In 1978, Jiang Biwei left this world alone in Taipei. There was no one around her, and she and her son Xu Boyang had not seen each other for more than thirty years, and her daughter had not seen each other for some reason. For this reason, on her tombstone, there are no names of children and grandchildren, and only More than 100 calligraphy and paintings by Xu Beihong accompany her.
Before Jiang Biwei's death, her living room has been hung with a portrait of Xu Boyang when she was eight months old, which was painted by Xu Beihong. When painting this painting, it was the time when Jiang Biwei and Xu Beihong had the best feelings. Xu Boyang, who learned of this news, once sighed, "My mother has been thinking about me!" ”
Picture | a group photo of Xu Boming and the eight-month painting
Although she had a lot of criticism of Jiang Biwei, the death of her mother still gave Xu Jingfei a fierce blow, at which time she re-examined the relationship between her parents, thinking that she would hate her mother for a lifetime, but found that in the days to come, she only missed her endlessly.
Because of this, in her later years, Xu Jingfei continued to copy Xu Beihong's works, and for decades she copied thousands of xu Beihong's works, at least 7 or 8 hours a day, until she died at the age of 90. Because she believes that her parents are linked by paintings, through copying the works, she can truly feel the love-hate entanglement of her parents' generation, and can also make up for the real pain in her heart.
Give up a life of wealth to elope for love
Jiang Biwei was born prominently, her parents are famous people, because on the day of her birth, there was a begonia in the East Study, and the grandfather of the Jiang family named her Tang Zhen, the character book frieze, and later Xu Beihong renamed her Biwei for her. Due to her family's solid wealth, Jiang Biwei has lived a carefree life since she was a child, and has followed her father to read poetry since childhood, and she is talented and beautiful. Excellent self-condition coupled with a prominent family lineage, naturally attracted countless people to come to the door to propose to relatives.
Picture | Jiang Biwei
In that era when her parents' fate matched the words of a concubine, Jiang Biwei naturally could not escape the fate of her relatives. Her parents promised her to Zha Zihan, the son of the Suzhou Wang family, if according to her parents' arrangement, her life is not very rich and noble, but it will also be stable and smooth. However, fate is such a trickery, Jiang Biwei's life trajectory has been changed by a young talent, he is Xu Beihong.
At that time, Xu Beihong was working and studying at Fudan University, and Jiang Biwei's father, Jiang Meisheng, also worked at Fudan University, and invited Xu Beihong to his home as a guest on a daily basis. As soon as they came and went, Xu Beihong and the Jiang family became acquainted.
Jiang Biwei recognized Xu Beihong in her father's praise.
In further getting along, she knew that Xu Beihong's family was poor, his father died early, and there was an arranged marriage involving his life. But he never gave up resisting, secretly ran out of his home to enter the university on his own, and at the beginning of his love affair, Xu Beihong broke into the world of a deep girl with a novel story.
Pictured| Jiang Biwei and Xu Beihong
However, Jiang Biwei already had a marriage contract, for her fiancé Zha Zihan, she only knows that the two families are family friends, Zha Zihan studied at Fudan University, and the character and appearance are unknown. One is a fiancé with no emotional foundation, and the other is Xu Beihong, who is deeply praised by his father and is very familiar with him, and Jiang Biwei is naturally more inclined to the latter.
After all, it is the daughter of a famous door, in the face of the situation of two loves, Jiang Biwei can only sigh a sentence "Hate not to meet and not to marry." ”
But an incident in 1917 completely broke The scale of Jiang Biwei's heart, and it turned out that Zha Zihan actually sent someone to ask his father for a test paper before the exam in order to get good results. Jiang Biwei, who learned of this, hated Zha Zihan to the extreme, a person who cheated in the exam, I believe that her character is not much better.
At this time, Xu Beihong, talented and affectionate, pursued Jiang Biwei, and carried a ring made of crystal on his hand all day, and on this ring, the word "Biwei" was engraved.
Sometimes others would ask about it, and he would pretend to be mysterious but confident and say that this would be the name of my future wife.
