(Xiaosheng Yu Zhenfei)
Mr. Yu Zhenfei, a master of Kunqu opera of a generation, spanned the two genres of Drama in Beijing and Kunming, and created an unparalleled style of elegance, elegance and bookishness, which made countless opera fans fascinated. On the stage, he staged a love drama of a talented and beautiful person, but in life, he experienced a lot of trouble in love and marriage, and it was not until his old age that he really found the destination of love.
Yu Zhenfei was born in 1902 in Yixiang, Suzhou, his father Yu Sulu was originally a military attaché of the Qing Dynasty at that time, and later saw that the officialdom was corrupt, so he resigned and returned to his hometown. In particular, his own Kunqu opera "Yu Pai Singing Method", with thick characters, gentle lines, natural luck and smooth rhythm, is known as "Jiangnan Qusheng", which has a great influence on the Kunqu circle.
(Jiangnan Qusheng Yu Sulu)
Yu Zhenfei lost his mother at the age of three and grew up with his father's singing. He began to receive strict training at the age of 6, and he could perform on stage at the age of 8, and Yu Zhenfei, who grew up in such an environment, naturally got his father's true inheritance, coupled with his talent and intelligence, and had an innate artistic talent, which was deeply loved and appreciated by his father.
Another protégé of his father, who studied Kunqu opera at the same time as Yu Zhenfei, was named Xie Shengzu, who was also highly appreciated and praised by Yu Zhenfei as the "crown of all men". Xie Zusheng has a younger sister named Xie Peizhen, because she ranks fifth in the family, everyone calls her Miss Xie Wu. Under the influence of her brother, Miss Five also loved Kunqu opera very much, and often came to listen to the opera with them, and studied opera under Yu Zhenfei, who was still five years younger than her.
Miss Pei Zhen is not only clean-looking, but also versatile and good at playing the flute. Later, Yu Zhenfei and her studied Danqing under the door of the famous painter Feng Chaoran, writing poetry and painting, day by day, common hobbies and mutual appreciation made the two people fall in love with each other.
Yu Zhenfei as Li Bai)
However, the love between the two people was opposed by Xie Mother, who, because of her deep concept of mendi, would never allow Pei Zhen to marry Yu Zhenfei, who was "singing opera", and informed their master Feng Chaoran of this matter, asking Feng Chaoran to intervene to block the matter. Feng Chaoran happened to have a cousin of the same age, and Feng Chaoran did Shunshui and introduced his cousin Fan Pinzhen to Yu Zhenfei.
Yu Zhenfei first tasted the beauty of love, but was blocked by life, and when all his thoughts were gray, he let his father and his mentor arrange to return to Suzhou and marry Feng Chaoran's cousin Fan Pinzhen.
Yu Zhenfei's first marriage. Although Fan Pinzhen had given birth to two sons for him, neither of them had grown up. Since then, Yu Zhenfei has not given birth again. Childless and childless until old age.
(Yu Zhenfei and Mei Lanfang)
Yu Zhenfei, who first entered the family life after marriage, originally wanted to go on without waves in life, but because Fan Pinzhen's culture was not high, he had no interest in Kunqu opera and lingered in front of the mahjong table all day, making Yu Zhenfei really unbearable. In desperation, he left his home in Suzhou and returned to Shanghai, devoting all his energy to the kunqu art cause.
The arrangement of fate is sometimes really strange, three years after coming to Shanghai, Yu Zhenfei met a "Peizhen" girl with the same name as her first love at a friend's house, although this Peizhen girl is not surnamed Xie but surnamed Lu, but the same ice and snow is smart, also loves Kunqu opera, and writes well, so that Yu Zhenfei fell in love with this girl at first sight.
Love came again, this time Yu Zhenfei was determined not to miss it again, he decided to marry this Lu girl as a wife, but at this time, the original Fan Pinzhen had given birth to a boy for him, and Yu's father, who loved Sun Ruozhenbao, did not allow Yu Zhenfei to divorce Fan Pinzhen. Yu Zhenfei, who did not dare to disobey his father's orders, had to take Lu Girl as the second room.
Yu Zhenfei and Cheng Yanqiu
The first few months of Yu Zhenfei and Lu Peizhen's initial life together were also a period of life as a fairy couple, with Lang's love and concubineship and love lingering. It's just that Yu Zhenfei never cares about Fan Pinzhen's feelings, and does not hide his love for Lu Peizhen at all. It caused Great Dissatisfaction from Fan Pinzhen.
Fan Pinzhen finally could not swallow this breath, she often took advantage of the excuse to make trouble, and even fought with Lu Peizhen, just in time for that time Yu Zhenfei was unemployed, life was in trouble, Lu Peizhen could not bear the double torture of spirit and poverty, and after the last performance with Yu Zhenfei, she did not quit and married someone else.
In love, Yu Zhenfei suffered a fatal blow, fortunately there is Kunqu art to do spiritual support for him, after which he is more fully devoted to the cause of opera, and gradually walks out of the trauma of feelings.
