There is a very interesting phenomenon in feudal China, women are required to obey the three from four virtues, after marriage, no matter how the marriage is not allowed to remarry, while men are not restricted by this concept, three wives and four concubines is a normal behavior. Of course, not all ancient men could have this privilege, and the phenomenon of three wives and four concubines only existed in the class of feudal landlords, but this was also a manifestation of the inferiority of men and women in feudal society.
After the founding of the Republic of China in 1912, although the idea of democracy and republicanism began to penetrate the hearts of the people, the status of women has not been substantially changed, large landlords have not been eliminated, and poor peasants still live a life of oppression by landlords. If you want to choose one of the most representative and notorious landlords in modern China, Liu Wencai is the best candidate, Liu Wencai can almost be regarded as synonymous with landlords in modern Chinese history, he not only sits on the golden mountains and silver mountains, but also has a large number of wives and concubines.
Liu Wencai, who was born in Sichuan, had seven brothers in his family, he ranked fifth, and the family was the first to make a living from farming, but the seven brothers of the Liu family had two rebel factions, one was Liu Wencai and the other was his younger brother Liu Wenhui. Liu Wencai has been reluctant to follow his parents to farm since he was a child, and has been preoccupied with business and wants to make money through business, so he has shown the ability to accumulate money from an early age. His younger brother Liu Wenhui chose to join the army, and had many achievements in the army, and when he was at the most powerful, he was second only to the great warlord Liu Xiang. The two brothers worked together to gradually create a world in Sichuan, the younger brother Liu Wenhui grasped the military and political power, and Liu Wencai, with the help of his younger brother, continued to expropriate and tyrannically in Sichuan, accumulating wealth and becoming the largest local landlord in Sichuan. At its peak, one person collected taxes from 81 counties, and the wealth was inexhaustible.
Liu Wencai this person has two characteristics, one is to love money as fate, the other is very lustful, of course, this may be the common feature of all landlords. As a landlord, he has countless wealth, and in the fish and meat village, there are not a few women who are occupied, and there are 5 wives who are married by the Ming Media, and these wives have given birth to 10 children for him, which can be described as a group of wives and concubines, and the incense is exuberant.
However, Liu Wencai's extravagant and lavish life came to an abrupt end after the founding of New China, and after the founding of New China, the land reform movement was implemented, and his fate was also declared over at this moment, and he also died of illness in 1949. After Liu Wencai's death, his family property was confiscated, and many wives and concubines and children scattered, with different fates.
Liu Wencai's main house, lü shi, was Liu Wencai's compatriot, and he had a son and a daughter for him, but for various reasons, he did not grow up and died prematurely, and then Lü shi died not long after he was depressed. His second wife, Yang Zhonghua, had four sons and three daughters, and was favored by Liu Wencai, but after the confiscation of the family property, she could only rely on herself. His third aunt, Tai Lingjun, was a dusty woman, beautiful as a heavenly immortal, and Liu Wencai redeemed herself and married into the family and lived a life of fine clothes and jade food, but this life also ended after Liu Wencai's death, and finally starved to death on the street. The fourth aunt, Liang Huilin, was not favored by Liu Wencai and left him early. The fifth aunt, Wang Yuqing, is the longest-lived of all, and after Liu Wencai's death, she remarried and lived until 2003, at the age of 92.
As for Liu Wencai's descendants, the eldest son Liu Yuanlong once joined the army, but unfortunately contracted opium and eventually died of illness. The second son, Liu Yuanhua, once studied at the Whampoa Military Academy and entered the factory after the founding of the People's Republic of China. The third son, Liu Yuanfu, is almost a copy of Liu Wencai, and the end is naturally tragic. The fourth son, Liu Yuangui, worked at a railway station after liberation and later died of an accident. Liu Wencai's daughters were married early before liberation, so they had no impact on them.
Liu Wencai, a large landlord full of evil, has done many evils in his life, and although he was full of brilliance before his death, good and evil will eventually be rewarded, and the fate of the Liu family is also the fate of the feudal landlord class. The large landlord Liu Wencai had a large number of wives and concubines, and where did many wives and children go after his death? What is the end result?