On the evening of January 19, 1942, at about nine o'clock, a frequently heard female star of film and drama, in the middle of winter air in her heart, went to the Shanghai International Hotel in the dim night lights.
She walked through the revolving door, and in the midst of the stream of light, she silently hid a hint of determination under her eyes.
In the past, female stars have played many roles of romantic pride and poignancy on the screen and stage; at this moment, she solemnly fills in the passenger registration book with the name that defines her personality and soul - "clean". (There is also the term "ganjie.") ）
It was a quality of life that had long since been stripped of her body and mind, and she had lost forever. Tonight, female celebrities will pay the price in the most extreme way, grabbing a lost possibility.
She decided to engrave these two words as the most authoritative sentence of her life into the impressions of those who were about to read her last sensational news.
In the face of the suspicious-eyed waiter, the female star instructed: "If I don't ring the bell, don't bother me." Then she took the old-fashioned hinged elevator where the movie star Egret fell, climbed to the tenth floor, and walked into room 708.
The | Shanghai International Hotel, which was known as the "tallest building in the Far East" in the 1930s
Half an hour later, the attendant outside the door asked her if she had touched a nose of ash during dinner. He was perceptive, and since the female guests entered the door, they had gone to the end, cold and obedient attitude, which stirred his alert nerves.
After several fruitless inquiries, he then found that the door was unlocked and could not be inspected. A strong and sinister intuition that gripped the servant's sense of responsibility.
At 00:30 on the 20th, he pried open Room 708. A smell of wine mixed with the inexplicable smell of old urine floated in the air.
The woman lying on her back on the bed spat white foam, and the cup at the head of the bed was a mixture of raw opium and spirits, and the strange smell of irritation was escaping from this deadly mixture...
There is a saying in the Republic of China: big smoke paste is wine, small life is not.
This is a poisoning scheme that uses alcohol to speed up blood circulation, combined with the toxicity of excessive raw opium alkaloids, forcing accelerated heart failure and respiratory central paralysis, and is the quickest way to escape pain.
The International Hotel immediately telegraphed the arrest room, and the woman who killed herself was sent to Baolong Hospital, where she was placed in a queue in the corridor to wait for treatment.
The unconscious drug addict was initially given a simple enema by the hospital as a "nameless female corpse from the hunting room", until the doctor on duty recognized the patient— she was Ying Yin, a female star of the Shanghai Beach film drama.
Pictured| Yingyin
Last year, Yingyin's performance of Cao Yu's drama "Peking People" at the Shanghai Drama Art Society was commended, which is another famous masterpiece in her drama career after "Wu Zetian" and "Sunrise".
However, in the same year, the unremarkable love film "Return to the Soul" stood out from a masterpiece, and because of its name incarnated into a vibrant rebuttal, it became a hotly discussed and lamentable talk in Yingyin's suicide.
Eleven days before Ying Yin was poisoned, on January 8, 1942, her lover Ping Zuren was shot by the infamous Wang Pseudo-76 at the execution site of North Zhongshan Road in Nanjing.
Ping Zuren was then the administrative inspector and economic commissioner of the Third District of Jiangsu Province of the Kuomintang, and his other identity was that of an underground anti-Japanese agent of the Kuomintang and the head of the Shanghai Intelligence Station against Japan.
Mr. Zheng Zhenduo, a writer who had worked with Ping Zuren, wrote in the article "Remembering Ping Zuren and Yingyin" in the "Records of The Scattered Houses":
"Ping Zuren suffered the capital punishment that human beings could endure, and even his thick hair was pulled off one by one by the executioners; his head was covered with blood... But he was always proud as usual, never revealing a single secret word, not a single secret piece of information. ”
Figure | some of the torture devices, tiger stools, etc. used in the torture room of Wang Fei No. 76
Eleven days after Ping Zuren's death, Ying Yin took care of the role of Chen Bailu in "Sunrise", who had played the role of "Sunrise", locked the hotel door and swallowed raw opium before the chickens chirped, before the sunlight penetrated the window...
The newspaper media continued the enthusiasm for Yingyin's recent scandals, reporting that she was "martyred for love".
It was not until the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression three years later that some wartime materials began to disclose some little-known case files, adding a new tragic background to this old story of "martyrdom":
In that year, there were seven major espionage reports in Shanghai involving Yingyin, several of which involved her disguised as a dancer or prostitute, lured Japanese and pseudo-japanese personnel to a predetermined secret location, and was executed by spy personnel, and 9 Japanese and pseudo-personnel were assassinated in the above-mentioned ways.
Ying Yin, formerly known as Ying Jieqing and Feng Zhen, was born in Beiping on March 28, 1916. Most of her biographical sources record that her father was Mr. Ying Zhizhi, who founded the Ta Kung Pao and Fu Jen University, and her mother was Aisin Kyora Shuzhong.
After research on Mr. Yingruocheng's autobiography "Water Flowing clouds", there is only one son Ying Qianli under the knee of Yingruo. Ying Yin is actually the daughter of Ying's brother, and the two are uncles and nephews, not father and daughter.
When Ying Yin's father was alive, he was an unemployed, good at wrestling, and often helped people fight to kill their lives. One night, he was stabbed to death by the enemy's knife, and the police did not investigate the murderer on the grounds that his life was low.
Pictured| Yingzhi and Ai Xinjue Luo Shuzhong
After his brother was killed, Yingzhi took on the responsibility of the head of the family, giving his four brothers and sisters a share of each family's real estate, and doing his best to support the Ying family, compensating for the damage caused by Yingyin's loss on multiple levels, mainly economic support.
At the beginning of 1931, when yingyin was fifteen years old, studying at The Hongda College in Beiping, it coincided with the Shanghai Mingyue Song and Dance Troupe of Li Jinhui, the "father of Chinese pop music", to perform in Beiping and openly recruit artists.
