Speaking of the love story of the Republic of China period, the great poet Xu Zhimo is an important figure who cannot hide from the past, whether it is his fruitless love with Lin Huiyin or the unhappy marriage with Lu Xiaoman, which is a topic that people talk about today.
In 1931, Xu Zhimo's plane crashed, and the great poet also died young, and his wife Lu Xiaoman was not yet thirty years old at the time. When Xu Zhimo was alive, Lu Xiaoman could be said to have spent money like dirt and lived an extremely luxurious life, and after Xu Zhimo's death, Lu Xiaoman eventually died of poverty and illness, so Xu Zhimo had many friends before he died, and no one really wanted to care about her?
To answer this question, we must also go and see what kind of person Lu Xiaoman is.
Lu Xiaoman is indeed a talented woman, she is from a very good background, her father Lu Ding was once a high-ranking official of the Kuomintang, and later the family began to do business, which can be described as a well-off family. The Lu family also attaches great importance to the education of their daughter Lu Xiaoman, who was not only beautiful in his youth, but also had good talent, proficient in calligraphy, painting, foreign languages, and socializing with people. In the high society of Beijing at that time, Lu Xiaoman was definitely a must-see scenery.
Lu Xiaoman, who has talent and a family lineage, will naturally not be worse in his choice of marriage.
Lu Xiaoman's first husband's name was Wang Geng , who was the absolutely sought-after diamond Wang Laowu at that time , Wang Geng was born in a famous family, once studied at Tsinghua University, and then went to the United States to study, graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point. After returning to China, he became a senior officer of the Kuomintang. Moreover, Wang Geng was an upright person, a man of both literature and martial arts, and he did not have the bad atmosphere of a clumsy disciple on his body at all. Therefore, he was favored by Lu Xiaoman's parents early in the morning, and the two finally married.
But unfortunately, Wang Geng and Lu Xiaoman were not the same people at all. Wang Geng is a soldier with the stereotype of a soldier, while Lu Xiaoman is a literary and artistic young woman who likes freedom and romance. Moreover, Wang Geng is a workaholic, who spends a lot of time on work every day, and there is no time to accompany Lu Xiaoman. Gradually, Lu Xiaoman began to be dissatisfied with Wang Geng, and when there was a problem in the marriage between the two, there was a person who entered Lu Xiaoman's vision, and this person was Xu Zhimo.
At that time, Xu Zhimo ended his marriage with the original Zhang Youyi, and also ended his love with his lover Lin Huiyin, and he met Lu Xiaoman when he returned to China from England. The romance and uninhibitedness of Xu Zhimo's poet deeply attracted Lu Xiaoman, a man who was serious in Lu Xiaoman but much more interesting than Wang Geng of the carved wooden. Then Lu Xiaoman cheated, and before her marriage with Wang Geng was over, she came together with Xu Zhimo.
After the East Window incident, Lu Xiaoman filed for divorce with Wang Geng, and she even beat up the child in her belly to express her determination to divorce Wang Geng. Wang Geng saw that Lu Xiaoman could not be recovered, and he had no choice but to let go. Lu Xiaoman, who regained his freedom, married Xu Zhimo, and the matter was stirred up in Beijing's cultural circles, and many people were very dismissive of the couple who betrayed their marriage. When Xu Zhimo's teacher Liang Qichao was a witness at the wedding, he did not send a word of blessing, but criticized the two in front of all the guests, which made the scene very embarrassing.
After marrying Xu Zhimo, Lu Xiaoman did not stop, spending a lot of money, the family lived in a bungalow, usually there was a car pick-up, and the servants followed. The family expenses are particularly large, and it is said that the servants in Lu Xiaoman's family are all richly dressed. Lu Xiaoman himself usually has to buy various luxury goods, participate in dance parties, play mahjong, and so on. She also did one of the most money-burning things, which was smoking opium.
Therefore, after getting married, Xu Zhimo had to work hard to make money in several positions to maintain Lu Xiaoman's huge expenses, and even sometimes had to borrow money to survive. Xu Zhimo's plane accident is also related to these things, and Xu Zhimo, who needs to travel in Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing and other places, can only take a cargo plane in order to save money on the plane, and the result is an accident.
Lu Xiaoman's previous willfulness has made her cut off contact with her family, and the parents of such a daughter-in-law Xu Zhimo do not like it, so although the Lu and Xu families are well-off, they will not fund Lu Xiaoman after Xu Zhimo's death and let her continue that luxurious lifestyle. At that time, Lu Xiaoman also had no job and could not support himself. No one would have thought that Lu Xiaoman, who had nowhere to lean, was raised by a man named Weng Ruiwu, who paid for Lu Xiaoman's life.
Xu Zhimo still had some friends, and after his death, his good friend Hu Shi wanted to arrange a new life for Lu Xiaoman, so he asked her to leave Weng Ruiwu and quit opium. But the wayward Lu Xiaoman did not listen to him at all and ignored Hu Shi. In this way, Lu Xiaoman lived for many years under the financial support of Weng Ruiwu.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Lu Xiaoman's life was not so good, without Weng Ruiwu's support, Hu Shi and others also left the mainland. Lu Xiaoman's life in his later years can be said to be very lonely and poor.
In 1965, Lu Xiaoman died of poverty and illness.
Resources
The Biography of Xu Zhimo