"Rich people fall in love with drama!" Such a drama is the existence that can firmly grasp everyone's attention in any era.
But often, such dramas always end in tragedy, for the simple reason that in any era, there is a strict identity difference between drama and rich people. This gap is by no means something that ordinary people can easily cross.
The "Yang Yuelou Case", one of the "Four Strange Cases" of the late Qing Dynasty, tells the story of the drama Yang Yuelou and the rich family Qianjin Ah Bao. The two of them were originally truly in love with each other, but because the two had a huge "identity difference", they beat the Mandarin duck several times, and the two were not only separated, but Yang Yuelou was also sent to the frontier for the crime of "abducting a good family".
Since then, Yang Yuelou has changed his name to "Yang Monkey" because he saw through the red dust. The farther -away drama of "rich family and drama" has a more tragic ending.
In the Republic of China era, with the rise of free love, Greater Shanghai also staged a drama of "a thousand gold love dramas". This drama was once the biggest "love affair" in Shanghai, and its vigor almost shook that era.
The male protagonist of this "Qianjin Drama" drama is Zhou Xinfang, a drama with the same name as Mei Lanfang, and the female protagonist is Qiu Lilin, the first yuan in Shanghai at that time. The two first met because of the drama.
In 1923, at the age of 14, Zhou Xinfang became the hottest drama in Shanghai, because the Qi School he created was very popular in Shanghai, and the whole of Shanghai took it as a pleasure and a blessing to listen to him sing, so he was also called "Qilin Boy" by the people of the time.
Listening to drama has always been the favorite entertainment project of the top elite, and naturally, Qiu Lilin, as the daughter of a top wealthy businessman, will not miss this project. Therefore, when Zhou Xinfang performed "Han Liu Bang Unified annihilation of Qin chu" in Shanghai, she flew to the scene.
The theater owner learned that Miss Qiu Jiasan came to see the play, and naturally took her very seriously. It should be noted that Qiu Lilin's family is a descendant, her maternal grandfather is a Customs Official of Scottish Descent, and her father Qiu Yangshan has both Qianhe Tea Estate and Zhihe Qianzhuang two major industries.
After much consideration, the theater owner arranged the best seats for Qiu Lilin and others.
At that time, Qiu Lilin was only 19 years old, she was beautiful and open-minded. Compared with ordinary Celebrities of the Republic of China, she has been advocating free love because she has received Western education since she was a child. Because of her yearning for "free love", she has long vowed that she will not marry unless she is born.
Secretly, Qiu Lilin had imagined the appearance of her beloved, and the more she imagined, the more she was fascinated by love.
Julielyn
That day, because she was in the closest position to the stage, when Zhang Liang, played by Zhou Xinfang, appeared that day, she just happened to see him standing in front of her. Zhou Xinfang was wearing an embroidered dragon golden python robe and a Wensheng jun hat on his head that day, and although he sang Lao Sheng, he did not hang his face, which made his entire face look extremely handsome and flowing.
At the moment when she was facing Zhou Xinfang's four eyes, she instantly felt that everything in front of her seemed to have disappeared, and only him and her were left on the stage. Listening sheepishly to his singing, she felt as if she had been struck by lightning.
Since that day, she has become a fan of Zhou Xinfang, and after that, as long as it is his play, whether it is a stage play or a folding play, she will be there. Every time she arrived, she was in the most central position.
Miss Qiu Jiasan suddenly became extremely interested in opera, and she opened her mouth and closed her mouth all about drama, and this change was discovered by people around Qiu Lilin, and her mother Qiu Luoshi also found out. It's just that they don't realize how big it is.
The magic of love has never been amazing, like last week Xinfang's days, Qiu Lilin burst out of the poetry that has never been seen before, she wrote countless love letters to Zhou Xinfang in a row.
After getting these hot love letters, Zhou Xinfang only thought of them as the handiwork of some fanatical fan, he did not take them seriously, and he did not even reply to a letter.
Another reason why Zhou Xinfang's pursuit of such female fans has never been quiet: when he was 17 years old, he had already married a lady, this lady was Liu Yujiao, the daughter of the Wusheng family of the drama class, although she was 4 years older than him, but the two were also right. After marriage, the two also gave birth to a son and two daughters.