The young girl, who has been fascinated by song and dance drama since she was a child, went to apply for the examination and was admitted together with Bai Hong, who was later ranked as one of the "Seven Queens of Songs on the Beach". Since then, Yingyin has left the oppressive aristocratic family and gone to Shanghai alone.
She will witness an unprecedented national catastrophe in the most modern and prosperous metropolis in China in the early twentieth century, and some of the literary and artistic people she has contacted and admired in the apprenticeship will be in the literary and artistic position under the Japanese and puppet rule- how to speculate to make money, and even more to become a rebel in the war situation.
Ying Yin first joined the Lianhua Song and Dance Training Class, then transferred to the Mingyue Society, and the following year participated in the song and dance film "Basho Leaf Poetry", and the sixteen-year-old girl appeared on the screen. At that time, the Mingyue Society was in the limelight and proudly stood at the top of the Shanghai Song and Dance Group.
The picture | the practice room of the Mingyue Society
After the "918 Incident", under the unprecedented intensification of the national crisis, the Style of the Mingyue Society, which "under the sign of advocating the music of the people, sang lascivious minor tunes, and composed shallow and boring vulgar songs" continued.
Such a cumulative public resentment caused the members to withdraw one after another, Haoyue gradually faded, and although Lai Jinhui introduced western jazz reforms and was able to return to the light for a short time, the Mingyue Society was still completely dissolved in the third year of Yingyin's accession, in 1933.
The diaspora members of the Mingyue Society competed to join the development of the film circle. In 1934, Ying Yin and Bai Hong co-starred in the song and dance film "Bodybuilding" filmed by the Shanghai Film and Drama Company.
Dan Duyu, who has the name of "the originator of erotic films", is the boss of this company and the director of this film.
The introduction of the propaganda poster shows that this is a film that calls on modern women to get rid of the oppression of male power, strengthen their bodies, and contribute to the salvation of the country and the nation from degeneration.
"Bodybuilding" takes "the pre-requisite problem of women's center" as the propaganda slogan, and the speeches from the primitive era, the feudal era, and the modern moneyism era all the way to reveal that the image of women should be revived and renewed.
However, at the same time, it also focuses on promoting "the beauty of more than two hundred bodybuilding girls, the expression of the bottom of the force, the courage of the bottom of the work, and the innocent revealing of the hue for art" as a special point of view.
Picture | "Bodybuilding" promotional posters and stills
No different from the Mingyue Society, above the screen, the cheongsam bathrobe fades into a half-body dress, covering up the common name of flesh, beautiful and healthy, as always, selling the fragrant vision of the high split, using the armor robe that blows the revelation to save the country, but the bottom is vague and cheerful to dance the reverie of the old master.
However, Ying Yin, who is tall and well-formed, has to make a name for herself in the film industry with this film.
In 1936, at the age of twenty, Ying Yin joined the star film company of Zhang Ishikawa, the leader of the film industry at that time.
Pictured| Zhang Ishikawa and the actors of the Star Film Company take a group photo
The stars of this company are gathered, and Yingyin's personal light must not be highlighted. Although she has filmed many movies such as "New and Old Shanghai", "Feminism", "Xiaolingzi", "Qingming Season", "Begonia Red", "Life and Death Concentric", "Pressing The Year of Money", "Cross Street", "Flower of Society", "Qiankun in Dreams" and so on, she is mostly a supporting role.
Yingyin's natural and simple acting expression is often ignored by the public opinion circle under the judgment angle of "being able to make a play". At that time, although there was zero praise, it was not appreciated and sought after by the public as a distinctive collection of personal features.
The picture | part of the promotional materials for Ying yin's participation in the star film company
Years later, Zhao Dan, a contemporary film star who was awarded the title of "Emperor of Movies", commented pertinently when reviewing the movie "Cross Street":
Compared with a few famous singers and dancers including themselves, with a lot of contrived and overheated performances, Ying yin's slightly jerky and still needs to be demonstrated by predecessors is precisely better.
Pictured| Zhao Dan
Figure | Stills from Cross Street
I did not think that the "mediocre" interpretation of the supporting role on the screen in the past was laying a wonderful foreshadowing for Yingyin's future espionage career.
In June 1937, Ying Yin starred in the four-act drama "Wu Zetian" written by Song Zhi (dì) and directed by Shen Xiling.
During the selection process of the protagonist, Ying Yin finally won the selection after many twists and turns, but the heroine is still tentatively scheduled as an AB system. Corner B is yu dafu's niece, the painter Yu Feng, who borrowed the pseudonym "Wenjiao" at that time.
On the day of the premiere, Ying Yin finished the performance and applauded Bo Mantang and repeatedly returned to the scene to thank him. Originally supposed to be a B-corner rotation, the drama club decided to perform to the end by Ying Yin out of the lack of stage experience in the suburbs.
The historical drama, rehearsed by an amateur experimental theatre troupe, was a huge hit, and it was performed for two months at the Calden Theatre. The summer is sweltering, the costumes are layered, and each performance Yingyin ends in sweat. At the same time, the tight schedule of the show also made her voice have to accept the challenge of overload.
Picture | left: Shanghai Calden Theater on Pike Road Right: Stage stills from Wu Zetian
In view of the mediocre results in the film industry, in order to firmly stand on the rock point that is particularly important in the future of this drama, she does not dare to slacken off.
As expected, "Wu Zetian" made Ying yin hot in the drama industry. However, the situation is not satisfactory.
The "Lugou Bridge Incident" and the "August 13 Incident" broke out one after another, and the land of China entered a period of all-out War of Resistance.
