Mr. Lu Hao's "Listening to Water and Reading Money" is a historical reading note, often without saying a word or a rare anecdote, slightly commented on, timeless and tasteful, and it is pleasant to read. When I saw the article "Fuchun Old Sixth" in the book, I couldn't help but jump my eyelids. Recently, I have been reading some old newspapers with half food and half entertainment, such as "Fuchun Lou" and "Fuchun Six Widows", especially in Shanghai at the end of the 1920s, as the "King of the Flower Country", he is also a news figure. And some of her photos are often at the top of the list, and their appearance can be seen as a matter of opinion, but it is not an exaggeration to say that the fashion style is a beautiful crown. Here I say two or three things to help.
A legend about Fuchun Lao Liu is that in 1926, when the Northern Expedition division approached Shanghai, Zhang Zuolin sent his subordinates Bi Shucheng, commander of the Eighth Army, the commander of the Bohai Fleet, to lead reinforcements, but as soon as he arrived in Shanghai, he was fascinated by Fuchun Lao Liu, so that he fled north in a defeat. Jin Xiongbai said in the book "Fifty Years of Journalistic Career": "Although Bi Shucheng's troops could not withstand the blows of the party army, if he had not been confused and upside down by the old sixth of Fuchun Lou, the Songhu Campaign would not have ended so easily. Therefore, writing the history of the Northern Expedition, Fuchun Lao Liu seems to have his 'sweat horse' merit. ”
This matter did spread to the people, and it was not necessary to show her credit. On October 1, 1927, the laughing stage launched a new play "Bi Shucheng", which was performed for eight consecutive days, which showed that it was welcomed. I have not seen the relevant introduction or comments, from the point of view of not listing the list of actors in the advertisement, the nameless corner support field, presumably all rely on the plot of "because of the confusion and inversion of the old sixth of the Fuchun Building". On October 24, 1927, the "Shanghai Pictorial" published a recent photo of Fuchun Lao Liu, explaining: "Laughing at the stage rehearsal of Bi Shucheng's drama, Rich did not look at it, and the plot of the barnyard told him was laughable, and he did not cry as the pain of the outside world." Fu Liu did not go to see the play, listened to a familiar guest learned the plot, the so-called "crying" must be performed to the time when the soldiers fled in a hurry under the city, she was heartbroken, and the general of the wind and currents clinging to it, most of which was the bridge section of the overlord Bieji and the like to make the audience enjoyable. In fact, this Bi Shucheng is in his early thirties, if the photos on the Internet are true, it is also a table of talent and affection, and the rich love and honey are more dramatic.
Fu Liu's reaction was extremely interesting, saying that she did not "cry bitterly", was not an amorous type that fell below the public imagination, and acted on the stage like "laughing beyond recognition", living a look of no heart and no lungs, more vivid than the real scene of the drama, and had an "anti-climax" posture.
Famous Flower Fuchun Building, Pacific Pictorial, June 1926.
Before Bi Shucheng came to Shanghai, in June 1926, the inaugural issue of the Pacific Pictorial published a photo of the "Famous Flowers and Rich Spring Building". The reclining of the cheeks is a mimick of the posture of the changsantangzi of the late Qing Dynasty, which can be seen in Wu Youru's "Feiyingge Pictorial", and there are several photos in Ye Kaiti's "Shanghai Love" book published a few years ago. This Fuchun Building should have been photographed in a photo studio, but it was handled very simply, without a floral background, highlighting the modern approach to the subject. She wore the style of the early cheongsam, which Zhang Ailing also wore twenty years later, with more personalized exaggeration. Those feet are already heavenly feet, and the pointed leather shoes seem to have the meaning of golden lotus, and such a style can also be seen in today's shoe stores.
At that time, the Popular Pictorial in Shanghai, "Pacific Pictorial" was rich in pictures and texts, and Bao Tianxiao, Gu Mingdao, Cheng Xiaoqing, etc. who wrote for it were all old-school literati, and publishing prostitute photos was also the style of the school; the images included Western paintings and Chinese painting photography and film, etc., and the painters were all the choice of the moment, and the three-color version of Li Yishi's "Tianbao Relic" on the inaugural issue was Li Yishi's "Tianbao Relic", that is, his famous Yang Guifei's bathing diagram, Zhang Guangyu's "Lan Yu Tried" was a female painter sketching for models in the boudoir, and Lu Shaofei's cartoon titled "Monsters in Chinese Territory". Painting a locomotive symbolizing foreign forces is obviously a work that matches the anti-imperialist slogan of the Northern Expedition. "Pacific Pictorial" is a monthly magazine, the founder Han Xiaohu in August to create another "Small Daily", about too busy, the pictorial did not have a few issues to stop publishing, Zheng Yimei said in the "Republic of China Old School Literary and Art Periodicals Series" that there were only two issues, and the author saw that there were four issues (Wei Shaochang, Wu Chenghui edited "Mandarin Duck Butterfly School Research Materials", Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House, 1984, 445 pages).
