In the late Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the People's Republic, China blew a wind of "women dressed as men". In the political and cultural atmosphere of the west wind and the eastward trend, in the revolutionary wave of abolishing feudalism and oppressing women, women wearing men's clothing seems to have become the most advanced and fashionable behavior, which has been praised and imitated by many people.
First of all, women dressed as men to take photos was popular, and the famous JianHu female heroine Qiu Jin was one of them. At that time, going to the photo studio to take pictures was a luxury, taking a photo required a piece of ocean, and other prop lines needed to be purchased by themselves, so only rich girls could go to Cosplay.
At this time, the men's clothing photos are generally a three-piece suit, a pair of leather shoes, a low-brimmed hat or top hat, plus a stick, which is the so-called Western gentleman's style. The picture below is a photo of Qiu Jin's men's clothing.
Ironically, because this shape is too novel, it has become a fashion trend, which has attracted many famous people in Qinglou to follow suit, such as Zhu Ruchun, a famous prostitute in Shanghai.
This new wave also affected the film industry, and in 1927, Tian Han wrote for the star company in "Spring Dream by the Lake". The playwright Sun Peijiang took a train from Shanghai to Hangzhou and sat in the car with a decadent look. Suddenly, there was a young and beautiful woman sitting opposite, and a bearded man was leaning next to him. The beautiful woman's name is Li Qibo, and the bearded woman is her husband, named Peng Feixiong. Looking at this extremely disproportionate couple, Sun Peijiang deeply regretted the beautiful woman, and he did not feel that he was in love with the magic, and the old things poured into his heart.
Sun Peijiang once had a crush on a maid named Fei Cuixian, writing scripts and lyrics for her. Fei Cuixian also clung to him like a bird. On this day, the theater staged a play written by Sun Peijiang, with CuiXian as the protagonist, and the audience saw Cuixian's beauty and tried their best to hold the scene, while Sun Peijiang was a little unhappy because of Cuixian's performance. Friends persuaded him to write another script, which may have allowed Cui Xian to develop in acting. Sun Peijiang heeded the advice and immersed himself in creation. Unexpectedly, after Cuixian became famous, he indulged in the playground all day and had no intention of re-enacting. Sun Peijiang was disappointed and tore up the script he had just written to show that he had broken off his friendship with CuiXian. This time to Hangzhou, but also according to the persuasion of friends, to the West Lake for recuperation.
After staying in the West Lake, when Sun Peijiang went out and passed a red building, he suddenly saw Li Qibo waving at him at the window. Sun Peijiang walked to the front of the building, and Li had already gone downstairs to open the door. Sun wanted to come forward and shake her hand, but Li avoided it and galloped away across the horse. Sun Peijiang also drove his horse to chase after him, and seeing that Li Qibo was in danger, Sun Peijiang rushed forward to help. The two snuggled up with each other.
Li told Sun that she lived alone, fearing robbers, and asked Sun to protect her. Sun Peijiang's pity for Xiang Xiang and yu's love was born, and he followed Li to the Red Chamber. Li put a pistol in Sun's hand, and Sun Peijiang expressed that Li Wan would not give up. Li Kuo proposed to use the method of whipping to test Sun's love, and Sun casually agreed. Li Guozhen tied Sun with a rope and whipped it. Sun Peijiang cried out in pain, and Li blamed him for not being able to bear this pain, and it was a joke that he would not give up until he died. Sun showed his sincerity, so he whipped with her and stopped shouting, until he was covered in scales, and Li Fang loosened his ties, caressed his wounds, and softly comforted him.
Sun Peijiang immediately forgot about the pain and reveled in it. Li Qibo further demanded that he be whipped once a day, otherwise it would not be true love, and Sun angrily agreed. The next day, Li Qibo had just taken out the rope, and a group of robbers suddenly rushed in, and the leader of the bandits was Peng Feixiong. The thieves robbed Li Qibo, and Sun Peijiang hurriedly chased after him, raised his gun and shot the thief's head down from the horse, and the thieves scattered. Li was rescued and leaned into Sun Peijiang's arms. At this time, the thief woke up, raised a gun to hit Sun Peijiang, and fled. Sun Wei cried out in pain, Li Ze leaned down and softly comforted, Sun Peijiang's heart was again a burst of ecstasy, opened his eyes, saw a doctor standing in front of the bed, informed him of the fever attack, and now finally woke up. Sun Peijiang was dumbfounded but smiled, and returned to the lake to look for dreams, and sure enough, there was a red building, but he did not see Li Zhiqian's shadow, and his heart felt very lonely, so he boarded the car and returned to Shanghai. As soon as he entered the carriage, he saw Li Qibo and Peng Feixiong sitting next to each other, and Sun Peijiang was busy stating to Li Yiyi what he had happened in his dream. Unexpectedly, Li Qibo was at first dazed, and then his face was full of anger. Peng Feixiong was not in a hurry or annoyed, and gently advised his wife: "He is a neurotic. Sun Peijiang saw that Peng Feixiong did not have the vicious appearance of stealing the head, so he no longer paid attention to it, silently looked up at the white clouds chasing each other outside the window, and fell into reverie.
It is not difficult to see that this heroine Li Qibo not only loves to change clothes, but also is a queen! She was very strong, and even more queenly sadistic, taking pleasure in tying up and whipping her borders, and then kissing her whip-scarred wounds. There must be abuse, Li Nu enjoys an alternative release in the crazy whipping, and Wen Si's exhausted frontier also fantasizes about his desire for "more vicious women on stage and screen" in the abuse.
Judging from the remaining film stills, Yang Naimei's Li nu holding a thin whip, dressed as a man, shirt and tie with Western pants, while the playwright Sun Peijiang, playwright played by Gong Jianong, is naked on the upper body, his hands are tight, his eyebrows are red, and he is alive from a modern ukiyo-e painting with inverted gender.
More famous and intuitive than "Spring Dream by the Lake" is the 1936 movie "Avatar Girl" filmed by Yihua Pictures, liying played by Yuan Meiyun is very handsome, which even attracts Miss Zhu, played by Zhou Xuan, to be fascinated by her and wash her face with tears! The film catered to the trend of the times, so it sold well at the box office, and successively made a sequel, a third episode, a fourth episode, and even a remake version was launched in Hong Kong in 1956, with Lin Cui, who can sing and dance, and healthy and sunny, who continues to dress as a man.
However, after the trend of women dressing as men became a trend of "small citizens" from the vanguard, critics at that time began to criticize it, saying that this kind of film was a "soft movie" and vulgar and shallow, but unfortunately they could not stop the popularity of "Avatar Girl" and even the continuous episodes, and they had no choice.