Chonghe is the youngest of the four sisters and is famous for his profound knowledge. After she married Hans Hermannt Frankel, a German-born American sinologist, she moved to Beigang, Connecticut, USA in June1949+1October. People will ask her for benefits because of problems in art, calligraphy and the history of China opera; Everyone will ask her to answer all kinds of questions that need to be explained or corrected, from the reading of calligraphy and painting inscriptions to version identification, from explaining the allusions in an ancient poem to identifying the handwriting of a18th century monarch. If older scholars pass through New England, they will definitely stop at her residence. She is quick-thinking, knowledgeable, rigorous and flexible. She often brings great happiness to people with her sharp words and puns.

When Chonghe was seven or eight years old, her sisters knew that this sister was different from them. They admit that their sister's knowledge is more solid and confident, and even her poems are more novel and original.

When she was a child, she was far away from her brothers and sisters. She was almost alone, and only had a few companions at special times. These situations will inevitably affect her working style, thinking mode and her quiet temperament.

Before she was three years old, she learned to recite Tang poems, and then she read several enlightenment books, which laid the foundation for continuing to learn the "Four Books". At the age of seven or eight, Chonghe began to learn the opposite, and later learned to write poetry. She studies for quite a long time every day, and there are few distractions. All these made her develop the habit of learning and gave her time in free fantasy.

In September the year before she was admitted to Peking University, Chonghe went to Beiping to attend her sister Zhao He's wedding. After that, she decided to stay in Beiping. Her family and friends advised her to take the college entrance examination the next summer, so she thought it might as well give it a try.

He didn't spend much time preparing for the entrance exam. The content of the exam includes four areas-Chinese, history, mathematics and English. The first two areas have laid a good foundation for her since she was six years old. She studied English in her father's school for one year, and then in Shanghai Middle School for another year. She finds this language not difficult to master. She just can't handle math. Before she was sixteen, she had never been exposed to mathematics. Suddenly, she had to face proof problems and algebraic equations. She can't see the significance of learning mathematics, and she doesn't know where to start.

That year, thousands of students came to Beiping from all over the country to compete for hundreds of places in the five best schools in the country. On the day of the exam, my family prepared compasses and rulers to fill in. "I'm useless," she said, "because I can hardly understand the topic." She got an indisputable zero in math, but a full mark in Chinese. As a result, the examination committee accepted her. In addition to filling in, the Chinese Department of Peking University only admitted one girl that year.

Chonghe's gains from studying in this prestigious school of Peking University are not as great as expected, although there are many famous teachers here: Hu Shi and Qian Mu taught the history of thought, Feng Youlan taught philosophy, Wen Yiduo taught ancient literature, and Liu Wendian taught the poems of the Six Dynasties and the Tang and Song Dynasties. However, he said that his academic performance is not ideal. At that time, many students took part in radical political activities and could not study calmly, preferring to spend their time studying opera.

Tsinghua is next to Peking University. A professional Kunqu teacher holds an informal Kunqu class once a week and attends classes with his younger brother who is studying in Tsinghua on a regular basis.

During their stay in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, Chong and Zhao He lived in a small town in the southwest. There are several outstanding figures in the literary and artistic circles in the town, but the visiting guests prefer to stay at Chonghe Zhao He's residence. Chong can play the flute, so people who play pipa and guzheng like to go to her place. Poets and calligraphers also like to gather in full rooms. They like the atmosphere here, and they also like the ink and stone platforms full of ink here. Chonghe said that even though money is tight, she still pays attention to something: "I don't like gold and silver jewelry, but pens and inkstones must be the best."

Chonghe came to the southwest because Shen Congwen helped her find a job here. Before entering the general meeting, Shen Congwen worked in a three-member textbook editorial board. After the Ministry of Education appointed him to preside over the editorial work of the literary part, he recommended his wife and sister to supplement the chapters of Sanqu. The Ministry of Education offered a letter of appointment to Kazuo, and Kazuo accepted it. It is difficult to measure the degree of He Cheng by ordinary standards. She went to Peking University, but didn't get a degree: 1936. She fell ill, was diagnosed with tuberculosis by the doctor and was forced to drop out of school. After her recovery, she worked as a supplement editor for Nanjing Central Daily for a period of time. Then the war started. In the short time since she returned to Suzhou until the war began, her talent has obviously become well known.

Chonghe didn't work long in the textbook editorial board, and the Ministry of Education cancelled the project one year later. She's not too disappointed. Of course, she needs a job, because unlike her sisters, she is single and has to make a living by herself, but she never wants to apply for a job or get married in a hurry.

