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In the 1990s film "Farewell to the King", the scene of "Cheng Die's dress quitting smoking" is recognized as an incomparably "exciting" part of the film.
The plot of this paragraph is that New China has just been founded, and Cheng Dieyi, the "famous character of the Republic of China" played by Zhang Guorong, is falling into the torment of "quitting smoking (opium)".
Dressed in white, he had a seizure of smoking, roared wildly in the room, and took a smoking gun and beat him around.
Although brother Shi desperately hugged him, he said bitterly, "Just bear with it."
But only in exchange for his desperate struggle to say a word of foul language.
His head was bloodied, staining the fish tanks around him red, and finally exhausted, he was paralyzed on the bed by the five flowers, and he seemed to see his mother who had been separated for many years, muttering "Mother, the water is frozen"...
This wonderful performance of less than a minute is recognized as the peak of Zhang Guorong's life, and it made many viewers see heartache at that time. But it also made some "Republican fans" indignant:
In the Republic of China, where cultural freedom and prosperity, how could the "famous opera characters" degenerate into smoking opium? This movie is also too good at making up.
In fact, if we "compare" the real history, we have to say that the bridge section in "Farewell to the Overlord" is still polite. In the "Republic of China showbiz" from 1912 to 1949, drugs represented by opium were definitely more rampant than in the movies.
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In the movie "Farewell to the Overlord", at least in the protagonist Cheng Dieyi's own drama class, in addition to him, there are really few peers who smoke opium, and in the Republic of China years, such a "drug abuse ratio" was really low enough in the "show business circle" at that time.
According to the survey data of the northeast region published in the Xiqu New Daily in 1949, a quarter of the more than 100 local folk artists who were interviewed and surveyed by the government were "smokers."
In other words, out of every four artists, there is an addict.
In Beiping's "showbiz circle", there is also a saying that "no big smoke, but a thousand".
That is to say, "drug use" was not sneaky at the time, but rather the standard of "big stars".
Even what level of "drugs" are smoked, what level of "film remuneration" is taken.
In this way, the "drug abuse style" is also rampant in the showbiz circle of the Republic of China.
Mr. Zhang Boju, a famous Peking Opera art researcher, told a ridiculous story in the "showbiz circle" of the Republic of China in his works:
A "famous corner" of the Republic of China once openly declared that he would resolutely not go to Europe, America and other places to perform, but only wanted to perform in India, because "India has a big soil (good opium), and I can enjoy it."
Going abroad to perform is to "suck in good poison".
In the "Pear Garden Outer Chronicle", which records many details of the "showbiz circle" of the Republic of China, it is also full of various shocking "drug-taking pictures". A certain opera master who was famous in Manjing city at the end of the Qing Dynasty was also an addict with many years of "smoking age", "can smoke two or two cigarettes every day".
Even when he woke up every morning, he was groggy, and he had to take a big smoke in his mouth and squirt a few mouthfuls into his face to wake him up.
Then he had to smoke a dozen cigarettes before he could get out of bed.
After washing, smoke a dozen more tubes before eating breakfast.
Every morning, he had to toss and turn for more than an hour, which was equivalent to being "poisoned awake" by the poison.
With "big stars" taking the lead, the "drug use style" of the Republic of China artists is also very widespread, and it has also become a "passing on the gang".
It is also recorded in the "Pear Garden Outer Chronicle":
When many "famous artists" in the Republic of China teach art, they lie on the smoke and smoke opium while teaching.
Especially when teaching play, the big smoking gun has become a prop.
Apprentices are not good at learning?
Directly stick a cigarette stick on the apprentice.
Such a "demonstration effect", whether it can teach famous characters is difficult to say, but it is highly likely to teach "smokers".
Many of the "famous people of the Republic of China" who are addicted to drugs have learned from their masters.
This scene of "drug abuse becoming a common practice" has also accelerated the erosion of the showbiz circle of the Republic of China.
Therefore, in the early days of the founding of New China, an important task was to "clean up" the artists and completely eliminate the bad habits of the artists through various transformation methods.
How many artistic masters who have fallen into the quagmire of "drug addiction" have bid farewell to the past and ushered in a new artistic life.
So, why did the "drug-taking" trend of the Republic of China spread to such a point of not being ashamed and being proud?
Because this Republic of China, which is full of romantic feelings in the eyes of some "Republic of China fans" today, is a world where drugs are rampant.
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To what extent did the drugs of the Republic of China spread?
