The mother was a concubine, and the main gate refused to be buried, and he protested on the coffin I died, and the main door went out
In 1916, a funeral in Changsha City was unprecedentedly grand and attracted widespread attention.
This is the body of the concubine's room, and according to the ancestral system, it should be buried through the side door. Then, the clansmen persuaded them that if they did not observe the ancestral system, they might bring disaster to the family.
However, the concubine's son was adamantly opposed and ordered the coffin-bearer to go through the main entrance. After hearing this, several clansmen with greater prestige even forced each other to die, saying that the concubine would lose face if she walked through the main gate.
The concubine's son could not bear it anymore, so he climbed onto his mother's coffin, loudly ordered the coffin to be lifted immediately, and cursed himself to insist that his mother go through the main door. At this time, the audience fell silent, and the patriarch reluctantly bowed his head and retreated.
So, who is this person sitting on his mother's coffin? Why did he let his mother go through the front door at the expense of his self-deprecating identity?
Tan Yanmin, a famous politician in the ** period, was known as the "political tumbler". His father is Tan Zhonglin in the late Qing Dynasty, and his mother is the Li family from a humble background, who used to be the maid who took care of his mother in Tan Zhonglin's family.
Because of her natural beauty and hard work, Li was noticed by Tan Zhonglin and accepted as a ** girl. However, the girl has a low status in the family, has neither a name nor status, and needs to bear the pressure of the main room and other concubines, and her life is not easy.
Despite this, with his own hard work and wisdom, Li eventually succeeded in becoming Tan Yanhong's mother and gave birth to a generation of politicians.
Soon, Li's belly finally showed its effect and she was pregnant with a child, this child was the key to the change of her status, he was Tan Yanhong. On the night of Tan Yanmin's birth, his father Tan Zhonglin had a dream that He Linghan, a senior official in the late Qing Dynasty, was visiting.
At that moment, he was awakened by a sharp knock on the door, and the maid informed him that Li was about to give birth. Tan Zhonglin immediately dressed and went, and the child's cry was already ringing in his ears.
He looked at his newborn son, and his heart was full of joy, because He Linghan he dreamed of happened to appear at this time, and he firmly believed that this child must be the reincarnation of He Linghan and would definitely be able to achieve great things in the future.
So, he named the child Tan Yanhong, the word Zu'an, which is the same as He Linghan's character. Tan Yanmin's birth, although it did not substantially change the status of the Li family, but she was promoted from a maid to a concubine, no longer doing rough work in the house, and was mainly responsible for taking care of her children and husband.
However, the attitude of the main house and other concubines towards her has not changed, especially when eating, the Li family is not qualified to serve the table at all, and can only grovel beside the master and the main room to serve food.
When they finished eating, the main room said lightly, "Okay", and the Li family could retire to the miscellaneous room to eat. Every day, Li has to endure the cold eyes and ridicule of others, but she has become accustomed to it, and will find a place to cry secretly in the middle of the night when no one is around, to vent her inner grievances.
After the Li family gave birth to two sons for the Tan family, they realized that the real mother is not the number of sons she has children, but to cultivate outstanding sons and become high-ranking officials.
She pinned all her hopes on her son, especially the smart Tan Yanhong. Once, Tan Yanmin went home and asked his mother: "What is a concubine, they all laugh at me for being a concubine." ”
When Li heard this, she felt very sad, but she did not want her son to suffer as well. She decided to silently bear these grievances and let her son study wholeheartedly in order to change her fate.
Tam attaches great importance to his sons' studies, and he specially hired famous teachers to teach them at home. He stipulated that they should complete certain learning tasks every day, such as writing an essay in three days, writing a poem in five days, and practicing several pages of calligraphy every day.
While the other brothers were playing, Tan Yanmin was working silently in the room. After continuous hard work and study, Tan Yanmin participated in the children's examination in Changsha at the age of 13 and successfully showed off his talents in high school.
Tan Zhonglin is very happy with his son's achievements, and he believes that his son has finally won glory for the Tan family. However, despite Tan's success, Li still insisted on standing and serving them to dinner, expressing her deep love for her husband and son.
Tan Yanmin has been thinking about why his mother can only stand and serve others to eat, and he is determined to change this fate. Under his mother's education, he not only excelled academically, but also treated people very decently.
At the age of 24, he won the first place in the last imperial examination in the late Qing Dynasty, breaking the 200-year record in Hunan, and was given the Jinshi background. When the whole family gathered to celebrate, Tan Zhonglin asked his mother to sit down to eat together, a scene she had waited for 24 years, and she was so moved that she couldn't believe her ears.
She trembled and picked up the chopsticks, tasting the delicacies of the mountains and seas that she had never had before, and her heart was full of gratitude and happiness.
Tan Yanmin is very filial to her mother, even at home, she will greet her mother every day, sit next to her mother during meals, and take the initiative to serve her food. When he went out to work, he would tell his younger brother to respect his mother and show others his behavior.
After getting married, he set an example and asked his wife, Mrs. Fang, to honor his mother together. Even when he was away for the revolutionary cause, he always handed over the responsibility of taking care of his mother to his wife.
When her mother was seriously ill, she asked her daughter-in-law to hide the truth and prevent her son from working too hard. Until his mother's death in 1916, Tan Yanmin risked losing the throne of Xiangdu and went home to see his mother to his death, because he knew that his mother was the most important thing in his heart.
On the day of his mother's burial, Tan Yanmin vowed to maintain his mother's dignity in his life and restore his mother's status. After his wife died, he left a last word, so that he could not marry again, and only raised his children**.
He deeply understood his mother's suffering as a concubine, and in order to thank his wife for taking good care of his mother, he promised his wife not to renew the strings for life, and turned away many matchmakers. In order to thank Tan Yanmin for his help when he was in trouble, Sun Yat-sen introduced Song Meiling, who had just returned from studying abroad, to him, but Tan Yanmin was not attracted by the young, beautiful and talented Song Meiling, he politely declined her and directly recognized her as his godsister.
In 1930, Tan Yanmin died of cerebral hemorrhage, and a small magazine in Shanghai commented on him as "mixing it up for big use!" Eating and drinking, swaggering, life is great, and the dean is great; The instinct of the ball rolls only!
Roll around, roll in and roll out, roll east and west, roll into the coffin. This sentence expresses his praise and regret, and is a portrayal of his life.