In the Republic of China period, there was a "drama emperor" Jinshan, and in the Republic of China period, there was a "film emperor" Jin Yan.
Golden Flame's life can be described as half brilliant and half dim.
He did have the joy of success, but more of it was sadness and loneliness.
There are subjective and objective reasons for this.
Kim Yeon was not Chinese, his original name was Kim Deok-lin, born on April 8, 1910 in Seoul, North Korea, which is today's South Korea.
So Kim Yan should be an authentic Korean.
Since Kim Hyun is a North Korean, why did he come to China?
After Korea was invaded by the Japanese, Kim Hyun's father was wanted for his participation in the Korean national independence movement and was forced to leave his homeland.
In 1912, Jin Yan moved with his family to Qiqihar, Heilongjiang Province, China.
Kim's father, a doctor, continued to secretly organize North Korean independence activities after he arrived in China.
Jin Yan's father's medical skills are very skilled, and there are many patients who seek medical treatment from him, and the income is good.
However, Kim's father spent most of his income on North Korea's independence activities, and the family lived a very difficult life, often eating and not eating.
Kim Yeon grew up in this difficult environment, and because Kim Yeon's father organized Korean independence activities and was too ostentatious, this caused the japanese to be jealous.
When Jin Yan was 8 years old, his father was killed by Japanese agents with poisoned milk.
After his father's death, the family's situation was even more difficult, and the young Jin Yan could only go to Shanghai to join his aunt.
After two years, Jin Yan moved to Tianjin with his aunt's family and later studied at Nankai Middle School.
The turbulent and displaced, poor and poor life made Jin Yan accept the revolutionary ideas, and he even wanted to change Jin Delin's name to "Jin Xun" to show his connection with Lu Xun.
However, later, Jin Yan felt that the stage name "Jin Xun" was not loud enough, so he changed it to the word "flame", which means full of vitality and enthusiasm like a flame.
In 1927, Jin Yan had to end his secondary school career because he had no money to pay tuition.
In order to live, Jin Yan bought a ferry ticket with money from a friend and came to Shanghai alone to seek development.
In Shanghai, Jin Yan wrote some novels to submit, but was basically not hired.
Jin Yan has loved the performing arts since he was a child, and he dreams of becoming an actor.
But a foreigner has no money and no connections in Shanghai, and it is not easy to enter the film industry.
It was not easy for Jin Yan to enter the Minxin Film Company through the introduction of people, but his job was only to do chores, do drama, field notes, etc., as well as watching the door in the cinema, and had nothing to do with the actors.
At night, when Golden Flame had no place to live, he slept on a long bench.
Although he was still far from his dream of becoming an actor, Jin Yan was still very happy in his heart.
Because at Minxin Film Company, he can observe other actors filming, and he can also watch movies for free.
Jin Yan worked and studied at the same time, and he believed that his dream would come true.
Who knows, a year later, the company went bankrupt, Jin Yan lost his job, he had no livelihood, and even became a tramp for a while.
Life is so unfair to Golden Flame, but Golden Flame is still full of hope for the future.
In 1928, Jin Yan joined the Southern Art Drama Society sponsored by Tian Han as a stage actor.
Jin Yan starred in the dramas "Salome", "Carmen" and "Song of Rejuvenation" at the Southern Arts Drama Society, in which he played an important role.
In 1929, director Sun Yu took a fancy to Jin Yan's bodybuilding image and let him play a small role in the Shanghai Star Film Company's "The Swordsman of the Wind".
The movie "The Swordsman" became the golden flame big screen debut.
In 1930, Jin Yan entered the Shanghai Lianhua Film Company, where he and Ruan Lingyu co-starred in the film Wild Grass Idle Flowers. After that, he starred in films such as "Love and Obligation", "A Cut of Plum", "Peach Blossom Crying Blood" and so on.
At that time, most of the movie students carried fat powder, and the handsome and sunny appearance of The Golden Flame made the audience feel refreshed and felt the masculine beauty of men.
Most of these films starring Jin Yan reflect real life and some personal feelings of intellectual youth, which has received strong interest from the majority of young students.
Jin Yan is tall and handsome, his performance style is simple and natural, he has a large number of fans, and he receives many letters from fans every day.
In 1932, Shanghai's "Electroacoustic Daily" launched the "Top Ten Film Stars in China", and the 22-year-old Jin Yan won the reputation of "Movie Emperor".
In 1932, Jin Yan joined the Left-Wing Dramatists Alliance, and he successively starred in nearly 30 films such as "The Spring Dream of the Ancient Capital", "Three Modern Women", and "The Light of Motherhood" in Lianhua, Yihua, Xinhua and other film companies.
These films also reflect the current state of society at that time and expose the darkness of the feudal system.
Golden Flame's sunny and handsome, energetic performance was loved by the audience, and also changed the situation of the Chinese film industry.
In 1934, director Sun Yu, who returned from studying film in the United States, shot "The Great Road", which can be called a masterpiece of left-wing films.
Popular male stars such as Jin Yan went shirtless in the movie, singing the labor trumpet to play the road construction workers who fought the war.
