One day in August 1951, when the famous actress Zhou Xuan visited Gu Jie, a colleague of the crew of "Peace Dove", she met her last lover in her life: Tang Di, the advertising artist of "Peace Dove".
It is said that with the identity of the two at that time, the fate of the two is more or less the shallow friendship of an advertising painting. However, people with ulterior motives will always break the conventional human condition and create some evil fate.
Three months ago, Zhou Xuan was on the shooting scene of "Peace Dove", suddenly out of control, facing the scene of the "blood test type" in the play, she shouted madly: "This is your flesh and blood, you don't believe that you can test blood!" blood test! ”
The shooting that day was interrupted, and Zhou Xuan was sent home by her crew colleagues to recuperate and adjust.
The hidden disease lurking in Zhou Xuan's spirit quickly brought her high-light life into the unknown chaotic realm. And Tang Di's intervention at this stage is true love or ulterior motives?
Figure | Zhou Xuan
One
Tang Di, who had served as an officer in the art unit of the Kuomintang Inspirational Society and had the rank of colonel, was not single at this time. When he holds a paintbrush in his hand, while sketching the shadow of a generation of superstars, while secretly moving inwardly and deploying the "hunting" plan, there is still a girlfriend who has lived together for five years waiting for him to return home at sunset.
A painting is over, and for Zhou Xuan, who has long been accustomed to exposure to mercury lamps and various video media, it is just an ordinary day, completing a job within his share.
The only thing that was extraordinary was that her mental state at that time was no longer the same as before.
One day in September, Zhou Xuan's adoptive mother, Ye Fengmei, suddenly called the Drama Film Association, and on the phone, she anxiously described Zhou Xuan's abnormal behavior, not only smashing people with things, but also threatening to throw her infant son out of the window.
Hearing this, the association quickly sent someone to the pillow stream apartment where she was living at the time, and colleagues coaxed her to send her to the Shanghai Hongqiao Sanatorium, and her son Min Min was temporarily sent to the drama and shadow nursery managed by Huang Zongying.
From this, Zhou Xuan began her repeated stages of spiritual healing.
As for the details of Tang Di's deliberate delivery of propaganda posters to Zhou Xuan's home and the beginning of a relationship with her, we cannot adopt the views from those beautiful and fragrant text descriptions, and it is certain that Tang Di intervened in Zhou Xuan's emotional life at this stage.
In the sanatorium, Zhou Xuan received care from friends and people who cared about her physical condition, during which time she wrote many diaries at the suggestion of Wang Renmei.
On September 29, 1951, Zhou Xuan was discharged from the hospital and returned home for recuperation. This gave Tang Di the opportunity to get closer to Zhou Xuan.
During the period of home recuperation, an unexpected incident occurred, which made Zhou Xuan once again fall into a mental breakdown. At the end of 1951, Zhou Xuan was again admitted to a nursing home due to a recurrence of mental illness.
"Help me take it off, help me get rid of the little hairy head, the little hairy head!" Zhou Xuan shouted like crazy.
"Little hairy head"? This aroused everyone's vigilance, and sure enough, after a physical examination, the doctor found that Zhou Xuan was pregnant again, and everyone was surprised: Who is the father of the child?
During Zhou Xuan's recuperation at home, Shi Hui, the "Drama Emperor" who once had a scandal with Zhou Xuan, visited her many times, and the newly acquainted Tang Di was also a regular visitor to the Pillow Stream Apartment, and people naturally focused on these two people.
Under interrogation, both Shi Hui and Tang Di denied it. If it weren't for Zhou Xuan's personal incarnation of Tang Di's flesh and bones, I don't know how long this "talented man" who has not yet broken up with his girlfriend and has come to come to zhou Xuan will hide it.
It is said that the reason that made Zhou Xuan fall into a state of madness was that after Tang Di learned that Zhou Xuan was pregnant, he still left Zhou Xuan's house after being urged by a phone call from his cohabiting girlfriend.
Figure | Zhou Xuan and her adoptive mother Ye Fengmei
In February 1952, Ye Fengmei took Tang Di to court for seduction and fraud. In the case of an already in love, having a relationship with a convalescent mental patient and causing him to become pregnant, and not admitting it, it is indeed bad, so where does the fraud start?
"Defendant Tang Di, you were charged with rape and fraud, defrauding Zhou Xuan of two small gold bars and 12 million yuan. Do you have anything to defend yourself against this? ”
In the face of the trial judge's questioning, Tang Di naturally did not admit it, according to his account, it was his brother Tang Li's child who had a birthday and brought two children to "our house", Zhou Xuan, because he loved children, casually took "two and a half double" small gold bars from the pen holder and gave the children as a greeting gift.
