Let's talk about Wu Zetian first

Anyone who has read the history of China knows that Wu Zetian, the female emperor of the Tang Dynasty, was listed as a noble family in order to crack down on the gentry, raise the cloth and make herself from humble origins squeeze into orthodoxy. She openly changed the genealogy of the early Tang dynasty to the family name spectrum, and Wu Shi ranked first from then on. Tampering with or covering up historical facts, whether about a country or an individual, is abhorrent.

The beginning of the problem

Wu Zetian's revision of Genealogy is the work of the lower class, but it must be instructed by the upper class, which is the purpose of the upper class. Since ancient times, countless flatterers have erected monuments for the venerable, and even written books to catch knives for the people, distorting the facts, and those who catch knives are complacent, and those who hire people to catch knives are self-righteous. At that time, Tao Xisheng grabbed the sword for Chiang Kai-shek and wrote the fate of China. Today, some people write memoirs for someone, and their tone is the same. They are ghosts.

1994, China Press Group, a newspaper holding company in Singapore, published "Lee Kuan Yew-Photo Biography" (hereinafter referred to as "Photo Album"). On page 7, there is a portrait of a man dressed in the imperial costume of the Qing Dynasty, which is said to be Lee Kuan Yew's great-grandfather Li Muwen. There are several paragraphs in the explanation on page 8:

On the living room wall of his residence at No.38 Owsley Road, there is a huge portrait of his great-grandfather Li Muwen. Li Muwen lives in Tangxi Village, Dangxi Township, dapu county City, Guangdong Province, China. /kloc-When he was 0/6 years old, he went to sea alone and crossed the ocean to make a living in Singapore.

Li Muwen handed down his second sons Yunlong and Stegosaurus. After earning some money in Singapore, he returned to his hometown in China alone and donated some money to the court. Won the official system of calligraphy in China in Qing Dynasty, with seven titles of official worship.

His wife and children stayed in Singapore, and his eldest son Yunlong handed down two men and three women. Jin Kun, Yunlong's eldest son, is Lee Kuan Yew's father. Jin Kun worked as a warehouse manager in Shell Oil Company when he was young, and later he was promoted to the position of oil storage supervisor. After retirement, he worked as a salesman in a watch and jewelry company.

On pages 8 and 9 of this album, there are photos of Lee Kuan Yew's grandfather Li Yunlong and grandmother Qiu Nianniang.

On the 10 and 1 1 pages of the album, there is a photo of the above-mentioned Li Yunlong and Qiu Nianniang sitting, with a boy standing behind them and another boy sitting between two adults. Two other girls stood beside them, and the other stood in the middle. There are always three boys, three girls and six girls in the photo. The caption of this photo is "Li Yunlong's family portrait, and the second from the right is Lee Kuan Yew's father Li Jinkun."

If this photo is a "family portrait", if "his eldest son Yunlong handed down two men and three women" as mentioned on page 8, why is there a boy in the photo?

Page 8 Li Yunlong's standing portrait is taken from Song Wangxiang's One Hundred Years of Chinese Singaporeans, and Qiu Nianniang's sitting portrait is taken from Family Portrait. Li Yunlong's standing image is not clear in A Hundred Years' History of Chinese Singaporeans, but it can be seen in Album that it has been obviously decorated.

What is interesting, however, is that there is a photo of Li Yunlong's daughter, Li Chuxin, next to the photo of Li Yunlong in A Hundred Years' History of Chinese Singaporeans. None of the people in the photo are similar to the three girls in the "family portrait", and they are far apart from each other.

Entrance problem

Is Li Zhuniang Li Yunlong's daughter? Please read the introduction of "A Hundred Years History of Chinese in Singapore":

19 12, He (Zhou Runxiang) sold the shipping business to Chinese Huang in Semarang. Hanzhong Xierongmao was changed into a limited liability company called Xierongmao Steamship Co., Ltd. ... Now the director of Xierongmao Steamship Co., Ltd. is Mr. Li Yunlong, who was born in Singapore on 1873 and was educated at Raffles College. He is the father of Dr. Li Zhuniang, the first China woman on both sides of the Taiwan Strait to obtain a doctorate from a local medical school.

From this point of view, Zhu Niang Li is indeed a daughter, and probably an only child, without male descendants. The Centennial History of Chinese in Singapore further introduces Li Zhuniang in detail:

Dr. Li Zhuniang was born in 1895. At first, she studied in Singapore Chinese Girls' School, and then transferred to Raffles Girls' School for three years. 19 1 1 was awarded the Advanced Cambridge Certificate in, becoming the first China woman on both sides of the Taiwan Straits to receive this honor. 19 12 entered the medical school, and 19 19 got the diploma. She is the first woman to get a doctorate from this school. She works as a female assistant surgeon in the central government and is responsible for the management of local women's wards (secondary and tertiary).