I have to say that when the literati played romance, ordinary women really couldn't resist, not to mention that Jiang Biwei was only 18 years old at the time.
In fact, the crystal ring is a pair, and the other ring engraved with "Sorrow hong" is in Jiang Biwei's hand.
At this time, the two are happy and vigorous, silently planning an adventure about love.
In the face of her daughter's changes in her heart, Mother Jiang did not know anything. One day, when she was combing her daughter's hair, she looked at her bright and tender daughter, and Xu Beihong, who was sitting idly chatting, said, "The Zha family is going to marry her next year." ”
Hearing her mother's sigh, Jiang Biwei's tears swirled in her eyes, and after her mother left, she fell on the desk and sobbed quietly.
Not long after, Xu Beihong took a handkerchief to comfort her "don't be sad", what she didn't know was that Xu Beihong had long been concerned about her, but because she already had a marriage contract, it was not easy to confess.
Seeing that Jiang Biwei was so sad, Xu Beihong was determined to save her from the arranged marriage.
Therefore, Xu Beihong asked Jiang Biwei, "If there is a person who wants to take you to a foreign country now, will you go?"
Soon, Jiang Biwei guessed that this person was Xu Beihong, and she resolutely agreed to this matter, and left a "suicide note" while her parents were watching the play. With the promise ring engraved with "Misery Hong", he boarded a cruise ship to Japan with Xu Beihong.
Picture | Jiang Biwei
Back at home, the parents of the Jiang family sent people around to inquire about the whereabouts of their daughters, and in order to save the face of the Jiang and Cha families, they had no choice but to put the stone in the coffin and hold a funeral for Jiang Biwei.
At this point, there is no longer Miss Qianjin Jiang Tangzhen in the world, only Xu Beihong's wife Jiang Biwei.
But there are still good people who shake this matter out, and the news of Jiang Biwei's elopement with people spread in her hometown and Shanghai. The Jiang family's parents were not only disgraced, but also ridiculed by everyone.
18-year-old Jiang Biwei, love is all she has, she doesn't care about the door, she doesn't care about the eight-wheeled car, the phoenix crown Xia Shuai, all she cares about is the person who has her heart and mind.
Elopement is not a pejorative term, if men and women start with love and end in love, then this elopement can also be regarded as a good story of love.
But if elopement begins with passion and ends with indiscriminate affection, it is really not a good reputation.
Jiang Biwei, who is not familiar with the world, does not understand what that marriage certificate represents, if the feelings are very good, that marriage book is only a marriage book, and it is not too much to say that it is useless.
But once you change your mind, there is no constraint of marriage, which is the best reason to start chaos and eventually abandon it.
Willing to be poor for love
Half a year after arriving in Japan, the cost of the belt has been spent.
In desperation, Jiang Biwei could only change her old habits, pawn jewelry, and go to a department store as an embroiderer to fill the family. So she changed her old living habits, when it was popular to wear a pocket watch, Jiang Biwei did not eat dinner for half a month, just to save money to buy a pocket watch for Xu Beihong.
Xu Beihong gradually became famous, so he applied for the opportunity to study abroad in the public school, and the two went to Paris together. Although the days are not rich, but they are relatively relaxed, due to the death of Dr. Sun Yat-sen in 1925, the domestic political turmoil, the official fees for studying abroad have stopped being paid, and the two people's lives have become tight again.
Although the later Jiang Biwei rarely mentioned the details of their love affair in her later memoirs, Xu Beihong's oil paintings during his stay in France have exhausted his fiery feelings for Jiang Biwei.
Jiang Biwei can be described as the muse of Xu Beihong, Xu Beihong is famous for painting horses, but he is also rich in oil painting, often using Jiang Biwei as a model. "The Fan-held Female Portrait" and "By the Table" are all based on Jiang Biwei. The elegant and quiet woman in the painting is the appearance of Jiang Biwei in Xu Beihong's eyes at that time.
