The Republic of China, in a chaotic world, is also an era of heroes and talents, who have either rewritten history or borne the infamy. In that turbulent era, it also created one after another multi-talented women. It's all about beauty and talent.
Today, let's take a look at the prosperous beauty of the top ten beauties of the Republic of China!
Rankings are not divided into front and back
1. Summer dreams
She is known as the "Xishi of the Republic of China" and is rich in the beauty of "Dongfeng Hepburn". She is a generation goddess of Hong Kong cinema and Jin Yong's "dream lover"
Xia Meng, born in 1933 in Shanghai into a literary family, grew up beautiful, and won the "Shanghai Children's Photography Competition" at the age of 6.
In 1947, she moved to Hong Kong with her family. While attending the "Maryknoll Convent School", she began experimenting with stage performances. At the age of 18, he entered the "Great Wall Film Company" and officially made his debut.
In 1953, she starred in the armed film "Evil Sea Flower" at the "Edinburgh International Film Festival", she was delicate and seductive and not flattering, and her appearance looked flamboyant but also with some delicacy. With the broadcast of the work, Xia Meng not only became famous in China, but also had a great influence throughout Asia.
She was the dream lover of martial arts master Jin Yong, who was rumored to have given up his job as an editor of the Ta Kung Pao for Xia Meng and bent down to work as a screenwriter at the Great Wall Film Company.
And the heroines in many of Jin Yong's martial arts novels are based on her. He has also publicly expressed his admiration for Xia Meng. But in the end, Jin Yong did not hold the beauty back, and Xia Meng can be said to be the "dream" that Jin Yong pursued in his life.
In 1954, Xia Meng married her husband Lin Baocheng. Lin Baocheng is a textile merchant. In 1953, when Xia Meng was filming "Sister Song", Lin Baocheng went to watch it with admiration. When Lin Baocheng heard that he needed a group performance, he volunteered to go up. What he did not expect was that it was such a bold move that won the favor of a great beauty.
Xia Meng quit the screen in 1967 and settled in Canada with her husband. Since then her film era has come to an end. She left the best of her best on the screen.
2. Jiang Ying
During the Republic of China period, if any lady was called a celebrity, it was a very high evaluation of her. Generally refers to those famous shows who are born into famous families and have both talents and appearances, and Jiang Ying is known as the representative of famous women.
Jiang Ying, born in 1919 in Haining, Zhejiang Province, was the father of the famous military educator Jiang Baili. Her husband is the father of China's aerospace industry and the pillar of the country, Qian Xuesen. His cousin is the famous martial arts novelist Jin Yong. The cousin is the poet Xu Zhimo.
He has loved music since he was a child, and in 1936 he traveled with his father to various European countries. Later, he stayed in Europe to study "phonology" and returned to China in 1955, where he served as the director of the Vocal Music Department of the Central Conservatory of Music.
During this period, Jiang Ying also participated in the International Soprano Competition held in Hungary in 1943, winning the championship and being the first soprano in the whole of Southeast Asia to win the championship. Later, Jiang Ying became a female vocal educator and soprano singer in China.
In 1947, Jiang Ying and Qian Xuesen married, they were green plum bamboo horses, and the two families were family friends. Jiang Ying's peerless beauty and talent have already moved Qian Xuesen's heart.
Jiang Ying lived for a while in Qian Xuesen's family when she was a child, Qian Xuesen was the only son in the family, and Jiang Ying's family was 5 daughters, ranking third in the family. Because Qian's mother wanted to have a daughter, she consulted with the jiang family's parents to entrust Jiang Ying to them to raise.
Therefore, Jiang Ying inherited to the Qian family when he was three years old, but later Jiang Ying's parents were reluctant and took it back. It was then that both parents made a marriage contract for them.
Later, in that special era, they broke through many obstacles and resolutely chose to return to China to serve the motherland. From their marriage in 1947 to qian's death in 2009, they have been together for 62 years, spending their lives fulfilling their original promises.
