Photographs of Hu Die taken by Wang Kai in Shanghai in the 1930s
It’s been almost 30 years since Houdie died. It’s time to put an end to this rumor.
The rumor of “Dai Qing hogging the movie star Hu Die” is widely circulated. The movie “The History of Romantic Death”, which has been a hot topic of discussion recently, also portrays this episode.
But this is actually a pseudo-history.
A. The “history of Dai and Hu’s love affair” has been widely circulated, and has become a definite case in folk and academic circles.
The general situation and historical sources of the story about “Dai hogging the movie star Houdie” are as follows.
(1) In 1942, when Hu Die returned to China from Hong Kong, her luggage was robbed on the way. On the occasion of finding the luggage for Hu Die, Dai sent Yang Huimin, who was involved in the escape of Hu Die’s family from Hong Kong, to prison, so that he could ingratiate himself with Hu Die and take over her.
For example, after being released from amnesty in 1960, military intelligence cadre Shen Drunk wrote the book What I Know About Dai (published in 1963), claiming that Yang Huimin, a Girl Scout who had presented a flag to the lone army trapped in Shanghai’s Sihang Warehouse during the war, “was imprisoned by Dai after someone reported her for stealing Hu Die’s luggage.” [1] Another military cadre, Huang Kangyong, also wrote in his memoirs, “Hu (Die) told him (Dai) that her luggage was lost, and Dai suspected that it was the work of Yang Huimin, a patriotic Girl Scout, so he imprisoned her and did not release her until the end of the war. Yang Huimin is the patriotic woman who swam across the Suzhou River during the war in Shanghai and hoisted the Green Sky and White Sun flag onto the Sihang Warehouse to support the 800 anti-Japanese soldiers of Xie Jinyuan’s regiment, making her a sensation. Hu Die finally came to Chongqing, for Dai Gan ‘golden house to hide his wife’ in Shen Xian Dong public house.” [2]
Yang Huimin herself, who published her book The Eight Hundred Strongest Men and Me in Taiwan in 1969, also recalled the incident with great pain. Yang wrote.
“My rescue of Miss Houdie and Dr. Mei Lanfang and others, as well as the transportation of Dr. Wu Ching-hsiung and Chairman Lin Sen’s relatives on several occasions in succession, were all done under orders. I neither knew Hootie nor had any grudge against her, so why should I rob her of her luggage? Besides, I was not in the same boat and car with her, so how could I know about the robbery she encountered on the road?” “However, when Miss Hu Die arrived in Chongqing from Huizhou, she reported and cried to General Dai Kasa, the Director of the Military Intelligence, and insisted that I had robbed her of her luggage. There is nothing more heartbreaking than this incident in the world of people without moral conscience!” “I will never forget that the day I was falsely accused by Miss Hu Die and walked into the prison guardhouse, I lost everything, including my honor, my future, and my hope.” [3]
(2) Dai Kasai set up a public house for Hu Die in Chongqing, and “hid his wife in a golden house”, and used his power to send Pan Yousheng, Hu Die’s husband, away from Chongqing
The main source of this story is Shen Drunk’s book “What I Know About Dai Gan”. In the book, Shen writes that.
