<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > in the 1920s, there was a high-profile emotional dispute in China, with one of the two parties being the famous capitalist Zhang Xiao and the other being a man named Yu Jue. </h1>
The person who caused this emotional dispute was a woman named Shen Shou.
1. Extraordinary parties
Shen Shou (1874-1921), originally known as Yunzhi and Xuegong, was born in 1874 in Haihongfang, Zhangmen, Wu County, Jiangsu Province (now Suzhou), and was given the name of Empress Dowager Cixi by Shen Shou.
Shen Shou
Yu Jue (1868-1951), a native of Shaoxing, Zhejiang. Lives in Suzhou. The first name zhao xiong, the word bingchen, iceman, trumpet Si Xue, modern painter. Yu Jue was a man of the late Qing Dynasty, who worked on poetry, was good at arts and crafts, fine calligraphy, good deeds of grass, and calligraphy. In the middle of 1900, it was raised. He was later appointed As the Prime Minister of the Embroidery Section of the Ministry of Agriculture, Industry and Commerce.
Afterthought
Zhang Jian (1853–1926), courtesy name Jizhi ( ) , was born on July 1 , 1853 in Changle Town , Haimen , Tongzhou , Jiangsu Province ( now Changle Town , Haimen City , Nantong , Jiangsu Province ) as a modern Chinese industrialist , politician , and educator.
Zhang Jian
Second, love at first sight
Shen Shou's father opened a fan village at the mouth of The Cultivation Lane of Xuanmiaoguan in Suzhou, and was also a lover of antiques, calligraphy and painting. Shen Shou's family was well-off, and he showed great talent in embroidery at an early age, and at the age of seventeen or eighteen, he was already a well-known embroidery lady in the local area. The combination of Shen Yunzhi and Yu Jue was originally created in heaven and earth.
When Yu Jue was 15 years old, he moved from Shaoxing to Baihua Lane in Zhangmen. At the age of 16, during the spring tour, Yu Jue accidentally met Shen Shou and fell in love at first sight. Yu Jue looked dignified, could read and draw, but was not very articulate, and the Shen family had a good impression of Yu Jue, so they agreed to Yu Jue's courtship.
A pair of golden children and jade girls, after marriage, the two have two love strings, Qinse and Ming, Lang painted female embroidery, the name moves Jiangnan. In 1900, Yu Jue returned to Shaoxing to participate in the township examination under the name of Yu Zhaoxiong, and was promoted to a higher position, but was not appointed an official, but still returned to Suzhou to assist Shen Shoushi embroidery.
Shen Shou is an embroidery lady who devotes herself to the art of stabbing, but Yu Jue is definitely not a simple literati who can only read, he is good at dancing with wide sleeves, good at making friends with powerful people, and always waiting for an opportunity to honor his ancestors.
Yu Jue's mind was flexible, and later he found a shortcut to success. In 1903, under the planning of Yu Jue, Shen Shou made a tribute for Empress Dowager Cixi's 70th birthday. Shen Shou worked hard day and night, and finally embroidered two works, "Infinite Life Buddha" and "Eight Immortals on Shou Tu". When Empress Dowager Cixi saw this, she was overjoyed and awarded the husband and wife the fourth class medal of "Double Dragon Treasure Star" and the imperial handwritten "Blessing" and "Shou". Yu Jue was ecstatic, took the opportunity to invite favors, and changed his name to "Yu Fu", and Shen Xuejun changed his name to "Shen Shou".
Third, the gap is gradually emerging
The affirmation and praise from the royal family made Shen Shou famous in the world, and he was more proud of the spring breeze on the road of embroidery art. Since then, various international awards have been won one after another.
In 1907, the Qing court set up a women's embroidery department and invited Shen Shou to be the chief teacher.
In 1911, the World Expo in Turin, Italy, Shen Shou embroidered the "Alina Statue" for the Italian Queen, as a national gift to the Italian royal family, and the works were exquisite and exquisite, which caused a sensation throughout Italy. The empress was overjoyed beyond words, so she presented Shen Shou with a diamond gold watch inlaid with a royal badge.
Shen Shou's works
In 1915, Shen Shou took the embroidered "Head of Jesus" to the San Francisco World Expo to participate in the competition, and won the World Expo - Prize.
However, the couple's marital love has changed unconsciously during this period.
Yu Jue pays attention to the style of celebrities everywhere, eating and drinking and socializing all day long; while Shen Shou has a quiet and intellectual personality, indulges in artistic inheritance and innovation, and does not like to be ostentatious. The life of the family is all managed by Shen Shou alone, and he is extremely laborious, and the two of them inevitably have a gap in their hearts.
These are not the biggest problems between the two, and what Yu Jue feels most unhappy about is that after many years of marriage, Shen Shou has not been able to have children.
Coincidentally, in 1903, Shen Shou, who had been married for ten years, finally became pregnant with a child, and the couple was very happy. However, neither of them expected that shen shou, in order to rush to make a birthday gift for Empress Dowager Cixi, worked hard day and night, overworked, and the child was unfortunately stillborn. Shen Shou lost his fertility as a result.
In traditional society, "no filial piety has three, no posterity is greater", but Shen Shou is also a thoughtful, well-born person, so he bears great pain and pressure; Yu Jue is a person who pays attention to face, and the shadow of no queen is like a thorn hidden in the hearts of the two people, which cannot be removed but is difficult to say. Later, Yu Jue married two aunts on the grounds of passing on the inheritance of the family.
Although it was not surprising that men married concubines at that time, Shen Shou had some cleanliness in his personality, which undoubtedly led to the feelings of Shen Shou and Yu Jue becoming more distant.
At this moment, an extraordinary man broke into Shen Shou's life.
This man is Zhang Xiao, a capitalist of the famous Zhen shenzhou.
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