In recent years, the "Republic of China style" has become more and more intense.
In the hands of a certain voice, the total number of videos about "warlord wives and aunts" is hundreds of millions. Some people shoot the Republic of China drag show, which is often popular; some people take stock of the various styles of warlord wives, which are widely sought after...
In the film and television APP, the TV series set in the Republic of China has been greatly beautified and welcomed, and someone in the hot comment has left a message: I like this feeling too much. Inexplicably like the Republic of China style...
What is even more exaggerated is that many people have this kind of thinking: In the Republic of China, how many aunts can I be?
When this trend blows into the network novel, all kinds of shuangwen that crosses the Republic of China as an aunt's wife are not uncommon: "Crossing the Republic of China's Wife of the House", "The Lady of the Republic of China's Noble Daughter is Not Easy to Mess With"...
What's more, someone else said:
The Republic of China only existed for 38 years, which is a chaotic era, but it is also the most romantic and magnificent era in Chinese history.
Although the words are short, there are tens of thousands of likes.
In their words and thoughts, the Republic of China means paper drunk gold fans, mellow wine beauty, ten miles of ocean field, red wine and green. Almost put some friends who don't pay much attention to the history of the Republic of China and lame...
But is the real Republic of China really romantic and magnificent?
Romance vs shame
Some time ago, a certain sound on the Nanjing Meiling Palace fire.
So some people were deeply moved by this "republic of China romance" and commented:
Sure enough, capable men are romantically the kind that explode across time and space.
You see, traces of his love for her are still in the human world.
Only one person is sober-minded: that year of "918", does anyone still feel romantic?
Unfortunately, there are very few likes.
When the construction of the Meiling Palace began, it was at the time when Japan occupied the northeast and the people were in dire straits. At the historical juncture of the subjugation of the country and the extinction of the species, Chiang Kai-shek did not hesitate to embezzle a large amount of air force military funds to build the Meiling Palace, which led to Japan's absolute air supremacy and wanton bombing. If this is called "romance", can the soldiers and civilians who died under the Japanese bombing be blind?
Moreover, the so-called "romantic love" of the domineering president and the petite wife is behind a naked power and money transaction.
Behind Chiang Kai-shek stood warlords, landlords, and bureaucratic capital, and behind Song stood comprador capital, The American and British powers. In order to marry Soong Mei-ling, Chiang Kai-shek divorced His original concubine Mao Fumei and concubine Yao Yecheng, and "tricked" Chen Jieru, who sun Yat-sen personally protected the media, into leaving the country.
Is this kind of power-building "love" really worth kneeling and licking?
During the Republic of China, there were also several cases of great shame and humiliation.
For example, the Shen Chong's case. Shen Chong was a peking university student, his great-grandfather Shen Baozhen was a famous minister in the late Qing Dynasty, his great-grandmother was the daughter of national hero Lin Zexu, and his father Shen Shao was a technical expert of the Ministry of Communications of the National Government.
On December 24, 1946, the so-called "Christmas Eve", Shen Chong was raped by two U.S. troops stationed in China at the Dongdan playground in Beiping. The violence lasted for 3 hours, Shen Chong kept calling for help, and dozens of people witnessed the incident. The crowd tried to come to the rescue, but they were all driven away by guns.
In court, two U.S. troops bit back, calling Shen Chong a prostitute and seducing him first; the Nationalist government insulted Shen Chong, saying that Shen Chong was not a good family woman.
In the end, the court acquitted the two U.S. troops on the grounds of insufficient evidence, and the officers were reinstated.
There is also the Jingminglou incident.
On July 22, 1948, a group of U.S. Air Force, U.S. company executives and missionaries began a senior ball with the theme of "Alcohol, Beauty and Happiness", inviting the wife of a local official in Wuhan, his daughter, and celebrities to attend the banquet. The oldest female guests are 32 years old and the youngest is only 15 years old.
The banquet started normally, until 9 o'clock, the elevator was locked, the electric gate was pulled, and the fierceness was revealed. Saying it was dancing was actually a mass rape.
Except for a few people who found the Taiping Gate and escaped by chance, the other "celebrities" were not spared.