3. Circumvention
Zhou Xuan, "one of the four beauties of the Republic of China", "Fei Ruo Hong, Wan Ruo You Long", this is used to describe her.
Zhou Xuan's singing voice is crisp and beautiful, the appearance is beautiful and flexible, and the two songs of "Night Shanghai" and "He Rijun Come Again" are the songs that surround the beams. Soft voice, delicate shallow smile. Her graceful posture, her smile are all addictive. This also made her gain the reputation of "Golden Voice" and "Four Beauties of the Republic of China"
But her career and beauty are impeccable, but she has experienced various ups and downs in her feelings. She was not a good person in her life, and she died at the age of 37.
Her real name is Su Pu. Born in Changzhou in 1920. At the age of 3, his uncle, who was very addicted to smoking, sold to the Wang family in Jintan County. Later, the Wang family divorced and gave her to the Zhou family to raise. When she was 8 years old, she was almost sold to a brothel by her adoptive father, but fortunately her adoptive mother stopped her in time.
Later, he changed his name to Zhou Xiaohong, and at the age of 12, he entered the Mingle Song and Dance Troupe with the help of nobles. With her talent and hard work, she mastered the knowledge of music theory in just a few months and then began to sing on stage. There were almost no transitions, and a song became famous.
From the age of 15, he devoted himself to the film industry. In her 20-year acting career, she has starred in 43 films and sung more than 200 songs. She not only made a name for herself in the mainland, but also developed in Hong Kong in 1946 and is also well-known in Hong Kong.
But her feelings are devastated.
At the age of 16, she became engaged to Yan Hua, a composer who was both a teacher and a friend, and officially married two years later. At first, the two had a deep relationship, but with the continuous rise of Zhou Xuan's fame, the gap between the two became bigger and bigger, suspicious of each other, quarreled continuously, and sometimes even moved.
Three years later, they divorced. After that, Zhou Xuan lived with Tang Di and Zhu Huaide. But none of them are reliable people. One cheats, one cheats money, Condy cheats her for sex, jujudders her for money. When she was pregnant, one ran faster than the other.
Later, it was rumored that she was insane and admitted to a mental hospital. At this point she left the stage. In the spring and summer of 1957, she spoke out for the first time that she had recovered and would soon be discharged from the hospital, but within a few months, the news of her death suddenly came.
Her life can be described as: red face and thin life, incense and jade death, who is pitiful!
4. Lu Xiaoman
A famous painter and opera composer in the Republic of China, Lu Xiaoman gave the world the most difficult thing to forget is the tragic marriage with Xu Zhimo.
Lu Xiaoman was born in a family of officials and eunuchs, and was born as a person who set tens of millions of favors in one, and was proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. It is one of the best pearls in the beijing everyone's boudoir show.
She came to Beijing with her parents from Shanghai at the age of 6, enrolled in school at the age of seven, dropped out of school at the age of nineteen, and married her first husband, Wang Geng, at the age of nineteen. However, Wang Geng was obsessed with his career and was eight years older than Lu Xiaoman. Their marriage was not romantic.
Therefore, more than two years after marriage, she met the poetic Xu Zhimo, and soon fell into a dim extramarital relationship and could not extricate herself.
She soon divorced her husband and came together with Xu Zhimo despite her parents' objections. In 1926, the two married, and the witness Liang Qichao's testimony of the marriage pointed out that the two were not dedicated, which made the guests who came to the wedding pale and made the two lose their faces.
After marriage, Lu Xiaoman was profligate and even addicted to smoking. Xu Zhimo took on all the expenses of the family, and they did not have the original romance.
On November 19, 1931, Xu Zhimo rushed to attend Lin Wei's lecture and was tragically killed in a plane crash on the way to the lecture.
