Liu Haisu
In 1911, in Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, a sensational event occurred in the city, and Liu Haisu, the son of Qianzhuang, married Lin Jia, the second miss of the Danyang Wang clan Lin family.
The marriage of the two local noble families became a beautiful talk for a while, but the groom Liu Haisu ran away after the big wedding, for the simple reason that it was a carefully arranged "arranged marriage".
The "match made in heaven" praised by everyone suddenly became a laughingstock, the face of the big family was more important than anything else, the father was extremely angry, but Liu Haisu went to many places and did not look back.
What exactly made Liu Haisu so bold to run away? It wasn't until the paper wrapper couldn't stop the fire that people knew that the original 16-year-old teenager had gone after his love.
For the sake of love to escape the family, the ending must be the wish? Not necessarily, but it's not necessarily the worst.
Liu Haisu took a group photo with the family
Not going into the palace of marriage hand in hand with the first love is perhaps the most correct thing Liu Haisu has done in this life, because love that has nothing to do with marriage is more pure.
The 16-year-old teenager chose to run away from marriage, in fact, for a woman named Yang Shouyu, and those in the know may have questions: Isn't this woman named Yang Shouyu?
Yes, she later changed her name to Yang Shouyu, only because she had never married in her life and kept her body like a jade.
Most of the world's love will not be The Butterfly Liang Zhu, but the moth that fights the fire, 16-year-old Liu Haisu has only made a moth to put out the fire once, but Yang Slender Yu cherished it for a lifetime.
That year, he was sent to his aunt's school to study, and it was when the teenage boys and girls were emotionally germinated, and he and his cousin Yang Slender Yu's ears were grinding, and they had different feelings.
Yang Skinny
It is said that the love of youth is the most pure white and flawless, and the young girl Skinny Jade will also secretly agree, and they privately exchanged promises, which are a jade monkey and a monkey with a peach core.
The story of the two is just like Cao Gong's Bao Dai, and posterity also calls this love story "wood and stone marriage".
Liu Haisu, like Jia Baoyu, who is bent on marrying Lin's sister, has never thought of marrying anyone else in his life, and he once told his sister: "If I can't marry my cousin, I will never marry." ”
But he later married, cheated, divorced, and remarried, and lived the most affectionate life, recalling the deep meaning of the love at this time, as if it was a lie.
At that time, the sister patted her chest to ensure that he and Yang Slenderyu would be fulfilled, but often it was life that was not complete, and the couple eventually fell into the same result as Bao Dai.
Elderly Yang Skinny Jade
The unexpected death of his mother made him have to accept the family's arrangement of "Chong Xi", and he was full of joy, because the silly teenager thought that he was going to marry his cousin Skinny Jade.
However, his father blocked his thoughts with the four words "Eight Characters Xiangke" and asked him to marry the Lin family, but he was reluctant and had to participate in this huge wedding ceremony as a groom.
Later generations always felt that this "arranged marriage" was a persecution of Liu Haisu's free soul, but the person who hurt the most in this marriage was obviously the innocent woman Lin Jia.
Liu Haisu went to chase love, chase freedom and independence, but Lin Jia could not break free in the cage, the sadness of women in the old era, who can understand?
After marriage, Lin Jia did not get the love of her husband for a day, and her husband ran away without a word, but she became a laughing stock for people.
Young Liu Haisu
However, even if he ran away, Liu Haisu did not recover his cousin, because with a character like Yang Slender Yu, he was absolutely unwilling to accept the confession of a "married man".
Yang Slender Yu adheres to the bottom line of morality, even if she knows that she will not see each other again like a mountain separated by ten thousand mountains, although she has not married in these years, the world understands that there is someone in her heart.
A few years later, when Liu Haisu was insulted for recruiting nude models, Yang Shouyu exhibited two female nude embroideries in Jiangsu, "The Girl and the Goose" and "Out of the Bath", which is a kind of silent support across time and space.
Unfortunately, Liu Haisu's pursuit of love did not stop for her, and the promise of "not marrying in this life" when she was young now seems like a joke.
