In 1942, Zhao Dan, known as "a strange flower in the Chinese film industry", had been working on the stage for ten years, and after starring in Romeo and Juliet, he began to work as a director.
He did not expect that his future wife would be reduced to a widow at this time.
This year, a generation of talented women Huang Zongying fell into a long-planned marriage, a "conspiracy" marriage.
Before that, her starring in "Sweet Sister" swept old Shanghai, and the drama of that era was not valued, but she was indeed an exception.
The appearance of pure love and the gentle voice have made many fans fall for it.
In the theater, he was like a fairy, outside the theater, the generous young master, the housekeeper holding the flowers, were waiting in line for her.
But 18-year-old Huang Zongying already had a heart, and a man named Guo Yuantong proposed to her.
The news soon spread all over the place, and the "white moonlight" in people's hearts was about to marry a woman.
In front of the mirror, Huang Zongying carefully dressed up, put on a wedding dress, full of joy.
Soon it was the wedding night, and Huang Zongying was sitting in his boudoir, waiting for her husband to come.
In the evening, Guo Yuantong walked slowly into the room, and the scene outside the house was still noisy, rejoicing for their new marriage.
However, that night, Guo Yuantong suddenly had a shock, fainted in the room, and was taken to the hospital.
Guo Yuantong's family came to comfort Huang Zongying: "It's okay, he's just overly nervous."
The naïve Huang Zongying believed it to be true.
As everyone knows, I have long been kept in the dark.
After returning from the hospital, her husband had been with him for 18 days and then fainted again.
And this time, he never woke up.
Huang Zongying, who was 18 years old, became a little widow early.
At that moment, she understood that the dream marriage was originally just a "conspiracy"?
Husband Guo Yuantong has actually been ill for a long time, and his parents have planned this marriage in order to give him "Chong Xi", and also concealed their son's illness.
This series of things has also paved the way for her "talented woman", and her more wonderful story has just begun.
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Huang Zongying, who was mentally traumatized, returned to Beiping, but always remembered the beautiful scenes of the past.
Every now and then, she would run alone with a book to the back hill, from morning to night.
This can not be described as a lost love, this is widowhood.
The sharp pain of the cone made her look depressed every day.
His brother Huang Zongjiang was looking in his eyes and hurting in his heart, and he really couldn't bear to watch his sister unhappy all day long.
Huang Zongying and his brother
There is a saying that the best way to forget your predecessor is to find an incumbent.
Even at that time, his brother understood this truth, so he asked Cheng Shuyao, who was 9 years older than Huang Zongying, to help.
Cheng Shuyao
Although it was done, it plunged Huang Zongying into a more fiery relationship.
Cheng Shuyao actually knew Huang Zongying for a long time, and Huang Zongying was still very famous at that time.
Now to be able to get so close to it, of course, you have to seize the opportunity.
She was taken care of and cared for in every way.
The flower girl who has just been widowed, what Huang Zongying needs most now is a person who can take care of herself and a broad shoulder.
Cheng Shuyao just became this person.
When the two are talking about a sweet love, Zhao Dan is separated by a "rumor".
In 1935, after Zhao Dan and Ye Lucy got married, they gave birth to a son Zhao Mao and a daughter Zhao Qing.
In June 1939, Xu Tao, Wang Weiyi and others went to Xinjiang to pioneer progressive theater work, and were later imprisoned and imprisoned by Sheng Shicai, including Zhao Dan.
It was five years since this entry, and his wife Ye Lucy had no news of him, so she took her two children everywhere to inquire, but there was still no news.
In 1943, out of nowhere, the rumor that Zhao Dan was dead came from nowhere, and Ye Lucy's heart was like ashes after hearing it, and she wanted to follow it.
But with two children, you can't leave the children behind.
Ye Lucy Zhao Dan and daughter
She really can't raise her children well by herself, so she chose to remarry, and her husband is The Kunming writer Du Xuan.
Two years later, the first thing Zhao Dan did when he returned to Chongqing was to ask for news from his wife and children, but what he got was that Ye Lucy had remarried to Kunming.
He quickly went from Chongqing to Kunming and met Ye Lucy with a big belly.
Yes, Lucy Ye is already pregnant with her current husband's child.
Zhao Dan's heart was like a knife, crying and kneeling on the ground begging Ye Lucy, can you beat the child in your belly and go back with me?
No matter what Ye Lucy chooses, it will hurt one of the men, so she says: "One family has been destroyed, and I don't want to destroy a second family.".
And the source of all this, only because of that rumor, caused Zhao Dan's wife to be scattered.
Heartbroken, Zhao Dan could only return to Shanghai with his two children.
In 1946, Cheng Shuyao and Huang Zongying, who had been in love for several years, got married at this time.
But the marriage of these two people is like paper paste, and Zhao Dan gave Cheng Shuyao a corner in one or two sentences.
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In 1947, director Chen Liting was filming "Rhapsody of Happiness", and the male protagonist was Zhao Dan, who had just divorced.
One day Zhao Dan went to a friend's house and saw a painting on the wall and hurriedly asked, Who is this?
"Huang Zongying, a famous drama actor," his friend said.
Zhao Dan's eyes lit up, isn't this the actress the director is looking for?
So the two later saw each other, Huang Zongying looked at the man in front of him, the socks were of different colors, and he looked like a man who did not have a woman to take care of at home.
The word sympathy sprouted in Huang Zongying's heart.
One just divorced, one just married, Huang Zongying could not imagine that the man in front of him would marry himself and give birth to a child a year later.
The spark was sparked during the filming of Rhapsody of Happiness, after the last shot that night.
