On July 26, 1966, a grand and warm wedding ceremony was held at the Li Mansion in no. 9 Hutong Courtyard of Beijing West Headquarters.
The groom is 75-year-old Li Zongren, while the bride is 27-year-old Hu Yousong.
Why did this bizarre marriage end up in bonding? Why would Hu Yousong, who is only 27 years old, agree to this marriage that outsiders are not optimistic about?
Who is Hu Yousong? And who is Li Zongren?
The world is confusing
Hu Yousong was born in 1939 to the mother of Hu Die, a shadow queen of the Republic of China.
She starred in "Song Girl Red Peony", the first sound film in China, which was well known at the time and is still regarded as a classic even today.
When she was young, Hu Yousong was not yet called Hu Yousong, and her mother gave her the name Hu Ruomei.
I hope that my mother will be as beautiful and strong as a plum blossom.
When she was a child, Hu Yousong often traveled on and off the set in a high-end car with her mother, and the family's nanny and tutor were ready to serve her at any time.
Happy life. However, due to his long-term stay in the humid southern hotel, little Hu Yousong suffered from skin diseases and eczema on his body.
From the perspective of modern medicine, eczema can be caused not only by humid environments, but also by emotional reasons.
From this, it may be speculated that Hu Yousong's life of performing everywhere with her mother has brought some emotional problems to her to a greater or lesser extent.
The mother's identity is so prominent, presumably the father is also a certain dignitary, but Hu Die said to his daughter Hu Yousong, "If anyone asks, you will say that the mother is Hu Die, and the father has died." ”
As for Hu Yousong's life, who her father really is, the outside world is also talking about it.
This has to be said about her mother Hu Die's peach-colored past with the head of the secret service, Dai Kasa.
Hu Die has a pair of iconic dimples, in addition to her superb acting skills, amazing appearance, there is also a peach-colored past with Dai Kasa.
And this has become the reason why she has been controversial and hotly discussed in the future.
As far as Shanghai Beach in the 1930s is concerned, Hu Die is not only the brightest star, but also the dream lover of countless people.
On the occasion of New Year's Day in 1933, Shanghai's Star Daily launched an event on movie tickets, and in this selection competition, Hu Die deservedly became the first person to vote for the Shanghai Film Queen.
After that, with her superb acting skills and pleasing looks, she won the film queen for many consecutive years.
In 1931, Hu Die successfully starred in China's first sound film "Singer Red Peony", which also successfully became another milestone in the history of Chinese cinema.
In addition, it is the first sound film, and China's films are also in the stage of enlightenment and exploration, so Hu Die's appearance in this film has also become a classic video image.
Hu Die's world seems to be open and hanging, smooth sailing, and the truth and affirmation of her family have also doubled Hu Die's confidence.
Hu Die's husband is also her second boyfriend, named Pan Yousheng.
Pan Yousheng is a generous and honest businessman.
When the two people are together, they get along quite well, and the little days are also very moist.
However, the good times did not last long, and soon the War of Resistance broke out in full swing, and the couple could only immediately flee Shanghai, a place of right and wrong, and rush to Chongqing.
However, in the middle of the road, an accident occurred, and Hu Die's treasured savings for many years, that is, her thirteen boxes of jewelry were lost.
This is undoubtedly a great blow to Hu Die, in fact, among the 13 boxes of treasures, in addition to her own savings, there are also business people and politicians who entrust her to lead the things inlaid with a bag of lost.
Not only did she have no face, but it also made her feel cornered.
When he was distressed, Butterfly found Du Yuesheng to help.
Du Yuesheng had a clever move and thought of a person who could solve this matter--Dai Kasa.
In fact, Dai Kasa himself also has a small calculation in his heart, he has long coveted the beauty of Hu Die, but he is suffering from not having the opportunity to get to know Hu Die.
Now that there is such an act of borrowing flowers to offer Buddha, how can Dai Kasa let go of this beautiful child who is thinking about the twilight.
Now that they had come to their own faces, Dai Kasa was naturally excited.
Dai Kasa promised with a full mouth, threatening to find all the jewels, but finding the jewels was easy to see and difficult to do.
