In China's long history, there have been many strange women. When it comes to the Republic of China, everyone may think of Lin Huiyin, Lu Xiaoman, Ruan Lingyu, Xiao Hong... But in fact, there is another woman who can be called a strange woman, and in the solid patriarchal society of the Republic of China, she has lived herself into a clear banner.
This legendary woman, even let the movie star Yang Naimei overcome all difficulties, at the expense of hue to raise funds, the independent company also has to put her story on the screen, and she is the prototype of Yang Naimei's silent film "Strange Woman" - Yu Meiyan.
She is a popular female writer who is "the first person to write in the body", and her life is a tragedy and a legend.
Born in 1900 in a feudal wealthy merchant family in Guangdong, Yu Meiyan was influenced by her mother, who was full of poetry and books, and she was gifted and intelligent from an early age, taught Western civilization, and proficient in Chinese. From a young age, he was bold, sexy and beautiful, and loved to wear strange clothes. In the era when everyone wrapped their bodies tightly with cloth, they dared to wear "exposed" swimsuits that were "unconventional" to the beach, which caused a small sensation in the local area, but they made her father half dead.
Swimsuit beauty on the Republic of China battery advertising poster
PART·01
Nian Fang 18, the old marriage system is out of place!
In 1917, just 18 years old, Yu Meiyan was transformed into a beautiful woman, and Tan Zuxiang, the son of the richest man in the local area, accidentally caught a glimpse of the heavens and quickly went to the door to propose to him. The father of the Yu family felt that the two families were right, plus there were some business contacts, so he agreed to this family affair. Yu Meiyan also had to obey her parents' orders to marry Tan Zuxiang.
But soon after the marriage, the Tan family's business went out of shape, and Tan Gongzi needed to go to the United States to do business, leaving Yu Meiyan at home. Yu Meiyan, who just enjoyed the love of men and women, who could bear the loneliness of being alone in an empty house, coupled with the discord with her mother-in-law and sister-in-law, staying in her in-laws felt like she was in prison, so she ran to Guangzhou, not far from Taishan.
At that time, in the environment of that era, a woman went out alone, which also confirmed Yu Meiyan's extraordinary courage.
Just the day before she arrived in Guangzhou, the chief of the navy was assassinated, and Yu Meiyan, who pursued freedom, was arrested as a bad person as soon as she arrived in Guangzhou.
Hearing the news of Yu Meiyan's arrest, Yu's father was very anxious and entrusted the old acquaintance of the county magistrate of Hainan County to "fish" her out.
This time there was such a shameful thing, the Famous and Prestigious Tan Family of course could not stand it, and a letter of suspension dissolved the marriage between the two.
The daughter was so ashamed of her family that she sent her to the "art institute" (a labor camp to learn "three from four virtues", "shake yarn, weave cloth, weave socks, carpentry, lacquer, lithography") for a year of transformation.
Yu's father hoped to rehabilitate his unruly daughter through short-term re-education through labor camp.
However, after coming out of the art institute, Yu Meiyan became more debauched and simply became a social flower.
Arrested for no reason, dissolved from marriage by her husband's family, sent to labor reform by her father, how can a rich lady endure such humiliation?
So I simply broke off relations with my family!
PART·02
Join the WTO and taste all the changes in life!
Breaking off relations with her family means that Yu Meiyan has cut off her source of livelihood, and from now on, the road can only be walked alone.
And her only capital is youth and beauty, perhaps for livelihood, perhaps for lust, she began to go in and out of dance halls, cocktail parties, attracted countless warlords and rich merchants, met men with eyes to spend the night together, famous men threw thousands of dollars, just to spend a night with her for a spring supper.
She even let it out: "My Spring Supper, it's not something you can buy if you have money." ”
Yu Meiyan married for the second time and became the second room of a Hong Kong businessman. However, because she went to the casino and theater every day, Hong Kong businessmen published a notice in the newspaper to dissolve the marriage contract, saying that she was "debauched and profligate."
PART·03
Be avant-garde, the world is intolerable!
Yu Meiyan also knows how to hype herself, and her words are not surprising and endless.
She publicly said that she had slept with three thousand men, saying that she liked to sleep naked in the hotel, and even slept naked in the door of the hotel bedroom, which stunned the travelers.
This kind of unusual style of behavior has made her a "strange woman" and often in the news.
From today's point of view, her positioning of herself is actually just the "top card" of a green building. However, she is the "top card" of freelance, plus she is under the banner of "sexual liberation", so she seems to be more "trendy".
After experiencing two marriages, Yu Meiyan was completely disappointed in the marriage and completely embarked on the road of wandering skeletons. From military and political dignitaries to businessmen to ordinary people, she slept with more than 3,000 people in more than ten years and was known as the "Desired Woman of the Republic of China".
Later, she and three other like-minded sisters went in and out of the bar and dance hall, known as the "Four King Kongs" in Guangzhou.
But she adamantly denied being Miss. She felt that sexual desire was no different from appetite, so she never shyed away from talking about it publicly. Nowadays, she seems more like a "social flower lady" who may be addicted.
Contemporaries recorded her beauty: "Beautiful and beautiful, thirty years old, and still looking like a twenty-year-old person." ”
All the behavior of this strange woman seems too advanced compared to the times!
PART·04
Countless men, true love is hard to find!
