Zhou Xuan: A sad and sad song

She was one of the four beauties of the Republic of China and a star of both film and television and singing in China's early days. She declined the title of "Movie Queen" but was worthy of the title of "Golden Voice".

She became famous throughout the Chinese world, but spent the rest of her life in a mental hospital. She experienced too much emotional and spiritual suffering in her life.

In her nearly 20-year acting career, she filmed 43 films and sang more than 200 songs.

Her famous work "Street Angel" is a masterpiece in the history of Chinese films and was named one of the "100 Best Chinese Films of the Century". The theme songs "Shanghai at Night", "Song of the Four Seasons" and "Song Girl from the End of the World" that were born along with this movie have also become classics.

She has a good singing voice, which is not only delicate and sweet in tone, but also clear in enunciation. It is even more euphemistic and moving through the microphone. She is also known as the pioneer of Chinese pop songs.

In the 1930s, Zhou Xuan's name was a golden sign in the entertainment industry. She was a well-deserved star in the bustling Shanghai at night.

The famous film actor Zhao Dan once commented on her: "Not only because of her rich life experience, stage practice, soft and beautiful singing voice, agile movements, kind heart and simple nature, but more importantly, she The most valuable quality of an actor is trust. She trusts all her actions and actions, so she can respond immediately and accurately, no more, no less, appropriately and naturally at the director's request... ..."

The words of this People's Artist, who was the same generation as Zhou Xuan and made films together, should be regarded as a high-level summary of Zhou Xuan's acting career.

She became famous throughout the Chinese world, but spent the rest of her life in a mental hospital. She experienced too much emotional and spiritual suffering in her life.

Her childhood was spent in wandering situations. She was resold by her adoptive parents twice and almost fell into prostitution. She had been searching for her biological parents all her life, but had never been able to do so. She was still unsure of who she was until her death.

Zhou Xuan, formerly known as Su Pu, was born in Changzhou, Jiangsu. Her father is a university teacher and her mother is a nurse. When she was a child, she was the cherished child of her parents, but she only had such a happy life for three years.

When she was three years old, her mother left her alone at her grandmother's house, but she was sold to Shanghai by her uncle who was poor because of smoking.

By the time my mother found out and went to look for her, the family had already moved away.

The adoptive parents married Zhou Xuan to the famous Wang Xiaohong. However, the couple divorced soon after and the adoptive mother remarried and transferred the young Zhou Xuan to the Zhou family in Shanghai.

The new adoptive father Zhou Wending also smoked opium, and the family became increasingly poor, so the adoptive mother went out to help. The frantic adoptive father wanted to sell Wang Xiaohong into a brothel. Only after his adoptive mother firmly blocked him did he give up.

After being introduced by her adoptive mother and sister, she went to the "Ming Yue Song and Dance Troupe" hosted by the famous musician Li Jinhui.

Zhang Jinwen, who was interviewing, fell in love with this thin and delicate little girl at first sight. This year, Zhou Xuan was 12 years old.

The smart and simple Xiaohong is loved by everyone. She has a strong thirst for knowledge and enterprising spirit. She studied seriously from her elder brothers and sisters in the song and dance troupe. Coupled with her own talent in singing and dancing, she made rapid progress.

After Zhou Xuan was able to make money, she began to take on the important task of supporting her family.

On the eve of the "December 8" incident, she participated in the national salvation and progress opera "Wild Rose". At the end, she sang the theme song "Light of the Nation" for the opera, and one of the lines was "Dealing with the enemy on the battlefield." "Above" was very impressive and received warm applause from the audience.

Li Jinhui felt that the name Zhou Xuan might be more suitable for the image of a thin girl and impressive, so he changed Zhou Xiaohong to "Zhou Xuan".

In 1937, she became famous in "Street Angel" for her role as Xiao Hong, a character who suffered bullying and humiliation in the old society.

The series of films she starred in after that were both well-received and box office hits.

A bright future was beckoning to her. She thought that her life would be on a smooth road from now on, but she did not expect that her growing fame and doubled salary would bring her a lifelong nightmare.

Ever since she made money by acting and singing, her greedy adoptive father has been bent on squeezing money from her. Although she resents her, she has to send money to them frequently.

By chance, her unlearned brother came to her again and asked for money. She really didn't want to give him any more money. Unexpectedly, the angry brother actually shook off her life.

From her brother’s words, she learned that she was not a biological child of the Zhou family.

In order to keep Zhou Xuan as a "money tree", the adoptive mother did not hesitate to distort the facts and claimed that Zhou Xuan was picked up from a nunnery. In the old days, orphans in nunneries were regarded as a bad omen.

It is also said that Zhou Xuan is a sheep, which is unlucky. The pain of life experience coupled with these unreasonable things made Zhou Xuan fall into the quagmire of pain and was overwhelmed.

On the pretext of helping her find her biological parents, her adoptive father Zhou Wending intensified his efforts to beg money from her. As a result, all the money went into the tobacco pipe.

The mystery of life has become an indissoluble pain in Zhou Xuan's heart. She has always been brooding over the abandonment of her biological parents, which has become a hurdle that she cannot get around in her life.

Until she was dying, she still held other people's hands and said intermittently: "I am miserable! I have never been able to see my biological parents. Who am I? Where is my mother?" In the end, this The question became a heart-rending cry.

She never gave up searching for her biological parents throughout her life, but she was unable to meet her biological mother even before her death. For her, prosperity and wealth are not important, the loss of life is the biggest regret in her life.

In the Mingyue Song and Dance Troupe, Zhou Xuan, who lacked warmth in her heart, found her first love: Yan Hua.

Yan Hua is the acting teacher of the troupe. He is ten years older than Zhou Xuan. He is handsome and charming. Xiao Xuanzi, who has just begun to have a love affair, gradually falls in love with this elegant teacher.