However, Liu Haisu, who did not recover his cousin at that time, was discouraged, and he transferred this pain to his new wife Lin Jia, how much pain he had, how much he hated Lin Jia.
Two people without love but hate cannot live together at all, and in the end Liu Haisu still chose to escape.
Losing love and escaping from marriage, Liu Haisu buried his career and had the idea of starting an art school.
Through multi-party turnover, he got a sum of money to start the Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts with his friends and became the vice president himself, which is unprecedented in China.
In fact, at this time, it can already be seen that Liu Haisu has a pioneering and innovative spirit of "daring to be the first in the world", so there is a later mannequin incident.
Everyone in the art world knows that Liu Haisu has a title called "art traitor", and the origin of this title is the mannequin incident.
It is more common for Westerners to learn to paint mannequins, but in China, no one can accept such a thing, and Liu Haisu is under great pressure to model.
In the early years of the Republic of China, although society was advocating freedom and liberation, people's concepts were not open enough to appreciate "nudity".
Yang Baimin, principal of Shanghai Chengdong Girls' School, scolded after seeing it: "Liu Haisu is an art traitor and a cockroach thief in the education world!"
Paint for nude models
Under great pressure, Liu Haisu did not give up, and it was under such an opportunity that he became famous and embraced the three marriages that followed.
From the perspective of today's people, Liu Haisu's artistic vision is unique, but Liu Haisu's attitude towards marital love is incomprehensible.
His obsession with his cousin was once touching, but when he later changed wives, people could no longer see the pure love of the young Liu Haisu.
His few pasts with Lin Jia count as his first marriage, and his acquaintances with each of his wives since then have been related to art.
In 1915, Zhang Yunshi, who was still a student at the Shenzhou Girls' School, and his companion Jiang Xiaohe watched a poster advertisement outside the Shanghai American College.
Liu Haisu met the two by chance, and was surprised to find that Zhang Yunshi had the charm of his cousin Yang Slenderyu, and he was obsessed with his cousin but could not ask for it, so he looked at Zhang Yunshi a few more times in the crowd.
The Girl in the Fox Coat
Zhang Yunshi was a bold and open woman, and when people insulted Liu Haisu, Zhang Yunshi was blue-eyed.
There is actually no discord in her marriage with Zhang Yunshi, her appearance and temperament are impeccable, and Liu Haisu also used her as a model to create "The Girl in the Fox Fur".
But if you look at Liu Haisu's marriages, you will find that he actually has high requirements for his partner, and when he was in Europe, he encouraged Zhang Yunshi to learn French and let her learn sculpture.
Despite this, he still feels that Zhang Yunshi lacks the spirit of independence and enterprising, and in the next marriage, he still feels that he should have the ability to start a family and walk independently.
As a husband, he always prescribes what his wife should and should not do in the tone of a "teacher", which is itself a deformed husband-wife relationship, although he is indeed a teacher of family and family.
However, the end of his marriage with Zhang Yunshi was not due to contradictions in these matters, but his unilateral derailment.
Zhang Yunshi is virtuous and beautiful, and he is similar to Yang Skinny Yu, but after 18 years of mutual encounters, he still lost to the young beauty of Cheng Jiahe, and the husband and wife of 18 years finally ended with the intervention of Cheng Jiahe.
Therefore, where is the shelf life of love, the world has always only seen the new people laughing, not the old people crying.
Cheng Jiahe is the school flower of Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts, and her beauty is affirmed by Liu Haisu, but Liu Haisu said: Unfortunately, she is not perfect enough, and her ideological character and emotional ethics are not as beautiful as external.
Cheng Jiahe's "imperfection" was actually as early as when she intervened with him and Zhang Yunshi, he should have understood, but once a man was blinded by beauty, he was like a blind man, and it was inevitably a little late to suddenly realize it.
In the four marriages in his life, the family and the most sad Liu Haisu, he recalled the family and said at the age of 90: I am a person, can not touch the nerve of feelings, otherwise, I can not be at peace in my heart.
