In the 1920s and 1930s, dancing became a fashionable entertainment in Shanghai, and many dance halls were born. Dance hall dance is danced by men and women embracing each other, and there were not many women who could dance at that time, let alone enter the dance hall to dance.
It is precisely because of the scarcity of dancing women that some women find business opportunities and simply go in and out of dance halls to dance with others for a living, and they are called dancers. Because the English of the dancers is Dancing Girl, coupled with the fact that the dancers work irregularly, they are often jokingly called "elastic girls".
Dancers make money fast and a lot, taking the famous "Paramount" ballroom as an example, where an excellent dancer earns as much as 3600 yuan a month, which is more than ten times the income of the company's middle-level employees.
However, the ballroom industry has always been treated as a "special business", which is different from the prostitute industry and the normal service industry, so dancers are often regarded as a special profession.
In the bright and green wind and moon place, although the dancers are criticized by many people, there are also some strange women inside. For example, after the outbreak of the Pacific War, Shanghai fell all over, and Chen Manli, a dancer at Paramount, was shot on the dance floor for refusing to dance with the Japanese. Chen Manli is a dancer, but she is a patriotic dancer.
And this article is about an 18-year-old dancer who caused a sensation on the beach by stepping on two boats.
In 1912, a wealthy merchant surnamed Huang in Guangdong added a baby girl named "Huang Bai'e". She was regarded as the pearl in the palm of her hand by her parents since she was a child, with a rich life, smart and clever, and her academic performance was also good, and she entered a university in Guangzhou after graduating from high school.
Huang Bai'e has a literary and artistic cell since she was a child, can sing and dance, and joined the literary and art group - the Guangming Society in college, and in her spare time, she will participate in new drama performances.
Just when Huang Bai'e imagined a better future, she suffered one blow after another. Her father's business failed due to poor management, and the whole family went from wealth to abject poverty. However, his father fell seriously ill and died soon after, and his mother could not help but be hit hard and died.
In a short time, Huang Bai'e changed from a rich lady to a poor girl who had lost both parents and had to drop out of school.
Just at that time, the Shanghai Nanguo Society was performing in Guangzhou, and the Guangdong Drama Research Institute and the Guangming Society participated in the auxiliary performance, and Huang Bai'e met Wan Litian, Zuo Ming, and other people, the backbone of the Nanguo Society.
Tian Han
Huang Bai'e has a high level of education, good looks, and high plasticity in drama, and later Zuo Ming and others introduced her to Tian Han, the head of the Nanguo Society, that is, the Tian Han who wrote the lyrics for the national anthem of the People's Republic of China, "The March of the Volunteer Army".
Tian Han agreed to Huang Bai'e's joining the Nanguo Society, and he also cared about the poor girl. Once, in a letter, he said: "E" and "moth homophonous", as the saying goes, "moth throws the lamp, the disaster of burning herself", suggesting that she change her name to "Bai Ying".
Huang Bai'e agreed to Tian Han's suggestion, and the three words "Huang Baiying" followed her throughout her life.
In the summer of 1929, Huang Baiying followed Wan Litian, Zuo Ming and others to Shanghai.
Tian Han is also a good president who cherishes talents and loves his descendants, and sends Huang Baiying to fudan university summer tuition school for further study. After the end of her studies, she went to Nanguoshe to participate in the performance of "Salome", in which she played the maid of Princess Salome, just accompanied by dance, no lines.
After all, Huang Baiying is a child who grew up in a wealthy family, can speak fluent English, can ride horses, drive, swim, people are also beautiful, dance is also very good, peers are praising this little girl, even Tian Han is impressed with her, often pointing and helping her, but also specially wrote a script for her "Lost Girl", let her play the protagonist of the play "dumb" dancer.
It seems that talented people shine everywhere they go. Because of her own good conditions, coupled with the help of colleagues and the promotion of Tian Han, Huang Baiying soon gained a foothold in nanguo society, and many viewers also fell in love with her.
Huang Baiying has a male fan named Zhang Huilin, a well-mannered and well-mannered rich boy who also studies at St. John's University in Shanghai. Zhang Huilin often carries flowers to the backstage to find Huang Baiying, in the frequent exchanges, learned that Huang Baiying can speak English, but also fascinated by her, often ask her to eat, play, shopping, out of pairs.
Huang Baiying
However, this Zhang Huilin has a wife at home. But Huang Baiying could not resist the temptation of his crazy pursuit and materials, and willingly became a "little three".
