The word celebrity has been called overused today. It seems that if you have a little fame, a little beauty, a little property, and can mix a few parties, you can be called a celebrity. It doesn't matter where the fame gets, whether the posture is natural, where the property comes from, whether the party is elegant or vulgar......
Time goes back a hundred years, and the so-called famous ladies at that time were beautiful and gentle, chaste and humble, receiving a systematic and complete education, polite and courteous. Ten fingers do not touch the spring water but know the suffering of the world, enjoy the glory and wealth, and can withstand the heat and cold of the world, no matter what the situation, do not lose the backbone and nobility of being a person.
Although the years are under the gloom and difficulty, and the fun is not exhausted, we can retain the aesthetic attitude to life and the exquisite art of life as much as possible.
Ye Shengtao once said:
The four talented women of the Zhang family in Jiuru Lane,
Whoever marries them will be happy for the rest of their lives.
This complimentary sentence was given to the early years of the Republic of China
of the four daughters of educator Zhang Wuling,
They are Zhang Yuanhe, Zhang Yunhe, Zhang Zhaohe, and Zhang Chonghe.
Because Zhang Wuling's ancestral home is Hefei, Anhui Province,
Therefore, the four daughters of the Zhang family are known as the "Four Sisters of Hefei".
The family of the Republic of China, and those who stand at the top of power
The "Three Sisters of the Song Family" complement each other,
It is the well-known "Four Sisters of Hefei" in the cultural circles.
Because he was born into a rich family,
They're all very well educated,
is a veritable lady of the Republic of China.
Group photo of the three brothers-in-law of the Zhang family. From left: Gu Chuanju, Shen Congwen, Zhou Youguang
Their husbands are also famous.
The husband of the eldest daughter Zhang Yuanhe is
It has the reputation of "the first student in Shanghai".
Kunqu opera master Gu Chuanju,
The husband of the second daughter, Zhang Yunhe, is
Famous linguist Zhou Youguang,
The husband of the third daughter, Zhang Zhaohe
Famous writer and archaeologist Shen Congwen,
The husband of the little daughter Zhang Chonghe is
German-American sinologist, Yale University
Famous professor Hans Fu.
The first word in the names of the four sisters is "son",
In ancient texts, it belongs to the character "person".
According to the "General Chronicles: Six Books":
"A man is like a man, and a son is like a pedestrian. ”
The word "er" looks like two "legs",
My father wanted them to grow up to be independent.
You can find your own path.
And they lived up to their expectations,
Under the turbulence of mountains and rivers, witness the reversal of life.
Suzhou Jiuru Lane,
White walls and black tiles, weeping willows swaying.
Zhang Yuanhe (right), the eldest sister of the four sisters of the Zhang family, took a group photo with her sister Zhang Yunhe.
They laughed and ran from the end of the alley.
Once peerless,
Like the silk of age,
Although the color is mottled and faded,
But there is still a color that has been dyed over the years,
But without losing the warm color of style and quality.
Like a flower tree,
When the flowers bloom, the fragrance is overflowing,
When the flowers are gone, the branches and leaves are strong.
I don't know what to do, and I go deep.
I don't know where it ends, and I go to death.
In 1931, the 24-year-old daughter of the Zhang family
Zhang Yuanhe graduated from the School of Liberal Arts of Shanghai Daxia University
(In 1951, it merged with Guanghua University to form East China Normal University),
It is known as the "Queen of Great Xia".
Later, he went to Beijing and enrolled in the graduate school of Yenching University.
Yuan He has been obsessed with Kunqu opera all his life,
Falling in love with Gu Chuanju, a red student of Kunqu Opera,
Eventually, she married him.
That year, Zhang Yuanhe was 22 years old, and Gu Chuanyu was 20 years old.
The marriage of the two caused quite a stir at the time,
Shanghai tabloids are used
"Zhang Yuanhe marries Gu Chuanju" and other titles.
At that time, the lady of the big family
The next marriage drama must withstand the pressure from all walks of life.
She followed her heart's choice and didn't mind in the slightest.
On May 18, 1949, Gu Chuanju
led his family to Taiwan and never performed on stage again.
Occasionally singing at home, playing mostly tragic roles,
The audience was only Yuan He.
Yuanhe has always been in love with her husband.
Gu Chuanju's business failed, and his family life became more and more difficult.
But Zhang Yuanhe, who was born as a young lady, did not complain,
It's about trying to take care of the housework.
She will not talk about her husband's shortcomings in private,
They also never talk about the private affairs between husband and wife......
Talking about her husband, she has a fixed script,
According to the script, it is not abnormal.
In 1966, her husband died of liver disease.
Grief-stricken Yuanhe,
Handwritten "Kunqu Opera Body Test Score",
As a commemoration.
After Gu Chuanyu's death, Zhang Yuanhe devoted himself to promoting Kunqu Opera.
In his 80s, he also made a cameo appearance in the movie "The Joy Luck Club" directed by Wang Ying.
