There is such a woman who has spent her life fighting against people's discrimination, but in the end she has not been able to resist the tricks of fate.
Since ancient times, there has been a saying that "red face is more than a thin life", which comes from the fact that in ancient times, beautiful beauties always had a difficult fate, and they were most likely reduced to the tools of teasing powerful men, and among them, especially the identity of "drama".
Yan Fengying, the famous grandmaster of Huangmei Opera, did not escape the fate of "red face and thin life", her life was extremely bumpy, she was tortured, and finally committed suicide because she could not bear the torture, at the age of 38.
Get acquainted with drama
In the old society, the profession of "drama" was regarded as one of the "lower nine" occupations, and in the eyes of the people, "if there is even a little way in the family, it will not let the children sing opera." ”
Because among the girls who sing, the best ending is to be favored by the big old man and marry his aunt. It is the discrimination of the people against this profession that has added more life setbacks to the women represented by Yan Fengying.
When Yan Fengying was four or five years old, her parents divorced, and when she was young, she was abandoned by both parents, and she had to return to the countryside to live with her grandmother, where the young Yan Fengying learned a lot of local folk songs, and Yan Fengying's father, Yan Siming, was a Peking Opera lover, although he did not live with his daughter, but every time Yan Siming returned to his hometown, he would take Yan Fengying's hand to sing her favorite Peking Opera, just like this, Yan Fengying opened the door to drama and began to be interested in drama.
When she was ten years old, Yan Fengying became acquainted with Yan Yungao in the same family, Yan Yungao once stayed in the drama team, singing the Huangmei opera that was a master, so Yan Fengying, who had an indissoluble relationship with the drama, suddenly fell in love with the Huangmei opera, and she privately worshiped Yan Yungao as a teacher and secretly learned to sing with him.
Unexpectedly, in the Huangmei drama, Yan Fengying has a very high talent, coupled with her light posture and beautiful posture, it took only five years to learn decently.
In 1945, the master Yan Yungao gave Yan Fengying a chance to take the stage, although he only played a little girl in "Erlong Mountain", but for Yan Fengying, it was his debut. But unexpectedly, this time on the stage, Yan Fengying was almost destroyed.
Close call
Yan Fengying's family ideology is extremely feudal and backward, in that era the clan still has a very large power, in the eyes of these clan elders, Yan Fengying, who sang on stage, can be said to have smeared the family, in order to make Yan Fengying repent of his mistakes, the elders of the clan decided to tie Yan Fengying up and sink into the river to prove the innocence of the clan and almost drowned.
Fortunately, Yan Fengying was lucky and picked up a life, but this incident made Yan Fengying understand that he could never stay in his hometown, so in order to survive, Yan Fengying had to go away.
In this way, Yan Fengying came to Anqing and began to sing opera for a living, with talent and hard work, Yan Fengying gradually sang famous, with "Xiao Ci Dian" and "You Chun" Yan Fengying won the love of the people of Anqing, and everyone also affectionately called her "Xiao Yan".
But the good times were not long, and the beautiful Yan Fengying also attracted the attention of a local self-defense captain, who stared at Yan Fengying and insisted on marrying Yan Fengying as his aunt.
In the chaotic world, no one can protect Yan Fengying, helplessly, Yan Fengying began to pretend to be crazy and stupid, just like this, Yan Fengying escaped from the palm of the self-defense captain by pretending to be crazy and selling stupid all day.
Despite escaping from the Captain of the Self-Defense Forces, Yan Fengying had to leave Anqing, and she once again embarked on a journey away from home.
A turnaround occurs
In late 1949, the People's Liberation Army successfully crossed the river, and Yan Fengying happened to be there to sing and wander, at first the People's Liberation Army persuaded Yan Fengying to join the People's Liberation Army, but Yan Fengying, who naturally loved singing, was unwilling to give up singing and refused the People's Liberation Army, later, the People's Liberation Army told Yan Fengying that her hometown had been liberated, and she could not go home without wandering, but the shadow of the teenager had always been in Yan Fengying's heart, and she did not dare to go home, so she turned around and came to Nanjing, where yan Fengying was introduced to dance as a dance hall in Nanjing. There she became acquainted with Gan Luzhi.
Gan Luzhi was the head of the local dance troupe and had a deep study of Kunqu opera, so Yan Fengying followed Gan Luzhi into the opera society and began to learn Kunqu opera with Gan Luzhi's father.
Later, China was completely liberated, and the literary and art workers represented by Yan Fengying ushered in the spring of their careers. In 1953, she was transferred to the Huangmei Drama Troupe in Anhui Province, where she met her first lover.
Encounters are not human
Yan Fengying made Anhui Huangmei Opera change from a local small drama to a nationally known drama with a song "Tianxian Matching", and it is precisely for this reason that she has won the title of "Huangmei Opera Generation Grandmaster".
Later, by chance, Yan Fengying met Wang Zhaoqian, who was the backbone of the military region's business at the time, and originally Yan Fengying thought that he had met a good person, but he did not expect that the person he encountered was not a person, Wang Zhaoqian was extremely macho, and could not accept Yan Fengying's contact with other men.
Once, Yan Fengying met Gan Luzhi, whom he had known before in Nanjing, and although Yan Fengying generously introduced the two acquaintances, he did not expect that after Gan Luzhi expressed friendship, Wang Zhaoqian did not pay any attention to Gan Luzhi and slapped Yan Fengying in public.
Yan Fengying, who had a strong personality, could not bear wang Zhaoqian's such humiliation, and resolutely decided to break up with her, but Yan Fengying was already pregnant at that time.
At that time, it was not easy for an unmarried woman to live with a child, not to mention that Yan Fengying was still a "drama" identity.
In order to take care of Yan Fengying, Gan Luzhi proposed to marry her. In order to take care of the child, Yan Fengying agreed, Gan Luzhi took care of their mother and son for two years in the role of father, and finally Yan Fengying understood that sympathy is always not love, she did not want to drag Gan Luzhi down, and chose to divorce him.
As for Wang Zhaoqian, he did not take care of Yan Fengying's mother and son once, and only sent a telegram when Yan Fengying was giving birth.
Later, when Yan Fengying was rehearsing a new play "Wang Jinfeng", he got acquainted with the director Wang Guanya at that time, Wang Guanya took good care of Yan Fengying's mother and son, and soon after, Yan Fengying fell in love with this gentle and considerate man, and the two married, Yan Fengying even named his son Wang Xiaoya, and Wang Xiaoya always thought that Wang Guanya was his biological father.
Red face and thin life
Although Yan Fengying has a happy family, she is still unable to escape the trickery of fate, Yan Fengying is suspected of being a "spy" sent by other countries, and finally she chooses to swallow sleeping pills to commit suicide. In this way, the life of the Huangmei Opera generation grandmaster was suspended at the age of 38.
After Yan Fengying's death, they even cut open her body, and eventually found nothing but sleeping pills.
In this way, the fierce Yan Fengying fought against fate for a lifetime, and finally could not escape the fate of "red face and thin life", which was really lamentable.