On November 12, the three-month-long Battle of Songhu was defeated, and the National Revolutionary Army suffered more than 330,000 casualties, five times that of the Japanese army, and the Japanese occupied Shanghai. On November 20, the Nationalist government in Nanjing announced the relocation of the capital to Chongqing.
On December 13, Nanjing fell, and the Japanese army began a six-week long "Nanjing Massacre" in the city, killing more than 300,000 civilians and prisoners of war. At the same time, the semi-fallen Shanghai became an "isolated island".
In 1938, at the invitation of Ouyang Yuqian, Yingyin starred in the concession of Chen Bailu, a courtesan flower in Cao Yu's drama "Sunrise" planned by the Blue Bird Drama Society, which was also well received.
Later, Ying yin cameo in "La Traviata", and also accompanied one of the thirteen rescue drama teams, traveling to Suzhou, Wuxi, hankou, and rushing to the rear. At the end of the year, Wang Jingwei publicly published "Yandian" and surrendered to the enemy and treason.
Photo | Left: Osaka Mainichi Shimbun report on Yandian Right: Wang Jingwei and Top Class A war criminal Hideki Tojo
In Chongqing, Yingyin participated in several dramas such as "Under the Eaves of Shanghai", "Long Live the Nation", and "Residual Fog". After the dissolution of the troupe, she joined the Chinese film studio that had moved with the Nationalist government to undertake the propaganda work of resisting Japan and saving the dead.
Even under the warning of the air raids in the mountain city, Ying Yin did not neglect her life. She is not assimilated by the simple picture of the poor around her, nor does she care about the gaze of others.
According to the memory of actress Qin Yi, who once lived in the same dormitory, Yingyin got up in the morning to make coffee, fried eggs, wore a cheongsam with flowers and branches, and was surrounded by pearls.
She regards Qin Yi as a little sister and sincerely guides and helps her in acting and communication. Treat poor friends like a hero, sometimes entertaining, sometimes sending some daily necessities imported from the United States.
Although people have objections to Yingyin's lifestyle and dress, they are quite unanimous when it comes to her rather chivalrous and straightforward personality.
Ding Zhi, an actress who had performed with her in "Sai Jinhua" and "Return to the Soul", recalled: "Ying Yin is straightforward, enthusiastic, and chivalrous. In short, she is the representative of a full northern girl. ”
Pictured | the cover of an album photographed by Yingyin
A friend commented on Yingyin:
Ang Angran is like a Yanzhao boy, thinking about the sake of either the northerners, or living a wandering life for a long time, she is not hypocritical, what she thinks in her head, what she says in her mouth, she does things with pleasure, and she does not know how to explain the word "scruple".
Regarding the unscrupulousness of words, a close friend of Ying Yin once recounted a clip from a summer night party:
"Because I'm from the South, she (Yingyin) couldn't understand my 'Lanqing dialect,' and suddenly, she interrupted me and said, 'If I roll my head with you, I'll have to ask for an interpreter between the two of you,' and everyone couldn't even bend their waists up with laughter."
The word "bitch" in the joke does not come true, entertaining a gossip in Yingyin's reality.
According to Qin Yi's recollection, for a while, rumors spread about Yingyin's love affair with the owner of Shanghai Maxim's Restaurant, and he was a husband with a wife.
Ying Yin showed her some of the letters they had exchanged, and the words on the paper had been blurred by tears. At that time, Ying yin could not sleep peacefully at night, and often borrowed cigarettes to dispel her sorrows.
Pictured| Qin Yi
Qin Yi somewhat sensed a little of her guilt for not wanting to hurt others, as well as the confusion of not being able to deal with herself, and occasionally asked, and Yingyin said: "The pain I have experienced, you little girl will not understand." ”
One day, Ying yin received a letter from the boss's wife, which instead of writing and writing ink, politely praised Ying Yin's beauty and famous flowers, and pleaded with Ying Yin to take care of her two children and cut off her love and release her.
After reading it, Ying Yin burst into tears. After the lights went out that night, she leaned back on the bed and kept one cigarette after another in the dark. Qin Yi was worried that she was too damaging to her health, but her words of persuasion to sleep made her mistakenly think that it was a smokey choke, so she got up and went outside the house.
It seems that after ending this relationship, Ying Yin met Ping Zuren in Chongqing, who is also a married person, and the two fell in love at first sight.
This is the kind of child-drama love that her acting mentor Lai Kam-fai most dislikes, and it is clear that the students have not inherited a cautious attitude towards feelings and self-discipline in moral constraints.
The southern close friend's enthusiasm for Ying Yin's enthusiasm for the ending direction also seems to have been predicted:
"Ying yin, she is very enthusiastic, which is her good, but also her bad. Many friends worried about her like this, afraid that one day her enthusiasm would burn or burn herself. ”
Pictured | Yingyin photographed the inner page of the album
However, the encounter between Ying Yin and Ping Zuren does not only develop into a simple love. Ping Zuren did not hide the identity of the head of her Shanghai intelligence station against Japan, but instead recruited her to carry out underground intelligence collection and transmission.
This is one of the widely circulated narratives about the connection between the two of them like lovers and comrades-in-arms.
The daughter of the poet and publisher Shao Xunmei, Shao Xiuhong, in another chapter of Yingyin's Story, puts forward an earlier and more secretive speculation about the time when Yingping met:
In 1938, Shao Xunmei invested in the "British Night" founded by Weng Piping and Chu Dongjiao, an anti-Japanese comrade who was still active in the "isolated island", and used foreign signs to evade Japanese censorship.
In the case of frequent bullets and threatening letters from the head of the newspaper, the newspaper insisted on publishing articles against the Japanese and the fake, and Ping Zuren was the economic supporter behind it.
