In the TV series "Heirloom", the three sisters of the Yi family have aroused heated discussion among netizens.
Among them, the most popular among the audience is Yi Zhongyu, the second miss of Yi played by Wu Jinyan.
Yi Zhongyu in the play, grew up in Nanyang since childhood, his grandfather was a wealthy Chinese businessman, and his father was a Shanghai business tycoon, which can be described as a prominent family.
Growing up pampered from childhood, she is intelligent and spicy, has a lively and cheerful personality, and her ability to scare people is pure fire, and the aura of "dragging sister" is quite in place.
She and Tang Fengwu, a diplomat played by Han Geng, are also full of CP, and the layers of emotional drama are romantic and sweet.
In fact, the character of "Yi Zhongyu" has a historical archetype, that is, Huang Huilan, the daughter of Huang Zhonghan, a wealthy Nanyang merchant "Indonesian sugar king", and the wife of diplomat Gu Weijun.
Unfortunately, compared with the happy and complete love story of Yi Zhongyu and Tang Fengwu in the play, Huang Huilan's married life is very bleak.
In order to support her husband's cause, she did not hesitate to spend thousands of dollars, but in her later years, she was betrayed by the other party and lived alone in a foreign country.
01, the richest man who grew up in the jewelry pile
If there are many people in this world who were born with a golden spoon, then Huang Huilan grew up directly from the jewelry pile.
Her grandfather, Huang Zhixin, had participated in the Taiping Rebellion, but after his defeat, he fled to the Indonesian island of Java.
Huang Zhixin was shrewd and capable, transporting Javanese sugar and tobacco to China, and then transporting Chinese tea, silk and spices back to Indonesia.
By the end of the 19th century, he quickly accumulated a wealth of hundreds of millions of dollars, and by the end of the 19th century, he was a famous overseas Chinese in Nanyang.
Later, Huang Huilan's father, Huang Zhonghan, took over the family business, and also made the industry bigger and bigger, successively founding 5 large sugar factories, known as the "Indonesian Sugar King", becoming the richest man in the local area and the fourteenth richest man in the world.
Huang Huilan's mother, Wei Mingniang, is also extraordinary, the first beauty of Indonesia's Chinatown.
When Wei Mingniang was 15 years old, she was married back home by Huang Zhonghan, and then gave birth to two daughters in succession, Hui Lan and her sister Zhen Lan.
But Huang Zhonghan was a natural affair, not only picking flowers and weeds everywhere, but also taking in many aunts and wives, and there were 18 of them that he had admitted.
It is said that these wives gave birth to more than 40 children for him, but his most beloved daughter, especially the second daughter Huang Huilan.
From childhood to adulthood, whatever Huang Huilan wanted, her father would try his best to satisfy her, and he never treated her materially.
When she was 3 years old, her father gave her an 80-carat gemstone necklace; As a teenager, her mother took her around the world and lived in London, Paris, Washington and other places.
She did not go to school, but her mother hired a tutor for her, who taught her music, dance, art, and mastered six languages, including English, French and Italian.
From a young age, she is also well-informed, not only dignified and elegant, elegant, elegant, and avant-garde and fashionable.
The chic headband, the flowing slip dress, and the style of Wu Jinyan in "Heirloom" have borrowed from Huang Huilan's wear.
Huang Huilan was named the "best dressed" Chinese woman of the 1920s and 1940s by Vogue magazine, and fashionable girls in Peiping and Shanghai regarded her as a fashion "weather vane".
The antique embroidered skirt that was originally used to shield the dust was worn by her and became a popular item, and the price increased by hundreds of times.
One winter, when she went to Shanghai, she did not wear socks because of a skin disease, and after other women saw it, they even went out one after another in the cold winter moonlight with their legs.
She is particularly fond of Chinese satin and embroidery, and her favorite style of clothing is also the qipao, one of which also appeared in the 2019 Forbidden City exhibition.
Beautiful, fashionable, elegant and generous, she is like a fish in social occasions, and can attract attention wherever she goes.
However, she was pampered and raised with a high vision, and in her 20s, she never met a man who could make her heart move.
At that time, she did not know that she would marry a diplomat in the future and shine on the diplomatic stage during the Republic of China.
02, strong union marriage
Huang Huilan's sister settled in Britain after marriage, and her mother Wei Mingniang, because she could not stand her husband's flower heart, also took Huang Huilan to live in Britain.
There, Huang Huilan was busy attending parties and dances every day, and made a splash in social occasions.
In 1920, when she and her mother were traveling to Italy, her sister Huang Chunlan received a Chinese delegation to France at her home in Paris, including the well-known diplomat Gu Weijun.
Gu Weijun inadvertently saw a photo of Huang Huilan and was immediately attracted by her demeanor and hoped that Huang Zhenlan would introduce the two to each other.
