Liu Xikui
A song ended, and the applause was thunderous.
Looking at the black pressed audience under the stage, Liu Xikui was full of joy, sleeping at night, studying and practicing diligently, and she finally became a horn.
Thoughts rushed through her mind, and suddenly a figure rushed up to the stage, a mouth full of smoke smell, and kissed her her white smooth cheek.
She hurried back, hiding behind the police officers who had arrived.
The troublemaker saw the police but was not afraid, his face was slightly drunk, immersed in the excitement of kissing Liu Xikui.
"Isn't it fifty oceans?" Here you go! Take it! The man dropped a bag of money and rolled up his sleeves.
According to the law of the time, women were to be teased in public and fined fifty oceans.
Apparently, this man had come prepared and had been planning for a long time.
Shortly afterwards, the troublemaker published an article in the newspaper saying that he had personally arrived at Liu Xikui, but he was only fined fifty yuan of ocean, which was really a big bargain.
Fifty oceans, but an ordinary family, almost a year's worth of food.
Who is Liu Xikui? There is such a big charm that makes people crazy?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="6" > fate</h1>
Liu Xikui lost her father at a young age, and her mother took her and her two sons to survive.
At the age of eight, in order to share the life for his mother and out of his love for the art of opera, Liu Xikui resolutely entered the drama team.
The mother fiercely opposed, and the opera actor was tacitly recognized as the plaything of the prince and the grandson, no matter how bright and beautiful, it was also the lower nine streams.
Despite his mother's persuasion, Liu Xikui firmly learned to sing.
She does not believe in evil, and believes that as long as she is hard enough and good enough, she can win respect and escape the stereotypical fate of the drama; as long as her heart is firm, the world will not help her.
In the past ten years, Liu Xikui has not only become a young girl who has become a pavilion, but also a horn that moves the capital, with countless fans.
At the age of enlightenment, the young girl Liu Xikui gradually understood the burning eyes of the men in the audience, which was not the appreciation of art, but the man's desire for women.
When they looked at her, they looked at her like a hungry wolf watching a lamb, as if they were about to pounce on her at any moment and swallow her alive.
In the face of the dirty covetousness of the men, Liu Xikui somewhat understood her mother's intentions against her singing.
The hero who was not afraid of the sky at the beginning gradually shrank in the sinister environment, Liu Xikui became careful, learning to deal with the successive suitors and offensive harassment.
Teenage youths, uncles in their forties, old men in their sixties, porters pulling carts, newspaper reporters, and powerful people in power are all her seats.
They held her high, in a condescending gesture, and they applauded her and stared at her face and body.
Liu Xikui played by (left)
She was frightened and angry, but she gritted her teeth and sang one after another. She loves opera, and no matter what others think, she has to sing opera as an art.
In 1915, Liu Xikui was 21 years old, and in a performance, he first met Mei Lanfang.
When he looked at her, his eyes were gentle enough to drip water, and there was cherishing, respect, admiration, and tenderness in those eyes, rather than the covetousness and desire that Liu Xikui was accustomed to.
After only one glance into the teenager's clean eyes, she fell.
If you can marry him and stay together for a lifetime, it will be a beautiful thing.
But as the two people came and went more and more frequently, Mei Lanfang's love for her became more and more obvious, and Liu Xikui hesitated.
After thinking about it again and again, she resolutely cut off this love.
Liu Xikui is a smart person, she knows that she is too famous, and her appearance and body are liked by men, and she cannot escape the fate of being coveted by the powerful.
If she is with Mei Lanfang, she will either leave the stage and live a small life in anonymity, or Mei Lanfang will be targeted by the magnates.
She didn't want to leave the stage, she didn't want Mei Lanfang to leave the stage, and she didn't want Mei Lanfang to have an accident, so she could only cut love.
There is some controversy about whether this relationship exists, but people are always willing to believe that this pair of golden children and jade girls once loved.
Liu Xikui has never lacked suitors, she turns a blind eye and hides when she can.
But some people, but she can't hide if she wants to.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="11" > second, this play is not easy to mess with</h1>
In the name of the president, Yuan Shikai invited Liu Xikui to sing at Yuan's mansion. Even if she was reluctant, she couldn't help but not go.
