Hu Shi's first wife, Jiang Dongxiu, was chosen by his mother for him.Although Hu Shi lost his father in his early years, he was superior in character, appearance, aptitude and talent, and the people who came to get engaged almost broke the threshold.Regarding Hu Shi's social status, there was a saying in the village that "it is worth a hundred gold", which means that if Hu Shi was a woman, he could get the highest dowry.
Once, Hu Shi accompanied his mother Mrs. Feng Tai to visit her aunt's house in Wangchuan Village, Jingde County. It happened that a relative named Lv also came to visit. He fell in love with Hu Shi, who was just over ten years old. son-in-law.The husband's surname is Jiang, who can be called a wealthy family in Jingde County. She has a daughter named Jiang Dongxiu, who is one year older than Hu Shi. This is taboo for a freshman year.In addition, Jiang Dongxiu is a tiger and Hu Shi is a rabbit, which is also a violation of the old law.For this reason, this marriage has become a burden of shaving one's head. The woman wants to do it, but the man refuses.
Later, the woman invited Jiang Dongxiu's teacher, Hu Shi's uncle Hu Xiangjian, to speak.This man was eloquent, and he talked a lot of auspicious words here and there, and forced Hu Shi's mother, Mrs. Feng Tai, to be moved.So, according to local customs, Mrs. Feng seriously asked for Miss Jiang's birthday horoscope, and asked her husband to start a class to calculate it, and the result was surprisingly good.Mrs. Feng was still not at ease, so she put Miss Jiang's horoscope and those of several other candidate daughter-in-laws into the bamboo sheng, and made an offering in front of Mr. Zao Si.A few days later, I piously used bamboo chopsticks to take out a note with the word "girl" written on it from the bamboo shelf. When I opened it, it was still Miss Jiang.Thus, Hu Shi's marriage was settled in this way.
Hu Shi has always disliked Jiang Dongxiu, the first wife his mother chose for him. When he was studying in Shanghai at the age of eighteen, his mother asked him to go home and get married, but he refused on the grounds that his studies were important. In January 1916, Hu Shi occasionally fell ill in the United States and was lying on the bed, suffering from desolation and misery. Suddenly, the postman delivered a letter from Jiang Dongxiu. Hu Shi was also moved.
When Hu Shi returned to his hometown in Anhui from the United States to visit relatives, he once asked to see Jiang Dongxiu.The Jiang family couldn't hold him back, so they finally reluctantly agreed.That day Hu Shi came to Jiang's house, accompanied by Jiang Dongxiu's elder brother Jiang Yunpu to the boudoir.Hu Shi stepped into the Embroidery Pavilion, and saw Jiang Dongxiu had already hid in the bed tent, looking around, there was only a sense of the shadow of flowers behind the curtain.My aunt snatched it up and stretched out her hand to lift the bed curtain, but Hu Shi started to feel guilty at this moment, so she hurriedly stopped her, and then backed out.Hu Shi didn't see his fiancée, but Jiang Dongxiu saw his future husband, and he was very happy.Back home, everyone asked him if he had met the newcomer, and Hu Shi smiled and said, "Yes, it's good."
Hu Shi was extremely filial to his mother, and finally married according to his mother's order, and married the daughter-in-law chosen by his mother.At the age of 27, when Hu Shi returned from studying in the United States to become a professor at Peking University, he was ordered to get married.On the day of the wedding, Jiang Dongxiu wore a floral jacket and skirt, while Hu Shi wore a suit, top hat, and black leather shoes. The two faced each other and bowed respectfully three times.Hu Shi also delivered a speech.Hu Shi wrote a poem for his wedding:
After getting married, Hu Shi wrote several vernacular poems, remembering the fun of the boudoir, one of which reads:
After Hu Shi got married, he had several extramarital affairs, but they were all suppressed by the powerful Jiang Dongxiu.When Zhao Yuanren married Yang Buwei and asked Hu to be a witness, Jiang Dongxiu refused to go to the wedding banquet, saying that he couldn't get used to this kind of Meng Lang's habit, so Hu Shi had to go by himself.Hu Shi's good friend Liang Shiqiu wanted to divorce his wife and marry a new man. Jiang Dongxiu took Liang Shiqiu's wife into his home, advised her, and brought the case to the court.As a result, Liang Shiqiu, a dignified Peking University professor, lost the lawsuit. There were rumors all over the place for a while, and the professor lost all face.All of this is tantamount to making a "hedong lion roar" to Hu Shi indirectly, knocking mountains and shaking tigers, and bluffing Hu Shi into making various compromises.
