Ye Gongchao and Yuan Yongxi, one is a talented son of the Republic of China, the other is a talented daughter of Yanjing, and they are harmonious after marriage, and I don't know how many people have been admired. However, this loving couple has been separated for more than 40 years, what is going on?
(Ye Gongchao)
In the 1950s, someone asked Zhu Guangqian, a professor at Peking University, who had the best English in Chinese? Zhu Guangqian thought about it for a moment and replied, it should be Ye Gongchao.
Ye Gongchao was born in Shuxiang mendi, and his ancestors had a talent for reading. For example, his great-grandfather Ye Yanlan was a Xianfeng Jinshi, who held important positions such as Langzhong of the Transfer Department and Zhang Jing of the Military Aircraft in Beijing. Dissatisfied with the corrupt bureaucracy, he resigned from his official post and worked as a lecturer for most of his life in the academy of his hometown, and was a very prestigious Confucian at that time. Another example is his grandfather Ye Peihan, who entered high school during the Guangxu period and became an official in the prefect of Sanpin. His father, Ye Daosheng, was also very knowledgeable and served as the prefect of Jiujiang.
Ye Gongchao was not only a scholarly disciple, but also a disciple of an official eunuch, and his origin was simply impeccable.
However, Ye Gongchao was not born in a good time, he was born in 1904, just when the Qing Dynasty was about to die. More unfortunately, when he was young, his parents died of illness one after another, so he was raised by his uncle Ye Gongqi.
Ye Gongqi was also a well-educated celebrity, he graduated from Kyoshi University in his early years, and later studied in Japan, and was one of the early members of the League.
After the fall of the Qing government, Ye Gongqi served as the director of the Ministry of Communications, and later as the minister of finance of the Republic of China government in Guangzhou, and after the establishment of the National Government in Nanjing, he served as the minister of railways and other important positions. Although the country's military and political power has changed hands several times, Ye Gongqi has become a tumbler in the political arena of the Republic of China with his long sleeves, and he is not only powerful, but also has some assets. The only regret is that although he has married several wives, he has no children under his knees, so he regards Ye Gongchao as a parent and treats him with great love.
In 1918, after Ye Gongchao graduated from Nankai University in Nanjing, he was sent by Ye Gongqiu to study at The University of Hirst in Massachusetts. Because he was born in a family and was not bad for money, Ye Gongchao transferred to the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom to obtain a master's degree after getting a bachelor's degree, and then he went to the University of Paris in France for academic research.
In 1926, Ye Gongchao, who had already received a doctorate, returned to China and became a professor in the Department of Western Literature at Peking University.
At this time, Ye Gongchao was only 23 years old, his face was wide and wide-eared, his hair was carefully waxed by him, and the black oil was so bright that even flies flew up and were afraid that they would slip their feet. He also likes to hold a quaint pipe, and from time to time a thick and uneven layer of smoke rises in front of his face. He was tall and slightly burly, so he was very handsome to wear a straight suit on him.
Ye Gongchao's European gentleman style is very strong, coupled with his fluent English, but also very pure pronunciation, so when he teaches Western literature, students like to come to his class to see him. And he also became a recognized beautiful man on the campus of Peking University with his graceful demeanor.
Since then, Ye Gongchao has successively served as the head and professor of the Department of Western Literature at Jinan University and Tsinghua University, and among the students he has taught, there have been many master figures, such as Qian Zhongshu, Ji Xianlin, Zhao Luorui and Bian Zhilin. Therefore, The talented and handsome Ye Gongchao has become the object of admiration of many women.
Among these women who admired Ye Gongchao, many were still the female students he taught, and one of them was named Yuan Yongxi.
(Yuan Yongxi)
Yuan Yongxi studied in the Department of Physics of Yenching University and is also a well-known school flower of Yenching University.
Speaking of which, Yuan Yongxi is only 4 years younger than Ye Gongchao, and she is a Guizhou scholar.
At that time, female students who could go to college were often very well-off. Yuan Yongxi was born into a family of eunuchs, and her father served as Yuan Shikai's staff in his early years, and later as Yingkou Daotai. After Yuan Shikai died of illness, he relied on his old official connections and started a business. Because he was calculating, his family was still rich, and he was very enlightened, Yuan Yongxi and other siblings were sent to the new school to study.
In 1929, the Yuan family changed, and Yuan Yongxi's father died of a sudden cerebral hemorrhage. With the death of his father, the Yuan family, which had always been rich and noble, began to show an atmosphere of decay.
