Life is like a play, a play is like life, some people have acted out life into a play, some people have acted out a play into life.
One is a dancing prince, the other is a superb beauty, one is dazzling, and the other is a country that falls into the city, but after the fate has been reversed, only the ups and downs, sorrows, loneliness and loneliness remain.
Talking about mei lanfang and Meng Xiaodong's unique love, not only makes people envy the god of fate so caring for them, but also makes people can't help but lament that fate is mercilessly teasing the world, and the two lovers finally caused life-threatening harm to each other...
One day in 1926, the fiftieth birthday of Wang Kemin, a political leader in Beiping, almost all the big people in the city rushed to celebrate his birthday. Among the many guests were many famous people , Meng Xiaodong and Mei Lanfang were also invited. During the banquet, someone proposed that Mei and Meng jointly perform a "Dragon Play Phoenix": "One is the emperor of Susheng, the other is the king of Danjiao, the king and the emperor are on the same scene, and the pearls are united." "As a result, the show was greatly appreciated.
On the stage, she is the charming Zhengde Emperor, and Mei Lanfang is the charming Li Fengjie, who won the applause of the whole hall. Taking off her costume, she became a beautiful girl with a radiant personality, and Mei Lanfang became a graceful and temperamental prince. Some of Mei Lanfang's "hardcore fans" are even more eager to try to plan a realistic marriage for this "stage couple" and turn this wonderful combination into a family.
At this time, Mei Lanfang already had two wives: the first wife, Wang Minghua, had been recuperating in Tianjin because of her frailty and illness. Fu Zhifang was Mei Lanfang's second wife, who was running housework at home in Beijing at the time.
Qi Rushan of the Mei Party is one of the marriage introducers of Mei and Meng, and it is he who dispels Meng Xiaodong's initial concerns and convinces her to marry Mei Lanfang. On Meng Xiaodong's side, there was a group of wives, all of whom were celebrities at the time, walking together because they were holding Meng Xiaodong, desperately matching Meng Xiaodong and Mei Lanfang.
When marrying Mei Lanfang, Meng Xiaodong was not the bride who was carried in by the palanquin, "but you can't say that she is not a Ming media, at least the marriage introducer, that is, Feng Youwei, a bank president at the time, who is an economic backstage of Mr. Mei and has his permission." ”
Mei and Meng are all new ideas, there is no more feudal consciousness in their minds, what birthday eight characters, blind fortune telling, everything is free. After several brews, a good day was chosen.
On the 24th day of the first lunar month after the Spring Festival in 1927, mei and Meng's wedding was held in the residence of President Feng of the Bank of China, No. 35, Jiutiao, East Fourth Arch Building, Dongcheng, Beijing. Clear-eyed people know at a glance that holding a wedding is a major event in life, and it is indeed unreasonable to set up a wedding place in someone else's house, which is neither reasonable nor legitimate.
I don't know if it is because of such simplicity that the collapse of this marriage is doomed, or whether simplicity itself is a kind of reluctance and helplessness. As The later Meng Xiaodong mentioned in his recollection: "The original excitement was just a immature impulse of thought. ”
After marriage, the two did not live in Meizhai, but lived in the Ministry of Internal Affairs Street near Dongdan in Beijing. After marrying Mei Lanfang, Meng Xiaodong lived in simplicity and rarely sang on stage, and the two lived a peaceful and peaceful life. But the tranquility of fairy tales is always shattered by the gunshots of reality.
Meng Xiaodong was shocked and admired countless people. A law student's obsession with Meng Xiaodong has reached the point of fanaticism. This college student's name is Li Zhigang, for a while Meng Xiaodong was acting in the big fence outside the front door, he went to see it every day, and then Meng Xiaodong stopped acting, and posted a notice at the entrance of the theater, saying that he would suspend it for a week.
A week later, Meng Xiaodong still hadn't shown up. Li Zhigang was in a hurry and found the Meng mansion located in Dongsi Santiao, and Fang knew that Meng Xiaodong had married someone else's wife, and the person she married was Mei Lanfang, the king of the Lingjie World.