It is worth noting that the so-called "two and a half double" small gold bars in his mouth became "two gold bars weighing a total of ten and twelve" in a book analyzing Zhou Xuan's posthumous legacy, and these two "small gold bars" allowed Tang Li to buy a house along the street on Zhonghua Road, "so that the children still have a relatively spacious residence."
In less than half a year of acquaintance, Zhou Xuan spent most of her time treating mental illness, and according to her diary of illness and in letters to her Hong Kong friend Li Houxiang, there are often such descriptions:
"I've forgotten what happened that day." (Diary entry as of September 14, 1951) "Then I got a shot and I was even more confused. I don't understand why Mr. Zeng took the clock on my desk. (Diary entry of September 19, 1951) "Many things can't be remembered, because the memory has not been restored, it will take two weeks to get better..." (Contents of the letter dated October 3, 1951) "Because of the poor memory and poor spirit, it is really not easy to write a letter, and I am very tired." (October 4, 1951, diary entry)
From the hands of people with such a mental state, when receiving a "meet and greet gift" worth a house, I don't know how the inner activity of the party receiving the gift is?
Even if there is no subjective intention to defraud, Tang Di's explanation is obviously avoiding the important and light, and does not allow deep thinking. Moreover, in the defense, he openly referred to Zhou Xuan's residence as "our family", and his intentions were also clever, but Ye Fengmei, Zhou Xuan's adoptive mother, who lived under the same roof, did not recognize this "family".
In May 1952, Tang Di was sentenced to three years in prison for fraud and seduction.
But that's the beginning.
Two
Even though Zhou Xuan's mental state was not healthy at that time, and in the few letters and diaries she left behind during the same period, there was no single word about Tang Di, but it could not be denied that Zhou Xuan's feelings for Tang Di were difficult to think about, but it was full of doubts after careful consideration.
Before meeting Tang Di, Zhou Xuan had just experienced an emotional disaster. Ex-boyfriend Zhu Huaide also concealed his situation that he had a wife, pursued Zhou Xuan, and plotted against his money during the relationship.
After Zhou Xuan woke up, he published a statement in the newspaper that the two had disassociated. And with the help of the organization, he helped Zhou Xuan recover zhu Huaide's unsquandered money and made it suffer the punishment he deserved.
So, if Zhou Xuan's mental state is normal, will she choose to repeat the same mistakes again?
At this time, Zhou Xuan, like a flat boat falling into the chaotic sea, cherished every love and care projected at her, and in the treatment diary, she recited everyone who came to visit and accompany her:
"Wake up and eat early, and after a while the fat sister comes to see me... She was playing cards when Sister Wang came. After a while Ai Zhen and Chun Hua came, and I stopped playing cards and chatting with them. (Diary entry of September 13, 1951) Miss Tongji sat down below for a while. Miss Cai also accompanied us, Miss Ji was very good, she was a college student... Sister Wang is indeed very kind to me, and I hope she can teach me more..." (Diary contents of September 19, 1951)
She longed for love, and every little kindness she carefully recorded. At the most fragile moment of her spirit, Tang Diming's dangling expression of love attracted Zhou Xuan, who had no heart to rely on, like a mirage, and what kind of thoughts were hidden behind this illusory love, she had no time to take care of.
In August 1952, Zhou Xuan's second son was born, for the sake of the overall situation, Tang Di was released on bail to accompany the birth, and after the child gave birth smoothly, he was imprisoned again for the crime of "historical counter-revolution".
By the time he was released from prison again, in May 1953, Tang Di, who had been ordered to be forbidden to approach Zhou Xuan, did not stop his "transgression" behavior. He sneaked into the pillow stream apartment and snatched his infant son away when his nurse was not ready.
This move, from the perspective of human warmth, may be out of the father's love for the child. But at that time, Tang Di's situation was worrying, he had just been released from prison, he had no job, how could he support himself and his children?
In the narrative of Zhou Xuan's life, it is said that Tang Di took the child to live in the staff dormitory of the Changshu Middle School where he worked at the time, but during the trial of Zhou Xuan's posthumous inheritance case, the court stated that Tang Di only had a job in 1955, and it was possible to take the child to live in the dormitory.
When he carried the child to the school dormitory in 1955, what did Tang Di and the child rely on for their lives?
As the adoptive mother of Zhou Xuan's son, Huang Zongying was interviewed, and the reporter asked her about Tang Di's opinion, and she replied: "I don't know much about this person, in the fifties, leading a child to run east and west, asking for money everywhere... He came to our house and gave us 100 yuan..."
Huang Zongying, as one of the parties to Zhou Xuan's posthumous inheritance case, whether this is a Rashomon-style statement can no longer be examined. But what is certain is that with his son by his side, Tang Di has a trump card.
