In the 1930s and 1940s, in the golden age of China's film industry, a number of Film Stars of the Republic of China were created. Among the well-known stars, Cantonese film star Mei Qi has also been famous and popular, known as the first film queen in the Cantonese film industry. However, this magnificent beauty, when her acting career was in full swing, quit the film world, believed in Jesus, concentrated on studying the Scriptures, and personally founded the "New Testament Church", became the "Beauty Cult Leader", and eventually developed into a cult organization. What's going on here? It cannot but make people wonder and regret it even more. Let's sort out her short life trajectory from the available information.
<h1>First, born into a famous family, the family is extraordinary</h1>
Mei Qi, formerly known as Jiang Duanyi, a native of Nanhai, Guangdong, was born in Beijing in 1923. His grandfather, Jiang Kongyin, was the last imperial scholar of the late Qing Dynasty, who entered the Hanlin Academy and was known as "Jiang Taishi". Jiang Kongyin was one of the most active politicians and wealthy merchants in Guangdong and Hong Kong during the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China. It is said that before Chiang Kai-shek left, he paid tribute to Jiang Kongyin's disciples, and on the eve of the liberation of Guangzhou in late 1949, Chiang Kai-shek personally went to the door to persuade Jiang Kongyin to go to Taiwan with him. Jiang Duanyi's father was a member of parliament during the Republic of China period, and her uncle was nanhai Shisanlang (Jiang Yuyi), a famous early Cantonese opera screenwriter in Hong Kong. In such a bookish doorway, a rich lady with no worries about food and clothing was very enviable in that era.
<h1>Second, the style is unique, versatile</h1>
Jiang Duanyi has a good appearance, is born beautiful, smart and clever, and has a family relationship, and at the age of 6, she made a cameo appearance in the movie "Smart and Stupid", which showed extraordinary acting talent. At the age of 15, he officially started filming and participated in the first film "The Rest of My Life". After the shadow, Jiang Duanyi took the stage name Mei Qi. Mei Qi's drama is both good and evil, and her image is changeable, whether it is a maid, a social flower, an ignorant girl, a murderer, she has played very vividly, becoming a Hong Kong movie star in the 1940s and 1950s. In the twenty-three years since filming, he has participated in nearly 150 films, cooperated with almost all well-known directors of this period, and is known as the first film queen in the Cantonese film industry. She has starred in famous films such as: "Night Shanghai", "Madame Butterfly", "This Hate Is Endless", "Lang is the Spring Wind", "Home", "Sunrise", "Sister Jinlan", "Developed Man", "Jinshan Dashao" and so on.
<h1>Third, the heart is empty, and the marriage is unhappy</h1>
When Mei Qi was a child in Shanghai, her Christian mother took her to church to be baptized and became a Christian. Although Mei Qi succeeded in her acting career at a very young age and became a star that attracted everyone's attention, she has always had a rough fate, and deep in her heart, there is an inexplicable confusion, often lamenting the emptiness of the heart, and even the world-weary mood. In 1939, when she was 17 years old, she attempted suicide twice. In 1941, on the eve of the imminent occupation of Hong Kong by the Japanese army, the 19-year-old suddenly married the popular movie star Zhang Ying lightning. Zhang Ying was a big star of that era, with a wide range of drama paths, countless films, and was known as the "Emperor of Cantonese Films". However, the marriage between the emperor and the queen lasted for more than 3 years, and after the surrender of Japan, they also announced their divorce. After that, Mei Qi went to Shanghai, where she married a rich son with a wife, about which little is known. But it is conceivable that once the passion is over, it is also bitter and sweet. In 1949, the family fled from Shanghai to Hong Kong. In 1957, Mei Qi's second marriage also came to an end and divorced again.
Stills of Mei Qi and Zhang Ying
<h1>Fourth, the sick are plagued and suffer</h1>
In that turbulent era, like the fate of many people, especially the performing arts celebrities, it was even more red-faced and short-lived, and the fate was uncertain. Mei Qi was in that era and also suffered a lot. In 1941, Japanese troops launched an attack on Hong Kong at the same time as the attack on Pearl Harbor. The Japanese government ruled Hong Kong for three years and eight months from the winter solstice of 1941 to the autumn of April 1941. Japanese soldiers wantonly raped women in Hong Kong, and naked, flesh-and-blood female corpses could be seen everywhere in private houses and on street ladders. At that time, Mei Qi was newly married Yan'er, and the beast soldier actually raped this gorgeous actress in front of her husband, leaving a deep wound on her soul. Mei Qi suffered two marriage failures, coupled with her 30s, as an actress has been older, facing survival pressure in the acting world, health is not good, by the end of 1957, she because of a serious stomach ulcer, unbearable pain, lingering on the bed, that time she was almost crushed by the pain, once made her life in danger.
<h1>5. Establish a church and reveal its evil nature</h1>
When Mei Qi was in pain, the actor Violet (Zou Jielian) continued to preach the gospel to her, asking her to believe in Jesus. Faced with a life-and-death situation, Mei Qi, who was already a Christian, decided to believe in Jesus on the sickbed and repent of the past. Soon, Mei Qi's body miraculously recovered, so she began to eagerly witness in various worship halls in Kowloon, Hong Kong, causing quite a stir inside and outside the circle. At the same time, she participated in the "Pei Ling Academy" sponsored by the Chinese Missionary Society, and enthusiastically pursued the examination of the Bible. In 1960, Mei Qi left the film industry and was busy everywhere to witness. In July 1961, in a chapel in Hong Kong, a foreign elderly charismatic missionary pointed at Mei Qi from the podium and prophesied that God had made her a prophet of the age. After that, she began to swell, believing herself to be the "great prophet of the East" that God would reuse in the last days, and when preaching everywhere, she accused the major denominational churches of not believing that charisma was a great sin, and began to prophesy. The following year, Mei Qi prayed in the secret room for more than 200 days and wrote a "Collection of Life Sermons", claiming to be inspired by God to preach "the complete truth of blood, water, and spirit" in the last days. There is no pure truth in the belief that all denominations have departed from the Word of God, and that only the blood, water, and spirit she has received are the full truth. In July 1963, Mae Founded the New Testament Church in Hong Kong, the first cult in history to originate in Hong Kong.
