As we all know, in China's more than 2,000 years of feudal society, the status of women has never been improved. In the feudal society dominated by male patriarchy, women are like men's personal goods, they have no freedom of love, it is all a parental covenant, a matchmaker's word. There is not even freedom to divorce, and can only wait for a letter of resignation from her husband.
In this context, the greatest achievement of most ancient women in their lives is to give birth to sons to their husbands, and only by giving birth to sons can they reflect the value of being wives and get the promotion of status, which is really sad and lamentable.
Just like Empress Hu during the Ming Dynasty, after you became a country, her status was the highest among the women of the entire Ming Dynasty. Because he was unable to give birth to a son to Emperor Xuanzong, he eventually fell into the fate of being deposed. Even during the Republic of China, when Western ideas poured into China, there were many people who were snubbed by their husbands because they could not give birth to sons.
Lin Changmin is such a man. Born in 1876, the family is a famous Hanlin family, that is, the ancient university scholars. In 1902, he also went to Waseda University in Japan to study politics and economics, and it is reasonable to say that this piece of thought should be very open to the people. However, it turns out that knowledge and vision are not directly related to whether they are conservative or not. Although Lin Changmin has read so many books, he is a rather old person in his bones.
Not to mention that he followed the feudal concept of polygamy, after the concubine gave birth to 4 sons for him, he actually drove the wife who could not give birth to a son and the daughter of the wife to the backyard, this kind of unsympathetic behavior, even in the Republic of China period, was quite rare. And what's going on?
Originally, Lin Changmin had a wife, and the two had a very good relationship, but this wife had not yet been able to give birth to a son to Lin Changmin and died young. Later, Lin Changmin married another wife, named He Xueyuan, which is the daughter of a famous rich businessman, the family conditions are very good, but Lin Changmin is also a scholarly family is not bad, speaking of it, He Xueyuan also has a bit of the meaning of climbing Lin Changmin.
Because the family conditions of the two are similar, He Xueyuan is spoiled from an early age and does not eat the traditional set of Lin Changmin, so the two often quarrel after marriage. In fact, He Xueyuan gave Lin Changmin a son and gave birth to two daughters. However, both the son and the second daughter died early, and only the eldest daughter was left, which made Lin Changmin feel very obscure, and he snubbed He Xueyuan more and more.
Since there are no feelings, let's leave. But Lin Changmin did not do this, in the eldest daughter 9 years old, and took a young and beautiful concubine, called Cheng Guilin, this Cheng Guilin was born in the cold door, the family situation does not have to be He Xueyuan, after entering the door, to Lin Changmin can be described as a hundred yi bai bai, very gentle, especially before Lin Changmin's 4 sons, it can be said that all the requirements of Lin Changmin are met.
As the saying goes, there is no harm without contrast, originally Lin Changmin did not want to see his wife, and after marrying Cheng Guilin, He Xueyuan's temper became worse and worse, after a fierce quarrel. Lin Changmin directly made up his mind and drove He Xueyuan and his eldest daughter to the backyard.
This kind of behavior is tantamount to the ancient emperor beating the concubine into the cold palace, He Xueyuan can bear such anger, so every day to take his daughter as a pump, the eldest daughter's childhood can be described as quite miserable. But the tougher the conditions, the easier it is to understand things. Although her childhood was so tragic, she studied very hard, and although Lin Changmin was rotten and old-fashioned, she was still born in Shuxiang mendi after all, and still attached great importance to the education of her children.
In 1924, she was admitted to the Academy of Fine Arts of the University of Pennsylvania in the United States, and since then she has traveled across the ocean to study abroad, leaving this home full of sad memories.
And this daughter is lin huiyin, a well-known talent in the people's country, although Cheng Guilin gave Lin Changmin 4 sons, none of them can be as prominent as Lin Huiyin. However, Lin Changmin could never see his daughter's appearance, and in the second year of Lin Huiyin's study in the United States, Lin Changmin was burned alive because he was defeated during the war against the warlords. Lin Huiyin did not leave tears for him, but silently provoked the heavy responsibility of the family.
Now think about it, Lin Huiyin has always been called ice beauty during the Republic of China, saying that she treats people coldly and even impersonally. In fact, it is normal, such a family grows up, who can "warm" up in their hearts? In the final analysis, Lin Huiyin's childhood, as well as her mother, are just victims of feudal remnants.