In 2014, the last Qing Dynasty, Ge gejin Moyu, died in Beijing at the age of 96.
Jin Moyu's life can be described as ups and downs, although the blood is pure, but fell into civilians, although diligent and sincere, but tragically imprisoned. After the liberation of Peiping, she did not choose to leave her hometown, but continued to stay in Beijing. The Sichuan restaurant she runs was once popular, and she also met her lifelong love.
However, just when everything was going well, Jin Moyu was imprisoned because of the involvement of her sister Yoshiko Kawashima and entered Qincheng Prison for nine years. The husband is even more mad in the waiting, and a perfect family is torn apart. After being released from prison, she started a new business to help China's education cause.
Confused times
Although Jin Moyu was born in 1918, it has been more than six years since the fall of the Qing government, and Prince Su is no longer the imperial prince and nobleman who once flew high. But under its years of accumulation, it is still a huge family.
The interior of the palace is completely different from the outside world, it is still going its own way, maintaining the style of the feudal royal family, and the red tape of traditional etiquette has not fallen, like a piece of "paradise" independent of the world. Influenced by such an environment, Jin Moyu is naturally no different from the traditional grid.
In 1931, Japan launched the September 18 Incident to seize China's three eastern provinces. Faced with such a vast land, it was not easy for Japan, as an outsider, to fully control it, and they decided to adopt a policy of using China to govern China, and they urgently needed a spokesman for the northeast.
They saw the influence of the Manchu Qing in the three eastern provinces, and as the last emperor, they became their best candidate.
In 1932, Puyi was inaugurated as emperor of puppet Manchukuo with the help of the Japanese, with the era name Kant. This action attracted a large number of Qing Dynasty widows and young people, who came from all over the country to crawl at Puyi's feet and dream back to the Qing Dynasty.
As a royal family, Prince Su naturally did not want to be willing to be followed, and in order to curry favor with Japan, he sent his daughter Yoshiko Kawashima to Study in Japan, and also worshiped Kawashima Nanasu as his father. Influenced by militarism, Yoshiko Kawashima became a thorough traitor, and she used the convenience of her identity to provide intelligence to the Japanese army.
When Jin Moyu became an adult, she also followed her sister's footsteps to Japan, but she had no interest in politics or military, but had a fondness for fashionable dress. She put on a high-forked cheongsam and permed her curled hair, looking like a fashionable hipster.
After the outbreak of the Lugou Bridge Incident, under the turmoil of the situation, Jin Moyu was also forced to end his studies early and return to the northeast. When the family members saw her deviant appearance, they were shocked and scolded her for not knowing etiquette, righteousness, filial piety and benevolence, and asked her to change back to her former style.
Faced with such a high-pressure constraint, she ran away in a negative mood and came to a Japanese company in Beijing as a consultant. Although the monthly income is not cheap, it still cannot meet the profligacy of Jin Moyu, and often a month's salary has just been obtained, and she has squandered it.
The economic vacancies caused by this in the long run were all subsidized by Prince Su's palace. Slowly, the property accumulated by several generations of Prince Su's mansion was depleted by the profligacy of her and several brothers and sisters.
Great joy and great sorrow
In 1945, Japan announced its unconditional surrender, and the good days of the dog-fighting traitors came to an end. Yoshiko Kawashima also became a lost dog and began planning to flee to Japan.
Before leaving, he also found Jin Moyu and invited him to leave with him, but he was refused. Unexpectedly, she was captured by Dai Kasa on the way to escape, and eventually executed by shooting.
Another four years have passed, and in the blink of an eye, the liberation of Beiping has been ushered in. Before the People's Liberation Army entered the city, several of Jin Moyu's brothers fled to Hong Kong, and before they left, they also carried out a final raid on Prince Su's mansion and sold all the valuables in the palace.
In the end, it was only 100 yuan and nine people left for Jin Moyu. To support this huge family, she knitted sweaters to sell and even washed clothes to make money.
It was not until 1952 that her brother sent back a sum of money to support the elderly. With this huge amount of money, Jin Moyu opened a Sichuan restaurant, although he got up early every day and was greedy, he was finally able not to worry about food and clothing. During this period, Jin Moyu married the famous painter Ma Wanli, and under the peaceful life, it was Jin Moyu's long-lost warmth.
In 1958, the political situation in China became tense. One night, a group of people rushed into Jin Moyu's house and forcibly abducted him. The reason given is that she is a great Qingge, and the second is the identity of the sister of her Japanese secret agent Yoshiko Kawashima.
After six years of labor reform, Jin Moyu was sent to Qincheng Prison to serve. During this period, her husband Ma Qianli became ill with Jin Moyu's thoughts, and his spirit actually appeared abnormal. When you are sober, you are crazy painting to numb yourself, and when you are confused, you talk to yourself and smash things.
After Jin Moyu in prison learned about her husband's recent situation through Ma Wanli's sister, she felt guilty, and in order not to involve her husband, she took the initiative to file for divorce. When Jin Moyu signed the divorce certificate, she was already in tears, her hands were shaking without controversy, and she cried out in pain: "Sister, you hurt me so badly!" ”
Devote yourself to education
In 1973, Jin Moyu was released after completing her sentence, but she was not happy to be free. The happy family of the past is long gone, and how can she bear to disturb Ma Wanli's life and let him recall the unforgettable past again.
She came to Tianjin Chadian Farm alone and became a farm worker.
During this time, a Shanghainese named Shi Youwei broke into her life, and instead of hating Jin Moyu's origins, he helped her everywhere in his work.
Shi Youwei also gave Jin Moyu a small homemade shovel and a copy of "People's China" to him, saying: "I have no money, I am a poor person, and I know your origin, it doesn't matter." Eventually, the two married in the presence of all the workers on the farm.
In 1976, she fell ill while following her husband back to Shanghai to visit relatives, was diagnosed with osteomyelitis and lumbar muscle strain, and was no longer able to work in high-intensity work.
In the midst of the predicament, Jin Moyu thought of asking for someone for the first time, and she wrote to Deng Xiaoping, hoping to get a brain job. Fortunately, she quickly got a reply and was arranged to work at the Beijing Museum of Literature and History.
Life is back on track, but Because Jin Moyu spent her time in prison, not being able to have a child of her own has become a regret in her life, and she wants to do something for China's children. In 1992, she and her husband took all the family's savings to start a Japanese language class for caring children.
In order to formally establish the school, she and her husband traveled for several years between Beijing and Japan, using all their connections to finally raise enough funds.
In 1996, the Ai Ai Japanese Language Training School was officially established and became the most well-equipped private Japanese language training college in China at that time. At the end of the 1990s, Jin Moyu established the Langfang Oriental University Town on the building of this school, which promoted the take-off of China's education industry.
In the face of the ups and downs of life, Jin Moyu calmly handled it, she once said in her later years: "In the joy and sorrow, anger and sorrow should rest in their hearts, but joy and happiness can be shared with many people." ”