She is the goddess of Chinese movie , who can't be forgotten no matter how many generations have changed. She is the darling of the director's camera and an actor who is destined to be eaten by God.
She is a different kind of scenery in the eyes of men, sometimes beautiful and dignified, sometimes joyful and pleasant, but after the passion recedes, she has also become a victim of their Vanity Fair.
She was trapped in a terrible circle in her best years, and finally pushed herself to a desperate situation, making her life stop at 25 years old forever.
On the day of her funeral, 12 big names in the movie world carried the coffin, and 300,000 fans waved their tears along the street to bid farewell to her. She is the superstar Ruan Lingyu .
In the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, Ruan Lingyu was born in a low-level family in Shanghai. At that time, she was still called Ruan Fenggen. My father is the only labor force working in the Shanghai Pudong Asia Oil Warehouse. Every day, he is exhausted and earns a meager salary to cover the expenses of the family.
Due to long-term high-intensity physical labor, her father died from overwork when Ruan Lingyu was young, leaving them orphans and widowed mothers. In order to survive, her mother took Ruan Lingyu to a large family surnamed Zhang as a servant.
At that time, although she was already vigorously advocating the eradication of slavery and promoting new ideas, servants were still the lowest job. Although Ruan Lingyu's mother was illiterate, she gradually realized that "a woman's lack of talent is a virtue". The words are wrong. If you want your daughter to live with dignity, you must send her to school.
So when Ruan Lingyu was a child, her mother begged the head of the family to send her to a private school, and later she was sent to Shanghai Chongde Girls' School, which is owned by the Zhang family.
In order to protect her daughter's face for studying abroad and socializing, her mother told her not to call herself the daughter of a servant.
Maybe it's because her mother's teaching that she raised her face is too effective since she was a child. Ruan Lingyu has taken face very seriously since she was a child. She has to wear clean and decent clothes to school, study hard, walk with her chest up, and do things with humility and low-keyness. Forbearance, must not come true, and this kind of thinking also indirectly led to her final tragedy.
With the passage of time, Ruan Lingyu, who has grown up gradually, has become more and more marked. Her eyebrows are like mountains in the distance, her eyes are full of autumn water, her skin is creamy, and her smile is like flowers. Tall and slender, wearing a cheongsam with bumps and bumps, when he was fifteen or sixteen years old, walking on the street could attract many men to turn back frequently.
was at such an age when she met the young master Zhang Damin , who returned from studying in the Zhang family. The first time the two met was at the Zhang family's reception, and Zhang Damin couldn't take his eyes off the first sight of Ruan Lingyu.
Idol dramas are often used in the plot of a rich young master who falls in love with a servant girl. I don't know if it was written based on Ruan Lingyu and Zhang Damin.
Zhang Damin launched a ardent pursuit of Ruan Lingyu, Ruan Lingyu couldn't resist Zhang Damin's sugar-coated cannonballs, and the young girl's first love blossomed in that spring.
However, the relationship between the two aroused strong dissatisfaction with Mrs. Zhang's family. Zhang Damin simply took Ruan Lingyu and her mother out of the old house and rented a house outside and started living together.
Ruan Lingyu dropped out of Chongde Girls' School and adopted a girl with Zhang Damin. The couple lived a warm married life with their children and mother-in-law.
, but Zhang Damin is not a good man and a woman. After the passion fades, he is not willing to stay at home every day. Even a playboy like him will get tired of watching too much of a stunning beauty like Ruan Lingyu. Less than a year after the two lived together, Zhang Damin began to go out and spend the night, and the money he brought from home slowly ran out.
All Ruan Lingyu can do is wait in long dark nightsWhen the drunk Zhang Damin returned home, just when they were almost out of ammunition and food, Zhang Damin's brother Zhang Huichong recommended Ruan Lingyu to participate in the interview for the movie "The Named Couple".
Ruan Lingyu has never studied acting, but she was attracted by the director as soon as she made her debut, and has since stepped into the film and television industry.
