Jade crush
On March 7, 1935, Tang Jishan followed his girlfriend Ruan Lingyu to the celebration banquet of the movie "New Woman".
Ruan Lingyu wears a tight cheongsam woven with flowers on a green background, with a charming large wavy roll, and a delicate face with a little powder, reflecting the dazzling rubies on the earlobes.
It was a promise gift from Tang Jishan, who usually treasured it in the wooden carved jewelry box at home, but tonight she solemnly wore it out of the house.
At the banquet, Ruan Lingyu was unusual.
She drank a lot of wine and swayed selflessly on the dance floor.
Half drunk and half awake, she embraced all the guests present with excessive enthusiasm, most of whom had been with ruan Lingyu since her debut, and had been with her directors, producers and actors who were very fond of her.
Before leaving, Ruan Lingyu specially invited Tang Jishan to dance a song.
Usually gentle and subtle, she suddenly melted boldly and boldly into the arms of her lover.
She smiled brilliantly and unbridledly.
However, no one could have imagined that four hours later, Ruan Lingyu would commit suicide at home.
She sat quietly at the table, wrote two letters, and then poured 3 bottles of sleeping pills into the eight treasure porridge that her mother had boiled for her.
She was silent for a moment, then picked up the bowl and stirred the sleeping pills and the eight treasure porridge evenly.
The medicine was bitter in her mouth, but the sweetness of the eight treasure porridge neutralized the taste that was difficult to swallow, and she ate the porridge in despair, and then lay down on the bed, quietly waiting for death to come.
The next day, it was International Women's Day.
Ruan Lingyu's classmate Rui Zhen is looking forward to Ruan Lingyu's appointment to give a new female speech baptism for the female students in the school.
However, what awaited was the bad news that Ruan Lingyu was rescued in the hospital.
She couldn't understand how Ruan Lingyu, who had vowed to stand up for a new woman yesterday, had become a ghost overnight?
That year, Ruan Lingyu was only 25 years old, which was the most brilliant moment in her life.
Hao burial
March 14, 1935, was an unpeaceful day in Shanghai.
On this day, the 12 great celebrities in the history of cinema carried Ruan Lingyu's coffin together to the hearse that drove to the cemetery of Lianyi Mountain Villa.
They are ruan lingyu's most admired and intimate partners.
Along with Ruan Lingyu, there are 100,000 residents of Shanghai.
The appearance of Ruan Lingyu has become the emotional pillar of their hearts, she expresses their joys and sorrows on the screen, and brings hope to their poor lives.
Ruan Lingyu was gone, along with their spiritual sustenance, and took them out of this world.
There are 5 female fans, even because they can't accept the news of Ruan Lingyu's death, they committed suicide the day after the funeral, followed Ruan Lingyu, and died together.
Subsequently, Ruan Lingyu's relatives held a memorial service for her, and former friends rushed to Shanghai from all over the country, hoping to see her one last time.
At the memorial service, they were either silent, or wept in grief, or cried bitterly.
Director Fei Mu recalled that Ruan Lingyu asked him at the banquet the night before: "Am I a good person?" ”
He didn't understand the meaning of the problem at the time, just a joke.
Now, facing Ruan Lingyu's eternally sleeping face, he choked up and gave the answer: "No matter what others say, all your friends believe that you are a good person, and I even think that you are a very good person." ”
However, Ruan Lingyu had already missed this important answer.
Director Sun Yu, who cooperated the most with Ruan Lingyu, sat next to Ruan Lingyu's body for a long time.
He tried to convince himself that the most precious beauty was no longer alive.
"Ten days ago, I wanted to ask her to write a few words in an old friend's souvenir book. She said to think of something good. Now, it's too late, and all that's left is the word 'Sun' that she embroidered in my hat when she was filming Gadgets. ”
After finishing his speech, he gently touched the hat, the small "Sun" word, and could not hold back any longer, and cried with a low headache.
Upon learning of Ruan Lingyu's death, Mr. Lu Xun was indignant, and he wrote a eulogy and published it in the press.
In the eulogy, in addition to the full load of regret and lamentation, there is also a strong condemnation of "people's words are terrible".
Because, at that time, Ruan Lingyu was in a lawsuit, all her privacy was exposed by major newspapers and periodicals, and even added fuel to the vinegar and distorted the facts, she was forced out of the door.
The "silent film queen" who was once the reddest on the beach has become a street rat that everyone shouts and beats.
Everyone believes that it was "fearsome words" that forced Ruan Lingyu to die.
But is Ruan Lingyu's death really because "people are fearful of words"?
After a long 60 years, the true cause of Ruan Lingyu's death was finally made public.
After the news spread, it caused a big wave.
