Her life has been both bumpy and glorious.
The hotel she founded is the favorite "18-storey building" of old Shanghai, which has received more than 500 heads of state from 134 countries and staged countless legends.
Later, she returned it to the public and dedicated it to the country.
She is one of the 19 sober, resolute, advanced, beautiful and sassy **women in the book "** Women: They Make a Living and Seek Love" written by Sunny - Dong Zhujun.
*Women: They Make a Living and Love is a book that transcends time and space and women's life apocalypse!It contains more than 100 precious old ** with a lot of stories, which can be called a "** women's life guide".
Dong Zhujun was born in Shanghai in 1900 into a poor family.
His father pulled a rickshaw, and his mother worked as a helper. However, this does not prevent her from becoming the pearl of her parents' palms.
After her younger siblings died of poverty, her parents gave her all their love.
They know that reading can change their fate, and no matter how hard they work, they try their best to raise money for her to go to private school, hoping to let her learn more knowledge.
It's just that there are unforeseen circumstances.
My father was seriously ill and my mother lost her job. Because she borrowed a loan shark for her father's medical treatment, in desperation, her parents mortgaged her 13-year-old 300 yuan to a high-end brothel for a period of three years. This was the condition that the parents negotiated with the brothel at that time.
She has a good voice, and she soon became the top brand in the hall.
Because of her popularity, the bustard specially assigned her a servant to serve. Maybe it's God's favor, and it's because of this servant she calls "Aunt Meng" that she has a different choice in life.
Aunt Meng took care of her daily life carefully, and she treated Aunt Meng like a father and mother. After decades of ups and downs in the dust of fireworks, Aunt Meng knows the darkness in the brothel, and tactfully tells her what she has seen and heard over the years.
Aunt Meng often said to her, "As an adult, you are a cash cow in this hall, and I will never let you go." They are rich and powerful, and after your agreement expires, they will take a few more money to your parents. ”
She gradually understood that the only way to completely get rid of the sea of suffering was to escape.
At this time, Xia Zhishi, a revolutionary who had studied in Japan and made great achievements during the Xinhai Revolution, deliberately hid in her hall in order to avoid people's eyes.
With a cold and arrogant, pretty and moving face, she lightly opened her lips, and a wisp of singing floated by, which amazed him who was drinking tea alone.
Heartbeat, love is entwined between the two.
When love is strong, she will be redeemed in the summer.
She flatly refused.
She couldn't accept that she was attached to anyone like a commodity, as she said: "In the future, I will marry you, and when you are unhappy, you may say, 'What is so strange about you!'"You were bought by me with money!Then I can't stand it. ”
Dong Zhujun was not carried away by love, she clearly knew that even if she had true love, knowledge and dignity were indispensable.
Late one night, Dong Zhujun discarded all the softness, desperately escaped from the brothel, and went straight to Xia Shishi's residence.
When she proposed to her in the summer, she did not blindly obey and put forward three conditions:
1. Don't be a little wife.
2. Send her to Japan to study.
3. When I come back from studying in Japan in the future, I want to organize a good family, and he will be in charge of national affairs, and he can help from the side. Manage the housework and be a good helper as he often mentions.
In her view, the relationship between husband and wife should be based on mutual respect and equality.
They got married, and then, at the age of 15, she followed him to Japan at the age of 27.
The country filled with the fragrance of cherry blossoms gave her knowledge, insight and aesthetics, and became the nutrients for her to become self-reliant and overcome the difficulties in her career many years later. also harvested the crystallization of their love - the eldest daughter Xia Guoqiong.
Later, Xia's father was critically ill, and she gave up the opportunity to go to France for further study at his request and returned to his hometown of Hejiang, Sichuan, with the child.
However, the Xia family is a big family, and they don't regard her as the lady who is married to Ming Media at all, and her identity as a Qinglou woman has attracted everyone's criticism.
When he was excluded and cursed, and was accused of scolding Huai, he actually asked her to endure it and asked her not to care.
She realized that no one in this world can rely on her, only to make herself strong.
She began to learn Xi all the skills that could be used in life, such as sewing, embroidery, cooking, and laundry.
