999, the movie " My 1919" was released in China. The theme of the film is the famous " Paris Peace Conference ".
919 Paris Peace Conference, Chinese diplomat Gu Weijun faced the difficulties of the great powers, fought for sovereignty and territorial integrity for China, and refuted the unreasonable demands of Japanese imperialism, which became a good story.
On the other side of the strait, residents of Taiwan Province have also watched "My 1919", but what the locals talk about is not Gu Weijun's career, but his private life.
Gu Weijun got married four times in his life, had divorced, had lost his puppet, had married a famous socialite, and loved his subordinate's wife. The diplomat finally married his subordinate's wife, Yan Youyun, and they accompanied them in their later years.
But among his wives, the most controversial one is the third Huang Huilan .
Huang Huilan is a Nanyang native and is also the daughter of the richest man in Java. She was the number one socialite during the Republic of China period. She married the diplomat Gu Weijun, indeed, a handsome man, but the marriage was unhappy, and later the marriage was in name but not true.
Zhang Xueliang Recalling in his later years, Gu Huang’s marriage was in name only, Huang Huilan had a fierce personality, and once poured water on Gu Weijun’s face in front of everyone, which made him very embarrassed.
Although Huang Huilan and Gu Weijun were not in harmony, they were together for a lifetime and only divorced after 40 years of marriage. Gu Weijun remarried Yan Youyun in his later years, while Huang Huilan died alone.
So, how glorious is the family of the famous socialite Huang Huilan? What is her relationship with Gu Weijun? How miserable was her old age?
1. The daughter of the "sugar king" Huang family in Nanyang
Huang Huilan was born in 1893 in Java Province, the Netherlands East India . Her father was the richest man in Southeast Asia at that time.
Huang Zhonghan is a celebrity in the Chinese world and an outstanding representative of Southeast Asian Chinese. He also has a nickname called Southeast Asia's "Sugar King".
As for the rise of the Huang family, it actually started with Huang Huilan's grandfather Huang Zhixin . Huang Zhixin is from Fujian and participated in the Xiaodaohui Uprising in the late Qing Dynasty. After the uprising failed, he came to Java Island to do small business in the local "Semmarang City".
The three brothers Huang Zhixin started their own business as hawkers and spent decades to open their own business, specializing in selling Java sucrose, tobacco leaves and to China and Japan, and then sell northern products to Java and Australia.
After making money, the Huang Zhixin brothers also started trading smuggling and opium selling, and accumulated a lot of wealth in their later years. Later, Huang Zhixin opened the "Jianyuan Company" and his son Huang Zhonghan took over the company, focusing on the sugar and tobacco business.
Under Huang Zhonghan's wise leadership, Jianyuan Company became the sugar-making giant in Southeast Asia, and Huang Zhonghan became the richest Chinese in Southeast Asia and even the world.
Huang Zhonghan married 18 wives and concubines in his life, and countless mistresses, but his favorite is his eldest wife, the beautiful Shandong girl Wei Mingniang.
Wei Mingniang gave birth to two daughters for Huang Zhonghan - Huang Conglan and Huang Huilan, who Huang Zhonghan loves these two daughters very much. Huang Huilan has been living a life of a European aristocratic life since she was a child. In her own memoirs, she and her sister and mother lived a European aristocratic life when they were young.
At that time, Java Island was a colony of The Netherlands , and most of the rich people in the local area were proud of their Western-style life. Huang Huilan's family speaks English and eats Western food. She has been with five or six servants since she was a child. She invites private teachers to class at home to learn Dutch , English and French.
Huang Huilan is less than 10 years old and can speak multiple languages fluently. Her father also hired European etiquette teachers to teach her daughter Western culture. He positioned his daughter as the future prime minister, foreign minister, and even the president's wife, who can contribute to his career.
But unexpectedly, before the Huang Huilan sisters had grown up, the love between their parents was cracked. In order to give birth to a son for the Huang family, Huang Zhonghan began to take concubines frequently, and the number of people increased.
For the Chinese at that time, taking a concubine was not a big deal, and it was news that rich people did not take a concubine. But Huang Zhonghan took over his concubines too much. It was not enough to marry seven or eight in a row. In the end, he married 18, and there were mistresses lined up outside.
Wei Mingniang couldn't stand this kind of life and took her daughter away from Europe and lived in London, the capital of the UK.
According to current materials, Huang Huilan married a British diplomat in Indonesian when she was 16 years old, and had nearly 10 years of marriage and gave birth to a son. But this experience was not very happy, and later Huang Huilan kept hiding it and didn't even mention it in her memoirs.
2. Celebrities match socialites, but tortured each other for 40 years
hm0 Huang Huilan lived in Europe for a few years, and her sister Huang Conglan married Jian Chonghan, the son of a wealthy businessman in South China. This person is a classmate of Gu Weijun.
Jian Chonghan is a doctor with a low status. Huang Conglan has always been dissatisfied with her husband's achievements. After she learned that her husband was a classmate of the Republic of China diplomat Gu Weijun, she wanted to promote the marriage between her sister and Gu Weijun to support her husband.