Since then, the cause of Ruan Lingyu's death has really been known.
Behind the glitz of the "Silent Film Queen", it turned out to be a tragic fate of humiliation and pain.
Lowly
Everything starts from the beginning.
On April 26, 1910, Nguyen Ling Ngoc was born into a poor family. His father was a worker at the Asia Minor Oil Stack in Pudong, Shanghai, while his mother took care of the young Ruan Lingyu and did some casual work.
At the age of 6, Ruan Lingyu's father became ill with overwork, and finally became tuberculosis and died permanently.
Pictured: Ruan Lingyu, mother and adopted daughter
In order to support Ruan Lingyu, her mother could only work as a maid in the home of a large family at that time, and Ruan Lingyu also followed her mother and lived in the home of a large family.
Fortunately, unlike most people at that time, her mother felt that a girl's life was to marry, no matter how bitter, she insisted that Ruan Lingyu go to school.
However, because people's thinking was still very pedantic at that time, and the class concept was very serious, Ruan Lingyu's mother always told her not to reveal that she was the daughter of a maid, afraid that she would be looked down upon by her classmates.
The inferiority seed in Ruan Lingyu's heart has been deeply rooted since then, and has become more and more serious as she grows older.
From an early age, she decided that she was inferior to others, and even if she later became a popular star, the class concept still restricted her every move.
This inferiority became the foreshadowing of her tragic fate in the future.
Indulgence
At the age of 15, Ruan Lingyu met the first man in her life.
His name was Zhang Damin, and he was the fourth young master of a large family served by Ruan Lingyu's mother.
The first time he met Ruan Lingyu, Zhang Damin was fascinated.
He had never seen such an astonishingly beautiful woman, and from then on he was secretly determined to conquer her.
Zhang Damin received a Western-style education when he was a student, and was deeply influenced by the May Fourth New Trend, and he had no class concept in his heart, so even if he faced the daughter of his own servant, he did not discriminate.
Pictured: Ruan Lingyu when she was young, her facial features were exquisite, which was the classic image of "small family jasper" at that time
At first sight, Ruan Lingyu did not dare to accept Zhang Damin's pursuit. Because, her inner inferiority does not allow her to bear this cross-class love.
However, Zhang Damin, who is romantic and enthusiastic and generous, in order to get close to Ruan Lingyu, not only always waits for her at the school gate, but also takes her around to play, and even Ruan Lingyu's mother also takes care of her, sometimes stuffing money subsidies, sometimes booing and asking for warmth.
Ruan Lingyu had never received such love, and her mother was pushing and shoving, hoping that she would marry into the Zhang family and change the fate of the class.
Soon after the two got along, Ruan Lingyu agreed to Zhang Damin's pursuit.
Pictured: Sogou Encyclopedia
However, this budding first love was strongly opposed by Zhang Damin's parents.
Because the Zhang family is a very famous large family in Shanghai, it is absolutely impossible to tolerate that the future daughter-in-law is a lowly inferior person.
Zhang Damin, who wanted the wind to be the wind and the rain to be the rain from childhood, naturally could not listen to the advice of his parents, and he was deeply in love, not only did not restrain the intimate contact with Ruan Lingyu, but even took Ruan Lingyu and her mother, eloped to the outside, rented a house.
He believes that he and Ruan Lingyu are true love, even if they want to be enemies of the whole world, they must desperately protect it.
And Ruan Lingyu, who is nestled in the arms of her lover, treats Zhang Damin as her husband, and she longs for a family, and for the first time she sees the hope of starting a family.
However, what makes Ruan Lingyu unexpected is that this first love will become a nightmare that haunts her for life.
Star Path
Soon after living together, Zhang Damin began to get bored.
He grew up under the protection of his family, lived a luxurious life, and usually did not hang out in the dance hall or in the casino, never knowing what the outside world looked like.
After being separated from the protection of his parents, he finally experienced the hardships of raising a family.
Ruan Lingyu wants to go to school, Ruan Lingyu's mother can only do some casual work, and most of the family's expenses are dependent on a little pocket money secretly given by Zhang Damin's mother every month.
Zhang Damin wanted to work, but his academic qualifications were bought, he had no real knowledge at all, and with the arrogance of his brother in his heart, it was impossible to pull down his face to do some low-level work.
Over time, his attitude towards Ruan Lingyu changed from intimacy to indifference, and sometimes even sneered, mocking Ruan Lingyu for eating his clothes.
Ruan Lingyu was bitter in her heart, but she wanted to keep this difficult family.
So she dropped out of school and planned to find a job in society and share family responsibilities.
At that time, the famous director Bu Wancang was just preparing for the new movie "Nominal Couple".
