During the Republic of China period, new and old ideological trends collided, and new ideas poured in at once, including women who were suppressed by feudal ideas, and began to advocate equality between men and women, and the feminist movement at that time was in full swing.
This ideological emancipation movement has finally created many new women with knowledge, ambition, and thought, such as Lin Huiyin, Zhang Ailing, Lu Xiaoman, Song Qingling, and so on
Meng Xiaodong was born in 1907, the Meng family is a pear garden family, Meng Xiaodong's grandfather, father, uncle, etc. are all drama actors, so Meng Xiaodong has a different feeling for Peking Opera, and has learned to sing Peking Opera with his elders since he was a child. And Meng Xiaodong's talent for Peking Opera has also emerged from an early age.
She learned art at the age of 5, took the stage at the age of 7, became famous in Shanghai at the age of 14, became a hit at the age of 18, and won the reputation of "Winter Emperor", she is like the brightest star on the Milky Way, dazzling. At that time, some people commented on Meng Xiaodong: "Dressed handsomely, with a clear voice, it has become second to none in Kunsheng." ”
In 1925, Meng Xiaodong was not satisfied with his current achievements, so he went to Beiping to find a new breakthrough, it was in Beiping that Meng Xiaodong met her first husband, the national idol Peking Opera master at that time, Mr. Mei Lanfang, the mother of Feng Shu, the president of a company in Beijing at the time, on her eightieth birthday, planning to hold a grand church meeting. Originally, Mei Lanfang and Yu Shuyan were invited to co-perform "Shilang Visiting Mother", but unfortunately, Yu Shuyan suffered from fecal hemorrhage and could not star. Therefore, they found Meng Xiaodong, who was only eighteen years old, to replace Yu Shuyan.
Although it is the first cooperation, the combination of strong and strong will only be stronger. Mei Lanfang and Meng Xiaodong's "Shilang Visiting Mother" lived up to expectations and won the applause of the whole hall.
It is this performance that makes the two acquaintances, and also allows the two sides to truly understand each other's talents. After that, Mei Lanfang always looked for Meng Xiaodong to co-perform "Silang Visiting Mother".
Meng Xiaodong is a proper "uncle control". With the increase in the number of cooperation, Meng Xiaodong secretly agreed with the mature and stable Mei Lanfang.
At that time, Meng Xiaodong was hesitant, after all, Mei Lanfang already had a family, and she was still two wives.
Maybe it is the call of love, the two still come together because of some interludes.
But in fact, before Mei Lanfang married Meng Xiaodong, she already had two wives, one was Wang Minghua and the other was Fu Zhifang. Wang Minghua married Mei Lanfang very early, but due to the premature death of two children, the blow was too big, the spirit was relatively trance, and he had ignored worldly affairs for many years, and the affairs of the family were managed by Fu Zhifang.
After Meng Xiaodong married Mei Lanfang, he not only gave up his career, but also was often bullied by Fu Zhifang, but these Mei Lanfang all looked in his eyes, but none of them stood up to help Meng Xiaodong, and even if Fu Zhifang did not let Meng Xiaodong enter the house, Mei Lanfang did not dare to say more.
At that time, there was a fan of Meng Xiaodong who came to Mei Lanfang to reason, but when he arrived at Mei's house, he accidentally died in the dispute. Mei Lanfang was timid and afraid of things, and immediately chose to run out to avoid it, leaving Meng Xiaodong alone to face these things.
In the end, Meng Xiaodong saw mei Lanfang's true face and decided to divorce Mei Lanfang. And meng Xiaodong, who has a strong personality, chooses a very decisive way. On September 5, 1933, she publicly published her and Mei Lanfang's divorce notice in the Ta Kung Pao, publicly stating that she had severed all relations with Mei Lanfang, and the two had nothing to do with each other.