Jiang Dongxiu especially disliked the Meng Lang habit in Hu Shi's circle of contacts, and resolutely refused to accommodate the so-called "romantic opportunity".There are rumors that Hu Shi fell in love with Lu Xiaoman at first and couldn't divorce his wife, so Lu Xiaoman turned to Xu Zhimo. Later, Hu Shi tried his best to facilitate the matter. Jiang Dongxiu was furious and scolded Hu Shi all day long.One day Ye Gongchao and others were at Hu's house, and Mrs. Hu scolded Hu Shi and his friends in front of these people: "You all know how to write articles. If I can write articles, one day I will show the real faces of you people. Write it down, you are all people with two faces.” As soon as he said this, Hu Shi came down from upstairs and said to his wife: “You are talking nonsense again.” Mrs. Hu said: “If anyone listens to my nonsense, I will Say. You are not talking nonsense all day long. Everyone thinks of Hu Shizhi, but I think you are worthless."
For Jiang Dongxiu, Li Ao once had his personal understanding and evaluation: "You only know Hu Shi's greatness after you see Ms. Jiang Dongxiu", "Like Lu Xun, after returning from studying in Japan, he threw away the original country woman and wife. For example, Fu Sinian lost all his former wives, but Hu Shi didn’t get rid of his little-footed country wife. The country wife turned her back on the customer and bullied Hu Shi. To what extent? When Hu Shi was chatting with his friends, This wife can come in and swear in public, swearing, swearing, and swearing."
In May 1961, a Taiwanese newspaper published an article "Hu Shi's Pretend to Fear Internal Affairs", which contained the following sentence: "Keeping Dongxiu (Hu Shi's wife) as the queen is a false monarch, and the real power is in the hands of the prime minister."It is said that Hu Shi couldn't help laughing after reading it: "This person seems to know my past, and it is generally good, but some places are nonsense."
But in any case, in the end, Hu Shi and Jiang Dongxiu lived their lives hand in hand. Chiang Kai-shek commented that he is "a model of old morality in new culture, a teacher of new ideas in old ethics", which is not unrelated to this.
Hu Shi had several relationships in his life, the most famous of which was Wei Liansi.Wei Liansi met Hu Shi when he was in the United States in 1914, but when Hu Shi returned to China in 1917, the two were forced to separate.The two met again more than ten years later in 1927. When they met again, they had been separated for 10 years, and they were both middle-aged, with white hair growing on their heads.In the past ten years, Hu Shi's life has undergone earth-shaking changes.He got married, had children, reached the pinnacle of his career, became the leader of China's New Culture Movement, the pioneer of modern Chinese liberalism, and Cao Peisheng.Cao is Hu Shi's love affair formed when Hu Shi was recovering from illness in Hangzhou.It is said that most of the later love poems in Hu Shi's "Trying Collection" were written by Cao Peisheng.
Wei Liansi's love is so hot. In Zhou Zhiping's "Hu Shi's Love and Evening", there is a love letter written by Wei Liansi to Hu Shi. The love letter is so shocking: "I didn't expect that I would love you so much... Hu Shi ...I adore you more than any man..." "I fixed our pitifully small bed...I miss your body, and I miss you even more. I have you, this me, Longing for you to have me..." But in fact, they only have a spiritual relationship, not a physical relationship.
Even knowing about the relationship between Hu Shi and Cao Peisheng, Wei Liansi promised Hu Shi to take care of Cao Peisheng who was going to Cornell University for further study. After Hu Shi's death in 1962, Wei Liansi became friends with Jiang Dongxiu, sorted out Hu Shi's letters to her, and was busy setting up a publishing fund for him. Nine years later, Wei Liansi, who had been waiting all his life, died alone on a small island. Hu Shi's letters and manuscripts were preserved intact in his relics.
