Marriage in the Republic of China era was always regarded as a classic by modern people, but some can only be said to be ridiculous. And the values of that time, even in modern times, will feel despised by the world, some literati in the name of marriage freedom, trampling on the dignity of others at will, no sense of responsibility to speak of, such people are still laughing stocks.
On November 6, 1922, xu Zhimo forced Zhang Youyi to sign a divorce agreement and issued a notice, "Xu Zhimo and Zhang Youyi Divorce Notice", which read: "Now with a smile to report your gratifying news (divorce), please participate in our happiness. In March, when Xu Zhimo rushed to Germany to divorce Zhang Youyi, Zhang Youyi had just given birth to her young son.
A hundred years ago, in the Republic of China, Xu Zhimo was not the only one who believed that freedom of love and freedom of marriage was the idea that it was possible to abandon feelings at all costs, but entire literati who accepted new ideas.
The Republic of China is a period of alternation between the old and the new, and this period has produced many dazzling treasures, and has also produced countless people who are incorruptible and shameful, such as Xu Zhimo, who regard divorce as breaking through the cage of arranged marriages.
At that time, Xu Zhimo, Guo Moruo and other literati, chasing the trend under the banner of free marriage, divorced their original partners, in fact, they had already found a new love. In order to excuse marital infidelity, they advocate so-called free love. And glorify this unethical behavior.
Free love was not what he had thought that day, regardless of benevolence and morality. Today's people have not broken through the institutional cage as they think, but still have basic principles. Naturally, the world's determination that Xu Zhimo abandoned Zhang Youyi's divorce in order to better pursue Lin Huiyin is irresponsible.
Xu Zhimo had just returned to China, and his father Xu Shenru sneered, "I really admire your masterpiece." Xu Fu thought that he had really raised a good son and did an earth-shattering thing. Xu Zhimo hoped that his father would be considerate, Xu Shenru scolded Xu Zhimo for being selfish, and Xu Shenru cherished Zhang Youyi very much, because she had voluntarily given up her studies to marry into the Xu family, and after entering the Xu family, she added heirs to the Xu family. But now, shortly after the daughter-in-law gave birth to a child, she was abandoned in Germany by Xu Zhimo, which was really rebellious.
In 1925, Xu Zhimo, who was in line with this love, met his friend's wife Lu Xiaoman, and soon Xu Zhimo fell in love with Lu Xiaoman. In 1926, after the divorce, Lu Xiaoman married Xu Zhimo as he wished. Xu Shenru and his wife cut off the couple's financial support because of Lu Xiaoman's profligacy, and in order to feed Lu Xiaoman, who smoked opium, Xu Zhimo had to make money everywhere. Xu Zhimo has worked as many as seven part-time jobs to support his family. At that time, Zhang Youyi was reborn and became the vice president of the Shanghai Women's Commercial Savings Bank and the general manager of the Yunsheng Clothing Company. In order to alleviate their financial pressure, Zhang Youyi occasionally helps them.
Zhang Youyi has a vast world after divorcing Xu Zhimo, if she does not divorce, she will be just a housewife Zhang Youyi for the rest of her life. More importantly, later, Zhang Youyi also lived happily with the doctor Su Ji.
Xu Zhimo, on the other hand, died in a plane crash in 1931 after nine years of divorce, saving money on free but dangerous flights, when Xu Zhimo was only 34 years old.
Those romantic literati who studied Western thought in the Republic of China era may never have thought that a hundred years later, etiquette, righteousness, and shame are still very useful, and such acts of moral degeneration may not necessarily become fashionable in the future.
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The Biography of Xu Zhimo