After the incident, the government of the Republic of China ordered the news to be blocked, and instead of arresting the perpetrators, they interrogated the victims on the grounds of luring the Allied forces to engage in sexual activities...
These are also celebrities and aristocrats, those who are married to the local rich and warlords, many of them are also used as gifts, as chips, sent and sent...
No human rights, no humanity.
People of that era did not really respect women, some were just shame, oppression, power trade, where is the romance?
Windfall vs Famine
On the screen and in the film and television APP, all kinds of film and television dramas set in the Republic of China era have focused the lens on the exploiting class's drunken gold fans, the luxurious life of red wine and greenery, making many people think that the Republic of China period was happy, rich and glorious.
But what about the real situation? The vast majority of people have a rare day to eat, and the famine years are full of starving corpses. As many years as the Republic of China has existed, the problem of famine has existed for as many years.
Eating the bark of the tree, changing the seeds and eating them, this concept that now exists only in books or movies and television, was the most realistic existence at that time.
In the recent hit drama "The Age of Awakening", the scene mao zedong saw when he appeared was the real life of most of the people in that era.
Ordinary people are desperate to sell their children,
The exploiters sit back and enjoy the riches.
Kneeling beggars, unclothed, abound.
Some people say that this kind of scene, this kind of case is an example.
However, the statistics of Chinese science show that the crude mortality rate of Chinese during the Republic of China period was about 25 ‰ to 35 ‰, and the average life expectancy was only 35 years.
The so-called crude mortality rate is the number of deaths per thousand people per year under the influence of comprehensive factors.
According to statistics, from 1912 to 1937, there were 77 major natural disasters, and the performance of one performance affected the famine of millions of millions of people, no less than 5 times.
A newspaper published an article entitled "Looking at Chongqing, Remembering the Central Plains", revealing the scene of the disaster at that time:
The violent bones and flesh of the starving, the fleeing elderly and children, the wives and children scattered, the crowds, and the beatings.
Eating weeds poisons and dying, eating dry bark can't help but sting the throat and intestines. Transporting wives and daughters to distant human meat markets may not be able to exchange them for a few buckets of grain...
Subsequently, the newspaper was ordered to stop publishing.
The movie "1942" may still be remembered by some people, it is to restore the scene of the 1942 Henan drought + locust plague through art.
American journalist Bai Xiude was once allowed to enter the disaster area in Henan to record the scene of the disaster at that time, and he saw:
These skinny people, what should be the place of the eyes, are holes full of pus.
Undernutrition dried up their hair; hunger made their stomachs swell, the weather blew their skin apart...
At that time, even more stenching, many warlords throughout the country regarded opium as an important source of finance; in order to earn money from the ocean, they encroached on arable land and forced peasants to plant opium; in the Yunnan region of Sichuan, opium was even more cultivated than crops at one point.
In order to exploit more military expenses and extravagant living expenses, in addition to developing more than a dozen miscellaneous taxes such as tobacco seedling tax, starting tax, stamp duty, etc., the warlords also invented the so-called "lazy tax" to punish those who did not grow opium because of "laziness".
This is the tip of the iceberg of the real life of the people at the bottom... Such a Republic of China, do you still feel romantic?
Master vs Illiterate
Watching the documentary "Southwest United Congress", there is a bullet screen: education in the Republic of China is the best education, and the current test-taking education teaches people to be fools.
"The Age of Awakening" also has film reviews:
The Republic of China has a wealth of talents and good blood, but now it is all mediocre and inactive.
But even if the masters shine in the Republic of China, they cannot hide the fact that illiteracy is everywhere.
From The Cambridge History of the People's Republic of China: The Rise of Revolutionary China (1949-1965)
During the Republic of China period, the illiteracy rate was as high as more than 80 percent; among the 20 percent who were listed as literate, it also included semi-illiterate people who recognized only a few hundred words.
Culture is not a privilege; it is supposed to go to the masses, not to the elite. In an era when culture is completely monopolized by the elite, the people are not wise and the people are ignorant.
Lu Xun's famous short film "Medicine" writes about the phenomenon of "dipping human blood and steamed buns to cure tuberculosis", which pierces such ignorance.
