Premier Zhou and his wife Deng Yingchao, as great proletarian revolutionaries, paid attention to or cared for many children of martyrs, but very few were able to maintain close contact with them and were adopted as adopted daughters. Among them, Sun Weishi is such a lucky strange woman.
Sun Weishi is not only dazzling in life, but also talented. But she could have a happy marriage, but when filming, she looked at a man who already had a family - Jinshan.
You know, before that, Sun Weishi can be said to have many suitors, and there were also famous generals who proposed marriage to her, but she still ignored Zhou Enlai's objections and chose to intervene in Jinshan's marriage with another drama actress, Zhang Ruifang. So how exactly did all this happen?
Sun Weishi was born into a revolutionary family in 1921, and when she was less than six years old, her father Sun Bingwen was tragically killed in a major revolution.
At that time, Sun Bingwen rushed to Germany with Zhu De to study a year after the birth of his daughter, and joined the Communist Party of China at the introduction of Zhou Enlai. Subsequently, during his return to China, he served as an instructor at the Whampoa Military Academy and as secretary general of the General Political Department of the National Revolutionary Army. And it is precisely because he has been in such a sharp revolutionary struggle for many years that he has inevitably ushered in unfortunate results.
Since then, the young Sun Weishi has never seen his father again. After his father's death, his mother Ren Rui was also busy with underground party work, taking only his elder brother with him, and had no time to take care of the young Sun Weishi. Sun Weishi grew up in such a difficult environment that later her heart was very eager to be noticed.
Sun Bingwen
In 1935, after graduating from Beiping Beiman Girls' High School, Sun Weishi entered her long-awaited Shanghai Oriental Drama Society to study acting. Sun Weishi's performance was very good, and her mother also hoped that she could have a life different from the revolution, so she gave the greatest support. After that, Sun Weishi participated in the drama activities of the Shanghai Amateur Dramatists Association and the Oriental Drama Society with his mother.
In 1937, during the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, sun Weishi, who was already 16 years old, saw the suffering of the people and desperately wanted to apply for the front line in Yan'an. Growing up in the edification of revolution, she came to the Wuhan Eighth Road Office without her mother' enthusiasm and ambition.
From left: Ren Rui (Sun Weishi's mother), Sun Weishi, Ren Jun
However, when the office staff looked at the half-grown girl, they hesitated, and after thinking about it, they rejected Sun Weishi's request, after all, no one can be responsible for the life of an underage person.
After being rejected, Sun Weishi couldn't help but cry on the spot, she remembered her father she admired, although it was a distant and sad memory, but she had to deny that she also wanted to be a father-like person. But now this wish has been broken, and Sun Weishi's heart is very broken.
At this time, Premier Zhou happened to see this scene, and after asking the reason, he was deeply touched by this sincere girl, so he went forward and touched her head and said:
"You're still a doll, why don't you go back and ask your father's opinion first?"
Sun Weishi cried even more sadly when she heard this, and she sobbed and told her father what had happened to her father.
After Zhou Enlai listened, he couldn't help but correct his own look, and only then did he learn that the father of the little girl in front of him was his revolutionary friend Sun Bingwen, who had actually seen Sun Weishi as early as when She was a child. Over the years, he has been paying attention to the relief of many martyrs' children, but he did not expect to ignore the little girl in front of him.
Premier Zhou was full of guilt, and he said directly: "Child, you have suffered. Follow me from now on and treat me as your father. "
After consulting with his wife, he directly took Sun Weishi to Yan'an. Later, because Deng Yingchao could no longer have children after falling ill, Zhou Enlai and his wife valued this adopted daughter even more.
Sun Weishi was carefully cared for by them and worked harder than before, and people also called her the "Red Princess". She not only studied very diligently, but also paid attention to every major revolutionary event.
In 1938, Sun Weishi naturally joined the Communist Party of China and joined the Shanghai theater industry's rescue drama team. When Zhou Enlai learned about it, he was very relieved and said, "Wei Shi has grown up." "
Later, when Sun Weishi went to Yan'an, he entered the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University and the Marxist-Leninist Academy. At that time, she often visited Chairman Mao's house and got along very well with Chairman Mao's wife.
