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August 1924 already had the flavor of autumn.

By Hanla.qiaozhiPublished 3 years ago 6 min read

August 1924 already had the flavor of autumn. Crape myrtles blossom like clouds in the cloisters of the China Girls' School in Shanghai. It was class time, not many pedestrians, cloister, a young man, in a hurry, a gust of wind, crape myrtle flowers like rain falling, his hair, shoulders, skirt, decorated with pink raindrops. Crape myrtle is his favorite flower. He slowed down, reached out his hand and gently placed an idle branch back on the shelf. He took a deep breath, as if smelling the flowers, and only he knew that his heart was beating furiously. Near the village feeling timid, will see the lover of 8 years, his excitement is difficult to suppress, in the face of this piece of cloud, for a time in the heart of poetic luxuriation, looking at the flower branches outside the gem-like carving of the far day, a deep feeling sigh: "Mo Jun!" The woman passed by, heard this call, walked back a few steps, hesitantly asked: "Yuan Chong, is it you?"

The man was Shao Yuanchong, who came from Guangzhou to visit his much-desired lover, Zhang Mojun, who was then the principal of Shanghai Shenzhou Girls' School. After 8 years of separation, the sound dust is broken. Now hold the hand to see, tearful eyes dancing, ten thousand kinds of joys and sorrows, I do not know where to begin. For a long time, Shao Yuanchong will cherish the day lovesickness, one by one, but often intermittently choked up, said the sad place, tears followed the sound. Zhang Mojun also eyes micro ying. Crying at the same time. They talked for more than two hours, holding hands and never letting go.

13 years ago, the founding of the Republic of China, is also in Shanghai, Shao Yuanchong met Tongmenghui female hero Zhang Mojun. Zhang Mojun was called "a promising young woman" by Sun Yat-sen. She instigated the Suzhou Uprising and set up the Women's Northern Expedition team. Zhang Mo-jun is very handsome and graceful. Many people admire her, but no one has the courage to go to her side. At that time, Shao Yuanchong was a member of the Kuomintang Department of Transportation in Shanghai. He fell in love with Zhang Mojun, his superior and senior. Born calf is not afraid of tiger, Shao Yuan chong is young and energetic, blood and vitality is just, the love of this one cavity surging, always burning pain his heart, "love is about to say", he writes love letter regardless of the ground. One letter a day. Shao Yuanchong young beauty, ingenious pen, was the Zhejiang higher school of the famous talent. Shao Yuan chong does not know, the Zhang Mojun at that time is hurt for feeling place, beloved person seeks another new love, she of character is strong swears angrily lifelong do not marry. Zhang was indifferent to Shao Yuanchong's ebullient and beautifully written love letters. This subordinate, seven years her junior, had not been able to break through the silences of her emotions with the passionate and ravishing frenzy of love. In order to dispel Shao Yuan chong thought, she put forward three indispensable conditions: Wen Zhang official seal, military for the general, study abroad graduation!

These three conditions for the average man, absolutely unbridgeable gap, difficult to climb the peak. Fortunately, Shao Yuanchong is not an ordinary person. He called them "the three big mountains." There is a goal, there is hope, even if it is a little tricky meaning of the "three mountains". For love to rush forward, he sees the "three mountains" as the power of life, not afraid of obstacles, only to pursue the heart. In 1916, Shao Yuanchong left Shanghai and took up the post of Rong. On the evening before his departure, Shao Yuanchong invited Zhang Mojun to Yu Garden. The moon was clear, the silence was clear, the flowers were like waves, and he said with deep feeling: "Mo Jun! You wait for me!!!!!!! I'm gonna make sure you get all three of your demands. You may rest assured that I shall not write to you again until your terms are fulfilled." Perhaps because she thought Shao was only young and energetic, or perhaps because his frankness and persistence touched a nerve in her heart, Zhang blurted out, "As long as all three are ready, I will marry you!"

In just three years, Shao Yuanchong fulfilled two of Zhang Mojun's requirements.