She gets up early every day, helps entertain relatives and friends, and teaches her children and nephews to read and Xi;Help the manager keep the bookkeeping ......She was well organized from top to bottom, and finally won the favor and recognition of her in-laws' family.
A grand wedding, presided over by the in-laws, was held lively. She has finally become a real house.
However, life did not let her go.
Xia Zhizhi was suddenly dismissed. The originally high-spirited person gave up on himself after encountering an accident, and every day he either used alcohol to drown his sorrows, or smoked opium and gambled.
Drunk punches and kicks her up;If she loses the bet, she will only give birth to a daughter.
She was grateful that he had saved her from the sea of suffering, and endured it again and again, but it fueled his anger, and he didn't let his daughters continue to study.
She can tolerate other aspects, but she can't make any concessions when it comes to the growth of her children, especially in reading.
She left the Xia family with her four daughters, and that year, she was 34 years old.
In her opinion, life is her own, and glory is earned by her own efforts.
She started from scratch with her four daughters alone, pawning clothes, jewelry, etc., to meet living expenses. But this is not a long-term solution, she remembered that she was a little good at business, so she raised funds to establish Qunyi Yarn Tube Factory, becoming the first woman in Shanghai to set up a factory.
Seeing that business was booming, a war broke out, the factory was destroyed by artillery fire, and everything was reduced to ashes.
In order to give her children the best education, in order to raise money for her parents' treatment, and for the sake of life, she was not discouraged and went on the road again.
She sent her children to boarding school, worked hard day and night, and the products did not sell well, but she could barely make ends meet.
Unexpectedly, she was framed and imprisoned by concession spies for making anti-Japanese speeches, and was rescued four months later. Then, my mother died, and my father became seriously ill.
With the help of others, she started her own business again.
This time, she opened a Sichuan restaurant. This restaurant is the predecessor of the Jin Jiang Hotel, which later became famous in the rivers and lakes.
She pays special attention to the visual presentation of the restaurant, and when it was first established, she poured her infinite thought into everything from the name of the restaurant to the store logo, from the location selection to the decoration of the store. She also invited an authentic chef from Sichuan, and used the exquisite Eastern and Western beauty ** to ......The restaurant amazed Shanghai Tang at that time by virtue of its delicacy and appearance.
Du Yuesheng and ** Rong have become frequent visitors to Jinjiang, and Nanjing dignitaries and Shanghai Navy political figures have also become their guests.
In addition to concentrating on running a restaurant, he also concentrating on raising several children. "If you read a book, you won't be bullied. This is what her father said, and she always took it to heart. Therefore, no matter what the circumstances, she must give her daughters the best education.
She taught them the principles of life and patriotism, cultivated their strong and resolute character, and sent them to study abroad.
The daughters have also lived up to her words and deeds, and have become leaders in the industry, realizing the ideal when she brought them out, and they have all become independent new women.
The eldest daughter, Xia Guoqiong, became a first-class professor of *** college;The second daughter, Xia Guoxiu, lived in the United States to engage in the film industry;The third daughter, Xia Guoying, studied in the United States after graduating from Fudan University in Shanghai;The youngest daughter, Xia Guozhang, became a professor at Peking University.
And "Jinjiang" is not only the favorite of the old Shanghainese, but also because it has received many leaders, staged countless legends, and finally dedicated to the country.
Along the way, she knew what she wanted. She does not seek fame and fortune, and always lives confidently and independently.
In that special era, in addition to Dong Zhujun, there was also Zhang Youyi, who was divorced and engaged in a career, from a desperate abandoned woman to a female banker;Qinglou was born in the "soul of a generation of paintings" Pan Yuliang, as well as the well-known Yang Jiang, Lin Huiyin, Zhang Ailing, Lu Xiaoman, Hu Die, Ruan Lingyu, Zhang Zhaohe ......These amazing and glamorous women, spanning a hundred years, interpret a vast and colorful life in front of us.
No matter what situation they are in, they will never cling to it or give in, and they will always live the life they want with a pampered and unfazed attitude!
Their experiences can inspire you and me, and become a beacon that illuminates the way forward for you and me.