Ancient people generally married early, continuing to the late Qing Dynasty, still so, sixteen or seventeen years old to get married is commonplace, to this age has not yet married is bizarre and strange.
So, at that time, many people obediently obeyed the orders of their parents when they were teenagers, and then married a person they had never met before.
In fact, no matter what era, the secular world has a great power to make people conform, and this is still the case today, let alone the late Qing Dynasty.
But at that time, a family in Yuhang, Zhejiang Province, had a twenty-four or five-year-old son, but he had never married a wife.
What is the reason for this, is it that their family is not well-off?
This family's surname is Zhang, and it was very rich during the Qianlong period, and although it was somewhat declined in this generation, there were also several servants in the family, which was quite solid in the local area.
Is it that the boy's ugly appearance is prohibitive, affecting his marriage?
Although this man is not a big handsome man, he also has good facial features and good health.
Is it that this man is not learned, idle, eats, drinks and gambles?
Nor is it.
This prince's teacher was Daoguang Jinshi Yu Fan, qing out of blue and better than blue, although he was young, but the depth of learning, not ordinary people can compare.
Is it strange that this man does not like women, or is he celibate? That's a bit too avant-garde.
Of course not.
In the late Qing Dynasty, when he was so old and unmarried, this Zhang Gongzi himself was also anxious. In the end, he married a lady in the family, who originally served Zhang Gongzi's mother, but there was really no one to choose, and Zhang Mother had to let her marry her son.
It turned out that the problem was in the "reputation" of this Zhang Gongzi.
This Zhang Gongzi, when he was a teenager, he took a mouthful of this... Daqing that... Every sentence was the words that lost their heads at that time, and everyone in the neighborhood knew about it. Therefore, no one dared to marry his daughter to him. At that time, even the local government was afraid of being implicated by him, and in order to protect him, the Zhang family said that he had sheep madness, and those words were all nonsense after he became ill.
After marrying the lady in the family, Zhang Gongzi lived a few years of peace and had children, but unfortunately, a few years later, the lady who gave birth to him fell ill and died.
In 1903, this Zhang Gongzi (Zhang Binglin) began to run into trouble again. This time, he actually wrote an article in the newspaper saying: "Carrying a clown, not identifying the wheat." In today's parlance: Zai Xiang (Guangxu) is a fool who can't even tell the difference between beans and wheat.
The patrol heard the news and went to the newspaper hall to arrest people.
At that time, Cai Yuanpei, who was also a writer for the newspaper, said to Zhang Binglin, Let's run. Zhang Binglin replied: I don't run, I'm here. In desperation, Cai Yuanpei had to run alone first.
The patrols rushed into the newspaper hall, saw a man sitting there leisurely, drinking tea, and asked him: Where did Zhang Binglin run? He replied, I am Zhang Binglin.
The official was also dumbfounded, could it be that this person was really sick, otherwise he would not run when he was dying.
After being caught, Zhang Gongzi also looked indifferent, what's wrong, it was what I wrote, I think I wrote it very well. The more he was interrogated, the more he talked, the more ruthlessly he spoke, and when he asked his fellow party members, he said that there were contacts between the large and small officials of the prefecture capital and county, and the heads of the trial cases were all big. Finally, it was also a perfunctory attack of sheep epilepsy and the like, and after three years of detention, I quickly released him and told him to leave.
The name "Chapter Madman" has spread since then.
In this regard, he once said: "Da Fan is very talkative, not a madman can not think, can think and dare not say." In the face of hardships and hardships, it is not a madman who cannot turn back. For this reason, I admit that I have a neuropathy, and I hope that everyone has a neurosis or two. Recently, it has been said that so-and-so is neurotic, and so-and-so is also neurotic. In my opinion, I am not afraid of neuropathy, but I am afraid that when the rich and noble Lilu is in front of me, the neuropathy will be cured immediately. ”
In 1906, Zhang Binglin was released from Shanghai to Japan. Learning is learning everywhere, Zhang Binglin changed his name to Zhang Taiyan, opened a small class, and accepted students.
Zhang Taiyan
Zhang Taiyan's students include: Xu Shousheng, Zhou Shuren, Liu Wendian, Qian Xuantong, Zhou Zuoren, Shen Jianshi, Ma Youyu, Zhu Xizu, Wu Chengshi, Huang Kan, Wang Dong, Cao Juren and others. In addition, there are many students who are registered in name.
When Cai Yuanpei formed the GuangfuHui, Zhang Taiyan was still in the classroom of the Ministry of Works, and Cai Yuanpei said that he was also counted as one in it. In 1905, Qiu Jin Xu Xilin and others joined, and the membership grew to several hundred.
