Ruan Lingyu, The Queen of Silent Films in Old Shanghai in the 1930s, is known as "China's Ingrid Bergman". On the morning of Women's Day in 1935, at the age of 25, she chose to commit suicide at the peak of her career. The whole of China was in an uproar. She filmed 29 movies in her life, her genius acting was constantly missed by future generations, and her legendary life was constantly interpreted by future generations. However, is the death of Ruan Lingyu really the saying "People's words are terrifying"? This has been a mystery for a long time.
suicide night and funeral scene
On the evening of March 7, 1935, Ruan Lingyu attended a family gathering between some employees of Lianhua Film Company at the family gathering of Li Minwei (Gigi Lai's grandfather) and Lin Chuchu 8. No one expected that this would be the last party she had before her death. In more than ten hours, she would die.
The next day she will face a lawsuit about her ex-husband Zhang Damin and her current cohabiting boyfriend Tang Jishan.
But at the banquet, Ruan Lingyu was calm and dressed appropriately. She wore a tight cheongsam with green-bottomed flowers, and her big wavy curly hair. She wore a ruby earrings for love gifts from Tang Jishan to her on her earlobe. She chatted and laughed, toasted everyone frequently, and said sincerely to director Shi Dongshan director: "Director Shi, what movies do you have in the future? Let's work together to shoot one!" After the toast, she kissed Li Minwei's 8-year-old son Li Keng. This little ghost is not only the boss's son, but also plays Ruan Lingyu's son in "Goddess". When the banquet was over, no one could tell that she was abnormal.
At 2 a.m. on March 8, Ruan Lingyu left Li's house for four hours and swallowed three bottles of sleeping pills and committed suicide.
14 at 1:00 pm, Ruan Lingyu's coffin was carried on a hearse from Jinyan , Sun Yu, Fei Mu, Zheng Junli, Wu Yonggang, Cai Chusheng, Li Minwei , and 12 big bowls of Chinese film industry at that time, and moved from Shanghai Wanguo Funeral Home to Lianyi Villa Cemetery in Zhabei. 300,000 movie fans spontaneously went to pay their respects. The funeral tribute team lasted for more than ten miles. On the day she committed suicide, five movie fans in Shanghai followed him and claimed that : "Idols are dead, what's the point of living?"
Ruan Lingyu's suicide shocked the whole of China. The funeral scene comparable to the state funeral scene shocked the world. The next day, the front page of " New York Times " published the funeral scene that day, calling it "the largest funeral in the modern world" .
The great writer Lu Xun, who lived in simplicity, also wrote an article "On the Words of People Are Awesome".
Ruan Lingyu left, but her death became a mystery.
Two fake suicide notes and real suicide notes were exposed
After Ruan Lingyu's death, who killed her and the reason for her suicide became the most gossip topic of movie fans and tabloid reporters.
Under the urging of people in the film industry, Tang Jishan, a man who lives with her, first took out a sloppy " letter to the society" , signed " Ruan Lingyu's final pen" . In the article, he accused Ruan Lingyu's ex-husband Zhang Damin of unreasonable entanglement, and finally wrote " people's words are fearless " twice, pointing the suicide finger at the ex-husband and social public opinion.
However, Ruan Lingyu's colleagues in the film industry at that time determined that the suicide note was suspicious and must have another suicide note. After repeated questioning, Tang Jishan published the second forged suicide note. In the tone written by Ruan Lingyu to him, he said "I am very sorry for you and made you suffer for me." "I have a spirit after my death and will protect you forever."
The truth was revealed 66 years later. In 2001, scholar Shen Ji accidentally discovered a "Si Ming Business Journal" with a very small circulation of two suicide notes.
The first letter was written to Zhang Damin:
Damin:
I was forced to death by you, who would believe it? Don’t you think about the monthly allowance of 100 yuan after I separated from you? You are so unscrupulous. Now that I am dead, you are probably satisfied! People must think I am afraid of sin? Actually, I am so guilty. I just regret that I shouldn’t be the match between you two, but it’s too late! No need to cry! I won't live anymore! There is no need to repent, because things have reached this point.
