Lin Daiyu, a famous prostitute in Shanghai during the Republic of China, was married 17 times: the ending was equally tragic

Lin Daiyu, a famous prostitute in Shanghai during the Republic of China, was another woman who was bullied and insulted in history, a pitiful and pitiful woman. I once wanted to write a novel about her, but I didn't think it was. It is necessary to spend too much time and energy on her, so I am going to write an article now.

Lin Daiyu was a famous prostitute in Shanghai at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. Her specific name, year of birth and death, and place of origin are unknown. At the end of the 19th century, her career reached its peak and she became extremely popular in Shanghai, comparable to the First Lady in Heaven and Earth today in Beijing. She has a group of regular customers, including literati, celebrities, wealthy businessmen, etc.

While talking and laughing, there is a learned scholar who comes and goes with endless stories. Wang Heng, the magistrate of Nanhui County, was fascinated by her beauty and spent huge sums of money to build a beautiful house for her, which caused a sensation. In 1897, the Shanghai Game Newspaper listed her as one of the four major prostitutes in Shanghai. In addition, Lin Daiyu became a prostitute, became a prostitute again and again, and made more than 20 statistics in her life. Among them, it is said that there were as many as 17 official marriages! Probably the most married woman in Chinese history. But looking at her ending, it was very sad and cruel.

Overview of prostitutes in Shanghai in the late Qing Dynasty

During the late Qing Dynasty, in the luxurious, debauched and dirty old Shanghai, before prostitutes became fashionable, popular tabloids often commented on them. Become a fashion trendsetter. But on the other hand, it also illustrates the extent to which they are not ashamed and openly participate in urban life. Moreover, there were many large-scale beauty pageants in Shanghai at that time, so naturally they were only for prostitutes, not good women.

An important aspect of self-presentation for high-class prostitutes is their fancy names. Some prostitutes keep their nicknames after they become popular. There are many important career moments for prostitutes: first entering a brothel, changing places, starting their own business, or staying as a concubine for a period of time and then returning to work as a prostitute; at this time, they will give themselves new names like men in the upper class. For example, in the 1920s, Shanghai prostitute Xiao Linglong Laoqi moved to Tianjin and changed her name to Ai Wen. Back in Shanghai, I chose Nian Nian Hong as my name. Lin Daiyu used the name of Cao Xueqin's frail and bad-tempered heroine in the Qing Dynasty novel Dream of the Red Chamber. There is also a famous prostitute named Hu Baoyu, whose name also comes from Dream of Red Mansions. In Lin Daiyu's later years, a young prostitute named Lin Daiyu appeared on the beach. She was Lin Daiyu. The feature film at that time - Yan Ruisheng, China's First Minister, was adapted from the social news that caused a sensation in Shanghai in 1920, including Xiao Lin Daiyu.

Shanghai’s smoky alleys are concentrated in the famous Fuzhou Road, also known as the Fourth Road area. In Songbin Suohua Year, Wang Tao said that Shanghai is a prosperous place. In the center of the city, there are groups of people. They are all extremely beautiful and coquettish. They all think that they are incomparable. They can use Fascinated by laughter; the brothel on Fourth Road is first-class like Changsantangzi, full of famous prostitutes; it is a kind of medium soup; next is Bacon Village. The three famous prostitutes in Changtangzi include Lin Daiyu, Bei Jinyu, Hua, etc. All were chosen to be written by boring scholars who were the president of Guohua University.

Judging from their existing photos, they are not actually top-notch beauties. But these people are great at cooking. However, in a literary work, Lin Daiyu's beauty is highly praised: she is seventeen or eighteen years old, with permed hair, earrings, pink eyebrows, a pair of big eyes with flowing water, and a pair of goose eggs that reveal her She has a beautiful face, sexy red lips, a pink silk cheongsam, a three-curved figure, a low-cut jacket with an open placket, and a pair of jade legs, slender, delicate, fair and attractive. In the summer of the fifth year of Guangxu's reign, there were 16 prostitutes in Shanghai. The eighth place is Lin Daiyu, the owner of Jiangxian Palace. His comment is: Deliberately lingering, affectionate, smiling like a flower, God is in it, and he wins with rhyme.