After losing her husband, Lu Xiaoman was devastated. Since then, she has been far away from the colorful life, silently enduring the criticism of the outside world. Since then, she and Weng Ruiwu, a massage therapist who helped her do it, have had a dewy relationship of "love without love" for 20 years. Weng Ruiwu has a wife and five children.
She has loved romance all her life. The world only remembers her love story, but ignores her talent. In fact, she has many paintings that are collected by the Chinese Academy of Painting in Shanghai. She also translated Tagore's novels, Agnes Gray, and others.
5. Lin Huiyin
Lin Huiyin, a famous female architect, is also the wife of the famous architect Liang Sicheng.
Among the many talented women, her talent is more comprehensive. He has achieved great success in poetry, novels, plays, essays and translations.
Lin Huiyin, born in Hangzhou in 1904, is a famous family. She was born to win at the starting line, his grandfather jinshi, his father Lin Changmin studied abroad in his early years.
At the age of 5, Lin Huiyin studied chess and calligraphy with her aunt Lin Zemin, which also laid a solid foundation for her future experience.
In 1916, due to the influence of the current situation, Lin Father's work was transferred from Shanghai to Beijing, so the family moved to Beijing to live.
In 1921, she traveled to Europe with her father, and under the influence of the London landlady architect, she fell in love with architecture. And determined her future direction. During this time, she became acquainted with her father's disciple Xu Zhimo and became interested in new poetry.
She was attracted by Xu Zhimo's handsome appearance and profound knowledge, and Xu Zhimo was also attracted by her outstanding talent and beauty, but at that time Xu Zhimo was already married and had a child of more than 2 years old. But it couldn't stop his admiration for Lin Huiyin.
In addition, they joined the "New Moon Society", which was one of the first members to join the "New Moon Society". They often organize events, perform together, translate together, and often have correspondence. Later, Xu Zhimo went to Japan to study. She and Liang Sicheng went to the United States to study architecture. When they met again four years later, she was already married to Liang Sicheng.
In 1931, Xu Zhimo mentioned in the Tiger Collection that he had nothing to do with poetry before he was 24 years old, and that it was after meeting Lin Huiyin that he was inspired to create new poems. He has also written many love poems for Lin Huiyin, such as "Accidental", "Listening to the Piano on the Moon and Night",,,, etc. all reveal his affection for Lin Huiyin. In the same year, Xu Zhimo divorced his first wife, Zhang Youyi, and later met Lu Xiaoman, and the two soon fell in love and married.
After they were married, the two people who had difficulty meeting each other were connected forever by an air disaster
In addition to Xu Zhimo, there is also Jin Yuelin, who will not marry her for life. Jin Yuelin is a regular visitor to Lin Huiyin's family, and they have always lived next to each other. Even the quarrel between the two small mouths is to talk to Jin Yuelin. Jin Yuelin's feelings for Lin Huiyin have also been buried in his heart. Secretly loved her all her life and never married.
Although we do not have the opportunity to see her beauty through time and space, we can probably glimpse her beautiful talent from the poems written by Xu Zhimo for her, her own poems, songs, and architectural works.
6. Butterfly
The first beauty of the Republic of China, the first film queen in China. In the 1930s, she became a household actress in Shanghai Beach with her outstanding beauty and acting skills.
Hu Die, formerly known as Hu Ruihua, was born in Shanghai in 1903, the only daughter of the family. Her father was the chief inspector of the railway, and since she was a child, she traveled around the country with her parents, and experienced the different customs and customs of various places, so that she learned to deal with various people. Beijing dialect, Shanghainese, Cantonese, a variety of dialects exchange freely. This has helped her a lot in her future acting career.
After many years of wandering, at the age of 16, he returned to Shanghai with his parents. It was also this year that she was successfully admitted to China's first film school, the Shanghai China Film Academy.
She has loved acting since she was a child, and when she was a child, she often learned to play with the shouting and selling of the market, and she learned it very well. After entering the school, she spent almost all her energy on studying acting, and under the guidance of professional film masters, she soon showed extraordinary talent.
