In 2002, after the sensational Tse Ting-feng car accident top bag case, Emperor Company felt that the situation was serious and invited the famous lawyer Qing Hong to defend him.
At the opening of the trial, the crowded media suddenly found Long Zonghan, an assistant who followed Qinghong Barrister, and many media then shifted their attention and reported around Long Zonghan, interviewing Long Zonghan about his late mother Lin Dai.
Lin Dai is one of the most popular female stars of the 56th generation in Hong Kong, the first Hua Dan of shaw's company that year, who has won four consecutive "Asia-Pacific Film Queens", she is born into a famous family, is the daughter of Cheng Siyuan, the core figure of the "Gui" group, and this popular actress with a career like the sun, but after marrying the same prominent Long Shengxun for two years, she committed suicide in the Happy Valley apartment and ended up with hatred.
From left, Mei Yuehua, Lin Dai, Bai Guang, and Lotty
After the news of Lin Dai's death came out, the fans were very hurt, after hearing the rumor that she committed suicide because of Long Shengxun's derailment, countless people made crusade calls, wrote condemnation letters to Long Shengxun, and some people loaded sleeping pills and even bullet casings in the letter, asking Long Shengxun to accompany Lin Dai to die, Long Shengxun was very sad, and there was nowhere to explain, please write a special explanation of Lin Dai's cause of death on Lin Dai's tombstone:
"Because of the family's details, the drama goes to extremes, makes falsehoods come true, and hates eternity."
On the day of Lin Dai's funeral, the spectators of Hong Kong Island who sent her off on the street were blocked, resulting in a traffic jam in Hong Kong for five hours, and more than 400 police officers were dispatched to maintain order, until many days later, there were many people wandering around her grave.
Lin Dai's song and dance performance in the movie
More than forty years later, Long Zonghan said in an interview that after his mother's death, his father's grief was difficult to dispel, and he kept the original appearance of Lin Dai's room until his death in 2007, and in 43 years, Long Shengxun, who had been fond of fun, lived in simplicity and never married again, but was bent on raising him and Lin Dai's only son, Long Zonghan, to adulthood.
Among the many suitors, Lin Dai chose Long Shengxun, who was the most intimate with her, as a lifelong partner, which can be called a love that is evenly matched. But once they enter the marriage, the two handsome men and women who are loved to the fullest, but because they do not give in to each other, they have come to this tragic step, which is sighing.
The deceased has passed away, leaving behind the unfinished business, the children waiting to be fed, the white-haired old father, it is painful, and the living, how can it not be the pain of the heart every day?
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In the 50s and 60th generation of Hong Kong, the most standard beauty on the screen is not a classical beauty with a gentle temperament like Letty, but a beauty like Lin Dai with bright eyes and bright teeth or thick eyebrows and big eyes.
Lin Dai
Lin Dai is known as "China Dream Dew", and like Marilyn Monroe, she has a delicate temperament, a pair of large eyes full of emotion, very expressive.
According to her father Cheng Siyuan, when she was very young, her beauty was praised, and since the age of eight or nine, no matter when she was busy with academic affairs, she had neatly packed up her dressing and makeup, very exquisite, and had high requirements for herself.
Lin Dai was born in Nanning, Guangxi in 1934, formerly known as Cheng Yueru, his father Cheng Siyuan is Li Zongren's secretary, the meaning of his daughter's name is "like the moon in the sky", Lin Dai was born shortly after, Cheng Siyuan was sent to Europe by Li Zongren to study, Lin Dai followed his birth mother Jiang Xiuhua to live in the countryside.
When she was four years old, Cheng Siyuan returned from the Department of Political Science of the University of Rome, worked in the National Government of Nanjing, took his wife and daughter to his side, and gradually became a gui family dignitary, and later Bai Chongxi opposed Chiang Kai-shek and Li Zongren ran for vice president, all of which had Cheng Siyuan's behind-the-scenes operations, and at this time, Cheng Siyuan and his wife's ideological understanding and living habits were too big, began to separate, and went through divorce procedures in 1940.
Because he could not give his eldest daughter a complete family, Cheng Siyuan especially loved the clever and beautiful Lin Dai, and was almost obedient to her. He said in his memoirs that someone advised him that Lin Dai was too thin and needed to supplement a little more nutrition, and every time he took his daughter to the restaurant, Lin Dai would order a table of dishes, but he would hardly move, leaving only his appetite to eat dessert after dinner.
