One night on April 19, 1928, a cruise ship named "Queen of Canada" was sailing from Hong Kong to Shanghai according to the established route.
"The earth is dirty, I will throw myself into the sea to cleanse myself." A girl on the side of the boat suddenly sighed. She is fair-skinned and beautiful, and is in her youth, but this sentence is full of vicissitudes of life.
The girlfriend next to her was a little worried about her, but she just smiled slightly: "Some people tell others before jumping into the sea. I said it for fun, don't worry."
The girlfriend returned to the cabin with doubts, and comforted her before returning. Ichiban, I hope she won't think too much about it.
After her girlfriend left, the woman put away her haggard smile and looked numbly at the vast sea. Under heaven and earth, where is there a place for oneself?
Her bangs were blown messy in the cold sea breeze, and she couldn't fix it in her heart. She called the accompanying servant over and told the servant that if she couldn't find her after waiting in Shanghai, she could go back to Hong Kong by herself. After that, he gave her 100 yuan and asked her to divide the money.
The servant couldn't help but be startled - listening to the master's voice, it seemed that he was making funeral arrangements. But she was just a servant, she just agreed softly without asking any more questions.
Later, the news that the woman jumped into the sea and died spread throughout the country.
This personâs name is Yu Meiyan. She is a strange woman who is well-known in Shanghai, Guangdong and Hong Kong. The reason why is "strange" is that she has slept with countless men under the conservative gender concepts at that time.
After getting tired of the mortal world, Yu Meiyan also decided to escape into Buddhism and become a nun who ignored the affairs of the mortal world.
But who knew that the news would leak out as soon as she entered the monastery. Her former lovers immediately crossed the threshold of the temple, and the abbot of the temple had to clear her out of the temple.
With nowhere to go, she contemplated suicide, and finally chose to commit suicide by jumping into the sea.
This became a sensational big news. Before she died, she left a suicide note in her room for all female compatriots across the country.
So what is the content of this fatal letter, and what is the ups and downs of her life story behind her?
We might as well step into the legendary world of Yu Meiyan.
1ďź Losing the freedom of marriage and secretly fleeing to Guangzhou
Yu Meiyan's tragedy should be said to have started with the new education she received.
Her father was a pawn shop businessman. In order to increase his daughter's "worth", her father allowed his daughter to receive a certain amount of new education.
However, because Yu Meiyan was petite, beautiful and smart since she was a child, she was favored by many men when she was in school.
Not only that, Yu Meiyan didn't care about the so-called "gender protection" at all. When she was in middle school, she wore revealing swimsuits to swim with the boys, and she also represented the school in the joint sports meeting held in Taishan County at that time.
Although Yu Meiyan's parents wanted their daughter to receive a new education, they themselves were conservative in thinking and could not accept their daughter's "dissoluteness", so they made their daughter drop out of school and locked her up at home, with a tutor responsible for her studies at home.
Yu Meiyan has accepted the ideas of freedom and equality in the new education. She cannot bear to feel depressed at home every day and always longs to regain her freedom.
After Yu Meiyan turned eighteen, her parents finally stopped locking her in the boudoir. Yu Meiyan, who had "broken out of the cage", was extremely happy and often went out to enjoy her free time. One evening, she met her "Prince Charming".
This man is the local "Nine Young Masters of Bohai". He is handsome and talented, which makes Yu Meiyan's heart tremble. After the two met, they started to have a passionate relationship.
But it didnât take long for this matter to be leaked. Yu Meiyanâs parents were so angry that they locked her up in a boudoir again and severed her contact with the Ninth Young Master of Bohai. Yu Meiyan's first relationship was brutally strangled by her mother.
Not only that, Yu Meiyan's father did not consider his daughter's thoughts, and for the sake of his own career development, he forcibly married her to Tan Xiangzu, the son of a wealthy businessman in Kaiping County.
While being "imprisoned" by her father, Yu Meiyan had been waiting for her "Prince Charming" to rescue her, and even sent a maid to deliver a message to Bohai Ninth Master on her behalf. She put her hope in this lover, imagining that he could elope with her.
