Elegance, not limited by space and time, is engraved deep in the bone marrow. Upbringing, not limited by wealth and poverty, is hidden in the blood. At the trough, don't be depressed and face the difficulties. At its peak, there is no pride, and there is a degree of progress. Love is like water, soaking the heart.
Wrinkles will grow, gray hair will grow, heart organs will age, but the young heart will accompany people to the last moment of life.
Graceful aging, or fear of time, but helpless, depends on your opinion and understanding. This article tells the story of a legendary woman who is a true celebrity of the Republic of China, who has both upbringing and knowledge, and whose talent and charm coexist.
May each of us be so graceful and calm; may each of us be in adversity and peace of mind.
The first school flower of Fudan University
Yan Youyun was a famous lady during the Republic of China period, who lived through puyi's Qing Dynasty as emperor, the Republic of China founded by Sun Yat-sen, and the modern new China, she lived for 112 years and died in 2017. At her 109th birthday party, Yan Youyun also painted red nails, held a wine glass in her hand, and wore high heels on her feet, yan Youyun was elegant all her life.
She is a real celebrity in the Republic of China, a fashionable woman in high society. She is the first female student of Fudan University, and naturally the first school flower of Fudan in the hundred years, the flower bud of the ivory tower, and the fragrant boy youth.
Yan Youyun was born into a wealthy merchant family, and her grandfather Yan Xinhou first apprenticed in Qianzhuang, and later became an official in the Customs and Taxation Department, managing the salt industry.
The Kangxi Dynasty once said that the salt industry is a resource for war, and the salt industry is the foundation of the country. Yan Youyun's grandfather Yan Xinhou, as a half-official and half-merchant "official salt merchant", naturally became a family of great wealth and nobility, and the Tanggu Railway and Ningbo Railway in the Qing Dynasty were built with yan Xinhou's donations, and they were also commended by the Holy Will of Empress Dowager Cixi and the Guangxu Emperor.
Yan Youyun's father, Yan Zijun, was more energetic and talented in business, accumulating the Yan family's wealth by an order of magnitude. Yan Zi lived in the Qing Dynasty, and the family hired servants, first of all, the first one needed to know English.
Yan Youyun is a "work of art" carved by the rich father's hand, and is a "princess" with excellent cultivation.
Wonderful and brilliant, rich in heritage and tenacious in character. Yan Zi is Yan Youyun hired two university professors, one to teach poetry and song, Zhuzi Hundred Families, and one to teach English. Later, Yan Zidu went to Shanghai to settle down in the development of business, while Yan Youyun stayed in Tianjin because he wanted to study.
Her parents often went to see her, and whenever her parents went to see her, it was always a famous scenery in Tianjin. At that time, the picture was that Yan Youyun's parents were walking on the streets of Tianjin with maids, cooks, grooms, rickshaw drivers, servants, and housekeepers, and the objects of imitation of the clothes of Tianjin Wei girls were Yan Youyun.
Because her family runs a satin village, the most popular clothing in the country can be chosen at will.
Yan Youyun is born beautiful, temperamental, wear the most fashionable new clothes every day, the same dress is definitely not worn a second time.
In 1925, the total number of college students in the country was only 30,000, and girls entered the university campus because they were imprisoned by feudal traditional ideas.
Thanks to her enlightened parents and solid family background, Yan Youyun was first admitted to Hujiang University, and xu Zhimo, Li Gongshi and other social celebrities graduated from Hujiang University. At present, Hujiang University has been merged into Fudan and Central China Normal School, and it no longer exists. After 2 years of study, the president of Hujiang University was replaced by Li Jinlun, who was conservative in his thinking.
Li Jinlun forbade hujiang university boys and girls to meet. Yan Youyun's parents are more open-minded, believing that universities are a place of knowledge and knowledge, and should make friends widely, and should not restrict boys and girls from meeting. Therefore, Yan Youyun made a decision with her parents and transferred to Fudan University in Shanghai.
Yan Youyun's enthusiastic and unrestrained personality, the most fashionable clothing, beautiful facial features, fluent English, with special drivers and servants in the school to follow, in Fudan University has become the center of the topic, red all over Fudan. Yan Youyun is also the first female student of Fudan University, and also the first real school flower, and the love letter cannot be put down in the drawer.
A person's elegance and beauty should not only be youth, but should be permanent. Until Yan Youyun was old, Yan Youyun's daughter returned to Shanghai to meet the white-haired old man, and the white-haired old man learned that it was Yan Youyun's daughter in front of her.
