On March 25, 2010, in front of the Liu Mansion in Anren Town, Dayi County, 60 kilometers from Chengdu, the "Qingming Meeting" for the reunion of the Liu family in Sichuan was held. This unremarkable town attracts a lot of attention simply because it is the home of a family that has played an important role in Sichuan's history.
This gathering was expected to bring 650 people, but in the end it turned out to be thousands of people, which shows the huge size of the Liu family. These Liu descendants are from Beijing, Chengdu, Ya'an and Anren, respectively, seven generations apart, with the oldest being 95 years old and the youngest less than 1 year old.
The Liu family once dominated Sichuan for twenty years, and the power penetrated into all aspects of Chuankang, it can be said that when the Liu family stomped their feet, Sichuan would tremble three times. The great warlords Liu Xiang, Liu Wenhui and the large landowner Liu Wencai all left deep traces in the history of Sichuan. Their descendants set up their families after leaving Sichuan.
The descendants of Liu Wenhui and Liu Wencai of the "Qingming Society" were all present, but only Liu Xiang's descendants did not appear, so where are they now? What happened to Liu Xiang's descendants after his death? How are the descendants of the Liu family doing?
Liu Xiang
Marry a wife and ask for a lady, and an ugly wife is a treasure in the family
Liu Xiang's wife was named Zhou Yushu
She originally had no name, "Zhou Yushu" was given to her by her husband Liu Xiang, because Liu Xiang was honored as "Fu Gong", and she was naturally also called "Liu Fu Po".
She and Liu Xiang married very early, when Liu Xiang was studying abroad when Liu Xiang was young, Liu Fubo was waiting for her in-laws at home, and she also had to take care of her young uncle.
In order to facilitate the work, Liu Fubo rolled up her hair and coiled it behind her head, and the young woman looked like an old woman, but she didn't care.
After her husband found her, she took her to live in Chongqing, but she did not forget about it when she was rich, she still did the same housework, her hair did not change, and she did not even change the blue cloth shirt that she wore all year round.
Liu Fubo's virtuous husband and the people around him saw her, and Liu Xiang truly regarded her as his wife in his heart and had great respect for her.
Liu Fubo's parents are tailors in Dayi Township, the daughter of the peasant family has no culture and does not look pretty, blowing bullets and broken skin, autumn waves flooded eyes and rosy and small lips, these beauties of the standard configuration she does not have, and the forehead is flat and top of two thick eyebrows.
Liu Fu was virtuous and virtuous, and treated her mother-in-law and little uncle very well, but because of her appearance and cultural knowledge, her mother-in-law Leshi was still dissatisfied with her and targeted her everywhere, and asked Liu Xiang to leave her several times.
But just like when he was sure that he had to do his best to resist Japan, Liu Xiang was a person who recognized death, and since he married, he would not abandon her, so he made his attitude clear to his mother: Liu Fubo was his wife, all his life!
When Liu Xiang hit a wall here, Le Shi instigated Liu Fubo's little brother-in-law Liu Chengzhang to drown her while she was washing clothes by the river, and the little uncle was usually taken care of by his sister-in-law, and this kind of thing could not be done, so he told his brother-in-law about it.
Liu Xiang saw that there was no way, so he consulted with his brother and came up with a solution, one day, when Liu Fubo was washing clothes by the river, Liu Chengzhang invited Le Shi over and said: "Mother, you see, you come to see it!" ”
Le Shi walked over in doubt, and Liu Chengzhang shouted again: "Do you see that the woman in the water wearing a phoenix crown is not the shadow of her sister-in-law?" ”
Le Shi was very superstitious, plus it was a little far from the river, vaguely and unclearly, out of trust in his son, Le Shi believed that it was true, and said happily: "No wonder your brother's official has risen so fast, maybe he even stained her light!" In this way, the mother-in-law's prejudice against her disappeared.
Folk say that the ugly wife Wangfu, the queen zhong Wuyan of King Xuan of Qi, Kong Ming's wife Huang Yueying, and Zhu Yuanzhang's empress Ma Dazu all helped her husband achieve great things. Le's exclamation seems to have also been verified in Liu Fubo, and since marrying her Liu family,Her life has gotten better and better, and Liu Xiang's officialdom has indeed become bigger and bigger.