The original heroine Zhang Zhiyun is Bu Wancang's lover, but during the preparation of the film, tea merchant Tang Jishan intervened in the love affair between the two, in order to catch up with Zhang Zhiyun, and even promised to take her into the United States.
Bu Wancang was frustrated in the love field and his career was also frustrated. In a hurry, he can only openly recruit heroines.
It just so happened that this news was known by Zhang Damin's eldest brother Zhang Huichong, Who was already a first-line actor at the time, and had also seen Ruan Lingyu several times, thinking that she had a good chance of succeeding in the audition, so she did a Shunshui human relationship and recommended Ruan Lingyu.
On the day of the audition, Bu Wancang was actually in a very irritable mood.
He has tried dozens of actresses, but either he doesn't look good, or his acting skills are dull, and he can't even reach Zhang Weyun's one-piece look.
At this time, Ruan Lingyu appeared.
Bu Wancang was deeply attracted, although the girl in front of him was not a national color, but her appearance was very exquisite, and she had the temperament of a small family jasper.
During the audition, Ruan Lingyu raised her hands and feet full of charm, both feminine and pure, making people unable to move their eyes.
He knew that this was the heroine he had been waiting for for a long time.
Ruan Lingyu, who debuted with "Nominal Couple", has since opened her career like a hanging.
Many famous directors were impressed by her beauty and threw olive branches.
However, Ruan Lingyu is by no means a "vase" with only beauty.
Director Wu Yonggang once said that Ruan Lingyu is the "fastest negative" in his eyes, and her emotions are like a faucet, the switch is free, and there is almost no buffer, which makes him breathtaking.
At that time, the film was still in the silent film era, the actor could not use language to express the content, the only weapon was the expression and the body.
When she entered the industry, Ruan Lingyu was only 16 years old, but the roles she played were ever-changing.
In "Goddess", when she enters the camera, she is a seductive, arrogant and dismissive prostitute, who enlivens the insults of bullies while inviting guests.
When she re-entered the camera, she became a kind and gentle mother in front of her children, bowing her head in silence, looking up and smiling, and her every move reflected the appearance of a good family woman.
In "Gadgets", she once again breaks through herself, interpreting a mother who lost her daughter in the war, suffered from traumatic sequelae, and gradually went insane.
She heard firecrackers in the street, fantasized about shelling, and then in the bustling street, she cried out uncontrollably, "The enemy is coming!" Come on! ", while running frantically back and forth.
The directors, production teams and actors who have worked with Ruan Lingyu are full of admiration for Ruan Lingyu.
In their eyes, Ruan Lingyu is an actor with no sense of age, she can become any role, no matter what the role experience, she can accurately express, the slightest.
After counting the actresses in China in the 40s, almost none of them can match Ruan Lingyu.
She was blessed with the soul of a "born actor" by God.
However, taking off the Chinese clothes of "Silent Film Queen", Ruan Lingyu in reality has always been unable to act well, and it belongs to her life script.
pester
Shortly before Ruan Lingyu's debut, Zhang Damin's father died of illness. When she was still thinking about whether to follow Zhang Damin to the ancestral hall, Zhang Damin took the lead and asked her to participate together.
Ruan Lingyu was ecstatic in her heart, thinking that Zhang Damin had recognized her wife status.
However, she suffered great humiliation on this trip.
Zhang Damin's mother saw Ruan Lingyu, who was following Zhang Damin, and immediately cursed regardless of the occasion.
"Who do you think you are?" Who allowed you to appear on this occasion? ”
"We in the Zhang family do not welcome idle people, etc., please disappear immediately!"
Ruan Lingyu blushed shyly, hoping that Zhang Damin could say a few words for her. Who knows, he just hid aside, not even daring to say half a word.
After leaving, Zhang Damin began to propose to Ruan Lingyu, who was confused and later learned that it was all about fighting for family property.
Ruan Lingyu was disappointed and refused to agree.
After the death of his mother, Zhang Damin finally got all the family property of up to 100,000 yuan, and has never mentioned marriage since then.
After having money, Zhang Damin gambled even more wildly, wandering all day and almost never going home.
As a result, within a few months, he counted the money and returned to Ruan Lingyu in poverty.
Ruan Lingyu, whose career is getting better and better, not only has to bear the expenses of the family, but also squanders the money Zhang Damin, and the pressure is unimaginable.
Ruan Lingyu's feelings for Zhang Damin are very complicated.
On the one hand, she loves this man very deeply, because it is her first love, and because Zhang Damin once devoted herself to her and her mother.
Therefore, she connived at Zhang Damin's gambling, and even allowed him to wander the dance hall and mix with the dancers.
She knew that Zhang Damin was a person who longed for freedom.