Picture | portrait of Jiang Biwei
Although life is tight, it does not affect Xu Beihong's creation and the feelings of the two in the slightest. Because this small family is all supported by Jiang Biwei, who is originally a golden branch and jade leaf, because the two have a small salary and cannot afford to study abroad, Xu Beihong had to return to China to raise living expenses.
Jiang Biwei, who had been waiting alone for 9 months, finally looked forward to Xu Beihong's return, and he and Jiang Biwei said happily, "I went back to Shanghai and really bought a lot of things." ”
And these things are Xu Beihong's favorite calligraphy and paintings, but not to solve the problem of food and clothing money, after Jiang Biwei's careful questioning, Xu Beihong finally told the truth, it turned out that Xu Beihong earned a fee for the portrait of a rich businessman for them to live for two or three years, but after buying this calligraphy and painting, there was very little left. This means that soon they will be in trouble again.
Rifts appear in feelings
Love blossoms, but life is chai rice oil and salt.
Since eloping with Xu Beihong, Jiang Biwei has suffered a lot, she once went to a friend to borrow money for her life, but Miss Qianjin, who can be pampered, where has she done such a low-headed thing? As soon as Jiang Biwei, who couldn't open her mouth, arrived home, she couldn't help but cry.
Not only that, Jiang Biwei once stood up on her stomach alone and returned to China to find Xu Beihong.
This happened in 1927, when Xu Beihong went to Singapore alone to raise money. It didn't take long to write to Jiang Biwei and tell her, "The money has not been raised, you come to Singapore to find me." At that time, Jiang Biwei was 6 or 7 months pregnant and went to Singapore alone to find her husband.
However, when the ship arrived at the port in Singapore, Jiang Biwei could not find Xu Beihong's shadow. At this time, Xu Beihong's friend told her that Xu Beihong had returned to China first, and let her keep up with herself.
Even so, Jiang Biwei still did not express dissatisfaction.
Perhaps she has realized that Xu Beihong no longer cares about her as much as before, fortunately, her parents did not completely break off relations with her, and before returning, Jiang Biwei won their forgiveness after writing to her parents, even if they still did not agree with their daughter's approach.
Picture | Jiang Biwei
After returning to his motherland, Xu Beihong accepted the employment of Nanjing Central University, teaching painting while participating in social activities, and became a real celebrity in the literary and art circles. Jiang Biwei also became a rich wife, often holding dances and salons to invite some cultural celebrities and celebrities.
Life is getting better day by day, but their emotional rifts are getting worse day by day, but no one wants to make up for it.
Happy marriage is broken
1930 was a highlight for Xu Beihong.
This year he was 35 years old, the eldest son Xu Boyang was 3 years old, and the eldest daughter Xu Jingfei was 1 year old, with a successful career, a wife at home, and children.
Such a life, whether at that time or today, is a proper winner in life, and this year was called the "black years" by Jiang Biwei, first her brother died of illness, and then her aunt died.
Jiang Biwei, who was still mourning in Suzhou, received a letter from her husband urging her to return to Nanjing: "If you don't come back, I may fall in love with someone else." ”
At this time, Jiang Biwei did not think that there was a third party in his marriage with Xu Beihong, and their feelings were "stronger than gold" in the eyes of others and herself. Therefore, in the face of this letter without warning, Jiang Biwei believed that her husband wanted to urge her to go home quickly. In this regard, she did not return to Nanjing at the first time, but waited for her aunt to be buried before rushing back.
When she returned to Nanjing, she received news that Xu Beihong had a crush on her student Sun Duoci.
The routine of pursuing Sun Duoci is simply a nesting doll.
Xu Beihong first changed Sun Yunjun's name to Sun Duoci, and then got two rings, but this time he did not choose crystals, but changed to red bean rings.
On these two rings, "Great Compassion" and "Great Compassion" are engraved respectively.
Not only that, Xu Beihong also described the details of the two love affairs clearly. Xu Beihong, who was self-conscious, did not notice his wife's broken emotions at all. After saying that, he found his wife's trembling shoulders, and Xu Beihong, who realized that something was wrong, explained, "I just love her talent and want to cultivate her to become a useful talent." ”
In this way, Jiang Biwei finally couldn't control her emotions and collapsed and cried. Ask a woman who can accept her husband's blatant statement that she is in love with someone else.
