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Some time ago, the movie "The First Burning Incense" was released, which reminded me of a woman at the same time as Zhang Ailing, her name is Xiao Hong, I came into contact with Xiao Hong's novel, it was her "Hulan River Biography", to be honest, the novel is not very well written, but I am interested in the author's strange experience.
Xiao Hong was born in a declining aristocratic family on the outskirts of Harbin, received a new-style education from a young age, and her thinking was more rebellious and avant-garde, but her so-called avant-garde was completely blind and stubborn, and did not care at all, of course, she also paid a painful price for her stubbornness.
I'll talk to you about Xiao Hong's emotions, how strange it is. When she was twelve, the elders of the family set up a family affair for her, and her future man was named Wang Enjia, who was eight years older than her, a descendant of the Manchu Qing nobles, a descendant of the local noble family, a dignified looking man, and a college student at the University of Political Science and Law. Xiao Hong, who was ignorant of his youth, had seen Wang Enjia and felt that the other party was not bad-looking, and he was the kind of person he liked.
According to the normal situation, when Xiao Hong grows up, the two can get married, and Qingqing and I live a small life. However, Xiao Hong was not satisfied with the arranged marriage of the elders. In 1930, 18-year-old Xiao Hong graduated from high school, and just when the Wang family was planning to marry her, she ran away with her family behind her back and fled to Beiping with a cousin.
Her reason for escaping marriage was simple: progressive schoolgirls must oppose feudal arranged marriages.
After arriving in Beijing, Xiao Hong successfully passed the exam and entered the Girls' High School Affiliated to The Women's Normal College of Peking University. At that time, as long as you were admitted, there was no restriction on household registration.
With no financial resources, her life soon fell into trouble and she had to return home in ashes. (Since you've already escaped, why are you coming back?) Beiping is so big, just find a job at random, prove your ambition) She stayed at home for a long time, just before the Wang family's flower car came to the door, she ran away again. This time, Wang Enjia chased to Beiping, the two met, chatted well, she followed Wang Enjia back to Harbin.
After returning, she bizarrely proposed to spend two years and then get married after graduation. The people of the Wang family were stunned, didn't your two little ones come back to get married? My relatives here have been informed, just waiting to invite everyone to eat and drink, but you suddenly came out of this.
Wang Enjia's brother was angry: Okay, this woman our family can't afford to raise, don't want it, just withdraw the bride price.
Unexpectedly, Xiao Hong, a progressive student, filed a complaint and sued Wang Enjia's brother in court on the grounds that I liked him and did not want to quit the marriage.
Of course, the real meaning is that the Xiao Hong family has been unable to refund the huge amount of dowry money.
When things got to this point, the court considered Xiao Hong's escape from marriage and decided that their marriage contract was over. As for the Wang family, they got half of the dowry money.
Just when the Wang family was looking for another famous show for Wang Enjia, the two of them eloped. Xiao Hong did not want a palanquin, did not want a wedding, and for the so-called progressive idea, resolutely ran to the hotel with Wang Enjia to live with him.
When Xiao Hong soon became pregnant and was about to give birth, Wang Enjia went home to get money and did not go back as soon as she left. When studying this history, many scholars believe that Wang Enjia is deliberately retaliating against Xiao Hong, but with the disclosure of some historical materials over the years, Wang Enjia was placed under house arrest by his family after returning home, and then married another woman.
As for Xiao Hong, since she likes to stay in a hotel, she will continue to live.
When Xiao Hong saw that Wang Enjia was delayed in returning, she was anxious and wrote to Pei Xinyuan, the editor of the supplement of Harbin's "International Association Daily", for help, and her real intention was to use the power of the media to denounce Wang Enjia's ruthlessness and injustice. (Now this trick, there are many people using)
Pei Xinyuan is also true, you can send money directly, and you have also sent his editor Xiao Jun many times to send magazines to the hotel to show Xiao Hong to eliminate Xiao Hong's loneliness.
Unexpectedly, Xiao Hong and Xiao Jun, the two people, came and went to see each other. After Xiao Hong gave birth to the child, she gave the child to someone else, turned her head and Xiao Jun drilled into the bed, and lived a sweet life of the two.
