After the New Culture Movement, there were some talented and beautiful socialites in the metropolises of Shanghai and Beiping and the Republic of China, Peiping was most famous for Lu Xiaoman, Shanghai was the most eye-catching for Tang Ying, and good reporters called them "Southern Tang and Northern Land".
Tang Ying and Lu Xiaoman
The two are of similar age, outstanding temperament, fashionable clothing, good family, both well-educated, good at English and drama performances, once performed on the same stage at the "Shanghai Women's Circle Consolation Drama Art Conference" held at the Shanghai Central Theater, co-performed Kun opera "Picking Paintings" and "Calling Paintings", Lu Xiaoman shook the fan and chanted, Tang Ying turned to appear, the two had unlimited postures, and they were reflected in each other, which was a combination.
On the cover of various magazines appeared on both ends of the three days, the two were not only fashion pioneers, but also recognized social celebrities, because of the wide range of communication, they naturally attracted a lot of suitors, almost at the same time, the two people fell into an inseparable love triangle.
Lu Xiaoman's husband is Army Major General Wang Geng, shortly after marriage, left Beiping, went to Harbin City to serve as the director of the police department, before the trip entrusted his wife to his friend Xu Zhimo to take care of, did not want Xu Zhimo and Lu Xiaoman to have a similar temperament, long-term love, this scandal in the Social Circles of Beiping boiled over, Lu Xiaoman also proposed a divorce to Wang Geng.
Lu Xiaoman
Tang Ying, on the other hand, was arranged by her parents to get engaged to Li Zufa, the son of The Shanghai merchant Li Yunshu, and soon after the engagement, she was warmly pursued by Yang Xingfo, a friend of Li Zufa and former secretary of Sun Yat-sen, who also entrusted the great painter Liu Haisu to go to the mediator.
The two love triangles of the "Southern Tang Dynasty and Northern Land" became the lace that the newspapers and periodicals rushed to report at that time.
Tang Ying
Lu Xiaoman's heart belongs to Xu Zhimo, but Wang Geng is reluctant to divorce, and Li Zufa and Yang Xingfo pursue Tang Ying at the same time, and neither of them is willing to quit. In the stalemate, the love problem of the two celebrities has also become a hot topic of tabloid news every day.
In desperation, at the request of Xu Zhimo, Liu Haisu, who was an intermediary involved in this matter, decided to open a dinner party and invited the six parties to come to dinner and solve the matter face-to-face.
This is the Republic of China gossip circle is quite well-known "Shanghai six-person dinner bureau", above the meal, Liu Haisu talked a lot, touched several love enemies, these two entangled love triangle, after the meal, suddenly solved.
Two love triangles, a meal to solve, Liu Haisu is really a master of quick knife cutting.
1. The great painter Liu Haisu became the middleman of the two love triangles for no reason, and set up a nine-person dinner to solve the situation
Although Wang Geng was an American student, he was more rigid and traditional, and after Lu Xiaoman and Xu Zhimo had an extramarital affair, he scolded Lu Xiaoman fiercely, turned around and took his home to Shanghai, and sent a telegram to let the Lu family arrange for Lu Xiaoman to go south.
After Lu Xiaoman arrived in Shanghai, she was under house arrest, and under the introduction of Hu Shi, she began to learn to paint to pass the time, and Xu Zhimo also befriended Liu Haisu, so she begged him to try to solve the obstacle of the union between the two.
Wang Geng
At this time, Yang Xingfo, sun Yat-sen's former secretary, came to Shanghai to organize the Kuomintang Shanghai Special City Party Department Executive Committee to prepare for the Northern Expedition, but he fell in love with Tang Ying, the fiancée of his friend Li Zufa, at first sight, and also asked Liu Haisu to help him and went to the Tang family to propose relatives.
Liu Haisu was open-minded and avant-garde, and was willing to help several wrongdoers solve their emotional problems, so at Xu Zhimo's suggestion, Liu Haisu invited guests at the Gongdelin Restaurant in Shanghai to talk with them face to face and untie the knot.