Zhao Dan walked up to Huang Zongying and said to her affectionately, "I can't leave you, we can't be separated, you should be my wife."
In the face of Zhao Dan's sudden confession, Huang Zongying's heart was full of mixed feelings, because of the one at home, she had already had enough.
After Huang Zongying and Cheng Shuyao got married, they were not happy, and it can be said that they were very depressed.
Cheng Shuyao can do anything inseparable from two words, "rules.".
Huang Zongying, who married him, was also overwhelmed by his "rules".
Eating, sleeping, drinking water, pouring tea, walking, and talking all had to follow Cheng Shuyao's meaning, that is, to be monitored.
But she herself was a free and free person.
So in the face of Zhao Dan's confession, Huang Zongying said ten words: "Wait until I return to Beijing and get divorced."
The first thing Huang Zongying did when he returned to Beijing was to talk to Cheng Shuyao about the divorce, but it was so easy, cheng Shuyao did not agree at all.
If it weren't for Huang Zongying's brother Huang Zongjiang coming out and saying to his old classmates: "Or it will be like this", this matter does not know that it will be in the Year of the Monkey.
At the end of 1947, Huang Zongying and Cheng Shuyao divorced.
On New Year's Day 1948, Huang Zongying married Zhao Dan.
After marriage, the two had three children, Zhao Zuo, Zhao Orange and Zhao Jin, plus the children of Zhao Dan and his ex-wife, and the family could fill the table when they ate.
These children are treated differently and are all equal as if they were biological.
So much so that Zhao Dan and his ex-wife's child, Zhao Qing, would say the words: "This mother, I remember her for a lifetime."
Zhao Qing likes music, Huang Zongying took out his savings to buy her the best piano, Zhao Qing likes to dance, and Huang Zongying sewed a dress for her overnight.
After the two got married, they cooperated in many classic screen images, making the audience envious and jealous.
Zhao Dan starred in "Lin Zexu", "Li Shizhen", "Nie Er", etc., those shining screen images, representing the level of film performance art in the 50s and 60s.
Huang Zongying's cousin Mei in "Home" made her popular all over the country.
Career success, but let the feelings estranged.
Huang Zongying was busy every day, and Zhao Dan was not happy and complained to his daughter.
"When I first knew that your mother Zongying was so busy, it would be better to marry a housewife and eat some hot food when I came home."
During the special period, the husband and wife were also shocked, Zhao Dan was arrested and imprisoned, and Huang Zongying was sent down.
Huang Zongying alone with five children, but also to do the hardest work, can not suffer endlessly, but she has been waiting for her husband Zhao Dan.
Five years later, Zhao Dan was released from prison, but Zhao Dan, who was ready to do a new career, bumped into "a green head" and his temper became moody.
The gentle husband of the past has become a man who will lose his temper at any time.
Unexpectedly, the heavens did not have any soft hands on this pair of bitter Mandarin ducks.
In the early morning of October 5, 1980, Zhao Dan suddenly confessed to Huang Zongying about the aftermath.
It turned out that doctors and family members had been hiding the fact that Huang Zongying and Zhao Dan had cancer, and Zhao Dan had never exposed everyone's white lies.
Huang Zongying helped Zhao Dan to listen quietly.
On October 10 of that year, the 65-year-old artist Zhao Dan passed away.
Halfway husband and wife, Huang Zongying is the last one left.
Since then, Huang Zongying has always stood alone in front of the window, she no longer shoots, and later she chose to write, and the words in each article seem to reveal Zhao Dan's shadow.
She couldn't forget Zhao Dan, just like her later husband Feng Yidai couldn't forget Zheng Anna.
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Huang Zongying later said: "I think the most right thing I did was to marry Zhao Dan."
Some media asked Huang Zongying: "Do you want Teacher Zhao Dan?" ”
Huang Zongying said: "He lives forever, not something he wants to think about, my collection of essays has his business, I made up my mind, Mo Dao does not and Ti, but follow me double travel."
Even in his later years, Huang Zongying continued to learn and write.
Some people also advised her to find another old partner, but she said: "I once married the sea, will I still marry the creek?" ”。
It turns out that after the sea, there is really a forest.
With pure emotion, the two old men wrote love letters that can be called models, so that we living in the twenty-first century can relive the pure love of that time through love letters.
In 1993, Huang Zongying and Feng Yidai would write letters every day, three times a day, and the care written on the paper could also make each other feel moved and at ease.
Huang Zongying called his second brother, and Feng Yi called him his younger sister.
The letters written by the two men a year added up to nearly half a million words, and there was emotion between the lines, but no one had ever broken the window paper.
Until the letter written by Huang Zongying to Feng Yidai, "Smart Silly Second Brother, do you really understand?" confess to him.
This year, Feng Yidai was 80 years old, Huang Zongying was 66 years old, and the two were married.
Both love to write and are the best readers of the other.
Later, Feng Yidai lost his ability to speak and speak, and his children began to be impatient with the elderly, but Huang Zongying wanted to try to help him recover.
Writing down the words he wanted to say on the paper, re-teaching him one by one, and with all his efforts, Feng Yidai miraculously recovered.
In 1999, Feng Yidai felt that he was fast..., and wrote a touching love letter "This will be the last gathering".
Huang Zongying always held Feng Yidai's hand, and the tears were actually unbearable.
Later, after Feng Yidai's death, Huang Zongying wrote him the last love letter, and the love in this life can only go here.
In her legendary life, she married 4 husbands and carried 7 children.
On December 14, 2020, this "talented woman" passed away, and her life was lonely.