But fantasy is just fantasy after all. Instead of coming to save her, the lover was so frightened that he could no longer find him. Just when she was feeling desperate for this "first love", her parents suddenly told her the news that she was going to marry the son of a wealthy businessman.
What can women in feudal society do if they are ordered by their parents?
? Yu Meiyan was forced to marry Tan Xiangzu. She couldn't help lamenting her fate. It was ridiculous that her parents hired teachers to teach her freedom and equality, but then personally destroyed her freedom.
After marrying Tan Xiangzu, Yu Meiyan found that her husband was actually acceptable. He was good-looking and well-educated, and he was quite easy to talk to.
Yu Meiyan thought that in this case, it would be better to live a down-to-earth life with the other person. There is no point in complaining about the freedom she has lost.
But after only two months of marriage, the Tan family's business encountered problems, so Tan Xiangzu went to New York to "put out the fire." "Businessmen value profit over separation." After Tan Xiangzu left, he did not come back for a long time. The two were far apart across the ocean, and there was almost no communication. Yu Meiyan instantly became alone.
Her husband is thousands of miles away, and Yu Meiyan, who has only been married for two months, is already very lonely and has nowhere to vent her desires. However, the Tan family was very strict about etiquette, and Yu Meiyan could not go out easily, just like when she was locked up at home by her parents when she was a child, she had no freedom of movement.
But that's not all. She is stuck at home every day and often suffers from her mother-in-law's bad words.
Gradually, Yu Meiyan couldn't bear it anymore. Having received a new education since she was a child, how could she accept that she was like a feudal woman, being left at home by her husband and being made things difficult for her by her mother-in-law every day?
She said sadly: "Because of various relationships, I feel the pain of not having freedom in marriage." She decided to break away from this tool-like marriage, so she left home alone and secretly escaped to Guangzhou.
After experiencing the bondage and misfortune of marriage, Yu Meiyan was determined to escape from her marriage and secretly ran to Guangzhou
II. Being wild and unrestrained is not tolerated by Guangzhou officials. However, as luck would have it, just when she first set foot in Guangzhou, it happened to be the morning after former Navy Chief Cheng Biguang was assassinated.
If she were like an ordinary person and arrived in Guangzhou normally, nothing would happen. However, Yu Meiyan has a flamboyant personality and wears strange clothes. Because she left home secretly, her behavior was a bit suspicious, and the police couldn't catch her.
After being detained at the police station, Yu Meiyan did not suffer from jail for too long. She had an uncle who was a county magistrate, and they smoothed the relationship and released her.
As soon as this incident came out, the Tan family immediately terminated their marriage to Yu Meiyan. Yu Meiyan's father was deeply humiliated when he learned that his daughter dared to run away privately, so he went to Guangzhou to report his daughter to the police in person. So the daughter was sent to the so-called "workshop" (a new type of prison at the time). After
was "reformed" in the prison for a year, Yu Meiyan was released. Over the past year, she has lived with other prisoners every day, and her experience is unbearable for outsiders.
Why was I treated like this by my biological parents? Yu Meiyan deeply realized the ruthlessness of her family and the harshness of the world. She was determined to break through the restraints imposed on her by her family and pursue her own love freely.
"I am committed to pursuing the freedom of love in my life." Yu Meiyan said.
So how to resist? Yu Meiyan didn't have this concept in her mind. She only knows that she must be free, break through the constraints, and break the unequal rules that serve men.
But at this time, she still had hope in finding a beautiful love, so she acted relatively conservatively. She married a Hong Kong businessman named He in Hong Kong and became his second concubine.
But as time went by, Merchant He became more and more tired of Yu Meiyan - his wife was too slutty, hanging around theaters, casinos and other places of entertainment all day long, spending money like water.
Does this woman look like she is living her life? Merchant He couldn't stand her anymore, so he published her squandering behavior in the newspapers, reprimanded her, and divorced her.
This time, Yu Meiyan completely gave up hope on a good relationship and marriage.
Since marriage and relationships cannot satisfy her, then pursue the freedom of lust. Yu Meiyan plays in the world, shuttles in the romantic field, and has relationships with military and political officials.
