"Tokyo has only four walls of family, Paris only has half a paper love letter, and the rest is all tragic."
Xu Beihong
This is a sentence from Xu Beihong's second wife, Jiang Biwei, who tells the story of her life and her husband eloping abroad. When she said this, it was when they were in good shape. At that time, their lives were not rich and often in turmoil, but their feelings envied others.
When Jiang Biwei said this, she did not expect that their feelings would soon come to a fork in the road.
The nineteenth year of the Republic of China, that is, 1930, was called the black years by Jiang Biwei. This year, Xu Beihong, who has become a well-known painter, is 35 years old, and Jiang Biwei is 31 years old. Jiang Biwei and Xu Beihong's eldest son Xu Boyang is 3 years old, and her daughter Xu Lili is 1 year old.
At this time, it had been exactly 13 years since Jiang Biwei had eloped with Xu Beihong without hesitation.
For Xu Beihong, who was born in the cold door, 1930 was the highlight of his life: a successful career, a complete child and a beautiful flower. Such a life was a proper "perfect" at that time and today.
Xu Beihong and Jiang Biwei
But in this year, after Jiang Biwei had just lost her brother and her aunt who loved her, she was still living in Her mother's house in Yixing, Jiangsu Province, and she received a letter from her husband urging her to return to Nanjing, saying: "If you don't come back again, I may fall in love with someone else." ”
Jiang Biwei has great confidence in her and her husband's feelings, after all, she was born in a family of 18 years old, despite her parents' opposition, she resolutely eloped with him, and then ten years later, she accompanied him to Japan and France to study, and their feelings were "stronger than gold" in the eyes of others and herself. Therefore, after receiving such a headless and brainless letter, Jiang Biwei only felt that her husband wanted to urge her to go home quickly in this way.
After Jiang Biwei thought about it like this, she did not return to Nanjing at the first time after receiving the letter, and she waited until her aunt was buried before leaving for Nanjing.
The night That Jiang Biwei returned to her home in Nanjing with her child, Xu Beihong confessed to her that he had recently had emotional fluctuations, and that he liked a female student whom he considered to be a genius, whose name was Sun Yunjun (Sun Duoci: hereinafter referred to as Sun Duoci).
After hearing her husband's words, Jiang Biwei's whole body trembled. Xu Beihong did not seem to be aware of his wife's change, and he still "confessed" to himself:
"She is eighteen years old, a native of Anhui, and she has been listening to the examination without taking the entrance examination to the College of Letters of the University of China. When you were in Yixing, I asked her to come to my house to paint her portraits, and sometimes I played with her. ”
Xu Beihong may have thought that "confessing" was a great thing, so he told his wife the details of his kissing her, and he described it in great detail, he said:
Once, when she was painting, she suddenly mentioned her life, and she said that her father was originally Sun Chuanfang's secretary. In the 17th year of the National Revolutionary Army's Northern Expedition, Sun Chuanfang's army collapsed and collapsed, and her father was once imprisoned, so their family has been shrouded in pain and uneasiness. I was so touched by her words that I put my hands on her shoulders. Tell her: 'Anyway, there's someone who cares about you right now!' So he kissed her forehead. ”
Portrait of Sun Duoci
After Xu Beihong said this, he looked seriously at his wife, and he found that her shoulders were shaking slightly, probably aware that this "confession" hurt his wife's heart, so he immediately explained: "I just love her talent and want to cultivate her to become a useful talent." When Jiang Biwei heard this explanation, she was like five thunderbolts, and she had unspeakable grievances and sadness in her heart, because she could not force her grief to stop for a while, and she actually cried.
Yeah, what woman can accept the "so frank" of her beloved man.
Seeing his wife, who had always been strong, crying, Xu Beihong finally realized his mistake, and he hurried to comfort her: "You have returned, I think there will be no more problems in the future." ”
That night, Xu Beihong promised his wife that they would immediately go to a foreign country and leave the place.
Xu Beihong obviously overestimated his wife's emotional tolerance, and he forgot: even if his wife is beautiful, talented, and family-oriented, she is just an ordinary woman. As an ordinary woman, she must have the weaknesses of ordinary women. In the face of love, the most difficult thing for all women to accept is that men have others in their hearts. Because it means: she's sharing her love with other women.
Love is never allowed to be shared here in women, not to mention, such a proud woman as Jiang Biwei!
