Zhou Xuan
When it comes to stars who can sing and act, everyone immediately recalls a number of Hong Kong and Taiwan artists in the 90s, who were packaged as film and television singers and stars shining on the screen.
As everyone knows, as early as the distant 30s, there was a top actress who acted and sang double excellence, shining brightly, relying on real power, she was Zhou Xuan.
She is the "golden voice" of the Republic of China period, and the clear and magnetic song resounded throughout that era, stretching endlessly, traveling through time and space, and passing down to this day.
No matter when you taste it, the simple and sweet charm in the tone will not fade with the changes of time.
Zhou Xuan
However, Zhou Xuan's nickname is not only "Golden Voice", but also the reputation of "Film Queen", which shows that her achievements in film performance are also brilliant and dazzling.
At the age of 12, he was able to record his first record, and at the age of 15, he participated in the first movie of his life, could sing and act, dexterous and lovely, and continued to make good works, so that Zhou Xuan gained fame and fortune at a young age, and climbed to the peak that many people could not reach in their lifetime.
However, who would have thought that such a magnificent, talented, beautiful, and wealth-rich actress of the Republic of China would spend the rest of her life in a mental hospital!
At the age of 37, he died.
Zhou Xuan
Behind the scenery, there is a heart-wrenching love, she faces the complex human nature with a simple state of mind, and faces the feelings with sincere and undefended enthusiasm, but in exchange for a scarred heart.
A vicious word from her lover became a weapon that destroyed her spiritual defenses.
She sank, lost, and in the end, the supposedly gorgeous life was regrettably passed away, and people remembered her wonderful voice and shadow on the other hand, and recalled her short life of joy and sorrow.
Zhou Xuan
She was born in Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, originally not called Zhou Xuan, called Su Pu, as her name suggests, like an unpolished piece of jade, but her life is drifting, and she was abducted by her uncle who smoked marijuana at the age of three.
After several twists and turns, Su Pu was sent to a family in Shanghai with the surname of Zhou for adoption, and was renamed "Zhou Xiaohong".
At first, everything was smooth, but when poverty struck, the selfishness and ruthlessness of human nature were fully exposed to his adoptive father, and he was also confused by smoking marijuana, so mad that he wanted to sell Zhou Xiaohong to a brothel for money.
Fortunately, her adoptive mother stopped her in time, and then she took Zhou Xiaohong away from the land of right and wrong, and lived by working around as a maid, no matter how difficult it was, she did not forget to pay tuition to send Zhou Xiaohong to school.
And Zhou Xiaohong's favorite is the music class, she has a high understanding of the rhythm, she only needs to learn to sing a strange song a few times, and she can sing it with great emotion.
Zhou Xuan as a teenager
Therefore, Zhou Xiaohong has become the "white spirit bird" in the minds of teachers and classmates, and whenever the school organizes a literary and artistic performance, It is indispensable to Zhou Xiaohong's solo singing.
And even the most talented singer also needs to have Bole excavation to become a big climate, but she is fortunate to meet the discerning Bole.
At the age of 11, Zhou Xiaohong was selected by Li Jinhui, a musician who specializes in creating children's song and dance dramas, and invited her to join the "Bright Moon Song and Dance Troupe".
Zhou Xiaohong, who performed well, was sent to make her first record "Special Express" at the age of 12.
At that time, during the war and chaos, the "Mingyue Song and Dance Troupe" founded by Li Jinhui was deeply influenced by patriotic thought and created a series of patriotic theme songs.
Zhou Xuan
Zhou Xiaohong sang the revolutionary song "Light of the Nation" with patriotic enthusiasm, and one of the lyrics of the song "Circling the Battlefield with the Enemy" was impassioned, which made the audience's blood boil and became the climax of the audience.
Therefore, at the suggestion of Li Jinhui, Zhou Xiaohong officially changed her name to Zhou Xuan.
