Zhu Kezhen was born in 1890 and died in 1974 at the age of 84. Three months before his death, he wrote in his diary: "I was in poor health since I was a child, and now I live to be 83 years old." What else can I ask for? " Why do you say that? This is because, when he was studying in Shanghai Chengzhong Middle School in his early years, his classmate Hu Shiceng made a bet with other students behind his back that Zhu Kezhen would not live to be 20 years old.
I heard that, Zhu Kezhen firmly taken aback. He doesn't think this is Hu Shi cursing himself like some people, but looking for problems from himself. At that time, because I studied too hard, I made my health really poor. Hu Shi's words surprised him into a cold sweat, but he didn't talk to Hu Shi, but vowed to exercise from now on.
19 10, Zhu Kezhen was admitted by the second-year public school students studying in the United States. Because China was established on the basis of agriculture, he was chosen to study in the Agricultural College of the University of Illinois. After graduation, I transferred to the geography department of Harvard University to study meteorology closely related to agriculture. During this period, he met Hu Shi, who went to Cornell University in the United States to study under the philosopher Dewey. He asked, "Old classmate, what do you think if I live to be over 60 in my life?"
Hu Shi said, "If you live to be 60 years old, I will kowtow to you three times in front of all my relatives and friends on your 60th birthday. If you live longer than me, you can kick my corpse's ass. " Zhu Kezhen smiled and began to bet on Hu Shi's life span: "You must remember what you said today!"
The end result is that Zhu Kezhen, 60 years old in 1950, didn't receive Hu Shi's three xiangtou at the birthday party-at that time, Hu Shi went to Taiwan Province Province and Zhu Kezhen was in the mainland, and the barrier of the Strait made them unable to realize the "gambling words" of that year. Twelve years later, Hu Shi left at the age of 7 1. Zhu Kezhen failed to "kick" Hu Shi, but he lamented in his diary: "At that time, the wise man Hu Shi predicted that I would die young and eventually became a lie." After that, Zhu Kezhen loved sports more and attached importance to health.
Seemingly, it has nothing to do with love, but it does exist in Zhu Kezhen. Because of his poor health and his talent, looks and knowledge, he happily experienced an "arranged marriage" in a foreign country on 19 18.
19 18, Zhu Kezhen received a doctorate in meteorology from Harvard University with his thesis "New Classification of Typhoons in the Far East", and then returned to the motherland in autumn with the passion of serving the country and the people. At this time, he was carrying an "arranged marriage".
The organizer is Zhang, his family is a famous family in Xiangxiang, and his father Zhang Bochun was a juren before the Qing Dynasty. During the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, he helped Ceng Guoquan to supervise the two rivers, and/kloc-0 joined the league on February 26, 905; After the revolution of 1911, he served as secretary of the temporary presidential palace. His mother, He Yisheng, is proficient in poetry and songs, and is known as "a female teacher at home". After the Revolution of 1911, Zhang fell in love with his best friend, so he took it home to impress his future mother-in-law. Unexpectedly, Jiang and Zhang's third sister, Zhang Shujia, fell in love at first sight, and Zhang's unwitting mother strongly agreed. A marriage is complete. Zhang stood by, hurt by her feelings, and angrily vowed never to marry.
19 18, 34-year-old Zhang went to Europe and the United States to inspect education and merged into Columbia University to specialize in education. At this time, Zhang is still single, but she is very concerned about the marriage of another sister's soul and is bent on finding a good object for her soul. Soon, Zhu Kezhen came into Zhang's sight, blocked Zhu Kezhen at home, and asked Zhu Kezhen to marry his sister.
Zhu Kezhen felt a little strange because he had never seen the soul of Zhang Xia. Now how can someone suddenly let Zhang Xia's soul marry him? So he began to observe. Who are you watching? It can only be Zhang-he thinks that Zhang is a very excellent person with extraordinary temperament and extraordinary speech. The sister of such a person is definitely not as good as Zhang, and even agrees with Zhang's "arranged". In this regard, Wu Mi, who also studied in the United States, mentioned this past event in "Self-edited Chronicle": "Zhang Laibo (Boston) was very happy to get a' young beauty talent' for his sister. As a result of the discussion, Zhu Jun and Zhang Mei were engaged ... Although they got engaged and married without meeting, the result was also very satisfactory. "
Zhu Kezhen met Zhang Xia's soul after returning to China, and they got married on February 27th 19 19. The report of their marriage in Shenbao is as follows: "Today is the day when Dr. Zhu Kezhen and Ms. Zhang Xia Soul held a ceremony at the East Asia Hotel on Nanjing Road. Many people demanded that the ceremony be held in advance. Ms. Gaixia Soul is the daughter of Ms. Mo Jun's sister Zhang Bochun ... Zhu Jun is a doctor of meteorology at Harvard University in the United States, and now she is the chief teacher of Wuchang Teachers College. Her academic character is several figures in the field of studying abroad ... Today's gift is envied by both sides of the audience. "
In this way, Zhu Kezhen and his marriage were successfully fixed.
