bad, but a benchmark for future efforts. "This is also Liang Luzhu's own experience.
"Reading is the simplest thing. It's in your hands. It's just whether you understand or not. It doesn't matter if you don't understand. There are many ways to solve the problem."Teaching a daughter who has received admission offers from seven prestigious American schools, Liang Luzhu analyzed the reality of life with her daughter: "There are many people better than you. We want to be grateful for your luck and luck, but this does not mean that your life will be smooth sailing from now on. You must be mentally prepared, this may be the highest achievement in your life."
Liang Luzhu said to her daughter that different competitions in life are always going on, and admission to seven prestigious schools is just a stage. "Up to this stage, it proves that we are responsible parents. , it also proves that you are a very hard-working child."
One of the main themes of Liang Luzhu's education book is "life education": "We must give our children the correct central concept and good living habits. With these two things, parents will not You will be scared." So Liang Luzhu let her child fly out without worries. She practiced what she said in her book, "Learn to let go." "I have a warm home for you to return to. I will support you at any time. I will accompany you wholeheartedly, but I I will never forcefully interfere or dominate their lives."
Today, my son is studying in New York, my daughter has settled in San Francisco after getting married, and is preparing to start a business with her husband. The family has a video chat once a month, and they are all well.
The meaning of enjoying travel
"Actually, my husband likes to travel." Liang Luzhu has written many travel books and often writes travel columns. In fact, she just travels with her husband.
This formed a lifestyle pattern for Liang Luzhu: traveling and returning home to write. Half of my time is spent traveling, and I concentrate on playing. The other half of my time in Taiwan is to rush for two to four months of column manuscripts, and I often stay up late to write.
’s first travel book was Japan Dream B&B. Not only because the couple liked to go to Japan, but also because the trend of high-end and luxury travel was just starting at that time, and some hotels in Japan had “threshold” restrictions on guests based on status, etc. Generally, The media wanted to report but couldn't get in, but Liang Luzhu and his husband had access, so they wrote it down.
"When I first started writing, some people would scold me, saying it was just because I was rich. In fact, I really don't know." Liang Luzhu felt innocent: "I just wanted to make a record, because people's memory is very short, and I She cherishes the memories. "She likes to stay in old hotels in Japan, looking for hotels that have cultural heritage and historical charm, but are not "too hard". Because he had to write a manuscript, Liang Luzhu studied and recorded it carefully. He didn’t just eat, play, go home and forget about it. “Because to write a manuscript, I had to go through the process of regurgitating and , so I feel the happiest in this learning process. "
recently published "Top Rail Tours" to record the Grand Slam of top trains. Liang Luzhu said: "This is intentional. We have ridden on all three major cruise trains in Japan. This is really difficult." Because this is even Japan. It is an itinerary with extremely low success rate for domestic tourists.
She reached the target within two years from 2017 to 2019. She also said with a smile: "I worked really hard and thought of many ways to strive for it, because after knowing Japan for so many years, we know the difficulty and value of this journey. Where."
Liang Luzhu emphasized that this is not to show off wealth, otherwise it would be better to charter a yacht. "What we are pursuing is an ultimate experience." Just like the utensils used in these hot spring hotels and top-class trains, they are the works of top craftsmen. When people play with or use them, they can feel the cultural contribution and dedication of these craftsmen . This is also She wants to be inspired and happy by culture when she travels.
"The greatest meaning of travel is to escape from yourself." Liang Luzhu said: "People who suffer internally are people who are always going in circles. Traveling is a way to escape from daily life, go to different countries, see different cultures, and encounter different things. Meeting different people is a stimulation of feedback. For me, it is an opportunity to look back at myself. This is why I like traveling very much. "
Liang Luzhu made hundreds of notes for traveling, and every time. A large collection of handout folders accumulated from at least four travels. She is thinking about how to turn such materials into valuable works of art.
Liang Luzhu uses the spare time to write
Art and creative talent
Liang Luzhu has a little regret in his heart: "People often praise me for having some talents, but I don't use them. This feeling may remain in my heart Seeds will sprout from time to time. I still hope to find a little time for myself so that I can have sustenance and an outlet for my mood. "
Writing is one of the ways for Liang Luzhu to maintain herself. After she chose to join the family, In all decisions, we prioritize a happy family life, but we still seize the remaining time and strive to be ourselves.
