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1935 On March 8, 2019, the famous movie star Ruan Lingyu swallowed a large amount of sleeping pills at her residence in , Xinzha Road, Shanghai, and died of ineffective rescue. She was only 25 years old.
news came, causing a huge sensation in the society. Condolences and telegrams from all parties have been continuously sent, and then a public memorial was held at the Wanguo Funeral Home in Shanghai.
What is shocking is that on that day, three infatuated people committed suicide for her, leaving only the suicide note of "Since she has gone, we have no reason to live in this world."
March 14th, a grand funeral was held. The people who carried her coffin were all celebrities in Shanghai, including Jin Yan, Sun Yu, Fei Mu, Zheng Junli, Wu Yonggang, Cai Chusheng, Li Minwei, etc. About 300,000 people saw her off. The funeral procession lasted for 3 miles...
Even the New York Times on the other side of the ocean reported Ruan Lingyu's funeral on the front page headline the next day with the title "The Largest Funeral in Modern International".
, the film queen who was born in the silent film period, has a status of only , Hu Die in the film industry in the Republic of China.
The " Goddess ", "New Women", "Three Modern Women", etc., all of which are regarded as classics in the silent film period in China.
However, the war is raging. Only 9 of the 29 movies starring Ruan Lingyu are retained.
This peerless beauty has always been accompanied by misfortune and sorrow, and her meteor-like gorgeous life reveals a melancholy desolate feeling.
Ruan Lingyu's original name is Ruan Fenggen. Her ancestral home is Xiangshan, Guangdong, and she was born in a poor family in the bottom of Shanghai.
When she was 6 years old, her father, a worker, died of illness. The whole family relied on her mother to support others as servants.
A year later, Ruan Lingyu joined a wealthy family surnamed Zhang as a servant. It was the Zhang family that laid the foreshadowing for her life tragedy.
Because her mother was too busy with work and had no brothers and sisters, Ruan Lingyu had no playmate since she was a child. Such a life also created her melancholy and pessimistic personality.
Although her life is difficult, her mother knows the importance of studying. She doesn't want her talented daughter to follow her footsteps, so she found a nearby private school for Ruan Lingyu to go to school, named Ruan Yuying.
After a while, she felt that the "Three Character Classic" and "Daughter Classic" taught here were too pedantic and would not be useful in society in the future, so she had to study in a new school.
But she is a poor family, so she can’t afford the high tuition fees. Later, with the help of the Zhang family, she entered the famous Chongde Girls’ School in Shanghai for half a fee.
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1925, 15-year-old Ruan Lingyu had grown into a graceful and graceful girl.
She is a standard Jiangnan beauty with fair skin, beautiful eyebrows, tall figure and slender waist. All men who see her are very moved.
This girl with both beauty and wisdom naturally has no shortage of suitors around her, and the young master of the Zhang family Zhang Damin is one of them.
As the youngest son in the family, Zhang Damin was spoiled since childhood, and the whole family was very pampering. He was an absolute playboy.
result is a completely replica of Qiong Yao's drama. Ruan Lingyu is like Ke Yun in "Deep Love in Rain", and she and her mother were driven out of the door by the Zhang family.
But Zhang Damin still did not give up and helped Ruan Lingyu and his daughter rent a house without telling her family. Ruan Lingyu also quit school because of this, and the two lived together.
At first, he relied on the savings brought by Zhang Damin and the assistance from his brothers. Later, the Zhang family's parents could not let go of their son and decided to give them some living expenses monthly to maintain a normal life.
Soon, Zhang Damin's bad habit of spending life and drinking was exposed. He went out to dance, play mahjong, eat and drink all day long. The two of them had no source of income and their lives were in trouble.
Zhang Damin didn't care. He thought he couldn't make it, so he would go home. His parents would definitely take him in.
But Ruan Lingyu, who has a strong personality, doesn't think so. She decided to go out to work by herself. It's better to rely on herself than to rely on others.
1927 was a crucial year for Ruan Lingyu. She changed her name from Ruan Yuying to Ruan Lingyu and was successfully admitted to the celebrity film company.
made his debut in the movie "Famous Couple". His fresh face and natural performance have been unanimously recognized by the industry.
With the successive release of "Luoyang Bridge" and " Baiyun Tower ", the three words Ruan Lingyu have become famous in the Chinese film industry!
