Recently, I've been watching period dramas, and I'm also reading some books with a more period atmosphere.
Once I read Tang Weihong's story, I thought it was particularly interesting, this Shanghai woman who has experienced all kinds of ups and downs in her life, until she is old, lives calmly and open-mindedly, still loves to play, loves to be lively, loves beauty, willful but not nonsense, much like the role played by Tang Yan in "Flowers".
Who is Tang Weihong? In the famous "Southern Tang Beilu", the sister of the "Southern Tang" Tang Ying. The lives of these two sisters are also very interesting in comparison, I prefer Tang Weihong's character, and I think Tang Ying's life is too wrong, and it seems somewhat boring (go back and write a comparison of the two sisters).
But I also have to admit that the top Bai Fumei in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai is the appearance of Tang Ying.
Who is Tang Ying? **The famous socialite of the period, and Lu Xiaoman, was called "Southern Tang and Northern Continent". Yang Xingfo admired her, and Song Ziwen chased her, but she rejected her.
is different from Lu Xiaoman's indulgent life, Tang Ying's life is a top-level Bai Fumei cultivation story.
In 1910, Tang Ying was born in an extremely wealthy family in Shanghai, a little girl who was born wrapped in marshmallows, and was raised by her father according to the standard of "aristocratic and celebrity". His father, Tang Nai'an, was the first batch of international students to study abroad for the "Gengzi Indemnity", and he was the first Western doctor in China to return from studying abroad. In turbulent times, this is a very wealth-generating profession.
Tang Nai'an firmly believes in ** religion, and the status of her daughters is very high, so both Tang Ying and her sister Tang Weihong have received a good education.
Many years later, Tang Weihong, the second lady of the Tang family, recalled her young time and said: "There are four cooks in the family, a couple from Yangzhou is responsible for making Chinese dim sum, a chef specializes in Western dim sum, and another chef is responsible for cooking some big dishes. ”
Not only diet, but also dressing. We have only now begun to pursue various famous brands, such as Chanel, LV, and CELINE, which Tang Ying is tired of.
The new Chinese style is now popular, Tang Ying had this kind of aesthetic back then, and a tailor with good craftsmanship was specially raised at home, specially tailored for Tang Ying.
Tang Weihong said: "The person I envied the most at that time was my eldest sister Tang Ying. What do I envy most about her? It was her ten large gold-painted chests, which were full of clothes, especially many cheongsams, among them, there was a cheongsam, which was embroidered with gold and silver threads with more than a hundred butterflies about to fly, and the buttons were ruby ...... one by one”
Her daily life is carefully taught by her parents, and it is exquisite to the point of reaching the peak. In terms of eating time, it is fine when to have breakfast, when to have afternoon tea, and when to dinner.
When eating, there are rules on how to put the dishes and chopsticks and how to drink the sugar.
When meeting people, they will change many sets of clothes according to different times and occasions. You must not wear the same clothes for afternoon tea and breakfast.
Therefore, the top white rich beauty is really not so easy to be. The more the family pays, the more they demand.
Tang Ying, **from the Internet) In terms of school education, Tang Ying studied at a Chinese and Western girls' school, which was the predecessor of St. Mary's Girls' School where Zhang Ailing studied. In school, not only English is taught, but also painting, piano, flower arrangement, etiquette, dim sum making, etc., in short, it is similar to the education she received at home, all of which are cultivating excellent young grandmothers of famous and noble families, hostesses of high-end dinners, and dazzling stars in social occasions.
On the surface, Tang Naian's education of Tang Ying can be described as a model for raising a rich daughter. But in fact, it is far more than that, his "enrichment" of Tang Ying has fewer doting components, and most of the strict components, and the slightest lack of rules is a bitter criticism.
So Tang Ying knew very early: no one can indulge in willfulness all his life, his beauty will wither sooner or later, and his money can be dispersed at any time, but he will always be measured in order to live in peace.
Therefore, she always holds herself to the highest standards.
Tang Ying has been working hard to follow the celebrity route set by her family, and in the rules and regulations set by her parents, she has grown up bright and moving.
The combination of Chinese and Western cultures has made Tang Yingshi as proficient in classical poetry as modern English, as proficient in Peking Opera and Kunqu Opera as dance and piano, and as proficient in landscape painting as well as sketches and oil paintings.
There are no outsiders to support, and no family fame to rely on. A sixteen-year-old girl, as soon as she stepped into the social circle, attracted the attention of everyone with her charm of turning all beings upside down.
She and her sister went to dance, the equipment was staggeringly expensive, the gold and silver jewelry was full of tricks, all of them were international brands, a pair of embroidered shoes was worth 200 yuan, which was half a month's salary for literary giants such as Lu Xun and Yu Dafu, and a year's income for a rickshaw driver in Shanghai.
The key is to jump well.
She also sings well.
starred in the drama "Young Grandma's Fan" written and directed by Hong Shen, wearing a floor-length skirt, intertwining her eyes, rotating elegantly between the lights, thunderous applause from the audience, and bustling crowds, all to support her.
