Nowadays, there are always people who feel that love is becoming more and more material, whether it is men or women, love and marriage are all running to conditions. Or the love of the last century is more simple and pure, and two people can live a lifetime if they are in love.
In fact, whether in the last century or this century, love has never changed. The pursuit of materialism a hundred years ago there were also many people, such as the famous film star Hu Ping in modern Shanghai Beach, she had a first love of Atang who had been in love for many years, but after becoming famous, in order to pursue better materials, she left Hu Ping and turned to the arms of others.
Also a hundred years ago, people who pursued true love could also abandon their families and fall in love with others because of true love. For example, Xu Zhimo, who I want to talk about today, is like this.
Xu Zhimo's position in the history of modern Chinese literature is unquestionable, as a representative of the crescent poets, his poem "Farewell to Kangqiao" vividly shows the delicate thoughts of a generation of literati. Talking about Xu Zhimo's emotional history, it is undeniable that he deserves the title of "the first scumbag of the Republic of China".
Xu Zhimo has had a total of 3 women in this life, 2 of whom are well known, which are Lin Huiyin and Lu Xiaoman, the famous ladies of the modern Republic of China. In fact, before he knew Lin and Lu, he already had a wife with knotted hair, but few people had heard of it.
This wife is Zhang Youyi, who was born in 1900, 3 years younger than Xu Zhimo. As far as the two families are concerned, Xu Zhimo's marriage to Zhang Youyi is a high climb. Although Xu Zhimo also came from a wealthy merchant family, the Xu family's family business is not worth mentioning at all compared with the Zhang family.
Zhang Youyi's grandfather was ZhiXian of the Qing Dynasty, and his second brother Zhang Jiasen was a close friend of Liang Qichao when he was studying in Japan, and later returned to China to serve as the secretary of the International Council of State Affairs in the cabinet of Duan Qirui's government, and later became the secretary of the presidential office. Her fourth brother is not an idle person, but the deputy manager of the Shanghai branch of the Bank of China, and then resigned directly as the secretary of Zhu Rui, the governor of Zhejiang, and it is not an exaggeration to describe Zhang Youyi's family lineage with his hands and eyes in the political and business circles.
In order to prevent her sister from being bullied after marrying into the Xu family, the dowry arranged by the Zhang family at that time was loaded with a full boat.
However, even if the pomp is so grand, can Xu Zhimo give up the nature of a scumbag? Obviously unrealistic. The combination of him and Zhang Youyi was originally the order of his parents, and the words of the matchmaker naturally could not have too much feeling. Although Zhang Youyi came from a large family, she was a more traditional woman. Therefore, in the eyes of the progressive youth Xu Zhimo, Zhang Youyi is a full-fledged bun.
For this marriage, Xu Zhimo has always been a state of neglect. Even if Zhang Youyi gave birth to 2 sons for him, Xu Zhimo could not mention any feelings for her, and even did not fulfill his father's obligations. Therefore, the marriage between the two did not last long, and with Xu Zhimo cheating on Lin Huiyin, the marriage was completely broken.
In 1922, the two divorced by agreement in Berlin, ending a 7-year married life, which was also the first Western-style civilized divorce case in modern China.
So the question is, Zhang Youyi's family is so strong, but she was ruthlessly abandoned by Xu Zhimo, ordinary people still can't bear this breath, how will she retaliate against her ex-husband Xu Zhimo?
Unfortunately, because Zhang Youyi is a traditional woman, she did not choose to retaliate against Xu Zhimo. On the contrary, Xu Zhimo's parents are very guilty about her, even if the two divorce, her parents still treat her as a family, and even recognize Zhang Youyi as a dry daughter. Even when Xu Zhimo's father died, it was a funeral that Zhang Youyi spent money to organize.
From this point of view, Zhang Youyi is a reasonable, virtuous and virtuous person. Xu Zhimo and her divorced, who has more loss at a glance.
So, if Zhang Youyi does not choose revenge, does she still have feelings for Xu Zhimo in her heart? For this problem, just look at her later encounters. As we all know, in the 9th year after the divorce of the two, Xu Zhimo was killed in a plane crash. Zhang, on the other hand, moved to Hong Kong in 1949, where she met and started a family with the doctor, Su Jizhi.
Su Jizhi is not like Xu Zhimo, he knows how to cherish Zhang Youyi. The two walked hand in hand for 18 years of happy marriage, and finally in 1972, Su Jizhi died before Zhang Youyi. Zhang Youyi died in 1988, and she did not remarry in the last 16 years of her life.
On the occasion of Zhang Youyi's death, he once had people engrave four large characters "Su Zhang Youyi" on his tombstone, and none of them were related to Xu Zhimo. It can be seen that Xu Zhimo has long been a passing cloud in her heart.