She was the first prostitute in the late Qing Dynasty, and when she was the wife of Yuanyuan, she saved a city in only two sentences...
In 1933, Liu Bannong, a professor at Peking University, visited Sai Jinhua, a famous prostitute in the late Qing Dynasty, who was already over the age of Hua Jia. Inside the house, there are incense sticks and Buddha statues on the table. Sai Jinhua had just recovered from a serious illness, and although she was in the burrow, she could still see a bit of the playful look of her youth.
After Professor Liu returned home, he wrote a biography for her, in which he lamented: "There are two 'treasures' in China, Cixi and Sai Jinhua, one in the dynasty and one in the opposition; one hateful and one pitiful. ”
In the book, Empress Dowager Cixi is compared with Sai Jinhua, and there is no praise for the latter in her words. Mr. Hu Shi was happy: The professor of Peking University wrote a biography for a prostitute, which is really unprecedented.
Mr. Hu Shi would not have thought that after the death of Sai Jinhua, Qi Baishi and Zhang Daqian, the masters of Chinese painting, all wrote inscriptions on her tombstones, and Hu Die, the star of the Republic of China, personally wrote a prayer:
I want to be a husband and wife, in and out of the palace, out of the limelight, to now poor and sick to death, no children to cry, no daughter to cry.
As Hu Die said, Saigin Peanut died in poverty and in poverty, once served as a lady of the Yuan, stepped on a pair of foot-wrapped feet to go to European countries, and also used a few words to save the people from water and fire, and a generation of famous prostitutes became patriots.
Second Master Sai, minister of the Council
At the beginning of the twentieth century, it was a turbulent time, and the mountain rain was about to fill the building.
The Eight-Power Alliance invaded China, and everywhere it went, the people were killed and killed, and countless treasures were stolen and plundered.
The local people are not happy, there are German soldiers broke into the residence of the famous prostitute Sai Jinhua, Sai Jinhua was alert, and during the exchange, it was found that the German general this time was the old acquaintance Wadesi.
Sai Jinhua offered to know the general Wadsi, ordered several soldiers to pass it on, and during the period also asked the German translation office, begging mr. translator to take her with him when he went to the South China Sea.
As soon as she saw Wadhi, she made two requests after a slight greeting: one was to protect the cultural relics, and the other was not to harass ordinary residents.
Three days later, the Germans issued a decree that soldiers could not commit illegal acts in the city of Beijing.
Mr. Lu Xun laughed at her as the "Nine Heavens Protector of the Country", and there was no lack of sarcasm in Mr. Lu Xun's words, but her beauty, wisdom and influence were obvious to all. At the moment, someone worshipped her, the other party was older, Sai Jinhua line two. Since then, people in Beijing have continued to call her "Second Master Sai of the Minister of Peace".
Lin Yutang praised her: "Beijing has finally been saved, exempted from large-scale killings and robberies, and order is gradually being restored, which depends on the blessings of the famous prostitute Sai Jinhua."
Things gradually stabilized, and the next thing that happened revealed Sai Jinhua's agility even more. The murder of a German minister in the streets violated the "inviolability of diplomats" regulation of international law. The wife of the German minister did not spare herself, and threatened to satisfy Empress Dowager Cixi.
Sai Jinhua took the initiative to persuade this lady, and she first explained her intentions, and it was not the empress dowager and the emperor who killed the minister, but those who were ignorant and ignorant.
After finishing his words, the words turned sharply: "They have already run far." The diplomatic relations between our two countries are simple, and we will have to restore the old good in the future. ”
In just two sentences, Sai Jinhua not only pointed out the origin of this matter, but also secretly pointed out the relationship between the two countries. The other party did not stop there, but was still indignant in his heart, threatening to ask the emperor and the empress dowager to make reparations.
How could the Guangxu Emperor and Empress Dowager Cixi, on behalf of the imperial court, easily bow their heads? Fortunately, Sai Jinhua has always been clever, and he came up with a brilliant plan in the flow of his eyes. The most glorious way for China to commemorate the victims is to erect a memorial arch, and it is simple to say:
"If we erect a huge archway for the minister and use the name of the emperor to carve the deeds of the minister in his life and the circumstances of his death, this can also be regarded as the emperor's atonement for his sins."