Cao Peisheng (Cao Chengying) is the half-sister of Hu Shi's third sister-in-law, and later became the first female professor in the field of agriculture in my country.Cao Peisheng is about 10 years younger than Hu Shi.The two met for the first time at the wedding of Hu Shi and Jiang Dongxiu.At that time, the "little bridesmaid" Cao Peisheng at the wedding had already attracted Hu Shi's attention.Cao Peisheng liked to grow flowers and plants. After Hu Shi and his wife arrived in Beijing, they often wrote to Hu Shi, asking him to send her flower seeds, and wrote some poems for Hu Shi to review from time to time.
In the winter of 1918, under the arrangement of the family, Cao Peisheng married Hu Guanying, a fellow villager who had been engaged since childhood. In 1920, Cao Peisheng was admitted to Hangzhou No. 1 Women's Normal School, and her husband Hu Guanying entered Zhejiang No. 1 Normal School. After four years of marriage, Cao Peisheng has been studying abroad but has no children, which aroused dissatisfaction with her mother-in-law. For this reason, her mother-in-law married Hu Guanying a concubine in her hometown on the grounds that Cao Peisheng had not had children for four years.This incident annoyed Cao Peisheng, who had begun to accept the May Fourth New Thought, and decided to divorce her husband. At the end of 1922, Cao Peisheng and her husband Hu Guanying dissolved their marriage.
In 1923, Hu Shi came to the south to recuperate from his illness, and often lived in Shanghai and Hangzhou, where he met Cao Peisheng again.After the divorce, Cao Peisheng continued to study at Hangzhou No. 1 Women's Normal School. This accident gave Hu Shi, who had suffered from marriage, the hope of love again.On April 29 of the second year after Cao Peisheng's divorce, it was the most beautiful spring time in Hangzhou, and Hu Shi appeared by the West Lake.Hu Shi's neighbor and friend, Cao Peisheng's relative, and the famous poet Wang Jingzhi once said: "The purpose of Hu Shi's coming to Hangzhou is to visit the 'little bridesmaid' who lives alone."
When we met again, Cao Peisheng was no longer the little bridesmaid in Hu Shi's memory, but a slim female student. Although she lived alone after divorce, she was still cheerful and somewhat sad.Wang Jingzhi once described Cao Peisheng in this way: "She is not beautiful, but very charming. She fascinated me first, and then Hu Shi. She belongs to those women who are not very beautiful, but charming!"
The slightly sad voice of Cao Pei fascinated Hu Shi even more.After spending four days together in Hangzhou, on May 3, before parting, Hu Shi wrote a small vernacular poem for Cao Peisheng entitled "West Lake": "The West Lake dreamed of for seventeen years can't cure my illness. It made me sicker... Now that I came back, I just thought Yi was cuter, so I was reluctant to leave in a hurry." On May 25, 1923, Hu Shi pasted the eighth letter that Cao Peisheng sent along with the letter to his diary on this day. One of the photos related to West Lake, one of which is a single portrait of Cao Peisheng himself.
At the end of May 1923, Hu Shi once again got on the train bound for Hangzhou and appeared by the misty West Lake. In late June, after the school holidays, Hu Shi finally waited for his beloved Cao Peisheng by the Yanxia Cave in Nanshan, Hangzhou.
There are three famous caves in the West Lake Mountain of Hangzhou, which are Water Music, Stone House and Haze. Among them, Yanxia Cave has the best scenery, and the hazy haze is the most beautiful. Qingxiu Temple is very quiet in the south of Yanxia Cave. The monks in the temple admire Hu Shi The daimyo rented out the two small rooms on the east side of the main hall to Hu Shi.Here Hu Shi and Cao Peisheng started their cohabitation life.
