In ancient times, there were four beautiful women, Sable Cicada, Xi Shi, Wang Zhaojun and Yang Guifei, each of whom had a different style and looked beautiful like a flower. However, in the modern Republic of China period, there have also been a number of beautiful women, not only outstanding appearance, pleasant, but also versatile.
In the Republic of China, there was such a strange woman, she was very beautiful and talented, and even pursued by 5 presidents in her youth. But she did not choose any president, but married an ordinary person, and was buried in Babaoshan, the cemetery of china's revolutionary martyrs, after her death.
He learned opera from an early age and became popular all the way
Liu Xikui was born in 1894, and her family conditions were very poor, so Liu Xikui did not have the conditions to study when she was young. As Liu Xikui grew up day by day, her parents felt that since they did not have the conditions to send their children to school, they had to let their children learn a craft or skill.
Because in that era, the idea of male superiority and female inferiority was still very normal, women looked ordinary, and did not have a skill, basically could not marry a good family.
Liu Xikui's parents looked around for connections, and at noon, when Liu Xikui was eight years old, they found a local opera group in Tianjin. This team recruited apprentices, although there was no remuneration, but fortunately, they still managed to eat and live, and they could also learn skills, so their parents sent Liu Xikui in.
In the drama class, Liu Xikui still had a few times a day to learn the basic skills of the song at the beginning, and then help people pack things and do chores. Two years later, when Liu Xikui was ten years old, she began to formally contact Hebei Zizi, thus taking a step into her opera life.
After Liu Xikui came into contact with Hebei Zizi, he trained hard every day, and even the rooster just got up to practice his throat after singing Liu Xikui. Through hard work, Liu Xikui's skills have become more and more superb. However, due to the deep-rooted idea of male superiority over female inferiority, the status of female dramatists is very low.
Although Liu Xikui is much better than many men's opera skills and performances on stage, the opportunity to perform on stage is pitiful. But fortunately, in a few years, people were tired of listening to the performance of male dramas, and their ears were almost cocooned. From here, people began to love the performance of female dramatists, and in some places began to focus on cultivating female dramatists.
Liu Xikui seized the opportunity, after the introduction of others, Liu Xikui came to Beijing after several twists and turns, where there is a very good training class for girls. In this training class, Liu Xikui got the most authentic music art teaching, and after completing the study, he got more performance opportunities and a bigger stage.
Liu Xikui just began to perform in Beijing, because of her beautiful appearance and pure and exquisite music, it was loved by many people, and it was not long before Liu Xikui began to have a little fame, as long as it was her field, it was full of people.
After Liu Xikui became famous, after the team's packaging, Liu Xikui began to tour the country. After several tour performances, Liu Xikui began to turn red and purple. At that time, as long as there was Liu Xikui's field, the ticket could not even be bought with money, which was really difficult to find.
The president pursues, but chooses an ordinary life
At the same time that Liu Xikui became popular, it attracted the admiration of many people of the opposite sex, and at the beginning there was a strong and powerful president who pursued Liu Xikui, that is, Yuan Shikai.
Yuan Shikai, a person who usually likes to listen to some opera to cultivate his sentiments, and when listening to the opera, he can take advantage of his leisure and elegance to let Yuan Shikai speak freely with his subordinates, pull into the feelings with the people under his hands, and even buy people's hearts.
When Yuan Shikai was still in Nanjing, he heard that there was a Liu Xikui in the Beijing opera class, not only was he beautiful, but he also sang very well, and Yuan Shikai immediately decided to see what she looked like after ordering someone to obtain Liu Xikui's portrait.
Yuan Shikai came to Liu Xikui's theater, sat down and directly chartered the scene, and the security company under his command directly surrounded the theater. After listening to Liu Xikui's performance, Yuan Shikai was full of praise and invited Liu Xikui to his private banquet. In the end, Yuan Shikai expressed his admiration for Liu Xikui, but Liu Xikui already had someone in his heart at this time, so he politely rejected Yuan Shikai.
In fact, Liu Xikui has a favorite person, that is, Mei Yanfang. Everyone knows Mei Lanfang, who is the most talented and talented male in modern history, and Liu Xikui subsequently became Mei Lanfang among the female dancers. Liu Xikui performed on the same stage with Mei Lanfang in a fortuitous time, and from this time Liu Xikui liked Mei Lanfang.
Since Yuan Shikai's unsuccessful pursuit of Liu Xikui, Li Yuanhong has also expressed his love for Liu Xikui, but like Yuan Shikai, he was rejected. Among Liu Xikui's suitors, in addition to these two presidents, there are also warlords Zhang Xun, Duan Qirui and others, and even feng guozhang, Xu Shichang, and Cao Kun.
Selfless patriotism, silent payment
Liu Xikui's growing reputation has led to her not being able to be with Mei Lanfang, and because of the reasons of everyone else, she is afraid that Mei Lanfang will be hurt. But suffering from the pursuit of others, especially some people.
Therefore, Liu Xikui thought of a way, that is, to find someone to marry.
Liu Xikui went to a country to find a man to marry him, but unfortunately the man fell ill and died three years later. Many years after the man's death, Liu Xikui was still alone and never married again.
When the War of Resistance Against Japan broke out, a traitor, in order to please the Japanese army he was attached to, told Liu Xikui that he was good at singing and beautiful in appearance. The Japanese commander immediately sent someone to ask Liu Xikui, but she refused, and by the time the Japanese commander personally brought someone, Liu Xikui had already packed his bags and left.
After Liu Xikui left, she did not disappear again, but went to the anti-Japanese base area, where she re-revealed her talents and made some money with her operas.
What is shocking is that Liu Xikui donated all this money to the anti-Japanese team, and if the anti-Japanese resistance is not victorious for a day, Liu Xikui will not stop singing and selling art.
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Premier Zhou Enlai personally received the female dramatist, and Premier Zhou knew of her act of saving the country for the country, so he proposed to ask her to become the first female opera actress in New China, hoping that she would pass on her skills, and Liu Xikui gladly agreed.
After the outbreak of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, China organized a charity performance, and Liu Xikui, who was 60 years old at the time, resolutely decided to go to the Korean battlefield to perform a program for the soldiers after learning the news, so as to do her part.
After Liu Xikui returned from the charity performance of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, she taught the new generation to learn opera every day, and passed on all her lifelong learning to the next generation. In 1964, Liu Xikui unfortunately passed away, was commended by the state and buried in the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery.
Liu Xikui's life is a legendary life, she is not afraid of power, not greedy for wealth. Although she had good conditions of her own, she did not choose to enjoy the glory and wealth, but ran every day for the poor masses and for the victory of the revolution. It is precisely because of the selfless dedication of Chinese sons and daughters like Liu Xikui that our motherland will become stronger and stronger.