Liu Xikui, a famous Kunling during the Republic of China period. It is said that when she was red at that time, she really deserved the four words "big red and purple"! When Old Tan was alive, he actually said something like this, saying: "Men are not as good as Mei Lanfang, women are not as good as Liu Xikui, and the soil has been buried here. ”
I think Liu Xikui's popularity is also related to the early years of the Republic of China, when the society opened up women to act on stage, after all, in the past era, on the stage, men and women were played by men, China's feudal society for a long time, women do not say acting, is not allowed to show their faces, not to mention stage art performances.
Then, because Liu Xikui was young and very beautiful, plus his art was very superb! Therefore, it was touted by many bureaucrats, rich people, literati, and media people at that time, so after Liu Xikui's debut, like the sun of birth, it became more and more popular!
This has a lot to do with the times, luck, personal cultivation, and the pursuit of others. In fact, we look at the information left behind today, for Liu Xikui, she will never pursue vanity like some female artists today, she still wants to marry and find the Lord, and the traditional life that women need to live.
Liu Xikui
However, when some high-ranking officials and nobles, rich businessmen and dignitaries pursued her, she refused with special determination, including cao Kun, the president at the time, who was said to have pursued Liu, and she did not agree. But for some reason, she married a man who was many years older than her, whose appearance and all aspects were very general and said to have a family.
It is said that this incident was still the ghost of his greedy uncle who tricked it, pulled the media and collected a lot of money.
This man's name was Cui Chengzi, and he was a petty officer in the War Department at that time. He was obsessed with Liu Xikui at that time, and he was already so fascinated that he almost forgot to sleep and forgot to eat, and he was overwhelmed! But he himself knew that his personal conditions were not good, and his desire to marry Liu Xikui had never stopped. Later, without knowing what the reason was, he hooked up with Liu Xikui's uncle, and as a result, he was "tricked" by Liu Xikui's uncle, and his heart that wanted to marry Liu Xikui was violently called out again.
But he knew that his conditions were not good, that he was dark and thin, and that he was old, so on the day of the blind date, he pretended to call his handsome and handsome adjutant in his twenties to go on a blind date for him.
Liu Xikui later recalled: "I was sitting in the room, the person was dangling in front of my eyes, I looked at the weight, the looks were not bad, very energetic, very young, but I did not dare to look carefully, because I was also very shy at the time, and I could not always stare at people.
The man shook his head and went out without saying a few words, during which I didn't speak, but the initial impression was OK."
Cui Cheng's handsome aide-de-camp
Therefore, under her uncle's "trickery", the gift money was also received, and this family affair was decided. A month later, they became relatives in the chapel, and as a result, Liu Xikui went to the cave room to see clearly the appearance of this old Cui. Do you regret it? Of course, regret, but there is no way, raw rice cooked mature rice, women at that time were like this, from the beginning to the end and the shackles and influence of etiquette, in all the minds of women at that time, there was no difference, not because Liu Xikui was a celebrity will change.
So after she married someone surnamed Cui, she refused to sing on the stage anymore. At that time, this Cui surname work was very good, there were more than two thousand oceans of income a month, at that time it was quite rich, he cheated Liu into hand, the two people got married, he was satisfied, but he did not expect that he offended the boss who also liked to pursue Liu, Lu Jin, the chief of the War Department, who was furious after learning the news! Therefore, soon after, he found a reason and removed Cui from his post.
Cui was angry and annoyed, and as a result, he was so angry that he vomited blood and fell seriously ill! Lying at home for a long time, Liu Xikui waited for her husband inexplicably, but soon after, this old Cui Lian died of a gas belt disease, and his death caused Liu Xikui to remain widowed for half a lifetime, and did not continue to live on the stage, and a generation of celebrities disappeared on the stage.
From this incident, we can see that in the past, Kunling's stage life art life was very short, because they would choose to marry and find the Lord not to appear on stage at a very young age, first, she herself thought so, and the second husband's family did not allow her to show her face, so many reasons caused a large part of Kunling's stage life to be very short.
Actress ruan lingyu of the Republic of China
Of course, in the current era, as a profession, the situation of female artists has changed a lot, so this is another story.
In the 1950s, Mei Lanfang's secretary, Mr. Xu Jichuan, also met Liu Xikui in Mei Mansion. At that time, Liu was already an old lady with white hair, and she was also very inconspicuous. When they talked about these past events, Liu Qikui still couldn't calm down, she was very sad, she wiped her tears with a handkerchief, and said to everyone: "Why is my life so bitter!" ”
Oh, yes! In the old days, the lives of people were bitter, and the lives of female artists were even more bitter! Some people think that the Kunlings of the current era are not bitter in life, but in fact they are also bitter, not material suffering is another kind of suffering, but many people do not know their suffering, you only see their bright and beautiful side, who knows that they are privately paying all kinds of suffering, especially some famous actors, sometimes, if they do not do something they do not want to do, then want to be famous, it is a fantasy! These things are not secrets. That's why I say that no matter what era, artists, especially female artists and actresses, have a hard life, and that's the reason.
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