What's the name of the character in the movie Liu Fu Inn?

She was called "Little Woman" not only because she was short, but also because she was born in poverty and worked as a maid in a rich family since she was a child. But she's also great. Her story was once made into a movie by Hollywood, played by ingrid bergman, a world-famous actress.

This movie is called Liu Fu Inn, which sounds very China-like, which is not surprising, because it tells the story of a "little woman" in China.

Liu Fu Inn Movie Poster

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Ingrid bergman's beautiful image and superb acting make Little Women shine. Many people learned about the deeds of "little women" through this film and were moved. Although the "legend of heroic beauty" in the film is a bit of a Hollywood routine, it also adds another amazing romance to the story.

Stills of ingrid bergman in Liu Fu Inn

Who is the "little woman"? What great deeds did she do to bring Hollywood to the screen?

Her name is Gerity Aylward, a British missionary who went to China spontaneously, and the first missionary who volunteered to become a citizen of China. Her most touching story is that after the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, in order to save 100 orphans in China from the brutal Japanese invaders, she left Yangcheng County, Shanxi Province, went through hardships, arrived in xi 'an, and handed them over to the China authorities for placement in an orphanage.

Ai Wade was born in a postman's family in London on February 24th, 1902. Being poor, he became a servant. At the age of 27, she had a strong desire to be a missionary in China.

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1929 In July, Ai came to the headquarters of the China Mainland Missionary Society in London and asked to preach in China. However, her enthusiasm was poured cold water. Because she didn't go to a seminary, didn't have a college diploma, and didn't even go to high school, she didn't meet the requirements of being a missionary. The head of the mainland association rejected her request.

Although she was rejected, she insisted on going to China, and her enthusiasm finally moved the person in charge. He asked her to learn a little Chinese first, and then wait for the opportunity. He introduced Ai Wade as a maid in Sir Jane Hosburn's house to take care of the jazz couple. Jazz is a writer. He has written many books about the East, and there are many books at home. When she was a maid, Ai Wade borrowed many books from Jazz and got a general understanding of the East. ? ?

/kloc-at the beginning of 0/930, Ai heard that Jenny Rosen, a 73-year-old missionary from Yangcheng County, Shanxi Province, China, wanted to retire, but no one succeeded her. She immediately wrote to Rosen that she would replace her.

While waiting for Rosen's reply, Ai Wade inquired about the way to China. At that time, there were two ways to get to China: one was to take a boat directly from England to Tianjin, the other was to take a boat to The Hague, the Netherlands, and then take a train from Holland to Moscow, the Soviet Union via Germany and Poland, and then transfer to another train in transsiberian, and then transfer to the train on Zhongdong Road to Harbin, then go south to Dalian, and then take a boat from Dalian to Tianjin. The second road sounds dizzy enough, and the difficulty is self-evident, but Ived chose this road, because the cost of this road is half that of the first road, and the money she saved as a maid is only enough for the second road.

A few months later, Rosen's reply came, welcoming her to China. 1930 65438+ 10 18, Ived took two boxes, one containing simple clothes and the other containing food and an alcohol stove for cooking on the road, bid farewell to his parents and sister who came to see him off, and embarked on a long-awaited missionary road alone.

After many hardships, Ived finally arrived in Tianjin and reached Yangcheng with the help of the Tianjin Missionary Center.

At that time, Rosen rented a new house and was leading the workers to clean and decorate it. He was going to turn it into an inn to receive passing muleteers and preach to them by the way. She thinks that these muleteers walk everywhere, and once they believe in religion, they can become good helpers to spread teachings everywhere.

Ai Wade and Rosen

Rosen named the inn "Fu Ba Inn" according to the eight happiness mentioned in the Bible, instead of "Liu Fu Inn" in Hollywood movies. However, after the inn opened, the local China people refused to come to the shop opened by "foreign devils". Rosen asked Ai Wade to go to the door to "attract customers": If there is a passing mule team, stop them and drag them in.

Ai Weide, though reluctant, crustily skin of head. At first, the muleteers were reluctant, but after being dragged in by "foreign devils", they found the room clean, the food delicious and the charge cheap, and then they came voluntarily. Every night, Ed Wade tells the muleteers stories in the Bible in Chinese, but he is still not fluent in Chinese. At first, the muleteers just laughed at her behavior, but after a long time, they were moved by her persistent efforts. They spontaneously stipulated that people living in Fu Ba Inn should not smoke, drink, gamble or talk loudly, so as not to disturb "Ai Girl" in telling stories.

One day, a prisoner in Yangcheng County Prison suddenly flew into a rage and cut several prisoners with a knife. People are afraid to approach him. Ai Wade came to the prison and gently persuaded the murderer to put down the butcher knife. He hesitated for a moment and handed her the knife. After the news spread, Yangcheng people looked at her with new eyes. The warden agreed that she would go to prison to preach to prisoners and promised her to improve the environment of her cell. ?

Although the missionary activities went smoothly, old Rosen fell from a height and died one day in 1932+065438+ 10, leaving Avede to continue to run the inn alone.

Because Ived has a certain influence in Yangcheng County, even the county magistrate came to her and said that the government ordered women to put their feet down to correct this bad habit, hoping that she could help. Ived agreed. She traveled all over the villages, telling people the benefits of not binding feet with her own feet, and taking this opportunity to preach. ?

