She is known as one of the "Four Talented Women of the Republic of China", the literary Roselle of the 1930s, with a life of upheavals and twists and turns, and her fate was uncertain.
She is a writer who can write a book about her childhood life to the point that people can't bear to read, and her short life is also the sad annotation of her little people.
She is a talented female writer with mixed reputations who created classic novels such as "The Legend of Hulan River" and "The Field of Life and Death", Xiao Hong.
She depicts the comfortable scenes in her hometown in the novel, perhaps the few joys she has felt in her life, until she later died of a sloppy illness in a foreign land, and she could not go back to the warm and beautiful hometown she wrote.
Even when Xiao Hong's death was brought back to her hometown in Harbin, her father, Zhang Tingju, was indifferent after listening to it, as if he had just heard a stranger's obituary.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > fate of the Hulan River</h1>
June 1, 1911 coincided with the Dragon Boat Festival, although it was already summer, but the northeast was still breezy, with the wind wafting with the smell of rice dumplings.
But the people in the Zhang family compound were rushing in and out at this moment, and it turned out that Zhang Xiuhuan, the daughter of the man of the family, Zhang Tingju, was born, and she was the writer Xiao Hong, whom we later knew.
At this time, Xiao Hong's father was still a clerk in the Education Bureau at that time, so the family was still quite well-off, and there was a grandfather and mother who loved her in the family, and Xiao Hong's childhood was solid and happy.
She remembered watching her grandfather set up loofah racks in the spring, her mother often cooking mung bean soup for herself in the summer, the various ripe fruits in the courtyard in the autumn, and the only two eyes exposed in the winter.
Before Xiao Hong was 8 years old, the four seasons of Hulan Town were so down-to-earth and happy, and such a life became the only happiness worth remembering in her short life, and later she wrote them into her novel, named "The Legend of Hulan River".
The twist of fate began in 1919, when her beloved mother Jiang Yulan died of illness, and before the sensitive and delicate girl from childhood had time to grieve, her father remarried a woman named Liang Yalan to enter the door.
People say that there is a stepmother and a stepfather, and the stepmother often scolds and insults her, but the father Zhang Tingju ignores it on the side, so the relationship between Xiao Hong, who has lost her biological mother, and her father is gradually drifting away.
The bitterness of life made Xiao Hong's early-hui personality more obvious, and in school she tried to use words to express her inner sadness and loneliness, and in 1927, she quietly published her own lyric poems in the school magazine under a pen name.
Whispering, this lonely-sounding pen name carries the girl's unknown hidden pain, fortunately, the text has become her cathartic outlet, and in the family that seems to have long been out of her home, there is always a grandfather who loves her.
She thought about it for a moment, if life is destined to be like this, then I still have words and my grandfather to accompany me, and I feel that life is not too bad.
The naïve bitter girl knew that less than a year after she had finished saying this, her grandfather suddenly passed away and left her alone in this Courtyard of the Zhang Family.
Unlike when her mother died, Xiao Hong at this time seemed to feel that the whole sky had collapsed, because the only person who gave her warmth and support in life would never come back.
After her grandfather went, the Zhangjia compound was deserted and frightening, and the girl could no longer stay in this place where memories had been hollowed out, and she wanted to escape.
But escaping was not so easy, and her selfish father and stepmother had already promised her to Wang Enjia, the second son of the leader of the defense army, Wang Tinglan, a stupid boy who could only smoke all day.
On the one hand, the grief of losing a loved one, on the other hand, there is also a "fiancée" identity that cannot be escaped, and Xiao Hong, who is pressed by the double blow, is breathless.
At this time, a man appeared next to Xiao Hong, he was Xiao Hong's cousin Lu Zhenshun, a gentle and learned man, and also the object of the girl Xiao Hong's admiration.
However, at this time, Xiao Hong already had the fate of her parents, and her cousin was also a married person, because of her absolute and complete despair of the life in front of her, Xiao Hong went to extremes in helplessness.
