"Brothers are like siblings, women are like clothes" is more popular in the ancient male group, because men can have three wives and four concubines, men are determined to be in the four directions, and they should pay more attention to their brothers. In the Republic of China period, there was even such a thing, a close friend was killed, he immediately abandoned his wife and children to marry his brother's widow.
This person is Jiang Menglin, a famous educator in modern China and the longest-serving president of Peking University in history. He was born in 1886 and was in the late Qing Dynasty, so Jiang Menglin also participated in the imperial examination, and then won the Xiucai, after the abolition of the imperial examination, Jiang Menglin went to the United States to study in 1908, first at the University of California, Berkeley, to study agriculture, and then transferred to education.
After graduating from the University of California, Jiang Menglin went to columbia university research institute in New York to study philosophy and pedagogy under John Dewey, one of the founders of modern pedagogy, and received a doctorate from Columbia University.
Jiang Menglin's original match is Sun Yushu, the two are arranged marriages, after marriage, there are three sons and a daughter, life is plain, Sun Yushu in the eyes of the mother-in-law is also a woman who knows the book and is virtuous, as for men? The standard of the world is that there is talent and prospect, and character is another matter.
Moreover, Jiang Menglin and Swenwen's readers are bent on education, and although Jiang Menglin and Sun Yushu did not collide with how fierce the spark of love was, there was no problem in living together. However, Jiang Menglin had a brother named Gao Renshan, and the two were friends of Mo Rebellion, and they once talked at night and discussed state affairs together.
In 1928, the 33-year-old Gao Renshan was killed, his wife Tao Zenggu was still very young, and had a pair of young children, Gao Renshan had entrusted Jiang Menglin to take care of his wife and children after his death before he was killed, after all, a woman with two children is still relatively hard, Jiang Menglin also agreed.
Tao Zenggu is different from Sun Yushu, she has read books, but also contacted new culture and new ideas, Jiang Menglin let Tao Zenggu as his secretary, the two have feelings in the process of getting along, Jiang Menglin believes that a woman like Tao Zenggu is the wife he really wants to marry, and Sun Yushu knows nothing about the two, she and her children have been staying in Yuyao's hometown.
In 1933, Jiang Menglin and Sun Yushu divorced, when Sun Yushu's son who was in elementary school saw the news of his parents' divorce in the newspaper, he ran home to ask his mother, Sun Yushu did not show any special mood, but said lightly: "Your father has changed his heart." ”
Although Sun Yushu did not make a big fuss, Jiang Menglin divorced his wife and remarried the widow of his best friend still caused a lot of commotion in the literary circles, and many people were upset about Sun Yushu. However, Jiang Menglin still held a wedding with Tao Zenggu and invited many friends in the literary world.
During the Republic of China period, Hu Shi presided over more than 150 weddings, as a witness to many people in the literary world, Jiang Menglin also invited Hu Shi to be a witness to him and Tao Zenggu, but Hu Shi's wife Jiang Dongxiu always opposed Hu Shi as a witness to Jiang Menglin and Tao Zenggu, and on the wedding day, Jiang Dongxiu closed the door and did not let Hu Shi go out, and later Hu Shi still jumped out of the window and left the house.
At the wedding, Jiang Menglin explained why he divorced Sun Yushu and had to marry Tao Zenggu. He said this: "I love Brother Renshan and I love what he loves, so I married Tao Zenggu as my wife." This means that marrying the widow of a close friend is entirely to fulfill the obligations of a friend.
However, no one was touched by Jiang Menglin's "brotherly righteousness", and this statement became a big joke in the intellectual circles at that time, which made people laugh to this day.
When his best friend was killed, he immediately abandoned his wife and children to marry his widow, and a sentence on the wedding day made people laugh to this day