Liu Fubo is three years older than Liu Xiang, but she has a pattern in her heart, and she is an extraordinary woman.
She doesn't go out shopping as often as other wives.
She did not forget Ben, after following Liu Xiangfu still wore coarse cloth and linen clothes, ate very simply, and carefully managed the housework, Liu Fubo never regarded herself as an official wife, she had the virtues of a traditional woman, managed the Liu family in an orderly manner, and the life of the Liu family was thriving and very harmonious.
His wife subdued the "King of Sichuan" and surrounded the school for her son
But she also has her own bottom line, Liu Fubo's strong personality is a full vinegar jar, never allow her husband to remarry, it is reasonable to say that Liu Xiang such a powerful warlord a rural woman can never control, but Liu Fubo is different.
Most of the warlords of the Republic of China are very absurd and lustful, and Ma Bufang of the Ma Family Army in the northwest has more than 5,000 women who have been spoiled by him, and he is a warlord
Zhang Zongchang
Robbing people's women is commonplace, even if others are not so serious, but the big wives and small wives are also innumerable, and the monogamous system promulgated by the Republic of China government is nothing more than a blank piece of paper.
Liu Fubo wanted to make her husband love herself, which seemed like a fantasy, but those things that everyone could not do with beautiful women and beautiful people, Zhou Yushu did it!
Liu Fuba did everything possible to avoid her husband's contact with other women. Once found out, it will never give up.
Most of the officials under her husband knew something about the sister-in-law's temper. Liu Fubo was not from a good background, and these people looked down on her in their hearts, and wanted to tease her when they had nothing to do.
Once, when she was passing by, she deliberately talked about the sensitive topic of women, which immediately attracted the attention of Liu Fubo.
This said, which female dramatist the military commander has recently taken a fancy to; that said that the military commander wants to buy a villa for the female dramatist. One by one, the speaker deliberately suppressed his voice very low, but it was just enough for Liu Fubo to hear, as if there was something really going on.
When Liu Fubo heard that her husband actually dared to hide that he was outside, he couldn't help but make a big fuss and rushed into the living room and yelled and threw everything that could be dropped.
Seeing that the situation was about to get out of control, Master GanDiankui quickly stopped Liu Fubo and explained the truth to her, but she was still very angry, and scolded these people who dared to tease themselves, which dispelled their anger, and from then on these officials did not dare to make such jokes.
Liu Fubo's spicy style really scared off many women who wanted to catch Up with Liu Xiang. It is said that Wang Yongbin, the director of the Military And Telecommunications Department, in order to curry favor with Liu Xiang, once found a female school student for him. But when the female student learned that the other woman's wife was Liu Fubo, a humble woman, she was frightened and ran.
She does not give in to her feelings, and she is also very tough in dealing with people who bully her children. Liu Xiang and his wife had three sons and a daughter, namely the eldest son Liu Shiying, the second son Liu Shizhe, the third son Liu Kanghuai, and the eldest daughter Liu Weiwen.
After the death of her husband, Liu Fubo did not choose to hide and cry to wipe her tears, she directly went to Chiang Kai-shek, asked him to appoint his eldest son and second son as the chairman of Sichuan Province, inherit his father's mantle, and asked him to help establish a university, and also asked him to give Liu Xiang a big funeral and compensate the Liu family with a lot of money.
Liu Xiang did die because he worked hard for state affairs, and Chiang Kai-shek could not do anything with her, but he only promised to give her two sons the rank of major general who had no real power.
Liu Fubo's two sons are studying in the "Fu Cheng" middle school built by her husband, the teaching conditions of the "Fu Cheng" middle school are very superior, Liu Xiang hired the best teachers to teach students, and it is undoubtedly a very fortunate thing to be able to enter this middle school.
But there are still some people who don't cherish it. Liu Shiying and Liu Shizhe, the two children, are not more troublesome, and they hang out on campus all day in the uniform of a major general, which arouses the jealousy of others, so they target them everywhere.
They privately talked about Liu Xiang as a great warlord who did nothing wrong, and that the Liu family was a vampire and had made too much black money.
Liu Fubo, who heard the news, was furious, her husband sacrificed his life for the country, and he contributed money and efforts for Sichuan's education, but he did not expect that his son could actually be bullied. She immediately surrounded the school with her troops and called all the students to the playground.
