Pirates of the Caribbean Lady Qing prototype Zheng Yiyi
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In 1931, under the cover of five bodyguards, the American journalist Li Liwusi infiltrated an extremely hidden pirate den in Theanluogang (now Fanhe Village, Nushan Town, Huidong County) in Daya Bay, Guangzhou.
To his surprise, life here is no different from ordinary villages, with grass houses, livestock, horse-drawn carriages...
A piece of peace.
Suddenly, a man with a gun rushed out and shot a warning shot into the sky.
The five bodyguards immediately revealed their identities: We are lai caishan people.
Who is Lai Caishan? A famous female pirate at the mouth of the Pearl River.
Peers taking foreigners out to write? How strange.
In this way, under the guarded eyes of the villagers, Li Liwusi hurriedly took a few photos and returned home.
This experience was later recorded in the book "I Walk with Chinese Pirates".
The only footage of a real pirate recorded with a camera was left behind.
Two of the five bodyguards escorting Ellius
Pirates are entrenched on the shores of Daya Bay
Daya Bay Isailuogang belongs to a relatively backward and remote area, which at first glance looks no different from ordinary villages
Pirates and residents patrolling with guns
The house where the hostages are held
Back on the ship at Lai Cai Shan, Li Li Wu ate and lived with the pirates
Lai Caishan and her two aunts
Lai Caishan's son is also the heir here
At mealtime, everyone sat on the deck to eat
Fill the arsenal with shells
Two pirates standing guard
Pirates are debugging their weapons
An elderly pirate
Each pirate is equipped with a gun
A pirate ship docked on the shore
Four ship-borne artillery
In 1930, British warships captured a group of Chinese pirates
Pirates with their hands tied
On the beach, a group of pirates who are about to be executed in the second from the left, combing the head of the moon is the Japanese, when many downcast Japanese ronin joined the Chinese pirate organization
The pirates who were beheaded by the Qing soldiers, the British also came to see the lively group photo
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At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the people, bandits were constantly plagued, relying on mountains to be mountain thieves and relying on the sea to be pirates.
On the southwest coast, there is a group of pirates who are frightening.
Passing ships, regardless of size and nationality, were robbed and even turned into international disputes.
Among them, there are many female pirates like Lai Caishan.
Like what
The prototype of the Pirates of the Caribbean Lady Qing - the famous female pirate Zheng Yiyi in the late Qing Dynasty;
Huicheng Shuikou snake scorpion beauty Tan Jinjiao
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On November 27, 1934, Hong Kong's South China Morning Post published an interesting film entertainment news.
The title is PirateQueen "MackSennett's LeaderofBiasBayCut-Throats——— ANAMERICANBLONDE!
To the effect that Hollywood film director Mark Senette actually used an American blonde to play the pirate queen who had cruelly cut the throats of others in Daya Bay.
The prototype of the so-called "pirate empress" is Tan Jinjiao, a native of Nanjin Township (present-day Shuikou Longjin) in Huiyang County, who is famous in the West for repeatedly looting foreign ships.
The reason why Tan Jinjiao is notorious is naturally because of the cruelty of the means.
For example, once, in order to avoid security searches, Tan Jinjiao "bought girls, dissected and hidden weapons, and avoided examinations", disguised herself as a woman holding a child and boarded the ship.
After boarding the ship, waiting for the opportunity, he teamed up to shoot and kill the guards, controlled the ship to dock, and the pirates on the shore were to loot the ship.
Tan Jinjiao "won the trust of the thieves with her posture, and then used various poisonous and spicy means to monopolize the pirate caves" ran rampant at sea for more than ten years.
Until his arrest in 1935.
It is said that the older generation of Huizhou people still remember the scene of Tan Jinjiao's arrest - "When she was arrested, Tan Jinjiao's posture was still graceful, wearing white soil cloth jackets, blue cloth hakama, and talking and laughing freely." ”
To their surprise, the fierce pirate queen was only 31 years old at the time.
It is worth mentioning that after the Japanese invaders landed in Daya Bay in October 1938, the pirates voluntarily accepted the recruitment and were incorporated into the Republic of China Navy.
It is also a late festival.
I remember a line from Jackie Chan's "Plan A":
In this part of Hong Kong, you can only do four kinds of people.
Rich people, I don't think I can do it.
There are already too many poor people and I don't want to do it.
I couldn't pass the police exam.
What else can I do without being a thief?