On the evening of March 24, 1932, a popular female star, Dawn Hui, strolled along the beautiful seaside with one of her fans (Fung Tak-hwan) and enjoyed the sunset.
At this moment, a man dressed in black and wearing a duck-tongue hat quietly appeared behind the two people, followed by two gunshots, and Feng Deqian fell into a pool of blood.
After the gunshots rang out, the surrounding tourists screamed and fled in all directions, while the female star Li Minghui stayed where she was with a look of fear. The police soon arrived, and Dawn was detained.
After investigation, the police found that the murderer was actually Feng Deqian's best friend Zheng Guoyou! The reason why the other party hired feng Deqian to kill was because of the jealousy of the wind!
After the police announced the results of the inspection, the major mainstream newspapers in Hong Kong published such a news for the first time: Li Minghui, a popular star in Shanghai Beach, fell into a love triangle, which led to the rich man's jealousy, and Feng Deqian was shot and killed by his brother!
What's going on here?
As the singer of the first popular song in Chinese history, what is the story of Li Minghui?
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Nursery rhyme: The little bunny is obedient, open the door... Presumably, everyone has heard it, even if it is a person with incomplete five tones, they can sing this song. The songwriter is named Lai Kam-fai.
So what is the relationship between Li Minghui and Lai Jinhui?
Father!
In the 1930s, Li Jinhui established a Mingyue Opera Company in Shanghai. This opera club is completely different from the bright and green venues in Shanghai, in addition to cultivating stars, it is also the birthplace of Chinese pop music in that era, and the founder of the opera club, Li Jinhui, is also known as the father of modern Chinese song and dance.
Li Minghui was born in 1909, under the influence of her father, at the age of 12, she was already a musical talent who could sing and dance, and was good at many instruments, such as violin, cello, piano, etc. Li Minghui was very good at it.
In today's society, there are many people who can play the violin, but in the early part of the last century, many Chinese people did not know what a violin was. It can be seen from this that the musical education received by Li Minghui is very advanced and very Westernized.
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In 1925, the film "Unbearable Looking Back" began filming, and the film crew found Li Minghui to play a supporting role, and Li Minghui did not refuse, and then starred in the first film of his life.
Unexpectedly, this movie made her half the sky red, and Li Minghui played a young and cute little sister in the film, and the character image was very successful.
How successful was it? People probably don't believe it.
In that era, there was no mobile phone, naturally there was no Weibo WeChat, the contact between the people mostly relied on letters, after Li Minghui starred in the movie, fans across the country wrote letters to her, but because they did not know Li Minghui's real name, so many people directly wrote "Shanghai Little Sister Collection" in the recipient column.
Postmen all over the country, as long as they see the words "Shanghai Little Sister", they know that the letter must be sent to Li Minghui, such a popularity, there is really no one.
In 1927, his father, Lai Kam-fai, tailored a song for Dawn Hui called "Drizzle". Presumably the elderly friends are very familiar with this song, this song is the first real popular song in our country, in the 2004 CCTV documentary "100 Years of Singing", the song used in the prologue is "Drizzle"!
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As soon as this popular song was released, it immediately became popular all over the country. At first, Li Minghui was only famous in Shanghai Beach, but with this song, she became a diva singer who spread throughout Asia.
After "Drizzle" became a hit, Li Minghui successively released songs such as "Peach Blossom with Human Face" composed for her by her father, which were absolutely popular in the 1920s and 1930s.
Confessed by the Prince of Malaysia
In 1928, Li Minghui followed his father's Mingyue Opera Company to Hong Kong and other places for commercial performances, and with his fame, the performance hall was full.
One day, after a day of performances in Hong Kong, Li Minghui and the others returned to the hotel to rest. At this time, a male fan came outside the door, shouting loudly to see Li Minghui.
Fanatical fans like this, the staff around Li Minghui have seen too much, so the staff stopped the young man outside the door.
However, to everyone's surprise, the man not only did not leave, but instead sang Li Minghui's famous work " Drizzle " aloud at the door of the hotel.
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The staff was not surprised, so they ignored him, but no one expected that the young man had been singing outside the door until his voice was hoarse, but still refused to stop.
At this time, Dawn Hui in the hotel already knew about this matter, and she was also impressed by the fan's insistence, so she made an exception and agreed to meet with the fans.