After all, the political situation was turbulent at that time, and there was smoke everywhere, and trying to recover these boxes of lost jewelry was undoubtedly like finding a needle in a haystack.
Although Dai Kasa had dispatched all his subordinates to search carefully, he still found nothing.
Dai Kasa thought of a new idea, and he sent someone directly to the jewelry store to buy the exact same jewelry and return it to Hu Die.
At first, Hu Di was excited to see the box that had been found, and there were many pieces of jewelry, and she was also very happy.
But on closer inspection, these jewels are all brand new, obviously not found by Dai Kasa, but bought by himself, just to win a smile.
Hu Di also probably understood what Dai Kasa meant, and Dai Kasa was indeed very concerned about his own affairs.
Then Dai Kasa deliberately let Pan Yousheng go to other places to do business, in order to naturally create a precious opportunity for the two of them to be alone.
As soon as Pan Yousheng left, he did everything in his power and began to take the opportunity to frantically pursue Hu Die.
For Hu Die, at this moment, her husband is not around, and she has asked for help, how can she directly resist Dai Kasa?
All she could do was swallow her anger and accept fate's arrangement.
Dai Kasa was originally a person with wind and snow, but after his pursuit of Hu Butterfly, he not only did not continue to pick flowers and stir up grass, but single-mindedly took care of butterflies.
He sent his subordinates Shen Drunken to build a villa around Butterfly, and imprisoned Butterfly in the name of Jinya Zangjiao.
Then, like a butterfly with folded wings, it spent three years under the supervision of Dai Kasa, and the butterfly could no longer fly freely like a butterfly, which was also a kind of irony.
Hu Die's husband, Pan Yousheng, did not know what was happening, but he was found by his men sent by Dai Kasa, who beat Pan Yousheng severely.
And took out the divorce agreement, forced Pan Yousheng to divorce Hu Die, and told Pan Yousheng.
If you do not obediently sign the divorce agreement, then Pan Yousheng is a dead end, and Pan Yousheng finally had to choose to sign the divorce agreement in humiliation.
And the butterfly was also grief-stricken after learning about this, and it was very heartbroken.
Later, there was anecdotal rumor that because Dai Kasa loved Hu Butterfly in every way, gradually, Butterfly's heart also wavered.
Is there a mutual affection between the two, or is it the wishful thinking of Dai Kasa alone?
We only know that butterflies are like caged birds, spending three years under house arrest by Dai Kasa.
It was not until March 17, 1946, that Dai Kasa was killed in a plane crash while on a plane, and he was freed.
Therefore, the most widely spread theory in the world is that Hu Yousong may have been Dai Kasa who forced Hu Die to give birth to his daughter during the three years of hu die's imprisonment.
However, if you count from the time of Hu Yousong's birth, the beginning of Hu Die's captivity is 1942, which contradicts hu Yousong's birth time in 1966.
But if Hu Yousong is not the daughter of Dai Kasa and Hu Die, why did Hu Die not think of Hu Yousong in the days after returning to the mainland?
Since then, hu yousong's biological father is still confused.
In old China in the 1940s, a child with an unknown father naturally became the object of everyone's after-dinner conversation.
However, these offensive remarks made Hu Yousong overwhelmed and suffered from a skin disease that was unbearable.
Mother Hu Die may be distressed, or maybe she does not want to let a child continue to be controversial.
At the doctor's suggestion, Hu Yousong was sent to Shen Zhiwen for recuperation.
Childhood bitter grievances
But Shen Zhiwencai is not an ordinary tutor, she is also the aunt of the great warlord Zhang Zongchang, and she is also a squeamish and arrogant woman.
Yu Nanjing met Hu Die, and Shen Zhiwen was entrusted by Hu Die to take Hu Yousong to Beijing to recuperate.
Unfortunately, Hu Die's trust is not a person, and Shen Zhiwen is not a good teacher and friend.
On the contrary, she often scolded Hu Yousong, gave a sweet date when she was happy, and took Hu Yousong out of anger when she was unhappy.
This kind of education, which was only scolding and not guiding, left a deep shadow in the heart of little Hu Yousong.
