In the Eastern world, there are always various love stories. There was once a beautiful and talented beauty in Vietnam, she was the former queen of Vietnam, Nguyen Huu Lan. In her most beautiful years, she met the man who loved her - Nguyen Phuc Nhu, that is, the king of Vietnam at that time, a love story between a rich daughter and the king was originally people's favorite to circulate, but unfortunately Nguyen Huu Lan was ruthlessly abandoned in the end.
French romance and oriental affection
Nguyen Huu Lan was born in Vietnam in 1914 into a family of extremely wealthy merchants. Under the careful arrangement of her parents, the 12-year-old Nguyen Huu Lan crossed the ocean and came to Paris, France, where she received the most advanced knowledge and culture in the world at that time. In such an atmosphere, Nguyen Huu Lan became a woman with both advanced European knowledge and oriental beauty.
After completing her studies, Nguyen Huu Lan unsurprisingly chose to return to Vietnam, which at this time had become a French colony, and the French invaders did not abolish the Vietnamese royal family at that time, but still retained the status of the king of Vietnam, which means that the last dynasty of Vietnam, the Nguyen Dynasty, still exists.
After returning to China, there is naturally one indispensable activity in the life of the rich daughter's daughter - the ball. Nguyen Huu Lan attended a dance party in Da Lat, Vietnam, as usual. At this ball, Nguyen Huu Lan and Nguyen Phuc Yen met.
Who is Nguyen Phuc Hae? He was the king of the Nguyen Dynasty in Vietnam at that time. At the dance party with the lights shining, Nguyen Phuc Yen, who also returned from studying in Paris, France, saw Ruan Youlan at a glance. She is a perfect woman who blends the culture and temperament of the West and the East, and all the beauty in the world seems to be concentrated in her. The encounter at this ball made Nguyen Phuc Ha make up his mind to marry her.
Elegance at its peak
In 1934, Nguyen Phuc Hay announced his marriage contract to Nguyen Huu Lan to the outside world, and in the description of the public, Nguyen Huu Lan was obviously the most perfect appearance in the world. However, this God-given fate in Ruan Fuhui's eyes is also full of ups and downs.
Since Nguyen Huu Lan had already gone to France to study at the age of 12, her religious belief was to follow the French society at that time and believe in Catholicism; Although Nguyen Phuc Thanh also studied in France, as the king of Vietnam, he followed the Vietnamese people to Buddhism.
Perhaps in today's perception, it is not a big deal that the husband and wife have different religious beliefs, but in the religious societies of Vietnam and France at that time, this was a big problem.
On the one hand, the Vietnamese people are reluctant to approve of a Catholic king's wife, not to mention that this woman is only the daughter of a merchant and does not have a strong political background. On the other hand, Catholicism also does not allow Catholics to marry Buddhists; However, these disapproving voices did not end Nguyen Phuc Yen's idea of marrying Nguyen Huu Lan.
Despite the opposition of the people in the country, Nguyen Phuc Ha insisted on marrying Nguyen Huu Lan as his wife, and promised Catholicism that the children of Nguyen Phuc Ha and Nguyen Huu Lan would be Catholic. It can be seen that Ruan Phuc Ha is determined to marry Ruan Huu Lan. After they got married, Nguyen Phuc Thanh also specially awarded Nguyen Huu Lan the title of "queen".
According to the system of the royal family of the Nguyen Dynasty at that time, the woman whom the king married could only become concubines, and only when the old king died and the new king sat on the throne could the new king's mother be called "queen".
But where does Ruan Phuc Hao care about this? In order to show his love for Ruan Huu Lan, he not only broke the ancestral system and conferred the title of queen for her, but also personally selected the emblem for her - Nan Fang, that is, the fragrance of the south, to put it bluntly: thank you for this place in the south! It's a good place to raise such a beauty! It can be seen that Ruan Phuc Hao loves her.
In 1945, under the manipulation of Japan, the royal family of the Nguyen Dynasty was upgraded to the "royal family", and Nguyen Huu Lan also became the queen, which ushered in the peak of her life.
In addition, there is another interesting fact that has to be mentioned. After Nguyen Huu Lan became queen, she often visited Europe. During a visit to France, her outfit caught the attention of the whole country.
It is said that the coat worn by Ruan Youlan during the day had traditional oriental embroidery skills, and her whole body looked brilliant, and foreign media reporters exaggerated her as "like a pagoda".
In the evening, she chose a modern outfit of red and gold, which once again dazzled the French fashion press. For some time after that, Nguyen Huu Lan's outfit during foreign visits influenced French fashion trends.
Brutally left out
Will such a beautiful woman sparkle like she does all her life? Sorry, the answer is no. A woman's beauty will eventually pass away and grow old with time, and those who love because of beauty will also die because of beauty.
Nguyen Phuc Ha is famous in Vietnam for his love of beauty, and even the folk nickname him "The Emperor of Flowers". It was rumored that Nguyen Phuc Ha had a crush on a French woman and wanted to flirt with her at a ball, but it was a "pity" that the French woman already had a husband. Nguyen Phuc Hae's flirtatious behavior was exchanged for a severe beating by the woman's husband and his own panic escape. The king of a country is also very speechless when he does this.
Ruan Fuhui not only had constant scandals outside, but even accepted three beautiful concubines when Ruan Youlan was still the queen. Ruan Youlan has nothing to do about her husband's flowers.
Later, due to the changes in the situation in Vietnam and the world, Nguyen Huu Lan chose to go to France to spend the rest of his life, but Nguyen Phuc Ha did not agree with Nguyen Huu Lan's opinion, for his so-called "restoration plan", he did not want to go to a small village in France with his wife to spend the rest of his life.
In 1963, Nguyen Huu Lan died of a heart attack in a small village in France. The news of her death did not cause much stir, except for the funeral of several children who gave her a funeral and buried her in a local cemetery in France, and her husband, the man who had been willing to fight for her ancestry and defy national opposition, did not even attend her funeral.
Ruan Youlan felt the warmest love in the best years, she was lucky, but as the years passed, this warm love finally turned into cold ice, and she was so sorry.
There is such a passage in "Han Feizi: Difficult to Say", I hope it can give us a wake-up call. If all the likes and all the feelings are because of the beauty, then sooner or later, the feelings that come from all the beauty will also pass away with the passing of the appearance, because the appearance will not last forever, this is what we should all know, as the so-called "serving people with color, and loving relaxation with color decay" is this truth.