In 2020, the famous artist and writer Huang Zongying passed away at the age of 95.
Mr. Huang Zongying's life has been walked through the roar of the times, and the beauty of youth and the ups and downs of the emotional road later form a contrast between lamentation and sadness.
So what is the life of this artist who has accompanied four husbands through different stages of life, giving birth to and raising seven children?
Today, let us get closer to the life of the legendary female artist, Mr. Huang Zongying.
A corner of fame, acquaintance and pity
Born in 1925, Huang Zongying is the fifth in the family, and in this extended family of eight children, she has four older brothers and three sisters.
Father Huang Zengming's status as a student in Japan and his excellent work ability are enough to allow a large family to live a decent life in an era that is not too peaceful.
With the love of his parents and the love of his brothers and sisters, Huang Zongying had a carefree childhood life before the age of 9.
However, the good times did not last long, and in 1932, when she was still young, she moved to Qingdao with her parents, but soon after the death of her father caused a heavy blow to the extended family, and the burden of the family had to fall on the thin shoulders of her mother.
However, in that era, a mother could not support a family on her own, so little Huang Zongying and his mother embarked on a life of going to Tianjin to rely on relatives.
In order not to increase the burden on her mother, she quit school not long after arriving in Tianjin, and she had to give up her college dream at this time, which had always been excellent.
Over the years that had since gained fame, she gave a variety of interviews.
When asked if there was any of the most regrettable things in her life, she was silent for a while and then smiled and replied: "It is knowledge, I gave up the opportunity to study, and I did not enter the university life." 」
But she never regretted it, because she was not alone and could not accept losing her mother after losing her father.
His father was very knowledgeable and enlightened, and he did not disapprove of Huang Zongying because he was a girl.
During his years of life, he sent her to the school, immersed her in her thoughts with knowledge, and cultivated her thinking with ideas and expressions. This teaching method influenced Huang Zongying's life, allowing her to always retain her sincere curiosity about knowledge and a constantly enterprising heart.
In 1940, 15-year-old Huang Zongying embarked on the road to Shanghai to join her brother with the 40 oceans given by her mother in her hand, and it was this decision that changed her life.
Huang Zongying's older brother, Huang Zongjiang, graduated from yenching University's Department of Spanish and is a very good playwright and actor.
At the age of ten, he had already published an allegorical one-act play "Human Heart" in a magazine under the pseudonym "Spring and Autumn Boy", and various later works confirmed his talent and learning.
At that time, when his sister Huang Zongying came to Shanghai to look for him, he was already famous in the Shanghai Opera Arts House.
After Huang Zongying came to Shanghai, due to his young age, he played a miscellaneous role in the troupe. She is practical and capable, very polite, and any kind of work that is handed over to her hands can be done by Lilisosuo, and because of this, she is loved by everyone and affectionately called "little sister".
Once, when Cao Yu's drama "Metamorphosis" was about to be staged, the actor who played the aunt's wife suddenly had no way to participate in the performance, and the director hurriedly let Huang Zongying take the stage.
Although he had already done a rehearsal below, Huang Zongying, who was in a hurry, was still nervous.
In the plot, the sudden drop of shoes that did not fit her size made her a little flustered, but she immediately reacted, falling to her knees on the ground while picking up her shoes while clapping and crying, and vividly playing a vivid performance of an uncultured aunt After the play, the director found her brother Huang Zongjiang.
He first praised his sister Huang Zongying's danger, and then asked Huang Zongjiang if he had any ideas for Huang Zongying to engage in literature and art.
Huang Zongjiang did not give a reply, but after returning home, he consulted with his sister in detail, and in the end, Huang Zongying decided to join a film company and start her acting career.
In 1941, Huang Zongying played the rich lady in the movie "Sweet Sister", and the delicate and sweet beauty was loved by many people, and it was also in this year that she met her first husband, Guo Yuantong.
They met, fell in love, and entered the palace of marriage, but they did not have a good ending.
Guo Yuantong is the conductor of the drama troupe, he is gentle and elegant, and has a meticulous consideration for Huang Zongying, who is probably impressed by his gentleness, so that he ignores the details.
They met in love and entered into marriage, and at the wedding, the smiling bride and the somewhat pale groom embraced and kissed each other, and the audience was full of guests.
Everything was broken on the wedding night, and Guo Yuantong covered his heart on the wedding bed and gasped for breath, his face like gold paper. At the edge of the bed are the bride with a white paw and a silent ong-wife.
Huang Zongying, who learned the truth, did not sleep all night and hated himself. It turns out that the so-called marriage, the so-called lover who has nothing to say, is nothing more than a scam.
Guo Yuantong had congenital heart disease, but he never told Huang Zongying, and this happy event was just a farce by the Guo family's parents in order to give their son a happy ride.