Therefore, in order to keep Zhang Damin, she no longer proposed marriage, and even adopted a girl, named Xiaoyu.
A family of parents, husband and wife and children is thus formed, but everything is unjustified and untrue.
On the other hand, after she became famous, she had a slight dislike for Zhang Damin, who did not want to make progress.
She changed from a small woman who relied on Zhang Damin to a big woman who was relied on by Zhang Damin, she had no choice, but she was also full of a sense of accomplishment.
Because, she is finally no longer an inferior person who has been trampled on the soles of her feet, and she can even play a leading role in front of Zhang Damin, who was once a superior person.
She loves to buy gifts for Zhang Damin, and she also responds to Zhang Damin's needs, and the ultimate purpose is to fill the inferiority of the heart.
Ruan Lingyu was bound by her inner inferiority and became Zhang Damin's cash cow.
She naively thought that as long as Zhang Damin's needs were met, she would one day be able to wait for him to mature and share family responsibilities with her.
However, her bottomless line was only exchanged for Zhang Damin's inching forward.
Phantom love
At this time, Ruan Lingyu met her second man.
This man is the tea merchant who robbed director Bu Wancang and is a lover with Zhang Zhiyun, Tang Jishan, as mentioned earlier.
Tang Jishan is a super rich man, not only has a huge tea business, but is also the majority shareholder of Lianhua Pictures, where Ruan Lingyu works.
As early as when she was still with Zhang Zhiyun, Tang Jishan fell in love with Ruan Lingyu at first sight at a party.
After that gathering, Tang Jishan began to pursue Ruan Lingyu fiercely.
He found someone to find out the details of Ruan Lingyu, knowing that she was born in poverty, lost her father at a young age, and not only had to bear the family's economy, but also had a useless cohabitant lover.
Such a woman, the most lacking is love.
Seizing on Ruan Lingyu's weakness, Tang Jishan prescribed the right medicine, not only booing her warmly on weekdays, but also traveling thousands of miles from Shanghai to Hangzhou to take care of Ruan Lingyu, who was filming, and the crew team at that time.
At that time, Ruan Lingyu's relationship with Zhang Damin had already gone into a twist, and she was more like Zhang Damin's mother than her lover.
Ruan Lingyu, who was squeezed by Zhang Damin to the point of breathlessness, was very eager for someone to comfort her, and Tang Jishan, who was mature and stable and well-informed, just appeared and became her only dependence.
She fell, even though she knew that Tang Jishan had a wife, she was still a popular figure.
However, Tang Jishan's affectionate money promised her that he would cut off the root of love and would also make it clear to his wife in his hometown.
Ruan Lingyu, who lacked love, once again threw herself into the arms of another man.
Tang Jishan knew very well that in order to completely conquer Ruan Lingyu, he must start from "home".
He bought a small 3-storey bungalow and took Ruan Lingyu, Ruan Lingyu's mother and adopted daughter Xiaoyu to live with their families.
This small bungalow, at the time, was a veritable "golden house", in addition to the high cost, Tang Jishan also spent a lot of effort on the decoration.
The first floor is a gorgeous living room, the second floor is ruan lingyu and Tang Jishan's studio, plus the two bedrooms, forming a complete comfortable space, the third floor is ruan lingyu's mother and adopted daughter Xiaoyu's bedroom, and there is a small living room. There is a parking garage in front of the house, and a simple courtyard, and in the back is a small garden carefully prepared by Tang Jishan for Ruan Lingyu's mother, who loves to plant flowers and vegetables.
Tang Jishan was extremely infatuated with Ruan Lingyu at that time, and in addition to marriage, she almost gave everything she could give.
In front of Ruan Lingyu, he affectionately called Ruan Lingyu's mother "Mother", and even picked up Xiaoyu and said that he wanted to have a family meeting, as if they were really a family.
However, the marriage that Ruan Lingyu wanted in her heart was delayed.
Tang Jishan is impossible to divorce.
His wife in Guangdong is a powerful and rich family, and he can have today's career by relying on his wife's support.
Although he is out there, it is impossible to give up his family, whether for grace or profit.
Pictured: Legend shoot
In fact, as early as Zhang Zhiyun learned that Ruan Lingyu was with Tang Jishan, he had written to warn her.
"Today, my Zhang Zhiyun, is actually your Ruan Lingyu's tomorrow."
However, Ruan Lingyu, who is deeply in love and longs for a family, has not listened to the words in her heart, thinking that this is the jealousy of the old people for the new people.
Ruan Lingyu embraced good wishes and looked forward to Tang Jishan marrying her as soon as possible.
