In other words, my readers left me messages privately asking if I could publish some articles about wild history legends. In fact, the initial positioning of this platform is to explore some other content that is appreciated by both elegant and common people on the basis of literature (including folk tales), culture and history. Therefore, it is also legendary content that can of course be published. With that in mind, I'm just going to publish this article today.
In modern China, Du Yuesheng and Meng Xiaodong are legends. In particular, the love story of Du Yuesheng and Meng Xiaodong is even more well-known and talked about.
1. Failed marriages
In the thirty-fourth year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty (1908), Meng Xiaodong was born in a pear garden family in Shanghai. Therefore, when Meng Xiaodong was four years old, her father asked her to learn to sing as an old student. This may be the beginning of Meng Xiaodong's opera road!
Perhaps for contemporary young people who like to brush short videos, opera is too old. However, as an art, the vitality of opera is unquestionable. For Meng Xiaodong's origin, a woman inheriting her father's business is the best way out.
Meng Xiaodong met Mei Lanfang in the process of singing. Interestingly: Mei Lanfang is a man, but she plays a Danjiao, while Meng Xiaodong plays a raw role. Moreover, Meng Xiaodong and Mei Lanfang are both responsible in their respective fields. Therefore, as the two met and intersected, the relationship between the two quickly heated up, and the idea of marriage arose.
However, at that time, Meng Xiaodong was waiting for the words, but Mei Lanfang already had a wife. Perhaps out of impulse, or perhaps because of fear of losing Meng Xiaodong, Mei Lanfang promised like Meng Xiaodong: Meng Xiaodong married herself, and her identity was not a concubine, but a flat wife - meaning the same status as a right wife.
It should be emphasized that it was already the Republic of China period, and according to the laws of the Republic of China, concubinage was prohibited. Of course, in reality, this phenomenon is still widespread. But, anyway, from the beginning, Meng Xiaodong's marriage was a metaphor for misfortune.
When Meng Xiaodong married Mei Lanfang, Meng Xiaodong was surprised to find that Mei Lanfang had broken her word. Any equal wife status does not exist. Even Mei Lanfang was worried that she would not be able to explain to her family, but chose to set up another house and placed Meng Xiaodong as an outer room. However, all this, Meng Xiaodong did not calculate. So if you look at it according to the current concept: this Meng Xiaodong may belong to the love brain.
All this changed in the nineteenth year of the Republic of China (1930).
In this year, Mei Lanfang's mother died. Meng Xiaodong wanted to keep filial piety to Mei Lanfang's mother as a daughter-in-law, but he clashed with Mei Lanfang's right wife, and in the process of conflict, Mei Lanfang favored his right wife the whole time, which made Meng Xiaodong feel unacceptable: it turned out that his feelings were wrongly paid to others.
After that, Mei Lanfang tried to save her relationship with Meng Xiaodong, but in the end, after some twists and turns, Meng Xiaodong chose to break up with Mei Lanfang. In this way, the marriage of Mei Lanfang and Meng Xiaodong came to an end.
2. Never give up
As early as when Meng Xiaodong became famous as a teenager, Du Yuesheng admired Meng Xiaodong very much. When Meng Xiaodong married Mei Lanfang, Du Yuesheng sighed for a while.
After Meng Xiaodong and Mei Lanfang broke up, one of Meng Xiaodong's best friends happened to be Du Yuesheng's fourth aunt. So Du Yuesheng's fourth aunt invited Meng Xiaodong to live at home, in fact, all this was instigated by Du Yuesheng behind it, in order to create conditions for contact with Meng Xiaodong. With Meng Xiaodong staying at his girlfriend's house, Du Yuesheng took the opportunity to pursue Meng Xiaodong.
In fact, women have Mu Qiang mentality, and Meng Xiaodong is no exception. Therefore, under Du Yuesheng's pursuit, Meng Xiaodong quickly came together with Du Yuesheng. However, Du Yuesheng did not handle Meng Xiaodong's relationship well for many years afterward: because Du Yuesheng could not directly promote Meng Xiaodong to a full wife, but if Meng Xiaodong was made an aunt, Meng Xiaodong would definitely not be willing to, and might even break with herself, which Du Yuesheng could not accept in any way.
All this changed until 1950.
This year, Du Yuesheng planned to take Meng Xiaodong to live on Hong Kong Island. At this time, Meng Xiaodong had been living with Du Yuesheng for many years, so Meng Xiaodong hoped that Du Yuesheng could make it clear who he was Du Yuesheng?
Du Yuesheng did not hesitate: at this time, he was already a dog who lost his family, and Meng Xiaodong still did not abandon himself. On the one hand, he likes Meng Xiaodong, and on the other hand, Meng Xiaodong has true feelings for himself. Therefore, Du Yuesheng announced that he gave Meng Xiaodong the title of his wife. In this way, the relationship between Du Yuesheng and Meng Xiaodong came to a successful end.