It is in Guangxi, when going to the Dalong Lake Scenic Area, the return trip to Binyang dinner,
People in the same industry talked about the Gui family of that year, saying that Binyang also produced many characters, such as Cheng Siyuan.
I didn't react for a moment: "Who is Cheng Siyuan?" ”
The other person replied: "His daughter you must know, very famous, and later committed suicide." ”
A name flashed in my head and blurted out, "Lin Dai." ”
In fact, the understanding of Lin Dai is limited to the fact that she is a Hong Kong movie star, very famous in the 50s of the last century, once four times as a Queen of Asian Films, so far no one can compare, and then she committed suicide and died.
At that moment, I learned that she was from Guangxi.
Cheng Siyuan and his wife Shi Hong
Cheng Siyuan was born in Binyang, Guangxi.
In the words of the history books,
He was a well-known non-partisan patriotic democrat, an outstanding social activist, and a close friend of the Chinese Communist Party.
Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Eighth and Ninth National People's Congress,
Vice Chairman of the Seventh National Committee of the Chinese Democratic Political Consultative Conference.
Compared with these very high-crowned statements, Cheng Siyuan's more wonderful life should be in his youth.
In that year, he passed the first place in the examination documents of the Seventh Army of the National Revolutionary Army and accompanied the Army on the Northern Expedition;
He successively served as secretary of Li Zongren, commander-in-chief of the Kuomintang Fourth Army, secretary of the office of Bai Chongxi, deputy chief of staff of the Military Commission of the National Government, director of the Political Department of the Guangxi Appeasement Office and chairman of the Lequn Society, and president of the Guilin European and American Returned Scholars Association.
Cheng Siyuan studied in the Department of Political Science of the University of Rome in Italy and received a doctorate in political science.
After being elected as a legislator of the Legislative Yuan and serving as deputy secretary-general of the Kuomintang Central Committee,
He resigned and moved to Hong Kong to work as a columnist for The High Noon.
Lin Dai, who is known as the most beautiful person on the screen, is her pair of bright eyes.
Lin Dai's short life is legendary.
Her real name is Cheng Yueru, the eldest daughter of Cheng Siyuan, born in Guilin, Guangxi,
When the family moved to Hong Kong,
She is only 14 years old and is a junior high school female student at Nanjing Huiwen Girls' High School.
At the age of 17, Lin Dai took a group of photos for the famous photographer Zong Weigeng, which attracted the attention of Yuan Yang'an of the Great Wall Film Company at that time.
Since then, she has embarked on an acting career, and Yuan Yang'an has given her the stage name "Lin Dai" according to her foreign name Linda.
One of Lin Dai's representative works is the film "Cuicui", adapted from Shen Congwen's novel "Border City".
Maybe it was because I was educated in the landscape of Guangxi in my childhood,
The young girl Lin Dai played the same young girl Cui Cui, thus becoming famous in one fell swoop and sensationalizing Hong Kong, this year she was 18 years old.
Lin Dai was the largest film company in Hong Kong at that time, "Dianmao", and The screenwriting team of Dianmao included Zhang Ailing, Song Qi and others.
At the age of 23, Lin Dai won the Leading Actress Award for the first time at the 4th Asian Film Festival for her one-man and two-role Minchu fashion film "Golden Lotus".
At the age of 24, she won the 5th Asian Film Festival Actress Award for her costume Huangmei singing film "Sable Cicada".
Directed by Li Hanxiang, the film was Shaw's first color film, shot in a unique way with a Yellow Plum tune.
Subsequently, Lin Dai won the Best Actress Award at the 6th Asian Film Festival for starring in "Beauty in the Mountains".
Lin Dai portrayed Li Feng, who was in love with the Zhengde Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, into detail,
This chuchu and moving screen image makes people sigh and sigh and echo.
"Beauty of the Mountains" hit a hit,
Shaw regarded this film as the first work to open up the international film market, which became the beginning of "Shaw's production must be a good film".
For starring in the song and dance color film "A Thousand And One Charms", Lin Dai won the Best Actress Award at the 8th Asian Film Festival;
At the age of 28, he won the 9th Asian Film Festival Actress Award for starring in "No Love", and became internationally famous again;
Released in the same year, "The Legend of the White Snake" also broke the record for the best-selling chinese and foreign films in Hong Kong.
At the age of 29, Lin Dai starred with Chen Yuan in "Flowers and Flowers", which won the Best Comedy Special Award at the 10th Asian Film Festival.
Lin Dai won the Asian film four times in a row, and the record has not been broken so far, which has attracted praise from the Western media:
"Lin Dai is so charming, it is simply the oriental sexy queen of Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor".
When Zhang Daqian went to Hong Kong, he specially painted a "statue of Miss Lin Dai" and personally gave it to Lin Dai.
At the end of 1957, Lin Dai went to the United States to study in the drama department of Columbia University.
During her stay in the United States, Lin Dai was interviewed by a reporter from the Voice of America.
So the New York Times published a close-up about the Asian film queen Lin Dai:
"Not all Hollywood stories take place in Hollywood, there are beautiful girls in every corner of the world...
