In 1950, at the recording site of the movie "Peace Dove", the lead actor Zhou Xuan looked indifferent. Hearing someone call her name, it took half a day to look up.
It turned out that the government sent people to do ideological reform for the crew.
It was just a simple preaching, but to Zhou Xuan," the content of these preachings was aimed at her everywhere—because they mentioned the movie, mentioned the "sound of silence."
She was so nervous that a cold sweat came out of her forehead until the preacher left, and she did not ease up. When the film resumed filming, she collapsed:
The medical worker she played in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea wanted to test the patient's blood, and when the props of the crew were sent to her, she suddenly jumped up with a scream and shouted incoherently: "Blood test, why blood test?" He's your kid! ”
The set was suddenly in chaos, and under the guidance of everyone, he was sent out of the set with a numb look.
Everyone said, "Zhou Xuan is crazy. ”
First, his life was bumpy, and he did not see his birth mother until his death
Zhou Xuan once published an article in the newspaper saying that she did not know who her biological parents were, only that she was born in Changshu.
She spent most of her life searching for her birth mother. After becoming famous, she commissioned all the relationships that could be entrusted to find them, but unfortunately, none were found.
Until many years later, his son Zhou Wei accidentally got a clue from the famous economist Tong Dalin: a newspaper in Changzhou once published an article called "The Sorrow and Joy of Zhou Xuan's Villagers", which may be Zhou Xuan's biological parents looking for her.
After some investigation and recognition with his grandparents, Zhou Wei finally clarified his mother's origins:
Zhou Xuan was born in 1920 in Changzhou to an intellectual family, the second oldest, and his original name was Su Pu.
His father, Su Tiefu, graduated from Jinling University in Nanjing, worked as a priest and teacher successively, was knowledgeable and generous, and was quite famous in Changzhou.
Her mother, Gu Meizhen, studied in the nurse class of Changzhou Wujin Hospital, and after graduation, she first became a nurse, then joined the revolution, and worked in the Health Department of the State Council after liberation.
When she was a child, Su Pu was secretly abducted by her uncle Gu Shijia, who smoked a lot, to the Wang family in Jintan County and changed her name to Wang Xiaohong.
Wang Chunrong, the adoptive father, was idle, often went to the tobacco house to smoke opium, and also fought with the lady owner of the opium house. To this end, the adoptive mother Ouyang Yuzhen was disheartened by her husband, and left home with Xiaohong to make a living in Shanghai.
Later, the adoptive mother was introduced by someone to marry Zhang Zhenghong, the director of the Zhonghua Leather Shoe Factory, and had no choice but to give Xiaohong to a family in Lane 850, Beijing East Road, where the surname of Zhou sang a small opera, and changed her name to Zhou Xiaohong.
His adoptive father, Zhou Liugen, was an addict, because he had no money to buy opium, he wanted to sell Xiaohong to the Qinglou, but fortunately his adoptive mother rescued him in time.
At the age of 13, Zhou Xiaohong was unable to bear her adoptive father's domestic violence and left home alone. By chance, I entered the Mingyue Song and Dance Troupe.
She liked to sing since she was a child, and in the Mingyue Song and Dance Troupe, she finally realized her dream of singing.
Once, Xiaohong participated in the national salvation and progress opera "Wild Rose", the theme song "The Light of the Nation" was sung by her, and one of the sentences "Circling with the Enemy on the Battlefield" was sung gracefully and movingly, which was deeply praised by the regimental leader Li Jinhui, so Li Jinhui proposed to rename Zhou Xiaohong to Zhou Xuan.
Since then, Zhou Xuan has got her name, and friends in the show business circle affectionately call her "Xuanzi".
Later, the Mingyue Song and Dance Troupe was disbanded, and Zhou Xuan joined the Xinhua Opera Society. With a sweet voice, it soon became a pillar here.
The elderly Gu Meizhen saw Zhou Xuan in the newspaper and found that she looked very similar to her younger daughter Su Ying, and suspected that she was his second daughter Su Pu. In order to find her, her mother came to Shanghai no less than 10 times to meet her relatives, but for various reasons did not see her.
In 1957, my mother saw in the newspaper that Zhou Xuan was sick and hospitalized, and said urgently: "I am a mother and a doctor, and my daughter needs my care when she is sick." ”
So, she hurriedly went through the retirement formalities, accompanied by two granddaughters, and came to Shanghai to recognize her relatives.
At that time, the director of the shanghai film studio received them, but in order not to stimulate Zhou Xuan, who was suffering from mental illness at the time, he did not let the mother and daughter officially recognize each other. The director of the factory also comforted the elderly Gu Meizhen: "When Zhou Xuan is well, you will be reunited." ”
However, the reunion did not wait, and Zhou Xuan passed away in a hurry because of encephalitis. Later, every time Gu's mother saw Zhou Xuan on the TV screen, she always burst into tears until she died.
Two or four relationships, none of them end well
Zhou Xuan's first husband was Yan Hua, who had been a teacher of Chinese in the Mingyue Song and Dance Troupe.
Yan Hua took care of Zhou Xuan like a brother, taught her Mandarin, cared for her, and loved her, making the teenage Zhou Xuan fall in love with him. And Yan Hua also loves this beautiful girl who sings like a lark.
They soon got married.
Yan Hua and Zhou Xuan are orphans, and the two scarred people do not form a perfect family in the end. Zhou Xuan was jealous, Yan Hua was suspicious, and the relationship between the two fell to the freezing point after Zhou Xuan miscarried due to work fatigue.
Yan Hua believed that Zhou Xuan, whose career was on the rise, had an affair, and he wrote an open letter in the Ta Kung Pao, accusing his wife of being ungrateful and absconding with the money.
