On April 23, 1989, the Cosland Cemetery in Vancouver, Canada, was covered with greenery.
In the endless hill, a bronze stele engraved with "Pan Baojuan's Tomb" was slowly put down by the staff.
This is the final destination chosen by an old Chinese who has read the prosperity of the world and tasted the hardships of the troubled world.
The word Baojuan is the old man's milk name, and the word Pan is her husband's surname.
At the bottom of the bronze stele, there is also a well-known name engraved in China - Hu Die!
Yes! This old man who chose to sleep overseas is Hu Die, the most famous movie queen during the Republic of China.
As a rich stroke in the history of Chinese cinema, Hu Die's life is legendary enough; But aside from the brilliance and attention of the spotlight, Hu Die's emotional experience has hardships and humiliations that ordinary people cannot endure.
Is the arrangement of life due to chance or choice?
After understanding Hu Die's life, perhaps we will find the answer.
.
Ling He, a well-known film critic in the Republic of China, once lamented in "China Picture Magazine":
"The achievements of Chinese films in nearly 20 years have only created a butterfly."
This sentence may be exaggerated, but it is enough to show how influential Hu Die was during the Republic of China.
Even today, when the stars are shining, Hu Die's name is still a rich and colorful existence in the history of Chinese films.
She is China's first officially elected film queen, and she herself has grown up with Chinese films, spanning the era of Chinese silent films and sound films.
China's first film began in 1905. In the process of gradually moving from film to feature film, Hu Die, who is only 13 years old, also has a strong interest in this emerging industry; So at the age of 16, this girl who longed to go to the screen was also admitted to the Chinese Film School and officially changed her stage name to Hu Die.
Hu Die may not be a beauty in the eyes of modern people, but the first beauty of the Republic of China standard, she is like a fleur eyebrows, dignified demeanor, beautiful and amazing, with excellent acting skills, she quickly moved from a supporting role to the position of the protagonist, because of the successful interpretation of "Battle Merit", "Autumn Fan Resentment", "Pearl Tower", "Meng Jiangnu" and many other movies, the young Hu Die, also became the pillar of Tianyi Company.
Similarly, after becoming famous, she also became a fashion benchmark in Shanghai Beach because of her vulgar temperament and elegant aesthetic.
Her avatar became the most fashionable decoration, and her cheongsam and jewelry would also be frantically imitated; Even her natural dimples became an important symbol of the selection of beautiful women at that time.
In 1932, Hu Die, who grew up with Chinese films, once again starred in China's first color film "Laughing Cause"; In this movie. Hu Die has no suspense, and once again with her superb acting skills and beauty, she has become the "dream lover" in the minds of many people.
Her outstanding performance in her acting career has allowed Hu Die to usher in a brilliant harvest in life; But in the same way, under the conditions of existence defined by the times, there are always some absurd and difficult fates that make us powerless to resist.
After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Hu Die, as the queen of Chinese movies, was also targeted by the Japanese several times.
In the years of war, although Hu Die was a woman, she was unambiguous in the general righteousness of the country and the principles of the nation, and she was resolutely unwilling to compromise in the face of several coercions and inducements from the Japanese.
In 1941, with the tension of the Anti-Japanese War, in order to beautify their various crimes, the Japanese invaders specially invited Hu Die, hoping that she could cooperate in the filming of a film "Hu Butterfly Travels to Tokyo" expressing "Sino-Japanese goodwill".
How could the clever Hu Die not understand the wolf ambitions of the Japanese!
But in order to ensure the safety of her family and husband, she could only refuse on the grounds of "pregnancy" first, and then find a way to deal with it.
But considering the cruelty of the Japanese, Hu Die finally chose to temporarily give up her acting career and went to Guangdong with her husband Pan Yousheng to take refuge.
In order to ensure the source of livelihood in the later period, the couple sold all the family property, and then took more than 30 boxes with their carefully treasured treasures and secretly left Shanghai.
Unfortunately, in the midst of the chaos, Hu Die's life savings were lost.
In order to recover these properties, Hu Die and her husband asked people to help, but found nothing.
Later, under the introduction of a friend, Dai Li, who was not to be underestimated, also became the trustee of Hu Die's recovery of property.