Yan Hua also cared deeply for Zhou Xuan. When the last layer of window paper was pierced by Zhou Xuan, the two fell in love.

In June 1937, the two held a grand wedding at the "Chunyuan Hotel" on West Chang'an Street in Peking.

Lovers will eventually get married.

After marriage, Zhou Xuan and Yan Hua, like all newlyweds, spent a happy and sweet life.

However, the good times did not last long. As Zhou Xuan became more and more famous, Yan Hua felt a huge gap in his heart.

In the autumn of 1938, Zhou Xuan joined the China Film Company and began performing in radio stations and film companies. The hard work of traveling back and forth made the pregnant woman exhausted and her body extremely weak. Coupled with the torture of life and the mental shock, she fainted in front of the microphone during a concert and unfortunately had a miscarriage.

The pain of losing their son this time has also become the trigger for the deterioration of their marriage. Her growing fame made him jealous, and he suspected that there was a man around Zhou Xuan all day long.

The four-year marriage came to an end amidst constant quarrels and cold violence. This marriage brought great harm to the emotional Zhou Xuan.

After divorcing Yan Hua, Zhou Xuan never married again.

In 1949, she met her old acquaintance Chu Huaide while filming in Hong Kong. He is a silk merchant and a typical playboy. He has developed a smooth talk and is good at coaxing women.

He had been pursuing Zhou Xuan for many years. This meeting made their relationship heat up rapidly, and they soon lived together.

He borrowed money from her many times in the name of doing business, and the simple and kind-hearted Zhou Xuan always helped him. After he took the money, he returned to Shanghai and lost his previous enthusiasm for Zhou Xuan.

After Zhou Xuan found out she was pregnant, his reaction was unusually cold, and he used the excuse that he was too busy to return to Hong Kong. When Zhou Xuan dragged herself back to Shanghai to find him, he admitted to her that he actually had a family.

Zhou Xuan was heartbroken. But he said something even more hurtful. He said, "I'm afraid this child, like you, is adopted.

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This sentence was like adding insult to injury, making Zhou Xuan despair. The emotional disaster made her almost crazy, and her fragile nerves began to have problems. She seemed to be knocked back to her original shape, and she would always be the one who could not find her biological child. A girl who cannot be defined by her parents.

In 1950, her eldest son Zhou Min was born. Knowing that she was mentally unstable, she gave the child to her friends Huang Zongying and Zhao Dan to raise her.

She adjusted herself again, and soon she was invited to participate in the filming of "Peace Dove" in Shanghai.

This movie eventually became the last movie in her life. >

There is a scene in "Peace Dove", which is "recognition of relatives with blood". This ordinary scene actually stimulated Zhou Xuan's injured heart, and she suddenly thought of Zhu Huaide's indifference, and she burst into tears and couldn't control her words. He whined miserably, “It’s your flesh and blood, it’s your flesh and blood! blood test! blood test! ”

This was just the last straw, which broke Zhou Xuan’s long-depressed spirit.

Before the filming was completed, she was admitted to Shanghai Hongqiao Nursing Home. After the madness was about to break out, It soaked through her whole body.

For five years, she was isolated from her biological son and healed her heavy heartache alone in the ward. She often sat in the corner of the ward, thinking about nothing. Neither did I.

These days lasted for five years.

While filming "Peace Dove", Zhou Xuan met the last man in her life, art designer Tang Jin. p>

During the days when Zhou Xuan was ill, Tang Ming often visited the hospital, taking good care of her life and making her happy. The long-broken warmth returned, and Zhou Xuan's scarred heart slowly returned to peace. With tender comfort, Zhou Xuan's condition gradually improved.

He did not mind Zhou Xuan's medical history. After Zhou Xuan was discharged from the hospital, the two lived together, had a child, and the wedding date was set.

But this rare period of tranquility was soon broken. Zhou Xuan's relatives and friends suspected that Tang Ming had the same bad intentions as Zhu Huaide, decided that he was a liar, and went to court to accuse him.

The two also stated to the outside world that they were consensual and there was no fraud at all. However, in the end, Tang Kai was sentenced to three years in prison for two crimes: "fraud" and "rape."

Zhou Xuan didn't know that Tang Ming was imprisoned at the time. She thought that Tang Ming disappeared because he no longer wanted her, and the person she loved abandoned her again.

As a result, the old illness relapsed. . The sinister world and the coldness of the world pushed this kind and weak woman into the bottomless abyss again and again.

After the second outbreak of the disease, she refused to eat, drink or speak all day long. Lying alone in bed, her condition waxed and waned, and the fire of life seemed to be extinguished.

She longed for love in her life, hoping to have a happy family and live a happy life for a few days. She was seriously injured by love many times, and was eventually overwhelmed and suffered a mental breakdown.

In the summer of 1957, with the care of the party, the government and all walks of life, she recovered from a long illness with the confidence and confidence she had gained after regaining her life. He had the courage to devote himself to a new career, but unfortunately he suddenly contracted acute encephalitis, had a high fever, and fell into a coma. He ended up living a short and rough life at the age of 39.

A dazzling star died.

The heartstrings that had been tightly pressed by trauma, pain, and sorrow for decades finally broke, and a sad and sad song came to an abrupt end... ..

She once wrote this sentence in her diary: “You are the stupidest fool in the world to punish yourself for other people’s mistakes. ”

But her life has not been about using other people’s mistakes to punish herself.

She once looked for the long-awaited warmth in others, but in exchange for a life of coldness.

"Looking for a close friend from all corners of the world", Zhou Xuan seemed to have never met a close friend in her miserable and unfortunate life. Perhaps, in another world, she would be a beautiful girl with the care of her parents. , met the soulmate who understood her, and had a beautiful and natural love.