Can't help but fall into deep thoughts and memories, under the oblique sun, the white-haired old man said that your mother Yan Youyun's beauty in Fudan, "beauty shakes all dust"! 80 years later, Yan Youyun in the hearts of many Shanghai intellectuals, still have to be so evaluated.
Yan Youyun is not a vase, since childhood full of poetry books, the vision of their own extraordinary, random flowers gradually want to charm the eyes of the love letter did not make Yan Youyun square inches of chaos, but more than a smooth. Yan Youyun's homework was not bad, and she completed 135 credits in two years in Fudan.
Yan Youyun has excellent grades, always full of tricks, and whenever she has to submit exercises, Yan Youyun will call a male classmate.
The male classmate who receives the call will stay up all night, waiting for the dawn. And every boy who received Yan Youyun's call was also the proudest one in the dormitory. In return, yan Youyun will sprinkle some perfume to express gratitude when returning the exercises, and this perfume action will drive the all-night carnival of the male students' dormitories.
Yan Youyun has many admirers on the Fudan campus, and many outsiders do not even know her name, only that an elegant goddess will drive a car with a license plate number 84 to pass by here after school, so she is called "Miss 84". Admirers have invented the translation of Miss 84 into English and into Shanghainese, called "Love Fu".
In 1927, a group of boys with the highest level of knowledge in China, after school, stayed at the school gate, just to see the "love of the blessing" fang, and this name is getting louder and louder, a hundred years of Fudan University, the first batch of girls, the first school flower, Yan Youyun is deserved, everyone in Shanghai Beach is well known.
First marriage
Yan Youyun dances well and is keen to participate in various dance parties organized on the campus of Fudan University. Although there are many suitors, Yan Youyun's emotional principle adheres to Ning Que and never abuses, and is always single.
Until at a dance party, I met a person who was willing to give up his life, this person was named Yang Guangjing, Yang Guangjing and Yan Youyun's family situation was similar, they were all from rich merchants and luxury families.
Yang Guangxing's father is a big silk merchant, the family is not inferior to Yan Youyun, and the appearance is a talent. Graduated from Tsinghua University and received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in the United States, he worked at the Chinese Embassy in the United States and just returned to China. Yang Is also a professor at Tsinghua University and an advisor to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
At the dance, Yan Youyun and Yang Guangjing are naturally the focus of the dance. Lang has a concubine intention, Yan Youyun and Yang Guangjing have a good feeling for each other and hope for further development. The wedding of the two shook Shanghai Beach, and the witnesses invited the Minister of Foreign Affairs to personally preside, and the number of people attending the wedding was as high as 1,000 people. The front pages of the major newspapers in Shanghai have given this newcomer a deep blessing.
In 1930, Yang Guangxiu was sent to Europe by the Nationalist government, and Yan Youyun accompanied him as a diplomat. Later, Yang served as Chinese Consul General in Manila, the capital and largest port of the Philippines.
Yang Guangxing was very patriotic, and at that time China was struggling to resist the Japanese invaders. Yang Guangxi was gifted in social activities and speeches, organizing donations among overseas Chinese in Manila to support the domestic war of resistance. Yan Youyun, on the other hand, gave full play to her role as a "virtuous helper" and was hospitable, often inviting overseas Chinese leaders, American officials and Filipino officials.
Yan Youyun also served as the president of the Philippine branch of the Chinese Women's Association for Consolation and Self-Defense, and Yan Youyun's career as a diplomat in the Philippines was remarkable and his political achievements were outstanding. Although Yan Youyun is a rich family miss Qianjin, she has not been pampered at all, and at the time of national crisis, she stepped forward to go deep into factories, shops, and streets to organize fundraising activities, and all the money raised was mailed to China.
In order to protect themselves, the city leaders of Manila declared it an open city, as the name suggests, hoping to gain Japan's pity and sympathy through non-resistance and not to cause more damage to Manila. Obviously, the Japanese army is the originator of rebellion. In 1942, the Japanese blew up Mani with artillery fire.
When the American general MacArthur withdrew from Manila, he invited Yang Guangxiu to leave with Yan Youyun and their children, but Yang Guangxiu politely refused.
Yang Guangxing and Yan Youyun believe that as diplomats, it is their duty to protect the Filipino diaspora, and it is indispensable to avoid it because of misfortune. Yan Youyun's husband Yang Guangxuan and seven diplomats from the consulate general were killed by the Japanese army. Yan Youyun did not have time to grieve, and although the pain of bereavement was like a knife, the living still needed her to stand up.
