Author: We invite the author Linglong Xin
I often hear female friends around me say: It's too hard to be a woman!
Love, marriage, family, career... It seems that any one of them may become a shackle to a woman and push her life into a cage of darkness.
But there is such a woman, who single-handedly promotes the process of China's material culture history, especially the history of cotton textiles. She had no love, no children, not even a name, but she lived a dazzling legend. She uses strength to deduce: the master is in the folk, and the woman should be self-reliant.
Born as a woman is more bumpy, only because I have not read the zodiac.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > like a fluttering, born to death</h1>
All the history books do not record her real name, only that her surname is Huang, and people honor her as Zodiac And Huang.
What woman doesn't have cardamom years? But if life is a deck of cards, she first got it in her hand, it was a mess.
In the fifth year of the Southern Song Dynasty, Huang Daobo was born in Wunijing Town, Songjiang (now Huajing Town, Shanghai), which was an eventful autumn of war and chaos, the Mongolian iron horse was menacing, the country's mountains and rivers were broken, and the people were not happy.
She was a girl from a poor family, and at the age of twelve or thirteen she was sold as a child bride. In feudal society, this is a common thing, and the child bride is raised by the in-laws and stays until she is formally married when she reaches adulthood, such as Dou E in "Dou E'e Grievance" and Wan Jun in Qiong Yao's drama. But they are still lucky, and they have been cared for by their in-laws.
Most of the child brides-in-law have a rainy life. When he was a child, he was a slave and a maid, and after marriage, he still did not receive respect and pity. Zodiac, apparently the latter.
From the threshold of stepping into this house, the little bride's she is like a speck of dust in the chaotic world, fate, firmly held in the palm of others.
Work every day. In ancient China, based on the small-scale peasant economy, advocating male and female weaving, adhering to the male and female masters, while the zodiac was both at home and outside the home, busy ploughing crops in the field during the day, returning to wash and cook rice to serve the family, and working hard at night to subsidize the family.
Endless toil, nothing, what makes the zodiac unbearable is the inhuman abuse of the in-laws and husbands. When things were slightly uncomfortable, they scolded her and beat her, and the whole family went into battle, pinching with their hands, kicking them with their feet, and sometimes copying tools, beating her all over her body. Hunger and confinement are even more common.
Domestic violence is really a woman's nightmare. To this day, there are still many women who suffer in silence and are powerless to resist.
As a child bride in feudal society, the situation of The Zodiac is obviously more difficult, she is illiterate and helpless, such a weak woman, in addition to succumbing to fate, what can she do?
After being beaten again by her in-laws, the zodiac curled up in a dark and cramped firewood room. The cold moonlight came through the crack in the door, and she looked at her wounds and examined her life.
Zodiac Po decided to flee, even if the road ahead was uncertain, it was better than sitting still. She dug a hole in the roof and climbed out with difficulty.
Resistance is the first chapter of the zodiac's life. At this moment, her female self-consciousness awakened and bravely choked the throat of fate.
The Shawshank Redemption says, "There is a bird that cannot be shut down, and every feather of it shines with the radiance of freedom." ”
If you don't admit your fate, you can change your life! A woman who is not favored by fate cannot admit to fate. Only by fighting hard can we have the opportunity to grasp the initiative in life.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > the weaver girl of tianya, cut the clouds in the moon</h1>
The night was dark, and the zodiac ran wildly. The heavens and the earth are great, where is her shelter?
The wounds on her body tore her heart and lungs, and the hunger in her abdomen was like a fiery fire, she came to the Huangpu River, the river wind hunted, there was no one in the four fields, only a few sea ships quietly moored on the shore, the zodiac heart crossed, jumped down.
At dawn, the captain of the ship came, and soon found the young girl hiding here, and hearing of her experience, the kind captain of the ship sighed and agreed to take her on a long journey.
The boat is on! The scenery of her hometown swept by quickly from behind, and the warm sunlight shone on the face of the zodiac, and she had tears in her eyes, as if she had been reborn.
Huang Daobo followed the ship to Yazhou (now Yaxian County, Hainan) at the southern tip of Hainan Island, and this beautiful land warmly accepted her and gave her hope of self-improvement. Wading through the river of suffering for the first half of his life, the zodiac officially took charge of his own destiny.
The second chapter of her life is played: enterprising, innovative.