Prostitutes' golden place activities, Tasmanian Gardens during the day and Fourth Road at night. When people write, there are two places where idlers gather in Shanghai. The place where they gathered during the day was called Changyuan, and the place where they gathered at night was called Silu. Therefore, the tea from the Taste Garden and the wine from the Four Roads are far apart. This is the place where prostitutes in Shanghai compete for beauty and steal the limelight. Every time when the sun sets and guests come to the west, people in the brothel call them aunt. In the 1890s, famous prostitutes such as Lin Daiyu, Jin Xiaobao, Lu Lanfen, Zhang Shuyu, etc. Be the first to arrive every day. Lin Daiyu and these three people are listed as the four great Vajras in the flower world. This is the nickname given to them by famous writers. The reason why it got its name is that when four people arrive, they each take a seat at the round table at the entrance. If there are four Buddhist kings guarding the city gate, the vision will be particularly strong.

In the years after 1897, every Sunday, the Game Newspaper, sponsored by Li Boyuan, who introduced and commented on prostitutes, printed 400 to 500 copies and presented them to Zhang Yuan. Sometimes I post pictures of prostitutes. This increases tourist interest. The fashion characteristic of Shanghai at that time was that men looked at women and women looked at prostitutes. Prostitutes play the role of fashion models. When people look at prostitutes, they are not only looking at the person, but also judging the clothes.

A series of related scenes are specially designed to closely link carriages with prostitutes, amusement facilities, streets, urban areas, parks and many other factors, and weave a picture of Shanghai prostitutes riding Western open-top carriages in the urban area. The visual picture of wandering around: the carriage is not more prosperous than this town, and the number of prostitutes is second to none in this town. Therefore, by clocking in at May or Six o'clock every day, you can go to a temple with friends or prostitutes.

Liuyin is one of the scenic spots in Hujiang. This image juxtaposes the prosperity of horse-drawn carriages with the large number of prostitutes, suggesting that Shanghai's prostitutes, who were most fond of riding horse-drawn carriages, included Lin Daiyu, Jin Xiaobao, Lu Lanfen, and Zhang Shuyu, who were likened to the three major companies, Daotai, Heir, and Fan, collectively known as the Daotai.

Prostitutes and good friends were a common feature of Shanghai in the late Qing Dynasty, and they were also widely circulated gossip news. Tianxian Tea Garden martial arts figures Lin Daiyu and Zhao Xiaolian were caught by a seal riding a horse in Yuyuan Garden and Zhangyuan Garden and were taken to the patrol house. Describing the extramarital affair between Lin and Zhao: Whenever it was late at night, they would change their minds and go to Zhao Ling to ask us to have sex again. Last night, my groom Fu Yuan and Zhao Ling's family boarded the carriage hand in hand and rushed to Yu and Zhang Eryuan. The carriage became an important prop for derailment, which is easily reminiscent of the description of Shen Xiaohong riding a carriage in Dianshizhai Pictorial.

As for Shanghai Zhizhu Ci, there is a saying that when dressing up as a groom, the best one is the Four King Kongs. This refers to the fact that Zhang Shuyu was famous for his love to dress up as a groom in the Four King Kongs in Shanghai in the late Qing Dynasty. A prostitute; she wears such strange clothes because she likes riding in carriages. In Wu's biography of Hu Baoyu, a later famous courtesan in Shanghai, he also specifically pointed out that the cable car departed from Zhang Shuyu and was manufactured abroad, with all wheels plated with nickel. Before the car arrives,

Some celebrities want to build a cemetery for famous prostitutes who have no relatives or friends to claim them, so that they can have a decent resting place; it can also be used by their guests, confidants, lovers, etc. . They came to the Four King Kongs and entrusted Lin Daiyu to collect money for the cemetery, and asked the other three King Kongs to help them. Four women donated 1,600 Huazhong books, and each of them was responsible for distributing 400 copies in brothels and collecting them at the end of the month. Lin Daiyu raised 300 yuan on the first night, and both prostitutes and clients donated money. . Soon, Lin Daiyu privately transported all her belongings back to Shanghai to prepare for divorce. At the same time, Lin also met Qiu's tailor and relatives. Qiulin wanted to smoke opium, but found that she had become addicted to smoking, but her lust was not killed and she still remained her original self. Qiu locked her up, then she bribed the guards and escaped back to Shanghai. All the jewelry in her collection is furniture that was shipped from Qiu to Shanghai, and now she sits back and enjoys it all.

