Speaking of "the richest man in China", many people either think of Ma Yun or Wang Jianlin; In fact, "there are big businessmen in southern Fujian. How old is this businessman? Bigger than any businessman today, at least bigger than Ma Yun and Wang Jianlin. Neither of them is as big as Huang. "
I have long wanted to write about the Huang family, who entered the who's who in the world business world before 100 years ago. The reason is not the words, nor the "Walking into the former richest man in Indonesia-Huang Family" filmed by CCTV's "Home Far away", but Shu Ting's essay "The Great Beauty is Silent" attracted me.
Many people are interested in some celebrities with high appearance rate, which is a big misunderstanding. Many billionaires are the apple of their eye. At best, they are rich girls who "show off their wealth" and don't see any celebrity demeanor. There are only a few strokes in a word "Yuan". Without the influence of several generations of aristocratic families, money alone cannot be refined.
The delicacy of women and the sensitivity of poets make Shu Ting's writing have its own unique charm. Huang Xuan, a celebrity in the work, is like this: "Huang Xuan's appearance should not be too heavy, right?" No matter in her spoiled cardamom years or in the arduous anti-Japanese war, she always blooms the simplest and truest smile, revealing her pure heart, quiet and restrained intelligence, and her attitude of being unmoved by honor and disgrace. "
Huang Xuan was born in 19 10, and his ancestral home is in Fujian. His father Huang is a millionaire who works hard in Nanyang. The most luxurious Huangjia Garden on Gulangyu Island in Xiamen, known as "the first villa in China", is owned by Huang.
The name Huang Xuan, the eldest daughter of the rich Huang, has attracted more and more attention because many people miss it spontaneously. Many people know Huang Xuan, who is the assistant of Chen Yinque, a master of Chinese studies. She thinks this is the greatest contribution in her life. In fact, Huang Xuan's literary attainments also have profound accumulation and considerable talent. When we open Chen Yinque's Biography of Liu Bie, even a punctuation and a comment must be meticulous and accurate, which requires a lot of sincerity, care and patience, as well as wisdom, perseverance and energy.
Chen, a master of Chinese studies, was blinded by illness in his later years and could not study. In the last 13 years of his life, with the help of Huang Xuan, he finished his works such as Rebirth and Liu Chuan. Regarding Huang Xuan, the assistant, Chen Yinque said with great emotion: "In short, with the help of Mr. Huang, I can make up the old manuscript and write a new article. Without her help, I would be nothing and accomplish nothing. "
As the wife of the Dean of the Medical College of Lingnan University, Huang Xuan first appeared in the Master at present19511. Chen Yinque, who has been blind for many years, quickly judged her "elegant family style" from her pronunciation and enunciation habits, and immediately invited her in.
Chen Yinque is a stubborn old man with Geng Jie's personality. One is one, and the other is two. He never flatters or speaks insincerely. He spoke highly of Huang Xuan, a junior family.
Huang Xuan's mother, Mrs. Wang, a yellow woman, is a child bride who was sent to the wrong door. At that time, the Huang family was very poor. It is said that Mr. Feng Shui sent his daughter to the door as a child bride when he saw that this family would develop in the future. Wang is eight years older than Huang, and her husband is working hard overseas. She lives in poverty with her mother-in-law, as close as mother and daughter. After the development of the Huang family, Wang often educated his daughter that "it is better to die than to die" (Minnan dialect). Hands-on, equal, simple and sincere, Huang Xuan, who was brought up by her mother since childhood, doesn't look like a big lady of a very rich family to outsiders. Today, many so-called rich women pose as "rich and powerful, bossy", which is a world of difference!
From Wang to Huang Xuan, what is the same strain of the second generation of women? Shu Ting said: "I don't know much, and I dare not talk nonsense." I think the family tradition of filial piety has a great influence on Huang Xuan's later "family studies".
19 19, Huang, who was 5 1 year old, could not bear the blackmail and harsh treatment of the Dutch colonial government, refused to change his nationality, took more than 20 million silver dollars with him, returned to China from Semarang, Indonesia, and moved his business base back to his hometown, which was also rare in the overseas Chinese society at that time.
Huang Xuan spent her childhood in the rural areas of southern Fujian, and her childhood experience of being close to the land cultivated her simple and low-key character. After his father returned to China, 9-year-old Huang Xuan moved to Gulangyu with his mother and grandmother, just at the age of primary school.
Huang Xuan, Huang's oldest child and only daughter, is naturally the apple of her eye. Although his father Huang was born in the countryside, shaved his head and had a low level of education, he was sharp-minded, strong-willed, scheming and good at management. He is determined to make his daughter a real lady.
Huang, whose family is extremely superior and pays attention to cultural accomplishment, decided to educate his daughter by the traditional "boudoir education" in China, and hired a famous teacher at home. At most, there are four well-paid celebrities and scholars who teach Chinese, English, music and other courses respectively. Many people still don't understand that Huang himself has been well informed in Southeast Asia for so many years. He also donated many primary schools, middle schools and universities in Xiamen Island and Gulangyu Island, as well as Fudan University, Jinan University, Peking University, Nankai University and Lingnan University, but his daughter was not allowed to attend public education universities.