Shao decided to climb the "third mountain" -- to study abroad. He studied at the University of Wisconsin and Columbia University in the United States. After learning, he was ordered to study in the Soviet Union and Germany for eight years. During the period of studying abroad, relatives and friends constantly introduced objects to him, and there were enthusiastic and unrestrained foreign women who approached him actively, but they were declined by him. In the 8 years of separation, Shao Yuanchong, although acacia disaster, love, but he stick to the promise, only write the feelings of nostalgia in his diary, never sent Zhang Mojun a word.

Zhang Mojun was proud and reserved, and she never took the initiative to write to Shao Yuanchong. His news kept reaching her ear drums. Quietly, the ice in her heart began to melt. Shao Yuanchong went to study abroad, since then, the sea and the sky mourning two boundless, broken geese zero Hong each side. When she thought of him, her heart became sweet and sour. The seedling of love, under the catalysis of the long years, opened branches and scattered leaves. She reread the letters he wrote to her in his early years. Between the lines, she felt his love and burned the truth. People in love, always sensitive impulse, worry about gains and losses. At a party, she heard people talking from a distance. Said Shao Yuanchong fell in love with an overseas Chinese woman in the United States. Zhang Mojun's face turned pale and she hated it. When she returned home, she burned more than a thousand letters that Shao had written to her in his early years. She declared herself celibate for the rest of her life.

When Shao finally returned home, Sun Yat-sen appreciated him and nominated him as an alternate member of the Kuomintang Central Committee. "Eight years of pearl desolate night moon, stone rotten sea withered covenant in." The first thing Shao Yuanchong did after returning to China was to write to his sweetheart Zhang Mojun. When he suddenly received a letter from Shao Yuanchong and saw his dashing and unrestrained writing, Zhang Mojun shuddered. The Heart lake, which he had thought was as quiet as an ancient well, set off waves of wild waves again. That night, in the light of the lamp, her thoughts welled up, and she wrote down six poems and seven wonders in one breath and returned them to the book. She said in the preface: "Since C Chen parting wings like eight years, each other sound dust cut off. Yesterday suddenly got a book from the United States, the waist by the near system, the pole from the bosom of other bitter, feeling and work, when Jia in the autumn also. One of them: looking at the vast millions of more than eight years a book. The old sad words, endure the death of a moment Tang to give." Upon receiving this, Shao Yuanchong was overjoyed, and immediately stepped its rhyme, and six poems. In one of them, he wrote: "My tears are heavy, my words are heavy, and my dreams are full of seals and books. I see the moon Jing Zhen, thousands of miles Tang Qi Yu." From then on, the two began to answer each other's poems and express their feelings to each other.

Although they were not far from each other and it was only ten hours' drive from Guangzhou to Shanghai, they had no chance to meet. This time, Shao took time out of his schedule to come from Guangzhou to Shanghai without telling Zhang that he had a surprise for her. Meeting briefly, they immediately decided to hold the wedding in Shanghai. 13 years of love finally hit the line. At this time, he was 34 years old, Zhang Mojun was forty and one.

After marriage, they are happy and warm, sincere feelings, can be called "golden boudoir friends". They all write a good word, they also go to the book shop, buy paper and pen, poetry, calligraphy and painting each other, happy and harmonious. In business, they follow suit and rise steadily. Shao served successively as vice president and acting president of the Legislative Yuan and director of the Central Propaganda Committee of the Kuomintang. Zhang also served as a legislator and Central supervisory commissioner. When the couple served together in the Legislative Yuan, Zhang Mo-jun wrote a book titled "Heavenly Soil Double Qing Dynasty" outside Mei Zong Tang. Two people live together in Jiao Shan, Zhang Mojun poem "mangrove white cloud with the dream place, double clear heart trace according to the river tide" for the discipline.

After the "North China Incident", Shao Yuanchong broke with Wang Jingwei in the diplomacy towards Japan and resigned from his post to travel.

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