On that day, in the Golden Gui Garden, Yang Yuelou's performance of the play "Fan Wang Palace" was staged as scheduled, and Wei Abao, the daughter of a Guangdong comprador, concentrated on the stage to enjoy the performance, "Fan Wang Palace" was performed for three days, and she watched it offstage for three days.
At this time, she secretly had feelings for Yang Yuelou on the stage, so she could not care about the constraints of traditional etiquette, and she wrote a sincere love letter by hand and sent someone to give it to Yang Yuelou, which also became the fuse of their love tragedy.
Yang Yue Lou
Yang Yuelou, a famous Peking Opera actor, was quite famous during the Tongzhi and Guangxu years, and was equally famous as Mei Lanfang and Yu Shuyan, and was called "Three Sages".
Although Yang Yuelou is famous, he has a nickname: "Yang Monkey", as to why there is such an indecent nickname, it lies in the fact that Sun Wukong played by Yang Yuelou is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and he is also inseparable from the fate of Wei Abao.
Yang Yuelou's "Sun Wukong"
At that time, Yang Yue Lou first landed on the beach, and the first performance caused a huge sensation, and for a time there were thousands of people in the alley. Yang Yuelou himself is talented, has a strong body, and has a thick voice, so he has the name of "Heavenly Official".
It was the eleventh year of Tongzhi, Yang Yuelou was invited by heavy money to perform in Jin GuiYuan, and the people who came to see the performance were endless, but it seemed that Jin Guiyuan's competitor Dan Guiyuan Wasque.
It was also after the performance that Wei Abao could not contain his love for Yang Yuelou in his heart, so he wrote the love letter, expressing the intention of "elaborating on his thoughts and intentions and wanting to get engaged to the marriage contract", while Yang Yuelou, who received the love letter, hesitated.
Even though this is the Shanghai Beach where celebrities gather and are open-minded, Yang Yuelou is still bound by traditional etiquette, and in the face of this affectionate letter, he finally failed to go to the appointment as scheduled as in the letter.
Yang Yuelou's side was not going well, and Wei Abao's side was not much better.
Wei Abao's father was a comprador in Guangdong and had a well-off family, so Wei Abao lived comfortably and smoothly since he was a child. Coupled with the fact that Wei Abao lived in Shanghai for several years and was subtly influenced by Shanghai's ideology and culture, he could write a love letter that expressed his admiration in an "uncivilized way".
Wei Abao in the film and television drama
After Yang Yuelou rejected Wei Abao, Wei Abao's admiration for Yang Yuelou did not disappear, and Wei Abao, who was thinking of each other every day, became weaker and weaker, and became seriously ill and was bedridden at home.
Wei Abao's father was out doing business outside, and his days at home were very rare, and Wei Abao's affairs naturally fell on her mother. Looking at her daughter's tea and dinner, lying sick in bed, it was really painful, so I asked my daughter everywhere why she was like this.
After many inquiries, I finally found out the truth about my daughter's illness. Wei Abao's mother also often listens to Peking Opera and is also satisfied with Yang Yuelou, so she wants to fulfill the love between her daughter and Yang Yuelou.
Wei Abao's mother then entrusted someone to bring a message to Yang Yuelou, asking him to ask the matchmaker to ask the matchmaker, and the letter of appointment to the letter of appointment, as required by the etiquette law.
Yang Yuelou also had a good feeling for Wei Abao, so he began to prepare for the marriage. Yang Yuelou's mother heard that her son was going to marry a relative, and rushed from Beijing to Shanghai to handle the matter with her son.
Who knew that Wei Abao's uncle inserted a lever and resolutely disagreed with the marriage between Yang Yuelou and Wei Abao. He felt that Yang Yuelou's status was low, and he could not let Wei Abao, who was a rich family with thousands of dollars, enter the door of Yang Yuelou's family, so as not to insult his own reputation.
Why?
Although Yang Yuelou was a famous corner of pear garden, the income was naturally not cheap, but under the social structure at that time, Yang Yuelou belonged to the drama or youling, was a lowly nationality, and was not even as good as ordinary people, and there was an unwritten rule at that time: "Good and lowly are not allowed to intermarry."
Wei Abao and Yang Yuelou could break through the shackles of etiquette, but in the general environment at that time, they did not have the support of most people. Without their uncle's support, their marriage could not go smoothly.
Wei Abao had already decided to marry Yang Yuelou, so he and his mother discussed the way to "rob the marriage" to complete the marriage. It was on the day of the marriage that Wei Abao was secretly sent to the new house arranged by Yang Yuelou, and waited until the raw rice was cooked to maturity, not afraid that the Wei family's uncle would not agree.
Unfortunately, this matter was not known by the Wei family's uncle, and the Wei family's uncle did not expect Yang Yuelou to dare to do so, so he united with the cantonese township party gentry, saying that Yang Yuelou "kidnapped" his own woman, and then sued Yang Yuelou to the yamen.
The adults of Yamen also felt that the practice of "robbing marriage" was unreasonable, and the servant patrols then went to the new house arranged by Yang Yuelou and tied up Yang Yuelou and Wei Abao and arrested them.
According to the "Declaration" at that time, Wei Abao was on the way to Yamen: "A small car, sitting in it, told the heavens and the earth to worship the ancestors of the red clothes are still not gone, along the way to follow the spectators like clouds." ”
After Wei Abao's father returned, although he did not agree with the Wei family's uncle's approach, he still sided with him and severed the father-daughter relationship with his daughter, wei Abao's mother saw that her husband was so cold and heartless, and died of hatred in the intersection of grief and indignation.
Originally, "good and unworthy marriage" was not a rare thing in Shanghai Beach at that time, and the magistrate turned a blind eye to this kind of thing, but the Wei family's uncle still did not forgive and obstructed it, turning this love into a tragedy.
According to the qing dynasty law, if it is necessary to "marry a good and lowly couple", it is required that if there is a wife, it must be divorced before marriage can be married, in addition to 80 torture rods, if it is a prostitute, 100 torture sticks.
In the thirteenth year of Tongzhi, Ye Tingju of Zhixian County, Shanghai, made the following judgment: "Wei Abao was handed over to the official government and married; Yang Yuelou was convicted of "abduction and theft", with an additional 500 penal staff, and was issued with Heilongjiang to charge the army." ”
As soon as this case came out, the "Declaration" published 30 articles in a month, and for a time the marriage of Yang Yuelou and Wei Abao became the talking point in the streets and alleys, plus Yang Yuelou was a Well-known Peking Opera Master in the North and South, and finally this matter was well known to everyone and the world was in an uproar.
At this time, Yang Yuelou reached the darkest moment of her life, her mother was dying of old age and no one cared for, her mother-in-law who supported her also passed away, and her wife did not know where she was married by the government.
But there is no way out of heaven, and a female storyteller who admires him, Shen Yuechun, helped him open up the prison guard when he was in danger, which made him suffer a lot less.
On The occasion of Empress Dowager Cixi's 40th birthday, in order to win the hearts and minds of the people, and in order to show her kindness, Empress Dowager Cixi announced a general amnesty for the world, and as a result, Yang Yuelou finally escaped the pain of exile.
Yang Yuelou, who restored his freedom, with anger and helplessness towards this era, changed his stage name to "Yang Monkey", which means that as a famous actor in Peking Opera, in the eyes of others, he is just a monkey who is being tricked, and anyone can bully himself", which is also an expression of his silent protest against the environment at that time.