If you have great ambitions, even small people can live an extraordinary life. She died in the same year as Soong Meiling, married only once in her life and remained a widow for 54 years. Why is she known as a great mother? Her loyal view of love and brilliant education methods have won praise from everyone. She is the mother of Li Changyu , Wang Shuzhen , the American "Chinese Detective" who is known as the "Contemporary Sherlock Holmes".
Emotional life
Wang Shuzhen was born in Rugao, Jiangsu Province in 1897. Wang Shuzhen's family was relatively well off at the time. Although Wang Shuzhen was born in the Guangxu period, she grew up in the Republic of China. Therefore, Wang Shuzhen went to a girls' middle school, so she behaved dignifiedly and elegantly, quite like a lady. Wang Shuzhen has believed in Buddhism since she was a child and also loves music and poetry.
Wang Shuzhen, who was born in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, was a little conservative in her thinking. When she reached the marriageable age, she would naturally think of marrying a good family and then stay at home to raise her husband and children.
The 19-year-old Wang Shuzhen has become a mature woman and has found a good son (Li Haomin, the second generation of local rich people). So that year, Wang Shuzhen and Li Haomin got married. After the marriage, Wang Shuzhen lived a comfortable life at home, raising her husband and raising her children.
At that time, when many children were valued, Wang Shuzhen was willing to give birth to more children for Li Haomin. Therefore, Wang Shuzhen gave birth to 13 children (8 girls and 5 boys), and lived a rich and sweet life.
Wang Shuzhen's husband is doing business abroad, mainly running a grain store, so his family is considered well off. With a relatively wealthy family, Sui Wang Shuzhen and Li Haomin's 13 children are growing up healthily and living a happy family life, which makes outsiders envious.
Who would have thought that the sweet and warm family life of that others would envy would usher in an unimaginable disaster.
Misfortune comes and happiness comes to an abrupt end.
Happiness can be long-lasting or fleeting. The divine couple Wang Shuzhen and Li Haomin made God jealous. With a snap of a finger from God, this pair of wall-to-wall lovers Humans, heaven and humans are separated.
Wang Shuzhen's husband, Li Haomin, is a second-generation rich man. The Li family has been in the grain wholesale and kerosene business for generations, so Li Haomin inherited his father's business at a very early age.
Since the business had already reached Shanghai, in order to facilitate the development of the business, Li Haomin moved to Shanghai with his wife, children and mother in the 1940s. Later, due to war and disputes, the Li family moved to Taiwan again.
In order to take care of business, Li Haomin had to travel between Shanghai and Taiwan. Later, in order to change this situation, Li Haomin made a major decision- and his family moved to Taiwan. Then in 1948, the family reunited in Taiwan.
But it was this decision that led to the subsequent tragedy .
Li Haomin is a businessman and often travels abroad on business. Li Haomin bought a batch of high-quality fish fry in southern Jiangsu before the Spring Festival in 1949, and planned to transport them back to Taiwan on the Taiping ship. Unfortunately, he died on the way back to Taiwan.
There are many incidents at sea, but very few can be recorded in the annals of history. What impressed us most was the tragic historical fact that the Titanic crashed at sea on April 14, 1912, resulting in the loss of 1,517 lives. The "Taiping Incident" is also called China's "Titanic", which shows that it caused huge losses.
China United Shipping Company's luxury cargo ship is undoubtedly the Taiping, which has a displacement of 2,489 gross tons. In the later stages of the civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, a large number of people used gold bars, connections and other means to escape from mainland China and boarded the already full Taiping Ferry.
The Taiping left the port on January 27, 1949, carrying nearly 1,000 passengers (124 crew members, about 300 unticketed passengers, and 508 ticketed personnel).
The Taiping Ferry sailed from Shanghai to Keelung . In order to escape the curfew, it sailed at night without turning on the navigation lights. Soon after, it collided with the cargo ship Jianyuan, driven by Rong Yiren's brother Rong Hongyuan, carrying timber and 2,700 tons of coal. After the collision, the Jianyuan immediately sank to the bottom of the sea, and the Taiping sank a minute later.
The cold weather and the biting sea water caused the death of more than 900 people, and only 38 people survived. Unfortunately, Li Haomin died.
When Wang Shuzhen learned about the "Taiping Wheel" incident when she was reading the newspaper, she did not want to believe that her husband had been killed. Wang Shuzhen spent a lot of money to hire a private plane to search for her husband's body in the Pacific waters, but found nothing. In the "wheel" incident, Wang Shuzhen lost her husband, and her family also lost important support. Soon after, the Li family declined.