Yan Youyun has lived a superior life since childhood, her talent is excellent, and her life has never tasted the hardships of life, and all this has come to an abrupt end.
Yan Youyun took all the wives and children of the other 7 diplomats to his home, and the three bedrooms of Yan Youyun's house accommodated the families of 40 diplomats. In the days of the Philippines, it was still the roar of cannon fire outside, and Yan Youyun's former big girl show led everyone to grow vegetables, make shoes and raise pigs for the first time.
The roar of the Japanese army continued, and Yan Youyun opened the dusty piano and played a favorite song in the dead of night. The beautiful sound of the piano floats into the heart of everyone, giving encouragement and comforting.
Even so, the price of goods in the Japanese-occupied Philippines soared, and Yan Youyun sold all her property to support the expenses of a large family.
Yan Youyun only knew that her husband had been captured, and did not know that her husband had been killed by the Japanese army, during the entire war, Yan Youyun heard the news that her husband was still alive several times, until after the victory of the War of Resistance, Yan Youyun knew for the first time that her husband Yang Guangxun had died shortly after being captured by the Japanese army.
The more elegant the woman, the more she has to endure serious hardships, the more her heart is like a knife, the more she can sharpen her strong will, and the more she can reveal the confidence and calmness inside.
98-year-old prom
After 1945, the War of Resistance was victorious. Yan Youyun and her three daughters crossed the ocean to the United States. In a foreign country, the first problem Yan Youyun faced was the problem of eating. Yan Youyun learned from her former friend that the "Protocol Department" department of the United Nations, which was in the process of preparation, was still recruiting, so she called her husband's former friend Hu Shize.
Hu Shize was very surprised, thinking that Yan Youyun was a showgirl for everyone, how could he engage in the work of Receiving the United Nations. But after understanding Yan Youyun's situation, he was willing to help. In this way, Yan Youyun went to work at the United Nations Protocol Department, and Hu Shize made a kind joke, saying that Fudan First School Flower would never go to work at 9 o'clock every day.
Yan Youyun personally broke Hu Shize's joke. In the United Nations Protocol Division, Yan Youyun's job is to receive ambassadors from all over the world to the United Nations, guide the ambassadors to submit their credentials according to the process, the United Nations has an extremely cumbersome official etiquette charter, thanks to the language advantage, Yan Youyun is able to engage in this profession with ease.
Going to work at 9 o'clock every day may be a habit for ordinary people. But for Fudan's first school flower, Miss No. 84, who wears no heavy clothes every day, requires great dedication and tenacity. Yan Youyun relies on this job to support three daughters in the United States. The education of the three daughters, Yan Youyun is also dedicated to cultivating the eldest daughter as one of the few senior Chinese editors in the American publishing house.
The second daughter is a vice president of General Motors. The third daughter is committed to real estate development. Yan Youyun's life in the United States, in addition to the concierge's own very satisfactory job, Yan Youyun's colorful life has also returned to normal. When Yan Youyun was in the Philippines, she often invited friends to come to her house for parties and parties. Holding dance parties, playing mahjong, racing, Yan Youyun was very happy.
Yan Youyun's eldest daughter said that she played mahjong frequently, and Yan Youyun said that it was to provide a place for everyone in the United States to gather, and playing mahjong was the most appropriate way. Yan Youyun loves racing in the United States, and everyone who rides her car will be frightened, and whenever she arrives at her destination, the palms of the people in the car will be nervous and sweaty.
Yan Youyun insisted that she was an excellent driver and drove smoothly. Whenever Yan Youyun drove wildly, the "blessing of love" of Fudan University seemed to reappear. Yan Youyun's life in the United States, at 9 o'clock in the morning to the United Nations Protocol Division to work, in the evening to drive to luncheon, cocktail party to participate in the party, social cattle people Yan Youyun is so refined, at this time Yan Youyun is more than 50 years old.
A person's aging is not the aging of age, but the aging of mentality. Yan Youyun is an elegant woman deep in the bone, in 2003, Yan Youyun suffered from colorectal cancer, after 5 days of complex surgery, finally recovered and discharged. Three months later, Yan Youyun, who was already 98 years old, "galloped" the ball again, becoming the oldest person at the dance.