Yu Meiyan, whose marriage and relationship are unsatisfactory, chooses to pursue the freedom of lust, playing in the world, traveling in the romantic field, and having affairs with military and political officials.
Playing with these officials is not so much about pursuing freedom. It's Yu Meiyan's rebellion and cynicism.
Yu Meiyan once said: "Regardless of ancient and modern times, at home and abroad, only men can play with women, and women cannot play with men, so I have had sex with thousands of men. This is a trick I use to play with men..."
That's right, Yu Meiyan We must use the method of "playing with men" to resist this world where male supremacy and women's lives are suffocating and restrained.
In this sense, he did succeed. After Yu Meiyan had an argument with the former director of a certain bureau in Central Guangdong, she opened her mouth and demanded ten thousand yuan from the other party.
The other party smiled coldly and said that she had no evidence, so why should she ask him for such a huge sum of money. Unexpectedly, Yu Meiyan laughed and said: "The mole on your lower part is the irrefutable proof. If you don't satisfy me, we will have to prove it in court." Sometimes Yu Meiyan even said that the other party imposed excessive taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and that she was acting on behalf of the people of Guangdong. Attack it.
In addition, Yu Meiyan also did some behaviors that were so bizarre that people at the time could not understand. For example, one time, she violated city regulations and rode a big horse around the city. The police detained her and fined her five yuan. As a result, she slapped a ten yuan note on the case and left without waiting for the police to change her money. go.
In the summer, she also liked to lie naked at the door of the hotel bedroom. Passersby were all surprised and stared at her, but she lay there as if there was no one around, without any shame, so that the hotel did not dare to let her stay.
Yu Meiyan did many weird behaviors in Guangzhou, such as lying naked in front of the hotel, or riding a horse through the city, which attracted the attention of the world.
Over time, Yu Meiyan was no longer tolerated by the Guangzhou officials and expelled her from Guangdong. First, I arrived in Hong Kong and later moved to Shanghai.
three. Wanting to look back, but unable to tolerate the world
After arriving in this "modern city", Yu Meiyan still did not stop her wild behavior, so she became a "wonderful woman" who often appeared in the local spotlight.
The local media dug out anecdotes about her, especially her love story, which is the most talked about. Although there are no rigorous statistics on how many people she has dated, Yu Meiyan has a habit of keeping a diary of her "playing with" men.
According to her diary, there were three thousand men who slept with her. This shocking number is somewhat exaggerated, but the media does not consider whether it is true or false, and describes and exaggerates it. Even if a newspaper comes out to refute this, it cannot suppress the popularity and "convincibility" of this matter.
Yu Meiyan not only wrote a diary, but also included love letters sent to her by men, named it "Romantic Love Letters", and published it.
As an alternative writer who uses "body writing", her books have a lot of selling points. As soon as they were published, they sold well in the market and became a best-seller that everyone knew about in the Republic of China at that time. It is still there today. Republic of China collector's edition.
One night on April 19, 1928, a cruise ship named "Queen of Canada" was sailing from Hong Kong to Shanghai according to the established route.
"The earth is dirty, I will throw myself into the sea to cleanse myself." A girl on the side of the boat suddenly sighed. She is fair-skinned and beautiful, and is in her youth, but this sentence is full of vicissitudes of life.
The girlfriend next to her was a little worried about her, but she just smiled slightly: "Some people tell others before jumping into the sea. I said it for fun, don't worry."
The girlfriend returned to the cabin with doubts, and comforted her before returning. Ichiban, I hope she won't think too much about it.
After her girlfriend left, the woman put away her haggard smile and looked numbly at the vast sea. Under heaven and earth, where is there a place for oneself?
Her bangs were blown messy in the cold sea breeze, and she couldn't fix it in her heart. She called the accompanying servant over and told the servant that if she couldn't find her after waiting in Shanghai, she could go back to Hong Kong by herself. After that, he gave her 100 yuan and asked her to divide the money.
The servant couldn't help but be startled - listening to the master's voice, it seemed that he was making funeral arrangements. But she was just a servant, she just agreed softly without asking any more questions.
Later, the news that the woman jumped into the sea and died spread throughout the country.