At the age of 14, Zhou Xuan, whose voice was like a lark, was favored by more people in the industry, so he entered the "Xinhua Opera Society", and then, a song "The Wind of May" blew into people's hearts.
Zhou Xuan, a young girl less than 15 years old, not only sang the fresh mood of the warm breeze, but also rubbed a sense of vicissitudes in the song, which accurately fits the difficulties of the world that are alluded to in the lyrics.
Zhou Xuan
As soon as the song came out, it was quickly recorded by the then "EMI Records" as a record, and once it was released, the response was enthusiastic, and many streets and alleys were "blowing" "The Wind of May".
The singing career has been hanging all the way, and the film and television company has also thrown an olive branch to Zhou Xuan, who has a youthful and beautiful image.
From the jerky restraint when she first appeared on the screen to the emotional and flexible voice after accumulating experience, Zhou Xuan successfully completed the gorgeous transformation from a small actor to a movie star.
Among the many film works in which Zhou Xuan participated, "Road Angel" is an old movie that still makes the audience enjoy and reminisce endlessly, which can be called a classic.
Coincidentally, the name of the protagonist played by Zhou Xuan, "Xiaohong", is Zhou Xuan's former name.
At that time, Zhou Xuan was only 16 years old, and he was able to play a couple with Zhao Dan, a popular actor known as the "National Handsome Little Student".
Zhao Dan and Zhou Xuan in "Road Angel"
In the play, the two are small people who are struggling at the bottom of society, but they are permeated with freedom and love from their bones, and the two blow and sing through the window, deferring love in the intertwined melody.
The film not only impressed the audience with a romantic and tortuous plot, but also the two theme songs in the film, "Song of the Four Seasons" and "Song girl of Tianya", have also become classics and have been sung to this day.
And these two songs are sung by Zhou Xuan, "Song of Four Seasons" was sung by Zhou Xuan out of the brightness of a girl, and the brilliance and tranquility of the four seasons flowed in the song.
And "Tianya Singer" is more like Zhou Xuan's voice from the bottom of her heart, and the protagonist of the film is floating in the chaotic world, taking songs as the soul and songs as a living.
Zhou Xuan, who was only 16 years old, sang about the grief and helplessness of his sad life, and also sang about his desire and true feelings for new life.
That emotional "Lang, we are a heart" is still remembered.
Movie "Road Angel"
In the film, the plot develops to Xiaohong, played by Zhou Xuan, and Chen Shaoping, the drummer played by Zhao Dan, have a contradiction and a rift in feelings.
The aggrieved "Xiaohong" stood in front of the window and sang this song in tears at Chen Shaoping, who lived opposite.
In the end, that "Lang, we are a heart" melted Chen Shaoping's hardened heart, and the two reconciled.
The tears of the people in the play were dripping, and the audience who was moved outside the play also cried a lot.
The film was a great success, winning an international award in 1983 and the "Best Chinese Film of the Century" award in 2005.
Zhou Xuan
But outside the play, Zhou Xuan's love road is bumpy and bumpy, "Lang, we are a heart" can recall the lover in the play, but can not touch her lover in reality, after all, it is not a heart.
At the age of 18, Zhou Xuan has already shined brilliantly in the music and film world, and her career is steadily rising, but she chose to marry.
Her husband is Yan Hua, who is eight years older than her, and the two met in the "Bright Moon Song and Dance Troupe", Yan Hua is talented, can compose music, and can play the piano well.
In the regiment, Yan Hua took care of Zhou Xuan, the little sister who had just debuted, like a brother, and guided her carefully like a teacher, so that Zhou Xuan was grateful to him, and the two became closer and closer.
During the performance, Yan Hua and Zhou Xuan sang a song "Peach Blossom River", and between the fusion and collision of tones, emotions have quietly grown.
Yan Hua
Teenage girl Zhou Xuan is ignorant of the cognition of love, and Yan Hua makes her feel whether it is the family affection that has been missing since childhood, or the intoxicating love, she herself can't tell.