Impulsively, Li Zhigang took a pistol to find Mei Lanfang. Pulling Mei Lanfang's friend Zhang Hanju as a hostage, Mei Lanfang slipped away from the back door to report the crime, and a large number of military and police officers of the investigation team came. In the panic, Li Zhigang shot and killed Zhang Hanju. The military police immediately shot and killed Li Zhigang. Zhang Zuolin ordered Li Zhigang's head to be beheaded and hung outside the front door for public display.
The newspapers at the time also reported that one day a black car stopped in front of the high pole with a hanging head, and a woman wearing a black veil came down from the car, looking desolate, and after a short pause, she got into the car and left.
The murder sensation was a sensation in Beijing that year, but it has since circulated in several versions. One version is that the protagonist of this bloody case is not Li Zhigang, a lonely and nameless college student, but Wang Weichen, the son of the mayor of Beiping, who came to the Mei family to seek trouble because of his crush on Meng Xiaodong. In the end, it led to a bloody case, and his head was in a different place.
A bloody case, so that the relationship between Mei Meng and Meng can no longer return to the previous calm. In the summer of 1930, the aunt who brought Mei Lanfang up with her died. At this time, Meng Xiaodong had been married to Mei Lanfang for nearly four years, but she had never entered the Mei mansion. This time she decided to go to the Plum House to pay tribute, she cut her hair short, wore white flowers, but unexpectedly could not even enter the door of the Plum House. Cai Guoyun, Meng Xiaodong's private disciple in Hong Kong, recalled: "Because she put on the filial piety dress, it was equivalent to entering the door, counting him as a member of the Mei family, but the Mei family did not recognize it and did not let her enter the door." ”
The bigger blow was, "Even Mr. Mei wouldn't let her in the door, saying you go back, you go back." Meng Xiaodong was greatly stimulated and had no face to be a person, so she cried and left the Mei family. This description of Xu Jinwen sounds sad. The proud Meng Xiaodong left a great reputation in the history of Peking Opera, but throughout his life, the hope of having a marriage and fame was repeatedly disappointed.
After Mei Meng broke up, in September 1933, Meng Xiaodong issued a series of statements on the first page of Tianjin's Ta Kung Pao:
"The spin-through person introduced, married to Mei Lanfang. Winter was naïve and unfamiliar, and everything was presided over by the introducer. The name is both well known and well known. Nai Lan Fang was vague about things, and on the day of her mother's death, she could not practice the preface, resulting in a loss of protection. Although he was persuaded by his friends and debated by himself, Lan Fang ignored it, which showed that there was no mercy to speak of. Dong sighed that he was distressed and suffered a blow again, so he resolutely broke away from the family relationship with Lan Fang. Am I the negative? Or do you blame me? There is a public opinion in the world, and it is not waiting for the repetition of winter. There was no lament in the tone.
Previously, there were also rumors that Meng Xiaodong and the protagonist of the murder case, Li Zhigang, were in love, causing Li Zhigang to kill out of jealousy. In the statement, Meng Xiaodong clarified the matter in solemn terms: "The more important statement of winter suppression: a few years ago, there was Li Mou in Jiutiao Hutong, who threatened Lan Fang and caused drastic changes. Some people think that Winter and Li mou are quite related, and the actions of the day are suspected to be due to winter. And there are good deeds, uninspected, making up the ministry, insinuation, trying to blackmail, it is really insulting! Dong and Li Mousu have never met, and before marrying Lan Fang, they have never interacted with anyone. Whoever goes to a place, first strictly supervise and take care of it. Dong adheres to the father's discipline and attaches great importance to personality, and Geng Geng cherishes this and can only be learned from the heavens. Now that Li Shi involved the winter body, it was really hateful! Since the declaration, if there is any deliberate destruction of one's reputation, false right and wrong, and confusion of the public, Winter has only one way to sue the law. Don't say that Winter is a lonely and weak woman, so she willingly gave up her human rights. It is hereby declared. -----------------------------------------------------------
In 1930, after breaking up with Mei Lanfang, Meng Xiaodong went on hunger strike, fell ill, avoided living in Jingu, and even converted to Buddhism in Tianjin Jushilin.
