During the Republic of China, there was such a family whose fate was closely related to China, which had a half-century influence on China politics. There were six children in this family, each of whom held an important position at that time. This family is the largest family in the Republic of China, the Song family. All this stems from a great father-Song Yaoru. He is the father of three sisters in the Song family, three of the four chaebol in China, and the father-in-law of Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kai-shek.

Song yaoru

Song Yaoru was originally a missionary. He doesn't like fighting and is indifferent to fame and fortune. Sun Yat-sen praised him as a hidden revolutionary gentleman. His special experience also influenced his children. Song Yaoru once said, "As long as one child in one hundred becomes a superman, there will be four million superman in China, even hopeless? At present, most parents in China are unable to train their children wholeheartedly. I want to be the first in the world. "

Song Yaoru is also a legend, born in Wenchang, Hainan. When I was a child, my family was poor, and/kloc-was adopted by my father to my cousin at the age of 0/5. Then I went to Boston with my cousin. It is common to go abroad now, but it was a kind of hardship at that time. In a strange place in America, he can only study English hard and then find some hard work to survive.

However, Song Yaoru, who has a hard life, still does not forget to study. 1855, he graduated from the seminary and became a devout Christian. I saw that Chinese workers were bullied and Chinatown was burned. Song Yaoru was very angry and determined to fundamentally change China. We should awaken the minds of the people of China through the revolutionary ideas of democracy and freedom.

Song Yaoru's family

1886, Song Yaoru returned to the embrace of the motherland, and he successively conducted missionary activities in Suzhou and Shanghai. Hu Shi is one of his students. He preached and engaged in propaganda activities against colonialism and overthrowing the Qing government. During the missionary period, he married Ni Guizhen and gave birth to six children. Later, he engaged in industry and commerce and accumulated a lot of wealth.

At that time, education in China was backward. Song Yaoru, who has been studying in the United States for eight years, saw the progress and perfection of western education and realized the backwardness of China people's educational concept. So he knows that only the progress and perfection of education can make the country strong. He has always had a great desire to cultivate Lincoln-style and Washington-style great figures in China.

At that time, Shanghai was very chaotic, densely populated and lacked unified management. There are all kinds of people in the street, especially some rich children, who go out with weapons and several bodyguards. So most people will choose to live near the consulate to take refuge.

Song Yaoru's family

But Song Yaoru did the opposite. He chose a place near the suburbs, where the environment is beautiful and the air is fresh, away from the noise of the city. Build the house in the middle of the green space. As he has lived in Hainan since childhood, this house has obvious Hainan characteristics.

There is a stream in front of the house and a vegetable garden behind it. Children can play in the vegetable garden or the surrounding fields to satisfy their curiosity. It is said that he grows his own vegetables and orders palm trees and other favorite plants from America. It is a paradise. Such a natural environment can give children natural nature, not only let them release, but also let them feel natural.

Song's daughter

Song Yaoru takes children seriously. After coming back every day, no matter how tired she is from work, she always plays games or tells stories with the children. It is precisely because he knows that games are children's nature, and respecting children's nature is the basis of all education. So he is willing to spend his mind on children. To this end, he bought a box of rubber balls and encouraged the children to play together. He thinks that children need companionship and play most.

Zhou Weimin said: "Song Yaoru loves children and lets them develop freely according to their own personality. However, he did not satisfy the child's desires without restraint, but tried his best to cultivate the child's self-control. When Song Ailing was still a toddler, his father did not help her up immediately, but patted a ball in front of her to encourage her: "Brave girl, get up and go by yourself!"! "

Another habit of the Song family is that there will be a family reunion every weekend. At the party, mother Ni played the piano and father Song Yaoru sang. This example not only cultivates children's artistic talent, but also gives them the opportunity to fully display their talents. Therefore, Song Ailing inherited his father's singing, Song Meiling loved dancing and painting, and Soong Ching Ling also played the piano very well.

Song's daughter

When Song Ailing took his younger brother and sister to play in the nearby fields and trampled on the crops many times, the villagers complained that Song Yaoru didn't scold her children, but compensated them for far more than the loss, and reached an oral agreement to let the villagers not scare and disturb the children, let the children play freely in the fields and release their nature.

In addition, Song Yaoru pays special attention to children's learning, and he encourages children to combine Chinese and English. Children are often told that learning Chinese is because we are from China, and learning foreign languages is to better understand the world. Of course, it is not enough to encourage education blindly, so Song Yaoru will always be accompanied by some frustration education while giving warmth to his children.

Chiang Kai-shek

In order to exercise the children's willpower, Song Yaoru once took the children to the Longhua Tower on rainy days and asked them to throw away their umbrellas and get wet together. Song Yaoru pointed to the Longhua Tower and said to the children, "Look at this tower. It has been fearless of wind and rain for thousands of years. Why? Because it has a solid foundation and a tight skeleton. If you want to gain a foothold in society in the future, you should lay a good foundation and practice your skeleton from an early age. Now let's start the race together and run six times around the pagoda, which is very successful! " Song Yaoru ran away, and the children followed. If you fall, get up and keep running.

Song Yaoru will also encourage children to fast for one day and exercise willpower. On that day, Song Yaoru will fill the table with food, but they are not allowed to eat and can only look. Because Song Yaoru knows that in such troubled times, there is no plain sailing life, and only strong willpower can survive.

Chiang Kai-shek

Under the excellent education of Song Yaoru, his three daughters, the eldest daughter Song Ailing, married Kong Xiangxi, and even Chiang Kai-shek was afraid of his third child. The second daughter Soong Ching Ling married Sun Yat-sen and became the mother of the Republic of China. The third daughter, Song Meiling, married Chiang Kai-shek and was called the first lady of the Republic of China.

The third son: Song Ziliang, Director of the Comprehensive Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Member of the Guangdong Provincial Government and Director of the Guangdong Provincial Department of Finance. Song Zian, director of China Domestic Products Company, chairman of Guangzhou Bank and general manager of Southwest Transportation Company. Song Ziwen, Minister of Finance of the National Government.

Song Yaoru himself used most of his funds to support Sun Yat-sen's bourgeois democratic revolution and devoted his life to the national revolution.