Chapter 35 wedding

After Zhao Yuanren and Yang Buwei got acquainted, they often visited Senren Hospital.Once, he told Yang that he might be too busy these days, and hope they don't mind if he can't come again; but he went again that night.When they heard that someone was in a car accident outside and wanted to find a doctor, Zhao Yuanren followed Yang Buwei to the gate, stepped on a flower pot in a hurry, and broke a pot of chrysanthemums.Since then, every year on Yang Buwei's birthday, he bought a pot of chrysanthemums for Yang. On June 2, 1921, Zhao Yuanren and Yang Buwei held a new-style wedding. Except for renting a house, they kept everything simple.

On the day of the wedding, the two first went to Zhongshan Park to take a photo at the place where they made love, and then sent a marriage notice to relatives and friends, with a photo attached to the notice, stating that they would not accept gifts.In the afternoon, the two called Hu Shi and Zhu Zheng to their home, and Yang Buwei personally cooked four dishes and four bowls of home-cooked food.Zhao Yuanren took out a self-made marriage certificate and asked Hu and Zhu to be witnesses and sign it.In order to legalize it, a stamp duty of four cents was posted. A total of 400 copies of Zhao Yuanren and Yang Buwei’s marriage notices were sent out. The notice said: “Dr. Zhao Yuanren and Ms. Before the letter arrived, they got married independently in Beijing at 3 o'clock in the afternoon on June 1st, 10th year of the Republic of China, at 120 degrees east longitude and the average solar standard. Let me tell you, the witnesses of their marriage: Dr. Hu Shizhi, and female doctor Zhu Zheng. Tell Ladies and gentlemen, since we want to get rid of the vulgar, vain and wasteful habits of the old and the new, we do not accept congratulatory gifts except for the following two. Exception one is abstract kindness expressed in letters, poems, or music. Wait, non-material gifts created by the giver. Exception two, or donate to the Chinese Science Society in your own name..."

There is a motto written on the photo attached to Zhao and Yang's marriage notice: "Yangming's motto: Knowing is the beginning of action, and doing is the completion of knowing; Hu Shi recalled Zhao Yuanren's wedding in this way: "Zhao Yuanren often came to my house to talk about phonology and language romanization, which we often did when we were studying at Cornell. Later, I noticed that he didn't come so often, and we didn't discuss it so thoroughly. At the same time, I I also noticed that he often communicates with my fellow villager Yang Buwei (Yunqing).

One day, Yuanren called me and asked if I had time to come to No. 49 Xiaoyabao Hutong tomorrow night to join him, Ms. Yang, and another friend, Ms. Zhu Chunguo (Xiang's sister Zhu Zheng's number). have dinner.There weren't any restaurants and clubs or anything like that in that part of town, so I wondered why.In order to be prepared, I brought a copy with my annotations, wrapped delicately like a gift.In case I guessed wrong, I added a layer of plain paper on the outside. That night, we had an exquisite dinner in the exquisite and exquisite residence. There were four delicious side dishes, which were cooked by Ms. Yang herself.After dinner, Yuan Ren took out a handwritten document, saying that he and Yunqing would be very honored if Dr. Zhu and I were willing to sign and testify.Zhao Yuanren and Yang Buwei got married in this way.I was the first person to give them both gifts. "

The next day, the morning newspaper reported their wedding with a special headline "New People's New Style Marriage".Later, Zhao Yuanren asked Russell: "Is our way of getting married too conservative?" Russell replied: "It's radical enough!" The notice was posted on the bulletin board of the observatory, letting his colleagues see what kind of astronomical phenomena occurred at 3 o'clock in the afternoon on June 1, 1921, at 120 degrees east longitude mean solar standard time.So the marriage of Zhao Yuanren and Yang Buwei became an "astronomical phenomenon".

When Zhao Yang got married, Zhao Yuanren was rushing to record the first Mandarin phonograph, so they didn't go on their honeymoon.Early in the morning on the second day of the wedding, Hu Shi came to visit.The servant said to Hu: "Mister and wife are not at home, they are going out for honeymoon." Hu Shi said: "No, you go and report to them, I know they have some urgent matters to deal with, so they won't go out." Sure enough, Yang Buwei heard it from upstairs, so he opened the window and called Hu Shi: "You guessed right, we are at home, I'm afraid there are too many people coming and it will take our time, so tell the servants to go back as usual. It’s honeymoon. That’s really sweet. But we’re living a bitter life now.” Hu Shi laughed and joked, “Are you fighting? I’ll make peace.” So he went in and talked with Zhao Yuanren about the Mandarin phonograph.

The way Zhao Yuanren and Yang Buwei got married offended many relatives and friends. Zhao Yuanren’s favorite aunt Nonggu sent a flower basket, but Zhao Yuanren returned it because he thought it was neither written nor musical and could not be accepted; Yang Buwei’s uncle originally disapproved of her divorce This time, it was even more embarrassing, because after he told his friends that he didn't know when and where his daughter and niece got married, everyone got the notice, some even before him.