She only knew that when Yan Hua's brother was by her side, she was surrounded by warm light, and she was attached to this feeling.
Yan Hua, who has already had several emotional experiences, is deeply attracted by Zhou Xuan's simple beauty, and he wants to have Zhou Xuan.
When the love was strong, Yan Hua used a carefully customized gold ring hoop on Zhou Xuan's finger and proposed to her.
At that moment, Zhou Xuan, who was only 18 years old, only saw the warm aura in front of her, and would not calculate the future of her, thinking that the warmth and peace of the man in front of her at this moment would be eternal.
She agreed to the marriage proposal, but did not know that the complexity and weakness of human nature would disturb the married life that her heart longed for.
Zhou Xuan married Yan Hua
At the beginning of the marriage, the two loved sweetly, and Yan Hua's love was warm.
But Zhou Xuan's other identity has buried hidden dangers in this marriage.
She is not only a wife, she is also the "golden voice" whose song resounds on the beach, and she is the pure actress on the screen who can touch the audience's heart with a cry and a smile.
Therefore, another man stood in front of Zhou Xuan, he was Liu Zhonghao, the owner of the "Guohua Film Company", who sincerely invited Zhou Xuan to sign a contract with his own film company and was well paid.
Liu Zhonghao promised that as long as Zhou Xuan participated in the film, she would play an important leading role, and also specially placed a special room for Zhou Xuan to contact film work in the high-end apartment where he lived.
Yanagisaka Hiroshi
Faced with the weight and preferential treatment of the owner of the film company, Zhou Xuan gladly accepted.
She will not lose such an opportunity, she has experienced living in a precarious place, being bullied, being excluded, and abstaining from food and clothing because of poverty.
Fortunately, her talent and talent allowed her to climb out of the quagmire early, jump up the tall branches, clean the mud and absorb the nectar, and the flowers bloomed.
Singing and acting is her second life, giving her self-confidence, turning hope into a beautiful note, interpreting the joys and sorrows of different characters, so that her spiritual world can be enriched and full of achievements.
She naturally hopes that the road of acting will be more brilliant and go further.
Zhou Xuan
But she also does not want to lose her family and love, after all, she was once a rootless duckweed, and Yan Hua's brother has always been a port of call in her mind.
Yan Hua's career and pursuit, Zhou Xuan has always been full of support, so she will naturally think that her husband Yan Hua loves her and will also love her career and pursuit.
However, the truth is not what he wants, Yan Hua loves Zhou Xuan, who is gentle and well-behaved in front of him and respects him like a mentor, rather than Zhou Xuan, whose career and popularity are more than his.
One after another big-selling movies and melodious new songs, so that Zhou Xuan's brilliance has gradually overshadowed her husband Yan Hua.
Fame is gradually rising, but the relationship between husband and wife is reversed, gradually stiff, in the face of the honor taken back by his wife, Yan Hua not only did not praise, but showed disdain, even derogatory, for the actor who cooperated with Zhou Xuan, he obviously showed jealousy and dissatisfaction.
The change of her husband made Zhou Xuan confused, and the home that used to warm her has gradually become cold, and gradually, she is more nostalgic for the set, filming more day and night, not shouting tired, resulting in her miscarriage when she is pregnant.
Zhou Xuan
In this regard, Yan Hua did not have the slightest pity for his wife, but blamed her for her own suffering, and he even locked his wife Zhou Xuan in his home.
But Zhou Xuan's heart was not willing to be trapped in the "cage", and escaped with the help of friends, Yan Hua was still unwilling, openly accusing Zhou Xuan in the newspaper, saying that she was cheating and betraying without any evidence.
The storm of public opinion struck hard, and Zhou Xuan did not flinch, but also published a newspaper to fight back.
The originally harmonious couple, blatantly opposed, is lamentable.
Zhou Xuan has never been emotionally fake, although she refuses to give up her career, but she is also sincerely paying for Yan Hua, in exchange for such treatment, under the negative anger, she actually took sleeping pills to commit suicide, fortunately, her friends rescued each other in time, but Yan Hua did not have much guilt.
