Text/Zhao Libo
On January 14, 1927, Yu Dafu, who lived in Shanghai, went to the French Concession to visit his old classmates who stayed in Japan. It was with his classmate Sun Baigang that Yu Dafu met Wang Yingxia, a 20-year-old girl with "bright eyes like water, a flood of autumn waves". Wang Yingxia, the granddaughter of the Hangzhou scholar Wang Ernan, fled from Wenzhou to Shanghai with Sun Baigang and others. When Yu Dafu looked at this plump and beautiful girl, he had the feeling that Jia Baoyu had when he first saw Lin Daiyu, "I think I have seen Miss Wang somewhere before, and I am familiar with her eyes." Wang Yingxia ignored him, or Mrs. Sun played round the field: "Maybe I met him somewhere in Hangzhou." After chatting, I learned that Miss Wang graduated from Hangzhou Female Teacher, is a well-known school flower, has strong social skills, and participated in the beauty pageant and was also named "Miss Hangzhou". Seeing this scene is quite reminiscent of the scene of "Siege of the City"
Young Wang Yingxia
How much is Wang Yingxia? We can take a look at the relevant records:
The writer Tang Qiang recounted Wang Yingxia's appearance in "Remembering Yu Dafu": "Ms. Yingxia is much younger than him (referring to Yu Dafu), her posture is well-proportioned, and the so-called increase of one point is too fat, and the loss of one point is too thin, and her eyes are burning with spirit. Somehow, I always felt that she was not so beautiful as she was a personable woman with generous manners and extraordinary actions. No wonder Mr. Duff fell in love at first sight, drunk, upside down to the point of madness. ”
Since meeting Wang Yingxia, the amorous and kind Yu Dafu has always expressed his fanatical love in his words: "The south wind is strong, the weather is mild, the moon is warm, I really want to burn Yingxia, I don't know if she is also thinking about me, this matter should be carried out with all my strength, and I want to be a permanent friend with her." After that, the married Yu Dafu, who had three children, gave up his responsibilities to the family and began a crazy pursuit of Wang Yingxia. He kept writing love letters to each other, and could no longer even describe Uddhav's fanaticism in terms of gaffes and pathology. "Like a fierce fire and electric light, it is impossible to burn society and burn all one's body." Nevertheless, Uddhav also knew that he did not have much advantage other than literary talent.
Uddhav
He himself summed it up: "The first is that our age difference is too far, and of course mutual emotions cannot happen; Second, my own abundance is not proud of one, this is the greatest hatred of my life, and I cannot cause you to burn inside; Third, I have no wings, no wealth of millions, no reputation for the world, so I cannot make you fall to the ground under my hypnotic hints. ”
However, Wang Yingxia's young girl's heart was thus conquered by Yu Dafu, and soon after Yu Dafu took turns to "attack", Wang Yingxia and Yu Dafu had a long conversation in a room in the Jiangnan Hotel in Shanghai and agreed on the terms of marriage. Wang Yingxia's request was simple: she must marry the media and form a complete world that belongs to the two of them. Yu Dafu agreed, although there was no lack of shame for his wife. For example, in his diary on February 27, 1927, he wrote: "I can never forget Yingxia, nor can I forget the children of Beijing." As soon as I think of Tsuen Jun's lonely and distant sorrow, I will shed tears. But this brief moment of sanity was quickly occupied by Wang Yingxia's beauty.
On the evening of June 5, 1927, Yu Dafu and Wang Yingxia held an engagement ceremony in Jufeng Garden, Hangzhou. On June 10, Yu Dafu wrote a letter to inform his wife of the incident, and Sun Quan could only acquiesce in tears. In the spring of 1928, Yu Dafu and Wang Yingxia held a wedding in Shanghai, immersed in sweetness, Yu Dafu was happy, and wrote a poem: "Towards the wind and dark high-rise buildings, borrow the hidden name of the mountain to swear white head." Good things are only worried about heaven and jealous of me, and buy a five-lake boat for Junxian. At that time, the celebrities praised their union without really being "fairy lovers", but soon, relying entirely on the combination of external feelings, due to the lack of practical understanding, when life met chai rice oil and salt, their marriage was in crisis in an instant.
A life changed by marriage
At that time, although Yu Dafu embraced the beauty, his life was not satisfactory.
