In the old photos wearing cheongsam, commemorate the end of an era!
Author: Zi Sakura
"Night In Shanghai... Night Shanghai... You're a city that never sleeps..."
Neon sparkle, sound and color flow gold, and a song of music sounds in front of the Paramount Gate. Just this opening has become a lament of the times.
Just yesterday (July 19, 2019), Yao Li passed away, and the last of the seven songs on the beach also left.
Zhou Xuan, Bai Hong, Gong Qiuxia, Yao Li, Bai Guang, Li Xianglan and Wu Yingyin, singers selected by the old Shanghai media and listeners in the mid-to-late 1940s, have now become eternal black and white light and shadow.
The old Shanghai has come to an end, and we still seem to have those beautiful songs in our ears, and there are still those legendary lives in our minds.
▲ Six of the seven songs on the beach (except Gong Qiuxia), from left: Bai Hong, Yao Li, Zhou Xuan, Li Xianglan, Bai Guang, Qi Zhengyin
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"Thinking of you, thinking of you."
Another shallow smile: "Pretty good, enough."
Take out your camera and take a picture.
She dipped her lips with a cloth and put a little lipstick on it, as if someone was saying, "It's on stage." ”
"Silver Voice" Yao Li bowed lightly and walked slowly onto the stage.
▲Yao Li
She practiced circumscribed songs since childhood and was introduced to her debut at the age of 14. A song "Rose Rose I Love You" made her popular at home and abroad, and the English version of "Rose, Rose, I Love You" was in the top three of the US Pop Charts.
She is also the idol of Teresa Teng and Xu Xiaofeng.
Once, Xu Xiaofeng invited Yao Li to participate in his Red Pavilion concert and introduced himself to the audience:
"My idol is Yao Li, and today she came."
At that time, in the Hong Kong music scene, it can be said that no one knew Yao Li.
▲ In 1951, Hong Kong, "Silver Voice" Yao Li sang
She formed the "Iron Triangle" with her brother Yao Min and lyricist Chen Dieyi, and her songs became one of the sources of Hong Kong pop music.
In 2011, Cai Qin reinterpreted Yao Li's "Suzhou Riverside" at the concert. She said it was the most romantic song in the world.
"The night left a lonely place
I look at you
You look at me
A thousand words turn into silence."
Teresa Teng, Mei Yanfang, Cai Qin, Feng Feifei, Fei Yuqing... They all covered the song. It is likened to "Spring Serenade" and "Oriental Tosselli".
"Chen Gexin's songs are good, the words are better."
Some people say that the two people written in the song are Yao Li and Chen Gexin.
However, at that time, Chen Gexin already had a family.
▲Chen Gexin
Jun Mingzhu wept bitterly, hating not meeting and not marrying. A feeling of emotion is placed in the heart.
Later, Yao Li also became a family, and the deceased people left one after another.
In the nursing home, someone asked:
"I heard you liked Chen Gexin, didn't you?"
She smiled slightly:
"It should be said that it is joyful, dark, taking a walk together, looking up at him, thinking that he is good Sven, good and quiet. Dare not say, the mother is very tight.
Chen Gexin's son Chen Gang came to Hong Kong to see me, hugged me and called aunt Yao, oh, it was really intimate. It's still beautiful to think about what happened at that time. ”
Today, the Slovaks have passed away, leaving behind a wave of the sea.
▲ Yao Li's old age photo
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Zhou Xuan
She is an incomparable beauty in Gao Xiaosong's eyes, the inspiration for Wong Kar-wai's "Fancy Years", but "a life of ups and downs, twice sold, changed her name three times, and almost fell into prostitution." Four marriages, none of them ended well. Five years of madness, and finally the incense disappeared."
Looking back at the dozens of films she has made, she believes that only "Road Angel" can be called a masterpiece.
▲ Zhou Xuan's "Road Angel" stills
The singers sell singers, lonely and lonely, withered away, and their situation is quite similar.
