The Ups and Downs of Troubled Times

Zhang Shouyi had three wives and concubines before and after him. With his eldest wife Wang, Jia Fu was born in 1900, and Jiazheng was born in 1911. The second aunt, Taiyuan, was an opera performer. She married Shouyi and gave birth to their son in 1911. Jiazheng and Jiasheng were born, and Shouyi was in jail. This was probably a regret in his life. As the second generation of officials and the second generation of wealth, Jia Fu is the eldest son of the family and can be said to be the "Crown Prince" of the Zhang family. In the future, the son will definitely inherit his father's legacy and become the heir to the Zhang family. But in that era of great changes, Jiafu took a different path. He yearned for revolution, but instead went to the theater, gambled, and degenerated himself. Finally, on the day his father Shouyi married his third concubine Tai Shengnan, he was so stimulated that he committed suicide. This is also an elegy for the decline of that era. There are no standard answers in life. But a person living in an era can never escape the eye of the storm of the era.