In Hangzhou Yanxia Cave, the two quietly enjoy the happiness brought by love. They spend their lives in the haze every day, or they play chess, or sit and drink tea, or visit mountains and watch Buddha.It is rainy in Hangzhou, and the West Lake and the surrounding mountains are even more beautiful and lovely after the rain. Hu Shi recorded many places in his diary that he and Cao Peisheng walked among the mountains and rivers together.Today is sunny and the weather is very nice.In the afternoon, Peisheng and I went out to look at the sweet-scented osmanthus, and passed Wengjia Mountain, where the sweet-scented osmanthus trees were in full bloom, and the fragrance was welcome.We passed Gehongjing, climbed down the mountain, and arrived at Longjing Temple... ("Hu Shi's Diary")
When the weather is bad, the two read a book together under the eaves. Hu Shi once wrote in his diary: In the morning, he and Juan read the 22nd chapter of "Xu Xia Yin Ji" "The Night Meeting of Atoshi" together. There is a story in "Beauty", I said that this story can act as a chronicle poem... ("Hu Shi's Diary")
When the two lived together, it happened that Cao Peisheng was on summer vacation, but when the school started soon, Cao Peisheng took another month's leave to continue to accompany Hu Shi. After that, Hu Shi stayed in the south until mid-December 1923 before returning to Beijing.
The time spent with Cao Peisheng in Yanxia Cave was etched in Hu Shi's life.Hu Shi once wrote in his diary on October 3, 1923: I spent the happiest days of my life under the moonlight in these three months - "Hu Shi Diary".
Although the two lived together, this was not known to too many outsiders. On the Mid-Autumn Festival in 1923, Hu Shi invited his friend Xu Zhimo to Hangzhou for a visit. Cao Peisheng has an unusual relationship.
Although Hu Shi was an early contact with Western culture in modern China, he was also deeply influenced by traditional Chinese morality. He always showed a contradiction when facing the issue of free love and old-fashioned marriage.
Seeing that his friend had a lover in Hangzhou, Xu Zhimo encouraged Hu Shi to "revolution". However, Hu Shi, who fell in love with Cao Peisheng, wanted to break through the shackles of ethics, but lacked the courage.Therefore, Hu Shi once comforted himself: "If you don't want to be free, you are also free."
Autumn and winter are coming, the day of parting is coming, it is difficult to say goodbye when we meet each other, the weather is getting colder, with a feeling of desolation, Hu Shi wrote in his diary: When he woke up, the waning moon was in the sky, shining It's three o'clock on my head.This is the last time I will see the moon in Yanxia Cave... Now that I am leaving, the moon will come to see me again. Since then, I don’t know when I will continue the "immortal life" of Yanxia Cave Mountain Moon for three months!Looking at the moon slowly moving across the corner of the room from the pillow, I can't help feeling sad ("Hu Shi's Diary")
At the end of 1923 in the new calendar, Hu Shi reluctantly left Hangzhou, a paradise on earth, and Cao Peisheng, who was already pregnant, and returned to Beijing.
Under the slight cold wind, Hu Shi returned to Beijing.Xu Zhimo has already spread the news that Hu Shi and Cao Peisheng are in love.Back home, his wife Jiang Dongxiu held scissors and forced Hu Shi to question him. Hu Shi admitted his relationship with Cao Peisheng. Since his mother, Feng Shundi, had already passed away, Hu Shi, who no longer had to follow his mother's orders to be filial, finally filed for divorce from Jiang Dongxiu.
Jiang Dongxiu threatened to kill their two sons, but Hu Shi had no choice but to give up.But he still couldn't forget Cao Peisheng in his heart.After quarreling with his wife, Hu Shi ran away from home and stayed at a friend's house in Xishan, Beijing. There was nowhere to relieve the depression, sadness and desolation in his heart. On a cold night, Hu Shi wrote: "The mountain wind messed up the pine marks on the window paper , blowing away the figure in my heart."
After that, Cao Peisheng was recommended by Hu Shi to go to the United States to study in Cornell University College of Agriculture in 1934. She obtained a master's degree in 1937. After returning to China, she taught in Anhui University and Fudan University successively. She was the first female professor of agriculture in my country.
In 1939, Cao Peisheng got acquainted with a returned student, and the two fell in love. Unexpectedly, Jiang Dongxiu ruined her reputation among the man's relatives, causing the man to break off the engagement alone. Cao Peisheng was so angry that he wanted to go to Mount Emei to become a nun.Later, under the persuasion of his brother Cao Chengke, he changed his mind, and Hu Shi, who is also an ambassador in the United States, wrote to comfort him and brought 300 US dollars to subsidize his life, so his mood gradually stabilized.Cao Peisheng has always been infatuated with Hu Shi, his love is deep, and the swan geese keep on, and they both taste the bitter extramarital love.