When the two met, When Li Minghui learned the identity of the fan, he was still a little surprised, and the other party was actually Zheng Fei, the prince of the Taiping Province in Malaysia!
After hearing Li Minghui's "Drizzle", the young prince fell in love with her at first sight, and later learned that Li Minghui and the opera company had come to Hong Kong for a commercial performance, so the prince immediately left Malaysia for Hong Kong, in order to be able to meet Li Minghui.
Although at this time, Dawn was already a star and the moon, and there were many people who pursued her, she still fell in the face of the prince's affectionate confession.
In this way, Dawn Hui fell in love with this Prince fan.
Such love stories are also very common now, and there are many cases of celebrities and fans living happily, and Li Jinhui wrote a song for her after learning about her daughter's love: "First Love"!
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But dawn and the prince's love affair has just begun to end, because the prince's mother, the princess, has arrived! Historically, Malaysia has been very close to chinese civilization, and many of the country's cultures and ideas have been deeply influenced by China.
Therefore, when the Princess of Malaysia learned that her son had fallen in love with a dramatist, she was really furious and immediately rushed to Hong Kong with a group of servants, ready to beat the Mandarin duck.
When the princess coldly said to Li Minghui that a drama is also worthy of falling in love with the royal family, Li Minghui's heart was greatly insulted.
Fortunately, the prince stubbornly stood in front of him, and he would rather give up his identity as a prince and be with Dawn Hui. Seeing the prince's insistence, Princess Gao Leng said this sentence:
"The two of you can be together if you want to, you (Dawn Hui) must be from Liang, and then you can be a concubine for the prince."
After hearing these words, Li Minghui was completely angry, and she asked the princess back: I am a singer, and I have not fallen into the wind and dust, where is the good word?
After saying these words, Dawn Left without looking back, she couldn't afford such a marriage, and she didn't want to climb high! In this way, Li Minghui's first love affair ended without a problem.
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Her father was also imprisoned for the trouble of the princess, and later, with the support of Tian Han and others, Li Minghui went to see the Secretary Huang of the Kuomintang Military Department, and this Huang Secretary also took the opportunity to put forward 3 conditions:
First, the Mingyue Society should obey the orders of the military department; 2. Organize a labor performance; Third, Dawn Hui wanted to perform a song and dance in front of him on the spot.
In desperation, Li Minghui had to agree to Secretary Huang's request and performed a song "Praise warrior" with tears on the spot. Secretary Huang, who was in a good mood after watching the performance, made a phone call to the prison on the spot, and Lai Jinhui was soon released.
Encountered scumbags, enthusiastic fans were shot
The bitterness of first love and the disaster of his father's imprisonment have caused Dawn Hui to suffer a certain blow, but life will continue. After returning to Shanghai, she devoted herself to the opera club and film shooting, and successively launched many excellent film and television works, as well as a number of popular music of the Republic of China.
Although Li Minghui's fame is very large, the company she and her father run is not ideal. Against the backdrop of that era, their company was in financial crisis. Just when Li Minghui did not know what to do, there was a "rich and handsome man" who helped her, and this person was Zheng Guoyou, a wealthy businessman in Hong Kong.
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Zheng Guoyou is not only a fan of Li Minghui, but also a suitor of Li Minghui. This person is very generous, and well versed in business, with his help, Li Minghui and his father's opera company not only survived the crisis, but also turned a profit, the company's performance is booming, which makes Li Minghui grateful to him, and Zheng Guoyou is particularly fond of girls, and the two people come together.
Unlike the last time she fell in love with the prince, Li Minghui fell in love with a male fan this time and was ready to talk about marriage! The two not only lived together, but also came to Hong Kong during the Spring Festival of 1932 and met Zheng Guoyou's parents.
But what Li Minghui did not expect was that Zheng Guoyou's parents were firmly opposed to this marriage! The reason is also very simple, Dawn Hui is a drama, not worthy to marry into the rich!
The opposition of their parents put a boulder on the young lovers' hearts, and the two had to return to the hotel to think about countermeasures. However, in the following period of time, Zheng Guoyou slowly exposed his rich and clumsy personality! Moreover, in the process of getting along with the two, Zheng Guoyou also inadvertently expressed his contempt for the profession of drama.