Cheng Jiahe was once a student of Liu Haisu, and from the time she stopped calling her "Master Mother", Zhang Yunshi understood that Cheng Jiahe fell in love with Liu Haisu.
Beauty and youth are the temptations that Liu Haisu cannot refuse, although Zhang Yunshi is very similar to his first love Yang Skinny Yu, he still chooses to betray.
After confirming his intentions with the Cheng family, Liu Haisu bitterly begged his wife Zhang Yunshi to complete them, and he had a third party, and he also wanted his wife to be perfected, which was really ridiculous!
What is even more incredible is that Zhang Yunshi agreed to a peaceful separation and fulfilled them.
However, Zhang Yunshi's generosity did not come in exchange for anything, she complained with virtue, became a family and occupied the magpie's nest, and could not allow her to appear in this home, even if Zhang Yunshi was very depressed.
Liu Haisu and Chengjiahe
An "immoral" marriage is not only not blessed by the world, but also will not be managed for a long time, and perhaps Liu Haisu will understand many years later that morality is the bottom line of marriage.
In this marriage, which was combined in the form of cheating, the infidelity did not end, and the first to cheat this time was the heroine Chengjiahe.
"I used to marry you mainly to adore your talent and admire your prestige. But after becoming a couple, your talent and prestige are no longer the main thing for me. ”
This is what she said to Liu Haisu after marriage, it is clear that he is not a qualified husband, and she is not a very good wife, at least, she loves vanity and is not willing to be poor.
The glory and wealth of starting a family and enjoying it were brought to him by Liu Haisu, and Liu Haisu could naturally end all this, he thought that he had enough ability to walk independently, but he overestimated her.
In 1940, Liu Haisu presided over the "China Modern Famous Painting Exhibition Fundraising Conference" in Jakarta.
Before marrying Liu Haisu, Cheng Jiahe was just an ordinary female student, and since becoming Mrs. Liu, Cheng Jiahe began to contact the life of high society.
She naively thought that she could have no worries about food and clothing for a lifetime, but she did not think that Liu Haisu's life seemed to be infinitely beautiful, but in fact, it was not rich.
What's more, Liu Haisu's love for starting a family is far less than his love for art, and he even completely ignores the young woman's need for love.
Cheng Jiahe complained about this, she said: "I think that although you love me, it is not me who loves me more. You value art and your work friends more than I do. ”
People who do art are always unable to reconcile career and family, as many celebrities do, but this is not a commendable phenomenon.
Since an adult man has chosen to marry another woman, he should take care of his own family, which is his responsibility.
Liu Haisu not only did not realize his mistake, but on the contrary, he was just righteous, believing that this was nothing more than his wife's unreasonable teasing, and even condemned her for not keeping her original promise.
He said to Chengjiahe, "You said that you loved me to support my ideals and to love the cause I had dedicated myself to. Have you forgotten? ”
To make a woman die for herself, for the cause she loves, is tantamount to a moral kidnapping.
Starting a family and not compromising their pursuit of a better life because of this set of words from their husbands, the contradictions between husband and wife have become more and more tense.
As with the previous marriage, the involvement of a third party prompted the marriage to quickly lead to destruction.
In the life of ordinary people, infidelity is a big thing, but in Liu Haisu's life, it is not uncommon, he is too familiar with such things as infidelity.
Shaycho
At the beginning of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Liu Haisu went to Nanyang to collect donations, and later because of the tight war, he lived in Singapore and other places for several years, and once cut off more than half a year's news from Shanghai.
During this period, Liu Haisu met Xia Yiqiao, an excellent female disciple, and did not know that at this time, the Chengjia in Shanghai had abandoned his daughter and taken away Liu Haisu's precious Tibetan paintings and his fine works.
In 1943, after Liu Haisu returned, his wife had long disappeared, and he was indignant, but he was also remorseful, because he only cared about hiding himself and did not leave his wife with living expenses.
He said: "I always thought she was very capable and would get through it. ”
Why test a single woman's ability to live in a war-torn era? Husband and wife should have suffered together, but Liu Haisu let her learn to rely on herself, so what is the point of staying?
If a frustrated family member appears next to a man who is booing and greeting, then her departure is an inevitable event.