Ived also adopted some orphans. The first child she adopted was a girl. At that time, when she was walking in the street, she saw a woman offering two silver dollars to sell the little girl. Ai Wade bought her with her only ninety cents, called her "ninety cents" and gave her a formal scientific name "Main". ?

1936, AI Wade became a citizen of China. The following year, the Lugouqiao Incident broke out, and the Japanese invaded China on a large scale, even the remote Yangcheng was attacked. Once, a bomb hit the Fu Ba Inn, and Ai Wade was crushed under the rubble and lost consciousness. Fortunately, he was only slightly injured. After waking up, she quickly took the orphan to Beichaizhuang in the mountains. They didn't return to Yangcheng until the Japanese left. ? ?

1940, Ai came to Zezhou, where Mr. and Mrs. Davis from England worked in a missionary station. Davis told her that there were 200 orphans in the mission station, of whom 100 went to Xi' an, and now there are 100 left. Ai Wade suggested that he send the rest of the children to Fu Ba Inn, while she temporarily stayed in Zezhou to help Mrs. Davis, because there were still about 1000 refugees to take care of in the mission station. ?

When Ai was in Zezhou, the reporter of Time magazine heard about her story and interviewed her specially. When talking about the Japanese aggression against China, she said:

"The mission I represent is neutral, but I hate the Japanese atrocities and cannot be silent. Of course, I am from China, and I will also report the whereabouts of the Japanese army to China. " ?

Time magazine published Ai Wade's words, which made the Japanese military angry with her. A few days later, she was told that the Japanese troops who came to Qing Xiang in Zezhou issued a notice offering a reward for her capture. Ai read the newspaper and had to leave Zezhou and flee back to Yangcheng. On the way, she was hit by a Japanese plane and her shoulder was injured. ?

Back in Yangcheng, for her safety, everyone advised her to leave Shanxi and return to the home front. Ai Wade decided to take 100 orphans from the inn to escape from the war and live in Xi 'an. She went to the county magistrate to say goodbye, and the kind county magistrate reminded her that the Japanese offered a reward for her, so be careful on the road. When he heard that she was going to Xi 'an with 100 orphans, he was surprised and advised her to give up the idea, but Ived insisted that "all these 100 children were given to me by God, and none of them could be left behind"?

Unable to convince her, the county magistrate prepared some food for her and sent two soldiers to escort them to the Yellow River. After crossing the Yellow River, they can catch the train to Xi 'an. ?

From Yangcheng to the Yellow River Ferry is not only a long journey, but also a hike over mountains and mountains. Of these 100 children, the oldest is only a girl of 16 years old, who can't walk fast. All the other children are young, and the youngest is even four years old. Along the way, she can only lead the big one or carry the small one slowly on the rugged mountain road. The arduous journey made some children sick, so they had to put them in an empty food basket to pick them away. Day after day, this long mountain road seems endless.

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Five days later, all the food he brought with him was finished, and there was nothing to eat in the mountains. Ived didn't expect the road to escape to be so difficult, but he couldn't give up at this moment, so he had to tell the children Bible stories to cheer them up.

Luckily, she met an army of China, who not only gave food, but also helped to escort the children. With their help, the refugee team finally saw the Yellow River on day 12. Ai Wade thanked the soldiers who escorted him and then took the children to the river.

But the Yellow River gave her another problem: she couldn't find the ferry. It was not until four days later that she met the China soldiers who had accompanied them on the mountain road, and the soldiers helped them cross the Yellow River again. ?

After another two days, Ived finally led the children on the train, but the torture seemed endless. Soon after the train left, it was forced to stop because the bridge in front was bombed. At this time, Ived was really desperate. She couldn't help crying, but she didn't care about a hundred children at all. After crying, she still has to grit her teeth and lead the children to the west. ?

After arriving in Tongguan, the journey was smooth. They first took the train to pull coal, then went to Xi 'an by car, and were sent to Fufeng from Xi 'an. 100 children brought by Ai Wade from Yangcheng were sent to an orphanage. ?

Ai and the children took a group photo in Ann.

At this time, Ived may fall down. Because of a high fever, she was sent to a hospital in Xi 'an for treatment. The doctor found that she suffered from typhoid fever, pneumonia, gunshot wound to the shoulder, malnutrition and fatigue. The doctor thought it was a miracle that she survived, but she finally survived, but for about a year, she was almost in a state of amnesia, and she finally recovered and was discharged from the hospital until the end of 194 1. ? ?

After leaving the hospital, Ai Wade began to preach everywhere. At the beginning of 1942, under the arrangement of Chengdu church, she went to work in refugee camps in Meixian County, Lanzhou 1944 and Chengdu 1945 to teach English to young people in China. ?

1949 In the spring, Ai Wade returned to England. Redwood, a journalist, interviewed her after hearing about her legendary experience in China. Then Boggs adapted her story into a radio play, which was broadcast by the BBC and published under the name of Little Woman. ?

1957, 20th Century Fox Company of the United States found her, hoping to sign a contract with her and make her story into a movie. Ai Wade thinks that making movies is good for missionary work, so he agrees. However, Ai Wade was very disappointed and ashamed when shooting this film. The movie not only turned "Fu Ba Inn" into a puzzling "Liu Fu Inn", but also made her fall in love with an officer in China, and she was very much in love, but she never talked to any man in her life, let alone kissed him.

Wade and officer China and officer China in Ai's movies should at least get someone from China to play them.

However, although the film Liu Fu Inn distorts the facts, it also plays a propaganda role, and makes more people know about Greti Ivy and the great soul behind her legendary story.