In 1920, she participated in the heroine of "Autumn Fan Complaint", officially debuted, and began the brilliant period of her acting career.
In 1933, in the Shanghai Star, he won the crown with 21,334 votes.
She, bright eyes and bright teeth, curved eyebrows and plump cheeks, pear vortex shallow smile, as the showbiz "top stream" of her, is also the fashion benchmark of Shanghai Beach, what she wears, what is popular on Shanghai Beach at that time!
Beauty in one, but her red face is not thin. She has both superb acting skills and extraordinary wisdom.
Although she met someone unladylike in the first relationship, she met Pan Yousheng, a good person, the two met and fell in love for 6 years, after a marathon love run, they held a wedding at the end of 1935, after which the two loved for a lifetime and did not abandon.
In 1966, after filming "The Woman in the Tower", she quit the show business circle and went to Canada with her husband to enjoy her old age.
Died in 1989 at the age of 81, so that the story of a generation of legendary Republican beauties came to an end.
7. Ruan Lingyu
She was a Shanghai film actress during the Republic of China period, and she was second only to Hu Die in the film industry. She has superb acting skills and excellent appearance,
She has acted in more than 30 movies in her lifetime, which is a classic. She is a superstar who sits on the love of thousands of fans. Representing the highest level during the period of silent cinema in China, she has achieved remarkable achievements in her acting career. However, in love, it has experienced ups and downs, and all three relationships have ended in failure.
Ruan Lingyu, born in Shanghai in 1910, was originally named Ruan Fenggen. Frail and sickly from an early age, her mother grew up working as a maid in a large family. When she was 6 years old, her father left the mother and daughter due to tuberculosis from overwork.
When she was 7 years old, because her mother transferred to the Zhang family as a maid, she met Zhang Damin, the fourth young master of the old owner's family. Zhang Damin, the son of the family, is 8 years older than Ruan Lingyu. At first, Zhang Damin did not know Ruan Lingyu, and as a child of a maid's family, Ruan Lingyu could only move in the backyard.
When she was 9 years old, Ruan's mother did not want to see her daughter follow in her footsteps, so she went to plead with her old owner, Mr. Zhang, to let Ruan Lingyu go to the Zhang family to open the "Chongde Girls' School" to study. In the end, Ruan Lingyu entered the "Chongde Girls' School" in the form of half a fee.
Until the age of 16, Ruan Lingyu met Zhang Damin when she went out to study, and she was noticed by the latter and launched a crazy pursuit. In the end, Zhang Damin came together with Ruan Lingyu despite the opposition of his family. Ruan Lingyu's mother and daughter were also driven out of the Zhang family, Zhang Damin secretly arranged them to live in the other courtyard temporarily, the two officially lived together, and Ruan Lingyu also automatically dropped out of school.
But how can Zhang Damin, who likes to spend days and wine, be a person who can be entrusted? After a short period of deep affection, Zhang Damin's clumsy habits were soon revealed, and he did not fall down like eating, drinking, and gambling.
Ruan Lingyu, who could not see the future in Zhang Damin, had to go out to work to maintain his life. With his good looks, in 1927, he was successfully admitted to the film company. Transformed into a big star.
As her fame grew, she and Zhang Damin went farther and farther away. She had a glimmer of hope for Zhang Damin, but Zhang Damin only regarded her as a cash cow and wantonly extorted her money.
In 1932, Ruan Lingyu met Tang Jishan, a wide merchant in the tea industry at that time, and in order to quickly get rid of Zhang Damin, she moved to Tang Jishan's villa to live with him. How could Zhang Damin be willing to let this cash cow be dug up, but he had already fallen and had done Tang Jishan, and he was jealous and angry. Thinking about it, he took Ruan Lingyu to court for compensation.
