Women should not be overly dependent on men at any time, whether it is the former feudal society or the Old and New Republic of China. This is true of the new era now, because once you are overly dependent, it is easy to lose yourself. Eventually abandoned by men and left with nothing, remaining independent allows women to live their lives even when they are abandoned. Laugh at life and live a better ending than to live a miserable life.
The woman I want to talk about today is the latter, she married a foreigner, but was abandoned after giving birth to five sons. But she can be called a strange woman, who has never given up her love of life after being abandoned, and has worked hard to pull several children up alone. He has raised several rich sons and a great-grandson who is now a household name, and his name is very familiar. This strange woman's name is Shi Di, a woman from the Yan family whose ancestral home is Bao'an, Guangzhou, and the Yan family is also a kind of fishermen who use boats as their home.
In 1859, the young girl Shi Di met a Dutch Jew named Charles Henry Maurice Bosman, and the two had a relationship and lived together. The man was just an adventurer who came to Hong Kong in search of business opportunities, and in fact he stayed in Hong Kong for only 14 years, and never returned after leaving in 1873. Originally, in Hong Kong at that time, Chinese women would not be with foreign men due to traditional values and Confucian influence.
However, out of love, Shi Di did not hesitate to live with him and live with him, even if he was unmarried. After living together, they also gave birth to a daughter and four sons, Charles Henry Maurice Bosman, who had a Chinese name named Ho Shiwen during his stay in Hong Kong. It is said that this name is based on Cantonese transliteration, and it is also believed that He Shiwen is from the Netherlands, so it is taken from the homophone He is a surname. In any case, it is certain that his Chinese name is He Shiwen, so that Shi Di and the five children he has born are all surnamed He.
The five children were He Baiyan (female), He Dong, He Qifu, He Qiman, and He Qijia, but He Shiwen later left Hong Kong, and several of Shi Di's children were still young. After taking care of her alone for a while, because she was young, she remarried Guo Xingxian as a concubine. After marriage, he gave birth to two sons and a daughter, that is, He Ruiting, He Baijuan, and Guo Maochao, which is a traditional saying. It is said that Shi Di's other child, He Gansheng, was also born to Guo Xingxian, but because the He family rarely talked about Shi Di, it was not known whether it was true or false.
Shi Di and Guo Xingxian did not stay together for long, and after a while they left the Guo family with their two daughters to support themselves. Guo Maochao stayed in the Guo family and was not taken away, so he did not have the surname He, and later died prematurely. Since then, Shi Di has not remarried, carrying seven or eight children alone, and the hardships of life can be imagined. But she survived, and raised her children to adulthood, and two of her descendants were the richest. That is, his son Ho Tung is the richest man in Hong Kong, his great-grandson Ho Hung Sun is the richest man in Macau, and Ho Hung Sun's grandfather Ho Kai Fook.
That is, Shi Di's second son, although not the richest man, is also a famous rich man, not famous or because his brother He Dong is too famous. He Dong not only recovered Hong Kong, but also made friends with Sun Yat-sen, Kang Youwei, and Chiang Kai-shek, and financed Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary activities to overthrow the Manchu Qing, and was a top figure in Hong Kong. The He family that Shi Di has promoted not only has a few celebrities, but her son, Who does not know his biological father, is also the adoptive father of Bruce Lee's mother.
Even today, the Ho family is still a more prominent family in Hong Kong and Macao, and it has to be said that Shi Di is really a great mother and woman. Abandoned, he can still support himself to raise his children as adults, and he also taught such two sons, which can be described as a strange woman.