Xiao Jun is a responsible man, does not care about Xiao Hong and Wang Enjia's past, and treats her well. However, after the two were together, Xiao Hong began to pay attention to what was good to eat and use, and he wanted to open his mouth, Xiao Jun's little salary was not enough at all, he had to do tutoring, and borrowed money everywhere.
I have to say that Xiao Hong still has a bit of literary genius, and after reading those magazine articles, she began to write her own novels. Xiao Jun worked in the magazine and knew people, so the novel was published with a fee, and Xiao Hong's literary road went very smoothly.
She wrote an article exposing the northeast under the control of the Japanese and puppets, which was of a certain degree of criticism and participated in anti-Japanese activities, which attracted the attention of the Japanese and puppet secret service organs, and the husband and wife had to leave the northeast under the arrangement of the underground party and move to Qingdao. During this period, Lu Xun, a great literary hero, read her article, and it was very much in line with his taste and greatly appreciated.
The two went to Shanghai to meet Lu Xun, and in this way, Lu Xun became a nobleman of Xiao Hong and his wife, and under the admiration of Lu Xun, Xiao Hong met Mao Dun, Nie Cyan crossbow, Ye Zi, Hu Feng and other celebrities, and quickly rose in the literary world, although it could not be on a par with the talented woman Lin Huiyin, but the monthly manuscript fee was also soft.
Xiao Hong, along with these cultural celebrities, has greatly improved her thinking, and in order to seek advice and creation, she sometimes does not leave Lu Xun's house, which makes her man Xiao Jun very dissatisfied. The days of the little two are getting more and more dashing, but the feelings are getting stranger and stranger. In 1936, Xiao Hong went to Japan to study, following the pace of Lu Xun's youth, and also took the opportunity to avoid emotional entanglement with Xiao Jun.
After Lu Xun's death, Xiao Hong returned to China to pay respects, and her relationship with Xiao Jun eased somewhat, and at her insistence, in spite of the "July 7 Incident" at that time, she helped the so-called Japanese friends Shikachi and Sachiko Ikeda to escape the search and arrest of military agents and protect them from safe transfer.
It should be known that the military command agents want to capture Kashikachi and Sachiko Ikeda, which are definitely not out of thin air, and although those two people are ostensibly writers, they may be Japanese spies.
In the face of national righteousness, Xiao Hong and his wife insisted on friendship first.
Seeing that the Japanese were about to attack Shanghai, in September 1937, Xiao Hong and his wife left Shanghai for Wuhan and lived in a friend's house, during which time, the young northeastern writer Duanmu Hongliang also moved to live with them. Duanmu Hongliang actively asked Xiao Hong, who was one year older than him, for literary creation, and the two had a good relationship. Xiao Hong to this handsome little brother, is also very caring, three more midnight words and deeds, Xiao Jun was angry about this, stayed up until the end of the year, this relationship that lasted for several years came to an end, Xiao Hong took Duanmu Hongliang to Xi'an, returned to Wuhan in April of the following year, and publicly married in May.
Sister is so willful.
In November 1938, Xiao Hong gave birth to a child, and she couldn't tell who the child was, but on the third day after childbirth, the child died, and Xiao Hong's own explanation was that this one died of convulsions at night.
After Xiao Hong and Duanmu Hongliang lived in Chongqing for a while, they saw that the Japanese planes exploded badly, the two went to Hong Kong, and after arriving in Hong Kong, her body became weaker and weaker, and there were serious gynecological diseases, when she went to the hospital for examination, she was found to have tuberculosis, and then she has been treated and recuperated, and the economy has begun to tense. However, Duanmu Hongliang is very powerful and takes care of her very thoughtfully.
After the Japanese army occupied Hong Kong, The couple of Kakuji and Sachiko Ikeda, who were rescued by Xiao Hong, did not help her, and she was thrown out of the hospital by the Japanese army and walked through her 31-year-old youth in the corridor of another temporary hospital.
Among the female writers of the Republic of China, some people have also experienced many men, but they can ride the wind and waves, while Xiao Hong is a chicken feather, and the main reason is that she is too deep.
I wonder what netizens think?