At that time, the Shanghai Concession had not yet fallen, and Shao Xunmei persuaded her friend Xiang Meili (American female writer Emily Hahn) to lend her a back room on the upper floor of xiafei road residence, and to settle in a three-person spy team carrying a transmitter.
Photo | Left: Shao Xunmei Right: Emily Hahn
Although the north room is hidden, it is difficult to completely hide the movement of the transmitter.
One day, Xiang's beautiful friend, Malco Smith, the deputy chief of the British Concession Police Department, was drinking tea downstairs when he suddenly asked, "Is your radio on?" It was as if someone was driving a short wave. Xiang quietly turned on the radio and hurried upstairs to warn the people in the back room.
After Xiang Meili went downstairs, she learned from Malco that the Japanese had long concluded that there was a transmitter in the concession and were trying to use a triangulation meter to pinpoint it.
Marko's hasty presence and the Japanese's vigilant actions caused the spy team to lose confidence in the safety of the house and move away a few months later. When they were leaving, they told Xiang Meili that they would migrate so often that japanese ghosts could not be caught.
Years later, Xiang Meili could not say the names of the spy team members, and based on her trust in Shao Xunmei's political views, she did not bother, only when she first saw the newspaper, she intuitively felt that they were in contact with Chongqing.
Shao Xiuhong's brother, Shao Zucheng, recalls and firmly believes that the guerrillas who were settled in the Xiang family by his father in those years were "Ping Zuren, who was the representative of the Kuomintang Jiangsu Province." ”
Shao Xiuhong synthesized information and made a prediction: The woman in the spy group, I don't know if there is Yingyin?
Picture | Stills of "Qingming Season" Ying Yin (middle)
In that year, a periodical reported that Ying Yin went to a private English school every day from 10:00 to 11:00 a.m. to study, and often held a dressed book in and out.
At the same time, comparing Qin Yi's impression of Yingyin's beautiful dress, the reporter who interviewed Yingyin added an image that is difficult for outsiders to glimpse: unless the performance, Yingyin rarely wears a bright and touching cheongsam on weekdays, and rarely wears makeup, which is pure and simple.
On Xiafei Road, does Yingyin often walk through Xiang's beautiful house and stand side by side with Ping Zuren in front of the transmitter? Now the clues are no longer exhaustive.
To Tu Guangqi, the director of the same sister and brother, Yingyin only said that she and Ping Zuren met in Chongqing.
On September 1, 1939, Germany blitzed Poland; on September 3, Britain and France declared war on Germany, and World War II broke out in full swing; on September 5, the Wang puppet regime established a secret service organization in Shanghai, set up at 76 Jisfer Road, which would kill Pingzuren two years and four months later.
This year, Ying Yin starred in Chongqing in the Production of China Film Studio, He Feiguang's "Protecting hometown", a film that exposed the evil deeds of the Japanese invasion of China, during which she was too devoted to her performance, and when filming the scene of the knife fighting with the Japanese officers, she was accidentally cut by the opponent actor.
After filming "Protecting Hometown", at the end of 1939, near the New Year, Yingyin's whereabouts in Chongqing became a mystery, but in 1940, she appeared in Shanghai.
Outside discussion and speculation are boiling over, one saying that she lives a luxurious life and is unwilling to endure the hardships of Chongqing's environment; the other is that she was robbed of the role of the heroine of "Plugged in the Wind" by Li Lili, so she ran away in a negative mood without complying with the rules.
The most popular thing is to suspect that she is obsessed with it and returned to Shanghai in order to chase a lover.
Picture | "Film Weekly" reported that Ying Yin returned to Shanghai
Mr. Zheng Yongzhi, the director of the prestigious Chinese Film Studio at that time, issued a statement in response: "Ying Yin's action is romantic, and the Chinese production has been expelled. ”
This statement seems to add strong support to the "love run". Newspapers in Chongqing, Hong Kong, and Shanghai reported that Yingyin was eloping for love.
Either defending herself or covering up her eyes, Yingyin said that she flew from Chongqing to "an isolated island" through Hong Kong through the invitation of the film industry wu shengzhi.
In 1940, Ying Yin did star in "Sai Jinhua" produced by the United Press Film Company, which was based on the story of "Peiping Famous Prostitute Sacrifice Hue for the Country", and praised the theme of "the greatness of a weak woman under the pressure of a strong neighbor".
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the famous prostitute Sai Jinhua, it was rumored that in order to save the lives of the people of Beijing, she did not hesitate to dedicate herself to the commander of the Eight-Nation Alliance, Wadsi, who knew the advantages and disadvantages of righteousness, and relied on her blessings to save more than 10,000 Beijingers from being destroyed. ”
Later, many contradictory events confirmed that Vadersi had no contact with Sai Jinhua, and that the "lady of the troubled world" praised by some literati was actually a snake and scorpion woman who had repeatedly gone to the sea by performing marriage and clinging to the powerful, forcing the death of the prostitute at hand, and opening her mouth to the author who wrote for her.
The chinese territory is full of smoke, and the screen is singing and lamenting the untruthful wind and dust women. Many production companies once favored the tortuous life story of writing and showing the awakening of the consciousness of women who have lost control, as if women can only grow a straight backbone if they lose their virginity.
Picture | stills and posters of "Sai Jinhua"
The deviation or fallacy of the historical narrative does not prevent the film company from using bright color gimmicks to attract the audience, and "Sai Jinhua" is still as popular as expected, and Yingyin's fame has increased greatly.
On March 30, 1940, Wang Jingwei's "puppet Republic of China National Government" was established in Nanjing, and this political group supported by the Japanese was completely reduced to a tool of the Japanese invasion of China.
In the inaugural issue of Happy Forest Weekly in February 1946, editor Hu Li wrote in the article "The Secret of The Love of Yingyin Pingzuren" that the opportunity for Yingping and Ping to meet was after Yingyin returned to Shanghai from Chongqing.
