The outbreak of the Xinhai Revolution in 1911 was a revolution that ended the rule of the feudal dynasty, and at the same time established a republican form of government and changed the name of the country to the Republic of China, beginning a new era in the process of Chinese history. At that time, the political situation was extremely unstable, in the era of warlord division and strife, many families were scattered, there was a woman, she gave birth to two daughters for her husband, the husband who lived in two places had sons with others, she returned and gave birth to 6 sons, so who was she?
We all know that in the early years of the Republic of China, many important military figures appeared, including Bai Chongxi, a representative figure of the warlord Xingui clan, who, with the vigorous support of Sun Yat-sen, launched a war against the old warlords in Guangxi and won victory in capturing Guilin.
In this way, Bai Chongxi entered the sight of Ma Jianqing, a gentleman of the Guilin Noble Family. Ma Jianqing was a gongsheng at the end of the Qing Dynasty, who served as the governor of Yongming County in Hunan Province, returned to Guangxi at the beginning of the Republic of China as the county magistrate of Xing'an County, the executive director of the Guangxi Bank, and other positions, was a devout Muslim, he had a daughter who was trained in the Guilin Women's Normal School, waiting to be married in the cabinet, and she was the protagonist we want to talk about today - Ma Peizhang.
Ma Peizhang is beautiful in appearance, very talented, in Guilin is a well-known beauty, and has a background of scholarly Mendi, naturally there are countless people to ask for marriage, but her father is very Muslim, insisting that her daughter must marry the Hui, so she has not married.
Fate seems to really care for Ma Peizhang, at this time Bai Chongxi appeared and became the best son-in-law candidate for Ma Jianqing, because Bai Chongxi not only had a promising future, the most critical point was that Bai Chongxi was also a Hui, so Ma Jianqing sent someone to take the initiative to say media. Such an excellent woman as Ma Peizhang, Bai Chongxi also felt particularly satisfied, so he agreed to the marriage.
On February 27, 1925, 22-year-old Ma Peizhang married 32-year-old Bai Chongxi and held a grand wedding ceremony according to the custom of Hui marriage. Bai Chongxi's mother was too old to attend the wedding, and Ma Peizhang returned to her hometown with her husband Bai Chongxi a few days later to see her mother-in-law for the first time.
But Ma Peizhang is very good to her mother-in-law, without the arrogance and arrogance of a rich lady, and is deeply loved by her mother-in-law. But the war in front of them did not "stop" because of the wedding of the two, a few days after the marriage, Liuzhou was in a hurry and needed Bai Chongxi's rescue, the husband and wife were separated in this way, not to mention the honeymoon, the stable days were not a few days, but Ma Peizhang did not complain at all.
Although Ma Peizhang was a "wife of an official" after marriage, she did not dress up and play all day like other wives of officials, on the contrary, she did not like to show her face, nor did she love vanity, nor was she as keen on politics as Mrs. Li Zongren, she was only willing to be Bai Chongxi's xiannai helper.
During this period, Ma Peizhang gave birth to two daughters for Bai Chongxi, and later due to the needs of the war, the two were separated for a long time, and Bai Chongxi gave birth to a son with a woman surnamed Wang outside, but Bai Chongxi did not hide it, but told the truth. Ma Peizhang, who knew the truth, did not cry and make a fuss, but calmly took some money to send away the woman surnamed Wang, leaving her son behind.
At this point, it can be seen that Ma Peizhang is very virtuous and intelligent, in that era men are heavy heirs, this son is Bai Chongxi's first son, naturally to stay around, and she also treats like her own child, so that Bai Chongxi is both guilty and loving to this wife.
After the two ended their long-term separation, Ma Peizhang gave birth to six sons for Bai Chongxi, she ran a big family by herself, and spoke at home with absolute weight, and Bai Chongxi had extra respect for her.
According to their son Bai Xianyong, "During the Northern Expedition and the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the mother took the whole family with her mother on several occasions, and the mother took a large number of people and horses with her —the oldest was the grandmother in her nineties, the youngest brother was under the age of 190, and more than eighty people fled to Chongqing with her mother. ”
Later, after the defeat of the Kuomintang, the family fled to Taiwan, and on December 4, 1962, Ma Peizhang died of hypertension in a hospital in Taipei at the age of 59, which brought a huge blow to Bai Chongxi, and it is said that the tears were almost never broken, which shows the depth of his feelings for him.