During the Republic of China period, there were many talented women and beautiful women, before there was Zhang Ailing, who was independent in the past, and then there was Lu Xiaoman, who was extremely stylish, and Lin Huiyin, who was generous and decent, and had a brilliant ice heart...
There is also a low-key name - Ling Shuhua.
Ling Shuhua is known as the "Famous Lady of the Century", and throughout her life trajectory, she can be called the first woman with the best life in the Republic of China.
Celebrity origin
Some people lament that Ling Shuhua's life is like an extended version of "Jinghua Smoke and Clouds".
Ling Shuhua's grandfather Ling Chaogeng, the rich party, and the patriotic feeling of destroying the family to alleviate difficulties. During the famine in the early years of Xianfeng, the Ling family donated tens of thousands of stones of rice every day, and the donation lasted for three months. It was also thanks to the Ling family's great wealth that the nationwide disaster was partially alleviated.
Ling Shuhua's father, Ling Fupeng, was a minister in the court. After the Republic of China, he served as a member of the Beiyang Political Council, one of the earliest universities, and founded The First Chamber of Commerce in China.
Through the depiction of others, Ling Shuhua's eminent court can also be outlined. After Chen Xiying and Ling Shuhua became connected, Lu Xun, who was not compatible with Chen Xiying, once wrote an article called "New Rose". Among them, it is quite ironic to say that Professor Chen Xiying found a rich woman as a wife.
Although it is in the connotation of Chen Xiying, a rich man with high climbing, it can also reflect how solid Ling Shuhua's family situation is.
Ling Shuhua is an uncompromising celebrity of the century, there is no doubt about this, and from the spiritual level, she is still a rare talented woman.
Although Ling Shuhua's mother was only the third aunt, Ling Shuhua, as a shu out, was not despised, but stood out among the sisters because of his excellent painting skills.
With a literati atmosphere and the cultivation of an aristocratic family, Ling Shuhua showed a talent for painting at the age of six.
Because of her love and ability to paint, she was accepted as a disciple by Empress Dowager Cixi's royal painter, and at the age of seven, she studied under the painter Wang Zhuling of Shanshui Orchid, and even later, Qi Baishi taught her Chinese painting techniques.
It can be said that along the way, Ling Shuhua has been guided by the academic giants and taught by the industry masters.
Not only that, Ling Shuhua's school also has many celebrities gathered, and Zhou Enlai's wife Deng Chaoying is a classmate, and Lu Xun's wife Xu Guangping is also her younger sister.
We all know that Lin Huiyin has a family salon, and the Bingxin essay "Our Wife's Living Room" is also recorded.
Lin Huiyin
In fact, Ling Shuhua's family also had a party, and it was more than ten years earlier than Lin Huiyin's, known as the "first living room in North China", and the big people who were sensational at that time were all guests of the Ling family.
In April 1924, Tagore visited China, and Xu Zhimo accompanied Tagore, and Ling Shuhua's later husband Chen Xiying was also one of the responsible persons. However, at this time, Ling Shuhua was already able to have an in-depth conversation with Tagore about art.
When foreign literature visited Hualing Shuhua, he invited Tagore, Hu Shi, Chen Xinying, Lin Huiyin and others to their homes as guests.
This unique gathering changed their fate, in this gathering, in addition to Chen Xiying's love for Ling Shuhua at first sight, Tagore said to Xu Zhimo, Ling Shuhua was more than Lin Huiyin. Under the high praise of outsiders, Ling Shuhua's talent can be seen.
Whether it is Ling Shuhua's own knowledge and her superb painting skills, she has become a special presence among the talented women of the Republic of China, and she is called "one of the three talented women in the literary world" together with Bing Xin and Lin Huiyin.
Xu Zhimo
Xu Zhimo's love history can be said to be talked about by the world, cutting the relationship that is still chaotic, adding a little dog blood.
When receiving Tagore, Xu Zhimo already had a secret affection for Lin Huiyin, and after receiving him, he became close friends with Ling Shuhua.
It is reported that Xu Zhimo's love affair with Lu Xiaoman was also exposed because of Ling Shuhua.
Lu Xiaoman's husband at the time, Wang Geng, accompanied Xu Zhimo's father Xu Shenru to visit Xu Zhimo. Xu Zhimo's father, who loves his son, asks Xu Zhimo about his marriage candidates, and Xu Zhimo expresses his love for Ling Shuhua and draws out a letter with Ling Shuhua for display.
Unexpectedly, I mistakenly took Lu Xiaoman's letter, which can be described as extremely embarrassing.
In 1931, Xu Zhimo died of a plane crash because he went to Lin Huiyin, at the age of 34.
Previously, Xu Zhimo had given an eight treasure chest to Ling Shuhua for safekeeping. The Eight Treasure Chest mainly contains Xu Zhimo's diary and letters.
After Xu Zhimo's death, Lin Huiyin and Lu Xiaoman had both begged for this eight treasure chest, but Ling Shuhua thought that Xu Zhimo had written a biography and had refused to hand it over.
Lu Xiaoman's request was fruitless, so he gave up, but Lin Huiyin asked Hu Shi to continue to get it back. In desperation, Ling Shuhua handed the Eight Treasure Chest to Hu Shi, but unexpectedly Hu Shi turned his head and handed it to Lin Huiyin.
In the eight treasure chests, Kangqiao's diary was missing, and under constant pressure, Ling Shuhua finally handed over the diary, but some important chapters were missing in the middle, which were not complete.
After the stalemate of the Eight Treasure Chests, Ling Shuhua and Lin Hui had never been in contact because of their vendetta.
Affair
After Tagore's visit to China, Ling Shuhua also met her husband, Chen Xiying. In the surrounding friends marriages are divided and merged, but they have always been plain, Qinser and Ming.
However, this peace was shattered by Ling Shuhua's vigorous extramarital affair.
Ling Shuhua met Julian, a 25-year-old foreign poet, at the age of 35.
Ling Shuhua and his father entertained foreign friends
Julian is young and promising, handsome in appearance, and unlike the rigidity of her husband Chen Xiying, he is a very emotional and passionate young poet.
Reading poetry and books since childhood, the talented Ling Shuhua naturally did not want to be a housewife, and always complained about the ordinary days.
When these two people meet together, they begin a vigorous and intolerable love in the world.
In the end, Chen Xiying, as the dean of literature at Wuhan University, sent off Julian, who was teaching at Wuhan University. Julian, with an adventurous spirit, died on the battlefield because he voluntarily participated in the Spanish Civil War.
About this secret relationship, the Chinese people are not aware of it because Ling Shuhua has corresponded with Julian's mother Woolf many times. Finally, because Ling Shuhua's achievements in the West became more and more eye-catching, this matter gradually spread.
In her later years, Ling Shuhua traveled the world, and although she was said to be famous for her literature, she published only five books in her lifetime. He first taught in Southeast Asia and Canada, and then developed painting in London. Her paintings overseas are also praised as "the best example of literati painting in the Republic of China".
Born with a golden key, young and famous, a smooth life, met a husband who was dedicated and willing to tolerate her, it was a smooth life. At the same time, he is also a man of temperament. Facing Lin Huiyin, he did not show weakness.
Not only are the conditions superior, Ling Shuhua's physical fitness and appearance are also superior, until the age of 67, he was also praised by Su Xuehua as a clean look.
In 1989, at the age of 89, she also fulfilled her last wish, and Ye fell back to her roots and returned to her ancestral home in Beijing.
In 1990, Ling Shuhua died at the age of 90, and was buried with Chen Xiying, which was really romantic and free to the end.