When the Zhou family was poor and most embarrassed, she was almost changed hands by her adoptive father who smoked a lot and fell into the Qin Lou Chu Pavilion, the land of fireworks.
She declined the honor of "Queen of Movies".
"For the name of the shadow queen, it is absolutely difficult to accept, and pray not to use the word shadow queen, involving a lowly name..."
She was appreciated by Li Jinhui and sang famous songs such as "Tianya Song Girl", "Song of The Four Seasons", "Night Shanghai" and so on, but she had a bumpy road in her emotional life.
She was married to her first husband, Yan Hua, and faced a breakup after 3 years.
At that time, everyone was spreading her gossip with the male actor, and no one wanted to listen to her word.
She wrote in her diary:
"I thought that when a happy family could not be obtained, and the sweet life became an illusion, suspicion, slander, slander, and attacked me from all directions, I could no longer bear it." 」
She was only 20 when she signed the divorce agreement.
▲Zhou Xuan
Later, she was engaged to the "Drama Emperor" Shi Hua.
The peach-colored news that did not think of the talent continued, Zhou Xuan wrote a letter to Shanghai, but Shi Hui handled it coldly, and the two broke up.
Zhu Huaide, a silk cloth merchant, took advantage of the void and comforted her wounded heart with sweet words.
However, when Zhou Xuan took Zhu Huaide's child to find a husband, he was not recognized. He said he already had a family, and sneered, "Who knows if this child is mine?" ”
Zhou Xuan fell to the brink of collapse.
In 1951, Zhou Xuan met Kang Di while filming the film "Peace Dove" in Shanghai. As the two prepare for their wedding, Kang di is charged with "fraud and rape" and will be held in jail for 3 years.
The invincible blow completely destroyed her.
Just when her life was in danger, she wrote to a friend: "I feel that my will is uncertain, and my heart is too straight, so I have harmed myself, and to this day I have really suffered enough, and it is difficult to say a word." ”
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White Rainbow
She is the first singing queen in the history of Chinese pop music.
"At the age of 11, he stepped into the Ten Mile Ocean Field, at the age of 15, he pushed Zhou Xuan to become a singing queen with unlimited scenery in Shanghai, and at the age of 26, he held the first solo concert among mainland singers."
Together with Zhou Xuan and Gong Qiuxia, she is called the "Three Great Song Queens" of Baidai, and together with Bai Guang and Bai Yang, she is called the "Three Whites of Beiping" in the film industry.
▲White rainbow
However, at the age of 30, she hastily ended her acting career as a superstar in song, film and drama.
She was married to her mentor Lai Kam Kwong on the way to the performance.
On the night that Bai Hong won the singer competition, Li Jinguang took Bai Hong to his bungalow, proposed to her, and presented a song - "Send Me a Rose".
She nodded slightly, and the two embraced sweetly.
She was only 17 years old when she got married and had three children at the age of 23.
Her smile made him move, and he wrote famous songs such as "Night Fragrance", "False Canon", "Seeing Each Other And Not Hating Late".
Husbands and women sang, which was the most beautiful thing in the world, but they only lived for 10 years before declaring divorce.
Li Jinguang said: "We are people from exploitative families, and this identity cannot be washed away for a lifetime. ”
He knew he couldn't protect her, so he broke up with her in tears.
She kept it again and again, just to live together. He said yes verbally, but still went away.
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Wu Yingyin
On the Spring Festival evening of CCTV in 1989, Hong Kong hall-level singer Xu Xiaofeng sang a song "Bright Moon Thousand Miles Send Lovesickness".
Countless spectators in the audience burst into tears.
More than 40 years ago, the "nasal queen" Wu Yingyin sang it to the north and south of the red river.
▲Wu Yingyin
She was a cruel person who refused to put on a white coat and practice medicine. Her father felt that she had no ambition, so she ran to a primary school to become a "teacher", and then went to the radio station to sing and do children's programs at night.
When she was favored by composer Lai Kam Kwong, she recorded her first single record "I Want to Forget You", which became a hit. The originally disgusted father was full of admiration, and did not know that his daughter sang it.