However, the man who made her safe and reliable eventually became an accomplice who pushed her to suicide.
bummer
At this time, Zhang Damin, who was far away in Fujian, received a parting letter from Ruan Lingyu.
He hurried back to Shanghai, but what he saw was an empty house.
Later, Zhang Damin was furious when he learned the news that Ruan Lingyu was living with Tang Jishan.
He runs to Ruan Lingyu's new home in an attempt to save the relationship.
However, he was fiercely rejected by Ruan Lingyu.
Without Ruan Lingyu's financial support, Zhang Damin could not quit gambling, so the debt increased and the days became more and more sloppy.
In the face of a failed life, Zhang Damin blamed all the reasons on Ruan Lingyu's "chaos and abandonment".
He decided that since he couldn't save his feelings, he would knock Ruan Lingyu hard.
He knew that Ruan Lingyu, who was now a superior person, was most afraid of being known to the outside world that she had been poor. As a threat, he negotiated with Ruan Lingyu and demanded that she pay a "cohabitation fee" of 300 yuan per month for a period of one year.
At that time, Ruan Lingyu's monthly film remuneration was only 1,000 yuan, and 300 yuan was a huge amount of money for her.
Ruan Lingyu was very embarrassed about this, but this was great news for Tang Jishan.
Seeking wealth means ruthlessness, which means that he can buy out Zhang Damin's entanglement and completely get Ruan Lingyu.
Therefore, he said to Ruan Lingyu very thoughtfully: "I am responsible for this money, you are my woman, this is the right thing to do." ”
Tang Jishan was very active in finding a lawyer, and the three of them made an appointment to negotiate in the law firm.
Finally, in the presence of the lawyer, the "Agreement for Leaving the Cohabitation Relationship" was signed, stipulating that the two parties would break away from the love cohabitation relationship, and Ruan Lingyu would give Zhang Damin a monthly allowance of 100 yuan for a period of 2 years.
An important treaty is that "neither party shall publish the contents of this agreement."
In other words, Zhang Damin has no right to use this matter as a threat to Ruan Lingyu.
Ruan Lingyu was relieved, thinking that the matter had finally come to an end.
Later, Zhang Damin came to the door many times, using the excuse of doing business, crying and crying in front of Ruan Lingyu, begging bitterly, hoping to give him another sum of money.
Although Ruan Lingyu was extremely tired of Zhang Damin in her heart, she saw his pitiful appearance and repeatedly softened her heart, and gave him more than 2,000 yuan in funding before and after.
Who knows, Zhang Damin did not take the money to do business at all, but all of them were invested in gambling, and as a result, all the money was gambled.
Ruan Lingyu has always had feelings for Zhang Damin, but this affection has been repeatedly used by Zhang Damin.
And this use, in the end, became the fuse of Ruan Lingyu's suicide.
Two men competing
Although Zhang Damin occasionally reached out to Ruan Lingyu for money, Ruan Lingyu thought that after 2 years had passed, she would get real relief.
Who knows, she was greeted by an even greater disaster.
Zhang Damin originally worked as the director of taxation in Qingshui County, Fujian Province, and the salary of this job, coupled with Ruan Lingyu's monthly allowance, made his life quite enjoyable.
But then, the situation on the ground changed significantly.
Zhang Damin was forced to return to Shanghai to hide, and when the situation stabilized, he found that his post had been removed.
Since then, Zhang Damin's income has only been 100 yuan per month given by Ruan Lingyu.
By the end of 1934, Ruan Lingyu's subsidy was due and terminated after 5 months left, and Zhang Damin, who was about to lose his financial resources, was very anxious and decided that he had to find another reason to continue to ask Ruan Lingyu for money.
At this time, there was only more than a year left before Ruan Lingyu died.
Before Ruan Lingyu died, she was facing a lawsuit with a winning ticket in her hands.
The initiator of the lawsuit is Zhang Damin.
It turned out that Zhang Damin, who jumped the wall in a hurry, actually thought of it and sued Ruan Lingyu for "theft" in court.
He sent his cousin to negotiate with Ruan Lingyu and Tang Jishan, saying that when Ruan Lingyu moved out of the old residence where zhang damin lived, Zhang Damin was not in Shanghai, and Ruan Lingyu sold all the items in the house without Zhang Damin's consent.
Zhang Damin seized on the flaw that "he himself is not there" and accused Ruan Lingyu of encroaching on his property.
In fact, Zhang Damin did not leave anything valuable in the house at all, and even the clothes were bought for him by Ruan Lingyu.
However, everything has been sold, which is equivalent to death without proof, and in the face of Zhang Damin's accusations, Ruan Lingyu has no choice.
Zhang Damin once again seized on Ruan Lingyu's psychology of "family ugliness is not exaggerated", trying to blackmail Ruan Lingyu into continuing to give money and provide him with food, drink and fun.
