Zhou Zuoren’s Japanese wife, Yutai Nobuko, was not well suited to him. Yutai Nobuko came from a poor background and is said to be a Japanese maid, with little education and poor appearance. It’s not right for Yutaixinzi and Zhou Zuoren to not be in the same household, not only because of their different backgrounds, but also because of their different cultural levels. Moreover, Yutai Nobuki did not have an unparalleled beauty that could make people confused and infatuated, and did not love rivers and mountains and beauty.
One reason why Zhou Zuo wanted to marry Prince Nobuko was that his original family did not care for him. He found love in Prince Nobuko and was moved by him, so he decided to marry Prince Nobuko. Another reason was that he did not want to return to China and wanted to settle in Japan.
Zhou Zuoren had a great impression of Tokyo, Japan. He called Tokyo his second hometown. Tokyo is not only a bustling and beautiful big city, but the landlord and police are also very kind to Zhou Zuoren, not making him feel that foreigners are being bullied. At that time, Zhou Zuoren’s hometown Shaoxing was a small county town, very remote and backward. People wanted to settle in big cities, and Zhou Zuoren was no exception.
In addition, Zhou Zuoren has a bad impression of his native family. Not only does the family not love him, but his grandfather finds it difficult for him. Zhou Zuoren’s mother had five children (two of whom died of illness in childhood). Zhou Zuoren was raised by his stepgrandmother since childhood, and of course, he spent more time with his grandfather.
Zhou Fuqing, the grandfather of Zhou Zuoren, was a irritable old man. Zhou Fuqing was very unkind to Zhou Zuoren. Zhou Fuqing was sent to prison for a bribery case at the imperial examination. He asked his aunt, Pan Shi, to accompany Zhou Zuoren to prison. Of course, accompanying him to prison was not to sit in prison together, but rather to live in Huapailou with Zhou Zuoren by Aunt Pan, who visited the prison every two or three days.
After Zhou Fuqing returned home from prison, Zhou Zuoren’s life became even more difficult. Zhou Fuqing asked the teenage Zhou Zuoren to wear a long shirt and go to the vegetable market to buy his favorite dishes. At that time, wearing a long shirt to buy groceries at the market was just like wearing a suit and leather shoes to buy groceries at the market now, acting like a monkey, very strange. It was still very hot at that time, wearing a long shirt to go to the vegetable market to buy vegetables was really a difficult task.
Not to mention that, Zhou Fuqing asked Zhou Zuoren to go to the countryside to collect rent. This kind of dealing with people was not suitable for Zhou Zuoren, and encountering severe and difficult tenant farmers was even more troublesome. Zhou Zuoren is a scholar, so collecting rent is really a difficult task.
Zhou Zuoren, who had a bad impression of his hometown, family, and family, naturally wanted to settle in Tokyo, Japan. At that time, he was already in his twenties, and he naturally wanted to marry a daughter-in-law and settle down.
But how could a young lady from a foreign and prestigious family marry him? Firstly, I don’t know the details, and secondly, I don’t know if he has married in his hometown. If he returns to China, his wife will either stay in Japan and live separately; The wife either follows him back to China, away from their hometown relatives, and their lifestyle habits are also different.
Ladies of prestigious families naturally did not want to marry Zhou Zuoren. If Zhou Zuoren wanted to marry a wife, he could only marry a girl from a poor family. Coincidentally, Yutaixinzi showed great care for him, so he married Yutaixinzi.
After marriage, Zhou Zuoren wrote a letter to Lu Xun stating that he wanted to learn French in Japan. Lu Xun wanted Zhou Zuoren to return to work and support his family with him. But Lu Xun was a wise man. He did not advise Zhou Zuoren to return to China, but told Zhou Zuoren that his family’s fields had already been sold out and there was no money for him to study.
(Zhou Zuoren studied abroad in Japan for public expenses, which were paid by the Qing Dynasty. How could he still use his family’s money? Either Zhou Zuoren had to raise his wife during his study abroad, or he came from a young master’s background, and the living expenses provided by the Qing Dynasty were too small for him, so he needed some extra pocket money from the family.) Zhou Zuoren had no choice but to bring his Japanese wife back to his home country. Economy is a big problem, and using economic issues to argue is more useful than using big principles to persuade people. Zhou Zuoren’s plan was disrupted by economic issues and he was unable to settle in Japan.