Shanghai has witnessed the development of China's entire modern history. Shanghai was the first treaty port in China to be opened, and it was also the first place to be emancipated. In the late Republic of China period, Shanghai Beach is the most prosperous place in Shanghai, where singing and dancing, beautiful women like clouds, Yan Renmei is the last beautiful woman in Shanghai Beach, when she was young, she was courted by Japanese officers, but they all refused, and lived happily in their later years, and now they are 105 years old.
The family conditions are superior, and Yan Renmei has received a good Western-style education from an early age
In 1915, Yan Renmei was born in Shanghai Beach. In the late Qing Dynasty, Cixi held the power of the state, controlled the entire imperial court, and reused many Han courtiers, of which Li Hongzhang was the best. Yan Renmei's grandfather was once Li Hongzhang's staff, helping Li Hongzhang deal with some daily affairs, and his status was relatively high.
In 1911, the Xinhai Revolution overthrew the rule of the Qing Dynasty, and Yan Renmei's grandfather resigned and returned home. However, after the Sino-Japanese War, the Qing government allowed Japan to invest in the establishment of factories in China, and in order to repay the war reparations, the Qing government also relaxed the restrictions on the establishment of factories by the private sector.
Yan Renmei's father seized the opportunity to set up many factories in Shanghai and obtained huge profits. Therefore, after the overthrow of the Qing Dynasty, the Yan family lost a high political status, but their social status was still very high, and their families were very rich, without any pressure of life.
Therefore, Yan Renmei has been pampered by thousands of people since she was a child, and she grew up healthy under the care of her father and mother, without a trace of trouble or worry, but she also endured a lot of unhappiness that we do not know.
After the Opium War, Britain opened the door of our country with a strong ship cannon, and China was forced to get involved in the world market, becoming Britain's raw material production area and commodity dumping market. Shanghai, as the first treaty port to be opened, was the first to be affected by these shocks. The cottage workers gradually went bankrupt, the natural economy gradually disintegrated, and the national and class contradictions became more and more acute.
But when the Western powers came to our country, they also brought some advanced ideas. For example, the idea of freedom and equality began to sprout in Shanghai Beach. After the Eight-Power Alliance's war of aggression against China in 1900, the mode of aggression of the Western powers also changed, from the original commodity export to the capital export. In order to cultivate workers in the new era, Western education has also sprouted in the land of China.
After the New Culture Movement, the ideas of democracy and science were widely disseminated, and new schools sprung up in Shanghai. Under the soft and hard bubble of Yan Renmei, her father finally agreed to let her go to the new school, where Yan Renmei received a state-of-the-art education and the concept of freedom and equality.
The confrontation between progress and backwardness, in the end, Yan Renmei compromised and accepted the arranged marriage
Yan Renmei entered the new school and accepted new ideas. But her father is still a representative of the old society, and the traditional ideas are deeply rooted. For example, he firmly believes that a woman's talentlessness is virtue, a woman's greatest happiness is to find a good family to marry, and the highest evaluation of women is a good wife and mother.
Therefore, Yan Renmei's father arranged a marriage for her and chose Ma Guanliang, the eldest young master of the Ma family. Yan Renmei was very resistant, and repeatedly told her father that she did not agree to this marriage and wanted to love freely and marry freely. But her arms could not twist her thighs, and Yan Renmei finally compromised and accepted the arranged marriage.
However, her father also made a compromise, that is, he promised Yan Renmei to continue to study at the new school. Like Yan Renmei's father, Ma Guanliang, the eldest young master of the Ma family, had not received a new-style education, nor did he understand the idea of freedom and equality, or he was still an old master, pointing fingers at his subordinates.
After marriage, Ma Guanliang and Yan Renmei did not have a common language, nor did they have a good emotional foundation, let alone a beautiful love expectation. Later, Ma Guanliang cheated, and Yan Renmei, who could not bear it, chose to divorce, regained her freedom, and planned to start a new journey in life.
He refused courtship from a Japanese officer and ended up in a happy marriage
After the divorce, Yan Renmei originally did not intend to enter the palace of marriage, so she bought a house in Xinkang Garden and lived independently. However, Yan Renmei was very beautiful, and many men coveted her beauty and repeatedly proposed to marry her, including a Japanese officer Yamamoto.
As early as 1929, with the outbreak of the great economic crisis in Japan, the Japanese government formulated a plan to invade China. By 1931, the Japanese Kwantung Army had created the September 18 Incident in northeast China that shocked China and foreign countries. As a result of Chiang's policy of non-resistance, the northeast soon fell.
Subsequently, Japan created the North China Incident, trying to turn the entire North China region into its colonies, and the national crisis was unprecedentedly serious. In 1937, the Japanese army again created the Lugou Bridge Incident in Beijing, and the Chinese nation reached the most dangerous time, and with the active efforts of our party, the old Chiang Kai-shek agreed to resist Japan, and the anti-Japanese national united front was formally formed.
In order to resist the Japanese invaders, Lao Chiang led his army to hold the Battle of Songhu, but the result was defeated. Since then, the Japanese army has come to Shanghai, and the Japanese officer Yamamoto is in charge of Shanghai's security, and he also covets Yan Renmei's beauty and repeatedly asks to marry her, but Yan Renmei refuses.
Later, on the pretext of renting a house, he wanted to contact Yan Renmei many times. He also let his subordinates often go to Yan Renmei's home, send her a lot of food and drink, and express their hearts many times. All of this seriously affected Yan Renmei's life, and later, at the suggestion of a friend, Yan Renmei planned to use marriage to hinder the harassment of Japanese officers.
This time, Yan Renmei married Li Zumin, the eldest young master of the Li family. Li Zumin is also a promising young man in the new era and has also accepted the new ideas of the West. So the two of them are like-minded, have a lot in common, love is getting sweeter and sweeter, and life is getting happier. Accompanied by love and affection, Yan Renmei is now 105 years old.
brief summary
As the saying goes, there are hearts that plant flowers and flowers, and there are no hearts to plant willows. As the last beauty of Shanghai Beach, Yan Renmei is now 105 years old. On the one hand, she can live a long life because she has accepted new ideas, understood the true meaning of life, and knows how to maintain health.
On the other hand, because of the company of her husband Li Zumin, the two of them are like-minded, support each other, have no pressure of life, and no mental torture. It is this good mentality that makes Yan Renmei a longevity person.