Why do you prefer Lin to Lu Xiaoman?

In his memoir A Late Flute at the End of the World: Listening to Stories, Zhang Chonghe once said, "I don't necessarily like what everyone likes. Just like Lin, everyone likes her. When she was in Kunming, she was very talkative and always the center of the crowd. As long as she is there, everyone must listen to her, when no one else is talking ... but I have a good impression of Lu Xiaoman. I don't remember what kind of occasion it was. Who introduced me to her? Anyway, when I returned to Shanghai after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, she was very Wen Ya and didn't talk much. She also sang songs and painted flowers and birds in a landscape painting, much like ... "

When she said this, Zhang Chonghe had passed the age of vigorous. Besides, Lin and Lu Xiaoman don't know her very well. Why did she say such a thing?

(Zhang Chonghe is in Kunming)

In fact, it has to start with Zhang Chonghe's family background.

Zhang Chonghe was born into a noble family. Her grandfather, Zhang Shusheng, was an important official of the Qing court in his early years and served as the governor of Guangdong, Guangxi and Zhili. Her father was Zhang, an educator in the Republic of China. He lost everything and founded a school that advocated new education, which was famous at that time.

In addition, the Zhang family is also a big landlord in Hefei because of its rich family business and vast land.

In addition to fame and fortune, the four daughters of the Zhang family are also famous, so they have the reputation of "Hefei Four Sisters" and are the youngest of the four sisters.

As early as childhood, Zhang Chonghe lived with her adopted grandmother.

The foster mother from a noble family not only taught a noble family proper manners and manners, but also spent a lot of money to invite Wu Changshuo's favorite pupil Zhu to teach her Chinese studies.

Zhang Chonghe is a talented woman who has lived up to her grandmother's careful cultivation. As a girl, she was elegant, good at poetry and prose, and had a solid foundation in Chinese studies.

After the death of his adoptive mother, Zhang Chonghe, with the support of his father, studied Kunqu Opera with famous teachers, and was quite accomplished in Kunqu Opera.

Zhang Chonghe is also a "zero-mark candidate" specially recruited by Peking University. Of course, she didn't take the back door, but because she got full marks in her composition, the school cherished her literary talent and made an exception and accepted her.

1939 when War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression broke out, Zhang Chonghe went to Kunming with his third sister Zhang Zhaohe and his third brother-in-law, Shen Congwen, and lived there for two years.

When she was in Kunming, Zhang Chonghe, who was brilliant and versatile, was praised by professors in the literary and art circles and academic circles, and many of them pursued her.

(Lin Liang Sicheng)

At that time, Lin and Liang Sicheng still lived in Kunming, Yunnan.

As Shen Congwen is Xu Zhimo's favorite pupil, he forged a deep friendship with Lin and his wife as early as when Lin opened a salon in the living room of his home in Beijing.

Therefore, when I was in Kunming, Shen Congwen's family and Lin's family also had frequent contacts.

However, there is no friendship with Lin, on the one hand, because Lin is older than her 10 years old.

On the other hand, they have received different education since childhood. Lin is greatly influenced by western culture, so her way of doing things is different from traditional ones in many cases.

It seems that although Lin is very popular, she doesn't appreciate Lin Zhangyang's personality, such as being too talkative. As long as she is here, everyone has to listen to her when no one is talking. Besides, Lin is too high-profile. As long as she is in public, she will always be the focus.

Therefore, when she is old, she will say bluntly that she doesn't like Lin.

(Old photo of Lu Xiaoman)

And Lu Xiaoman is another kind of demeanor.

When Zhang Chonghe met Lu Xiaoman, it was already after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War.

At this time, Lu Xiaoman had been widowed for many years and was criticized by public opinion. These hardships made Lu Xiaoman's character more and more quiet and taciturn.

Lu Xiaoman likes singing Kunqu Opera as much as Zhang Chonghe, and is good at calligraphy and painting.

The so-called like-minded, it is no wonder that Zhang Chonghe will have a better impression of Lu Xiaoman.

Of course, it should be said that this is because Lu Xiaoman is already at such a moment of disaster. If it was Lu Xiaoman in those days, Lu Xiaoman before marrying Xu Zhimo, or Lu Xiaoman when marrying Xu Zhimo, she would be ostentatious, ostentatious and even taking drugs, Zhang Chonghe might not like her.