▲ The Klinder Monument proposed by Sai Jinhua is now the Defense of Peace Square
This archway stands on the bustling Dongdan North Street, and after its completion, a memorial ceremony was held. Years later, Sai Jinhua is old, and she still remembers that standing with her was a famous figure at that time.
The famous prostitute Sai Jinhua was circling around the high society of the late Qing Dynasty, and the name of The Second Master of Sai resounded throughout the capital.
Mrs. Minister
How can Ren Sai Jinhua speak eloquently, be alert and sleek and not lose to men. At the mention of her, some people still scorn her, but she is just a prostitute.
If you can choose, who wants to fall into the dust and fireworks, laughing and cursing?
In 1872, Saijin Peanut yu Gusu Zhao family, milk name Caiyun, ancestral Huizhou people, during the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom period fled to Suzhou. Whether it is Huizhou or Gusu, it is undeniable that Jiangnan Beauty is the best in the world.
Sai Jinhua has just grown to the cardamom girl, and she is already quite handsome, peach cheeks and cherry blossoms, and her eyes are clear. When she stood idly at the door, she could always attract the attention of officials and students passing by.
On weekdays, Sai Jinhua loves a Huizhou food called "Zhuangyuan Rice", which is simple to cook with red rice amaranth soup and then add cooked lard bibimbap.
Others laughed at her, and she must marry a champion in the future.
At that time, no one took the joke seriously, only the neighbors around there was a woman who pulled a fiber and said that the matchmaker, seeing that Sai Jin was beautiful, he often asked her to go to the flower boat together as a Cleaner, accompanied by guests to chant poems and paint, drink and talk.
Sai Jinhua was still young and didn't know the truth, he just thought it was funny.
The paper package could not hold the fire, and some people began to point fingers at the Zhao family, Sai Jinhua's grandmother was first embarrassed and did not allow her granddaughter to go out, but Sai Jinhua's mother Pan Shi thought for a while, the family situation was already stretched, which was also a way out. In the future, I will find a ruyi langjun for my daughter.
Since then, Sai Jinhua has used his virtual name to wander between the happy scenes for the sake of the whole face.
▲ Stills of "Magnificent Style", Liu Xiaoqing as Sai Jinhua
When time passes quietly, fate has already secretly laid the groundwork.
Coinciding with the return of the former branch leader Hong Jun to Suzhou to keep filial piety, Hong Jun pitied her for being young, always asking her about her origins, and some people asked, why didn't he include her in the palace?
Hong Jun was fifty, and Sai Jinhua had just turned fourteen. Hong Jun first realized that the age difference was too far, and there was already a wife at home, so he did not think so, until many people mediated from it, Hong Jun included Sai Jinhua in the side room, the two of them joined together, and also named her "Mengluan".
The jokes of the early years turned out to be true, and Hong Jun was the former Ke Yuanlang.
He was appointed minister to the West, and it was reasonable to say that his wife should accompany him. However, Hong Jun's lady was an old-fashioned bridesmaid who had been educated by the traditional concept of "abiding by etiquette and etiquette in words and deeds", and had never been far away, so she borrowed the clothes of mrs. Hong Jun with the newly entered Sai Jinhua.
On this trip, Sai Jinhua accompanied Hong Jun as the "Minister's Wife".
She has become a minister's wife who is dressed in fine clothes, and she can be pampered and superior, but Sai Jinhua is not willing to be only a silk flower attached to her husband.
Before she went to Europe with her husband, she specially purchased local specialties, and she also wanted to get a portrait of the German queen, and ordered someone to embroider a bust of the German queen. Su embroidery is famous all over the world, beautiful and elegant, as a souvenir is the most appropriate. During the journey, Sai Jinhua learned German day and night, preparing for Hong Jun's translation.
Time also, luck also, fate also. Since fate was willing to give her a chance, she naturally would not miss it in vain.
She had seen Kaiser Wilhelm II and German Augusta, the grand palace was full of flickering candlelight, SaiJinhua was draped in a scarf of peacock hair, wearing twenty-four streamers of Xiang Aya skirt slowly moving forward, like a cloud flowing water, walking western bows and kissing hand salutes, the opening was fluent In German.