This petite and delicate beauty is considered the greatest discovery in the Far East after bird's nest soup. ”
It was also this trip to the United States that Lin Dai met Long Shengxun, the fifth son of the former governor of Yunnan Province, Long Yun, and the two fell in love.
(Guangxi is adjacent to Yunnan, is this an arrangement in heaven?) )
At the age of 27, Lin Dai married Long Shengxun.
At the age of 29, Lin Dai gave birth to a son Long Zonghan in the United States, and subsequently, Lin Dai and her husband broke down.
At the age of 30, Lin Dai, whose career was in full swing, was found by her husband in her apartment and slept quietly with sleeping pills and gas.
Lin Dai was only 30 years old when she died and had already acted in 36 movies.
When Shaw learned the news, he couldn't help but burst into tears, sighing and saying "what a pity" three times.
Lin Dai was buried in a cemetery not far east of Queen's Road,
On the day of the burial, Hong Kong was empty of people, traffic was paralyzed for 5 hours, in order to maintain order, the police station dispatched hundreds of police to maintain order.
Lin Dai starred in the last film "Blue and Black".
At the time of her death, there were still movies "Pauline Lantern", "Blue and Black" and "Blue and Black Sequel" that had not yet been completed.
In 1966, the unfinished work "Blue and Black" won the Special Commemorative Award at the 13th Asian Film Festival.
In 1995, the HongKong Post Bureau launched a set of four "Hong Kong Movie Stars" stamp series with different denominations.
Lin Dai was the only Chinese film star selected (the other stars were Bruce Lee, Liang Xingbo and Ren Jianhui).
After Lin Dai's death, Long Shengxun sealed her apartment, did not move one of them, and lived in remembrance ever since.
It wasn't until 43 years later, in 2007, that Long Shengxun also died.
Long Zonghan donated his father's treasured relics of his deceased mother to the LCSD Film Archive.
When the Lin Dai cultural relics exhibition named "Yun Pei Qian Ying Can't Love" opened, Feng Baobao, who recognized Lin Dai as a dry mother at the age of 6, gave a speech.
Asked: Why did Lin Dai commit suicide that year?
Feng Baobao replied: Three words and two words are not clear, is it so, I want to die.
In Feng Baobao's impression, GanDa Long Shengxun is a rare husband, and few people can keep his wife's relics for so long.
All the furniture and arrangements of Lin Dai's residence are designed and even sewn by her own hands, and the residence presents European delicacy and romance.
Her female red is quite good, and every dress is very thoughtful,
In Wong Kar-wai's eyes, Lin Dai was the standard of Beauty in Hong Kong in the 1960s.
Therefore, Liu Jialing in "The True Biography of Ah Fei" is modeled on Lin Dai's design,
And the shape of Maggie Cheung in "Fancy Years" also refers to Lin Dai's clothing and accessories at that time.
Unfortunately, in those days,
In the words of Long Zonghan: "She is careful, serious, and has business acumen, but she can only use acting to show her ability." ”
43 years later, everything in Lin Dai's house is still intact and remains the same,
This is Long Shengxun's guilt, but also his long feelings, he should love Lin Dai very much, right?
That year, Lin Dai pushed the Dragon Prince out of the bedroom,
This grandfather did not expect that his wife would really commit suicide, and ran to the study to read until the early hours of the morning.
When he pushed the bedroom door again, he was still not allowed to enter, so he went out until noon the next day.
At this time, Lin Dai had been asleep forever...
I really feel sorry for them, born in a chaotic world of war, met in the United States in a different place,
A son of a shogun, a daughter of a scholar, should have been a happy marriage.
There is a family lineage with roots, she has;
Dazzling career, she has;
Her own chosen husband, she has;
Beloved son, she has;
Even the most beautiful appearance, she has...
But why did Lin Dai give up her life at such a young age, she was willing to give up her son herself.
The fear and love in everyone's heart are different,
Lin Dai's heart also has her own love and fear,
It's hard to guess what ultimately made her give up her life, or whether it was the love in her heart or the fear in her heart.
The Dragon Prince loves her,
But even those who love each other will break up,
How much the doorman is proud, how much the beautiful woman is careful, we can guess the beginning but can't guess the ending.
In that last moment,
I don't know if Lin Dai remembers,
In the brilliant fireworks of that year, she and the Dragon Prince stood side by side, so intimate.
The intimacy between husband and wife can save a person,
And once it breaks, it is enough to destroy a person,
What made her helpless, caught off guard, and willing to leave?
And what made the Dragon Prince unable to forget her for the rest of his life?
Maybe this life is just a miserly time, so the love that can be had can only be given to each other!
Love each other but cannot understand each other,
Dragon Prince Ai Lin Dai did not know what his wife was thinking every day,
Even on the night of her collapse, he thought it was just a normal gamble.
This is the tragedy of the couple of Long Gongzi and Lin Dai, and it is also the tragedy of many couples under the heavens:
The nearest pillow man was as distant as a stranger.
So
Men are not women's destination;
Nor is the family a woman's home;
Career is not a woman's destination...
A woman's ultimate destination is herself, only herself, to be herself.
If Lin Dai is not Lin Dai, just Cheng Yueru, perhaps, the story will be another ending?