In the sky above the Republic of Fengyue, there are many divorced couples. But when it came to the two pairs of court, only Xu Beihong and Jiang Biwei were the couple.
In 1944, in the sensational divorce lawsuit between the two, Jiang Biwei not only demanded the custody of a pair of children, but also demanded 1 million yuan, 40 ancient paintings, and 100 paintings made by him from Xu Beihong as compensation, and proposed that she personally select the 100 paintings, and returned to Xu Beihong to repaint if she was not satisfied.
Discerning people can see that the conditions that Jiang Biwei proposed when she divorced, known as conditions, were really difficult, and even Xu Beihong's lawyer Shen Junru was once angry. Shen Junru told Xu Beihong that he and Jiang Biwei did not have an actual marriage contract in law, so he could ignore these unreasonable demands. But Xu Beihong agreed without thinking about it.
In order to meet Jiang Biwei's requirements, he painted day and night to earn money in the following days. His wife Liao Jingwen said that Xu Beihong forgot to sleep and eat precisely in order to catch up with these 100 paintings, so that he quickly exhausted his body and died after only 8 years with her.
Many people don't understand why Xu Beihong chose to go against the grain in the face of his ex-wife's nonsense. Until he died later, his family found that he still had a pocket watch that Jiang Biwei bought him in Paris that year... They suddenly realized that the feeling was a debt, but also a nostalgia for the beginning.
Jiang Biwei was born in 1898, before meeting Xu Beihong, her name was Jiang Tangzhen, a famous lady in Jiangsu.
At the age of 22, Xu Beihong first met 18-year-old Jiang Tangzhen and fell in love at first sight. At that time, Xu Beihong was teaching at Yixing Girls' School, and Jiang Tangzhen's uncle and brother-in-law were colleagues, and he was often a guest of the Jiang family.
Xu Beihong came from a humble background, but he was very ambitious and able to endure hardships, and walked step by step from a poor boy into the ivory tower of a university, which made the Jiang family appreciate him very much, including the young Jiang Tangzhen, she found this man interesting and responsible.
So much so that later, when Xu Beihong asked her if she would like to go abroad with her, Jiang Tangzhen followed him to Japan without looking back, completely forgetting the marriage contract that her family had engaged to her.
The ancients said: "If you hire a wife, you are a concubine." "After being a member of the Wang family, Jiang Tangzhen eloped with her lover, which undoubtedly insulted the court. The parents had no choice but to put the stone into the coffin, and then invited people to cry, and performed a fake play of "daughter died", and then withdrew.
In this way, the Jiang family completed the final fulfillment of this wayward young lady.
The first story, like the beginning of all romantic love, is full of love.
After the two made a private agreement for life, Xu Beihong chose a new name "Jiang Biwei" for his beloved. At that time, he loved her very much, and he loved her so much that he couldn't wait to tell the world. He happily punched a pair of crystal rings, one engraved with "Sorrowful Hong" and the other with "Beviy", as a testimony of their love.
However, at that time, Xu Beihong had not yet made a mark, just a poor student who was sponsored to go abroad, and Jiang Biwei followed him to live a lot of hard life. Later, Xu Beihong went to Paris for further study, and life was more difficult, and Jiang Biwei, who had not stained the sun and spring water since she was a child, once worked as a female worker to supplement the family. Such a deep affection, Xu Beihong could not repay it.
Once, Jiang Biwei was shopping in Paris and looked at a dress, but she gave up because she was shy, but her heart was unforgettable. After Xu Beihong found out, he worked harder to paint, and the first thing he did after selling it was to go straight to the mall to buy the dress back for her. After wearing this dress, Jiang Biwei burst into tears.
On the poorest and hardest days, they hugged the tightest.
From Tokyo to Paris, the romance of the two is as soft as the paintings he painted for her.
In "Piano Lesson", her cheongsam is elegant, her posture is graceful, and her fingers holding the violin are slender and agile.
In "Xiao Sheng", the corners of her lips are slightly raised, her bright eyes are like water, her flying fingertips, and her whisper is gentle and ready to come out.
After a hundred years of time and space, people can still feel the infinite love that is dipped in the ink when it falls. Perhaps only by loving someone deeply can she be so quiet, elegant, and unique in her paintings.
It's just that the world is beautiful, and there are blooms.
In 1927, after Xu Beihong returned to China, he became a professor of art at Central University and became famous. Jiang Biwei was also hard, but the relationship between the two took a sharp turn.
After all, their initial backgrounds are different, their personalities are different, and their ideals are different, and the impulse at the beginning of love may dilute this difference. But over time, those differences that had been hidden gradually revealed the shattered side of the marriage.