Jiang Biwei was born in a famous family, her ancestors were officials for generations, the family was rich, her father was knowledgeable, she was a professor at Chongqing University; her mother was a famous girl, not only good at poetry, but also good at blowing pipes. Jiang Biwei has been smart and handsome since she was a child, and she is very popular with her parents and friends at home.
Jiang Biwei
Without the appearance of Xu Beihong, Jiang Biwei's life may not be glorious and rich, but it will be safe and smooth. Because, her parents have already arranged a door-to-door marriage for their beloved daughter. When she was 13 years old, her parents betrothed her to Zha Zihan, the son of the Zha family.
After Xu Beihong befriended Jiang Biwei's father and often went in and out of Jiang's house, he first fell in love with this white and beautiful big lady at first sight, and then planned to take her elope because his feelings could not be controlled.
Jiang Biwei was also interested in the personable Xu Beihong, plus his original match Xu Zhoushi had passed away at that time, so when the intermediary Zhu Yizhou asked if she was willing to elope with Xu Beihong, she decisively replied "I go"! After the two eloped, Jiang Biwei's marriage with Zha Zihan was also annulled.
Since then, Jiang Biwei's life has undergone a shocking reversal.
Fortunately, her loving parents did not choose to cut off contact with her because she eloped away from her parents, and before she and Xu Beihong returned to China, her parents forgave her after receiving her letter.
However, Jiang Biwei's parents always feel that the road chosen by their daughter is not stable after all. But they will not stop their daughters, after all, they know better than anyone: their daughters have a proud bone.
It is a pity that Xu Beihong, who has achieved great success in art, is completely unaware of his wife's "proud bones".
In Xu Beihong's eyes, his wife is a person who can do anything for him, think about it: when they are abroad, she rolls up her sleeves for him to learn to cook and take care of household chores, and she even does small jobs to earn money when they are poor. After such things happened more, Xu Beihong could not avoid feeling that his wife could endure anything for him.
A person who can endure anything, how can he say "proud of his bones"!
It is the "self-righteousness" in Xu Beihong's heart that makes him dare to "confess" with his wife after he falls in love with a female student. He didn't know that after he had done this, he was touching his wife's bottom line.
A person's nature often manifests itself when the bottom line is touched. Jiang Biwei's "pride" was also fully stimulated after she learned that her husband had cheated.
Before, for the sake of love, Jiang Biwei would rather be low to the dust, and she even cheekily borrowed money from people when they had no money. With him for more than ten years, she took care of all the big and small affairs in the family, and never asked him to intervene in the slightest. Perhaps it is precisely because of this that he has been able to concentrate on the study of art over the years.
In this relationship, Jiang Biwei is undoubtedly the one who pays the most: abandoning his parents and family for him, putting down the shelf of the big miss for him to wash and cook, doing small work, laying down his dignity to borrow money for him...
"In the world of feelings, if a person gives too much, he will often be taken for granted by the other party, and the other party will even despise (him) her because of this." With these words, Xu Beihong used his own actions to show her and the world.
Chiang Hei-hei Image
After promising to "go abroad together" with his wife, Xu Beihong did not do so. He fell deeper and deeper into this extramarital affair.
Originally, Jiang Biwei thought that after confessing to herself, he would cut off contact with Sun Duoci or "avoid suspicion" with him. But it turned out that she was wrong.
After confessing to his wife, Xu Beihong often left early and returned late while never mentioning "going abroad". Jiang Biwei knew that he was like this in order to have more time with Sun Duoci in the studio, and he instructed her to paint in his studio every day.
Once, when Jiang Biwei and a few friends inspected her husband's studio, she saw Sun Duoci's portrait in the most conspicuous position: it was painted by her husband for her. Also in the most eye-catching position, there is a painting titled "Taicheng Night Moon", the picture is Mr. Xu and Sun Duoci, both on a high post: Xu Beihong sits leisurely on the ground, Sun Duoci stands next to him, and a scarf between the items is fluttering with the wind...
When she saw these two paintings, Jiang Biwei's heart did not mention how uncomfortable it was, an indescribable complex emotion enveloped her, and she immediately instructed the students: Take these two paintings home.
After the two paintings were brought home by Jiang Biwei, she hid the painting of Sun Duoci, and according to her memoir "Me and Sorrowful Hong", the painting was hidden by her in the box of the maid in the lower room. The other painting, "Taicheng Night Moon", she just casually put it at home.
