Yao has three children. Yao's family is a big family. Yao's parents have six brothers, four of whom are famous: the second Yao Shaozhi and the fourth Yao Jiexun (Yao Yilin's father). The fifth Yao Guozhen, the sixth Yao Zhen. Yao Guozhen is a member of Duan Anfu School and an important figure of Huizhou School. He has served as the president of the School of Transportation (now Beijing Jiaotong University), the second minister of transportation, the supervisor of the State Administration of Tobacco and Alcohol, and the president of Beijing Jiaotong University. After the fall of the Anhui warlord, he went to Tianjin to live a public life.