Prostitution has always been a profession that is not very accepted by society. Among the lower nine streams, prostitutes are far from being ranked last.
The reason for this is, on the one hand, because the profession of prostitute does not conform to the simple values of our Chinese nation, which often leads to a series of problems such as family breakdown; on the other hand, prostitutes are often forced to receive customers, of which some are coerced by others, but more are forced by life. Prostitutes are often representatives of good and bad work, and get something for nothing.
But everything in life is not absolute, and it is the unpopular professional identity of prostitutes that makes some heroic legends about them widely circulated. For example, in the face of the Japanese invaders, Jinling Thirteen Chao, who stood up to protect the students, and xiao Fengxian, who is called a chivalrous prostitute today.
Although today, no action can hide its essence, but understanding the life of Xiao Fengxian can make us clear about the appearance of history, understand the humiliation in modern history, and better devote ourselves to our current life and work.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="7" > stepmother was a generation of prostitutes</h1>
Xiao Fengxian's last husband in life was an ordinary boiler worker named Li Zhenhai, and today's story will start from here. When Xiao Fengxian married Li Zhenhai, she was already over fifty years old.
Therefore, nature is not Li Zhenhai's first wife. By the time the two were married, Li Zhenhai already had a teenage daughter. At that time, the neighbors were talking about Li Zhenhai's good fortune, and Xu Xian also found Xiao Fengxian, a beauty like a flower.
However, after marriage, people's discussions have changed direction, and they have begun to talk about Xiao Fengxian, a woman who not only does not do housework, but also has two eyes and one black eye in teaching children. Li Zhenhai relied on Li Zhenhai when he was there, and if Li Zhenhai was not at home, he often had to rely on his neighbors to help him.
The most is to wash Li Zhenhai and his children, in addition to the rare behavior that matches the identity of his wife. Every day, he changed into various cheongsams, put a small handkerchief on his chest, and paced in the courtyard of his home; he wandered the streets and alleys, appearing to have nothing to do.
At that time, on the eve of the founding of the People's Republic of China, although the people lived and worked in peace and contentment, their living standards still needed to be improved, and Xiao Fengxian's behavior was incompatible with the surrounding environment. Not only that, Xiao Fengxian often held a photo of himself with another man, and others asked only to say that he was a good friend.
As the days passed, Xiao Fengxian was widowed first, Li Zhenhai died, and Xiao Fengxian began to rely on her daughter for her life, becoming a nanny of the local public kindergarten, and later aged at home because of Senile dementia. Until his death, the group photo mentioned earlier was preserved.
In this way, Xiao Fengxian's life came to an end. The daughter originally thought that her stepmother was just an ordinary beautiful woman, until one day, two reporters came to the door and revealed the identity of Xiao Fengxian to their children. It turned out that fifty years ago, the stepmother that his father married to himself was actually Xiao Fengxian, who had forged a legendary story.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="13" > generation of chivalrous prostitutes</h1>
Xiao Fengxian was born into a family of eight flags, and his father was a military attaché in the Eight Flags battalion of the Qing Dynasty. However, at the end of the Qing Dynasty, the imperial court was poor and weak, and suddenly cancelled his father's position, so Xiao Fengxian's family began a life of displacement.
In this way, he wandered all the way to Hangzhou, because Xiao Fengxian was born in a partial room, so he was repeatedly bullied and even abused by his wife. Helplessly, Xiao Fengxian and her mother left the family, but the sky did not go according to people's wishes, and soon after, Xiao Fengxian's mother also died, fortunately, she was adopted by the nursing mother of a large family.
Until the outbreak of the Wuchang Uprising, the fate of every individual in that era could not escape the fiddling of the times, so Xiao Fengxian came to Shanghai, and met the first guide in her life, her opera master, an artist surnamed Hu, officially named her Xiao Fengxian, and Xiao Fengxian began to perform around with this name.
When the second revolution launched by Chiang Kai-shek's troops against Yuan Shikai broke out, Xiao Fengxian happened to be in the target city of Nanjing, so Xiao Fengxian once again returned to Shanghai with his master. At that time, Xiao Fengxian was thirteen years old, and after several years of wandering, Xiao Fengxian came to Beijing with her master, and because of her outstanding appearance and certain artistic achievements, Xiao Fengxian became a prominent prostitute in the eight hutongs of Beijing for a time.
It was also at this stage that Xiao Fengxian met the most important person in his life, our famous democratic revolutionary in modern times, Cai Yi. The two knew each other, and then Xiao Fengxian also helped Cai Yi escape Yuan Shikai's imprisonment, Xiao Fengxian as a prostitute, where did the strength to compete with Yuan Shikai?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="19" > love story</h1>
Talking about Xiao Fengxian and Cai Yi, I have to talk about the encounter between the two. At that time, Cai Yi, as a general sitting in the southwest, was almost inevitably regarded by Yuan Shikai as a thorn in the eye, because Yuan Shikai's ultimate goal was to become emperor, which was bound to cause opposition from Cai Yi and other revolutionary generals.
In order to control the potential threat, Yuan Shikai seems to promote Cai E and arrange the work of the central government for him, but in fact, he is to keep Cai E by his side for easy surveillance. After Cai Yi returned to the central government, he also realized Yuan Shikai's intentions, but it was difficult to take action in the central government, and every time he went out, he was bound to be monitored by Yuan Shikai's eyeliner.
In this way, Cai Yi faced such a situation and simply began the life of a sound dog and horse, one to relieve the bitterness in his heart, and the other to paralyze Yuan Shikai's eyeliner. So Cai Yi met Xiao Fengxian at a wine bureau, and Cai Yi's cold attitude immediately attracted Xiao Fengxian's attention.
As the two became more and more closely linked, Cai Yi not only redeemed Xiao Fengxian, but also designed a plan around Xiao Fengxian to escape from surveillance. One evening, Cai Yi came to find Xiao Fengxian, and in Xiao Fengxian's room, Cai Yi paid attention to hanging his clothes and hats in the doorway, creating an illusion that he had always been in the house.
On the other hand, Cai Yi left Xiao Fengxian's residence and came to Yuan Shikai's presidential palace, but it was early in the morning, and Cai Yi expected that Yuan Shikai was sleeping. Sure enough, the servant told Cai Yi that Yuan Shikai was sleeping, so Cai Yi immediately said that he would come back to visit later.
In this way, Cai Yi had double insurance, and even if he found out that he had left in the eyeliner of Xiao Fengxian's residence, he would think that he was waiting to meet Yuan Shikai. In this way, Cai Yi quickly rushed to the railway station and escaped from Yuan Shikai's surveillance.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="23" > summary</h1>
After Yuan Shikai found out that Cai E had left, he also found Xiao Fengxian and asked him to confess the fact of helping Cai E and Cai E's whereabouts, but Xiao Fengxian did not confess anything. The story of a couple like Cai Yi and Xiao Fengxian also began to circulate in the streets and alleys.
After that, Xiao Fengxian married twice, but until the end of his life, he still took a photo of Cai Ye and himself, and there were even rumors that Xiao Fengxian also brought Cai Ye's photo into the grave when he died.