Ruan Lingyu originally wanted to calm things down, but Tang Jishan was furious and did not want to be controlled by Zhang Damin anymore.
Ignoring Ruan Lingyu's objections, he took Zhang Damin to court first on the grounds of "fabricating facts and obstructing reputation".
Tang Jishan knew that this lawsuit would inevitably lose because the evidence was insufficient.
However, he did so for two purposes.
First, to warn Zhang Damin and show that he is not a good attitude;
The second is dissatisfaction that Ruan Lingyu has been disconnected from Zhang Damin, hoping to make the two turn against each other and completely disintegrate the relationship.
Who knows, this accusation will completely burn zhang Damin's inner anger.
After leaving the courtroom, Zhang Damin did two things.
First, immediately contact major newspapers and periodicals to expose Ruan Lingyu's past private life;
The second is to file two charges against Ruan Lingyu, in addition to the misappropriation of private property originally in the criminal primary court, the local criminal court also charged Ruan Lingyu and Tang Jishan with the crime of obstructing the family.
Zhang Damin knew very well in his heart that the charges imposed on Ruan Lingyu were not established, but his purpose was to use public opinion to retaliate against Ruan Lingyu's ruthlessness and Tang Jishan's ridicule.
At that time, Ruan Lingyu became the headline of almost every newspaper, and many newspapers and periodicals added fuel to the vinegar and fabricated many false contents.
In the report, Ruan Lingyu was associated with unsightly words such as "love of cohabitation", "bondage of office", and "unrequited love", which caused public debate and heated discussion, and became the biggest talk after tea.
No one could have imagined that Ruan Lingyu, who was bright and beautiful, elegant and noble, and even regarded as a "model of new women", was actually born into poverty, entangled with many men, and her private life was chaotic.
Pictured: Family affairs
Ruan Lingyu's life completely collapsed.
Since becoming famous, for many years she has always dreamed of scenes where people are pointing fingers at her life, and no matter how much she struggles, pleads, or even dies in her dreams, she cannot get rid of the criticism of others.
Today, nightmares are a reality.
Outside, Ruan Lingyu became a representative of bad customs and bad customs.
When people saw her, they no longer praised and admired her, but looked at her with disgust and even said ugly things in front of her.
Inside, Ruan Lingyu endured the violent treatment of Tang Jishan.
Tang Jishan resented the overwhelming reports that had discredited him, so he vented all his anger on Ruan Lingyu.
At the beginning, he ridiculed Ruan Lingyu all day long, using the harshest language to stimulate every nerve of Ruan Lingyu.
After that, he even started to beat Ruan Lingyu, and developed to the back, even in front of Ruan Lingyu's mother and adopted daughter, he also punched and kicked Ruan Lingyu.
Ruan Lingyu couldn't believe that Tang Jishan, who had once been affectionate and pampered with her, had become a bloodless demon.
Zhang Damin's tight steps, Tang Jishan's violent confrontation, and the outside world's finger-pointing have successively impacted Ruan Lingyu's already exhausted heart.
Ruan Lingyu doesn't care about winning or losing the lawsuit at all, she cares about the image of her hard work for many years.
However, in the dispute between Zhang Damin and Tang Jishan, she was at the center of public opinion and became the biggest victim.
Her life was gradually destroyed by two men she had once loved deeply, and there was no chance of repair.
As the date of the case approaches, Ruan Lingyu's inner anxiety gradually evolves into hopelessness.
Finally, she committed suicide by taking 3 bottles of sleeping pills in the early hours of March 8, 1935.
Two days later, on March 9, the day the case began.
True and false suicide note
The reason for Ruan Lingyu's suicide touched everyone's heart.
Because the last person to see her was Tang Jishan, who sent her to the hospital.
Therefore, the public repeatedly exerted pressure on Tang Jishan to account for Ruan Lingyu's death.
Tang Jishan initially shut herself off at home and refused all receptions on the grounds of excessive grief.
After a few days, he finally appeared and made Ruan Lingyu's two suicide notes public.
Ruan Lingyu's first suicide note was a "Letter to the Society".
The contents are divided into two parts.
The first is to accuse Zhang Damin of her unreasonable entanglement, and also warn Zhang Damin that after her death, he is not allowed to make false accusations against Tang Jishan;
The second is to accuse the outside world of overwhelming reports, moving all the non-existent charges on her, causing her to have a mental breakdown.
At the end of the suicide note, he wrote "fearful words" twice in a row, which made people feel deeply sad and resentful.
Photo: Sina Blog
The second suicide note is a "family letter" written to Tang Jishan.
