What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
In the high society of the Republic of China period, the most prestigious of the social celebrities was the "Southern Tang And Beilu", "Southern Tang" that is, Tang Ying in Shanghai, and "Beilu" that is, Lu Xiaoman in Beijing.
Lu Xiaoman's love affair with Xu Zhimo was well known to future generations, but Tang Ying was annihilated in the prosperity of old Shanghai. But in fact, compared to Lu Xiaoman's love trapping, Tang Ying is a more worthy model of celebrities. The following will take you to know this top social flower that is active in the Ten Mile Ocean Field.
In 1910, Tang Ying was born in Shanghai of a wealthy family, and his father Tang Nai'an was one of the first batch of students to study abroad funded by the Qing government with gengzi indemnities, and was also the first Western doctor in China to stay in the west. At that time, the status and value of the famous doctors in the west should not be underestimated, the wealth of the Tang family, beyond the imagination of ordinary people, if nothing else, the Tang family alone has 4 cooks - a Couple of Yangzhou couples do Chinese dim sum, a chef makes Western dim sum, and one specializes in cooking big dishes.
Tang Ying, who was born with a golden spoon, was born beautiful and brilliant, plus Tang Nai'an was deeply influenced by Western culture, and the Tang family was a devout Christian family, quite a bit of a "preference for daughters over men", so Tang Ying had a very high status in the family, and since childhood he had received the most cutting-edge Chinese and Western education, he could speak fluent English and was extremely proficient in traditional Chinese opera.
At the age of 16, Tang Ying officially stepped into the circle of high society and has since shined, repeatedly appearing on the front pages of major newspapers and becoming a goddess sought after by everyone. Tang Ying's beauty and talent simply became a business card in Shanghai, at that time, whenever there were celebrity tycoons who came to Shanghai, Tang Ying was bound to attend, and everyone was proud to be able to see her fangrong, then known as "the first lady in Shanghai".
Once, when the British royal family visited Shanghai, Tang Ying was invited to perform piano and Kunqu opera. The next day, major newspapers published Tang Ying's jade photos, and their brilliance completely overshadowed the British royal family. This was Tang Ying's charm at that time.
In the autumn of 1935, the 25-year-old Tang Ying performed the entire "Wang Baojun" in English at the Calden Grand Theatre, creating a precedent for performing Peking Opera in English. This seemingly unsimilar thing has won a full house under Tang Ying's wonderful interpretation, she not only looks beautiful (see the picture below), But also has a pure accent in Oxford English, portraying the heroine Wang Baojun beautifully.
Tang Ying is not only a celebrity, but also a fashion vane at that time, she sprayed CHANEL5 perfume, pedaled FEREGAMO high heels, polished CD lipstick, wore CELINE clothing, and carried LV handbags, Linglong magazine took Tang Ying as a role model, calling on new women to look up to her and be the most fashionable woman.
Tang Ying loves beauty, and the line head naturally cannot be less. According to her sister Tang Weihong's recollection, the Tang family had ten large gold-encrusted boxes dedicated to Tang Ying's brand-name clothing. Tang Ying is very particularly dressed, even if she does not go out to socialize, she has to change her clothes at least three times a day - in the morning it is a short-sleeved cardigan, at noon it is a Chinese-style cheongsam, and there are often guests coming at night, so she must wear a Western-style long skirt...
Tang Ying loves to play, loves to dress, loves to dance, loves friends, loves socializing, loves all expensive, beautiful, luxury things - all these hobbies have not changed until they are old. As for love and men, it is secondary to her, not to force or to die, which is why she can live a long life, while Lu Xiaoman will end up alone.
When she was a teenager, Tang Ying fell in love with Song Ziwen, and when she was young, she married Li Zufa, the son of the rich businessman Li Yunshu, and later remarried to the seventh son of Xiong Xiling, the premier of the Beiyang government, as a young grandmother, but she fell in love and broke up, married and divorced, and divorced again after remarriage, and finally did not choose Song Ziwen, who had a prominent family lineage, nor did she choose the rich second generation Li Zufa or the second generation of officials Xiong Qigongzi, but married Rong Xianlin, who worked in the AIA Insurance Company for the third time. Rong Xianlin has average economic conditions and has 4 children with his ex-wife, but these Tang Ying do not mind, she wants only a like-minded husband.
Every time she lost love, Tang Ying turned around gorgeously and continued to move forward, and finally found true love. In 1948, Tang Ying's family went to Hong Kong, and later immigrated to the United States. In the days of the United States, Tang Ying still lived comfortably and happily, not playing cards with friends, or playing with her grandson, and what will never change is the beauty and nobility carved in her bones.
In 1986, Tang Ying died of illness in New York at the age of 76. There was originally an electric bell next to her bed that led directly to her son Lee Mingjue's room, but she never rang it. She left, so quiet, did not disturb anyone, and until death is exquisite makeup, exquisite life, really worthy of the former Shanghai famous lady.