There is a street in Nanjing's Jiangning District called Liuxiu Street, and the name of this street is borrowed from the name of a social activist in the Republic of China, she is Zheng Liuxiu. Like Qiu Jin and others, Zheng Liuxiu is also a "chivalrous" heroic figure, and her life history is even more legendary, she is not only China's first female doctor, the first female lawyer, the first provincial female administrative official, the first female president of the local court and the director of the two departments of trial and prosecution, and has also participated in the assassination of Qing Dynasty officials many times, including even Yuan Shikai.
Zheng Liuxiu was born in the last years of the Qing Dynasty and witnessed the decline of the nation and the suffering of the people under the crisis of the country. With the spread of new ideas, the status of traditional Chinese women has entered an important turning point. Western Enlightenment ideas and the advocacy of revolutionaries made many traditional women begin to fight for their own status; the subsequent advent of women's studies made many women with advanced ideas go out of the boudoir and into the feminist movement. And Zheng Liuxiu is an outstanding representative of the feminist movement.
Zheng Liuxiu was born in a family of Qing Dynasty officials, in such a family, Zheng Liuxiu received a good education from an early age, and her mother actively educated Zheng Liuxiu to read and write in order to enable her to learn and write in the future, and Zheng Liuxiu also showed extraordinary talent.
Zheng Liuxiu has an independent personality, when she was 13 years old, she found that her parents had already made a marriage contract for herself, so she wrote a letter to the other party to send it to the other party, and the two families also caused a storm. After that, Zheng Liuxiu left home and chose to go to school, at the age of 14, Zheng Liuxiu entered the church school in Tianjin, where she was exposed to Western culture for the first time, and in the next two years, Zheng Liuxiu went to Japan to study. In Japan, Zheng Liuxiu participated in the Alliance led by Sun Yat-sen and threw himself into the anti-imperialist and anti-feudal movement, making great contributions to the victory of the revolution.
After returning to China, Zheng Liuxiu participated in the assassination of reactionary ministers of the Qing Dynasty on many occasions. However, in 1914, Zheng Liuxiu was wanted by Yuan Shikai for participating in the assassination of Yuan Shikai, and in desperation, Zheng Liuxiu had to choose to go to Paris for further study, and completed his doctorate here, and Zheng Liuxiu also became China's first female blog. In 1920, Zheng Liuxiu returned to the motherland, and after his return to China, he helped a number of female students study abroad, and led the feminist movement, making great contributions to the liberation of women's status at that time.
It is such a talented woman of the Republic of China, but her later years are slightly lonely. In 1954, Zheng Liuxiu's left arm cancer in the United States was urgently removed, which was undoubtedly a painful blow to this talented woman, living in a foreign country, and was plagued by illness, which made Zheng Liuxiu feel lonely, and five years later, Zheng Liuxiu died of illness in Los Angeles, USA.
However, Zheng Liuxiu's granddaughter Yang Panpan gave great comfort to the old man, she looked beautiful, elegant temperament, and was selected by the star scout. In the end, after unremitting efforts, Yang Panpan starred in dramas such as "The Legend of the Eagle Shooter" and became a household star with it, which may also be a gratifying thing for Zheng Liuxiu.
Zheng Liuxiu's life is full of legends, although she died in the end, but her contribution to China is huge, and her many first achievements are also unforgettable, Zheng Liuxiu's life is worth commemorating and should also be commemorated.