She is the most beautiful school flower in Fudan, loves meat the most, never exercises, lived 112 years old, and told the secret of longevity in her later years.
Yan Youyun was born on September 27, 1905 in a very wealthy family in Zhuangqiao, Ningbo. It is believed that the local wealthy family.
Yan Youyun's grandfather was Li Hongzhang's aide and backbone of the foreign affairs movement, and his father and son Yan and son were both very successful businessmen.
Yan Youyun has lived a carefree life since she was a child. She loves meat because her family conditions are good.
At the same time she is also lazy and does not like sports, but she is not fat.
In 1925, she lived up to her parents' expectations and was admitted to Fudan University in Shanghai with excellent grades. At that time, the total number of university students in the country was only more than 30,000, and even fewer women were able to enter universities.
From her birth to marriage, the journey was smooth and many people envied her.
As an adult, Yan Youyun has never lacked suitors, but most people can't enter her eyes at all.
Once, she greeted her family and said that she wanted to find a good man who deserved her admiration and respect as her partner.
And this man met at a dance party she attended when she was in college. He was Yang Guangxuan, the son of a silk merchant at that time.
When Yan Youyun was studying at Fudan University, she met Yang Guanghong during a dance.
Yang Guangxuan's family background is also very solid, his family is engaged in business, but Yang Guangxi is not contaminated with the smell of copper money and chooses to become an excellent diplomat.
He graduated from Tsinghua University and went to the United States for further study. He is also a talented person.
On September 6, 1929, Yan Youyun and Yang Guangxun, who had been in love for a while, held a wedding in Shanghai, when Yang Guangyu was already a professor at Tsinghua University and a well-known diplomat in the mainland.
Their wedding was spectacular, and many newspaper reporters came to record the wedding of the century.
The wedding scene is more luxurious than ever. The witness was presided over by Wang Zhengting, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China. More than 1,000 people from business and political leaders attended.
The groom is a professor at Tsinghua University, and the bride is a flower of Fudan University, a typical talented woman. The combination made headlines in newspapers at the time and shocked the entire Shanghai Beach.
After getting married, Yan Youyun and her husband had to live in a foreign country all the time because of their work needs, and soon Yan Youyun also gave birth to three lovely daughters, and their lives were very happy.
Yan Youyun did not complain in her heart, but followed her husband's footsteps, fully supported her husband's work, and took care of everything inside and outside the house in an orderly manner.
In 1930, Yang Guanghong went to Europe to serve as Consul General in London. Yan Youyun came to London with her husband and began her career as a diplomat's wife.
Yan Youyun's fate with diplomacy also kicked off.
In 1938, Yang Guangxi came to Manila, Indonesia, to serve as the consul general of China because of his work needs.
At this time, during the eight years of China's anti-Japanese resistance, Yang Guangxi actively called on the people of Manila, China to donate money and materials to contribute to the anti-Japanese resistance! As a wife, Yan Youyun carried out various diplomatic activities with her husband.
She also personally designed and managed the renovation of the Consulate General.
The housekeeper was well-organized and kind to her subordinates and colleagues, and the hostess also entertained Filipino and American officials, overseas Chinese, and leaders.
Yan Youyun has also been raising money for the motherland, running around with the local Chinese and overseas Chinese, and finally raised a large amount of money for the motherland, and soon this money was also shipped to China.
In early 1942, Japanese troops occupied Manila. Her husband died surrounded by Japanese troops, and her life with her children was miserable, as if she had fallen from heaven to hell at once.
After her husband's death, Yan Youyun had a hard time in order to support her three daughters. Later, she brought her three daughters to the United States to develop.
Because of her knowledge and achievements, upon arriving in the United States, she began working in the United Nations Protocol Department, responsible for all official ceremonial matters, and became an excellent female diplomat.
It was not until October 1959 that Yan Youyun officially retired.
After she gradually adjusted to life in the United States, the second real destiny in her life quietly arrived.
The identity of this true destiny is actually very special, because he and Yan Youyun's husband Yang Guangyu are in the same profession. They are both diplomats, and he is a colleague of Yan Youyun's husband. This is Gu Weijun.
At that time, Gu Weijun was not young, but the unique temperament belonging to Gu Weijun deeply attracted Yan Youyun, and the two soon fell in love.
After that, they got married and walked the road of life together for more than 20 years.
Yan Youyun is very capable, she can go up to the hall and down the kitchen, she can go to the hall and the kitchen. She takes care of Gu Weijun very thoughtfully in her daily life. Every morning Gu Weijun woke up, there was hot milk at the bedside.
When her husband got up, she served him a nutritious breakfast. is worried that working on an empty stomach is not good for Gu Weijun's health. For more than 20 years, the marriage of Gu Weijun and Yan Youyun has been harmonious.
Until 1985, Gu Weijun died at the age of 97.
After Gu Weijun's death, Yan Youyun lived a more exquisite life and did not give up on herself. She adhered to the principle of "eating what she liked, playing what she liked" and spent the rest of her life happily alone.
At the age of 98, Yan Youyun was diagnosed with severe colorectal cancer. The hospital performed a surgical removal on her. Discharge and recovery 5 days after surgery.
Two months later, she wore her favorite cheongsam of her youth and danced in high heels at someone else's birthday party, stunned everyone present.
No one expected that this nearly hundred-year-old man had the same temperament and vitality as a teenager.
You don't have to worry about the past. You can't blame others. We need to enjoy life and learn to face it with optimism. This spirit stayed with her throughout her life. This is the secret of longevity and youthfulness.
In her autobiography, One Hundred and Nine Springs, My Story, she wrote, "Every day is a good day. ”
When Yan Youyun died, she was 112 years old. However, according to relatives and friends, although Yan Youyun was very old at that time.
But she loves to shop in high heels and funky cheongsam, with delicate earrings and bright nails.
Like a little girl. Such an optimistic life and attitude to life may be the fundamental reason why Yan Youyun remains healthy and young.
If someone had met Yan Youyun outside at that time, he might not have thought that the old man in front of him was actually over a hundred years old.