Jiang Biwei is warm and social by nature, and her wife's living room-style interlacing makes her feel comfortable, while Xu Beihong prefers to create in a muffled voice and not be disturbed.
Xu Beihong loves collecting, sees his favorite calligraphy and painting antiques, and often spares no expense to buy, Jiang Biwei scoffs, she believes that money is used to live a comfortable life, so she often scolds Xu Beihong for spending money on meaningless things.
She resented his self-centered indifference, he was shocked by her strength and criticality, and the two had an argument. In that troubled married life, the lost Xu Beihong began to become taciturn, but the willful and proud Jiang Biwei was unimpressed by her husband's changes.
Until one time she went back to live with her old parents for a few months, she suddenly received a letter from Xu Beihong: "Biwei, you come to Nanjing, if you don't come again, I will fall in love with someone else." ”
The other person in Xu Beihong's mouth is his 17-year-old student Sun Duoci (formerly known as Sun Yunjun), a quiet and clear female student with great talent for painting but a failed family.
Probably because he saw his stumbling self in his youth from Sun Duoci, Xu Beihong, who cherished talent, was very concerned about this talented and unfortunate girl. And the unsatisfactory marriage life also made him long to seek emotional solace in another relationship, and he gave birth to "love" from "pity" to Sun Duoci.
However, so far, Xu Beihong still cherishes his marriage with Jiang Biwei, so he confessed the relationship in his letter. But this honesty also made Jiang Biwei's sense of security as a woman begin to disintegrate like a bomb.
Originally, Jiang Biwei thought that after her husband confessed to herself, she would break off contact with Sun Duoci. But she overestimated Xu Beihong, and Xu Beihong also overestimated herself. Feelings are like flowing water, and many times once they start, they can no longer contain their feet.
Jiang Biwei found that her husband still left early and returned late every day to spend time with Sun Duoci in the studio. She couldn't resist going to "inspect", but in the studio she was surprised to find Xu Beihong's portrait of Sun Duoci, just as he had painted for her in Paris.
When the love was strong, Sun Duoci once gave Xu Beihong two red beans, and Xu Beihong embedded these two red beans in the ring as a promise of their love, and the word "compassion" was engraved on it. Just ten years later, the ring on his hand was changed from "Bivi" to "Mercy".
Such a variety of strange and familiar scenes made Jiang Biwei regret that she was not at the beginning.
Women who dare to elope often have a bit of a spicy and reckless nature. Jiang Biwei was like this, and she decided to curb the development of their relationship at all costs.
She not only hid Xu Beihong's portrait of Sun Duoci and uprooted the maple saplings that Sun Duoci gave to Xu Beihong, but also made Xu Beihong unable to arrange for Sun Duoci's expenses for studying abroad...
But one by one, instead of forcing Sun Duoci away, he forced her husband to the brink of collapse.
In 1938, Xu Beihong published a newspaper announcing that he had severed his cohabitation with Jiang Biwei.
Repeatedly rubbing the word "cohabitation" in the newspaper, Jiang Biwei felt a coolness from head to toe. At the age of eighteen, the bitterness of wandering with him in the world was erased, and the once sweet and warm time became "cohabitation". She felt like a joke,
If she still had illusions about reuniting with Xu Beihong before, then this "separation notice" made her firmly throw herself into the arms of another man.
This man is called Zhang Daofan and is Jiang Biwei's former suitor. The two had known each other since their studies in Paris. At that time, Zhang Daofan was still a poor student studying painting in Paris, admired Xu Beihong very much, often visited the door, and accidentally saw Jiang Biwei, who was simple and beautiful, and fell in love at first sight.
It's just that Jiang Biwei has already returned to Xu Beihong back then, and her heart is like a waterfall for suitors like Zhang Daofan. Later, Zhang Daofan wrote several letters to confess, but Jiang Biwei was also rejected.
Unable to love, Zhang Daofan later married the French girl Susan, but still missed Jiang Biwei.
Years later, Zhang Daofan returned to China to enter politics. When Jiang Biwei saw him again, he was already a prominent member of the Kuomintang. Jiang Biwei's unsatisfactory marriage life, Zhang Daofan saw it in his eyes and remembered it in his heart.
Seeing that the marriage was about to die, Xu Beihong had already left home and went to Changsha to find Sun Duoci and seek permission from the Sun family. At that time, the city of Nanjing was experiencing Japanese bombing.
Jiang Biwei, who was at home alone with her two children, was afraid and helpless, but still frequently corresponded with Zhang Daofan. Between the lines, there are endless grievances, loneliness and sadness, and Zhang Daofan constantly soothes Jiang Biwei's wounded heart with a hot love.
Before a city-wide alarm sounded, Zhang Daofan used his connections to move the mother and son to safety in advance. From that moment on, Jiang Biwei began to truly accept this man.