In order to better inherit and innovate the art of Kunqu opera, Yu Zhenfei successively began to cooperate with Peking Opera masters such as Mei Lanfang and Cheng Yanqiu, and his fame began to span the two artistic dramas of Beijing and Kunming, especially the Peking Opera "Dream of Visiting the Garden" and other plays cooperated with Cheng Yanqiu, which made him more famous
Here you need to insert an episode, that is, about Yu Zhenfei's first love Miss Xie Wu, because her mother obstructed her marriage with Yu Zhenfei, she gave up and married a rich gentleman, but she had a strong personality, and her heart was still Yu Zhenfei, so she never had sex with her husband after marriage, and this marriage eventually ended in divorce.
After that, Miss Xie vowed not to marry for life, not to return to the Xie family, and to live alone. Usually, feng Chaoran, the master who accompanies her and Yu Zhenfei, immerses herself in learning to paint, so she understands Yu Zhenfei's living conditions, and she has also reached out to help him when he is most difficult and most in need of care, giving Yu Zhenfei infinite warmth in his difficult life, but she just chose to pay silent attention and failed to come together in the end.
(Yu Zhenfei Cheng Yanqiu's "Dream of Visiting the Garden")
Back to Yu Zhenfei, one day after Yu Zhenfei's performance, he suddenly saw Fan Pinzhen, who had been separated for many years, breaking into the backstage with his son and crying, Yu Zhenfei made up his mind this time that he must divorce Fan Pinzhen, so he did not hesitate to bear heavy debts, gave Fan Pinzhen a large amount of money, and finally ended this wrong marriage.
After the divorce, Fan Pinzhen's life was not satisfactory, there was no emotional sustenance, lost financial resources, coupled with their only son also died of a pneumonia at the age of 15, Fan Pinzhen lived a walking dead life every day, unkempt face like a beggar, and then no one saw her, did not know whether it was dead or alive, and never heard from her.
Yu Zhenfei's first two marriages ended in two different tragic ways and became completely free.
(Front row for Yu Zhenfei and Huang Manyun)
Fast forward to 1936, in the spring of this year, 34-year-old Yu Zhenfei met a ticket friend named Huang Manyun in Beiping, Huang Manyun is also a girl, proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, the two see the same. Daily chanting and singing, emotions breed.
Huang Manyun originally also had a family, her husband was also born as an official eunuch, and the family was well-off, but because of the discord between the two, they had been separated for many years. And left a large number of properties for Huang Manyun in Beiping.
It just so happened that when Yu Zhenfei first arrived in Beijing, there was no fixed place to live, and Huang Manyun very generously lent the idle house in her home to Yu Zhenfei to live in and design costumes for him, which she personally painted with colored pens and was elegant. At the same time, she also has her to take care of food and living, and in the process of getting along day and night, the feelings of the two have gradually deepened and they live together openly.
Huang Manyun has a cheerful personality, is enthusiastic and generous, takes care of Yu Zhenfei's life internally, has strong social skills externally, helps him contact performances, and negotiates With Silver. Yu Zhenfei's artistic career has become more successful, and his artistic attainments have become deeper. This time, Yu Zhenfei also truly enjoyed the beautiful love and the warmth of the family, and he could not do without Huang Manyun.
Huang Manyun, who has been separated for many years, formally divorced her husband, and his husband divorced and married another woman far away from Beijing to live in Taiwan, since then, Huang Manyun and Yu Zhenfei have sung with their wives and raised eyebrows, from Beijing to Shanghai, the two people have lived together for more than 20 years.
Unfortunately, Huang Manyun was diagnosed with lung cancer at the age of 56, and the treatment was ineffective, and unfortunately died early. Huang Manyun's death gave Yu Zhenfei a huge blow, in order to send mourning, Yu Zhenfei also personally wrote a tribute to his beloved wife, with the depth of love, every time reading it is heartbreaking.
Shortly after Huang Manyun's death, Yan Huizhu, who later became Yu Zhenfei's fourth wife, entered his life.
(Yan Huizhu and Mei Lanfang)
Yan Huizhu was also born in the Liyuan family, and her father Yan Jupeng was a famous actor in Peking Opera from the late Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China. Yan Huizhu has also been deeply loved by Mei Lanfang and other famous Peking opera artists since childhood and has received the true biography of Mei Pai. In addition to singing, Yan Huizhu also participated in the performance of movies and dramas, her appearance is very beautiful, tall and tall, sought after everywhere, and everywhere she goes is an eye-catching landscape.
In addition to her very beautiful appearance, Yan Huizhu's personality is also very flamboyant, exposed, and fierce. However, it is also this unruly personality that lays the groundwork for her fate and tragic end of life.
Yan Huizhu had two marriages before getting to know Yu Zhenfei, the first husband was a movie star, Yan Huizhu was attracted by his handsome appearance at the time, launched a crazy pursuit, but only lived together for 50 days and quickly divorced. Her second husband was eight years younger, but the marriage lasted only six years.