The second letter was written to Tang Jishan:
Ji Shan:
Not you are obsessed with Liang Saizhen (the dancer star that Tang Jishan just hooked up with), without you hit me that night, and hit me again tonight, I probably wouldn't have done this! After I die, there will definitely be people saying that you are a demon who plays with women in the future, and even more so that I am a soulless woman. But at that time, I am no longer alive, so you can bear it yourself! Zhiyun in the past (the movie star Zhang Zhiyun in the past supported by Tang Jishan), today, who will be tomorrow, I think you know it yourself.
I am dead, I dare not hate you, I hope you will treat your mother and little Nannan (Ruan Lingyu's adopted daughter). There is also the labor owed by Lianhua (the film company where Ruan Lingyu worked) owed me 2,050 yuan. Please pay attention to them carefully, because you can only rely on them! Without me, you can do what you like, and I'm very happy. The mentality, tone and writing style of these two suicide notes are indeed consistent with Ruan Lingyu's personal writing.
And while publishing two suicide notes from Ruan Lingyu, "Siming Business Journal" also published an article stating that the person who provided the two suicide notes was the sisters of Liang Saizhen, the party involved in the incident.
Liang Saizhen
The article revealed that After Ruan Lingyu committed suicide, Tang Jishan was afraid of social pressure and asked Liang Saizhen's sister Liang Saishan to write for her, forged the two suicide notes above, and used the excuse of "people's words are fearful" to push the blame for his abuse of Ruan Lingyu to the society.
After the real suicide note was exposed, a greater hidden story emerged:
Ruan Lingyu took the medicine at 1 a.m., and it was found that it was 2 hours later. If rescue was promptly done at that time, it would be time. However, in order to evade responsibility, Tang Jishan deliberately delayed the best rescue opportunity. First, on the grounds of confidentiality, he went to a Japanese hospital where he was far away and there was no doctor on duty, and then went to a private doctor's clinic, and finally sent him to a real large hospital. It was already past ten o'clock the next morning. At this time, Ruan Lingyu had already died for too long and there was no time to rescue her.
In other words: Tang Jishan didn't want Ruan Lingyu to live.
The sad life experience and the grievances and grievances with the two scumbags
The truth is revealed, and Ruan Lingyu's suicide is unrelated to both men in the two suicide notes.
First talk about the first man Zhang Damin, Ruan Lingyu's first love, and her husband. Ruan Lingyu said in her suicide note: I am who was forced to death by you. Why do you say so? This has to be said about Ruan Lingyu's origin.
Ruan Lingyu was born in 1910 in a lower-class working family in Shanghai. Her father died of tuberculosis when she was 6 years old. A year later, forced to make a living, her mother chose a wealthy family named Zhang as a maid. Her mother He Aying was not educated, but she had great ideas. She wanted her daughter to study and make a name for herself. When she was 8 years old, Ruan Lingyu went to a nearby private school. A year later, her mother felt that the private schools "Three Character Classic" and "Daughter Classic" were too outdated, so she asked the Zhang family master to attend the tuition fee of half the price. Ruan Lingyu entered the Chongde Girls' School in the foreign school.
Mother has been telling Ruan Lingyu: Never tell others that you are the servant’s daughter. This inferiority complex made Ruan Lingyu's personality depressed and pessimistic since childhood, which laid a lot of foreshadowing for future tragedies.
15 years old, Ruan Lingyu, a second-year junior high school student in Chongde Girls' School, had become graceful and graceful. Because of her inferiority and strong self-esteem, she has another complex and unique temperament. Her classmates later recalled: she is actually not very good-looking, but she has a delicate charm, and that temperament is very ecstatic.
That year, Zhang Damin, the fourth son of the Zhang family, fell in love with her at first sight on Haining Road, and soon the two fell in love. For this, Ruan Lingyu and her daughter were driven out. Zhang Damin rented a house for their mother and mother in Hongqingfang, Sichuan North Road, Shanghai. Ruan Lingyu chose to drop out of school and live with Zhang Damin. She was 16 years old that year, which was the beginning of her nightmare.
