page_title: Liao Chongzhen
section_title: Family life
hierarchical_section_title: Liao Chongzhen / Family life
caption_attribution_description: English: Liao Chong Zhen with wife and son
context_page_description: Liao Chongzhen, was a Chinese government official and president of the College of Agriculture at Sun Yat-sen University. He witnessed the establishment of the Republic of China and Sun Yat-sen and other revolutionary held meetings at his father's home. Liao's family played an instrumental role in the modernisation of education in China. He was appointed to Director of the Department of Sericulture under the Kuomintang, achieving a great improvement of agriculture through Guangdong province. Many dams. bridges and irrigation canals in Guangdong province were named by him. During his lifetime he was also a prominent member of the Bahá'í Faith doing many translations from Bahá'u'lláh's and 'Abdu'l-Bahá's writings into Chinese.
context_section_description: Liao Chongzhen married Sun Li Shu 孫麗淑 in 1931. 
  A couple of years later they had their first child, a son, and they called him Da Tong 大同 (alternative spelling Tai Tung). Da Tong was how the Bahá’í Faith was called in China in those days. 
  This marriage produced four other children: Da Ming 大明, Da Hua 大華, Da Wai 大偉 and Da Wen 大文.
caption: Liao Chongzhen with wife and son
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