In the Republic of China, there was a saying "Southern Tang And Northern Land", Lu said Lu Xiaoman, and Tang said that we are today's protagonist Tang Ying.
She is no better than Lu Xiaoman who abandons everything for love, and does everything for men.
She is famous only because she loves herself, fashion, and art. She was the hipster of that era, the real fashionista and celebrity Internet celebrity. She was much more foreign than Lu Xiaoman.
Li Bai's flattering words are so beautiful, so suitable for her!
A branch of red dew condensed incense, cloud rain Wushan cut off the intestines.
Borrowing from the Han Palace who had the same, poor Fei Yan leaned on the new clothes.
Born in the purple
Tang Ying was born in 1910, and her father, Tang Nai'an, was one of the first students to study abroad from the Qing government to receive reparations from Gengzi, and the first Western doctor in China to study in the West.
After returning to China, he worked as a doctor in the Beiyang Fleet, and later opened a private clinic in Shanghai, specializing in the treatment of the Shanghai family at that time, so the Tang family's family was rich.
His brother Tang was the most trusted secretary of Song Ziwen, the finance minister of the Nationalist government.
His mother, Xu Yizhen, was a Qianjin of the Xu family, a Kunshan Hao clan who had three titles in his ancestors. She is a Christian and is the inaugural graduate of Jinling Women's University.
Aristocratic education
The family was rich, the parents were well educated, especially the father studied in Germany in his early years, open-minded, did not educate his children in the traditional way, and his son Tang Zhizhi studied at Harvard in his early years to study economics.
Daughter Tang Ying attended the church's aristocratic school: Chung-Sei Girls' School.
The three Song sisters once attended the school, and the predecessor of the St. Mary's Girls' School where the writer Zhang Ailing studied was also the school.
And the education at home is more stringent than in school.
The family has specially raised tailors to change clothes, and the figure of the ladies must be the amount of daily, monthly repair.
Every meal has a balanced nutritional mix, and even the time is set.
When to eat afternoon tea, when to eat dinner, come according to the rules.
You can't fiddle with the dishes when eating.
Can't talk while eating.
You can't blow a very hot soup with your mouth.
A complete international education will naturally cultivate women in the new era in the true sense.
The strict aristocratic education model of the church school blessed her celebrity appearance with temperament.
The family's strict tutoring gave her reservedness and self-discipline.
A family of gold, an international school, and good tutors also play a key role in shaping her character.
Love yourself, love art, love fashion, love creativity, live a wonderful life.
Ancestor of the Famous Lady
Shanghai celebrities are known as communicators, starting from Lu Xiaoman and Tang Ying. At the age of 16, under the guidance of her father, Tang Ying began to enter the Social Circle of Shanghai.
Tang Ying is fluent in English, but prefers traditional opera.
When Lu Xiaoman came to Shanghai and met Tang Ying, who was seven years younger than himself, the two of them saw each other as they always did, and soon became good girlfriends who got along day and night.
In 1927, at the Shanghai Central Theater, Tang Ying and Lu Xiaoman starred in the Kunqu opera "Peony Pavilion Picking Painting". Tang Ying plays Liu Mengmei, gently shaking the folding fan, swaying and swaying; Lu Xiaoman plays Du Liniang, with a love pulse and a variety of styles; the two are intertwined, and the red is all over the beach.
Tang Ying played the male protagonist Weng Liu Mengmei, and Lu Xiaoman became Du Liniang.
In 1935, she directed and acted in the English version of "Wang Baojun", which is still unique to this day.
Singing the essence of the country in English is creative enough now, right?
She was fully involved in the whole process of creation, making the classics transform and turn them into her own things.
Drama is a very traditional thing, and if it changes, it is quite difficult to shine.
From here, we can see Tang Ying's perseverance, persistence, creativity and fearlessness.
Fashion and art
Even if you don't go out to socialize on weekdays, you have to change three sets of clothes every day: a short-sleeved cardigan in the morning, a cheongsam when you go out at noon, and a Western-style long skirt when you come to the house at night.
Sister Tang Weihong still remembers: her sister's cheongsam is set with a wide edge, embroidered with flowers of various colors, and there are hundreds of butterflies embroidered with gold and silver threads flying on the edge of a cheongsam, embellished with ruby buttons.
In Shanghai's social circles, Tang Ying has become the "fashion queen" in the aristocratic circle with her avant-garde exquisite and clever dress, and has been imitated by Shanghai celebrities.