The pain of illiteracy, watch a movie based on a true story, "Sister Sister Stand Up".
Because of her poverty, the heroine Daxiang could not afford to eat or open the pot, so she ran to her aunt with her mother; as a result, she was sold to the kiln as a prostitute by her aunt and fellow traffickers.
Because Da xiang was illiterate and had a very low level of education, he foolishly thought that he was going to work in a sock factory, and signed a contract of sale for the brothel in a vague way.
Later, Daxiang knew the truth and tried to take advantage of the chaos to call the police, but the first trial of the police station was legal and reasonable; because Daxiang's mother signed a consent form, her mother was also illiterate.
The mother committed suicide by throwing herself into the river full of grief and anger, and Daxiang could only be taken back to the brothel and was not rescued until after the founding of New China.
Such a story is actually the epitome of a large number of poor women in the Republic of China period.
In the Republic of China, prostitution was prevalent, and there were 3,000 prostitutes per million people. Although the fates of these women are different, their sufferings are roughly similar, that is, "poor + illiterate", coerced by life, and deceived by evil people.
Once a prostitute is employed, a daily client must meet performance targets, or he will be tortured.
Minor diseases and small pains are basically completely ignored, and when venereal diseases are found, they are burned with a soldering iron and then cut off the dead flesh; once there is no hope of treatment, they are directly rolled up in a mat or nailed into a coffin.
Real people, real things.
You think you crossed into "Love Deep Rain", "The Golden Powder Family", in fact, the most you crossed was "The White Haired Girl", or even worse.
Where is the romance of such a Republic of China?
Cherish the present and live with your heart
Most of the people in our generation who understand the Republic of China come from literary works and film and television drama works.
There, the masters used dramatic and exaggerated techniques to let us see a romantic era of wind and snow, lush and beautiful. However, if we look back at history and verify the historical data, we can see a more real Republic of China and a Republic of China that belongs to the toiling masses.
There, the wind and rain are shaky, the people are not happy but "sing the backyard flowers across the river", where the nobles push cups and change glasses outside the wine table, is a semi-colonial, semi-feudal society;
Too many people there are living in a drifting life, and they cannot stand tall and be a master in the land where they are born and raised.
But now there are many people who do not cherish this peaceful and prosperous world, but always live in the illusion of the past; those who always regard the sufferings of the past as romantic, do not forget:
The soul shall not be separated from the body,
Admire Mo to leave the sympathy.
Singing don't want to put aside life,
Don't brag about it all by fornication.
There is only one kind of romance in the Republic of China, and that is the romance of being overthrown.
The romance of the Republic of China does not belong to the talented and the warlord's wife; it belongs to the revolutionaries who tear through the darkness.
Don't envy the history of blood and tears, our present is the best time.
The Republic of China does not have a "golden decade", there is no "master gathering", the Republic of China is a rotten place, prices soaring, selling children and women, being oppressed internationally, and the domestic people are also oppressed. If you dare to disturb the group of vested interests to grab benefits, then you are an "anti-thief" who has blocked the way of others, and you are going to die.
The Communist Party of China explored in countless confusions and finally found the path of Marxism, which was formally established on July 1, 1921.
At the most critical time for the country and the nation, the Party was ordered to defeat Japan in the next 14 years of the War of Resistance, win the War of Liberation, and drive out all the warlords, imperialist forces, traitors and traitors from China.
Is this the end of this step?
Not yet, New China was established.
Next, the Party also defeated the imperialist coalition, completed the land reform and the three major transformations, built nuclear bombs and missile satellites, established a perfect socialist economic system, satisfied the belly of more than one billion people, completely completed industrialization, and had to face the dual internal and external threats of imperialism, aggressors, spies, ghosts and nihilists.
After 100 years, the Chinese Communist Party has finally done all these things.
A new socialist economic system has been built, more than a billion people have been fed, the Trinity nuclear strike system has been established, it is the most powerful industrialized country in the world, imperialism has admitted that its peaceful evolution has failed, the corpses of the United Nations army have been lying for seventy years, and the lighthouse of the United States is about to fall...
And everything depends on this group of people full of faith and their descendants, on such a political party and their blood.