preface
Pictured| Jin Moyu in his later years
On May 26, 2014, the last Qing Dynasty Gege
Ai Xinjue Luo Xianqi died of a heart attack in Beijing at the age of 95.
Ai Xinjue Luo Xianqi, also known as Jin Moyu, her life can be said to be a living history, that is, in 2007, before her death, Jin Moyu was interviewed by a TELEVISION station, when people were surprised by the optimism and cheerfulness of the 80-year-old lady.
Although someone once asked about the ups and downs of her life, Jin Moyu was still smiling:
"The four words of joy and sorrow, your sorrow and that anger, should be put in your heart, but joy and happiness can be shared with many people."
The past must pass in the end, and life should still go on.
Prominent family lineage
Jin Moyu was a Manchu nobleman whose ancestors can be traced back to Emperor Taiji of the Qing Dynasty, and the family inherited the title of Hauge the Prince of Su, the eldest son of Emperor Taiji.
Those who have seen a kind of film and television drama that reacted to the early Qing Dynasty, when familiar with the name Hauge.
As the eldest son of Emperor Taiji, Hauge was originally eligible to inherit the throne, but his temperament was weak, so that he missed the opportunity, and was eventually woven by Dolgun Luo and died of five years of seclusion in Shunzhi.
Although Hauge was dead, his exploits were there after all.
After Dorgon's death, Shunzhi posthumously awarded the title of Prince Hauge, and in the first month of the forty-second year of Qianlong, he was also assigned to the Taimiao Temple, and was hereditary.
Prince Su is one of the twelve iron hat kings of the Qing Dynasty.
This title was inherited until the end of the Qing Dynasty, when the tenth Prince Su was Jin Moyu's father, Prince Suzhong, Prince Shanqi
。
The evaluation of this person is actually not high in the history we have learned.
Figure | Shanqi
Nevertheless, through historical records, it can be found that Shanqi advocated the reform of the late Qing Dynasty and organized the restoration of the Sectarian Socialist Party, and was not a mediocre Manchu Nobleman.
Despite his position with the Revolutionary Party, Shanqi debated with Wang Jingwei in prison, when Wang Jingwei was arrested and imprisoned for plotting to assassinate the regent, and Neither Shanqi nor Wang Jingwei could convince each other. Later, he joked with people in private:
"If I hadn't been born into the royal family, I would have joined the revolutionary party and rebelled against the imperial court a long time ago. ”
In his lifetime, shanqi had 38 children, 21 sons and 17 daughters.
Among them, there is no one who is famous for the fourteenth female Xianxuan, that is, Yoshiko Kawashima.
Of course, Yoshiko Kawashima also has a younger brother who is also very famous, namely Aisin Kyora Xiandong, who joined the Eighth Route Army led by Li Yunchang at the end of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and also joined the Communist Party of China. Li Yunchang later appointed Xian Dong as deputy commander of the second column of the Shenyang Garrison Command.
Xian Dong's personal experience is really legendary, it is said that in that special era, Xian Dong also suffered a shock,
But he has a kind of arrogance in his personal grace, no matter how critical, he is not moving, and once at the meeting to criticize him, Xian Dong almost fell asleep on the spot, and his mentality was surprisingly good.
Then there's Jin Moyu.
It is different from her sister Yoshiko Kawashima's collusion with the Japanese and pseudo-Japanese, and it is also different from Kendong's participation in the Chinese Communist Party.
Jin Moyu's life is a plain life, and all her legendary experiences come from her overly special identity.
Although the Qing Dynasty had collapsed when Jin Moyu was born, the ancestral family law still bound her, especially for the women in these families, and the restraints were even stricter.
When they were young, the family stipulated that it was not allowed to eat distant dishes, and the grandmothers at home had to pick up the dishes for them, but the grandmothers would not give them a lot of clips at a time, but even so, if they were not full, they could not show it.
Pictured| Jin Moyu when he was young
Even in the face of strict family rules, Jin Moyu still showed a rebellious mood from an early age.
At the age of 19, Jin Moyu most wanted to do was to become a traveling female journalist or singing actress, when the conformists in the family heard the child's remarks and were frightened and stunned.