The marriage was broken, and Zhou Xuan knew that she was powerless to recover it, and decided to divorce Yan Hua.
Reports on Zhou Xuan's marriage change
Zhou Xuan continued to move forward, after a marriage change, miscarriage, suicide attempt, she returned to the screen, and her singing and acting career became the spiritual pillar that supported her.
In 1937, "Night Shanghai", sung by Zhou Xuan, appeared in the film works in which she starred.
Zhou Xuan
In "Sauvignon Blanc", whether it is the singing style or the screen image, compared with before, the change is obvious.
The eyes are no longer so green and carefree, and the vicissitudes and grievances sharpened in reality penetrate with the gentle melody of "Night Shanghai", but also have more of a mature woman's charm.
At that time, it was the time of war, the smoke of war was filled with smoke, and the flames of war were flying, although as an entertainment star, it was still difficult to stop the integrity and wind and bone in Zhou Xuan's bones, and she resolutely refused to perform for the Japanese.
Circumference is tough, but also fragile, the love wounds she has encountered are always the wounds in her heart that cannot be healed, she does not dare to easily step on the feelings, but the suitors are still endless.
Among them was Zhu Huaide, a young silk cloth merchant who met in Hong Kong, and at first Zhou Xuan only regarded Zhu Huaide as an ordinary friend and did not neglect him.
Zhou Xuan and Zhu Huaide (first from right, second from right)
But Zhu Huaide knew how to pinch a woman's mind, he knew something about Zhou Xuan's past, knew that she needed to be considerate and warm, and he offered his hospitality.
Zhou Xuan was injured in the leg due to filming, when going up and down the stairs, Zhu Huaide came forward in time to help, attending the event at night, the wind was strong, Zhu Huaide casually draped his coat on Zhou Xuan's body.
These thoughtful and thoughtful small details make the emotional delicate circumference very warm, but the focus on her career has never wanted to invest in a relationship again.
However, Zhou Xuan's adoptive mother, Ye Fengmei, always instilled in her the concept that "a woman still has to have a man to rely on", and often praised Zhu Huaide for being considerate and understanding, stronger than her ex-husband Yan Hua.
Zhou Xuan in the movie
On the one hand, influenced by her adoptive mother's opinion, on the other hand, Zhou Xuan, who has been hurt by feelings, still longs to have a new relationship to soothe her trauma.
The man in front of him was tall, considerate and generous enough to himself, like a tree that shielded himself from the rain and the wind, Zhou Xuan finally poured all his feelings into Zhu Huaide, thinking that he had a warm dependence.
After experiencing vicissitudes, she still treats her feelings with a simple heart, but she does not know that behind Zhu Huaide's warm pulse is a deliberate deception.
After the two lived together, the wood had become a boat, the raw rice was ripe, and Zhu Huaide felt that the time had come for the showdown, so he told Zhou Xuan the fact that he already had a wife.
Zhou Xuan and her adoptive mother
Fooled!
Anger and dissatisfaction are naturally there, but at this time, Zhou Xuan has already formed an emotional dependence on him, and after Zhu Huaide promised to divorce the original partner, Zhou Xuan also regarded him as a close lover.
But the true feelings for the greedy and indulgent soul is not any effect, Zhu Huaide not only deceived Zhou Xuan's feelings, from the beginning of the establishment of a romantic relationship between the two, Zhu Huaide asked Zhou Xuan for money in the name of business and investment.
Caught in the emotional whirlpool, Zhou Xuan's judgment was reduced to the lowest point, and without any careful consideration, he handed over to Zhu Huaide the large amount of money he earned from his hard work in filming and singing.
It can really be said that "she has affection for others, and others regard her as business" .
Later, Zhou Xuan found that she was pregnant, although she was a popular star in the film, but her heart still longed to be a mother, she put down her work and was ready to give birth.
She told Zhu Huaide about the pregnancy, thinking that he would also be happy that he wanted to be a father.