However, it is precisely because of the special attention paid to Chinese studies represented by the subset of classics and history that Huang Xuan laid a solid and profound knowledge foundation and showed a talented woman's demeanor.
Huang Xuan was a housewife before becoming an assistant to Buddhist teacher Chen Yinque. Old marriage, parents' orders, matchmaker's words. Huang's criteria for choosing a spouse are democratic and open, and he fully respects his daughter's choice.
Huang Xuan, who has become a good family, has her own insistence on marriage, and never considers rich young masters and sons. She must be a decent young man with knowledge and insight. On the recommendation of relatives, Zhou Shoukai, vice president of Zhongshan School of Medicine and president of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, almost became the "Mr. Right" secretly promised by Huang Xuan.
Compared with the Huang family, the Zhou family is relatively poor after all, but it is also a scholarly family for generations. Zhou Shoukai's father entered the palace first class. After resigning and returning to Xiamen, he was the first librarian in Xiamen, the first Chinese principal of Wentong Middle School, and also organized Lujiang Poetry Society. Zhou Shoukai himself can be said to be a talented young man. He received higher education in Beijing, such as yenching university, and became a famous expert in internal medicine at a very young age. On 1933, he received his doctorate in medicine from Peking Union Medical College.
It was a happy marriage, but the wedding was quite dramatic. On the wedding day, the groom is not in office! The Huang family was suddenly in an uproar, with all kinds of indignation, condemnation, suspicion and even rumors that the groom had married and had children in Shanghai. At this time, Huang Xuan, a rich girl, showed her determination. Instead of being emotional, she sent Zhou Shoukai a concise short message, indicating that she was determined by the Iraqis and was unwavering.
Why Zhou Shoukai "retreated to the door" in those days is still unknown. After many hesitations and vacillations, the couple officially got married in Shanghai in September. 1935. At that time, the groom was 29 years old and the bride was 25 years old, both men and women.
Founded in 192 1, Zhongnan Bank was the third Chinese-funded bank approved by the Kuomintang government at that time after Bank of China and Bank of Communications, with Huang as the main founder. At the wedding, Huang publicly invited her husband to be the deputy general manager of the Central South Bank he founded, but was flatly rejected. The next day, Huang Xuan went north with her husband and began to live together. Many years later, the husband said to his wife from the bottom of his heart, "If I had to choose again among the wives of many professors, I would still choose you! "
From this perspective, it will take many years to become a mature and elegant social butterfly. Master Chen Yinque's attributive to Huang Xuan: "Put it down if you can afford it" is actually talking about how to measure the principle of treating people with things.
"Independent spirit and free thought" is the academic principle of Mr. Chen Yinque's life. Fu Sinian called Chen Yinque "a professor among professors" because "it took three hundred years to become a person". Without the appearance of Huang Xuan, it is hard to imagine that Chen Yinque, who is blind and sickly, had an old and spicy "second spring" in the last ten years of her life. No wonder he said Huang Xuan: Without her, I would be a complete wreck. But from 1955, she was officially hired as a teaching assistant by Sun Yat-sen University, and retired from 1973 until her death on 200 1. She has always positioned herself as a teaching assistant, indifferent to fame and fortune.
What are the qualities and spirits of a celebrity? I think it should be in the same strain as the aristocratic spirit. Some people say that it takes three generations to train a noble, which is not unreasonable. Scholar Liu Zaifu summed up the noble spirit as four points: first, self-esteem, second, self-knowledge, third, self-discipline and fourth, indifference to fame and fortune. Now almost everyone is talking about making money, learning nobility and learning aristocratic temperament, which is not bad!
Is Huang Xuan an aristocrat? Of course not. My father, Huang, was later a business tycoon, but also a barber. Because of his quarrel with the local gentry, he went to Nanyang to avoid "settling accounts after the autumn". In today's words, Huang Xuan is a typical "rich second generation", but he is not an aristocratic descendant. How does she show the aristocratic temperament of "the beauty of family education" to the world and become an admirable celebrity?
First, integrate humanistic traditions into family education.
"Farming and reading" is a humanistic tradition handed down from generation to generation by the bottom people for thousands of years. It is a deep-rooted cultural heritage that permeates the bones of China people and is also reflected in family education. Although Huang was born in poverty, he was also deeply influenced by this humanistic tradition. Although "boudoir" education is out of date, its educational intention is simple. Without the cultivation of the tutor of "farming, reading and heirloom", it is impossible to cultivate the aristocratic temperament of famous people, and it is even more impossible to assist Chen Yinque in completing nearly one million words of historical monographs.
Second, traditional morality is the basis of celebrity elegance.
In the troubled times of the poor and weak old society, a generation of rich people took great pains to educate their children, but in today's peaceful times, those rich people often indulge or spoil their children. It is difficult to explain the phenomenon of "being rich for three generations" in a few words, but one thing is certain, that is, abandoning tradition and being too obsessed with fame and fortune can't stand on the world.
From Huang Xuan's body, we see the light of traditional morality, but from the perspective of the inheritance of wealth, there is no "merit" (making a statement, establishing morality and making contributions), which is a failure of family education in a small point, and your enterprise may be in trouble in a big point!