The principal of Shanghai Middle and West Girls' School is a female missionary from the southern United States. She is about 40 years old and is particularly kind to Lin Zixuan, because of "Gone with the Wind".

This starts with the origin of Chinese and Western girls' schools.

The predecessor of Shanghai Zhongxi Girls' School was the Zhongxi Girls' School, and its founder was Lin Lezhi, a missionary in Shanghai by the Southern Methodist Church in the United States.

In 1890, the Supervisory Council approved the establishment of a female school in Shanghai, and Lin Lezhi and Hai Shude planned to establish a Chinese and Western girls' schools in Shanghai.

School officially started in March 1892, and the school system of Chinese and Western girls' schools lasted for 10 years. Although it claimed that it was "both Chinese and Western, and it was not biased", it was actually mainly based on Western learning, especially English.

The management of girls' schools is relatively strict, and the school-based system is adopted, and there is only one chance to go home every month.

Hai Shude, the first principal of the Chinese and Western Girls' School, is from the Southern American and graduated from Westlien College in Macon, Georgia.

After graduating from the Chinese and Western Girls' School, the three Song sisters all went to study in the United States, and the school they went to was Wislien College.

It can be said that American missionaries in Chinese and Western girls' schools are basically Methodists from the Southern United States and are all from the Southern United States. Lin Zixuan's "Gone with the Wind" tends to be southern society and naturally wins their favor.

Because of Lin Zixuan's relationship, "Gone with the Wind" is very famous in China.

Its English version has been sold to China long ago. Even if some Americans are not easy to buy, they can still read it through the "Popular Novel Weekly" of Vientiane Bookstore. Most Americans who can live in Shanghai know a little Chinese.

Lin Zixuan made an appointment before coming and met the principal directly.

In Shanghai, not everyone can study in Chinese and Western girls' schools. You either have a deep family background, have close relationships with the church, and have social celebrities to guarantee it.

Song Jiashu, the father of the three Song sisters, received Christ baptism in North Carolina, southern United States. People are used to calling him Charlie Song and also studied at the seminary of Vanderbilt University in Tennessee.

After returning to China, he preached in Suzhou, Shanghai and other places, and was a senior missionary.

This is one of the reasons why they can study in Chinese and Western girls' schools.

Lin Zixuan described Ruan Lingyu as his distant cousin. With the guarantee of the Lin family, there is no problem with his identity.

In fact, with the favorability Lin Zixuan has gained in the hearts of southern Americans, everything is easy to do if he comes forward.

There is a holiday in July for Chinese and Western girls' schools, and school officially starts on August 1st. Now it is time to have a holiday, and even if Ruan Lingyu enters, she will not take a few days of courses.

After discussing with Lin Zixuan, he first completed the admission procedures for Ruan Lingyu and came to school next semester.

After the main talks, the principal invited Lin Zixuan to give a speech at the girls' school.

In "Gone with the Wind", Lin Zixuan portrayed the image of Scarlett, a strong and independent woman, who is both a representative of Southern Americans and a representative of the entire American women.

The principal felt that Lin Zixuan could explain the significance of women's existence in social life from a male perspective.

There are no male students in the girls' school, but male teachers can be invited to class. Luxun teaches at Peking Women's Normal University.

Lin Zixuan has no problem with his speech. His speech at girls' schools was nothing more than talking about the topic of equality between men and women and liberation of women. This is a cliché. He is more willing to discuss this issue from a literary perspective.

In the afternoon, there were girls in the auditorium on the first floor of Jinglian Hall of the Chinese and Western Girls' School.

This auditorium is very luxurious, with more than a thousand seats, and it looks like a stage for a performance. It is here when the girls' school holds a large mass.

This time, Lin Zixuan finally enjoyed the admiration of girls, and of course he was also curious and inquiry.

His sister Lin Xiaoling is below, looking quite excited with a friend she knows.

Lin Zixuan has the experience of giving lectures at Fudan University and is not frightened.

He knows many of the girls below, almost including more than 70% of the women from wealthy families in Shanghai. It can be said that they are a concentration camp for white, rich and beautiful women.

The relationship network formed by these women after they get married will cover the entire Yangtze River Delta region.

He prayed first according to the rules of the church.

In church schools, religious rituals are the most important, including the Shanghai Hujiang University where Feng Chengcheng is located, and he has to pray before eating.

What he wants to talk about this time is eight words: self-esteem, self-confidence, self-reliance, and self-improvement.

Instead of giving a literal explanation, Lin Zixuan first talked about a novel called "Jane Eyre".

This is a novel published by the famous British female writer Charlotte Bronte in 1847.

Jane Eyre is a strong, simple, hard and soft woman, independent and enterprising woman.

She was humble from a humble background and had an ordinary appearance, but she did not feel inferior in this way. She despised the arrogance of the powerful and mocked their stupidity, showed a self-reliance and self-reliance personality and beautiful ideals.

Even in the developed industrial UK, the status of women has not changed and remains in a subordinate and dependent position.

A woman's survival goal is to marry into a wealthy family. Even if she cannot be born in a wealthy family, she must strive to gain wealth and status through marriage. The only choice for a woman's career is to be a good wife and a good mother.

This is very similar to China today. Students who attend Chinese and Western girls' schools are also able to marry into wealthy families in the future.

Jane Eyre's charm lies in her self-esteem and self-improvement, and what she pursues is a kind of true equality.

"Do you think that because I am poor, low, unbeautiful, and short, I have no soul or heart? You are wrong! I have a soul and a heart like you! If God has given me some beauty and a lot of wealth, I will make it difficult for you to leave me, just as I am difficult for you to leave you now."

Lin Zixuan talked in a general way and did not plan to talk too deeply.

Because he understood the following rich women and their future destiny. In this era, there were not many women who could truly be self-reliant and self-reliant, and he had not yet realized to be their life mentor.

If you encourage them to become stronger, leave their families, fight for freedom, or something, it may cause a tragedy and will undoubtedly harm them.

But he was unwilling to end it just like this. Perhaps one or two of these women would break through the shackles and set an example for the future liberation of women.

So, at the end, he recited a love poem.

If I love you, I will never be like a climbing trumpet, and I will use your high branches to show off myself;

If I love you, I will never learn from the infatuated birds, and repeat monotonous songs for the shade of green;

It is not just like a fountain, which brings cool comfort all year round;

It’s not just like dangerous peaks, increasing your height and setting off your majesty.

Even sunlight, even spring rain.

No, none of these are enough!

I must be a kapok near you, standing with you as the image of a tree.

The roots are tightly held on the ground; the leaves are touching each other in the clouds.

Every time the gust of wind passes, we greet each other, but no one understands our words.

You have your copper branches and iron trunks, like swords, and like halberds; I have my red flowers, like heavy sighs, and like heroic torches.

We share the cold wave, wind, thunder, and thunder; we share the mist, flowing mist, and rainbows.

It seems to be separated forever, but it is dependent on each other for life.
Chapter completed!