has produced many extraordinary women in the history of China. With their outstanding talents and abilities, they conquered the world. In ancient times, there was Wu Zetian in the Han Dynasty, Liu E in the Song Dynasty, and the Empress Dowager Cixi and the mother of the country Song Qingling. They are all personalities of their respective eras, and they are admirable, but today I’m talking about a woman from the Shanghai beach of the Republic of China. She conquered countless people with her smile and conquered countless people and became their minds. goddess.
This woman is a generation of actresses who have made great contributions to Chinese silent films. Ruan Lingyu, known as "Ingrid Bergman of China", has filmed 29 films in her life, each of which represents China at that time. The highest performance level of silent movies, but due to war and other reasons, only nine of her works can be passed down. Ruan Lingyu was a well-deserved celebrity superstar of that era, but behind his glamorous appearance, there are indeed endless vicissitudes of life.
Ruan Lingyu’s misfortune began when she was young. She grew up in a single-parent family. When she was six years old, her father died of tuberculosis. The pillars of the family collapsed. In order to survive, Ruan’s mother had to do odd jobs four times to support herself and her sick daughter. Later, the mother and daughter came to Zhang’s house to work as servants. This was considered to be settled. Ruan Lingyu’s mother wanted her daughter not to Following in her own footsteps, she kept gritting her teeth and insisting on letting her study, and even sent her to Chongde Girls' School to study in order to get a better education.
It was a great blessing to enter the Zhang family’s life to stabilize and have the opportunity to learn in that era, but for Ruan Lingyu, it was also the beginning of a great tragedy in her life. In Zhang’s family she met her life-long nemesis Zhang Jiasi Master Zhang Daming. The 16-year-old Ruan Lingyu was already slim and graceful at this time, and the youthful student temperament of studying abroad deeply attracted Zhang Daming. In order to catch up with this little beauty, Zhang Daming worked hard and stalked. After coaxing and deceiving, Ruan Lingyu was in love with Zhang Daming. Under Zhang Daming's sweet words, she thought that this was the legendary love, so she plunged into Zhang Daming's arms and started living together, and dedicated herself to Zhang Daming. However, this relationship only lasted for a few months before being discovered by the Zhang family master. He angrily expelled Ruan Lingyu’s mother and daughter from the Zhang family. The helpless Ruan Lingyu vowed to support herself and her mother on her own. She was only 16 years old. He was admitted to a star film company and began his brilliant career in film art.
The lovers who once pledged to each other began their own different lives. The diligent Ruan Lingyu began to emerge on the film stage and his fame became more and more. After the death of his father, Zhang Daming inherited his father’s huge inheritance of more than 100,000 and has lived his own rich family. The life of the son, but Zhang Da is clearly a man who is full of food, drink, prostitution, gambling, and smoking. In a few years, he squandered the inherited property and owed usury. The speechless Zhang Daming thought of the shadowy queen now in full swing. Ruan Lingyu, his lover, shamelessly ran to Ruan Lingyu for money. Whenever Ruan Lingyu wanted to refuse, he rioted in the studio and threatened him with the news about his past. The yellow tabloid of
at that time was the most enthusiastic news about this subject, and another actress of the Republic of China, Butterfly, was deeply trapped in it. Ruan Lingyu was afraid that such a thing would happen to her and had to use money to plug her mouth, and Zhang Daming got it. For a long-term meal ticket, Ruan Lingyu even got a job as a cinema manager with a monthly salary of 120 yuan through her relationship in order to get rid of Zhang Daming's entanglement.
However, Zhang Daming is not ready to let Ruan Lingyu go. What she worries most still happened. She is deeply trapped in the quagmire of the reputation of Zhang Daming and Tang Jishan, and the unscrupulous tabloids also seized the explosive theme and suffered slander and insult. Ruan Lingyu, who had nowhere to ask, eventually became humiliated and committed suicide by taking sleeping pills on Women's Day in 1935.
And this famous movie star in his lifetime, the grief and glory after his death is also extremely flourishing. The Shanghai reporter of the "New York Times" described her funeral as "this is the greatest mourning in the world" except for Ruan Lingyu's death. In addition to seeing off friends, the people of Shanghai spontaneously mourned them, with as many as 300,000 people. The team stretched for three kilometers, and there were even five young girls who committed suicide.
