The ancients often said that a woman's mission is to teach her husband and children, and this sentence is normal in the eyes of ancient people. But in the eyes of our modern people, this sentence is pure nonsense. The modern pursuit of equality between men and women is indeed the era of equality between men and women. But in ancient times, the status of women can be described as extremely low. But there are some strange women who dedicate their strength to the era of equality between men and women!
In modern times, there is also such a strange woman, her name is Lü Bicheng.
Lü Bicheng was born in 1883. She won several firsts in her lifetime, she was The First Animal Advocate in China, the First Female Editor in the History of Chinese Journalism, and the First Female Writer in China. She is also a pioneer in women's education in China. She is even known as the last female lyricist in China in the past three hundred years.
Lü Bicheng's experience in his youth was very bumpy, Lü Bicheng was engaged to the Wang family when he was 10 years old, his grandmother died when he was 12 years old, and because the Lü family had no male, the rest of the clan used this as an excuse to divide up the family property. He even took Lü Bicheng's mother hostage. This incident caused great harm to the young Lü Bicheng, although because Lü Bicheng asked for help later, this matter was perfectly solved. However, because the Wang family felt that Lü Bicheng had such connections at a young age, he could call the wind and rain. A request was made to withdraw from marriage.
In that era, it was a great shame for a woman to be divorced. Therefore, this divorce incident had a certain impact on Lü Bicheng's later marriage mentality.
After the Boxer Rebellion in 1900, the Qing government put forward new ideas on education and held new schools. With the import of Western ideas, Women's Rights in China began to awaken, and some women felt that they should have the same rights and education as men. The young Lü Bicheng was deeply affected, and he had the idea of going to girls' school.
In 1903, Lü Bicheng prepared to visit the Women's College. But she was scolded by her conservative uncle, saying that she did not keep the way of women. As soon as Lü Bicheng was angry, he ran away from home and went to school. This was also a shocking move at the time.
Later, Lü Bicheng began to organize women's schools, in order to promote women's rights and women's studies, she once raised the establishment of women's schools to the height of the survival of the country. Later, the women's school was successfully organized, and Lü Bicheng took charge of the chief teacher of the women's college. She combines traditional and Western learning, and she hopes that the students she cultivates will also be committed to nurturing the next generation. In 1912, Beiyang Girls' Public School was changed to Hebei Women's Normal School, and Lü Bicheng also left his post and moved to Shanghai.
After coming to Shanghai, Lü Bicheng relied on his personal connections to achieve great wealth in just a few years. Become a rich woman, and even rival the rich people of New York. Although Lü Bicheng has tens of millions of family properties, she is always alone and has no intention of getting married. Since Lü Bicheng became rich, she began to live a life of spending money. The dresses worn are expensive, and they are all cars when they go out. Later, he traveled to Europe for 7 years. Everything goes your way, it's very chic.
The 47-year-old Lü Bicheng may have had an epiphany that life is only a flashy one, and chose to take refuge in Buddhism, the Dharma name Baolian. After Lü Bicheng's death, according to her last wishes, the remaining family property was donated. The remains were cremated and the ashes were scattered into the South China Sea.
At this point, this modern odd woman who won multiple firsts came to an end.