Shanghai's three tycoons, Jin Rong, are greedy for money, Zhang Xiaolin is good at fighting, and Du Yuesheng will be a man, of which Du Yuesheng is known as a person on the sea. The first person in the three hundred years of the Green Gang, being a man is his hardest bottom card. In 1923, Li Yuanhong was ousted from power, and when it came to the wedding, the world was hot and cold, and people shouted and beat. When you get to Shanghai, only Du Yuesheng lets your bodyguard shoot at the station, guard day and night, and walk away. Leaving Shanghai, Li Yuanhong asked Rao Hanxiang, a contemporary master of Piao Wen, to write down the couplet with Du Yuesheng of "The First Three Thousand Guests at the Chunshen Gate, Five Feet South of Xiaodu City", holding him together with Chunshen, one of the four princes of the Warring States, and admiring the courage of scattering thousands of gold and making friends of the world.
The Shanglian cites the Warring States Four Gentlemen to make an analogy, so what does the lower League's Xiaodu Chengnan Five Foot Heaven mean?
Zhang Junyu's "Biography of Du Yuesheng" records that this association was "the first hall of Mr. Du's residence on Shanghai's Hua Ge Zhen Road" to show solemnity.
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And this couplet can be said to be the most famous of the hundreds of couplets that people sent him before and after Du Yuesheng's death.
I reckon that most people know that Shanglian uses the allusion of the Four Gentlemen of the Warring States, Chun Shen Jun, Huang Xie, to compare Du Yuesheng's many people and corporal Li Xian. But many people certainly don't know what the next link really means.
Some people interpret this as Saying that Xiao Du is Du Yuesheng, and Chengnan refers to the south of Shanghai, his birthplace; and the five-foot heaven is his kindness to Shanghainese people thicker than heaven...
This is a big fallacy.
Because if you want to praise Du Yuesheng, how can you use Xiao Du instead of Da Du? DaDu is also generous; his hometown of Gaoqiao is northeast of Shanghai, not south; moreover, in the original text, it is five days, how can it be five feet? So, what kind of allusions does Rao Hanxiang, a scholar, use?
In fact, this association is to say that Du Yuesheng's ancestors were from the family. Xiao Du refers to the Du Qu south of the Han and Tang Dynasties Chang'an City. The real name of this place is not Du Qu, and later because of the Tang Dynasty, there were many big people living here in the Du family - there were seven prime ministers alone, not to mention other large and small bureaucrats; the poet Du Fu also had the sentence "Since the end of this life, Du Qu fortunately has Sang Ma Tian"; and Du Mu, who is known as one of the little Li Du, also lived here.
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At that time, as the saying goes, "Seongnam Vedu, go to the heavens and feet five." This means that the Wei Du Er clan, who lived in the south of the city, was very close to the Li Tang Royal Relationship, only a foot and a half away from Tianzi... Rao Hanxiang cited this allusion to elevate Du Yuesheng's identity.
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However, if we analyze it, we know that whether it is du chengnan being hung at home for five days, or the du ancestral hall has given five thousand silver dollars a sky-high polishing fee, it shows a fact - in his heart, Du Yuesheng is very concerned about his origin. He knew deeply that he was not a generation, and he knew that many people actually looked down on the origins of his hooliganism. He knew that many people with heads and faces, after falling into their own help, were eager to immediately break away from themselves.
Therefore, during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Mei Lanfang vowed not to sing for the Japanese and to make a living by selling calligraphy and paintings on her own. After Du Yuesheng knew about it, he sent someone to buy his calligraphy and paintings and quietly helped him get through the difficulties. It can be said that when others save money, Du Yuesheng only saves friendships, but almost all those who know him have received his help. When Du Yuesheng sent money to others, he never allowed a third person to be present, in order to save the face of the person being helped. The icing on the cake, he disdains the people who send charcoal in the snow, there must be him. Du Yuesheng, who fell in his late years in 1951, was about to come to the end of his life. He opened the safe for his children and put all the IOUs on the brazier and destroyed them in public. The family is puzzled. He explained that what seems to be money lent is actually human gratitude, and will always remember the good and bad of the vacation, and you will bring you the disaster of killing yourself. Beard Wu once said that Du Yuesheng's victory is not in doing things, but in being a person, a face of people, these three bowls of the most difficult noodles. Du Yuesheng is all-round, from the young man in the Ten Mile Ocean Field to the well-known big man on the beach, he has gained countless respects by being a person.