After several parties discussed, there were Lu Xiaoman and her husband Wang Geng and a group of lovers Xu Zhimo, Tang Ying and her fiancé Li Zufa, the suitor Yang Xingfo, as well as the host Liu Haisu, Tang Ying's brother Tang Ying, and Xu Zhimo's ex-wife Zhang Youyi's brother Zhang Xinhai, a total of nine people, as for why Zhang Xinhai was invited, there are legends that he is not only Wang Geng's friend, Xu Zhimo's former uncle, but also one of Lu Xiaoman's suitors, so he was pulled over to witness it together.
Among these nine people, in addition to the host Liu Haisu and two celebrities, Wang Geng was a Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton University in the United States, and graduated from the West Point Military Academy with the tenth place, Xu Zhimo was a master of economics from Columbia University in the United States and also studied in Cambridge, Li Zufa was from Yale, Yang Xingfo, Tang Zhixu, and Zhang Xinhai graduated from Harvard, all of which were enlightened figures who were the first to gain popularity at that time.
Liu Haisu
During the banquet, when Liu Haisu toasted, he talked about the relationship between life and love, advocated anti-feudalism and anti-etiquette, and established marriage on the basis of mutual harmony and similar interests, while marriages without love should be dissolved in time, and the two sides can still maintain friendship.
A lot of talk made everyone present deeply educated.
2. After the meal, Lu Xiaoman divorced and then married, and Tang Ying got married and divorced
After the meal, Wang Geng received a long letter from Xu Zhimo, understanding that the two had a deep love, so they agreed to divorce, at this time, Lu Xiaoman was already pregnant with Wang Geng's child, because she was afraid of Wang Geng's remorse, she secretly sought a German doctor to miscarry, leaving the root of lifelong infertility.
In September 1925, Wang Geng and Lu Xiaoman officially divorced. According to Wang Geng's good friend Wang Tianming, Wang Geng behaved very consortiously, saying that "the affairs of a husband and wife are a couple; if they don't come together, they can be counted."
Xu Zhimo and Lu Xiaoman
The following year, when Xu Zhimo and Lu Xiaoman held a wedding, Wang Geng also sent a heavy congratulatory gift, and the media praised him as "an international student bathed in the European wind and rain in the end, extraordinary, and also showed a high degree of cultivation and fraternity spirit in marriage."
Tang Ying explicitly rejected Yang Xingfo, whose age did not match, and married Li Zufa.
Yang Xing Buddha
However, after marrying Li Zufa, Tang Ying realized that what Liu Haisu said made sense, and although she and Li Zufa were similar in age and family lineage, they were very close to each other, but due to differences in temperament, they could not produce true love.
She loves to socialize, like socializing, acting, just married, as the queen of shanghai beach social tang Ying still every three to five to party, or dinner at home, this move was strongly opposed by Li Zufa.
Li Zufa is the son of a giant businessman in Ningbo, studying technical engineering in the United States, introverted, not sociable, not willing to see his wife's photos always appear in newspapers and magazines, and do not like his wife to be sought after like a butterfly and a popular star.
Li Zufa
The two personalities are too far apart to reconcile, and in 1936, Tang Ying and Li Zufa divorced.
Tang Ying, 26, lived alone with her youngest son, Li Mingjue, and later met Rong Xianlin, the nephew of Rong Hong, the father of Liu Meisheng, who worked for AIA Insurance Company.
Rong Xianlin is outgoing and lively, lives a Westernized life, loves horseback riding, dancing, fishing, literature and art, and has similar temperament and interest to Tang Ying, and is very talkative.
Tang Ying married Yung Xianlin in 1937 and later moved to the United States, where his son Li Mingjue became a world-renowned stage designer.
Tang Ying and her son
Compared with Li Zufa, Rong Xianlin is only a migrant worker, and there are four children born to his ex-wife, but he and Tang Ying live a noisy and interesting life, traveling around, looking for art and small restaurants, and know the joy of life. Therefore, Tang Ying, who came from a rich family, was very satisfied with this marriage, and she also used her circle of friends and connections to help her husband contact the insurance business, and did not care about Rong Xianlin's meager income.
According to Li Mingjue's recollection, his mother and stepfather took him to see theaters, movies, galleries, concerts, picnics and restaurants outside, and every weekend life was very interesting.
It seems that Master Liu Haisu's words at the nine-person dinner party have been deeply remembered by Tang Ying, so he would rather establish a marriage on the basis of harmonious feelings and similar interests than be the young grandmother of the family of the super rich.