Since the publication of "Cultural Journey" in 1992, Yu Qiuyu has become a phenomenon figure in the Chinese literary world, and every collection of his essays, such as "A Sigh of a Thousand Years" and "Walkers Without Frontiers", will become a bestseller sought after by the market.
Being able to write dry prose into popular readings, in recent decades, I am afraid that only Yu Qiuyu has this ability. From this point of view alone, he should occupy an important place in the contemporary Chinese literary scene.
Yu Qiuyu's literary achievements are indisputable, but when it comes to his private life, it is quite controversial. Because he had cheated in his first marriage, his current wife, the famous Huangmei opera performance artist Ma Lan, was directly accused of being "Little Three".
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="4" Yu Qiuyu's first marriage >: a foreign man climbed a local woman</h1>
Yu Qiuyu is a native of Yuyao, Zhejiang Province, born on August 23, 1946, aged 75. He had two marriages, the first wife was named Li Hong, and the second wife was the above-mentioned Huangmei opera ma lan.
Although Li Hong is not as famous as Ma Lan, she is also a remarkable woman, but it is a pity that she was not born at the right time.
Born in 1951, Li Hong is 5 years younger than Yu Qiuyu, and the two almost became alumni, and thus became friends. Yu Qiuyu studied at the Shanghai Theater Academy as an undergraduate and stayed at the school after graduation.
In 1974, Yu Qiuyu was responsible for the enrollment of the play, and just happened to meet Li Hong, a fresh candidate who applied for the play. Yu Qiuyu was nearly 30 years old at the time, and in that era, he already belonged to the "older leftover man", Li Hong had just turned 23 years old, and he had also reached the age of marriage.
However, the first meeting between the two did not spark any sparks, if Li Hong had not been admitted to the drama because of the family composition, this marriage may not exist. For Li Hong, whether this is a good thing or a bad thing is really difficult to say.
After Li Hong was brushed off by the drama, Yu Qiuyu was very sympathetic to her, often chatting with her and enlightening her. 23-year-old Li Hong is young and beautiful, and gradually, Yu Qiuyu fell in love with this girl and launched a passionate pursuit of her.
After several contacts, Li Hong found that Yu Qiuyu was a very talented person and also liked him, and the relationship between the two progressed smoothly, and soon reached the point of talking about marriage.
It was also at this time that a real problem was put on the table. Li Hong is a native of Shanghai, but Yu Qiuyu is a poor boy from abroad, and Li Hong's parents look down on him and force their daughter to break up with him. But Li Hong carried the pressure of the family and married Yu Qiuyu 3 years later.
When they got married, Yu Qiuyu's career had not yet improved, and she could not afford to buy a house in Shanghai, Li Hong did not care about this, the little couple squeezed into the cubicle room where they could not cook, and usually ate in their respective canteens, completely unlike the newlyweds should look.
In 1984, Li Hong gave birth to a daughter for Yu Qiuyu, which is also Yu Qiuyu's only child so far. After the birth of his daughter, Yu Qiuyu ushered in the first career peak, and in just a few years, he was promoted from ordinary teacher to vice dean, and then to dean.
At the same time, his wife Li Hong's career has stagnated, and there is even a risk of going downhill, because the unit efficiency of her work is getting worse and worse every year, and Li Hong is worried that if she continues like this, she will lose her job, so she began to find another way.
One day in 1989, a friend who returned to Shanghai from Shenzhen to visit relatives told Li Hong that Shenzhen was developing well and that the salary was several times that of Shanghai, and invited Li Hong to work with her.
Li Hong was feeling anxious about things at work, and when she heard that there was such a good thing, she agreed without even thinking about it. But after Yu Qiuyu knew, he strongly opposed his wife going south, and his idea was very simple: first, going to Shenzhen may not be able to get the high salary imagined; second, when his wife is gone, his 5-year-old daughter can only be taken care of by his grandparents, which is not good for the growth of the child.
Yu Qiuyu's opposition did not make Li Hong change her mind, she was bent on developing her career, and eventually sent her daughter to her parents' house, and then followed her friends south to Shenzhen.
On the way to Shenzhen, Li Hong should be happy, and her heart must be full of hope, but only three years later, when she looks back on this choice, I am afraid that she will regret it a lot.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="6" > the middle palace was empty, and Li Hong went south to give Ma Lan a chance</h1>
When she went to Shenzhen to work, Li Hong and Yu Qiuyu had been married for 10 years, and her daughter was more than 5 years old. It is said that there will be a "seven-year itch" between husband and wife, and the marriage state of Li Hong and Yu Qiuyu at that time can indeed be described as "unsatisfactory".
They have been married for many years and have long lost the passion they had when they were in love, and the parting of their careers has made the common language between the two less and less.
What made Li Hong even more unexpected was that long before she went to Shenzhen, Yu Qiuyu had already met a woman named Ma Lan, who destroyed her marriage a few years later, took away her husband, and made it impossible for her daughter to continue to enjoy a complete family.
In 1986, the 40-year-old Yu Qiuyu met the 24-year-old Ma Lan, don't look at her young age, if you talk about fame, she was far above Yu Qiuyu at that time.
