At the beginning of the 20th century, Tianjin was a prosperous area in Sino-foreign trade, and the European wind and rain and feudal dross tore apart this emerging city that was "the first to gain the wind".
At that time, the Tianjin newspaper "Social Education Weekly" once described the social situation of this major trade port in a report: "Its habits are extravagant and extravagant, and its people are greedy and shameless, and they do not take their honor as high." Self-government punishment has fallen, and the wind is becoming more and more fierce, although it is powerful, Mo Zhiyi is also. ”
In 1900, the sister of the Zhang family sisters, Ligu, was born, and three years later, her sister Chungu was born. The two sisters spent more than ten years of their lives in Tianjin in the luxurious environment at that time.
Ligu and Chungu's father, named Zhang Shaoting, was originally from Nanpi County, fled to Wuqing in Tianjin when he was a teenager, working in a porcelain shop surnamed Jin, and was later recruited by the shopkeeper as a son-in-law and inherited the shop business. However, the good times did not last long, and the porcelain shop was destroyed by the war when the Eight-Power Alliance captured Tianjin. Zhang Shaoting had to find another way to make a living, rented a rickshaw to become a rickshaw driver in the car dealership, and his wife Jin also did some chores for people to spin and weave fabrics and wash clothes, and the family struggled on the edge of survival.
Day after day, the rich are intoxicated by song and dance, while the poor are struggling with the hardships of survival. In addition, there is a special category of people who tirelessly carry the suffering of the poor for the pleasure of the rich. Pimps are the most notorious of these people.
Thirteen years later, the man of the family, Zhang Shaoting, died of illness under the torture of life. But the widow Kim showed the tenacity of a toiling people, and she took her children to sew for a living, taking on the heavy responsibility of leading their children to survive tenaciously.
However, long before Zhang Shaoting died of illness, the fate of the two sisters Ligu and Chungu had already been planted with the seeds of tragedy.
Zhang Shaoting is an honest person who is "pedantic and easy to deceive", this kind of person pulls a rickshaw as usual is a kind of poor business, often hard-working all day long the car fare does not even meet the car rent, as for the payment of the car is even impossible.
Therefore, after Zhang Shaoting lost the rented rickshaw one day in 1910, the aggressive demand of the owner of the car shop for compensation for the rickshaw almost crushed this poor and weak family struggling at the bottom of society.
It's not just despair that accompanies danger, sometimes it's an insurmountable routine! People either stick to the routine or choose to solve the trap with their lives.
Ligu and Chungu, the two sisters, finally chose the latter.
Wang Baoshan, who has always been mixed in with the people at the bottom to "eliminate disasters and solve difficulties" for people, suddenly found that Zhang Shaoting, a "cold stove" he had known for a long time, was "hot", so he went forward to make an idea for him to compensate for the rickshaw. He said to Mr. and Mrs. Zhang Shaoting: "It is useless for you two to cry, it is better to give your two daughters to others, so that you can use the dowry to compensate for the rickshaw." ”
So under the "matchmaking" of Wang Baoshan, the eldest daughter Ligu was promised to the eldest son of a man named Dai Fu. The Dai family is a merchant family, why does this rich room with considerable family wealth look up to poor women?
The desperate Zhang Shaoting had no time to think about it, he obeyed Wang Baoshan's arrangement, promised LiGu to Dai's parents and made a marriage contract, and used the dowry to relieve the family's nesting danger, but the real price was the two lives of a pair of daughters six years later.
Shortly after Zhang Shaoting's death in 1913, Dai's wealthy wife Ma Shi warmly invited the Jin mother and daughter to live in the Dai family as a family relative. The Jin family did not do so, so they took their children to live in the Dai family temporarily, but the Dai family's hospitality was quite different.
Ma used the brothel song to make Ligu and Chungu learn to sing, and repeatedly persuaded the widowed Kim to remarry. It was only then that the Jin family discovered that what the Dai family was doing was actually a pimp business. The previous marriage contract and this time's acceptance are all false intentions, and it is the true chapter to send the Kim mother and daughter to the prostitution gate.
Wear the rich, and keep prostitutes for the profession. His men specially lured the women of the good family, taught them to re-sell brothels after being tunes from the kiln of songs. This is the Dai family's way of making money, and Wang Baoshan, who first came forward, was the small pimp under the big pimp.
Discovering the truth of the matter, the Kim family, after nearly a year of hard work, finally rented a house next to Senfuku-ji Temple, and broke through the barrier and left the Dai family with their children. However, the eldest daughter Ligu was forcibly left behind by Dai Fu, and the Jin clan went to the Dai family several times to ask for ligu to be taken back, but they were blocked by Dai's wife Ma Shi and were beaten many times.
In the end, with the help of the neighbors, the Kim family asked the police to take their daughter Ligu back from the Dai family, but the Dai family was not willing to give up the fat meat to the mouth.