Yazhou is the residence of the Li compatriots, the Li women are industrious and kind, good at spinning and weaving, and the zodiac is a person who can't stay idle, and after settling down, he works with them. She is intelligent by nature, and she learns modestly, absorbs their strengths, internalizes them into the nourishment for her own growth, and soon comes out of the blue.
Marx described the situation before the Industrial Revolution in Europe in Capital: "It is no easier to find a spinning worker who can spin two yarns at the same time than to find a two-headed man. ”
However, the Chinese zodiac did it, not two yarns, but three. She changed the pedal spinning wheel of spinning hemp single spindle single yarn at that time into a three-spindle three-spindle pedal cotton spinning wheel, and the work efficiency jumped three times that of the past. This technology is hundreds of years ahead of the West.
If you don't pay, you can't get what you get.
The success of the zodiac is not accidental, it is the study day and night, unremitting efforts, to win the reward of fate.
In the past few decades of Yazhou, Huang Daobo and the cotton spinning business have been accompanied by the sunshine and finally met with the best of themselves.
The historical records do not only introduce the later love life of the zodiac, she did not remarry, nor did she have children. He has been wandering in a foreign land for many years, and when he returns, he is still alone for a lifetime.
So what? Marriage and family are not a necessity for a person.
Zhang Ailing said: "All women have a place to live, not others, only themselves." ”
A woman's confidence is, after all, given by herself. At this time, the zodiac, living in her own rhythm, is not a vassal of anyone. She has an independent mind and personality, has an exclusive career and dreams, and she lives confidently and fully, highlighting the aura of the big heroine.
At the end of the world, she weaved a splendid youth.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > and clothing</h1>
In the Yuan Dynasty, there was a poetry cloud: "The yazhou cloth is covered with five colors, and the fog is clouded with flowers and grasses." Flakes of the sail whale sea to the wind outlet, a thousand axes of the dark path to conquer the sky. ”
During the Yuan Dynasty, the zodiac, whose sideburns were frosted, returned to her hometown in the wind and dust.
The moon is the hometown of Ming. After the reunification of the Yuan, the people's lives gradually became stable, but Huang Daobo found that the textile industry in his hometown was still so backward.
China is the world's earliest country to raise silkworm reeling silk, silk is soft and comfortable, but the value is high, ordinary people are not blessed to consume, daily clothing and clothing, are mainly sackcloth.
Sackcloth is inexpensive, but it is relatively rough and not warm enough. At that time, cotton was already planted in the Central Plains, but due to technical limitations, it could not be widely used.
After the return of The Zodiac, he passed on his superb textile skills to the people of his hometown without reservation. She invented and created a complete set of advanced cotton textile machinery, in addition to the three-spindle three-yarn pedal cotton spinning wheel, there is also a cotton seeding machine, using the machine to peel cottonseed, free hands to improve work efficiency. As well as the bow shoulder hanging handmade cotton shrapnel machine, so that the cotton fiber distribution is evenly expanded, to get soft and warm cotton wool like a cloud.
Under the skillful improvement of the zodiac, the cotton loom weaves delicate and silky cotton yarn cotton, with a variety of exquisite decors. Cotton was cheaper than silk and more comfortable than linen, and quickly became the most desirable lining for Chinese.
"Yellow mother-in-law, yellow mother-in-law, teach me yarn, teach me cloth, two tubes and two horses of cloth."
The emerging industrial chain was formed, and her hometown Songjiang area and even the entire Jiangnan region developed into a cotton planting center and cotton textile handicraft center in the country. The contribution of Huang Daobo is tantamount to a technological revolution that promotes the process of textile history in China and even the world.
Zehui Sangzi, clothes are the world. This is the most beautiful chapter of the zodiac's life.
It is often said that the most important thing for a woman is four points: the confidence on the face, the kindness that grows in the heart, the bone that melts into the blood, and the strength that is carved into the life.
All of this, the zodiac has done, or even far more. At this time, she has risen from a small self to a large self, and has been spiritually sublimated in creation and dedication. She is the Chinese cotton god, living as a beam of light, a miracle, a cultural business card of the times.
At this time, she was already an old woman with a silver hair.
"What is young? Not a face without wrinkles, but a heart without wrinkles, which is not to give up the exploration and love of the world at any time. ”
Yes, the zodiac is no longer young, but her life is still full of life, like a leafy tree, bearing fruitful fruits.
The red face is old, but time can't take away her fanghua. As a woman, from green silk to white hair, she does not succumb to the mercy of fate, never stops working hard, and lives a colorful life.
She is the zodiac.
Bloom a lifetime, don't ask fang name.