Xiong Xiling married three wives in his life. He doesn't take concubines and is devoted to every wife. His original wife Liao, his second wife Zhu and his third wife.
Original wife Liao, from Zhenyuan, Guizhou. After she married Xiong Xiling, the couple were very loving, but Liao soon got lung disease and the treatment was ineffective. She died in 1895.
Xiong Xiling's second wife, Zhu, is the younger sister of Zhu, the magistrate of Yuanzhou. She is both talented and beautiful, and has been known as "Baoshan talented woman" since she was a child. She came to the college with her brother. Zhu is good at poetry and songs, which is beyond the reach of ordinary people. At that time, Zhu was already in his twenties and eighties. Her eldest brother Zhu Taishou saw many good-looking boys and suddenly thought of choosing a good husband for his sister. With the consent of their sister, they decided to jointly recruit suitable candidates. Their couplet is: "Raise some flowers and fuck the spring and autumn news."
The boys in the whole school were shocked when the marriage was posted on red paper. They were ecstatic and racked their brains to get beautiful women, but they didn't win Zhu's smile. Xiong Xiling devoted himself to studying in order to get ahead, but when he saw this, he felt that it was detrimental to a man's dignity, so he inadvertently inserted a willow tree and wrote a couplet: "Dig a pool of water to see the surplus and deficiency of heaven and earth."
Zhu Taishou saw it and exclaimed, "It's rare to have such a genius." That night I called my sister to the study and asked her what she thought.
Zhu shyly lowered his head and said, "This kind of talent is outstanding in China and has great prospects."
"So, little sister agreed?"
"Little sister, I am still young, and the big wedding is up to my brother."
Zhu Taishou married his sister to Xiong Xiling.
Xiong Xiling was naturally excited to get this beautiful woman and studied harder. The following year, he was admitted to Beijing and became a rare scholar in the late Qing Dynasty. Soon the official and the prime minister.
Xiong Xiling and Zhu have a good relationship, respect each other as guests, and have a very harmonious family life, which is praised as a beautiful talk by the world. However, this young woman's life is very poor. After Zhu gave birth to three children for Xiong Xiling, he became ill and died of cerebral hemorrhage soon. Xiong Xiling was in a trance all day because of the loss of his beloved wife. In memory of his beloved wife, he grew a long beard and lived a clean life with crutches. He was widowed for many years and never married again. Committed to the cause of being kind to children.
Xiong Xiling's third wife, Mao Yanwen, 1896 was born in Jiangshan county, Zhejiang province. Mao Yanwen graduated from the workshop of Hangzhou Women's Normal School. Because of her excellent academic performance and good looks, she is known as the "school flower of female teachers". Mao Yanwen was admitted to the Foreign Languages Department of Beijing Women's Normal University. When she transferred to Nanjing Jinling Women's University, she happened to meet Xiong Xiling's daughter Xiong Zhi, who studied in the same class and had a close relationship. Mao Yanwen is good at socializing, often participates in social activities, and serves as the temporary chairman of Zhejiang Branch of China Women's Rights Movement League.
Mao Yanwen's father once betrothed her to Fang Jia, a noodle tycoon in Huizhou. When she got married, Mao Yanwen resisted by running away. Faced with the deadlock, the Mao family had to compensate the Fang family for all the losses. Later, Mao Yanwen and his cousin Junyi Zhu got engaged. From 65438 to 0923, Junyi Zhu returned from the United States and became a professor at Nanjing Southeast University. He is very dissatisfied with Mao Yanwen's social interaction. At the same time, he was introduced and found another love. The two sides reached an agreement: first, cousins are limited to blood relations and should not get married. In the future, it will be commensurate with the normal relationship between relatives, brothers and sisters. Two, by Zhu to Mao four thousand yuan as compensation for mental damage, paid in five years. The previous agreement is invalid from now on.
After experiencing the stimulation of two marriages, Mao Yanwen readjusted herself, abandoned all her troubles, concentrated on her studies, and was admitted to the Department of Education of the University of Michigan.
After returning home, Mao Yanwen visited Xiongfu, who started a charity college, many times. And Xiong Xiling's wife Zhu's niece Zhu are also friends. She went to Xiong's house and was warmly received by Xiong Xiling. They talked about the current situation and poetry, and Mao Yanwen admired Xiong Xiling very much. Mao Yanwen is not an ordinary person. She is clever. She studied in America and is a university professor. Wu Mi, a scholar of the Republic of China, enthusiastically pursued her, but she did not agree. 193 1 In August, Xiong Xiling's second wife Zhu passed away, and Xiong Xiling was very sad. A few years later, he planned to remarry, so he fell in love with Mao Yanwen, but Mao Yanwen refused Xiong Xiling's proposal on the grounds of great disparity in age and status.
Xiong Xiling didn't give up the pursuit of Mao Yanwen. He personally wrote nearly 100 love poems for Mao Yanwen to express his feelings, and his relatives and friends visited Mao Yanwen many times. Considering Xiong Xiling's talent and charity, Mao Yanwen agreed to Xiong Xiling's proposal. I just made a request to the bear before marriage, shaving and dropping the stick. Xiong Xiling immediately agreed. 1935, 38-year-old beauty Mao Yanwen of the Republic of China married Xiong Xiling. At this time, Xiong Xiling was 66 years old. At this time, Xiong Xiling was very happy and blurted out a poem:
"Looking back on the world, I feel that I have suffered a lot every year, and my sick face has lost weight. I want to seek a new life, only spiritual struggle. Gradually transshipment, spring returns to withered willow. The landscape outside the building is good, and there are embroidered mandarin ducks with needles. Huang Shep, * * * hand in hand.