Perhaps it is that if you get it, you will no longer cherish it, and Zheng Guoyou's performance has made Li Minghui's heart gradually fall into despair. Once, after the two quarreled, Dawn Left the hotel.
However, after leaving the hotel, she looked at the unaccompanied metropolis and did not know where to go for a while. At this time, she thought of Zheng Guoyou's good friend, Feng Deqian.
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Before that, Zheng Guoyou had taken Li Minghui to dinner with Feng Deqian. At the banquet, Feng Deqian also revealed that he was a fan of Li Minghui, especially liked to listen to Li Minghui's songs and watch Li Minghui's movies.
After learning about the matter between Li Minghui and Zheng Guoyou, Feng Deqian's eyes lit up, and his opportunity finally came, so he proposed to take Li Minghui around to play and relax.
At this time, Li Minghui's heart was extremely upset, and after the other party made such a request, she agreed. So for the next few days, the two of them played together in Hong Kong.
This matter quickly reached Zheng Guoyou's ears, and this was repaid! Feng Deqian dared to take the opportunity to rob his girlfriend, who could swallow this breath! So Zheng Guoyou spent a lot of money to hire a killer, and shot and killed Feng Deqian and Li Minghui while they were walking on the beach.
As soon as this matter came out, not only feng Deqian was killed, but Li Minghui was also imprisoned. Fortunately, the police successfully solved the case, and Li Minghui was released after staying in prison for more than a month.
After being released from prison, Li Minghui found that because of the Hong Kong media reports, her reputation had deteriorated, and the two relationships also made her physically and mentally exhausted, so Li Minghui, who returned to Shanghai, began to live in simplicity and gradually moved away from the Ten Mile Ocean Field.
But at this time, Dawn Hui was only in her 20s, was her life going to go on so lonely?
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Finally met a good person, but her husband died early
Dawn's first two loves have chosen her own fans, but her third love is just the opposite.
Li Minghui likes to watch football games, and her favorite star is called Lu Zhong'en, who is not only tall, but also very handsome.
At a banquet, Li Minghui and the star Lu Zhong'en met, after the two met at first sight, she liked him to play football, he liked her singing, also liked her acting in movies, after the two met it was really the same as ever, see each other hate late!
In 1937, the two were officially married.
In the second year after marriage, they gave birth to a boy named Lu Zhendong. A family of three harmonious and happy, such a day for Li Minghui is definitely a dream, in order to better husband godson, in 1938 she finished filming the movie "Phoenix Seeking Phoenix", she completely left the entertainment circle.
If the days can go on like this, it is also very happy, but unfortunately, her husband died prematurely!
After Li Minghui and Lu Zhong'en were married for more than ten years, Lu Zhong'en, who went to Hong Kong to do business, suffered from liver cancer, and after ineffective treatment, he died, leaving only Li Minghui and his son and a legacy of 70 million yuan.
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The death of her husband was undoubtedly a huge blow to Li Minghui, and after dealing with her husband's posthumous affairs, she took her son to travel around to distract herself. However, in just one year, she squandered all the 70 million yuan of inheritance left by her husband.
After the liberation of Beijing, Li Minghui moved to Beijing, where he became a nurseryman at a kindergarten overseen by his middle school classmate Fu Xuewen, earning only 40 yuan a month. From a big star to a nurseryman, from squandering 70 million a year to a monthly income of only 40 yuan!
Such a huge life change, perhaps many people can not accept, but Li Minghui is very light,She sang and danced with children in kindergarten, which made her heart very relaxed, as if returning to the happiest years. It is precisely for this reason that Li Minghui has been in the position of kindergarten nursery for 18 years.
In 1971, Li Minghui received an order from the State Council to serve as Zhang Shizhao's life secretary. In 1973, when she accompanied Zhang Shizhao's family to Hong Kong to pick up the ashes of Zhang Shizhao who died of illness and returned to Beijing, she was also full of emotions!
After Li Minghui retired, she and her son lived in Beijing until 2002, when Li Minghui, who was already in her 90s, decided to return to the roots. After making the decision, she sold her house in Beijing and returned to Shanghai with her son to live in a nursing home.
In 2003, Li Minghui died of illness in Shanghai!
Throughout Li Minghui's life, once incomparably beautiful, but also once incomparably plain, some people say that her life is a tragedy, but more people feel: Li Minghui's life is legendary!