At that time, Gu Weijun had just become famous in China at the Paris Peace Conference on the Shandong issue, and Huang Chunlan thought that he would have a great future in the future, so he wrote to his mother and asked her to quickly bring her sister to Paris.
However, this young and promising diplomat in the eyes of outsiders could not enter Huang Huilan's eyes at first.
When they met at the banquet, she disliked Gu Weijun for dressing up in a rustic manner, could not dance, ride horses, drive, and was married twice, with two children.
But Gu Weijun is not an idle person, after the banquet, he invited Huang Huilan to go out the next day, and told her in English that he would send a car to pick her up tomorrow.
As a result, the next day, parked in front of the Yellow House was a car with diplomatic privilege plates, provided by the French government, and a full-time driver.
When the two went to listen to the opera, they also enjoyed the state box.
The car and box were not special to Huang Huilan, but they belonged to the glory and privilege of diplomats, which her father could not exchange for any amount of money.
As a result, Huang Huilan quickly fell into Gu Weijun's ardent pursuit.
However, Gu Weijun not only loved her beauty, but also looked at her prominent family lineage.
At that time, the embassy had limited funds, and many of the diplomats had to pay out of their own pockets, and if they wanted to accumulate contacts and rise step by step, they could not do without strong financial support.
Although Gu Weijun was born in a large family, he had already fallen into the middle of the family road and did not have much family foundation at all.
One is a rich lady who is impressed by power, and the other is a privileged person who worries about money, and the two naturally come together.
After a few months of acquaintance, Gu Weijun and Huang Huilan joined forces and entered the marriage hall.
After marriage, her father worried about her deteriorating quality of life and often sent her a lot of money.
Fearing that she would not live a decent life, her mother prepared a generous dowry for her and spent money to buy her a luxury car.
Huang Huilan gave all this money to Gu Weijun, in addition to buying jewelry, clothes, and daily necessities for herself, most of the money was spent on supporting scenes and socializing for her husband.
When Gu Weijun was a British minister, the Chinese embassy in Portland Square was quite dilapidated, and Huang Huilan thought that it was detrimental to China's image, so she renovated it at her own expense.
Gu Weijun was not good at dressing up and was not familiar with the lifestyle of the upper classes of various countries, and Huang Huilan also carefully prepared costumes for him and taught him etiquette hand in hand.
After the two returned to China, Huang Huilan, in order to highlight Gu Weijun's identity, also spent 200,000 US dollars to buy Wu Sangui's former residence.
She also often held banquets in the embassy, with elegant taste and thoughtful hospitality, which greatly enhanced Gu Weijun's international prestige.
With the help of Huang Huilan, Gu Weijun, who was already talented, became the prime minister of the state before the age of 40, and reached the peak of his life early.
Huang Huilan, who is knowledgeable, confident and charming, and has a good conversation, has also changed the world's stereotypical impression of Chinese people, becoming the darling of major social occasions, and is called "the most beautiful pearl in the Far East" by foreign friends.
The couple witnessed many major historical moments together, such as the court ball at Buckingham Palace and the inauguration ceremony of President Truman, which became a "Chinese window" to show the Chinese style to the world.
Huang Huilan later recalled this time in her autobiography, and the words were also full of happiness, "I married Gu Weijun, and during his tenure as ambassador to France, Britain, and the United States, I lived an exciting life with all kinds of interesting people. ”
03, there is no feast in the world
The diplomatic careers they jointly built were infinite, but the married life they ran privately was a chicken feather.
After marriage, Huang Huilan gave birth to two sons for Gu Weijun, and also brought up a son and a daughter born to Gu Weijun's ex-wife, and had a good relationship with the four children.
According to her stepdaughter Gu Juzhen, she and Gu Weijun have completely different lifestyles and find it difficult to live together in harmony.
Huang Huilan was born in a family of great wealth and was accustomed to the luxurious life of spending money; Gu Weijun's family conditions are average, and his study career is very poor, and he is quite critical of his wife's extravagance.
Moreover, the expensive clothes on Huang Huilan's body were beyond Gu Weijun's financial resources at first glance, which made him feel that he was very faceless.
Therefore, he asked Huang Huilan to wear only the jewelry he bought, and the rest should not be worn.
He also hoped that Huang Huilan would cancel the luxury car ordered by her mother and continue to use the old car of the former minister.
Huang Huilan, who has always been high-profile, believes that the façade should be decorated in social occasions, and does not take Gu Weijun's proposal seriously, and continues to go her own way.
Over time, the contradictions that continue to breed make the love between the two gradually exhausted.
Gu Weijun's attitude towards Huang Huilan became more and more cold, and he even used words to hit her self-confidence.
When Gu Weijun was the Ambassador of France, he received a renovation fund, and Huang Huilan spent several months to renovate the embassy with this money.
