Changjing is out of Shangguan, and the film industry is full of clouds. ”
This is the calligrapher Liu Zifeng wrote ten words for Shangguan Yunzhu, but a short sentence summed up more than half of her life, she grew up and bloomed in the film industry.
Shangguan Yunzhu was born in Changjing Town, Jiangyin, Jiangsu Province in 1920, formerly known as Wei Juncun, and later renamed Wei Yadi, ranking fifth in the family, and has been favored by his brothers and sisters since he was a child.
Shangguan Yunzhu's father, Wei Yaqiao, used to be a private school teacher, so he paid more attention to his children's education since he was a child. At the age of 6, Shangguan Yunzhu was sent to study in a local primary school, which also started her ten-year study career.
After graduation, Shangguan Yunzhu returned to Changjing, she wanted to spend the rest of her life in peace, but because of the Lugou Bridge Incident in 1937, her peaceful life was disrupted, she followed her family to take refuge everywhere, and finally stopped in Shanghai.
The huge and prosperous city deeply attracted this little girl from the countryside, and at the same time secretly plucked the strings of her fate. She fell in love with the city and wanted to get closer, she wanted to be the shining star of the city.
After two years of hard work, Shangguan Yunzhu participated in her first movie "Wang Laohu Robbing Relatives" in 1940, and it was precisely because of this movie that director Bu Wancang gave her the stage name "Shangguan Yunzhu".
As a newcomer in the film industry, she became the heroine for the first time, which instantly attracted the attention of Shanghai **, she became the darling of the spotlight, and seemed to have a bright future, but she didn't know that everything was a premeditated plan designed by Zhang Shankun, the manager of the film company, and she was just a chess piece he used to "revenge" the popular movie star Tong Yuejuan.
Later, Zhang Shankun and Tong Yuejuan got together, and Shangguan Yunzhu was immediately beaten into the "cold palace" and became a joke in the eyes of the world. This sudden bloom is like a flash of fireworks, and then it gradually disappears into the night.
Acting has just begun, Shangguan Yunzhu has experienced the coldness and warmth of this circle, from praise from the outside world to ridicule, only in the thought of the manipulator, how high she is praised, and when others let go, how painful she will fall.
's career was damaged, and everyone looked at her with a mocking attitude, including her first husband Zhang Dayan, who didn't want his wife to show her face outside, and he was strongly opposed to her making movies from beginning to end. He felt that the better Shangguan Yunzhu was, the more likely he was to lose her, because as early as 1937, he had lost his competitiveness.
Shangguan Yunzhu has been handsome since she was a child, and she is a well-known beauty in Changjing, so she has been deeply attracted to her brother's classmate Zhang Dayan since she was a child. By chance, Zhang Dayan slowly became familiar with Shangguan Yunzhu in the name of teaching.
Under Zhang Dayan's care and pursuit, in 1936, 16-year-old Shangguan Yunzhu married 24-year-old rich second-generation Zhang Dayan.
Everything is going in a good direction, but it is still interrupted by a war. In the second year of their marriage, Changjing was devastated and they became homeless and degenerate, and they moved to a slum in Shanghai, where their family of three could only be crammed into a dilapidated house.
The world's different living conditions forced Zhang Dayan to run around to teach in order to make a living, but he still couldn't meet the family expenses, so there was a follow-up story of Shangguan Yunzhu's filming, even if she was ridiculed, she still resolutely chose to persevere, and had an emotional estrangement with her husband who opposed and ridiculed her.
If you can't be the heroine, then be a supporting role, even if it is a trick, Shangguan Yunzhu still insists on rolling and climbing, she is like a tenacious grass, the wildfire can't be burned, and the spring breeze blows and grows.
There is no endless road, Shangguan Yunzhu After the "Wang Laohu" turmoil, she relied on her good looks and participated in many movie roles in the second year, although they were all supporting roles, but she accumulated a certain amount of popularity and entered the public eye again.
And in "The Resentment of the Qing Palace", he got acquainted with Yao Ke, a genius in Shanghai's literary circle. Yao Ke graduated from Yale University and became a celebrity in Shanghai's celebrity circle after returning to China, and he also worked as an editor and film critic.
The two admired each other and had feelings for each other, compared to her husband Zhang Dayan, who was ridiculing and opposing her, Yao Ke was full of encouragement and support for her, and he saw the potential in Shangguan Yunzhu.
In 1943, she chose to end her long-broken marriage to Zhang Dayan. The following year, in Beijing, she and Yao Ke walked into the palace of marriage hand in hand, and gave birth to their daughter Yao Yao, living the life of a real Shanghai celebrity.