"A royal family, but he has to go out and become a professional woman who shows her face."
Despite such rebellious ideas, the bondage of the family has always existed for Jin Moyu.
Several older brothers and sisters suffered such fates.
In 1927, Kim attended the wedding of her sister Yoshiko Kawashima, the first time she saw her sister after many years, when Yoshiko Kawashima often wore a man's attire and stood tall at home without looking at anyone.
During her study in Japan, Jin Moyu lived a life under the fence.
In 1937, Kim returned to China after interrupting her studies in Japan and secretly worked as a consultant for a Japanese textile company with her family.
It should be pointed out that in the year of Jin Moyu's return to China, Japan's all-out war of aggression against China broke out.
Although all the Chinese people live in the depths of the water, all this seems to have no impression on Jin Moyu, she lives the life of a professional woman, which is also the life she has always wanted to pursue. The life of wealth in childhood made Jin Moyu develop the habit of spending money and spending a lot of money, so at the end of the month, the money was often not enough, and sometimes even owed money to the company.
Still, the hardships of the world made her feel a little different.
Working in a Japanese company, Jin Moyu once saw Chinese nodding to the Japanese, and she was a little angry, so she went forward to persuade:
"You are Chinese, and you must have national self-confidence."
Pictured| Jin Moyu
Jin Moyu's words caused the Japanese to be unhappy, but although at that time, Jin Moyu still had the heavy identity of this Manchu Qing nobleman, and the average Japanese really did not dare to do anything with her.
However, Jin Moyu also had his own judgment and knew what was right and what was wrong, so Jin Moyu never followed him to the northeast.
For this reason, Jin Moyu did not hesitate to break with her sister Yoshiko Kawashima.
"A whole bunch of leather coats sold for less than the price of one piece of clothing"
Jin Moyu has been accustomed to a life of gold clothes and jade food since childhood, although she was born in a chaotic world, she did not know enough about the life at the bottom.
Although Prince Su has a long lineage and many children, it is almost impossible to really count on the usefulness not only that there is not much communication between several rooms, but even the relatives and sisters have very little contact.
Most of the men in the family were not very contentious, so almost all the assets left by Prince Su were destroyed.
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War in 1945, Kawashima Yoshiko was arrested and shot for adultery, and Jin Moyu did not have anything to do with the puppet Manchu regime, but bad luck also found the door at this time.
After the prince's mansion was requisitioned, Jin Moyu could only take a large family to move to a small house in Dongdan, Beijing.
By 1948, as the Liberation War progressed, Jin Moyu's eldest brother was worried about being liquidated, so he fled to Hong Kong, and when he left, he entrusted his four children to Jin Moyu's care, but only left her 100 yuan.
There is no doubt that Jin Moyu has no life experience and does not know how to maintain her life.
At the beginning, Jin Moyu could only take the things at home to sell, because he did not understand the market, a large number of good leather clothes only sold for less than the price of one piece of clothing, opened a laundry room, used good soap, and as a result, after a month, the money to buy soap was more than the money earned.
Forced to do so, Jin Moyu had to knit a sweater, and in the past, this royal gege ten fingers did not stick to the spring water, but had to knit sweaters to maintain his life, even if this was far from enough for the family to spend.
In 1952, his brother who was far away in Japan sent money to Jin Moyu, who used the money to open a Western restaurant in his yard, which turned out to be a Sichuan restaurant, which was barely maintained.
Two years later, the restaurant was public-private, and Jin Moyu became a staff member of the Central Compilation Bureau, with a monthly salary of 60 yuan, which was barely enough to maintain the family's expenses.
By this year, Jin Moyu was 36 years old.
As a woman, at that time, 36 years old and not married should indeed be considered an old girl.
It was also this year that the flower of love of Jin Moyu finally opened.
By chance, when Jin Moyu passed by the hutong entrance where he ran the hotel, he was attracted by a lotus flower ink painting in the calligraphy and painting shop at the door, and Jin Moyu walked in and asked the store:
"Which masterpiece is this painting?"
The store answered:
"Ma Wanli."
Jin Moyu remembered the name.
