Zhu Ziqing's "Back Shadow" is a classic about father's love, and has also been included in the middle school Chinese textbook, which has touched countless people, and everyone is touched by the simple father's journey to love his son in the text. However, the relationship between Zhu Ziqing and his father Zhu Hongjun was not good for a while, and his father's character was also surprising, almost like the impression in "Back Shadow".
Zhu Ziqing even broke with this indisputable father for this indisputable father. So is it said that Zhu Ziqing's "Back Shadow" is deceiving us? In fact, Zhu Ziqing did not deceive us, but he did not tell us more truth. As a father, there are also pains for sons, and Zhu Ziqing just grasped a certain moment to write this article. So what did Zhu Ziqing's father do?
The root cause of the contradiction between Zhu Ziqing and his father is hidden in a sentence in "Back Shadow", which is "That winter, my grandmother died, and my father's messenger was also handed over." Here Zhu Ziqing did not say the cause of his grandmother's death, and the reason for his father's errands. In fact, the reason behind this is enough to destroy the image of his father.
These two things were actually caused by Zhu Ziqing's father. In 1915, Zhu Ziqing's father was promoted to become the director of the Xuzhou Yuyun Bureau (in charge of salt and other monopoly agencies, belonging to the fat difference), but he did not work hard to restrain himself during his tenure, but married a concubine to improve his life. At that time, although it was legal to take concubines, it also depended on the opinions of the members of the family. Zhu Ziqing's father's concubine was opposed by Zhu Ziqing's grandmother, who believed that he was nearly 50 years old and that pursuing a luxurious life as soon as he was promoted to an official was self-destructive.
Sure enough, Zhu Ziqing's father needed to raise concubines, and the expenses increased, so he embezzled public funds. After the East Window Incident in 1917, he was forced to hand over his errands. This incident can be said to have made Zhu Ziqing's grandmother very angry, so she died of anger alive. Because there was no source of income, Zhu Ziqing could not read, was forced to join the work in advance, and sent more than half of his income to his home.
However, what Zhu Ziqing did not expect was that his father still thought that he made too little money and gave too little money to the family. Later, Zhu Ziqing was forced to give all his salary to his father. Perhaps when his grandmother died and his father was on an errand, Zhu Ziqing was not completely disappointed in his father. From the beginning of the back:
I haven't seen my father for more than two years, and the last thing I can forget is his back. That winter, my grandmother died, and my father's messenger was handed over, and it was a day of misfortune. I traveled from Beijing to Xuzhou, planning to follow my father home from the funeral. ...... When he returned home to sell the canon, his father repaid the deficit and borrowed money for the funeral.
The sentence "The father paid back the deficit" shows that the father embezzled not much public funds, and he can still fill in the hole by cleaning up some belongings. Therefore, Zhu Ziqing chose to forgive his father. Why did Zhu Ziqing finally break up with his father completely, in fact, the reason is also hidden in "Back Shadow", this sentence is that "family trivialities often touch his anger", it turns out that Zhu Ziqing's father is an old man with a big temper.
Wu Zhongqian
The quarrel between father and son is always an internal contradiction, but Zhu Ziqing had a wife Wu Zhongqian on the eve of his father's loss of office, and Zhu Ziqing's father thought that this daughter-in-law was unlucky, and as soon as he passed the door, he lost his crown, and there were old people in the family who died. The contradiction between the father-in-law and the daughter-in-law made Zhu Ziqing embarrassed, And Zhu's father often scolded his daughter-in-law, and later she suffered from depression. After Zhu Ziqing found that his dear wife had been tortured like this by his father, he severed the father-son relationship with his father.
It is worth noting that "Back Shadow" was written in 1925 (when father and son were reconciled), which belongs to the memory of the past 8 years ago, that is, the death of the grandmother in the winter of 1917 and the dismissal of the father's errands. Zhu Ziqing and Wu Zhongqian married in 1916, and his father was promoted to Xuzhou Yuyun Bureau in 1915, followed by a concubine, and lost his official position in 1917. That is to say, Zhu Ziqing and his father married women almost at the same time, no wonder the grandmother was very angry.
In 1925, the relationship between father and son can be reconciled, in fact, it is also explained in "Back Shadow", that is, the old father wrote a letter to Zhu Ziqing - "I am in good health, but my shoulders are in severe pain, I hold up a pen, many inconveniences, and the period of about the great disappearance is not far away." After reading this letter, Zhu Ziqing finally forgave his father, recalled the scene of buying oranges at the station 8 years ago, and wrote "Back Shadow" to praise his father.
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