Xiao Hong, who has lived alone for so many years, has the courage not to lose men, so in that era, she actually "eloped" with her cousin Lu Zhenshun as someone else's fiancée.
Xiao Hong, who "eloped" with her cousin to Beiping, entered the Girls' Normal High School, but the cousin she has always admired is a "weak man" who retreats everywhere at the critical moment.
His ears were soft, he could not resist the threats and exhortations of the family several times, plus the money he brought when he "eloped" was also used up, and this cousin thought that it was still a good life for his wife and children at home, so he quietly left Xiao Hong and returned to Harbin by himself.
After spending eighteen years of mixed life in the northeast of yuanxiang, and experiencing the first encounter in his life, from the moment Xiao Hong fled to Beiping until her death, Hulan's hometown was just a fragment in the book.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > a turbulent field of life and death</h1>
Xiao Hong, who was thrown down by Lu Zhenshun, was shocked for the first time, and the cousin who was in front of her, who was obsessed with herself, was such a figure, and she smiled bitterly and admitted the trickery from fate.
After her cousin left, Xiao Hong, who was alone in Beiping, was also unable to continue, so she had to return home with a hard scalp, and at this time, what was waiting for her at home would be a bloody storm.
Wang Enjia's fiancée-to-be eloped with his cousin, which for a long time was a conversation in the streets and alleys, which not only made the Wang family lose face, but also made Xiao Hong's father lose his job.
Therefore, as soon as Xiao Hong returned home, his father Zhang Tingju calculated the old and new accounts together, kicked and beat Xiao Hong, and finally even almost strangled Xiao Hong to death.
Let you be the daughter-in-law of the family, you don't do it, you have to do something unruly, throw away Lao Tzu's face, and if you don't kill you, you have to lock you up until you become related to Wang Enjia.
After Zhang Tingju, who was angry and corrupt, finished venting, he directly locked Xiao Hong in the room and put her under house arrest, and at this time, Xiao Hong began to make plans for another escape.
Finally, late one night, Xiao Hong took advantage of the fact that everyone in the family was asleep, pried open the door lock of the room, and ran to Harbin without a cigarette.
She thought to herself, it would be better to run anywhere, just don't be a puppet in this family.
In the winter of Harbin, it was cold, Xiao Hong, who fled alone, was wearing thin clothes and walking on the street penniless, at that moment she could not say her mood, I am afraid that she did not even have sadness, despair, at this time she just wanted to have a warm place and sleep well.
Hunger and cold made her have no time to take care of her emotions, even the dignity she regarded as a treasure, so when she stood at the door of Wang Enjia's school, her heart had been frozen to numbness by the cold of the northeast.
Yes, this arrogant and lonely girl went to run to the stupid boy Wang Enjia, who she once looked down on the most, when she really did not want to freeze to death in this winter, she needed such a "fire".
As everyone knows, although the "fire" she found saved her from the fate of being frozen to death on the street, it also burned her life beyond recognition.
After Xiao Hong found Wang Enjia, she lived with him, and it wasn't long before Xiao Hong found out that she was pregnant, and the two were living in a small hotel of less than ten square meters.
Because the Wang family hated this "watery Yanghua" daughter-in-law, after knowing that their son still had contact with her, the Wang family cut off Wang Enjia's daily supply.
The lives of these two people are difficult, and Wang Enjia is a generous person, often earning one to spend two, seeing that the money for staying in the hotel this month can not be paid, Wang Enjia said to Xiao Hong, I went out to make up for the house.
After saying these six words, Wang Enjia completely disappeared, at first Xiao Hong was still worried about waiting, waiting, and then she reacted, Wang Enjia was just a driftwood she wanted to grab when she was drowning, what could she ask him for?
At this time, the owner of the inn saw that the room bill was getting more and more tired, and the man ran away, and the boss simply locked Up Xiao Hong, thinking about waiting for her to give birth to a child, selling the child, and selling her to the brothel to make up for the loss.
