Visiting Zheng Zhemin's old residence in Ji'nan: when father was young, he could not learn to do business.
source: Qilu network
1924, Zheng Zhemin was born in Ji'nan, father Zheng Zhangfei is the founder of the Ji'nan Hendry Watch Company (Qilu network reporter Yu Peng / Yu Peng)
[b] Qilu net January 18th Ji'nan news [/b] (reporter Yu Peng probationer Li Jin) explosive force scientist Zheng Zhemin won the national highest science and Technology Award in 2012. Reporters learned that Zheng Zhemin, who was born in Ji'nan in 1924, was born in the "Hendry watch and clock line" of the old commercial port in Ji'nan.
90 years later, Qilu network reporter once again came to Hendry watch company through two Weiyi Road, hoping to understand Zheng Zhemin's childhood story.
[b] was born in Ji'nan, the father of Ji'nan, a watch tycoon [/b]
1924, Zheng Zhemin was born in Ji'nan, and father Zheng Zhangfei was the founder of Ji'nan Hendry watch company.
Zheng Zhangfei is a native of Zhejiang Yin County, who has only been a private school for several years. After adulthood, he entered Shanghai, Hendry as an apprentice and became a master of table keeping. Zheng Zhangfei was honest and business minded. So he was sent to Ji'nan to set up a semicolon in 1917.
Zheng Zhangfei lived in Ji'nan for 20 years. At the beginning of 1918, the Hendry watch shop opened in the east end of two Rd road in Ji'nan. It was the east of Hendry. In 1923, Zheng Zhangfei set up a New York watch and clock shop in Puli men lane. In the following year, the the Atlantic watch and clock shop was set up in the northeast corner of two weft four road. In 1932, Zheng Zhangfei started building a three storey building opposite the clock shop in the Atlantic, and opened in 1934. It is for Hendry Xi. During his stay in Ji'nan, Zheng Zhangfei also created several Hendry semicolons in Qingdao, Jining and Tai'an.
[b], the second son of the family, was born in 1924 in Ji'nan, Shandong, and was born in 1924 in Ji'nan. In an interview with people's pictorial, Zheng Zhemin recalled his childhood in Ji'nan.
the naughty Zheng Zhemin, a young man, was not in the mind of reading, playing a pranks, and even starting a "small parade" for his younger brother and sister just because he was dissatisfied with the feminization of a male chap in his father's shop.
Zheng Zhemin never forgot. When he was 8 years old, his father told him that business was looked down upon by others. Later, don't take the road of doing business. You should study hard. In Zheng Zhemin's impression, his father was upright and good, advocating culture and determined not to cultivate a successor in his children. Under the influence of the family, Zheng Zhemin and his brothers and sisters in the family were all upright and eager to learn.
although Zheng Zhemin was growing up in an era of war and chaos, he had a bad heart, his school experience had been interrupted many times by war or illness, but his studies had never been abandoned because of his father's attention to the education of his children. Even during the rest of the school, his father asked Zheng Zhemin to come to a tutor and make up a class for him. In addition, he took him to the country to travel more, to broaden his horizon, to buy him the book of Zeng Guofan, to teach him to learn how to do things, to read English aloud, so that he could gradually use the original English book and self study mathematics. Physics and other courses.
Zheng Zhemin said that these past events had affected his whole life and formed his habit of studying and asking questions.
[b] revisited Hendry's story. Little is known about [/b]
Zheng Zhangfei's Hendry watch in Ji'nan was located on the two latitude four road in Ji'nan. Hendry's watch shop in Ji'nan was a household name. 18 morning, Qilu network reporter came here, three layers of old buildings in the surrounding high-rise buildings against the background, it looks old and lonely.
reporters asked the clerk if they knew "Zheng Zhemin" and founder Zheng Zhangfei. No one can understand Zheng Zhemin's story in Hendry's Watch glasses company of two Wei Yi Road.
the chairman of the Hendry watch and watch company told the reporter, "Mr. Zheng Zhemin and the hall of the Hengdali watch shop on the way to two and four are the same years, both in 1924. After studying in Ji'nan, Zheng Zhemin went to study abroad. He went to the Southwest Associated University in Kunming and later went to Tsinghua University.
"now, most of the people who understand this history are not connected."