"Night Shanghai, night Shanghai, you are a city that never sleeps..." The song "Night Shanghai" is probably hummed by most people, and whenever this familiar melody sounds, it is like returning to the old Shanghai of the forties of the twentieth century, and when it comes to great Shanghai, we have to talk about Zhou Xuan.
The original singer of "Night Shanghai" is Zhou Xuan, one of the four beauties of the Republic of China period, and also a famous actress and female singer of that era, her singing voice has almost become a symbol of old Shanghai, evocative and heartbreaking.
Zhou Xuan
is such a gorgeous and peerless big star, but was tricked by fate again and again, which has to start with her tragic childhood experience.
Zhou Xuan stills
❤ Tragic childhood experience
Zhou Xuan was born in 1920 and was named Su Pu by his parents when he was a child, which means innocence and purity. She could have grown up carefree from a good family, but at the age of three, her fate was quietly rewritten by her own uncle.
The smoking uncle looked at his niece who was born a beautiful embryo, and had a bad idea and abducted her to a family surnamed Wang, and after the divorce of this family, she was sold to the Zhou family in Shanghai and became "Zhou Xiaohong".
Zhou Xuan
The adoptive father of the Zhou family was hot-tempered and often scolded her at the same time, and when Zhou Xuan was 8 years old, his adoptive father wanted to sell her to a brothel, and his adoptive mother had no choice but to send Zhou Xiaohong to a song and dance troupe.
❤ A life turn
In 1931, Zhou Xuan met Li Jinhui, a noble in life, in the Mingyue Song and Dance Troupe, Li Jinhui was the "founder of Chinese pop music", and he helped Zhou Xiaohong officially change his name to Zhou Xuan, and this name later became one of the most dazzling symbols of the old Shanghai entertainment industry.
The end of the world song girl
Zhou Xuan's acting career is very exciting, he has shot more than forty films and sung hundreds of songs, "Night Shanghai", "The End of the World Song Girl" and so on have been sung by people to this day, which is a veritable "golden voice" and is popular all over the country.
Although Zhou Xuan has gained a lot in his career, he is difficult to say emotionally, he has experienced three relationships in his life, and his three husbands are scumbags, and he was only 37 years old when he died.
❤ Three scumbags
Yan Hua
Zhou Xuan's first love was Yan Hua, a famous composer and actor during the Republic of China, he and Zhou Xuan worked together in the Mingyue Song and Dance Troupe, Yan Hua took great care of Zhou Xuan, they were officially engaged in 1936, and a wedding was held two years later.
After marriage, the couple did have a sweet time, but the good times were not long. Due to the scandal that was widely circulated at that time, Yan Hua suspected that Zhou Xuan had an affair, Zhou Xuan was exhausted, and the child was unexpectedly miscarried, and the marriage ended after only three years, and when they broke up, Yan Hua extorted a large breakup fee from Zhou Xuan's hands.
Zhou Xuan
Soon after the breakup, Zhu Huaide, the second generation of Shanghai silk cloth merchants, confessed to Zhou Xuan, under his crazy pursuit, Zhou Xuan was moved, thinking that the second relationship ushered in true love, who knows that it is a bigger abyss, Zhu Huaide pursued Zhou Xuan for only one purpose, that is, to get both people and money.
In 1950, Zhou Xuan learned that he was pregnant, and after telling Zhu Dehuai, Zhu Dehuai shamelessly suspected that the child was not his own and did not intend to be responsible. Zhou Xuan chose to leave this scumbag after her heart was broken, but she couldn't bear to beat the child, she gave birth to a child alone, named Zhou Min, and entrusted a friend to raise it.
❤ Crazy with love
Zhou Xuan
Under the heavy emotional blows one after another, in April 1951, Zhou Xuan suddenly had a nervous breakdown during the filming of the movie "Dove of Peace", and since then she has often been in and out of psychiatric nursing homes.
At this time, Tang Di, the third man in Zhou Xuan's life, pretended to show favor and came to Zhou Xuan's side to cheat money and deceive, and finally the matter was revealed and he was arrested and imprisoned, and at this time Zhou Xuan's second son Zhou Wei was also born in the same year, and Zhou Xuan finally entrusted him to the care of a friend.
❤37-year-old incense and jade loss
Zhou Xuan
Later, Zhou Xuan went to Hong Kong for development, only returned in 1950, and died in a Shanghai nursing home on September 22, 1957, at the age of 37, which is really embarrassing.
Second son Zhou Wei and adoptive mother
It is a pity that after Zhou Xuan's death, her two children grew up to become enemies because of the issue of inheritance, and they did not interact with each other in old age and death, and Zhou Xuan must be heartbroken if he knew it.
This is the life experience of Zhou Xuan, one of the four beauties of the Republic of China, after watching it, people can't calm down for a long time, is the unhappy childhood doomed to an unhappy marriage? I hope she can have a happy family in the next life.
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