In 1908, Zhang Taiyan's student Zhou Shuren and others also joined the Guangfu Society, and the new group of people also formulated an assassination plan, and Zhou Shuren was also selected for execution. Not long after, the Wuchang uprising, before Zhou Shuren's plan could be put into practice, the Manchu Qing fell.
Later, Zhou Shuren gave himself a pen name lu xun and wrote novel essays.
After Xinhai, Zhang Taiyan returned home and saw his family, and he suddenly remembered that he had not had a wife for so many years. Since the death of the lady who beat him, no one has matched him. The reason for this must have been known to himself.
So, he came to a public newspaper and asked for his marriage.
You see that he did something unprecedented, and even looking for a partner became the first person to sign a newspaper for marriage in modern times.
At that time, such a public solicitation of marriages triggered various discussions. A good person, using the name "Miss Zhang Beigu", published an "application book" in the newspaper, ridiculing Zhang Taiyan. This "Miss Zhang Beigu" claimed that she was almost eighty years old and said that she was willing to marry Mr. Zhang Taiyan.
His friend Cai Yuanpei couldn't take it anymore and quickly helped him find a marriage partner, the other party was the principal of Wuxing Girls' School, named Tang Guoli.
In 1913, the 45-year-old Zhang Taiyan and the 30-year-old Tang Guoli held a grand wedding in Shanghai's Hartung Garden, Sun Yat-sen and others came to congratulate him, Cai Yuanpei presided over the wedding, and the witness was Huang Yanpei. On the day of the wedding, the groom was happy and put on his shoes backwards.
Zhang Taiyan's wedding
After marriage, less than half a year later, Zhang Taiyan caused trouble again.
This time, he ran to Yuan Shikai's presidential palace and scolded incessantly. There is a saying: "Kill The head of Emperor Yuan."
As Lu Xun said, Zhang Taiyan "fanned out with a large medal, approached the door of the presidential palace, and criticized Yuan Shikai's harboring evil intentions, and there was no second person in the world."
Yuan Shikai covered his ears in the room and said ignore him and let him scold. When Zhang Taiyan was tired of scolding, Yuan Shikai ordered someone to help Zhang Taiyan into a carriage and pull him to the suburbs and put him under house arrest.
After a few days, Yuan Shikai inquired, what happened to Zhang Crazy? The person who replied said that when he was full, he scolded and smashed things... Yuan Shikai listened, sighed, and said that he smashed something, and you will make up for it again...
During Zhang Taiyan's house arrest by Yuan Shikai, he could enjoy two oceans of food every day, and Zhang Taiyan asked the chef to cook only one ocean dish every day and give him the rest of the ocean.
An ocean is also full of a table of dishes, Zhang Taiyan only eats a few dishes in front of him at a time, and he is too lazy to move in the distance. This law was discovered by two pawnbrokers, who then laid out the expensive dishes a little farther away and left them to eat on their own. This matter was also recognized by Qian Xuantong, who came to visit, and later the two errand boys were replaced.
During this period, Zhang Taiyan's other students also often came to visit him, and Lu Xun's diary recorded that he visited Zhang Taiyan seven times.
After Yuan Shikai's death, Zhang Taiyan returned to Shanghai and the family was reunited.
Zhang Taiyan had six children, the eldest son Zhang Dao and the second son Zhang Qi. The four daughters were: Zhang Yi, Zhang Yi, Zhang Yi, and Zhang Yi. When his daughter reached the age of marriage, she actually did not come to the door to propose to her relatives, and when she inquired, she knew that it was because she did not know the names of the daughters of the Zhang family.
Zhang Taiyan slapped his head on the door and repeatedly said that he blamed me and blamed me. He quickly published a newspaper to disclose the pronunciation and meaning of his daughter's name, and declared that he wanted to marry his daughter, so that some people dared to come and propose to him.
Zhang Taiyan gave his daughters the name
You see, this knowledge is too big and wrong, almost delaying his daughter's marriage. It is said that when these girls were studying, even the teacher could not call out their names, and in desperation, they called out chapter four and chapter four workers. This father deserved to name his son simply, but to name his daughter was as difficult to understand as the book of heaven.
The rumored Zhang Taiyan is probably such a person. On June 14, 1936, zhang Taiyan, 67, died in his apartment on Jinfan Road in Suzhou.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the People's Republic, it was an era of collision between the old and the new, and it was that era that created people like Zhang Taiyan. If it was in the prosperous world of Kangqian, people like him, before they could say a few words, people would not be found. An era of collision between the old and the new is destined to be an era of change and an era of change. The environment of the small world affects the individual, and the environment of the big world promotes the home country. Just as the so-called generation does the things of a generation, an era meets an era of people.