At this time, many people fell at the feet of pomegranate skirt. Bian is one of them. It is well known that he loves reconciliation all his life. He wrote a lot of letters to him, even though he knew he wouldn't choose him, even after he married someone else, he insisted on writing those letters. He also collected poems and novels and published them in Hong Kong without her knowledge.

Among the suitors of reconciliation, there is also a slovenly Mr. Fang, who is an expert of Oracle Bone Inscriptions Peace. Mr. Fang also wrote letters to him, but they were all written in Oracle Bone Inscriptions, and people as knowledgeable as he could not understand them: "He wrote several letters at a time. I'm sure he must have written very well, but I can't read it. "

He likes to keep the freedom of single women, regardless of the expectations of society for married women.

During the period of 1940, the Chongqing government gave her another job, this time to serve the newly established ritual and music hall of the Ministry of Education and help the government revise the ritual and music. It is Kazuo's duty to select the music suitable for the public sacrifice ceremony from the music records of the 5th century and ask the composer to compose music. This job is very appetizing. She used to have a hard time putting up with all kinds of rituals, but now she can improve them.

It took him several months to compile and select 24 suitable movements, and carefully copied two with the best calligraphy. After the Ministry of Education approved the selected works, Chong and his colleagues immediately held an activity to solicit contemporary composers to compose this chapter. This part of the work took another two years to complete.

During this time, he made friends with two famous people: Zhang and Shen. This kind of friendship between scholars certainly stems from the common literary temperament of both sides, but beyond that, they have more similarities. They are at the same level in knowledge and there are few distractions. When they studied hard and succeeded, even entertainment became the taste of literati.

Shen, a scholar and calligrapher, later became a teacher of Chonghe. On the first visit, Shen asked her to write a few words, and then he gave the comment "A scholar learns from a scholar". To this day, he still doesn't know whether this sentence is positive or negative.

In the process of getting to know Chonghe, Shen wrote many poems to him, and Chonghe also showed him many of his own poems and listened to his suggestions on how to revise them.

At first, Shen politely called him a "female history" and later renamed him a "younger brother". Under his influence, he expanded the habit he developed when he was a child: get up early in the morning, practice calligraphy on the spot for at least three hours, and practice for longer if he has time. She kept this habit until she was eighty-eight. Her writing arm is as strong as a girl.

During her stay in Chongqing, Chonghe wrote her best poems. Two of them are about peach blossom fish. In Chonghe's mind, the peach blossom fish has multiple meanings: it is a metaphor of "volley", because it appears when the peach blossom is in full bloom and also symbolizes spring; In addition, Peach Blossom Fish is a metaphor for many paratroopers who died on sandbars in Chongqing during the war.

Other art forms that Chonghehe likes are also related to "hanging". Calligraphers should hang their wrists lightly on the desktop, with their palms empty and their fingers solid, and write freely: they can be fast and not urgent, or slow and not sluggish. Calligraphers can reach the state of "hanging" after mastering the priorities of brushstrokes and capturing the gesture of "Luan Dance" and "Longteng"-"Forget the pen in mind and the book in hand".

But the war worried her: she witnessed the death of her niece and the pain of her friends and brothers. It is not easy to turn aesthetics into reality. Sometimes, a little thing will make her feel uneasy. On one occasion, Zhang gave her a poem, comparing her to a talented woman in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. There are two lines in the poem that make her very unhappy: "Who does Wenxi live in?" Eighteen Hu Jia only feels sorry for himself. " The poem of the senior has the meaning of regretting her exile, but it offends the feelings of reconciliation. She said that Wenxi was kidnapped to the north and had to live in a foreign land, but she left her hometown because of the war. Even in the worst case, she was able to earn her own living and try her best to survive. Her sadness stems from the realization that she has left the familiar world in the past and can never go back.

During 1947, Chonghe taught calligraphy and Kunqu opera in Peking University, when she was with her sister Zhao He. In September of the same year, she met Hans Hermannt Frankel through her brother-in-law Shen Congwen and got married the following year.

Hans Hermannt Frankel was born into a German Jewish intellectual family and became an exile in wartime. His family left Germany on 1935, when he was eighteen. They stayed in England for a while and then settled in California. Han Xi holds a degree in Spanish literature and is also proficient in German, French, English and Italian literature. He came to China to take risks and challenge more difficult languages. He met Shen Congwen a few months after he arrived in China. He often talks with Shen Congwen about China's art and architecture. At that time, he was already able to speak fluent Chinese.

