Mingyuan is an important presence in Shanghai's high society, and Yan Youyun is known as "Shanghai's last celebrity".
From this point, we can see that her family looks extraordinary, and when we go to understand her life, we will inevitably talk about love.
She lived in the world for 112 years and was rich all her life, but she also had an unwashable stain, that is, her marriage to Gu Weijun.
Yan Youyun
Grandfather Yan Xinhou, who was good friends with Li Hongzhang, was a famous industrialist in the Qing Dynasty, and his father Yan Zijun was also a famous businessman, born in such a rich merchant family, from an early age, he was worry-free about food and clothing.
As the youngest girl of the Yan family, she was loved by thousands of people and was destined to live a life that was not an ordinary person.
As she grew up, the Yan family's foundation was also all over Shanghai, she wore a cheongsam every day, but she never looked repetitive, never showed her face, and lived exquisitely and elegantly.
The Yan family is open-minded, and his father never hinders the girls of the Yan family from studying, so the three daughters of the Yan family are admitted to famous schools, and even Yan Youyun was admitted to Hujiang University, and later transferred to Fudan University.
It took her only two years to complete the four-year course, which shows that she is excellent.
In 1927, Fudan University began to recruit female students, 22-year-old Yan Youyun, with a bumpy figure and exquisite appearance, as soon as he entered the school, he attracted the attention of everyone present, and an elegant temperament pulled the hearts of others.
Such Yan Youyun naturally attracts many suitors, and her vision is naturally higher than ordinary people.
In 1928, she met the diplomat Yang Guangxi, the love of a talented woman, and also a sought after existence.
Yan Youyun and Yang Guangxuan were married
He loves her elegance, she loves his youth and talent, after marriage the two people are sweet and sweet, Yan Youyun has also become a good wife and mother, when her husband is on a business trip, he packs his bags for his husband, or accompanies him to run around, and later they raised three daughters.
In 1938, Yan Youyun followed her husband to settle in Manila, when the motherland was suffering from war, Yang Guangxin ran around for the motherland and actively collected donations, while Yan Youyun guarded the rear of the town when her husband was running, or a lamp in the middle of the night, or a bowl of hot porridge on the table, or entertained those foreign guests.
When everything was going well, disaster struck the family, and in 1942, the Japanese army captured Manila, taking away seven diplomats, including Yang Guangxing.
That year Yan Youyun was 37 years old, she had a hard time with her three children, and when her husband fell into distress, Yan Youyun ran around, and thus got to know Gu Weijun.
In 1959, the two people had a wedding and became husband and wife, when Gu Weijun was 71 years old and Yan Youyun was 54 years old.
After marriage, they lived very happily, but how much love there was in between, the two people's relationship was described as loving, rather than respecting each other.
She and Gu Weijun were together for 26 years until Gu Weijun died, but if it were not for Yan Youyun's careful care, I am afraid that Gu Weijun would live ten years less.
Yan Youyun and Gu Weijun
Their marriage seems perfect, but where in the world is there perfection?
In their marriage, there is still one person, she is Huang Huilan, Gu Weijun married four wives in his lifetime, and Huang Huilan is his third wife.
In Yan Youyun's autobiography, we read such a passage: Gu Weijun and I plan to get married immediately after he completes the divorce procedures.
This sentence can see the entanglement between the three of them.
Huang Huilan
Some people say that Huang Huilan has property in her family, while Gu Weijun has power, one is greedy for property, and the other is greedy for the name of the ambassador's wife, so their marriage is a marriage without feelings.
At first, the marriage of two people has a clear goal, but at the end, the woman still loses, and how can she win by making a bet with her heart?
Eventually, the once fashionable woman agreed to separate, took a dog, and went to the United States to live alone.
Later, Huang Huilan sent a book, it is her own autobiography, from the book we did not see Yan Youyun's name, the world praised her atmosphere, but if the detail is sad, the changes in the people around her, perhaps she has long been aware, but do not say, I thought I could whitewash Taiping, but did not think that the other party tore off the face.
Two comparable women, one became the next wife, one became the third child, how can there be a winner?