This personâs name is Yu Meiyan. She is a strange woman who is well-known in Shanghai, Guangdong and Hong Kong. The reason why is "strange" is that she has slept with countless men under the conservative gender concepts at that time.
After getting tired of the mortal world, Yu Meiyan also decided to escape into Buddhism and become a nun who ignored the affairs of the mortal world.
But who knew that the news would leak out as soon as she entered the monastery. Her former lovers immediately crossed the threshold of the temple, and the abbot of the temple had to clear her out of the temple.
With nowhere to go, she contemplated suicide, and finally chose to commit suicide by jumping into the sea.
This became a sensational big news. Before she died, she left a suicide note in her room for all female compatriots across the country.
So what is the content of this fatal letter, and what is the ups and downs of her life story behind her?
We might as well step into the legendary world of Yu Meiyan.
1ďź Losing the freedom of marriage and secretly fleeing to Guangzhou
Yu Meiyan's tragedy should be said to have started with the new education she received.
Her father was a pawn shop businessman. In order to increase his daughter's "worth", her father allowed his daughter to receive a certain amount of new education.
However, because Yu Meiyan was petite, beautiful and smart since she was a child, she was favored by many men when she was in school.
Not only that, Yu Meiyan didn't care about the so-called "gender protection" at all. When she was in middle school, she wore revealing swimsuits to swim with the boys, and she also represented the school in the joint sports meeting held in Taishan County at that time.
Although Yu Meiyan's parents wanted their daughter to receive a new education, they themselves were conservative in thinking and could not accept their daughter's "dissoluteness", so they made their daughter drop out of school and locked her up at home, with a tutor responsible for her studies at home.
Yu Meiyan has accepted the ideas of freedom and equality in the new education. She cannot bear to feel depressed at home every day and always longs to regain her freedom.
After Yu Meiyan turned eighteen, her parents finally stopped locking her in the boudoir. Yu Meiyan, who had "broken out of the cage", was extremely happy and often went out to enjoy her free time. One evening, she met her "Prince Charming".
This man is the local "Nine Young Masters of Bohai". He is handsome and talented, which makes Yu Meiyan's heart tremble. After the two met, they started to have a passionate relationship.
But it didnât take long for this matter to be leaked. Yu Meiyanâs parents were so angry that they locked her up in a boudoir again and severed her contact with the Ninth Young Master of Bohai. Yu Meiyan's first relationship was brutally strangled by her mother.
Not only that, Yu Meiyan's father did not consider his daughter's thoughts, and for the sake of his own career development, he forcibly married her to Tan Xiangzu, the son of a wealthy businessman in Kaiping County.
While being "imprisoned" by her father, Yu Meiyan had been waiting for her "Prince Charming" to rescue her, and even sent a maid to deliver a message to Bohai Ninth Master on her behalf. She put her hope in this lover, imagining that he could elope with her.
But fantasy is just fantasy after all. Instead of coming to save her, the lover was so frightened that he could no longer find him. Just when she was feeling desperate for this "first love", her parents suddenly told her the news that she was going to marry the son of a wealthy businessman.
What can women in feudal society do if they are ordered by their parents?
? Yu Meiyan was forced to marry Tan Xiangzu. She couldn't help lamenting her fate. It was ridiculous that her parents hired teachers to teach her freedom and equality, but then personally destroyed her freedom.
After marrying Tan Xiangzu, Yu Meiyan found that her husband was actually acceptable. He was good-looking and well-educated, and he was quite easy to talk to.
Yu Meiyan thought that in this case, it would be better to live a down-to-earth life with the other person. There is no point in complaining about the freedom she has lost.
But after only two months of marriage, the Tan family's business encountered problems, so Tan Xiangzu went to New York to "put out the fire." "Businessmen value profit over separation." After Tan Xiangzu left, he did not come back for a long time. The two were far apart across the ocean, and there was almost no communication. Yu Meiyan instantly became alone.
Her husband is thousands of miles away, and Yu Meiyan, who has only been married for two months, is already very lonely and has nowhere to vent her desires. However, the Tan family was very strict about etiquette, and Yu Meiyan could not go out easily, just like when she was locked up at home by her parents when she was a child, she had no freedom of movement.