Li Zhuniang also knows how to direct and direct plays. "A Hundred Years' History of Chinese in Singapore" wrote:

In order to help the China Red Cross to raise funds, the Chinese Sports Association of the Straits held a performance at the Victoria Theatre on March 7th. ..... The first part of the performance is a one-act drama called "After the Battle", which describes the work of the Red Cross staff on the battlefield. Mr. Liu Guixiu created this one-act play. ..... The second is a three-act comedy, with Mustafa performing in Malay. The film is co-directed by Miss Li Chu Neo and Mr. Liu Guixiu.

Please pay attention to the above introduction. Li Zhuniang and her drama raise money for the Shanghai Red Cross1913; 19 19 qualified as a doctor. Lee Kuan Yew's father Li Jinkun was born in 1903. Li Jinkun on pages 10 and 1 1 in the photo album looks sixteen or seventeen. It's time for Li Zhuniang to graduate. But why isn't Li Zhuniang in the photo? Are those six boys and girls Li Zhuniang's siblings?

The escalation of the problem

According to the album and A Hundred Years' History of Chinese in Singapore, the English names of Li Muwen, Li Yunlong, Qiu Nianniang, Li Zhuniang and Li Jinkun are not based on the pinyin of Hakka dialect, but on the pinyin of Fujian dialect. Whether Li Muwen and Li Yunlong are Hakkas is worth studying.

According to the photo album, Li Muwen is a Hakka in Dangxi Township, dapu county, Guangdong Province. Why did he start with the name Pinyin in Fujian dialect?

Li Muwen's English name is Lee Bok Boon, and Li Yunlong is Lee Hoon Leong. According to the pinyin of Hakka dialect, Li Muwen should be Li Mukven and Li Yunlong should be Li Wenliang. In an era when gangs are strictly divided, you will never name yourself with another gang's pinyin. In addition, Qiu Nianniang's Ko Liem Nio, Li Jinkun's Li Zhenkun and even Li Zhuniang's Li Chu Neo all have Fujian dialect names.

Li Muwen's English name is not recorded, but "Dangxi Township, dapu county City, Guangdong Province" does exist. The English name "Lee Bok Boon" must have been given to Li Muwen by Lee Kuan Yew after he became famous, but the flatterer didn't understand Hakka, so he took it for granted, so it was an own goal.

Because Li Muwen had been to Nanyang and had a son named Yunlong, Li Muwen was promoted to the status of Lee Kuan Yew's great-grandfather, and his son Li Yunlong became Lee Kuan Yew's grandfather.

In fact, Li Zhuniang, the English phonetic symbol of Li surname in Fujian dialect, is not in the photo, but there are three men and three women in the photo instead of two men and three women, which are worth uncovering.

Historical review

For example, Singaporeans aged 60 or 70 this year recall a little that when Li Xingke wrote an editorial, he used the word "forgetting his ancestors" and did not name and accuse those who sabotaged Chinese education. Probably it was the complaint of the so-called "third force" secretary of the Prime Minister's Office, Li, who formed a personal vendetta, was accused of chauvinism, was arrested and imprisoned, and was exiled.

Blue sky, the late president of the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce, once joined a right-wing party to confront Lee Kuan Yew. Lee Kuan Yew once said that he was from Tai Po, and Blue Sky angrily said that he was not from Tai Po, but from Meixian County, and Blue Sky itself was from Tai Po.

Unofficial history's conversation

Li Xingke's remarks about "forgetting one's ancestors" made Lee Kuan Yew sleepless. He wouldn't have understood the meaning of this sentence if he hadn't encouraged the idle literati. Lantian alleged that Lee Kuan Yew was not from Tai Po, but from Meixian, which was an angry remark and a fact.

Unofficial history has no evidence, and the elders in the countryside speak. In addition to the ghost fox, it is nothing more than a gathering trail after a meal. According to the Hakkas, Lee Kuan Yew's ancestors did live in Li Yunlong, but not in Li Yunlong.

It is said that Lee Kuan Yew's grandparents are from Meixian County, Guangdong Province, and his grandfather's name is gone. After coming to the south, they lived in Ipoh Perak. His grandfather is a tin miner in Ipoh, and his grandmother is a female worker who washes Liulang. They have a pair of boys, the older one is Zhilian and the younger one is Zhikun.

His grandfather died unfortunately, leaving orphans and widows to live alone. At this time, his grandfather, a friend of the Tai Po nationality, saw this scene and took care of the mother and son automatically, so the man became a parent. The Meixian people in this area mainly see Tai Po people entering the house, and the two children are no different from Tai Po people. They don't want to send Zhilian back to her hometown Meixian to study and return to her mother a few years later. Soon, Tai Po people also died unfortunately, and lost their husbands for the second time. My grandmother was so sad that she came to Malacca with her two children.