These situations, Qiu Lilin naturally has long been clear, she even knows: the two couples have been separated for two years. On the day she got the news, Julie lin was so excited that she didn't sleep all night. She realized that she had a chance.
That night, Qiu Lilin carefully calculated her chips, and after calculating, she felt that she was young and beautiful, had a good family and a deep affection for him, so she would definitely be his good person.
Zhou Xinfang as a teenager
At that time, Zhou Xinfang really needed a good person, after separating from his wife, he had been alone, and when he was on the stage during the day, he did not feel lonely, but when he returned to his house at night, his inner sadness could not be erased.
After the times changed, Zhou Xinfang also thought about "free love", but this is easier said than done. Now that he himself has been baptized with new ideas, but his arranged wife is very traditional in her bones, how could she be willing to divorce?
If he can't get a divorce, why should he talk about "free love"!
Zhou Xinfang is a drama, but because of the influence of new ideas, he has always been keen on state affairs, and many of the plays he has participated in are also related to state affairs. For example, the "Flowers of the Republic of China" and "The New Three Kingdoms" that he has participated in are all new plays that satirize Yuan Shikai.
Perhaps because he felt that these new dramas were not in-depth enough, he later wrote a new drama "The Murder of Song Jiaoren", exposing the rampant gangsters, guiding public opinion, and educating people's hearts.
In 1919, at the age of 24, Zhou Xinfang also staged his self-written "Learning to Punch King Kong" at the Dangui Theater in Shanghai in solidarity with the student movement.
Therefore, Zhou Xinfang is a drama on the surface, but in fact he is more like a revolutionary. It is just that his way of revolution is different from that of ordinary revolutionaries.
Young Zhou Xinfang
Such a Zhou Xinfang was naturally dissatisfied with his arranged marriage, but because of the influence of moral and other factors, he did not break through the power of feudal marriage. This lack of power is related to his encounters, although he often meets female fans who pursue him over the years, he has never been interested in them.
The reason was simple: none of them looked like his sweethearts.
The "them" here include Julielyn, who fanatically writes him love letters. This woman, he has seen in front of and behind the scenes, her dress looks like a Shanghai celebrity, her conversation is also quite a new woman's look, but somehow, every time he sees her, there is no special feeling. After all, it was not the first time he had seen a rich woman like her who was enthusiastic about drama.
So, the letter she wrote to him, although he would read it, did not take it too seriously.
What changed everything was a charity relief party.
On such an important occasion as the disaster relief party, Zhou Xinfang, who is keen on state affairs, will naturally not be absent. He had been preparing for the party for a long time.
That day, he saw Julie lin again, and he could see that she was present with her brother that day. At that time, he did not know that Qiu Lilin knew that he would also go, so he pestered her brother to bring her to meet her.
At the disaster relief party, in order to attract Zhou Xinfang's attention, Qiu Lilin specially took off a valuable jewelry necklace around her neck as a donation.
The whole process of Qiu Lilin's donation, Zhou Xinfang saw it in her eyes. When the necklace was removed from her beautiful neck, his heart suddenly moved. He realized that this woman was very different from what he thought.
At the donation meeting, Qiu Lilin took the initiative to walk in front of Zhou Xinfang, and she also asked him with a red face with a wine glass: "Can you reply to my letter once?" Zhou Xinfang was a little stunned when he heard this sudden question, and for a while, he didn't know how to be good.
This "premeditated" encounter, sure enough, successfully made Zhou Xinfang notice Qiu Lilin, and when he returned home that night, his mind was full of her figure.
Once the barrier of a man's mind is broken, the back is easy to say.
After Zhou Xinfang replied to Qiu Lilin, she "got in" and said: Can we meet alone?
With the increasing frequency of private appointments, the feelings of the two quickly warmed up, tian gan strolled, held hands under the willows by the river, and sometimes, the big miss accompanied Zhou Xinfang to nibble on burnt cakes under the tree...
Paper, never able to contain the fire, the news of the two secretly meeting was quickly known by the tabloid reporter. A few days later, the love affair between the rich woman and the dramatist was published in the major newspapers.
Qiu Lilin's mother, Qiu Luoshi, almost jumped up after seeing the relevant report of the "Sea Celebrity Meeting "Qilin Boy"", this woman who has always been strong and arbitrary, quickly came up with a coping strategy.
