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Rice grain mother should really subdivide the Republic of China women's series into the "Mingling series".
Before writing the story of Mrs. Mei Lanfang (Wang Minghua, Meng Xiaodong), as well as the story of Liu Xikui, who is equally famous with Mei Lanfang, everyone was very addicted to watching.
Today I want to write about another Peking Opera celebrity, she is Mei Lanfang's apprentice: Yan Huizhu.
She is a natural "drama idiot", known as the "Queen of Jingkun", brilliant as a pearl when brilliant.
But her fall was like a meteor, and the moment she fell violently after the brilliant, the shining light dissipated, leaving only a gray boulder.
It is said that life is like a drama, drama is like life, how dazzling she is at the moment of her debut, and how bleak and poignant it is when the curtain ends.
Throughout her life, she kept meeting the wrong people, married three times, and committed suicide three times.
When this cruel and tortuous life course consumed her to the end, the end of the play was not even applauded. Her third suicide was left unsettled, as if there were no one under the stage.
How did she go from a pearl to a fall? Rice's mother will tell you her story today.
Become a world celebrity
Yan Huizhu was born in a courtyard near Xuanwu Gate in Beijing, the son of Yan Jupeng, one of the "Four Great Su sheng" of Peking Opera, and the mother of film actor Gao Yi'an.
The combination of celebrities and stars, it can be said that this is an authentic literary and artistic family.
Not only that, the younger generations of the Yan family are all literary and artistic workers.
▲ Yan Jupeng
The eldest son, Yan Shaopeng, the eldest daughter-in-law, Zhang Shaolou, the second son, Yan Xiaopeng, the second daughter-in-law, Wang Xiaotang, the younger daughter, Yan Huilan, the son-in-law Chen Yongling, and the grandson Yan Xingpeng were engaged in Peking Opera, Kunqu Opera, Film, Drama, Commentary and other artistic professions.
The family involves five dramas, and the mother is still a movie star, and the literary atmosphere is quite strong.
At that time, Yan Jupeng originally had the opportunity to become an official, but because he loved Peking Opera, he chose to create his own "Yanjia Class" and started from scratch to create "Yanpai Peking Opera" to inherit the art of music.
However, Yan Huizhu is not a descendant of the Yanpai Peking Opera, she studied under Mei Lanfang and is a descendant of the Mei sect.
What's going on? Originally, Yan Jupeng had established a family rule that "the women of the Yan family are not allowed to sing opera", and the Peking Opera of the Yan Sect was passed on to men and not to women.
Therefore, although Yan Huizhu has felt the artistic atmosphere at home since she was a child and is very obsessed with Peking Opera, her family does not agree with her learning.
It may be because of the opera talent in the gene, or it may be the opera atmosphere that has been heard since childhood, Yan Huizhu is very fond of Peking Opera.
Her father refused to teach, so she went out and tried to learn it herself. She ran to the theater every day to see the theater, and often "held the horns", and soon there were rumors that the daughter of the founder of the Yanpai had gone outside to tip the male horns.
When such a reputation spread out, his father Yan Jupeng's face was definitely disgraceful. But unable to stop her daughter from liking, Yan Jupeng decided not to stop her daughter from learning drama.
The rules of the Yan Sect could not be broken, and they could not personally accept their daughters as apprentices, and Yan Huizhu could only worship other sects. At that time, Mei Lanfang's "Mei Pai" was unattainable for Yan Huizhu, and it was also what she most hoped to learn.
Although I know that my father has acted on the same stage as Mei Lanfang, it is certainly unrealistic to let Mei Lanfang accept her daughter with zero foundation as an apprentice.
In order to worship the teacher, Yan Huizhu first used a year to learn to sing with the phonograph, and learned the basic skills as much as possible before going to the teacher.
In the opera industry, the collection of apprentices and teachers relies on real skills. If it is not singing material, connections are useless.
Yan Huizhu took the initiative to propose to her father that she should try Xu Lanyuan, a violinist who has worked with Mei Lanfang for twenty years, as a teacher. If you can, try to get to mei lanfang later.
In order to be able to sing, Yan Huizhu really made a clear plan for herself. From learning to play with the gramophone at home to visiting Xu Lanyuan, she has thought about how to go step by step.
Before visiting the master, she often visited Xu Lanyuan's wife. After the relationship became intimate and familiar, the two people were like mother and daughter, and she put forward the idea of worshiping Xu Lanyuan as a teacher.
After the enthusiastic persuasion of the future master, Xu Lanyuan finally decided to reluctantly meet Yan Huizhu. It was like an interview where he came up with the entry criteria:
"I'll teach you two sentences of slow board in "The Wind Returns to the Nest" today. You come tomorrow and sing to me to see if you can do it. ”
The opportunity that was hard to win, Yan Huizhu of course had to go all out. With just two lines of singing, she sang repeatedly without eating or sleeping, and even her family said that she was not stupid.
When Xu Lanyuan opened his voice the next day, he directly surprised the four seats, xu Lanyuan praised her as a natural "drama material" and resolutely accepted her as an apprentice.
