In the modern view, free love may be as natural as breathing and eating, and it is the most basic and universal view of love and human common feelings. But the time went back more than 100 years, and the Chinese people at that time did not think so. In the feudal period, talking about marriage and marrying such things were the words of the parents' fate. Since modern times, with the influx of Western ideological trends, coupled with the fall of the Qing government of the feudal dynasty, the chinese people's concept of love has gradually undergone qualitative changes.
Arranged marriages by parents have always been a feudal marriage and love ideology that modern people criticize. However, this pattern has been eliminated in the minds of the Chinese people, but it has experienced a long time, and even now, it cannot be said that it has completely disappeared. At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the People's Republic, Western ideas had just poured in, and this bad habit could be seen everywhere.
Today, I would like to tell you a story of arranged marriage between parents in modern times. A mother hated her daughter for being ugly and made a claim that she was promised to a mentally handicapped young master. Although this daughter looks ordinary, she is very assertive, she bravely rebelled against the feudal marriage, and finally successfully escaped, and became the first female university president in the history of our country. So, who is this daughter?
She is Yang Yinyu, the third sister of the famous writer Yang Dai. How mediocre is her appearance? According to Yang Dai's description in the book, she said that she was dark-skinned and had a bad appearance. But the two dark eyes were very energetic, laughing and dimples. Perhaps this appearance does not conform to the aesthetics of the Republic of China period, Yang Chen's grandmother was afraid that Yang Yinyu had no one to ask for, so she found a rich man with a mentally handicapped mind.
Before marrying, Yang Yinyu did not know that the other party was mentally handicapped, and her mother was also tight-lipped. Until after marrying and living for a while, Yang Yinyu couldn't stand it at all, and couldn't help but run back to her mother's house, planning to live for a long time and never go back. Unexpectedly, the next day, the in-laws sent people to carry eight caravans to pick up Yang Yinyu. Yang Yinyu's mother could not hang her face, but still sent her daughter to the palanquin.
This has happened several times, and tossing and turning back and forth is not the way to go. After much deliberation, Yang Yinyu decided to completely distance herself from this stupid husband. This time, she packed up all the finesse and went back to her hometown, and later let her mother-in-law personally come to the door to advise, and Yang Yinyu would never go back. As a result, the two parties had to dissolve the marriage contract.
The reason why Yang Yinyu is so tough is not unrelated to her education. She attended a Western-style school in her early years and was an enlightened new woman. For the part of marriage and love, it is natural to advocate the Western set of free love. For such a stupid husband, or a feudal marriage arranged by her parents, she could not tolerate it under any circumstances.
After her divorce, her career is also rising. He first studied in Japan, then returned to China to become the director of the Second Women's Normal School in Jiangsu, responsible for teaching biology courses. In 1918, she was selected by the Beiyang government as a publicly-funded student to study education at Columbia University, and when she returned to China again, she was also appointed president of Beijing Women's Normal University. She is also the first female university president in our country in modern times.
However, as a progressive youth, Yang Yinyu did something that made the progressive youth at that time very criticized after becoming the principal. In the later period of the Beiyang government, due to corruption, many students took to the streets to protest. As the president of Beijing Women's Normal University, Yang Yinyu is firmly opposed to students marching in the streets, and in her view, the first priority of students is to study, not these vain politics.
In 1928, Yang Yinyu expelled several student representatives who organized protest marches, including Xu Guangping, Lu Xun's later partner. This matter was criticized by Lu Xun and other leaders in the literary circles of the Republic of China, but Yang Yinyu still went his own way and was not moved. Later, the matter became more and more noisy, and Yang Yinyu was even forced by the students to resign as the principal.
After that, she returned to her hometown in Suzhou. Later, the Outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, because Yang Yinyu studied in Japan in his early years, he was very proficient in Chinese and Japanese bilingualism. The Japanese military wanted to hire him as an official interpreter, but Yang Yinyu resolutely refused. The Japanese also held a grudge against her, and in 1938, when she took to the streets to oppose the atrocities committed by the Japanese army in Suzhou, she was secretly killed at the age of 54.
Throughout Yang Yinyu's life, it is very legendary, not only the courage to resist the feudal parents arranged marriages, but also showed a tenacious anti-Japanese style. As for the fact that she organized students to march on the streets, I don't think there is anything wrong with it. Students' obligations are academics, and they are full of flesh and blood, and they are easy to be shot by others. What Yang Yinyu did was not to prevent patriotism, but to protect students. In any case, she is a respected intellectual woman in modern times.