Once, when playing the Tang Ming Emperor in "The Palace of Eternal Life - Buried Jade",
Yuan He suddenly came out of the play and burst into tears:
"It turns out that I didn't bury Yang Yuhuan,
It's Gu Chuanyu's piece of jade!"
Hold the hand of the son, and grow old with the son.
Raise the case with eyebrows, Qin Se and Ming.
The second lady Zhang Yunhe was when she was a child
The Zhang family's "Demon King of the Mixed World".
Born weak, he loves to cry and make trouble.
Born less than 4 pounds, was surrounded by the umbilical cord around the neck three times,
Grandmother commands a group of servants
sprayed 108 bags of hookah, and finally rescued her.
Sisters also learn Kunqu Opera, and everyone else likes Du Liniang,
Zhang Yunhe loves the red-faced Guan Gong, because Guan Gong is righteous.
When she grew up, the Zhang sisters contacted her more
From the busy before and after the busy,
is the backbone of the four sisters,
He is also one of the most organized.
At the age of 18, Yunhe followed
The classmate's brother Zhou Youguang fell in love.
Talking about her fierce personality like a knife,
Husband Zhou Youguang is as warm as jade,
The same thing is that both of them are broad and sincere.
When the marriage was discussed, Zhou Youguang wrote a letter to her worriedly:
I'm poor, I'm afraid I can't give you happiness.
Zhang Yunhe immediately replied to a dozen pages of letters,
Encourage him: happiness is to be created by oneself.
Wait until Zhou Youguang becomes a master of language,
Become one of the founders of Hanyu Pinyin,
Zhang Yunhe is over 80 years old.
She is still coquettish with her husband every day,
When encountering contradictions, gently stomp your feet twice,
Zhou Youguang had to surrender.
The husband and wife have a tea every morning,
A cup of coffee in the afternoon,
When drinking, raise the cup and touch it, and raise your eyebrows.
Yunhe has been elegant and decent until his death at the age of 93,
It was called "China's last lady" by the media.
I have crossed bridges in many places
Seen many times in the clouds
Drank many kinds of alcohol
But he has only loved one person who is at the best age
The third lady Zhang Zhaohe has a darker complexion,
She has a beautiful appearance and is nicknamed "Black Peony".
Good background, good health, easy
Won the first place in the school's women's all-around sports.
wears men's clothes and cuts his hair short, but he is a heartthrob in school.
Shen Congwen saw this on the playground
Playing the harmonica while walking, chic from time to time
The schoolgirl who threw her hair fell in an instant.
When the campus rumored Mr. Shen
When Zhang Zhaohe can't catch up anymore and is about to commit suicide,
Zhang Zhaohe rushed into Hu Shi's office to complain.
The nonsensical headmaster smiled and said:
"There is such a genius in society, you should help him!"
Shen Congwen went to Xiangxi to visit relatives,
Write to Zhang Zhaohe during the trip:
"Sansan, last time I talked about the flowers in the mountains,
This time, I'm going to tell you about the beauty of sailing. ”
Zhang Zhaohe replied that the rice at home can be eaten for as long as it lasts.
Can you use the money until the end of the year?
After the liberation, Shen Congwen was a student of Peking University
posted big-character posters, was severely criticized, and was alienated by old friends.
He couldn't think about it and committed suicide several times.
Zhaohe is the editor of the People's Literature Publishing House.
Only a meager income every month,
But she financed 25 out-of-school children with a meager salary.
It's windy and rainy outside,
She just cares for the flowers and plants leisurely,
And rank them by "character".
Troubled times and adversity are like severe winter frosts,
Test the quality of man, withered
It's just weeds and greenhouse seedlings.
And the former "black peony" even withered
It also "settles on the end of the world, and depends on the material".
You stand on the bridge and look at the scenery
The people watching the view are watching you from upstairs
The bright moon decorates your window
You decorate other people's dreams
Among the four sisters, the most talented is the younger sister Zhang Chonghe.
Can do poetry, write calligraphy, make danqing, tone rhythm,
Good at playing the jade flute, with zero points in mathematics and full marks in Chinese,
She became the first female student admitted by the Department of Chinese at Peking University.
Zhang Chonghe's "circle of friends" is even brighter than the stars.
The last emperor's brother Pu Dong often sang with her,
Zhang Shizhao's poem compared her to Cai Wenji in the late Eastern Han Dynasty,
Shen Yinmo asked her to learn calligraphy,
Wen Yiduo lives in poverty, but takes the initiative to carve a seal to give,
Zhang Daqian painted pictures of ladies for Zhang Chonghe.
The poet Bian Zhilin fell in love with her at first sight,
Write the famous four sentences of "Broken Chapters".
"You stand on the bridge and look at the view
The people watching the view are watching you from upstairs
The bright moon decorates your window
You decorate other people's dreams."
Unlike the three elder sisters, Zhang Chonghe
Since childhood, he has been passed on to his uncle and grandmother Li Shixiu, who has no offspring.