In "Wild Grass and Flowers", the 20-year-old became famous with her outstanding acting skills and also established her status as a big sister in the film industry.
Ruan Lingyu is a purely acting actor. She has a wide range of acting careers, such as concubines, wealthy daughters, female students, noble ladies, dancers, prostitutes, beggars, etc. In short, she plays like whatever she plays.
It’s a pity that the environment in China was not good at this time.
After the outbreak of the "January 28th Songhu Incident", many people in the Shanghai film industry went south to avoid the war, and Ruan Lingyu also fled to Hong Kong with her husband, mother and adopted daughter Xiaoyu.
Here, Ruan Lingyu met her second man in her life - Tang Jishan .
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Tang Jishan was a well-known wealthy businessman in the Republic of China at that time. He made a fortune by doing tea business and later became the major shareholder of Ruan Lingyu Movie Lianhua Company.
He meets almost all the girls' fantasies, mature and rich, successful in his career, and the most important thing is that he understands women's minds very well. However, he does not love these women, so he eventually becomes their nightmare.
After he got money, he began to invest in film art like today's business upstart. The purpose was not to make money, but to take this opportunity to meet more female stars in order to achieve the purpose of hunting.
In fact, Tang Jishan has a wife and children in his hometown in Guangdong. His first pot of gold in his business was related to his wife, and he never divorced his original wife later.
This married man has always lived a wandering life of "the red flag at home does not fall, and the colorful flags are flying outside".
He first met Zhang Zhiyun , the first film queen in Chinese film history. Although she was mediocre, she was very spiritual. She was simple-minded and was soon taken down by Tang Jishan.
After Zhang Zhiyun, who was ignorant of the world, committed himself to Tang Jishan, he thought he had a lifelong entrustment, so he withdrew from the film industry at the peak of his career and went to the United States to sell tea with him.
But the Americans were not interested in these teas at all. The two came with excitement and returned in disappointment. At this time, Tang Jishan saw that Zhang Zhiyun had no value, so she cruelly abandoned her.
Not only was his lover swept out, but Zhang Zhiyun was also dependent on the other party for 200,000 yuan in compensation. He compensated his wife and soldiers, which was really sad.
At this time, Ruan Lingyu had just arrived in Hong Kong and had a language barrier. Her husband Zhang Damin, who had lived with her for 8 years, was still half dead and only knew how to eat, drink and have fun every day.
Therefore, when Tang Jishan knew that she had a husband, she took advantage of the situation. Ruan Lingyu, who lacked warmth since childhood, could withstand this warm attack?
In her eyes, Tang Jishan is mature and steady, understanding, and can take care of others. Zhang Damin, who is like a child, is different from that.
He knew that Ruan Lingyu liked dancing, so he often asked her to go to the dance hall. The two of them had a close relationship with their skin, and over time they got better.
This matter soon spread in the circle, and Tang Jishan’s old lover Zhang Zhiyun also knew about it.
She was not surprised, but she was a little sad because she knew Tang Jishan's character well, so she kindly wrote a letter to Ruan Lingyu, two of which were: "If you see my today, you will know your tomorrow."
But at this time, Ruan Lingyu was in a passionate love and thought that Zhang Zhiyun deliberately sowed their relationship out of jealousy, so she didn't take it seriously.
Little did you know that all the gifts given by fate have already been secretly bidding for the price!
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In order to get rid of her husband in Hong Kong, Ruan Lingyu brought her mother and her adopted daughter Tang back to Shanghai at the suggestion of Tang Jishan.
In order to win the goddess' heart, Tang Jishan spent a huge amount of money to buy a small western-style building on Xinzha Road in Shanghai for her. This is also the place where Ruan Lingyu committed suicide later. After a year before and after
, Ruan Lingyu seemed to have found a man she could rely on, but this was just a false happiness.
However, the good times did not last long. Zhang Damin, who was dumped, chased him to Shanghai and suddenly appeared in front of her.
Jealousy made him suck the wind. He felt that Tang Jishan was almost 40 years old, and he could not tell any advantages except that he had money.
He asked Ruan Lingyu to go back with him, but she firmly said it was impossible, so she asked Ruan Lingyu to compensate him for his losses and said, "If it weren't for you, I would have gotten my father's inheritance of 250,000 silver dollars."
