The name Zhang Taiyan may feel a little strange to everyone, but when it comes to his disciple Lu Xun, I believe that no one will not know, and as Lu Xun's mentor, Zhang Taiyan's academic attainments are naturally very outstanding. However, it is such an outstanding teacher who has left a stain on his emotional life that can never be erased.
Born in a landlord family during the Tongzhi period in the late Qing Dynasty, Zhang Taiyan studied with his maternal grandfather since childhood, and later went to Hangzhou to study at the Jingjing Jingshe in Hangzhou, where he studied under Yu Fan, the famous Qing Dynasty master of Pu Xue, during which he gained a lot of gains.
According to Zhang Taiyan's recollection, he had revolutionary ideas since he was a child studying with his grandfather. When Zhang Taiyan was eleven years old, he was studying the Donghualu with his grandfather, and he discussed with his grandfather the reasons for the demise of the dynasties.
When talking about the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Taiyan said: "The Ming Dynasty perished in the hands of the Qing Dynasty, and it is better to perish in the hands of Li Zicheng." However, the grandfather replied: "If Li Zicheng had won the world in the first place, although Li Zicheng himself was not good, his descendants would not be without good, but now we cannot discuss this." And this dialogue made the seeds of revolution take root in Zhang Taiyan's heart.
Subsequently, after the defeat in the war and the national crisis became more and more serious, Zhang Taiyan resolutely left the academy and came to Shanghai to begin to serve as the editor of the "Current Affairs Newspaper", spending ink on the propaganda of the restoration.
However, with the failure of the Hundred Days Restoration, Zhang Taiyan also had to flee to Taiwan. With the Boxer Rebellion, empress dowager Cixi's deeds, Zhang Taiyan's dream of restoration was completely shattered, and what was replaced by the ignition of the fire of revolution was replaced by the ignition of the flame of revolution, and he untied his braids to mingzhi, and began a scolding war with Kang Youwei, Liang Qichao and other constitutionalists.
Later, due to the pursuit of the Qing government, Zhang Taiyan went into exile in Japan, where he joined the League and edited the Minbao, although he experienced imprisonment in the process, but the demise of the Qing Dynasty and the establishment of the Republic of China made it all worthwhile.
Zhang Taiyan was bold, and he refuted Liang Qichao and Kang Youwei's pedantry. He was highly accomplished in literature and involved in a wide range of subjects, including scripture, literature, linguistics, philosophy, etc., and was a generation of Confucian masters.
Most of the famous professors at Peking University at that time came from his disciples, including Qian Xuantong, Huang Kan, Lu Xun and other famous artists, and even Hu Shi was deeply influenced by his early academics; he was also a patriot, although he did some wrong things in his later years, he still maintained the basic ethics of patriotism.
Although Zhang Taiyan has made great achievements in academia and the revolutionary field, there is always an indelible stain on his emotional and private life.
Zhang Taiyan had epilepsy as a child, but due to the medical level at that time, he could not be cured, so he was left with some mild symptoms. It is also for this reason that Zhang Taiyan did not have any playmates around him when he was a child.
This also caused Zhang Taiyan's lonely personality, and over time rumors began to appear, saying that Zhang Taiyan suffered from mental illness, so his personality was lonely and indifferent, and this disease would be passed on to future generations. Although the Zhang family tried their best to dispel the rumors, they could not stand the gossip of "three people becoming tigers", and the surrounding villagers and neighbors believed it.
And this problem became more severe after Zhang Taiyan grew up, because Zhang Taiyan suffered from epilepsy and was rumored to have mental illness, so no matter how much gift money Zhang Taiyan's family paid, no one was willing to push their daughter into the fire pit of Zhang Taiyan.
If there was no playmate as a child, Zhang Taiyan could still entertain himself, but the problem of no one daring to marry was not something he could solve alone. Zhang Taiyan was so single to his twenties, although he himself was not in a hurry, but in that era of early marriage,
Therefore, Zhang Taiyan's mother hired a matchmaker to kiss Zhang Taiyan, but it all ended in failure, and Zhang Taiyan's marriage never made any progress.
Seeing that Zhang Taiyan may be going to end up alone, at this time, one of the Zhang family's servants took the initiative to stand up and said that she was willing to marry Zhang Taiyan.
This lady was originally Zhang Taiyan's mother's maid, who had grown up with Zhang Taiyan's green plum bamboo horse since she was a child, and had deep feelings, so in order to repay the Zhang family's kindness to her, she offered to marry Zhang Taiyan.
Although Zhang Taiyan's mother was very happy, finally a woman was willing to marry her son. However, although the Zhang family is not a famous and prestigious family, it is also a famous landlord and gentry family in the eight townships of Ten Miles, how can a family buy a mane be worthy of his son?
The old lady then asked this lady to make Zhang Taiyan a concubine. In fact, the old lady had another idea in her mind at that time, that is, by making her pregnant and then giving birth to a healthy child, to break the rumor that Zhang Taiyan had a mental illness, then the Zhang family could find another right wife for Zhang Taiyan.
So the Zhang family held a simple wedding for the two. Although Zhang Taiyan accepted her as his concubine, because this lady was illiterate and had no common language with himself, he actually did not like this lady in his heart.
And everything in the back was also as Zhang Taiyan's mother expected, Ya Gui gave birth to a child, the child was in good health, the rumors were self-defeating, and the Zhang family was able to continue to find the right wife for Zhang Taiyan.
This also makes the status of this beard extremely embarrassing.
And this lady also knew that Zhang Taiyan did not like this, and she was satisfied to see that Zhang Taiyan could be happy, so she returned to Zhang Taiyan's mother and continued to serve her.
This lady had spent her life in the Zhang family without any name, and Zhang Taiyan had never admitted to the outside world that she had this concubine.
Although Zhang Taiyan is an outstanding thinker, revolutionary, educator, and academic master, he always has such a stain on his feelings.
A woman gave her life in his most difficult time, just to help him break the rumors. And after he married the right wife, she retired from the work, and she was nameless and unworthy all her life, and she was not liked and recognized by Zhang Taiyan.
Although Zhang Taiyan's life can be called bright and upright, he is only despised in this matter, and no one is perfect.
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