Shili Yangchang Beach, Shanghai during the Republic of China period was very prosperous, it opened in 1843 to become a treaty port, after decades of development, has become one of the most prosperous cities in the world at that time. Here, banks, shops, restaurants, casinos, dance halls are lined up, and the streets are full of blonde foreigners and girls in fashionable clothes...
Pictured above is an old Shanghai fashion girl
In the old Shanghai of the 1920s and 1930s, beautiful stars gathered. The most popular social flower in the social field is none other than Tang Ying. A graduate of the Shanghai Church Aristocratic School of Chinese and Western Women's School, Tang Ying is versatile, sweet-voiced, slender, avant-garde dressed, and has appeared in many plays. In those years, Tang Ying and Lu Xiaoman were known as stars in the social field, known as the Southern Tang Dynasty and the Northern Continent. Lu Xiaoman is well known and has more or less a relationship with the poet Xu Zhimo, but Tang Ying's popularity is all based on her own talents.
The picture above is Tang Ying
As the loudest social flower in the old Shanghai, Tang Ying's feelings and private life are naturally concerned.
Tang Ying's older brother Tang Ying had a very good relationship with Song Ziwen, and the two studied together in the United States, and after returning to China, Tang became Song's confidential secretary. Tang not only had close contact with Song Ziwen, but also often invited him to visit the Tang family.
In this way, Tang Ying also knew Song Ziwen. Although Tang Ying was 16 years older, Song Ziwen was considered to be the richest, mature, handsome, gold and powerful man in the world at that time, which was undoubtedly attractive to Tang Ying; and Tang Ying's youthful beauty and versatility also made Song Ziwen quite addicted. However, Tang Ying's father, Tang Nai'an, was extremely opposed to his children interacting with politicians, and later his brother Tang Fei was assassinated because of Song Ziwen, and Tang Nai'an was furious, and Tang Ying's relationship with Song Ziwen was doomed to be fruitless.
The picture above is Song Ziwen
Soon after breaking up with Song Ziwen, Tang Ying soon married Li Zufa, the son of the merchant Li Yunshu. The Li family is a rich family, married into such a rich family, Tang Ying's life was comfortable at the beginning, she still maintained the pomp of social flowers, and continued to live with unlimited scenery.
However, Tang Ying's husband, Li Zufa, is a person who likes to be quiet and does not like to communicate, and is naturally very dissatisfied with his wife's frequent entry and exit of social places, and later the two divorced because of personality incompatibility. This time marrying into the rich, Tang Ying naturally did not get true love.
The person in the wheelchair pictured above is Li Mingjue
After divorcing Li Zufa, Tang Ying met Rong Xianlin, who worked in an insurance company. Compared with Tang Ying's ex-husband, Rong Xianlin is a Cantonese, with a lively personality, diverse hobbies, and proficiency in horseback riding, dancing, and fishing, which makes him and Tang Ying have a lot of common language. The two married in the early 1940s and moved to the United States in 1948.
It is worth mentioning that Tang Ying and her first husband Li Zufa had a son, named Li Mingjue, who later became a world-class stage design master, known as "the world's contemporary stage design titan" and "a generation of masters in the American stage design industry".