Xu Beihong knew that after the two paintings were taken away by his wife, he first asked to get back the "Taicheng Night Moon", and Jiang Biwei began to show her pride at this time, and she did not hesitate to say to her husband:
"I will not destroy any of your works, but as long as I live in the world for one day, it is best not to make this painting public."
When Xu Beihong heard this, he understood how much his wife cared about this matter. After hearing this, he was not good enough to continue to ask questions, and he also scraped away the "Night Moon of Taicheng" and painted Old Mrs. Liu. But every time his wife went out, he would rummaged through boxes and cabinets at home to find the portrait of Sun Duoci.
Xu Beihong painted a horse
Soon after this incident, Jiang Biwei began to hear a lot of "gossip" about her husband and Sun Duoci. Some students told Jiang Biwei that their affairs were spread in the school, and when they went to climb the mountain, they were also photographed by photography enthusiasts to take "kissing photos in the mountains". The photos were also sent to other students and passed on for viewing.
At the same time, the sensitive Jiang Biwei also sensed many changes in her husband. For example, he used to go out crisply, and now he would make half a day: load a few pens, take a few colored papers, and even fold back a few times to get things, all of which he had prepared for Sun Duoci's paintings. When he went out to eat, he would secretly fill his bag with candy and the like, and Jiang Biwei later learned that these things were also for Sun Duoci.
Jiang Biwei gradually became aware of the seriousness of the situation, and she even judged that her husband was already completely in love with Sun Duoci under her eyes.
What makes Jiang Biwei most sad is that they did not go abroad, but Sun Duoci was closer to them: Sun Duoci passed the CUHK with a full score in drawings, and she became a formal student of CUHK.
Jiang Biwei will never forget the scene when she learned this news, she knows better than anyone: this unprecedented full score was facilitated by her husband, and the purpose was to let her be admitted.
That day, Jiang Biwei, who heard the news, felt really uncomfortable, so she went to the balcony outside the building and sat on the railing and secretly wept. Xu Beihong may have sensed his wife's abnormality, but also felt that there was something wrong with him doing so. He then gently helped his wife down the railing and carried her back to the room.
For countless years after that, Jiang Biwei had to endure her and her husband: falling in love with a teacher-student relationship under her own eyes.
Regrettably, during this period, Jiang Biwei could not speak out, because this matter was only an "open secret" from beginning to end. Once fully disclosed, both her husband and Sun Duoci, who is still a student, will be affected. When talking about why she didn't tear her face, Jiang Biwei said this in her memoirs, she said:
"I endured a long period of inner pain, hiding from my parents and family, and trying my best to keep a secret for Mr. Xu, lest the leak of the wind and noise would affect his reputation." At the same time, Sun Yunjun (Sun Duoci) was only eighteen or nineteen years old at the time, and her future was long, and her future was important, and I did not want her to be accused by the public and become the white bi in her life, so I tried my best to tolerate Qu Yu's protection..."
Sun Duoci
Jiang Biwei's kindness did not come in exchange for "good rewards", and in those four or five years, she watched her husband's heart get farther and farther away from her. Everyone knew that something was wrong with their relationship and where it was, but no one could help her, including herself.
During that time, she could always hear people around her knocking and telling her: Your husband is cheating, are you going to take action?
In those years, Jiang Biwei often suffered because of the affairs of the two people. And Sun Duoci herself was also affected by some, because Xu Beihong often went in and out of the girls' dormitory to find Sun Duoci, and she finally had to move out of the girls' dormitory and rent a house outside. Many students were dissatisfied with Xu Beihong's special care for Sun Duoci, and even posted slogans to expose their affairs, which affected Sun Duoci.
On the other hand, Jiang Biwei was also becoming more and more intolerable about the affairs of the two.
When Jiang Biwei returned to her hometown in Yixing once, someone told her again: After you left, your husband did a strange thing.
It turned out that after Jiang Biwei left home, Xu Beihong called Sun Duoci to his home again. Sun Duoci came with a few classmates, and they dug up soil in the back garden that afternoon and buried a pair of acacia birds. When burying the bird, Xu Beihong also said: "It is also good to die together." ”
Mr. Lu Sibai, who witnessed all this, later lamented when telling Jiang Biwei all this: "Crazy and crazy, where is like a person over 40 years old, hey! After Hearing this, Jiang Biwei knew: He was telling her that your husband's situation is quite serious, and you must make plans early.