After returning to the United States from China, Hans studied China literature and later applied to Yale University to teach China's poetry. Chonghe once taught China's calligraphy in the Academy of Fine Arts of Yale University for many years.

A cultural composer's unique century memory has permeated her 60-year overseas migration career through the bonfire of the Anti-Japanese War and the Civil War, recording the grand occasion of many composers meeting friends by singing songs and gathering the essence of their Mo Yun. This is a commemorative album "The Claw of the Composer" (three episodes) collected by Zhang Chonghe, a famous composer and talented woman in the bookstore. The first episode includes Wu Mei, Du Cen, Lu Chaoluan and Gong before and after the Anti-Japanese War. The second episode 1949 to 1966 includes the works of Fang Guili, Hu Shi, Wang Xiang and Taiwan Province Jiang, Jiao Chengyun, Wang Jingchang, Xia Huanxin and Yuzishan. After 1966, the third album is the works of Yao,,,,, Hu Ji, Hong and Wang.

Now, according to the introduction of nearly 100 years old, Sun Kangyi recorded Qu Ren's skills, hooked the inheritance of performing arts, reproduced many wonderful scenes of the salon in that year, and made a finishing touch interpretation and guidance on Qu Zhao's inscription and picture frame. In addition, there are Zhang Jia's Old Shadow, Chronology of Zhang Chonghe and their inscriptions in the appendix for reference. Calligraphy, painting and calligraphy in the book complement each other, hoping to retain the indelible beauty, joy and many family moments in Zhang Chonghe Qu Ren's life. Although the second child Yunhe is a woman, she has an open and stubborn heroic feeling of hating evil. Yunhe didn't like love stories in the theater when he was a child. She likes those brave and fierce heroes, and Guan Gong is her favorite among them. Yunhe was "skinny" since childhood, but she made up for her physical defects by relying on her own boldness. Learning Kunqu opera from an early age, let her "perform in front of hundreds of people, and I am not afraid of stage fright and mistakes." Yunhe is good at speaking in public. In Le Yi Girls' School, Yunhe was fascinated by geometric concepts and mathematical reasoning. She is "quick in hand and quick in eye", full of energy and eloquent. She also came into contact with philosophy, biology, contemporary politics and sports activities at school, and helped her out of the haze through study, and finally got a bachelor's degree in history. Yunhe is the first of the sisters to get married. She married Zhou Youguang, a linguist, but the war made her suffer a lot. From the autumn of 1937 to the end of the Anti-Japanese War, she experienced at least "ten big moves and twenty small moves". 194 1 may, a family fled and lived in the suburbs of Chongqing. My daughter suddenly got appendicitis. Zhou Youguang is on a business trip because he can't find a doctor. She can only watch her children die slowly. A year and a half later, her son was suddenly hit by a stray bullet. The bullet went through his waist and made six holes in his internal organs. At this time, the husband is running away again. Yunhe's description of married life is: "Most crises are always reserved for women." This is not a complaint, just telling the truth. After liberation, Yunhe worked as a history teacher in a high school in Shanghai. She teaches, studies and strives to enrich herself. She wrote a long article of more than 20,000 words about how to revise history textbooks and sent it to Beijing. Soon, some of her views appeared in a long editorial in People's Daily. Yunhe advocates adding more historical events and figures in the history of science and technology and the history of science, and incorporating the development of literature and philosophy into history teaching; Yunhe also called on history teaching to be more flexible and appropriate, and to introduce the contents of ethnic minorities. Senior editors of People's Education Publishing House read this editorial and appreciated her views, so they hired Yunhe to help them edit middle school history textbooks. Yunhe is very excited about this new job and feels that he has "started a brand-new career". But not long after, Yunhe decided to retire. Although she is interested in teaching history and compiling history textbooks, she is too straightforward, too vulnerable to attack and too stubborn to give up her principles, so she finally chose to be a housewife. During the period of 1956- 1964, Yunhe served as the contact leader of Beijing Kunqu Opera Research Association, and this research was supported by the Ministry of Culture. Together with Zhang of Kunqu Opera Studio, she compiled the character spectrum of six plays, contacted the big and small affairs, and arranged performances for the learning society, but never received money from the unit. Her work is completely voluntary, and she is as diligent as others. After the rough years and the storm of life, it is a miracle that Yunhe lived to be over 90 years old without leaving any emotional or physical trauma.