But what Zhou Xuan never expected was that the news of this pregnancy would bring her a fatal blow.
"How can I prove that this is my child?" This is the answer of the so-called "lover" after hearing the lover's pregnancy.
Zhou Xuan
Seemingly a short question, the lethality was comparable to the sharp blade of a poisoned knife, causing Zhou Xuan to collapse in an instant.
"How do you have the face to say that?" The child is yours, you don't admit it!"
The extreme anger is hysterical and incoherent, even though she is a self-reliant new woman of that era, but in her bones it is traditional.
For women of that era, fame and innocence were as important as life, and zhou Xuan's physical and mental state, which was pregnant, was as fragile as an eggshell, but she suddenly had to face an inexplicable structure, how to be humiliated!
His own innocence, only he understands, all kinds of explanations, Zhu Huaide, who is holding the dancer in his arms to seek pleasure, is even more unscrupulous, and more vicious words blurt out: "The child in your belly does not know who the father is, right?"
Zhou Xuan thoroughly saw Zhu Huaide's ugly face, where is a warm and good man, it is clear that it is a blood-sucking worm without humanity!
Zhou Xuan
Wronged, suppressed, angry and attacked, physically weak, and with zero spiritual defense, Zhou Xuan's last spiritual defense line completely collapsed.
Zhou Xuan publicly published a statement that he had severed ties with Zhu Huaide and wanted to recover the deceived property, and insisted on giving birth to a child in his belly and preparing to raise it alone, and Zhu Huaide was also punished under the constraints of the law.
But the emotional setback again has left a wound that will never heal, and what is more frightening is that the sore is constantly spreading.
In 1951, Zhou Xuan was invited to shoot the movie "Peace Dove", and the fans who had always supported her hoped that Zhou Xuan would be able to forget the pain through filming work, but the shocking and distressing news came from the shooting scene.
While filming a scene of the heroine's "blood test", Zhou Xuan suddenly shouted hysterically: "This is your flesh and blood, you don't believe you can test blood!" Blood test!"
Peace Dove promotional poster
The staff at the scene were shocked, because there was no line in the play.
Zhou Xuan's spirit was out of control, and the scene of "blood test" touched the unhealed wounds and humiliation in her heart, making her crazy and confused.
The shooting was interrupted, and the staff could only send Zhou Xuan back to her home for recuperation.
But things did not turn in a good direction, and in September, the crew of "Peace Dove" received a call from Zhou Xuan's adoptive mother, Ye Fengmei.
Ye Fengmei's tone on the phone was extremely anxious: "Something is wrong with Xuan'er!" Smashing things around the house and saying they were going to throw their newborn babies out the window!"
In desperation, the crew contacted the staff of the Film Association, went to Zhou Xuan's home, and sent Zhou Xuan to the psychiatric treatment center in a semi-forced way.
Actor Zhao Dan
Zhao Dan, who had previously played a couple with Zhou Xuan in "Road Angel", sympathized with the suffering of his friend Zhou Xuan and informed his wife Huang Zongying of the matter, and Huang Zongying sent Zhou Xuan's unattended young son to the "drama film nursery" managed by himself.
Zhou Xuan, who received repeated treatment in a mental hospital, has lost the glory of the star of the past, her eyes are sluggish, and even life is difficult to fully take care of herself.
But at the most embarrassing time in life, Zhou Xuan encountered the third love in her life.
Showing her affection was Tang Di, the art director of the "Peace Dove" crew, who held the rank of colonel and had served as an art officer of the Inspirational Society.
He patiently encouraged Zhou Xuan and sat not far from Zhou Xuan's bedside to paint a portrait of her.
At this moment, Zhou Xuan was like a lone bird that had lost its direction in the mud and dust, and Tang Di was like the warm light that penetrated the dust and haze, illuminating the way forward for Zhou Xuan.
In the confusion, Tang Di became Zhou Xuan's spiritual comfort, making her show a long-lost smile, and her feelings were born.
