Zhu Ziqing, a person who once appeared in primary school Chinese textbooks, made us know him through learning from childhood. He is a well-known scholar in modern times, but he is only eight buckets high, but his life is bumpy and unsatisfactory, and when he lived to his old age, he also encountered various sad situations, which really made the listener sad and watched the tears, so do you know how miserable Zhu Ziqing was in his later years?
The articles "Back Shadow" and "Lotus Pond Moonlight" almost represent Zhu Ziqing's position in the literary world, his influence on the literary field is far-reaching and long-lasting, and he is also an admirable patriot. At that time, Zhu Ziqing was born in the late Qing Dynasty, due to the turmoil of the times, the people did not talk about life, Zhu Ziqing, as a literati, could not make a living, and when he was very hungry, he still had the backbone of Chinese, and he could starve to death without eating the grain that the Americans helped, so he fell behind a historical story of not bending his waist for five buckets of rice.
College students in the Republic of China period are very valuable, especially doctors, masters and famous writers, one by one, they are all honed and painstakingly read the real materials from the sages, zhu Ziqing, as one of them, also has his own set of rules and cognition like other scholars. At first, the family arranged the first marriage in his life, married a woman named Wu Zhongqian, the two respected each other after marriage, the wife gave birth to three girls and three sons, when arranged marriage was a common thing, Zhu Ziqing did not dislike this wife, but Wu Zhongqian's life was not good, and he died of the plague when he was thirty-two years old.
After his wife died, he left a child of only 3-10 years old to raise Zhu Ziqing alone, but the burden of life began to weigh him down, fortunately, his friend saw that Zhu Ziqing was under pressure to be single every day, so he introduced Chen Zhuyin, a woman from a good family, to get acquainted with him. The two met and talked about the topic, Zhu Ziqing found that Chen Zhuyin turned out to be a female painter, who had studied painting under Qi Baishi painters, and also went to the personal guidance of some well-known painters in the Republic of China, so the painting was very good.
The woman, Chen Zhuyin, had also heard of Zhu Ziqing's name earlier, and secretly admired his talent. However, while Zhu Ziqing got along with Chen Zhuyin, he also felt sorry for his deceased wife Wu Zhongqian, so he wrote an article "To the Dead Wife" from the bottom of his heart to mourn his wife Wu Zhongqian again, and soon, Zhu Ziqing and Chen Zhuyin officially came together and talked about love sweetly.
Zhu Ziqing's second marriage also happened to be after the surrender of Japan, at this time the Chinese civil war was tense, domestic inflation, prices rose and the currency depreciated, Zhu Ziqing was a professor at Tsinghua University at the time, but it was difficult to support a family with that little salary. So he began to write some manuscripts to earn living expenses, for which time there were many Articles by Zhu Ziqing in the society, but the words were short and direct to the theme, about five hundred words per article, and one article was written every day.
With the growth of age and the troubles of heavy burdens, zhu Ziqing is getting older and older, so in his later years, although he is a literary celebrity, but his life is very bitter, there are five children in the family who have to eat every day, and they also have to pay tuition to go to school, although his wife Chen Zhuyin painted well, but in that turbulent era, painting still could not support himself, it is said that in order to have rice under the pot at home, Chen Zhuyin also secretly ran to sell blood several times.
In his later years, Zhu Ziqing's physical strength became more and more inadequate, and his body occasionally had cold diseases, but he still adhered to his anti-civil war views, even if he was too sick to faint from hunger, he did not accept the relief grain of the Americans, so whenever people talked about "not bending their waists for five buckets of rice", there would always be people who could not help but think of Zhu Ziqing, and it was his patriotic spirit that made people more admirable.
Unfortunately, Zhu Ziqing was only eight buckets high but his life was bumpy, and when he was liberated in 1948, when he was still a year away, Zhu Ziqing finally could not withstand the torture of all parties and bid farewell to the world. He died at the age of fifty after what most people believe to be a severe worsening of a stomach ulcer and eventually a perforation of the stomach.