918, Gu Weijun's second wife Tang Baoyue died of in the United States due to flu, leaving behind two children. Gu Weijun was hit hard at that time and happened to meet the Paris Peace Conference at that time.
919, he went to Paris alone to fight for power, turning grief and anger into strength, and relied on his wonderful speeches, he suddenly became a world celebrity.
From 1919 to 1921, Gu Weijun frequently traveled between Europe and China. After working in Europe, he visited friends everywhere.
1920, he was visiting the home of his friend Jian Chonghan in Paris and accidentally found a half-body photo of a woman on a piano. The woman in the photo is beautiful and charming, which fascinates Gu Weijun very much.
In fact, this photo was deliberately placed here by Huang Conglan, and the protagonist is Huang Huilan. At that time, his sister Huang Huilan had just officially divorced her British husband and was single, so Huang Conglan wanted to introduce her sister to Gu Weijun.
When she saw that Gu Weijun was interested in her sister, she quickly arranged for the meeting with her mother Wei Mingniang.
Huang Huilan was very happy when she heard that she was going to date a diplomat, but when she saw Gu Weijun for the first time, this traditional Chinese man made him dissatisfied.
The first time they met was when the three of the Huang family and their son-in-law Jian Chonghan asked Gu Weijun for dinner. Gu Weijun was wearing formal clothes that day, but Huang Huilan despised Gu Weijun as old and more rustic.
Huang Huilan does have the capital to dislike. She has been working hard on fashion and likes to wear all kinds of fashion-leading clothes.
Huang Huilan didn't like Gu Weijun at first, but Gu Weijun liked Huang Huilan very much. More importantly, the Huang family is the richest man in Southeast Asia, which is well known. With Huang Huilan, Gu Weijun's career can get a lot of financial help.
The second visit was when Gu Weijun was wearing a diplomatic uniform, sitting in the embassy's special car, and carrying his entourage. This formation was much more grand than the previous one.
Huang Huilan was a little muttered at the time, but her mother and sister insisted that she marry Gu Weijun. Gu Weijun also asked her to have dinner many times. This elegant diplomat, , is very different from the Europeans that Huang Huilan is used to contact, and finally gradually makes Huang Huilan have a good impression.
1 In the second half of 20, Gu Weijun and Huang Huilan got married in Brussels. The Huang family held a grand wedding. Chinese in Europe, as well as representatives from the business and diplomatic circles, were all present. The newspapers rushed to report that the Huang family had summoned a rich son-in-law.
After being together, Gu Weijun and Huang Huilan also had a sweet time for several years and gave birth to two sons. In the next few years, with the huge financial support of the Huang family, Gu Weijun rose to prominence in the political arena.
1926, with the support of those in power such as Wu Peifu, Zhang Zuolin, , etc., Beiyang , Gu Weijun acted as the Prime Minister of State in October as the Chief of Foreign Affairs, becoming the highest head of state in China at that time.
But as time goes by, the two people collide with each other and feel uncomfortable with each other.
Gu Weijun is a traditional Chinese man who doesn’t like her to be too high-profile.
The wealthy family's daughter Huang Huilan has a flamboyant personality. She always wears the best and most expensive jewelry, wears expensive custom-made fashions, and does not hide her emotions. She likes to express her opinions at any time.
The only thing Gu Weijun likes is Huang Huilan's confidence and grandeur. She knows many foreign languages and is the focus of the audience in social occasions. Gu Weijun takes her out and helps herself a lot in public.
In addition to this aspect, Gu Weijun is dissatisfied with this wife everywhere.
After marriage, Huang Huilan and Gu Weijun gave birth to two sons. Huang Huilan is also the stepmother of Gu Weijun's two children. Logically, Huang Huilan should take on the responsibility of her mother, but this young lady does not have the ability.
All the affairs of the Gu family are done by servants. Huang Huilan is still a young lady who is married to a wife. She not only does not touch the spring water, but also maintains a luxurious lifestyle.
When Gu Weijun was an ambassador in the UK, she was angry because the embassy was too poorly decorated and actually spent tens of thousands of dollars to decorate the embassy. This move made Gu Weijun very angry.
At that time, China was in war and the country was very exhausted. An ambassador spent a huge sum of money to decorate the embassy. What would the outside world talk about? But Huang Huilan doesn't care. She has no idea about external affairs, but she simply cannot accept that her living environment is so bad.
The huge difference in life concepts made Huang Huilan and Gu Weijun's relationship become weaker and weaker. Later, their marriage was basically in name but not real.
According to Zhang Xueliang's recollection, Gu Weijun and Huang Huilan later had a formal marriage, and they each had their own games.
Zhang Xueliang once recalled that he was playing cards with Gu Weijun. Huang Huilan actually broke in and asked Gu Weijun to go back. Gu Weijun did not move, and Huang Huilan cursed.
