Text: Zamsha
Editor|Zhouzhou Film and Television Entertainment Review
In 2007, the famous director Ang Lee's film "Lust and Caution" adapted from Zhang Ailing's novel of the same name "Lust and Caution" was released in theaters, causing a lot of controversy.
In the movie, the heroine Wang Jiazhi is a patriot who disguises her identity and approaches the traitor leader Yi Mocheng, intending to tempt Yi Mocheng with her beauty and then assassinate him.
However, in this process, Wang Jiazhi fell in love with Yi Mocheng and took the initiative to help him avoid the assassination, and finally ended up with Xiang Xiaoyu dying.
Wang Jiazhi, who forgot the righteousness of her family and country and indulged in the illusion of love, has become one of the models for many scholars to analyze women's psychology, and in this process, Wang Jiazhi is inevitably criticized.
However, the historical prototype of the character Wang Jiazhi has been misunderstood for decades because of the lies built in the name of love.
Born in a patriotic family, with the ambition of Qingyun
Wang Jiazhi in "Lust and Caution" has a recognized prototype in history - Zheng Pingru.
In the thirties of the last century, Shanghai Tang had many famous ladies, and Zheng Pingru was undoubtedly one of the bright pearls.
Zheng Pingru was born in a famous family, and his father Zheng Yue was a well-known Qingliu in Shanghai.
Zheng Yue went to Japan to study in his early years, and followed Sun Yat-sen to participate in the League, with the ambition of serving the country.
After returning to China, the talented Zheng Yue was hired to teach at Fudan University and obtained a lawyer's license.
In 1919, Zheng Yue entered the government and served as a prosecutor in the provincial high courts many times.
And Zheng Pingru's mother is a beautiful girl in Japan.
Zheng Pingru's mother, formerly known as Hanako Kimura, changed her name to Zheng Huajun after marrying her husband to China.
Zheng Pingru with her mother
The father studied in Japan, and the mother was Japanese, and in the eyes of the world, the children raised by such a family, even if they are not "traitors", will behave more pro-Japanese to a certain extent.
However, Zheng Pingru's family does not conform to the stereotype of the public.
Zheng Pingru's family
Although Zheng Huajun is Japanese, she only feels ashamed and disdainful of Japan's invasion of China.
She is a typical "Yamato woman" who is as tender as water, but she is very resolute in the patriotic education of her children.
Since the children's memory, she often tells the children the story of Yue Fei's loyalty to the country, hoping to cultivate the children's patriotic spirit from an early age.
As a veteran of the League, Zheng Yue actively participated in anti-imperialist activities when he was studying in Japan.
He always knew that no matter where he was, this heart was still a Chinese heart.
In addition, he has worked in the legal industry for most of his life, and Zheng Yue's personality is very upright.
This uprightness made him refuse the olive branch thrown by Wang's puppet government many times, and he never had a good face in the face of his compatriots who betrayed the country and sought glory.
Zheng Pingru, who grew up in such a family, has had patriotic feelings since she was a child.
And in 1937, Zheng Pingru suddenly got an opportunity to serve the country......
Forget the name of life and death, and lurk deep into the enemy camp
The story begins in the summer of 1937.
In July of that year, the cover of Shanghai's most fashionable color pictorial magazine "Liangyou" featured a girl with bright eyes and bright teeth and a clever smile.
At a dinner party, Chen Baohua, an official of the Central Union, met Zheng Pingru by chance and recognized her as the model on the cover of "Good Friends".
After learning about Zheng Pingru's family, he felt that this was a rare agent talent, and immediately told his cousin, Chen Guofu, the leader of the Central Committee at that time.
Chen Guofu even went directly to the door to interview Zheng Yue, and insisted on taking Zheng Pingru under his command.
He hoped that Zheng Pingru could use his beauty and Japanese blood to break into the Japanese invasion of China group and the Wang puppet group, and become an underground worker of the Central Union.
