1912, Sun Yat-sen, who had just resigned from his position as president, returned to his hometown Cuiheng and began traveling the country with his wife Lu Muzhen.
But as the journey approached little by little, Lu Muzhen's expression became more and more lonely, which made Sun Yat-sen very puzzled: "Madam Lu, what are you worried about?"
Lu Muzhen hesitated: "Sir, let's get divorced."
HD faced Lu Muzhen's request, Sun Yat-sen felt a little incredible, but no matter how he tried to keep him, Lu Muzhen had made up his mind. In desperation, Sun Yat-sen had to agree to the divorce.
Who is Lu Muzhen? Why did she divorce Mr. Sun Yat-sen?
Mr. Sun Yat-sen’s wives
Mr. Sun Yat-sen, born in 1866, can be regarded as a great national hero and a pioneer of the Chinese revolution.
As the saying goes, since ancient times, heroes are matched with beauty, and heroes like Mr. Sun Yat-sen are no exception. He married 15 wives in his life.
In addition to Mrs. Lu Muzhen mentioned at the beginning of the article, what Sun Yat-sen misses most is the second wife, and the only wife who has no status Chen Cuifen .
Chen Cuifen, born in Hong Kong in 1873, met Sun Yat-sen under the introduction of his relative Chen Shaobai .
Chen Cuifen has always been a fan of Sun Yat-sen. After the official meeting, he was attracted by Sun Yat-sen's personal charm and began to follow Sun Yat-sen.
When Sun Yat-sen was doing his best to fight against feudalism, Chen Cuifen became Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary partner and helped Sun Yat-sen carry out many activities.
Even Chiang Kai-shek respects Chen Cuifen very much, and respectfully calls her "Fourth Aunt".
1895, during the Guangzhou Uprising, Chen Cuifen helped prepare a large number of weapons to transport them to Guangzhou.
However, the Qing government discovered this and confiscated all the weapons prepared by Chen Cuifen on the way, and then began to want Sun Yat-sen.
Although Sun Yat-sen fled overseas immediately, he was still captured by the British and handed over to the Qing government.
In order to rescue Sun Yat-sen, Chen Cuifen took out weapons that were not confiscated by the Qing soldiers, found Kandelli and others, broke into the Qing Embassy in London, England, and rescued Sun Yat-sen safely.
Judging from this rescue operation of Sun Yat-sen, Chen Cuifen not only has deep feelings for Sun Yat-sen, but also has the ability to deal with crises. is Mr. Sun Yat-sen's well-deserved revolutionary partner .
1895, Sun Yat-sen prepared for the uprising in Guangzhou for the Xingzhong Plan.
For this reason, Mr. Sun Yat-sen prepared a large number of weapons in Hong Kong and prepared to ship them to Guangzhou, and and officially revolted on October 26.
Unfortunately, the person escorting weapons was arrested by the Qing army on the way, and the Guangzhou Uprising went bankrupt as a result, and the Qing government also began to want Mr. Sun Yat-sen on a large scale.
Although there is a deep revolutionary relationship between Sun Yat-sen and Chen Cuifen, the two have never entered the palace of marriage.
So after Lu Muzhen and Chen Cuifen, is actually Mr. Sun Yat-sen's second wife Haru Asada.
Asada Haru is the maid hired by Sun Yat-sen during his stay in Japan.
Later, Sun Yat-sen and Asada Haru fell in love for a long time, so they married Asada Haru as their side room.
But unfortunately, Haru Asada has a poor life and died of illness under the age of 20.
replaces Asada Haru to become Sun Yat-sen maid, Otsuki Kaoru , was also attracted by Sun Yat-sen's personality charm in his life with Sun Yat-sen and married Sun Yat-sen.
Later, after Sun Yat-sen passed away, Otsuki Kaoru, who lived alone in Japan, remarried twice before finally finding someone who could grow old with him.
In addition to these two side rooms, is Mr. Sun Yat-sen's fourth wife and the last wife Soong Ching-ling .
Song Ching Ling is the second daughter of the Song family of the four major families of the Republic of China. She can be said to have grown up with the stars holding the moon.
She has been admiring Sun Yat-sen since she was a teenager, so in 1915, she became Mr. Sun Yat-sen's wife despite her family's opposition.
As a lady from a noble family, Song Qingling was impeccable in terms of knowledge and thought. She was not only a good wife to Mr. Sun Yat-sen, but also a great patriotic and communist fighter.
Among Sun Yat-sen's wives, Chen Cuifen is undoubtedly the revolutionary companion and Soong Ching-ling is the great spiritual companion.
