After Zhou Shuren got marriedI left my wife and went to Japan, and I never saw each other again.
Zhu An is the only one in her life who has publicly talked about her relationship with Lu Xun: "He is not bad, we have never quarreled, we have our own lives, I should forgive him." In China, Lu Xun is regarded by most people as the Sven of the textbook, who abandoned medicine and wrote many deafening sobering sayings.
However, what few people know is that Lu Xun has a woman he has been ashamed of all his life in terms of feelings, that is, his original wife Zhu An.
Some people may wonder, isn't Lu Xun's wife Xu Guangping? Who is that woman named Juan? In fact, Zhu An is not only Lu Xun's original wife, but also the only woman in a legal marriage relationship in his life.
From the time Lu Xun began to live with Xu Guangping at the age of 47 until Lu Xun's death, the relationship between the two of them was only a de facto marriage, that is, they never officially married.
This is because in Lu Xun's heart, he can't really abandon Zhu An. On September 25, 1881, Lu Xun was born in Shaoxing, Zhejiang. During this period, the Qing Dynasty had not yet fallen, and according to the statement at the time, it should be said that it was the third day of the eighth month of the seventh year of Guangxu.
Lu Xun in this period is not called Lu Xun, but Zhou Zhangshou, the eldest young master of the Zhou family. Lu Xun's growth experience was accompanied by the decline of the last feudal dynasty of the Qing Dynasty and the decline of the Zhou family.
1892 was the last carefree memory of his childhood for Lu Xun. This year, he entered the Sanwei Study House under the arrangement of his family, and got to know Runtu, which made him famous through the ages.
But just a year later, Lu Xun's grandfather was arrested and imprisoned, his father almost lost all his family wealth, and suffered from the serious illness of his uncle and the death of his father.
In 1898, Lu Xun changed his name to Zhou Shuren and embarked on the road of going out to study. He was exposed to new ideas, horse racing with the children of the Eight Banners, and the old and new worlds constantly collided before his eyes, igniting his passion and showing him a path he never thought of.
However, at this time, news came from the family that he was going to arrange for him to marry a gentle and beautiful woman from a scholarly family, and she was Zhu An.
From Mrs. Zhou's description of Zhu An, Lu Xun realized that she would be a wife who strictly adhered to traditional etiquette, but what he longed for in his heart was a woman with new ideas, who was not bound by the old society, and who could have a common language with him.
For his own happiness and not to deprive Zhu An of his life, Lu Xun resolutely refused this marriage. The marriage stalemate lasted until 1901, and Zhu An had been waiting for Lu Xun's decision to get married.
Faced with this situation, Lu Xun compromised, and he proposed that marriage was okay, but there were two conditions: Zhu An had to give up his wrapped little feet and go to study and write. However, the Zhu family, who adhered to traditional etiquette, refused his request.
In the end, Lu Xun went to Japan to study with his luggage.
originally thought that this marriage would end because of this, but unexpectedly, Lu Xun was forced to marry Zhu An a year later. Lu Xun, who was deceived by his mother's telegram of "returning home from an acute illness", found that Zhu An had sat in a sedan chair.
If he forcibly repented of the marriage at this time, for a woman who was deeply bound by feudal etiquette, it would be tantamount to letting her die. Lu Xun chose to compromise and accepted this wife who was wrapped in small feet and didn't even know a word.
But at the same time, he also stood by his beliefs. Three days after getting married, he immediately set off to study in Japan again, and for the next twenty years, he maintained the respect he deserved for Zhu An, although he never had a substantial relationship with Zhu An.
In November 1919, Lu Xun bought No. 11 Badaowan in Beijing and moved his family. He consulted Zhu An on whether to go with him to Beijing, and Zhu An meekly offered to follow.
In Zhu An's life, Lu Xun asked her opinion many times, and each time, she never gave an answer of refusal. Lu Xun once said to a friend that Zhu An was like a gift carefully prepared for him by Mrs. Zhou, but this gift lacked thought and self, and in addition to taking on the responsibility of providing for her, it was really difficult for him to give birth to emotional sprouts.
The appearance of Xu Guangping gave Zhu An, who was as content with the status quo as a snail and kept in his shell, a sense of crisis for the first time. In January 1927, Lu Xun officially began to live with Xu Guangping.
Mrs. Zhou, who has always been on Zhu An's side, gave Zhu An a heavy blow, and Mrs. Zhou said happily that she hoped that Xu Guangping could give birth to a child for Lu Xun as soon as possible and pass on the ancestry.
However, the more you are afraid of something, the more likely it is that something will happen. On September 27, 1929, the child of Lu Xun and Xu Guangping was born. Juan was deeply affected and was in a trance for a while, and later, she persuaded herself with the ideas of the old society.
She is the eldest wife, and Lu Xun's children are also her children, and she will have descendants to worship in the future.
Ms. Zhu An served Mrs. Zhou all her life, and until Mrs. Zhou died, she still chose to live alone, and never disturbed the families of Lu Xun and Xu Guangping. After the death of Mr. Lu Xun in 1936, Ms. Zhu An took the initiative to invite Xu Guangping to take the children to live with her in Beiping.
At the moment before she died, Ms. Zhu An tearfully told the people around her that she hoped to be buried with her beloved Mr. Lu Xun.
Zhu An's love is uncomplaining and unrepentant, and she respects Lu Xun and regards him as the pillar of her soul in life. For other men, they may be happy because of such virtuous and virtuous wives, and even push feudal machismo to the extreme, putting women at an extreme disadvantage.
However, Lu Xun did not agree with this view, he was not a person who lacked empathy, and he could not bear to let Zhu An fall into a desperate situation because of the divorce of his wife. As a result, their marriage is destined to be full of tragedy and end in an unperfect ending.