Zhou Ying, a famous businesswoman in the late Qing Dynasty, died at a young age and never married again. In that era of turmoil and the withering of national enterprises, she single-handedly carried the Wu family business that fell in the middle of the family road. A 2017 film " That Year the Flowers Bloomed and the Moon Was Round " let us see the bumpy life of this woman who built a business empire, and also saw her kindness and tenacity. But the presentation of the TV series has a certain artistic processing, lack of a certain degree of authenticity, next let's see how Zhou Ying really ended in history?
Unlike Zhou Ying's adoptive father in the TV series who gambles and sells it to the Shen family as a maid for money, she herself is also from a commercial family, from a young age, gifted and intelligent, eating and wearing, but later her parents died, the family fell in the middle of the road, and her brother and sister-in-law raised her. Her father-in-law Wu Weiwen was a famous family at that time, although the situation was turbulent, the Business of the Zhou Family was also affected, shrinking a lot, but the skinny camel was bigger than Ma. Unfortunately, there is only one only son in the family, Wu Ping, who is also seriously ill, bedridden, and rushed to the hospital, in order to let her son recover, she chose Zhou Ying as her son Chong Xi.
However, Wu Ping finally died shortly after Zhou Ying passed the door, and her father-in-law Wu Weiwen was deeply affected for a period of time and left, leaving her alone. In the face of other people in the family who covet the property of the East Courtyard, she expressed her position with vigorous actions, using advanced and far-reaching business concepts to manage the guys in the shop, rewarding and punishing clearly, inspiring people's hearts, and bringing the Wu family's business step by step into the right track and becoming strong. After making a fortune, Zhou Ying did not forget the great righteousness of her family and country, and whenever there was a famine, she would open a granary to give porridge to the poor people, build water conservancy, and develop education.
In the time of war, in the face of the huge indemnities of the state, he did not hesitate to contribute his own strength, generously donating money again and again to help the army. Later, Cixi remembered her righteous deeds, and made her a lady of the Yipin Commandment, and recognized her as a righteous daughter. When her husband died early, she did not leave a son and a half daughter, Zhou Ying inherited a son from the clan, named Zhou Huaixian, the relationship between mother and son was harmonious, but when he grew up, he was provoked by the adulterers, and fought with his adoptive mother to fight for the family property. But in the end, it was the child raised by Zhou Ying, under her influence, the bones were good, and after thinking it through, they confessed their mistakes, and the person who obstructed it was eventually expelled.
This woman, who is regarded as the legend of Qin Shang in Shaanxi Province, walked when she was 42 years old, worked hard all her life, and accumulated a lot of wealth for the Wu family, but only because she failed to leave incense for the Wu family, even the qualification to enter the ancestral tomb and bury her husband was also disastrous, which is also sad. And she worked hard all her life, leaving behind the family business, and finally was donated to the country by her adopted son in 1936 to contribute to the War of Resistance. Before Zhou Ying's death, she was charitable, well-understood the great righteousness, and engaged in business in good faith; after her death, her adopted son also remembered her teachings and devoted herself to the great righteousness of the country and the nation, and her life was great.