In addition to these two famous ladies, His first ladies, Lu Muzhen, is also a rare virtuous supporter.
The fate of parents
1867, Lu Muzhen was born in Guangdong. Her family is not ordinary. She is a famous local scholarly family. Therefore, although Lu Muzhen is not as good as Soong Ching Ling, she can be regarded as a lady from .
However, although Lu Muzhen's fathers, although their cultural qualities are very high, they have a serious idea of favoring boys over girls. They did not let Lu Muzhen study, but instead let her learn female pornography and female morality, and even made Lu Muzhen tangle.
In such family education , Lu Muzhen gradually grew up to be a traditional woman in a feudal society.
Although she is not outstanding in appearance, her short figure and three-inch golden lotus still make her the first choice for countless men.
Until 1984, Sun Yat-sen's mother, under the introduction of the matchmaker, fell in love with this woman who had never studied and was preparing to let Sun Yat-sen marry her as her son-in-law.
Sun Yat-sen had already begun to be busy with the revolutionary cause and was very disgusted with various systems in feudal society.
However, in the face of his mother's request, he was filial and willing to marry a woman he had never met before.
So on May 26, 1885, Sun Yat-sen married Lu Muzhen under the arrangement of his parents.
When the two of them had just begun their marriage, both Sun Yat-sen and Lu Muzhen felt extremely painful.
For Sun Yat-sen, he had no special feelings for Lu Muzhen, and the illiterate and tangled Lu Muzhen can be said to be a representative of feudal women Sun Yat-sen opposed.
And for Lu Muzhen, she has received the education of women's morality since childhood, understands that is the principle of marrying a chicken with a chicken , so she wants to walk side by side with Sun Yat-sen.
But he has never read a book, is difficult to understand Sun Yat-sen's thoughts , which naturally leads to the relationship between the two without progress for a long time.
However, although Lu Muzhen could not help Sun Yat-sen carry out the revolution at that time, he could also share the pressure on his family for Sun Yat-sen.
Since Sun Yat-sen is out for the revolution, she will take good care of Sun Yat-sen's family at home.
With Lu Muzhen's unremitting efforts, Sun Yat-sen gradually changed his mind about Lu Muzhen. The relationship between the two became deeper and deeper. Until the birth of their first child, Sun Ke, there was finally some relationship between Sun Yat-sen and Lu Muzhen.
The idea of divorce
In the following years, Lu Muzhen gave birth to two daughters for Sun Yat-sen.
At the same time, Lu Muzhen has been reading and recognizing words , wanting to help her husband in the revolutionary cause.
But Lu Muzhen had to take care of other family members every day, and she didn't have long to read and recognize words. A few years have passed, and she has not been able to help Sun Yat-sen in the revolution.
In fact, when Sun Yat-sen was busy with the and the revolution, Mrs. Lu Muzhen helped Sun Yat-sen take good care of her parents and children.
This has already played the role of being a son and a father for the busy Sun Yat-sen. Isn’t this a help to Sun Yat-sen’s revolutionary cause?
At that time, Cuiheng Village , relatives and friends from all over the country knew that Sun Yat-sen's family had a commendable Mrs. Lu Muzhen.
But no matter how much praise Lu Muzhen received, She always feels inferior because of her lack of education and is even more sorry for her husband Sun Yat-sen.
Especially in 1891, after Chen Cuifen became Sun Yat-sen's secretary, Lu Muzhen felt more and more sorry for her husband.
Chen Cuifen is different from Mrs. Lu Muzhen. She has received new ideological education since she was a child.
After becoming Sun Yat-sen's secretary, Sun Yat-sen felt that Chen Cuifen's thoughts and temperament were different from ordinary people, and he also loved Chen Cuifen very much.
The two often talk about national affairs together, and even later rented together.
At that time, Chen Cuifen could not only take care of Sun Yat-sen's daily life, but also provide advice for Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary cause. was Sun Yat-sen's real revolutionary companion , so he was taken to his home by Sun Yat-sen for a while.
During that period, Lu Muzhen and Chen Cuifen lived together, but there was no conflict between the two ladies.
Lu Muzhen treated Chen Cuifen meticulously and almost treated Chen Cuifen as his own sister. Chen Cuifen, who was moved by
, has always called Lu Muzhen his sister.
Although Lu Muzhen and Chen Cuifen have a very good relationship, Lu Muzhen is actually inferior in her heart because she has no words with her husband.
Chen Cuifen and Lu Muzhen
So in July 1910, when Sun Yat-sen's mother, Mrs. Yang, passed away, while Lu Muzhen was handling the funeral, had the idea of divorced Sun Yat-sen for the first time.
