The story of the talented woman Xie Daoyun and her husband Wang Ningzhi must have been heard by everyone, the two were originally the right family, but the personalities after marriage were not compatible. Xie Daoyun returned to her mother's house, Xie An asked her why she was unhappy, Xie Daoyun said that her husband was pragmatic, it seems that the piano, chess, calligraphy and painting are good, but there is no common language with her. In fact, whether Wang Ningzhi is born or talented, he is not as unbearable as Xie Daoyun said, but Xie Daoyun is too talented, and there are very few men in this world who can deserve her. In the Republic of China period, there was also such a talented woman, she and Xie Daoyun were almost the same fate, she was Yang Du's sister Yang Zhuang.
Yang Zhuang, the character Shao Ji, the trumpet Zhaoxian, is a strange woman with a perfect name, appearance, and talent. She showed her superior intelligence since she was a child, and together with her brother Yang Du, she worshiped the "blacksmith poet" Zhang Dengshou as her teacher. Wang Minyun, a master of late Qing Dynasty Guoxue, had long heard of her literary talents and entrusted someone to mediate for his fourth son, Wang Wenyu. Yang Du was a student of Wang Minyun, because of the early death of his father, his brother decided to set this family affair for his sister Yang Zhuang, and Yang Zhuang and Wang Wenyu married naturally after they grew up.
Before wang Minyun died, he wrote a pair of elegies for himself, saying:
"The Spring and Autumn Table is only complete, and it depends on the Jia'er xi poetry ceremony; the vertical and horizontal calculations are not enough, and the air is left high and full of rivers and mountains."
It means that the "Spring and Autumn Chronology" has not yet been completed, fortunately, there are children and grandchildren who have inherited the poetry ceremony, and the vertical and horizontal strategy has not yet been successful, and can only be idle at home to sing "Man Jiang Hong", feeling that his ambition has not been rewarded.
Wang Minyun was once the director of the National History Museum in Yuan Shikai's government, and he was full of talent, which can be said to be untimely, and he must have regretted a lot in his heart. But the only "Jia'er" who could make him happy must not have his youngest son, Wang Wenyu, but there must be Yang Zhuang. It is said that the father of the tiger has no dogs, but the father of the great talent may not be able to give birth to the son of the great talent, and Wang Wenyu did not inherit the father's great literary hero gene, but was a reckless and impulsive military attaché. Yang Zhuang had taken learning as her own living habit when she was a teenager, she was very self-disciplined, had the romantic feelings of a literati and the state of mind of a patriot at that time who was worried about the country and the people, so when she lived with her mediocre and reckless husband, she naturally could not bear it.
The two married on the sixth day of february 1897, and a few days after the marriage, Yang Zhuang began to feel that the husband and wife were different. However, Yang Zhuang was deeply pleased by his in-laws and did not completely give up this marriage, and even comforted himself, believing that "immortality is in himself".
Wang Wenyu may not be born to read material, but Wang Minyun is not accustomed to his freedom and looseness, and the requirements for him to study are very strict, even if Wang Wenyu is married, Wang Minyun will still check his homework. One day, Wang Minyun asked Yangzhuang whether Wang Wenyu had made any recent progress. Yang Zhuang replied truthfully: "A piece of "Hate Endowment", he read it for one night, and he stuttered. Wang Min had the bad luck to call his son over and scold him.
Wang Wenyu was very angry. In fact, from Wang Wenyu's point of view, there is a father who is too radiant, even if he marries a wife who is just full of talent. The old father said that he did not use to learn badly, his wife still looked down on himself, obviously married, it should be a small two mouths with a heart, Yang Zhuang even privately announced to the public. Wang Wenyu was actually quite pitiful, but poor was pitiful, and Wang Wenyu should not have beaten people in one breath and slapped Yang Zhuang. Yang Zhuang was distressed by his brother's hand, somewhat arrogant, and of course he was angry when he was beaten by his husband, and immediately wrote a letter to his brother Yang Du. Yang Du, the sister control, immediately replied:
The love of husband and wife is like the righteousness of a monarch, and if it is together, it will stay, and if it is not, it will go.