Pictured| Sun Duoci
In the face of his wife's collapse, Xu Beihong hurriedly coaxed her, "You have returned, I think there will be no more problems in the future." But Xu Beihong obviously did not know how meticulous a woman's mind was. Since then, Xu Beihong has often left early and returned late, in order to guide Sun Duoci in painting.
Sun Duoci also replaced Jiang Biwei as his new inspiration muse.
Xu Beihong created a painting for the two called "Taicheng Night Moon", which naturally showed Xu Beihong and Sun Duoci. Jiang Biwei, who saw this painting, was very jealous and deliberately hid it. After Xu Beihong knew about it, he demanded that his wife return it immediately. But Jiang Biwei did not hesitate to scold her husband, "I will not destroy your work, but as long as I live in the world for one day, this painting is best not to be made public." ”
Pictured | portrait of Sun Duoci
Although Xu Beihong did not ask his wife for this painting, every time Jiang Biwei was not at home, he would rummage through the boxes and cabinets. Soon after this incident occurred, more and more gossip spread to Jiang Biwei's ears. Xu Beihong and Sun Duoci kissed in the mountains, Xu Beihong prepared paintbrush candies for Sun Duoci and other small surprises... The most serious thing is that Sun Duoci was admitted to Xu Beihong's school with full marks, which he single-handedly promoted.
She watched as the ring on Xu Beihong's hand changed from "Bi Wei" to "Great Mercy".
Later, Xu Beihong built a Nanjing mansion, and Sun Duoci sent more than a hundred maple saplings, and Xu Beihong planted these saplings in the yard.
Jiang Biwei burned these maple saplings cleanly in one breath.
To this end, Xu Beihong changed the mansion to Wufengtang, named his studio Wufengtang Studio, and made a seal, hoping to tell everyone that Jiang Biwei was like a shrew at home.
Only listen to the new people laughing, and hear the old people crying.
Xu Beihong could only see Sun Duoci's grievances, but he could not see Jiang Biwei's disappointment and anger.
Xu Beihong's behavior angered Jiang Biwei, who could not accept these realities and did a lot of impulsive things. Not only did he directly find Chu Minyi, who was responsible for selecting international students, but also told him about Xu Beihong and Sun Duoci's love affair, interfered in Sun Duoci's study abroad, and also wrote a letter of complaint to Sun Duoci's parents.
Jiang Biwei, who was angry and attacking, did not realize at all that a husband whose mind was all on others, even if she returned to the age of 18, would not be able to save it.
And Sun Duoci, just sending some saplings to provoke, will be the angry eyes of the former loving couple as enemies.
Pictured| Sun Duoci
After this incident, the two became more estranged, and at this time, Xu Beihong made up his mind to be with Sun Duoci. Before Xu Beihong left, Jiang Biwei made her attitude clear:
“...... If one day you break up with someone else, you will be ready to welcome you whenever you come back. But one thing I must explain is that if someone else dies, remarries alive, and wants to go home after you have failed, then I absolutely cannot accept it. ”
After listening to these words, Xu Beihong did not go back, even if he frantically expressed his heart to his grandfather and grandmother, but the sun family's parents always disagreed with the two of them.
In 1938, Xu Beihong took the initiative to publish in the newspaper and broke away from the illegal cohabitation relationship with Jiang Biwei, only to prove his heart for Sun Duoci more powerfully.
Illegal cohabitation, these four words are like a sharp blade, which completely pierces Jiang Biwei's heart. As if laughing, the scene of abandoning parents and eloping violently was like a joke.
Soon after, Jiang Biwei and Zhang Daofan, a married man who had always admired her, began a 30-year-old illegal cohabitation as a third party.
Finally, he became the person he hated the most.
This is Jiang Biwei's punishment for Xu Beihong, and it is also her punishment for herself.