After the change of the situation in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Lin Dai was sent by her mother to her father in Chongqing, Cheng Siyuan really had no time to take care of her, sent her to the family of the subordinates, after the victory of the War of Resistance, sent her to Nanjing Huiwen Middle School for boarding, whenever Cheng Siyuan came to Nanjing for business, he took his 12-year-old daughter to attend the dance party and banquet full of dignitaries and nobles, in this kind of life that was both turbulent and vain and flashy, Lin Dai became a little lonely and strong.
Cheng Siyuan and Shi Hong's wedding photo in Hankou in 1948
Lin Dai also felt sad that her father was alone and uncared for for many years, under her matchmaking, at the end of 1947, Cheng Siyuan fell in love with Andi Hong, a graduate of Nankai University who was 19 years younger than him, and married, and Cheng Siyuan lived a very happy life with the careful care and protection of Shi Hong, a talented woman.
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In 1949, Cheng Siyuan quit politics and went into exile with Li Zongren, life was difficult, Lin Dai transferred from Nanjing Huiwen Middle School to Hong Kong New Asia College, and lived with her mother Jiang Xiuhua, who lived in an old house on The Old Road in Garenwei, Kowloon, because they lost a fixed source of livelihood, they could only rely on Jiang Xiuhua to help people beat sweaters to provide for their daughters to attend middle school, and the mother and daughter suddenly became poor people at the bottom.
In order to share the pressure of her mother, Lin Dai managed to make a living, in 1951, she heard that her cousin played a palace girl in the movie "Peacock Bile", and went to the set, as a result, the famous photographer Zong Weigeng took a look at her, took a photo for her, enlarged it, placed it in the window, Yuan Yang'an, the owner of the Great Wall Film Company, immediately looked for Lin Dai to audition, signed her as a basic actor, and also took her stage name "Lin Dai" according to the Chinese transliteration of her English name Linda.
And Lin Dai in the Great Wall Company has not had any opportunity to make a movie, took the initiative to sign her Great Wall boss Yuan Yang'an, put her aside and ignored it, soon, Lin Dai and the Great Wall negotiated a renewal of the issue of dispute, Yuan Yang'an immediately transferred the original film role she was scheduled to play to others, in Hong Kong alone and helpless Lin Dai felt hopeless, depressed mood, on December 8, 1951, in extreme depression and anxiety, Lin Dai took sleeping pills to commit suicide, fortunately, the Great Wall's popular xiaosheng Yan Jun arrived and urgently sent her to the hospital for rescue.
Lin Dai wrote a statement after committing suicide for the first time, saying that she wanted to start a new life in art
After being rescued, Lin Dai wrote a statement, saying that she was emotionally unstable, she would look for short-sightedness, and she would definitely devote herself to the film career in the future.
And Yan Jun also very pity this delicate girl, Yan Jun is 17 years older than Lin Dai, known as "a small student with a thousand faces", in Lin Dai's eyes like a father like a brother, after open love, Yan Jun everywhere to help her find opportunities to play, recommended her to change to Yonghua Film Company, in 1952, Yan Jun to help her play, to Yonghua made a military order, personally directed for half a year, by Lin Dai starred in the film "Cuicui" based on Shen Congwen's famous book "Border City", the result lin Dai became famous in one fell swoop.
After becoming famous, Lin Dai was pursued by many people, among which Yan Jun was the most affectionate and righteous to her, Yan Jun was originally a famous actor, known as "a small student with a thousand faces", and then for Lin Dai's sake, he changed his career to be a director, and the plays directed by Lin Dai alone include "Cuicui", "Sable Chan", "Golden Lotus" and many other films, of which Lin Dai won the "Golden Lotus" after the Tokyo Asia-Pacific Film in 1957 and "Sable Chan" after the Manila Asia-Pacific Film in 1958 were directed by Yan Jun.
Four winners of the Asia-Pacific Film Queen
But the good times are not long, the personality and living habits of the two are very different, Yan Jun is gentle and frugal, and Lin Dai is emotionally changeable and luxurious, according to the reporter, Yan Jun even a bottle of Coke is reluctant to buy, "spending money like cutting meat", but Lin Dai is generous, however, Lin Dai is willful, temperamental, and the two gradually have a rift.
Yan Jun and Lin Dai
With yan jun's ex-girlfriend Li Lihua and his old love rekindled, in 1958, Lin Dai and Yan Jun's relationship completely broke down, in a year, she changed three boyfriends, including the famous jockey Tao Berlin, the old actor Huang He, as well as Lottie's third brother, and she played in the rival role of Xiaomao Xiaosheng Lei Zhen, but the relationship was all short-lived.