As soon as Zheng Yue heard that his daughter had such an ability, he nodded without hesitation.
At that time, Zheng Pingru was already engaged to his childhood sweetheart, young and promising pilot Wang Hanxun.
Wang Hanxun
But in the face of the righteousness of her family and country, she had to give up her little love, bid farewell to her long-time lover, and resolutely devoted herself to the cause of resistance against Japan.
After working for the organization for several years, Zheng Pingru, who had successfully broken into the Japanese puppet government, was given an important task.
At that time, there was a man named Ding Mocun in Shanghai, who was a notorious spy leader in Wang's puppet government, who led many bloody cases and was heavily indebted, and was known as "Ding Butcher".
Ting Mo Chuen (left) with Li Shiqun
In 1939, Ding Mocun and Li Shiqun jointly established the General Headquarters of Special Service Work, killing and entraping anti-Japanese soldiers from all sides, and Shanghai was covered in a thick bloody terror for a while.
And Zheng Pingru's task is to get close to the lustful Ding Mo Estate and use beauty to lure him into a murderous trap step by step.
This mission is no less difficult than dancing on the edge of a cliff, and if you are not careful, you will fall into the abyss.
But Zheng Pingru, who was full of family and country, had already given up her life and forgot to die, and without the slightest hesitation, she nodded and took over this arduous task.
Zheng Pingru, who looks like a moon, quickly won the love of Ding Mo Estate, and at the same time, the assassination plan against Ding Mo Estate also began to be laid out in secret......
The incense soul is broken early, and the door is full of loyalty
Since she started dating Ding Mo Estate, Zheng Pingru has found that the vigilance of the top leader of this spy organization is far more vigilant than others.
Not only did he set up tight defenses around him, but he also often changed his whereabouts on the fly, which made the assassination plan against him fail many times.
Old photo of Ding Mo Estate
On Christmas Eve 1939, Ding Mo Estate invited Cheng Pingru to a gathering of friends.
Zheng Pingru realized that this was a good opportunity, so she immediately made a report to the same peak, preparing to carry out a secret operation.
When Zheng Pingru was picked up by car in Ding Mo Estate, Zheng Pingru suddenly offered to go to the Siberian leather clothing store to buy a leather coat.
Stills from the movie "Lust and Caution".
Ding Mo Chuen thought that Zheng Pingru was improvised, and did not suspect it, so he accompanied Zheng Pingru to the leather clothing shop.
At that time, outside the leather clothing store, a group of agents had been ambushed, just waiting for the arrival of Ding Mo Estate.
However, perhaps because of the vigilance cultivated by his long-term spy career, Ding Mo Estate had already escaped before the operation could begin.
Stills from the movie "Lust and Caution".
The assassination plan ended in failure, and Zheng Pingru returned home alone, waiting for the end to come.
Sure enough, soon, Zheng Pingru received a call from Ding Mocun.
Ding Mo Chuen threatens Zheng Ping to turn herself in as before, otherwise he will kill her family.
Unwilling to affect her family, Cheng Pingru picked up a pistol on a snowy Christmas Eve and resolutely left home, determined to assassinate Ding Mo Estate alone.
Ding Mo Estate
Zheng Pingru bravely went to the banquet with a lonely heart, but her assassination plan did not succeed.
Soon, Zheng Pingru, who had only heard the terrifying rumors of No. 76 in charge of Ding Mo Estate, became a first-hand witness of this hell on earth.
In the beginning, she was treated with some courtesy and was even able to communicate with her family.
But no one thought that the letter to greet the family's daily life would become Zheng Pingru's masterpiece.
Zheng Ping is like a masterpiece
Resilient, she refused to reveal the slightest secret about the organization, and was brutally tortured.
On a cloudy day in February 1938, Zheng Pingru was suddenly taken out of the cage.