Ma Wanli is a famous calligraphy seal engraver in contemporary China, and later through the introduction of Xu Linlu, Ma Wanli met Jin Moyu, and the first time they met, Ma Wanli gave Jin Moyu a seal.
Almost as well, this is the side of the promise.
Pictured| the wedding photo of Jin Moyu and Ma Wanli
Before Ma Wanli met Jin Moyu, he had two marriage experiences, and once he almost went to the end of the road due to poverty.
The appearance of Jin Moyu brought new hope to Ma Wanli, who was living in the home of his daughter Ma Huixian, which was unusually narrow and had no space for painting, so Jin Moyu took Ma Wanli to him and specially opened a studio for Ma Wanli to paint.
Ma Wanli's daughter Ma Huixian recalled:
"At that time, Ma Wanli often went out on dates and rarely ate at home. Ma Wanli sent a party Zheng Banqiao's seal to Jin Moyu as a promise letter, I did not know much about the seal at that time, nor did I know the value, so I casually put it in the drawer, and later when I moved, I was dropped on the ground and broken. ”
It was also in this year that the two registered their marriage despite worldly prejudices.
On the day of the wedding, the cheongsam worn by Jin Moyu was borrowed, and the invitation was written by her husband Ma Wanli himself, although it was a little shabby, Jin Moyu felt unprecedented satisfaction.
Because this husband was hand-picked by her.
I still remember when I was in Beijing, there were people in my family who came to propose to me, but Jin Moyu was unwilling and made a big fuss about her family:
"None of you should take care of my business!"
Compared with their brothers and sisters, most of their marriages are involuntari, many are political marriages, Jin Moyu also thought that she may one day, under the arrangement of the family, marry a prince in Mongolia, but did not expect that with the change of the situation, she can still have the opportunity to choose.
Although Jin Moyu thought that his happy life was coming, the real test was about to begin.
After all the hardships, we have regained our lives
In February 1958, five days before the Spring Festival, Jin Moyu was taken from home.
Even Jin Moyu thought that she was just a small trip away from home, not a big deal, even if she knew what happened later, she was a little caught off guard.
Picture | Ma Wanli and Jin Moyu's family
Although during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Jin Moyu had nothing to do with the puppet state of Manchukuo, in that special era, Jin Moyu was arrested for unusual kinship with Yoshiko Kawashima and others.
At the subsequent trial, Jin was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
Although her husband has expressed his reluctance to abandon her several times, in order not to involve her husband, Jin Moyu chose to divorce Ma Wanli.
Even in the circumstances of the time, it was of little use, and in fact Ma Wanli was unfortunate to receive fair treatment until 1979, unfortunately only 5 months later.
Jin Moyu endured the ordeal alone.
In 1973, after jin Moyu was released from prison, he was assigned to Tianjin Chadian Farm and became a farm worker.
Jin Moyu, who has never done heavy work in her life, gets up early every day and is greedy, doing extremely heavy work, and due to years of hard work, she has left many diseases on her body.
In order to alleviate physical fatigue, Jin Moyu developed the habit of smoking, and the addiction was quite heavy, sometimes smoking a pack a day.
It was also a chance that Jin Moyu met a man from Shanghai, Shi Youwei.
Shi Youwei's life experience is now impossible to verify, but he can get to know Jin Moyu, which can also be regarded as a fate.
Shi Youwei was also working on the farm at that time, with exquisite planting skills, and had never been married, so he took an opportunity to give Jin Moyu a homemade shovel and a Japanese version of "People's China", showing jin Moyu his attitude.
But Jin Moyu is no longer the little girl she was, and she has her own plans and ideas for her future life.
She found Shi Youwei and said a word to him:
"We can know each other, but I have a few points to explain, first, my sister is Yoshiko Kawashima; my father is a Qing Dynasty prince, I am a Qing Dynasty Gege; second, I am the oldest among farm women and my health is not good; third, I don't have any property now; fourth: I don't want to live in a house after I get married, I want to live in a single-room house. If you don't care about any of this, we'll get married. ”
Although Jin Moyu said so much, Shi Youwei did not have too strong psychological fluctuations, as early as the beginning he understood Jin Moyu's situation and also decided to accept everything from her.