Even in 1938, when commemorating the "128" Anti-Japanese War, Sun Weishi also participated in the drama "Blood Sacrifice Shanghai" with the chairman's wife, in which she played "Big Miss", which has since become one of her labels.
Sun Weishi and Madame Sophie Maheed (left)
In 1939, Zhou Enlai was injured in the arm and prepared to go to the Soviet Union for treatment with relatively high medical conditions. But before leaving, he and his wife could not let go of Sun Weishi, the "daughter", so after receiving Chairman Mao's approval, he immediately took her to the plane to Moscow.
After coming to the Soviet Union, Sun Weishi lived a carefree life, taking care of her adoptive father and listening to operas. Over time, Sun Weishi became interested in opera, so Zhou Enlai and his wife offered to let her study.
At that time, there were many children of martyrs studying in Moscow, but they did not like or study art, so Zhou Enlai and his wife encouraged Sun Weishi, believing that only Sun Weishi had such talents. Sun Weishi was also very competitive, and after applying for the acting department and the directing department of the Moscow Drama Academy, he was successfully admitted. For the next six years, Sun Weishi stayed at the academy.
During this period, the first emotional choice of her life also followed, this person was Lin Biao, who had made great achievements in the War of Resistance Against Japan.
In fact, Lin Biao had already heard of Sun Weishi's excellence as early as Yan'an, but at that time, he had already started a marriage, so he did not pay attention to her. At this time, Lin Biao was injured in an accident and also came to Moscow for treatment, but his wife was not accompanied.
During the treatment, Lin Biao's heart was very bitter, because the long-term trivial life had stimulated the contradiction between him and his wife, and the relationship was about to end. It may be that it was destined in the dark, and at this moment, Sun Weishi entered his life.
The reason was that the children of the martyrs who came to Moscow to study invited Lin Biao to give a report by chance, and Sun Weishi was among them. Sun Weishi not only has a beautiful appearance, but also is very dignified and reasonable, cheerful and generous under the cultivation of Premier Zhou and his wife, so he attracted Lin Biao's attention at a glance.
After a closer conversation, Lin Biao found that they not only shared the same revolutionary goals, but also had very similar personalities. After that, the two began to have close contact. Although the two of them only interacted with each other normally at the beginning, over time, when Lin Biao found out that he was with Sun Weishi, he felt unprecedented excitement and enthusiasm in his heart, as if he was also young and alive. It was a feeling that had long ceased to exist between him and his wife.
Finally, one morning, Lin Biao couldn't help but express his affection to Sun Weishi and promised that he would marry her. Lin Biao waited expectantly for Sun Weishi's answer, but Sun Weishi was very overwhelmed by Lin Biao's sudden confession.
Because in her heart Lin Biao was a heroic general, just like her elders, plus she was in a critical period of academic advancement at that time, and she could not be distracted by this, so under many considerations, Sun Weishi rejected Lin Biao's confession. So the relationship ended before it even started.
In 1946, Sun Weishi's studies in the Soviet Union were finally completed, and she returned to China with full joy and ambition, and under the arrangement of Premier Zhou, she successively went to the North China Union University Literary and Labor Troupe, the China Youth Art Theater, and the Central Experimental Drama Theater to participate in the work.
At that time, Sun Weishi had grown into a beautiful girl, coupled with his own talent and education, he was immediately sought after after returning to China, and even called the "Four Beauties of Yan'an" with Feng Fengming, Zhang Xingfang, Guo Lanying and others.
In 1949, Sun Weishi was personally named to accompany Chairman Mao on a visit to the Soviet Union and honorably served as the head of the translation team, which made many people envious. For a time, the young Sun Weishi was in the limelight, and the suitors scrambled to blind her in glitz, and Sun Weishi became extremely arrogant. Perhaps at that time, her inner heart, which was not deeply involved in the world, had already mismatched with the external conditions.
However, although the choice of spouse is broader, Sun Weishi has remained single, because her "Prince Charming" has not yet appeared.
Finally, after Sun Weishi became the director of the China Youth Art Theatre in 1950, she met the famous dramatist Jin Shan, who served as vice president and actor. They then worked together on a play called "Paul Kochagin" and in the process developed a crush on each other.