Shortly after this, Jiang Biwei, who had been patient, finally had an outbreak. That was when he saw her husband shaking the phone with his hand, looking for Sun Duoci. She suddenly trembled at the sight of that scene, and decades later in her memoirs, she recounted her psychological changes at the time, saying:
"Think about it, in the past twenty years, when the family has money and no money, there is something that he has always asked me to do, so that he can't even make a phone call, and now, in order to call Sun Duoci, he will even shake the telephone and call people."
Jiang Biwei was actually determined to do something after this small incident. At this time, Sun Duoci was about to graduate, and people around her told her that her husband Xu Beihong was trying to find a way to fight for her official fees and let her study abroad.
Later, the wife of Mr. Xie Shoukang, who was in charge of handling the matter, came to tell Jiang Biwei because she was not used to it. Mrs. Xie's meaning is very clear: once they are not in a teacher-student relationship and run abroad, you will not be able to control it at all.
After Jiang Biwei learned about this matter, she was naturally very angry. She found her husband Xu Beihong and said to him:
"You know my character and temper, and anything that can be done by explaining it to me in advance will work. If you hide it from me, I have to object!"
Jiang Biwei said this very clearly, she was telling her husband: If you have to continue like this, I will take measures! But how could Xu Beihong listen? As soon as his wife's voice fell, he continued to actively prepare for the relevant work.
Xu Beihong's actions completely angered Jiang Biwei, and she could tolerate him running for the promotion of Sun Duoci's paintings, and she could also endure others, but she could not tolerate his complete disregard for her existence.
When women have emotional problems, they can often do anything, and so can Jiang Biwei. Seeing that her husband was obsessed and discouraged, she directly found Mr. Chu Minyi, who was responsible for selecting international students. After meeting Chu Minyi, Jiang Biwei told him about the emotional entanglement between her husband and Sun Duoci. This is the first time that Jiang Biwei has told outsiders about her husband's "ugly things", and before that, she has been silent.
Chu Minyi was silent after listening to it, and Jiang Biwei asked, "Is Mr. Xu (Xu Beihong) entrusting you with official expenses for Sun Duoci?" Chu Minyi said very frankly: "Yes." When Jiang Biwei was about to ask a question, Chu Minyi continued: "However, there is no hope for this matter." ”
Later, Sun Duoci did not seek official expenses for studying abroad. As a result, her way to study abroad was blocked.
In the spring of 1936, before Sun Duoci graduated, Jiang Biwei returned to her hometown in Yixing. Two or three days later, she received an anonymous letter that said: "When you arrive in Yixing, she will come to Beijing, and the rest of the situation is not to be discussed." ”
Jiang Biwei was very angry when she read the anonymous letter, so she lied that she was ill and summoned Xu Beihong to Yixing. Xu Beihong hurried to see that Jiang Biwei was safe and unharmed, and Jiang Biwei was naturally unhappy, so Jiang Biwei handed him the anonymous letter, and after he read it, he stopped talking.
At the same time that Jiang Biwei received the anonymous letter, Sun Duoci also received the anonymous letter, and she actually gambled after receiving the anonymous letter: After the summer vacation, she will go to fight for self-reliance. Between the words, there is a meaning of parting ways with Xu Beihong.
Xu Beihong thought that the anonymous letter was written by Jiang Biwei, so he found her with Sun Duoci's letter, and ignored the fact that someone was roaring at the venue: "Look! see! People are great, not great! ”
After reading the letter, Jiang Biwei understood what was going on, and she coldly asked: "You said that the letter she received was written by me, so who wrote it?" After hearing this, Xu Beihong felt that he might be wrong to blame his wife.
After this, Jiang Biwei was even more disheartened with Xu Beihong.
Shortly after Sun Duoci graduated and proposed to "go to struggle", Xu Beihong resolutely left home for Guangxi. For Jiang Biwei, this means that her husband left her and her children behind.
Before Xu Beihong left, Jiang Biwei had solemnly stated her attitude to him, saying:
"As for you and me being separated like this, I also feel very good that you want it. You and I have two children who will never abandon the family and will never remarry. If one day you break up with someone else, you will be ready to welcome you whenever you come back. But one thing I must explain is that if someone else dies, remarries alive, and wants to go home after you have failed, then I absolutely cannot accept it. ”
From this time on, Jiang Biwei was ready to separate from her husband, and soon after, she found that Sun Duoci's family was also in Guangxi at that time, and her husband even personally went to Anqing, Anhui, Sun Duoci's hometown. Jiang Biwei also learned that her husband bought a model in Guangxi, and under various barriers, she vowed not to sleep with her husband again.