Since then, Ruan Lingyu has used her salary to support Zhang Damin, an idler in society. Zhang Damin's college diploma is just a piece of paper, except for drinking and gambling.
Until the old man of the Zhang family passed away, Zhang Damin asked Ruan Lingyu to marry him in the mourning hall, so that he could get more property as a married woman, but Madam Zhang did not accept Ruan Lingyu at all. After
split up, Zhang Damin continued to squander with his few properties, and Ruan Lingyu gradually realized that he would not marry her.
Ruan Lingyu didn't think about leaving, but every time Zhang Damin satirized her with rather harsh words, saying that no one would want her if she left, and even threatened to sell the lace news that she had eloped with herself since she was sixteen to the tabloids. Ruan Lingyu has always loved face since she was a child, and she couldn't stand Zhang Damin's humiliation, so she could only follow her mother's persuasion to "be patient."
At first, Ruan Lingyu participated in some small production movies, and her reputation was not too high, but she won the praise of every director. She is very malleable. As long as the director clearly states her needs, Ruan Lingyu can perfectly interpret it in front of the camera, and even sometimes surprises the director.
director Sun Yu once said that she is the pride of the silent film era in China, and there is no doubt that she is an actor who is destined to be eaten by God.
In 1930, Ruan Lingyu became famous with "Spring Dreams in the Old Capital". At this time, her worth was much higher than Zhang Damin. Zhang Damin, who had lost all his fortune, lived a life of clothing, food, and mouth opening every day. The more chips he has, so no matter what he asks, Ruan Lingyu will try his best to meet it.
In 1932, the January 28 Incident broke out. Ruan Lingyu fled to Hong Kong with many actors for asylum, where she met Tang Jishan .
Tang Jishan is in the tea business and is a well-known playboy in the Hong Kong business circle. The first time she saw Ruan Lingyu, she was deeply attracted by her beauty. Vigorous pursuit.
At this time, Ruan Lingyu has been shrouded in the haze of Zhang Damin. Tang Jishan's gentle hometown has become the redemption she blindly seeks. Even if she has heard too much of Tang Jishan's romantic affairs, even if Zhang Zhiyun appeared and wrote a letter to persuade her, Ruan Lingyu still chose moths. Fight fire.
Ruan Lingyu of course also knows that Tang Jishan will not marry her, because his business is all supported by his wife in Guangzhou. She is a lady from a big family. The family business spreads all over the world. If Tang Jishan divorces her, she will become a pauper in minutes.
But Ruan Lingyu still hoped to rely on Tang Jishan as her backer to get rid of Zhang Damin like a tick, so after the situation stabilized a little, she returned to Shanghai and moved into the golden house that Tang Jishan bought for her.
At this time, Zhang Damin was already in despair, and he didn't dare to provoke Tang Jishan at all. He could only hold on to Ruan Lingyu like a dog skin plaster, and made an unreasonable request to pay 300 yuan a month for the breakup fee and pay for a full year.
Ruan Lingyu's monthly income at that time was only about 1,000 yuan, and it was really unbearable to give one-third to Zhang Damin. She asked Tang Jishan for help. In the end, the two parties agreed to pay 100 yuan per month for two years, but Zhang Damin must keep it secret from everyone.
Ruan Lingyu thought that after two years, she would be able to get rid of Zhang Damin completely, but Zhang Damin didn't want to let her go at all. Just before the contract expired in half a year, Zhang Damin asked Ruan Lingyu for a breakup fee of 5,000 yuan. Ruan Lingyu did not compromise this time. Unexpectedly, Zhang Damin brought her to court with a complaint.is theft.
Ruan Lingyu sold all the furniture in the house when she left Zhang Damin. Zhang Damin said he didn't know anything about it. Even though Ruan Lingyu made money to buy these, he couldn't argue because there was no evidence.