Liu Xikui has some social influence, and Yuan Shikai cares about her reputation, which makes her more or less three points.
Before arriving at the Yuan Mansion, Liu Xikui first made rules.
First, workplace drama, do not treat guests;
Second, her makeup room is not allowed to allow strange men to enter.
Yuan Shikai
Yuan Shikai agreed with a full mouth, but when Liu Xikui put on makeup, the guards still broke in.
Liu Xikui was disgusted, but he was not angry, drawing his eyebrows, and talking to the guards without turning his head.
"My rules, don't you know?"
"The president has something to do with you, so he sent me to invite you, so it's not an exception." The guards seemed to have prepared the answer in advance, and the answer was like a stream.
Something? What can be done? Liu Xikui was clever, and Yuan Shikai's intentions immediately guessed seven seven eight eight.
He was the president, she was the drama, and he sent a message, even if it was the Dragon Pond Tiger Cave, she had to go.
Liu Xikui followed the guards to the living room, catching up with Yuan Shikai who was playing mahjong with his staff.
Across the screen, she asked without humility, "What is president Yuan looking for me for?" ”
Feng Guozhang
In a word, Yuan Shikai could not answer the question. He did have something to do with Liu Xikui, but what was the specific matter could not be said in front of many people.
He thought that Liu Xikui knew his thoughts and would not let him get off the stage, but he did not expect her to ask such a question in public.
Hearing Liu Xikui's question, the people at the card table looked at Yuan Shikai ambiguously, which made him very embarrassed.
For the sake of face, Yuan Shikai could only reply: "It's all right." ”
Since it was all right, Liu Xikui naturally left and returned to the room to continue putting on makeup.
After narrowly escaping the disaster, Liu Xikui breathed a long sigh of relief, looked at the beautiful woman in the mirror, looked down and pondered, and was harassed by people, when will it end?
The ability to sing opera is her three more lights and five more chickens, one move and one style of diligent study and hard training, she said that in the end is a craftsman who relies on her ability to eat, why should her body be treated as a commodity?
Li Yuanhong
You buy tickets, I sing, between the seat and the horns, in the end, it is a pile of business, why are people inferior?
She was aggrieved and angry, but she had no ability to resist, so she could only pack up her emotions and perform on stage.
After Yuan Shikai took over, his second and third sons continued to harass Liu Xikui.
Lao Tzu chased after his son, such a violation of gangchang ethics, is enough to show that several men in the Yuan family did not regard her as a person.
They ostensibly threw thousands of dollars for her, held her high, looked up at her like the sun, but in fact trampled on her dignity and treated her as a lowly slave.
There are thousands of men who pursue her, none of them treat her as an independent and complete person, her joys and sorrows do not matter, her ideological ambitions do not matter.
Xu Shichang
She was beautiful, as long as she was a famous woman.
She was a beautiful symbol, a medal of honor, and men enjoyed chasing her, as well as a sense of accomplishment from her.
The more self-respecting and self-loving she is, and the more people she rejects, the more people will pounce on her in a vain attempt to conquer her and crown her charm, means, status, and power.
Yuan Shikai, Cao Kun, Li Yuanhong, Xu Shichang, and Feng Guozhang of the Republic of China competed to worship her under her pomegranate skirt, and other so-called magnates also regarded her as prey.
With men more circling, Liu Xikui grew from shy to unfazed, and his temperament was a little more fierce, adding more charm.
She responded to changes with invariance, hiding, guarding, suffering, and coldly watching the politicians sing and Sing me.
Cao Kun
Yuan Shikai and the like are still easy to deal with, they are bound by feudal etiquette, cherish their reputation, and do not do things too out of line, as long as the attitude is clear and the words are rejected, they will give up.
Zhang Xun, who does not have a face and does not care about his reputation, is a greater disaster for Liu Xikui.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="20" > third, re-enter the tiger's mouth</h1>
Zhang Xun is a rough man, has not read any books, and does not engage in the set of etiquette and honesty of the scholar, and his pursuit is directly naked, simple and rude.
He did not hide it, and sent the braided soldiers to the theater garden to invite Liu Xikui, and the braided soldiers were fierce, not like inviting people, but like coming to arrest people.
Looking at the posture of the braided soldiers, Liu Xikui knew that this was gone, and there was more fierceness and less ji.
