In ancient China, there has always been a saying that the Han people are weak and small, and other ethnic groups cannot establish a dynasty belonging to the Han people. Throughout ancient and modern times, the kings of most dynasties were mostly ethnic minorities, for example, the ancestors of the Li clan in the Tang Dynasty were originally Khitans, and the recent Qing Dynasty needless to say.
No matter which dynasty is established, it is accompanied by two factors: internal and external troubles. The so-called external troubles are brought about by many "barbarian" areas. They always give people an image of bravery and fortitude, and they are even more invincible when they fight, which is indeed a big problem for the Han people who have lived in the Central Plains for a long time.
However, the establishment of the Ming Dynasty broke the impression that people have always had. The Ming Dynasty was the last Han Dynasty in China, and the founding emperor Zhu Yuanzhang implemented many iron-blooded policies and once built the Ming Dynasty into a powerful dynasty.
But this powerful country, which enjoyed a reputation at home and abroad, died in the contradictions and struggles within the dynasty. Coupled with the sudden rise of peasant rebels at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the dynasty was shaken by storms. In order to preserve the royal bloodline, the owner of the Zhu clan infiltrated the people in anonymity, and only after hundreds of years did he recognize his ancestors and return to the ancestors.
Descendants of Zhu Yuanzhang
The overthrow of the dynasty will bring no more than two consequences to the descendants of the royal family. One is to be slaughtered by the enemy army, and the other is to flee after hearing the news and keep a bloodline. Apparently, Zhu Yuanzhang and his descendants were very clever and found a way to live under the iron horses of the Manchu Qing.
This person's name was Zhu Jianfan, his original name was Zhou Jiachun, and he was the twenty-seventh grandson of Zhu Yuanzhang, and it can be said that he was a descendant of the imperial bloodline of the concubine.
The surname Zhou was the surname used by the ancestors when they escaped from refuge, until the early years of the Republic of China, when a young man who was still called Zhou Jiachun went to the Hunan Overseer's Mansion with a family tree and asked to change back to the Zhu surname, so that he could recognize his ancestors and return to the sect, and he himself was renamed Zhu Jianfan.
Zhu Jianfan is a very famous educator in modern China, in the early years he went to Japan to study, after returning to China, he transformed his family's house into a school, named Zhounan Women's College, aiming to help the majority of women improve their literary literacy and break the feudal traditional thinking.
This college is the predecessor of today's Changsha Zhounan Girls' High School, which has a history of one hundred years. Zhu Jianfan has a total of 8 children, each of whom is very successful, and the life of his third daughter Zhu Zhongzhi is very legendary.
Zhu Zhongzhi was born in 1904 in Changsha, Hunan Province, in the "Metamorphosis Garden", which is the most famous private garden in Changsha. Thanks to the solid family situation of her father's generation, she wore the aura of "famous and noble girl" as soon as she was born, becoming the envy of all girls.
In that era when feudal etiquette bound women, it was very fortunate to be born in such a family. His father, Zhu Jianfan, was an open-minded and avant-garde man, and he always advocated that his daughters should also learn to be independent, so under his influence, the Zhu family took the first step toward abolishing feudal thought.
At that time, it was also the era of new culture and new ideas, and under this opportunity, Zhu Jianfan opened his home and opened the Zhounan Women's College. Zhu Zhongzhi and her sisters have been reading and learning in the school run by her father since she was a child, which is also the quietest day of her life.
In ancient times, it was believed that "a woman's lack of talent is moral", so society prohibited women from entering the school to study. Therefore, at the beginning of the establishment of Zhounan Women's College, only women of the same ethnic group were enrolled, and later in 1907, when the policy was relatively loose, it began to recruit students with foreign surnames.
At that time, Yang Kaihui, Xiang Jingyu, Cai Chang, and others had all studied here, and Chairman Mao, who was still a young student, was a frequent visitor to the Zhounan Women's College and received preferential treatment from Zhu Jianfan's family.