At this time, Zhou Xuan's state deteriorated, according to the recollection of Su Fu, who was the director of the Shanghai Sanatorium in January 1957, he consulted Zhou Xuan's medical history and recorded that Zhou Xuan at this stage "sat day and night, she did not dare to contact anyone, rarely spoke to people, and sometimes made some subconscious actions..."
In February 1954, Zhou Xuan was arranged to go to Beijing for more than a year of treatment. When he returned to Shanghai from Beijing in the spring of 1955, Zhou Xuan's mental condition improved, and everything was recovering.
After Zhou Xuan returned to Shanghai, Tang Di took the child to the nursing home to see his mother. Because Zhou Xuan's condition was widely affected, in order to avoid excessive mental stimulation during the treatment, the hospital strengthened the care of Zhou Xuan, and Tang Di and the child's repeated visits were blocked out of the door.
At the beginning of 1957, Zhou Xuan received a new type of treatment method, which had a remarkable effect, not only to take care of himself, but also to actively contact with the outside world. Many friends and peers often come to visit her, and cooperate with the hospital treatment, often take Zhou Xuan to eat and enter and leave her favorite places, Zhou Xuan's frozen world for many years, finally thawed in the spring breeze, ushering in vitality and novelty.
Zhou Xuan's condition, which is deeply concerned by organizations and fans, came good news, radio, newspapers and other media have reported this good news, in May and June, Zhou Xuan's name returned to the public vision, she also restarted the "Golden Voice" through the radio, and sang the popular classic song "Song of Four Seasons" for everyone.
Reports of Zhou Xuan's imminent return to the film world are overwhelming, which inevitably brings up her family and children, but after reading many reports, Tang Di found that he and the child did not appear in any text about Zhou Xuan.
He began to be uneasy, so he drafted a note proving that his child was born to Zhou Xuan, and asked Zhou Xuan to sign it to give the child a "proof of identity".
As a person on the "blacklist" of the nursing home, Tang Di knew that it would be very difficult for him to find Zhou Xuan, so he asked miss Feng, a female student, to take the child to complete his plan.
It is worth mentioning that in September 1957, Tang Di was sentenced to 12 years in prison for seducing a 15-year-old female student, plus he was beaten as a "rightist" at the time, and was sentenced to 12 years in prison.
This 15-year-old female student is precisely this Miss Feng.
First of all, Miss Feng led the child with a "mission", took great pains to see Zhou Xuan, and asked Zhou Xuan to sign the note to confirm the identity of the child. However, the note was not taken out of the nursing home, that is, taken by security guards.
Regarding the identification of this child, it did bring certain obstacles to the trial of Zhou Xuan's inheritance case in the later period, but fortunately, it did not affect the final trial.
Tang Di also ran out of thought.
Figure | Zhou Xuan took a photo during his illness
Three
On September 22, 1957, Zhou Xuan, who was waiting for a new life, died of sudden heat stroke encephalitis. A generation of Fanghua, thus fell.
At this time, her eldest son had been adopted by Huang Zongying, and the second son was sent to an orphanage because his father Tang Di was imprisoned again.
Zhou Xuan, who walked low and high, but finally failed to escape the love robbery, hurriedly completed her life path at the age of 37, but the story did not end because of her departure.
What still keeps her behind her is that in addition to the various "mysteries" she carries that attract the curiosity of the public, there is also a huge inheritance she left behind.
In 1979, Tang Di was rehabilitated and released from prison because of a policy of amnesty for military and political personnel at or above the county and regimental levels of the former Kuomintang. The verdict clarified Tang Di's political problems, but "the section on Tang using his status as a teacher to rape female students was found to be true." ”
The first thing Tang Di did after he was released from prison was to find his son Zhou Wei, who had been tossed around several times and was finally adopted by Huang Zongying, and informed his son's mother, Zhou Xuan, that he had left a large amount of money, which in turn triggered a retrospective case of Zhou Wei suing his adoptive mother Huang Zongying for embezzling Zhou Xuan's huge inheritance.
This whirlwind of contention for Zhou Xuan's legacy, from its inception to its end, blew through the eighties. And the people in the whirlpool have vividly staged a realistic version of Rashomon.
When the spectators were dazzled, they couldn't tell whether these people under the banner of "love" Zhou Xuan loved her people or the fame and profits she brought.
As the last lover of star Zhou Xuan, those descriptions with positional tendencies often create an atmosphere of tang di and Zhou Xuan's two loves and true love.
But this "love" does not stand up to scrutiny. In other words, Zhou Xuan is just an ordinary person, an ordinary woman with mental illness, presumably a man who loves her appearance and temperament, and should also be cautious.
As for the fact that he kept the relics given to him by the three women in his life in prison, in an attempt to show that he did not play with feelings, but that even the nature of the sex was enough to use affection. That "love" that is so self-sufficient, and does not care about public order and good customs and female emotions, do not want it!
Text | Erica