In addition to the thin body, a face of exhaustion and vicissitudes, completely out of line with the handsome man. Due to Wang Yingxia's high requirements for material life, Yu Dafu's living expenses have soared, which invisibly caused him considerable pressure. In addition, his personal hygiene habits are very bad, often his hair is not combed, his beard is not shaved, his clothes are not changed, his shoes are not polished, and he does not bathe for ten days and a half months. What's more, he was also an alcoholic, and once had a poem that said, "Once he was drunk and whipped a famous horse, for fear of amorous beauty." "Nowadays, when I embrace beautiful people, I often drink like mud even more unscrupulously. Wang Yingxia, who had already given birth to a child for Yu Dafu, gradually became discouraged and began to think about whether she had entrusted the second half of her life to this man.
Yudaf calligraphy
In 1936, Yu Dafu was invited by Chen Yi, chairman of the Fujian Provincial Government, to go south to Fuzhou and serve as a senator and director of the propaganda office of the provincial government. Wang Yingxia, who stayed in Hangzhou, became acquainted with Xu Shaodi, who was then the director of the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Education, and the two had contacts. At the end of the second year, the Japanese army landed in Hangzhou Bay, the military and political institutions in Zhejiang moved south, and the provincial education department moved to Lishui in southern Zhejiang. In order to escape the chaos of the war, Wang Yingxia took refuge in Fuyang with her old mother and children, and later to Lishui, where she lived next to Xu Shaodi, and the children of the two families often played together. At this time, Xu Shaodi's wife had just died of illness, and he lived alone with 3 daughters. And these undoubtedly created conditions for a certain connection between the two, coupled with the frequent movement of the two, caused a lot of gossip.
Xu Shaodi
Although Yu Dafu was far away in Fuzhou, these gossip and gossip flew into his ears, and it was difficult to calm down in the end. In March 1938, Yu Dafu left Fujian at the invitation of Guo Moruo to work in Wuhan, and became a director of the "All-China Literary and Art Circles Anti-Enemy Association" and concurrently served as a member of the design committee of the Third Department of the Political Department of the Military Commission, taking the opportunity to take Wang Yingxia from Lishui to Wuhan. Although people have received, the contradictions are getting bigger and bigger. In order to relieve his worries, Yu Dafu wrote the word "He Groom": "The rest of his life is real, and he pours out the tide of qiantang, and it is difficult to wash his shame." If you want to return to Jiangdong without a face, you should die in the tail paint. Shame said with, punched the door wall. Seeing the peony medicine left in the mulberry, pretending to be deaf and deaf. The aunt endures the humiliation, and there is no need to do much. Why did the Xiongnu not destroy their family? And by him, the warbler swallow, the private joy of Yako. Leave Wu Hook to fight the enemy, how can the sword be tried lightly? Annihilating clowns, naturally easy. Don't have dai tian hatred in it, if the country dies, the wife and concubine are not prostitutes? First chase after the pheasant, then drive away the pheasant.
Uddhav and son
In his self-annotation, he wrote: "Xu Jun is my friend, he raped my wife, naturally much stronger than the enemy to rape, and at the moment of great difficulty, these personal small things can only be put aside for the time being, and what matters is that he is still avenging our nation!"!
It seemed that the matter could have stopped here, but the more the literati Yu Dafu thought about it, the more he held his breath, refused to put on the green hat on his head, so he simply annotated the poems written in the past two years in March 1939 and compiled them into "The Chronicle of The Destruction of the Family", which was published in the 30th anniversary of the "Gale Magazine". This move completely annoyed Wang Yingxia, who immediately wrote a long letter to Yu Dafu in the form of a letter in response, which was published in the 34th issue of the Gale Magazine, in which Yun said: "For the sake of the children, for the promises made 12 years ago, and for the sake of not wanting to make you infamous, she barely maintained the remnants of this family and drowned out all your ugly deeds, but you are a person who deceives the good and fears the evil, and you are inching forward, and in the state of intolerability, you have no choice but to expose your skinned animal heart."