She also took out her valuable collections in a big way, creating a unique style that took into account both China and France.
As a result, after Gu Weijun saw the decoration results, he said to her with disgust: "You wasted 100,000 US dollars, and the decoration became four different, which is not pleasing at all." ”
Another time, Huang Huilan was asked by the host to give an impromptu speech on stage at a party, and she was unprepared and hoped that her husband would help her break the siege, but Gu Weijun pretended not to see it.
After she finished speaking nervously, the response from the audience was very good, and she asked her husband's opinion in disbelief.
Gu Weijun coldly mocked her and said that she should move a box to the park to give a speech.
Seeing that his wife was welcomed by Europeans and sought after by the aristocratic rich, Gu Weijun was indignant and dissatisfied, but he had to continue to use his wife, and the two stumbled through more than thirty years.
The real trigger for the divorce between the two was Yan Youyun, a female diplomat known as the "Fudan School Flower".
Yan Youyun's husband, Yang Guangxing, was also a diplomat, a former subordinate of Gu Weijun and later the Chinese government consul general in the Philippines, who was brutally killed for refusing to raise funds for the Japanese army.
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Yan Youyun moved to the United States with her three daughters and served as a diplomat in the United Nations Protocol Department with the help of Gu Weijun.
According to Zhang Xueliang's recollection, Yan Youyun had an affair with Gu Weijun before her husband's death.
When they met again this time, the two had a very close exchange, and gradually there was an affair that became known to everyone.
It is said that Huang Huilan once learned that the two were playing cards together, and angrily went to question, she ignored Zhang Xueliang and others present, picked up the teacup and threw water at Gu Weijun.
Gu Weijun continued to play cards without changing his face, completely treating her as air and humiliating her.
At that time, Huang Huilan had passed the age of flower armor, her children had grown up, and her parents had also passed away, and she could completely keep this marriage of the same bed and different dreams and not let Yan Youyun succeed.
But she was proud all her life, and she refused to swallow her anger in marriage, and resolutely proposed a divorce to Gu Weijun.
In 1959, Gu Weijun and Huang Huilan went through divorce procedures and quickly married Yan Youyun back, almost seamlessly.
Yan Youyun once said that Huang Huilan and Gu Weijun had been separated for twenty years, but Huang Huilan's vanity was the result of wanting to be the ambassador's wife, so she had been dragging her feet and not divorcing.
However, this statement just confirms that Yan Youyun intervened during the marriage between Huang Huilan and Gu Weijun.
However, Huang Huilan did not publicly accuse her, but only said in her autobiography: "A British scholar asked me what the most ruthless idiom in China is, and I replied sadly: 'There is no feast under heaven that will not be scattered'. ”
Huang Huilan gave Gu Weijun a smooth career, and Gu Weijun also gave Huang Huilan a stage to show herself, but the two people who seemed to be made in heaven and earth were separated after all because the difference between the three views was too big.
04, in his later years, he had almost nothing
After the divorce, Huang Huilan went to New York and lived alone in an apartment in Manhattan.
At that time, due to the war and the change of regime, the wealth left to her by her father had been greatly reduced.
Indonesian property was usurped by the Japanese, Paris property was taken away by the Germans, mansions in Beijing were confiscated, and jewelry in New York was looted.
She can only rely on $500,000 to support herself, can't afford to hire a maid, can't afford a nanny, and only has a dog to accompany her.
Most of her life, she stretched out her hands and opened her mouth with food, and later she could only learn to cook and do housework by herself, and do everything herself.
To make money, she even began giving lectures around the United States for $1,500 a time.
She could never let go of what Gu Weijun and Yan Youyun had done, and in order to avoid them, she didn't even attend her grandson's wedding.
But she had hardly said anything bad about them, and every time she mentioned Gu Weijun, she always praised his talent and ability.
Even, she often blamed herself for not considering her husband's self-esteem, and blamed the failure of her marriage on her rich origins.
In fact, she does not have to blame herself at all, the love-hate entanglement of the three people is more like the story of the Republic of China version of "Phoenix Man".
She scattered her family wealth to hold him on the branches, but he turned his head and abandoned his original partner to find a new love.
Whether or not she coveted the title of "Ambassador's Wife", Huang Huilan treated her own and non-biological children equally and fully supported Gu Weijun's cause.
Born in Indonesia and raised in Western countries, she also appeared in the world political arena as a Chinese, winning glory for China with the most elegant posture.
In December 1993, 100-year-old Huang Huilan died and lived a life of ups and downs.
The scenery has been, the downfall has been; She has loved and complained, but she has never failed anyone.
Birth gave her inexhaustible glory and wealth, but marriage slowly took away all this, which is really regrettable.
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Author: Asagiri
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