The Penghu Reform Law was a political event that could not be ignored at the end of the Qing Dynasty, and the Guangxu Emperor wanted to make the Qing Dynasty stronger through China's "Meiji Restoration", but unfortunately the end made us helpless. But when it comes to the Pengshu Reform Law, we can't help but think of Kang Youwei, a big man. He wrote on the bus, launched the Restoration Movement, and received a response from many young people in the society at that time. Although the reform failed, the image of Kang Youwei in history textbooks is still relatively positive.
The reform of the law was carried out for only 100 days, and because the process of changing the law itself was relatively radical and was opposed by Empress Dowager Cixi, the results of the change were eventually snuffed out, thus sacrificing many reformers. Kang Youwei got the wind early and fled to the Japanese island. For more than 20 years, he has been afraid to return to Japan and the United States. We do not have a deep understanding of Kang Youwei's personal life, in fact, Kang Youwei is abroad, with his own unique identity, living a relatively dashing life.
Due to western influence, Kang Youwei was one of the early late Qing celebrities who proposed monogamy, but the funny thing is that his later life was more absurd, and even made him late, he married five aunts and wives, and what is more embarrassing is that he specially selected underage women, one of whom was a Japanese woman.
First of all, let's talk about Kang Youwei's origins, he is the son of a middle-class family, his grandfather and father are small local officials in Guangdong, and they don't have to worry about eating and drinking. This also became a sufficient condition for him to be able to study in Hong Kong and to have the opportunity to study bourgeois thought. Born in such a family, according to tradition, betrothal cannot be avoided. The object of the betrothed is called Zhang Yunzhu, Kang Youwei is 3 years younger than Zhang Yunzhu, although the female junior holds a gold brick, but the feelings of Kang Youwei and his wife are very general, although the woman is influenced by feudal thought, she has to support the man's career. But the two only stayed in the stage of mutual respect.
Later, Kang Youwei became a famous scholar, specializing in the study and teaching of Western studies, with hundreds of students and a high reputation. He took the first concubine, this concubine named Liang Suijue, the age of 18, the age difference between the two is 20 years, but the love is added, it is really this second aunt, in Kang Youwei's most difficult time, accompany him to the east to japan, living a wandering life. The second aunt originally thought that she and Kang Youwei would snuggle with each other for the second half of their lives, and no matter how difficult the life was, they would join hands to grow old. However, Kang Youwei later went to the United States to organize Chinese Americans to listen to his speech, and the 47-year-old Kang Youwei, with his unique scholarly charm, deeply fascinated a 17-year-old Chinese woman. This woman's name is He Xuli, upright cardamom age, and first-class knowledge, Kang Youwei faced her embrace, did not refuse. In this way, Kang Youwei had his own third aunt.
Later Kang Youwei returned to Japan, the family hired a 16-year-old Japanese maid, this woman named Ichioka Tsuruko, the family is poor, had to come to work as a maid, usually wash and cook, etc., Kang Youwei at first took care of her as an elder, the love Dou dou at the beginning of the Ichioka Tsuruko had feelings for this elegant elder, soon had a relationship, and later had to marry Kang Youwei. So Kang Youwei had his fourth aunt.
Then, the elderly Kang Youwei's private life gradually became absurd, and at the age of 58, he fell in love with a 17-year-old girl named Liao Dingzheng, who insisted on marrying home as an aunt, and the other wives could not stop it, and only agreed.
During Kang Youwei's flight, the Qing government poked his ancestral grave, and as a repeat offender, Kang You did not dare to return to China. In the early years of the Republic of China, he ended his life of drifting and returned to the land of China. In Hangzhou's West Lake, this late Qing scholar who was over sixty years old, in the hazy evening of smoke and rain, looked at the miaoling girl on the fishing boat, he stared at the girl for a long time, and after returning for two days without eating or sleeping, the family was helpless, only to find out that the girl's name was Zhang Guang, under 17 years old, and she made a living by fishing with her father. Kang Youwei's family used a lot of local network resources, and spent a lot of continuity, and finally the other party agreed to marry an old man who was over the age of flower armor, which was Kang Youwei's 6 aunts.
For Kang Youwei, the Pengshu Reform Method is his greatest stroke. However, standing in the old society and having new ideas, his practice has been spurned by many future generations. In his later years, Kang Youwei insisted on defending the emperor and added more flaws to himself. After Kang Youwei's death, his five aunts and wives each left home, and only the fisherman girl who finally entered the door stayed in the old mansion, never married, and died before liberation.
What do you think about Kang Youwei?