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Everyone must know the "first Chinese detective" who is known as the "contemporary Sherlock Holmes" - -Li Changjue, but without the person behind him, Li Changyu would not be where he is today.
She is Li Changyu’s mother, Wang Shuzhen.
She gave birth to 5 boys and 8 girls, and all 13 of her children are Ph.D.s, all of whom are elites in all walks of life.
These 13 children are:
Li Changquan (male): graduated from Shanghai Business College and is engaged in business.
Li Changduo (male): engaged in scientific research at Taiwan Agricultural College and New York University.
Li Changgang (male): United Nations African farming consultant and American environmental water conservancy engineer.
Li Changyun (female): graduated from Taiwan’s Central Political School and works in an American stationery company.
Li Changlong (female): Graduated from Shanghai Home Economics School and American fashion designer.
Li Xiaofeng (female): Department of Agricultural Chemistry, National Taiwan University, Master's degree from Edwards University, Ph.D. from University of Pittsburgh, and tenured professor at New York University.
Li Changfan (female): Graduated from Soochow University in Taiwan and New York University in the United States. She serves as the vice president of Berlin Securities and the president of the American Petrochemical Company.
Li Changxia (female): graduated from Drew University in the United States and worked in computer design for an American insurance company.
Li Changping (female): graduated from the Law Department of Soochow University in Taiwan and serves as a court judge.
Li Changxin (male): Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, USA, and serves as deputy dean of the Research Institute of the University of Virginia, USA.
Li Changyu (male): Ph.D. from New York University, Commissioner of the Connecticut Police Department, and internationally renowned "detective".
Li Changru (female): Graduated from Taiwan National Defense Medical College and engaged in nursing.
Li Changzhi (female): graduated from the Taiwan Journalism Institute and the Fashion Institute of Advertising, and is a well-known advertising design expert in the United States.
Even President Clinton and President Bush wrote letters praising her on Mother's Day, calling her a "great mother"...
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Wang Shuzhen was born in Rugao, Nantong, Jiangsu Province in July 1897, and grew up in a scholarly family. , went to a girls' middle school, likes poetry and music, and is good at writing articles.
html At the age of 119, Wang Shuzhen married local wealthy businessman Li Haomin. In that era, people believed that having more children would bring happiness. Wang Shuzhen gave birth to 5 sons and 8 daughters. Li Hao runs a grain store outside the country, while Wang Shuzhen works at home as her husband and raises her children, and her family is well off.
In 1948, the shadow of the eight-year war of resistance had not yet emerged, and the civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party resumed. In that chaotic era, Li Haomin decided to move his family to Taiwan.
He gradually moved the focus of his business to Taiwan, purchased goods from Shanghai, Jiangsu and other places to Taiwan, and ran a fishery.
However, unfortunately something happened.
Before the Spring Festival of 1949, Li Haomin bought a batch of fish fry in southern Jiangsu and transported them to Taiwan on the Taiping ship (known as China's "Titanic"). Unfortunately, he died at the age of about 50.
After the "Taiping Wheel" incident, the backbone of the family collapsed instantly, leaving orphans and widowed mothers without any relatives in a strange environment.
This mother with 13 children faced huge hardships, but she did not give up. She gritted her teeth and supported the whole family.
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Li Changyu was in his teens at the time, and he went to and from school as usual, until one day he discovered that his tuition fees could not be paid on time, and he had to share a desk with his brothers and sisters. All the clothes and pants had to be worn by each other, and they had to be sold during holidays. Newspaper and lost time for free play, only then did I understand my mother's difficult situation.
Seeing that life is almost too poor to open the pot, Wang Shuzhen still insists on sending her children to school to receive a good education. She knows how important reading is to a person.
At that time, Wang Shuzhen lived with her 13 children in a deserted suburb of Taoyuan District, Taiwan. The children went to school in the city and had to walk dozens of miles barefoot every day.
When Li Changyu was in school, she bought a pair of shoes for her son because the school did not allow bare feet. Li Changyu knew that it was not easy for his mother to buy shoes, so he only put them on when entering the school gate. When going to and from school, he would always walk home barefoot with his shoes in hand.
Although the conditions were difficult, none of the 13 children dropped out of school due to family difficulties.
Wang Shuzhen taught her children to be "hard-working, strong, and kind" and often told them: "In the future, they must be capable and promising."
She told herself: "I don't know how to do business, and I don't have the skills of a worker, but I have a You are so strong!"
Wang Shuzhen tried her best to provide food, drink and school for these 13 children, from being a "lady" and "full-time housewife" to being a "helper" and "servant", taking care of them in a wealthy family. She worked day and night on children, laundry and cooking, and tutoring music, as long as she could make money with her hands.
She withstood the blow of fate with amazing perseverance, endured hardships, and raised her children to become talents.
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Wang Shuzhen has strict requirements for her children. She hopes that they will study more and strive for progress. She hopes that her children will become outstanding and top-notch talents as much as possible, not only to grow up to adults, but also to grow up to be talents.
Li Changyu became an inspector after graduating from the police academy, and the job and salary were good. But she said to her son: "You have to continue studying. A master's degree is not enough, so you have to get a Ph.D."
Under this educational concept, the Li family has given birth to 13 Ph.D.s, all from all walks of life. The elites include scientific researchers, businessmen, designers, engineers, artists, advertisers, securities workers, IT elites, etc. This spectacular sight can be called a miracle in the history of world education.