Actress Zou Jielian
<h1>Sixth, preach everywhere and spread heresies</h1>
After the founding of the New Testament Church, Maykey believed that the New Testament Church she had established was the only true Church inspired by the Holy Spirit, the original orthodox church that was re-established in the early New Testament, so she encouraged other Christians to "tear down and pull out" and break away from the Sanhedrin sect. She herself immediately went to Singapore and Malaysia to preach, attracting a group of believers who were dissatisfied with her original sect, broke away from the original sect, and established 11 churches, of which Singapore, Penang and Kuala Lumpur had a large number of people. In 1964, Maechi prophesied a great revival throughout the earth in 1966, that the faith of the New Testament church would spread widely, and that the flow of the Holy Spirit would flow from the New Testament church established by God in the land of the sunrise (East) to the place where the sun set (the West). As early as the early 1960s, there was a great split in the local church in Taiwan (often referred to as the meeting house), so at the end of 1965, Mei Qi went to Taiwan to preach, attracted many believers who left the local church, and established more than 30 New Testament churches, the most famous of which was Elijah Hong from Tainan (Hong III), who was reused by Mei Qi, transferred him to Taipei, let him lead the largest New Testament church in Taiwan, and gave him the name Elijah, hoping that he would be as capable as the great prophet Elijah of the Old Testament era. However, Mei Qi's teachings aroused strong criticism from many denominations at that time, accusing her of demolishing and splitting the church, and some even denounced her as being "filled with evil spirits".
<h1>Seventh, base ourselves on Taiwan and sit on a big momentum</h1>
On August 17, 1966, Mei Qi died of tongue cancer at the age of 43. The church was inherited by his daughter Luther Zhang, who preached in Taiwan and founded the "New Testament Church" in Taiwan. Luther proposed a "spiritual turn," abandoning the extreme teachings of his mother, and even pointed out that the "foreman" was a cult of personality, and that the New Testament church was not the only orthodox church in the world, and the New Testament church was divided. Hong San set up another portal in Taipei, Taiwan, to maintain the original fierce line of the New Testament Church, he considered himself the foreman of the New Testament Church and the "Prophet of the East", often issued some prophecies, and established branch organizations in Malaysia, Singapore, Qin, Hong Kong and other places. In 1964, Hong San and others purchased 70 hectares of land in Xiaolin Village, Jiaxian Township, Kaohsiung County, Taiwan, and gathered 100 to 200 New Testament believers to live a simple collective life of self-sufficiency on the mountain, and changed its name to Mount Zion, which became the headquarters of the church and the "holy mountain" for believers to make pilgrimages. This aroused the suspicion of Chiang Ching-kuo's government, and on January 1, 1980, a large number of police forces were dispatched to surround the mountain and expel the New Testament church believers from the mountain, but some believers still refused to leave, and gathered on the river beach under the mountain, and by 1982 they were forcibly demolished, and there were several bloody incidents in the process of several crackdowns. After that, Taiwan's New Testament churches engaged in fierce political struggles with the government, and it was not until 1986, when the government understood the behavior of the New Testament churches, that they were allowed to return to the mountains to reclaim the land. To date, Mount Zion has been run as a successful farm and a famous sightseeing spot by the New Testament Church, which has also extended this model to Malaysia, Tahiti, the United States, the South Pacific and other places.
Mount Zion, Kaohsiung
<h1>Eighth, moving towards reaction is extremely harmful</h1>
The main doctrine and heresy of the "New Testament Church" is that the founder, Mei Qi, presented herself as a female "prophet" and declared that she would "shake China and the East, and also shake the whole world"; her successor, Hong III, declared that she would replace Jerusalem with "Mount Zion"; and preached that the purpose of their church was to "represent the way of heaven, cut down violence and save people, uphold justice, and bring eternal peace to all mankind." In their sermon materials, they declared, "To overthrow the kingdom of man and establish the kingdom of God." They also preach "end-time" prophecies. It is declared that all churches except the "New Testament church" are heretics and that all religions "are utterly satanic deceptions that lead people to their demise." In the later period of its development, the New Testament Church had obvious political overtones, and under the slogans of "tyranny among the people" and "overthrowing tyrants and tyranny", they actively participated in the political activities of their countries and regions, believing that the leaders of all countries and regions were all "tyrants", implementing "tyranny", and were all overthrown and overthrown. They call on believers to fight resolutely against the governments of their regions at all costs. Those who disagree with them and their actions are regarded as "enemies". Since 1979, the sect has sent people in, established organizations, developed members, and spread propaganda, clamoring to "overthrow atheists" and "build the kingdom of Christ." Backbone cadres in the territory have developed members everywhere, established organizations, and illegally assembled; their activities once involved 20 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities), which brought great harm to social stability and were banned by the Chinese government as cult organizations.