Fluent English, beautiful face, round Kunqu opera, and the famous girlish temperament emitted between her hands and feet make her a goddess in the hearts of men.
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In 1927, Zhang Youyi (Xu Zhimo's wife) founded the "Shanghai Yunxiang Clothing Company" to enter the women's fashion industry in the Republic of China.
During the period of running the company, Tang Ying's clothing taste was very appreciated by Zhang Youyi, so she invited Tang Ying to endorse the "YunSheng" brand. With the efforts of the two, the clothing of the "Yunsheng" company quickly swept throughout Shanghai, becoming the fashion queen of Shanghai Beach, and even becoming the standard of a qualified celebrity.
In fact, there were many famous ladies on the beach later, but it was difficult to compare with her.
"People who are more beautiful than me are not as smart as me; people who are smarter than me are not as beautiful as me."
This is Tang Ying's pride.
Married life
His brother Tang Zhiyi became Song Ziwen's secretary after returning from studying at Harvard, and the Tang and Song families had some contacts earlier, and Song Ziwen fell in love with Tang Ying, who was in his cardamom age, and often exchanged letters, but Tang Father did not like political figures, so he has always been more opposed.
On July 23, 1931, Song Ziwen, the minister of finance of the Kuomintang, was assassinated by assassins sent by Wang Yaqiao at the Shanghai North Railway Station, and because Song Ziwen and Tang Ziwen were wearing white suits, the assassins recognized the wrong object and shot and killed Tang Ziwen's side.
Song Ziwen was lucky to have retrieved a life. He is naturally grateful to the Tang family, and in addition to generous pensions, he has always taken good care of the Tang family. Considering the feelings of the Tang family, they broke off their pursuit of Tang Ying.
It is not certain whether the feelings of the girlhood had an impact on Tang Ying.
But the more than twenty love letters that Song Ziwen wrote to her have been locked deep in Tang Ying's small drawer and cherished well, which also shows her true feelings for Song Ziwen.
In the first marriage, Tang Ying married Li Zufa, the son of the "Xiaogang Li Family" in Ningbo and the Shanghai merchant Li Yunshu.
The Li family was a socialite or wealthy businessman, and Li Zufa's father, Li Yunshu, was a giant businessman in Shanghai.
The marriage is very right, life is comfortable at the beginning, she is still living at her own pace, the scenery is infinite, wonderful.
Contrary to Tang Ying's "too lively" lifestyle, her husband Li Zufa is a quiet person.
In 1937, Tang Ying and Li Zufa finally divorced due to personality discord. Her son lived with her.
Later, Tang Ying met Yung Hsien Lin, who worked at AIA Insurance Company.
Uncle Rong Xianlin is rong hong, the father of Chinese students, who has always been a hereditary comprador of foreign trading houses.
Mr. Rong is a Cantonese native with a lively personality and diverse hobbies, horseback riding, dancing, fishing, etc., and is also a lover of literature and art. Similar hobbies, similar personalities, and eventually came together.
In 1948, Tang Ying and his son Li Mingjue both arrived in the United States.
Yung is still working in the old bank, working as a department manager at AIA Insurance Company.
His son Li Mingjue studied at a university in California, and after graduating from college, he officially embarked on the road of theater art and became a stage art master at the level of a titan.
Rong Xianlin's 4 children also went to the United States to study and work, and they started a family and established their own businesses.
She died quietly in her New York apartment in 1986.
At her hand, there was an electric bell that led directly to her son Lee Mingjue's room, but she had never touched it.
She walked refreshed, still clean, with a calm face.
epilogue
An era needs people who can read, because they can read and tell us the most essential truth.
An era also needs people who can live, because they can tell us how to live.
Of course, this requires a strong material foundation, a good family background, an aristocratic education, a tolerant family education, a decent social status, and a marriage with extra points.
The first half of her life was highlighted, and the second half of her life was simple but extraordinary, because her son was influenced by her and eventually became a generation of stage design masters.
Some people say that this is fate, but they do not deny that reincarnation is a technical job.
But as a teenager, he was able to resist decadence and willfulness, choosing to treat everything in life rationally.
When he was young, whether it was the love of the Sea Oath Mountain Alliance or the wealth of the two rich people, he could face it calmly.
Always be a beautiful woman who is leisurely.
In fact, people, don't be affected by too much desire and unrealistic anxiety, live more in the moment.
Life endures is lived, enjoyment is also lived, with peace and calm, in the best time, meet the best self.