Liu Shipei, a prodigy of the Republic of China, is a talented and talented teenager, who learned the "I Ching" at the age of 8, composed "Phoenix Immortal Flower" in two days at the age of 11, read the Four Books and Five Classics at the age of 12, entered school at the age of 17, took the exam at the age of 18, and lifted it at the age of 19. However, as the saying goes, "too hui is easy to die", Liu Shipei was less than 20 years old and had tuberculosis, and his hair was gray after he was 30 years old, and he died at the age of 36.
Looking back on his short life, he was obviously a literati, but he actively participated in the democratic revolutionary movement, but then he betrayed the revolution, first turning to DuanFang and then helping Yuan Shikai, and finally making himself discredited and discredited. And his two defections are inseparable from the promotion of his wife He Zhen.
Liu Shipei
In April and May 1903, when the 19-year-old Liu Shipei went out and did not return, his uncle Fuhui introduced He Jiarui's sister He Ban as his wife, and won the consent of Liu Shipei's mother, Lady Li. The he and Liu families were originally family friends, and He Ban's eldest brother married Liu Shipei's uncle's daughter and Liu Shipei's third cousin Liu Shipei as his wife, so He Liu married to be a relative.
In this way, the family set a marriage date for Liu, and it was ready to be completed in August of that year, but the groom was still in the field, so the Liu family sent people to look around, and finally found Liu Shipei in Shanghai. Liu Shipei was a filial piety in the family, and in that era, they all paid attention to the "words of the parents' fate matchmaker", so Liu Shipei obeyed his mother's will and consummated marriage with He Ban.
Although Liu Shipei was handsome in appearance but physically weak, his wife He Ban was beautiful in appearance, able to write poetry and painting, and his tutoring was very strict when he was in the middle of the boudoir, and after marriage, his mind was suddenly greatly liberated, and he went in and out with Liu Shipei.
After the two married, Liu Shipei returned to Shanghai with his wife. After He Ban arrived in Shanghai, he entered the patriotic women's club run by Cai Yuanpei and others. Perhaps she had been oppressed in a feudal family for too long in the past, and after receiving a new education, she gradually changed from an old-fashioned big-man bridesmaid to an extreme feminist, and also called herself a "feminist madman". To show equality between men and women, she changed her name from "Ban" to "Zhen".
He Zhen
He Zhen advocated women's liberation because of the "eye-witness heartache" of existing problems such as the "male and female class" and the social revolution, and in June 1907, He Zhen and others founded the "Tianyi Bao" in Japan. In her long article "The Theory of Women's Revenge", she comprehensively expounded the restrictions and suppression of women by traditional Chinese culture represented by Confucianism.
She once said: "Confucian scholarship is also the scholarship of killing people." At the same time, she advocated the equality of men and women in the text, believing that all men in the world are the great enemies of women, and women should take revenge, not only to "revolutionize the men who suppress women in the world", but also to "revolutionize the women who are willing to be suppressed in the world", and to "rise up and curse" those who are "willing to do polygamy" among women.
He Zhen also wrote "The Problem of Women's Liberation", arguing that the equality of men and women in Western society, women and men having the same right to vote and participate in the political power is not "true equality", and "fundamental reform" must be carried out in order for women to be truly liberated, that is, to take the road of equality for all, abolition of private property and government.
After He Zhen became a feminist, he also began to seek female liberation in his marriage. He Zhen held up the banner of "equality between men and women", often "roared at Liu Shipei with a lion in Hedong", and at every turn reprimanded and punished Liu Shipei, even adding fists and feet. Because of his fear of his wife like a tiger, Liu Shipei was known as "afraid of the internal taidou".
"The Age of Awakening" Liu Shipei
According to Zhang Ji's recollection, one night, Liu Shipei rushed into the Zhang family in a panic, and was breathing heavily, when suddenly there was an urgent knock at the door, and Liu Shipei suddenly looked miserable and trembled and said, "It must be my wife coming, what should I do?" I had to hide! After saying that, he rushed into the bedroom and hid under the bed. After Zhang Ji opened the door, he found that it was only one of his friends, so he went to the bedroom to let Liu Shipei out, but Liu Shipei thought that Zhang Ji was deceiving him and refused to come out no matter what, and finally Zhang Jisheng pulled Liu Shipei out, which showed how much Liu Shipei was afraid of He Zhen.
