It is really unfair to men and women. At that time, the rule of Beijing Liyuan was that Hannah Quinlivan, a female cross-dresser, could only perform in the "Nancheng Garden", and the venue was not the formal stage where male painters like Dan Qing Yi Mei Lan Fang and others could go, but the Dashilan evening show on Qianmen Street. Out of the garden gate, the street is full of juggling, tofu stalls, beggars begging with big pots of tea. Under this condition, Meng Xiaodong is as famous as Ma, Yan, Cheng, Shang Xiaoyun and even Mei Lanfang, and is unique. Many literati, drama critics and journalists are infatuated with Meng Xiaodong because she is more like a man than a man. Tianjin Tianfeng Daily praised her as the "emperor" of the old school, referred to as "Winter Emperor".
1In August, 928, Xiaodong Meng participated in the benefit performance on the first stage in Beijing. It is estimated that in the seventeenth year of the Republic of China, folk customs have gradually opened up, and the May 4th Movement brought about free love. Xu Zhimo and Lu Xiaoman have long shaken Beijing's moral codes. But everyone couldn't bear to lose "cross-dressing", instead, they were immersed in "cross-dressing", so Meng Xiaodong made an exception and was invited to perform "Hannah Quinlivan Laosheng". Mei Lanfang and Yang Xiaolou's Farewell My Concubine, Yu Shuyan and Shang Xiaoyun's Fisherman Killed the Son were the finale, while Meng Xiaodong and Qiu Guixian, who were only 18 years old, finally appeared. Since then, two cross-dressing figures have become popular in the whole city, Mei Lanfang, a man dressed as a woman, and Meng Xiaodong, a woman dressed as a woman. This is an exciting Beijing in the war, for Mei Lanfang who is more like a woman than a woman, and for Meng Xiaodong who is more like a man than a man. On the stage, Mei Lanfang plays the role of Yang Yuhuan, who is full of waves and oil, and plays the role of an infatuated concubine who died with her. Female college students in China imagine their roles by watching Mei Lanfang's plays. Looking at Meng Xiaodong's performance, the female beard and the girl are upside down. They usually wear men's clothes and have their hair cut short. Just like today's Zhou Meiqing, before Simon Bova's "The Second Sex" really came out, female students in China had the fantasy of realizing gender liberation through Meng Xiaodong.
In Beijing's gender dream, Meng Xiaodong quietly fell in love with Mei Lanfang. She forgot the "cross-dressing role" on the stage, became a woman, and played a four-year love drama with Mei Lanfang. 1927, they got married in a private ceremony. 193 1 year, a bloody case in Beijing caused a sensation in Beijing Pictorial. Mei Meng's fate, which was never true and could not be ended, broke up like this. The fans who shot in the bloody case in Beijing were beheaded by the police commander, and their heads hung on the telephone poles of Dashilan, which happened to be Qianmen Street in Xiaodong Meng, a famous street in Beijing.
Meng Xiaodong later became Mei's three-room boss with Du Xian, a celebrity in Shanghai, and then became Du's five-room boss. People say she came to get back at Mei Lanfang. She will never forget herself in the play, just trying to earn a position outside the play. This "heroine among thousands of people" has become a huge horn on the stage of Beijing School, but she can't pass the love of the heroine. Mei Lanfang's authenticity orientation has been debated so far. But when choosing between "career" and "love", he resolutely chose the answer of most men. 193 1 year, Mei Meng not only divorced, but also the "Beijing bloody case" was widely circulated. Mei Party and public opinion blamed Meng Xiaodong for all the mistakes. Meng Xiaodong first saw through the world of mortals, and then he was like a Buddhist monk, but after all, he couldn't hold back this tone and posted an "urgent notice": "Rumors spread everywhere, slander came back to life ... married Mei Lanfang, naive, ... Mei was vague ... and her reputation was lost ... She had never contacted anyone before interacting with Mei Lanfang .. Today, all parties. This is the fate of women giving up their careers for men.
After being Du Fu's fifth wife for many years, it was not until 1950 that Meng Xiaodong and Du Cai met the bride in Hong Kong and gained a birthright that they would never get. At that time, Meng Xiaodong was a 43-year-old woman. Meng Xiaodong, who got the birthright, only worked as Mrs. Du for one year, and Mr. Du left in the second year and died of illness.
1967, Meng Xiaodong was 60 years old and moved from Hongkong to Taiwan Province Province, where she stayed for ten years. It is said that she doesn't socialize, perform or teach. Emperor Dong's life turned from prosperity to decline, only 18 years old to 24 years old. Since then, life has gradually returned to desolation. 1977, Meng Xiaodong, who couldn't play a real woman, died of illness. After the secretary left, Zhang Daqian presented a tombstone for her, "Madame Dumont's Tomb", and all the "colleges" and "deans" offered sacrifices together, and thousands of scholars observed a moment of silence. A generation of beauty or a generation of heroes? Can't tell what identity, Meng Xiaodong lonely, rhyme in a foreign land.
Zhang Daqian inscribed "Tomb of Madame Du Mu Montai", which is the "Winter Emperor" of the feather fan nylon scarf.