This sentence is a love poem written by Shen Congwen in the chaotic world to his lifelong lover Zhang Zhaohe. The elder Zhang Zhao and the seven-year-old Shen Congwen, as her Chinese language teacher, gave her all their body and mind after meeting this tall and beautiful girl for the first time.
Since then, Zhang and Shen have embarked on a period of "model love" in the chaotic era of the Republic of China.
Love, this subject is a mysterious thing that many writers and philosophers have tried to speak, but have been defeated at its feet. But it is this inexplicable thing that can make people pay for it for a lifetime.
What we want to talk about today is also a long-lasting love affair, they are also like Shen and Zhang, they are also in love with teachers and students, but they are more bumpy and more difficult than them.
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Our heroine today, like Zhang Zhaohe, is a big girl with a superior birth and a complete talent, and the male protagonist is also like Shen Congwen, a poor boy in an ordinary situation.
What is the chance that two men and women from different origins can meet and know each other? It is a school with a simple and clean environment.
In 1953, at the age of 25, Li Dani came to Zhejiang Medical College as a Russian teacher. However, how could the people of that simple era have such a "foreign atmosphere"?
This is because Li Danni's pedigree is itself "foreign": her father was a decent Chinese, and she once worked as a respected professor at the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts;
And the mother is a Frenchman, but also a famous bridesmaid. It was under such superior family conditions and strong family education that Li Danni grew into a woman who was knowledgeable in ancient and modern times and proficient in poetry and books.
Also in 1953, an "older student" named Yuan Dibao also came to Zhejiang Medical College. This older student is the same age as Li Dani, who is exactly 25 years old.
Even now, there are not many students who enter the university at the age of 25, why did Yuan Dibao come to study at this time? It's also because of his family.
In 1953, the country was only recently established. Prior to that, our country had been at war for fourteen years.
And Yuan Dibao is only from an ordinary family, such a family, can survive the war, survive the famine, it is not easy, let alone study.
Because of the unresolved war, Yuan Dibao's books were always read intermittently, and at the age of 25, he was finally admitted to college, but his family's situation was not optimistic.
One is a Chinese-French mixed beauty teacher who is familiar with Chinese culture and ancient and modern poetry books, and the other is a student of the same age as a traditional Chinese reader, and the two people sparked in the eyes of each other in the first Russian class, although the feelings are still unknown, but this initial beginning has already determined the later unstoppable.
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At this time, Yuan and Li were exactly the age of affection, and they once again fell in love with their lifelong lovers, so the development of the two people can also be said to be the thunder and fire of the earth, which became a good story on the campus at that time.
It is precisely because the two people have an infinite yearning for the world and the future, and the poems they have read in the past and the experience of their lifelong knowledge have become the material for the two people to talk all night.
And Li Dani even used the sweater she knitted by her own hand to resist the harsh winter cold for Yuan Dibao when her life was in distress... This winter, by the West Lake, there is no trace of the wet and cold of previous years, but it is burned warm as spring by the fire of love between Yuan and Li.
Logically, at the age when this man is married and the woman is married, the two people have met such a suitable person in the world, and it is long overdue to talk about marriage and marriage, and it is only right to marry and marry, why is it always dragging on?
This is because Yuan Dibao's heart has always hidden a secret that has not been told to Li Dani, and it is this secret that has been made public, so that the love affair between Yuan and Li has gone from willow dark flowers to exhaustion.
Li Dani's whole person was hit hard, and there was no way but to avoid this sad place and return to life in France. Because Yuan Dibao told Li Dani that he already had a wife, and he married a wife through the family media.
Li Danni thought that what was waiting for the near future was beautiful love and a happy marriage, but she did not expect that she was waiting for such a devastating secret.
In fact, it is not surprising that Yuan Dibao is a boy born in a traditional Chinese family, and at the age of twenty-five, he has long reached the age when he should marry, so the eldest sister of the family has taken it upon herself to marry Yuan Dibao. That's why it's a tragedy for two people who really admire each other.
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Do you think that the story of Yuan and Li has ended since that confession? It's not at all what everyone thinks! In 1994, Yuan Dibao's wife Huang Shi, who gave up his beloved and loyal to him, died, and his son knew the relationship between Yuan and Li when they were young, and encouraged Yuan Dibao to write a letter to Li Dani to invite him.
As a result, I learned that Li Dani, who was in love with her deepest, had not married yuan dibao all her life! So after the exchange of five letters, 83-year-old Li Dani married her lifelong lover, Yuan Dibao.
They got married in 2010, until Yuan Dibao died in 2018, they spent eight years of conjugal life together, although at this time the two have long been prosperous, but the distance between the heart can never be opened with time and distance, we should firmly believe that at the end of life, Li Dani and Yuan Dibao are extremely happy!
The love story of Yuan and Li is not writing a pompous fairy tale, but telling us that secular love can also transcend identity, span time, and live and die together.