In 1949, Hu Shi disobeyed Cao Peisheng's dissuasion and fled to the United States. Since then, the two have been separated, leaving endless memories. After retiring in 1958, she settled in Jixi Mountain City in 1969. She originally wanted to find a place where she could farm in front of the house and raise her own funds to build a pig farm and weather station, but all of these ideas fell through.Her life was very poor and lonely. She wrote a poem "Linjiang Fairy":
Cao Peisheng never remarried in her life, and she kept her love for Hu Shi in her heart until her death.Yanglin Bridge is located at the entrance of Shangzhuang Village, Jixi, Anhui, Hu Shi's hometown. On June 25, 1965, Yanglin Bridge was destroyed by mountain torrents. Cao Peisheng donated his savings to rebuild Yanglin Bridge.
In 1973, Cao Peisheng died of illness in his hometown of Jixi, Anhui.Before she died, she left a last word that she must be buried by the small road beside Yanglin Bridge, because that is the only way Hu Shi must pass to go home.She once entrusted her friend Wang Jingzhi to incinerate a large package of materials she had kept with Hu Shi after her death.She cherished this unforgettable lovesickness all her life, and took it with her to heaven after her death.
Regarding this extramarital affair, Hu Shi recorded it in a poem:
Hu Shi once admired Chen Hengzhe. Although he refused to admit it until his death, he named his daughter "Sufei".Sophia is Sophia, or "Sha Fei", which is Chen Hengzhe's English name and pen name.
Chen Hengzhe was the first batch of female overseas students who received Boxer indemnities, the first female writer in the history of modern literature, and the first female professor at Peking University.Chen Hengzhe is a historian, and literature is not her profession, but Hu Shi praised her as "every cell in her body is full of literary and artistic atmosphere", and she is a female writer who has made considerable contributions in the history of new literature.
Hu Shi and Chen Hengzhe met when they were studying in the United States.Chen Hengzhe studied abroad at Vassa College, one of the five most famous women's universities in the United States, specializing in Western history and Western literature at the same time.There, she got acquainted with Hu Shi, Ren Shuyong (Hongjun), Yang Xingfo, Mei Guangdi, Zhu Jingnong, Hu Xian (Ma Su) and others, and started writing under the pen name of Shafei.
"Hu Shi's Study Abroad Diary" records the meeting between Hu Shi and Chen Hengzhe: "(1917) On April 7th (1917) I went to Puji Busch Village (Poughkeepsie) with Shu Yong to visit Ms. Chen Hengzhe. In the past month, there have been no less than forty pieces of papers and academic books and game rewards. Among friends who have never met, it is also rare. This time, Shu Yong invited Yu Tong to visit Ms. Yu, and I can see it. "This was the first meeting between Hu Shi and Chen Hengzhe when he was studying in the United States. Although they did not meet many times, within five months, Hu Shi sent "more than forty letters", about ten a month. Not too little.Pay attention to those "game reward films", the relationship between the two parties is still very close and humorous. On November 1, 1914, due to the problem of addressing each other, "Send to Ms. Chen Hengzhe" said: If you are "Mr." me, I will also be "Mr." you.It's better to avoid both, so how much trouble can be saved.
In September 1915, during the "Literary Revolution" battle between Mei Guangdi (Jin Zhuang) and others and Hu Shi, Chen Hengzhe also supported Hu Shi's proposition.Hu Shi said: "During July and August of the fifth year of the Republic of China (that is, 1916), I discussed literary issues with the gentlemen Mei (Jinzhuang) and Ren (Shuyong) the most, and the most intense. At that time, Shafei spent the summer in Qisejia. , so I know the text of our debate. Although she did not participate in the discussion, her sympathy was on the side of my proposition.... She did not actively participate in this pen battle; but her sympathy for my proposition gave me a lot of comfort and encouragement. She was one of my earliest comrades." (Hu Shixu from Chen Hengzhe's collection of short stories "Little Raindrops")
During their stay in the United States, Hu Shi, Chen Hengzhe and Ren Hongjun were three good friends.Ren Hongjun was engaged to Chen Hengzhe in 1919. In 1920, Chen Hengzhe received a master's degree from the University of Chicago. At the invitation of Cai Yuanpei, the president of Peking University, he returned to China as a professor, and taught at Peking University with Ren Hongjun. On September 16, 1920, Chen and Ren held a wedding ceremony, with Hu Shi as the salute and Cai Yuanpei as the witness.The congratulatory couplet that Hu Shi played for them was: "No offspring is the greatest, and the best book is the best."