The so-called "near Zhu Zhi Chi", Zhu Zhongzhi in such a living and learning environment, revolutionary ideas gradually sprouted in her heart, but also set the direction for her to walk in her life.
Throw yourself into the revolution
Zhu Zhongzhi studied at Zhounan Women's College from 1910 to 1922, and when she was in school, she studied very hard and diligently, and did not slack off at all because she was Miss Qianjin. Therefore, she has always been excellent in her studies and is a proper academic bully.
Later, after graduation, she was admitted to Nanjing Jinling Women's University, the first women's university in China, which was opened in China in 1913 by the American Church and others. After Zhu Zhongzhi was admitted to this school, she studied English here assiduously and was already an excellent foreign writer when she graduated.
In 1926, Zhu Zhongzhi returned to Changsha after finishing her studies and became a cadre in the guidance section of the Hunan Provincial Party School, and her main job was to train women in various life skills and learning ability. Here, she met her first husband, Xiao Jinguang.
Xiao Jinguang was one of the ten founding generals of our country and the main founder of the navy. The two fell in love at first sight from the moment they met, and with the same revolutionary philosophy, they quickly established a relationship.
When Zhu Zhongzhi first knew Xiao Jinguang not long ago, he was already in love. She herself is also a woman with a strong sense of independence, so she has her own ideas about the control of love and marriage.
So she brought her boyfriend Xiao Jinguang home without informing her family. Xiao Jinguang, who saw his father-in-law for the first time, was inevitably a little nervous, so when they met, they performed a military salute in a proper manner and shouted "Daddy".
Zhu Jianfan laughed when he saw it, and then looked at Zhu Zhongzhi next to him, and after getting her advice, he happily accepted this gengzhi-to-be son-in-law.
Soon after, the two went to Wuhan and married, and in the same year Zhu Zhongzhi officially joined the Communist Party, and the husband and wife opened their own revolutionary road everywhere.
In 1921, Xiao Jinguang went to the Soviet Union to study. After the couple married, they were again sent to the Soviet Union to study. They studied at Sun Yat-sen University and military university in Moscow, respectively. During this period, the eldest daughter of the two, Xiao Yanyan, was born smoothly.
In 1930, the two returned to China after finishing their studies, and considering the turmoil in the country, they left their daughter in a nursery school in Moscow, hoping to wait for stability to pick her up.
But later, when she went back to look for her, her daughter's whereabouts were unknown and had not been found until now, which became an eternal pain in the couple's heart.
In 1935, the eldest son, Xiao Yongding, was born, which slightly filled the gap in the hearts of the lost daughters, and later they had 5 children in a row. At that time, civil wars were frequent, and after Zhu Zhongzhi returned to China, he engaged in underground party work in a small hotel opened by his father.
The hotel was actually a point of contact for the CCP's Shanghai underground party, where Zhu Zhongzhi translated propaganda materials. Later, after Zhu Jianfan died of illness, the hotel began to sit idle, and Zhu Zhongzhi evacuated to other places to continue the revolution.
Later, Zhu Zhongzhi and Xiao Jinguang rushed to Yan'an to join the revolutionary ranks, and the days in Yan'an also became an important turning point in her life.
From divorce to remarriage
In 1938, the CCP established the Marxist-Leninist Academy in Yan'an and set up a compilation department. However, Luo Fu served as the director of the compilation department, and selected talents who were proficient in foreign languages from various units in Yan'an, and Zhu Zhongzhi was selected to officially enter the compilation department.
Because they had known Chairman Mao since childhood, during their time in Yan'an, the two often discussed some advanced ideas on Marxism-Leninism and gained a lot of inspiration from them.
Although the work was smooth sailing, the relationship between Zhu Zhongzhi and Xiao Jinguang was estranged. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Xiao Jinguang often fought outside, while Zhu Zhongzhi stayed in Yan'an, and the couple always gathered less and left more, and their feelings faded over time.
