Miss Liu's missed fate
Speaking of Lao She's first love, we have to mention the prototype "Uncle Ding" in his autobiographical novel Uncle Liu Shoumian under the Red Flag. Liu Shoumian's daughter is one day older than him and is Lao She's first love. They are all normal graduates.
When Laoshe was in middle school, he helped Liu Shoumian run schools and charities. Liu Shoumian's daughter volunteered to be a teacher in the west campus of the school, so it was very quiet. With the increase of contact, their feelings deepened. 17 years old, they have sprouted love.
The good times did not last long, and the beautiful first love was completely shattered. 1923, due to poor management, Liu Shoumian quickly fell into poverty, became a monk, and made his wife and daughter the head of the family.
After learning the news of becoming a monk, Lao She was heartbroken and resolutely left England.
From the autobiographical novel Micro God from 65438 to 0933, we can find some clues about this Miss Liu: they liked each other since childhood, but they were meticulous about tradition and did nothing; After she became a monk, he left other countries and thought of her, but there was no news. It was not until he came back that he found that she was unfortunately degraded and ravaged. He finally proposed to her and got a laugh. He felt that he had to talk to her face to face. He went several times before he saw the body. She miscarried and died again. She always hides her true feelings from Miss Liu, so that it is difficult for a woman to occupy her place in his heart for a while.
Lao She
Such a woman is equivalent to Dante's Beatrice? Although Dante fell in love with her at first sight, Beatrice did not marry him in the end. In Dante's epic The Divine Comedy, she is described as the goddess who led him to heaven to put his beautiful feelings.
Miss Liu appears repeatedly in Lao She's novels, which makes the description of love between men and women have a certain pattern: men and women love each other, and the status of women is generally higher than that of men. Women are either frustrated, or plummet, or die young, while men are far behind, just like Lao She's own trip to England. He wrote Joy, New Moon and other books that young prostitutes have read. Most of them graduated from normal schools and became primary school teachers. They were forced to betray themselves. Hint at Miss Liu's story and experience.
Without such a first love, Lao She's artistic world and characters will change greatly.
Hu Jieqing's forbearing support
1930, Lao She returned to China for the first time and became famous for publishing three novels. On July 7th, she was invited to Beijing Normal University to give a lecture entitled "On Creation".
The person who invited him to speak this time is Hu Jieqing, who is also a flag bearer. He is a normal college student who has just graduated for one year. He is 25 years old and loves new literature and art. Together with his classmates, he organized a literary group called Zhenshe. They heard that Lao She had come back from abroad and sent an invitation in the name of "real society".
The students publicly urged Hu Jieqing to come forward. Lao she didn't want to promise very readily, so she set a date for her speech.
When she got home, her mother asked Lao She's character. Hu Jieqing is strange. The old lady is always so conservative that she doesn't even want her daughter to go to college. She often tells her daughter not to associate with boys. This is not normal. Later I learned that she was kept in the dark. Seeing that she is shy, honest and doesn't know anyone, the old lady dare not take the girl away. Tell her brother's friend Luo Changpei to find her son-in-law. Luo Changpei agreed, thinking of his intimate friend Lao She, and seeing that their temperament and hobbies were very similar, he told the old lady Hu Jia. The old lady agreed to leave only one for her daughter, and Lao She didn't know when to give a speech. It is a perfect match for her to ask Lao She out.
Lao she didn't want to get married, but her friends were anxious, saying, if you don't get married, you will become a freak, and we will ignore you again! Lao She didn't lose her celibacy and agreed to let them help her find it. Hu Jia just came to pay tribute, and it didn't take much effort to get Luo Changpei.
Lao She and Hu Jieqing
A few days later, Lao She went to cheeloo university to teach. He soon fell in love with this campus and decided to set up camp here, but there was still no great progress in marriage affairs.
During the winter vacation, friends prepared a dinner for Lao She. Luo Changpei, Dean Bai, Dong Lu 'an and Hu Jieqing were invited every time and had dinner together several times.
