Many cultural celebrities who have experienced the Republic of China have had extramarital affairs, such as Lu Xun, Guo Moruo, Yu Dafu, Shen Congwen, Mao Dun, Chen Duxiu, Xu Beihong, Liu Haisu, Cao Yu, Yang Zhensheng, Lao She and so on.
Lao Qin felt that this was because, in ancient China, women had no social status, marrying chickens with chickens, marrying dogs with dogs, from one end to the other. And how many women a man can marry is not limited by the law, and many high-ranking officials and nobles have a large number of wives and concubines in their families.
The great master Gu Hongming married both a wife and a concubine, and was satisfied, so there was a wonderful metaphor of a teapot with several teacups.
However, in 1912, the first year of the Republic of China, the Provisional Law of the Republic of China clearly stipulated that China would practice monogamy.
In this way, men who had married wives and concubines before 1912 generally did not make any life scandals, and no matter how many concubines he took, everyone was accustomed to it.
However, after 1912, the law no longer allowed concubines, and some talented, capable, and financially supported celebrities still had the idea of "teapots and teacups" in their minds, and extramarital affairs would occur.
For example, Lao Qin wrote "In 1993, the poet Wang Jingzhi broke the news that Wang Yingxia had an affair with Dai Kasa, and Yu Dafu's descendants expressed dissatisfaction" Yu Dafu, who was a prodigal son without a line, he married the original Sun Quan in 1921 by the parents of both sides, originally married happily, raised a son and two daughters, but in 1927 he met Wang Yingxia, coveted Wang Yingxia's beauty, came to a fake divorce, cheated Wang Yingxia, regarded Wang Yingxia as a concubine, honored Sun Quan as his wife, and wrote a poem to compare Wang Yingxia to Su Dongpo's concubine Chaoyun.
Yu Dafu's extramarital affair is a kind of representative; Lu Xun's extramarital love is also a kind of representative.
Lu Xun strongly opposed his arranged marriage with Juan and never touched Juan, so his relationship with Xu Guangping should be blessed.
There is also a type of person who may not have the concept of "wife and concubine" in their hearts, but they clearly want to eat from the bowl and worry about the pot.
The conduct of such people is undoubtedly to be discounted.
Lao Qin wrote earlier in the "Qian Zhongshu with his narrow insight to ridicule Shen Congwen, but Shen Congwen wrote is true", Qian Zhongshu laughed at Shen Congwen according to his own life, and the result was a joke. But then again, Qian Zhongshu and his wife Yang Dai love each other and are unswerving in this life, and from this point of view, he is entitled to ridicule and make fun of Shen Congwen's private life. That Shen Congwen in order to get the famous bridesmaid Zhang Zhaohe, stalking and beating, Sven swept the floor. However, when the beauty arrived, he turned back and cheated on the female fan Gao Qingzi, which was somewhat disgraceful.
The situation of Lao She and Shen Congwen have a fight.
However, due to Lao She's honest appearance, timidity and fear, and his reputation is very loud, with the reputation of "People's Artist", his extramarital affair is not well known to people now.
Lao She's original wife, Hu Xiaoqing, is an intellectual woman, a graduate of the Chinese Literature Department of Beijing Normal University, who is good at Danqing and calligraphy.
In the early spring of 1930, Lao She returned from overseas, went to Beijing Normal School to discuss literature, met Hu Huqing, kept writing letters, and wrote more than a hundred letters in a row, so that in April 1931, Before Hu Xuanqing graduated, Lao She was engaged to him, and on July 29, the wedding was held in a storm.
After marriage, Hu Xuanqing taught her son to follow Lao She to various places and teach in large and small normal colleges, but Lao She's orders were obeyed.
After the outbreak of the All-out War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in 1937, Lao She was elected as the executive director and director of the General Affairs Department of the All-China Literary and Art Circles Anti-Enemy Association, and moved west to Chongqing with the "Literary Association" in July of the following year. Hu Haoqing was ordered by Lao She to take his 4-year-old eldest daughter, 2-year-old son, and younger daughter under 3 months old, back to Beiping to take care of Lao She's mother.
Due to the busy affairs of the "Cultural Association," Zhou Enlai, then deputy secretary of the Yangtze River Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and deputy director of the Political Department of the Military Commission of the National Government, arranged for Deng Yingchao's good friend Zhao Qingge to become Lao She's secretary.
Lao She claimed that he "always felt constrained when he saw women", but Zhao Qingge was young and beautiful, and he could write and paint, and he fell in love with Zhao Qingge at once.
How does a rotten street song come about? "Inexplicably, I like you, deeply in love with you, no reason and no reason ..."
The song makes no sense.
There is never unprovoked liking in the world, and there is no unprovoked hate.
For a strange person, without understanding his (her) family background, temperament, knowledge, talent and other aspects of the situation, if you have love when you meet, it is definitely because of his (her) appearance that attracts you.
