During the Republican period, many talented and outstanding women emerged, among which Lv Bicheng, Xiao Hong, Shi Pingmei and Zhang Ailing were known as the "Four Talented Women of the Republic of China".
Lu Bicheng
In 1883, Lü Bicheng was born in Anhui Province in a family of scholars, his mother could write poetry and literature, and his father was a scholar and political student in Shanxi, and later resigned from the government and returned home to devote himself to educating his children.
Under his father's cultivation, the young Lu Bicheng soon revealed extraordinary talent. She wrote poetry at the age of five and painted at the age of seven, and at a young age she was able to write such thick and powerful verses as "the night rain talks about soldiers, and the spring breeze talks about swords".
At the age of nine, Lü Bicheng had been promised to a family surnamed Wang from his fellow villagers. After hearing that the Lu family was in distress, the Wang family not only did not help, but proposed to withdraw from the marriage, which undoubtedly made the situation of the mother and daughter worse. Being dismissed by her husband's family made Lu Bicheng's reputation even more discredited.
In 1912, Yuan Shikai became president of the Republic of China, and Lü Bicheng was also hired as secretary of the presidential office. However, Lü Bicheng soon resigned and left Beijing and settled in Shanghai. This is because she witnessed the darkness of officialdom.
However, smart people, whether it is officialdom or shopping malls, will always mix well.
In Shanghai, she demonstrated her extraordinary business talents.
She plunged into the business world alone, did trade, played stocks, and in just a few years, she became a huge rich person in Shanghai.
Fan Zengxiang wrote in the inscription poem to her "Bicheng Collection": "Jun looks at the peacock and wins the southeast to fly alone." ”
Lu Bicheng died in Hong Kong in 1943 at the age of 61. Her will was not to leave bones, and after cremation, she threw the ashes and noodles into the sea.
The so-called independence is not only economic independence, but also personality independence. You don't have to live a life of luxury. It is enough to have a job that supports you and have some hobbies that you really enjoy.
Xiao Hong
Xiao Hong's life, generally speaking, is very miserable, short-lived, poor, rushing, she ran away from home at the age of nineteen, and never looked back - she went back once in the middle, lived with her fiancé in the Dongxingshun Hotel in Harbin, and later became pregnant, and her fiancé fled, leading to the famous "Xiao Jun saves the beauty" paragraph.
Xiao Hong's short life of 31 years, at first glance, can be described as "chaotic".
When she was young, her father promised her to Wang Enjia, who was very conditional, but she did not agree to mix with her cousin, who already had a family.
Her cousin gave up on her, and after she was kicked out of the house, she ate back grass and went to find Wang Enjia.
Elopement, dislike, abandonment without a name...
When he was miserable, he met Xiao Jun, who was also brilliant, and he loved him vigorously, and then he was kicked away by Xiao Jun.
Later, she thought she had encountered a lifelong destination, but she was once again mercilessly left behind in the war.
Quack doctors misdiagnosed, died of illness.
Shi Pingmei
Shi Pingmei (1902-1928), formerly known as Rubi, was a modern Chinese female writer and revolutionary activist, and one of the "Four Great Talented Women of the Republic of China". Originally named Rubi, because he loved the beauty and steadfastness of plum blossoms, he took the pen name Shi Pingmei. He has used pen names to comment on Ms. Mei, Bowei, Shuxue, Binghua, Xinzhu, Mengdai, Lin Na, etc. In just 26 years of her birth, she has become one of the shortest female writers in modern China.
During her lifetime, Shi Pingmei wrote a large number of poems, essays, travelogues, and novels, especially poetry, and was known as "writing the pain of mourning with the pen of flowers", and was also known as "Beijing's famous female poet"
Most of her works are based on the pursuit of love, truth, and longing for freedom and light. The creation of the novel is represented by "Red Maned Horse" and "Horse Neighing Record".
One day in 1920, he met Gao Junyu at a hometown meeting of the Shanxi Guild Hall in Beijing.
Gao Junyu was admitted to Peking University in 1916 and joined the Communist Party of China in 1920, one of the first 58 members of the Communist Party. He was also the director of the General Affairs Unit of the Beijing Special City Party Department of the Chinese Kuomintang and served as the secretary of Dr. Sun Yat-sen. Committed to the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party.
In Gao Junyu's 29 years of life, Shi Pingmei is the moon in the mirror and the flower in the water that he has pursued hard, but he can't ask for. To death, he did not wait for the clear response of his beloved girl to his friendship, and he ended with regret. Gao Junyu, a talented and outstanding communist of Peking University, died in Peking Union Medical College Hospital at the age of 29 due to a peritoneal abscess after acute appendicitis surgery accompanied by sepsis.
After the death of Junyu, there was no shortage of suitors, among them was a young man who was handsome and talented, she expressed her affection to Junmei, but one of her hearts had gone with Junyu, she devoted herself to teaching and writing, and her heart was getting closer and closer to her lover.
Due to grief and fatigue, three years after Gao Junyu's death, in September 1928, Shi Pingmei, who had just passed her 26th birthday, suffered from encephalitis, and she could not get up when she lay down. Pingmei eventually passed away at the Union Hospital, where Gao Junyu died.
Zhang ailing
Zhang Ailing (September 30, 1920 - September 8, 1995), Zhang Ailing came from a famous family, her grandfather Zhang Peilun was a famous minister in the late Qing Dynasty, and her grandmother Li Juyu was the eldest daughter of the famous Li Hongzhang. Literary family. But in fact, by the time of Zhang Ailing, the family was no longer behind.
Zhang Ailing's father Zhang Zhiyi belongs to the widow type of son-in-law, who once served as an English secretary at the Jinpu Railway Bureau, did not do much, was addicted to opium, and had the vice of prostitutes. Zhang Ailing's father is a typical loser who eats, drinks, gambles, pleases his aunt, and does everything.
Zhang Ailing's mother Huang Yifan is also a progressive woman, because she could not bear her husband's absurd behavior, so she divorced directly and went overseas, without the slightest concern for Zhang Ailing's feelings.
Speaking of Zhang Ailing, she can't jump Hu Lancheng, and she is also the prototype character of Ang Lee's "Color Ring".
Hu Lancheng, born in 1906, is 14 years older than Zhang Ailing. This person did things for Wang Jingwei and the Japanese, and there is no doubt that the great traitor, lackey, and smell for 10,000 years. There was once a movie called "Rolling Red Dust", which was written about Zhang Ailing's love story. And Zhang Ailing's love story in the real world is actually more tragic and pitiful than written in the movie.
Zhang Ailing, formerly known as Zhang Yu, pen name Liang Jing, one of the four talented women of the Republic of China, the most popular female writer in Shanghai, began to write novels at the age of 7, and began to publish works in school magazines and magazines at the age of 12, and is a unique writer in the history of modern Chinese literature.
From 1943 to 1944, he wrote and published novels such as "Agarwood Crumbs - The First Furnace of Incense", "Agarwood Crumbs - The Second Furnace of Incense", "Jasmine Tablets", "Love in the City", "Red Rose and White Rose" and other novels.