On November 19, 1931, a loud noise suddenly sounded in the dangjiazhuang area on the southwestern outskirts of Jinan, and a plane crashed. Pilots Wang Guanyi and Liang Bitang, as well as Xu Zhimo, 35, who was a passenger, were killed at the same time. In the Shanghai Wanguo Funeral Home, countless admirers of Xu Zhimo flocked to it. Next to Xu Zhimo's coffin, two women wept particularly sadly, one was Xu Zhimo's ex-wife Zhang Youyi, and the other was his current wife, Lu Xiaoman. At this time in Beijing, there was also a beautiful female architect Lin Huiyin, who could not go to bid farewell because of her affairs. She asked her husband, Liang Sicheng, to pick up a piece of wreckage plank from the plane and bring it back to Beijing to hang at home. In the face of Xu Zhimo's unexpected early death, the mentality of the three women is different. Lin Huiyin is "regret", Zhang Youyi is "complaining", and Lu Xiaoman is "regret". Xu Zhimo's original wife, Zhang Youyi, was named Jiayue, the daughter of a famous and prestigious family. Zhang Youyi is a very virtuous woman. People who knew her well recalled: "Her lines are very beautiful, she loves light makeup, she is silent and taciturn, she is beautiful and wise, and she is more willing to be close to her, but she does not call her name, but she is called The Second Miss." Xu Zhimo and Zhang Youyi were married in 1915 at the behest of their parents in their hometown of Jiaoshi, Zhejiang. In the second year after marriage, Xu Zhimo went north to study, and the two youngest.
The mouth is more away from the poly less. Zhang is worthy of being a bridesmaid, a scholar, a filial piety to the in-laws, and a treasurer. The Xu family is a famous wealthy merchant in Jiangnan, and the family has set up an electric lamp factory, a silk factory, a cloth factory, Xu Yufeng Sauce Garden, and a Yutong Qianzhuang. At first, Zhang Youyi helped her father-in-law to manage her finances, and later her father-in-law simply entrusted her daughter-in-law with full authority to operate and manage the whole business. Xu Zhimo and Zhang Youyi had two sons, one named Ah Huan and the scientific name Ji Kai, who was raised by Zhang Youyi. The other son died in Germany.
After Xu Zhimo got married, he went north to study in the United States and Britain, and during this time, Xu Zhang and Zhang were harmonious. Later, Xu Zhimo wrote to his father, imploring his wife to accompany him to England. In 1921, Zhang Youyi arrived in England and lived with Xu Zhimo in a mountain village called Shaston on the outskirts of London. Xu Zhimo and Zhang Youyi spent a warm and sweet life here, until another talented young girl, Lin Huiyin, appeared in Xu Zhimo's life.
Xu Zhimo divorced Zhang Youyi by agreement in March 1922 in Berlin, Germany. Zhang Youyi is worthy of being "a woman with ambition and courage" (Xu Zhimo), and seeing that Xu Zhimo has transferred her affection and other love, she resolutely agreed to divorce. After returning to China, she opened the first new fashion company - Yunsheng Company on Jing'an Temple Road in Shanghai, and founded the Shanghai Women's Commercial Savings Bank. Later, he even entered politics, serving as an executive member of the Democratic Socialist Party and minister of finance. After 1949, Zhang Youyi moved to Hong Kong and formed a good relationship with Chinese medicine physician Su Jizi. It is said that after Xu Zhang's divorce, he wrote more letters and "better feelings", I don't know if it is true.
Xu Zhimo and Lin Huiyin are an unfinished love affair with a "wordless ending". Xu Zhimo and Lin Huiyin's father, Lin Changmin, met when they were studying at Peking University. At that time, Liang Qichao was the chief of justice, and Lin Changmin was the chief of education. The two were very close. Xu Zhimo was an introductory disciple of Liang Qichao and often met Lin Changmin in Liang Province. Lin Changmin and Xu Zhimo saw each other as they were, and became friends for many years, often referring to him as "little friend". In the early spring of 1921, Lin Changmin went to England, one was to study, and the other was to send his beloved daughter Lin Huiyin to study in Britain. Lin Huiyin is in the year of Fang, Xu Zhimo fell in love at first sight, and he wrote poetry, correspondence, and dating, and the two were hazy but lively and lively in love. Lin Huiyin knew that Xu Zhimo was the husband, and she asked Xu Zhimo to divorce first and then talk about their love affair. Xu Zhimo did divorce, but Lin Hui, for some reason, quietly returned to China with his father, leaving Xu Zhimo alone.
Lin Hui fell in love with Liang Sicheng, Liang Qichao's son, shortly after returning to China, but did not immediately hold an engagement ceremony. This in turn rekindled Xu Zhimo's old feelings and chased after him, and he returned to China from England and from his hometown to Beijing. Since Lin Huiyin had already agreed to be the daughter-in-law of the Liang family, Xu Zhimo's pursuit naturally failed. In 1924, when the Indian poet Tagore visited China, Xu Zhimo and Lin Huiyin accompanied him and performed Tagore's short play "Zidra" on the same stage. Seeing each other every day without saying anything can only increase your troubles. In 1927, Lin Huiyin and Liang Sicheng became engaged, and married in Canada the following year.
