The name Xu Zhimo, when talking about the history of love in the Republic of China, always has to be taken out or sighed, or despised, or scolded. Everyone knows that there were three women who had emotional entanglements with him, one was Zhang Youyi, his wife who was abandoned by him; the other was Lin Huiyin, who he could not pursue and eventually married Liang Sicheng; and the third was his wife Lu Xiaoman, who he snatched from his friend Wang Geng. But in fact, there is a fourth person in Xu Zhimo's story.
This talent is Xu Zhimo's real ambiguous object, she and Bingxin, Lin Huiyin and said, in the Republic of China literary circles are the same, by Tagore as a more superior to Lin Huiyin's talented daughter, Xu Zhimo is wholeheartedly trusting her, Lin Huiyin and she are like Tianshan Tong Yao and Li Qiushui, quite a feeling of "both born Yu He Shengliang", in addition to the talent is difficult to compare, her family lineage theory of marriage achievements have crushed Lin Huiyin.
She is Ling Shuhua. In 1900, Ling Shuhua was born in a famous eunuch family in Beijing, although she was a famous person, but her family was full of celebrities, she was deeply influenced, and she showed her talent at a young age and was loved by her father. Ling Shuhua's teachers are Qi Baishi, Gu Hongming, and Empress Dowager Cixi's painter Miao Sujun, who studied at the First Women's Normal School in Tianjin and the Department of Foreign Languages of Yenching University, and her alumni classmates were Lu Xun's wife Xu Guangping, Bingxin and others.
It can be said that Ling Shuhua has lived in an upper-class environment since he was a child, and it is strange that he does not grow into a talented woman. After she published works such as "After Drinking" and "Her Daughter's Life is Too Desolate", she had a place in the literary circle of the Republic of China. When Ling Shuhua and Xu Zhimo met, Xu Zhimo's pursuit of Lin Huiyin failed, discouraged and depressed, Ling Shuhua was like a gentle flower of interpretation, which calmed him a lot of emotions.
In 1924, Tagore came to China, and Ling Shuhua was still a student of Yenching University and also participated in the welcome event. Xu Zhimo and Lin Huiyin accompanied him closely, and Chen Xiying (Chen Yuan), who later became Ling Shuhua's husband, was responsible for reception, while Lu Xiaoman was only responsible for handing out leaflets. The tea party where many cultural celebrities gathered was held at The Ling family, and Tagore admired the literary rising star Ling Shuhua, and Xu Zhimo also noticed her.
Ling Shuhua's appearance may be inferior to Lin Huiyin's, but her family lineage, talent, temperament, and conversation make her full of charm. Lin Huiyin was already engaged, Xu Zhimo was discouraged, and since then he has begun to correspond frequently with Ling Shuhua, but it is not only Ling Shuhua who communicates with Xu Zhimo, but also Lu Xiaoman, both women who appreciate Xu Zhimo's talent.
In just half a year, there were about 80 correspondences between Xu Zhimo and Ling Shuhua, and Xu Zhimo praised Ling Shuhua, calling her "China's Manshu Fei'er" and forewording her first novel, "The Temple of Flowers", which was the only time in his life that he wrote a preface for others; Ling Shuhua also wrote an inscription for Xu Zhimo's work. Xu Zhimo's father, Xu Shenru, liked the heavy Ling Shuhua, and if Xu Zhimo's wife was Any of Zhang Youyi, Ling Shuhua, and Lin Huiyin, he would not have much of an opinion.
Only Lu Xiaoman, the wife of a husband, did not enter Xu Shenru's eyes, but Xu Zhimo was embarrassed to take the wrong letter in front of his father and Lu Xiaoman's husband Wang Geng. He originally wanted to show Ling Shuhua's letter to his father, who knew that he had mistakenly taken Lu Xiaoman's, and the letter was affectionate, and Wang Geng's anger made him throw his sleeve away. In the end, Wang Geng divorced Lu Xiaoman, Xu Zhimo married Lu Xiaoman, and Ling Shuhua married Chen Xiying.
Although they were both married in 1926, Ling Shuhua in July, Xu Zhimo in October, Although Ling Shuhua and Chen Xiying have common interests, Chen Xiying is more serious, and many people are surprised to learn that Ling Shuhua chose him. The combination of Xu Zhimo and Lu Xiaoman over there attracted a lot of people's sideways glances, and even Liang Qichao scolded Xu Zhimo, but on November 19, 1931, after Xu Zhimo's plane crash, these insults were only aimed at Lu Xiaoman.
Although Xu Zhimo died, he left an important "Eight Treasure Chest" in Ling Shuhua, which contained a diary recording his correspondence with Lin Huiyin in britain, a "diary of lost love" after returning to China, and manuscripts of letters. For this eight treasure chest, Lin Hui began to compete with Tuo Hushi and Ling Shuhua, and finally got a part, but Lu Xiaoman, as Xu Zhimo's widow, could not compete for the eight treasure chests to compete with Ling and Lin.
This also shows Xu Zhimo's trust in Ling Shuhua, Ling Shuhua lived until her death in 1990, and in her later years she once explained the scandal between herself and Xu Zhimo, "I have never had feelings for Shima", but her foreign lover Julian and daughter Chen Xiaoying said that Ling Shuhua and Xu Zhimo had a relationship, and this scandal was naturally confusing and more ambiguous. The specific situation can only be seen.