Some people commented like this: Some prostitutes target the money pockets of customers, pretending to fall in love at first sight, and serve them charmingly and flatteringly. They made male salespeople shake their hearts and spend money like water; O

In 1905, Lin Daiyu was nearly 40 years old. At that time, Duan Fang, an important minister of the Qing court and one of the five ministers who went abroad through Shanghai, recruited Lin to the camp. When he met her, he loved her very much and wanted to be his concubine. Lin almost took him to his home to entertain him. However, Duan Fang was warned and strongly discouraged by both the left and the right, so he regretted giving up. Lin was disappointed. She is said to have said at the time that she hoped she would use it to satisfy her desires when she was tempted.

In a series of relationships with men, Lin Daiyu either prevented the men from fulfilling their filial piety, or was unfaithful to her friends, with evil intentions and scheming. It was only when she protected the leaders of the Boxer Rebellion that she was hailed by biographers as the only good deed she had done in her life.

In the early years of the Republic of China, Lin Daiyu, who was not very young, fell in love with the actress Long Xiaoyun and fully supported him, provided him with food and clothing, and asked teachers to teach him Chinese and English. He also ran for Jiangsu Commander-in-Chief and served as a sinecure for a long time. However, the army staff rose up and attacked him, saying that his eldest sister was a prostitute, which caused Long to lose his job again. Long Xiaoyun turned to another prostitute and even sold Lin Daiyu. This is one of Lin's great regrets in life.

In 1914, a group of older prostitutes borrowed Darwinian language to set up the Brothel Evolution Group. The two main activists of the organization are Zhang Manjun and Zhu Ruchun. It is said that Zhang Manjun loved reading revolutionary newspapers and periodicals and was the spokesperson for early brothel women’s patriotism. She is famous for her public speaking. At that time, it was fashionable for prostitutes to wear pants with the national flag on them. Zhang's speech condemned the fashion, noting that so many soldiers and heroes sacrificed their lives for the flag but now wear it on their pants. Isn’t it a joke for foreigners to look at Chinese people?

In the seventh year of the Republic of China, Lin Daiyu was finally revoked as a prostitute. Wang, the former Prime Minister of Shanghai Flower Biography, took it very seriously and issued a cover advertisement with 16 words, saying that Lin Daiyu, the owner of the Xiaoxiang Pavilion, was old and it was time to leave the profession. Sing a string song, which caught the attention of newspaper readers. Because Shanghai brothels have never been advertised in newspapers and magazines, thanks to Mr. Wang's efforts, Lao Lin has indeed experienced a lot in prostitution.

On the eve of the May 4th Movement in Beijing in 1919, 19 prostitutes in Shanghai organized a propaganda group and asked Lin Daiyu to be their big brother or uncle. During the May 4th demonstrations, May 9 was a day of national humiliation. The brothels closed for a day to mark the occasion. Prostitutes said they only use domestic products. In early June, the brothels were closed again, and prostitutes joined all citizens and students in a strike that lasted until mid-June.

From the Revolution of 1911 to the May 4th Movement, caring about the fate of the country has almost become a must for prostitutes. According to reports from 0755 to 79000 in 1919, a courtesan was unfamiliar with patriotism and her compatriots because she was illiterate. After the May 4th Movement, the famous prostitute Bing no longer entertained Japanese clients. When one of her regular customers invited the Japanese to the house of her prostitute Hua San while she was out watching the opera, the servant had to order some food from a nearby restaurant. Lin Daiyu sent a girl to help entertain.

There is also a theory that Lin Daiyu once had syphilis, so her eyebrows fell off. So she invented a razor-sharp eyebrow and it became popular among prostitutes and even ordinary women.

One day after the sun and the moon, in a dilapidated small attic above Daguang Lisheng Art Company on Nanjing Road in Shanghai, a famous old woman shrank to her hospital bed and died miserably. After her death, no one came to collect her body. But who would have known that this scrawny old woman was actually Lin Daiyu, a famous prostitute in Shanghai.

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