Pang Huancai 庞焕彩

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庞焕彩（姓氏确定；名字汉字待家族确认）— 周丽婕的曾祖母，周茂礼之妻，育有三子女：周兆祥（周丽婕之祖父）、周兆帧、周秀珍。1908年生于胶州，1992年4月6日卒于青岛 — 丈夫周茂礼于1935年早逝，她此后独自守家逾半个世纪。她伴这一代经历了二十世纪中叶山东省的政治动荡岁月。娘家庞氏事迹尚待补全。

守寡持家 — 据周玲手记

2026年8月，Lijie之父周玲手书两页回忆，其中记下了这位祖母的一生。

丈夫去世时，她独自抚养三个孩子，又没有工作。幼子周兆帧才一岁多，长子周兆祥与女儿周秀珍只得去当学徒工挣钱养家。

“我听爸爸说奶奶经常去菜市场捡菜叶或捡人不要的蔬菜来家吃维持生活。”

三个孩子中，唯有幼子读到大学毕业。 1966年他毕业于青岛医学院，本已定下留校，文革一起名单作废；延宕一年后，1967年秋被分配到山东最北、黄河以北的阳信县，一去二十四年。（最初分配的是宁夏的乡镇医院，他与同学对换才改去山东；详见其页。）

她等了几十年。 晚年全家皆在青岛，独他一人在外。整天叨念，常年流泪，眼睛也看不见了。

“她说她惟一的心事就是想让叔叔回到青岛来。”

叔叔自己托人办理调动多年，始终未成。

她等到了 — 1991年

2026年9月，周玲在青岛延安三路109号的饭桌上口述了后续：最后是他这个孙子办成的。 他动用自己的关系，把叔叔、婶婶与三个女儿一并迁回青岛。

1991年，全家自阳信迁回。 她于1992年4月6日去世，在此约一年之后。丽婕转述她父亲的话：她是高兴的。

她用别人丢下的菜叶养大三个孩子，供出一个大学生；国家把他调走，她哭到看不见，临了到底把他等回来了，还等到了一年。

录音中说她在全家迁回后“三十天左右”去世，丽婕其后更正为一年。1991年这个年份由叔叔的幼女周亮于2026年9月提供。

注：除姓氏外人名汉字为推测，待家族确认。

日期存疑：手记称丈夫去世时她“四十岁”、幼子“一岁多”，与档案所记周茂礼卒于1935年、周兆帧生于1938年三者不能相容。详见手记页。

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English

Pang Huancai is the mother of the three Zhou siblings — Zhaoxiang, Zhaozheng, and Xiuzhen — and the one who raised that generation through the upheaval years of mid-20th-century Shandong. The family tree records her as born in 1908 in Jiaozhou and dying 6 April 1992 in Qingdao, decades after her husband Maoli. Her own Pang-family origin is not yet recorded here.

Widowed, and what she did about it

In August 2026 her grandson Zhou Ling — Lijie’s father — wrote out two pages by hand about this household. It is the only substantial account of her in the archive.

When her husband died she was left with three children and no work of her own. The youngest, Zhaozheng, was just over a year old. Her eldest son Zhaoxiang and her daughter Xiuzhen were sent out as apprentice workers to bring money in.

“My father told me that my grandmother would often go to the vegetable market to pick up cabbage leaves, or vegetables other people had thrown away, and bring them home to eat so the family could get by.”

One of the three got an education, and it was the baby. Zhaozheng graduated from Qingdao Medical College in 1966 with a retained post at the college already confirmed — a job in her city — and the Cultural Revolution scrapped the list. After a year in limbo he was sent, in autumn 1967, to Yangxin County in the far north of Shandong, beyond the Yellow River. He was there twenty-four years. (The posting he was originally given was a township hospital in Ningxia; he traded it with a classmate for Shandong. See his page.)

Her one remaining wish

Everyone else was in Qingdao. She grew old talking about it every day.

“Missing her youngest son, she cried often, and her eyes failed until she could no longer see. She said the one thing still on her mind was to have my uncle come back to Qingdao.”

Her son spent years asking people to arrange the transfer, and it never came through — her grandson went with him to deliver gifts to the officials handling it.

She got him back — 1991

In September 2026, at a dinner table in Qingdao, Zhou Ling told the rest of it: the grandson got it done. He worked his own connections until the transfer went through, and his uncle, his uncle’s wife and their three daughters moved back to Qingdao.

The family came home in 1991. She died on 6 April 1992, about a year later. As Lijie translated her father: “So she felt she — she does happy.”

The woman who fed three children on other people’s discarded vegetables got one of them through medical school, then spent most of the rest of her life unable to get him back into the same city. She got him back, and she got a year of it.

The recording puts her death about thirty days after the family’s return; Lijie corrected this afterwards to a year, which fits the 1991 arrival her granddaughter Zhou Liang confirmed against the recorded death date of 6 April 1992.

Note: Chinese characters for given names other than the surname are provisional, pending family confirmation.

A date problem: the recollection says she was forty when her husband died and the youngest was just over one, which cannot be squared with the archive’s Maoli d. 1935 and Zhaozheng b. 1938. See the recollection page.