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In order to find her inner peace, in 1959, she went to the United States to study in the drama department of Columbia University, and met Long Shengxun, the fifth son of former Yunnan Provincial Chairman Long Yun.
Dragon Rope Hoon
Long Shengxun is four years older than Lin Dai, is Long Yun's third wife Li Peilian born, lost his mother in childhood, he looks good, quite loved by his father, in 1950 from Hong Kong to the United States to study at the University of Massachusetts, however, due to the pampered nature developed in his youth, his life in the United States is mainly fun, there are many friends, after knowing Lin Dai, he is very attentive to her and accompanies her to play everywhere.
At this time, Lin Dai also set off a wave of enthusiasm in the United States, and the New York Times specially published an article praising her oriental beauty, saying that she was "comparable to several Marilyn Monroe", and for a time, Chinese newspapers also called her "China Dream Dew".
After returning from the United States, Lin Dai once walked close to Shaw actor Zhang Chong, hovering between Lei Zhen and Zhang Chong.
On the left is the melancholy Xiaosheng Lei Zhen, and on the right is the rugged Xiaosheng Zhang Chong
But soon long after Long Shengxun was deported due to a traffic accident in the United States, he came to Hong Kong to pursue Lin Dai again, and Lin Dai finally cut off all love affairs and chose Long Shengxun, who was the opposite of her, as a lifelong partner.
Long Shengxun and Lin Dai are born in high society, and they all pay attention to the quality of life and enjoyment, which is more speculative, but for this marriage, Lin Dai's father Cheng Siyuan did not agree, and even did not attend the wedding.
In 1961, the two had a grand wedding, and Lin Dai moved with her mother into the Dragon Rope Xun apartment in Happy Valley.
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After marriage, Lin Dai did not quit the film circle, in 1962, she shot the film "No Love", so that she won the Asia-Pacific Film Queen Award for the fourth time, unprecedented in Hong Kong, the film salary was as high as 57,000 Hong Kong dollars, in 1963, Lin Dai went to the United States to give birth to her love crystallization with Long Shengxun, Long Zonghan, career and marriage are very happy, admirable.
Dragon Rope Hoon and Lin Dai
But Lin Dai is not happy, I don't know if it is postpartum depression, or she is too demanding of herself, she deeply feels that everything in life is not satisfactory.
She and Long Shengxun are both young people who have been pampered and raised, and both have outstanding temperament and appearance, which attract attention and are popular in the crowd, so the personalities of the two do not give in to each other, and a little trivial matter in life will break out into a fierce quarrel.
Lin Dai's family of three
And because of the birth of children, Lin Dai's career has been delayed, just in the year she gave birth to a child, the famous director of Shaw Company, Li Hanxiang, used the newcomer Ling Bo to string Liang Shanbo, to Play Zhu Yingtai, who has always been under Lin Dai in Shaw's position, starring in the peak of Shao's Huangmei opera film "Liang Shan Bo and Zhu Yingtai", this movie is popular at home and abroad, creating the latest brilliant record of Shao Company, but there is no figure of Lin Dai, the head of Hua Dan, making Lin Dai feel as if abandoned.
In fact, Ling Bo, who is 5 years younger than her, is indeed close to Lin Dai's status in Shaw's, in 1963, when the "Golden Voice" Ling Bo went to Taiwan to receive the Golden Horse Awards, Taipei was empty of people and was named "Crazy City", which made Lin Dai feel a sense of crisis in her career, after giving birth to a child, she desperately dieted, quickly recovered her figure, and also began to shoot movies such as "Pauline Lantern", but she was still a little depressed.
At this moment, a director of shaw's company who usually had a grudge with her fell into a well, and laughed at Lin Dai in public, saying: "What else are you angry about?" You're already going downhill day by day. Lin Dai couldn't help but cry in the company, and in a few months, she turned 30 years old, and she had been immersed in the entertainment industry for many years, of course, she knew what age meant for actresses.
For her inner pressure, Long Shengxun did not understand, from the time of marriage, he repeatedly asked his wife to quit the entertainment circle and teach her husband and children at home, but Lin Dai never agreed.
Therefore, after returning home, she could not get comfort, that day, she wanted to check the account of the butler, and the housekeeper was an old servant of the Dragon Family, who had been following the Dragon Rope Xun for many years, so she was quite dismissive, thinking that this was Lin Dai's distrust of him, and even opened her mouth to confront the hostess.