In 1940, Zhu Zhongzhi and Xiao Jinguang agreed to divorce. For the real reason for the divorce between the two, there is quite a lot of speculation in the society, but the two broke up peacefully, there was no quarrel and no tearing each other, and the reason may be that the two places were separated.
At this point, the two have been together for thirteen years, and when they got married, they were also "flash marriages", and they separated if they did not love. It can be seen that both of them are very open and advanced in their thinking, and this new concept of love between them also affects the people around them.
After Zhu Zhongzhi's divorce, she continued to choose to stay in Yan'an to carry out the logistical support work of the War of Resistance Against Japan. She was assigned to the International Studies Research Office of the Yan'an Academia Sinica. At that time, when the war was tight and the work was not busy, she led the female comrades in the research room to do logistics for the front line.
Some female comrades can't knit sweaters, and Zhu Zhongzhi teaches them by hand until the other party will. Later, she went to the border area to work, followed the large troops to engage in agricultural and sideline production, and also became a kitchen food commissar.
She often went deep into the kitchen to help the cooks, and the monotonous millet porridge and nest heads were always changing in her hands. The soldiers had enough to eat and ate well, and only when they went to the front line could they have the strength to fight.
Many people evaluate Zhu Zhongzhi as "helpful, kind and gentle and humble". During the revolution in the border area, she met her second husband, Xing Zhaotang.
Xing Zhaotang was originally a staff officer of the Kuomintang, and he was extremely meritorious in the military, all the way to the high-ranking official Houlu, but these fame and fortune could not extinguish his cognition. He was a man who focused on the overall situation, and during the warlords' internal strife, he could not bear the contradictions within the Kuomintang and repeatedly supported the Kuomintang-Communist cooperation program.
Shortly after the outbreak of the Zhifeng War in 1924, Chiang Kai-shek betrayed the revolution and ordered the liquidation of the Communist Party. Xing refused execution and released thirty Communists who had been arrested and imprisoned. He then led his troops away and joined forces with Chiang Kai-shek's faction in an attempt to make a comeback.
In 1939, Xing Zhaotang was persecuted by Chiang Kai-shek and forced to flee to the Communist Party's Jinji-Hebei Luyu Anti-Japanese Base Area, where Peng Dehuai personally received him and appointed him deputy senate speaker interim senate.
In 1943, he went to Yan'an to meet Chairman Mao, Zhou Enlai and others. In 1945, with chairman Mao's approval, Xing Zhaotang formally joined the Communist Party of China.
During his time in Yan'an, Xing Zhaotang and Zhu Zhongzhi met, when Zhu Zhongzhi had just divorced, and Xing Zhaotang's wife also died of illness, under the mediation of comrades in the party, the two married, and later they have been living together for a long time.
After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Xing Zhaotang held several important positions in the party. In 1955 he was transferred to Henan Province as first vice governor until his death in Zhengzhou in May 1961 at the age of 67.
Zhu Zhongzhi also taught in the English Department of Yan'an University after the founding of the People's Republic of China, and together with Tang Hai compiled the book "Conversation in English", which became the English teaching material used by later students.
In 1996, Zhu Zhongzhi died at the age of 92.
Zhu Zhongzhi's family, including his father Zhu Jianfan, his sister Zhu Zhongli, and others are all great revolutionaries in our country. The whole family threw themselves into the War of Resistance at a time of national crisis, and Zhu Zhongzhi was the first person in the family to join the revolutionary ranks.
Both of her marriages were legendary, only because both husbands were too good and their sons were quite successful. For example, xiao Zhuoneng, the third son born to her ex-husband, was the vice chairman of the Shandong Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and his wife was Li Guyi, a singer who is very familiar to everyone.
In the era when feudal ideas were still deeply rooted, Zhu Zhongzhi dared to end loveless marriages with divorce, which was a model for contemporary women. At the same time, it is also a wake-up call for the majority of female compatriots to throw away the burden of misfortune in a timely manner in order to embrace happiness.