On July 31, 1921, Hu Shi recorded the following words in his diary: "I got a letter from Dongxiu, and Zhishuyong and Shafei got a new daughter. Because I came to Jiming Temple again, I wrote a poem to congratulate them." The poem said: Go back to the lake tower to watch the sunset, and the lake and mountains are still prosperous; last year, people on the lake were healthy, and new branches of sister flowers were added.He also added a note at the end of the poem: "Three friends add two daughters in one year. My daughter's name is Sufei, which is named after Shafei." After Sufei died, Ren Hongjun and Chen Hengzhe sent their daughter to Hu Shi God daughter.It can be seen that the friendship between the two is very deep.
In 1927, a year and a half after Sufei died, Hu Shi, who was far away in the United States, wrote to his wife Jiang Dongxiu, saying: "Dongxiu, I cried for my daughter today! I suddenly saw Sufei in a dream with a sick face on her face. Woke up. When I woke up, I was very sad, tears flowed down the pillow, I got up and wrote a poem, and cried while writing. I endured it for a year and a half, and today I just cried for her..." and appended the letter In the last poem "Sufei", some researchers believe that crying for a daughter is a burst of true feelings. Poetry Sufei, but which Sophia is it for?
Chen Hengzhe once used "golden firm jade clean" to describe their friendship.But someone spread gossip, and the friendship between the three of them was misunderstood and slandered. In 1934, in the column of the twenty-sixth issue of "Hu Lu of Literary Paintings", a short article "Chen Hengzhe and Hu Shi" written by "Xiang Gong" was published.The article said that Chen Hengzhe wanted to form a permanent partner with Hu Shi, but Hu Shi refused, and then introduced her to Ren Hongjun; the relationship between Chen Hengzhe and Ren Hongjun has been weak after marriage.This article caused an uproar.In order to counter the random speculation and slander made out of nothing, Hu Shi wrote a letter (Ren Hongjun and Chen Hengzhe and his wife read it and agreed) to the editorial department to refute it with facts, and asked the magazine to make a public apology to the three of them.
In order to refute the rumors, Hu Shi once wrote: During the time of studying abroad, although Ms. Chen and I only met once, we corresponded a lot.I certainly had a deep and pure respect for her, which made me value our friendship very much.But we never talked about marriage.This is because, first, we were all in the ideal age of youth at that time, and no one regarded marriage as an important thing; second, a group of friends at that time knew that Ms. A person dares to hit a snag.She has known Ren Jun the longest and knows each other the deepest, but they have no marriage contract either.It wasn't until Ren Jun came to the United States for the second time in 1919 that Ms. Chen felt the sincerity of his marriage proposal, so she abandoned her non-marriage doctrine and got engaged to him.
Hu Shi's daughter "Su Fei" was the one who made a fuss about it, but Hu Shi's protégé Tang Degang.Tang Degang said: "Sufei is also Sophia, and 'Sophia' is also! 'For thinking about the green skirt, pity the grass everywhere!'" Later, the short poem "Sufei" written by Hu Shi after Sufei's death.Mr. Tang Degang thinks this is a "lingering poem of killing two birds with one stone, mourning death and nostalgia".
American scholar Xia Zhiqing said: "The Ren family has always been Hu Shi's best friends and his most trusted right-hand man in his career. He has no romantic illusions about Mrs. Ren. But Ren and Chen's marriage is so happy, Hu Shi's own family There was a wife who forbade him to read and write poems when she was ill—in contrast, he couldn’t help but envy their happiness. He tricked Jiang Dongxiu and named his daughter Sophia, although it cannot be said that he commemorates his relationship with Chen Hengzhe. During that old relationship, I at least hoped that my daughter would be as smart and studious as Sophie, an excellent student at Vasha College, and not at all vulgar like her biological mother. Degang said that Hu Shi worked so hard to name his beloved daughter, which is really embarrassing. Heartbreaking."
