Yan Youyun, 18 years old, once read palm in Zhongshan Park. The gentleman predicted that she would live a life of traveling everywhere in the future, and she would always walk with big people in formal clothes and high hats. -After being a hundred years old, Yan Youyun recalled the original fable: every sentence was fulfilled.
1905, Yan Youyun was born in a very rich business family-his grandfather Yan Xinhou was Li Hongzhang's staff. Yan family started with salt industry, and its business involved all aspects of life. There are Yanshi jewelry stores all over the country.
Born in such a family, Yan Youyun also received the most advanced and excellent education at that time. Yan Youyun has had two tutors since he was a child, one teaching Chinese and the other teaching English. Under the influence of the blending of Chinese and western education, Yan Youyun's vision has been broadened.
/kloc-at the age of 0/4, she entered a missionary school in Tianjin. Later, after moving to Shanghai with her family, she went to Hujiang University to study. Because of the strict school rules, Yan Youyun transferred to Fudan University to study business in her junior year, and was the first batch of female college students in Fudan at that time.
In the 1920s, Yan Youyun, who was less than 20 years old, drove his Buick to school in Hujiang and Fudan every day. Her unusual family background, beautiful face and gentle temperament soon made her a celebrity in the eyes of all college students in Shanghai.
College students often plan where Yan Youyun goes to school, around the school gate of Hujiang, and want to see this peerless beauty. Because her license plate number is 84, everyone calls her "Miss 84".
Yan Youyun has a steady stream of suitors, but she still concentrates on her studies and is not tempted at all. When asked by her family, she replied, "My future lover must be respectable and I must admire him."
Before long, this respectable and admirable prince appeared.
At a dance in Fudan, Yan Youyun was deeply moved by the personable Yang Guangliang. And Yang Guangling will never forget the face that caught a glimpse.
Yang Guangling was the son of a big silk merchant at that time, and his family was well-off. He himself is young and promising. He received a doctorate in international law and political science from Princeton University, and served as the Commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the National Government in Shanghai. Moreover, he is good at dancing and playing tennis, and he hits it off with the clever Yan Youyun.
They began to fall in love after Yan Youyun graduated from university and held a grand and sensational wedding.
After Yang Guangling and Yan Youyun got married, they were like a match made in heaven. They loved each other and respected each other, and soon they had three daughters. As a diplomat, Yang Guanghao needs to travel all over the world, so Yan Youyun packed up for the family and cooperated with her husband to complete the work brilliantly.
However, the good times did not last long. 1938 1 1 month, Yang Guangling's family went to Manila as Consul General of China, but at this time, the Japanese's ambition never died out. After bombing Pearl Harbor, they attacked Manila angrily.
Three years later, Yan Youyun's husband Yang Guangliao and other diplomats in the consulate were taken away by the Japanese army, and their houses were sealed by the Japanese army. As a wife, Yan Youyun lost her husband without warning, just like lightning and thunder. But she swallowed her sadness and bravely shouldered the great challenge that was pressed on her.
She became the only reliable force in the family, shouldering the food, clothing, housing and transportation of her three daughters and servants. Not only that, she also took in the families of other defected diplomats. Forty people and seven families, with the strong support of Yan Youyun, spent extremely difficult wartime years together.
In Manila after the Japanese bombing, the market quickly closed, even without oil, vegetables and electricity. Yan Youyun's daughter recalled that time and said that at that time, the whole life seemed to have completely retreated to the countryside in the19th century.
Yan Youyun, who had no worries about food and clothing since childhood, remained calm in the face of despair. After so many grievances and bitterness, she only firmly said: There will be worse. If there is no food, plant it yourself.
She and her family dug up the front lawn and planted various vegetables and peanuts. There is a flock of chickens in the basement. They usually eat eggs laid by chickens and occasionally kill one to improve their food.
Many of Yan Youyun's precious jewels were lost in the war, but she was not worried: "Bad things can happen, which is the least. I just lost my belongings, and other important things were unscathed-my life, health and family. "
In this way, Yan Youyun spent three years of hardships in calm, persistence, calmness and detachment, which others could not imagine. Perhaps in Margaret's Gone with the Wind, we can feel this suffering more intuitively.
From 65438 to 0945, Yan Youyun took her daughter to America. With her extraordinary wisdom and ability and previous experience in assisting her husband, she took the first job in her life-responsible for all etiquette matters of the United Nations Protocol Department.
It was also in the United States that Yan Youyun was embraced in an affectionate embrace for the second time.
Gu Weijun is also an outstanding diplomat. It turns out that he is a good friend of Yang Guangling. After Yan Youyun came to America, he tried his best to help Yan Youyun who was alone in a foreign land.
In this way, Yan Youyun and Gu Weijun, who lived in a foreign country, gradually became familiar with each other. They snuggled up to each other and loved each other.
1959, 54-year-old Yan Youyun married Gu Weijun, who was over 70 years old. They stayed together until Gu Weijun died more than twenty years later.
In his later years, Yan Youyun experienced the pain of losing his daughter again. Yan Youyun said goodbye to his beloved again and again, heartbroken. But she never indulged in her sadness. She said to her second daughter, "Remember, they were all very happy before their death."
The seriousness of treating life is deeply engraved in Yan Youyun's bones. She treats the joys and sorrows of life with a detached eye and puts all her energy into every dance today.
Every day when she gets up, she paints some light makeup for herself, carefully selects perfume and sprays her favorite flavor.
At the age of 98, she was diagnosed with colorectal cancer. When everyone was deeply worried about her, she easily said that the most painful moment of colorectal cancer was the moment when the nurse tore off the tape on the syringe before leaving the hospital. On the fifth day after the operation, she was discharged from hospital with a big smile on her face.
At the birthday party a few months later, she wore a white embroidered cheongsam, gold high heels and bright makeup, and danced happily with the doctor who operated on her.
1 12 years old, she would go out to do her hair in cheongsam and high heels and learn to bake cakes and embroider. She was not worried about losing her life at all. She smiled and responded to the media interview: "I have lived for so long, and I can eat whatever I want. I can't walk barefoot, and I feel like I have to lean over. My slippers should be small heels. "
Nietzsche has a touching saying: "The so-called noble soul is to have awe of yourself." Yan Youyun is such a woman. She has been living seriously all her life, facing every challenge and loving everyone around her seriously. She knows that only by living for life itself can she live the meaning of life.