Xiao Fengxian and Cai Yi
Hello everyone, I'm Lantai.
Today Lantai introduces you to the real Xiao Fengxian in history.
From 1914 to 1915, during his tenure in the Beiyang government, Cai Yi became acquainted with a woman who called herself "Little Fengxian" in Yunjiban, Shaanxi Lane, Beijing's "Eight Hutongs".
This was originally a very ordinary small thing at that time, because at that time, "fox prostitutes" could not be linked to the skin and meat business, more like a kind of social entertainment, and at that time, it was said that "fathers and sons and brothers can go together, but in order to sell long arms, they may not have the intention of being drunk, so everyone flocks to them." ”
However, this happened to happen before Cai Yi fled Beijing and returned to Yunnan to launch the Patriotic War, so it became a hot topic for a long time.
After Cai E's death, "Cai E and Xiao Fengxian" has simply become the traffic code of the media, and in every historical period since then, literary and art workers and historical researchers have revived their past according to new values.
In the 1920s, playwrights adapted the story of Cai Yi and Xiao Fengxian into a drama and put it on the stage under the title of "Heroic Beauty". In 1948, there was a new three-act historical drama "Yuan Shikai", which mentioned in detail how Cai Yi escaped from Beijing with the help of Xiao Fengxian.
In 1953, Hong Kong launched the movie "Little Phoenix", and Li Lihua, who played Xiao Fengxian, became a hit and became a dazzling movie star.
In 1981, the Beijing Film Studio made the story of Cai Yi and Xiao Fengxian into a movie "Zhiyin", which was released all over the country and became popular, and Wang Xingang, who played Cai Yi, won the Best Actor Award at the Fifth "Popular Film" Hundred Flowers Award.
Later, Liu Xiaoqing, a famous actor in China, also raised funds to shoot the TV series "Escape love" in which she personally played Xiao Fengxian, which shows the high popularity of Xiao Fengxian.
This is also the reason why Lan Tai wants to introduce you to the real Xiao Fengxian in history: the life of the real Xiao Fengxian in history is not romantic at all compared with the movies and TV series.
According to historians, Xiao Fengxian was a native of Henan and was born in 1899 in Hangzhou, where her father worked as a petty official; Her original surname was Zhu, because her mother was an aunt and wife, and she was discriminated against by Mrs. Zheng; Later, with the acquiescence of Xiao Fengxian's father, Xiao Fengxian and her mother moved away from the Zhu family and rented another house in Hangzhou.
Later, I don't know what happened, it may be that Xiao Fengxian's biological father died, the Zhu family no longer cares about Xiao Fengxian's mother and daughter, before the Xinhai Revolution, Xiao Fengxian's mother also died of illness, Xiao Fengxian was adopted by the family's zhang surname nursing mother, and has since changed her surname to Zhang; After the outbreak of the Xinhai Revolution, Xiao Fengxian and his adoptive mother's family fled from Hangzhou to Shanghai, and the family had no income, so Zhang "sold" Xiao Fengxian to a Peking Opera artist surnamed Hu to learn to sing, and this artist surnamed Hu has since taken Xiao Fengxian to sell art in Nanjing; Zhang Xun attacked Nanjing, and the artist surnamed Hu fled from Nanjing to Beijing with Xiao Fengxian, and later Xiao Fengxian was sold by this artist surnamed Hu to the "Eight Hutongs" in Yunjiban, Shaanxi Lane. It is also reduced to dust.
Here is a brief introduction to the grade of the "Eight Hutongs" wind and moon places at that time, which were roughly divided into three classes, "the top is known as a small class, the second is a tea room, and the next place is known as the lower place, but below the tea room, not the upper class."
The Yunji class where Xiao Fengxian is located is similar to today's high-end clubhouse, and the tea room is a business KTV, and so on is the place where the skin and meat business is directly done.
However, although Xiao Fengxian "worked" in Yunjiban, in history, Xiao Fengxian was not outstanding in terms of posture or talent.
Shaanxi Lane of the Eight Hutongs
Because in 1913, there was a third-rate newspaper in Beijing that held a "flower country election", that is, to rank so many workers in the "Eight Hutongs", and according to the Western system, the first place was a doctorate, and the second class was a bachelor.
37 people were selected by "talent, love, color and art", and at that time, only one worker in Yunji class was shortlisted for the final 37 people, who was Hong Hongbao, a "science scientist", not Xiao Fengxian.