Yuan Yongxi's siblings sold the antique calligraphy and paintings collected by their father in his early years as money for tuition, so that they could continue their studies.
After Yuan Yongxi was admitted to the Department of Physics of Yenching University, ye Gongchao came to Yejing University to teach part-time.
A young talent, a beautiful goddess, quite eye-to-eye with each other, and when they came and went, the two talked about teacher-student love.
During the Republic of China period, the teacher-student relationship was worth forgiving. For example, Lu Xun and Xu Guangping, as well as Shen Congwen and Zhang Zhaohe, this has become a good story. Therefore, Ye Gongchao's marriage to Yuan Yongxi, in the eyes of the people of the time, is really a pair created in heaven and earth.
However, those female students who admired Ye Gongchao or male students who pursued Yuan Yongxi could not help but shed tears of envy and jealousy.
In June 1931, shortly after Yuan Yongxi graduated, he and Ye Gongchao held a simple wedding.
Once, a student ye Gongchao had taught visited him in Tsinghua Garden, and when he entered the house, he saw a female student sitting at a desk reading.
Fortunately, Ye Gongchao introduced him to him that the woman who was studying was his newlywed wife, and he was puzzled.
But the students were still surprised, because Yuan Yongxi did not apply powder and dressed quite elegantly, like those brides who not only wore new dresses every day, but also had to be greased and powdered.
Looking around the room again, it was the same as before, except that there was an extra row of Lamb Anthology and Lan Biography on the shelves.
This student probably didn't know that the two sets of books were also given to him by Ye Gongchao's old friends as a new wedding gift.
It can be seen how low-key and simple the marriage between Ye Gongchao and Yuan Yongxi is.
However, don't think that Ye Gongchao, who likes to pay attention to everything, does not love Yuan Yongxi.
Although Yuan Yongxi is a school flower, because she has received a good education since childhood, she is very stable in her dealings with people and has a very quiet temperament. After marriage, although the Republic of China advocates women's rights, the world believes that after marriage, women still have to go out to show their faces, which is an undignified behavior, so Yuan Yongxi is at ease to become a housewife.
(Wu Mi)
Yuan Yongxi lives a simple and sincere life. In addition, she also kept her home in good order, and it became her pleasure to read and plant flowers in her spare time.
Ye Gongchao was very satisfied with this simple and warm married life, especially after his daughter was born, Ye Gongchao was overjoyed, and with deep love for his wife, he named his daughter "Ye Tong". Later, he added a son, and he was named "Ye Wei". When asked, he always told others that the names of the two children came from the verse in the Book of Poetry: "Quiet women change, and I am in charge." Tong Guan Youwei said that the woman was beautiful. Therefore, everyone knows that Ye Gongchao borrowed the name of his children to express his passionate love for his wife.
To say that Yuan Yongxi's most satisfying point for Ye Gongchao is his emotional loyalty and softness.
But Yuan Yongxi did not expect that her suppleness greatly encouraged Ye Gongchao's machismo, making him not only lose his temper at home for a small matter, but also in front of his friends, smashing dishes and bowls, embarrassing Yuan Yongxi.
Wu Mi, who liked to go to Ye Gongchao's house to rub white rice the most, once said in his diary that once, he went to Ye Gongchao's house to rub rice as usual, and he did not think that Ye Gongchao had lost his temper because the food was not in line with his taste, and he also fell a bowl fiercely.
In the process of Ye Gongchao's tantrum, Yuan Yongxi remained silent. After Ye Gongchao lost his temper, Yuan Yongxi calmly said that as a housewife, the food was not to taste, and this was my responsibility. But it is also very inappropriate for you to lose your temper in front of your friends.
Wu Mi did not mention Yuan Yongxi in her diary for the first time, but wrote about her many times, such as "Ye Zhai dinner." In the past year, he has been close to Xi Heng and deeply admires Xi as an outstanding and extraordinary woman", and for example, "those who make Mi Yi treat Yan in the past will immediately go to the court"... This diary inevitably evokes Wu Mi's memories of her ex-girlfriend Mao Yanwen, and she feels more and more valuable about Yuan Yongxi's temperament. Therefore, Wu Mi was full of appreciation for Yuan Yongxi. Just a friend and wife, can not be deceived, so from beginning to end, Wu Mi has respected Yuan Yongxi in addition to appreciation.