In 1959, Wang Shuzhen went to the United States from Taiwan to reunite with her children. She was already 62 years old at the time, but she actually passed the US Immigration Service's English test and obtained permanent residency. It can be seen that until his later years, the old man was also diligent and studious.
Although her family moved to the United States, Wang Shuzhen still has a Chinese heart in her heart. Normally at home, she communicates with her children and insists on using the Rugao dialect. On the one hand, hearing the local accent in a foreign country relieves her homesickness, and on the other hand, she reminds her children not to forget that they are Chinese.
Wang Shuzhen is patriotic, which does not mean that she refuses foreign goods or does not speak foreign languages. She wants to let children remember that her roots will always be in China. Wang Shuzhen once said: "You can develop overseas, but there is one thing you must remember: don't forget your homeland."
In 1998, Li Changyu became well-known in the U.S. police circles because he solved many strange and famous cases and was appointed As the director of the Connecticut Police Department in the United States, Li Changyu did not want to accept the appointment at first. As a mother, Wang Shuzhen warned her son: "You are not serving as director for yourself, but to open a channel for the Chinese people to see the world."
After hearing her mother's advice, Li Changyu accepted the appointment and became the first person in the United States to serve as director. The Chinese-American chief who holds the highest position in the state police. He was later hailed as the "Magic Detective" and the "Contemporary Sherlock Holmes". He participated in presiding over famous cases such as the "Chen Shui-bian Shooting Incident" and solved nearly 8,000 difficult cases in the United States and 17 countries around the world.
But he said: "When I was a policeman, I was used to seeing serial murderers and bloody murder scenes without fear, but my mother was the only one who was angry and scared me." This shows that Wang Shuzhen is very strict with her children.
Daughter Li Xiaofeng and son Li Changyu sit next to Wang Shuzhen.
Wang Shuzhen’s third daughter, Li Xiaofeng, is a tenured professor at New York University and a world-renowned biologist. After Wang Shuzhen arrived in the United States, she and Li Xiaofeng lived in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Li Xiaofeng said gratefully: "The greatness of a mother is that she sets an example for her children throughout her life. She is only willing to dedicate herself without asking for anything in return. She will never do anything she can do to others."
Li Xiaofeng attributes a large part of his achievements to his mother. In the past thirty years, while she and her husband Huang Yili were busy working, her mother took care of and educated her three sons. They all entered Harvard University at the age of fifteen and taught them the Four Books, Five Classics and Yin and Yang Bagua.
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Wang Shuzhen is very successful in educating her children. Her teachings to her children are: "Be nice to others, concentrate on doing things, talk less and do more."
Although there are only 15 words, it contains the four major aspects of life. It can be said that the words are rich in meaning and concise.
Treating others well means being a person with good intentions, sowing fields of blessings and forming good relationships. This is the first important thing for us to be a human being. People can be without talents, but they cannot be without virtue and cannot have sinister intentions. Therefore, the old man puts "treating others well" first.
To do things with concentration means that we must be sincere and respectful. To be attentive in doing things means that you must first be sincere about what you are doing, do things sincerely, and not think about the reward for doing things. You must concentrate on doing things, and another meaning is respect. Respect means to have respect for what you are doing, and to do it "as one thing", and not to do it casually or half-heartedly.
Talking less means to be restrained and self-restrained, and also to avoid attracting attention with words. People who talk too much tend to offend others without realizing it and lay the foundation for their own trouble; on the other hand, people who talk too much and do little will naturally become frivolous and superficial.
Doing more requires people to do hard work and use actions to turn ideals and ideas into reality. Doing things is not only a way for us to dream in advance, but also a channel for self-cultivation. "Book of Changes" says that a gentleman cultivates virtue through fruitful conduct, which means that people can cultivate noble morals through actions and doing things.
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Due to her outstanding achievements in raising children (three of her children were named among the "Top Ten Outstanding Young People in the United States"), when Wang Shuzhen turned 100, US President Clinton and his wife, the mayor of New York and his wife, the governor of Connecticut, went to congratulate her.
When her children asked her what she wanted for her birthday, she said: "I don't want anything. I just hope that if I have the opportunity, I can build a school for the children in my hometown."
However, the primary school in her hometown has been built, but she has not had time yet. Take a look.
On March 6, 2003, this great mother who raised 13 doctors passed away at the age of 106.
The funeral was grand and the courtesy was very high. President Bush and the governors of various states sent people to express their condolences. The police in many states in the United States organized funeral teams. During the funeral, motorcycles cleared the way and Americans paid tribute to an old Chinese lady.
In her hometown in Jiangsu, people erected a statue for her.
Rugao Oriental longevity garden built the "Buddha Garden" in the park in October 2004.
She was born in Guangxu, grew up in the Republic of China, grew up in the Republic of China, and died in the 21st century. This Chinese old man who spanned the long river of history gave birth to 13 children and trained 13 talents. As a Chinese, she still cares about the education of her motherland in her late years, which is touching and can be called a "legendary mother".
As Mother's Day approaches, I would like to write this article to pay tribute and bless mothers all over the world!
✏️This article is comprehensively compiled and published by "One Scholar" (ID: my1xuezhe, author: Qingyuan). Please contact us for authorization for reprinting.
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