Ye Shengtao is a famous writer and educator in modern China. Born in the late Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the People's Republic, he received a new education and underwent the baptism of new ideas, and was a new youth.
When he graduated from high school at the age of 18, he became an elementary school teacher.
Ye Shengtao
However, it was such a progressive young man, but under the old "order of his parents and the words of the matchmaker", he did not even meet the woman's face and agreed to his marriage.
Ye Shengtao's wife was named Hu Molin. Born in 1893, she was a year older than Ye Shengtao, and her parents died at an early age, and she was raised by her aunt Hu Zhengzi, who regarded her as her own.
The young Hu Molin was taken to Beijing by his aunt to study, entered the Beijing Women's Normal School for education, and naturally became a teacher after graduation.
The niece grew up, and when she reached the age of talking about marriage, Hu Zhengzi, who was an aunt, naturally opened up, allowing the child to start a family as soon as possible, and also as soon as possible to meet the wishes of Hu Molin's parents.
That being said, Hu Zhengzi did not have any ambiguity about Hu Molin's marriage. She thought about finding a ruyi langjun for her niece.
One day in February 1912, Hu Zhengzi attended a wedding. There are two words in the eye-catching position of the new house, as if the clouds flowing, which attracted her attention.
Wedding anniversary souvenir
As the saying goes, "words are like people", those who can write well should have received a better education and be a cultural person. Hu Zhengzi inquired around and learned that the person who wrote the letter was ye Shengtao.
Coincidentally, Ye Shengtao, as the groom's classmate and friend, also attended the wedding banquet on the same day.
Hu Zhengzi not only took a liking to Ye Shengtao's characters at a glance, but also at a glance at the elegant writers.
After inquiring, Ye Shengtao did not marry a relative. Hu Zhengzi was secretly happy, two marriageable young people, the man was unmarried, the woman was not married, it was really a match made in heaven.
Acting decisively, she immediately found Ye Shengtao's classmate Wang Boxiang and asked him to connect the two people to be the "Red Lady".
With their own ability to make a good brother off the list, who will refuse? Wang Boxiang agreed.
Wang Boxiang, a positive classmate, soon came to the Ye family and told Ye Shengtao's father, Ye Zhongji, about the matter.
Knowing that Hu Molin had received a new education, had no parents since childhood, and was raised by his aunt, the Ye family's parents were very satisfied, and after exchanging photos, the two people's affairs were quickly settled.
Ye Shengtao himself happily agreed to this marriage, because the seven words "the woman is a new woman"
The year was 1912.
After marriage, he and the Hu family are relatives
In 1916, Ye Shengtao and Hu Molin married. From 1912 to 1916, in four years, two progressive young people, perhaps too Buddhist, or concerned about traditional ideas, neither met nor passed the letter, so tacitly became two people.
Interestingly, Ye Shengtao personally set the date for August 19, the day before, his new wife had just celebrated her birthday.
Two newcomers with the same background are quite happy in life.
However, the good times were not long, soon after the new marriage, the new semester came, one of the husband and wife taught in Suzhou, the other was a teacher in Nantong, began a life in a different place, and also began to taste the pain of lovesickness.
Since then, the two have been writing letters continuously, coming to Suzhou and Nantong, which lasted for more than three years, and three years later, Hu Molin came to Suzhou and the family was reunited.
Many years later, Ye Shengtao wrote: "At that time, everyone was a teacher, scattered in two places, one after another letters met in the middle of the way, and writing letters and other letters became two major things that were entrenched in the heart.
After getting married, the two found that they were like-minded with each other, there was always an endless topic to talk about, and with the birth of the three children", "the most beautiful" and "the most sincere", the feelings of the two people became deeper and deeper.
Ye Shengtao and his children
In the year that his daughter Ye Zhimei was born, Ye Shengtao had just arrived in Beijing and signed a two-year letter of appointment from Peking University.
But because his wife was immediately in the basin, he was anxious and uneasy, he called his friends to come to the substitute class, left the writing class and students who had only been in the school for a month, and took leave to go home to take care of his wife who was about to give birth.
If the eldest son's best little name is called "Xiao Mo", pouring out his father's deep attachment to his mother, then the eldest daughter Zhimei is a collection of thousands of pets, Ye Shengtao even picked up needle and thread, personally sewed a dress for his daughter, and even the third elder sincerely complained that he did not have a brother and sister to be treated.
However, from the open-minded and loose personality of the third prince, it can be seen that Ye Shengtao Hu Molin and his wife are carefully cultivated and treat their children equally.
From this point of view, to paraphrase the current buzzword, Ye Shengtao and Hu Molin are really appropriate "first get married and then fall in love".
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, their lives were torn apart by the war, their daily necessities were all destroyed by artillery fire, and the family often did not have enough to eat.
As a housewife, Hu Molin showed her style of a woman in the new era.
In 1942, Hu Molin handed over the burden of housekeeper to his daughter-in-law, devoted himself to his career, came to work in the Enlightened Bookstore, and mainly compiled the "Index of the Thirteen Classics", which was very popular with scholars.
In 1930, Ye Shengtao was already the main editor and writer of the Enlightened Bookstore, and the husband and wife fought side by side, using the pen as a weapon and writing to actively disseminate progressive ideas.
In 1957, shortly after the advent of the era of peace, Hu Molin had a physical problem and was bedridden for a long time, although Ye Shengtao did his best to protect his wife, the ruthless illness still made him lose his wife.
Group photo while teaching at school
After Hu Molin's death, Ye Shengtao was devastated, he wrote articles and thoughts, put his wife's photo at the head of the bed, relying on the memory of the past, "Mo is not at home, Yu is lonely and bored" has become the norm for ye Shengtao's remaining more than thirty years in life.
From the marriage of the two in 1916 to the death of Hu Merlin in 1957, they married first and then loved the arranged marriage, which lasted for 41 years.
Ye Shengtao's good friend Zhu Ziqing said enviously: "His home is really very good, his clothes have always been managed by the family, I often think, he is like a small child." ”
In 1988, Ye Shengtao left the world and went to heaven to meet the girl he had in mind.