In addition to writing, Liang Lvzhu is also very artistic. "When I was young, I could get started with anything related to art, but I was very lazy." In order to avoid practicing piano when he was young, he deliberately did not cut his nails, but the talent was there. When she was a sophomore in high school, her piano teacher wanted her to take the entrance exam for the music department of the Normal University. The teacher
suggested that she take oboe (Oboe) as a minor. Liang Luzhu saw that the cheapest oboe cost NT$70,000 to 80,000, and playing oboe would make her face red and unsightly, so she gave up the idea.
When she was in her third year of high school, her art teacher suggested that she go to the Fine Arts Department of the National Normal University, because although Liang Lvzhu had no professional training, among the classmates who concentrated on studying, her "slightly good drawing" was enough to represent the school in competitions.
So when it came time to apply for college, Liang Luzhu, who had no big ambitions, did not want to leave Taipei, so he applied for all schools in Taipei, plus the art department of the National Normal University's Fine Arts Department. When the scores came out, her academic scores were good enough to get into National Taiwan University, so she didn't take the art exam, and she never embarked on the art path.
The ability to draw has always been there. After graduating from university, Liang Luzhu also helped people draw illustrations. He also knew traditional Chinese painting, oil painting, and watercolor. After having a family, he switched to using colored pencils to draw . The reason was very pragmatic: "Only colored pencils can do it." Let me put it down and do other things at any time."
Housework is complicated, and she puts her own needs at the back. She published the illustration book "KULI is a good dog's life" and also drew illustrations in many books. When the epidemic restricted overseas travel, Liang Luzhu stopped writing columns related to travel. At this time, her painting spirit exploded and she designed "Travel" "Piggy" has turned into masks, New Year's cards, and even line drawings, becoming an IP.
"Traveling Pig" is naturally derived from the "pearl" in Liang Luzhu's name. She also always had the nickname "Pig Tail". She disliked this name when she was a child, but she has been relieved of it when she grew up. Later, she wrote an article for a newspaper and wanted to conduct a "lady test." "I hate it when people call me a lady. That's not the persona I want." So Liang Luzhu used a pen name and drew a pig, " "Travel Piggy" was born.
The piggy graphic became a symbol of Liang Luzhu, and this year it was further transformed into an animated picture. Taking advantage of her son's return to Taiwan from the United States for epidemic prevention leave, Liang Luzhu carefully learned to draw pictures on his iPad. Later, he researched online and spent several weeks to draw the animation himself. She said with some pride, "Many friends say it's amazing. After all, it's not easy for people of our age."
Liang Lvzhu also makes wool felt, which is an "accessory product" to take care of her parents with dementia. My mother started doing handicrafts, and she followed suit. The "Travel Pig" wool felt version became the finishing touch of her clothes and bags.
Lucky Life
"I have been burdened with some accusations and abuses from the past to now, saying that I am just a noble lady and nothing special." Liang Luzhu said that you cannot deny that you are a noble lady just because you don't like others saying that. "I admit that I I am really lucky. Some conditions are better than others, but I can say without regrets that I did not waste the good conditions given to me by God. "
The outside world thinks that she is a "winner in life", but Liang Luzhu thinks that she is not, " I recognize that I am a very ordinary person, and I don’t think I have any extraordinary abilities, nor do I have the strong will to pursue any goals by all means. "Accept your "ordinaryness", so that you will not be in this position. There are times when you are wrong about yourself.
But Liang Luzhu is fortunate: "When given a choice, I will choose the easy way. Although my choice may be out of laziness and not wanting to endure hardship, once I choose, I am a responsible person."
"I The biggest gain in this life is that I really don’t want anything, but because I work hard, I get some unexpected feedback.” Liang Luzhu looked back: “Including taking care of children, including traveling, and now painting, I have been doing it. I am enjoying it. Everything I gain is gained, and my life becomes rich because of it."