The movie "Dalu" is the first film in the Chinese film industry to take the anti-Japanese theme.
In 1934, the "Electric Sound", which had been changed to a weekly magazine, launched a star election, and the 24-year-old Jin Yan won three laurels: "the audience's favorite male star", "the most beautiful male star", and "the male star with whom the audience is most willing to be friends".
In 1935, Jin Yan continued to star in films such as "New Peach Blossom Fan", "Wave Taosha", and "Top Gun".
Golden Flame has achieved great success in his film career, and he has also ushered in his own love.
Jin Yan met actress Wang Renmei when filming the movie "Wild Rose".
Wang Renmei admires Jin Yan's tireless pursuit of spirit, marvels at his superb acting skills in front of the camera, and prefers his upright and indomitable character.
Wang Renmei fell deeply in love with the handsome Golden Flame, and The Golden Flame also liked Wang Renmei's vigor and vitality.
Wang Renmei, whose original name was Wang Shuxi, was originally from Liuyang, Hunan, and grew up in Changsha.
王人美父亲不幸早逝后，13岁的她随兄弟姐妹来到上海，她先报名进入了黎锦晖创办的“美美女校”学习歌舞表演。
后来，王人美得到著名导演孙瑜的欣赏，有幸担任电影《野玫瑰》的女主角，从而一举成名。
1933年，王人美出演《渔光曲》之中的女主角小猫，这部电影上映之后连继放映84天，场场爆满，王人美渐渐地进入了事业的巅峰期。
Due to the success of the movie "Fisherman's Song", Wang Renmei got the title of "Wildcat".
Wang Renmei, who is at the peak of her career, fell in love with Jin Yan, and the top management of the film company was very dissatisfied, believing that if an actress had a boyfriend and got married, then her career would almost end.
In the face of repeated opposition from the company's top management, Wang Renmei still goes her own way, she loves Golden Flame, and she can sacrifice everything for love.
Not only the top management of the film company opposed, but also Wang Renmei's second brother resolutely opposed, his reason is that Jin Yan is not Chinese.
To this end, Wang Renmei's second brother issued a statement in the "Electroacoustic Weekly", saying that his sister could not marry a Koryo.
After Wang Renmei saw this statement, she did not flinch, she and the second brother tit-for-tat, also issued a statement saying one by one
"It is better to marry a country destroyer who has lost his country than to a traitor who betrays his country."
On January 1, 1934, at the New Year's party of Lianhua Company, Jin Yan and Wang Renmei, who had been in love for three years, officially announced their marriage.
The wedding was simple, there was no ceremony, just everyone got together and had a lively time.
After Wang Renmei married Jin Yan, Lianhua Film Company fired her.
Although she had been fired by the company, Wang Renmei, who had a strong sense of responsibility, insisted on finishing the movie "Fishing Light Song".
After Wang Renmei married Jin Yan, according to her husband's request, she no longer went out to work, and she was at ease to be a good wife and mother at home, and she did not visit friends much.
At that time, Wang Renmei's good friends laughed at her from "wild cat" to "domestic cat".
Wang Renmei is also a very strong woman, she loves her acting career, but for her husband she would rather be a virtuous helper.
Shortly after getting married, 20-year-old Wang Renmei became pregnant, and she was as inexperienced as she was before, and she was as keen as ever.
Wang Renmei was pregnant and often did some intense exercise, and the result was that she was unfortunately born prematurely.
During Wang Renmei's pregnancy, Jin Yan has been filming on location in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province.
The wife was pregnant and the husband was not around, which made Wang Renmei a little unhappy.
When Wang Renmei was about to give birth, Jin Yan only accompanied his wife for one day, and he hurried back to filming.
Wang Renmei, who was weak after childbirth, was very sad about this, and she hoped that her husband would accompany her more, but Jin Yan thought that filming was more important than anything else.
Wang Renmei gave birth to a son prematurely, but unfortunately this child only survived for 8 days and died prematurely.
His son died prematurely, but Jin Yan did not return, and he was still filming in Wuxi, which made Wang Renmei feel extremely wronged.
Wang Renmei feels that Jin Yan no longer loves her, that the movie is his life, and that his wife and children are irrelevant.
Although Jin Yan looks very cheerful on the outside, he is actually a very introverted person, and his personality of not being good at communication makes the couple drift apart.
1937年，抗日战争爆发了......
Unwilling to make a film for the Japanese and puppet authorities, Jin Yan took Wang Renmei with him to Hong Kong.
Originally thought that there could be drama in Hong Kong, but at this time, Hong Kong was also in turmoil.
After the outbreak of the Pacific War, Jin Yan and Wang Renmei returned to the mainland.
At a time of national crisis in this country, Wang Renmei no longer wants to be a "house cat", she wants to go to work and contribute to the War of Resistance.
However, Wang Renmei's request was strongly opposed by Jin Yan, how could he allow his wife to show her face with machismo?
Jin Yan believes that when a man goes to earn money to support his family, a woman should obediently stay at home, do housework, and wait for her husband's return.