After 18 days, Huang Zongying wore a black veil and sent away her newlywed husband. She loves Guo Yuantong, otherwise she would not have stayed by his side after knowing the truth, but she would have made people confused.
Rumors of the well-known actress Ke Dead Husband's family spread in Shanghai, which was a great blow and stigma for women of that era.
The 17-year-old Huang Zongying returned to Beijing with an indissoluble wound in his heart and hid himself in his mother's arms. This "happy event" trapped her in a cage for more than half a year.
Three encounters with ladies, even higher on the first floor
In 1942, when Huang Zongjiang rushed to his place, he entrusted his sister to Cheng Shuyao, a university classmate in the same place, asked him to help take care of the breeze, and repeatedly sent letters to Huang Zongyingfei, advising her to still look forward and not to meditate too much on the past.
At this time, Cheng Shuyao, who was the president of the Nanbei Drama Club, invited Huang Zongying to join the drama club, so a new life began.
Huang Zongying was meticulously cared for by Cheng Shuyao during his four years at the North and South Drama Club, and such meticulous thoughtfulness and the charm of a mature man made them unite in 1946 after four years of long-distance running.
After getting married, the two had great conflicts in their living habits, and in order to make Huang Zongying feel comfortable, Cheng Shuyao even moved out of the apartment. But this gentleness did not save the little wife's heart.
In 1947, Huang Zongying and Zhao Dan played a couple in "Rhapsody of Happiness".
According to the crew at the time, there was a lot of warmth between the two, and once there was not enough seats on the car, Zhao Dan also picked up Huang Zongying and let her sit on his lap, such a touch touched Huang Zongying's heartstrings.
Huang Zongying and Zhao Dan
At the end of the play, the two were about to separate, and Zhao Dan hugged Huang Zongying, buried her in her arms, and said to her: "I can't live without you, you should be my wife!"
It was this sentence that strengthened Huang Zongying's heart, and she told Zhao Dan everything to wait until she went back to divorce Cheng Shuyao, in fact, this was also a disguised promise to Zhao Dan's courtship.
According to Huang Zongying's recollection, she had heard about Zhao Dan long before the cooperation, heard that he and his wife were forced to separate, and after five years of imprisonment, found that his wife had remarried and was pregnant with a newborn, even if he knelt on the ground and begged his wife to beat the child in her womb, showing that he did not care what happened to her, and could not be saved.
When Zhao Dan was secretly imprisoned by the warlord, his wife did not give up looking for him. It was not until the reporter published a newspaper that Zhao Dan was dead that his wife had to remarry the two children who had raised them.
A rumor that ruined a loving couple. Huang Zongying said that he thought of himself when he saw Zhao Dan's decadent appearance in private, and he was very sympathetic to him, or maybe mixed with something else.
But no matter in Huang Zongying's memories, how much her love affair with Zhao Dan made her feel warm, it could not hide the fact that she cheated in marriage.
It is also ridiculous to say that it was Huang Zongjiang who persuaded Huang Zongying to accept Cheng Shuyao, and it was Huang Zongjiang who persuaded Cheng Shuyao to let his sister go free. But if there is no love in the beginning, why break people's hearts?
Huang Zongying said that she had no love for Cheng Shuyao and admitted that she had been taken care of by Cheng Shuyao's family. She said that she was sorry, but she calmly took back her original dowry from Mother Cheng's hand and couldn't wait to throw herself into Zhao Dan's arms.
In 1948, Huang Zongying married Zhao Dan and jointly raised two children of Zhao Dan's ex-wife.
It is rumored that she is a good stepmother, and Zhao Dan wants her daughter to learn the piano, so she took out most of her savings to buy a piano. Later, when she had to learn to dance, she rushed to make a dance dress overnight.
Such Huang Zongying successfully won the approval of his stepdaughter, according to an article published by Zhao Qing later: "This mother, I want to remember for a lifetime." ”
Later, Huang Zongying also had three children with Zhao Dan, so that the family had five children. Zhao Dan's income is not as good as Huang Zongying's, so most of the family's expenditure is provided by Huang Zongying.
Also because Huang Zongying's acting career is in full swing, she needs to go to various places to attend cocktail parties. At the same time, because she began to write, going to meetings became a daily routine.
Too busy work will inevitably snubb her husband Zhao Dan, and the trust between the two has a rift.
Perhaps the process of combination is not bright enough, Zhao Dan's suspicion of Huang Zongying is very heavy, and the vinegar strength is also very large. His temper became more and more strange, and he often lost his temper with Huang Zongying.
Strangely, Huang Zongying has always been very patient. Once at the cocktail party, Huang Zongying and the organizers talked and drank, Zhao Dan saw that he was very angry, and threw Huang Zongying's wine glass on the ground.
According to the reporter, Huang Zongying's face was red at that time, looking embarrassed, but he only smacked his mouth and did not respond to Zhao Dan's accusations.
