First of all, let's meet the Song sisters' father, Song Charlie. It is such a great father who has influenced a generation and provided a different family edification and growth environment for the Song sisters. His life is full of ups and downs and legends. Charlie in Song Dynasty, whose real name was Han Jiaozhun, was the 28th grandson of Han Qi, a famous minister in Northern Song Dynasty. His ancestors spent all their savings on public welfare undertakings, and by the time Han Juezhun's father Han Hongyi arrived, his family had already declined. In order to reduce the family burden, Charlie Song was adopted by his cousin and renamed Song Jiashu, and since then he has lived a different life from Yao Ru.
In fact, Charlie Song is a stubborn child. Since he was a child, he was fearless, adventurous and unwilling to stick to the rules, so his anti-traditional thoughts were extremely strong. As for the stepcousin, at first he insisted on not changing his surname when he was alive and not changing his name when he died. He thought, adopted, why change your surname! However, he is very talented. When helping his uncle manage the tea silk shop, he quickly learned to use abacus, audit accounts, inspect goods and so on, which was recognized by his uncle. In fact, he was going to hand over the shop business to Song, and refused Song's request to study. However, due to Song Charlie's strong anti-traditional thoughts and the influence of American national spirit's anti-colonialism and independence, he has a vague consciousness of helping the motherland achieve independence, and is no longer satisfied with the fate of helping the silk tea shop to distribute arranged by his cousin, and begins to pursue greater goals.
In the evening before nightfall, Charlie Song secretly climbed aboard the cargo ship "Colefax" bound for Boston, thinking it was flawless, but the cargo ship was found 30 nautical miles away. Captain Jones didn't want to take him in at first, but the clever Charlie Song won the captain's approval and admission through his own efforts, and entered Trinity College as a "special student" and began his study career. It was also during this period that Song Charley became a Christian and completed his studies through his own efforts, and was awarded the title of trainee pastor of the supervisory committee.
After returning home, Charlie Song wanted to make some contributions to his motherland with great enthusiasm, and at the same time set a more ambitious goal. He wanted to overthrow the feudal rule in China and establish a free and democratic republic like the United States. However, the ideal is full, but the reality is very skinny. His immediate boss, Dr. Lin Lezhi, is full of prejudice against him and thinks that he will never become a scholar. After several negotiations, Song Charlie, who refused to admit defeat, was arranged to preach in Wusongkou, a suburb of Shanghai, with a monthly salary of less than $ 15 and children who taught parishioners, otherwise he would not even get $ 15.
In the process of teaching, Song Charley suffered an unprecedented blow. Foreign priests looked down on him, and people bullied him and laughed at him. The children walking in the street call him a "foreign devil" and his parents call him a "short man". Frustrated, he approached his boss Lin Lezhi several times. Not only did he not get the desired result, but he was even more marginalized.
So is time and so is luck! One day, Charlie Song, who was depressed, met his classmates in America when he was relaxing in Huangpu Beach. The two men embraced warmly and told each other's stories. Niu Shangzhou introduced his sister-in-law Ni to Song Charlie when he knew that there was no one around to take care of his life and he was depressed. Ni was born in a big family, and his mother Xu was a descendant of Xu Guangqi, a college student and senior minister in the cabinet during the Wanli period of the Qing Dynasty. His father is a priest, and Niguizhen himself is a Christian. Although she looks ordinary and has no foot binding, she is very talented. She is not only good at math, but also likes calligraphy and piano. They fell in love at first sight, appreciated each other and soon entered the marriage hall.
After marriage, Song Charley first quit his missionary work and went into business. With the strong financial support of his wife, he bought several printing presses. Besides the Bible, he can also print textbooks and other books as well as some newspapers and periodicals. It has received economic and technical support from various western missionary groups and religious organizations, and its position in the church has also changed. 1890 became a central missionary in Chuansha, a suburb of Shanghai, and he began to use his position to find his own career. Under the cover of printing books on western history and science and technology, he began to secretly print leaflets for anti-Qing groups and western textbooks for Bingzhong Wen, an educator who advocated constitutional monarchy. Later, with fluent English, Song Yaoru became a comprador of several firms and started industrial operation, importing and installing machines for them. He is "the first businessman to handle foreign machines" in Shanghai. Through continuous efforts, Song Yaoru became a well-known printer and industrialist in Shanghai.
Later, he had an economic source and became a well-known priest, which made the * * * and revolutionaries led by Sun Yat-sen pay attention to him and became close friends with him. Later, Charlie Song repeatedly risked his life to support Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary activities. Under the guise of religion and industry, he printed anti-Qing propaganda materials, spread revolutionary ideas, helped Sun Yat-sen advance the cause of democratic revolution, and provided financial support. In Sun Yat-sen's early revolutionary activities, Song Yaoru's donation became an important source of funds. With the collapse of the Qing government and the victory of the revolution, Charlie Song was also famous for supporting Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary cause.
It was Charlie Song's advanced thought that dared to challenge the patriarchal supremacy and despised the secular concept of male superiority and female inferiority, so that his three daughters received the same education as men, were edified by modern western scientific and technological civilization and values, and deliberately trained them to face the challenges of life independently, so that the Song sisters later became the leaders of the bourgeois revolution and became the women that people paid attention to, worshipped and pursued at that time.