The year old Dong Zhujun was imprisonedyears, life is embarrassing.
In 1967, at the age of 70, Dong Zhujun was thrown into prison and imprisoned for five years. During those difficult years, she always had the belief to live and insisted on strict self-discipline.
Eventually, she was released due to her worsening condition. After being released from prison, Dong Zhujun never gave up her expectations for life, but began to write her memoirs, which later became known as "My Century".
This book is the perfect end to the journey of her extraordinary life. So, who is Dong Zhujun?
Dong Zhujun, a native of Haimen, Jiangsu, was born in the slums of Shanghai in 1900. Her father was a rickshaw driver and her mother was a maid. In order to change her fate by studying, she entered a private school.
However, fate is unpredictable, and the father dies of typhoid fever, and the family is in trouble. In order to repay the debt, his mother sold Dong Zhujun into the Qinglou, and Dong Zhujun's life fell into despair.
In the Qinglou of the Qing Dynasty, she quickly became popular with her natural beauty and good voice, and was favored by the children of rich families. Although she can't pick up customers, she has to find a way out of her future.
She decided to find a good person who was worthy of being entrusted for life, and got married and got out of citizenship.
The women of the Qinglou are fortunate to meet their lovers, but most of them are greedy for money and lustful. However, one day, the revolutionary youth broke into Dong Zhujun's life in the summer, he was not only influential and suave, but also the overseer of Sichuan and became famous for a while.
Xia Zhishi had already had a marriage, but after meeting Dong Zhujun, he was attracted by Dong Zhujun's freshness and refinement, and the two fell in love. In the face of Yuan Shikai's **, before Xia Zhishi went into exile in Japan, he openly offered to redeem Dong Zhujun and promised to marry Dong Zhujun.
But Dong Zhujun was arrogant and refused Xia Zhishi's request for redemption, but tried every means to escape from the Qinglou. In the end, Dong Zhujun successfully met Xia Zhishi and held a grand wedding with him in Shanghai.
Dong Zhujun knew that only when he was strong was the most solid support, so soon after marriage, he and Xia Zhishi went to Japan to study and tutor Japanese. Although life is miserable, she firmly believes that she can't rely on others only in this life, and only when she is strong is the most solid support, which is also the best motivation for her to persist in learning.
Fortunately, Xia Zhishi fully supported Dong Zhujun's studies, even if the Xia family looked down on Dong Zhujun, he would stand on Dong Zhujun's side and say good things for her, which moved Dong Zhujun.
However, as time passed, many things quietly changed.
Dong Zhujun took on the burden of taking care of her four children alone, and although she was under great academic pressure, she gritted her teeth and insisted on finally graduating from Tokyo Women's High School. She originally wanted to learn French, but was forced to return to Hejiang, Sichuan, with her children.
However, Xia Zhishi's career suffered a devastating blow, he fell into deep pain and depression, punched and kicked Dong Zhujun, and even picked up a knife to threaten Dong Zhujun. Dong Zhujun was completely disheartened by this marriage and decided to end this marriage.
Although Xia Zhizhi was unwilling to let go, Dong Zhujun resolutely chose to leave the house and left him with his four daughters. At the time of the divorce, Dong Zhujun proposed that if he encountered an accident, Xia Zhizhi must provide for his four daughters to finish college.
The breakdown of this marriage made Dong Zhujun an independent, strong and unyielding female representative.
Dong Zhujun's life is full of setbacks and difficulties, but with her tenacity and wisdom, she has walked out of the trough again and again and achieved a perfect counterattack. When she encountered difficulties and a difficult life in Shanghai with her four daughters, she did not give up, but opened a Qunyi bobbin factory with the money from pawning jewelry.
Although the bobbin factory was shelled by the Japanese army, she persevered and eventually met a kind Sichuan businessman who financed her 2,000 oceans, which gave her a chance to breathe and make a comeback.
In 1935, Dong Zhujun opened the first small restaurant called "Jinjiang Xiaocai" in Shanghai, specializing in Sichuan cuisine. Although she had to take care of her children and run a restaurant at the beginning of her business, her tenacity and hard work have made Jinjiang Xiaocai's business better and better.
Later, she founded the Jinjiang Tea House, which became a resident of celebrities and scholars. After the Lugou Bridge Incident, the Jinjiang Restaurant became a secret contact point for patriots, and Dong Zhujun used the Jinjiang Restaurant to cover and fund the underground activities of the anti-Japanese rescuers and the Chinese Communist Party.
Despite her ordeal in the Philippines, Dong eventually returned to Shanghai and returned to her restaurant. Although the Jinjiang side dishes and Jinjiang teahouse at this time have changed beyond recognition, her life has become more colorful because of it.
After the liberation of Shanghai, under the instructions of his superiors, Dong Zhujun established the "Jinjiang Hotel" with the help of Jinjiang Xiaocai and Jinjiang two stores. Since then, Jin Jiang Hotel has become the first state guesthouse in Shanghai, hosting more than 300 heads of state from more than 100 countries and regions, and has won wide acclaim.
Dong Zhujun knew that the country needed her, and she did not hesitate to donate all her $150,000 to **, and even donated her garden villa to the country.
However, fate played a joke on her ex-husband Xia Zhizhi. Xia Zhi returned to his hometown of Hejiang, innocent **, and was executed for ** crime, and was not rehabilitated until 1987.
In 1967, Dong Zhujun was unfortunately imprisoned. In prison, she still faced life strongly, insisted on exercising and cleaning every day, and maintained a positive and optimistic attitude.
On her 70th birthday, she also wrote many poems while in prison. Dong Zhujun admired Lu Xun very much when she was young, and as long as Mr. Lu Xun gave a speech, she would take her four daughters to listen.
Dong Zhujun's four daughters were deeply influenced by their mother, and they were all very productive when they grew up. During his days in prison, Dong Zhujun always firmly believed that "the enemy wants you to die, but you will not die".
This motto sustained her through those difficult years. After being released from prison, Dong Zhujun was full of enthusiasm for life and began to write his life memoir "My Century".
This memoir was later made into a TV series "Century Life". During this period, Mr. Guo Moruo offered to help Dong Zhujun** many times, but she politely declined.
Dong Zhujun has never remarried since the divorce, and it is inevitable that he will have regrets in his heart. The head of the bed is always placed with Xia Zhizhi's **, maybe for her, Xia Zhi is always the person she loves deeply.
In 1997, 97-year-old Dong Zhujun died of illness in Beijing, and a generation of legends came to an end. Dong Zhujun's life is full of tribulations, from a down-and-out Qinglou woman to a famous Overseer's wife, to nothing, and finally to becoming a female entrepreneur, which is inseparable from her perseverance and spirit of never giving in to difficulties.
Dong Zhujun's spirit and courage are very similar to Zhang Lan, as long as we have a positive heart, we can overcome any difficulties. Dong Zhujun has gone through ups and downs, and her pride has never lived up to her legendary life.