Zhang Xia Soul, 1897 was born in Xiangxiang, Hunan Province, and 19 16 graduated from the painting class of Shanghai Shenzhou Girls' School in July. She is a talented woman, proficient in calligraphy and writing. 19 1 1 year-old, 14-year-old, helped my sister run Jiangsu Dahan newspaper in Suzhou, and was responsible for reviewing and proofreading. 19 12 In March, she joined the China Women's Federation initiated by Zhang and became one of the main contributors to China Women's Daily magazine. She/kloc-began to publish papers on current affairs at the age of 0/5. The language is very sharp, denouncing the dark ages. He is a famous young man.
At the same time, Zhang Xia Soul, like her sister Zhang, is also a feminist who pursues women's liberation. /kloc-at the age of 0/6, she published an article about women's participation in politics in China Women's Daily, asking: "Should women participate in politics? Say: Why not? Skull, toe, and sex are the spirits of all things. Why are women different from men? " More importantly, in that society at that time, Zhang Xia Sol was a woman who dared to "go to heaven" and the first China woman to fly to heaven.
19 19, Shen Bao reported the marriage between Zhang Xia Soul and Zhu Kezhen, including a passage about Zhang Xia Soul: Ms. (Zhang Xia Soul) took a military plane in Jingnanyuan, with tens of thousands of Chinese and western audiences, but no one praised her. Later, due to the strong wind, the machine broke down and my foot fell. Fortunately, he was awarded a famous doctor and walked as usual. President Jia Qiyong of Lebanon awarded the first prize, who was the first woman in the Republic of China and was called Haiku Nine Words.
At first, Zhang Xia's soul went to see the flight test. As a result, when she saw that the plane could really go straight into the sky from the ground and roll up and down in the air, she was excited and determined to give it a try. So, she found the headmaster of the flight school and told her that she wanted to feel the taste of "heaven". Because the China woman was not in heaven at that time, the headmaster didn't like it, so he said to her, "You belong to a girl's family, so you don't have to take the risk, do you?"
Hearing this, the headmaster was very moved and agreed to let Zhang Xia have a try. Zhang Xia Sol put on his flight suit and boarded the plane with the pilot. As a result, the plane circled the airport three times and scattered countless colorful flowers. After the applause, the engine suddenly broke down, rushed down obliquely and fell into a mud pit. Zhang Xia's soul was badly hurt. "Her left leg was broken, her mouth was bitten, her abdomen was slightly swollen, and her mouth and nose were bleeding." But in the hospital for more than a month, she didn't cry out pain and shed a tear. In this way, her deeds have been widely praised and even praised as a heroine.
Zhang Xia is a very virtuous woman, seven years younger than Zhu Kezhen. Not only can she take care of Zhu Kezhen, who has been busy with her work, but she also keeps her home in good order. After marrying Zhu Kezhen, Zhang Xia Soul came to Wuhan with Zhu Kezhen and wholeheartedly became a woman who silently supported Zhu Kezhen's cause behind Zhu Kezhen.
1936, Zhu Kezhen was the president of Zhejiang university. At this time, Zhang Xia Soul is the mother of five children, and her sons are Zhu Jin, Zhu Heng and Zhu An. Daughters: Zhu Mei, Zhu Ning. There are many children at home. Zhang Xia's soul should not only take good care of them, but also often help those poor college students, especially those girls who leave home to study. She would rather let her children endure hunger and cold and give them more care. In Zhu Kezhen's words, "I care about poor students, but I spare no effort to help girls", showing a kind heart of great love. Therefore, she is also called "Zhejiang University Nanny".
1938 was a sad year, which was the second year of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression outbreak. In order to avoid the Japanese attack and preserve the precious university teachers, the state decided to move some key universities to the relatively safe southwest, and Zhejiang University to Taihe, Jiangxi in the west. Zhu Kezhen devoted all his energy to the school relocation. On July 23rd, when he was in Guilin, he received a telegram from his family, saying that Zhang Xia's soul and his second son, Zhu Heng, suffered from dysentery during their migration and asked him to return to Taihe as soon as possible. At that time, the medical conditions were very poor, and there was a lack of medicine and medicine. Zhu Kezhen saw his eldest daughter, Zhu Mei, waiting there on the long embankment of Zhejiang University, and asked anxiously, "How is mom's illness?" Zhu Mei said with tears: "Mom's illness is good, but ... the balance is gone ..."
