In recent days, various "Yuan" such as "Buddha Yuan", "ZhiJiaoYuan", "Che Yuan" and so on have exploded on social networks, attracting a round of scorn from netizens, as if "Famous Yuan" and "Miss" have been cloaked in a negative cloak in the process of modernization. In fact, these are not "celebrities", etc. are mostly happy women, the real "celebrities" are born in famous people, well-educated, and conquer everyone present with their talents and elegance when attending various occasions, so at the same time they have another kind of good name - "social flower".
At that time, the more familiar social flowers were Lu Xiaoman, Lin Huiyin, Lu Yin and so on. And today I want to talk about Tang Ying, who is known as the first social flower of the Republic of China, and she and Lu Xiaoman became the "Southern Tang and Northern Land", which shows her great influence at that time.
Tang Ying was born in Shanghai in 1910 to a father who was one of the first batch of medical students to study abroad sponsored by the Gengzi Indemnity, and her mother was a first graduate of Jinling Women's University. Therefore, such a family background has made her life very prosperous since she was a child, studying at the Chinese and Western Girls' School, which is the predecessor of the Santa Maria Girls' School where Zhang Ailing studied, and receiving an aristocratic education. In addition, Tang Ying also had to learn dance, English, opera, and the basic skills of celebrities - pay attention to food and clothing. The family has a tailor to make clothes; each meal is in accordance with a reasonable nutritional balance, what time to eat breakfast, when to use afternoon tea, when to start dinner, all follow a precise schedule; when to eat, you must not fiddle with the dishes and chopsticks, you can not talk while eating; the soup is hot, and you cannot blow it with your mouth.
In such a growing environment, as soon as she appeared in the social circle, she caused a sensation and became the most dazzling celebrity at that time. In 1927, at the Central Theater, Tang Ying and Lu Xiaoman took the stage together to perform the Kun opera "Picking Up Paintings" and "Calling Paintings". A Liu Mengmei, a Du Liniang, a flowing posture, the wind flowed, detonated the entire venue.
The two are playing against each other
At the same time, Yunsheng (a company founded by Xu Zhimo's wife Zhang Youyi), which is "image endorsement" by the two of them, has long been popular from Shanghai to Beijing and Tianjin, and has become an indispensable piece in the girls' wardrobe. In the winter of 1927, on the streets of Nanjing, Suzhou, Wuxi and other cities, whereever fashionable women appeared, there was a beautiful scenery composed of cloud coats.
Sometimes even if she doesn't go out to socialize, Tang Ying has to change three sets of clothes every day: a short-sleeved cardigan in the morning, a cheongsam when going out at noon, and a Western-style long skirt when guests come to the house at night. Her sister Tang Weihong still remembers that her cheongsam rolled on wide sides and embroidered with colorful flowers on the rolling edges. In particular, there are hundreds of butterflies embroidered with gold and silver threads flying on the piping of a cheongsam, embellished with ruby buttons.
CHANEL No5 perfume, Ferragamo heels, CD lipstick, CELINE clothing, LV handbags... These are really strange equipment for her, just like three meals a day. Legendary is her ten large chests depicting gold, filled with costumes in the envy of word of mouth, and even the entire large wardrobe of the wall is hung with leather clothes.
She went to visit Hongxiang Department Store, to visit all the places that can give her clothing inspiration, whenever she encounters amazing clothes, she does not buy, silently writes down the style, goes back to instruct her own tailor to do, not only learned the latest style, but also DIY her own original, so the clothes she wears out, chic, fashionable and avant-garde, quickly became popular with the label of "Tang Ying style".
If you have not read this article, say that one is out of clothes, presumably Zhang Ailing. However, Zhang Ailing's clothing has a sense of trend and avant-garde atmosphere, which may not be suitable for the general audience; while Tang Ying's clothing combines the wisdom of the little girl in Shanghai, wrapping life into a gorgeous sugar with silk and chiffon, which makes the world marvel.
For such a famous woman, the emotional life is naturally not smooth, Song Ziwen, Li Zufa, Yang Xingfo, Rong Xianlin have all become passers-by in Tang Ying's life, but she has become a unique self. She has loved herself all her life, been a beauty for a lifetime, smooth and waveless, and walked calmly enough.