After getting rid of the shadow of feelings, Meng Xiaodong picked up the old rice bowl and worshiped under Yu Shuyan's door, becoming his only female disciple, Yu Shuyan taught very strictly, so that Meng Xiaodong's singing skills were greatly improved, almost reborn, and his reputation was growing day by day. On December 24, 1938, Meng Xiaodong staged her first big play "Hongyang Cave" after paying homage to Yu Shuyan at the Beijing New New Grand Theatre, and Yu Shuyan personally took the stage and the performance caused a sensation in the Beijing Peking Opera circle.
Sha Dafeng, the editor-in-chief of a newspaper in Tianjin, gave her a resounding name, "Winter Emperor." Sha Dafeng thought that Tan Xinpei, Mei Lanfang and others were all considered to be the kings of the Ling Realm, but Meng Xiaodong still had to surpass them, so he called her "Winter Emperor".
After Mei Meng broke up, the proud Meng Xiaodong left a few words with a loud voice: In the future, I will sing opera, not worse than you, or the top card, to marry someone, I either don't marry, if I want to marry, I will marry a person who will tremble all over the city when I stomp my feet.
In August 1947, Du Yuesheng, a tycoon in Shanghai Beach, celebrated his 60th birthday, and when there was a flood in Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan, northern Jiangsu and other places, Du Yuesheng decided to celebrate the birthday disaster relief charity performance. The performance at the China Grand Theatre in Shanghai was unprecedented, originally planned for 5 days, but later extended to 10 days, and the ticket price was even speculated to 1,000 yuan per piece. Even so, the theater was crowded on both sides, so much so that Ma Lianliang could only add chairs in the aisles to watch the play.
The flower baskets donated by people from all walks of life were arranged for 1 mile long, and all the flower baskets were discounted to as much as 1.2 billion (old currency). And those who had the privilege of watching it live and listening to it on the radio had nothing to say except the comment that "this song should only be in heaven." In fact, whether it is for Mei Lanfang or Meng Xiaodong, performing on the same stage is a very embarrassing thing.
But in the end, under Du Yuesheng's careful arrangement, he avoided the scene that embarrassed all parties: 10 days of drama rehearsal for 5 days without repeating the same drama - Mei Lanfang sang four big axes, Meng Xiaodong sang a big axis, 5 performances were completed, and the head was repeated. Afterwards, according to Mei Lanfang's steward Yao Yufu, Meng Xiaodong performed two performances of "Search for Orphans and Save Orphans", and Mr. Mei listened to two radio broadcasts at home...
Meng Xiaodong became Du Yuesheng's mistress, and as the most well-known figure on the beach, Meng Xiaodong was with him, which was a fulfillment of the words she said when she left Mei Lanfang.
In 1950, Du Yuesheng insisted on making up a wedding with Meng Xiaodong despite the obstruction of his family. On the night of the wedding, Du Yuesheng, a 63-year-old groom with a bone-like erection, got off his almost inseparable bed, put on a robe and a horse coat, wore a top hat, sat in a hand-pushed wheelchair and was pushed into the living room, supported by someone to stand in the middle of the living room, and the 42-year-old bride Meng Xiaodong stood snuggled up in a brand new piping cheongsam.
Du Yuesheng summoned all his sons and daughters-in-law and daughters-in-law in Hong Kong and ordered them to give Meng Xiaodong a kneeling salute, and they would all be called "Mommy" in the future. And Yao Yulan is all honored as "Niangniang". Because before that, Du Yuesheng's children called Meng Xiaodong "Aunt", some called "Aunt Meng" or "Aunt Xiaodong", and some simply called "Aunt Meng Xiaodong" with their surnames! Later, Du Yuesheng also felt awkward when he heard it, so he told them not to add the three words "Meng Xiaodong", all of them were called "aunt"! Then from today on, it will be changed to "Mommy", and "Mommy" gave each of them a gift, a set of suits for each son and son-in-law, and a watch for each daughter and daughter-in-law.
Since then, Meng Xiaodong, the "fame" he has been pursuing all his life, has finally fulfilled his wish and officially became the fifth wife of the tycoon Du Yuesheng.
In 1951, Du Yuesheng died at the age of 64. The 100,000 US dollars he kept himself, based on the principle of "first inside and then outside", was given to the Du family and people related to the Du family, and Meng Xiaodong only received 20,000 US dollars. Meng said, how is this enough... On May 26, 1977, Meng Xiaodong died in Taipei at the age of 70.