After a period of performance, she chose to quit, and the entire music scene sighed.
In order to welcome Wu Yingyin's comeback, EMI Records invited Huang Xia, Gu Jiahui and many other big coffee to write lyrics and compose music for her.
At that time, Lu Guanting was just starting out, and he was very excited to create a song for her, "Send Me a Orchid Flower".
"Wherever he goes
I'm worried about it."
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white light
She is the prototype of Bai Xianyong's famous book "The Last Night of Jin Daban".
The unique "bean paste" noise, enchanting and spicy, all shocked the world's audio-visual.
"Without You", "Waiting for You to Come Back", "False Canon"...
She is the "generation of demons" - white light.
▲White light
She plays the villain, old-fashioned enough, making people hate and love.
"Gu Pan Shenfei's eyebrow-trimming eyes are touching, and the soul-sucking low chants and shallow singing are intoxicating."
Her movies are wonderful, and her life is even more amazing.
Bai Guangben was the descendant of the quartermaster general, and at the age of 18, he was married for the first time by his mother and gave birth to a pair of children.
Then divorce, engagement, dissolution, marriage, divorce...
An unsuccessful marriage involved her with a lot of energy and money, reaching more than 20 court sessions alone.
Bai Guang bowed his head and sighed: "I am a person who has failed as a person, offended many friends, and married badly, along the way, I have never met a person who really loves me." ”
In 1969, she took the stage in Kuala Lumpur and met Yan Lianglong, a loyal 26-year-old fan. Ben no longer looked forward to marriage, and once again she fell sweetly.
Fans were puzzled: "What is Qing Qing thinking?" ”
Bai Guang only replied: "Fate has come, and thousands of troops and horses can't stop it." ”
After 30 years of togetherness, the two finally let people believe in love again.
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Li Xianglan
She was considered a cultural traitor and sentenced to death, but was acquitted and deported to Japan at the time of the final trial.
Teresa Teng sang her songs such as "Night Coming Incense" and "When the Sun Jun Comes Again" again.
Her Chinese name is Li Xianglan, and her Japanese name is Shuko Yamaguchi.
▲ Li Xianglan
Because of the accidental acquaintance of Liuba, a young girl of Russian Jewish origin, she learned the art of singing from her teacher.
Shuzi had recognized two dry fathers, both of whom were traitors and had been executed.
However, thanks to the care of her two dry fathers, she learned to bel canto, drama and film performance.
She originally wanted to retire and wear a cheongsam to cross the customs to return to Japan, but she was accused by the Japanese customs:
"You're Japanese, how can you wear a Chinese cheongsam?"
She felt aggrieved, but she couldn't tell.
"China is equivalent to my mother, Japan is equivalent to my father, but my parents did not approve of me at that time!"
In 2005, at the age of 86, Li Xianglan wrote a letter to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi:
"You don't want to visit the Yasukuni Shrine, because that will hurt the hearts of many Chinese people."
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Gong Qiuxia
"La-la-la, la-la, I'm a small expert in selling newspapers..."
This "Selling Newspaper Song", even if you can't sing it, you must have heard it,
It was sung by Gong Qiuxia, the "big sister of the song world" on the beach, and became popular.
▲Gong Qiuxia
Gong Qiuxia debuted her self-singing style in the movie, and "Autumn Water Yiren", "Rose Everywhere", and "Skating Song" were sung by her as a memory of the times.
"Look through the autumn water."
I don't see the shadow of the Yi people
More leaks
Lone goose two or three sounds
The warmth of the past
Only for the poignancy of the present
Dreams have nothing to send
There were tears in the air
When will I come back?
Yiren Yo"
The front of Paramount is full of light, and the legends are surrounded by sounds and shadows.
These darlings of shanghai beach have come to an end, and their stories are still circulating, becoming a legend of the times.
What kind of person a person will become is the choice of history and the fate of the individual. Whether it is a peaceful era or a war-torn society, only by cultivating a strong heart can we usher in a brilliant life and finally end gracefully.