It can be seen that in history, the real Xiao Fengxian was not a "famous prostitute" recognized at that time.
In addition, Xiao Fengxian himself did not have the level of education to the point of "proficient in poetry and song", according to the people at that time, Xiao Fengxian "can understand the great righteousness and read books and newspapers for a long time." ”
That is to say, Xiao Fengxian's education level is not high, but only the level of literacy and reading books and newspapers.
In 1951, Xiao Fengxian's handwritten letter to Mei Lanfang also had a large number of unreasonable places and typos, so it is certain that Xiao Fengxian's cultural level is limited.
As for the appearance of Xiao Fengxian, according to the recollections of people who have been in contact with Xiao Fengxian, "there are two teeth exposed on the left and right of the upper jaw, and the opening is quite beautiful." ”
According to Xiao Fengxian's self-report in 1951, it was Cai Yi who helped Xiao Fengxian redeem himself, and the redemption fee at that time was 1,000 oceans, which was a lot of money at that time; However, because Cai Yi had a good relationship with his aunt and wife, he did not take Xiao Fengxian as a concubine, and after Xiao Fengxian was redeemed, he continued to do business in Yunjiban in order to live.
According to the historian's research, Cai Yi did not have any special feelings for Xiao Fengxian, but only regarded Xiao Fengxian as a "tool man" to confuse Yuan Shikai, and Cai Yi left Beijing and returned to Yunnan, and Xiao Fengxian was completely unaware.
In fact, according to the recollection of Cai E's mentor Liang Qichao, Cai E's plan to run away did not even tell his most beloved aunt, so that Cai E left Beijing and went south for several days, and Cai E's aunt thought that Cai E went out to "play crazy" and went to Liang Qichao's house to find someone.
Cai Gong left, his family did not know at all, but every day he called to ask for someone, I had to take other words to support me.
In fact, for the dusty women of the "Eight Great Hutongs" at that time, the best destination was not to marry an honest person, but to marry a high official as an aunt.
The Northeast Army at the time of the 918 Incident
According to Sheng Hong, a professor of history at Nanjing Normal University, after Cai Yi's death, Xiao Fengxian used the fame he had accumulated to marry a division commander of the Northeast Army surnamed Liang as the wife of the fourth aunt. As a result, he moved from Beijing to Shenyang.
One thing is for sure, after the 9/18 incident, Xiao Fengxian was still living in Shenyang, so the division commander she married was likely to defect to Pseudo-Manchu, which can also explain why Xiao Fengxian later married a cook.
After the victory of the War of Resistance, it was natural to liquidate the traitors and traitors, then the Liang Division's family would naturally be defeated, and Xiao Fengxian had never had children, and he must have been the first to be swept out of the house.
This also explains why Xiao Fengxian was poor and destitute later, after all, after being the wife of the division commander and the wife of the military commander for so many years, how should she have some savings in her hands; Only because the "Liang Master" was liquidated as a traitor, and the property, including Xiao Fengxian's private wealth, was confiscated, that Xiao Fengxian hurriedly married a cook surnamed Chen, and once became a nanny after the founding of the Country.
I know that there is a theory that Xiao Fengxian married Li Zhenhai, a boiler worker at the Shenyang People's Government, but this claim was denied by Professor Jing Shenghong.
Xiao Fengxian and chef surnamed Chen have never had children, and after the founding of New China, the two of them have a very poor life, and Xiao Fengxian still has to go to others as a nanny to supplement the family.
Later, Xiao Fengxian learned by chance that Mei Lanfang had contacted Mei Lanfang in Shenyang and asked Mei Lanfang for help; Later, after passing through Meilan Fangtuo, Xiao Fengxian was arranged to work as a nursery in a school in Shenyang.
Shenyang in the 1970s
Listening to Xiao Fengxian's neighbor, she didn't have any exquisite clothes, just ordinary clothes, but it was beautiful to wash and wear clean.
His only hobby is drinking, drinking two glasses of liquor almost every meal, very slowly. Such habits seem to be related to her bumpy life.
Her greatest pleasure is to listen to the play, listen to it with taste, and get drunk. It may also be related to her early life path. She maintained this habit until her old age.
In 1976, the 76-year-old Xiao Fengxian finally completed her tortuous life path, and she fell into the public toilet next to her bungalow, with a sudden brain congestion.
At this time, Xiao Fengxian's husband had been dead for many years. Cai Yi has also been dead for 60 years.
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