It was not until 1952 that Hu Di had the opportunity to return to Beijing from Hong Kong to meet Hu Yousong.
But Shen Zhiwen did not want mother and daughter to meet, so she stopped them.
Hu Die could not see her daughter, and could only leave a box of gold and silver jewelry to Shen Zhiwen as Hu Yousong's living expenses and tuition fees, and pleaded with Shen Zhiwen to treat her daughter well.
However, Shen Zhiwen did not use the money rationally, and used the money on Hu Yousong, but only squandered Hu Die's money.
When Shen Zhiwen accepted Hu Die's entrustment, he said that he would take good care of Xiao Yousong, but in fact, he saw the huge living expenses that Hu Die gave to his daughter.
And her unrelenting spending time and wine also made Hu Yousong's living conditions more difficult.
Although Hu Yousong grew up in scolding, his psychology did not become dark and depressed.
On the contrary, she has a cheerful and generous personality. She knew that the only way to leave this place that made her miserable was to read.
So she studied hard, and After graduating from middle school, Hu Yousong was admitted to a nursing school in Beijing and became an angel dressed in white.
She changed her name to Hu Yousong. First, she hopes that she can stand tall like a pine tree, not afraid of the winter wind and the cold. She is no longer a petite and loving flower, she wants to be a tree that rises high into the clouds;
Second, the public opinion environment at that time overwhelmed her, and the harsh words of her father's unknown mother's unloving made her powerless to refute it, and perhaps another name could be exchanged for a breathing space.
In addition to changing his name, Hu Yousong also frequently changed his work location, perhaps related to the public opinion environment at that time.
Therefore, she gave her recent photo to Cheng Siyuan, hoping that he could help her find a job.
At this moment, Li Zongren had just returned to China with the help of our party, and the second wife, Guo Dejie, had passed away.
Guo Dejie accompanied him from his career to achievements, so Li Zongren was very sad and needed to be taken care of.
This reminded his secretary, Cheng Siyuan, of the careful and beautiful Hu Yousong who worked in the hospital.
After Cheng Siyuan showed Li Zongren the photo of Hu Yousong, Li Zongren was moved when he looked at Hu Yousong, who was childish and worried.
Li Zongren was not only a first-class general of the Nationalist Army, but also the leader of the "Gui clan" and a patriotic general.
During the Northern Expedition, he made great achievements in battle, and in the War of Resistance Against Japan, he commanded the Battle of Taierzhuang and achieved great victories.
But he refused to sign the Internal Peace Agreement proposed by our party, and advocated peace talks at the last minute, a figure of complexity.
But in general, there have been meritorious deeds to the country and the nation.
Born in Guilin, Guangxi in 1891, Li Zongren entered a military academy at the outbreak of the Xinhai War in 1911, graduating in 1915 and becoming a platoon leader in Lu Rongting's Gui Army, at the age of 24.
Li Zongren was known for his bravery and tenacity in battle, and was nicknamed Li Tieniu.
After a major defeat in the Second Guangdong-Guangdong War, Li Zongren had to flee into the mountains, wait for the opportunity, and eventually rise in chaos.
On December 1, 1924, he became the supreme leader of a province.
On March 12, 1925, the First Ding-Gui War broke out for two months and ended with the victory of the new Gui clan.
Li Zongren is 34 years old, and it took ten years to go from a platoon leader to the top spot in Guangxi.
At the end of 1927, Li Zongren became a prince who controlled the two lakes and held 100,000 male soldiers.
By the time of the Second Northern Expedition, the entire Gui clan had reached the peak of its full potential.
The so-called Taiping Eight Gui, in the Central Plains, Li Zongren also came to the highlight moment of his life.
However, with the change of the northeast and the nominal reunification of the National Government in Nanjing, Chiang Kai-shek believed that the new warlords were too powerful and would inevitably become hidden dangers in the future.
Therefore, a meeting of editors was held, and the new warlords of various factions were ordered to be downsized, and Li Zongren was targeted.
Li Zongren could only flee overseas, and he lost all his family funds and fell into the low tide of life.
But life has both prosperity and decline, and there are also negative poles.