Born in 1962, Ma Lan began to systematically study Huangmei opera at the age of 13, graduated from the Huangmei Opera Academy in Anhui at the age of 18, and stayed in school to work. The following year, at the age of 19, she went to Hong Kong to perform the classic song "Female Pony Horse" of HuangMei Opera, which received unanimous praise from the audience and made a name for herself.
In 1982, director Yang Jie invited her to play Yin Wenjiao, the mother of Tang Monk in "Journey to the West". At that time, many people were proud to act in "Journey to the West", but Ma Lan was an exception, because she did not have to be famous by acting in "Journey to the West", but she was already popular all over the country by singing Huangmei opera.
In 1984, the 22-year-old Ma Lan also appeared on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala. Two years later, she first met Yu Qiuyu, who was only the vice president of the Shanghai Theater Academy at that time, although she had a certain social status, she did not have such a high popularity as later, and she did not emerge in the literary world.
Through the above combing, it is not difficult to find that when Yu Qiuyu and Ma Lan met, it was not a successful man who everyone imagined to face an ordinary woman, the two can be described as equal in strength, and Ma Lan, who is 16 years younger than Yu Qiuyu, can be said to be "slightly better".
Therefore, when they fell in love later, they could not simply look at it from a secular perspective, let alone take it for granted that Ma Langao had climbed the Yu Autumn Rain.
Yu Qiuyu and Ma Lan met li hong to go south to Shenzhen, there were 3 years in between, and whether the two developed a close relationship in these 3 years is unknown to the outside world.
But what is certain is that during Li Hong's work in Shenzhen, Yu Qiuyu has become a couple of lovers with Ma Lan behind her back.
In 1992, Li Hong, who had suddenly returned from Shenzhen, accidentally found a letter to Ma Lan on her husband's desk. The great writer is the great writer, and this letter does not mention a "love", but it is full of love, and anyone can see that the relationship between the letter writer and the recipient is extraordinary.
Li Hong was immediately dumbfounded, it turned out that when he was not in Shanghai, Yu Qiuyu already had someone else. Later, she found that the object of Yu Qiuyu's affair was actually the popular Huangmei actor Ma Lan, and her heart was even more desperate.
Whether it is posture, career, social status or fame, Li Hong knows that she cannot be compared with Ma Lan, and her only chip is her 8-year-old daughter.
Unfortunately, when Li Hong begged Yu Qiuyu not to divorce in the face of her daughter, Yu Qiuyu refused. This may not be surprising, because since the divorce, Yu Qiuyu has rarely mentioned his daughter, and even if he later became famous for writing books, the outside world knew very little about his daughter.
The determined Yu Qiuyu made Li Hong die, that is, in that year, the two officially went through the divorce procedures, and it was not long before Yu Qiuyu married Ma Lan into the door.
Some people say that it is Li Hong who went to Shenzhen to work to give Ma Lan the opportunity, if she stays in Shanghai, Yu Qiuyu may not be empathetic.
This view may be correct, but it may not be true, because Yu Qiuyu and Ma Lan are more like spiritual partners than ordinary carnal love, even if Li Hong stays by Yu Qiuyu's side and regards her husband as strict, I am afraid that she may not be able to stop his heart.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="8" Yu Qiuyu in his later years >: Still sorry for his ex-wife Li Hong</h1>
Years later, when talking about his first marriage, Yu Qiuyu, a great writer who has become famous, personally admitted that he still has a deep apology for his ex-wife Li Hong, but also stressed that his love for Ma Lan has never changed.
Since 1992, Yu Qiuyu and Ma Lan have been married for nearly 30 years, and they have long passed the "seven-year itch".
For so many years, they have not given birth to children, but they have always loved each other deeply, watching each other grow old day by day, which may be "love that has stood the test of time".
I remember that one year, mr. Jin Yong, a famous martial artist, was once ridiculed by a young man in Beijing, who said that "Zhejiang people can't write articles", to which Jin Yong retorted: Even if I can't write articles, there are Still Lu Xun and Yu Qiuyu in Zhejiang.
Lu Xun was Jin Yong's predecessor and recognized as a great writer, and it was natural for Jin Yong to carry him out to fill the face of the People of Zhejiang.
However, Yu Qiuyu was only a descendant of Jin Yong, and Jin Yong mentioned him side by side with Lu Xun and was willing to bow down to him, which was enough to show his appreciation for Yu Qiuyu's writing. Even Mr. Jin Yong looked up to Yu Qiuyu so highly, which showed his superiority.
Cheating in marriage is a stain of life that Yu Qiuyu can never erase, but no matter what, his contribution to the Chinese literary scene is obvious to all.
For a writer, whether his work is more important or his private morality is more important, presumably it is a matter of opinion. Moreover, Yu Qiuyu and Ma Lan are not ordinary women who are common to successful men cheating on ordinary women, so his cheating should probably not be simply looked at with a secular eye.
But in any case, in the whole incident, the most pitiful person is Li Hong. I think that when she married Yu Qiuyu, a "poor boy from out of town" despite her parents' objections, she followed him without complaint to live in a harsh grid and gave birth to a daughter for him, but she was treated like this by her husband, and the fate was simply unfair to her.