Xiao Hong, who was just twenty years old, had experienced such humiliation in her life, and during that time she did not even have the strength to despair, and she had the same belief as when she was wandering in the snow and wind, that she would live no matter what.
What's more, she is not alone now, and she still has a bitter child in her belly who is about to be born.
In desperation, Xiao Hong wrote a letter to Pei Xinyuan, the then editor of the International Association Daily, asking for help, and Pei Xinyuan, who had received the news, sent a person named Xiao Jun to see Xiao Hong and often brought her books and periodicals.
In such a desperate situation, the frequent visits of this man named Xiao Jun made Xiao Hong's cold heart ignite a trace of warmth, and gradually she began to accept this man's kindness.
Although Xiao Hong had been hurt by two unreliable men, she was too eager to be loved and cared for, and Xiao Jun just let Xiao Hong feel this way at that time.
On August 7, 1932, the flood caused by the breach of the Songhua River plunged the entire urban area into chaos, and Xiao Jun secretly took Xiao Hong to a small boat and sent it to Pei Xinyuan's home.
Just after the Pei family landed, Xiao Hong suddenly felt a bout of abdominal pain, Xiao Jun hurriedly sent Xiao Hong to the hospital, because there was no money to give birth, Xiao Jun even forced the doctor to die.
In the end, Xiao Hong successfully gave birth to a baby girl, which was her child with Wang Enjia, and after giving birth, Xiao Hong was not as happy as other mothers, because she knew that the birth of this child was a mistake, and the only thing she could do now was to let her live.
So Xiao Hong only glanced at the baby girl in the swaddling, and then said to Xiao Jun, give her away, but the understatement contains a mother's countless sorrows and helplessness.
Xiao Jun
After being discharged from the hospital, Xiao Hong naturally was with Xiao Jun, and at that moment she felt that she had experienced so many tribulations and should have found her own happiness, but this was not the case.
Like Xiao Hong, Xiao Jun is also a writer who says that literati have no deeds, and Xiao Jun does perfectly interpret this.
At the beginning of the acquaintance with Xiao Hong, because they were both literati and sympathetic, the two had a good relationship and a very sweet life, but the good times were not long, and the scumbag finally showed his scumbag true colors.
Less than two years with Xiao Hong, Xiao Jun cheated again and again, the most outrageous one was to make the belly of his friend's wife bigger, Xiao Hong looked in his eyes, but still had illusions about Xiao Jun.
She was still grateful for Xiao Jun's desperate efforts to save him when she was in deep trouble, and Xiao Hong always felt that no matter how Xiao Jun still loved him, he might just need time.
So in 1936, Xiao Hong decided to flee again, this time she would go to Japan, leaving Xiao Jun alone to think about the feelings between them.
During this period, his mentor Lu Xun died, the War of Resistance Against Japan broke out in an all-round way, and in the two years of turmoil, the situation underwent tremendous changes, and Xiao Hong thought that Xiao Jun could also change.
Indeed, Xiao Jun changed, and not long after Xiao Hong returned from Japan, one day Xiao Jun said to her, let's separate.
At that time, Xiao Hong, who was four months pregnant, painstakingly retained Xiao Jun, but Xiao Jun did not look back, just like his cousin Lu Zhenshun and his fiancé Wang Enjia who did not quit at that time.
At that time, Xiao Hong felt that her life was like a joke, and the four words of meeting someone unladylike were not enough to summarize her dramatic life.
In 1938, Xiao Hong, who was pregnant, welcomed the fourth man in her life, Duanmu Hongliang, who was a common friend of Xiao Hong and Xiao Jun, and after Xiao Hong was ruthlessly abandoned by Xiao Jun, Duanmu Hongliang began to take care of this woman who suffered a hard life.
Xiao Hong herself said, I have no excessive requirements for Duanmu Hongliang, I just want to live a normal married life, no quarrels, no fights, no infidelity, no ridicule...
