During the Republic of China period, Peking Opera performing artists were full of talents, and among them was an artist named Zhang Junqiu, who was one of the "Four Little Famous Dans" at that time, and once worshiped Mei Lanfang's teacher, Mr. Wang Yaoqing, as a teacher, and was even more instructed by Mei Lanfang and other Peking Opera masters.
In terms of artistic achievements, Zhang Junqiu is a famous Peking Opera master, but there are two very controversial things in his personal affairs.
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In 1920, Zhang Junqiu was born, and his birth did not save his father. Soon after his birth, his father abandoned their mother and son and went out to live alone. Zhang Junqiu's mother is like this, while taking Zhang Junqiu, she also has to make cameos in various places to make a living.
The life of the mother and son is very difficult, and Zhang Junqiu has a good voice since he was a child, so Zhang Junqiu's mother wants to send Zhang Junqiu to study drama well, so that he can make a living. But studying drama is also money, where do they have the money to learn?
They traveled all the way until Zhang Junqiu was 14 years old, when they finally met a master, Li Lingfeng, who was willing to take Zhang Junqiu as an apprentice.
Although Li Lingfeng's achievements in the performing arts of Peking Opera are not very great, after all, he studied under the Peking Opera master Wang Yaoqing, and Mei Lanfang is more likely to be called a brother of the same teacher, and it is still okay to teach people to learn Peking Opera.
Li Lingfeng saw Zhang Junqiu, a young age, with a good voice, indeed the material for learning to sing Peking Opera, and pity their mother and son's life is difficult, and they are even more determined to take Zhang Junqiu as an apprentice.
After Zhang Junqiu visited his teacher, Li Lingfeng formulated a direction for him to specialize in Qingyi according to Zhang Junqiu's appearance and voice. In this way, Zhang Junqiu and his mother had another skill, and they could barely maintain their lives and not have to run around like before.
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In 1935, 15-year-old Zhang Junqiu debuted on stage for the first time, and his unique and skillful voice made the audience remember this young "Qingyi" at once. The following year, the beijing local newspaper selected Zhang Junqiu as one of the "Four Little Famous Dans".
In this way, Zhang Junqiu became famous at a young age, and his wealth began to rise. Although Zhang Junqiu has become famous, strictly speaking, Zhang Junqiu has not been a teacher. According to the rules of the original worship of the master, all the money earned by the disciple when he was not a teacher belonged to the master.
More money increased, and disputes began. Zhang Junqiu's mother began to think that her children had already made so much money for the master, and it was also considered to be the repayment of the teacher's fee that year, besides, Zhang Junqiu was slowly a corner, of course, he had to buy some façade decorations.
On the other hand, Li Lingfeng also refused to let go, in his opinion, Zhang Junqiu could not do without his knowledge of him today, not to mention that the contract was in front, and everything should be done according to the contract.
On the one hand is his own master, on the other hand is his own mother, Zhang Junqiu is also difficult to choose. But in the end, Zhang Junqiu chose to listen to his mother's words, so that the teachers and students had a very unpleasant quarrel.
Later, after Zhang Junqiu became a teacher, Li Lingfeng and Zhang Junqiu were like strangers, and the two did not communicate with each other, according to the words of outsiders, the two were already teachers and students turning against each other.
Later, Zhang Junqiu continued to develop, and then worshiped Wang Yaoqing as a teacher, which was a storm in his career, while Li Lingfeng's name gradually became cold in the Peking Opera circle.
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The second controversial thing is that Zhang Junqiu married two wives, and the status of the two wives is not divided into positive sides.
Zhang Junqiu's first wife is named Zhao Yanrong, the name is very ordinary, but the family lineage is not ordinary. Zhao Yanrong's father, Zhao Yankui, was originally just a small person who played the piano in the Peking Opera performance, but he was very capable, and his years of climbing made him a big figure such as the president of the Pear Garden Guild, and he managed well, quite popular, and worked in this position for many years.
When Zhao Yanrong married Zhang Junqiu, although Zhang Junqiu was very prosperous in her career, her status was naturally inferior to that of the Zhao family. Therefore, in the words of the time, Zhao Yanrong belonged to the next marriage to Zhang Junqiu.
Zhang Junqiu married Zhao Yanrong similar to marrying the daughter of the chairman, and the Zhao family will naturally solve many things for Zhang Junqiu. After Zhao Yanrong married, she did not bully others, but was as considerate as a normal couple, and also gave birth to two children for Zhang Junqiu.
As Zhang Junqiu's career became better and better, Zhang Junqiu began to constantly enter and exit various wind and moon places, and often traveled from place to place and rarely returned home.
At first, Zhang Junqiu was able to maintain the cleanliness of "living in the kaleidoscope of flowers and leaves without sticking to the body" in the face of the women around him, but such a day was not long, and Zhang Junqiu gradually changed.
In 1943, Zhang Junqiu met Wu Lizhen after a performance in Shanghai. Wu Lizhen was young and beautiful, and he was a college student at Jianghu University at that time, with knowledge and ideas, Zhang Junqiu immediately liked this girl, and Wu Lizhen also fell in love with Zhang Junqiu at first sight.
But he already had a wife at home, and his mother kept him under strict supervision, so Zhang Junqiu could not take Wu Lizhen home as he wished, and could only date her in Shanghai.
Wu Lizhen also gradually understood this, but she was not a woman who only wanted to be Zhang Junqiu's mistress, she wanted to become Zhang Junqiu's wife. After some inquiry, she understood that as long as Zhang Junqiu's mother's own wishes were settled, there would be hope.
And Zhang Junqiu's mother's hobby is also obvious - money, so Wu Lizhen threw in his favor, all kinds of gold and silver treasures, and finally let Zhang Junqiu's mother agree to her enter the door.
But after all, Zhang Junqiu already had a wife, and this wife was even married to her at that time, and now whether Zhang Junqiu divorced her or took a concubine himself, it was impossible to say.
Under the mediation of Zhang Junqiu's mother, the Zhao family finally agreed to let Wu Lizhen start, and even the two wives, regardless of size, were Zhang Junqiu's wives.
Then, wherever Zhang Junqiu went, Wu Lizhen would follow the socializing, while the first wife, Zhao Yanrong, only stayed at home to manage the family business for Zhang Junqiu.
Zhang Junqiu's artistic achievements are naturally impossible to deny, but there are too many debatable places in his handling of people. The opposite of the teacher, the strange road, the negative act of ignoring the wife of the chaff and remarrying, these things are too shocking.
In today's entertainment industry, if Zhang Junqiu is just a small star, such a thing will be a "Thor's Hammer" no matter which one, but in that era it was only a "controversial" thing that could be brought over.
We feel sorry for a woman like Zhao Yanrong, in the past era, how many women have swallowed their voices like her, waiting for a person who does not return in the endless days.