If it weren't for the loss of those thirty boxes of life savings, would Hu Die's life be another ending?
Who is Dai Kasa? The frightening spy leader, but also Hu Die's hardcore fan.
Knowing what happened to his favorite queen, this man who has always been ruthless, but changed his usual appearance and actively helped find it.
Trying to find these lost properties is a needle in a haystack.
So in order to win Hu Die's favor, he did not hesitate to buy the same jewelry to give to the other party, and finally collected the lost jewelry at his own expense.
At the same time, in order to completely obtain the beauty of Chaosi's dreams, Dai Li, who is the deputy director of the military command, did not hesitate to use his power to send Hu Die's husband Pan Yousheng to Yunnan and Burma for business.
In this way, a generation of film queen Hu Die, like a canary, was hidden in Chongqing for three years.
The jackal is in charge, lawless, and the beard butterfly, who has no power to bind the chicken, has no way but to endure.
Because no matter how sad the life is and how humiliating the situation is, she knows that she must not die alone.
Just like Dai Li threatened her: If you die, Pan Yousheng will not live, and your parents and children can give you a burial.
Life is difficult and death is easy, humiliation is deeper than suffering, and Hu Die, who cannot resist and choose, can only carry the insult of uncleanliness and fierceness, so in the seclusion of the deep house compound, endure humiliation and bear the burden of life.
.
Dai Li is powerful and amorous.
He originally had many mistresses, but after having Hu Die, he chose to break off relations with those women.
During the three years of getting along, Dai Li also showed rare warmth:
He saw that Hu Die liked to play with flowers and plants, so he specially opened a garden in front of the mansion;
Because he was worried that Hu Die, who wore high heels, walked and grinded his feet, and deliberately built the road in front of his house to flatten...
But these rare warmth is ultimately the guilt and flattery of forced possession, rather than the affectionate treatment of two lovers.
Therefore, in order to be able to marry Hu Die, after 1 year of possession of the beauty, Dai Li forced Hu Die to divorce Pan Yousheng.
When this matter was first raised, Hu Die, who could not let go of her husband, politely refused Dai Li on the grounds that it was not suitable for marriage at the head of the country.
When Dai Li raised this matter for the second time, seeing that Hu Die still wanted to find a reason to refuse, this ruthless military figure directly stated: either divorce or lose her husband.
The year was 1946.
Under the threat of Dai Li, Hu Die, who was imprisoned for three years, tearfully signed a divorce letter with Pan Yousheng.
But in this desperate moment, Hu Die, who thought that there was no way out in life, was redeemed by the open side of the old skynet.
Also this year, Dai Li, who was happily preparing for a wedding, died in a plane crash during a mission.
Dai Li's sudden death made Hu Die, who was disheartened, get the opportunity to reunite with her husband again.
After 3 years of seclusion and humiliation, this pair of lovers who couldn't help themselves reunited again, which can be regarded as bitter and happy.
But who would have thought that in this lost and regained marriage, everything seemed precious and everything seemed so pale.
For Pan Yousheng: He cherishes his wife's experience, and this pity also makes him want to do everything to make up for it, make up for the past wounds, and make up for his wife's dedication to the family.
He knew that when his wife Hu Die was with Dai Li, Dai Li gave Hu Die material satisfaction to some extent.
In order to make his lover happy, Dai Li built several garden villas alone; Among them, the most famous No. 19 Luojiawan, Wangshan on the south bank of Chongqing, and Jialing New Village are all luxurious residences designed by Dai Li for Hu Die.
Out of this material compensation, Pan Yousheng, who started his business in Hong Kong again, got up early and returned late every day, trying to run the foreign bank in his hand well.
But this long-term exhaustion and fatigue made Pan Yousheng's body appear in a great condition.
When he went to the hospital for examination, he found that he was already in the advanced stage of liver cancer.
The sudden illness also brought the good life of this loving couple to an abrupt end.
After recovering from the loss in just five years, he had to face the pain and regret of eternal separation between heaven and man again, and in the face of this heavy blow given by life, Hu Die only felt like a nightmare.