He yelled at the teachers and students: "You are climbing the army every day, the army climbs (warlords), can't the old lady climb which sister can't she?" "If the old lady doesn't make money, where is this Fucheng school?" You are good now, those who read are not good at reading, those who teach are not good at teaching, and you are hiding behind your backs and scolding the old woman. Put the old woman on fire, shut down the school, and see if you scold or not! ”
The teachers and students of the whole school were a little overwhelmed, they did not expect that this woman would be so tough, and it would be so difficult to swear in a place like the school. After this incident, no one dared to say bad things about the Liu family behind their backs.
But no matter how strong Liu Fubo was, after Liu Xiang's death, the Liu family could not get rid of the fate of decay.
Liu Fubo left the mainland in 1949 and died in Brunei in 1971, and Liu Shiying and Liu Shizhe did not end well, dying in the war before they reached adulthood. The youngest son, Liu Kanghuai, was later admitted to the Department of Politics of Sichuan University and went to Nanyang and the United States to run his own business; Liu Weiwen later entered the Philosophy Department of West China University in Chengdu to study, and later married and had children, and lived a happy life.
The descendants of the warlord family are more professors and scholars
In addition to Liu Xiang's descendants, the situation of other clans of the Liu family is also lamentable. The Liu family's ancestral home is Huizhou, Anhui, in the early Qing Dynasty, Huizhou Liu Yingliang entered the river, settled in Dayi, after 7 generations of cultivation and heirloom obscurity, until Liu Zongxian had a meritorious name, the Liu family began to develop.
Liu Zongxian later gave birth to Liu Gongchang, Liu Gongjing, and Liu Gongzan. The second son, Liu Gongjing, gave birth to Liu Wengang, and Liu Wengang gave birth to Liu Xiang.
The third son, Liu Gongzan, had a total of 6 sons, in addition to Liu Wencai and Liu Wenhui, there were also four sons of Liu Wenyuan, Liu Wencheng, Liu Wenyuan and Liu Wenzhao. Therefore, Liu Wenhui is actually Liu Xiang's cousin and not his uncle. And because Liu Wenhui is the youngest son, he is still six years younger than his nephew Liu Xiang.
The appearance of Liu Xiang, Liu Wenhui and Liu Wencai brought the Liu family to the top. Liu Wenhui and Liu Wenhui were both well-known warlords, Liu Wencai was also a large landowner, and surprisingly, there were many university professors and scholars in the Liu clan after them.
Liu Wenhui's eldest brother, Liu Wenyuan, is a university teacher in Henan. Liu Wenhui's third brother, Liu Wenyuan, whose grandson Liu Shijie was a professor at Xi'an Jiaotong University, is now retired. Liu Yuanshu, the son of Liu Wenhui's fourth brother Liu Wenzhao, is a professor at Southwest University for Nationalities, Liu Yuanshu's son Liu Shi is the head of the Tsinghua Chinese department and doctoral supervisor, and Liu Yuanshu's daughter Liu Cui is a university teacher in Hefei, Anhui.
Liu Yuanyan, the son of Liu Wenhui, served as the principal of Chengdu Jianguo Middle School before and after the founding of the People's Republic of China, and later as an editor of the People's Publishing House, responsible for designing and reviewing the "Motherland Series" and participating in the compilation of the "Complete Works of Lu Xun".
Liu Wenhui's grandson, Liu Shiding, is a professor and doctoral supervisor at Peking University and is the author of the book Sociological Research. Liu Wencai's great-granddaughter Li Xiangyi is a piano professor at an Australian conservatory of music.
Liu Wenhui
summary
The warlord family, but there are more scholars, this wu yiwen really makes people have to lament the vagaries of history.
In addition to scholars and professors, some of the descendants of the Liu clan also engaged in business and became athletes. Although it seems to be good, it seems that the glory of Liu Xiang's era can no longer be recreated, and the new China cannot allow the existence of warlords and landlords.
The past rises with the wind, the years have gone without a trace, the scenery of the Liu family has long been crushed by the wheel of history, and today, the only thing that can engrave that memory is the folk museum that the Liu Manor in Dayi has been converted into.
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