But that's not all. She is stuck at home every day and often suffers from her mother-in-law's bad words.
Gradually, Yu Meiyan couldn't bear it anymore. Having received a new education since she was a child, how could she accept that she was like a feudal woman, being left at home by her husband and being made things difficult for her by her mother-in-law every day?
She said sadly: "Because of various relationships, I feel the pain of not having freedom in marriage." She decided to break away from this tool-like marriage, so she left home alone and secretly escaped to Guangzhou.
After experiencing the bondage and misfortune of marriage, Yu Meiyan was determined to escape from her marriage and secretly ran to Guangzhou
II. Being wild and unrestrained is not tolerated by Guangzhou officials. However, as luck would have it, just when she first set foot in Guangzhou, it happened to be the morning after former Navy Chief Cheng Biguang was assassinated.
If she were like an ordinary person and arrived in Guangzhou normally, nothing would happen. However, Yu Meiyan has a flamboyant personality and wears strange clothes. Because she left home secretly, her behavior was a bit suspicious, and the police couldn't catch her.
After being detained at the police station, Yu Meiyan did not suffer from jail for too long. She had an uncle who was a county magistrate, and they smoothed the relationship and released her.
As soon as this incident came out, the Tan family immediately terminated their marriage to Yu Meiyan. Yu Meiyan's father was deeply humiliated when he learned that his daughter dared to run away privately, so he went to Guangzhou to report his daughter to the police in person. So the daughter was sent to the so-called "workshop" (a new type of prison at the time). After
was "reformed" in the prison for a year, Yu Meiyan was released. Over the past year, she has lived with other prisoners every day, and her experience is unbearable for outsiders.
Why was I treated like this by my biological parents? Yu Meiyan deeply realized the ruthlessness of her family and the harshness of the world. She was determined to break through the restraints imposed on her by her family and pursue her own love freely.
"I am committed to pursuing the freedom of love in my life." Yu Meiyan said.
So how to resist? Yu Meiyan didn't have this concept in her mind. She only knows that she must be free, break through the constraints, and break the unequal rules that serve men.
But at this time, she still had hope in finding a beautiful love, so she acted relatively conservatively. She married a Hong Kong businessman named He in Hong Kong and became his second concubine.
But as time went by, Merchant He became more and more tired of Yu Meiyan - his wife was too slutty, hanging around theaters, casinos and other places of entertainment all day long, spending money like water.
Does this woman look like she is living her life? Merchant He couldn't stand her anymore, so he published her squandering behavior in the newspapers, reprimanded her, and divorced her.
This time, Yu Meiyan completely gave up hope on a good relationship and marriage.
Since marriage and relationships cannot satisfy her, then pursue the freedom of lust. Yu Meiyan plays in the world, shuttles in the romantic field, and has relationships with military and political officials.
Yu Meiyan, whose marriage and relationship are unsatisfactory, chooses to pursue the freedom of lust, playing in the world, traveling in the romantic field, and having affairs with military and political officials.
Playing with these officials is not so much about pursuing freedom. It's Yu Meiyan's rebellion and cynicism.
Yu Meiyan once said: "Regardless of ancient and modern times, at home and abroad, only men can play with women, and women cannot play with men, so I have had sex with thousands of men. This is a trick I use to play with men..."
That's right, Yu Meiyan We must use the method of "playing with men" to resist this world where male supremacy and women's lives are suffocating and restrained.
In this sense, he did succeed. After Yu Meiyan had an argument with the former director of a certain bureau in Central Guangdong, she opened her mouth and demanded ten thousand yuan from the other party.
The other party smiled coldly and said that she had no evidence, so why should she ask him for such a huge sum of money. Unexpectedly, Yu Meiyan laughed and said: "The mole on your lower part is the irrefutable proof. If you don't satisfy me, we will have to prove it in court." Sometimes Yu Meiyan even said that the other party imposed excessive taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and that she was acting on behalf of the people of Guangdong. Attack it.