“Dai Gan could be said to have fallen in love with Hu Die at first sight and was extraordinarily happy. After he had Hu Die, he was less interested in playing with other women because Hu Die had a very good way of enlisting men. At that time, Hu’s titular husband, Pan Yousheng, knew how to protect himself, and since his wife was taken by Dai Li, he decided that he would rather sacrifice his wife and use this opportunity to make a fortune when beauty and money were not available. He knew that if he didn’t do this, he would get a few holes in his body from a pistol at some point. When Dai promised to give him the name of commissioner of the wartime cargo transportation bureau and let him let go of his speculative smuggling business, he lived in Kunming for a long time and seldom went to Chongqing to meet with Hu Die. After the victory of the war, Dai was ready to ask Hu Die to divorce Pan Yousheng and marry him openly. Later, because he died in a plane crash while returning to Shanghai from Beiping, Pan Yousheng took Hu Die to Hong Kong as an apartment.” [4]
“(Dai) additionally built a magnificent public house in Shenxian Cave, which was intended for use when he lived with Hu Die. When I went with him and Hu Die to see the construction of this house, he said to Hu Die, ‘I like this place the most, the Gods and Goddesses live in the Gods and Goddesses Cave.’ In order to repair this house, so that cars can reach the entrance without climbing the slope, he even took up more than 100 square feet of land of Wang Lingji, the most powerful warlord in Sichuan at that time. …… But it was not enough, because it took a small circle to climb up a few dozen meters to get there. When I inquired, I also had to pass through several other people’s plots to repair the passage. He wrote a few more letters himself and told me to go to Mr. Wu Jinhang of the Hesei Bank and Xiao Zhenying of the Datong Bank and ask them for some more plots of land.” “The one who lived with him for the longest time would be Hu Die. From 1943 onwards, Hu was occupied by him and lived secretly in his public house in Chengxiang. In order to please Hu, in addition to repairing a lot of houses for her, he also built a very elaborate and beautiful garden in front of the Yangjiashan public house, buying all kinds of expensive and exotic flowers at a cost of nearly 10,000 silver yuan, which he designed and decorated with his own hands.” [5]
The rest, such as Wen Qiang and other old members of the military junta, also left roughly similar accounts. To this day, in many serious historical works, the “erotic history” between Dai and Hu Die is almost a foregone conclusion. For example, the American scholar Wei Fei De’s famous work “King of Spies” about Dai, that is, based on the above-mentioned materials (mainly the recollections of Shen Drunk and Huang Kangyong), concluded that “Hu Die later became the mistress of this secret agent in the Pacific War”.
Disinformation: Yang Huimin’s arrest has nothing to do with the rumored “racy history of Dai and Hu”.
All of the above recollections have built up a seemingly “complete” “Dai and Hu’s erotic history”. But in fact, every detail does not stand up to the scrutiny of historical data. First of all, let’s talk about the robbery of Hu Die’s luggage and Yang Huimin’s arrest.
(1) Yang Huimin brought a telegram from Du Yuesheng to Hu Die, who promised to return to the rear.
Yang Huimin was a member of the military junta at that time and was engaged in secret work in Hong Kong under the control of The Japanese. In her later years, she recalled that in August 1942, she brought “a telegram from Mr. Du Yuesheng from Chongqing” to Hu Die.
“I was still dressed as a small fishmonger. After I found Hu Die’s house, I cautiously hawked small fish from the back door, and a fat old lady came out. ‘I’m from Chongqing’, I said to the old lady openly. She expressed alarm and suspicion. The old lady kept gawking at my identity.” “A moment later, Miss Hu Die came out herself, and she beckoned me into the house. Miss Hu was calm and composed, and asked me some questions, and I explained my purpose and showed her Mr. Du Yuesheng’s telegram from Chongqing.” “She seemed to have a very quick personality, and she told me that she had decided to go back to the rear of the country instantly, to join the nation’s military and people in the national tragedy.” “I told Miss Hu Die, because fleeing is not the same as moving, that each person can carry at most two pieces of luggage, and if there is too much luggage, it is impossible to move it. After saying that, I left, because near Miss Hu’s apartment, there were many secret agents, and I was afraid of attracting unnecessary trouble.” [6]
Du Yuesheng was close to Dai Qing and was deeply involved in the military junta’s rescue of cultural figures in Hong Kong. In his early years in Shanghai, Du also had interactions with Hu Die. During the war, Du was a member of the Standing Committee of the Central Relief Committee, in charge of the 7th and 9th Relief Districts; Chen Zhigao, the director of the 7th Relief District, was a student of Du’s and also a secret underground member of the Chinese Communist Party (who will be discussed later), based in Qujiang. Yang Huimin went to Hong Kong to pick up the refugees on Chen Zhigao’s orders. Yang was able to take “Mr. Du Yuesheng’s telegram from Chongqing” to Houdie for this reason.
