Lu Yin, a talented woman in the Republic of China and a famous female writer during the May 4th Movement, had a rough life, but left eleven works in her short 14-year creative career, which can be described as a stroke of genius.
On the day Lu Yin was born, her grandmother died and her mother suffered from postpartum depression. She thinks Lu Yin is a disaster and believes that she killed her grandmother. At the same time, due to stagnation of liver qi and lack of milk, Lu Yin, who was just born, was given to the wet nurse for raising.
Lu Yin, who lacked care since childhood, was sickly and could not walk or speak before the age of three. She didn't return to her parents until her father was appointed as the magistrate in Changsha, Hunan.
At the age of 6, Lu Yin's father died of illness, and her mother took her to an official uncle's house in Beijing. Wandering from childhood and relying on other people's lives made her naturally sentimental.
During my uncle's stay with my mother, I got my aunt's first education, and then my mother sent me to a strict church school. The poor living conditions in the school made the delicate Lu Yin seriously ill twice, and her life was at stake, but she still survived strongly.
After the demise of the Qing Dynasty, Lu Yin was admitted to the pre-normal school with the help of her eldest brother. Since then, her mother's indifference to her has changed, and her mother began to have her own place in her heart. Due to the lack of affection since childhood, she has never been able to really integrate into the family.
In middle school, Lu Yin fell in love with her cousin Lin, and their love was strongly opposed by her mother. Because Lin's family is poor and can't study, his progress is slim. After graduating from college, Lu Yin's knowledge and pattern have changed, the gap between them is getting bigger and bigger, and her marriage has also been dissolved. After that, Lu Yin began to embark on the road of creation.
After the May 4th Movement, Lu Yin attended a fellow townsman's meeting, from which she got to know Guo Mengliang, a student of philosophy at Peking University. Lu Yin was fascinated by his talent, and with the passage of time, their feelings gradually warmed up.
Although they love each other, married Guo Mengliang dare not divorce against her parents' wishes. Lu Yin felt that Guo Mengliang's wife, as a woman of that era, was already very pitiful. If she is abandoned again, she has no way out. She really couldn't bear to "I won't let Boren die, but Boren died because of it."
So, after Lu Yin graduated, two women began to serve a young lady. However, Lu Yin, who is willing to reduce the dust for love, is not happy after marriage. After Guo Mengliang's death, Lu Yin couldn't stand her mother-in-law's spite, and resolutely left this home without a trace of temperature with her daughter and began a wandering life.
In just a few years, my husband, brother, best friend and mother left one after another. Lu Yin, who was already sentimental, was more full of sadness. She soaked this sadness in her works, and has successively completed many excellent works such as Tide in the Sea of Spirit and Mary.
In the most difficult time of Lu Yin's life, the young poet Li Weijian came into her life. He is older than Lu Yin small 8 and a student in Tsinghua University. He published poems and translated works in New Moon and Poetry magazines. After he met Lu Yin in the literary circle, he wrote a letter to Lu Yin and made a bold confession.
Lu Yin was moved by Li Weijian's fanatical pursuit. One is a middle-aged widow with a plain face, and the other is a handsome young college student, all of a sudden, there is a great uproar in the literary circle. Some even rumoured that Li Weijian was Lu Yin's "captive" lover.
As an old classmate of Lu Yin, Su Yiran stood up and supported Lu Yin, saying that "an extraordinary writer should not be measured by an ordinary ruler". The two serialized 68 letters in the newspaper to show their sincerity and abandon secular prejudice. Later, these letters were also published as "Love Letters from Gulls", which was well received by readers.
1930, 32-year-old Lu Yin and * * * went to Tokyo, Japan for their honeymoon. Half a year later, they returned to China and lived by the beautiful Xizi Lake in Hangzhou. During this period, under the nourishment of its beauty and love, Lu Yin was full of inspiration. In just half a year, she wrote more than ten short stories and published The Thorn of the Rose.
193 1 year, they settled in Shanghai, Lu Yin taught in a middle school, and Li Weijian worked as an editor in Zhonghua Book Company.
1934, Lu Yin was pregnant. At that time, due to dystocia, Hongyan died young at the age of 36.
Poor Lu Yin has experienced a rough life. She is talented but poor, leaving only a few works that are more precious than life. Li Weijian put all the works she devoted her life to in the coffin to comfort her soul in heaven.
One day after Lu Yin died in Zhou Nianji, Li Weijian, who was only 28 years old, wrote a tearful poem "Mourning Lu Yin" and threatened not to marry for life. From then on, I missed Lu Yin all my life until he died suddenly at the age of 74. This relationship, which was once not valued by the world, makes people sigh.
After reading Lu Yin's novel An Old Friend by the Sea, I realized the sadness of Lu Yin's birth in that time when men were superior to women, and her courage to quench her thirst by drinking poison for love and be a concubine.
An Old Friend by the Sea is a portrayal of Lu Yin's first half life, symbolizing an ideal spiritual castle, which eventually collapsed due to secular pressure. It shows how depressed and sad Lu Yin was at that time.
1923 In the summer, Lu Yin and married Guo Mengliang went to Shanghai for a wedding. Only after marriage did she realize that this was not her ideal marriage life. Disappointment and sadness did not make Lu Yin give up her writing career. She poured her inner anguish into pen and ink, and wrote short stories such as After Victory, Father and Professor Qin's Failure.
1925 In July, she published her first collection of short stories, Old Friends by the Sea.
1925, Lu Yin took care of her children alone and endured the grief of losing her husband to write short stories and essays such as Farewell to the Lonely Hong Tianya, Autumn Wind and Autumn Rain, and Linghaichao.
1930, they got married. During her wandering in Tokyo, Japan, Lu Yin wrote eleven essays about Tokyo, which were published in Women magazine. Half a year later, she returned to Hangzhou and wrote100000-word collections of short stories, The Ivory Ring and The Thorn of a Rose.
Her works are lyrical, with narration, tenderness, beauty and sadness between the lines. Amazingly, during those painful years, she persisted in writing and left so many excellent works in her short life.
Although Lu Yin was poor all her life, her fate was ill-fated, and she experienced ups and downs, but she was able to blossom a bright flower on barren land, which was full of fragrance and never withered.