Zhang Huilin was very infatuated with Huang Baiying and promised her to marry her after graduating from college.
Huang Baiying, who has been accustomed to a life of brocade and jade food since childhood, if her family has not changed, the person she will marry in the future will definitely be a high-ranking official like Zhang Huilin. Of course, becoming someone else's concubine should not have been in her previous plans. However, at present, she has no father, no mother, no one to rely on, how can she pick?
After Tian Han heard the news, he hurriedly came to persuade Huang Baiying not to miss her great talent and years for the sake of temporary pleasure, so that she would get lost and concentrate on learning art, and she would definitely become a famous character in the future. Tian Han persuaded people to also take pains to move the "La Traviata" out and ask her not to take the back road of the "Traviata".
However, Huang Baiying, who is young and vigorous and falls into "love", is a rebellious "love brain" who can listen to the advice of the elders. It just so happened that she couldn't eat the hardships of the Nanguo Society, so she left the Nanguo Society in a huff.
As an orphan girl, Huang Baiying actually did not only want to rely on the man who promised her, she also knew that if she wanted to live, she had to find a job.
Picking and choosing, Huang Baiying picked a relaxed, well-paid profession: a dancer.
Huang Baiying danced in the Dadong Dance Hall, because of her outstanding dance skills, slim figure and exquisite costumes, she soon became a cash cow of the Dadong Dance Hall, the boss cared for her, and the guests liked her.
There was a stupid boy named Tong Sanmao, who was already married, and after dancing with Huang Baiying once, he was not guarded, and he ran to the Dadong Dance Hall every day, sending valuable gifts and tips, only to win the beauty dance together.
This boy had three high cheekbones and a sallow face, and compared with Zhang Huilin, who was very talented, he couldn't see it at all. At the beginning, Huang Baiying was only perfunctory, and she didn't expect that Tong Sanmao was generous, and she was not good at turning away the god of wealth.
However, this Boy Sanmao was not a good person, and he knew huang Baiying's careful thoughts, and he had already been thinking about how to deal with her in his stomach.
Once, Tong Sanmao asked Huang Baiying to go out to play, and when the other party was not paying attention, he added ecstasy to her drink. He could only use these three tricks, and everyone could guess the next thing, Huang Baiying was lost.
Afterwards, Huang Baiying cried and said that he was going to sue Tong Sanmao. Tong Sanmao was afraid that things would make a big fuss, so he had to take a lot of money to coax her, and vowed to marry her.
Although Huang Baiying was cultured, in that era, it was still a big thing to be defiled by people, and she didn't want to make a big deal out of it, and it was herself who suffered losses at that time. Since Tong Sanmao promised to marry her, he would not pursue it.
In order to appease Huang Baiying, Tong Sanmao rented a suite, and the two lived together.
However, Huang Baiying was too young after all.
Living under the same roof, Tong Sanmao's vices were gradually exposed, because he had already obtained Huang Baiying, so he changed his previous appearance of "licking dogs" and became arrogant.
Huang Baiying, who has always been held by people, can stand it, often messing with Tong Sanmao, and the dance hall owner knows it. The boss was afraid that the two would affect the business of the dance hall, so he resigned Huang Baiying.
After all, Huang Baiying was very good at dancing, and there were many people who were vying for her, and later she went to the dance hall of the Paris Hotel.
Whenever he saw Tong Sanmao's evil, Huang Baiying would think of Zhang Huilin's goodness. When living with Tong, she often interacted with Zhang Huilin.
Every time Zhang Huilin went to the Paris Ballroom, he would dance a few songs with Huang Baiying, laughing and chatting. However, there was no impermeable wall, and this matter was discovered by Tong Sanmao.
Tong Sanmao threatened that he would not give up and would want Zhang Huilin to look good.
On the night of June 28, 1930, Zhang Huilin went to look for Huang Baiying again, but unfortunately, he was bumped into by Tong Sanmao, and without saying much, he ran away.
When Tong Sanmao saw that the "adulterer" had run away, he could only throw his anger on Huang Baiying's head, scolded and pushed, and said that he would teach her a good lesson. Later, under the advice of others, Tong Sanmao did not "make a big fuss" in the dance hall.
After the dance hall closed, Huang Baiying and Tong Sanmao got into the car, she felt uneasy, but she did not know how to be good.
Tong Sanmao shouted, "I have spent dozens of silver taels, enough to get a pistol, which will be used to hit you." After saying that, he took out the original bank passbook from his pocket of his clothes.
