When talking about the movie queens of the Republic of China, the people who talked about most were Hu Die and Ruan Lingyu. In fact, before Hu Die and Ruan Lingyu, the first movie queen in Chinese film history was Zhang Zhiyun. Zhang Zhiyun’s life is full of legends. From a silent film to a beggar on the street, the ups and downs of life are embarrassing...
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"Every time she plays, she has her sorrow, almost no face. It's not full of tears."
In the 1920s, Zhang Zhiyun, with a touch of sadness between his brows, with his sincere and touching performances, with countless fans, became a popular movie star in Shanghai at that time.
Like Ruan Lingyu, who is 6 years younger than her, Zhang Zhiyun often plays tragic roles in movies and is hailed as the "tragic master".
At the age of 22, Zhang Zhiyun was elected with 2146 votes in a selection event jointly organized by a number of film companies, becoming China's first film queen.
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Zhang Zhiyun was born in a poor state, and embarked on the road of being a shadow, because of a "stealth incident."
At that time, the Great China Film Company published a newspaper to recruit film actors. Among the large number of photos it received, none of them were eye-catching.
Later, the film company discovered that the original good-looking photos had been stolen by the reporter. They ordered the reporter to hand over the photos. Among the photos the reporter handed over was Zhang Zhiyun.
Zhang Zhiyun is not pretty, but there is a touch of melancholy between her eyebrows, and she has a special charm. The film company is very optimistic about her and sent her to training and study. From then on, Zhang Zhiyun embarked on the road of filming.
entered the showbiz. She met the photographer Bu Wancang. Bu Wancang took a lot of pictures for her. The two fell in love, but as Zhang Zhiyun became popular, a crack formed between the two.
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Here we return to Ruan Lingyu, because there are too many similarities between Zhang Zhiyun and Ruan Lingyu.
They are not only similar in family background, but also in emotion-falling in love with the same man, and abandoned by the same man.
Zhang Zhiyun is a Cantonese. Her father died when she was 3 years old and was brought to Shanghai by her adoptive mother. Ruan Lingyu was born in Shanghai, and her ancestral home is Guangdong. Her father died when she was 6 years old. Her mother took her to work as a nanny in a large family.
After Zhang Zhiyun became famous, he fell in love with Tang Jishan, a rich tea merchant. After all, Tang Jishan came to see the younger and beautiful Ruan Lingyu and abandoned Zhang Zhiyun.
Zhang Zhiyun wrote to Ruan Lingyu in order to keep Tang Jishan, "My today is your future."
Ruan Lingyu disagrees, and walked with Tang Jishan, but Tang Jishan later transferred to love and fell in love with a dancing girl.
Ruan Lingyu was emotionally frustrated and frustrated, leaving behind a terrible sentence, leaving the world. After
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was abandoned by Tang Jishan, Zhang Zhiyun once returned to the film industry to make a living, but at that time has entered the era of sound films, she only speaks Cantonese, and there are more and more young actors, and the director no longer asks her for filming. . When
turned out to be a big hit, Zhang Zhiyun got into the habit of smoking big cigarettes, and he saved a lot from smoking big fireworks. In addition, there were fewer and fewer filmings, and life became more and more difficult.
Old writer Tang Lusun once wrote an article to record Zhang Zhiyun’s experience in the early days of the War of Resistance against Japan:
"In the early days of the War of Resistance, the major hotels in Tianjin did not live in legitimate tourists, but wandering bees and butterflies. I often go outside the residents and let a group of goddesses make their nests. One day I went to'Paris' to visit friends. At the corner of the elevator on the third floor, I saw a beautiful lady, who has a natural face and a rich charm; I seem to have known each other, and I am shocked. For a moment, I remembered that she was Zhang Zhiyun. "
turned out to be a prostitute in a hotel for a living.
Later, Zhang Zhiyun went to Hong Kong and had a marriage with a man named Zhang Shuping, but this marriage did not start well.
's life in Hong Kong was very difficult. Zhang Zhiyun often worries about not being able to pay the rent. In the end, he has to beg along the street.
In the mid-1970s, Zhang Zhiyun, who was poor and sick, left this world.
The world is not easy, but it is rare to reach completion. Preparing a pension for yourself and preparing for adversity in good times is not to test humanity, but to provide an extra layer of protection for your happiness in the second half of your life.