At the age of 25, Yu Meiyan met true love and began to "conform to liang". The son of the governor of Nanhai County, Bohai Jiushao, wanted to entrust him for life. But his family believes that such a wave of women "dew marriage is OK, permanent partner is not." ”
The man was locked up by the family and asked Yu Meiyan to return the 20,000 yuan that her son had spent for her. As long as they pay back twenty thousand yuan, they are allowed to get married. Who knew that after the county magistrate's wife accepted the money, the nanhai county magistrate actually wanted to arrest her as a "prostitute" and accuse her. After some persuasion, the county magistrate expelled her from Nanhai County.
Disheartened, she went away again, but in San Francisco, miraculously met her first husband, but it was difficult to break the mirror, everything was not human, Tan Gongzi heard a little about his ex-wife's unbearable things, coldly rejected her, and Yu Meiyan's fantasy love was once again disappointed.
Wandering between countless men, but unable to get the love she wanted, Yu Meiyan was completely tired.
After returning to Guangzhou, Yu Meiyan began a life of wandering skeletons and walking dead. The men who circled the fireworks place no longer trusted anyone. Local tabloids said that during Yu Meiyan's stay in Guangzhou, "military officers and commanders have a lot of knowledge, and they can't help but play on the palm of their hands." During four years, he was said to have had sex with three thousand men.
Yu Meiyan began to tire of the world. Before leaving, she decided to record all the men she had read over the years, including countless love letters written to her by countless men in Chinese and English, and she named the diary "Modern Love Letters" or "Romantic Love Letters", telling her experience of rolling sheets with three thousand men.
This diary, comparable to MuZimei's "Testament Of Love", was the first pioneer of "body writing" in the Republic of China.
At that time, the lace tabloids seized on this hot spot and published this woman one after another. As soon as the book was published, it was robbed madly, and there is still a rare edition of the Republic of China, on the cover, a woman helplessly holding her face, looking lonely.
PART·05
The empty door refuses to enter, and the soul returns to the sea!
At the age of 27, Yu Meiyan said that she saw through the world and escaped into the empty door. Unexpectedly, the "second generation of officials" who had regained her freedom asked to renew the dream with her. But at this time, Yu Meiyan has long lost her original state of mind. She refused the "second generation of officials", but he came again and again, begging for it... The abbot of the temple thought that she was "six roots impure" and "all hearts are not dead", so he threw her out of the temple gate.
In April 1928, aboard a ship from Hong Kong called the "Canadian Queen" (another version of the "Canada" cruise ship), a young and charming woman, sometimes crying, sometimes laughing, and then, facing the rough sea, she jumped down and rolled into the rolling waves. This woman is Yu Meiyan.
Before dying, she said to the people around her, "Since there is no joy in life, it is better to escape from this dirty world, to steal life in this dark society, to have no interest, and to seek death." ”
She left behind a desperate letter, writing:
I had no other way out but to die.
I have been debauched for ten years, endured humiliation and burdens, and this trip to Shanghai in order to devote myself to the screen and leave a memorial, so that ordinary young people in society can see the true face of Yu, or will not repeat the same mistakes. Yu will throw himself into the sea, wash away the filth of this body, and may be a pure woman in the next life.
Yan was unfortunately born in this era of green and yellow handover, since he was a child, he relied on the words of the media, listened to the orders of his parents, married a husband far from a foreign country, did not meet for several years, knew little, misunderstood freedom, and acted willfully. In this filthy and evil society, there have been ups and downs for ten years, although there are many people who have read a lot, they have not been able to marry Zhu Chen's good, although they loved the Bohai Nine Young, Nai was hindered by his parents and finally lost his hopes. Eventually losing the joy of life, leaving this remnant of life useless, determined to live my life, away from this filthy world, and return to my original purity. ”
After that, yang Naimei, one of the original "four king kongs" and movie star, overcame all difficulties and did not hesitate to sacrifice hue to raise funds, and put the story of Yu Meiyan on the screen.
Yang Naimei's movie "Strange Woman" tells the story of Yu Meiyan.
A photo of Yang Naimei was circulated on the Internet
Public opinion commented: "In the society, those who do not dare to do it in the female world, Yidu began to do it, creating a new era for women." ”
In the sixth year after Yu Meiyan's suicide, there were newspapers that said that she did not die, and later went to make a movie, but this matter could not be corroborated by the testimony of other witnesses, probably just for "eyeballs", right?
PART·06
Life of ups and downs, 14 words to summarize!
Her life was full of ups and downs
Perhaps it can be summed up by the title in the biography:
Eighteen monks—fleeing in anger—detained xi yi
Married twice- lost love and returned home - nicknamed the Heavenly King
Horseback fines — traveling to Europe and america — playing with warlords
Teasing the rich merchants - Shen Jiang Yan traces - incense has no chance
Suicide by throwing himself into the sea - a message on the verge of death
At the time of her death, Yu Meiyan was only 28 years old, and in the last moments of her life, she wrote the love story of more than 3,000 men she had interacted with and slept with in her life into a book called "Modern Love Letters", as the last relic left to the world.
She was indeed tired, and before committing suicide, she said: "In the next life, you may be a pure woman and get true freedom." A young girl, who has pursued freedom all her life, but experienced human suffering, and finally ended her life by jumping into the sea to commit suicide, which is really unfortunate!
Source: Zhihu
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