But in Ye Gongchao's view, beauty is easy to be aesthetically tired after watching for a long time. And he is only eight buckets tall, and he is a gentleman, so there are still many women who love him. Ye Gongchao, who was influenced by Western culture, believed that "it is not immoral for a hero to have a woman's appreciation, or even something that can be proud of", so there is always news about him that reaches Yuan Yongxi's ears. But Ye Gongchao did not admit it, Yuan Yongxi had no evidence, and with his face in mind, Yuan Yongxi could only give up.
(Ye Gongchao, who became foreign minister)
However, this seemingly peaceful marriage was eventually subverted by a scandal.
It turned out that after the fall of Shanghai, Ye Gongqiu, who had lived in Shanghai for a long time, took refuge in Hong Kong. However, the Japanese learned that Ye Gongding had a Mao Gongding from the Western Zhou Dynasty, so they found Ye Gongqi's concubine who remained in Shanghai and seduced him with heavy gold to take Mao Gongding for himself. Ye Gongqiu's concubine Cai was obsessed, and naturally agreed with her mouth. Fortunately, Ye Gongqi got the news and asked Ye Gongchao, who was far away in Kunming, to rush to Shanghai to deal with Mao Gongding.
When Ye Gongchao arrived in Shanghai, he contacted his cousin Ye Chongfan, and the two managed to hide Mao Gongding.
When the Japanese failed to do so, they arrested Ye Gongchao and tortured him in every way, asking him to spit out Mao Gongding's whereabouts. But no matter how much torture he suffered, Ye Gongchao never complied. Later, Ye Chongfan found a craftsman to make a very realistic "Mao Gongding" and handed it to the Japanese, which was exchanged for Ye Gongchao.
This life-and-death relationship made Ye Gongchao have great love for Ye Chongfan. And Ye Chongfanxiang is a maverick, and she has liked Ye Gongchao since she was a child, so the two often go in and out of pairs, just like newlyweds, and all kinds of scandals about them are also overwhelming.
This unrequited love affair was in full swing at the time. Yuan Yongxi, who had always cherished his face, finally could not stand Ye Gongchao's absurdity, and in despair and anger, Yuan Yongxi took a pair of children and left for the United States.
After Yuan Yongxi left, Ye Gongchao did not feel sad, at this time he had already bid farewell to the lecture hall and embarked on a career path, and because he had received Chiang Kai-shek's weight, it was the time when the spring breeze was triumphant.
Ye Gongchao first served as foreign minister of the Nationalist government, and after going to Taiwan, he served as ambassador to the United States. During that period of scenery, Ye Gongchao's girlfriend was often changed, so that Chennault's wife Chen Xiangmei recalled Ye Gongchao many years later, and the first words were always: "Ye Gongchao has a lot of red faces in his life." ”
However, at that time, because New China had already been born, the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, India and other countries broke off diplomatic relations with Taiwan. Although Ye Gongchao is very diplomatic, he cannot do anything about the actual situation, so some officials in Taiwan are very dissatisfied with the performance of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, saying that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs should be changed to the "Ministry of Severance of Diplomatic Relations".
This also caused strong dissatisfaction among Chiang Kai-shek, who not only removed Ye Gongchao from his post, but also banned Ye Gongchao from promulgating.
However, compared with Chiang Kai-shek's desperate love, those friends who usually have close contact with Ye Gongchao are even more unsympathetic, and when they learned that Ye Gongchao was unlucky, they immediately left him alone. Those confidants with red faces who had been proud of Ye Gongchao also disappeared like magnificent soap bubbles.
Ye Gongchao, who was nearly sixty years old, only after tasting the warmth and coldness of human feelings did he think of Yuan Yongxi and his two children.
Yuan Yongxi also experienced some hardships in the early days of the United States, but fortunately she was talented and educated, so it was not difficult for her to make a living. Later, she also worked as a researcher at the University of California. As for the pair of children, under the education of Yuan Yongxi, they were also quite outstanding.
Ye Gongchao understood that although he had not divorced Yuan Yongxi, he had been separated for decades, and he was afraid that he would never go back. As a result, he had to spend the rest of his life in the memory of Yuan Yongxi.
In 1981, Ye Gongchao was seriously ill and admitted to the hospital, and his heart became more and more uncomfortable when he saw that other patients had wives and children in front of the bed. On his deathbed, he told the nurse that my wife was coming to see me.
After Ye Gongchao's death, Yuan Yongxi did not go to see him for the last time. Just out of courtesy, the trustee sent a pair of bracelets.
Perhaps, in Yuan Yongxi's view, her marriage was already dead when she ran away with her children. The husband who had once loved deeply, from that moment on, had no relationship with her anymore.
(Reference: Biography of Ye Gongchao, etc.)