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In "Yushu Backyard Flowers", there is a description of women with unparalleled beauty: "The face of the demon is like a flower with dew, and the jade tree shines in the backyard." "Since the Spring and Autumn Period, there have been fireworks women in society who make a living by virtue of their skills and beauty. Most of these women who have wandered into fireworks alleys have a pitiful life, some of them are sold by their relatives because of the hardship of their families, and some of them have nothing to rely on and have to make a living.
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Different from the "Po Qinhuai" written in "Bo Qinhuai", "The merchant girl does not know the hatred of the country, and sings the backyard flower across the river", although Sai Jinhua is a woman of wind and dust, she also knows the great righteousness of the nation.
▲ Sai Jinhua drama image
In this way, Sai Jinhua married the 41-year-old Yuanhong Jun, although she was only a concubine, her life was not worse than that of her wife. As a "minister" of the court, Hong Jun often needs to go to different countries to communicate, but his wife is timid and cannot accompany Hong Jun out, so this task falls to Sai Jinhua.
▲Portrait of Hong Jun
However, "the sky is unpredictable, and people have bad luck." What Sai Jinhua did not expect was that her short happy life would soon disappear with the death of her husband.
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。 So in 1894, Sai Jinhua was expelled from the Hong family. Sai Jinhua, who had no one to rely on, had to go to Shanghai to resume his old business, and many people flocked to see this legendary woman.
They think that Sai Jinhua's fireworks in the name of "Lady Zhuangyuan" outside is simply to smear the dead Hong Jun. So they used the media on Shanghai Beach to maliciously slander Sai Jinhua and deliberately defame her image so that she could not stay in Shanghai.
▲Painting of the Eight-Nation Alliance invading the Imperial City (Japanese painting)
In desperation, Sai Jinhua went to Beijing after some tossing and turning. The Qing army was very worried about the situation, and the weak Qing government was not willing to take tough measures, so it actively sought opportunities to negotiate peace with the enemy army.
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He wanted Sai Jinhua to contact senior German officials. In this way, but later, the people talked about this matter a lot, and people said that the Government relied on women to successfully negotiate peace.
▲Old photos of the Eight-Power Alliance
Later, she became a concubine of someone else's family, but every time she married into the house, her husband died shortly after, so people said that Sai Jinhua was "Kefu Life".
▲A recent photo of Sai Jinhua's former residence
Sai Jinhua, who lost his job in his hometown, had no income, and could only live on the furniture accumulated over the years, and his life became more and more embarrassing, and he could not even pay the rent of the octagon. Some well-meaning reporters saw her desolate situation and actively collected donations for her in the newspaper, but the money raised was a drop in the bucket for Sai Jinhua after all.
This most "noble" wind and dust woman, who has been mixed up in high society, not only has the insight that ordinary women cannot match, but also has feelings and righteousness.
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > concluding remarks</h1>
Even though watching Jinhua's life is full of legendary and tragic colors, the cruel reality of society and various encounters finally pushed her into the abyss, even though she did not want to run and drift, she still could not resist the arrangement of fate. If she could have been born in a stable and civilized society, perhaps she would not have to endure these sufferings.
Resources:
"Yushu Backyard Flower", "Bo Qinhuai", "Broken Kiln Endowment"