Educate your children and become a general.
Although Wang Shuzhen lost her husband and suffered a big blow, she knew that she would never fall down. In order for her children to have enough food, warm clothes, and a good education, Wang Shuzhen began to look for work in unaccompanied Taiwan.
A rich wife who didn't need to do anything by herself suddenly started doing dirty work as a "servant" and "maid" in order to make ends meet. As long as she can make money with her hands, Wang Shuzhen will do it day and night. Wang Shuzhen also tutors music, takes care of children, washes and cooks in rich people's homes, which are things she has never done before.
Even though life was difficult, Wang Shuzhen did not give up the opportunity to let her children study. At that time, Wang Shuzhen and her children lived in a deserted suburb of in Taoyuan District, Taiwan, dozens of miles away from where their children went to school. The embarrassment of life makes their daily food and clothing a problem, but Wang Shuzhen firmly believes that knowledge changes destiny, so even if she sells iron, Wang Shuzhen insists on letting her children continue to study.
Wang Shuzhen has extremely strict requirements on children's learning, but she will always patiently tell the children, "In the future, they must be capable and promising."
Unlike other families who teach like beatings and scoldings, Wang Shuzhen will always be moved and learn to understand. Educate your children rationally. I often teach my children to "treat people well, concentrate on doing things, talk less and do more." It is precisely because of my painstaking education that I have successfully trained all 13 of my children to become Ph.D.'s.
Wang Shuzhen’s children are engaged in various industries such as businessmen, engineers, advertisers, scientific researchers, artists, designers, and IT elites.
Wang Shuzhen’s eldest son, Li Changquan, after graduating from Shanghai Business School, embarked on the same path as his father - doing business.
’s second son Li Changduo is engaged in scientific research. Li Changgang, the third son of
, not only serves as an environmental protection and water conservancy engineer in the United States, but also serves as an African farming consultant to the United Nations.
The fourth daughter, Li Changyun, graduated from Taiwan's Central Political School and worked in a stationery company in the United States.
The fifth daughter, Li Changlong, graduated from Shanghai Home Economics School and is engaged in American fashion design.
Sixth daughter Li Xiaofeng serves as a tenured professor at New York University . She also has a master's degree from Edwards University in the United States and a doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh in the United States.
After graduating from Soochow University in Taiwan, the seventh daughter Li Changfan went to study at New York University in the United States and graduated from New York University in the United States. She served as the president of an American petrochemical company and also served as the vice president of Berlin Securities in the United States.
The eighth daughter, Li Changxia, graduated from Drew University in the United States and works as a computer designer in an American insurance company.
Ninth daughter Li Changping graduated from the Law Department of Soochow University in Taiwan and served as a judge in the court.
Ten men Li Changxin is the deputy dean of the University of Virginia Research Institute and a doctorate from the University of Maryland.
Eleventh male Li Changyu graduated from the City University of New York in Criminal Science. He is an internationally renowned "detective", a Ph.D. from New York University, and the Commissioner of the Connecticut Police Department.
The twelve-year-old daughter Li Changru is a medical staff and graduated from Taiwan's National Defense Medical College.
Thirteenth Girl Li Changzhi is a well-known advertising design expert in the United States. After graduating from the Taiwan Journalism Institute, she went to the Fashion Advertising Journalism Institute in the United States to study and graduated there.
Wang Shuzhen hopes that her children can grow up and become indomitable talents. Under this educational concept, after the Li family became a general, 's 13 children all had their own careers and fame, which was an impossible miracle.
Later life
Wang Shuzhen worked hard to raise her 13 children alone. When she stopped her busy steps, she had entered her old age.
Wang Shuzhen's children are all very filial, and her old life is also very comfortable and happy.
Wang Shuzhen passed away in New York, USA on March 6, 2003, at the age of 106., ending the simple and extraordinary life of her great mother.
Particles collide and burst out with dazzling light; leaves falling on rivers stir up a series of waves; water drops on stone surfaces will eventually pass through the stubborn rocks. Inadvertent actions will change a person's life; education with high emotional intelligence will achieve a person's knowledge; simple and true feelings will make people feel grateful.
When it comes to Wang Shuzhen, readers may not know it, but when it comes to "Chinese Detective" Li Changyu, I think everyone will know it. Although we cannot completely become someone like Wang Shuzhen, we can learn from her her loyal outlook on love and her unique educational philosophy.
There must be a teacher among us. Let us lower our arrogant heads and learn from others humbly.