Because although Zhang Damin got a college diploma, he was actually ignorant and had no skills in making a living. He was a typical playboy in the old society. At that time, their only living income was to ask the old man to rely on his parents. Ruan Lingyu was beginning to worry, but unexpectedly she soon ushered in another turning point in her life.
Zhang Damin has a big brother Zhang Huichong, who made many movies about martial arts heroes at that time. In March 1926, the celebrity film company publicly recruited actors of the movie "The Famous Couple" in the Newspaper. Zhang Huichong saw this advertisement and encouraged Ruan Lingyu to give it a try.
Because this drama tells the story of a poor girl marrying a child with a demented rich family, Ruan Lingyu may have empathized with it, or it may have been forced to make a living. During the audition, her acting skills exploded and she performed in tears. Director Bu Wancang and screenwriter Zhengqiu were very satisfied and called out: "She seems to have endless sadness to express, and she must be a hopeful tragic actor."
No one expected that a prophecy came true, and this sentence was like a prophecy. Starting from "The Famous Couple", Ruan Lingyu has acted in 29 movies in her life, with roles including country girls, maids, female workers, female students, prostitutes, socialites, writers, etc. None of them have a tortuous fate and a tragic ending.
In March 1927, Zhang Damin's father died of a stroke. In order to get more property faster, Zhang Damin and Ruan Lingyu, who have always hesitated in marriage, held a wedding at his father's mourning hall. The 200,000 inheritance came too easily. After Zhang Damin got the inheritance, he completely revealed his nature as a scumbag and spent every day eating, drinking, drinking, and gambling.
html After 2002, not only did he bet on all his inheritance 200,000 yuan, but he also lost all his hard-earned money for Ruan Lingyu's three years of acting. In 1929, Ruan Lingyu returned to Shanghai from Peking after filming "The Dream of the Ancient Capital", and he also took the only 300 yuan he had on her to pay off her gambling debt.A man fell in love with gambling, and swallowing money was like a bottomless pit. Ruan Lingyu thought of breaking up. The sloppy Zhang Damin threatened her: If they break up, they would steal the tabloid reporters about her 16-year-old living with her, which made her lose her reputation. Ruan Lingyu was already the pillar of Lianhua Film Company at this time, and a first-line female star in Shanghai. She didn't want her poverty and humble life to become a topic of conversation for movie fans across the country. She was cowardly and chose to endure.
Until 1932, the Battle of Shanghai broke out and Shanghai became an isolated island. Ruan Lingyu followed the company's senior management to Hong Kong to avoid the war. Here she met the second man in her life who caused a tragedy: Tang Jishan.
Tang Jishan, a famous tea merchant in Southeast Asia, is a shareholder of many film companies in Shanghai, and Lianhua, the film production company of Ruan Lingyu, is the major shareholder. The two met at a Hong Kong dinner. At that time, Tang Jishan's lover was senior Ruan Lingyu and Zhang Zhiyun, the first film queen of the Republic of China.
Zhang Zhiyun
Why is it a lover? Because Tang Jishan has a wife in the countryside and cannot leave her, because he is the bad wife who started her family with the support of her wife. He kept Zhang Zhiyun, who originally wanted to package her in Hollywood to act, and by the way he went to the United States to sell tea, but unexpectedly, Hollywood did not like this Chinese silent film queen, so Ruan Lingyu, who was in full swing at this time, was his next goal.
Tang Jishan is different from Zhang Damin. He is a master who plays with female stars. Soon Ruan Lingyu was confused by this man. At this time, Zhang Zhiyun, who was dumped, also wrote a letter to Ruan Lingyu: If you see me, you will be able to see your tomorrow.