The happiness of marriage also brought good luck to her career, she began to film everywhere, often so busy that she had no time to go home, Yao Ke, who was unattended, took advantage of the loophole of time to empathize and cheat on the rich daughter, Shangguan Yunzhu immediately decisively filed for divorce after knowing it, she felt that there was no need to keep the marriage that had deteriorated, she resolutely took her daughter and chose to live alone.
With years of accumulation of experience, Shangguan Yunzhu's acting skills have become perfect, and she has played every small role vividly, which has received praise from the outside world, which comes from her persistence and love.
Two failed marriages were converted into strength by her, and she created one classic image after another, such as Shi Weiwei in "Long Live the Wife", the traitor wife He Wenyan in "A River Flows Eastward", and Mrs. Hua who endured humiliation in "The Crow and the Sparrow", she captured the soul of each character and perfectly presented them one by one in front of the audience.
Long live the wife (left) Shangguan Yunzhu.
Shangguan Yunzhu acted while taking care of her daughter, until she inadvertently met Cheng Shuyao, who was also a fallen person at the end of the world, and the similar marriage experience between the two made this encounter doubly precious.
Cheng Shuyao's family is wealthy, but he doesn't have the slightest shelf of a son-in-law, he is honest and gentle, like a big boy who has never been in the world, and finally this big boy fell in love with this weathered big girl.
Group photo of Cheng Shuyao and Lu Xun.
In 1951, Shangguan Yunzhu and Cheng Shuyao held a marriage ceremony at the Lanxin Theater, he brought Shangguan Yunzhu and Yao Yao back to his home, and regarded Yao Yao as his own daughter, and pampered him as a little treasure in his heart.
Such a kind man, but in the "three anti" movement, was framed, was detained on the "trumped-up" ** charge, he was detained, in order to be able to go home early, the result was admitted to the crime, he simply thought that the things that could be solved and made up with money are not a problem, but he didn't know that admitting means sitting down, he will always be burdened with the stain of **.
In those sensitive times, the stain would not only affect oneself, but also one's family. Shangguan Yunzhu actively responded to the call of the new society and participated in charity performances everywhere, but she still couldn't get rid of the label of a ** wife, even if she was exhausted, she couldn't change the fingers of others.
The bleakness of her career, the pointing of life, she thought about putting down her body and starting all over again, and thought about making up for it through some things, but in the end it was only in vain, and she failed to arouse a ripple of hope.
Shangguan Yunzhu took a photo with his son Dengdeng and daughter Yao Yao.
The suppressed emotions did not retreat although time, she filed for divorce from Cheng Shuyao, and friends on both sides came forward to persuade her, but she still couldn't prevent the collapse of this marriage.
After the divorce, Shangguan Yunzhu never got married again, perhaps because he had seen through the red dust years, "it is easy to be infatuated with the heart, and it is easy to be affectionate and difficult to keep the feelings", the heartbeat is instantaneous, but to be infatuated with love, it is necessary to go through the test of time and life.
With the changes of the times and the change of culture, in order to adapt to the new society, Shangguan Yunzhu took off her heavy makeup, took off her gorgeous and luxurious clothes, changed into a Lenin suit, and actively participated in various activities.
In 1962, she was named "The 22nd Top Movie Star of Chinese Film" by the Ministry of Culture of China.
Later, Shangguan Yunzhu, who participated in the organization movement everywhere, collapsed due to overload, and was found to have "breast cancer and brain cancer" when she was sent to the hospital.
In the face of cancer, in the face of the doctor's sigh, Shangguan Yunzhu did not choose to compromise with fate, she insisted on practicing Xi pronunciation and writing, day after day, she really created a miracle that doctors did not believe, this may be Shangguan Yunzhu's perseverance, if she really compromised fate, it is a bit unlike Shangguan Yunzhu.
After being discharged from the hospital, she was considered a "rightist" by the "Cultural Revolution" because of some movies she had starred in, and she was criticized and beaten by everyone.
The psychological and physical destruction broke her once hard wings, wings flew, memories of pieces, she was unwilling to fate, tried her best to fight against fate, change fate, but after all, she could not change that era.
In the early morning of November 23, 1968, Shangguan Yunzhu committed suicide by jumping from the fourth floor of her building, when she was 48 years old. She ended the pain she was burdened with death, and in despair she no longer explained, and in sensitive times, she became a victim, just like many people who left unjustly in the Cultural Revolution.
In 1978, the 9th year of Shangguan Yunzhu's unjust departure, the new era proved her innocence, Shangguan Yunzhu was rehabilitated Zhaoxue, and 9 years after her death, she could finally leave with her head up.
A pearly white broken tombstone, with only a simple name and a relief head, is the tombstone designed for her by her son Dengdeng. Simple but meaningful, like an angel with broken wings, ruthlessly destroyed by hunters.