You can first look at the "performance" of "domestic drugs".
During the beiyang warlord era, warlords everywhere used opium as a source of wealth and tried their best to force the peasants under their rule to grow opium.
Even warlords in different regions waged wars for opium interests.
As for the central government?
At that time, the Beiyang government's "anti-smoking station" and "general bureau of anti-smoking and rehabilitation" had the main "function" of collecting anti-smoking taxes, and as long as enough money was paid, opium was open for sale.
Such a trend developed into the middle and late period of the Republic of China, and the amount of opium cultivation in China was simply "huge".
In the western and eastern Henan regions of the 1920s, nearly half of the land was planted with opium.
During the same period, one-fifth of the land in Anhui Province was covered with opium.
In Yunnan in the 1930s, 1 million mu of land was planted with opium.
On the eve of the founding of the People's Republic of China, China's native opium cultivation area exceeded 20 million mu, and more than 10 million peasants made a living from it...
In the Republic of China era, foreign drugs also poured in, and even became an important witness to the fierce War of Resistance Against Japan.
Before the outbreak of the All-out War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Japan wantonly imported opium into China through various means.
In the Japanese Concession of Tianjin during the Republic of China era, there were more than 160 shops engaged in the drug business, each of which was related to Japan.
At that time, all over China, from Japanese doctors to Japanese prostitutes, were also related to the drug trade.
In Peiping, where the art of Peking Opera is developed, the Japanese Korean Ronin even more wantonly sells drugs such as "white noodles", and in 1934 alone, there were more than 70,000 people who smoked "white noodles" in Beiping City...
In 1936, the 214 addicts imprisoned in the Peiping Drug Rehabilitation Center covered various fields such as government, banks, the army, pear orchards, hawkers, monks, coachmen and so on. Such a city that has been heavily infiltrated by drugs, in the face of the coming all-out war of resistance, the results can be imagined.
The Japanese came to China to grow opium: on the one hand, to raise funds for the war, and on the other hand, to weaken the Chinese
And this is not just a problem of a city in Beiping, but a common scene in the entire Republic of China era, urban and rural areas in China.
At the beginning of the founding of New China in 1949, the "poisoning" situation in Chinese society was even more shocking, not only the 10 million opium farmers, but also more than 20 million addicts, and more than 540 tobacco restaurants.
Similarly, from 1949 onwards, while carrying out the "cleansing" and transformation of the "stars" of the Republic of China, New China struck a more serious blow, eradicating more than 20 million mu of "drug fields" in three years, arresting nearly 370,000 drug dealers, executing more than 30,000 of them who committed the most heinous crimes, and basically eradicating the tobacco and drugs that had ravaged China for more than a hundred years.
In the movie "Farewell to the Overlord", behind Cheng Dieyi's roar when he "quit smoking" is such a period of suffering in China, and it is also the new China in the early days of the founding of the country, an incomparably brilliant "anti-smoking war".
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After watching the scene behind "Overlord Farewell", many people will sigh that today's years are quiet.
But such a good time comes from the protection of how many people were born into death.
Even in the mid-1990s, when "Farewell to the King" was popular in the film world, an eight-episode documentary called "The Sword of China" also caused a sensation.
The documentary chronicles the evils of drugs and the sacrifices of countless anti-drug officers.
Among them, which especially made many viewers cry, was the heroic martyrdom of Zhang Congshun.
This anti-drug hero, who was born and died many times, faced the drug dealer who pulled the grenade and fell in a pool of blood to protect his comrades-in-arms when investigating a transnational drug trafficking case.
Before his death, his last words were: "Leave me alone, I am fine, go and rescue the other comrades."
This is our anti-drug policeman, the most lovely person who guards our happy years with his life.
For money, drug addiction, can be mad
In the face of such a heavy history and such a great sacrifice, any Chinese with a conscience should understand that zero tolerance for drugs is the most basic bottom line of being a human being!
And how shameful and ridiculous are the individual "stars" and "big V" who are obsessed with or even "exploding" on the "anti-drug issue"!
References: Liao Baoping, "Late Qing Dynasty: A Half-History of Drug Abuse in the History of the Republic of China", Ren Xueyue, "Research on the Anti-Drug Struggle Led by the Communist Party of China in the Early Period of the Founding of the People's Republic of China", Qi Chunfeng, "Drug Trafficking Activities of Japanese and Korean Ronin people in Beiping", Chen Yuanyuan", "The Return of the Dignity of Artists after the Founding of New China"