The Chinese and Western Girls' High School is the most famous aristocratic girls' school in modern Shanghai, mainly recruiting rich women to enroll, and the famous "Eight-person Group" in Shanghai is the eight people who had the best relations between Chinese and Western women at that time, including Lin Ying, daughter of a wealthy merchant in Fujian, Zhang Hanfen, daughter of Zhang Shouyong, vice minister of finance, Huang Huibao, daughter of Huang Chujiu, who founded "Shanghai Big World", Tang Minzhen, daughter of the Chinese ambassador to France, and Shen Youfen, granddaughter of the Suzhou Dongting Xi family.
In this photo, standing in the second row of the second right is the last famous lady of the Republic of China, Yan Renmei, a title that began to rise in the 1930s, and this title was the most important background at that time, and the ancestors were either officials or very prestigious in the local area, that is, "famous doors".
Yan Renmei's great-grandfather Yan Xinhou was an aide to Li Hongzhang, a famous minister in the late Qing Dynasty, who co-founded China's first bank, the China Commerce and Commerce Bank, in Shanghai, and also founded the Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce and many official and private enterprises, and was known as the "founding father" of the Ningbo Gang. Great-grandfather Liu Yong was the head of the "Four Elephants" of Nanxun in Huzhou.
Yan Renmei's grandfather Yan Zijun ran the famous Yuanfeng run silver trumpets, as well as two qianzhuangs, Yuanji and Deyuan, and also undertook the Yuantong Haiguan silver number... Because Yan Renmei was a premature baby, she was rejected by her mother because she had no hair on her head when she was born, but Yan Zijun looked at the little girl and was very happy, and named her "Renmei", hoping that she would grow longer and more beautiful.
Later, after many treatments, Yan Renmei also grew hair on her head, and the older she grew, the more outstanding her appearance became, when Yan Renmei was 10 years old, her fifth aunt graduated from college and entered the Chinese and Western Girls' High School to teach, yan Renmei transferred to this school.
The female students in this school are almost all from rich and noble families, have no worries about food and clothing, and they also pay attention to dressing up during their school studies, which can be said to be at the forefront of fashion, but there is a little bit of bad in the big family, that is, the old-fashioned thinking is strong, and Yan Renmei's father is an old-fashioned person.
When Yan Renmei was in the second year of junior high school, there was a runaway marriage incident in the family, and at that time, arranged marriages were still very common, and the object was naturally the door-to-door pair, and this escape marriage caused damage to the reputation of the Yan family, which was simply bad.
Yan Renmei's father believed that it was caused by the girl's study through this incident, and Yan Renmei was not allowed to continue to go to school, even if Yan Renmei took the first place in the whole grade, his father still planned to marry her early, so Yan Renmei married into the Suzhou Kaiyilong Qianzhuang, a small horse family with pawnshops, rice shops and other industries.
However, Yan Renmei still did not give up studying, even if she was pregnant after marriage, she specially invited a British teacher, but Yan Renmei's husband's thinking was similar to Yan Renmei's father, and Yan Renmei did not have much common topic, and later her husband wandered to the ocean field, fighting with other women, Yan Renmei was determined not to endure anymore, and had to divorce.
Yan Renmei not only had a good friendship with Zhao Yidi, the fourth lady of Zhao, but also had a deep friendship with Kong Lingyi of the Kong family, and Sheng Guanyi, the fifth daughter of Sheng Xuanhuai, the richest man in the late Qing Dynasty, also adopted Yan Renmei as a dry daughter. After Kong Lingyi learned that Yan Renmei's marriage was unhappy, he took her for a ride around and scattered his mind, while the Song family, the Kong family, and the Sheng family were very supportive of Yan Renmei's divorce.
But I don't think that Yan Renmei was entangled with the Japanese after the divorce, the Yan family up and down naturally could not yan Renmei marry the Japanese, there was no way, had to seize the time to marry Yan Renmei out, Yan Renmei although she has not yet thought about the married life after that, but the top priority is indeed to marry, so Yan Renmei met Li Zumin of the Li family in Ningbo Xiaogang.
Heaven is still very kind to Yan Renmei, Li Zumin is not a stupid child, graduated from Guanghua University, has his own career, is preparing to start a family, and Yan Renmei met with Li Zumin before marriage, chatted in person, found that the conversation was quite good, and there was a tacit understanding, and this marriage was settled.
On the day of the wedding, in order to prevent the Japanese from running over to make trouble, Li Zumin also hired a very bodyguard, which also shocked the whole Shanghai Beach, and the two also lived happily after marriage, and there were few disputes.
It is also strange to say that Yan Renmei this person likes to eat meat, and does not love to exercise, but very long-lived, her husband Li Zumin and the younger daughter do not have her longevity, Yan Renmei in his later years is to follow the second son's family life, now is 105 years old, the body is still very healthy.
People asked her why she lived so long? Yan Renmei also generously told the other party that the 2 words "mentality", as long as the mentality is good, bad things can also become good things, and troubles will become smooth, and naturally they will live a long life.