She was a famous early Chinese movie star, and her status and reputation were almost as famous as Ruan Lingyu. Ruan Lingyu once joked that she would become her successor in the future.
Such a hot star, but met people unladylike, was drugged by girlfriends, lost his reputation, was divorced, and was finally abandoned after being forcibly occupied for two years.
Since the ancient red face is short-lived, she did not choose to commit suicide, chose to go down the road of art. This sad woman is Chen Yanyan.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > southern milk swallow</h1>
Chen Yanyan, formerly known as Chen Xixi, was born in Zhejiang in 1916. When he went to the theater with his family to watch a play, the colorful costumes on the stage attracted Xiao Yanyan to move in the arms of her mother. Since then, Chen Yanyan has fallen in love with acting.
After the fall of the Qing Dynasty, the artistic atmosphere gradually converged in Beiping. At this time, Chen Yanyan had already graduated from the Beiping Sacred Heart Girls' School.
During the Republic of China period, women had no status, and most women would choose to marry early and marry and teach their children. Chen Yanyan has no intention of marrying, she has never forgotten her favorite performance, and has been looking for opportunities to make movies.
There was a film company shooting "Spring Dream in the Old Capital" in Beiping, and when filming on location, she took the initiative to recommend herself to the producer. The producer saw that Chen Yanyan had fair skin and looked petite and cute, so she played a small supporting role.
Although it is only a role of a, Chen Yanyan's expression is in place when she performs, not exaggerated and does not do anything, which makes the producer very satisfied. They sent Chen Yanyan for six months of acting skills training and signed a 5-year filming contract.
As a result, Chen Yanyan began to emerge in the film circle. At the beginning, she played some supporting roles in films such as "Suicide Contract" and "Love and Obligation", and after receiving a certain degree of attention, the film company began to arrange for her to be the heroine.
Chen Yanyan became a hit with the wonderful performance of "Spring of the Southern Kingdom" and won the reputation of "Southern Milk Swallow". At first, Chen Yanyan often played some innocent girls, cute and childish little daughters, and people affectionately called Chen Yanyan "beautiful birds".
With the increase of filming, Chen Yanyan did not want to be bound by those pure love roles, and she began to slowly change the path of the play and take on some tragic characters.
Unexpectedly, her pitiful appearance in the play attracted people's love for her and gave her the title of "Sad Dan".
A series of praises have made Chen Yanyan's career flourish, and even the cold Zhang Ailing has described Chen Yanyan in the preface to her novel - "a persistent and sad spirit appears in the small and beautiful eyes", which shows that Chen Yanyan's popularity is very strong.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > unladylike</h1>
Today's celebrities often encounter online violence, although the law is fair, they cannot be protected at all times. Not to mention that in a chaotic period like the Republic of China, if a star encounters an accident, no one will stand up for him.
Chen Yanyan is already a big star in the red half of the sky at this moment. Her beauty and status not only made Ruan Lingyu envious, but those who harbored ghost fetuses were also making small calculations. Zhang Shankun is one of them.
Zhang Shankun relied on his own cleverness to negotiate with the Wang puppet regime, and he also seduced the Japanese, and a group of hooligans under his command, who were very popular in the isolated island of Shanghai, and also opened his own film company.
Chen Yanyan has made a number of films in Zhang Shankun's company, and became good friends with his aunt, Tong Yuejuan, who is also an actor in the company. Chen Yanyan was already married at this time, and her husband Huang Shaofen reminded Chen Yanyan that this Tong Yuejuan was not a good person, but Chen Yanyan continued to communicate with Tong Yuejuan in order to shoot a scene.
Zhang Shankun has coveted Chen Yanyan's beauty for a long time, and he bribed his aunt with a large diamond ring. Tong Yuejuan thought that helping her husband would improve her status in the family, so she agreed to this disgusting deal.
Taking advantage of Chen Yanyan's lack of preparation, he was drugged in the wine to stun him, and Zhang Shankun took Chen Yanyan into possession. In order to keep her name, Chen Yanyan did not mention anything after returning home.
Who knew that Zhang Shankun was not satisfied, he wanted to possess Chen Yanyan for a long time, and also injured Huang Shaofen, who came to ask for explanations. Huang Shaofen had no choice but to divorce Chen Yanyan with his bare hands on this lonely island in Shanghai.
Chen Yanyan also made many films in her company during her cohabitation with Zhang Shankun. Two years later, Zhang Shankun got tired of playing and kicked Chen Yanyan.
In 1947, Chen Yanyan and the male star Wang Hao had an affair because of the play. After liberation, the two went to Hong Kong to develop, and also set up a film company in Hong Kong.
Seeing the double harvest of career love, at this time, Wang Hao cheated on other actresses, which made Chen Yanyan's liver and intestines cut off. She continued her film acting career while spending the rest of her life with her daughter.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > awakening of female consciousness</h1>
The ancients had clouds: "A woman without talent is virtuous." In ancient times, when a woman became an adult, a flower palanquin became a person of her husband's family, and she followed her father at home, married her husband, and obeyed her husband when she died.
From ancient times to the present, the three from the four virtues of thought have trapped women to death. If Chen Yanyan did not marry, she might live a peaceful and peaceful life.
She was a new woman, not like other girls, who married as an adult, and she had her own ideals — making movies.
She is very brave, not like other girls, bound by old ideas, she dares to introduce herself to others, dares to express herself in front of others.
With his talent and the efforts of the day after tomorrow, he became a hot movie star. Everything that Chen Yanyan showed represented the awakening of women's self-consciousness in that era.
However, she still has the idea of husband power, even if she has her own career, she still has the idea of being attached to men in her bones. After she was possessed by Zhang Shankun, in the face of power, she chose silence in order to keep her marriage.
Seeing that her husband was weak and had to choose divorce, she took Zhang Shankun as the object of dependence. Of course, in such a big environment, even if a weak woman can earn money, it is difficult to survive without anyone's help.
Two years later, Zhang Shankun abandoned her, because she could not stand the blow, mental disorder, which is very similar to Godesilmos syndrome - Chen Yanyan has a dependence on the people who have hurt her and destroyed her family, otherwise she would not be insane.
Chen Yanyan's further awakening of self-awareness is that after she was abandoned by her new boyfriend, she was bitter and painful, and has always insisted on filming and running her own company.
She didn't give up on herself. Although her later years were bleak, she was able to live independently; her artistic life was also the longest among early female stars, which is also a kind of comfort.
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