First, it expressed gratitude, reluctance and guilt to Tang Jishan;
The second was to instruct Tang Jishan to continue to take care of her mother and adopted daughter.
Between the lines, it can be seen that Ruan Lingyu has nostalgia for her relatives and her deep feelings for Tang Jishan.
After these two suicide notes were made public, Zhang Damin has since become a street rat, and the once arrogant accusations have also become the capital for him to be reviled by society.
And Tang Jishan became the only person in this melee who could pursue his whole body.
People forget his married and affectionate past, praise his inseparability for Ruan Lingyu, and even beautify their love into the best true love in the world.
Photo: Silence Baidu pictures
However, after experiencing the violent treatment of Tang Jishan before she was born, and even because of her arrogance, disregarding Ruan Lingyu's reputation and pushing her future to extinction, could her heart really not have the slightest hatred for Tang Jishan?
This mystery was not finally revealed until 60 years later.
Shen, a historian who has studied Ruan Lingyu for many years, made Ruan Lingyu's real suicide note public 60 years after Ruan Lingyu's death.
It turned out that Ruan Lingyu's suicide note did not have the so-called "Letter to the Society", nor did it indicate that she died "fearful of people's words".
She wrote only two suicide notes to the two most critical men in her life.
The first letter was addressed to Zhang Damin.
First, it shows that her death is directly related to Zhang Damin's persecution;
The second is that remorse should not be a contest between Zhang Damin and Tang Jishan.
The second letter was for Tang Jishan.
One is to show that her death was due to Tang Jishan's two punches and kicks against her;
The second is to make it clear that Tang Jishan's empathy does not fall in love, which makes her completely disheartened.
In this suicide note, Ruan Lingyu wrote a lamentable sentence: "Weaving clouds in the past, me today, who will I be tomorrow?" I think you know it yourself. ”
Therefore, Ruan Lingyu's last glimmer of hope in life was to give Tang Jishan and his new lover a fierce snuff out.
The truth
In fact, these two suicide notes were published in the "Siming Business Journal" shortly after the publication of the fake suicide note.
However, because the newspaper was so niche, it was not discovered at the time.
The provider of the two suicide notes is ruan Lingyu's "new lover of Tang Jishan" mentioned in the second suicide note.
Pictured: The three sisters of the Liang family, on the right side of the first row is Liang Saizhen
It turned out that Tang Jishan, shortly after being with Ruan Lingyu, still did not change her true colors, and at a party, she took another female star, Liang Saizhen.
Liang Saizhen and Ruan Lingyu's family lived next door at that time, and Tang Jishan often lingered in Liang Saizhen's home, so Ruan Lingyu recognized the love affair between the two.
Moreover, although Tang Jishan has her own affair, she has many controls on Ruan Lingyu, often not allowing her to go out, and even connecting plays and receiving activities, which require Tang Jishan's approval.
Once, Ruan Lingyu went home late for filming, and Tang Jishan actually locked the door of her home and did not let her enter, causing her to cry and cry at the door, causing passers-by to watch.
Tang Jishan's crazy control and the double betrayal of friends and lovers made Ruan Lingyu's scarred heart suffer a blow that she could no longer bear.
In the end, she thought of death.
On the night of the suicide, about 2 hours after Ruan Lingyu took sleeping pills, Tang Jishan found out that something was wrong with her.
He immediately carried Ruan Lingyu to the car and rushed to the hospital for rescue.
But because he was afraid of outside speech and feared that his reputation would be damaged again, he initially chose to stay near and far away, and went to Fumin Hospital, which was far from home, because the hospital promised to keep the patient's situation secret.
However, when she went to Fumin Hospital, Tang Jishan found that there was no doctor on duty.
So he drove again, this time to a clinic owned by a friend.
Who knows, after going to the clinic, the friend saw that Ruan Lingyu's condition was very serious, and she did not dare to accept the treatment at all, and she has been persuading Tang Jishan to send her to the big hospital.
At this time, Tang Jishan sent Ruan Lingyu to a reliable Chinese and Western sanatorium hospital.
However, at this time, 6 hours had passed since Ruan Lingyu took the medicine, and she had already been medicated into the bone marrow and was unable to return to heaven.
At 18:38 on March 8, 1935, the hospital announced that Ruan Lingyu's rescue was ineffective and she died completely.
After Ruan Lingyu's death, Tang Jishan found two suicide notes at home.
He saw that the suicide note contained content condemning him, so he rushed to Liang Saizhen's house next door to explain his intentions, and asked Liang Saizhen and his sister Liang Saishan to imitate Ruan Lingyu's handwriting and rewrite the suicide note.
The two sisters did not have time to think, and under the coercion and inducement, they could only do it.