In addition, Yu Meiyan also did some behaviors that were so bizarre that people at the time could not understand. For example, one time, she violated city regulations and rode a big horse around the city. The police detained her and fined her five yuan. As a result, she slapped a ten yuan note on the case and left without waiting for the police to change her money. go.
In the summer, she also liked to lie naked at the door of the hotel bedroom. Passersby were all surprised and stared at her, but she lay there as if there was no one around, without any shame, so that the hotel did not dare to let her stay.
Yu Meiyan did many weird behaviors in Guangzhou, such as lying naked in front of the hotel, or riding a horse through the city, which attracted the attention of the world.
Over time, Yu Meiyan was no longer tolerated by the Guangzhou officials and expelled her from Guangdong. First, I arrived in Hong Kong and later moved to Shanghai.
three. Wanting to look back, but unable to tolerate the world
After arriving in this "modern city", Yu Meiyan still did not stop her wild behavior, so she became a "wonderful woman" who often appeared in the local spotlight.
The local media dug out anecdotes about her, especially her love story, which is the most talked about. Although there are no rigorous statistics on how many people she has dated, Yu Meiyan has a habit of keeping a diary of her "playing with" men.
According to her diary, there were three thousand men who slept with her. This shocking number is somewhat exaggerated, but the media does not consider whether it is true or false, and describes and exaggerates it. Even if a newspaper comes out to refute this, it cannot suppress the popularity and "convincibility" of this matter.
Yu Meiyan not only wrote a diary, but also included love letters sent to her by men, named it "Romantic Love Letters", and published it.
As an alternative writer who uses "body writing", her books have a lot of selling points. As soon as they were published, they sold well in the market and became a best-seller that everyone knew about in the Republic of China at that time. It is still there today. Republic of China collector's edition.
is an alternative writer who uses "body writing". Yu Meiyan's book has a lot of selling points. As soon as it was published, it was a big seller in the market.
However, as Yu Meiyan "played" with so many men, she gradually understood It turns out that this kind of "playing" is just for temporary pleasure and to express temporary anger, and it cannot change the world dominated by men at all.
Let alone the world, what has this new and innovative approach brought to you day after day? Is it freedom to express one's lust freely? What Yu Meiyan saw was that she was becoming more and more intolerable to the world.
Forget it, letâs take it away. Maybe true freedom is to find your own happiness.
At the age of 25, Yu Meiyan fell in love with a "second generation official". This man was not only handsome, rich and powerful, but he was also extremely attentive to her. He did not hesitate to spend money to send her flowers and gifts. He also vowed to marry her and give her a bright future.
After wandering around for so many years, is there a man who "really" loves me? How could Yu Meiyan not be moved? Under the continuous offensive of this "second generation official", Yu Meiyan quickly fell.
However, the marriage between the two did not get the approval of the "second-generation official" family at all. Yu Meiyan was famous for her dissoluteness at the time, and the "second generation officials" were unwilling to accept such an owner who would damage their family's reputation.
So the county magistrateâs wife deliberately made things difficult for her. If she could get back the 20,000 yuan that her son had spent for her, she would agree to the marriage. Unexpectedly, Yu Meiyan was sincere about the marriage. She found friends in Shanghai, Guangzhou and other places and asked them to borrow money, and finally collected 20,000 yuan to come back.
However, the county magistrate's wife went back on her word. Instead of agreeing to her marrying her son, she threatened to report her to the authorities for being a "prostitute."
Only then did Yu Meiyan realize that the county magistrateâs wife didnât want to accept her at all. She was disheartened and thought that since the secular world could not accept her, she should convert to Buddhism and stay with the Ancient Buddha of Qingdeng all the time.
However, she had just become a nun, and the news leaked out somewhere. Every day, more than ten interested boyfriends visited her. The abbot of the temple saw that if this continued, it would definitely disturb the purity of the temple, so he expelled her on the pretext of "breaking the rules."
In fact, as early as when Yu Meiyan was expelled from Guangzhou and moved to Shanghai, she had already despaired of the world and had the idea of ââââsuicide.
As early as when she was driven out of Guangdong and moved to Shanghai, Yu Meiyan had the idea of ââââsuicide.
