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This photo was taken in 1946. Not long after the War of Resistance Against Japan ended, the struggle between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party had begun. It is really surprising that there was such a fashionable party in the country under a tense atmosphere. The woman in the photo has a mixed and matched dress and high heels. She has a relaxed expression and a dignified demeanor, and is not as dark and bitter as ordinary people think in 1946.
These beautiful and charming ladies gathered together because of a selection meeting called "Miss Shanghai".
This beauty pageant, hosted by Shanghai's famous "rogue tycoon" Du Yuesheng , was held in the name of raising funds and relief for northern Jiangsu, which suffered from floods at that time. It is unprecedented in the history of the Republic of China. There are more than 3,000 candidates, the oldest is 28 years old and the youngest is 17 years old, including students, civil servants, dancers, socialites, movie stars, sports stars, drama stars, etc. Even the circle of celebrities, which rarely appears in public, has set off a trend of participating in beauty pageants. For a time, "Miss Shanghai" became a topic that countless citizens talked about every day, and its popularity was comparable to the current "China Has Hip Hop".
However, the situation was not smooth at the beginning.
After all, in the past, those who were associated with "beauty pageants" were all prostitutes, and some courtesans, queens, etc. were selected for entertainment only. The first time it was so formally selected beauty contest in the name of disaster relief, the news came out, alarmed the entire Shanghai and even the whole country. The media was hyping up, and controversy followed. Especially in one of the swimsuit competitions in the election, the contestants had to wear swimsuits to show them to the public, which was shocking more than 60 years ago.
In order to help beauty pageant "whitewash", Du Yuesheng used newspapers such as " declaration " and "News News" to make a large number of reports on disaster relief. One month after the registration for the event started, a second-year high school girl in Shanghai Minli Girls' High School signed up for the election. The girl's name was Gao Qingyi, and she became the first person for an ordinary woman to run for the election. The media immediately seized the highlight of the news to create momentum, and the people began to slowly accept that this was a charity event.
As the beauties who won the last round of the beauty pageant in the history of in the Republic of China , the "Miss Shanghai" in the photo ushered in the final final election at the Shanghai Xinxianlin Garden Dance Hall on August 20, 1946.
draft sets "minimum consumption", each ticket is 20,000 fiat currency, and 2,000 tickets are now sold. By 7 pm, there were already crowds of people on the dance floor and on the lawn. Big names and wealthy businessmen from all walks of life gathered, and many concubines and wealthy ladies also attracted to join in the fun. The selection process of
is divided into four groups: celebrity, dance star, singer, and Ping Opera (i.e. Peking Opera). The socialite group evaluated the first, second place and third place, while the other groups evaluated the queen and Asian queen. Votes are divided into three types: red, green and yellow. Voters spend money to buy them, with value ranging from 10,000 to 100,000 yuan. Whoever gets the highest value of the vote will win. It’s not like choosing a squad leader to vote, it’s just spending money to buy votes. If you don’t have some capital at home, you really can’t afford to participate in such a competition. This is probably the case when fighting for "father" during the Republic of China, which is the same as the current elections of idol groups such as AKB and SNH. However, in the past, they used to compete for real fathers, but now they compete for "parents with food and clothing".
At 11:00 a.m. at midnight, Peking Opera master Mei Lanfang, as the "grant presenter", announced the final winner of "Miss Shanghai" amid the hustle and bustle of singing and dancing. A woman named Wang Yunmei won the championship with a high vote worth 65,500 yuan, more than twice the votes than the runner-up, Xie Jiahua, the former most popular socialite.
Xie Jiahua was a famous family at that time. Her father was Xie Baosheng, a Shanghai chemical tycoon. She herself was a business student at Fudan University. She was good at eloquent, good at socializing, pure and beautiful, and she had great advantages in any aspect. Unexpectedly, he only received more than 25,000 votes, ranking second.
squeezed out the favorites to win the championship, and has not made a lot of appearance since the audition, Wang Yunmei, whose background immediately aroused the curiosity of citizens.
Someone recognized her as a dancer in the Shanghai Fairy Dance Palace. There is no reason to defeat the famous socialite Xie Jiahua by relying on popularity alone.Later, a tabloid said that Wang Yunmei's lover was a warlord in Sichuan. She once helped Du Yuesheng do an ore business. During the Anti-Japanese War, Du Yuesheng was exiled to Chongqing, and this person took good care of him. In order to repay the other party, Du Yuesheng secretly paid for Wang Yunmei to buy votes. Some people also say that this warlord is a famous Sichuan boss, Fan Shaozeng, " Haer Commander".
Fan Shaozeng is also very legendary. In folk legend, he has 40 concubines in the room. The most famous one is his 18 concubine, Yang Xiuqiong . Yang Xiuqiong was a famous swimming girl in the Republic of China period. She once represented China in the 10th Far East Games , and won four gold medals, shocked the Asian sports world. She was called the "Southern Mermaid". According to legend, she was also accepted as her adopted daughter by Soong Mei-ling and became one of the most sought-after "society" at that time.
However, after Yang Xiuqiong became famous, she was unable to maintain her competitive state due to the increase in commercial activities. She never had any good results after the Far East Games. She later married Hong Kong jockey Tao Boling and divorced soon after. Some people say that Fan Shaozeng forced the two to divorce during the marriage of Yang Xiuqiong and Tao Boling, and forced Yang Xiuqiong to take over. However, all these rumors were later denied by Fan Shaozeng's granddaughter.
In short, whether it is Yang Xiuqiong or "Miss Shanghai" Wang Yunmei, the beautiful face that was once very popular later gradually faded out of the public eye. The runner-up Xie Jiahua also faded out of
. After the beauty pageant, Xie Zeng once went to Hong Kong to develop and became a movie star, and later married wealthy businessman Rong Meishen. Rong wanted "Shanghai Second Miss" to stay at home and be a housewife, but as a progressive young man with knowledge and education, Xie Jiahua naturally could not tolerate the traditional concept of his husband. In addition, Rong later cheated on his marriage. In July 1948, Xie Jiahua committed suicide by taking sleeping pills.
Back to the evening of August 20, 1946, the beauty pageant that caused a sensation in the city. As the stage ended, the beauties' lives seemed to begin to come to an end. The third place Liu Deming and the queen of the dance star Guan Minli were later left unreported, and the queen of Pingju Yan Huizhu committed suicide in the 1960s. Only the singer queen Han Jingqing is a little relieved. She later went to Taiwan and became a well-known singer. She had an age-loving relationship with Liang Shiqiu and lived until she was 63 years old.
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