When he was 38 years old, with the support of the old ministry, he took the opportunity to return to Guangxi, regained his authority, and became the commander-in-chief of the First Front.
In March 1934, Sun Yat-sen's Three People's Principles were proclaimed by Guangxi Province to follow, build Guangxi to rejuvenate China, and put forward the central task of the present for national liberation.
Li Zongren said: "We have always insisted on resisting the propositions of any imperialists who oppress us, especially the Japanese imperialists, the greatest enemy who endangers us at the moment, and even more advocate resisting their aggression with iron and blood." ”
With the outbreak of the July 7 Incident and China's entry into the anti-Japanese united front, Li Zongren's anti-Japanese heart was fiery, and he actively organized the Gui army to go north.
In the face of the Japanese army's large-scale invasion of China, he proposed a strategy to actively resist Japan.
Li Zongren fought a bloody battle in the anti-Japanese battlefield and played a military style and military color of Chinese soldiers.
One of the most well-known is the Battle of Taierzhuang.
Throughout the campaign, the local warlords, under the unremitting efforts of Li Zongren, abandoned their previous suspicions, twisted into a rope, and burst out amazing combat effectiveness in the west.
The soldiers formed a commando team of more than a dozen people, armed with large knives, and engaged the Japanese in close combat, and recovered most of Taierzhuang.
With the great victory of Taierzhuang, the Chinese army entered a comprehensive strategic counteroffensive.
This not only greatly encouraged the anti-Japanese enthusiasm of the Chinese military and people and made the anti-Japanese action of the Chinese military and people more active, but also the biggest victory achieved since the War of Resistance Against Japan, and Li Zongren, as the commander, was indispensable.
On December 11, 1949, Guangxi was liberated, and Li Zongren rushed to Hong Kong early and then fled to the United States.
On July 20, 1965, after ten years of liaison efforts in New China and Li Zongren's full trust in our Party, Li Zongren finally flew back to Beijing.
He returned to the embrace of the motherland and the people and became a member of the new China.
Li Zongren read a statement at the airport saying that he would contribute to the completion of the reunification of the motherland, and was received by Premier Zhou and other leaders.
A year after returning to China, his second wife, Guo Dejie, died, and Guo Dejie was introduced by Li Zongren in Guiping, the daughter of a mason and a beautiful school flower.
In 1924, he married Li Zongren, the two worked together for more than forty years, and after the death of the second lady, he was depressed, and the leaders of the Party Central Committee were very concerned, so they proposed to find a partner for Li Zongren.
Four years together
Li Zongren picked Hu Yousong at a glance in the photos of more than sixty women, and was impressed by Hu Yousong's meticulous care, rather than looking at Hu Yousong's youth and beauty.
It turned out that Hu Yousong was the nurse who had been taking care of Li Zongren, and the two had intersected a long time ago.
That night, Li Zongren left people to eat, and when he ate, he asked Hu Yousong if he would like to work here, and the content of the work was simple text materials and document management and logistics services.
Hu Yousong agreed, Li Zongren was very happy, and insisted on sending it after dinner, and gave Hu Yousong a 300 yuan red envelope.
The second meeting was a few days later, when Li Zongren took Hu Yousong to familiarize himself with the environment of the Li Mansion, he frankly told her that he hoped she would come to work as soon as possible, and he liked Hu Yousong very much.
At the third meeting, Li Zongren said bluntly that he wanted Hu Yousong to come to him as a health secretary, but Hu Yousong did not agree at that time, saying that he would go back to consider it.
The fourth time we met and had dinner together, but it was a big party, and it was inconvenient to talk more.
When they met for the fifth time, Hu Yousong was proposed by Li Zongren, and said that as long as Hu Yousong agreed to go through the marriage procedures on the spot, this time Hu Yousong agreed, so he met five times a month to make a lifelong event.
On July 26, 1966, the two held a grand and enthusiastic wedding ceremony at the Lee Mansion, and the secular vision must have felt that the man coveted the woman's youth and beauty, and the woman must have coveted the man's financial status, but this was not the case.