Sitting in the car, seeing the scenery outside the window becoming more and more deserted, Zheng Pingru had already guessed her ending.
The car stopped in front of a small dirt slope in the middle of nowhere, and with three gunshots, Zheng Pingru staggered a few steps and fell into a small pit dug for her by the enemy.
This righteous man died like this, and his soul was ruined in the wilderness, and there was not even a grave.
Zheng Pingru's family soon learned the bad news, and Zheng Yue became ill because of it.
For no other reason, before Zheng Pingru was killed, the Japanese found Zheng Yue and stated that as long as he was willing to play for Japan, Zheng Pingru would be able to return home safely.
Even if he loved his daughter, Zheng Yue would never want to be a traitor, so he rejected the Japanese proposal.
A year after Zheng Pingru's death, Zheng Yue, who was lingering on the sickbed, also died with a grudge.
Also serving the country are Zheng Pingru's younger brother Zheng Haicheng and fiancé Wang Hanxun, both of whom are quite good pilots, but they died heroically in the defense of Chongqing in 1944.
The Zheng family can be said to be dedicated to the country and full of loyalty, but after Zheng Pingru died, he was scolded by the people for a long time......
The stigma behind him is pouring in
After Zheng Pingru's death, there was such an unreasonable speculation in the dust - the reason why the plan to assassinate Ding Mo Estate failed was because Zheng Pingru fell in love with Ding Mo Estate, a big traitor full of evil, and secretly reported to Ding Mo Estate, which allowed Ding Mo Estate to escape.
The peach-colored scandal overshadowed the bloody facts for a while, and Zheng Pingru, who was heroic and sacrificed her life for the country, not only failed to be praised at the time, but was spurned by many people, and stigma poured behind her.
At that time, the famous writer Zhang Ailing, who was married to Hu Lancheng, the propaganda minister of Wang's puppet government, was very interested in Zheng Pingru's experience after hearing about Zheng Pingru's deeds from her husband, and drew inspiration from Zheng Pingru's story, and after years of precipitation, wrote the novel "Lust and Caution".
In the story of "Lust and Caution", the heroine Wang Jiazhi is a patriotic college student who meets several classmates who also have the same ambition to serve the country in the drama club, and jointly plots the assassination plan of the spy leader Yi Mocheng.
It's a pity that before the lure succeeded, Yi Mocheng evacuated Hong Kong, and the assassination ended in vain.
Later, Wang Jiazhi returned to Shanghai and was found by her former classmate Kuang Yumin, hoping that she would go out again and continue her previous career.
However, after Wang Jiazhi became Yi Mocheng's mistress, Wang Jiazhi, who was supposed to be with Yi Mocheng, fell in love with Yi Mocheng deeply, and did not hesitate to help Yi Mocheng escape at the cost of exposing himself, and he was executed and killed.
Stills from the movie "Lust and Caution".
As soon as this novel came out, it caused a great sensation in society. Although the names and identities are different, the similar experience is reminiscent of the sensational incident about Zheng Pingru decades ago.
The existence of "Lust and Caution" seems to once again verify the authenticity of Zheng Pingru's speculation that she abandoned the righteousness of her family and country and chose petty love.
People began to spurn Zheng Pingru's behavior again, but poor Zheng Pingru, a strange woman as upright and resolute, fell into the quagmire of stigma after her death......
epilogue
Fortunately, the true clear stream will never be swallowed up by the mire.
In 1983, Zheng Pingru was posthumously honored as a martyr by the People's Republic of China, and her relics were sent to the Shanghai Martyrs Cemetery, where they were worshiped and revered along with other revolutionary martyrs.
Zheng Pingru is buried in the cemetery
The stigma that had been precipitated on Zheng Pingru for decades was finally washed away at this moment, and the flowers and applause that had been too late for a long time were finally presented to the deceased.
The Si people have passed away, and the soul is gone, but Zheng Pingru's reputation and deeds will be passed down through the ages.