Then she offered the gift again, and her attitude was not humble. The German Emperor and empress admired her beauty and talent, calling her "the first beauty of the East".
Maybe it has something to do with early life. When Sai Jinhua gets along with these royal families, she always takes care of everyone's emotions and never gets cold.
It is said that it was at this time that Sai Jinhua met Wadsi, who was still an officer.
▲ The stills of "Sai Jinhua" will reveal the cleverness of Sai Jinhua
In the later novels about Sai Jinhua, she always had a demeanor, hating that she could not communicate every day and dance night after night. Shang Hongkui, a scholar who co-authored "Sai Jinhua's Skill", was upset with her:
A young woman no more than twenty-eight years old, with her feet wrapped around her legs, will never make such a fuss as it is said in "The Flower of the Iniquity".
In any case, that time was also the most beautiful time for Sai Jinhua, traveling with four beards, stepping on a pair of three-inch golden lotuses that are difficult to travel, and stepping all over Berlin, Paris, London... She seemed to have entered a new world and had a daughter, named Deguan.
Terms of office always end. Shortly after returning to China, Hong Jun used a Russian-made map in the Pamir Sino-Russian dispute case, was jointly impeached by officials, and was old and depressed, and eventually died.
When marrying Sai Jinhua entered the door, the age difference between the two was too far, it was difficult to grow old with a white head, and Hong Jun told the matchmaker: Caiyun followed me, if I could grow old, it would be good; if not, I would definitely leave her with considerable assets.
Mr. Hong did not live up to the promise of the time, and he still remembered Sai Jinhua when he was in danger:
It is not easy for you to fight with me, whether you keep it or not, I will leave a sum of money to ensure that your life is worry-free.
Gone with the Wind
Sai Jinhua should have lived a carefree life.
Before his death, Hong Jun gave Sai Jinhua enough money to worry about this life to his own brother Hong Luan for safekeeping, and entrusted him to send Sai Jinhua back to his mother's house in Suzhou.
Don't look at the yellow and white mundane things in this text, but it is the best touchstone, and the greed and hatred of human nature are undoubtedly revealed.
As soon as he entered the city of Suzhou, Hong Luan swallowed the money privately and hid it. In the cold winter of the following year, when the two met on the streets of Shanghai, Sai Jinhua asked him for it, and this person was like a loach, and in a short time he found an excuse to hide away.
A former dusty woman, penniless, her good at German and social skills are difficult to use. If she had to find a way out for herself, she had very few options in front of her.
Sai Jinhua decided to go to Shanghai, where the bell rang and was known as the Paris of the East, where she returned to her bank and set up a book apartment outside her residence. He also wrote English on the book plate to attract foreigners in the capital. Shuyu has high requirements for talent, and it needs to be assessed every year, first saying a legend, and then playing a lute, and then being qualified before it can be listed.
Sai Jinhua is fluent in several foreign languages and proficient in human feelings, and the visitors are all foreigners and high-ranking officials. At that time, Sai Jinhua had become famous and had some fame in Shanghai Beach.
At that time, the rebbe waiter was supervising the industry in Shanghai, fearing that she would bring bad customs, and joined forces with local officials in Shanghai to force Sai Jinhua to leave Shanghai and flee to Tianjin.
At this time, how to live is the primary problem. Fortunately, she was clever, knowing that The name of Madame Zhuangyuan would definitely make her sensational throughout the city, so she bought the old mansion and a few girls and opened a golden flower class.
The name of "Lady Zhuangyuan" is really attractive, plus Sai Jinhua is good at business, taking her Jinhua class all the way to the north and south of the river and driving to the capital.
Life is gradually stable, and everything is moving in a good direction. But no matter how beautiful or difficult it is, life never stops at a certain moment.
Just at this moment, the Fengling girl she had bought swallowed opium and wanted to kill herself, and Sai Jinhua asked for a long time: "Why can't you think so much?" Under the questioning, Feng Ling sobbed, she had already met a lover, and made a covenant of life and death.
