In the 1920s, the Green Gang knew everyone, the little were all in a leper style, and their leader Du Yuesheng was a literati dressed, wearing a long shirt, and greeting everyone. Other gangsters like guns and cannons, But Du Yuesheng likes Peking Opera, in 1931 Du Clan Ancestral Hall was built, he invited all the four famous Dans of Peking Opera to the scene to celebrate, this pomp is equivalent to who built a new house to invite all the four heavenly kings to sing, Du Family Ancestral Hall because of the arrival of the four famous Dans are the same.
Just listening is not enough, Du Yuesheng also played a public performance in front of himself, in 1924 in order to raise charitable donations to perform a play "Huang Tianba Single Riding On the Mountain", because it was the first time on stage, he did not sing a few words and forgot the words, stumbling and singing the first one. The second time he played, he did not forget the words, but he was overwhelmed by heavy clothes, and every step was dangling, and the audience was afraid that he would fall.
Du Yuesheng's performance can not be said to be successful, but the people are still the first time to watch the gangster singing, they are willing to buy tickets to see, see Du Yuesheng ugly on the stage is very happy, to Du Yuesheng to collect a lot of donations.
Du Yuesheng married his wife is also a preference for pear garden people, he has a total of 5 wives, 2 are singing opera, the fourth aunt Wife Yao Yulan was born in the opera family, can sing the old student can also sing Qingyi, 12 years old began to perform on stage, in 1928 she and her sister in the Golden Grand Theater performance at the same time by Du Yuesheng, Du Yuesheng forcibly possessed two sisters, the sister could not stand the humiliation of a week after a week of depression, she married Du Yuesheng because of pregnancy.
Du Yuesheng's fifth aunt, Meng Xiaodong, is the most famous and beautiful of all his wives, and is also a big figure in the opera industry, good at stringing up old students, known as the "Winter Emperor". Meng Xiaodong and Yao Yulan are good friends, when they came to Shanghai to perform, they invited her, Du Yuesheng followed, Du Yuesheng liked Meng Xiaodong when watching the play, but at that time Meng Xiaodong was Mei Lanfang's woman, and he could only put his admiration in his heart.
In 1933, Meng Xiaodong and Mei Lanfang divorced, Du Yuesheng saw the opportunity to come, always appeared next to Meng Xiaodong to ask for warmth, Meng Xiaodong did not come out of the shadow of divorce and did not want to accept Du Yuesheng, Du Yuesheng this is not overlord the bow, up to ten years as a warm man to care for Meng Xiaodong.
In 1950, Du Yuesheng prepared to flee to Hong Kong in order to save his life, and he also wanted to take Meng Xiaodong, who said: "Am I going as a maid or a girlfriend?" Du Yuesheng heard Meng Xiaodong's words and took her away after becoming a relative. Du Yuesheng and Meng Xiaodong were only married for one year, and Du Yuesheng died.
Du Yuesheng had 10 children, and before he died, he instructed his children not to go down the underworld again, and his children listened to him and did not do so, and all embarked on the way of conformity. His original wife, Shen Yueying, was a beautiful-looking maid, who was brokered by Jin Rong and Lin Guisheng, and Shen Yueying had no fertility and could only adopt a son, Du Weifan.
Du Yuesheng's second aunt Chen Shueying is a famous dancer in Shanghai, and Du Yuesheng met when dancing, gave birth to Du Yuesheng's actual eldest son Du Weiyuan, Du Weiyuan was very good at reading since he was a child, put all his mind on reading and never participated in family battles, Du Yuesheng sent him to the United States to study, Du Yuesheng likes people who can read, Du Weiyuan obeys Du Yuesheng's words, and is the most favored of all his sons.
Du Yuesheng's third aunt, Sun Peihao, married him at the age of 16 and gave birth to 2 sons. The most famous of Du Yuesheng's children should be Du Weishan. He was a famous collector of ancient coins, and when he visited the Shanghai Museum in 1991, he found that the museum valued a broken ancient Persian Sassanid coin, which he was very curious about, because there were hundreds of such coins in his home, and they were still good.
The director of the museum did not believe what he said, and later he donated all the 367 ancient coins he bought at great expense to the Shanghai Museum, which included the coins of the Sassanid Dynasty and the 20 ancient countries in the Western Regions, such as the Sabbath and the Indian Dynasty. In 2004, he donated a batch of ancient coins to the Shanghai Museum, which were estimated to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars if exchanged for money, but he did not take anything to support Chinese research.
After reading these Du Yuesheng family photos, I realized that a century had passed like this, and no matter how famous the people who shook the rivers and lakes had turned into a bunch of yellow earth, only his legend remained in the human world.