No matter what the period, beauty is a woman's advantage, beautiful looks make people confident and easier to get the love of others, but everything is often accompanied by pros and cons, beauty may also bring trouble to women, such as attracting lustful people to pester.
In the Republic of China, there was a famous woman named Yan Renmei, who looked outstanding and beautiful, she was born from a rich and prestigious family, once received a new-style education, and advanced thinking.
According to common sense, people born with a golden key, such as Yan Renmei, will live a carefree life and enjoy the blessings of the world, but in fact, her life has not been particularly smooth, and even when she held a wedding, she hired 10 bodyguards for fear of being harassed by the Japanese.
Yan Renmei's illustrious origins
The reputation of Yan Renmei's father's family can be traced back to his great-grandfather Yan Xinhou, who was an aide to Li Hongzhang, a major minister at the end of the Qing Dynasty, a famous industrialist, who made contributions to the development of modern Chinese enterprises, the first national capital bank in China, the Commerce and Commerce Bank, which was founded by him, and he also ran the famous Zhejiang enterprise Tongjiuyuan Textile And Weaving Layout.
Grandfather Yan Zijun mainly engaged in the qianzhuang business, wuhualou gold shop belongs to him, the world sees that his business ability is not inferior to Yan Xinhou, praised his "multi-talented and good jia".
Yan Renmei's mother Liu Chengyi is the granddaughter of the industrialist Liu Yong, Liu Yong's rich side, the family capital of 20 million taels of silver, Yan Renmei is the first child of her parents, her father is also the eldest grandson, so the family attaches great importance to her.
Man cannot choose his own appearance, origin, beauty or ugliness, or poor or rich are determined by Heaven, who does not want to be born rich, reduce a lot of hard work, struggle.
However, compared with status and wealth, the noble qualities possessed by man himself are equally precious, and no one who is truly successful has not put in hard work.
Yan Renmei's early life
Yan Renmei is a premature baby, thinning hair at birth, the mother feels that her daughter is not beautiful, the heart is very sad, grandfather Yan Zi named her "Renmei", may she become more and more beautiful.
At the age of 6, Yan Renmei unfortunately lost her mother, which should be the biggest regret in her life, she went to the aristocratic school Zhongxi Girls' High School at the age of 10, and became good friends with 7 other rich ladies, known as the "Eight-member Group of Chinese and Western Girls".
When Yan Renmei was still in school, her father Yan Zhiduo promised her to Ma Guanliang, the son of a wealthy businessman, and she was influenced by new ideas, unwilling to let her elders arrange lifelong events, and wanted to continue to study and resolutely oppose this family affair.
Yan Zhiduo saw that his daughter did not agree and forcibly locked her up at home, he did not do this without loving his daughter, but because of the incident of the female relatives in the family who ran away from marriage, he was worried that Yan Ren aesthetics had more culture and became unruly, so he wanted to marry her out early and live a peaceful life.
Yan Renmei tried her best to resist, and finally reached an agreement with her father, she agreed to marry Ma Guanliang, on the condition that she could continue to study at school after marriage.
Ma Guanliang and Yan Renmei had a happy time in the early days of marriage, giving birth to three children, and later, Ma Guanliang's flowery nature was exposed, he wandered the fireworks place, and even brought women to the house to have fun.
Yan Renmei was born noble and beautiful, and she did not have a feminist mentality like a traditional woman who was willing to swallow her anger, and when she learned that her husband was unfaithful, she was hurt and argued with Ma Guanliang at the same time.
Unlike Yan Renmei, Ma Guanliang thought conservatively, believing that it was normal for a man to have several women, ignoring his wife's protests, and Yan Renmei's persuasion was fruitless, so he filed for divorce.
The Yan family felt that the woman's divorce was humiliating, and resolutely did not allow Yan Renmei to do so, and Yan Renmei was able to get rid of this unhappy marriage thanks to the help of several prominent friends.
She and Song Lingling's eldest daughter Kong Lingyi is a girlfriend, Kong Lingyi does not want her friends to be angry, in favor of her divorce, Song Xialing is very fond of Yan Renmei, and like her daughter also supports her divorce.
Sheng Guanyi, the daughter of Sheng Xuanhuai, the father of Chinese industry, is Yan Renmei's mother, and she approves of Yan Renmei and Ma Guanliang's dissolution of the husband and wife relationship out of love, and with them as the backing, Yan Renmei successfully persuaded her family to divorce Ma Guanliang.
Married to Li Zumin
Couples like to make the wedding warm and romantic, and are accustomed to asking friends to wear beautiful dresses as groomsmen and bridesmaids to accompany them.
Yan Renmei hired 10 bodyguards when she got married for the second time, which also started from her experience after divorcing her first husband.
Yan Renmei liked a house in the Shanghai concession by her mother Sheng Guanyi, and when Sheng Guanyi could not stay, Yan Renmei asked her to live temporarily, and after agreeing, she moved in happily, but she did not expect to encounter big trouble after living for a while.
The Japanese believe that the houses in the concession are of good quality and the environment is beautiful, and some officials personally go to the concession to find and choose, with the intention of occupying the compulsory rent, an official named Yamamoto took a look at the house of Sheng Guanyi, saw Yan Renmei and was attracted by her beauty, and sent people to ask for rent and marry.
Yan Renmei sternly refused, but Yamamoto persevered, went to harass the day before, the Japanese invaders were murderous and overbearing, killing and plundering in China, doing no evil, Yan Renmei knew that their evil deeds did not dare to offend Yamamoto, and could only go back to his parents' house, but Yamamoto still sent people to follow and pester.
In order to make Yamamoto stop thinking of marrying Yan Renmei, the Yan family thought of finding a new husband for Yan Renmei as soon as possible, and they targeted Li Zumin, who was from a wealthy family. The Li family felt that Yan Renmei was born from a good background, beautiful in appearance, gentle in temperament, and although there were Japanese people standing in the way and facing some dangers, they also agreed to the marriage.
After only a few months together, Yan Renmei and Li Zuren officially married, the Japanese are not good generations after all, Yan and Li are worried that Yamamoto sent people to the wedding site to make trouble, if you do not make preparations, the grand wedding may not be held smoothly, the safety of the guests and the groom and the bride can not be guaranteed, considering this, they invited 10 bodyguards to participate in the whole wedding.
The atmosphere of the wedding was extremely serious, but there were bodyguards standing on the side, which seemed very imposing, and it seemed that it was the battle that only the high-gate clan had.
Li Zumin is a graduate of Guanghua University, with a good personality, knowledge, and is very considerate to his wife after marriage, Yan Renmei and he live very happily.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Yan Renmei and his wife made contributions to the country and opened up new undertakings, they donated funds and materials to the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and opened qiao you service clubs and nurseries in the 1970s.
Yan Renmei did not forget her old friends, in her later years to visit Kong Lingyi, Miss Zhao Si and other people abroad, Li Zumin died before her, she was taken to Shenzhen by her second son to support, got the meticulous care of her children and grandchildren, and is now 106 years old.
Brief summary:
Yan Renmei is famous, very beautiful, born to be a winner in life, despite this, she also experienced the loss of her mother at an early age, forced to marry, her husband cheating, and even being harassed by the Japanese and facing danger.
She persevered, still graceful and calm after the storm, found a loving partner, and after the situation became better, she also donated money to fund the country and open an institution, and Yan Renmei became a successful person like her great-grandfather with her personal charm and ability.