Duanmu Hongliang
Xiao Hong's words were really heart-wrenching, and what kind of tribulations made her even live the life of an ordinary couple a rare luxury.
Soon after the two married, Wuhan was bombarded by the Japanese army and became turbulent, at this time, Duanmu Hongliang, who was a war correspondent, left Xiao Hong, who had a big belly, and ran to Chongqing alone.
Xiao Hong was once again like a rag, someone left behind, she said, my life is like destined to walk alone, the tone has long been a kind of despair.
Although she was left behind by Duanmu, as a wife, she still wanted to know her husband's life and death, so Xiao Hong went to Chongqing with a big belly, and she actually found Duanmu Hongliang.
During her time in Chongqing, Xiao Hong gave birth to her and Xiao Jun's child, but unfortunately the child died after a few days of life, and after the child died, she did not see Xiao Hong a little sad, perhaps her heart had already gone numb.
Xiao Hong once said that the biggest tragedy in my life is because I am a woman.
Yes, how ironic it is for a woman with a lot of fate, seeking warmth and love in a chaotic world, but she has been played by fate all her life.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > die first, not willingly</h1>
Due to the severe war situation, Xiao Hong went to Hong Kong with Duanmu Hongliang shortly after production, but it was not long before Hong Kong was also occupied, and the days of Taiping disappeared again, followed by Duanmu Hongliang, who ran away again.
At this time, Xiao Hong really didn't have the strength to deal with him anymore, she had been circling with four men more than twenty years ago, and she was hurt more and more deeply, and she was really tired.
Long-term malnutrition and postpartum illness, coupled with a depressed mood, made Xiao Hong, who had a strong desire to survive, completely ill, and she no longer had the ambition to live in the ice and snow
The man Xiao Hong once thought was the shore dragged her into the deep water again and again, and she who had been fleeing in her life for more than twenty years could not escape the palm of her fate after all, and the hometown of Hulan, where only happiness was stored, could not go back.
In 1942, in the last days of her life, Xiao Hong, who was struggling, nestled in a dilapidated small attic in Hong Kong, and passed out when she was uncomfortable, dreaming of the Zhangjia compound in her childhood, her mother, her grandfather, and all the happiness of her life.
When she woke up from the dream, opened her eyes to take away all her sad emotions, she sat down at the table with her tired body and began to write about the scenes in those dreams, determined to keep them in the last days of her life.
At least in this world, I once had a moment of happiness, she thought she must finish writing, with the most simple words to restore the most beautiful dream of life, and this dream she has truly had.
Later, after the completion of the "Hulan River Biography", Xiao Hong may feel that her life is too bitter, so she gave all the sweetness to the "Hulan River Biography", but this sweetness still has the bloody taste of biting teeth and blood.
On January 22, 1942, Xiao Hong left this world alone, and her unbearable fate finally chose to let go and no longer torture this poor woman.
Among Xiao Hong's few relics, there is a piece of paper that she wrote before she died, on which it is written, I will be with the blue sky and clear water forever, leaving the half of the "Red Chamber" for others to write! Half a lifetime of white-eyed cold reception... Die first, unwilling, unwilling!
The life of a talented but ill-fated woman has come to an end, looking back at Xiao Hong's short life, the only thing that may make her happy is childhood, and then the reversal of fate is like an invisible hand, and the thing that stirs everything up is human.
The sky is full of stars, the house is full of moons, how is life, why is it so sad?
Xiao Hong once asked her fate, the sun and moon should shine on everyone, why does it have to reject me?
Xiao Hong had never felt a little gentle true love in the world before she was born, so she finally put herself back on the little girl in "The Legend of Hulan River".
Although her father Zhang Tingju, who is far away in Harbin, has regarded Xiao Hong as a stranger, as long as she enters the book and writes about her hometown, Xiao Hong will always have the Hulan town that can bring her happiness.