The reason was that Yang Huimin was “very happy” that Hutie had agreed to return to the rear because “before I came to Miss Hutie’s apartment, I had already met with Dr. Mei Lanfang, who was so adamant that he would not go to Chongqing, while Miss Hutie decided at once to move on. ” [7] This detail is corroborated by the recollections of Kousuke Wakuta, who served in the Hong Kong occupation forces and was in charge of the “united front” of the theater arts in Hong Kong during the war. According to Kousuke Wakuta, Mei Lanfang told him that he “wanted to go back to Shanghai” and he helped Mei to go through the relevant procedures; while Hu Die left Hong Kong quietly, which caught him by surprise. She had almost nothing in her possession.” [8]
(2) In August 1942, Hu Die’s luggage was robbed midway back to the mainland; in September, Yang Huimin was arrested by the military junta
In her memoirs, Hu Die described the process of escaping from Hong Kong as follows
“Early in the morning, our family walked out of our house pretending to be visiting relatives. We were led by guerrillas in disguise, avoiding densely populated areas. Of course, Hong Kong was not yet as prosperous as it is today, and the development and prosperity of Hong Kong was only in the last two decades, and no permits were needed to cross the border. The two children were carried by the guerrillas in baskets, one at each end, while we walked for a whole day, which was the most I had ever walked since I was born, so much so that I got blisters on the soles of my feet because of the wilderness and rugged mountain roads. It can also be changed by the change of environment. After a day’s walk, we finally arrived in Huiyang, Guangdong Province, and then took a diesel truck from here to Qujiang, also known as Shaoguan. Escorting us to Huiyang, the guerrillas’ mission was completed. Yau Sing handed the guerrillas three thousand Hong Kong dollars for the escort, and although the guerrillas repeatedly said they were happy to assist an actor of some fame like me to escape the tiger’s mouth, we asked them to accept it as a small token of our appreciation for the anti-Japanese cause.” [9]
In August 1942, Hu Die and her family fled Hong Kong and arrived in Qujiang (Shaoguan), Guangdong Province, which was then the temporary seat of the Guangdong government; the luggage traveled separately from the people and was reportedly robbed by bandits on the way. In September of the same year, Yang Huimin was arrested by the military junta. According to Yang’s recollection in later years, his interrogation by the Junta at the time focused on two questions: 1. “When you were at Luo Siwei’s house, having dinner with Wang Mingchuan and Zhao Lotian, did you talk about the shooting down of the American plane?” 2. “At every interrogation, the judge asked whether I had taken Hu Die’s luggage.” To the first question, Yang’s response compounded, “I did not collude with Luo Siwei and Wang Mingchuan, nor did I supply them with information.” To the second question, Yang’s response was, “I didn’t know Houdie, and I had no enemies, so why would I take her luggage? Besides, I was not on the same boat and car with her, so how could I know about the circumstances of her robbery on the road?” In her later years, Yang Huimin said that she “subconsciously” believed that the first question was just a cover; the second question was the real purpose of the interrogation – “During this period of time, I had realized that Hu Die’s false accusation had played a decisive role in my life. decisive role for me, enough to kill me.” However, Yang also admitted that the “verdict” of the Ministry of Defense against him “does not mention a single word about the robbery of Ms. Hu Die’s luggage.
(3) During his stay in Hong Kong, Yang Huimin was in close contact with a military intelligence correspondent, an advisor to the Japanese governor of Hong Kong, and a Taiwanese interpreter for the Japanese military police who had left his post to engage in business and smuggling.
Yang Huimin’s “subconscious” is not accurate. The main reason for the military junta’s interrogation of him was not Hu Die.