When Xu Beihong's friend Shen Yijia Xingchong took the newspaper, found Sun Duoci's father and proposed to him, sun father directly stated his attitude: "Xu Beihong and the little girl, if you want to break through the teacher-student relationship, it is impossible. And soon after, He assigned Sun Duoci to Xu Shaodi, director of the Department of Education of Zhejiang Province.
Xu Beihong, who could not be with Sun Duoci, wanted to save Jiang Biwei, but how could Jiang Biwei have any entanglement with Xu Beihong?
After the death of Jiang Biwei's father, Xu Beihong sent a memorial ceremony to try to test Jiang Biwei, but was returned by Jiang Biwei.
Xu Beihong also did not expect that this woman who had been desperate at all times no longer had any attachment to him at this time.
When you are frustrated, you encounter love
In 1936, Xu Beihong fell in love with the librarian of the China Academy of Art, and later renamed her "Liao Jingwen", and Jiang Biwei also had a new life, and in her lonely life broke into another man, that is, Zhang Daofan. The two had known each other in France as early as possible, and Zhang Daofan was "in love at first sight" for Jiang Biwei, so that a few years later, Zhang Daofan could still accurately describe the situation to Jiang Biwei that day.
Pictured| Xu Beihong and Liao Jingwen
Zhang Daofan, who could not forget Jiang Biwei, disregarded her status as a wife and wrote a long letter of 10,000 words to confess to her, but Jiang Biwei replied to him and refused. Even so, Zhang Daofan still often visited Xu Beihong to discuss scholarship with Xu Beihong in the name of visiting, and his real purpose was probably to have more opportunities to contact Jiang Biwei to solve the pain of lovesickness.
After many explicit hints, Zhang Daofan finally gave up, and he married susan, a French girl.
Hearing the news of Xu and Jiang, Zhang Daofan contacted Jiang Biwei again, gave her warmth and encouragement, and dragged out Jiang Biwei, who was in a bad mood of divorce. Jiang Biwei once lamented in her memoirs, "DaoFan, I can't help but be deeply touched by his considerate care." ”
Zhang Daofan not only gave Jiang Biwei real help in life, but also used various flowers to decorate her room on her 40th birthday, and gathered relatives and friends to celebrate her birthday.
All the unsatisfactory divorces, she has been compensated by Zhang Daofan, and the couple who once envied countless people have finally dispersed.
In 1944, the "JoongAng Daily" published a message: "After mediation by relatives and friends, Ms. Jiang insisted on her own opinion, and it was difficult to reunite the broken mirror, and since then, everything in Sorrow Hong has nothing to do with Ms. Jiang, and I am afraid that the society has not fully understood it, and hereby declares."
The purpose of this statement is xu Beihong's marriage to Liao Jingwen.
Picture | Xu Beihong and Jiang Biwei's family of four
This statement puts all the blame on Jiang Biwei. Seeing the news, Jiang Biwei couldn't bear it, and a paper complaint sued Xu Beihong in court, demanding compensation for "one hundred paintings, forty ancient paintings, and one million yuan." ”
The result was naturally that Jiang Biwei won the lawsuit, and at the end of 1945, the relationship between the two who had dragged on for 28 years came to an end, and Xu Beihong agreed to pay all the expenses.
According to Xu Beihong's later wife, in order to meet Jiang Biwei's requirements as soon as possible, Xu Beihong rushed to produce more than 100 paintings overnight, and because of this, he became tired of falling ill and died of illness within a few years.
So much so that some people later commented that Xu Beihong was probably the most popular celebrity who divorced during the Republic of China.
He did not get what he wanted with his favorite Sun Duoci, nor did he fall into a good reputation.
Jiang Biwei, who received a huge amount of wealth, lived a fairly good life and did not die until she was in her 80s.
Jiang Biwei is sober, and when she can't get love, she clearly marks the price for the first half of her life.
Without love, money is the most trustworthy thing for the rest of her life.