One summer night in 1940, Ying Yin's apartment on Spicy Fei De Road suddenly came to two guests, an old man and a young man, the old man was Zhao Zhiyou, and the young man was Ping Zuren.
Ping Zuren, graduated from Jinan University in Shanghai, a native of Hunan, speaks Shanghainese and enters the suit.
Zhao Xiangying introduced and explained that Ping Nai came to see her and wanted to use her status as an artist to covertly assist in doing some underground work.
Ping Zuren's attitude is serious, his appearance is noble, coupled with noble motives, Ying Yin first saw him, he was sharply favored by twelve points; at the same time, Ping was also fascinated by her abundance, straightforwardness, and typical northern daughter style, and the conversation between the two for half an hour was very speculative.
After that, in addition to Yingyin's performance, under the cover of the Changfeng Troupe organized by Zhao Zhiyou, he began to frequently participate in the underground anti-Japanese work led by Ping Zuren, and once he received information, he immediately agreed on a location and reported it in person. There are cafes and bars on Xiafei Road, Gujiazhai Park, and some quiet and secret places.
Pictured| article of The Jolly Forest Weekly on February 2, 1946
"People are not grass and trees, who can forget their feelings for the Taishang." It is the editor's gentlest defense of the story's extramarital affairs in the story in the mood of praising patriotic deeds.
The ambiguous relationship between the two must not stand up to moral judgment. By the standard of public order and good customs, Ying Yin's love anecdotes will be indicted that she is the destroyer of the marriage order.
At this point, we will focus on the key thrust of the awakening of the sense of resistance of a wartime woman in the incident.
In a deviant relationship, Ying Yin is inspired and guided by the lovers, seemingly assisting each other's work driven by enthusiasm, but in fact, they jointly aim at the national goal of resisting the invaders in the depths of the fog of the traitors.
In the case of being at the upper echelons of the social class and having abundant living materials, Yingyin's will to act does not come from the level of individual resistance to the oppression of survival, but in the act of love, through participation and insight, the essence of the struggle belief in guarding the life of the nation is gradually born, and the duty of annihilating the enemy is not limited to slogans.
Picture | stills of "Life and Death Together" Ying Yin (third from the right)
In Zhu Jilin 's (owner of nanshi electric power company, uncle Ma Xiangbo is the founder of Fudan University), Zhu Zhaohe's recollection materials learned that in that year, Yingyin and Ping Zuren, two spy lovers, chose the Zhu family, which included half of Shaoxing Road, as their secret contact point.
The fourteen sons and daughters of the Zhu family and dozens of grandchildren, all of whom believe in Catholicism at the request of Zhu Jilin, deliberately set up a church in the home, and the family members included godfathers, choirs, and bands. Influenced by the Western music of the French church school, the Zhu family formed China's first family jazz band.
The Zhu family has always been hospitable, every Western festival, the birthday of the family to hold a party, coupled with this family band attracted the French Concession at that time Sweden, the United States, the Soviet Union jazz enthusiasts have joined, looking at a faction of youth, the performance frequently poured out all sentient beings, in shanghai young generation is very popular, every time the celebrities gathered.
Ping Zuren appears at the Zhu family every Sunday morning, and Yingyin visits at about the same time every time, because the band rehearsal on Sunday morning is a fixed schedule for the Zhu family.
At that time, Shanghai was full of people around:
Western powers and Japan on the division of future interests in China;
Extraterritorial jurisdiction between the great powers and the Kuomintang government and the Wang puppet regime;
Japan and the Concession on the powers of the Ministry of Works;
Japanese army and National Name Party guerrilla organization on suburban territory;
There are many controversies among local and foreign gangs in the underworld about the control of hooligans.
And the fierce competition that unfolded.
In addition, Kuomintang agents and Wang puppet government agents hunted the most bloodiest areas in areas controlled by banks, newspapers, and courts.
On the one hand, the military command headed by Dai Kasa organized the Loyal National Salvation Army and assassinated Wang puppets and pro-Japanese elements; on the other hand, the Headquarters of Agent Seventy-Six set up by Wang Fu to screen and eliminate institutions and personnel with Kuomintang colors.
The writer Chen Danyan once wrote: "At that time, in Shanghai, there seemed to be assassinations at any time. ”
Photo | Yingyin photo taken by Shanghai Liangyou Photo Company
In early 1941, Zhu Zhaohe witnessed an assassination in which the protagonist was Ping Zuren.
One Sunday morning, at the gate leading to Shaoxing Road in zhujia garden, when Ping Zuren was about to get off the bus, two assassins suddenly rushed out of the alley of Jingu Village opposite him and shot at him at the same time.
After the storm, Ping Zuren opened his coat to Zhu Zhaohe to show the assassin's marksmanship —one gun hole in the left pocket and two gun holes in the right hem. He ridiculed the gunmen sent by the enemy as crappy goods, and he sneaked around and they were not sure.
Zhu said, "Uncle Ping, Nong's ability is really great, and I admire Nong." ”
Ping ze laughed and said, "This is really called escape from death." ”
Whether it was Xiang Zhai, who was fortunate enough to leave Xiafei Road, or the Zhu family, who was born on Shaoxing Road, Ping Zuren was always scorning the enemy's hypocrites: he could not be caught, he could not be hit.
However, on top of a corner of the "evil soil", bombing and assassination, and working together to encircle and suppress the anti-Japanese forces, their blood and light are surging and even if the god of luck is lucky, it is difficult to escape the long-term pursuit of the enemy's pseudo-devil's claws.
