This is a 111-year-old old man, she has never been taboo, fat and desserts are more popular than young people, but she still lives a long life, and her life is also very charming, high heels, cheongsam, perfume, she lives a colorful life.
She is Yan Youyun, the first batch of female college students in Fudan, the school flower of Fudan, the wife of a diplomat, and the protocol officer of the United Nations.
1. Shanghai socialite
Yan Youyun was born in 1905, her grandfather and father were very famous and rich, her grandfather was a famous industrialist, and her father's business was also very good.
The ancestral home of the Yan family is in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, but Yan Youyun was born in Tianjin, which is due to the unique situation of that era.
Speaking of Yan Youyun's family, it is very large, Yan's father married two wives and gave birth to 12 children, Yan Youyun is the youngest.
Because of the huge family power, Yan Youyun has not lacked financial support since she was a child, and she has also received a very good education.
On the streets of Tianjin, the princess dresses that have just begun to become popular, Yan Youyun wears the latest style, and the word "princess" that was just popular in that era is Yan Youyun's daily life.
Because in addition to being favored, she was also arranged to learn a lot of social skills, Chinese studies, English, various piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, Yan Youyun is very proficient.
She was never a delicate parrot trapped in a cage, but a wild goose that could spread its wings and fly.
Around 1920, after Yan Youyun finished middle school in Tianjin, her father moved to Shanghai with the whole family to settle down, and Yan Youyun also came to study at Hujiang University at that time.
But this did not become the end of Yan Youyun, two years later, Yan Youyun transferred to Fudan, as the first batch of female college students at that time, Yan Youyun was greatly sought after, and she became the school flower of Fudan and gained a lot of suitors.
But Yan Youyun has always been unmoved, as the family has traveled to many places, the senior education that Yan Youyun has been exposed to has already made Yan Youyun have a strong heart, she is destined not to be easily moved by men, and those who can impress Yan Youyun's heart will definitely not be ordinary people.
In the two years of studying in Fudan, Yan Youyun saw a lot of men, and their family backgrounds were full of flowers, but in Yan Youyun's heart, they were all looking for their own family background and their own celebrity temperament, and there was never anyone who was really moved by Yan Youyun's soul.
Until she met Yang Guanglu, a man who was not touched by leaves like Yan Youyun.
The acquaintance with Yang Guanglu was at a dance party, Yan Youyun at that time did not know Yang Guanglu's background, but love is so wonderful, among many people in suits and leather shoes, Yan Youyun was moved by Yang Guanglu at a glance, and soon the connection between the two became closer, and Yan Youyun learned that Yang Guanglu also had a brilliant family background.
2. The Diplomat's Wife
At the age of 20, Yang Guanglu obtained a degree certificate from Tsinghua University, and then went abroad to study and obtained a doctorate from Princeton University.
After his work, Yang Guanglu was as good as ever, he was a diplomat in charge of foreign affairs on the mainland and the United States, and was also sent abroad.
Yan Youyun's choice to be with Yang Guanglu means that she has to leave the city where she has lived for a long time, leave her parents, and settle abroad with Yang Guanglu.
But the pain of parting with her parents did not stop Yan Youyun and Yang Guanglu from being together, and she still took Yang Guanglu home.
Yan Youyun's father is also very satisfied with Yang Guanglu, the youngest son-in-law, and they held a sensational wedding in a big hotel in Shanghai, and their love story and family background were also picked up by the media.
In the envy of the entire Shanghai residents, Yan Youyun packed her bags and left her hometown with Yang Guanglu.
Their first stop was London.
At that time, Yan Youyun was still living an upper-class life, and unlike the previous celebrity lady, she was a diplomat's wife this time.
During the days when she assisted Yang Guanglu in London, Yan Youyun took very good care of Yang Guanglu, she not only had a good relationship with the wives of other diplomats on the periphery, developed contacts for Yang Guanglu, but also took care of Yang Guanglu's body very healthily internally, so that he had enough energy to go to work every day to be responsible for diplomatic work.
Days like London, Yan Youyun and Yang Guanglu have lived a total of 8 years, but this period of time is not all beautiful, Yan Youyun once said that for a period of time, under the conditions of economic tension, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs could not pay salaries, and their consumption in London has not stopped, and at the moment of financial constraints, Yan Youyun also opened his mouth to his father.
But soon, Yan Youyun also changed her mind from a pampered eldest lady and rich wife, and she found that some wives who were in the same position as herself often took the initiative to come to Yan Youyun's home as guests.