When Ruan Lingyu was pestered by her ex-boyfriend, she found that her boyfriend Tang Jishan got along with her good girlfriend, and after Tang Jishan cheated on her, Tang Jishan not only did not deny it, but also scolded her.
In 1934, when filming "New Woman", she met Cai Chusheng, who really treated her. But Cai Chusheng is a married person, and he finally chooses to lose her because he is worried about his family and reputation.
Repeated injuries eventually ended her life at the age of 25. Spend the same years, spend the same life, and go with the wind.
8. Pan Su
A famous landscape painter in the Republic of China period, a generation of famous women. Extremely artistic talent, but also the wife of Zhang Boju, the "four talents of the Republic of China". She married Zhang Boju at the age of 20. The two have loved each other for the rest of their lives.
She is not only a well-known artist at home and abroad, but also a great patriot, and she and her husband have donated calligraphy and paintings to the country for many times free of charge. Rescue national treasures in a troubled world.
Pan Su, born in Jiangsu in 1915, her father is a descendant of the famous person Pan Shien, and her mother is also from a famous family.
She received a good education since she was a child, and her parents hired famous teachers for her to teach her piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and she not only painted, but also played a good lute.
Later, her mother died of illness, her father married another one, and the new stepmother saw that she was talented and jealous, so she designed a frame-up and sent her to a brothel and fell into the red dust.
But she met Zhang Boju and rewrote her fate. Her love with Zhang Boju has quite a bridge section of "hero saving beauty" in idol dramas.
In 1935, when Zhang Boju was visiting Shanghai, he heard the name of "Concubine Pan" and went to see Fang Rong with a curious heart. When he first saw Pan Su, Zhang Boju fell in love with her at first sight, after a humorous pipa. Zhang Boju also wrote a couplet to describe Pan Su at that time: "Pan Bu is light in the palm of his hand, ten steps of incense dust is born of Luo socks, concubines are plugged into songs, and Qianqiu Hu language enters the pipa."
Similarly, in Pan Su's eyes, Zhang Boju Yushu is windy and handsome. In particular, his pair of talents won Pan Su's heart at once.
However, how can such a beautiful child not be chased? She was taken in by a lieutenant general named Zang Zhuo, who was already about to catch Pan Su in her hands.
At this time, a Zhang Boju was killed, how could Zang Zhuo easily give up?
Aware of this, Zang Zhuo took decisive measures to put Pan Su under house arrest in the hotel. No matter how hard Pan Su tried to persuade Zang Zhuo, she already belonged to Zhang Boju and begged to let her go. But Zang Zhuo ignored it. He relied on his status as a lieutenant general. Surround the hotel tightly and do not listen to anyone's advice.
But Zhang Boju could not watch his beloved being taken away.
So with the help of friends, Zhang Boju staged a "hero saves the United States" legend. He secretly found out about the hotel where Pan Su was under house arrest, managed to bribe Zang Zhuo's guards, sneaked into the hotel, broke into the room, picked up Pan Su, who had cried into tears, and drove her to the villa she had rented in advance.
The next day, Zhang Boju quickly left Shanghai with Pan Su and embraced the beauty. In the same year, she married Zhang Boju. Among the poems written by Zhang Boju in his lifetime, there are chapters about love that are only given to Pan Su, a woman.
Pan Su attracted Zhang Boju not only to the appearance of The City, but also to the calligraphy and painting education she received from childhood. At the age of 21, she regained her brush and began a new scene in her life. Paper, ink, pen, stone, and colorful pigments completely cover up the old colors of past rouge. In addition, Zhang Boju's family collection is full of buildings, which is a model for her to learn.
Because of Zhang Boju's relationship, she studied painting flowers with Zhu Deqing, and later cooperated with old painters Such as Tao Xinru, Qi Jingxi, and Zhang Mengjia. Good things grind and come to the fore at the age of 25. He is especially good at landscape painting with heavy brush strokes. Later, he became a famous painter of Qinglu landscape in China.
