Audiences who have watched the 1964 film "Stage Sisters" written and directed by Xie Jin and others must remember such a plot:
Stills from the movie "Stage Sisters"
When the drama class performed in Shaoxing, the local gentleman Ni San attempted to insult Xing Yuehong, so he colluded with the police chief and not only banned the performance, but also arrested Yue Hong.
In order to cover for Yue hong, Haruka slammed the police with a stick and was tied to the bridge to show the public.
Master Xing was wounded and died. Before dying, she told Chunhua and Yuehong to "be innocent and innocent, and sing seriously." Before leaving their hometown and about to sing in Shanghai, Chunhua and Yuehong formally worshiped as sisters at the Niangniang Temple, vowing to live and die together in the future, share blessings, and share difficulties...
But what many viewers don't necessarily know is that these plots are not fictionalized by the screenwriters, but really happened to the famous Yue opera performance artists Yin Guifang and Zhu Shuizhao.
Yin Guifang and Zhu Shuizhao took a group photo
The famous film director Xie Jin, who is also one of the screenwriters of the movie "Stage Sisters", he served as the director of the troupe where Yin Guifang and Zhu Shuizhao were located in the 1950s, and was quite familiar with Yin Guifang and others, understood their experiences, admired their personalities and art, so when shaping the two artistic models of Zhu Chunhua and Xing Yuehong, a unique and somewhat "thrilling" experience between Yin Guifang and Zhu Shuizhao was "transferred" to them without a trace, enriching the storyline and character imagery.
Yin Guifang (1919-2000)
Yin Guifang was born in December 1919 in Xinchang, Zhejiang Province, to a poor peasant family, formerly known as Yin Xihua. At the age of 10, he entered a small song class to learn art, and at the age of 14, he began to run the dock career, the main worker, and acted in a variety of trades, and soon became famous.
Zhu Shuizhao (1921-1969)
Zhu Shuizhao was born in 1921 in Shengxian County, Zhejiang Province, and at the age of 12, he entered the science class to study drama, first attacking Wusheng and then changing to Hua Dan.
At the end of 1936, Yin Guifang's troupe performed in Haimen, a small county town in Zhejiang, because the head of the family, Hua Dan Yao Suzhen, suddenly left the troupe, and the troupe invited Zhu Shui, who was sixteen years old. Yin Guifang and Zhu Shuizhao began to cooperate.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in 1937, the war quickly spread from Shanghai to Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, and the Emperor of Shangao was far away, which also gave the corrupt officials of the local grass-roots government in the mountains of Zhejiang an extra trump card of lawlessness and extortion.
Soon, Yin Guifang and Zhu Shuizhao came to Huangyan to perform. One night, after the temple stage drama was sung for a long time, Yin Guifang and Zhu Shuizhao were so tired that they had already fallen asleep. Suddenly there was a loud knock on the temple door. The person who came laughed and said: The police chief of this county is thinking that they are all fellow villagers, and wants to invite the two young ladies to eat a supper.
So late, do not invite men but only women, name Yin Guifang and Zhu Shuizhao, the intention is obvious. So the troupe manager politely refused and said: Thank you for the director's kindness, they are too tired, tomorrow they will call them to the bureau to visit the bureau chief.
However, because Yin Guifang and Zhu Shuizhao were young and did not understand the world, they actually "forgot" to visit the bureau chief the next day, and they did not take this matter to heart.
Who knew that a few days later, just as Yin Guifang was putting on the costume and preparing to go on stage to perform the "Meilong Town" drama, several plainclothes officers from the police station seized Yin Guifang, and another group of people twisted Zhu Shuizhao, and the two did not even have time to change their heads, so they were directly put on the county police station, and without trial, without asking a word, they were escorted to the detention center. It is really called heaven and earth, and the earth is not spirited.
