This day, 12 April, in 1847, Rong Hong arrived in New York, USA, to study. Rong (1828-1912), a Cantonese born into a poor peasant family, studied in a church primary school in Macau and the Morrison church school in Hong Kong. In the US, Rong attended Yale University and received a bachelor’s degree in 1854, becoming the very first Chinese student to graduate in the US.
这一天，即1847年4月12日，荣红抵达美国纽约学习。 荣（1828-1912）是广东人，出生于一个贫穷的农民家庭，就读于澳门的一所教会小学和香港的莫里森教会学校。 在美国，Rong就读于耶鲁大学，并于1854年获得学士学位，成为第一位在美国毕业的中国学生。