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Yang Duke didn't care about any feudal etiquette, he was such a sister, and his sister was beaten and got it, and directly asked his sister for divorce. Yang Zhuang was angry, but she was treated as her own daughter by Wang Minyun and his wife in the Wang family, and she would not be angry with her in-laws. Wang Minyun was very shrewd and said to his daughter-in-law, "My little child really doesn't deserve you, but you still don't want to leave, just stay and be my student." ”
Hongru like Wang Minyun never accepted female disciples, and being able to be his disciples and listen to teachings was more attractive to Yang Zhuang than to be his daughter-in-law. Of course, outsiders can see that this is Wang Minyun's strategy to slow down the army, of course, he does not want his daughter-in-law to really divorce his son, instead of watching this small family being torn apart, it is better to find a reason to leave his daughter-in-law behind, at least the daughter-in-law will not remarry. Yang Zhuang stayed in this way, and has been learning poetry with the old master, writing five-word poems that are particularly beautiful, and even have the momentum of blue out of blue. Yang Zhuang has been living in the Wang family, raising and raising the daughter born to Wang Wenyu.
For his elder brother Yang Du, setting such a family affair for his sister made him very remorseful. In the years when his sister had just been married, not only Yang Zhuang himself was suffering, but Yang Du's diary also mentioned his sister's marriage several times. In 1900, Yang Du wrote a poem "Lamenting Jiangnan"——"
Ugly women are often beautiful sons-in-law, and strange women are more than mediocre husbands. Although the world is self-flattering, it is worthy of others. ”
In the past, the sisters who appeared in Yang Du's poems were extremely talented and outstanding, but the sister after marrying him made him extremely worried, Yang Du was an elder brother, but more like an old father.
In 1904, Yang Zhuang went to Japan with her husband and brother to study Japanese textile technology. In Japan, they met Liang Qichao, who showed a high degree of enthusiasm for the restoration and reform method, and used words as weapons to open the way for the restoration movement of Liang Qichao and others.
In 1915, when Yuan Shikai vainly tried to restore the imperial system, Yang Du supported and publicized it. But Yang Zhuang was very worried, and she wrote to advise her brother:
"Fu Dao dao does not weigh, and the big argument does not speak." Those who climb the Sumen, or have not heard the rest of the theory; those who are involved in the danger of the ying, still think of their jade sounds. In this way, good is the resignation. He who admires high righteousness, but only offers foolishness. Benevolent and righteous, dare to declare and manage. ”
However, Yang Duzheng was obsessed with it and could not listen to Yang Zhuang's dissuasion at all, and yang Du became the head of the "Six Gentlemen of Chu'an", so he had to hide in anonymity and hide in Tianjin and Shanghai.
The elder brother was hard to hear, Yang Zhuang began to get sick again, it was during the warlord melee, the people everywhere were not happy, Yang Zhuang was powerless to save the country, and his daughter Wang Wusun died at this time, which was undoubtedly a shocking blow to Yang Zhuang. After that, Yang Zhuang began to devote himself to the cultivation of Buddhism, from a young girl who actively saved the country to a woman who wanted to achieve an ideal state of life through religion, which was Yang Zhuang's sadness and the sadness of that era. However, later her husband Wang Wenyu was also intoxicated with the study of tantra, and the two of them tried to understand each other at this time, which can be regarded as relying on them in their later years.
Yang Zhuang was one of the few lucky women of that era, she had a talented brother, married into a famous family, and was deeply loved by her in-laws. But just because of the identity of the woman, the arranged marriage of the door to the door, let her be full of contradictions and melancholy at the most wonderful moment of her life, and the literary creation was interrupted, and she may not have tried the true taste of love in her life.