Seeing that Feng Ling was already out of breath, until the end of her life, Sai Jinhua still sighed: "If she explains to me, slowly saying that she can still recover eight hundred taels of silver, that is, sending her to be good, I don't care." ”
However, she was arrested for this matter, and when Sai Jinhua saw the light of day, the Jinhua class had dispersed. After this incident, Sai Jinhua was completely tired of the land of fireworks, she was no longer young, and her heart longed for stability:
I am like a tired bird, always willing to meet a sincere man and live a family life.
Sai Jinhua has successively met Cao Ruizhong of the Shanghai-Nanjing Railway and Wei Sijiong, a parliamentarian, and Lang's concubines are gentle and handsome, but Cao and Wei both died earlier than her.
The world wandered, and she was left alone.
▲ Stills of "The Magnificent Era" Liu Xiaoqing plays Sai Jinhua
When Dumas wrote La Traviata, he had foreseen that when God allowed a prostitute to have love, it would at first be like a kind of forgiveness, and later it would become a punishment for her.
The tide rises and falls, and no one can escape the big hands of fate.
Body like duckweed
It is rumored that when the Eight-Power Alliance withdrew, Vadersi invited Sai Jinhua to Germany, promising her that if Sai Jinhua was willing to go, she would be the most honored guest. Sai Jinhua shook her head: China is my home.
Rejected, Vadersi left in disgrace.
Sai Jinhua's later years did not go well, and she was invited to watch the patriotic drama "Summer Palace" rehearsed by the Shaanxi Yi Folk Society, and she sat in the box at the entrance of the building to watch the drama. The "Sai Jinhua" on the stage has become a heroic figure, and the real Sai Jinhua has reached the twilight age, and his life has fallen into a dilemma, his skin is still white, and he looks much younger than his actual age.
No one could see what the owner of these dark eyes was thinking.
At the end of the play, someone asked Sai Jinhua if the play was the truth? Sai Jinhua smiled indifferently and only said, "Although I am very praised, I am really uneasy in my conscience." She explained that the original act of persuading Wadesi was only a momentary sentiment, not a long-term plan to save the country.
She once wrote a poster that "the country is the country of everyone, and it is the duty of everyone to save the country", which is still treasured in the museum. Countless movies, dramas and novels about Sai Jinhua have been released, and in the early 30s, Sai Jinhua was written as a national hero who protected the country and the people.
The playwright Xia Yan greatly admired her: "The soul of a big man in the temple is less than that of a prostitute." ”
In his later years, Sai Jinhua lived in the house of Tianqiao Jurenli and lived extremely depressed. The Shandong warlord Han Fuyu pitied her poor life in her later years, and once left her a hundred oceans, and Sai Jinhua wrote a poem in return, and there was a sentence in the poem: Willing to hold a heavy coin to reward the residual flowers.
It is rumored that Mei Lanfang, Hu Shi and other celebrities have also received help, and Zhang Xueliang has personally visited her with Miss Zhao Si.
Peking University professor Liu Bannong voluntarily wrote a biography of Sai Jinhua, when he went to Jurenli to visit Sai Jinhua, he could still see a bit of the bright light of the past, Sai Jinhua occasionally showed a proud look in his eyes when he mentioned the past, but from time to time when he talked about his life now, only sighed. Sai Jinhua took a sip of tea:
"Sir, you see, the torn cotton clothes, the old velvet shoes, the old appearance without intention of modification, living in this dark alley, it is really unbearable to mention the old spring wind and flowers."
▲ Sai Jinhua tombstone
In 1936, Sai Jinhua died in Beijing.
This legendary woman, who spanned two centuries and traveled across the ocean, closed her eyes in the old mansion. There is no former partner around, nor a son and half a daughter, and half a life of prosperity and half a life has become a cloud of smoke.
She once said that looking at the kingdom of heaven and living in hell, so struggling, is a human life.
Before he was born, he was worried and won the name after his death. Sai Jinhua was named one of the top ten female masters in the past century and the top of the list of women in China's century of fashion. All the honors seemed to come overnight.
At the moment of the rise and fall of the country and the nation, a group of legendary women will always emerge, which has been the case since ancient times.
Sometimes they are admired and respected as patriotic heroes, and sometimes they are cursed and spurned by the subjugated demon. It seems that the change of times is only tied to the thin shoulder ridges of these legendary women.
For Sai Jinhua, it is not worthwhile to come to this world.
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