Beside Hu Shi, there is also a woman who has an unrequited love for Hu Shi. She is Zhu Yinong, the younger sister of Hu Shi's good friend Zhu Jingnong.During the period of the Republic of China, Zhu Jingnong served as the director of the Shanghai Municipal Education Bureau and the director of the Hunan Provincial Department of Education.Zhu Qihui, the wife of Xiong Xiling, who was the former Prime Minister of the Republic of China, is the aunt of Zhu Jingnong and Zhu Yinong.
In Hu Shi's circle of friends, Zhu Jingnong and Ren Hongjun are the most qualified to say "my friend Hu Shizhi".Through the close relationship between his elder brother and Hu Shi, Zhu Yinong naturally walked into Hu Shi's personal and family life. In 1923, I learned from Jiang Dongxiu's letter to Hu Shi that for a period of time, Zhu Yinong took the initiative to assume the responsibility of a tutor, teaching Hu Shi's eldest son Hu Zuwang, and taught him two hours of homework every day.
I don't know when and when Zhu Yinong fell in love with Hu Shi, but I only know the ending: he fell in love with Hu Shi unrequitedly for many years and went crazy, and finally got sick and died.It's really a sad and hopeless ending.This secret is only known to Hu Shi's best friends. Hu Shi's diary and family letters have recorded a few semi-concealed entries, so that we can get a glimpse of this unlucky beauty.
Jiang Dongxiu’s home letter on August 18, 1923 mentioned Zhu Yinong’s condition: “I went to see Miss Zhu today, and he is getting better. … He explained that Zhu Jingnong will be arriving the day after tomorrow. The doctor advised him to stay at home for a month. Heal his illness better, and then go live in Xishan. He said that this time, when he heard that Xishan was going to live for half a year, he waited for Zhu Jingnong to come and settle his mother down. He was very (very) worried that his old mother had no one. Take care." Judging from this letter, Zhu Yinong has already fallen ill, and his condition is so serious that he has to live in Xishan for half a year.Jiang Dongxiu wrote to ask for Hu Shi's opinion, would it be good to let Miss Zhu's mother move in?
Zhu Yinong's unrequited love for Hu Shi lasted for many years. In 1930, her family even rented another house for her, hired a caretaker, and isolated her. Hu Shi called the house where she lived in "her house" in his diary. House of Madness".In late October, when Hu Shi went to visit Zhu Yinong, she told Hu Shi herself, "I'm crazy about you." She also said that she had no hope but only hoped to see Hu Shi often.Hu Shi went there again two days later, seeing her dying on the bed, he couldn't help sighing sadly, "Although I didn't kill Boren, Boren died because of me".What is even more miserable is that Zhu Yinong is also the wife of Rao Yutai, a student of Hu Shi's Chinese Public School.Not only that, when they got married in 1924, Hu Shi and Jiang Dongxiu were their witnesses!
In the preface (1333) of "Forty Self-Reports", Hu Shi mentioned the regret that "a girlfriend" destroyed the manuscript:
"A few years ago, a girlfriend of mine suddenly became angry and wrote a 6,000-word autobiography. I was very moved after reading it, and thought that the autobiography of Chinese women was unprecedentedly realistic. But unfortunately, she put This manuscript was completely burned. When she wrote an article and sent it to me, I respected her wishes and did not keep a copy for her, which is still a pity.”
Xia Zhiqing speculated in his article "On Chen Hengzhe" that the author of the autobiography who burned the manuscript was Ms. Chen Hengzhe.Some people think that the "girlfriend" who burned the autobiographical manuscript is not Chen Hengzhe, Chen Hengzhe has never been "mentally ill", it is obviously Zhu Yinong.
Zhu Yinong wrote her autobiography only for Hu Shi to read, which is also in line with her psychological characteristics and behavioral motives of her unrequited love for Hu Shi.Another reason is that Hu Shi vigorously advocated biographical literature. He not only personally wrote biographies and autobiographies, but also tirelessly persuaded and urged his friends to write autobiographies. Zhu Yinong wrote autobiography as a response to his unrequited love for Hu Shi.
