Gao Junyu

Born in Jingle County, Shanxi Province, he entered Peking University in 1916 and participated in the May 4 Movement of 1919.

[1][2] In the years before he died he had met the talented Marxist writer Shi Pingmei.

They would meet and eventually Gao Junyu divorced his wife, but his love was unrequited.

After Shi's early death her friend Lu Yin wrote a novel based on their love story named "Ivory Rings".

Gao Junyu and Shi's graves are a place of pilgrimage for young couples.