In 1937, Xu Beihong returned, and this time when she returned, Jiang Biwei said that she would not sleep in a room with him. This is the third thing she really did after learning that her husband had cheated on her, after accepting the portrait of Sun Duoci and preventing her from studying abroad. If the first two things are to save the marriage, then the latter thing is a symbol of her abandonment of the marriage.
After Xu Beihong knew that his wife would not sleep with him, he angrily rebuked: "I have no responsibility to you as a husband, because you have not fulfilled your obligation to be a wife." Jiang Biwei listened to it and did not call a place to come to the tunnel:
"It's you who gave up your family, and I'm going to say something ugly, except that I didn't sleep with you, and I don't think I had any dereliction of duty." As for that kind of thing, don't you still have your own models in Guangxi? ”
When Jiang Biwei said these words, she was already ready not to reconcile, and her pride was fully revealed at this time.
Xu Beihong probably saw Such a determined Jiang Biwei for the first time, and he was so angry that he scolded: "You bastard! This quarrel means that the two have completely torn their faces. After the two people, neither of them wanted to pay attention to anyone. The two were caught up in the Cold War.
On July 31, 1938, Xu Beihong suddenly published a two-line advertisement in a Guangxi newspaper with the following text:
"Xu Beihong's notice: The contemptible person and Ms. Jiang Biwei have long been out of cohabitation relationship, and all his undertakings in society are personally responsible for him, and hereby declares."
After Jiang Biwei saw this notice, although she was angry, she was not surprised, she also knew that this notice did not mean that the marriage between the two was over. It should be noted that in the Republic of China period, it was easy to get married, but it was difficult to divorce. Xu Zhimo and Zhang Youyi reported their divorce on the basis of asking witnesses to sign the divorce, and later, because they did not obtain the consent of both parents, their divorce was not counted. Xu Beihong's divorce was only published in the newspaper.
Of course, Xu Beihong himself knew that it was not so easy to get a divorce, and the reason why he had such a notice in Guangxi was because he had the idea of marrying Sun Duoci at that time, and he wanted to use this notice to test Sun Duoci's attitude.
What surprised Xu Beihong was that when Xu Beihong's friend Shen Yijia Xingchong took the newspaper, found Sun Duoci's father and proposed to him, Mr. Sun actually scolded Shen Yijia to the point of bloodshed, and Mr. Sun said: "Xu Beihong and the little girl, if you want to break through the relationship between teachers and students, it is impossible. ”
The reason why Sun Duoci's father beat mandarin ducks with a stick is naturally because he does not want his daughter to bear the insult of destroying other people's families. Shortly thereafter, Sun Duoci's family resolutely left Guilin for Lishui, Zhejiang. Soon after, Sun Duoci was married to Xu Shaodi, then the director of the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Education, who had lost his wife.
At this point, Xu Beihong really fell into the situation that Jiang Biwei said was "in vain".
Perhaps because he did not want to lose both ends, Xu Beihong, who turned back, began to try to curry favor with Jiang Biwei. But this time, no matter what he did, no matter how pitiful he behaved, Jiang Biwei still refused to look back.
In order to reconcile with Jiang Biwei, Xu Beihong, who returned to Nanjing, even thought of saving his wife by relying on his children. Seeing that Jiang Biwei did not eat this set at all, he thought of writing a letter to his mother-in-law. In the letter, he told his mother-in-law that he was willing to give her the red beans that Sun Duoci had given him and that he would give them to her (Jiang Biwei) in a gold ring to show his determination to turn back.
Jiang Biwei listened to this but became more and more angry, a long time ago, she knew that her husband had worn Sun Duoci's acacia red bean ring, and now, he actually wanted to give this ring to her, is this not to let her commemorate their love all day long?
Later, when chatting with Liang Shiqiu about this matter, Jiang Biwei also joked:
"If Mr. Xu really gave me the ring, I'll dig up the red beans and give them to you, and the gold will be exchanged for money."
Perhaps because of the feeling that it was inappropriate, Xu Beihong did not give the red bean ring to Jiang Biwei in the end, and their feelings finally had no possibility of compounding.
