A few days ago, the People's Government of Jiangsu Province solemnly celebrated the centenarian Yuan's centenary birthday in Nanjing Central Four-Star Hotel. Jin Zhongqing, vice governor of Jiangsu Province, and other provincial leaders and people from all walks of life came to wish the legendary centenarian a happy birthday and stay young forever.
Yuan usually never practices any skills. He treats people with a normal heart and is generous. The secret of her health and longevity is the word "let nature take its course". Yuan Lao never gets angry. When she gets along with her family or friends, she often makes jokes and makes wisecracks.
Yuan Lao, who is optimistic and cheerful by nature, usually pays great attention to his image, and centenarians are no exception. Not long ago, Yuan Lao attended a banquet attended by many young ladies. Halfway through the banquet, Yuan Lao took out a cosmetic box from a very chic handbag, and while mending his makeup, he said to everyone in humorous language: "I am old and it is hard to walk. Otherwise, I will avoid it and put on makeup. "
Looking at Yuan, who was laughing and laughing, we inadvertently learned that the famous female writer and the author of The Legend of Heroes of New Children was her sister. Qiong Yao, a female writer in Taiwan Province, is her niece. Talking about this matter, the old man proudly said, "We really have many talented women in Yuan family."
190 1 May, Yuan was born in a prominent family in Wujin County, Jiangsu Province. Her grandfather was an academician of the Qing Dynasty and worked as a magistrate. Her uncle was also an academician and a teacher of Xuan Tong. Yuan Liyuan's father, Yuan, was a famous banker in the early years of the Republic of China and presided over the Bank of Communications. Yuan was brilliant since he was a child. "Poetry at the age of three, painting at the age of four" was once a beautiful talk in Wujin.
Supposedly, Yuan, who grew up in such an environment, should be buried in the boudoir like many lovely girls of her contemporaries, and spend her life flatly, but it happened that Yuan had a restless heart. She is not content to spend her life in her mansion. She yearns for the white clouds and blue sky outside the high wall and is eager to go to society. 19 19, the may 4th movement broke out. This year, Yuan, who was only 18 years old, finally walked out of the "closed" door of her 18 years. I came to Shanghai two months later and then transferred to Nanjing. She didn't go to a regular school, and was hired as the secretary of He Yushu, the director of agriculture and mining, with the first place in the exam. A few years later, restless Yuan sprouted the idea of going abroad for further study. From 65438 to 0930, Yuan embarked on a new journey with the help of relatives and friends.
In 1930s, it took 35 days to sail from Shanghai to Marseille. At that time, Ye Nan, the son of the chairman of Jiangsu provincial government, took care of Yuan all the way, and this life journey also made them get along well for a hundred years. At the end of 1939, Yuan ended his life in France and returned to his motherland. Shortly after returning to China, she was appointed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as the deputy consul of the Consulate in Kolkata, becoming the first female diplomat in China.
It was the climax of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. Yuan ran among overseas Chinese and encouraged them to raise money for War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. Faced with the unreasonable interference of the local government, she negotiated with the British authorities in India again and again, and the British side exclaimed: This female consul is amazing!
1947, Yuan and her husband returned to China. Through extensive contact and understanding with progressives, the two men had a very deep understanding of the corruption and darkness of the Kuomintang government. They expressed their attitude in an "open letter" and called on all countries to cooperate to realize the reunification of China. When the Kuomintang expelled the two men from the party and began to want them, Yuan and her husband issued a statement, left the Kuomintang, went to the United States, and was admitted to the United Nations Secretariat with the third place.
Yuan is familiar with English, French and Arabic, but he has infinite feelings for Chinese. During her work in the United Nations, she promoted the long history of Chinese characters to her colleagues, and on the other hand, she integrated Chinese and Western cultures. According to the requirements of Chinese character reform and modernization, after decades of unremitting exploration, she finally succeeded in studying Yuan's pinyin scheme, namely "Chinese Character Modernization Scheme (Draft)". This "planning" has been attached importance by Zhou Enlai and other central leading comrades.
From 65438 to 0949, after the founding of New China, Aful lived abroad for many years. Although she is in a foreign country, she always pays attention to the earth-shaking changes in the motherland, hoping to contribute her strength to the prosperity of the motherland one day. 1972, with US President Nixon's visit to China, Sino-US relations finally thawed. Yuan, who was 70 years old at that time, seized this historical opportunity and was the first to apply for a delegation to visit China as a Chinese-American. As soon as they set foot in the old country, the delegation was cordially received by Zhou Enlai, Deng and other central leading comrades. Since then, Yuan and her husband, Mr. Ye Nan, have returned to their hometown at the Canton Fair every year, visiting relatives and friends, seeing the new face of the motherland's construction, and bridging the cultural exchanges between China and the United States.
After visiting China again and again, Yuan finally made the most important choice in his life at 1985: to give up American citizenship and return to China to settle down. An 84-year-old man in gorgeous clothes walked into the American Embassy in China. When the cultural counselor in charge of reception learned that the old man came to consult "how to give up American citizenship", he was greatly surprised. American diplomats can't understand that this person, who enjoys a high reputation in both Chinese and American cultural circles, will become the "first person to give up Americans." In this regard, Yuan said that because China is not as rich and powerful as the United States at present, I want to go back to China to do my part-because I come from China.
Yuan, who returned to settle in China 1985, is nearly ninety years old, but his daily schedule is full. She sold her property and donated it to the public welfare undertakings of the motherland, and founded the "Xiao Yuan Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine"; Friendship village has become a popular place for heads of state and guests to plant friendship trees. According to her suggestion and donation, the famous stone tablet of Mount Tai in Qin Wen was restored to the top of Mount Tai.
Nowadays, the elderly are also undertaking various social work: they have been re-elected as members of the fifth and sixth CPPCC sessions, members of the Central Supervision Committee of the Chinese Revolutionary Committee, and members of the China International Calligraphy Research Association.
Sunset is not necessarily worse than dawn,
Hold your head up and raise your mane.
Spring silkworms haunt Qian Qian,
I am willing to spin silk for the people.
This is a self-encouragement poem written by Yuan Lao recently, which fully shows the lofty sentiments and ambitions of this centenarian. We wish her eternal youth.