He has collaborated with Zhang Daqian on many occasions in painting. He also painted with he Xiangning, a famous female painter of the older generation. She has created more than 1,000 works.
After the founding of New China, Pan Su participated in the charity sale of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea three times, and she and her husband donated all the national treasures and paintings collected in her lifetime to the state free of charge.
9. Tang Ying
Tang Ying, a famous woman during the Republic of China, her father was one of the first students to study abroad in the late Qing Dynasty. After studying abroad for many years, he returned home and opened a private clinic as a doctor. Specializing in treating large families, his brother is Song Ziwen's most trusted secretary, so the Tang family's family is rich.
Born and raised in this privileged environment, Tang Ying has been reading poetry and books well since she was a child, learning dance, piano, English, opera and so on. In addition to being talented, she is also beautiful and beautiful. She is also very good at dressing, eating, wearing, and using can always set off a fashion trend.
Tang Ying also had numerous suitors, including Song Ziwen. At that time, when they fell in love, they were strongly opposed by the Tang family, and later Tang Ying's brother died because of Song Ziwen, which made them even more unlikely.
After the breakup, she married Li Zufa, the son of the wealthy Shanghai merchant Li Family, and had a son. The marriage of two people did not last long, and after marriage, the two divorced due to personality incompatibility.
After the divorce, Tang Ying met rong Xianlin, the manager of the insurance company, and the two came together because of similar interests. Rong Xianlin is a Cantonese, outgoing, likes to communicate, they have the same interests, soon the two married, before marriage Rong Xianlin had a marriage, and had four children. But Tang Ying was willing to marry him as a stepmother.
After Yung's death in 1962, she lived alone for more than 20 years. In her later years, she still maintained the elegance of youth, cleaned herself up beautifully, visited art exhibitions, soaked in theaters, watched concerts, and her children and grandchildren were on their knees.
10. Shangguan Yunzhu
Shangguan Yunzhu was born in 1920 in Jiangsu. Originally named Wei Junjie, his parents were farmers, and his family lived by weaving cloth.
At the age of 16, Shangguan Yunzhu, who was still in middle school, fell in love with her eldest brother's classmate Zhang Dayan. Soon after, they stole the forbidden fruit, and Shangguan Yunzhu became pregnant, ruining her studies.
Shangguan Yunzhu is 9 years younger than Zhang Dayan, and the Zhang family is the richest man in the local area and has a wealthy family. I wanted to marry my mother and son, but I didn't want to be disliked by my in-laws.
Affected by the Lugou Bridge Incident in 1937, the Zhang family declined, and the 17-year-old Shangguan Yunzhu was able to escape the Zhang family's cage and come to Shanghai. The following year, she went to work at a photo studio. Because of her outstanding beauty, her arrival has brought a lot of popularity to the photo studio.
In 1940, through the introduction of He Zuomin, she was admitted to the drama school to study drama, and soon after, the drama school was closed, so after studying for half a year in several film training classes, she participated in her first film "Wang Tiger Robs Relatives" and officially began her acting career.
Later, she opened up the market for herself with films such as "National Color Tianxiang", "Heavenly Spring Dream", "Ten Thousand Lights", "Crows and Sparrows", "Early Spring February" and other films, so that fans in the 50s and 60s deeply remembered her name.
In 1962, together with Zhang Ruifang, Qin Yi, Wang, Sun Daolin, Wang Xingang and Yu Lan, she was named the "Twenty-Two New Chinese Film Stars"
However, compared to her career, her road to love is very bumpy. She went through five men, three marriages, and three divorces in her life.
In 1966, Shangguan Yunzhu inevitably experienced a movement. After two years of inhuman torture, in 1968, he chose to end his life at the age of 48.
It is said that being beautiful is luck, and living beautifully is confidence. In that unpredictable era, many women could not control their own destiny and eventually ended in a tragic end. However, there are also many psychologically powerful beauties who are beautiful all their lives