And her husband Pan Yousheng's sincere words before his death made Hu Die cry even more:
"Hu Die, I am a strong man, and I am devastated! Give humiliation to collapse! It's in the prime of life! Miserable! If the Japanese had not invaded China, we would not have come to Hong Kong, and if the Japanese had not attacked Hong Kong, we would not have run to Chongqing, we would not have run into Chongqing, nor would we have run into Dai Li and scattered my wife! Miserable! ”
It was also at this moment of complete separation from her beloved that Hu Die knew:
Even if Dai Li has evil retribution, in the 5 years since the other party's death, her husband Pan Yousheng has always been concerned.
He cares about the domination of his wife by the powerful Dai Li, he cares about the seven-foot man himself, but he has to rely on his wife's sacrifice in exchange for peace, he cares about the forced separation of lovers in this turbulent era, and he cares that he has worked hard all his life, and still can't give Dai Li one-thousandth of what he gave his wife...
Even with all this, his wife Hu Die never cared or calculated.
However, Pan Yousheng's unwillingness and sense of humiliation was like a poisonous needle, piercing his heart fiercely, and after years and months, it finally became a tragedy.
So when her husband passed away with unwillingness, and Hu Die closed his eyes for him with a trembling hand, this woman, who has always known how to endure and be strong, was so painful that she couldn't breathe.
Life is like a play, she is used to acting the sorrows and joys of others all her life, but in the end, she can't cry her sorrows.
Hu Die, who lost the love of her life, chose silence for a long time.
It was not until many years later that she chose to return to the film industry and rewrite her own legend.
But after filming "The Woman in the Tower" in 1966, Hu Die decisively ended his film career.
At only 58 years old, she gave up her well-known stage name and renamed herself "Pan Baojuan".
This is a common name, but it also hides her deepest nostalgia for her husband and the happy times in this life.
After that, Hu Die chose to spend the last days of her life in Vancouver.
In her later years, she would go shopping and watch movies with her best old friends, and she would often talk to herself on the road.
The children didn't understand at first, but then they slowly understood, she was telling her husband who had died for many years...
In 1989, the legendary actress died in Vancouver at the age of 81.
Before dying, she did not leave any last wishes, but sighed as if relieved: Hu Die is going to fly away!
Being able to break free from all kinds of shackles in the world and reunite with your lover in a way that transcends life and death may be the biggest expectation of Hu Die in his later years!
It is for love, and it is born to die, and what is the fear of death!
【Put it at the end】
When we look back at Hu Die's legendary life, it is actually easy to think of another peerless woman, who is also Hu Die's friend Ruan Lingyu.
Analyzing the lives of the two, Hu Die and Ruan Lingyu can be regarded as having the same illness.
Through the vicissitudes of his life, he has encountered countless slanderous and painful pains.
But unlike Ruan Lingyu's quest for death and liberation, Hu Die relied on the belief of surpassing ordinary people and survived the years step by step.
Refusing to easily admit defeat, and refusing to surrender ... This decisive and sassy personality is also the reason why I really like her.
To summarize Hu Die's life, just like the passage of Maupassant's "Life":
"I feel that people are more fragile and strong than I can imagine. Sometimes, I can be so fragile that I burst into tears with a single word, and sometimes, I find myself gritting my teeth and walking a long way. ”
Sharing Hu Die's life experience, I also want to tell friends who are in the trough:
Life is long, there are no obstacles that cannot be crossed! Often the more we can't get past it, it's ourselves.
Many experiences may be difficult, and even make people feel that there is no way out, but after persevering a little more, and moving forward a little, we will eventually find that the disaster we once thought was unrecoverable, but it was just an obstacle on the road of life.
We who are also willing to run for life and the future can calmly overcome difficulties and live our own lives with the pride of never admitting defeat in the hectic years.
#历史开讲 #
————END————
Other testimonials –
After 27 years of marriage, he was in debt, and his wife was seriously ill, and he shook his head with tears: Let her go, save trouble
After chasing the rich family, after marriage, he named his 3 children to miss his first love, and his wife smiled bitterly: I understand his hidden pain
Author: Chu Pick
From the legendary experience of the stormy figures, quench the awakening proverbs of ordinary life!
Original works, plagiarism must be investigated;
Image source network, infringement immediately deleted!
If you like this article, you may wish to like it before leaving