But he still got up, gracefully followed the rude braid soldiers, and went to Zhang Mansion.
There is no him here, but I just don't want Zhang Dashuai to move the drama team.
Xu is a drama singing a lot, Liu Xikui's beautiful and feminine cavity is filled with heroic righteousness.
She would never allow anyone around her because she was hurt.
As soon as Liu Xikui entered the door, he saw Zhang Xun, who was drunk, with a red face, hooked up with the person next to him, looked up and down at her with a pair of eyes, and shouted that she had gone to accompany the wine.
Liu Xikui stood still and looked at Zhang Xun coldly. Warlord President She had seen a lot, a hooligan-like figure, but it was the first time she had seen it.
The same is the beast, Yuan Shikai and the like are good villains who wear Zhang human skin and pretend to be sven and benevolent, but Zhang Xun is not, he does not pretend.
If it is difficult to hear, he can speak without hesitation, in public.
He spoke frivolous language, a table of people laughed wildly, as if he had heard a funny joke, a table of vulgar and vulgar characters sat in front of him, and Liu Xikui could not stop being disgusted.
Zhang Xun
The villains are successful, and the morally inferior people at the bottom climb higher, more brazen and more brutal than those who are born to be high.
They are not well educated, they do not engage in face engineering, they are despicable, they are naked, exposed to the sun, unscrupulous.
Offending Zhang Xun is more terrible than offending Yuan Shikai, but Liu Xikui is not afraid, even if she dies, she will not accompany scum to drink.
Zhang Xun is lustful in the end, eating in public at Liu Xikui's place, angry but reluctant to kill her, only put her under house arrest and force her to be an aunt.
"Resolutely not to be an aunt." This is the rule that Liu Xikui made for himself when he entered the industry.
But up to now, is it still up to her to do it or not to do it? At present, Zhang Xun is still only imprisoning her, if it is a long time, she does not agree, what will he do?
Liu Xikui closed his eyes tightly, not daring to think down.
No matter how well she sang, she was just a weak woman who had no one to rely on, and her opponent, Zhang Xun, had tens of thousands of soldiers, holding power and guns in her hands.
The disparity in power made her desperate.
During the days of captivity, she couldn't help but reflect and laugh at herself.
How stupid she is to believe that a woman, a dramatist, in the Republic of China divided by warlords, can have a place and the right to chase her dreams with hard work.
In the eyes of the magnates, her precious art is nothing more than a pastime after tea and dinner, and even she herself is just a pastime.
Zhangfu's guards are strict and heavily guarded, and it is impossible to escape, or admit your fate.
Liu Xikui thought, and a tear crossed his face.
In a desperate situation, a deceased person brings hope to Liu Xikui.
Wang Keqin, a former sister of Pear Garden, had already become a concubine. The two met in Zhang Mansion and exchanged heartfelt complaints.
Learning of Liu Xikui's difficulties, Wang Keqin took her to find Zhang Xun's eldest wife.
The eldest wife approached Zhang Xun and said that Liu Xikui agreed to marry him, but only needed to go home and inform his parents.
Zhang Xun was happy and anxious to hear it, in his opinion, it didn't matter whether he told his parents or not.
The eldest lady knew the reason and told Zhang Xin that he was now a big man and did not follow the rules, afraid that he wanted to make people see jokes.
Zhang Xun listened to the advice of the eldest wife and sent someone to take Liu Xikui home with a dowry, and Liu Xikui waited for an opportunity to escape on the road and once again escaped the disaster.
Many acts of injustice will kill themselves, Zhang Xinfeng will fall not long after the scenery, and the matter of marrying Liu Xikui will not be resolved.
After experiencing many twists and turns, Liu Xikui is nearly thirty years old and wants to marry.
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Twenty years of singing on stage, Liu Xikui seems to be fighting the world all the time, she is tired, she wants to wash away the lead, choose one person to grow old.
Who is good to marry? Liu Xikui pondered, and a name came to his mind.
In the early years, Cao Kun had locked her up in the palace and wanted to do something wrong. A grassroots civil servant named Cui Chengzi found Cao Kun's wife, stirred up Cao Kun's business, and closed the siege for Liu Xikui.
Because of this incident, Liu Xikui was both grateful and kind to Cui Chengchi.
