cong liangbi was the owner of the zhenye match producing company in qinghai and jinan and his sales for 1927-1928 were recorded in a survey by the chinese match union. a chinese businessman named cong liangbi in the match industry from qingdao, shandong who led the local red swastika society branch had multiple concubines besides his chinese first wife, cong jingshu (xuannan) née chi, he had a japanese concubine from the time he stayed in japan for business and another chinese concubine, cong wanying (shijian). the name of the japanese wife transliterated into pinyin was gaoqiao xingzi. she was a temporary wife and they married for a period of 10 years agreed to in a written contract which said daughters would belong to the japanese mother and sons to the chinese father. she bore 2 sons, in 1906, liumen, and in 1902, zhengmen. cong's chinese wife back home in 1904 bore a son, tongmen.