On May 16, a month ago, in the "Shanghai Pictorial" known as the "pictorial tide", there was an article by Zhou Shuangjuan's "Travels of Tianping Jun", which said that he and Bao Tianxiao went to Suzhou to travel with more than ten people such as Fan Yanqiao, Zhao Lengyue, Zheng Yimei and other more than ten people in the painting boat with their "Star Society" friends. "Fang belongs to the famous Fuchun Lou family, Hong Li is the crown of the paintings", you can see the value of the senior elder of the Fuchun Building, "the boat dish is famous Wu Zhong, it is the Japanese production is particularly delicious", Fuchun Lou and three or four accompanying wine, "serving even more thoughtfully, and Wu Nong soft language, You Yu Yu Ying also". After the meal, men and women swim together in the boat to Tianping Mountain, the so-called "small boat loaded with beauty, a water is fragrant", with a bit of celebrity atmosphere, fragrant routine.
In the eyes of the Zhou family, "all the links in the ship are customary, but the 'flower for the four walls' is still good", and its taste is slightly cheap. Some people say that the names of the "four great Kongs" such as Lin Daiyu and Zhang Shuyu in the late Qing Dynasty are not as elegant as those of Li Xiangjun and Liu Ru in the late Ming Dynasty, and when they go to the Republic of China, they are called the old three and four, and the cultural quality is worse. Since the Republic of China, the brothel industry in Shanghai has deteriorated, and in 1921, the Ministry of Works and Bureau banned brothels by lottery, and by 1924, the ban was lifted, and prostitutes returned to the "golden circle" around the Fourth Avenue (An Keqiang, "Shanghai Prostitutes", Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House, 2004, pp. 239-248). Indeed, although the "painting boat" is vast, Qin Huaifengyue will never return. On the other hand, on the other hand, on that day, the people of Nanshe pretended to be "a few and a few times the wind and currents" at the end of the Ming Dynasty, ate flowers and wine as a common meal, and used brothels as a cover for the revolution, but in the twenties, like Bao Tianxiao and Zhou Shuangjuan, they all became mass culture production machines, and it was a rare "Tianping Junyou", but Zhou Shuangjuan "gathered with various affairs on the sea, and returned to his heart like an arrow", rushing to return to Shanghai at 9:00 p.m., returning home to Shanghai on a train, going home and sleeping upside down, "dreaming vividly, as if in the midst of painting flowers".
The Famous Flower of the Sea, Fuchun Lou Liu Niang, Shanghai Pictorial, January 30, 1927.
After more than half a year, Zhou Shuangjuan wrote that fuchun was the sixth because of Yuan Hanyun. In 1922, Guan Haifeng made a piece of "Red Pink Skull", and asked Yuan to hang up the name of the screenwriter and send five hundred oceans, which shows his fame. However, Yuan not only has cultural capital, but also has talent, as one of the main writers of the Shanghai Pictorial, often publishes his poems and calligraphy works, many of which are written for prostitutes. On January 30, 1927, this issue of "Shanghai Pictorial" made sufficient publicity for Fuchun Lou, and published a photo on the front page, and the second page had a men's clothing photo, and Han Yun wrote an inscription for it: "Dancing Turbid World", and also said: "The six ladies of the Fuchun Lou Lord, the word Fengzhu, the absolute posture." Zhang Zhi's small garden on the sea, this shadow is like a good prince, specially titled "Shanghai Pictorial" published. In addition, there is a couplet sent to Fuchun Lao Liu: "Article Nine Bud Phoenix, Lingqi Ten Hu Zhu." "The little seal is carefully written. Interestingly, a group photo of "Yuan Hanyun Xiansheng and His Lady Meiyun" published on another page of the same issue, although his wives and concubines were in groups, he went everywhere to find flowers and visit willows, and this time it was Fuchun Lao Liu who was infatuated.
Shanghai Pictorial, January 30, 1927.
Yuan Hanyun Book Gift Fuchun Lou Couplet, Shanghai Pictorial, January 30, 1927.
Zhou Is a reporter for Shanghai Pictorial and provides an article every day. He and Han Yun were friends with Jin lan, so he wrote "Trivia Between Flowers" and published it in the same day pictorial. The text reads: "Fuchun Lou Liu Niang, Clan Xu, small characters Fengzhu." Graceful Na Min lively, eyes are full of desire, Brother Yun drama rewards, every feast must be summoned six, the intention to soar, drink no count. Zhou did not pay much attention to Fu Liu in the article "Tianping Jun's Travels", and he was probably not impressed, and this time "eyes are full of desire" seems to tell yuan Hanyun the secret of her popularity, which is nothing more than a footnote for "Absolute Posture".