Later, Cui Chengzi published an article in the newspaper exposing Lu Jin's corruption, which made Liu Xikui appreciate him even more.
Seeing his article, Liu Xikui deeply thought that he had found a confidant in life and found a good person who could fight against the turbid world together.
Liu Xikui, who is accustomed to pursuit, is still a smart woman who knows how to grasp the initiative, and after making up her mind, she took the initiative to find someone to say goodbye.
Although they had never met, in her mind, she already had the appearance of Cui Chengzi, he must be tall and strong, his face was handsome, his eyes were clear, and he was a little sharp.
He was thirty-five years old, and he didn't look very young, but he would never be very old, and he must have both youthful anger and middle-aged composure.
He must be a gentle man, and with him, the rest of his life must be as bright as spring.
With full of expectations, Liu Xikui sat on a flower palanquin, blowing and beating, and married Cui Chengzi in a lively manner.
In the middle of the night, the cave room flower candles, Liu Xikui covered his head, held his breath and concentrated, sat on the edge of the bed, listened to the footsteps of Cui Chengyu eating, getting closer and closer, stopped beside her.
He was about to lift his head, Liu Xikui took a deep breath, waiting for the moment to meet his sweetheart.
The red color was gradually removed from his eyes, Liu Xikui looked up at her newlywed husband, and after seeing his face, he directly fainted.
It turned out that Cui Chengchi was an ugly black, thin man with lung disease and looked like a sixty-year-old man.
When the matchmaker came to the door, Choi Seung-chi was ecstatic, he was just a grassroots civil servant, and the woman who the president could not get favored him, and this kind of good thing did not dare to think in his dreams.
He knew very well that he was not worthy of Liu Xikui, so he found a handsome service soldier to go on a blind date on his behalf, deceived the matchmaker, and deceived Liu Xikui.
He also lied about his age, underreported by five years, and concealed the fact that he was married.
Poor Liu Xikui was emotionally cautious, or lost to a liar, she was determined not to be a concubine, desperately avoided one president after another, and in the end she still married a man with a wife.
According to Liu Xikui's temper, this family affair must be retired, and the stimulation from the "old friend" made her change her mind.
Liu Xikui (left)
Upon learning that Liu Xikui was married to Cui Chengzi, Cao Kun issued an official document to remove Cui from all his posts and ordered all departmental organs not to appoint him.
Liu Xikui's sense of chivalry was stimulated by this, in the end, Cui Chengzi was because she had suffered, she could not sit idly by, and maintained this marriage with an iron heart.
She wrote in the newspaper that she and Choi Seung-chi were "married out of love", a move that angered Cao Kun and other powerful people who pursued her.
They used their positions of power to endlessly toss Cui Chengzhi and let him go to remote war-torn places to inspect military information.
Cha ma Laoton, running hard, urging the blazing lung disease to worsen, died three years after marriage.
Liu Xikui did not necessarily love Cui Chengzi, but in order to express her rebellion against the magnates, she left the stage after the death of her husband and lived in a small alley for thirty-nine years.
A woman who is too beautiful is often used as a vase, and people's eyes are focused on her face and body, so that they ignore her rich thoughts, noble character, and extraordinary talent.
Putting aside the beauty and the love history of being pursued by big people, Liu Xikui deserves admiration, and there are many more.
The most worth mentioning is its national righteousness and patriotic feelings.
After the July 7 Incident, Japan occupied Northeast China, and the Japanese loved Liu Xikui's reputation and invited her to perform in Japan, but she strictly refused.
In order to support the anti-Japanese resistance, she escaped from Japan's territory and performed anti-Japanese plays to stimulate the patriotic enthusiasm of the Chinese people.
In his later years, at the invitation of Premier Zhou, Liu Xikui went to teach at the Chinese Opera School, dedicating the last light and heat to the development and continuation of Chinese opera.
Tomb of Liu Xikui
In 1964, Liu Xikui died of illness and was buried in Babaoshan at the age of 70.
She can give up the small to the big; the demons dance wildly, she can distinguish between loyalty and adultery; when temptations are everywhere, she can keep her heart; when the country is in trouble, she can abandon life and death.
What about the drama, she sang heroes on stage, and became a hero offstage.