On March 15, 1935, the entire American people saw a grand funeral in the New York Times, which did not come from their homeland, but from China on the other side of the ocean, and the heroine of the funeral was the actress who was red and purple on the beach at that time, Ruan Lingyu.
Ruan Lingyu was only 25 years old when she died, but in this funeral procession, there were 300,000 people, what was Ruan Lingyu's life like, her life was so brilliant, why did she die early?
In 1910, Ruan Lingyu was born in a working family, her father was a worker in The Asia Oil Stack in Pudong, Shanghai, and her mother was a traditional housewife, the family life was not rich, and after her father's death, Ruan Lingyu's mother had to take her into the Zhang family and become a maid of the Zhang family to maintain her life.
Ruan Lingyu had emotional entanglements with two men in her life, one of which was Zhang Damin, the fourth young master of the Zhang family, at that time Ruan Lingyu was young and had a good face, and the playboy Zhang Damin coveted her.
Soon the Zhang family found out about this, drove Ruan Lingyu's mother out of the house, Zhang Damin rented a house for them, he also began to live with Ruan Lingyu, Zhang Damin is after all a person who will only spend money and will not make money, in this case, Ruan Lingyu entered the film industry, and with her own efforts, became a well-known "silent film queen"
After becoming famous, Ruan Lingyu finally understood zhang Damin's deception of herself, and now, she very much wants to leave her relationship with Zhang Damin, but Zhang Damin has been threatening to blackmail her and make her miserable.
In this case, Ruan Lingyu met the tea merchant Tang Jishan, Tang Jishan is a successful businessman, under some sweet words, Ruan Lingyu fell into his arms, Zhang Damin was very angry when he learned of it, and prepared to take Ruan Lingyu to court.
At this time, Ruan Lingyu also found tang jishan's play with himself, while enjoying himself, he also took care of another woman, and in a fit of anger, Ruan Lingyu and Tang Jishan had many quarrels, Zhang Damin learned of this news, fell into the well, and then opened a large amount of money to Ruan Lingyu for extortion.
In 1935, after the release of Ruan Lingyu's new movie "New Woman", she was attacked by tabloid reporters, and the frustration of career and feelings made Ruan Lingyu have the idea of taking a life, March 9 was the day of the court trial, Ruan Lingyu was a person who cherished her reputation very much, on March 8, she chose to take sleeping pills at home to commit suicide, at the age of 25.
After the news of Ruan Lingyu's suicide was exposed, it caused the anger of film fans across the country, on the same day, 7 people committed suicide with Ruan Lingyu, they left a suicide note that Ruan Lingyu was dead, they had no point in living, this crazy era, created crazy people.
(Precious rare old photos)