Here it is necessary to introduce a few characters involved in the interrogation of Yang Huimin – “Did you talk about the shooting down of the American plane at Luo Siwei’s house, when you were having dinner with Wang Mingchuan and Zhao Lotian?” –the background.
Zhao Lotian had been a “correspondent” for the military junta, and had already left his post without permission when he met Yang. He was doing business and smuggling under the guise of the military junta (a practice that was anathema to Dai). Yang probably did not know that Zhao had left the military junta. But in his memoirs, Yang admits that he helped Zhao consign two shipments of Western medicine back to the mainland, and “as to how much money he made,” Yang says he is not sure. In 1946, the Ministry of National Defense sentenced Zhao to one year and six months in prison for “leaving his post without a reason. Zhao’s punishment.
The same applies to Luo Siwei and Wang Mingchuan. According to Yang, Luo was a protégé of Du Yuesheng, then advisor to the Japanese governor of Hong Kong and deputy head of the Kowloon police station, “a member of our intelligence staff who was lurking in the enemy organization”; Wang was a Taiwanese, then interpreter for the Japanese military police, and when Yang traveled between Guangdong and Hong Kong, she was identified by Wang, but Wang did not expose her and later, when Yang was arrested He “came to teach me how to pry open the window and escape”, so Yang thought “he was a patriot”.
About Luo Siwei, Yang’s description is generally accurate, but it is necessary to make some additions: Luo Siwei, formerly known as Luo Jiyi, served as a consul in Hokkaido Hakodate, Japan, before the war. After the outbreak of the war, Luo took refuge in Hong Kong with his family. During this period, he reported to Chen Bre on many occasions the information he had found out about Wang and Japan in Hong Kong, and wrote in a telegram, “The huge amount of money transferred by the government has been received, and I am grateful for the generous gift, and I feel grateful for it, so I will only make efforts to repay it in order to meet the expectations. [10] After the fall of Hong Kong, “he covered Tao Xisheng’s safe entry into the mainland, Tao told him to make false accusations with the Japanese, so that he would always be useful in the future.” [11] The fact of the huge gift of money, the words “I have been given a generous gift” and “to meet the expectations of the elegant hope”, as well as the relationship with Chen Brei and Tao Xisheng, all show that the identity of Luo Siwei at that time, although it can be considered as an intelligence officer in Chongqing, but does not belong to any organization. This is also the reason why the Junta, after arresting Zhao Lotian and Yang Huimin, asked them if they had leaked information about the “American planes” to Luo Siwei and Wang Mingchuan. As for Wang Mingchuan, I have not found any relevant information.
(4) The Military Intelligence interrogated Yang Huimin about whether he had spread the word “American planes were mistakenly shot down by Nationalist planes” to the enemy, which was related to the bombing of Tokyo by Du Li De
In April 1942, Doolittle led American bombers to take off from an aircraft carrier and bombed Tokyo. After the raid was completed, the raiding party flew to Quzhou Airfield in Zhejiang Province as scheduled. For reasons of secrecy, the U.S. forces did not communicate with the Chinese about the exact timing of the air raid, so that the airfield failed to provide navigation when they flew to the Chinese coast. Of the pilots who parachuted in China, 62 were rescued by the Chinese military and civilians, while five died and eight were captured by the Japanese. Yang Huimin’s reference to the inquisitor’s repeated questioning of her about whether she had “talked about the American plane that was mistakenly shot down by a Nationalist plane on its way back from the bombing of the Japanese mainland” at the home of Luo Siwei, when she was having dinner with Wang Mingchuan and Zhao Lotian, is a reference to this incident. The Doolittle air raid on Tokyo was of great propaganda significance to the Allies at the time, so naturally China and the U.S. did not want the news to get out that the U.S. plane was shot down by a Nationalist plane by mistake.