When Long Shengxun returned home, Lin Dai thought that he would help himself, but Long Shengxun thought that she was troublesome and refused to rebuke the housekeeper, so angry that Lin Dai scolded and scolded: "You don't have me in your heart at all!" I'm alive is a joke, I'm dead for you to see! ”
This sentence was originally an emotional threat, which was caused by Lin Dai's hope that her husband would feel afraid and submit to her, Lin Dai's career outside already had a sense of crisis, and she realized that her status at home was not as good as that of the housekeeper, and in anger, she only wanted to make Long Shengxun "have her in her heart" through the threat of suicide.
Who knows that Long Shengxun is the big young master's temper, lin dai threw him out of the door, he went to the study to read until 3 a.m., pushed the bedroom door, found that it had been locked, simply went out to play, until the next day at noon home, the bedroom door was still closed, Long Shengxun felt bad, forcibly broke into the door, but saw Lin Dai lying on the bed, motionless, holding a photo of his 15-month-old son in his left hand, surrounded by empty bottles and suicide notes of sleeping pills, Long Shengxun regretted it, but in vain.
After Lin Dai's death, public opinion said that Long Shengxun had another new love, and Long Shengxun had to publish two suicide notes from Lin Dai in the newspaper, one of which read: "If you really want to save me, please don't send me to the public hospital, because then all the newspapers in Hong Kong will be published like a joke!" Can only find a personal doctor, thank you. ”
Lin Dai does not really want to die, but Lin Dai, who is in a dilemma between family and career, and at the same time faces the double crisis of her career decline and unstable family status, she will force her life lover to give in to her with such a resolute attitude.
According to her descendant Zheng Peipei recalled, Lin Dai once sighed on the set and said that Long Shengxun had no career, but he was very tolerant and said that he had a career, but Zheng Peipei also remembered, Lin Dai also said that it didn't matter if others were not good to her, and her husband was not good to her, it was absolutely unforgivable.
Marriage is to rely on running-in to go long, to rely on each other's tolerance, concession and support, in order to achieve the covenant from white head to old age, rather than a life-and-death battle, these two delicate and famous disciples, are all pampered people at home, do not know how to give in is also a kind of love, even a deeper love.
Behind Lin Dai, his father Cheng Siyuan was in pain, but he also sighed in the reminiscence article: "The higher Lin Dai's status on the silver altar, the more isolated her ideology will be, and the more her psychological development will be disconnected from the real society." Over the years, she has drawn on the Emperor's pursuit of wealth and the emperor's maintenance of honor, and her inner tension is too tight to breathe, which greatly affects her family life, that is, her temper is big and it is not easy to wait. ”
He probably thought of this when he strongly opposed Lin Dai's marriage to Long Shengxun.
Long Shengxun is indeed a piece of sincerity to Lin Dai, after Lin Dai's death, he raised his son Long Zonghan alone, and atonement for Lin Dai with 43 years of solitude, which included both his guilt and the remembrance of his wife.
Long Zonghan said that there was a special room in the home, which contained all of Lin Dai's things, and walked into that room, as if the time was frozen on the day of July 17, 1964, all the furnishings in the house were maintained as they were, and there were eyebrow pencils, lipstick, and powder boxes used by Lin Dai on the dressing table, and there were her favorite costumes hanging in the closet, and the "Oriental Pictorial" of that year was placed in the drawer, and the cover of the pictorial newspaper was a group photo of Long Shengxun and Lin Dai holding their newborn son, as if the hostess would come back at any time, although Long Zonghan was still young when her mother left. But he vaguely remembered the smell of his mother's perfume.
In 2007, after the death of Long Shengxun, Long Zonghan donated these relics kept by his father to the Hong Kong Film Archive, and held the "Yun Pei Qian Shadow Can't Love - Lin Dai Cultural Relics Exhibition".
43 years of nostalgia, 43 years of closed-door thinking, Long Shengxun has been living in endless pain and remembrance, he must have thought thousands of times, time can go back to that day, how he will retain, plead, endure his wife, Lin Dai wants to submit, he will all pay, he was still young, did not understand that bowing down is also a kind of love, and now, everything is too late...
As for Lin Dai, she knew in heaven that she had seen herself stubbornly competitive for a while, and had brought such great pain to herself, her husband, her children, and her father, and she must have regretted it at the beginning.