In the 1930s, a song "Night Fragrance" resounded all over the country, and this familiar melody can still be heard all around us today. The original song of this song is called Li Xianglan, in the 1940s, but it was popular throughout China, and it is one of the "Seven Queens of Songs" in Shanghai Beach, which is on a par with Gong Qiuxia, Zhou Xuan, Yao Li, Bai Guang, Bai Hong, and Wu Yingyin. Her "Suzhou Nocturne" and "He Rijun Come Again" are all popular songs.
But she was almost shot for adultery, and before the execution, she unbuttoned her blouse, took out a certificate and handed it to the detainees, and was immediately acquitted. This has to start from Li Xianglan's youth.
Li Xianglan, formerly known as Shuko Yamaguchi, was born in 1920 in Liaoning. One day at the age of 12, she took a train from Fushun to Shenyang, and on this train, she met a Soviet girl Liuba who changed her life's fate, Liuba and Li Xianglan were the same age, because the two were very talkative, Liuba introduced Li Xianglan to the famous Soviet opera singer Mrs. Bodoresov, Li Xianglan's singing talent was suddenly discovered by this famous master, and was accepted as a disciple. Since then, Li Xianglan has started her singing career, and during her studies, she also learned Russian.
When Li Xianglan was 18 years old, she was already a beautiful woman, and with her beautiful singing voice, she was quickly targeted by the Japanese. Under the packaging of the Japanese, she became the spokesperson of the Japanese and puppet Manchurian governments, often starring in some movies and operas that glorified Japan's military aggression, and often helped the Japanese army to do propaganda. Due to the small number of entertainment projects in the country at that time, most of the people were still relatively indifferent, so Li Xianglan still became one of the seven queens of Shanghai Beach by performing this kind of play.
Li Xianglan also used the identity of this singer to help the Japanese do some things that were not easy to pass on news and cover for war criminals, for which she also won the trust of the Japanese military high-level. At a banquet, she also took advantage of the wine and asked a senior Japanese official for a certificate, saying that it would be convenient for her to serve the Japanese army in the future.
Soon in 1945, Japan was defeated and Li Xianglan was arrested for adultery. Just when this crime was already nailed down and was about to be shot, Li Xianglan unbuttoned his shirt in front of the guards and took out something from it, which was the certificate that Li Xianglan asked the senior Japanese officers that night, which was a certificate that proved that Li Xianglan was Japanese.
Li Xianglan's identity suddenly changed from a traitor to a prisoner of war, and according to the policy of preferential treatment of prisoners of war at that time, Li Xianglan did not have to be shot. Li Xianglan was soon repatriated to Japan, and at the beginning, her life was very difficult, after all, Japan had just been defeated, and the whole country was not happy. Later, she entered the entertainment circle she was familiar with, became a radio host, and interviewed Mandela, Arafat and other influential figures.
In 1974, Li Xianglan began to enter politics, became a parliamentarian, knew that she only retired in 1992, and in 2005 she also publicly issued a statement opposing the Japanese leader's visit to the Yasukuni Shrine, which is also a confession of the mistakes committed that year. In 2014, Li Xianglan died in Japan at the age of 94.
At the beginning of this article, it is mentioned that Li Xianglan was originally named Shuko Yamaguchi, in fact, she was originally a Japanese, and later recognized a Li Xianglan who changed her name Chinese as her adoptive father, so she was not a traitor, in that environment at that time, as a woman, she could only be at the mercy of Japanese militarism, and the wrong was Japanese militarism, that era.