People who have read Lu Xun's novel "Blessing" should be impressed by the role of "Xianglin Sister-in-law". In the old times, Xianglin's marriage was not up to her, she went out to work after her husband's death, but was caught by her mother-in-law and forced to marry another, and everyone felt that Xianglin's sister-in-law should be obedient. From the encounter of Xianglin's sister-in-law, it can be seen that the majesty of mothers-in-law and parents in the old-style society is very great.
Therefore, before women got married at that time, they usually did not even know what their husbands looked like, and once they resisted, they would have all kinds of evil words and evil words with them, even the third aunt of the well-known writer Yang Dai. The Yang family, a scholar in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, was born in 1911, when the Qing Dynasty was on the verge of extinction; but when her third aunt was born, the situation was different.
Yang Dai's third aunt was named Yang Yinyu, who was born in the tenth year of Guangxu. When Yang Dai was in elementary school, the third aunt once came to see her, saw her "bar bar bar chi" to eat, dropped a table full of rice grains, and quickly stepped forward to remind her. Yang Dai woke up and immediately picked up all the rice grains and put them in his mouth. In her later years, Yang Dai wrote a memoir detailed description of the aunt's early experience, and she was very sympathetic to her aunt's marriage experience.
It turned out that Yang Yinyu was the third daughter in the family, and her eldest sister was beautiful and more pampered, but her mother felt that Yang Yinyu looked too general, and even a little "ugly", so she always ignored this child. Yang Yinyu did not have much status in the family, and when she was 17 years old, her parents married her into a large family surnamed Jiang, and before that, her parents did not pay attention to inquire about the future son-in-law.
Yang Yinyu originally did not like arranged marriages, and after marrying into the Jiang family, she felt that her whole life would be ruined. It turned out that this young master Jiang was a stupid and incompetent child, unable to take care of himself in life, often grinning and smirking, drooling, and not even speaking clearly. Although Yang Yinyu was not favored at home, he knew how to read and write, how could he bear such a husband? In a fit of rage, she rose up in resistance.
As a result, on the wedding night, Yang Yinyu scratched Young Master Jiang's face. The next morning, she sneaked out of her in-laws' house and ran back to her mother's house to hide. The mother-in-law is a shrewd and strong person, and when she heard that her daughter-in-law ran away, she did not say a word and went to the door to arrest people. She first sent a palanquin and an old mother to pick her up, and Yang Yinyu refused to go back; then she personally came to arrest yang Yinyu, and Yang Yinyu was forced to go back, and not long after, she ran back crying.
This time, she would rather die than go back. The mother-in-law found the Yang family to make a big fuss, and Yang Yinyu simply tore her face and directly declared that she would break off relations with her husband's family. This marriage farce came to an end soon, 18-year-old Yang Yinyu experienced this change, died of marriage, and never wanted to get married and have children, she only wanted to study and become a talented person and be a new type of intellectual woman.
Since then, Yang Yinyu has never been married again and has been single. She went abroad twice, once to Japan and once to the United States, and devoted herself to education after returning home. In 1924, with the support of the Beiyang government, Yang Yinyu became the president of the National Beijing Women's Normal University. She was the first female university president in China and a pioneer in the field of education in modern times.
However, the experience of the early years made Yang Yinyu's personality become rigid and serious, and during her study abroad, she did not have a deep understanding of the current situation in China, so that after becoming the principal, Yang Yinyu devoted herself to using feudal paternalistic methods to manage students, opposing students to carry out patriotic parades and unfair handling, and was eventually ousted from power. But Yang Yinyu's late festival has always been highly affirmed, in the face of the atrocities of the Japanese army, Yang Yinyu stood up to protest and protect innocent people, at the age of 54, Yang Yinyu was booby-trapped by the Japanese army, which is a hero of anti-Japanese resistance.