Zhou Xuan
This is like the feelings in the tribulation, the bitterness also carries a little romance, which makes people move.
However, Zhou Xuan's adoptive mother ruthlessly tore off the love bond between the two, pointing out that Tang Di was a liar, the purpose was not pure at all, and the so-called love was just a scam he carefully planned.
Ye Fengmei revealed that Tang Di already had a girlfriend who had lived with Zhou Xuan for five years when he came into contact with him, which is indeed true.
Before, Zhu Huaide, who pushed Zhou Xuan into the dark abyss, also hid the fact that he already had a wife from Zhou Xuan, no wonder Ye Fengmei was so repulsive to Tang Di.
And the development of the situation is not as simple as exposing, Ye Fengmei directly sued Tang Di in court, accusing him of fraud and seduction.
The reason is that Zhou Xuan is obviously insane, unable to take care of himself, and he still wants to have a relationship with him and cause him to become pregnant, which is not only immoral, but also involves crime.
Another economic complaint was that Tang Di defrauded Zhou Xuan of 12 million yuan and two gold bars.
However, there are accusations and rebuttals, and Tang Di denies all kinds of accusations, he admits that he has a cohabiting girlfriend, but he believes that he is also truly in love with Zhou Xuan.
In that era, a man who fell in love with several women at the same time was not ashamed to say anything at all, so Tang Di refuted it with a straight face, he believed that even if Zhou Xuan was a patient, it was also a gorgeous actress, and it was natural to make men move.
As for the fraud of 12 million, Tang Di said that Zhou Xuan voluntarily gave him money, and there was not so much money in total, and the two small gold bars were also a gift that Zhou Xuan took out of the pen holder and gave to the children of the Tang family relatives.
After review, these two small gold bars were enough for Tang Di to buy a house.
In the end, Tang Di was found guilty, but considering that his and Zhou Xuan's child was about to be born, Tang Di was released on bail.
But after the birth of the child, Tang Di was blacklisted by Zhou Xuan's adoptive mother and the person in charge of the nursing home, and did not let him get close to Zhou Xuan and the child for half a step.
However, I don't know whether it was out of father-son love or for another purpose, Tang Di took advantage of the negligence of the caretaker to take the child away, and at this point, Tang Di took the child around to beg for a living.
Zhou Xuan's report after discharge
Zhou Xuan, who had been treated in Beijing for a year in 1955, returned to Shanghai, and Tang Di wanted to take her children to visit her.
However, Zhou Xuan's adoptive mother and the nursing home believed that Tang Di's appearance would stimulate Zhou Xuan, which in turn would affect her recovery, so they repeatedly stopped it.
In 1957, Zhou Xuan's state seemed to improve, and when she was conscious, she was grateful to all those who cared for her, and also said that she would be strong to face life, hoping that the majority of fans would rest assured.
In the early summer, Zhou Xuan, who had experienced vicissitudes, tried her best to cheer up her spirits, came to the radio station, and sang the "Song of the Four Seasons" that made her famous that year.
The song sounded, the audience shed tears, although Zhou Xuan's tone had more vicissitudes, but the simple state of mind in the song had not changed.
I thought that winter and spring would come and everything would get better, but in September 1957, the bad news came that the famous actress Zhou Xuan died in a mental hospital due to sudden encephalitis, and the star that had once shone fell sadly.
After 5 years of epilepsy, Zhou Xuan passed away, but the disturbances around her did not disappear.
Tang Di went in and out of prison twice, and the dispute between him and Zhou Xuan's adoptive mother, and the property entanglement between Zhou Xuan's younger son and his former adoptive mother Huang Zongying, were in the dust, and the two sides insisted on their own words and fought over each other.
And these disputes have nothing to do with Zhou Xuan in another world, she treats people with a simple state of mind, even though her life is scarred, she is not ashamed.
And the songs and images she interpreted with her youthful life will always reside in people's memories, and the light will never fade.