Every year at the Spring Festival Gala, Peking Opera is a reserved program, after all, it is the essence of traditional Chinese culture. But if you want to talk about the heyday of Peking Opera, it must be the end of the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China. At that time, Peking Opera not only had the heritage of traditional culture, but also had a wide mass base, and at the same time, media such as newspapers and records were also developed, which added a handful of firewood to the popularity of Peking Opera.
Speaking of the most well-known actors, we can all think of the same name - Mei Lanfang. The protagonist of this article, Gu Zhengqiu, is a Peking Opera actor who studied under Mei Lanfang, is the master sister of the Shanghai Theater Academy, and has the name of "Taiwan Mei Lanfang" at that time.
Gu Zhengqiu is also a famous person who is popular all over the country, her life, experienced a three-foot drama stage under the full of stars, to later give up fame and fortune for love and even willing to be a concubine, but finally can not be buried with her lover. Today I will tell you the story of Gu Zhengqiu's legend and lamentation.
Gu Zhengqiu's life when she was a child was relatively hard, she did not have a father since she was a child, and she grew up in her grandmother's parents, and her grandmother was a lover of opera, and she showed extraordinary talent from an early age. At a young age, he followed his grandmother to the theater, sat for several hours without wandering, and could also sing a lot of tunes with hum.
Gu Zhengqiu did not live up to his talent, and at the age of 12, he won the top spot and became a student of the Shanghai Theater Academy. One year Gu Zhengqiu performed Golden Mountain Temple at the school, the school invited Mei Lanfang to come to guide, at that time Mei Lanfang felt that Gu Zhengqiu was very outstanding, he commented that Although Gu Zhengqiu was young, he was very stable and had a temperament, encouraging her to continue to work, and there must be a day of the beginning.
With more and more stage experience, Gu Zhengqiu has gradually blossomed his own style and brilliance, and has come to the eyes of the public. At that time, a famous critic commented in the newspaper: "Gu Zhengqiu is not only as simple as singing well, she also contributed to the genre of Peking Opera, integrating her two teachers, Mei Pai and Cheng Pai." ”
By the time she was nineteen years old, she already had her own drama team, and she was not only very famous in Shanghai, but also often performed in other places. What Gu Zhengqiu did not expect was that it was a performance in Taiwan that completely changed the trajectory of her life later. At that time, the political background of Taiwan and the mainland was very sensitive, and she was stranded in Taiwan because of the current situation, and this stay was a lifetime.
A beautiful and charming woman like Gu Zhengqiu is naturally not short of people to pursue. Among these people, it is necessary to mention Ren Xianqun and Chiang Ching-kuo.
At that time, Ren Xianqun was the director of the Taiwan authorities' Department of Finance, which was also a good official position, and after Ren Xianqun got acquainted with her, the two gradually developed feelings. Unfortunately, love also came first, and Ren Xianqun had been married for several years at that time, and had several children under his knees.
At the same time, Chiang Ching-kuo also launched a pursuit of Gu Zhengqiu, knowing that Chiang Ching-kuo was Chiang Kai-shek's son, and at that time Taiwan could be said to be a "prince" Whose status was unmatched by ordinary people.
Chiang Ching-kuo, who is also a veteran theater lover, fell as soon as he saw this stunning woman, and it was rumored that Chiang Ching-kuo even wanted to divorce his wife for Gu Zhengqiu. We don't know whether Chiang Ching-kuo is ready for divorce, but at least it can be seen from rumors that he did have warm feelings for Gu Zhengqiu.
Jiang Gongzi's gifts are piled up in the background, he often comes to see Gu Zhengqiu's plays, give her a show, but the matter of feelings is not a person can make a decision, the King of Xiang is intentional, and the goddess has no dreams.
She never agreed to Chiang Ching-kuo's courtship, but she also did not explicitly refuse, not because Gu Zhengqiu wanted to hang Chiang Ching-kuo on the ground and play a trick to get away with it, but because Chiang Ching-kuo was really powerful, and she was worried that her decision would have a bad impact on the drama team and the people around her.
The wind in Gu Zhengqiu's heart had been blowing towards Ren Xianqun. According to Gu Zhengqiu's own description, the reason why she chose Ren Xianqun, whose family conditions were obviously weak, was because once she sang "Peacock Southeast Flying" on stage, and her role was a poor woman who had no status in the family. Along with her interpretation, Ren Xianqun put into the drama offstage, and actually followed the tears.
Ren Xianqun's emotional performance also touched Gu Zhengqiu on the stage, she felt that Ren Xianqun's sensibility must be a kind and righteous good man, so she secretly made the decision to want to live with him. Although the two are in love, they still want to live together and pass the two passes of Ren Xianqun's wife and Chiang Ching-kuo.
Ren Xianqun's original wife was born from a high-ranking noble daughter of the Shangjia family, and the family was very wealthy, because her parents did not agree to be with Ren Xianqun, in order to be able to live with Ren Xianqun, she had to elope with her parents and Ren Xianqun behind her back. I have to sigh that Ren Xianqun is also very attractive, and can always attract beautiful people to be desperate for him.
It was precisely because he and his original wife eloped to get married, did not have a feast and publicized it, and did not go to the Civil Affairs Bureau to go through the formalities, Gu Zhengqiu had a chance, and she and Ren Xianqun quickly completed the formalities and officially married. In this relationship, she took advantage of a loophole in the past, and the latecomer came to the top and became a veritable Mrs. Ren.
Chiang Ching-kuo's big trouble had not yet been solved, and when he heard the news of the marriage between the two, he was naturally very annoyed. Ren Xianqun also knew that he could not gain a foothold in the Department of Finance in such a situation, so he decided to resign from public office and work in an ordinary company. The two felt that it was enough to retreat to this extent, who could have imagined that Chiang Ching-kuo's obsession with Gu Zhengqiu was very heavy, and he still refused to let go.
When the bad news came, he couldn't help but let Ren Xianqun distinguish a word, and he couldn't appeal, so he was arrested and imprisoned for the crime of harboring espionage, and sentenced to seven years at once. Everyone knows that this is prince Jiang's revenge, but no one has any choice, Gu Zhengqiu chose to stick to the marriage of the two people, she took off her red makeup, stayed away from the stage she once loved, and lived a simple life waiting for her husband to come home.
She may have been right to fade out of Chiang Ching-kuo's vision, and she didn't bother to come to the door for a while, but just counted the days and waited for Ren Xianqun to get out of prison. After Ren Xianqun was released from prison, the two moved to the countryside and lived a low-key life, and later established a department store, and their small life was also well-known.
In 1978, Ren Xianqun passed away, Gu Zhengqiu tearfully sent away her husband, and deliberately left her own position next to her husband, hoping that after she died, she could also "live and sleep with her beloved, die in the same cave". However, Ren Xianqun has not broken off the marriage contract with his wife, and according to the customs of their hometown, it is impossible to be buried together.
Many people say that Gu Zhengqiu, in order to ren Xianqun, went from a famous corner passenger village woman in the capital to a village woman, and also wasted seven years of youth, which is really stupid. But Gu Zhengqiu has been pursuing what he thinks all his life, and he has indeed spent a wonderful life.