During the Republic of China period, literati could be described as emerging in an endless stream. Many modern works have appeared from the Republic of China period, but in this period, in addition to their own literary achievements, their emotional life is also very wonderful.
In the case of Xu Zhimo, his own literary attainments in the Republic of China period were very high, but his private life was also eye-opening. His love story with Lu Xiaoman has also made many people talk about it. So what exactly is this twisty love story?
The lives of the two
Xu Zhimo was a representative poet of the Crescent School, who was very intelligent from an early age and entered Cambridge University as an adult. And made a poem "Farewell to Kangqiao", which has been passed down to this day. After returning to China in 1922, he began to publish a large number of poems, and actively began to organize newspapers and periodicals. But unfortunately, such a literary talent was killed in an air crash nine years later.
And Xu Zhimo's wife Lu Xiaoman is also very brilliant. Although as the era of the feudal period, women were always restricted to a lot of things. But Lu Xiaoman has been constantly learning since he was a child, and he is more intelligent in himself.
He has also worked as a diplomatic translator. And it is also very famous in the field of Chinese painting. Even after combining with Xu Zhimo, he also co-created "Bian Kungang" with Xu Zhimo. All of this can show that these two people can be described as a pair of talented women.
The acquaintance of the two
Among the acquaintances between Xu Zhimo and Lu Xiaoman, a very important figure is Lu Xiaoman's ex-husband, Wang Geng . Although Wang Geng himself has a promising future at present, he is still not sufficient in terms of money. And Lu Xiaoman's family condition is that the family is rich.
So the two got married. But life after marriage has not been very harmonious. Lu Xiaoman is different from the women of the feudal period, only stuck to the husband and godson, she and modern women, want their own life, and want to become a woman in the new era.
But all this Wang Geng could not give him, Wang Geng was devoted to his own career, very self-disciplined, and usually did not care enough about Lu Xiaoman. Lu Xiaoman also could not accept such a life and did not want to be a housewife waiting for her husband.
But later, in a fortuitous coincidence, Wang Geng asked his friend Xu Zhimo to help take care of Lu Xiaoman. As soon as they came and went, Lu Xiaoman and Xu Zhimo became acquainted. The two hit it off. When Lu Xiaoman still had a marriage contract with Wang Geng, the two began to fall in love.
At that time, under the constraint of feudal etiquette, as soon as the matter between the two was revealed, it was criticized a lot. After all, such a thing in the social context at that time was under fire. But think again. The two did not do this very generously, because both of them had a spouse during the hot love period.
Even in today's open society, when there is a spouse, it is still going to fall in love with others, which will be criticized. In fact, at that time, the two could have broken up with their spouses first and then fallen in love.
But this matter has also passed for a long time, we are not the current people, can not well speculate on their minds, but just from the surface, in terms of good words, is the brave pursuit of love, as for the bad words, I will not elaborate, after all, people are cloudy, everyone's point of view is different.
The two fell in love
In 1922, Lu Xiaoman and Xu Zhimo were officially married. Of course, the premise of this matter is that both people have divorced their respective spouses. When they got married, they also encountered some twists and turns at the wedding ceremony. They invited Liang Qichao to come as a witness to the marriage.
Originally, he wanted to use Liang Qichao's fame to break through the atmosphere of feudal etiquette, but he did not expect to be scolded by Liang Qichao at the wedding ceremony. The two could only accept it with sadness. However, after getting married, Lu Xiaoman found that he was pregnant with Wang Geng's child, so Lu Xiaoman, who realized this, rant the child away, and the result was that this miscarriage caused Lu Xiaoman's health to become very bad.
So Xu Zhimo asked a good friend of his, Weng Ruiwu, because this friend was very proficient in the art of massage. And now here, is there some familiar feeling, the original Wang Geng also asked his friend Xu Zhimo to take care of Lu Xiaoman.
However, the plot will certainly not be so consistent. Xu Zhimo and Lu Xiaoman are still very much in love after marriage. The two have similar interests, but they are not happy. But in an air disaster in 1931, Xu Zhimo was killed.
Lu Xiaoman, who heard the news, was in pain, and finally the body was still let Zhang Youyi's son pick it up. After Xu Zhimo was killed, Lu Xiaoman was very ill, and Weng Ruiwu, who was asked by Xu Zhimo to take care of Lu Xiaoman, told Lu Xiaoman to smoke some opium moderately to make him feel better.
Unexpectedly, Lu Xiaoman was directly infected with opium. And Weng Duanwu fell in love with this woman who was full of poetry but was not rigid after contacting Lu Xiaoman. So Weng Ruiwu took on the responsibility of taking care of Lu Xiaoman.
He even sold his property for Lu Xiaoman. When the story ends here, maybe Weng Duanwu is an infatuated man in everyone's heart. But in fact, Weng Duan already had a wife in the early afternoon. The two have been married for many years.
The final outcome
Later, in 1953, Weng Duanwu's wife died. And Weng Duanwu can finally take care of Lu Xiaoman in name only. In the same year, Weng Duanwu announced that he and Lu Xiaoman were together.
In time, Lu Xiaoman was infected with opium, and the cost of every year was very expensive, and Weng Duanwu did not complain a word. It was in this state that the two had been living together for thirty years.
In this story, leaving aside ethics and morality, the romantic love story of Lu Xiaoman and Xu Zhimo is enviable, and Weng Duanwu is admirable for selling his property for Lu Xiaoman.
But to dig deeper into the essence, there is no absolute right or absolute wrong in this love story. Lu Xiaoman, Xu Zhimo and Weng Duanwu all cheated on each other in their marriages, although they all ended up getting their spouses' forgiveness.
But it happened, it just happened, and we can't say that's right. However, from the background of the times at that time, it seems to be more understandable. Because the three people in the story are all married by order, for the so-called door-to-door pair.
Because in that era everyone was like this, they wanted to rebel, but the feudal etiquette weighed them down even more. Until they meet each other, they don't know that the love of pursuing freedom is so happy.
All, at the expense of being criticized, and that sentence goes like this: "A friend's wife shall not be deceived." But Xu Zhimo and Weng Duanwu both made such mistakes. But in love, love is the most important, if you don't love, but you have to keep torturing each other, this is actually the most essential mistake.