Qiu Luoshi first let his son Qiu Jianfei set up a banquet in Yipinlou, this banquet, the Qiu family invited the editors and reporters of the major newspapers in Shanghai, and at the same time, the Qiu family also invited all the well-known figures of the Shanghai gang.
On the same day, Qiu Jianfei sent a big red envelope to all the reporters, and when he took the thugs to send the red envelopes to the reporters, he smiled and said: "Little sister's little 'rumor', I think it is still necessary to clarify it!" ”
After this fierce operation, the reports of the relevant affairs with Qiu Lilin and Zhou Xinfang quickly disappeared.
After Joro's severance of public opinion, he quickly put his daughter under house arrest. Joros thought it was simple: as long as she let her daughter "calm down", her immature thoughts could be naturally broken. During this time, of course, she will do everything in her power to brainwash her daughter.
Unfortunately, Qiu Luoshi's "second step" did not have much effect, and Qiu Lilin not only did not listen to her mother, but was full of complaints about her stick beating Mandarin duck.
In desperation, Joros had to use a "trick". Following the old-fashioned approach, she directly found a family affair for her daughter, the son of a Treasury official who had returned from studying in Britain. This time, Joros was quite satisfied, just the kissing gift, the man gave two large gold bars and 8 carat diamond rings.
After the engagement, Joro's thought that everything would be fine, and she did not know that there was nothing in this world that could stop men and women in love.
One day shortly after the engagement, Qiu Lilin bought off her teenage cousin Zhu Lingzhi, and she asked her to send a letter to Zhou Xinfang for herself.
After Zhou Xinfang opened the letter, he realized that the lover he thought about day and night was under house arrest by his mother, and they even forced her to get engaged. After thinking about it again, he asked Zhu Lingzhi to bring a letter to Qiu Lilin.
After receiving Zhou Xinfang's letter, Qiu Lilin couldn't sit still any more, and she decided to elope with him.
In order to smoothly implement the plan, Qiu Lilin deliberately spent a whole day to toss her mother, and within a day, she staged a series of crying, making trouble, and hanging herself. After all, Joros was old, and after her daughter tossed like this, she fell asleep tired as soon as it was dark that day.
After seeing her mother asleep, Julie, who pretended to be asleep, got up and sneaked out of the house. In order not to attract the attention of her family, she even had time to change her pajamas and slippers.
After arriving at the agreed train station by rickshaw, Qiu Lilin saw Zhou Xinfang waiting there at a glance...
In order to avoid being discovered, Zhou Xinfang transferred Qiu Lilin to Suzhou and settled in a secluded inn. After that, he rushed back to Shanghai overnight to perform on stage. Their plan was to wait until the limelight had passed before he joined her.
Fortunately, it was not until dawn that the Qiu family found out that missing Miss Three.
After that, Qiu Jianfei led a group of people to search around. After finding no one, the angry Qiu Jianfei pointed a gun at Zhou Xinfang and threatened him to hand over his sister. Zhou Xinfang insisted that he did not know the whereabouts of Qiu Lilin, and Qiu Jianfei had no choice but to send someone to monitor him 24 hours a day.
Qiu Jianfei's surveillance worked, after all, in this way, Zhou Xinfang would not be able to escape from joining Qiu Lilin.
After learning that Zhou Xinfang was under surveillance, Qiu Lilin was anxious, and she hurriedly wrote a letter to her mother and brother asking them not to embarrass him. However, after her letter was sent, it was like a stone sinking into the sea, and at this time, Qiu Lilin knew that she had run into trouble.
A few days later, just when people thought things were going to be deadlocked, a special notice was published in the newspaper. The notice says:
"This lawyer has been hired by Miss Qiu Lilin as her legal counsel, and the client of this lawyer has reached adulthood and enjoys civil rights in accordance with the law, and no one has the right to restrict his personal freedom and infringe on his legitimate rights and interests, otherwise this lawyer will file a lawsuit in accordance with the law."
After the matter came to this point, the Qiu family lost all face. The angry Joros simply announced that he had severed ties with his daughter, two weeks after the storm. Zhou Xinfang took Qiu Lilin back to Shanghai, and the two openly rented a house in a small alley to live together.
