Ever since Empress Dowager Cixi invited the Beijing opera team into the Summer Palace, "Beijing opera" spread among the upper class at that time. Until the collapse of the Qing Dynasty and the rise of the Republic of China, this trend of listening to dramas did not disappear.
In the 1920s and 1930s, even though the whole country suffered from war and the displacement of disaster victims, Guangzhou, Tianjin and other places were able to live a peaceful and happy life behind closed doors because of the protection of many concessions.
Among them, Greater Shanghai is particularly prosperous and luxurious, not only the economy is booming in a deformed social background, but the cultural world has also ushered in a hundred flowers.
Under such a background, the gadgets of the northern high society naturally spread to Shanghai, and Beijing Opera is one of them.
In the great Shanghai at that time, as long as it was a famous Peking opera horn, it would definitely be sought after when it arrived in Shanghai, and the newspaper could often see the red people in the hall fighting in public for a certain corner.
However, listening to the drama and listening to the heart, the big lady who eloped with the drama, Rao was an open atmosphere on the beach, but the Unified Communist Party only produced such a one.
She is the prototype of Bai Yuting in "The Gate of the Big House", but what she really did was more out of line than Bai Yuting
Shanghai in the 1920s and 1930s was the "Pearl of the Far East", and there were naturally countless tycoons and rich merchants attached to this pearl, all of whom were leaders in their respective industries, and "Qiu Tianbao Silver Building" also occupied a place in it.
As the third lady of Qiu Tianbao Silver Building, even if her father died when she was 8 years old, it did not prevent Qiu Lilin from becoming the premier celebrity on the beach - she had a brother who was good at business, a shrewd and capable mother, and a legacy left by her father.
Even without these external objects, Jollylyn's 1/8 Scottish mixed-race appearance and the aura of graduating from a girls' school in the French Catholic Church show her difference.
Such a "delicate and proud woman" was also seduced by the graceful eyes on the stage, and the owner of the eyes was named Zhou Xinfang.
Zhou Xinfang came from a family of qu artists, and sang on stage at the age of 6, and is a Peking Opera performance artist with the same name as Mei Lanfang, a generation of famous people. His self-created "Qi Pai" old student singing method has been sought after by many Peking Opera lovers.
Qiu Lilin was fascinated by this person at the first sight of seeing Zhou Xinfang on the stage, and with the many letters exchanged later, she gradually evolved from obsession to indispensable to him.
Zhou Xinfang also found in the letters that this big lady was different from the wisdom and connotation of others, but she also lost more and more of the initial contempt, and the sincerity was relative.
Bai Yuting in "The Gate of the Big Mansion" just carried wan Xiaoju's photo back to get married, and Qiu Lilin, a proud big miss, directly made an appointment with Zhou Xinfang to elope.
Qiu Lilin fled to Suzhou with Zhou Xinfang, but left a mess for her family in Shanghai: the secret of the escape of the rich lady and the drama is the gossip news that every newspaper is keen on, not to mention that Zhou Xinfang had a husband and wife and three children at that time.
The Qiu family closed the door for several days, discussed for a long time but still could not reach a consensus: most people were in favor of publishing a statement in the newspaper and disassociating themselves from miss three, but the principal of the Qiu family, their mother, did not agree, so the matter was never decided.
Mrs. Qiu was very harsh on her son and daughter-in-law, but she was responsive to this little daughter. Not only did she not agree to break off the relationship, but she also sent someone to secretly go to the countryside of Suzhou to see if this daughter, who had been raised from childhood, had suffered hardships.
Qiu Lilin naturally suffered a lot, or a lot of suffering, but unfortunately she herself did not feel it.
Zhou Xinfang's mother gambled well, and most of the dividends earned by her son's singing were taken by her to honor the gambling house owner. Unfortunately, not only did he not win back a star and a half, but he also owed a bunch of foreign debt.
Once upon a time, Zhou Xinfang came to the stage day by day, and the hooligans who wanted debts still felt that there was a thriving cash cow, so they were still kind to their mother and son;
But now the newspapers in Shanghai are all over the place where Zhou Xinfang abducted the miss of the Qiu family in the silver building, and in the future, I am afraid that I will not even be able to get to the edge of the stage, where will the money come from?
As a result, the houses in the countryside of Suzhou were surrounded by hooligans who wanted debts, and only shouted that "it is natural to pay off debts", and Qiu Lilin, who had never seen this battle, was really frightened.
However, in the end, it is from a large family, and the pickled things on the surface have never been seen, and the momentum is still there. Qiu Lilin then sold some fur jewelry she brought out, sent away the rogue who asked for debts, and also won the heart of the lover.
Not only that, she also took the initiative to send a letter to her mother, bluntly saying that if the Qiu family felt that her daughter had corrupted the family style, she was willing to publish a newspaper to dissolve the relationship, and she did not want the Inheritance of the Qiu family.
How could Mrs. Qiu really let her daughter suffer from wandering and helplessness, and invited the middle man to find Zhou Xinfang, and after he agreed to divorce the original partner, he immediately held a wedding ceremony for the two, which was considered to recognize Zhou Xinfang, the son-in-law.
After marrying Zhou Xinfang, Qiu Lilin changed her temperament from Miss Jiao, grasped her husband's performance affairs in her hands, and became his professional agent.
At that time, the people in the Peking Opera circle were basically "female protagonists inside and outside", and Mei Lanfang's wife Fu Zhifang was an example.
They have to talk to the theater about the appearance fee, the rehearsal time, the details of the rehearsal, and also deal with the chores of a whole drama class, and the things they have to do are like the "Pear Garden Wife" in Japan today, which is many and complicated and tiring.
Qiu Lilin is even worse than Fu Zhifang's point, is that Fu Zhifang came from a Peking Opera family and knew all kinds of doorways from childhood, but Qiu Lilin did not understand.
Even so, it was not difficult for her. Although the experience is not enough, but the Qiu family's network social network is not in vain, soon she did a good job, everything is thoughtful and careful, fair and upright, the relationship between the husband and wife is still like glue, giving birth to two sons and four daughters.
Jollyn knows the importance of education, so she can say that she has devoted herself to the education of her children. Later, the private property was confiscated, and the Qiu family silver building was also handed over to the government by the eldest brother, and the annual dividend was naturally gone, but Qiu Lilin was still unwilling to be a general in education.
She sold the garden house she bought when she got married and her dowry, pooled the money to send her children to the United States to study, and let the children freely choose what they liked.
Therefore, among the six children, there is Zhou Shaolin, the eldest son who inherited the mantle of his father and later became the inheritor of the national intangible cultural heritage;
There is the third daughter Zhou Caiqin, who became the first Chinese film girl;
There is Chow Cetz, a young girl of Hong Kong entertainment industry tycoons who has won the popularity of Cheung Kwok-wing and Jacky Cheung;
Zhou Yinghua, the second son of the intoxicated catering industry;
There are also the eldest daughters of well-known San Francisco businessmen and writers, Zhou Caizao, and the second daughter, Zhou Caiyun.
Qiu Lilin's life creed is to be a person with an independent spirit.
From the various life events in her life, such as choosing a husband, educating her children, and even the handling of the stormy years, it can be seen that although Qiu Lilin is a squeamish young lady, she is really bold and responsible, especially for her love.
In 1975, Zhou Xinfang died, and was finally buried with his beloved wife, who left 7 years earlier; before dying, the old man chanted, "She finally waited for me."