"Brothers are like siblings, women are like clothes" Ancient women's status is not high, in the hearts of men is like a piece of clothing, want to wear it and lose it, want to divorce is even simpler, a paper can repair the wife. Although the "seven outs" restrict the man from divorcing his wife at will, only those who have committed the seven articles of "childlessness", "adultery", "jealousy", "evil disease", "excessive speech", and "theft" can divorce his wife.
But the seven outs are still considered from the perspective of men, why the wife has a bad disease, can become the husband's wife's reason, the husband can not share the hardships with the wife, why the husband can divorce his wife by virtue of childlessness, but the wife can not rely on this husband? Speaking of which, ancient women still had no status, and could only be summoned by their husbands to come and go.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the new style of thinking entered China, blowing a spring breeze of equality between men and women in China, and the Imperial Concubine Wenxiu was baptized by the new style of thought on August 23, 1931, and she divorced her unloved emperor husband Puyi, which is known in history as the "Daofei Revolution". However, the feudal ideology that remained in 2000 can be changed by the two special cases of Wenxiu, there are still many husbands who divorce their wives at will during the Republic of China period, Xu Zhimo divorced his wife because he fell in love with Lin Hui, Yu Dafu did not like the little-footed wife Sun Quan to divorce his wife, Xu Beihong cheated on the female student to divorce his wife...
There are many reasons for men in the Republic of China to divorce their wives, some of them are because their wives are uncultured, and Chen Cheng, a general of the Republic of China, is divorced because his wife Wu Shunlian is uncultured. Many celebrities in the Republic of China have overseas study experience, the stomach is full of culture, and it is also the common sentiment of people to like cultured women, but the mistake is in their parents, the older generation of people are still feudal thoughts, thinking that "a woman without talent is moral", as long as they know how to have children to do housework, they do not need to recognize words, they do the arranged marriage without authorization, and even coax their sons to marry illiterate wives who are illiterate, and finally lead to a pile of tragedies.
The patriotic general Zhang Zhizhong also married an illiterate wife under the arrangement of his parents, and as the official rank became larger and larger, the identity of his wife became wider and wider, and the people around Zhang Zhizhong could not look down, and persuaded Zhang Zhizhong to repair his wife and marry another one. At that time, the high-ranking officials and nobles divorced their wives such as eating, anyway, no one dared to say that Zhang Zhizhong could completely emulate others to divorce the original and marry a better and cultured woman, but Zhang Zhizhong rejected the proposal of a friend to divorce his wife, and until his death, he was originally matched with Hong Xihou.
Zhang Zhizhong was born on October 27, 1890 in a poor family in Chao County, Anhui Province, and after the age of 16, he had to support his family, and after a long period of looking for a job, he finally found a police job in Yangzhou. In 1909, Zhang Zhizhong was working, he received a letter from his mother asking him to go home and get married, Zhang Zhizhong was just a small policeman with no money at that time, the family conditions were poor and there were many younger brothers to eat, his conditions were not good, there were women who did not think that he was poor and willing to marry him, he was not picky, and soon after receiving the letter, he went back to get married.
Zhang Zhizhong's wife, Hong Xihou, is a fellow villager of Zhang Zhizhong, two years younger than Zhang Zhizhong, because her family is poor and does not know a word, and she cannot even write her own name, but she is industrious and capable, and has the excellent character of traditional women. Zhang Zhizhong was only a few days after marriage and went to Yangzhou to work again, and Hong Xihou took care of his frail parents and uncles alone.
In 1912, Zhang Zhizhong's parents died, Zhang Zhizhong could not come back, and it was Hong Xihou who took care of the aftermath of his parents alone, but after the aftermath was completed, the family's money was gone, Hong Xihou did not abandon his 7-year-old uncle, but took him back to his mother's house and did some female workers to make money. Although Zhang Zhizhong is often outside, he is not unaware of Hong Xihou's personality, so as long as the war is not busy, he will come back to see Hong Xihou, and Hong Xihou will be more motivated to do family affairs.
In 1915, Hong Xihou gave birth to his first daughter, and then gave birth to 4 more children, Zhang Zhizhong's status also rose, and by 1921 he was already a general, and he took Hong Xihou and his children to be reunited. Hong Xihou's life is now much more generous than in the past, but she still maintains a hard and simple style and teaches her children to be diligent and thrifty.
Although Hong Xihou has no culture, her thinking is not barren, and she understands that thrift is a traditional virtue of the Chinese nation, perhaps saving is a bit of a point in the eyes of other high-ranking officials, but in Zhang Zhizhong's eyes, it is a shining point, and she loves her more and more and often pushes away the outside socializing and goes home to eat.
In 1924, Zhang Zhizhong's official position was another level, he was already a colonel, Zhang Zhizhong's friends around him all felt that he was a colonel, the wife of the family was illiterate and too unworthy of his status, persuaded him to find another young and beautiful woman, Zhang Zhizhong did not think about it after listening to it, he said: "That is not okay, Hong Xihou is not only my wife or the mother of my children, if I leave her, how do you let me explain to the children?" “
Hong Xihou herself also realized that her husband was different from the past, other upper-class wives would read and write, and they could help their husbands to deal with interpersonal relationships, but they did not even dare to go on major occasions, let alone help Zhang Zhizhong, she decided that she could not go on without culture anymore, so she picked up a pen and paper that she had not touched in half her life and learned to write her own name. Hong Xihou is not as good as other wives in culture, but she is very good at female workers, and when she is fine, she often makes some female workers to give to other wives. Unexpectedly, Hong Xihou's small gifts for female workers were liked by many wives, and the Song sisters were all her fans. The Song sisters had praised Hong Xihou in their wives' circle, and Zhang Zhizhong accidentally learned that his wife was so popular.
The women of the Republic of China are pitiful, but some people are "mourning their misfortunes, angry at them" They are born with conditions that they cannot read, but the day after tomorrow they can start learning like Hong Xihou, just like Lu Xun's original match Zhu An, Lu Xun knew that his wife Zhu Anzi was a woman who had not read a book when he was studying in Japan in 1902, and he had given her a chance to let her go and learn culture from then on, so that he could also marry her, but Juan did not let go and did not learn culture, Lu Xun was completely disappointed in Juan from then on. If Juan can have more contact with the outside world, don't always be tied to the feudal shackles, maybe she can defend her marriage, not to mention that it is not a bad thing to let go and learn culture, can only say that she herself does not argue, that era also harmed her.
On April 6, 1969, Zhang Zhizhong died at the age of 79, Hong Xihou lived for 7 more years, and reunited with Zhang Zhizhong in the underground in 1976, their love story has always been remembered, and it has also set an example for those who abandon their wives and children as soon as they have money, even if you are more powerful, can you compare with Zhang Zhizhong? Zhang Zhizhong still adheres to marriage as much as ever, winning countless respects.