Since then, Qiu Lilin, a thousand golden ladies, has rolled up her sleeves in the lane house to live the life of the common people, during the day, she washes and cooks, takes care of housework, and at night, she sews and mends. While taking care of Zhou Xinfang's life, Qiu Lilin, who had received a good education, also began to support his career and help him take care of his finances.
Qiu Lilin always believed that without relying on her mother's family, she could also live a good life with Zhou Xinfang.
Zhou Xinfang with her children
Before Qiu Lilin, Zhou Xinfang had been signing a fixed salary with the theater, and after his mother took some of the bad gamble, there was almost nothing left.
In order to change this situation, Qiu Lilin went directly to negotiate with the theater owner, and she proposed to change the fixed salary to "three or seven points". Such an operation seems commonplace today, but in the Republic of China period, when the identity of the actor was not recognized, the drama and the boss were simply "looking for a draw".
Sure enough, after Qiu Lilin proposed "three or seven points", the theater owner decided to ban Zhou Xinfang in anger. In this way, Zhou Xinfang even lost her original fixed salary.
In those days, in order to survive, Zhou Xinfang had to go to the street to sell and sing to earn some subsistence fees.
Seeing that her daughter had such a miserable life after eloping with Zhou Xinfang, Qiu Luoshi's heart finally softened. In order to help her daughter through the difficulties, she secretly sent someone to send advice and money.
Joros's plan for her daughter was the same as her dealing with newspaper reporters at the time: both soft and hard.
Qiu Lilin bribed Wu Sibao's wife She Aizhen with jewelry according to her mother's method, and after that, she successfully established a relationship with the daughter-in-law of Du Yuesheng, the leader of the Qing Gang.
With the help of the Green Gang, the theater owner had to agree to her proposal of "three and seven points" after Qiu Lilin prostrated her head a few times.
Zhou Xinfang did not expect that he dared to think of the "three or seven points" that he dreamed of, and his wife only took a few steps to help him do it. Until decades later, he had always thought that all this was all the wisdom of his wife, and he did not know that in order to do this, she secretly kowtowed to the theater owner without him.
In order to be with Zhou Xinfang, what Qiu Lilin paid was not as simple as breaking with the Qiu family and kowtowing to the boss. Because the person she loves is a husband, she has been subjected to great controversy, and therefore, for a long time, she has not been accepted by the celebrity circle of the past.
But none of this is worth mentioning in the face of true love, in Jollyn's view: nothing is important to be with a loved one.
After the two lived together, she gave birth to three children for him in succession. It was only at this time that Zhou Xinfang went through divorce procedures with his wife Liu Yujiao through a lawyer.
No one knows why Liu Yujiao suddenly agreed to the divorce, and the anecdotal saying is that she was also touched by the true feelings of the two. It is not known what the actual result was, but people only know that after the divorce procedures, Qiu Lilin finally waited for the simple and formal wedding.
On the day of their marriage, Joros, who loves her daughter, finally forgave her daughter. Although she did not attend the wedding, she still sent her a white wedding dress that she had personally customized.
Qiu Lilin and Zhou Xinfang
The moment she put on the wedding dress sent by her mother, Qiu Lilin lay on Zhou Xinfang's shoulder and cried like a child.
The more rare it is, the more it is often cherished. After marriage, the two have been in love. In the turbulent years, the two tasted the pain of displacement, but Qiu Lilin never had half a complaint.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, in the face of the persecution of the Chinese people by the Japanese and traitors, their husband and wife jointly choreographed and performed anti-Japanese rescue dramas such as "The Last Hate of the Ming Dynasty", "Wen Tianxiang", and "Shi Kefa"; during the White Terror period, they covered up the underground workers together; after the founding of the People's Republic of China, they went to various places to make condolence performances...
It was also after the founding of the People's Republic of China that Qiu Lilin was keenly aware that domestic policies would be unfavorable to the Qiu family. After witnessing the situation of her brother, sister and mother, she resolutely sent all five children except the eldest son Zhou Shaolin away from the mainland to study.
At first, the children did not understand why their mothers were sending them away. It was not until after the beginning of that special upheaval that the children learned that the mother and father were really well-intentioned.
In that black-and-white upside-down year, Zhou Xinfang was arrested for starring in "Hai Rui Shang shu", and then the Zhou family faced a home raid. During this period, the daughter-in-law of the Zhou family was injured and the granddaughter was frightened.