Break off relations with your children
The most hurtful thing in this relationship is naturally a pair of sons and daughters. Since childhood, Xu Jingfei and her brother Xu Boyang have been surviving in the tug-of-war between father and mother, and her mother has always insulted her father a lot, always cursing her father in front of them, and she has always lived with her mother, and she has had a lot of dissatisfaction with her father.
When she was a child, she always thought that her parents' emotional discord was purely due to her father. If the father did not have an affair with the students, their happy family would not be separated, as they grew older, watching their mother and Zhang Daofan after the divorce, she found that the problem was not all in the father alone, because Zhang Daofan obviously had a wife, and his mother still maintained a lover relationship with him.
Even so, when Xu Beihong remarried, she still ran to complain about her father: "Dad, you don't have to find a woman every time you publish a newspaper to break off a relationship with your mother, this is hurt!" ”
In the same year, Xu Boyang, unable to feel the warmth of his family, responded to the call of 100,000 young people and 100,000 troops and left the school to join the expeditionary army.
Pictured| Xu Jingfei
After Xu Boyang left, Jiang Biwei's temper became more and more grumpy, and she often lost her temper with Xu Jingfei, who flashed the idea of suicide due to being depressed for a long time, and ate a bottle of medicine, fortunately, in time for rescue, there was no danger to life.
But Jiang Biwei still did not change, and even after Xu Jingfei was admitted to the pre-medical class of Jinling Women's University, Jiang Biwei used her relationship to transfer her daughter from the pre-medical department to the foreign language department, and their mother-son relationship was completely intensified because of this incident.
As the Kuomintang was about to go, Jiang Biwei wanted to go to Taiwan with Zhang Daofan, and in the face of such an outrageous decision by her mother, Xu Jingfei even begged her not to go. After being rejected, Xu Jingfei roared angrily at Jiang Biwei: "You have to do this, I will not recognize you again!" ”
In his later years, he was single and left his hometown
In 1958, Zhang's wife, Susan, returned to Taiwan from Australia.
The nameless and undivided Jiang Biwei was sued by Zhang Daofan's wife in Chiang Kai-shek's mansion, and in the face of career and love, Zhang Daofan chose the latter.
The former sentence "Wait until you are sixty years old, divorce it to marry you" has finally become the past, Jiang Biwei moved out of the Zhang Daofan Mansion with interest, and firmly said, "For various reasons, I decided to promote his family reunion." ”
Pictured| Jiang Biwei and Zhang Daofan
But did they really forget about each other?
In addition to the 100 paintings from the time of divorce, Xu Beihong also gave her a painting of "Piano Lesson".
The woman in the painting is Jiang Biwei in Paris, she plays the violin with her head on her side, and although Xu Beihong was only a poor student at that time, she still had to enroll Jiang Biwei for piano lessons.
The later painting has been hidden in Jiang Biwei's bedroom, even if the two were so embarrassed later, Jiang Biwei did not forget the man's original tenderness.
Before Xu Beihong died, he carried the old watch in his arms, which was the gift they bought him with the money they saved in The Province of Jiang Biwei in Paris.
Probably these two people later missed the poor days of the two people in Paris.
Although they have nothing, they can become each other's light, and they can be mixed with each other.
But even if the two people who love each other like this are still in this blossoming world, they can't keep each other, let alone their original intentions.
18-year-old Jiang Biwei, dare to love and dare to hate, the sun is shining, and later was scolded as a resentful woman, a materially vain lady, sentenced to two people, and the initiator of all this, Xu Beihong did not know whether he would be distressed.
Xu Beihong and Zhang Daofan died successively, and Jiang Biwei lived alone for nearly 20 years, relying on the sale of Xu Beihong's paintings to maintain her life, and spent spring, summer, autumn and winter indifferently. She unreservedly integrated her life into a long volume of nearly half a million words: the first part was titled "Me and Sorrow hong", and the second part was titled "I and the Dao Domain".
Jiang Biwei was trapped in love all her life, eloped for love when she was young, mistressed for love in middle age, and lonely to old age in her old age.
Either one was her own choice, but either one was lamentable.