Elderly Shaycho
When Liu Haisu went to another country and ignored it, a man named Xiao Naizhen did not abandon her, so naturally, he became a family and became a cheating woman.
Liu Haisu is not as generous as Zhang Yunshi, he is frantically looking for a family and a family, but he received her divorce notice, and the first thing he thinks of in pain is to confide in the lady Ofejo.
People often long for someone to comfort them when they are lonely, and this is how they cheat, and Liu Haisu is also so involved in the next relationship.
Liu Haisu sent someone to the post office to send a short telegram to the distant Island Nation of Nanyang. The gist is: I am divorced, can you come to Shanghai?
Although he sent a telegram, he did not expect much, and what he did not expect was that Xia Yiqiao immediately came to Shanghai, and Liu Haisu was overjoyed.
In view of the previous three failed marriages, Liu Haisu, who is nearly 50 years old, already knows the way to get along with marriage, and he knows that his union with Shayjo will not be so easy.
Liu Haisu married Xia Yiqiao
In the face of Shaycho's arrival, he tried his best to hide his inner excitement and calmly said to her: "You spend three days calmly thinking about whether you are really willing to marry me." ”
Shaycho had come for him, and it didn't take three days at all, and she replied almost without hesitation, "I do."
In 1944, Liu Haisu and Xia Yiqiao were married, which was the fourth marriage in his life, longer and more stable than any other.
When people called the combination of the two "peony with green leaves", his student Lu Xiaoman said: "Sometimes The sea millet paints a proud and good painting plus a long question from his wife, which is really more wonderful for peony and green leaves." ”
The combination with Xia Yiqiao is undoubtedly the most satisfactory to Liu Haisu, because she is more virtuous than Zhang Yunshi, more virtuous than Chenghe, and has similar interests with herself.
Liu Haisu watched Xia Yiqiao paint
At that time, Zhang Yunshi was generous to complete the family and the family could not tolerate her, but Xia Yiqiao was different, and Xia Yiqiao heard that Zhang Yunshi's life was inconvenient and took the initiative to ask to take her to live at home.
Xia Yiqiao spent a pleasant old age with Zhang Yunshi, which is incomparable with a family, and it is no wonder that Liu Haisu will say that the ideological character of becoming a family is not good.
Helping her husband take care of his ex-wife is actually an incomprehensible thing, but Shaycho said: "My husband has a lack of feelings, and I want to make up for this deficiency." ”
It is conceivable that Xia Yiqiao's love for Liu Haisu has reached the level of loving Wu and Wu, and Liu Haisu also regards Xia Yiqiao as a rare confidant in life.
Xia Yiqiao gave Liu Haisu, who had been flowing for half his life, a stable home, she knew his past well, but she always understood him, but she may not know that he had a "white moonlight" in his heart, which was a wound that could never be said.
Liu Haisu (third from right), Xia Yiqiao (first from right) and his beloved daughter Liu Toad (second from right) when he was on the Huangshan Mountains
The love-hate entanglement in the first half of his life has long disappeared, and the world thinks that he and Xia Yiqiao are snuggled up to each other, who knows that the person he misses most in the twilight years is Yang Skinny Yu.
In 1980, Liu Haisu, who was more than 80 years old, returned to his hometown once, and he revealed to the reception staff that he wanted to meet his cousin Yang Slender.
They met, at this time she was already "Yang Shouyu", he told her about him, founded an art school, recruited models, in this life they all missed each other, how could an hour be finished.
For nearly 60 years, she had been standing still, and he had looked around the world, perhaps only for a moment he would think of his young first love.
After parting, Yang Skinny Yu refused to eat, and after two months, he died haggard, and his wish was fulfilled throughout his life.
Liu Haisu and Yang Slenderyu, who met in their later years
In the end, she did not enter the grave of marriage with Liu Haisu, but buried this feeling in her heart, which may be the best protection for love.
If they had been together without hesitation, would there have been a second, third, and fourth wife?
Perhaps love will also be consumed by the trivialities in marriage, and it will not be the best.