She once asked a reporter named Ma Langlang what kind of suicide method was the most "appropriate".
Ma Langdang seems to have a lot of experience on this issue. She "taught" Yu Meiyan two "artistic ways to die": first, plunge into the wonderful West Lake; second, plunge into the boundless blue sea.
Of these two ways of death, one "leave a good story" and can leave an endless aftertaste material for literati and poets; the other is great without leaving a trace of filth, allowing oneself to reach peace with the sea. A blend of smallness and grandeur.
At this time, when Yu Meiya found that she could not even escape into Buddhism, she remembered the two ways of death that Ma Langdang recommended to her. After much deliberation, she decided to die "great" and throw herself into the vast sea.
This is why the author said that Yu Meiyanâs tragedy began when she received a new type of education.
Yu Meiyan decided to die a great death and devote herself to this vast ocean.
Accepting new education is naturally not a bad thing. Not only that, everyone in society should receive progressive education, liberate their own minds, and promote social progress.
However, when society is about to wake up, the vast majority of people are still in ignorance, and a small number of people have not yet understood the true meaning of freedom, Yu Meiyan, who has received a new education, will inevitably encounter a tragic fate.
Yes, "Yu Meiyan" is also one of these few people. Even what she has come into contact with is not complete and mature freedom. Her understanding of freedom can only be vague and vague, and she can only feel at a loss in the process of constantly hitting the wall. Lost, not knowing where to go.
Unfortunately, this society does not allow for her trial and error environment, and restricts her freedom at every turn, so she is forced to do so. Although she has not yet understood what freedom is, she is determined to pursue freedom in her heart and is constantly burning. He exhausted all his energy and finally despaired of this world.
In that era, freedom was only a weak fire. It could only bloom hope and desire in some individuals' psychology, but it was not enough to allow them to fight against the entire era. What's more, this is "freedom" that has been misunderstood. Blind courage seems so pale and weak in the face of misunderstanding.
4. A letter to female compatriots across the country
So what was written in Yu Meiyanâs desperate letter? This desperate letter was written to female compatriots across the country, expressing her concern for the situation of women at that time.
She wrote: Yan was unfortunately born in this transitional era. Since childhood, he relied on the words of a matchmaker, obeyed the orders of his parents, married a husband in a foreign country, had not seen each other for several years, had little knowledge, misunderstood freedom, and acted willfully. . In this filthy and evil society, he has been ups and downs for ten years. Although he has met many people, he has never been able to marry Zhu Chen. Although he fell in love with Bohai Ninth Young Master, his parents blocked him and he was ultimately disappointed. I have finally lost the joy of life, and there is no use in leaving this remaining life. I am determined to end my life, leave this filthy world, and return to my pure origin.
Before her death, Yu Meiyan left a suicide note to her female compatriots, attributing her suicide problem to a large extent as the society's "individual youth"
Regarding her own suicide, Yu Meiyan's suicide note mentioned "evil" Although it is self-imposed, it is also caused by society.â Obviously, although Yu Meiyan admitted that she did have problems, she still attributed the problems more to the "lack of support" of the times.
said this, objectively it seems to be defending himself and sensationalizing. In fact, after Yu Meiyan committed suicide, although there were still criticisms of her in the public opinion, the overall reputation was much better than in the past. Moreover, before Yu Meiyan committed suicide, she asked about "how to die in art." There are also some reasons for this. Make a gesture.
But it is undeniable that Yu Meiyanâs death has indeed attracted public attention and discussion, achieving the goal of her death being as great as the sea.
Objectively speaking, Yu Meiyanâs suicide does have various factors that are inseparable from society. She had a free mind, but no free soil, so she was forced to leave the world in struggle and distortion. This helplessness of resistance was really the unbearable weight of her life.
So whether she packaged herself as a victim or not, the significance of this suicide letter itself is extraordinary.
For example, many scholars analyzed the reasons for her suicide, and finally concluded that the fundamental problem of Yu Meiyan's depravity lay in the society at that time.
Zhang Naiqi believes that Yu Meiyanâs behavior is caused by the stimulation of the environment. In those occasional love failures, there is a contradiction between new and old ideas.