Huang Baiying was frightened and trembling, and fear and fear swept through his body.
Tong Sanmao threatened: "You only have two ways today, either promise to marry me as a concubine, or you will die." ”
Huang Baiying was afraid of death, but she was even more afraid of the man in front of her, it was hell, she said: "I'd rather die than marry you." ”
After Tong Sanmao listened, he let the driver stop, and then pushed Huang Baiying out, pointing at Wu Songjiang and saying, "This is the place where you die, if you don't die today, you will have to die two or three people in the future." ”
Huang Baiying, who was forced into a desperate situation, still did not let go, never wanted to marry this beast, and cried and walked to the river, which was a big deal.
At this point, Tong Sanmao was frightened, pulled her aside, got into the car, and returned to the city.
Tong Sanmao's heart was on fire, the more he thought about the fire, the bigger the fire, the sky was already bright, he got out of the car halfway to the pharmacy to buy a pack of tranquilizing pills. The two went to the Cangzhou Hotel in Huxi, entered room 201, and bought four bottles of soda and paper and pencil.
In the room, Tong Sanmao threatened Huang Baiying to write a letter to Zhang Huilin, announcing that he had disassociated himself from Zhang. She was helpless and wrote a letter. However, when Tong Sanmao read the letter, the fire of jealousy burned again, because in the letter, Huang Baiying did not mention a word to break off relations with Zhang Huilin.
Anger had already rushed to Tong Sanmao's Heavenly Gate Cover, and he took out pills and soda for Huang Baiying to swallow. Huang Baiying did not resist, swallowed ten pills at once, and within a few minutes, he was drowsy.
Tong Sanmao looked at the motionless Huang Baiying, as if a basin of cold water had poured on the hot brain door, he was awake and scared, which big fool would be stupid enough to kill someone in a hotel room with his name registered?
Tong Sanmao hurriedly picked up the sleeping Huang Baiying, ran out of the hotel and called a car, and sent him to a nearby hospital.
After all-out rescue, Huang Baiying escaped from the ghost gate and came back to life.
Tong Sanmao saw that the matter had been exposed and the paper could not contain the fire, so he went to the patrol house to surrender himself, and was later arrested and sent to court. In court, he repeatedly argued, concealed the truth, and also said that because of his interaction with Huang Baiying, he was at odds with his father, brother and wife, and he was in debt, because he had no face to live in the world, he thought of taking poison with Huang and committed suicide, and when he wanted to take it, he saw that the pills on the table were swallowed by Huang Baiying.
However, Huang Baiying in the courtroom is very strong and meets with the lawyer.
Fortunately, Judge Wu Tingqi was not a fool, but also quite upright, and made a judgment, saying that the defendant Tong Sanmao was guilty of instigating attempted murder and was sentenced to two years in prison; the number of days of detention before the verdict was allowed to be two days to pay for one day.
Tong Sanmao was not satisfied with the local court's judgment and appealed to the Second Branch of the Jiangsu Provincial High Court. In the end, his appeal was dismissed. It was not until April 1932 that the case was reviewed. Because Tong Sanmao had been imprisoned for more than a year and was seriously ill, his sentence was exempted from his punishment.
Ruan Lingyu
After being forced to take drugs, Huang Baiying became a household name in Shanghai Beach, many theaters and bookstores invited her to perform, she also gave up her life as a dancer, turned to an actor who made a living from acting, and began to get involved in the entertainment industry and the film industry. In 1933, together with movie stars Ruan Lingyu and Tan Ying, she attended a sensational fashion show on the beach and made the most of it. She also participated in the shooting of teaching films such as "Cotton", and her stills were also published in various pictorials, becoming a popular star.
In 1932 the "A. During the Songhu War of Resistance, Huang Baiying, Ruan Lingyu, and others went to the Shanghai Red Cross Hospital for Wounded Soldiers many times to offer condolences and sent fruit and food, as well as urgently needed items such as clothes and cotton wool, to prove her patriotic heart with actions.
Seventeen or eighteen-year-old Huang Baiying, after experiencing family changes, she had to face various difficulties and temptations when she first entered the society. At that time, she was not brave and mature enough, and successively intervened in the marriage of two men and launched a "love triangle" with them, which eventually brought the disaster of killing. At that time, she was a lost girl.
Although the way fate made Huang Baiying grow up was a bit cruel, fortunately, it was just a big joke with her, and people were also very tolerant of this woman with a bumpy fate, and she stopped the horse in time and embarked on the sunshine road.