Later, Yin Guifang and Zhu Shuizhao's mother rushed to hear the news, dredged up the situation and interceded, and finally rescued Yin Guifang and Zhu Shuizhao from the cage. Just because they refused a "banquet", the two famous horns were imprisoned for fifty-two days for no reason by the "ground snake"!
Out of the prison, Zhu Shuizhao's mother saw at a glance that Yin Guifang was a loyal and honest, amorous and righteous person, and would definitely be a horn in the future, hoping that Yin Guifang would take more care of her daughter in the future, so she proposed that the two worship as sisters.
And Yin Guifang and Zhu Shuizhao after more than fifty days of imprisonment, mutual understanding has been further deepened, the feelings of suffering and commonality have sprung up, and their previous cooperation is also very pleasant, once in their lives, either playing husband and wife, or playing couples, singing and doing well, with tacit understanding, Yin Guifang said that Zhao Shuizhao is his "stage couple".
Stills of Yin Guifang and Zhu Shuizhao
The two readily agreed, and immediately went to the City God Temple, lit a pair of red candles, burned a pillar of incense, prayed eight times, prostrated their heads several times, and became sisters of righteousness and death.
Therefore, the encounter between Zhu Chunhua and Xing Yuehong in the movie "Stage Sisters" before entering Shanghai is basically a copy of the experience of Yin Guifang and Zhu Shuizhao.
Zhu Shuizhao life photos
Yin Guifang stills
In real life, later Yin Guifang and Zhu Shuizhao did indeed experience a life and death test again, further witnessing each other's feelings.
After coming out of the county prison, Yin Guifang and Zhu Shuizhao understood that this place was not a place to stay for a long time, and quickly gathered the remaining few drama class members, took the clothes box, and escaped from Huangyan by boat overnight.
It was a difficult journey, full of thorns and traps, and the two had just escaped from the tiger's den and fallen into the wolf's cave. When the boat reached a certain ferry port, a group of people appeared on the water, stopped the boat, and involuntarily said that they wanted Yin Guifang and Zhu Shui to invite them to the shore to act.
In order not to suffer the immediate loss, they had no choice but to follow them village by village, and the income naturally went to this gang. Several times Yin Guifang and Zhu Shuizhao secretly discussed escaping, but they had no choice but to take the clothes box with them, and the surrounding mountains and rivers were heavy, and the path was unfamiliar, but they were afraid that they would be discovered if they could not go far.
One day, there was a female drama fan who liked Yin Guifang, who was also the sister of an insider of the county police station, who risked his life to come to report to Yin Guifang and persuade them to flee quickly, because the police station had already discussed "promising" Yin Guifang, Zhu Shuizhao, and others to others respectively... Yin Guifang saw that she was determined, and she said to Zhu Shuizhao: "You run fast, single, easy to get out!" ”
Zhu Shuizhao said, "Sister Gui Fang, what about you?" Yin Guifang said: "I have a big goal, otherwise I am afraid that I can't run and you can't run me, you ran, so there is still one of us left you!" Zhu Shuizhao said, "If I run, then what will you do with Sister Guifang?" Yin Guifang said as he took out a shiny sharp knife from his corset and said, "I will fight with them, in case it does not work, I will jump into the river!" ”
Zhu Shui beckoned Yin Guifang to be so chivalrous, and she had such a heart at the moment of life and death, and she and herself were really friends of life and death, the alliance of jinshi, and immediately burst into tears, with a crying voice: "Sister Guifang, don't run, you don't run, I don't run, we will die together!" ”
This scene also touched the girl who risked death to ventilate the news, she saw the situation and tried to invite a few kind and upright locals, under their cover and help, riding on the darkness of the night, moving the clothes box with all hands and feet, going out of the mountain path, crossing the mountains, and finally escaping from the "Wolf Cave".
Art comes from life. But life is sometimes far more tortuous and harsh than art. The encounter between Yin Guifang and her "stage partner" is far more "shocking" and more touching than some of the "bridges" in the movie "Stage Sisters", you say?