Zhang Naiqi believes that Yu Meiyanâs behavior is caused by Aroused by the stimulation of the environment, those accidental love failures contain essential contradictions between new ideas and old ideas.
In addition, another trend permeating the society also affected Yu Meiyan's suicide, that is, rewarding suicide. It seems that once a person commits suicide, he is more likely to be sympathized by the society and become the "right" person. one party.
Generally speaking, Yu Meiyanâs fate represents the general status quo of women at that time to a certain extent. Although those women who did not resist did not hit the wall, they were still unable to be free from the shackles of men. Therefore, Yu Meiyanâs death, After all, it sounded a wake-up call for that era and promoted everyone's reflection on women's issues.
Unfortunately, this society does not allow for her trial and error environment, and restricts her freedom at every turn, so she is forced to do so. Although she has not yet understood what freedom is, she is determined to pursue freedom in her heart and is constantly burning. He exhausted all his energy and finally despaired of this world.
In that era, freedom was only a weak fire. It could only bloom hope and desire in some individuals' psychology, but it was not enough to allow them to fight against the entire era. What's more, this is "freedom" that has been misunderstood. Blind courage seems so pale and weak in the face of misunderstanding.
4. A letter to female compatriots across the country
So what was written in Yu Meiyanâs desperate letter? This desperate letter was written to female compatriots across the country, expressing her concern for the situation of women at that time.
She wrote: Yan was unfortunately born in this transitional era. Since childhood, he relied on the words of a matchmaker, obeyed the orders of his parents, married a husband in a foreign country, had not seen each other for several years, had little knowledge, misunderstood freedom, and acted willfully. . In this filthy and evil society, he has been ups and downs for ten years. Although he has met many people, he has never been able to marry Zhu Chen. Although he fell in love with Bohai Ninth Young Master, his parents blocked him and he was ultimately disappointed. I have finally lost the joy of life, and there is no use in leaving this remaining life. I am determined to end my life, leave this filthy world, and return to my pure origin.
Before her death, Yu Meiyan left a suicide note to her female compatriots, attributing her suicide problem to a large extent as the society's "individual youth"
Regarding her own suicide, Yu Meiyan's suicide note mentioned "evil" Although it is self-imposed, it is also caused by society.â Obviously, although Yu Meiyan admitted that she did have problems, she still attributed the problems more to the "lack of support" of the times.
said this, objectively it seems to be defending himself and sensationalizing. In fact, after Yu Meiyan committed suicide, although there were still criticisms of her in the public opinion, the overall reputation was much better than in the past. Moreover, before Yu Meiyan committed suicide, she asked about "how to die in art." There are also some reasons for this. Make a gesture.
But it is undeniable that Yu Meiyanâs death has indeed attracted public attention and discussion, achieving the goal of her death being as great as the sea.
Objectively speaking, Yu Meiyanâs suicide does have various factors that are inseparable from society. She had a free mind, but no free soil, so she was forced to leave the world in struggle and distortion. This helplessness of resistance was really the unbearable weight of her life.
So whether she packaged herself as a victim or not, the significance of this suicide letter itself is extraordinary.
For example, many scholars analyzed the reasons for her suicide, and finally concluded that the fundamental problem of Yu Meiyan's depravity lay in the society at that time.
Zhang Naiqi believes that Yu Meiyanâs behavior is caused by the stimulation of the environment. In those occasional love failures, there is a contradiction between new and old ideas.
Zhang Naiqi believes that Yu Meiyanâs behavior is caused by Aroused by the stimulation of the environment, those accidental love failures contain essential contradictions between new ideas and old ideas.
In addition, another trend permeating the society also affected Yu Meiyan's suicide, that is, rewarding suicide. It seems that once a person commits suicide, he is more likely to be sympathized by the society and become the "right" person. one party.
Generally speaking, Yu Meiyanâs fate represents the general status quo of women at that time to a certain extent. Although those women who did not resist did not hit the wall, they were still unable to be free from the shackles of men. Therefore, Yu Meiyanâs death, After all, it sounded a wake-up call for that era and promoted everyone's reflection on women's issues.