At noon on April 15, 1941, Heizujin, along with his wife Rosie Hong, who was pregnant with Rokko, was arrested by the Special High Branch of the Headquarters of the Japanese Gendarmerie and imprisoned at No. 76 Toshiro Phil Road. (There is also an account that Ping Zuren was arrested at Young-in's home.) ）
Shocked to learn the news of the arrest of Ping Zuren and his wife, Yingyin rushed to the Ping family, which rented a hall in Yuyang Lane on Huaihai Road, to settle the forgotten children. Worried, she once revealed to the hostess of the Zhu family that she was going to visit Ping Zuren.
Figure | Ying yin
In the seventy-sixth, Mrs. Ping was imprisoned in a high-level bungalow and gave birth to a baby during her detention; Ping Zuren was placed in a detention center, where he was initially convicted of a minor offense, retaining a certain limit of free range of activities and being able to walk outdoors every day.
Ping Zuren took advantage of these opportunities not only to widely enlighten and recruit supporters among the political prisoners and thieves he was also imprisoned with, but also to lobby and win among the guards, thugs, and executioners of the Seventy-Sixth, and to persuade people to abandon the dark and turn to the light.
In prison, Ping Zuren did not divulge secrets, but gave full play to his organizational talents and carried out covert work on the spot.
Outside the prison, concerned about the involvement of Ping Zuren's identity, the comrades on the underground front were inconvenient to act rashly; those who had contacts in the past were even more worried about bringing disaster. Only Ying Yin actively moved the magnates for him and tried to find a way to bail.
At the same time, Yingyin not only starred in three films, "Children of the World", "Return to the Soul", and "Meat" (also known as "Spirit and Flesh"), but also rehearsed and performed for the drama "Beijinger". Behind the scenes of the great acclaim of "Beijinger" is the realistic scene where the heroine is anxiously running for her lover.
Picture | the last three films starring in Yingyin's life
The exertion of labor at both ends caused her to fall ill during the performance, from hoarse throat to a single hemoptysis, and after a week of recuperation, the trip continued.
From 1937 to 1941, the epidemic in Shanghai was the most rampant in history. As many as twelve infectious diseases, including cholera, plague, smallpox, diphtheria, malaria, scarlet fever, and rabies, are harvesting the lives of "isolated islands" in a frenzy.
Under the statistical conditions of undercurrents as the norm, the incidence rate at the peak can reach 21.216/100,000, and the mortality rate is 565/100,000. Inside the city, the streets are strewn with corpses, and the waters are rotten and foul.
In cities where the regime is wrestling so much that it is chaotic, the magnates of the world above and below the surface collude with each other to turn the government's smoking ban into toilet paper, and openly organize the manufacture and sale of drugs that can lead to the destruction of the country.
The British writer Paul French once wrote: "As long as the city stands on both sides of the Huangpu River, drugs will flow along its veins." ”
Under the blue sky, the poor, in the encirclement and suppression of war, hunger and disease, mixed brown sugar in the opium of the past life as the sweet guillotine, scrawled corpses in the ditch, confessed their fate and willingly became the loser of all the negotiable levels.
The upper echelons of the social class are committing legal crimes and the bottom layers are being brutalized in violation of the law, and these absurd and cruel real historical pictures are not only the marginal spatial outlines of the rule of law society, but also the out-of-control lesions of the human survival order.
Picture | stills from "Children of the World"
Weak to this point, the letter of persuasion that the Japanese fighters airdropped in Nanjing seemed to be sown in Shanghai in equal quantities.
Twelve large Shanghai film production companies that were "Zhao'an" were merged to form the "Pseudo-China United Production Co., Ltd.", under the guidance and guidance of the Japanese pseudo:
Or, in the name of "fraternity, peace, and common prosperity," blatantly advocating good deeds for the enemy and falsehood, confusing the people, reversing the original intention of resistance, and taking the lead in the ideological war of Japanese imperialism;
Or shoot horror, perverted, pornographic stories, through sensory stimulation, drag the audience more and more into the evasion and numbness of the miserable living conditions of real civilians.
In the chaotic and turbulent times, in the depressed and weak land, in the face of the barbaric occupation of the living space of our people by foreign countries and the extreme plundering of the right to survive, the tribesmen should have struck a clear resistance to the tactics of paralysis and foolishness: either to strengthen their ideals of battle in the midst of obscurantism and slavery, or to restrain their materialistic desires and reverse their personal consciousness of selfishness.
However, the propaganda apparatus, which carried a huge amount of loudly, did not sound the charge trumpet for the soldiers at the turning point of the national survival, but became a rebel on the battlefield.
The turning point in Ping Zuren's life and death after his imprisonment was mentioned in the writer Gao Yang's book "Pink Ink Spring and Autumn Wang Jingwei":
Originally, according to the precedent of No. 76, the maximum danger period for detainees was three months, and if they were not executed within three months, there was no danger to their lives, and they could be released on bail in the future.
The picture | the original site of the headquarters of Agent Wang Pseudo-76
The degree of life and death of prisoners can also be predicted from the gesture of a dumb laborer. One day, this dumb man who dug a hole for the Zhongshan Road Execution Ground returned, bringing the news that one person would be executed, it was Ping Zuren!
It turned out that Li Shiqun of the seventy-sixth number believed that Ping Zuren was an economic commissioner of the Third Theater and must have a large amount of funds and materials in his hands, so the lion's mouth was wide open and asked for 400,000 US dollars.
As for the supplies, Ziping's arrest has been transferred elsewhere. Later, these supplies, which passed through the hands of Pingzuren, were embezzled by the seventy-sixth insiders by unknown means. In order to extinguish his mouth, Ping Zuren, who originally sinned not to death, had to die.
On December 7, 1941, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, the Pacific War broke out, and the United States declared war on Japan; on the 9th, the government of the Republic of China officially declared war on Japan.