After Tang Jishan got the fake suicide note, he quickly handed it to the reporters of major newspapers and periodicals to seize the opportunity and announce the cause of Ruan Lingyu's death.
However, Liang Saizhen and Liang Saishan recognized his ruthlessness in Tang Jishan's act of tampering with the suicide note.
Perhaps out of guilt, Liang Saizhen withheld his name in the true suicide note and handed it over to the Siming Business Journal.
She hoped that one day, someone would discover Ruan Lingyu's tragic fate and Tang Jishan's true face.
However, the truth is 60 years late.
To this day, when people mention the death of "Ruan Lingyu", they still bind her to "fearsome words".
Her pain and misery have always been little known.
cowardice
After Ruan Lingyu's death, the last important man in her life also surfaced.
The two's close friends once said that if they could go with him, Ruan Lingyu's dazzling life should not have died so early.
This man is the director of Ruan Lingyu's last film "New Woman", Cai Chusheng.
The two had heard of each other before they cooperated.
Cai Chusheng has a very good view of the movie, and he is also very righteous, and he has already emerged in the industry with "Fishing Light Song".
Therefore, when she received Cai Chusheng's cooperation invitation, Ruan Lingyu was very excited.
Ruan Lingyu is closer to Cai Chusheng's goddess-like existence.
He believed from the bottom of his heart that Ruan Lingyu was the best actor in China at that time.
At that time, Ruan Lingyu, who was emotionally tortured, was already tired of the life of entanglement with Zhang Damin and Tang Jishan.
Coming out to shoot "The New Woman" became the only respite she could have.
And one of the things that can make her feel happy is the time spent with Cai Chusheng.
They talk about movies, dreams, the situation, and each other's outlook on life, as if all the distractions of the outside world have nothing to do with them.
Ambiguous feelings, just between words, quietly grow.
"New Woman" is based on the "Ai Xia Suicide Incident" that caused a sensation in the whole society at that time, Ai Xia and Ruan Lingyu are similar in age and have very similar experiences.
During the filming of the scene of "Ai Xia's Death", Ruan Lingyu could not get rid of her sadness after Cai Chusheng shouted "Ka", and she curled herself into the quilt and cried bitterly.
Cai Chusheng understood the pain in Ruan Lingyu's heart, he did not say anything, just sat down by Ruan Lingyu's bed, tears, silently accompanied her.
Before Ruan Lingyu died, she had sought out Cai Chusheng to show her feelings.
She hopes that Cai Chusheng can take her to Hong Kong to avoid the troubles of Shanghai, and she hopes to marry Cai Chusheng and be together forever.
However, Cai Chusheng did not have the courage at all to respond to Ruan Lingyu's affection.
He had a wife in his hometown who was "the fate of his parents", and another cohabiting lover in Shanghai, coupled with Ruan Lingyu's situation at that time, he could not bear the insult of destroying his life for love.
At the memorial service, Cai Chusheng was so sad that he even disregarded the image and knelt down heavily in front of Ruan Lingyu's body.
He wept vigorously, as if trying to say something, but in the end it all turned into tears.
Finally, he asked their mutual close friend, director Wu Yonggang, to cut a handful of Ruan Lingyu's hair and let him bring it back.
Perhaps, in the middle of the night, guilt and regret will haunt him forever.
And his entanglement with Ruan Lingyu can only rely on the last strand of his hair, connecting the estrangement of yin and yang, and then telling each other's love and miss.
bondage
Ruan Lingyu is gone.
At the most beautiful age of 25, cruelly give his life, draw an incomplete end.
People remember her face, regret her talent, and grieve her departure, but Ruan Lingyu's inner world has always been ignored.
Born in the era of pedantic thoughts, she grew up feeling inferior to her humble birth.
When encountering problems, Ruan Lingyu always points the finger at herself, thinking that everything is not good enough for herself.
She can't get rid of the society of "people are divided equally", and can only rely on patience to cover up her past again and again.
However, Ruan Lingyu's heart was very eager to resist.
Most of the roles she played in the early stages were heroines in tragedies.
In the later stages, she began to ask the directors several times to give her the opportunity to play a new woman.
In this regard, Ruan Lingyu once revealed to Cai Chusheng the truest thoughts in her heart.
"How I want to be such a new woman, a new woman who can get rid of my fate, but unfortunately I am too weak." 」
Although Ruan Lingyu's heart, she longed to break through the inhibitions of her inherent thinking.
But after many struggles, she never gave herself the opportunity to make a thorough struggle for her life.
She chose the weakest method.
Leaving only a short suicide note, complaining about her pain, and then leaving her elderly mother and young adopted daughter behind, leaving the world that she could not face.
Author: There are duck eggs