In those days, Julielyn was devastated, and she tried to save her husband while settling in the house. When she couldn't hold on, Zhou Xinfang finally returned to her home in a mess.
In the year that the Zhou family suffered, Zhou Xinfang was 73 years old.
Seeing that the light in Zhou Xinfang's eyes dimmed a little, the anxious Qiu Lilin was busy comforting her husband: Don't you always say that "good and evil will eventually be repaid in the end" in the drama you sing, and the world will not always be dark. After hearing his wife's words, Zhou Xinfang's eyes really lit up again, and since that day, every day when he woke up, he would repeatedly chant the line in "Xu Ce Running City":
"The heavens are not to be deceived, and the right and wrong are known to all those who are good and evil." Good and evil end up hating, but it comes sooner rather than later..."
During those days, Julielyn grew old very quickly, and she began to have frequent insomnia. Every time she heard movement outside, she stood guarded against her husband to protect him.
In a fight, qiu Lilin was broken in order to protect her husband, lying in the corridor outside the emergency observation room of Huashan Hospital, her heart was still full of her husband, and when she was dying, her last words to the crying daughter-in-law were: "Don't cry, later, your father..."
The daughter-in-law knew that the unfinished words were: "Your father, I will hand it over to you later!" ”
Before her death, Qiu Lilin also told her only son, Zhou Shaolin, who remained in China, to protect their elderly father. After Qiu Lilin's death, Zhou Shaolin was indeed as his mother had instructed, he always took the initiative to beat his father, he always said to his father: "The more they beat me, the fewer times you can beat me." ”
In order not to make their father sad, Zhou Shaolin and his wife always hid the news of their mother's death.
On March 8, 1975, Zhou Xinfang, who had not seen his wife for many years, was lying in Huashan Hospital due to heart disease, and when he died, he repeated in a weak voice: "You don't have to lie to me anymore, I have long understood, your mother has gone, she is waiting for me..."
Seven years later, Zhou Xinfang died in the hospital where his wife died, which may be a coincidence, or perhaps, it is doomed in the dark...
20 years after Zhou Xinfang's death, their children living overseas returned to China and buried their ashes together at the Longhua Martyrs Cemetery in Shanghai. From this point on, they finally stopped being separated.
It is worth mentioning that the six children of Zhou Xinfang and Qiu Lilin all later became talents, among them, the eldest son, Zhou Shaolin, inherited the mantle of his father and became the heir of the Qi School of Peking Opera and the inheritor of the national intangible cultural heritage.
Zhou Shaolin and his father Zhou Xinfang
The second son, Zhou Huaying, became the "God of Food of Chinese Descent", and the huge catering empire Mr Chow he created has now become a representative of international catering fashion. Even politician Gandhi, former US President Clinton, Tianhou Madonna, etc. are regular customers of his restaurant, he is also the world's top painter and collector, and he has several hundred million yuan in collections.
His eldest daughter, Zhou Caizao, later married a top wealthy businessman and has been living in the United States ever since.
The second daughter, Zhou Caiyun, later became a well-known writer in the United States, because of her outstanding appearance and temperament, she was an idol in the minds of countless American youth.
Zhou Xinfang and Qiu Lilin's third daughter, Zhou Caiqin, is the most well-known of many children, and she was sent abroad by her parents in 14 years. At the age of 23, she starred in the stage play "Suss Yellow's World", which swept all over the UK.
Chow Cetz
Later, because he starred in the Bang Girl in "007 Thunder Valley", Zhou Caitz was well known to fans around the world. In addition, she is also the first female academician of Chinese descent at the Royal Academy of Drama. In recent years, because of starring in Jia Mu in "Dream of the Red Chamber", she began to be well known to the Chinese people. Her book "Daughter of Shanghai" was even adapted into a documentary.
Chow Shin-fang's little woman, Chow Chow, has lived overseas for many years, and she has been engaged in publicity work in the Hong Kong showbiz industry for many years, and was invited to serve as a judge at the Hong Kong Film Awards.
Such a fairytale-like perfect ending is probably what Zhou Xinfang and Qiu Lilin, who are full of legends in their lives, want the most! This kind of thing has to make people sigh: true love, really the source of miracles in the world!