Liu Shipei's weak body could not help the wind, coupled with a cowardly personality, and obedience to He Zhen's orders, which naturally fueled He Zhen's arrogance, and he did not pay attention to Liu more and more, and even openly secretly had affairs with men under Liu's eyes.
In 1907, Liu Shipei was invited by Zhang Taiyan to travel east to Japan with He Zhen and his cousin Wang Gongquan. Liu Shipei buried his head in writing all day long, and he had lung disease, He Zhen was both famous and lustful, and his behavior was debauched, and Wang Gongquan was originally a lustful and powerful villain, so he took the opportunity to seduce He Zhen, so the two "resembled husband and wife, and declared that the husband and wife were not secret." Zhang Taiyan inadvertently discovered this, so he privately told Liu Shipei, who knew that Liu Shipei did not believe it, but instead scolded Zhang Taiyan for creating rumors, and even finally parted ways with Zhang Taiyan.
Zhang Taiyan
As for the reason for Liu Shipei's later defection, many people have speculated that it is related to He Zhen's excessive spending of money. Lin Bin once said: "Shi Pei's wife, He Zhen, is beautiful and fierce, and can also write, Shi Pei is afraid of the female power of his wife, and everything is obedient." She went to Japan with her teachers and often appeared in a social place, known as the Tokyo social flower. ”
He Zhen likes to socialize and love to dress up, these two hobbies must need a lot of money as a support, and because the revolutionary work is too hard, and can not make too much money, Liu Shipei can not provide He Zhen with a broad style, so He Zhen took the lead in defecting, was bribed by the governor of Liangjiang, Duan Fang, and then Liu Shipei also got on this black boat.
After Liu Shipei returned from Japan, Duanfang repeatedly showed favor to Liu and wanted to hire him to join the curtain, at first Liu Shipei flatly refused, and then Duanfang sent people to bribe He Zhen with heavy money, He Zhen was faced with Liu Shipei's soft words blowing pillow side wind, while "one cry, two troubles and three hangings" to threaten, soft and hard Liu Shipei finally compromised and joined the camp of Duanfang.
The rear-end fang led troops into Sichuan, Liu Shipei followed him to the west, and soon Duanfang was killed by the rebels in the new army, and the Sichuan Nationalist Party saved Liu Shipei's life because Liu Shipei wanted to kill Duanfang's staff.
In 1915, Yuan Shikai instructed Yang Du to organize a preparatory meeting to support Yuan's restoration and ascension to the throne as emperor. Fearing that people would not be convinced, the intellectuals opposed it, so they went around wooing the well-known literati and allowing them to write to persuade them to advance. Yang Du's method of wooing Liu Shipei was still to bribe He Zhen with heavy money, and He Zhen forced Liu to support Yuan Shikai.
This time, Liu Shipei not only accepted, but also went to Xie En fold, and published the "Theory of the State of the State" and the "Theory of the Retro Monarchy" to show loyalty. After that, the Hongxian imperial system lasted only eighty-three days before it failed, and the then prime minister Li Jingxi, well aware of Liu Shipei's talent, exonerated him from the crime and saved him from disaster.
In 1919, Liu Shipei died of illness at the age of 36, and He Zhen regretted all the pain he had inflicted on Liu Shipei, especially when he was bribed twice to force Liu to become an official, and both times he ended in failure, causing Liu Mingjie to be swept away, so he was deeply stimulated and mentally disturbed.
According to Liu Yazi's recollection: "After Uncle Shen's death, Zhijian (He Zhen) had a seizure of neurosis, and he cried bitterly at the gate of Peking University, and later cut his hair to become a nun, and his legal name was Xiao Gong, and then he did not know his whereabouts, and some people said that she had died." After Liu Shipei's death, He Zhen was able to recognize her mistakes and change her past wrongs, and she could also slightly alleviate her sins of hurting scholars.