On that day, Yan Youyun wore a white embroidered classic Oriental cheongsam, put on classic Western high heels, put on lipstick, and danced with the surgeon who operated on her.
Before Yan Youyun went out, he paid attention to the soul, his hair should be not messy, his eyebrows should be fresh and beautiful, his nail polish should be dignified and generous, and there are many strange women in the Republic of China, but Yan Youyun is a very special one. At every time when illness and suffering come, Yan Youyun is always optimistic and positive, never decadent and negative.
According to Yan Youyun's daughter Yang Leimeng, her mother always has a mantra called: Things could have been worse. When Yan Youyun first arrived in the Philippines with her husband, all the money was robbed by thieves. Yan Youyun said that he should be grateful, he just lost his belongings, and the most important life, health, and family were intact. Yan Youyun said this to her husband and three daughters.
At the age of 112, he walked a life of elegance
Gu Weijun is known as the first diplomat of the Republic of China, acting as prime minister of state in the Beiyang government, and participating in the drafting of the Charter of the United Nations. Yan Youyun's husband, Yang Guangxing, was once a direct subordinate of Gu Weijun, and Yang Guangxiu wrote to Gu Weijun many times in his diplomatic work to ask questions. Gu Weijun is 10 years older than Yang Guangxing and 17 years older than Yan Youyun.
When Yan Youyun went to work in the United Nations Protocol Division, Gu Weijun was the Chinese ambassador to the United States. They knew each other very early, and Gu Weijun's figure was indispensable in Yan Youyun's dance party and card game. Over time, Gu Weijun and Yan Youyun exchanged feelings, and in 1959, the 71-year-old Gu Weijun and the 54-year-old Yan Youyun finally registered their marriage in Mexico City.
Gu Weijun is a big man, but he can look like an ordinary husband in front of Yan Youyun. The two of them explained for the human world what is love in the world, and an elegant marriage. A man who truly loves a woman is going to do a change in behavior, with restraint in disposition. A person woman truly loves a man, is going to do real care, with the tenderness of women like water.
Gu Weijun has a serious personality, but with Yan Youyun is an exception, Gu Weijun is willing to be transformed by his wife, 72-year-old Gu Weijun will write poetry to Yan Youyun, night and night affectionately think of his lover, chao Chao Wuxuan alone. A thousand kinds of reasons can be solved at the end, and a thousand miles to talk about a schedule. On Yan Youyun's desk, there is a pair of glass piglets, and under the piglets are written "Wei Jun loves Youyun".
Yan Youyun's greatest happy time in his later years was to take care of her husband, knowing that her husband went to bed late, and he must get up at three o'clock in the morning, cook a cup of milk and put it into the thermos cup. On the top of the thermos cup, there must be a note of love, do not forget to drink milk. Gu Weijun died at the age of 97, and Gu Weijun's son said that if it were not for Yan Youyun's careful care, his father could live such an old age, and Yan Youyun lived with her second husband for 26 years.
Yan Youyun's elegance and easy-going are the secret of high life expectancy, and her open-minded personality has accompanied Yan Youyun throughout her life. After Gu Weijun's death, Yan Youyun's elegance did not diminish in the slightest, reading books and newspapers, and hitting sweaters. Like to make new friends, is a typical feature of Yan Youyun, in his later years, Yan Youyun often contacted more than 70 friends in the phone book.
From the "Miss 84" in Fudan to the "centenarian" in New York, through the Qing Dynasty, the Republic of China, and new China, the only constants are high heels, qipao, piano, and perfume. Yan Youyun is not a star but better than a star, Yan Youyun's nanny said that she is stronger than us, and she wears high heels when she walks for a hundred years, maybe this is the elegance engraved in the bone marrow.
Yan Youyun insisted every day that a record of a hundred years of life had been completed. In 2017, Yan Youyun completed her centenarian life path. In the preface to Yan Youyun's biography, she wrote that "every day is a good day." This is related to matter, but not all. Yan Youyun does not exercise, does not eat tonics, loves to eat fat meat, and does not dwell on the past, which should be the real reason for her high life expectancy.
When she was 109 years old, Yan Youyun was still wearing a well-fitting cheongsam, holding a glass of wine in her hand, and the carving knife of more than 100 years did not hurt her in the slightest, but it was more than 100 years of time precipitation, making Yan Youyun more glorious, she was always the "Miss No. 84" who amazed the beach, always borrowed the male classmates' homework, when returned, sprinkled with a little perfume, it made the male students really an elegant legend of the whole dormitory.