Yuan Hanyun often gave gifts to prostitutes, most of which helped to support the business as an advertisement. "Dancing Turbidity" contains the meaning of "out of the mud without staining", which is quite unusual to elevate the rich six, and it seems that there is no mirror projection of Yuan's self. Since then, her photographs have appeared on the front page of Shanghai Pictorial, and the elegance of her costumes seems to be more exquisite than that of celebrities. At that time, the short-sleeved cheongsam became popular, and her wide-sleeved cheongsam was about a retro fashion style. There is a pattern full of clouds and dragon patterns, presumably extremely colorful, appearing in the Shanghai Pictorial, the Red Rose Pictorial, and Zhou Shuangjuan's Violet magazine. Another example is a "men's clothing" photo in the Shanghai Pictorial on December 15, 1928, wearing a long shirt, wearing a felt hat, and stepping on a bench, although the waist plate is not straight enough, the eyes are not wide enough, but as a prostitute is also quite out of line.
Fuchun Lou Liu, Red Rose Pictorial, April 1928.
Fuchun Lou, Violet, November 1928.
Men's Clothing of the Six Widows of the Famous Flower Fuchun Building, Shanghai Pictorial, December 15, 1928.
Fuchun Lou is a fan of the play, especially Mei Lanfang. During Mei Lanfang's performance in Shanghai, the Robin Hood tabloid featured an article titled "Poison in the Fuchun Building" that sneered at her, saying that she loved to look at Mei Lanfang, "and mei was as quiet as Boss Mei, and this poison was not bad" (December 20, 1926). In fact, the title of the article is hidden in the mystery: "槑" is the ancient character of "Mei", on the surface, It is said that Fu Liu hit Mei Lanfang's "poison", but "syphilis" is a sexually transmitted disease that prostitutes are prone to, and it will be contagious, so it implies insults to her and is malicious.
In addition, "Sherlock Holmes" became more famous in the tabloids, specifically against the old six of Fuchun, sending paparazzi reporters to follow and chase. In December, she published two articles in succession, "Fuchun Lou Avoided Debts to Wumen" and "Fuchun Lou Suspended to Beijing", saying that she was heavily indebted and went north to seek development. He also said that she was fond of getting along with the lingren in Suzhou, and even hooked up with the coachman, so that the reputation offended the guests and wrote her very badly. Fu Liu was angry and filed a complaint with the court. The newspaper "Sherlock Holmes" is also interesting, often accused of going to court, and will also publish the court trial process one by one in the newspaper, of course, it is also a hype tactic. The court's outcome of the preliminary trial was unfavorable to Fu Liu because he had wrongly sued someone. The lawyer she hired was Chen Zemin, one of the top barristers in Shanghai, so she said that she would withdraw the lawsuit in court and instead sue Wu Weiyu, the editor-in-chief of Sherlock Holmes. The court retried The Times Library admitted its mistake and apologized, and with the consent of the mediator Fu Liu, the accusation was withdrawn. On December 29, the newspaper", "Fuchun Lou and this newspaper's litigation and settlement record", Yun: "Fu Liu went to the Soviet Union to perform a drama, all for the sake of enthusiastic Sangzi public welfare, there is no reason to avoid debts, let alone seek profits, this newspaper is untrue, resulting in litigation." On the 28th of this month, the Provisional Court held a hearing, and this newspaper apologized. Fu Liu also deeply understood, prepared to withdraw the lawsuit, a word of ice release, forever settled the dispute, and sincerely good things. "Ridiculous "Sherlock Holmes" before and after, sincere apologies, but also prostitutes with dignity. This matter can be seen that Fuchun Building is not simple, resort to legal struggle to win justice, of course, can afford to hire a barrister, should spend a lot of money.
When fighting with "Sherlock Holmes", Fu Liu acted on the Toad Stage, and his performance advertisement was published in the "Declaration".
Declaration, December 20, 1927
Fuchun Lou Lao Liu's "Fenhe Bay", Jing Bao, December 18, 1927.
Earlier, the "Shanghai Pictorial" had reported that the owner of the Tiantou Stage invited her to perform plays such as "Wu Zhaoguan" and "June Snow", and said that she was "instructed by the famous ticket friend Gu Muchaojun, so she is extraordinary." At the end of the year, she did appear on stage, and almost at the same time, the Crystal Newspaper had stills of her performance of "Fenhe Bay", not said in which theater.