She first scolded Gu Weijun, and later scolded Yang Guangxi's wife Yan Youyun, which was very ugly and said that the two were adulterers and mischievous women.
Zhang Xueliang could not stop it many times. Finally, Huang Huilan poured a cup of tea on Gu Weijun's head, then turned around and left, everyone present was stunned.
Zhang Xueliang said that in fact, the two had basically broken up at that time, and each had their own games. Huang Huilan had several boyfriends himself, but it was really strange that Gu Weijun didn't ask him to find him.
3. Is it lonely in my later years? Do Huang Huilan hate Gu Weijun?
Huang Huilan and Gu Weijun separated for a long time after 1936. The two will appear in public together, but most of the time they do not live together.
Huang Huilan is also the eldest daughter of the Huang family. Every month, her family will send her tens of thousands of dollars in living expenses.
Whether in Europe, China or the United States, Huang Huilan enjoys the best substances, eats the dishes of famous chefs and wears privately customized European clothing.
Huang Huilan is a benchmark for clothing in the socialite circle in Shanghai. What she wears, the local socialites will wear, and then this style is popular on the beach.
There are even rumors that even the "first lady" in China, Song Mei-ling, , had to go to Huang Huilan's wardrobe to see what materials and styles she was wearing, and then let her tailor do it.
World War II broke out, Huang Huilan went to the United States and still lived her life as a lady. It was not until 1941 that Japan went south to invade Southeast Asia that her aristocratic life came to an end.
Because the Huang family's industries are all in Indonesia , after the Japanese came, all the Chinese assets were confiscated and the Huang family almost went bankrupt.
Huang Huilan found that she had not received living expenses for a long time in 1942. She only found out that her brother was also running around in the war, and her life was worrying.
In the end, Huang Huilan lived with her own savings and Gu Weijun's income until after the war.
1956, Gu Weijun left the Jiang government. He devoted his life to the country. In his later years, he wanted to pursue the life he wanted, so he separated from Huang Huilan. Three years later, the two officially divorced, ending this nearly 40-year marriage.
Huang Gu and the other two had been in a cold war for more than 20 years. Huang Huilan didn't say anything, but just agreed.
Gu Weijun and Huang Huilan remarried immediately after divorce, and their partner was Yan Youyun, who played cards together back then. Yan Youyun's husband Yang Guangli died in World War II. She took her child to be widowed for more than ten years. She and Gu Weijun had a relationship and decided to be together in their later years.
Gu Weijun was very happy in his later years. He was taken care of by Yan Youyun, who usually played cards and traveled. Yan Youyun was a traditional Chinese wife, the kind that Huang Huilan said Gu Weijun liked the most.
Gu Weijun lived to be 98 years old under the care of Huang Huilan. He also wrote memoirs in his later years, which became an important historical material in modern Chinese history.
As for Huang Huilan, her old age life was very difficult.
The "Jianyuan Company" of Huang Huilan's family suffered a heavy blow in World War II and eventually went bankrupt, but his father left behind more than 40 children and hundreds of grandchildren, all of whom needed to eat.
Under such conditions, her living expenses were cut off early. Huang Huilan herself has a savings of hundreds of thousands of dollars, and the deposit interest is her only income.
In order to survive, Huang Huilan once sold some of her jewelry. These jewelry are expensive and sold at a high price, but Huang Huilan's own living expenses are also very large, and selling jewelry is not a long-term solution.
Finally, Huang Huilan chose to rely on herself. She lowered her head to face life, moved from the villa to the apartment, and sent the servant away. She began to study and became a female speaker.
In her later years, she gave speeches to Chinese people everywhere in the United States, promoting equal rights and women's rights. It is said that Huang Huilan's speech at that time cost thousands of US dollars at one time, which was a sky-high price in the mid-20th century.
Huang Huilan was always alone in her later years. She raised a puppy at home to accompany her , and only her son would come to see her sometimes. Although she spent the rest of her life in the United States, she had no interaction with Gu Weijun anymore, and the two had only met once.
985 Gu Weijun passed away. Huang Huilan was very sad. She was in her 90s at this time. Recalling all the past when she was young, she was very grateful to Gu Weijun for accompanying her life.
Huang Huilan once commented on Gu Weijun: "He is a good person, a person that China needs, but unfortunately he is not a good husband I need."
After that, Huang Huilan focused on writing her memoir, named "The Banquet Without Away".
As the daughter of the richest man in Nanyang and one of the most famous socialites in the Republic of China period, Huang Huilan's old age was extremely desolate. The sentence "There is no banquet that never leaves" expresses the loneliness after the glitz has dispersed.
993, Huang Huilan died in the United States at the age of 100. She had little property behind her, only some jewelry and photos of the room.
Huang Huilan's death did not alarm too many people, because most of the elderly in the Republic of China were no longer there at that time, and most of the photos she left were photos with Gu Weijun. Maybe at the end of her life, she still missed the man who accompanied her for half her life.
text/Business Wild
Reference materials:
, "My Name is Huang Huilan", Huang Huilan
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-