Marriage and Love Odd Cases: Stories from the "Great Lawyer of the East"

Author: Jie Hui
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Publish Date: 2005-08-01
Features: I believe after reading this book, readers will not only enjoy the wonderful and extraordinary love stories but also gain deeper legal knowledge about judging right and wrong in marriage, love, and family cases. This is indeed the essence of this book. The author and participants of this book also hope it can contribute to the kindness of society, the beauty of the human heart, and the improvement of happiness indexes. – Zhu Dajian, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Xinmin Evening News
I love my work so much, and as a woman, like all of you, I care deeply about marriage and love issues. If you need my help, I will care about your matters as much as I care about my own, even though it will take a lot of my time. But your happiness will increase my happiness, or rather, your happiness is my happiness. My website is www.fa995.cn, or you can tune your radio to AM792/FM89.9 to listen to the program "The Great Lawyer of the East" on Shanghai Eastern Radio, where I wait for you every day. – Host Jie Hui
Marriage, love, and family are the most important aspects of life for a person, closely related to everyone, and even connected to the size of one's career achievements, the level of happiness, and emotional fluctuations. The great poet Lu You wrote the famous poem "Hairpin Wind":
"Red-fleshed hands, yellow wine,
Spring colors fill the city walls with willows.
The east wind is fierce, love is thin,
A handful of sorrow, years of separation,
Wrong! Wrong! Wrong!"
This poem has been widely recited by those who have suffered from love's disappointments for thousands of years. The inspiration for the poem came when Lu You visited Shen Garden and unexpectedly met his former wife, Tang Wan, and her husband, Zhao Shicheng. He recalled the painful past when his mother disliked Tang Wan, leading to their forced separation. Overwhelmed with emotions, he wrote the poem on the spot, which became famous and passed down through generations.
Similarly, many have neglected national affairs and betrayed the greater good of their nation for love. The story of King You of Zhou playing with the beacons to entertain his favorite concubine, Bao Si, is utterly absurd. To win a smile from her, he lit the beacons used to signal enemy invasions, causing the loyal troops to mobilize, only to find no enemies. The joke backfired, and King You lost his throne and his head. The price of that laugh was too heavy.
Another example is Wu Sangui's "furious rage for a beauty," where he led the Qing army into Shanhai Pass to reclaim Chen Yuanyuan, leaving a legacy of infamy. Love can also make people abandon wealth and fame to live a simple life. Prince Edward of the United Kingdom married an American divorcee, willing to give up his throne for love. Love can even make people feel young again. Recently, the media widely reported the love story of Yang Zhenning and Wan Fan, an age-gap romance. It is said that the respected Yang Zhenning joyfully called Wan Fan a gift from God, bringing him back to youth.
These examples are well-known, showing that marriage, love, and family are indeed closely tied to one's career achievements, happiness levels, and emotional ups and downs. Moreover, the joys and sorrows, love and hate, reconciliation, conflicts, custody of children, division of property, care for the elderly, and tracing bloodlines in marriage, love, and family become the eternal themes of literature and art when intertwined.
Because marriage, love, and family play such a vital role in life, Xinmin Evening News' "Urban Stories" column and Shanghai Eastern Radio's "The Great Lawyer of the East" program collaborated again for the second edition of the "Urban Law Case" writing competition, focusing on the field of marriage, love, and family. The event quickly captured the attention of readers and listeners.
Twenty carefully crafted and moving stories almost encapsulate the core concerns of readers and listeners in this field. More strikingly, these stories, rich in content and depth, reflect the dramatic changes in marriage, love, and family caused by rapid economic development and social transformation in recent years. By reading these stories and the insightful analyses and debates by renowned lawyers and host Jie Hui, you can discern the of changes in our society's family, marriage, and love domains since the implementation of the market economy.
You will find that since our society adopted the market economy, traditional marriage, love, and family have been infused with more legal elements, moving beyond being solely governed by ethics and morality. This is the practical implementation of Jiang Zemin's advocacy of "governing the country by law combined with moral governance." Judgments in marriage, love, and family cases now rely more on legal tools. On the other hand, disputes in this field and judgments of right and wrong often result in financial compensation for the party that is reasonable and has suffered harm.
The key lies in how to apply the law and uphold public order and morality to judge the complexities of these cases and determine the right and wrong in love and family disputes. How should these extraordinary cases be judged according to the law? How should the injured and harmed hearts be compensated and comforted both financially and morally? This is the essence of this book.
I believe that after reading this book, readers will not only enjoy the fascinating love stories but also gain valuable legal knowledge about judging right and wrong in marriage, love, and family cases. However, this book also has a deeper value, which is the hope of the author and participants that it can contribute to the kindness of society, the beauty of the human heart, and the improvement of happiness indexes.
Furthermore, if you can better handle the family, marriage, and love issues you face, you will achieve greater success in your career, often remain in a positive and high-spirited emotional state, and thus live a happy, meaningful, and valuable life with a very high happiness index.