At the end of November 1923, Hu Shi returned home anxiously.
Confidante who lived together in Hangzhou for March 1 Cao Chengying is already pregnant. He had to show off his original wife Jiang Dongxiu and wanted to divorce and marry another.
This was very common at the time. After the May Fourth Movement, a new wind blew in, and it became popular for literati to divorce their country wives and marry intellectual women again.
Xu Zhimo Didn’t you abandon Zhang Youyi , pursue Lin Huiyin , and did not turn around and marry Lu Xiaoman ? Didn’t Lu Xun live with Xu Guangping? There are also Guo Moruo , Shen Congwen , Li Shutong ...
In the circle of friends, only Hu Shi still has a arranged marriage wife, and everyone regrets him. Chen Duxiu once slapped the table and said:
"If you recognize me as a friend, you will divorce your wife today. A wife with such a small foot is not cultured or thoughtful, you can tolerate it."
Hu Shi, a talented man with 36 doctoral titles, is just an ordinary person in his emotions. Of course he thought about it too!
But his wife Jiang Dongxiu is not as easy to pass as other rural women. She has a tough and direct personality and can't stand the sand in her eyes.
What she used to welcome the cheating man Hu Shi was not meaningless tears, but a bright kitchen knife!
When Hu Shi stepped into the house and talked about the divorce, she immediately rushed into the kitchen with her youngest son, picked up the kitchen knife, waved it to him and shouted:
"You want to divorce, I will kill the two sons you gave birth to, and then commit suicide!"
Hu Shi was so scared that she looked like a slut. He quickly begged for mercy to ensure that she would never divorce, and then slowly took off the kitchen knife.
Since then, Hu Shi never had the idea of divorce again. He carefully studied knowledge and academic knowledge and accompanied Jiang Dongxiu peacefully until he was old.
rural wife Jiang Dongxiu fired the first shot to defend her marriage and defend her feminist rights.
In fact, she not only made every effort to protect her marriage and rights, but also bravely stood up like a knight to help other weak original wives.
Peking University professor Liang Zongdai , and is in love with Shen Ying and wants to divorce his original wife He. He was shy and even if he didn't want to do so, he could do nothing.
Jiang Dongxiu, who accidentally heard this on the mahjong table, even though he had only met He, he still ran to find He indignantly and wanted to help her stand up.
She used the wisdom of a rural person to tell He that he would never agree to divorce. Even if he divorced, he would go to court and claim compensation from Liang Zongdai.
Liang Zongdai didn't expect He would have such courage. She didn't think that she could not say that she was a decent Peking University professor at all. What he didn't expect was that Jiang Dongxiu also went to court and made generous speeches for half an hour, making Liang Zongdai speech speech speech speech speechless.
She described the miserable and lonely women in an arranged marriage with sincerity. Not only the judges, but even the people in the audience and even Liang Zongdai's lawyer were infected by her abundant emotions.
She didn't count on her own, but she also pulled Hu Shi to court, proving that Liang Zongdai's salary at Peking University is not low and it is enough to compensate.
This famous divorce lawsuit ended with the great victory of He and Jiang Dongxiu. He received huge compensation and lived a safe life; Jiang Dongxiu became famous in the literary circle of the capital.
She became a famous guardian of the original wife and resolutely fought against bad habits.
Xu Zhimo and Lu Xiaoman got married, and found Hu Shi as a matchmaker and witness, but Jiang Dongxiu was the first to refuse to agree.
She refused to allow Hu Shi to participate, and started arguing with Hu Shi in front of Ye Gongchao, saying that if Hu Shi became this mediator, he would have to drag him down on the stage of getting married.
In the end, Hu Shi had to use the excuse to go to Moscow for a meeting and hid out.
Peking University President Jiang Menglin wants to divorce Sun Yushu, who already has three sons and one daughter, to marry his secretary Tao Zenggu, and ask Hu Shi to take the marriage.
Jiang Dongxiu felt that Jiang Menglin, who abandoned his wife and children, was really detrimental to morality, and was very angry and locked Hu Shi at home and refused to let him go out.
Hu Shi did not dare to disobey his wife's intentions and was afraid of offending his boss, so he could only sneak out of the back window and go to a German hotel to seek marriage like a thief.
In that era when women generally could only swallow their anger and pay attention to virtuousness and virtue, Jiang Dongxiu's brave resistance was like a clear stream, which was admirable.
What she guards is not only the happiness of her life, but also the firm principles and attitudes, and the traditional public order and good customs.
She believes that no matter who it is, since she has entered marriage, she should bear the corresponding responsibility. The ideas and concepts of
made her able to hold a sword and be proud of the world and practice the truth she believed in even if she had never heard of the word "feminist" before.
The strongest little-footed wife in the Republic of China, she is well-deserved!