Li Shixiu is Li Hongzhang's niece.
Zhang Chonghe has been with Li Zhixiu since he was a child
memorize Tang poems, learn, and read private school.
At that time, when an ordinary worker earned about 20 silver dollars a year, my grandmother spent 300 silver dollars a year to ask the archaeologist Zhu Moqin to teach him ancient Chinese and calligraphy.
Zhu Moqin was the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China
A disciple of the master of painting and calligraphy Wu Changshuo,
The skill is quite profound, and Zhang Chonghe's calligraphy skills are fundamental
It was with him that she fell, and later she became a Xiaokai family,
He is known as the first person in contemporary Xiaokai.
At the age of 16, Zhang Chonghe returned to Suzhou.
My father invited Shen Chuanzhi, Zhang Chuanfang and other famous teachers,
Teach her Kunqu Opera, and please have the "Jiangnan Flute King"
Li Rongxin, who is known as it, taught her the flute.
Zhang Chonghe, known as the "last talented woman",
At the age of 33, introduced by Shen Congwen,
Meet the famous German-American sinologist Hans Fu,
The following year, it became a good match for Qin and Jin.
The couple also cooperated to put the "Book Spectrum" and "Continuation Book Spectrum"
Translated into English.
After going to the United States, he was alone in a foreign land as a stranger,
I also faced living constraints, in order to repay the mortgage,
Zhang Chonghe tried all kinds of ways to be in the library of the University of California
got a full-time job,
Weekends are spent on household chores.
The husband suffered from depression in his later years,
But even at times like this,
She also posted her achievements in growing vegetables in a letter to her younger brother.
at the Yale School of Fine Arts
Teaching Chinese calligraphy for more than 20 years,
He taught Kunqu opera outside of class and became a well-known scholar.
Wear a cheongsam and take her daughter to learn Kunqu Opera,
With her husband, she became a famous sinologist.
In his 100s, Chonghe was still in the yard
Plant roses, peonies, plum blossoms.
As a sinologist, Hans Fu once wrote:
"My wife embodies Chinese culture
The most beautiful and delicate part. ”
Four sisters and father
The four sisters of the Zhang family have all lived as winners in life,
Yuanhe 96 years old, Yunhe 93 years old, Zhaohe 93 years old,
Chonghe died at the age of 101.
Their life experiences, each with its own legend,
Each has its own unsatisfactory,
But the four sisters, or the celebrities of that era
The common denominator is to face reality,
Don't be pessimistic, don't complain,
No matter how many difficulties and blows are faced,
can calmly face all kinds of unsatisfactory in life,
Show the world the elegant life of Chinese style,
Set up a pure model of life for future generations.
Zhou Youguang, Fu Hansi, and Shen Congwen in his later years
Yan Fu said in "The Theory of the Rights of the Masses":
"As a husband and wife and a teacher and friend, we must have a high level of knowledge and affection for the truth,
It's enough to inspire my ambition. ”
It can be seen that the wife not only has to be a partner and mentor,
You also have to be able to stimulate your "ambition" in order to be motivated.
The four sons-in-law of the Zhang family are in their respective fields of expertise.
It's all first-class everyone.
Some people say that Zhang Wuling's four daughters
Married to the most literate men,
And it is true that both China and the West are taken into account.
But more objectively, the four sisters of the Zhang family
They are not only the wives of a generation of famous people,
It's themselves.
Even if you get rid of her husband's shining name,
It can still shine on the path of life.
Born in the family of Zhong Ming Ding Food,
The family background is of course the four sisters of the Zhang family
The beginning of their temperament, and the education they received
It also allows them to be solemn and elegant.
Father Zhang Wuling, can't preach, but respects life,
He encouraged all those around him, including the servants' children,
Hopefully they will make a difference in their lives.
Through him, several daughters of the Zhang family have known since childhood
Life has a purpose,
But it is not necessary to use brute force to reach it.
Human nature is nobler than abstract principles.
Nor can human nature be consistent with its own principles
contradictory or conflicting.
Empathetic, reasonable, ambitious, sympathetic,
It was the inheritance given to them by their father.
Let them know very early on,
Life can be turned into art, and this art,
Both ethical and virtuous.
Zhang's family
Compared with now, people are well-off
And when he was rich, he thought of asking for it
Replicating the qualities of the past, with heart, power, and money,
But it just can't be copied, because the quality is gone early,
And the re-brewing of quality takes time.
As the old saying goes, three generations breed one nobleman.
And the qualities of the past that have been destroyed since May Fourth,
It wasn't until the 80s that people started,
only then did I have the strength to think of rebuilding,
And that's just a generation.
And the quality of the so-called aristocracy,
There is only value and no price.
Chastity and modesty, strict etiquette.
Use your own cultivation to manage your own life,
Live as a decent person,
It is the long-term goal of Chinese in life.
That kind of quality is like a stream of water
The waves are slight, but they are always powerful.