After Wang Renmei married Jin Yan, she accommodated him in everything, but this time she was no longer accommodating, and she must go out to work.
Wang Renmei's insistence made Jin Yan, as her husband, burn with fire, and he accused Wang Renmei of not keeping the way of women!
1941年，王人美和金焰平静地分手了。
Jin Yan stayed in Chengdu to continue filming, while Wang Renmei went to the U.S. military headquarters in Yunnan to work as a typist.
Wang Renmei, who is very free on the surface, is actually very fragile on the inside...
After Wang Renmei and Jin Yan divorced, her heart could not be calmed for a long time, thinking that at the beginning, she insisted on marrying Jin Yan despite the opposition of the company and the second brother, and did not expect that it was such a result now.
The sad Wang Renmei once said this to her good friend Li Lili
"The golden flame left me, and apart from the loss, my whole soul was like a stone falling into the sea, and it was difficult to return. I have left a helpless pity and sadness in my mind, and the tears in my heart will accompany me for the rest of my life. ”
The failed marriage between Wang Renmei and Jin Yan had depressed her for ten years...
In the winter of 1947, Jin Yan and Qin Yi met while filming "The Sea is Vast" in Hong Kong, and the two of them felt very close, and they married a year later.
After Premier Zhou Enlai learned about it, he affectionately called Jin Yan "China's steed horse."
Unfortunately, the couple had an unpleasant night on their wedding night, and the drunken golden flame climbed onto the roof and kept walking around.
The anxious Qin Yi could only stay outside the house, staring at the golden flame, afraid that he would accidentally fall down.
Qin Yi kept watching until 2 o'clock in the middle of the night, and he really couldn't stay up, so he went back to his room to sleep.
Qin Yi's first husband, Chen Tianguo, loved to drink, and she didn't expect that Jin Yan also loved to drink so much.
This incident became a lingering shadow of Qin Yi, but it had not yet appeared at this time.
Qin Yi and her ex-husband had a daughter, this daughter took the surname of Jin Yan, and later Qin Yi gave birth to a son, Jin Jie, whose name was little brother.
After the liberation of China, Jin Yan and Qin Yi returned to Shanghai.
In 1949, Jin Yan and Qin Yi co-starred in the movie "Lost Love", which was the only time the couple worked together on the screen.
After the founding of New China, Jin Yan served as the head of the actor group of Shanghai Film Studio, and successively participated in the filming of "Heavy Light on the Earth", "Mother", "Eagle in the Storm", "Red Flag on the Sea" and other films.
Although Jin Yan also made some movies after the founding of New China, he was much bleaker than his wife Qin Yi.
After the liberation, Qin Yi became a busy person, and several works such as "Railway Guerrilla" and "Ma Lan Blossom" starred in her role received strong responses, which made her a big star in the Shanghai Film Studio.
Jin Yan has not been reused for a long time for various reasons, and he has seen his wife's career flourishing, and the machismo in his heart has begun to emerge again.
Because his career was not as good as his wife's, Jin Yan began to buy drunks at home and had an extramarital affair.
After Qin Yi knew, she was very sad, she wanted a divorce, but Jin Yan did not agree, so the husband and wife separated.
In 1958, Jin Yan fell seriously ill due to long-term excessive drinking, which led to stomach bleeding.
In 1962, Jin Yan had his stomach nerve severed during an operation, and since then, he has been lying flat after a meal, feeling no hunger, and his body is getting thinner and weaker.
After some time, Golden Flame began to lie in bed.
Jin Yan collapsed on the bed, his lover was also gone, Qin Yi did not leave him, he was always taking care of his husband.
What makes people feel even more sad is that Jin Jie, the only son of Jin Yan, has been stimulated by the turbulent years and has mental problems.
Jin Yan was paralyzed in bed for 20 years, he saw his son Jin Jie sick like this, and saw his wife Qin Yi running hard every day, and his heart was full of guilt and self-blame.
In his later years, Jin Yan suffered from emphysema and suffered from the disease.
On December 27, 1983, the sick and crippled Golden Flame walked out of his life, and he lived for 73 years.
In March 2007, Jin Yan's son, Jin Jie, died of diabetes complicated by pneumonia at the age of 59.
After Jin Yan's death, he was buried in Shanghai Longhua Martyrs Cemetery.
On December 27, 1998, Qin Yi buried Jin Yan's ashes in FushouYuan, Shanghai.
The tombstone of the Golden Flame is shaped on black film with a bust of the Golden Flame engraved on it.
The golden flame on the tombstone is still full of sunshine and the smile is bright.
In front of the tombstone of Jin Yan are two marble pedestals, on the left is the tomb of his son Jin Jie, and on the right is the tomb of Jin Yan.
The "Movie Emperor" Jin Yan and his beloved son Jin Jie are buried in Fushou Garden, wishing their father and son all the best in heaven.
Jin Yan's life is like a flame, warm and unrestrained, he has made outstanding contributions to the cause of Chinese film and will never be forgotten by the world.
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