It was also when Xu Beihong tried to dissociate herself from her that Jiang Biwei immediately decided to live with Zhang Daofan, half of whom was moved by Zhang Daofan's true feelings, and the other half also hid her revenge on her husband.
After a thousand turns, Jiang Biwei accepted Zhang Daofan, but Sun Duoci on the other end did not have the courage to follow Xu Beihong. This worldly untolerable teacher-student love finally came to an end under the intervention of the Sun family.
Xu Beihong chose to be invited to give lectures abroad in the ashes of all thoughts, and he went for three years. In three years, a lot of things have changed.
In 1942, when Xu Beihong returned to China, Sun Duoci was already married. After things are wrong, one of his hearts has also settled, and he finally came to Jiang Biwei's side again, trying to seek an opportunity to get back together.
Unexpectedly, Jiang Biwei just said lightly: "If you break with Sun Yunjun, the door of this house will be open to you at any time; But if someone abandons you, gets married, or dies, and you come back to me, I'm sorry, I won't accept it! ”
Under Jiang Biwei's strong determination, there was no hope of recombination.
In 1944, Xu Beihong went around and decided to marry Liao Jingwen. This time, he posted another public announcement, saying that he had already dissolved his cohabitation relationship with Ms. Jiang Biwei.
Jiang Biwei smiled, twice published, once for peace, new hatred and old hatred, those unbreakable obsessions made her make a shocking difficulty in the divorce lawsuit...
The world said that she opened her mouth widely, but whether she was insatiable or uneasy, I am afraid that only Jiang Biwei herself knew. And Xu Beihong always owed her, in addition to agreeing to all the conditions, he also sent her her favorite "Piano Lessons".
In 1949, when the Kuomintang was defeated and fled Taiwan, Jiang Biwei followed Zhang Daofan to Taiwan, while her children remained on the mainland.
Although she had reached an agreement when she divorced Xu Beihong, and a pair of children, Xu Boyang and Xu Jingfei, were raised by herself, Jiang Biwei's almost paranoid hatred for Xu Beihong made her unable to treat her children gently.
Although the eldest son Xu Boyang was mature and sensible, because he did not receive his mother's love for a long time, he eventually joined the expeditionary army, and later traveled to many places and returned to his father.
Daughter Xu Jingfei tried her best to escape the family because of the breakdown of her parents' relationship and her mother's status as a mistress who could not be put on the table. At the age of 16, because she was mentioned by her classmates about her family lineage, she was humiliated and committed suicide by swallowing medicine.
Fortunately, Jiang Biwei found out in time and rescued her daughter. But in the face of the child who died nine lifetimes, she did not give soft words of comfort, but roared angrily: "I only want to love Zhang Daofan alone in my life, why don't you forgive me?" ”
It is said that "love is deep, hate is cut", Jiang Biwei's heart knot that Xu Beihong could not open for many years, finally let a pair of children run away from home one after another, and then separated from her for up to 20 years after going to Taiwan, although Zhang Daofan's feelings for Jiang Biwei are still the same. However, Jiang Biwei never had the title of a wife and could not go out in public with Zhang Daofan.
Nameless and scoreless, she was also sued by Zhang Daofan's wife to Chiang Kai-shek's official residence. The signs of trying to be damaged were like a rope, which made Zhang Daofan breathless, and also brought this vigorous relationship to an abrupt end.
Zhang Daofan's promise that "when you reach the age of sixty, divorce her and marry you" is like a mirage. Jiang Biwei also changed from a plump and juicy peach to a shriveled pit, but the pit is still tough and strong. She concluded without fluttering: "For various reasons, I decided to reunite his family. ”
After the breakup, she refused Zhang Daofan's funding, and successively sold some of Xu Beihong's paintings to survive, and her later life was not bad.
Perhaps only then will she find out that she has never used a single dollar from anyone in her life, nor has she borrowed money from anyone, but has relied on the money "Mr. Xu" gave her paintings when she divorced. It turned out that the dignity and pride of life that she regarded were provided by the "negative person".
In 1953, Xu Beihong, whose health was deteriorating, died. In 1968, Zhang Daofan died in Taiwan.
With the death of two men who had been obsessed with her all their lives, Jiang Biwei also opened the door of her heart, and in her later years, she wrote a memoir of 500,000 words, the upper part is "I and Sorrow", and the lower part is "I and the Dao Fan". For the former, she is heartbroken, and for the latter, it is full of praise. The past between them finally answered the old saying: we are harsh on the people around us and tolerant enough for outsiders.
On February 16, 1978, 80-year-old Jiang Biwei died silently in Taipei without any relatives around her. In her bedroom, people saw the "Piano Lesson" that Xu Beihong gave her.