Uddhav related records
In her later years, Wang Yingxia once wrote an article "The Marriage between Yu Dafu and Me", recalling that when she left Yu Dafu, she only carried a small box out of the house. "Yudaf didn't send me out either, and I knew he still couldn't put it down on his face. I really turned back three times in one step, and although I hated him and hated him, my feelings for him were still severed; How I wanted a miracle, he suddenly ran out of the house, took my suitcase, persuaded me to go back, then everything changed... According to Wang Yingxia's own account, what she wants is actually a stable home, and Yu Dafu can only be friends with him and cannot be husband and wife, so the biggest difference between her and Yu Dafu is the difference in personality. "For marriage, for the marriage of women, the bitterness in the middle, I have tasted enough, and I am more afraid than a cannonball. I can vouch for my whole life and whole personality that there will never be that second suffering in my life." Therefore, Wang Yingxia later remarried, "neither a celebrity nor an official." I only hope that a man who is honest, has no family, is in good health, and can treat her with the courtesy of an official original wife." Wang Yingxia, who experienced many emotional entanglements, finally chose to marry Zhong Xiandao for the second time and finally lived her own life.
A love affair between Wang Yingxia and Dai Kasa
Wang Yingxia's acquaintance with Dai Kasa actually stemmed from Yu Dafu, and even blamed Yu Dafu for making friends carelessly and "luring wolves into the house". Yu Dafu and Dai Kasa are both Fellow Zhejiang, Dai Kasa studied at the Zhejiang First Middle School in Hangzhou in 912, and the predecessor of this school was Yu Dafu's alma mater, Hangzhou Fu Middle School, from this point of view, Yu and Dai are still classmates before and after, and this relationship may be an opportunity for Yu and Dai to communicate.
Dudaf's diary of February 14, 1936, recorded: "Sending a letter to Mr. Dai Yunong (Dai Kasa Character Yunong) Mr. Dai, Shay also sent noble concubines to come to ya." This is the first time that Dai Kasa's name appears in Uddhav's diary. At that time, Yu had already gone to Fuzhou to serve as a senator of the Fujian Provincial Government, and Dai Kasa actually tracked the guifei wine to Fuzhou, and it was still "sent again", which shows that the exchanges between Yu and Dai in Hangzhou are already very close.
Li
Although Dai Kasa and Yu Dafu are fellow countrymen and classmates, they are two completely different types of people, what is the purpose of his closeness with Yu Dafu? After Yu Dafu and his wife moved to Hangzhou, they had a lot of interaction with the high society at that time, and Wang Yingxia, who liked to make friends with celebrities, also became a social star.
Wang Jingzhi, who has known her for decades, once said: "Wang Yingxia loves Yu Dafu the most to take her to meet all her friends and specialize in socializing with others." Wang Yingxia herself said: "(When I first returned to Hangzhou), this naturally attracted many admiring and curious visitors to me, adding to the trouble and noise. Since then, our self-thought to be a quiet place has been uneasy and not quiet. This is a woman who is not willing to be lonely, she likes to socialize at various banquets, wear her own beautiful dress, and like to be condensed by everyone with her excellent temperament and charm.
Wang Yingxia
Wang Yingxia was one of the famous "Three Beauty of Hangzhou" at that time, and her temperament and demeanor were quite eye-catching. Uddhav may later have become aware of Dai Kasa's intentions. When Yu Dafu first arrived in Fuzhou, the frequent visits of the "uninvited guest" Zai Kasa were bound to arouse Yu Dafu's disgust and suspicion, and according to Yu Dafu's friends' recollection that there were no maids in the Yu family at that time, this "service personnel" who was "rewarded" by Dai Kasa could only be Wang Yingxia.
In the early 1990s, Yu Dafu's former friend and famous poet Zhu Jingzhi wrote an article revealing a little-known secret, saying that Wang Yingxia had once had a fetus for Dai in Wuhan, which yu Dafu was said to have not even known about.
Poet Wang Jingzhi
After Yu Dafu's divorce, all his thoughts were gray and he left Nanyang. After the outbreak of the Pacific War at the end of 1941, he served as the head of the "Xinghua Cultural Circles Wartime Working Group" and the executive member of the Overseas Chinese Anti-Enemy Mobilization Committee, and organized the "Sin Chew Overseas Chinese Volunteer Army" to resist Japan. After the fall of Singapore, Uddhav took refuge in Sumatra. On the eve of the victory of the War of Resistance, he was assassinated by the Japanese military police in the jungle of Sumatra, and the whereabouts of the bones are still unknown.
References include "The Biography of Yu Dafu", "Sun Yingxia's Self-Description in Her Later Years", etc.