On October 10, 1980, Zhao Dan, 65, died of cancer in Beijing. At this point, Huang Zongying was left alone. After the baptism of years and the death of one lover after another, Huang Zongying is no longer so unbearable.
After the funeral, she quietly locked herself in the house for a few days, slowly sewed the few futons that had not yet been sewn, and without saying a word, fell silent for a few days and then threw herself into writing again.
In the early 1990s, 68-year-old Huang Zongying met with Feng Yidai, who was nearly 80, in Shanghai.
The two had known each other's existence for many years, and when Zhao Dan and Feng Yidai's wife were still alive, the two families were very close. Zhao Dan also asked Huang Zongying to follow him and call Feng Yi the "second brother".
Feng Yidai himself is a very famous figure, and Zhao Dan once commented that without Feng Yidai there would be no new life in drama.
At this time, after the two people who were already white-haired met, they all had some thoughts in their hearts, but they had not yet taken that step in the eyes of the world.
Later, when the two returned to their respective places of residence from Shanghai, they could not suppress their feelings for each other, and began to pass on the book to Hongyan and tell each other their heartfelt feelings.
In the letter, Huang Zongying affectionately referred to Feng Yidai as "second brother", while Feng Yidai called her "little sister". It is sometimes called "the mother who never loves enough" and "the second brother who loves and loves".
The two have the same level of culture and knowledge, and are the right companions of spirit and soul. Their letters were also published and compiled into "Pure Love."
Until Huang Zongying wrote a "marriage promotion letter" called "Smart Silly Second Brother, Do You Really Understand or Not" and sent it to Feng Yidai, it was completely clear.
In 1993, the twilight lovers got married at the Sanwei Bookstore in Beijing and began a sweet cohabitation life. The two people often sit opposite each other and create many excellent works together.
Even though Feng Yidai suffered from encephalitis in the middle of the way, Huang Zongying still patiently accompanied him to recover, and Feng Yidai's son said: "Her existence has allowed dad to live for several more years." ”
Lawsuits are entangled and entangled
In 1986, shortly after Zhao Dan's death, he and Zhou Wei, the second son of Zhou Xuan, whom Huang Zongying had adopted, filed a complaint against his adoptive mother, Huang Zongying.
In the end, the court ruled that Huang Zongying lost the case and should return Zhou Xuan's second son Zhou Wei a total of more than 50,000 yuan. This became hot news at the time.
The famous actress "Golden Voice" Zhou Xuan died on September 12, 1957, and Huang Zongying saw Zhou Min, who was alone, at the funeral, and adopted him according to Zhou Xuan's will.
A few years later, another person came to Huang Zongying with a young child, saying that it was Tang Qiwei, the second son of Zhou Xuan. Huang Zongying also adopted him and changed his name to Zhou Wei and took his mother's surname.
When this bizarre ungrateful case was reported, the angry Zhou Xuan's eldest son, Zhou Min, appeared and wrote a statement of affection.
Zhou Min believes that in his growth stage, his mother never told him that he had a younger brother, and according to Zhou Wei's age, his mother Zhou Xuan had already had mental problems at that time and could not think normally.
Therefore, he thought that whether Zhou Wei was his own brother was debatable, and he reasonably doubted the blood relationship. He also believes that even if Zhou Wei is his younger brother and Zhou Wei wins the lawsuit, he can only get half of the inheritance rights, and he will hand over the half of his own to the state and take nothing.
At the end of the letter, Zhou Min denounced Zhou Wei's villainous behavior, believing that his adoptive mother Huang Zongying had the right to use his mother's inheritance.
In fact, Zhou Min's anger towards Zhou Wei was not without reason.
Zhou Wei's biological father, Tang Mou, seduced Zhou Xuan when she was in a very poor mental state, and at that time was also sued by Zhou Xuan's adoptive mother for the crime of seducing a mentally ill person, and was imprisoned for treason.
Moreover, Tang Mou is only the husband of Zhou Xuan's nanny in the family, so Zhou Min is very disgusted with Zhou Wei and his father.
However, Huang Zongying lost the case.
The presiding judge admitted that huang Zongying had fulfilled his responsibilities as an adoptive mother out of reason, but legally, Zhou Wei was indeed Zhou Min's half-brother, so he had the right to inherit the estate.
Most importantly, Zhou Xuan did not leave a clear will, so it was impossible to make a conclusion as to whether Huang Zongying had the right to dispose of the estate.
All in all, Mr. Huang Zongying has many achievements in her life, and there are many outstanding works, and she has made outstanding contributions in both the literary and artistic circles and the performing arts.
But because of the ups and downs of her feelings, people are always the first to see her emotional experience. Here, once again, I feel sad and remember the death of Mr. Huang Zongying.