Shi Youwei solemnly said to Jin Moyu:
"I don't have any money, I'm poor, I know where you come from, it doesn't matter."
Shi Youwei borrowed 120 yuan from several other people on the farm, and the two simply handled the marriage.
Unfortunately, because of the early years, Jin Moyu did not leave any children in her life.
After working on the farm for several years, Jin Moyu's health was getting worse and worse, and the farm later did a sick retirement for her, although she did not need to work again, but the monthly wage dropped to 19.2 yuan, which was not enough for Jin Moyu to smoke for a month.
Although the days were very hard, Jin Moyu was sitting upright, and in his later years, Jin Moyu said that the last thing he regretted in his life was two things:
"One is that I have not left the mainland for Hong Kong, and the other is that I have not framed any good people in prison."
"When I was studying in Japan, my tutor told me that noble people have to find a day of the year to think behind closed doors and think about whether they have done anything to be sorry. If you think it's right, stick to it, and don't care what other people think. ”
In the late 1970s, Jin Moyu also got in touch with his brother in Japan, the brother and sister did not see each other for decades, they thought that each other was no longer there, did not expect to receive news from their relatives, Jin Moyu could not help but cry.
Given that family life is really difficult, the only time in her life that Jin Moyu thinks of asking for someone.
In 1979, Jin Moyu wrote to the Central Committee to reflect his situation and made a request:
"I can't do physical labor anymore, but I can still do mental work, please give me a job."
After Deng Xiaoping received Jin Moyu's letter, he also attached great importance to it, and immediately sent people to the Tianjin farm to understand the actual situation of Jin Moyu, and under Deng Xiaoping's care, all policies related to Jin Moyu were implemented.
In accordance with the preferential treatment of the Qing nobles, Jin Moyu was arranged to work at the Beijing Municipal Museum of Culture and History, and in accordance with the relevant policies, Jin Moyu was allocated housing.
After a lapse of 40 years, Jin Moyu returned to Beijing to settle down again.
Pictured| Deng Xiaoping
That same year, Kim received a letter from her Classmate Machida Kanko from Japan, inviting her to a small gathering in Beijing.
After arriving in Beijing, Jin Moyu learned that some of her old friends had been looking for her whereabouts, and after many years of not seeing her, Jin Moyu and her old classmates met, and they both had a lot of feelings.
After the party, Machida Kanko invited Kim Moyu to settle in Japan, but after a moment of silence, She still refused:
"I'm a Chinese, and I can't settle in Japan."
However, Jin Moyu said that he could visit Japan.
In 1982, Jin Moyu was there
Fellow shinsaka, Kyoko Takehisa, Yuriko Fukuoka, and others were invited to visit Japan.
Hearing about Jin Moyu's past experience, several people were sad, and although old friends invited Jin Moyu to settle in Japan, Jin Moyu still insisted on refusing.
"I've never done anything to be sorry for the government, and I don't feel wronged. In prison and on the farm, I excelled at whatever I did. Because I love the motherland and do things with conscience, not to show to anyone, nor to make people praise. ”
After washing away the lead, Jin Moyu spent a peaceful old age.
In her later years, Jin Moyu devoted herself to Sino-Japanese friendly exchanges with her friends, and also came up with an idea to open a Japanese language study class.
Since 1992, Jin Moyu has been traveling back and forth between Beijing and Japan to actively raise funds.
In May 1996, Jin Moyu's "Love Japanese Language Training School" was officially launched, which was also the most well-equipped private Japanese language school in the country at that time.
At the end of the 1990s, Jin Moyu expanded the university into the "Langfang Oriental University Town".
Jin Moyu later officially settled in Langfang.
Speaking of Jin Moyu, the old lady, the neighbors around her felt that with her ability, it was really a great thing to start such a large school, but Jin Moyu did not think that she was so great.
For Jin Moyu, she carried the heavy shackles of the Qing Dynasty royal family all her life, but in her old age, she got rid of this heavy identity, lived a new self, and also got peace, talking about the suffering and difficulties she endured in the past, Jin Moyu once said such a sentence:
On May 26, 2014, Jin Moyu died of illness at home in Beijing at the age of 95.