Years, Revolution succeeded, proclaiming the complete collapse of the feudal dynasty. The systems and ideas of feudal society in the past were broken one by one, and women finally no longer need to linger their feet.
It was also at this time that Chen Cuifen left Sun Yat-sen and Lu Muzhen because he suffered from severe lung disease , so he left Sun Yat-sen and returned to Hong Kong alone.
Because of Chen Cuifen's departure, Lu Muzhen filed a divorce with Mr. Sun Yat-sen for the first time.
The reason was that she thought her cultural level was not high , but she was opposed by Sun Yat-sen.
In the next two years, Lu Muzhen did not file for divorce again, and continued to share his worries with Sun Yat-sen as the "Mother of the Republic of China".
It was not until the appearance of Soong Ching Ling in 1913 that Lu Muzhen filed for divorce again.
That year, Soong Ching Ling had just graduated from college. She has admired Sun Yat-sen very much since she was a teenager.
After graduation, he began to follow Sun Yat-sen and became Sun Yat-sen's secretary.
At that time, Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary partner, Chen Cuifen, left Sun Yat-sen due to lung disease.
The new arrival of Soong Ching Ling quickly took over Chen Cuifen's position and was busy beside Sun Yat-sen.
The revolutionary situation in those years was not clear. Soong Ching Ling's appearance brought great encouragement to Sun Yat-sen, and the two fell in love with each other because of this.
However, Sun Yat-sen always remembers his wife Lu Muzhen, so he and Soong Ching-ling did not take that last step.
But what Sun Yat-sen did not expect was that At a meeting in Tokyo, Japan two years later, Lu Muzhen would file for divorce from him in public.
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1915, Sun Yat-sen went to Japan to live due to the setback of the revolution.
In September of the same year, he took Lu Muzhen and his children to Japan.
Less than a week after Lu Muzhen arrived in Japan, she suddenly appeared at a meeting between Sun Yat-sen and a group of revolutionaries.
said word by word : "I am a countryman, I cannot read and understand English, and I can't help my husband's career at all. The title of Mother of the Republic of China is really unbearable. So sir, let's get a divorce." After saying that, Lu Muzhen took out the divorce agreement she had prepared earlier and pressed her fingerprint on it.
It has come to this point, and Lu Muzhen and Sun Yat-sen have to divorce.
Soong Ching Ling, who was twenty-two years old at the time, rushed to Japan and married Sun Yat-sen.
After divorced Sun Yat-sen, Lu Muzhen returned to her hometown in Macau and wrote a letter to Sun Yat-sen.
The content of this letter is no longer important. What matters is the last sentence of the letter: "Goodbye, sir."
We don’t know how painful Lu Muzhen will feel when she writes these four words. But what we can know is that Lu Muzhen was righteous when it comes to proactively filed for divorce.
1918, Sun Yat-sen mentioned his divorce from Lu Muzhen in a letter to his mentor Kang Deli.
He admitted frankly that he and Lu Muzhen had no relationship breakdown, but Soong Ching Ling was unwilling to accept the status of the side room, so Sun Yat-sen himself was not at a loss.
or Lu Muzhen himself understands the righteousness, takes the initiative to divorce Sun Yat-sen , which allows Sun Yat-sen and Soong Ching-ling to get together because of love.
Maybe it's because of guilt or feelings. After Sun Yat-sen divorced Lu Muzhen, he still took the time to write a letter to Lu Muzhen in a long time.
Every time I write a letter, Sun Yat-sen will write the four words "Mrs. Lu received" on the envelope. In his heart, Lu Muzhen is always his first wife.
After Lu Muzhen divorced Sun Yat-sen, he also lived a relatively casual life in his later years.
Sun Ke took great care of her mother and would return to Macau to visit her mother every now and then. In 1947, Sun Ke also took Lu Muzhen to Cuiheng Village, where she once lived with Sun Yat-sen, and held a full ten days of 80th birthday celebration for her.
In addition to Sun Ke, Her good sister Chen Cuifen also came to Macau in her later years. The two would reunite every few days and recall their deeds when they were with Mr. Sun Yat-sen.
Many people will say that Mrs. Lu’s life was the sad life of a feudal woman, but in fact it was exactly the opposite.
Mrs. Lu's support for Mr. Sun Yat-sen is no longer limited to husband and wife.
Sun Yat-sen had many revolutionary partners in his life, but only Mrs. Lu was the real virtuous supporter. In the end, Mrs. Lu sacrificed herself to divorce her husband in order to support her husband's career.
Doesn’t this prove that she is not a spoiled little woman, but also a spiritually independent big woman. Is it a symbol of independent women in the new era?