In the middle of winter, Ping Zuren painted a frame of plum blossoms, with the inscription: Count the plum blossoms in heaven and earth; led by him, the comrades who were drawn together to unite signed it, hoping to send the calligraphy and painting to Dai Kasa, the leader of the military command.
This move was proposed by Li Shiqun as a crime of "intending to rebel", reported to Wang Jingwei for approval, and on January 8, 1942, Ping Zuren was killed on Zhongshan North Road in Nanjing.
Pictured| Li Shiqun
Before being shot, Ping Zuren was tortured, but unfortunately, the full text of Mr. Zheng Zhenduo's details of his capital punishment and cruelty, "Remembering Ping Zuren and Yingyin", was withdrawn when it was republished in the "Records of The Scattered Records of The Hidden House", which wrote:
"Mr. Pingzuren, with his fearless courage, stepped forward to save them. No one has ever been unhappy because of him. ”
The news of Ping Zuren's death announced that all the efforts and sacrifices made by Yingyin for his survival were in vain.
From Ping Zuren's imprisonment to his imprisonment, for eight months, under the situation that his relatives and friends disappeared and his death and life gradually became mob, only Ying Yin tirelessly accompanied the magnates to inquire about the news and try to rescue him.
It was rumored that earlier, when the "five-fold spy" Yuan Shu had just become a military commander, she had a bland reaction at a gathering of political dignitaries and celebrities. Yuan Shu's offer of a guest was also rejected, so he laughed at himself and asked for a big shelf star.
Ying Yin was jealous of his identity and asked Yuan Shu back to show his friendship. However, Yuan Shu's actions were frivolous, and he even borrowed wine to lie in the Ying family, and his actions were wanton and debauched. Ying Yin was hindered by the love face and secretly swallowed, and there were still several exchanges after that.
Soon, Yuan Shu became the director of the Pseudo-Education Department of Jiangsu Province, and Yingyin helplessly joined the list of Shanghai female writers he invited to visit Suzhou under his obvious interest.
However, Yingyin's trip, after being coldly received by Yuan Shu and her misreading of the female writer Su Qing's ridicule of Yuan Shu, believed that "the man with green leaves and beautiful people lining the red flowers" ended in a satire on herself climbing the magnate and returning to Shanghai alone with sadness.
When Ping Zuren was arrested, Yingyin remembered that Yuan Shu had a great friendship with Li Shiqun, the leader of the Seventy-Sixth, so she took the initiative to contact Yuan Shu, and after receiving a promise to rescue Ping Zuren, she was indignantly committed.
A few days later, Yuan Shu's promise of soap bubbles was punctured, which was just a trick for him to hunt yan.
Figure | Yuan Shu
The bad news that Ping Zuren was shot came, and it was conceivable that Ying Yin was in the middle of a sunny thunderbolt, and how sharp the pain in his heart should be. Her plans and hopes were completely dashed and vanished.
But she quickly restrained her mourning and forced her composure, and in order to avoid the clue that Ping's relatives and friends and comrades would become Japanese puppets, she went alone to collect The body of Ping Zuren's blood-covered chest, hired someone to carry it to the funeral home, sewed the gun hole in his head, and sorted out the remains.
Subsequently, Yingyin came forward to raise some money in the film and drama circles, and buried Ping Zuren in the Hongqiao Cemetery, and the rest of the money was given to his widow for future living expenses.
What was not known to outsiders at that time was that Ying Yin relied on the wish of "finally being with the same cave" as a spiritual pillar, and when she bought The cemetery of Ping Zuren, she also bought a piece for herself next to it.
Who is a confidant? That's it. The krypton is a different room, and the death is the same cave; to be married to him is a confidant. That's probably how she planned the afterlife.
In order to thank the credits of the United Press Film Company for their help in the aftermath of Pingzuren, Young-in hosted a feast at home.
It had been a week since Ping Zuren had been killed, and she lightly expressed her view of life and death: "People say that it is better to die than to live. In my opinion, it is better to live than to die. When a man dies, all things are pure, and he no longer has to suffer spiritual suffering. ”
Examining life and death in the sad afterglow of a funeral is taken as a common human condition. This hindsight was full of tricks, not noticed by the people present at the time, and even more so, it was a warning that this was a precursor to her self-destruction.
Even Tu Guangqi said to Yingyin at the beginning of Ping Zuren's arrest: "In case of an accident one day, I will definitely do my best to do things for you." She replied, "You will definitely do this for me when the time comes." ”
Tu Guangqi | figure
In a word. When Tu Guangqi rushed to Baolong Hospital, Yingyin's condition was terrible.
He asked to transfer her to a first-class ward, but his request was rejected because he did not bring cash. It wasn't until the doctor on duty identified the two and vouched for the German caretaker, but it was too late.
Rushing to accompany her was her girlfriend Li Yan, and the two shared an apartment and were very friendly.
Yingyin's belongings: a coat, a ring, one hundred and eighty dollars and a watch. According to the suicide note, the watch was reserved for this Miss Li.
The contents of Yingyin's suicide note circulate in two versions:
First, a reporter signed "Too Virtual" in the "Declaration", in the follow-up report of the visit, mentioned that when Yingyin was sent to the hospital, the suicide note left on the table of room 708 of the International Hotel was temporarily stored in the arrest room.
It is said that the recipient of the suicide note was Miss Li Yan, which began with "Dear Words" and the text reads:
"I am sick, I have become a wasted man, left in the world, useless, so I need to rest all the time." After my death, please borrow five thousand gold from my company Mr. Lu, one thousand gold for his family, and four thousand gold for funeral treatment..."
This content was further confirmed in the article of Li Yan in the "Shanghai Film News" published that year.
