Qian Yonggang, the only son of Qian Xuesen, chose to join the army without going to high school, and went to college at the age of 34. What happened now?

Speaking of Qian Xuesen's story, everyone is familiar with it. He is the father of China's space flight, the king of rockets and the father of Chinese missiles. He made immortal contributions to the research and development of China's atomic bomb.

Premier Zhou negotiated and mediated for him many times, and finally let Qian Xuesen's family cross the ocean to return home. Qian Xuesen's name is known all over the world, but few people can blurt it out without thinking when talking about who Qian Yonggang is.

Qian Yonggang is the eldest son of Qian Xuesen, unlike his father, Qian Xuesen, who became famous in his teens. Qian Yonggang joined the army before graduating from high school, and didn't go to college until he was 34. How is his condition?

When I was young, Qian Yonggang and his sister Qian Yongzhen returned to China with Qian Xuesen and Jiang Ying, not as enthusiastic as their father. Qian Yonggang's young mind only vaguely knew that he was going to a strange country, which was his father's hometown. Little did he know at that time that his life would change greatly from then on.

When the roulette wheel of time quietly turned several times, the saplings soared and grew into lush leaves, and the swallows murmured countless springs. Qian Yonggang, who once couldn't speak Chinese well, gradually got used to everything in China.

Perhaps influenced by his father, he was born with close affection for China. After he returned to China with his father, he heard about it, and this feeling gradually evolved into patriotism in his heart. He is determined to do his best for the country like his father.

Qian Xuesen has his own educational methods for his son. In terms of schoolwork, he didn't blindly demand Qian Yonggang's excellent grades, and even ignored his grades. On the contrary, he encouraged and supported Qian Yonggang to read a wide range of books according to his own interests. The teacher once asked him why he only got four points (out of five), and he seriously explained that if he got five points, he would sacrifice many opportunities to read other books.

With the increasing pressure of social competition in recent years, many modern parents are looking forward to Long Zhixin more and more, and many children have been under great pressure since childhood. Often the so-called childhood is to linger in the cracks between various remedial classes and cram schools.

But under Qian Xuesen's educational idea of free development. Qian Yonggang had a very free and happy childhood, and he also developed the quality of being positive and optimistic no matter what difficulties he encountered.

Qian Xuesen attaches great importance to children's education. For example, when eating, Qian Fu always wears formal clothes to show respect for the chef at home. After understanding the profound meaning behind his father's behavior, Qian Yonggang also learned to respect everyone around him and every profession, and finally developed excellent personal qualities.

Qian Yonggang 16 years old was one of the chaotic periods since the founding of New China. At that time, the country was in turmoil and schools were in chaos, and there was no condition for people to concentrate on their studies. Qian Yonggang doesn't want to waste time in such an environment. He is eager to make contributions to his country. So with the consent of his father, he chose to give up high school and enlist in the army.

The experience of being a technician in the army made Qian Yonggang grow up rapidly. The tempering at the grassroots level has strengthened the will of money. Qian Yonggang didn't get any special treatment because of Qian Xuesen. On the contrary, because the identity of his son at that time was suppressed a lot.

In a special period, some people in the army are inexplicably sensitive and hostile to intellectuals. At that time, Qian's company wanted to develop a party member, and it usually performed well. Qian Yonggang is far superior to other soldiers in the company. He thinks this is a rare opportunity, so he works harder than usual. Obviously, when he put it on the children of a worker-peasant family, he can be rated as a five-good soldier and develop into the performance of party member, but he got nothing from Qian Yonggang.

After a year's investigation, the company still finds him unqualified. What makes Qian sad is that shortly after he was transferred to other posts, his company immediately elected people to join the party.

All this made Qian Yonggang sad and full of resentment, but he didn't tell Qian Xuesen. Qian Xuesen, an intellectual who returned from studying abroad at that time, was under great pressure.

Qian deeply felt that his current cultural level was far from enough to seek room for growth and progress. While Qian Yonggang was anxious, he was doing his job in the army, until the news of resuming the college entrance examination in 77 came, and Qian Yonggang was ecstatic.

Although the knowledge in the military culture class has been missing for many years, the work of ordinary technicians needs to keep Qian Yonggang's mathematical and physical foundation. After careful consideration, Qian Yonggang negotiated with his superiors to let him leave if he took the college entrance examination. If he fails, he will return to the grass-roots units and settle down to work.

After years of being a late bloomer, Qian Yonggang finally got lucky. From 65438 to 0978, 34-year-old Qian Yonggang was finally admitted to the Computer Department of National University of Defense Technology. 1982 After graduation, he went to California Institute of Technology to study for a master's degree in computer science.

Since then, he has been engaged in the development of computer application software systems for a long time, and served as a guest or visiting professor in many well-known schools. With his talent, he has made great contributions in the field of computer scientific research and trained a large number of outstanding high-end talents. Mencius has a good saying: "If heaven is going to be demoted to a great post, it must first suffer from its mind, its bones and muscles, its body and skin, its body, and its actions, so patience has benefited from incompetence." People say you are a late bloomer, but that's all.

If Qian Yonggang's cousin Richard W. Tsien is a world-famous neurobiologist, his cousin Qian Yongjian is even more remarkable. Together with American biologist martin chalfie and Japanese organic chemist and marine biologist Shimomura, he won the 2008 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his research on green fluorescent protein.

It is often said that if Qian Xuesen had not returned to China, Qian Yonggang's achievements would have been even greater.

Qian Yonggang smell speech just smiled. He said, "But there is no if in life. These feelings and complaints are just words. I'm fine now! I feel that my life is quite fulfilling: building museums, publishing books, filming, running classes and holding exhibitions ... I have met many new friends in the process of doing these things, and they have given me a lot of encouragement and help, which makes me feel that I have made small progress every year. "

Yes, life is an endless river without ifs.

If you can't tell when and where to turn, you will fall into another world, such as drinking water and knowing yourself. If you look back blindly and think about what you will be like now, it is a shadowless thing.

How to grasp the present, cherish the time, do something meaningful, and don't let yourself regret it. This is the most important thing. Instead of feeling sorry for yourself in the mirror, feeling that things are impermanent and falling into endless regrets and comparisons, it is better to grasp the present and live a meaningful life that you like. For Professor Qian Yonggang, who can say that his life is unhappy?