The Republic of China period was an era of war and talent, and a large number of literati and heroes emerged, including many women. However, in such an era when the status of men and women was not yet equal, even if women were full of money, it was difficult to end up with a happy ending, and even a female writer gave herself such a sentence before she died: life is homeless, love is fruitless, and death is graveless. What has happened to this woman in her life to have such a desolate and tragic sigh?
"Clear water out of the hibiscus, natural to carve." This is probably the best praise for the beauties of the Republic of China period. Bai Wei, whose original name was Huang Zhang, was born in Hunan at the end of the 19th century. Since the ancient Jiangnan area has produced more talented women, Bai Wei is a typical Jiangnan beauty, with smooth and white skin, fresh and beautiful appearance, wearing a pair of round-rimmed glasses, in the period to which she belonged, she can be regarded as one of the best beauties, and even some people describe her as a fairy daughter. However, even this fairy-like figure could not escape the oppression of feudal society and the tragic fate.
Bai Wei's father, Huang Han, can also be regarded as an intellectual and revolutionary figure, and in the early years he also participated in such a large-scale revolutionary activity as the Xinhai Revolution, so Bai Wei had an anti-feudal consciousness in her thinking from an early age, and during her study period, she was already a well-known female Wenqing in school. Unfortunately, at the age of sixteen, Bai Wei experienced her first marriage, the marriage arranged for her by the family, although she resisted in every way, she still could not get rid of the cage of feudal society, and was forcibly sent to her in-laws by her family.
Her mother-in-law is a notorious local widow, who treats people harshly and dotes on her only son, resulting in her son's extremely obedient personality when he grows up. After Bai Wei married, her husband did not spoil her, and from time to time he punched and kicked her, and the mother-in-law did not need to say, pushing all the farm work in the family to the daughter-in-law, a little unsatisfactory is to accuse and insult, and sometimes even join forces with his son to bully the daughter-in-law. Bai Wei's life here is simply worse than death, and she suffers physical and mental destruction day and night. Fortunately, she also has an uncle who cares about her and helps her escape from her in-laws' house and return to school.
In 1915, Bai Wei studied at the Hengyang Women's Normal School with the help of her uncle, and the previous unforgettable experience was always a wake-up call for Bai Wei to have the consciousness of women in the new era, and led the students to spread new ideas together. But it was precisely because of her overly radical ideas that she was expelled from the principal and then transferred to changsha first women's normal school. What she never expected was that her family was still dead at this time, and wanted to arrange another marriage for her, Bai Wei would not be at the mercy of anyone this time, she resisted, escaped with the help of her classmates and friends, and went to Japan to study alone.
A weak woman's life in Japan is not good, she is thirsty for knowledge, constantly learning new ideas and new ideas, while worrying about her own survival, there is almost no rest time every day, except for studying is to go out to work to earn tuition and living expenses. However, although the days are hard, Bai Wei feels very fulfilled, and the fear of arranged marriages has gradually disappeared, and she is full of hopes for the future. It was this period of study in Japan that stimulated Bai Wei's creative spirit, and the three-act play "Su Fei" was born.
In addition to her achievements in literary creation, Bai Wei seems to have ushered in her own true love. In 1924, Bai Wei met a male poet yang suo, who was six years younger than her, who was also a very talented man, and his adoptive father was a person in the former Qing Dynasty, who was quite a famous teacher. Yang Sao traveled all over the world with his adoptive father since he was a child, laying a deep literary literacy. But Yang Sao's real life is not beautiful, his father is poor, the family is poor, and there are many brothers.
After knowing this, Yang Sao often felt inferior and ashamed, and his personality became more dull and gloomy. Bai Wei has experienced a lot at this time, and her attitude towards life is naturally much more positive than Yang Sao's, and she has given Yang Sao a lot of comfort as a person who has come over, and told him that it is always inevitable to fight against all kinds of suffering as a person, and there is no ideal life for Bai Lai in the world.
Yang Sao may have been touched by Bai Wei, but at that time he experienced a not very good thing, his pursuit of his first love Ling Qinru failed, and fell into the swamp of lost love. Bai Wei, who happened to be beside him at this time, was like a life-saving straw, pulling him out of the swamp. And Bai Wei's rejection and disgust for arranged marriages has led to her very cautious choice of emotions, and she is particularly serious about this love.
Bai Wei began this relationship, she hopes that her love can be bright and warm, so she often tells Yang Suo affectionately about her love. But Yang Sao felt more and more that Bai Wei's love was like an oppression, which invisibly made him breathless, so he fled. At first, Yang Sao fled to Hangzhou, Zhangzhou, Singapore and other places, bai wei still persevered, because for her, Yang Sao was not a good remedy to save her? However, Yang Sao really couldn't bear such a heavy love, so he decided to go to Nanyang and made a three-year appointment with Bai Wei when he left, which was really the way of behavior of a scumbag.
Later, Bai Wei returned to China and worked as a Japanese translator and university lecturer before continuing her writing career at a creation club. Unexpectedly, at this time, Yang Sao also returned to China, and as soon as the two met with golden wind and jade dew, they won countless victories in the world, and a vigorous love began again. Yang Sao also brought a lot of help to Bai Wei's literary growth, he introduced Bai Wei to Mr. Lu Xun, since then, Bai Wei's reputation in the literary world has gradually risen, and her novels "Bombs and Birds" and long poems "Song of Spring Shoots" have been published.
In 1928, Bai Wei and Yang Sao both reached a relatively mature and stable stage, and the two were ready to officially get married. But to Bai Wei's disappointment, Yang Suo ran away again on the wedding day. This incident allowed Bai Wei to see through Yang Sao, but also to see through love, she is unwilling and does not have the energy to deal with such a complicated thing again, falling in love with Yang Sao, the "scumbag" should be the last stupid thing she did, from then on, she and Yang Sao have nothing to do with each other.
Although Yang Sao later returned again to ask for compliance, at this time Bai Wei's heart had already built a solid city wall, and no one could enter it. Later, Bai Wei lived alone, childless and unaccompanied, obviously a living person, but did not have a decent home, obviously had a love, but there was no result. It really responded to her sentence of "born without a home, love without fruit, and death without a tomb".
Once the spring is red and old, the flowers fall and the people die. Bai Wei also lived vigorously before she was born, but in her later years, she was lonely and bitter, hungry and cold, which was really regrettable. Most of the women who came during the Republic of China period were like this, and no matter how beautiful their faces were, they also had an old day, and in the long river of years, what else could future generations remember? It's just some dusty past and boundless reverie.
Text/ Yu Xin