So, did Yang Huimin say something like “American planes were shot down by Chinese planes by mistake”? Actually, he did. According to the verdict of the Ministry of National Defense in 1946, “The defendant, Yang Huimin, has admitted that he lived in the house of Luo Siwei, the advisor to the Governor of Hong Kong, and that he knew Wang Mingchuan, the interpreter of the enemy military police, and that he talked about the incident of the American plane being shot down by our plane on the way back from the bombing of Japan during the dinner at Luo Siwei’s house, but he argued: ‘I did not I did not collude with Luo Siwei and Wang Mingchuan, nor did I supply them with information, but it was Wu Jiyu who talked about the plane, and I went on to say so. I didn’t mean to leak military secrets when I said that.'” In 1946, the Ministry of National Defense acquitted Yang Huimin on the grounds that although Yang had said that “American planes were mistakenly shot down by National Army planes,” the Air Force General Headquarters had investigated and found that “American planes were mistakenly shot down by National Army planes” had not occurred at that time. However, after an investigation with the Air Force General Headquarters, it was found that there was no “U.S. aircraft shot down by a National Army aircraft by mistake” at that time, and that “his statement was not true, and there was no specific fact or meaning of leaking military secrets, and there was no other evidence to prove it”. [12] The “misstatement” was a matter of fact.
It is worth mentioning that the “mistakenly shooting at American planes” may not have happened, but it did happen that American planes were treated as enemy planes. According to Doolittle’s memoirs, when Doolittle approached the runway, he in fact saw a row of runway lights, and the ground crew thought it was Japanese planes coming to bomb and turned off the runway lights urgently. So much so that none of the planes were able to land on the runway without incident. By the time the Quzhou airport communications control officer turned on the runway lights again in an emergency, Doolittle’s plane had been forced to land in a rice paddy for fifteen minutes. [13] The Junta guerrillas involved in this rescue effort were necessarily aware of this episode. It is very likely that the episode was distorted in the process of dissemination and was added to the story as “the American plane was shot down by a Nationalist plane by mistake”. As for its becoming propaganda material for the Japanese side, the military intelligence traced the source of the information to Yang Huimin, but the information is limited, so it is difficult to restore the specific process. The only thing that is certain is that Yang Huimin admitted that he told Luo Siwei and Wang Mingchuan that “the American plane was shot down by mistake by a Nationalist plane”; it makes sense that the military junta would take this matter seriously.
(5) The case of Houdie’s luggage was included in the interrogation of Yang Huimin, not because of his “erotic history”, but because of the struggle between the Communist Party and the State.
In conclusion, it is clear that the interrogation of Yang Huimin about the “American plane” was not a cover for Dai Gan to please Houdie. Then, why did the military junta intervene in the case of Houdie’s missing luggage and interrogate Yang Huimin with it?
The recollections of Huang Mulan, a member of the underground, provide an important clue to the interpretation of this matter. As mentioned earlier, Yang Huimin’s rescue operation in Hong Kong was led by Chen Zhigao, the director of the 7th Relief District. Chen Zhigao was an old member of the underground. Huang Mulan was Chen’s wife. According to Huang’s recollection, “In November (1942), Hu Die and her husband Pan Yousheng had arrived safely in Qujiang. One day, she suddenly came to us, saying that a large amount of ‘luggage’ she had entrusted to Yang Huimin for escort had disappeared on the way. …… In fact, among these ‘luggage’, only a few pieces were The majority of the real luggage are such as the back of the shortage of expensive imported Western medicine, cosmetics, etc.” This negotiation, the two sides did not happy. [14]
This recollection by Huang reveals two important pieces of information: 1) the first time Houdie and his wife traced their luggage was in November 1942, later than Yang Huimin’s arrest by the military junta (September); 2) Houdie’s luggage contained many “expensive imported western medicines” (generally, according to rumors, those who write recollections for literature and history claim that The luggage of Houdie was mainly jewelry, but Huang Mulan mentioned western medicine, which was very different from it), which was something urgently needed at that time in the rear and was also an important item for the military junta to purchase foreign materials. Considering that Hu Die’s husband, Pan Yousheng, later ran a drug business in Guilin and Chongqing, it is not surprising that his luggage back to the mainland contained a large amount of drugs purchased from Hong Kong.
