The Shanghai Yan family in the Republic of China period can be described as a famous family, the founder of the Yan family, Yan Xinhou, is not low in status, he is Li Hongzhang's staff, and later participated in the founding of China's first bank, the Commerce and Commerce Bank, not only that, Yan Xinhou is also the founding father of the "Ningbo Gang", Yan Zijun, the son of Yan Xinhou, inherited his father's business talents, and opened a money bank, the Yan family at that time, is a veritable big family in Shanghai Beach.
As the son of Yan Zijun, Yan Zhiduo did not let the family lose face, he was modest, and when he grew up, he joined forces and married the daughter of Liu Yong, the head of the four elephants in Huzhou, and after the two were combined, they gave birth to a daughter, which is the famous lady of the Republic of China introduced in this article, she is Yan Renmei.
Yan Renmei belonged to the premature baby born in 1915, she was born without hair on her head, her father and mother were very disappointed in her, but her grandfather Yan Zi was very fond of her, and gave her a good name "Renmei" hoping that she would grow up and become more and more beautiful, Yan Renmei was taken away by a British doctor when she was two years old, for treatment, and when she returned, she was already full of black hair.
At the age of 7, Yan Renmei entered the aristocratic school to study, got acquainted with kong lingyi, the daughter of the Kong family, and other high-ranking cadres, in 1929, the Yan family had an extremely serious escape from marriage, which affected Yan Renmei's father, he thought that it was not a good thing for girls to study more, and he was determined to marry Yan Renmei, Yan Renmei wanted to continue her studies, and fought a cold war with her father, the two finally discussed success, marriage can be done, but to continue to go to school.
Soon, Yan Renmei married the young master of the Ma family in Suzhou, a year later, Yan Renmei became pregnant and left the school, the young master of the Ma family came from the old society, although married, but life was not in order, which made Yan Renmei, who received a new education, very angry, she proposed a divorce, the Song family, the Kong family and so on supported her, after the divorce, Yan Renmei lived alone in Shanghai.
In the 30s, a Japanese officer took a fancy to Yan Renmei and wanted to marry her, Yan Renmei swore not to marry, the Yan family finally decided to find a husband for her, Li Zumin of the Li family in Ningbo Xiaogang was quickly introduced, after three months of contact, both families were very satisfied, Yan Renmei and Li Zumin married, after that, they spent the rest of their lives together.
During the Korean War, Yan Renmei called on everyone to donate money and materials, made a great contribution, after the reform and opening up, Yan Renmei paid great attention to her friends abroad, she founded the "Overseas Chinese Friends Service Society" to help those overseas Chinese who returned to China, in the early 90s, she also went to the United States with her husband to see Cai Wenzhi, Zhang Xueliang and others, Song Meiling specially gave her a box of clothes.
After returning to China, Yan Renmei settled down and lived in Shenzhen, it is worth mentioning that the women of the Yan family seem to have a long life, and Yan Renmei's aunt Yan Youyun, who is also relatively long-lived, lived for 112 years and died in 2017.
Today, Yan Renmei is 105 years old, and she has become the last celebrity of the Shanghai Beach period, and now, with the increase of age, she is not alone, because every year, she can receive blessings from all over the world.