Li said: "Because her body was too bad in the past, she could not withstand the torment of illness, and when she played "Beijinger", she both coughed up blood and suffered from extreme heart failure. She is often pessimistic about her body, and perhaps a little touched recently, she has adopted this unwise method..."
Regarding Yingyin's health, actress Ding Zhi and reporters who have interviewed Ying at different times have heard her cry out in pain and list a body of illness.
However, Ying Yin's conclusion that she could not bear the pain and devastation of illness and ended her life was not entirely believed.
The figure | the "Declaration" to report on Yingyin's suicide
Twenty-four hours before receiving the news of Yingyin's suicide, the reporter Tai Xuancai had a brief chat at the door of Ying's house, and in his opinion, even if Yingyin showed him the doctor's prescription at that time, the look she showed was by no means a sign of imminent self-harm.
In view of Ying Yin's suicide note, accompanied by a phone call from Lu Jie, the director of United Production, another more popular suicide note reads:
"Mr. Lu:
I'm because...
Can't help but take a general break, I have twenty thousand yuan in your place, as my medical funeral expenses, I think it may be enough. ”
Compared with Ying Yin's words of being young but killing herself for a chronic disease for many years, the violent death of her lover Ping Zuren eleven days ago makes this obscure last word far more popular than the previous version.
For the "I because..." can not be explained later, the media and the people who heard the news, there are three types of romantic and tragic interpretations:
First, Mr. Du Yunzhi, a Taiwanese film historian, said in the book "Seventy Years of Chinese Cinema": Yingyin did not hesitate to sacrifice herself and committed herself to Yuan Shu, and as a result, Ping Zuren was still shot, and Yingyin both regretted the tragic death of her lover and was ashamed to be deceived and lost her body, so she committed suicide and martyrdom.
Second, Hu Li, editor of Happy Forest Weekly, said that when Yingyin was in prison, she knew that Ping Zuren was more fierce and less fortunate, and she decided to commit suicide and martyr her friends under the impulse of "a soldier who dies for a confidant".
Third, it is rumored that after Ping Zuren's death, Li Shiqun had already discovered the identity of Yingyin's spy personnel, and when she was preparing to leave Shanghai, she knocked on the side: "Still stay here comfortably, why can't you think about it?" ”
When Ying Yin learned that her identity was exposed, she was worried that the Japanese would investigate, and even comrade Zhu Lian, but she was afraid that she would not be able to withstand the torture after being imprisoned. She then decided to cut herself off, and her last words were also vaguely explained, Lu Jie would understand, and the suicide note would be burned after reading it.
Although her friends prayed for Ying Yin outside the ward, she remained unconscious, silently passing a sunrise sunset, and at three o'clock in the morning on January 21, 1942, she died, at the age of twenty-six.
Figure | "Declaration" article
Ying Yin was originally the lucky one who could take a safe side in the chaos of the war, but she chose a fierce battle, and finally in the name of illness, opium, in the name of illness, followed her comrades in pure physiological paralysis.
No matter what kind of confused sins and humble and vulgar appendages Ying Yin had in her past life, she finally took death as the subversion and overthrow of her life.
Proving one's passion can be sincerely loyal, and the story of Jingman does not tarnish the soul of chivalry, and buries a self-appealing supplement to be revealed under the anesthetic air in the aggressor's cover.
At 3:00 p.m. on January 24, Yingyin's second sister Ying Fengming, colleagues in the film and drama industry and film fans gathered at the Wanguo Funeral Home at No. 207 Jiaozhou Road in Shanghai to sing an elegy: "The liberation of death, conquer your fragile heart." Rest assured, Yingyin! ”
In the spring rain, Feng Zhen (Yingyin's breast name) has a thin white velvet flower inserted between her sideburns, and a red silk quilt embroidered with a phoenix in the center of the bed is lightly covered.
She lay quietly in the flowers, closed her eyes to watch the pastor preside over the "funeral service", listened to Fei Mu report her life, delivered a eulogy, accepted the guests to pay respects to the remains, was filmed in a news documentary by Xinhua Film Company, and finally slept in a red lacquered Western-style coffin, and Ren's best friend Li Yan cried bitterly outside.
The following year, a friend of the contractor buried her coffin in Hongqiao Cemetery, next to Pingzuren's tomb, in accordance with Yingyin's last wishes.
Qi You erected a monument for her, engraved with a sigh: "Although he has been accomplished on the stage screen, he has not won the love of the world, and he has died to regret his career." The pain of Jie Qing is the sorrow of history! ”
Picture | stills of "Children of the World" Ying Yin
Nearly eighty years after Yingyin's death, in the stability of the present world, judging the elegance of life posture in the chaotic world is inevitably too high. Moreover, we do not know in a few decades' time, our descendants will learn from our current popular behaviors, and denounc them as "numb phenomena" in the course of history.
At least, Ying Yin carefully wrote two fill-in-the-blank questions in the book of persuasion: one filled in the real name, and the other filled in the tomb of the confidant.
If the wartime materials that have not been examined in the preceding article are confirmed in the future not to be the history of faith, I especially hope that my generation -
Not only is it keen to hunt for curiosity in historical experience; it does not linger in the genre that flaunts the light of personality that flashes of human nature; it does not indulge in digging up morality in the midst of obscenity and contempt, and it is only satisfied with the sense of reading provided by one beautiful story.
He did not forget to read the words of the soldiers who died for their confidants and washed the bones of the heroes in blood and rain; stood firm in the coordinates of the examination of the homeland and the country that issued clear moral inquiries about ambiguous acts of defection; and alerted them to the "indoctrination" and conspiracy of the invaders who whitewashed "peace and fraternity."
Text | Kaifeng
Original title: "Ying Yin: When the life of a light dancer, Shi Zai yinxia dressed as a prostitute. Sick and sick, burning affection and martyrdom of confidants, only one word "clean""