A little later, Huang Mulan and Chen Zhigao were arrested by the military junta. “It was said that we had harbored Yang Huimin, ‘fornicating with the Communist guerrillas of the East River’ and robbed her ‘luggage’. …… This was really a flying disaster, a great injustice, and the resulting ‘tracing’ to Zhigao and me was an unexpected disaster. But after careful analysis, but not surprisingly, it must be that Zhigao and I in Qujiang in the name of the Zhen Committee to do a lot of work conducive to strengthening the unity of the Communist Party and the anti-Japanese work, has long attracted the attention and jealousy of the anti-Communist stubborn faction of the Kuomintang, especially the military intelligence spies.” [15] In retaliation, Chen Zitao, a member of the underground, used the Gui media, Guangxi Daily, to publish an article to publicize that it was “CC agent Yang Huimin” who had cheated Hu Die out of her valuable clothes. [16] There were also many outsiders who followed similar paths and speculated about this. For example, in 1943, there were rumors in Guilin that Hu Die’s clothes were sold in the market, and Cao Juren thought that “it could be that the guerrillas of the Dongjiang River were searched by the Japanese army, but it was really the army that had clearly divided them and transported them to Guilin to sell.” [17]
As for Yang Huimin and Zhao Lotian, who were later imprisoned in the Jagged Cave Detention Center by Dai Qing, they were in fact enforcing the military junta’s house rules, going to a “high school” to be “cultivated people”. The military junta used to call the internal prison a school, and those who violated minor discipline were enrolled in “elementary school” (detention center); those who violated serious discipline were enrolled in “middle school” (Jagged Cave and White House); and those who were especially serious were enrolled in “university” (Xifeng Prison). Xifeng Prison), the length of graduation varies. Zhao was found to have privately left his post to smuggle business, and Yang was found to have helped Zhao smuggle and leak military secrets, both of which were more serious violations, so he was admitted to the “high school”. These detainees were collectively referred to as “disciplinarians” to distinguish them from “political prisoners,” and they called each other “comrades” to show that they were still members of the junta. However, the military junta’s family rules were so strict that even a veteran such as Yu Leshen, who was found to have violated discipline and entered a “high school,” was imprisoned for two years before being released. [18] The fact that Yang Huimin and Zhao Lotian were imprisoned until the victory of the war was not because Dai Qing had any special target on them.
In short, the reason why the case of Hu Die’s luggage attracted the attention of the military junta and the reason why Yang Huimin was interrogated about it was because it involved the issue of the Communist Party; there was no personal factor in which Dai Qing targeted Hu Die. The reason why Yang Huimin was imprisoned until the end of the war was not the rumor that Dai was deliberately persecuting her for the sake of Hu Die.
(3) Disinformation: Hu Die had never been dominated by Dai Qing since she returned to China from Hong Kong
(1) Before May or June 1944, Hu Die was with her whole family and was always on the move, so it was impossible for her to be “occupied by Dai.
The rumor is that Dai Kasai took the opportunity to help Hu Die look for her luggage to get close to her and take over her. As mentioned above, the involvement of the military intelligence in the case of Houdie’s luggage had nothing to do with the rumored “history of Dai and Hu”. If we look at the whereabouts of Hu Die and his wife, we can clearly see that from 1942 to 1945, Hu Die was always in normal activities and was never “hidden” by Dai.