After marriage, the old husband and young wife have been living separately When they got married, Hu Yousong made it clear that he would never want the man to share any property, and even the usual expenses were required to be solved by himself.
"I don't care about money, all the passbooks, keys, and inheritance of property, I am only responsible for taking care of Mr. Li's living." After Hu Yousong entered the Li Mansion, she said it herself at a press conference.
Why did Hu Yousong willingly marry Li Zongren? Later generations have differed.
One of the three most widely circulated theories is this: First, Hu Yousong's much-criticized identity makes her urgently need a place where she does not care about her identity.
Second, Li Zongren's meticulous concern for her has made Hu Yousong, who lacked fatherly love since childhood and suffered bitter grievances, get different care, and Li Zongren is a famous anti-Japanese general, and Hu Yousong has great respect for him.
Third, Hu Yousong has always longed for his mother's pure love that does not care about the difference in age and identity.
Hu Yousong wrote in his later self-report that after marriage, they lived separately, and Li Zongren was very fond of her, and would come to her room every night to help her tuck the quilt.
Once Hu Yousong accidentally caught a cold, Li Zongren did not know where to hear a folk remedy that eating melon seeds can cure a cold.
Unexpectedly, the next morning, she found that there was an extra plate of melon seeds at the head of her bed, but Hu Yousong felt that it was troublesome to snort melon seeds.
Four years later, Li Zongren, the new review leader who had been in the limelight, died of illness in Beijing at the age of 78.
Before he died, he clutched Hu Yousong's hand and shed tears, saying that he had only shed tears twice in his life, one because his mother died, and the other because he could not let go of Hu Yousong.
Under Hu Yousong's long-term care, Li Zongren's eldest son was also moved, acknowledging that she was his own family and affirming Hu Yousong's heart of a pure son.
In addition, Hu Yousong did fulfill the promise he made in the media that year, and did not spend a penny on Li Zongren.
In his later years, he was light and simple
After Li Zongren died, he lived on his meager salary. After being expelled from the Li Mansion, he was treated inhumanely every day, and he lived a very miserable life, lonely and displaced.
After Hu Yousong's situation was learned by Premier Zhou, he let her enter the electrical component factory as an inspector.
In order to conceal his identity and avoid trouble, Hu Yousong assumed the name Wang Xi and lived a poor life, but did not sell the objects left by Li Zongren to her, and finally handed over Li Zongren's personal belongings to the state, and later worked in the historical archives until his retirement in 1989.
On May 6, 1995, Hu Yousong took refuge in the Buddhist Dharma number Miaohui Resident, and chose to accompany the Qinglan Ancient Buddha and the company of Sanskrit Yin, and she never married.
Hu Yousong also personally visited the Taierzhuang Battle Museum, and after the completion of the Taierzhuang Battle Museum in 1996, many of the precious relics that Li Zongren gave her before her death were donated by Hu Yousong.
Therefore, the museum specially hired Hu Yousong as the honorary curator, just to show gratitude. Hu Yousong also said that Li Zongren's patriotic spirit has always been engraved in her heart, which makes her remember deeply and will never be erased.
In the temple, Hu Yousong also opened up a new hobby, she learned to paint, because painting can get temporary peace of mind.
In addition, she often donates money to Hope Elementary School, which is the money obtained from her paintings.
On November 25, 2008, Hu Yousong died in a temple at the age of 69 due to rectal cancer.
Ended her legendary and uneventful life, leaving no posterity.
She left quietly, like autumn leaves, quietly returning to dust.
Looking back on Hu Yousong's life, his life may be confusing, his childhood may be bitter and aggrieved, and his old age may be simple and simple, but he did have a stable time with Li Zongren.
Maybe she once faced gossip, but she did not fall because of it, but stuck to her heart and said one thing or the other.
As the saying goes, "A gentleman is cautious and independent", which means that a gentleman can maintain his behavior and demeanor even if he is alone.
Hu Yousong is such a person, Li Zongren did not spend a penny of Li Zongren's huge property before his death, but was down-to-earth and industrious, exchanging her own labor for wages, and her strict self-disciplined life style is worth learning from us.
Reference: Li Zongren and Hu Yousong: The Love of the Year