Hu Shi said she was "my first comrade", and Premier Zhou once said, "Miss Chen, I am your student. I have listened to your classes and read your books. " This highly praised person is Chen Hengzhe. She is the first female professor in China, and also the teacher of Lin Weiyin, Bing Xin and others.
Chen Hengzhe created many works in his life, such as Xiao Yu Dian, Heng Zhe's Prose and Renaissance History. She is also the earliest female scholar, writer and poet after the New Culture Movement in China.
In addition, Chen Hengzhe and Hu Shi are closely related, and they can talk about everything. At the same time, her husband Ren Hongjuan was also a famous scientist and educator in modern China. The combination of the two can be described as a match made in heaven, which has become a hot topic in China academic circles.
The heart is free, and freedom is to overcome gravity forever and strive to fly upwards. Xiao Hong, a famous writer, once said this, which is reflected incisively and vividly in Chen Hengzhe.
Chen Hengzhe was born in a noble family in Wujin, Jiangsu Province. Her grandfather, Chen Meisheng, is a famous Confucian who is good at poetry and writing. His father, Chen Tao, was a painter in the late Qing Dynasty. Its mother village was as famous as Qi Baishi in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. His paintings and calligraphy works are not only famous in China, but also highly respected abroad.
Chen Hengzhe in his youth.
Born in such a family, Chen Hengzhe has received a good education since childhood, and is also very talented and smart, and learns everything quickly. Soon, under the careful guidance of her parents, Chen Hengzhe mastered some basic knowledge of calligraphy and painting, but at the age of seven, she had her first change in life.
During the period of 1897, it was still the Qing Dynasty, and the backward feudal thought was still deeply rooted in people's hearts. Although Chen Hengzhe's parents are knowledgeable people, they still bind their daughters' feet. At this time, Chen Hengzhe was just seven years old, but Chen Hengzhe showed a strong sense of resistance to this kind of physical and mental torture.
After foot binding, she got into an empty corner and tore off all the cloth wrapped around her feet. In the face of his father's reprimand, 7-year-old Chen Hengzhe remained silent. Then, her father wrapped her feet with a foot wrap, but Chen Hengzhe quietly moved it away.
Biography of Chen Hengzhe
Mother Zhuang not only regretted this move, but also tried to persuade her husband not to let Chen Hengzhe bind her feet. Under the pressure of his wife and daughter, Chen Tao agreed. Since then, Chen Hengzhe has completely got rid of the fate of feudal women's foot binding, which is not only to get rid of foot binding, but also to bid farewell to and get rid of feudal thoughts.
After this foot-binding incident, Chen Hengzhe completely got rid of the shackles of bad habits and was free to touch anything he wanted. Chen Hengzhe, who tasted the fruits of victory, opened the door to freedom and independence.
1903, 13-year-old Chen hengzhe was taken to Guangzhou by her uncle, where she first came into contact with advanced western ideas and cultural concepts. This has had a positive impact on her future academic research and overseas study.
Women's School Library in the Republic of China
Chen Hengzhe's uncle and Cai Yuanpei, a great educator in the Republic of China, were good friends. He wrote to Cai Yuanpei, who was in Shanghai at that time, hoping to let his niece Chen Hengzhe enter the newly-built Western-style girls' school. In this way, 13-year-old Chen Hengzhe got on the train to Shanghai alone, which was the first time she went out alone since she was so big.
The little girl came to Shanghai trembling, but she didn't even see the shadow of Cai Yuanpei. Instead, she entered a medical school by mistake. The classrooms here are almost all foreigners, and classes are also in English. Chen Hengzhe stayed here for one year, during which she developed a fluent spoken English, which played a vital role in her future study abroad.
In this medical college, in addition to daily teaching, students also need to make house calls with their teachers. Chen Hengzhe has also seen many patients struggling, especially seeing a woman feel that she is not suitable for studying medicine after giving birth. Just then, her father recalled her on the grounds of family affairs, and Chen Hengzhe took this opportunity to leave this place where she had a psychological shadow.
Republic of China naval hospital former site
The forerunner of "unmarried" 1907 went abroad for further study. 17-year-old Chen Hengzhe returned home from Shanghai, only to find that her father, Chen Tao, had found a marriage for her, and the other was a rich boy from an official family. In Chen Fu's eyes, marriage should pay attention to the right match. His daughter comes from such a noble family that it is right to choose a rich boy from an official family.
After returning from Chen Hengzhe, Chen Fu began to prepare for the wedding, but Chen Hengzhe strongly opposed the arranged marriage. She believes that marriage is based on feelings, and marriage without feelings is just formalism. In addition, because of witnessing the painful scene of women giving birth, Chen Hengzhe once had a great fear of getting married and having children, which is also a major reason for her opposition to marriage.
Chen Hengzhe and her husband Ren Hongjuan.
Under her strong opposition, the marriage ended in failure. Father Chen Tao also cut off her financial resources in a rage, which forced Chen Hengzhe to stay at home for a year.
19 1 1 year, she was admitted to the new girls' school founded by Cai Yuanpei and began to get in touch with systematic western education and patriotic thought. She studied here for three years, until 19 14, when Tsinghua wanted to recruit American girls to study abroad, Chen Hengzhe was admitted with excellent results and became one of the first beautiful students in boxer indemnity, and went to study in the United States for five years at public expense.
Although 24-year-old Chen Hengzhe upholds the "unmarried doctrine", he is still full of longing for love. When he arrived in America, he plunged into the ocean of learning and couldn't extricate himself. At that time, the advanced technology and strong academic atmosphere in the United States made Chen Hengzhe, who was eager to learn, feel at home. Here, she not only learned a lot of profound knowledge, but also cultivated herself with a senior academic atmosphere, making her "poetic and full of books."
At the same time, while studying abroad, she also met her future husband Ren Hongjuan. But at first, because of his close relationship with Hu Shi, Ren Hongjuan could only bury this feeling in his heart. When Hu Shi returned to China at the behest of his mother and married his arranged wife Jiang Dongxiu, Ren Hongjuan completely released his feelings for many years.
Young Ren Hongjuan
1920, Chen Hengzhe graduated successfully, returned to China with Ren Hongjuan, and held a wedding. Although she and Hu Shi were married at this time, this did not hinder their relationship. They talked about everything as before.