In the process of long-term separation from her husband, Jiang Biwei also came together with Xu Beihong and her former mutual friend "Politician Zhang Daofan". Since then, Xu Beihong and Jiang Biwei, the good couples who once envied countless people, have finally dispersed.
Jiang Biwei and Zhang Daofan
In the days when she was separated from Xu Beihong, seeing her children grow up slowly, Jiang Biwei began to find a job to support herself, and she found other jobs in addition to teaching French at the university. At most, she even does three jobs at a time to support herself and her children.
Because she had to work and was extremely depressed, Jiang Biwei did not take much care of her two children, and Xu Boyang and Xu Lili, who were originally well qualified, did not achieve academic success in their studies because of the lack of discipline in boarding school for a long time.
Xu Boyang resolutely ran away from home and joined the army when he was not yet 16 years old, and Xu Lili initially complained about her father because she lived with her mother for a long time. Because every time my father later found a woman, he published a newspaper to break off relations with his mother, and she once accused his father of saying:
"Every time you fall in love, you publish a newspaper to break off your relationship with your mother, and you say that you are just 'living together', are you prepared to carry out this kind of harm indefinitely?" 」
Xu Lili, who grew up in a broken family, never felt the warmth of the family, and her mother was always very serious and depressed, which caused her a lot of psychological shadows.
In 1943, Xu Beihong fell in love with Liao Jingwen, a librarian at the China Academy of Fine Arts, whom he recruited, and lived with him. Soon after, he formally filed for divorce from his wife. This year, Xu Beihong was 48 years old, and Jiang Biwei was already 44 years old. At this point, a full 26 years had passed since they had eloped together.
Jiang Biwei's divorce conditions are: "Xu Beihong pays 1 million yuan in alimony, gives another 100 paintings, and pays 500,000 yuan per year for two children." ”
Because he felt that the amount of money was too much, Xu Beihong actually repented halfway, and the divorce procedures were postponed. In fact, in the inflation period, this money is not much. At that time, 1 million yuan was only equivalent to the salary of a civil servant for one year.
On February 9, 1944, when the formalities were not yet completed, Xu Beihong once again published a newspaper to break off cohabitation with Jiang Biwei, and this time the advertisement used a special font, and the content of the notice was as follows:
"Because of the incompatibility of will between Ms. Beihong and Ms. Jiang Biwei, the severance of cohabitation relationship has lasted for eight years, and after mediation by relatives and friends, Ms. Jiang insists on her own opinion, and it is difficult to reunite after the broken mirror, and since then, Sorrow hong has not interfered with Ms. Jiang in everything, and I am afraid that the society has not fully understood it, and hereby declares."
Three days later, Xu Beihong re-published the notice, which read:
"Xu Beihong Liao Jingwen is engaged in the construction, and he respectfully tells his relatives and friends."
Xu Beihong and Liao Jingwen
Xu Beihong's move undoubtedly hurt Jiang Biwei again, and their formal divorce signing ceremony was postponed until December 31, 1945. By this time, the two had been entangled in the marriage for 15 years.
In this marriage, Jiang Biwei and Xu Beihong are losers, and in addition to the good times they have lost, there are also harmonious families...
On September 26, 1953, Xu Beihong died of cerebral hemorrhage caused by kidney disease and hypertension at the age of 59. Many researchers of Xu Beihong believe that if his marriage is stable, his achievements will be far greater than the current ones, and his life will never end abruptly at the age of 59.
After Xu Beihong's death, Jiang Biwei became Zhang Daofan's mistress, and for the next twenty years, she has been subjected to various controversies, and her life has not been peaceful.
In 1978, 20 years after leaving Zhang Daofan, Jiang Biwei died alone in Taipei. At this time, she and her son Xu Boyang have not seen each other for more than 30 years, and she and her daughter have never seen each other. When she left, she was childless, childless, and unrelated. Therefore, on the tombstone after her death: there are no children, the names of grandchildren...
In her later years, Jiang Biwei
When Jiang Biwei died, her living room had been hung with a portrait of Xu Boyang from eight months, which was painted by Xu Beihong. When she painted this picture, she and he were at their best...
Xu Boyang took a group photo with his portrait when he was eight months old
Later, after learning this news, Xu Boyang once sighed: My mother has been thinking of me! In fact, what she missed was not just her son!