In the Republic of China era, there were many elegant figures, such as Sun Yat-sen, the father of the country. As a revolutionary, Sun Yat-sen made great contributions to the country and was revered as the "Father of the Republic of China", while Sun Yat-sen's wife, Soong Ching Ling, was praised by Premier Zhou Enlai as "the treasure of the country". Not only is her contribution to the motherland praised, but her relationship with Sun Yat-sen is also envied.
In fact, Sun Yat-sen's original wife had someone else, she was Lu Muzhen.
Lu Muzhen and Sun Yat-sen were fellow villagers, both from Xiangshan, Guangdong, and one year younger than Sun Yat-sen. The Lu family is a noble family of Xiangshan Waitang Village, a family of scholars, his father Lu Yaoxian once traveled across the ocean to Honolulu in the United States to do business and get rich, Sun Yat-sen's brother Sun Mei and Lu Muzhen's father once did business together, and the two families are considered to be door-to-door. And because Lu Muzhen has a gentle temperament, kindness and diligence, he is famous for being in ten miles and eight townships when he is not married.
So the parents of both sides decided on this family affair. At that time, the marriage contract only needed "the words of the parents" and did not require two people to cultivate feelings before marriage. On May 26, 1885, Lu Muzhen married Sun Yat-sen shortly after she was married, when she was 18 years old and he was 19 years old.
Soon after the marriage, Sun Yat-sen left home to continue studying medicine in Hong Kong; during the period of separation, Lu Muzhen held the family's big and small affairs, inside and out; every time Sun Yat-sen returned home, she would sew a new set of clothes for her husband, and her mother-in-law's clothing was also from her hand.
In the spring of 1888, when Sun Yat-sen's father, Sun Da, was seriously ill and died, Sun Yat-sen and his eldest brother Sun Mei returned to their hometown to visit their father and saw Lu Muzhen in front of his father's sickbed, walking without leaving, personally serving soup medicine. Despite the arranged marriage, Lu Muzhen's understanding and understanding slowly touched Sun Yat-sen, and the two had a deep relationship.
In October 1891, the seventh year after marriage, the eldest son was born. The following year, Sun Yat-sen graduated from the Hong Kong College of Western Medicine with the first place and opened a Chinese and Western pharmacy in Macau, and Lu Muzhen took Sun Ke with him to the reunion.
However, in turbulent times, even the happiness of small families is short-lived. When Sun Yat-sen was running around for the cause of the revolution, he was doomed to the two of them to embark on two roads in the end.
From 1894 to the success of the Xinhai Revolution, for 17 years, Sun Yat-sen was almost exiled overseas and hunted down. Sun Yat-sen became a key criminal of the Qing government, and Lu Muzhen and other family members were also arrested, but fortunately, the scrivener of the Qing government office mistakenly wrote "Cui Heng Village" as "Cui Wei Village", which luckily escaped the disaster.
Later, with the help of members of the Hing Chung Society, Lu Muzhen and his family fled by steamship to Sun Mei's residence in Honolulu. She lived in Honolulu for 12 years, during which time her second daughter, Sun Wan, was born, and Sun Yat-sen spent less than a year and a half with her in Honolulu.
After the success of the Xinhai Revolution, on December 29, 1911, Sun Yat-sen was elected as the provisional president of the Republic of China, and on February 15, 1912, Lu Muzhen took two daughters, Sun Fei and Sun Wan, and niece Sun Shunxia from Penang in the South Sea to Shanghai, and was warmly welcomed by Chen Qimei, the governor of the Shanghai Army, and the members of the Chinese League Association, and was known as the "Mother of the Republic of China".
However, such a day did not last long, and soon Soong Ching Ling appeared in the life of Sun Yat-sen. After graduating from Soong Ching Ling University in 1913 and later becoming the secretary of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, he was greatly encouraged by Sun Yat-sen in his hardships and hardships; the two men established a deep friendship.
The love between Sun Yat-sen and Soong Ching-ling was opposed by almost everyone: the elders of the League, the parents of the Song family, and the representatives of the YMCA.
However, when Sun Yat-sen wrote to the most critical person in the divorce, his wife Lu Muzhen, she replied with one word: Yes. Subsequently, he traveled from Macau to Tokyo, Japan to discuss divorce.
Lu Muzhen once said in front of everyone: "Mr. Sun ran overseas for the revolution, wandered everywhere, and his body and mind were exhausted, and since the existing people are willing to take care of his life, I am willing to fulfill the best of his life and divorce Mr. Sun." ”
For this matter, Lu Muzhen responded in his later years: "I don't have enough common sense, I don't know English, I have my feet tied, and it is inconvenient to act, how can I help Mr. Lu?" ”
It was touching! Who's to say that such feelings are not moving enough? Lu Muzhen's love is no less than Song Qingling's, but she knows that true love is to let go and be fulfilled, so she chooses to silently withdraw when her husband needs a Kenneth help that can match him.
After the divorce, Lu Muzhen settled in Macau, Sun Yat-sen arranged for her to live in the Macau Sun Mansion, although often sent money to write letters, but the title of the letter has been changed to "Ke Mu" and "Ke Father", and from then until Sun Yat-sen's death, they were never reunited.
After the founding of New China in 1949, the eldest son, Sun Ke, moved to Hong Kong and took his mother, Lu Muzhen, to live with him in Hong Kong. Later, the situation reversed, Sun Ke and his wife had to go to France first, and then settled in the United States, while Lu Muzhen returned to Macau and lived a lonely life.
Throughout her life, Lu Muzhen spent more and less time with her husband and children, but she never complained and complained, but chose to be lenient.
In the long river of history, although she did not leave a strong chapter, Lu Muzhen is a person who needs to be remembered.