At that time, Sun Weishi was 29 years old, and her desire for marriage began to strengthen, so after meeting Jinshan, she desperately threw herself into this relationship.
However, on the surface, it was a match made in heaven for Lang Cai's female appearance, but in fact, Jinshan already had a wife at that time, and his wife was Zhang Ruifang, a famous actress who also had beauty and talent.
Golden Mountain
Before Jinshan met Zhang Ruifang, he also had a lover named Wang Ying. The two had traveled to Nanyang to propagate the anti-Japanese movement together, and had had difficult encounters, but after experiencing hardships and obstacles, their relationship finally broke down.
After the loss of love, Jinshan was devastated for a long time, and it was at this time that he met Zhang Ruifang and slowly walked out of the shadow of lost love. Therefore, Zhang Ruifang still has a special meaning in his life.
For Jinshan, on the one hand, he saved his wife Zhang Ruifang, on the other hand, he was a bold and fiery lover Sun Weishi, and Jinshan was unable to make a choice, and the two sides were deadlocked.
Until the sensation of "Paul Kochakin", Zhang Ruifang could no longer stand Jinshan's derailment and resolutely chose to quit the marriage.
Jin Shan and Zhang Ruifang
When Zhou Enlai learned of this, he called Sun Weishi and asked, "Have you really decided?" Sun Weishi nodded very firmly, hoping to be blessed by her adoptive father.
Zhou Enlai really did not oppose it too much, he remembered his daughter's company over the years, and after all, he did not stop it. He simply said:
"Make your own business." However, about Jinshan, if you want to know, you can ask Uncle Li Kenong. "
At this time, Sun Weishi learned that when Jinshan was in Shanghai before, he had also engaged in dangerous underground work, using his special status to communicate with high-level people in the enemy party and then transfer this information. He was actually a big agent of the Communist Party. But despite this, Sun Weishi has always been firm in his feelings and has not flinched in the slightest.
Jin Shan and Sun Weishi
So does Sun Weishi understand that it is a mistake for him to blatantly sabotage someone else's marriage? Naturally, she understood. And after knowing it clearly, he also seriously discussed it with her husband Jinshan, and then they agreed: "Love can make people desperate." Since the choice is to bear it bravely. "
So in October 1950, Sun Weishi and Jinshan officially held a wedding ceremony at the Beijing Youth Palace. However, on the wedding day, despite Sun Weishi's bitter waiting, he still did not see the shadow of Premier Zhou.
Premier Zhou's wife, Deng Yingchao, came to the scene and told her:
"Your father is busy, but he asked me to bring you a congratulatory gift."
When everyone present gathered around, Sun Weishi opened the gift with joy and expectation, but he did not expect that it was a copy of the Marriage Law of the People's Republic of China.
So what does premier Zhou mean by taking this law as a gift? It may be a metaphor for a father's disappointment and teaching of his daughter, or it may be his promise to escort his daughter's future married life. But whatever it was, it contained his deep helplessness and connivance.
Indeed, from the current values, Sun Weishi's various manifestations are an immoral behavior, but from the perspective of a father, his daughter is too stubborn about love, and all he can do is silently bless.
Sun Weishi may also feel such a deep fatherly love, and in the next ten years, she and Premier Zhou and his wife still maintained close ties. Even in many correspondence, they are affectionately referred to as "dear mom and dad".
Looking back on Sun Weishi's life, it is undeniable that she was an excellent woman at the level of business, not only directing many plays, but also translating a large number of Soviet theater theory textbooks, as well as many famous plays by Goldonia. It can even be said that Sun Weishi was one of the best artists in the 1950s. But Sun Weishi did make a great mistake in morality.
Therefore, many people can't understand, why such an excellent Sun Weishi wants to intervene in someone else's marriage? In fact, from the perspective of her growth process, it can be found that for her, the premature loss of her father's love is an indelible scar in her heart; and the fame and fortune of young fame bring her extremely opposite impetuosity.
Under this extreme interweaving, Sun Weishi's contradictions are inevitable. If not stopped, her choice of love can only tend to be arrogant. But in any case, the past is now a cloud of smoke.