However, Ruan Lingyu, who has been suffering from life, no longer cared about it. She needs a shoulder to rest and a richer man to rely on it. Tang Jishan sent Zhang Damin with 2,000 oceans. He also bought Ruan Lingyu a three-story western-style building on Xinzha Road. Unexpectedly, it was a gift and a grave. Three years later, Ruan Lingyu chose to commit suicide on the second floor of this small western-style building.
suicide is no way out
After Zhang Damin spent all the money, he once again started to think about Ruan Lingyu. This time he spoke:
,000 yuan in the ocean. Ruan Lingyu couldn't afford so much money. She asked Tang Jishan for her opinion. Tang Jishan completely lost confidence in this scoundrel and began to feel that Ruan Lingyu was a trouble. Ruan Lingyu made up her mind this time and decided not to give Zhang Damin a penny. Unexpectedly, Zhang Damin really filed a lawsuit in court: When Ruan Lingyu was in the Zhang family, she stole valuable things from the Zhang family and gave them to Tang Jishan. This is of course a false accusation, but those who are barefoot are not afraid of wearing shoes. At this time, Zhang Damin's family is in trouble and is burdened with gambling debts. He is no longer afraid of losing anything again.
But Ruan Lingyu and Tang Jishan are different.
As a hypocritical man, Tang Jishan instinctively thought of picking herself up first. He forced Ruan Lingyu to publish a statement in the newspaper: Although Ruan Lingyu lives with him, she is financially independent and has never given herself anything.
This is Ruan Lingyu once again disappointed with the man.
What’s even more disappointing is that she soon discovered that Tang Jishan had a new lover, and she was her friend in the circle Liang: Liang Sagezhen . This is the reason why Tang Jishan started beating and scolding Ruan Lingyu in the suicide note, and it is also the reason why Ruan Lingyu collapsed.
However, these are not enough to crush the strong Ruan Lingyu. Director Sun Yu in the circle once said: " The disillusionment of love and the disappearance of health are not enough to kill Ruan Lingyu. I think her death is because there is no confidant, because she feels lonely and disappointed in groping. She no longer has the courage to fight."
1934, Ruan Lingyu starred in Cai Chusheng's movie "New Women", but unexpectedly this movie became Ruan Lingyu's last elegy.
"New Women" is adapted from the real story of actress Ai Xia of the star company. She is the first suicide movie star in China. She is very talented and often publishes novels and poems. She is called a writer and star, but her love life is very tortuous. She bravely opposes the breakup between arranged marriage and family, but meets bad people. The 23-year-old Ai Xia eventually committed suicide by taking poison.
Ai Xia is Cai Chusheng's friend. After her death, many tabloids maliciously slandered her. This movie was originally intended to commemorate the new woman. Ruan Lingyu, too deeply involved in the play. In the last scene, after saying the line , "Please save me, I want to live!" After , Ruan Lingyu lost control of her emotions. After the camera stopped, she kept crying.
"New Women" was released. Because the film contains the negative image of a tabloid reporter, the film was boycotted and attacked by the "Shanghai News and Reporter Guild". This bombing public opinion attack brought another fatal blow to Ruan Lingyu in the emotional crisis at that time.
Ruan Lingyu hopes that Cai Chusheng can lead him far away, but Cai Chusheng did not dare to take this step. Like Ruan Lingyu, he was from a low-class family. Unlike those directors who returned from studying abroad, he was unable to leave Shanghai, and he also had an original wife in the countryside, so he dared not.
This became the last straw that crushed Ruan Lingyu to survive, and she had no outlet to survive.
The day before the lawsuit with her ex-husband Zhang Damin opened, Tang Jishan beat her again, and she chose to swallow medicine and commit suicide.
But the old man really had eyes, and the ending of these two men was very miserable:
Tang Jishan moved overseas, was scammed, his business failed, and the tea company went bankrupt. He fell to selling tea on the streets and died tragically on the streets.
Zhang Damin is not that great either. After Ruan Lingyu's death, he still remains unchanged. As the "Ruan Lingyu's ex-husband", he filmed a bad movie about Ruan Lingyu's suicide in Hong Kong, "Honey Worth ". In the play, he played himself, and later became plagued by illness, poor and died of pneumonia at the age of 36.
It seems that Ruan Lingyu's life came to an abrupt end at the age of 25, which is another kind of relief.
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