During the Republic of China period, there were many romantic stories of talented people in our country. Hu Shi was a prominent figure in that period, he studied through the East and the West, his pen was sharp, he was the leader of China's modern literary revolution, the leader of the new cultural movement, and the president of Peking University. However, in the romantic stories of these talented women, there is no place for Hu Shi.
It's not that he doesn't love beautiful people, but that he has a Hedong lion at home, and he is really afraid to dare. So, how did Hu Shi live with this wife arranged by his family? When faced with other women in the marriage, how does this arranged wife deal with it? Let's talk in detail.
Hu Shi was born in Jixi County, Anhui Province. This is an ancient and beautiful county town, and the Hu family is a famous local family. Hu Shi's mother was his father's third wife, and her mother was young when she married into the Hu family, and she was not yet 20 years old. When Hu Shi was born, his mother was only 19 years old. However, by then my father was over 50 years old.
After giving birth to Hu Shi, his father died within a few years. Her mother became a widow at a young age, when she was only 23 years old. At a young age, she became the head of the Hu family, a big family. In the family, some people smoke a lot of cigarettes, and some people gamble. Hu Shi's father had two wives before, and Hu Shi's half-sister was even seven years older than Hu Shi's mother. In such an environment, you can imagine how difficult it is to be in charge of the Hu family. But no matter what, the mother must also survive. She had made plans for her son Hu Shi early on and chose a family affair for him.
The other party is a fellow villager Jiang family. The Jiang family is also a famous and prestigious family, and the family situation is stronger than that of the Hu family. Jiang Dongxiu, a young lady of the Jiang family, was wrapped in small feet, and her maternal grandfather was a jinshi of the Guangxu Dynasty and was once a high-ranking official in the imperial court. After marrying this family affair, the mother can also be regarded as having an explanation for Hu Shi's life after that.
However, the times are developing and society is changing. Later, Hu Shi became the leader of the New Culture Movement. Such a talented person who has learned everything can still look up to Jiang Dongxiu wrapped in small feet? Can this family affair still be fulfilled as agreed at that time?
In 1905, Hu Shi and Jiang Dongxiu were engaged according to the arrangements of their parents. The following year, Hu Shi was admitted to the Chinese Engineering School. Later, Hu Shi studied abroad and saw the wider world. He became an alumnus with Roosevelt, and the philosopher Dewey was his mentor. In the United States, the open and advanced environment dazzled Hu Shi for a while, where he met his girlfriend Wei Liansi, who made him excited.
This is the daughter of a professor, an independent-minded woman who pursues freedom. Hu Shi had never seen a girl with such a personality before, and he was immediately attracted to Wei Liansi. In his diary, he made no secret of his admiration for her. However, Hu Shi knew better that his mother had already arranged a family affair for him.
Hu Shi did not want his mother to be sad, so he had to stop at his friendship and no longer have any non-division of thoughts about Wei Liansi. Wei Liansi, on the other hand, did not marry for the sake of Hu Shi for the rest of his life. After Hu Shi's death, Wei Liansi wrote a letter to Hu Shi's son. In the letter, she asked Hu Shi's son to put ten flowers in front of Hu Shi's tomb without having to sign his name.
In 1917, Hu Shi returned to China, and immediately after that, he fulfilled his marriage contract and married Jiang Dongxiu. On the day of his wedding, Hu Shi repeatedly promoted new ideas and new cultures. At the time, this form of speech was so engaging that the scene was crowded with people watching the liveliness. Perhaps, they could not fully accept the content of Hu Shi's speech, but this form also brought them an unprecedented shock.
The year after marriage, Jiang Dongxiu came to Beijing with her husband. In Beijing, when her husband went to Hangzhou for recuperation, he fell in love with his bridesmaid when he got married, Cao Chengying. It turned out that Cao Chengying was studying in Hangzhou during that time. Jiang Dongxiu, who was unguarded in his heart, asked her to take care of her husband on her behalf, perhaps just a polite word, but it made Hu Shi live with her for three months, and he was deeply trapped in it, unable to extricate himself. More importantly, Cao Chengying was pregnant with Hu Shi's child.
After returning to Beijing, Hu Shi asked for a divorce from Jiang Dongxiu. Unexpectedly, this humble little-footed old lady actually rushed into the kitchen, picked up a kitchen knife, pointed at her two sons, and said, If you dare to divorce, I will kill your two sons, and then kill you, and then I will commit suicide! Hu Shi was too frightened to mention the divorce again, but secretly, Hu Shi and Cao Chengying were still in contact, and the two kept writing letters, and finally once, they were discovered by Jiang Dongxiu.
Jiang Dongxiu dragged Hu Shi, who was sleeping on the bed, straight to the window, opened the window, and read the contents of the letter aloud to the street. Hu Shi, who wanted face, quickly spared and broke off contact with Cao Chengying from then on. As a last resort, Cao Chengying had to beat up the child in his stomach.
Jiang Dongxiu not only has a tough style in his own home, but also has a lot of heroism. Hu Shi has a good friend Liang Zongdai, who also has a background in studying abroad, and the other party returned from studying abroad, cheated on others, and strongly demanded a divorce from his wife. At this time, Jiang Dongxiu stepped forward and spoke in court for more than half an hour. He detailed how Gentle and Frugal Liang Zongdai's wife was at home, and how Liang Zongdai cheated in marriage, and later, according to the final judgment of the court, Liang Zongdai paid 7,000 yuan in compensation to his wife. Since then, Jiang Dongxiu has become famous in one battle.
In fact, from this incident, we can see Jiang Dongxiu's temperament. She is not a blind woman, but a person with feelings and reasoning. When Hu Shi was studying abroad, she once packed clothes for him and stuffed 5 yuan in each tie, because she was afraid that her husband would encounter robbery and would not be able to return home. She also distributed all the money sent home by her husband to the family to help the whole family get by. When Peiping fell, everyone was busy running for their lives, but Jiang Dongxiu fled with Hu Shi's 70 boxes of books, because she knew that it was her husband's beloved thing.
Such a marriage, it is no wonder that Zhang Ailing envied: "Hu Shi and Jiang Dongxiu are rare examples of happiness in old-style marriages." ”