In the years before his death, Xu Zhimo lived a very bad life. Lu Xiaoman, who came from a social flower background, was profligate, and Xu Zhimo had to teach at Peking University at the invitation of his old friend Hu Shizhi to earn some extra money to supplement his wife's expenses. In order to save money, he asked a friend to get a free ticket for a postal plane, and often flew around Shanghai, Nanjing, and Beijing. In fact, Xu Zhimo originally had no classes in Beijing, but this evening, Lin Hui wanted to give a lecture on Chinese architectural art to foreign envoys in the Peking Union and Small Auditorium, xu Zhimo had to go to the scene, so he boarded the Jinan postal plane from Nanjing to Beijing. As a result, on November 19, 1931, the flying machine fogged and died in a crash.
The one who had a great influence on Xu Zhimo was Lu Xiaoman. Lu Xiaoman, a native of Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, died at the French Sacred Heart Academy in Beiping. Since childhood, he has been intelligent and lively, with solid roots in Chinese and Western literature, and he is also fluent in music and painting, and has novels and scripts. His father, Lu Bao, studied in Japan in his early years, was a proud protégé of the famous Japanese prime minister Itō Hirobumi, and served as the Tax Department for more than 20 years after returning to China. Xiao Man spent his childhood in a kindergarten in Shanghai, and only followed his father to Beijing when he was eight or nine years old. In 1920, wang geng was chosen by his parents as his son-in-law. Wang Geng studied at the United States Military Academy at West Point, and was a friend of Eisenhower's, working in the Peking Police Department. Lu Xiaoman is lively and active, but his husband is rigorous and measured, does not smile, and maintains the style of a soldier. Xu Zhimo and Lu Xiaoman met at the Beiping Social Field around the winter of 1924 or the spring of 1925. This period of time was when Lin Hui's heart had been decided and Xu Zhimo was extremely empty. Yu Dafu said: "Loyal and soft as a small man, warm and sincere like Shima, when they meet together, they naturally have to emit sparks and burn into one piece, where can they still take care of the Gang Changlun Sect?" Where else to take care of the patriarchal family style? When this matter is becoming the subject of conversation in Beijing's social society, I admire Shima's innocence and Xiao man's bravery. "Later, after several twists and turns, a lover finally became a family member. The most interesting thing is the wedding ceremony, which is really a "weird wedding". They asked Liang Rengong to witness their marriage, but Liang Gong refused, Shima insisted, and Rengong promised to let him perform a reprimand at the wedding. Xu Zhimo agreed. I don't want Liang Rengong to really scold the two people in public and can't lift their heads. "Xu Zhimo, you are an impetuous person, so you have no achievements in learning, and you are a person who is not dedicated, so that you divorce and remarry... In the future, it is necessary to change the past and re-establish the new person. After the grand ceremony, Xu Zhimo and Lu Xiaoman hurried south, settled in Shanghai, and lived a god-like life.
It is recorded that after the new marriage, Xu Zhimo would go to the flower market every morning to buy a bouquet of flowers and offer them to the bed of his beloved wife. Lu Xiaoman asked the farmer to stretch out his hands and open his mouth to eat, and Xu Zhimo hired a cook, a coachman, and a maid; Lu Xiaoman wanted to go to the theater to perform Yue opera; Xu Zhimo not only accompanied him, but also appeared on the stage with his wife and sang a play with his wife; Lu Xiaoman's long-term life was unrestrained and unrestrained, causing "heartache", some people suggested smoking "big smoke" to relieve pain, and Xu Zhimo also agreed to buy it.
Xiao Man's profligacy naturally made Shima unable to make ends meet, especially because he divorced and remarried, angered his father, and cut off financial support. Xu Zhimo gradually experienced the difficulty of management. He worked hard to create, teach, and later spend several college classes still unable to make up for his family, and even survived on loans. In particular, what struck Shima hard was that Xiao Man met a Yue opera student named Weng Ruiwu, and the two of them were like glue, smoking on the smoke bed all day. Xu Zhimo patiently advised many times, and instead of changing, Xiao Man made a big fuss.
The combination of Lu Xiaoman and Xu Zhimo is undoubtedly a tragedy. Xu Zhimo's simplicity, romance, and lack of control, Lu Xiaoman's blind willfulness and wind flow, so that their acacia can not last long. Interestingly, Xu Zhimo's death awakened Lu Xiaoman's soul. Since then, he quit smoking, expelled Weng Ruiwu, observed the festival with green lanterns, thought about it behind closed doors, and immersed himself in the poetry of Luo Zhimo, which was later compiled into the "Complete Works of Xu Zhimo". The article "Compiling the Testament to Answer the King's Heart" in the whole collection can also see Lu Xiaoman's remorse.