Why did Li Hongzhang's granddaughter Li Guoqin become a monk?
In feudal times, a family was particularly taboo to bring back a barren daughter-in-law. Just like Li Guoqin, Li Hongzhang's granddaughter, she suffered a marriage change because she was infertile, and eventually became a nun. A barren woman was bound to be severely treated by her husband's family in the old society, even if she was a good family.
In the Republic of China, celebrities should be young and talented, and their characters should match.
In feudal society, marriage always listened to parents and matchmakers, and they had no right to choose their own marriage. When choosing a marriage partner, we must pay attention to the right match, especially the famous family attaches great importance to this.
Li Hongzhang was an important official in the late Qing Dynasty, a famous politician, diplomat and strategist at that time. Therefore, the power position of the Li family was rarely compared with others at that time. As we all know, Li Hongzhang has two granddaughters and nieces, named Li Guoqin and Li Guoqin respectively.
Li Guoqin and Li Guo's father, Li Jingfeng, both worked as magistrates in many places in Shaanxi. Li Guoqin's mother is Wu Jingyi, a famous beauty in Hangzhou. Li Guoqin's sisters completely inherited their mother's wealth and beauty, and were born with wealth, which can be regarded as a veritable celebrity of the Republic of China.
Because the Li sisters have superior conditions and come from powerful families, there are never many people who come to propose marriage. At an early age, Li Jingfeng married his eldest daughter, Li Guoqin. Is engaged to Ma Zhao Chang.
At that time, the Ma family was also a prominent family of Tianjin Wei, and Ma had read many poetry books since he was a child, so he was knowledgeable and handsome. Therefore, marrying Li Guoqin can be said to be a perfect match. Even Li Guoqin himself was quite satisfied.
There is still a feudal concept about children's marriage, so he immediately asked people to measure the stars for his daughter and horse after he got engaged to Ma's family.
It can only be said that horses are predestined friends. After eight-character bargaining, they found that they bumped into each other, so this marriage was opposed. But I think Ma is really a rare young talent, and it is a pity to lose him.
So I took my second daughter's horoscope and fell in love with him. As a result, the eight characters matched and finally married the second daughter to the horse.
No children after marriage, adopting a daughter to ease the family atmosphere.
Li Jingfeng insisted that his second daughter marry Ma, which made him very unhappy. Next, Li Jingfeng is more concerned about his eldest daughter's marriage.
After a thousand choices, I finally found Zhang Fuyun, a young talent who matched my eldest daughter's eight characters. Although Zhang Fuyun's family is average, he is an enterprising young man. He was admitted to Harvard University through his own efforts and became the first China person to study at Harvard.
With the support of his father, Li Guoqin soon married Zhang Fuyun. Their married life was very happy, but the only thing that worried them was that they had been married for many years without children, which also made Zhang Fuyun's mother unhappy with Li Guoqin. Later, the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law was tense.
In order to ease this tense family atmosphere, Zhang Fuyun and Li Guoqin decided to adopt a daughter after discussion.
As soon as this news came out, those who tried to curry favor with Zhang Fuyun fawned on him, including a bank comprador named Ye and a daughter named Ye Yihua. Ye Yihua looks handsome, lively and lovely, and is very likable.
Later, she became the goddaughter of Zhang Fuyun and Li Guoqin.
Li Guoqin is very satisfied with this goddaughter and treats her like a daughter. Ye Yihua is already a college girl, but Li Guoqin really likes her, so she often asks about her life and study, and takes her to live at home.
The goddaughter's joining eased Zhang Fuyun's tense family atmosphere and brought a lot of joy to Li Guoqin.
The adopted daughter is pregnant, but I didn't expect it to be her husband's child.
However, after a period of time, Li Guoqin found that his adopted daughter's abdomen bulged slightly. At first, I thought my daughter had gained weight. Later, with the passage of time, Ye Yihua's stomach became bigger and bigger, and Li Guoqin confirmed that she was pregnant.
Li Guoqin was puzzled by this. Ye Yihua is usually clever and obedient, unlike a woman who will get pregnant before marriage. Later, after some questioning, she realized that this was her husband's child. The truth of the matter came suddenly, which made Li Guoqin at a loss. At this time, she only felt humiliated.
Anyway, Li Guoqin was born in a rich family, and her family background and beauty are well known. Now the husband is unfaithful to his daughter, which is equivalent to giving her a slap in the face and making her feel insulted.
Therefore, Li Guoqin chose to divorce Zhang Fuyun, but Zhang Fuyun disagreed. He explained to Li Guoqin that Ye Yihua was pregnant only because he wanted a child of his own. He just liked her from beginning to end.
Because Li Guoqin can't have children, she is always ashamed of Zhang Fuyun. In the face of his sophistry, Li Guoqin was speechless.
After listening to Zhang Fuyun's explanation, Li Guoqin decided to put up with him once. After all, he couldn't have children for him, so he didn't do what a wife should do.
Li Guoqin himself is guilty. I thought that Zhang Fuyun would be safe in the future. I didn't expect that after Ye Yihua gave birth to a child, Zhang Fuyun wanted to take Ye Yihua as a concubine, which made Li Guoqin completely chilling.
A strong man like Li Guoqin would never tolerate her husband's concubinage, so he resolutely chose to leave.
Zhang Ailing once said in her novel: A man will have at least two roses in his life, one is white and the other is red.
Li Guoqin became the white rose in Zhang Fuyun's life, and she was unwilling. What she wants to do is the only rose in Zhang Fuyun's life. Li Guoqin couldn't bear the white roses and red roses blooming together, so she chose to turn around and leave, which she will never forget.
After the divorce, Li Guoqin looked down on the love between men and women in this world and was no longer interested in the world of mortals, so he became a monk and fled into an empty net. After entering Buddhism, Li Guoqin isolated himself from all kinds of external voices, devoted himself to the study of Buddhism, and made great achievements. Later, she had many disciples who sat down and became laymen in Li Yichen.