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In the world, there is such a woman who is very interested in studying and transforming society, so much so that she exceeds love. For this reason, they prefer to be single for a lifetime, never marry, but commit themselves to a career. Zeng Zhaoyi is obviously such a type of woman, for the sake of ideals and career, she gave up marriage and family.
Zeng Zhaoyi, born on January 27, 1909, was a famous minister of the late Qing Dynasty, Zeng Guofan, who was her great-great-grandfather. Under the influence of a good family lineage, Zeng Zhaoyi read poetry and books at an early age, entered a girls' school at the age of 12, and went to college at the age of 20. In 1935, with the financial support of his brother, after graduation, Zeng Zhaoyi went to London, England to study, becoming the first female archaeologist in China to study abroad.
When studying abroad, he saw that many of China's national treasures were scattered overseas, and Zeng Zhaoyi was filled with righteous indignation and set up a desire to serve the country. In 1937, after the outbreak of the National War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Zeng Zhaoyi refused to be hired by the University of London and resolutely returned to China to serve. Subsequently, she was hired by the Central Museum to take charge of the archaeological project in Dali, which was named "Canghe Culture", which was a major contribution of Zeng Zhaoyi and other archaeologists to the archaeology of southwest China.
In 1948, during the Liberation War, after the successive defeats of the Kuomintang, it decided to transport a large number of cultural relics to Taiwan. Zeng Zhaoyi was very angry, and immediately pointed out that once the cultural relics were damaged, then the person who presided over the matter would become a national sinner. In the end, at the insistence of Zeng Zhaoyi, 852 boxes of cultural relics were safe and sound, including the Zhenguo Heavy Instrument Houmu Pengding. To save the national treasure, the hero Zeng Zhaoyi was indispensable. After the founding of New China, Zeng Zhaoyi served as the vice president of the Nanjing Museum, she personally led the team to preside over the excavation of the Southern Tang Erling Tombs, and the "Southern Tang Erling Tombs" written by her won praise at home and abroad, and people called her and xia Nai, the leading figure in northern archaeology, "Southern Zeng and Northern Xia".
Zeng Zhaoyi, who has never been married in her life, always jokingly says that she has been "married" for many years, because she has long been married to her career, and she regards the museum as her husband. The reason why Zeng Zhaoyi chose not to marry is not unrelated to the era she lived in. At that time, Chinese society was in a period of drastic transformation, and educated women began to pursue social status such as individual liberation, economic independence, freedom from men's shackles, and equality between men and women.
On the road to equality, marriage is seen as a major obstacle, and once a woman is married, it is like going to the grave, burying a lifetime of pursuit and happiness. Under such a tide, Zeng Zhaoyi recognized and accepted this concept, believing that many women were busy with housework all day after marriage and buried their own wisdom. In order to pursue a career, she finally decided not to get married.
However, after liberation, the idea of the liberated people has undergone a historical regression in this concept with a series of political movements. In a huge movement, many big figures who are extremely popular in academia and cannot be used in the world have been publicly named, and have been carried out by the people in power with their necks up for criticism.
Although, Zeng Zhaoyi had luckily dodged in the previous few sports. But in 1966, when the movement really came, she felt an even more intense pain, confusion and fear. Eventually, under great pressure, Zeng Zhaoyi suffered a nervous breakdown, suffered from depression, and committed suicide by jumping off a building at the Linggu Temple in Nanjing in December 1964.
Perhaps in order to escape from that catastrophe, Zeng Zhaoyi sought liberation by dying. In fact, if she hadn't committed suicide, I'm afraid she wouldn't have been able to escape the unprecedented catastrophe. Because shortly after Zeng Zhaoyi's death, he was almost dug up by the rebels, fortunately, at that time, the sky was dark, the wind was fierce, the rain was pouring down, and the heavens and the earth were chaotic.
The brilliant national treasures shine with dazzling light, and there are countless heroes like Zeng Zhaoyi silently guarding them behind them. To guard a national treasure is to guard history and to guard the soul of the Chinese nation. Although Zeng Zhaoyi's ending is regrettable, the turbulent historical vignettes cannot withstand the torrent of history after all, and hope and justice will never be absent.
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