We often say that Bai Suzhen returned to Fanchen after a thousand years to find Xu Xian to repay the favor, if Bai Suzhen became not a beautiful woman, but an ugly village girl, then it was not revenge but revenge.
On the other hand, if Xu Xian was not a handsome little handsome man, Bai Suzhen's heart of gratitude might be extinguished.
In short, all the legends about beautiful love in the world, the male and female protagonists must be handsome and beautiful, otherwise the story is not beautiful.
When Lao She lived with Zhao Qingge, he was 40 years old and Zhao Qingge was 25 years old.
Lao She's love for Zhao Qingge is like an old house on fire, burning, vigorous, oblivious, forgetting everything in the world, what resistance, what wives and children, old and young, all left behind.
The cohabitation of Lao She and Zhao Qingge is, in the words of the writer Lin Jinlan, already an "open secret".
Regarding this, Liu Yiju, Liang Shiqiu and others have mentioned it in their works, and everyone admires Lao She's boldness and openness.
On October 28, 1943, Hu Haoqing and his three children came to Chongqing from Beiping.
The poet Niu Han recalled that he indulged in the wind and snow in lao she, did not know in advance that Hu Haoqing's mother and son came to Chongqing, he was shocked to hear about this matter during the meal, as if he woke up in a dream, and the chopsticks in his hand almost fell to the ground.
Zhao Qingge already knew that Lao She had a husband with a wife, and she agreed to live with Lao She, which must have been promised by Lao She.
At this time, seeing Lao She's six gods and no masters, helpless and helpless, he was extremely disdainful, packed up his luggage, and went to Shanghai by himself.
After Lao She placed Hu Huqing's mother and son, his soul did not guard the house and "chased" him to Shanghai.
Zhao Qingge saw through Lao She's cowardice and hypocrisy.
What she said to Lao She in Shanghai, we don't know.
However, from the words she said to the hero in the novel "Infinite Sorrow of Falling Leaves" written by her with strong autobiographical color - "Unless we go to the river together, we can escape from reality", it can be seen that she has remorse for this evil relationship, and wants Lao She and her to emulate Jiao Zhongqing and Liu Lanzhi in "Peacock Southeast Flying" for love.
Lao She was frightened.
But it's not completely dead-hearted either.
In 1946, he was invited by the US State Department to give lectures in the United States, during which he constantly wrote letters to Zhao Qingge, pointing out the heavens and the earth, and swearing an oath to the mountains and the sea.
In 1948, he also wrote a letter claiming that he had bought a house in Manila, Philippines, and asked Zhao Qingge to elope with him to settle there.
elope?
What Zhao Qingge wants is a bright and upright love, a bright and upright marriage.
She looked down on Lao She's stubbornness and lowliness, and resolutely refused.
Lao She finally understood that sneaky love would not bear fruit.
He cried bitterly and was determined to return to his family and live a good life with Hu Haoqing.
But he did not expect that his crazy and open extramarital affair had broken Hu Xiaoqing's heart.
Lao Qin specially added that Hu Haoqing officially took Bai Shi as a teacher in 1950, and was taught by the fingers of the old man of Bai Shi, and his painting skills improved by leaps and bounds, and his career was booming, and in 1958, he was hired by the Beijing Chinese Painting Academy and became a first-class artist. After that, he successively served as the executive director of the Chinese Painting Research Association, the member of the Chinese Beauty Association, the member of the Chinese Book Association, and the consultant of the Beijing Literary Association.
In 1966, Lao She, who was in a mess of love, career, and family life, was full of despair about life, and on the morning of August 24, he handed over his blood-stained clothes and a letter to Zhou Enlai to Hu Haoqing, and left the house.
Hu Xiaoqing should have known that he had gone to seek short-sightedness, but he did not stop it, which showed that his heart was as dead as ashes.
After Lao She committed suicide in The Sunken Lake of Taiping Lake, Zhao Qingge wrote 5 collections of reminiscences, which involved characters such as Hong Shen, An E, Shen Ying, Guo Moruo, Mao Dun, Lu Xiaoman, etc., but never said a word about Lao She.
However, Zhao Qingge had shown Niu Han and others a number of love letters written to her by Lao She.
Niu Han said that in fact, in 1985, after Zhao Qingge saw Qin Dejun's article "A Love Affair with Mao Dun", he considered writing a story about her and Lao She. However, Deng Yingchao wrote to Zhao Qingge on July 26, 1985, saying that Qin Dejun's writing of a book exposing her relationship with Mao Dun was "not only boring, but also shameless."
Zhao Qingge therefore dispelled this idea and burned more than 80 love letters written to her by Lao She, determined to rot this evil fate in his stomach and not say anything for the rest of his life.
This is also one of the reasons why people nowadays do not know much about this evil relationship.