▲Sitting on the right is Xu Lanyuan, standing is Mei Lanfang
She learns to act quickly and has a high level of understanding. In less than a year, she had learned everything Xu Lanyuan had taught.
Later, she also studied with The Peking Opera Wudan actors Zhu Guifang and Valve Lanqiu respectively, and after studying, Yan Huizhu's Peking Opera skills have completely surpassed those who came from the class.
At the age of 20, she debuted on the theatrical stage, performing "Hujiazhuang" with her father, and won a full house of color, and was known as "the living one zhangqing three brides".
Until this time, she really had the confidence and felt that she should be able to try to formally worship Mei Lanfang.
▲The left one Mei Lanfang, the left two Yan Huizhu
At that time, Yan Huizhu was already a little famous, and also acted in films such as "Three Niang Godsons", "Escape from Marriage", and "Red Chamber Eryou".
Mei Lanfang became a natural success, and the wish that she had aspired to achieve since childhood had finally become a reality.
No matter whether it is windy or rainy, she will run to Mei Mansion every day and learn drama with Mei Lanfang.
Every theatrical performance of Mei Lanfang, she will not miss, the scene must arrive, carefully "watch Mei Lanfang's every action", learn Mei Lanfang's "body, steps, water sleeves, but also from time to time with a pen to record".
Finally, she became Mei Lanfang's first proud disciple.
The bitter sea turned love and hate
In terms of career, Yan Huizhu of Shuangshang Online has no rational judgment at all in terms of emotions.
Since childhood, the development plan of learning drama has been clear, and how to look at it is like it is very good at managing people's feelings and sophistication. But once it comes to feelings, it is exactly like changing people.
There were not many people, especially in those days. Famous people who show their faces are coveted by many people.
Yan Huizhu was taken in by a Kuomintang officer after a performance of "Yang Guifei" by Mei Pai.
But this kind of "looking" is by no means a normal love pursuit, but a mentality of playing entertainment to entangle.
Several times and three times, Yan Huizhu cleverly escaped his entanglement, and the officer saw that the soft grinding and hard bubbles did not work, and began to change to coercion and intimidation.
He threatened Yan Huizhu that if he did not commit himself to him, he would not want to sing in the future.
You know, singing is simply more important to Yan Huizhu than life. But how can an unarmed man stand up to an officer?
Desperate, she could only choose to cut herself off, and she left a suicide note and chose to commit suicide. Fortunately, the family found out and saved her in time.
This was Yan Huizhu's first suicide, when the tragedy of her love had not yet begun. She thought that she could cope with the suffering caused by men by facing entanglement, but the more desperate bumpy road was still waiting for her.
Yan Huizhu's first husband was a movie star and a popular Xiaosheng Baiyun. Let's see the photos:
This is equivalent to the current entertainment industry small fresh meat, is it really very fresh?
This cream boy is really scummy very blunt, he has had a marriage before, married to Luo Shunhua, the granddaughter of a wealthy shanghai businessman.
Because he was outside the flowers and weeds, after being discovered, Luo Shunhua beat Xiao San violently, and directly sued him in court, tearing his face and losing a lot of money to end the marriage.
It is such a person who met Yan Huizhu after returning to singlehood.
Bai Yun's appearance is quite online, plus he is a veteran of the love field, so the beginning of his love affair with Yan Huizhu is very happy and sweet and up..
However, his scumbag attribute was very stable, and soon he began to get into trouble again, and even unscrupulously used Yan Huizhu's money to spend on women outside.
What's even more terrifying is that he is not addicted to spending money, and directly steals Huizhu's gold bars and diamond rings to sell to other women to spend!
When Yan Huizhu found out and did not let him spend his money anymore, he ran to the theater to make trouble, cried twice and hanged himself, committing suicide and swallowing sleeping pills to threaten Yan Huizhu.
Oh, my God! Isn't this just a rogue scoundrel! Such a man, in fact, Hu Die, written by Rice Grain's mother: "She is the queen of the Republic of China who is absolutely magnificent, she is said to be "red face and disaster water", but it is sober in the world" has also been encountered. People do not hesitate to go to court eight times, but also want to divorce the scumbag to stop the loss.
Looking at Yan Huizhu again, he had already seen the true face of Bai Yun, and he did not choose to leave decisively, but directly married him! Marriage! Finish!
This is really a self-digging grave, and the rice grain mother really wants to say that a love brain that will not stop the loss in time may really bury a woman's life.
After marriage, Yan Huizhu was worried every day, afraid that Bai Yun would do something to be sorry for herself.
But the white clouds really broke through the sky, and in just 50 days, the marriage was over.
Rice's mother only wants to comment on this marriage in four words: you don't have to.
In fact, Yan Huizhu really has her own ideas in her career, which can be seen from her visiting teachers when she was young.
After the divorce, she focused on her career and founded the "YanHuizhu Theater Company". Recruited actors to do tours, earned tens of thousands of dollars per performance, and bought small bungalows.
This is in the Republic of China, a single woman can make such a big career, it is really remarkable.
If this mind can be divided into emotional aspects, her ending will not be so miserable.