Seek the new sound of phoenix music score, dare to pass the old food and hide the broom. Education * * * grow old together, youthful, young, not just a strong family. 500 babies take care of their children, and all cradles need loving mothers. Heaven is perfect, and they have a good couple. "
On the wedding day, celebrities gathered in Shanghai, and friends sent a message: "To be nearly seventy years old, play the song of phoenix seeking to burn, and finish in September and September, just three or three lines are full; After exploring Zhu's wisdom and reading articles, they all got what they wanted, but who knew they were incompetent?
Chen and Xiong Xiling are old friends, and Chen wants to call Xiong Xiling Nianbo. He wrote an interesting couplet. The first part is "Old classmates become new aunts" and the second part is "Old uncles become big brothers-in-law".
When they got married, one was in his sixties, and the other had just passed "No Confusion". When he first got married, Mao Yanwen was embarrassed to call Xiong Xiling by his first name, so he called him "Grandpa" with Xiong Xiling's grandson, but Xiong Xiling didn't like it. He asked Mao to call him "Bing Ai" and he called him "Yan Ai". Mao Yanwen thought it was disgusting to call him Bing Ai, so he called him Bing. The word Xiong Xiling is Bing San.
After marriage, the old couple, with few wives, are extremely loving. In love, they are husband and wife, and in career, they are like-minded comrades in the same boat. Mao Yanwen inherited Xiong Xiling's career and helped him manage the kindergarten. Then she became the president of China Women's Red Cross Society. Although Xiong Xiling and Mao Yanwen respect each other as guests, they are in harmony and love each other. But the age gap has always made Xiong Xiling feel inferior. One day, Mao Yanwen went out shopping and came back to see Xiong Xiling crying. She was surprised and asked Xiong Xiling what was going on. Xiong Xiling said with inferiority: "Do you think I am old and don't want to go out with me?"
Mao Yanwen smiled and said, "You just fell asleep. I don't want to disturb you. I want to surprise you and buy you a watch as a Christmas present. " Xiong Xiling this just smile through tears.
After three years of marriage, they were inseparable. On Mao Yanwen's birthday and wedding anniversary, Xiong Xiling often wrote poems and lyrics for him. In their wedding photo, the husband and wife stand side by side, and Mao Yanwen is holding a doll with a faint smile on her face. Perhaps this is the happiness that Mao Yanwen pursues.
1937 65438+In February, Shanghai and Nanjing were successively lost. Xiong Xiling and Mao Yanwen bypassed Guangzhou and went to Hunan via Hong Kong to arrange the relocation of Xiangshan Kindergarten, and set up two branches in Zhijiang, Hunan and Liuzhou, Guangxi. 18 When he arrived in Hong Kong, Xiong Xiling suddenly suffered from encephalopathy and died in Hong Kong on 25th. Mao Yanwen was heartbroken.
Since then, Mao Yanwen tearfully wrote "A Brief Description of Mr. Xiong Bingsan's Portrait", which introduced Xiong Xiling's life in detail.
Comrade Mao Zedong once said this about Xiong Xiling. He said, "People will never forget a person who did good for the people. Xiong Xiling has done a lot of good things. " . Although Xiong Xiling's political career was short, he experienced and participated in the whole process of China's modern reform movement, political reform, the Revolution of 1911, moving towards peace, dying heroically, resisting Japan and saving the country.
"One person's life is devoted to patriotism, one person's life is devoted to the rejuvenation of China, and the other half is devoted to the charity education of the nation." This is a couplet on both sides of the wooden door of the former residence of Xiong Xiling, the ancient Fenghuang city in western Hunan. It concisely and accurately summarizes Xiong Xiling's life.
Three years after marriage, Xiong Xiling died. Three years of love has been Mao Yanwen's consolation for half a century. After Xiong Xiling's death, young Mao Yanwen never married again. Although Mao Yanwen tasted all the human feelings, she still tried to cheer up in grief, inherited her husband's career, shouldered the burden of carrying Xiangshan's kind family, and rushed about for it. Later, in a turbulent situation, she hurried to Taiwan Province and moved to the United States to make a living. At the age of sixty-three, she ended her wandering career in the United States and re-taught in Taiwan Province Province.
In commemoration of Xiong Xiling's centenary birthday, Mao Yanwen once described the days after Xiong Xiling's death: "During this long time, I was like a duckweed. I have been wandering in the United States for more than ten years, and I will return to Taiwan Province in eight years, but I am still wandering. " If the ice (Xiong Xiling) is known in heaven, it seems that we should pick up this duckweed beside us as soon as possible.
Mao Yanwen mentioned her feelings for home many times. After Xiong Xiling died, she took her adopted daughter out of her sister's place and lived with the nanny. In order to increase the security of seclusion, the bear's nephew was invited to live with him. In Shanghai, where prices are soaring, she maintains this family and is unwilling to give up easily. She once said, "I love home the most in my life. Even if there is only one thatched cottage, as long as it is home, I love it more than the palace. "
In the days of wandering overseas, she visited relatives and friends and recognized her adopted son and daughter. After she settled in Taiwan Province Province, she invited her adopted daughter Qin Ling to live with her and share the warmth of her family. However, my daughter died before her. Mao Yanwen has been a widow for more than 60 years, and the life span of widowhood is longer than many people. Alone, she passed away at the age of 102 on June 3, 1999.