Because he knew that Ruan Lingyu would never be able to come up with this money, the reason for doing this was more out of hatred and revenge against her, and felt that Ruan Lingyu had betrayed him.
He came to ask for it again and again, just to prevent Ruan Lingyu from having a good time.
At first, out of guilt, Ruan Lingyu would give him some money, but in the end the lion spoke up and asked for 5,000 oceans at once (equivalent to 5 million today).
Tang Jishan said sarcastically, "You can give him money, I won't give it. If you promised him this time, you will get worse next time."
Ruan Lingyu then made up her mind and didn't give a penny.
Zhang Damin didn't expect that Ruan Lingyu, who had always obeyed the rules, would be so heartless, so he said, "If you don't give me money, I will expose all your life experience?"
His so-called life experience is that Ruan Lingyu is a servant's child, and she elopes with him at the age of 15.
Then the scoundrel went to the court to submit a lawsuit, saying that when Ruan Lingyu was living in his house, she stole the things from the house and gave them to Tang Jishan.
This is equivalent to suing Tang Jishan, and the local court in Shanghai accepted the case.
At this time, Tang Jishan was also angry. He was not looking for Ruan Lingyu for the purpose of love, so he asked her to come forward to publish a declaration in the newspaper saying that she did not give the Zhang family's things to him, and that they were financially independent.
What a face-saving person Ruan Lingyu is. Because of the scoundrel of the two men, she finally betrayed her, but she still wants to be with Tang Jishan in her heart.
So she endured it and issued an announcement in the newspaper: She lived with Tang Jishan and was financially independent, which proved Tang Jishan's innocence.
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This announcement was issued, and the whole country was in an uproar. All newspapers recorded Ruan Lingyu's husband escaped and lived with a married man.
Her psychology was severely hit. That is, the year before her death, she filmed the pinnacle of her life, "The Goddess", playing a mother who fell into a secret prostitute because of her poverty. She acted as a character in the role.
And at this moment, Tang Jishan has a new woman outside, a younger actress Liang Saizhen, and the two of them are in pairs.
Due to Zhang Damin's rogue and Tang Jishan's infidelity, Ruan Lingyu completely lost her emotional sustenance.
When she was discouraged, she met Cai Chusheng, the third man in her life. He is the only Chinese director among the 100 famous directors in the world. Later, she co-directed " A River of Spring Water Flows Eastward " with Zheng Junli.
By chance, Cai Chusheng found Ruan Lingyu to participate in "New Women", and this drama came true and became her elegy.
Until the last suicide scene, Ruan Lingyu lay on the bed and took a lot of sleeping pills. She felt that she could not die, otherwise the sin would disappear with her death.
At this time, she had a desire to survive and shouted to the doctor: "Save me, I want to live!"
Everyone present was moved by Ruan Lingyu's role, which made the audience burst into tears.
For this character, Ruan Lingyu once said: "How much I want to be such a new woman to get rid of her own destiny. Unfortunately, I am too fragile and not as strong as her."
During the filming process, she confides everything she does to Cai, and the two of them once had a subtle relationship.
At this time, the media was hyping up, Ruan Lingyu was lewd and ruthless, playing emotional games between two men.
Finally, Ruan Lingyu asked Cai Chusheng: "Can you take me away? Let's go to Hong Kong."
Cai Chusheng replied: I will still come back if I go...
In fact, Cai Chusheng is a family man, and he has to be responsible for his family, so he had to refuse, and of course he did not do anything wrong.
However, Ruan Lingyu completely lost hope of survival.
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1935 On March 6, 1935, the Shanghai District Court sent a summons to Ruan Lingyu, asking her to testify in court for the lawsuit against Zhang Damin at 9:30 am on March 8, otherwise she would be punished with detention.
Ruan Lingyu didn't want to think too much about what she would be humiliated in court. She decided to die rather than accept everyone's scolding.
The next day happened to be the birthday of the movie emperor Jin Yan. Ruan Lingyu had worked with him on " Love and Ownership ".
So at the birthday party, she broke into normalcy and laughed and made a fuss. At that time, everyone thought she was just drunk, but they didn't know that this was her farewell to everyone.
Before leaving, she said goodbye to everyone one by one, and said in tears: I am leaving. There is no banquet that will last forever in the world. Goodbye, goodbye, sisters!
