At eighteen she married Chao Ming-ch’eng, a student of the Imperial Academy and a well-known epigraphist. He was a native of Chu-ch’eng in Shantung Province.
It was in these confused circumstances, when the issue between the provincial government in Tsinan and the revolutionaries scattered through the province must still have seemed in doubt, that the uprising in Chu-ch’eng took place.
Her first home was in Chu-ch'eng, a city of some 80,000 persons on the south bank of the Wei River, about fifty miles from the cosmopolitan port city of Tsingtao in Shantung province.