Zhou Xuan thought that Yan Hua's temper was too big and unwilling to endure, and ended the marriage at the instigation of other people's ulterior motives.
Three years of marriage chicken flying dog jumping and scattering, every day the headlines of the Shanghai tabloids are about Zhou Xuan.
Zhou Xuan wanted to commit suicide, and she lay in the small hotel and swallowed a bottle of sedative, just like Ruan Lingyu, who was feared and forced away 6 years ago.
Unlike Nguyen LingYu, she was rescued by the hospital.
The cyclic suicide deeply shocked Yan Hua. After the divorce, when he talked about the circumlocution again, he thought about it for a long time and said, "I am worried that she is suffering." ”
And Zhou Xuan, after the divorce, talked about Yan Hua again many years later, when Yan Hua remarried. She said: "I think there will be another loving couple in the world." ”
Indeed, as Zhou Xuan said, after Yan Hua remarried, he and his wife Pan Fengjuan were harmonious and spent half their lives hand in hand. It's just that Yan Hua, the former singer, has never sung again. When he divorced Zhou Xuan, he destroyed all the choruses with Zhou Xuan...
After Yan Hua left, Zhou Xuan met the drama emperor Shi Hui because of the drama "Nightclub".
Unlike Yan Hua, Shi Hui is a rich second generation, with self-confidence and romance that comes out of his bones, and Zhou Xuan is heartwarming to him. However, having just divorced, it seems difficult for her to enter the marriage again.
The two were first engaged, but soon separated, and the foundation of the relationship was not deep, and it was soon interrupted by various gossip. Like a firework, this love that passes by shoulders, comes and goes quickly.
Zhou Xuan's third relationship is with Zhu Huaide, a silk cloth merchant. At that time, she had just broken up with Shi Hua, and he did everything in his power to please her, even if he was emotionally careful, he finally caught up with his sweet words and began to live together.
Unexpectedly, Zhu Huaide was a shameless businessman. Perhaps, he and Zhou Xuan were together for her property. When Zhou Xuan gave him his savings to do business, he disappeared.
At this time, Zhou Xuan found out that she was pregnant.
In 1950, shortly after the founding of New China, Zhou Xuan gave birth to a child. However, Zhu Huaide did not admit that the child was his, and asked for a blood test to recognize his relatives.
Zhou Xuan resolutely issued a statement in the newspaper, severing the cohabitation relationship with Zhu Huaide.
In order to escape the pain caused by this relationship, the circumvention that had just given birth not long ago immediately threw himself into work.
At the shooting site of the movie "Peace Dove", because of the blood test, she thought of Zhu Huaide's insult. In anger, she lost her voice and screamed, and finally was helplessly taken out of the set.
Everyone said that Zhou Xuan was crazy, and Tang Di, the artist in the crew, deeply remembered this almost desperate woman.
In 1951, he was invited to paint propaganda posters for Zhou Xuan, and since then he and Zhou Xuan have fallen in love.
After living with Tang Di, Zhou Xuan became pregnant with her second child, but Tang Di was sentenced for fraud and seduction— because Zhou Xuan was found mentally ill at the time.
Even though Zhou Xuan interceded for Tang Di in every way, he was still sentenced to three years.
After Tang Di was imprisoned, Zhou Xuan, who was a mother for the second time, soon fell into a state of mental confusion.
Third, he was treated as a madman and died tragically
Whether she was crazy or not cannot be confirmed, but people think she is crazy.
Because she was worried that she would be cheated out of her crazy money by others, she managed the rich property of Zhou Xuan to the so-called Zhou Xuan Property Management Committee.
The house was also confiscated, and where it ended up being a mystery. She was forbidden to visit her children and spent 5 years in a mental hospital.
Five years later, she came out of a mental hospital and gleefully announced that she would return to art, continue singing and making movies.
However, life did not give her time. Just two months after leaving the mental hospital, she fell ill and finally died in the hospital because of encephalitis.
He was 37 years old.
Before she died, she was still obsessed with finding her biological parents.
She entrusted her two children to her friend Huang Zongying, shook Huang Zongying's hand, and murmured, "I have lived a lifetime, and I don't even know my own biological parents..."
The eldest son, Zhou Min, recalled his mother's last days, only remembering that she held him tightly and grabbed his hand, as if he would disappear forever as soon as he was released.
Two weeks after Zhou Xuan's death, Shi Hui jumped into the sea because of rumors and slander. After being released from prison, Tang Di remained celibate until his old age.
In 1985, the Shanghai drama TV series "Xuanzi" was released, and Yan Hua tearfully wrote the theme song "Golden Silk Bird": "The golden silk bird sings there / A sound, a sound / Seems to tell me sorrow / I want to be perched in the mountains and forests to face the wind and rain / Under the blue sky, Mu Yang soars freely / Free soaring / Sigh now look at the long sky with wings / All day long in the cage lonely and sad / Golden silk bird Ah golden silk bird / I know that you have a yearning in your heart / Ling Yun zhuangzhi can't stop / Let you fly high to the far side, go to the far away." ”
Later generations recalled the film queen of the old Shanghai, Bai Xianyong sighed: "My childhood was spent in Shanghai, when Zhou Xuan's songs were played everywhere on the beach, "Flowers Are Good and Full Moon", and "Phoenix Yu Fei" was played everywhere in Shanghai..."
Wong Kar-wai said: "All the inspiration for my creation of "Fancy Years" came from Shanghai in the 1930s and 1940s, and from the theme song "Fancy Years" in "Sauvignon Blanc" starring Zhou Xuan..."
Long Yingtai said, "Zhou Xuan's singing voice is a heavenly sound, not a human voice. ”