While her career was in full swing, Yan Huizhu met her second husband, Xue Haowei, who was 8 years younger than her. He is an actor in the troupe who sings a song.
▲The left one is Xue Haowei
This sister-brother love, who is mainly responsible for economic expenses needless to say. Not long after, Yan Huizhu became pregnant and could not perform on stage.
She gave birth to a son, and thus married Xue Haowei.
However, after giving birth to a child and returning to the stage, Yan Huizhu found that everything had changed. The times have changed, and the people in the drama team have entered the state-run theater troupe and chosen a stable "iron rice bowl".
And she could only obey the assignment and enter the Beijing Opera Fourth Troupe. There, she had a very unsatisfactory life, often being sidelined to the point where she didn't have the opportunity to perform at all.
Of course, she couldn't stand it, so she ran to the Cultural Affairs Bureau to ask the leader for advice, but there was no way to ask for advice.
Fierce, she once again chose suicide, which was her second suicide. This time, still very lucky, Mei Lanfang's wife Fu Zhifang received the news of her suicide and immediately left to take her back to Shanghai.
Bleak away
After moving from Beijing to Shanghai, Yan Huizhu joined the Shanghai Peking Opera House. But the talent-rich Shanghai Theater also has its own ecology, Yan Huizhu's performance opportunities are pitiful, and she is also sitting on the cold bench every day.
However, she has great business ability, the more she is coldly treated, the more unwilling she is, and her unbending personality makes her always indignant, and in the eyes of leaders and colleagues, she has become a big trouble that is out of place.
The more this happens, the fewer opportunities she has to perform, and the more people offend her. Everyone was dissatisfied with her, and thus a vicious circle was formed.
She published a "self-review" in Wen Wei Po, but in the name of a review, she was actually complaining. This directly offended all the leaders of the Shanghai Peking Opera House, and it was also because of this incident that she ushered in a devastating crackdown.
In this dark and desperate moment, a man named Yu Zhenfei appeared.
▲The second on the left is Yan Huizhu, and the second on the right is Yu Zhenfei
He was the principal of the Shanghai Xiqu School, and he reached out to her and recommended her to be the new principal of the Shanghai Xiqu School.
At this time, sending charcoal in the snow was too warm for Yan Huizhu, like a knight riding a colorful cloud to save her from the abyss.
They went to Beijing together to perform "Dream of Visiting the Garden", and new feelings slowly grew, and gossip began to surround Yan Huizhu.
These words also reached the ears of her husband, Xue Haowei, who originally did not believe it, but when he returned home, he found 20 love letters written by Yu Zhenfei directly at the head of Yan Huizhu's bed.
The gossip was confirmed, and Xue Haowei ran directly to the Cultural Affairs Bureau to make trouble. This disturbance also means that his relationship with Yan Huizhu has completely broken down.
Two months after the divorce, Yan Huizhu married Yu Zhenfei.
But after being together, there was no happiness expected. Yu Zhenfei is sleek and sophisticated, and Hui Zhuning does not bend, and she is completely disdainful of observing words and colors.
The values of the two men clashed strongly and quarreled all day.
In that turbulent era, too many enemies were established and punished to clean the toilet. And Yu Zhenfei was already indifferent to the end.
Desperate and heartbroken, Yan Huizhu grabbed Yu Zhenfei and grabbed the only straw. Now, even Yu Zhenfei no longer cares about her, and even when she tries to say that she wants to commit suicide, Yu Zhenfei only says indifferently:
"To die you are going to die."
At the age of 47, Yan Huizhu hanged herself. It was her third suicide, and no one came to her rescue again.
In fact, before each suicide, she would send a signal to the people around her, so that she could wait for the rescue in time for the first two times. But this time, no matter whether she wrote a suicide note or talked harshly with Yu Zhenfei, no one cared at all.
Yan Huizhu wrote a total of 5 suicide notes, and also left a last word, entrusting her son to Yu Zhenfei. Yu Zhenfei also coldly promised her to reassure her.
She walked lonely, and everyone rebelled.
Those glories that have been achieved by their own strength are only passing clouds of smoke after all, and they have been crushed beyond recognition under the wrapping of the times.
When faced with setbacks again and again, her first thought was not to solve, but to be tough, but to commit suicide directly. It was her destiny, the fate determined by her character.
The world-famous Yan Huizhu has a tough and indomitable temperament, but he has not been able to bravely and decisively stop the loss in his feelings. Just like Ruan Lingyu, who has superior spirituality and understanding, but she was destroyed by the cowardice in her feelings: "Two Suicide Notes Tear Scumbag, the Life of the Silent Film Queen of the Republic of China is too lamentable".
So a woman's excellence is not just enough for her to have talent and talent. Looking at these talented women of the Republic of China written by Rice Grain's mother, which one is not the best in the field of her career?
It is very difficult for women to truly stand in the world, and temptations and traps, and the variables of the environment are problems that we have to fight and solve all our lives.
Having the ability to make rational judgments, stop losses in time, and judge the situation are our skills to truly walk safely between heaven and earth.
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