Yu Zhenfei and Yan Huizhu
Her third marriage was a union with Yu Zhenfei.
At that time, Yu Zhenfei and Yan Huizhu were also the principal and vice principal of the Shanghai Theater School, the two people rehearsed more than a dozen Kunqu operas together, and the performances on the stage were tacitly understood, which can be described as a combination of pearls, and people are considered to be the best partners, in the process of rehearsal and performance, the two people get along day and night, and the common progress in their careers makes them feel emotional.
At that time, Yan Huizhu's Shanghai Peking Opera House had two top players who were red flowers, and Yan Huizhu rarely had the opportunity to take the stage, which made Yan Huizhu, who regarded the drama as fateful, feel very distressed. After approaching Yu Zhenfei, she suddenly felt that the opportunity had come, and she thought that if she could often play with Yu Zhenfei in the future, she would be able to open a new stage life.
With such an idea, Yan Huizhu took the initiative to pursue Yu Zhenfei, and at this time, Yu Zhenfei was also in the grief of losing Huang Manyun, and Yan Huizhu's admiration and tenderness gave him great emotional comfort.
In 1961, that is, Yu Zhenfei was 59 years old, Yan Huizhu was 41 years old, the two people added up to exactly 100 years old to marry Qin Jinzhi, for a time the marriage of the two people was uploaded as a good story in the society, and the famous lyricist Tian Han also wrote a poem for the two people: "The wall will marry immediately, and then dominate the stage for twenty springs."
After two people get married, there is a period of love and harmony, but over time, the differences in age and personality, as well as the differences in life experience and cultural accomplishment, make their love begin to crack.
(Yan Huizhu stills)
Because of the difference between psychology and the view of people in life, contradictions and quarrels between two people are inevitable. The once loving couple gradually drifted apart, although they lived under the same roof, their hearts could not communicate, and the pain was also very torturous.
Fortunately, both people can correctly treat the differences between the two people, and can also sit down and talk calmly, if it is not a "ten-year period of turmoil", the two of them will definitely be the end of a peaceful breakup and parting ways.
Some people say that a person's path is closely related to his own character, and there is a certain truth to this.
Although Yan Huizhu's artistic skills are superb, her previous high-profile and arrogant personality secretly offended many people, and during the turmoil, her entire home was raided, and all the valuable things in her home were copied by the "revolutionary generals".
(Yan Huizhu in her youth)
Emotional unsatisfactory, career and life disasters, so that Yan Huizhu lost the courage to live, she took out the white Aya she used in her performance, hanging herself in the home... ... , when she died at the age of 47.
Yu Zhenfei's fourth marriage ended in such a tragedy.
After ten years of turmoil, Yu Zhenfei was now a 76-year-old man. Alone, feel lonely. Because there was no one around to take care of him, the handsome little student who had always been a gentleman also became sloppy. His colleagues, friends and students all felt sorry for him when they saw him like this, and everyone began to look around, hoping that Yu Zhenfei would be able to make a good relationship again, at least with someone around him to accompany and take care of him.
Yu Zhenfei had a student named Xue Zhengkang, who had more contact with Li Qihua, a famous dan of the Wuhan Peking Opera Troupe. Learning that Li Qihua had just divorced, Xue Zhengkang began to broker the marriage of the two people.
Yu Zhenfei and Li Qiang also had cooperation on the stage before, and once co-starred in the famous play "Iron Bow Edge", but at that time, Yu Zhenfei was already a well-known "big star" and she was just a small actor who was just 17 years old at the time, the gap was too big, and there was not much contact between the two people. Therefore, Li Qihua is also hesitant to live with Yu Zhenfei in the future. At first she just promised to try to meet first and find out.
The two people met in Guangzhou, they treated each other sincerely, and all they confided in was their heartfelt words, Li Qihua was touched by Yu Zhenfei's pure personality and art, and she gladly agreed to Yu Zhenfei's marriage proposal.
Although the difference between the two people is 27 years old, but in the face of true love, age is not a problem, Yu Zhenfei, who has a bumpy life, finally found his true love and entered the fifth marriage.
(Li Qihua)
This year, Yu Zhenfei was already seventy-seven years old, but in front of the gentle and beautiful Li Qihua, like a teenager who had just opened his heart, he smiled shyly and smiled again.
He decided that Having Li Qihua's home was his warm harbor. In this warm harbor, Li Qiaohua takes meticulous care of him in life, and he is more artistic confidant, and they have cooperated together to develop a new repertoire, showing infinite love for every move and word.
"But the sunset is infinitely good, why worry about the dusk," Yu Zhenfei went through ups and downs, experienced five marriages, no children, and devoted his life to art, but the romantic love flower that bloomed in his later years drew a perfect end to his ninety-two years of artistic life.
Yu Zhenfei devoted his life to the kunqu cause, and in his later years, because of the nourishment of love, he let the Yu school art shine and pass on the torch.