Xiao Hong was born in a landlord family in Hulan District, Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province. Her original name is Zhang Xiuhuan. Although she was born in a landlord family, her childhood was not happy. Her mother died when she was very young. And her father is a standard son preference, deeply influenced by feudal thought. Xiao Hong grew up in such an environment.
Xiaohong's only happy time when she was a child was brought to her by her grandfather. Fortunately, in such a family, there is another person who loves her. Xiaohong's grandfather's name is Weizhen Zhang. When Xiao Hong was young, he was seventy years old. He has already seen through the world and returned to rural life, playing in the garden with his little granddaughter every day. The whole back garden became their happy little world.
They painted a warm picture of family happiness. In that wonderful time, grandpa gave Xiaohong respect for playing and conformed to the nature. Xiao Hong's life-like and natural classic writing style has a lot to do with this period when I was a child. Grandpa's tolerance and love make Xiao Hong, who loves freedom and is headstrong, bloom freely like a flower in the garden.
Grandpa often teaches Xiaohong to read and write after playing. When her grandfather was teaching Xiaohong poetry and songs, Xiaohong liked to shout loudly when she was learning poetry, so her grandfather let her shout as much as she could. Xiao Hong likes to criticize poetry and only studies his favorite poems, so his grandfather teaches according to Xiao Hong's temperament. In grandpa's place, Xiao Hong received infinite tolerance and care, and grandpa's love was in sharp contrast with his father's indifference, which was deeply engraved in her heart.
But when Xiao Hong was about to turn 20, her grandfather, who loved her most, passed away. In this world, the only relative who cares about Xiao Hong has left forever, and Xiao Hong has completely lost her dependence. Xiao Hong later wrote in My Grandpa's Death: I think there will be no one who sympathizes with me after my grandpa's death. Grandfather died in the world, and the rest were cruel people. I want to go to the crowd, but there is no my grandfather in the crowd.
After grandpa left, the stepmother always complained to Xiaohong's father and found fault with Xiaohong. Xiaohong's relationship with her father is getting worse. Xiao Hong later wrote in the book: When my father hit me, I was in my grandfather's room, facing the window all the time, from dusk to late at night. In her father's eyes, she should be a lady from a landlord's family and will definitely get married in the future. However, Xiao Hong's character cultivated since childhood is unruly and yearns for freedom. This also laid a curse for her later.
After graduating from high school, her father firmly forbade her to continue her studies. Xiao Hong, on the other hand, resisted her father head-on, and even threatened to run away from home and sever the father-daughter relationship with her father. The life of Xiao Hong's father, Zhang Tingju, is actually full of disappointments everywhere. In just four years, he experienced the pain of losing his mother, father, wife and son. Isn't his life full of suffering everywhere? Therefore, it is common sense that people get angry easily, but the young Xiao Hong can't see the sufferings of adults, and her father's serious preference for sons has given her a painful injury. Because of various contradictions, the two lost the necessary communication prematurely. As a result, contradictions and misunderstandings have deepened.
When Xiao Hong was fourteen, her father betrothed her to Wang Enjia, the son of a large family. This Wang Enjia is gentle and handsome. However, born in a rich family, it is inevitable to get some bad habits, and Wang Enjia got into the bad habit of smoking heavy cigarettes. When Xiao Hong was seventeen, she fell in love with her cousin Lu Zhenshun. Xiaohong is determined to stay with her cousin even though everyone is against it. Although my cousin is married and engaged, at the beginning of the new era, she is willfully opposed to the arranged marriage of her parents. At that time, most intellectual women were the epitome of the new era, and they were struggling with the old times.
To this end, Xiaohong broke off her marriage with her father. Zhang Tingju gnashed her teeth with anger and cursed Xiao Hong for being an unfilial daughter.
We can't break the contract here, so she and her cousin thought of eloping. The two fled to Peiping together and went to Peiping to study. But once for love, it was not a happy appearance in the end. After arriving in Beiping, they lived together in a quadrangle. The two also spent a period of loving each other here with the money they brought back from home. However, the hometown in the northeast has long been humiliated, and the two families have cut off their financial resources and forced them to go home.
Under great pressure, this progressive young man who once encouraged Xiao Hong to resist arranged marriage bowed to the old times. A winter vacation, an enterprising young man packed his bags and went home first. After losing her only support, Xiao Hong returned home in humiliation and promised to marry Wang Enjia.
But before long, Xiao Hong was abandoned by men again. At first, they lived together in a hotel in Harbin, until one night, Wang Enjia left quietly. Only a few hundred yuan of rent arrears and the children in the belly were left to Xiaohong. The poor and arrogant girl fell into despair again. When a pregnant woman was penniless, the hotel owner even threatened to sell her to a kiln worker. In desperation, Xiao Hong had to ask for help everywhere. With the help of a newspaper, Xiao Hong successfully walked out of this crisis.
And this person who helped her was her third man, Xiaojun, who was impressed by her talent in communication.
One night, Xiao Jun secretly took Xiao Hong away from the upstairs window of the hotel, and the two fled this horrible place, so Xiao Hong became extremely dependent on Xiao Jun. Xiao Jun did not abandon her because of the baby in her belly, but helped her give birth to a child, but later she had to send the child out because of financial difficulties.
Because of financial problems, Xiaohong sent her newborn child away.
While with Xiao Jun, with the encouragement of Xiao Jun, Xiao Hong began to write and formally entered the literary world. Later, they met Mr. Lu Xun, who also appreciated their talents and accepted them as disciples. Especially for Xiao Hong, Mr. Lu Xun was very partial to her and gave Xiao Hong enough warmth. Xiaohong often goes to Mr. Lu Xun's house to help with things. Mr. Lu Xun is like Xiao Hong's father and brother.
However, there are problems in their relationship. After entering the literary world, they gradually became rich. After living together for a long time, their personality problems are becoming more and more obvious. Xiaojun also has a serious tendency of domestic violence, cheating again and again, and the relationship between the two has dropped to freezing point again and again. But Xiao Hong can't live without Xiao Jun, and Xiao Jun is like her only lifeline, so she should hold on to it.
Xiao Jun once wrote: She knows nothing about things and is easily deceived. She is simple, honest, stubborn and talented, and I love her. But she is not my wife, especially not mine. Although Xiao Hong tried her best to save Xiao Jun and her former beauty, Xiao Jun finally left her. Xiao Hong was once again abandoned by men, and she was pregnant with Xiao Jun's child. Extremely sad, she chose to study abroad, but when she came back, Mr. Lu Xun, who loved her very much, died.
Later, she met someone who didn't care about her past, her children and really liked her-Duanmu Hongliang. This time, it seems that I met the right person, which seems to be a trick of fate. After the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, Duanmu Hongliang was a war correspondent, so another man and the last man left her. Her child died just four days after birth, and this time she was completely desperate.
Every time she ran to love without hesitation, but every time she was hurt to pieces. Love grows up in repeated sufferings, but it is not happy in the end.