Dai Fu falsely claimed that the two sisters, Ligu and Chungu, had entered into marriage contracts with their eldest and second sons respectively, and asked Wang Baoshan to testify, so he sued them to the Tianjin Local Court and the Directly Subordinate High Court on the grounds that the Jin clan repented of their marriage. In the end, the Zhili High Court accepted the marriage contract certificate provided by Dai Fu and ruled that both the sisters Ligu and Chungu should be returned to Dai Fu.
The Kim also accused Dai Fu of being a prostitute, but the courtroom said: "This matter, the other matter, is not related."
In 1916, Dai Fu won the battle and nominally sent Wang Baoshan to marry the second daughter during the engagement period of the Jin merchants, in fact, he coerced and seduced, that is, to rob Ming.
The helpless Kim family did not want a pair of daughters to enter the tiger's mouth, she said to the two sisters: "When the time comes, fight with them for the mother." ”
But the two sisters had already thought of a countermeasure in their hearts, and they said to their mother: "The father dies and the brother is young, and the mother has misfortune, who cares for the brothers?" It is the blood of my father who eats and the sin of the daughter. Women and others have to live with themselves, and mothers should not think of it. ”
That night, Ligu and Chungu took match phosphorus and took it with kerosene. In the early morning of the next day, the 16-year-old sister Ligu had a poisonous hair and died in great pain, and the neighbors rushed to bring the antidote to the 13-year-old sister Chungu. However, Chungu refused to take it, and said, "My sister has already decided this ambition when she is judged, even if I can avoid humiliation, I will not fail my sister to live as an only child", and soon died of poisoning in pain.
After the tragedy, the incident was reported by the local "Social Education Weekly" and "Ta Kung Pao" newspapers and periodicals, which caused a sensation in Tianjin and aroused the attention of the whole society. All walks of life have sent a tie to the sisters of the festival -
Tianjin Xiucai Liu Daoyuan: Directly subordinate to the High Court, the Heavenly Harm, the Nanpi Zhang Clan Double Spirit Daughter killed Chengren.
Tianjin Guangsheng Xizi Society: There is ambition to become, red dust is difficult to dye frost festival; this heart does not die, and the blue blood buries the sister flowers.
Tianjin General Chamber of Commerce: Living in a turbid world and being alone, sisters fighting to the death with one heart; hanging ghosts under the Nine Plains, Qiankun Haoqi Bingqiu.
Celebrities from the Two Sisters' hometown of Nanpi Zhang also came forward to seek justice for them at that time. Zhang Ruiyin, who was living in Tianjin at the time (who had served as the capital of the Qing Dynasty, the governor of Shanxi, and the inspector of Zhejiang), and Zhang Quan, the eldest son of Zhang Zhidong, belonged to the same clan as Zhang Shaoting.
These two men took the lead in contacting the gentry Zhang Fengyuan, Yan Xiu, Gao Lingwen, Hua Shikui, etc., to put pressure on the Directly Subordinate High Court and to raise funerals for the two sisters on the other. In the end, the Zhili High Court changed the original judgment and arrested Dai Fu, Ma Shi, Wang Baoshan, and others.
The funeral of the two sisters was also held with the participation of the gentry industry and commerce, the police department band, the police circles, the business group, the sports club and other circles, and received more than 200 paintings and more than 100,000 yuan of ceremonies. Xu Shichang, a former Qing widow and later The President of the Republic of China, erected a monument to the little sisters and personally wrote the inscription.
However, in addition to The Deafening Lian Lian of Tianjin Xiucai Liu Daoyuan, the two sisters were forced to fight to the death by the ruthless world, but were packaged by a group of Qing Dynasty widows as the moral restoration of the feudal dynasty.
In fact, if the death of the two sisters does not have the function of this layer of restoration, it is very likely that it will become a bad news after a splash in the social sound.
For example, Xu Shichang wrote the deeds of the two sisters into the "Biography of the Ancestors of the Great Qing Dynasty", and used "The Ugly March" and "March 17th of the Ying Chen" to represent the time, avoiding the Republic of China and the Common Era, which can be described as doing everything possible to relate them to the "Great Qing".
Zhang Ruiyin also remembered the "Imperial Qing" in the inscription he wrote, beginning with "The fifth year of the abdication of the Emperor Qing, the second daughter of Emperor Wuzong, Bo Li and Zhongchun, died in Jinmen with a fierce spirit."
Zhang's inscription also contains the phrase "Although Qiankun is not, but my way is not poor", which means that although the Qing Dynasty was overthrown, the hope of maintaining the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Qing Dynasty will always exist. What is even more interesting is the signature of this inscription, the author signed it as "Great Qing Supervision Yushi Clan Ji Father Ruiyin", and the writer signed it as "Haozhi Ronglu Doctor Cabinet Cabinet Cabinet Tianjin Huashikui", full of feudal atmosphere.
The two sisters Ligu and Chungu use death to speak for themselves, but in the interpretation of this voice, Xu Shichang, Zhang Ruiyin and others can't forget their "Huangqing".