In 1935, Tang Ying, who had always been unconventional, boldly performed the Peking Opera classic "Wang Baochuan" in English at the Carlton Theater in Shanghai. She sings Peking Opera, her eyes are like silk, full of charm, and her English is authentic and fluent, which is mixed and matched with the century-old quintessence of the country, which has a unique flavor. This move not only caused a huge sensation at the time, but also created a precedent for English performance of Peking Opera.
Even, when the British royal family visited China, she also went to perform Kunqu Opera as a special guest, and the newspapers of the next day were full of large jade photos of her.
How popular was she at that time? is that if Tang Ying buys a piece of clothing, it will soon become a hit.
The magazine "Linglong" regarded her as a role model of "socializing celebrities", and the writer Chen Dingshan said that she said: "Shanghai celebrities are famous for their communication, starting with Lu Xiaoman and Tang Ying. ”
Growing up in this kind of environment, she is going to float if she is not careful, but Tang Ying has always been sober enough, she can balance the various relationships around her, and the most important reason is that she firmly believes that she needs a man to support her, but she doesn't want a man to pet her. To put it bluntly, she wants men's traffic, but she is not obsessed with men themselves.
Tang Ying is more worldly, she enjoys the praise and pursuit of men, but she never sinks into the whirlpool of love, and she lives in order all her life.
In the war years, the cost of love was too expensive, Tang Ying, who grew up in her father's rules and regulations, has always believed in the power of proportion, so she never expects those who do not belong to her, nor will she hurt herself because of love.
Always maintain the bearing and dignity of a celebrity.
Yang Xingfo admired her, asked Liu Haisu to be a lobbyist, and went to maneuver. She refused, citing her father's dislike of politics and her own engagement.
Song Ziwen fell in love with her and wrote a fiery love letter hoping to impress her. In the end, because of her father's opposition, she also gave up.
In the end, under the arrangement of her father, Tang Ying married Li Zufa, the son of Li Yunshu, a wealthy businessman in Shanghai.
In 1931, Tang Yulu (Tang Ying's elder brother), who was Song Ziwen's secretary, was mistaken for Song Ziwen by assassins and was shot and killed. The Tang family and the Song family have less and less contact.
In 1933, Yang Xingfo was assassinated by spies in Shanghai, and a rumor that was once boiling was returned to dust.
She was once so close to life and death, but in the end, due to fate, she avoided them one by one. It's not that she's too lucky, but she understands early on that what kind of person and what kind of life is the most suitable for herself.
At the moment of heartbeat, she was not carried away by love and rushed forward desperately, but looked back at the road when she came and stood on tiptoe to see the time ahead.
She never lives in her imagination, imagines that she is different, imagines that she can avoid all harm, imagines that there is only love in love. She has always been very real, looking at herself truly, treating others truly, analyzing the current situation truly, not mixing a little vanity, not having a little luckUse the chips you have in your hands to have a fair deal with life, in exchange for the fate you deserve.
The only turbulence in her life was her divorce from Li Zufa.
Li Zufa, who studied at Yale University and engaged in the technical engineering industry, although he is a child of a rich family, acts in an old-fashioned and rigorous manner, which is very different from Tang Ying, who loves to play and love to be lively. This stable but discordant marriage finally came to an end in 1937, when Tang Ying was 27 years old, and their six-year-old son Li Mingjue lived with Tang Ying.
Her ultimate partner is Rong Xianlin, the nephew of Xiong Xiling, the prime minister of Beiyang. In the eyes of the world, Tang Ying and Rong Xianlin are not compatible. He is not good-looking and not tall, but he is elegant and humorous, has similar interests with Tang Ying, and is also keen to socialize.
The two are safe and sound, and they grow old.
In 1948, Tang Ying, Yung Xianlin, and his son Li Jueyuan went to Hong Kong, and later moved to the United States. There, Yung Hsien Lun still worked as an insurance company manager, and Li Mingjue specialized in stage art design, becoming a leading figure in the world of stage art.
As for Tang Ying, she is still her beauty.
The days are leisurely like pieces of jasmine burning in the purple gold incense burner, and it has been many years with a snap of the fingers.
In 1962, Yung Xianlin died, and Tang Ying moved next door to her son Li Mingjue, caring about his life at a very close and undisturbed distance. It seems that she has been such a person all her life, living her own colorful life, but never disturbing the peace of others. It's her sense of proportion.
In the second half of her life, like all ordinary old people, she played cards with relatives and friends during the day, and after dinner at night, she walked leisurely, and when she had nothing to do, she took her grandchildren to watch movies.
In 1986, she passed away peacefully in her apartment in New York.
She has been a woman who has lived exquisitely all her life, and in the uneasy and unpredictable world, she has done enough to be the top white rich beauty. It's just that behind the envy, she has also given up a lot of people, a lot of things, and a lot of fun.
1. Live in balance, rules, and proportion.
Such a life is like a trickle, but not like a mountain waterfall. It's a little more quiet, but it's a little less magnificent. Compared with Lu Xiaoman's life, it seems like several lives, and compared with Lin Huiyin's short and heavy, I can't say which one is better.
It's all good, and it's not perfect. Because there is a price, because anyone's life is actually opened to the eye, it is nothing more than that—there is never perfection.
Therefore, whether life is left or right, it all depends on the choice, but suddenly I don't feel envious, it turns out that the life of the top Bai Fumei also has its cruelty.