Daughter of Hu Die, the queen of the Republic of China: married 75-year-old Li Zongren at the age of 27, widowed at the age of 30, and converted to Buddhism at the age of 56! The 27-year-old nurse filled the room for the 75-year-old Li Zongren, suspected of coveting wealth? Hu Yousong: I didn't want his money!
On the stage of modern China's history, Li Zongren's name can be said to be well known, because he is not only the head of the "Gui clan", but also the first vice president and acting president of the Republic of China government. When the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression broke out, Li Zongren served as the commander of the Fifth Theater. He was elected Vice President in 1948. After Chiang Kai-shek stepped down, he once served as acting president, hoping to save the National Government through peace talks, but for various reasons, this wish eventually became a mirror.
On November 20, 1949, Li Zongren flew from Nanning to Hong Kong by special plane in the name of seeking medical treatment. In December 1949, Li Zongren flew to the United States by plane, and then spent 16 years in exile in the United States.
He was also exiled by his wife, Ms. Guo Dejie. Guo Dejie is a native of Guiping County, Guangxi, born in 1906 in Guiping County, whose father was a handmade practitioner (mason), because of his good craftsmanship and loyalty, he became a small contract foreman and earned a good income.
Guo Dejie has been smart and clever since childhood, proud and proud, and strives to be the first in doing things, and is a new woman with progressive thoughts. In order to pursue herself, she ignored the persuasion of her family and resolutely entered the Guiping Girls' School to study.
In 1922, Li Zongren, then commander-in-chief of the Second Road of the "Autonomous Army" in Guangxi, led troops to garrison Guiping, and after being introduced, Li Zongren and Guo Dejie met, and Li and Guo had a few meals at the hotel and began to fall in love. In 1924, the two married Li Zongren. Guo Dejie's original name was Guo Ruxian, and Dejie was the new name that Li Zongren gave her when she was married.
Guo Dejie was sociable and well-liked, and among the ladies of the senior generals of the Gui clan, he appeared in a posture of standing out from the crowd and being superior. She is a woman with strong self-esteem, unwilling to be completely subordinate to her husband, and is Li Zongren's right-hand man. From the Northern Expedition to the War of Resistance, Guo Dejie's figure has been active on li zongren's side. Guo Dejie immediately flew from Guilin to the front line to offer condolences to the soldiers, which was well received by the soldiers and praised by the society.
After Guo Dejie followed Li Zongren to settle in the United States, because Li Zongren had lost power and was exiled to a foreign country, no one was willing to approach. During her time in New York, Guo Dejie immersed herself in learning English, and was also quite comfortable with foreigners, like a "Wilshire-style" Chinese lady studying in the United States. In 1964, doctors diagnosed her with breast cancer, and in order to maintain a perfect body, she was reluctant to operate, and by 1965 she was terminally ill.
This scene has further stimulated their homesickness. On July 20, 1965, Li Zongren and his wife Guo Dejie broke through many difficulties and returned to Beijing via Switzerland and the Middle East, where they were warmly welcomed by high-level leaders and the people of the motherland. However, less than half a year after returning to China, Guo Dejie died in beijing hospital in the early morning of March 21, 1966.
After Guo Dejie's death, Li Zongren, who became a bachelor, became disorderly in terms of food, clothing, housing, and transportation, so the top leaders wanted to help him reorganize his family. It was in this context that Someone introduced Hu Yourong, a 27-year-old female nurse at the time, to Li Zongren.
Speaking of Hu Yousong's life, it is also quite legendary. A common theory (including Hu himself) is that Hu Yousong was the daughter of Hu Die, the first film queen of the Republic of China. Hu Yousong was born in Shanghai in 1939 and was originally named Hu Ruomei. Ruomei is the name given to her by her mother Hu Di, which means that she hopes that her daughter will be as beautiful and strong as a plum blossom. Because she was an illegitimate daughter, Ruomei did not know who her father was from an early age. When he was 6 years old, he left his mother and was adopted, and he suffered a lot from helping to send people under the fence.
After graduating from middle school, Hu Yousong was admitted to a nursing school in Beijing, and after graduating from the nursing school in 1959, he was assigned to work in the Beijing Tuberculosis Hospital and transferred to Jishuitan Hospital. During this period, there were two love affairs that ended without illness. After a period of decentralization to the rural circuit, he eventually arrived at Fuxing Hospital.
Once, when she and several colleagues in the hospital were invited to a ministry party, she met a friend she had known before and asked her for a recent photo, saying that she would use it when introducing work. Unexpectedly, it is used to introduce the object.
And this person who liked her was something she had never expected before, because that person was the famous anti-Japanese general Li Zongren. Under the influence of friends, there was this blind date. At that time, Li Zongren was already a 75-year-old man, and he was afraid that the young and beautiful Nurse Hu would look down on him as a decaying wood man, but he did not expect that what his friends brought back to him was good news - Hu Yousong agreed to this marriage.
For this relationship between old and young people with an age difference of nearly half a century, it has also been criticized a lot, and some people think that she loves vanity and looks at Li Zongren's property. However, Hu Yousong was very calm, as soon as she entered the Li Mansion, she declared to the staff: "I don't care about money, all the passbooks, keys, and inheritance of property, I only take care of Mr. Li's living." ”
The arrival of Hu Yousong filled the general's final years with warmth. Mr. Li was quite satisfied with Hu Yousong, and after remarriage, he also deliberately rinsed many photos of the two to give to relatives and friends, and wrote "This is my wife Hu Yousong" on the back of each photo.
Unfortunately, the marriage lasted only 3 years, ending with the death of Li Zongren, and the 30-year-old Hu Yousong has not married since.
In the years that followed, she stayed alone, supporting herself with her meager salary and maintaining her poor life. After retiring from the First Historical Archive of China in 1985, she began to study Chinese painting, and her Chinese paintings are quite popular. In the flood relief charity sale, she donated all the proceeds from her painting sales to the disaster area. In 1995, at the age of 56, Hu Yousong converted to Buddhism at Guangji Temple in Beijing.
On November 25, 2008, Hu Yousong died of illness at the age of 69. Because of the lack of children, coupled with the frugality of life, in addition to salary, there are painting income, so before his death, he accumulated a lot of savings, according to Ms. Hu's own wishes, these assets were donated to the Hope Project and related departments.
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