First, they look at each other and subconsciously pay attention to something. Both sides are stiff. Gradually, from each other's eyes, actions and words, they realized each other's ideas and felt more and more attractive to each other. There is only a thin layer of paper left. Although Lao She thinks that men always have to open their mouths in front of such things, and he is several years older than himself, he has also been abroad and seen many foreigners' hot and unrestrained love ways, but he has made countless resolutions and still can't spit it out. Finally, he picked up a pen and said, "We ate, drank and drank. After that, we must meet again. We can't always be satisfied by eating other people's food. We have a lot of inner feelings, some of which can be said in person, while others are hard to say, because we have to have the courage to say it, and my courage is only enough to write those hard words on paper. "
Hu Jieqing wrote back, and it was settled. Both mothers are very happy. They decided to wait until Hu Jieqing graduated from college before getting married. After Lao She returned to Jinan, he read at least one letter every day, waited anxiously for a reply, and then read and wrote letters.
Lao She and Hu Jieqing 193 1 became relatives in Beiping. Half a month later, the couple went to Jinan and Hu Jieqing taught in a middle school.
1937 At the end of September, Japan invaded Shandong and the situation was critical. The students said goodbye to their friends and ran away. Lao She wants to leave. Once Jinan falls, he will be forced to become a traitor. But there are three children, one is 4 years old, one is 2 years old, one is only 3 months old, and there are old people. How do I get there?
Senior youth
Hu Jieqing understands her husband and takes responsibility. Lao She told herself, "On weekdays, her courage is not great. However, on the day I left, the store was closed, planes were flying around all day, and people were terrified to the extreme, but she was still in tears and quietly packed my luggage. She knows she must let me go. "
Lao She is destined to endure the torment of war and parting and become a "real hero" in spirit. At the same time, it also left great pain for Hu Jieqing.
The day he left was165438+1October 15, and an earth-shattering explosion could be heard. I don't think Lao She can hesitate any longer. He left his savings at home, took 50 yuan alone, left home with his suitcase and began to live in exile.
Hu Jieqing spent five years in the occupied area of Beiping and worked as a middle school teacher for more than four years. He was fed up with the destruction of the country, and all his children changed their surnames to Hu. Nevertheless, he is often bullied by Japanese children. For a time, Beijing became a hell on earth.
In return, Hu Jieqing carefully introduced all aspects of life there. After two or three months of conversation, Lao She ruled out all interference and began to create in Beibei Town for four generations. This big story was brought from Beijing by Hu Jieqing after his narrow escape. The details told by his wife make it a "real scene".
Tacit cooperation with Zhao Qingge
The close friendship between Lao She and the famous female writer Zhao Qingge also occupies a particularly important position in Lao She's life.
After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the first contact between Lao She and Zhao Qingge began in Wuhan. 1937165438+1On October 20th, Lao She left his wife and other children and went to Wuhan alone to join the flood of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. At the end of the same year, Zhao Qingge also came to Wuhan from Henan and became a member of the army of exiled writers.
Lao She presided over the All-China Anti-Enemy Association of Literary and Art Circles. In the daily work of "Literature Society", Zhao Qingge has more contact with Lao She. Zhou Enlai also wants Zhao Qingge to be Lao She's secretary.
At that time, Zhao Qingge was the editor-in-chief of Tan Hua, a monthly literary magazine promoting War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. So Lao She became the main writer of Danhua and wrote Let's Join Hands for the first issue of Danhua.
During the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period, Zhao Qingge's name was often associated with Lao She. Zhao Qingge is strong and generous. Perhaps it is this slightly masculine character that gives Lao She the courage to cooperate with her. When she meets a woman, she always feels at home. Together, they created the plays Roar in the Tiger, Spring Breeze, Peach and Plum, and Teacher Passed Down from Generation to Generation.
Zhao Qingge Herzog
Zhao Qingge wrote the script before Lao She, so he influenced Lao She in script writing skills and operation. Among them, Tao and the four major dramas are the most striking.
In the future, Lao She will work in Beijing and Zhao Qingge will settle in Shanghai. In addition, because both sides are very busy at work, there are few opportunities to meet. However, the empty distance does not hinder the friendship between two people. They communicate more through communication. When Zhao Qingge was alive, some people read more than a dozen letters from Lao She provided by her. It is said that she received more than 100 letters from Lao She at that time, but most of them were burned before her death. In addition, Zhao Qingge was single all her life and never married, which cast a mysterious color on her relationship with Lao She.