Zhang Damin's complaint even mentioned that Ruan Lingyu gave Tang Jishan's belongings, indirectly making Tang Jishan a defendant.
Tang Jishan was originally unwilling to participate in the entanglement between Ruan Lingyu and Zhang Damin, and was inexplicably involved in it and even attracted the attention of tabloid reporters, which made Tang Jishan furious. In fact, Tang Jishan is also tired of Ruan Lingyu, and has already looked for another place for gentleness, but Ruan Lingyu still has illusions about him.
Tang Jishan's business has been greatly affected due to the pressure of public opinion, and his wife also warned him. Tang Jishan, who has nowhere to vent his anger, began to beat and scold Ruan Lingyu, and the former elegant son finally showed his bestiality.
Ruan Lingyu wants to leave Tang Jishan, but when she thinks that her embarrassed appearance is widely reported by the media, it will be another scandal, and she can't stand being pointed at by people because of her thin skin.
When Ruan Lingyu was confused and helpless, Ruan Lingyu took the lead in the movie "New Women", which is a masterpiece of the era calling for women's independence and equality between men and women. Throughout his life, he was treated badly by men, played with his feelings by men, and had to face Youyou's public opinion. In the end, he couldn't bear the pressure of public opinion and chose to commit suicide.
After reading the script, Ruan Lingyu felt that it was completely tailor-made for her. She put a lot of effort into this play. Still can't calm down after that. Ruan Lingyu used this play to vent her frustrations, and she also met Cai Chusheng, the third and last man in her life.
Cai Chusheng admires Ruan Lingyu's talent, and did not care about Ruan Lingyu's rejection of herself when he was not famous during the casting of "New Women". During the filming of
, Cai Chusheng learned that Ruan Lingyu was deceived by Zhang Damin and Tang Jishan, and felt pity, and lamented that she was talented, but her peerless youth was held by two men and could not be free, and the fate of the heroine Wei Ming in the film so similar.
The appearance of Cai Chusheng became Ruan Lingyu's life-saving straw. She approached him in a panic, begging for alms and seeking protection and warmth. Little did she know that Cai Chusheng is not a good man, but he is not a prodigal son. He has a first wife in his hometown. , There is a cohabiting girlfriend in Shanghai, and there is really no room to take in Ruan Lingyu. So when Ruan Lingyu begged him to take her away, Cai Chusheng refused without hesitation.
At this time, Tang Jishan has ignored Ruan Lingyu, and Zhang Damin sees that she can't wait for Ruan Lingyu to surrender. Fortunately, the fish is dead and the net is broken, and all the secrets that Ruan Lingyu has been living with since she was 16 years old are sold to tabloid reporters.
All of a sudden, the love affair of this peerless beauty and actress of the era has become the talk of the street after dinner, and Ruan Lingyu finally has to face the most unacceptable thing in her life, disgraced and fearful.
On the evening of March 7, 1935, 25-year-old Ruan Lingyu attended a celebrity dinner. At the banquet, she was radiant, changing male partners frequently and dancing in the pool. Ruan Lingyu smiled brightly like fireworks.
was also on that night. She poured three bottles of sleeping pills into a bowl and ate none of the hot eight-treasure porridge, leaving only two suicide notes that were indistinguishable from the true and false, and the intriguing four words. "Awesome."
The superstar of the generation suddenly died, and Ruan Lingyu's death caused huge repercussions in the society. On the day of the funeral, 12 big movie stars, including Jin Yan, , and Sun Yu, carried her coffin, with 300,000 images.Fans spontaneously gathered on both sides of the road where the hearse passed to see her off, and many people burst into tears.
Not only that, but on that day alone, 5 female fans committed suicide in Shanghai, and similar incidents occurred in other provinces and cities. They are all advocates of new women's ideas. Ruan Lingyu is their spiritual pillar. dark.
Ruan Lingyu's short life not only contributed to the film industry, but also was consumed in a tragic love story, and finally ended in "terrifying".
