In ancient times, people thought feudally, preferring sons to daughters, and it was more difficult for women to have a role and achieve something. But in the late Qing Dynasty, a large number of women with outstanding abilities and outstanding contributions to society emerged in China. Zhou Ying, who we want to talk about today, is one of the representatives of successful women.
People who have watched the relevant TV series must have more or less understood this character, and the story in the play is also adapted from historical facts, although the general framework is consistent, but there are still certain differences with historical events. Zhou Ying, who was born in Shaanxi, did not marry into the Wu family as in the play, but was born in a famous local family, and married Wu Jiehou, the second son of the Wu family at the age of 17.
But unfortunately, the young Zhou Ying became a widow on the tenth day after marriage, her husband died of illness, there was no son and half daughter under her knees, and she had to abide by the way of women in the Wu family all her life and be widowed for her deceased husband, which was very cruel to women in feudal society. Moreover, the death of the leader at that time also forced her to take up the burden of the Wu family.
With the death of her husband, the Wu family's business and reputation grew older and lonely. As the heir, she is determined to revive the Wu family's family business. However, feudal society did not allow married women to show their faces outside at will, but she was not limited to this, and after personally selecting a few right-hand men, she began to develop her business.
With her own clever mind, she not only won back the partners of the salt merchants, but also opened the Wu family's shops all over the country, and later she believed that doing business should take a long-term view, not just limit itself to the current interests. Therefore, the family business was expanded to include cotton, tea, medicinal herbs and other aspects that were prevalent at that time.
Under her efforts, the Wu family soon went to the regular, although she was once blinded and did not get respect because she was a female stream, but she later won a lot of affirmation with her personality charm and became the richest woman in Shaanxi at that time. With the growing family business and assets, she also began to pay attention to the development of philanthropy, often providing relief to the local poor people.
Not only that, but he also donated a lot of silver for the repair of the Temple of Literature during the Guangxu Period, and was therefore named the Lady of the Commandments of Erpin. Later, the Eight-Nation Alliance invaded China, cixi and the emperor fled from Beijing to Shaanxi, and when she learned of this, she did not say a word and took out 100,000 taels of silver to save the country.
When Cixi learned of this, she personally met with Zhou Ying, and after a conversation, she became too fond of empress dowager, recognized her as her righteous daughter on the spot, and also gave her the title of Lady of Yipin Protectorate, becoming the first Han righteous daughter. She repaid the debt for the country and had a patriotic heart, and she was loved by the local people.