In Malacca, Li Yunlong, a Fujian native, took in his mother and son and brought them to Singapore. In Singapore, his second son, Zhi Kun, went to an English school. Li Yunlong renamed them Li Jinlian and Li Jinkun.

The two boys standing in the photo albums 10 and 1 1 hinge are Li Jinlian and Li Jinkun, not Li Yunlong's own. Another boy and three girls were born to his grandmother and Li Yunlong.

Li Jinlian returned to China for several years, studied Chinese for several years, and then didn't go to school. Carpenter Li Jinlian used to live seven miles from Buji Road, and his family had no contact with Li Jinkun and Lee Kuan Yew's family.

Why did Li Yunlong take in his grandmother? According to Li Zhuniang, she is not in the photo, probably because her wife died and she remarried. When she got married, she had no children and regarded Li Jinlian and Li Jinkun as her own children. Li Yunlong's actions are enough to show that he is an open-minded person. Because of remarriage and another family, Li Zhuniang has become independent, so it is normal not to have her in the photo.

Lee Kuan Yew's grandmother, an old-fashioned woman with strong endurance, remarried for the second time in order to raise her children, which is not only understandable, but also commendable.

As for Lee Kuan Yew's father, Li Jinkun, he is not a salesman of a watch and jewelry company, let alone a manager of a watch and jewelry company. Li Jinkun is self-reliant, and has been selling old watches for many years. Every day, he carries a small suitcase with many old watches in it. His activity area is Xiaopo, mainly in the coffee shop next to the workshops in New World, Fire City and Esay Yawei Road. People who have lived in the above areas believe that they still remember his appearance, a man who is silent and sells watches.

Who is Lee Kuan Yew's grandfather? Its name can no longer be verified. Li Yunlong said, this amount is only my grandfather's. If his grandmother's name is really Qiu Nianniang, then his ancestors still have this reliable basis.

Who is the initiator who said that Lee Kuan Yew's grandfather was Li Yunlong without clarifying the truth? We can find evidence from the publications of some Hakka guilds and former enlightenment schools.

The most aggrieved is Li Muwen of Dangxi Township, dapu county City, Guangdong Province, who became someone else's great-grandfather for no reason. Some people sent his portrait to No.38 Owsley Road and hung it on the living room wall. However, in the 1950s and 1960s, this portrait often appeared in the stalls of the flea market in Shuangxi Road, Singapore. It can be said that these portraits are the narcissism of those who think their ancestors are high officials and nobles.

truth

From what has been said above, we can draw the following truths:

1 The name of Lee Kuan Yew's great-grandfather cannot be verified.

Li Muwen is not Lee Kuan Yew's great grandfather.

Li Yunlong, a native of Fujian, is the adoptive father of Lee Kuan Yew's father.

Li Muwen has a son named Li Yunlong, but he is not the adoptive father of Lee Kuan Yew's father.

Li Yunlong is not Lee Kuan Yew's real grandfather.

The name of Lee Kuan Yew's grandfather no longer exists.

Li Yunlong is from Fujian, not a Hakka.

Li Yunlong's family can also speak Minnan dialect, so Lee Kuan Yew knows some Minnan dialect since he was a child, but he doesn't know Hakka dialect.

9 Lee Kuan Yew's ancestors were from Meixian County.

10 Lee Kuan Yew also has half-brothers, grandparents and relatives.

End of movement

In the "My Family" part of his memoir, Lee Kuan Yew never talks about his grandparents, which shows that he is self-aware, because he is vague about his grandparents' behavior. At least for Li Yunlong, he knows whether he is his real grandfather. When Lantian said that he was not from Tai Po, he was so confused that he didn't even know where his ancestors came from, and Li Xingke also said that he was a "two-year-old boy who forgot his ancestors", which made him fall into a desperate situation of unknown origin, which made him even more angry. What happened to his ancestors became his heart disease, which lingered for many years. Many flatterers explained it for him, but he still refused to accept it at will. This, of course, means that Li Muwen is his great-grandfather and Li Yunlong is his grandfather. Therefore, in his memoirs, he particularly emphasized his brothers and sisters, and he was self-centered. He believed that Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore took root and blossomed from his branches, and a real new beginning was born. Even his father who was "born to play around" (in Lee Kuan Yew's words) was excluded and not included.

However, if there is a portrait of Li Muwen hanging on the wall at No.38 Owsley Road, it shows that he knows that he didn't fall from a stone or from the sky, and he is still confused. His heart disease can't be solved, and he will never be solved, because he absolutely refuses to admit that Li Yunlong is his father's adoptive father, but he is trapped in blood relationship and becomes confused by rootless descendants. Lee Kuan Yew does not understand the truth that "there are no descendants in the family", nor does he know that the issue of Qin Shihuang's biological mother is still controversial. This is because he is not influenced by China culture. On the small island of Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew was troubled by the problems of his ancestors.