Zhu Kezhen had no time to comfort her daughter and hurried home, only to find that Zhang Xia's soul was bony and sickly. Later, he changed a room with better light and ventilation for Zhang Xia's soul. Zhang Xia's soul breathed a sigh of relief and asked him, "Why didn't you transfer the scale here?" Zhu Kezhen fought back his grief and told Zhang Xia that Zhu Heng's situation had improved. Please don't worry too much about Zhang Xia's soul and take good care of it. The lover's white lies comforted Zhang Xia's soul. At that time, she didn't know that her son Heng had already belonged to two worlds with her.
The next day, Zhu Kezhen accompanied Zhang Xia's soul day and night, personally fed Zhang Xia's soul and tried his best to make up for his love for Zhang Xia's soul, but in the end he could only watch the fire of Zhang Xia's soul burn out bit by bit, and there was nothing he could do. On the morning of August 3rd, Zhang Xia's soul had difficulty breathing. Zhu Kezhen called Zhu Mei, Zhu An and Zhu Ning to Zhang Xia's bedside and told them to call her mother. Zhang Xia's soul looked at the children, agreed with difficulty, and soon died. The children's voice calling for their mother turned into a sad cry for their mother.
Within half a month, Zhu Kezhen lost his son and wife and suffered a heavy blow. In his diary, he wrote many poems such as "Holding the Soul of a Knight" in agony. Among them, there are mourning poems based on the original rhyme of Lu You's "Shenyuan":
/kloc-In September of 0/5, Zhu Kezhen buried Zhang Xia's soul and Zhu Heng on Sun Songshan Mountain in Yuhuashan, Taihe. Three days later, I left Taihe with my wife and children in tears at the grave, leading all the teachers and students of Zhejiang University to embark on the long journey of moving westward again.
1939 In February, Zhu Kezhen donated his only savings 1000 yuan to Zhejiang University to set up the Summer Soul Scholarship. He said it was a wish of Zhang Xia before his death. "Xia has been dead for half a year, and he has been very concerned about poor students all his life ... setting up Xia Soul Scholarship for girls in the second, third and fourth grades."
The death of Zhang Xia's soul made Zhu Kezhen very sad, but the living will live after all. How can a man take care of several children without a woman's care? After a period of time, people began to introduce people to Zhu Kezhen one after another, hoping that he could get back together as soon as possible, have a complete home and put more energy into his work. It was at this time that Chen Ji entered Zhu Kezhen's life.
The introducer is Ding, a professor of physics, and his wife. Together, it is not a problem for Zhu Kezhen to remain single, so he thought of Chen Ji. Chen Ji is Chen Shu's cousin. She should be good-looking and have a good temperament, and she is also a graduate of Beijing Women's Normal University. Ding said it very appropriately, and it was also very appropriate. In their view, Chen Jishi and Zhu Kezhen have another important reason, that is, Chen Shu has two brothers who have been away from home for many years, leaving all the things of taking care of their parents at home to Chen Jishi. Chen Ji took good care of the old man, but it affected his love. He is over 30 years old and hasn't got married.
Ding He thinks that women of this age are stable and cherish, generally live with peace of mind, and will no longer take love seriously. If Zhu Kezhen can be with Chen Ji, it will be a blessing for the rest of my life. More interestingly, Chen Ji also left a deep impression on Hu Shi, betting on Zhu Kezhen's life span, and her Excellence was also recorded in the writings of the crescent literati. Ding He is excited at the thought of Chen Ji-in their view, Chen Ji and Zhu Kezhen are a very well-matched couple, as if Chen Ji had waited for Zhu Kezhen for so many years without getting married.
1September, 939 18, Chen Ji and Zhu Kezhen met, they climbed to the top of the mountain silently, and they made a life at the top of the mountain silently. Three days later, they got engaged and got married on March 15 of the following year. This year, Chen Ji was 36 years old. Since then, people around Zhu Kezhen who love, support and take care of him have cared for students and raised children with him until the end of their life journey.
In this regard, people say that Zhu Kezhen is blessed, and his two wives make him happy, but we still have to say the sentence mentioned at the beginning of the article-the ultimate happiness in life is personality, which can not only make the career top, but also make people have good luck in love and family. With a good personality, Zhu Kezhen not only "gambled" to win his life span, but also brought his career to the peak and had an enviable good family.