Talk about the famous teacher-student romance in history.

1. Xu Beihong and Sun Duoci

The "May 4th Movement" a hundred years ago kicked off the new democratic revolution, and the spread of new ideological trends also prompted Chinese women to further awakening. Insightful people at that time believed that in order for women to achieve true liberation, they must receive higher education. In 1920, the university campus of the Republic of China was the first to be coeducational. Following this, under the banner of freedom and liberation, love affairs between teachers and students often occurred.

In the autumn of 1930, Xu Beihong drew a sketch for his favorite disciple Sun Duoci. In the painting, Sun Duoci has short hair, a face like a full moon, and an indifferent expression. In the painting, she has the youthfulness and tenderness unique to female students of that era. Xu Beihong inscribed in the lower right corner of the painting: "Ci Xuehua painted for three months. He has extraordinary wisdom and agility, which is rare in me. I hope to be brave and diligent throughout my life and carry forward my true skills..."

2. Shen Congwen and Zhang Zhaohe

Shen Congwen is a little different from other teacher-student couples. He got his student Zhang Zhaohe entirely through persistence. If he played word games like Mr. Lu Xun, he would never succeed - because of the boy who pursued Zhang Zhaohe. There is a platoon.

He is also self-aware. In the eyes of female students, he is just a "lep" because compared with those professors who have returned from studying abroad, he has no capital at all. He is just a graduate from Xiangxi, Hunan. A poor scholar who went through elementary school. If Mr. Hu Shi hadn't been so passionate about talents and made an exception for him to teach in Shanghai, he would never have met the "white swan" Zhang Zhaohe.

Zhang Zhaohe comes from a famous family in the south of the Yangtze River, and his father is wealthy. How can such a young lady take the old hater Shen Congwen seriously? However, Shen Congwen was obsessed with Zhang Zhaohe from the beginning, frantically wrote love letters, and threatened suicide. In the end, Principal Hu Shi came forward, and Zhang Zhaohe reluctantly agreed.

In 1933, 31-year-old Shen Congwen married Zhang Zhaohe, who was 8 years younger than him, and they stayed together for life.

3. Yu Qiuyu and Malan

Although Ma Lan has not listened to Mr. Yu Qiuyu’s class in class, he should be regarded as his student. After graduating from Anhui Provincial Art School, Malan was assigned to the Provincial Huangmei Opera Theater. And Mr. Yu Qiuyu is the president of Shanghai Theater Academy, so he should be said to be a person on the same line.

When Ma Lan became famous with the performance of "Yan Fengying", a senior in the art world gave her a book and told her to read this book if she was working in drama.

This book is "Art Creation Project" by Mr. Yu Qiuyu. It was this book that enabled Ma Lan to get acquainted with Mr. Yu Qiuyu, who was sixteen years older than him. It was from discussing this book that they began their romance. .

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Marriage and Family

In July 1930, Zhang Zhao and Shen Congwen met for the first time in Hu Shi's office. When they first met, Principal Hu praised Shen Congwen. He is a genius and the most promising among Chinese novelists. Zhang Zhaohe did not take it seriously. Shen Congwen's love for Zhang Zhaohe came quietly, but it was out of control. He wrote her love letters one after another, expressing his admiration endlessly.

In a letter in June 1931, he made it his duty to be Zhang Zhaohe's slave. He said that most people are willing to be slaves at the feet of the king, but he only wants to be Zhang Zhaohe's slave. Zhang Zhaohe was finally moved and got married in Beijing's Central Park on September 9, 1933.

Not long after his wedding, Shen Congwen returned to his hometown of Phoenix to visit because his mother was critically ill. He wrote a letter to Zhang Zhaohe who was far away in Peking in the cabin: "When I left Peking, I planned to spend half a day writing letters and half a day writing articles. Who would have thought that when I got on this boat, I just wanted to write a letter for you. You can’t do anything else.”

The political movements of the 1950s and 1960s hit Shen Congwen and drove him into a state of madness. He kept chanting "Go back to Western Hunan, I want to go back to Western Hunan." Zhang Zhaohe said silently. Faced with this situation, tears could not help but roll down. Later, with his wife's careful care and medication, Shen Congwen gradually recovered his health. He and his wife survived the years of hardship and poverty.

Personal life

When Xu Beihong was 17 years old, his parents got him married, but he was dissatisfied with the marriage and ran away from home, and was later caught by his father to get married. When he was 18 years old, he gave birth to a son named Jiesheng, which means "born in disaster", but his family changed his name to Jisheng, and he died young. Xu Beihong did not want to be dragged down by his family and went to Shanghai to study painting.

Meet the teacher and fellow countryman Professor Jiang Meisheng, and also his second daughter Jiang Biwei (Tang Zhen). Jiang Biwei had originally arranged to be betrothed to the Cha family in Suzhou and eloped with Xu Beihong before he went to France. Later, they gave birth to a son, Xu Boyang, and a daughter, Xu Jingfei.

After 28 years, they broke up and became Zhang Daofan’s lover. Liao Jingwen was a student of Xu Beihong. She took care of him when Xu Beihong was in poor health. In 1946, she married a teacher who was 28 years older than herself. She gave birth to a son, Xu Qingping, and a daughter, Xu Fangfang. She stayed with Xu Beihong until his death, and they were married for 7 years.

Personal life

My wife, Ma Lan, is a generation of Huangmei Opera performing artist. She is the only person in China to win all the highest awards for stage plays and TV series; she has won awards from the Lincoln Center for the Arts, the New York City Cultural Affairs Bureau, The "Lifetime Achievement Award for Asia's Best Artist" jointly issued by the Chinese-American Association. Most of Ma Lan's major stage plays were written by Yu Qiuyu himself. The couple currently lives mainly in Shanghai.

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