After returning home, Ruan Lingyu had another fierce quarrel with Tang Jishan, and was beaten by Tang. After writing her suicide note, she took 3 bottles of 30 sleeping pills to commit suicide. After being sent to the hospital,
died due to ineffective rescue, he was only 25 years old.
It is said that when Ruan Lingyu took medicine in the early morning, Tang Jishan was by her side. In order to escape responsibility, he was unwilling to take her to a large hospital, but instead went to several small clinics, which delayed the best rescue opportunity, resulting in the death of a generation of superstars.
But no matter what, Ruan Lingyu's death is unrelated to Zhang Damin and Tang Jishan.
What is even more infuriating is that after Ruan Lingyu left, Tang Jishan and her new lover forged Ruan Lingyu's "auspicious letter ", causing the world to die because she died of the illusion that "people's words are fearful" in the outside world, in order to whitewash herself.
In the "authorized letter" issued by him, Ruan Lingyu's attitude towards Tang Jishan was: I am very sorry for you, and I have made you suffer for me.
This made the media turn the attack target to Zhang Damin. Although he is not a good person, he is not completely unconscience.
He was very sad about Ruan Lingyu's death, revoked all the prosecutions, and kept the last secret for her, that is, she was the daughter of a nanny.
, and Tang Jishan said hypocritically: "As Ruan Lingyu's husband, I cannot prevent her suicide, so it is naturally unforgivable. In this life, I will never marry again, and I am willing to be single until death. "
After Ruan Lingyu's death, Liang Saizhen, the lover who lives with Tang Jishan, felt deeply saddened by the fact that he was conscientious about Ruan Lingyu, so he threw out two true suicide notes of Ruan Lingyu in front of the media to reveal Tang Jishan's hypocritical face.
wrote to Zhang Damin as one: "Damin, I was forced to death by you. Now that you are satisfied, people must think I am afraid of sin? Actually, what crime can I be afraid of..."
wrote to Tang Jishan as another:
"Ji Shan, without you being obsessed with Liang Saitian, without you hit me that night, and hit me again tonight, I probably wouldn't do this. After I die, there will definitely be people saying that you are a demon who plays with women in the future, but I am no longer alive at that time, so you will suffer it yourself.I am dead, but I dare not hate you. I hope you will treat your mother and Xiao Nannan (adopted daughter Xiaoyu)....”
This suicide note completely tore up Tang Jishan's false face and exposed his hypocrisy and shamelessness to the world.
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After Ruan Lingyu's death, what will happen to these two scumbags?
Zhang Damin returned to the Zhang family, continued to live his young master's life, and married a woman of equal status. Get married and have children.
But only three years later, on October 15, 1938, this man who had been mediocre all his life died of malaria on the streets of Hong Kong.
After the new suicide note was disclosed, Tang Jishan was scolded by the media to the end of her body, but he continued to hang out with all kinds of women, and in 1948 he married Wang Youjia, a master of drama at Cambridge University.
In the past year, affected by the situation, he and his wife left the mainland tea company and fled to Taiwan. After
, their business plummeted, but he was romantic and often went to bars and dances, causing trouble.
1960, the arrogant Wang You family could not bear the betrayal of her husband, and eventually ran away from home with her son and announced their divorce.
After that, Tang Jishan was in trouble. First, he was defrauded of a large amount of money, but eventually broke due to poor management. . After the villa was mortgaged out, he became a beggar who was wandering on the streets and died miserably a few years later. This is also a retribution.
After writing about Ruan Lingyu's miserable life experience, he felt sad inside.
April once said: "If you find yourself becoming more and more beautiful when you look in the mirror, then you are in love with the right person. "
On the contrary, the beauty of marriage is getting worse and worse, that is, love the wrong person, but it doesn't matter if you love the wrong person. As long as you have the ability to stop loss in time, everything can be restored.
Ruan Lingyu once hoped that she could become a prodigal terminator, but real prodigal sons have no terminator. They will continue to let one woman after another in their lives.
Therefore, women must learn to love themselves, and the best way to love themselves is to take good care of their emotions and stay away from those who consume you.
So, choosing a suitable partner can really determine the direction of your life. I hope everyone can meet the good man in their own life, and encourage you!