At first, Yan Youyun felt that she was well-connected, and they were willing to be friends with her, and she was happy and happy to cook a hearty lunch for them.
But after the financial constraints, Yan Youyun found out that the purpose of their coming to Yan Youyun's house was always just for that lunch, and after understanding this, Yan Youyun no longer showed them mercy, and kicked them out of their homes at the right time and no longer provided lunch.
This is a growth of Yan Youyun, and after this growth, Yan Youyun ushered in a new challenge.
In 1938, Yan Youyun followed Yang Guanglu's footsteps to Manila, the capital of the Philippines.
In 1941, the Philippines was affected by the war, Yang Guanglu and the consuls of 6 diplomats swore to defend the diplomats to the death, and finally became prisoners and martyrs.
In fact, a United States official invited Yang Guanglu to flee with them on their plane, but Yang Guanglu refused, he did not abandon his wife and daughter, nor did he abandon the consulate he wanted to guard.
With the death of several diplomats, the families of diplomats led by Yan Youyun also lived a life of displacement, they moved out of their original spacious residences, and 44 women and children were huddled together.
In order to earn a living, pampered ladies learned to make their own soap, clothes, shoes, handkerchiefs, and other items, both for their own use and to sell them for money.
Fortunately, although it was hard, the diplomats' wives had their own skills and learned things quickly, so they could barely make ends meet.
In such a difficult life, Yan Youyun still carefully teaches her three daughters, who have all learned a unique spirit from their mothers, not tenacity in the face of danger, but the blandness of all life.
3. The secret of longevity
In the face of a rich life, Yan Youyun did not "pamper and be arrogant", she was not a big lady who squandered at will and ignored the suffering of the world, after the disaster, Yan Youyun did not give up on herself because of the difficulties of life, she always treated everything with an ordinary attitude.
In 1945, after the end of the Anti-Japanese War, Yan Youyun also returned to her motherland, but soon, because of her unique experience, she found another job, that is, a protocol officer at the United Nations.
From United Kingdom to the Philippines to United States, Yan Youyun has always treated all aspects of life with a plain attitude.
Around 1959, Yan Youyun, who had been single for almost 20 years, also started a new relationship, the other party was Gu Weijun, who was 20 years older than Yan Youyun and was once Yang Guanglu's boss.
But the moment they met in a social setting many years ago, it didn't lead to any sparks, and time flies, and it wasn't until middle age that the two came together.
Yan Youyun's three daughters have no opinion on their mother's choice, Yan Youyun is about to reach the age of retirement, and it is also excellent to have one more person to accompany her when she retires at home.
For Gu Weijun, Yan Youyun can give him great help in terms of spirit and life, under Yan Youyun's care, Gu Weijun lived to the age of 98, and Yan Youyun himself died at the age of 112 in 2017.
The relationship between Yan Youyun and Gu Weijun has actually been controversial, but after a hundred years of the greatest changes, who can tell the right and wrong in it.
In short, in the end, Gu Weijun and Yan Youyun lived very happily and healthily in their later years.
Maybe seeing this, many people think that Yan Youyun must be a health expert, so that her husband Gu Weijun and herself can have such a long lifespan, but in fact, Yan Youyun has never exercised, and she has never drunk the health care products that her daughter bought.
On the contrary, those fatty meats and desserts, which are very health-affecting foods in the eyes of young people, have become Yan Youyun's three meals a day, she never shies away from her love for desserts and meat, she eats whenever she wants, and never taboos.
But Yan Youyun does not have any adverse diseases caused by this kind of food, and any three high symptoms such as high blood pressure and high blood sugar do not belong to Yan Youyun.
As for what Yan Youyun's longevity secret is, it is actually a mood, and it can be seen from Yan Youyun's life path that whether it was in Tianjin as a child, or in Shanghai as a girl, including later becoming a diplomat's wife from United Kingdom to the Philippines, and then becoming an ambassador to the United Nations, Yan Youyun has always faced every period of life with a state of mind that does not fight or grab, as if everything is not as important as her happiness.
It is precisely because of this that Yan Youyun never takes anything to heart, she doesn't have any worries, and all her time is spent on experiencing life.
"Calm down, everything is a floating cloud" This is the secret of Yan Youyun's longevity.
Epilogue:
Yan Youyun's life trajectory chart reflects the turning points in her life, but she always faces everything with a peaceful attitude, which is very commendable, and it is precisely because of this that Yan Youyun can be wanton and chic in her old age, eat desserts, wear high heels, spray perfume, and live her life elegantly.