In August 1942, Hu Die’s family went north and arrived in Qujiang (Shaoguan). During this period, Hu Die participated in many activities such as the ribbon-cutting ceremony of the local sports meeting, which was reported in the newspapers. “After living in Qujiang for more than a year, Hu Die’s family decided to go to Chongqing via Guilin because the war was approaching. After arriving in Guilin, the family intended to “live for some days” and built a house for the sake of simplicity, and Pan Yousheng also organized a company with his friends to “operate medicines and daily necessities to maintain the family’s livelihood”. But the news of the imminent Japanese invasion was tight, and the family decided to move to Chongqing again. 19]
The earliest time when Hu Die arrived in Chongqing was around May-June 1944 (various previous biographies of Hu Die claimed that Hu Die arrived in Chongqing at the end of 1943, which is not true). The author bases this conclusion on the recollections of Colonel Gao Yuewen, the head of the General Affairs Section of the Chuan-Qiandao Highway District Command. At that time, from Guilin to Chongqing, it was necessary to take Dushan in Guizhou. He was ordered to take over the command of Dushan Station in the spring and summer of 1944. During this period, Mr. and Mrs. Hu Die went to Gao for help.
“One day, the Dushan Railway Hotel rang again, asking if the author was there. He said that Mr. Yu Qiaqing would come to visit immediately, and I promised that I wouldn’t dare. Soon after, Mr. Yu Qiaqing came to our place with the actress Ms. Hu Die and her husband Mr. Pan Yousheng in a small car. Yu, who was already 70 or 80 years old, politely shook hands and exchanged pleasantries with me, and took out a letter of introduction from a central government official asking for two cars, and Mr. and Mrs. Pan Yousheng asked for a car to transport their family and luggage. I spent some time talking again, and the result was to send a car for both of them, and the freight was paid by themselves. They expressed their gratitude and were actually very unhappy. …… This kind of people are transported to Dushan by railroad, no car to Chiku or Yu, had to put down their stance to stoop to beg me. They can’t carry away the soft luggage, may be in Dushan loss of some, but compared to fleeing civilians, and more fortunate.” [20]
Gao remembers clearly that he “arrived at Dushan at the beginning” when “the last battle with the Japanese at Changsha had failed” (author’s note: Changsha fell on June 19, 1944) and when “Fang Xianjue’s four divisions were blocking the Japanese at Hengyang. ” (author’s note: the battle began in late June 1944). In his memoirs, Hu Die said that he went to Chongqing from Guilin because “the war was spreading, the Japanese were invading south, and we had to abandon our newly built residence. The so-called “Japanese invasion” obviously refers to the Japanese invasion of Changsha. When Changsha fell, the gateway to Guilin was wide open, which was the reason why Hu Die had to go to Chongqing. Considering that Changsha had not yet fallen when Hu Die set out from Guilin, it is a reasonable judgment that he arrived at Dushan Station in May or June at the earliest and asked Gao Yuewen for help.
In other words, before May and June 1944, there could not have been any “Dai Gasa dominated Hu Die”. In her later years, Yang Huimin said, “When Miss Hu Die arrived in Chongqing from Huizhou, she reported and cried to the director of the military junta, General Dai Gan, and insisted that I had taken her luggage”, which was only an imagination. Shen drunkenly said that “since 1943, Hu (Die) has been occupied by him (Dai) and has been living secretly in his public house in Chengxiang”.
(2) It was a legitimate obligation for Dai to arrange housing for Hu Die; after arriving in Chongqing, Hu Die was still free to go out on location to shoot patriotic films, so the claim that “the golden house hid her mistress” is absurd.
After arriving in Chongqing, the main contact between Dai and Hu Die was that the military intelligence had arranged housing for Hu Die’s family. The fact that Hu Die returned from Hong Kong to the north was the result of the military intelligence’s struggle, and it was also a legitimate obligation for the military intelligence to arrange a residence for Hu Die. As for the rumors that Dai set up a public house for Hu Die to “hide his wife in a golden house”, they are purely untrue. The reason is that even if Dai had the intention of “hiding a woman in a golden house”, Hu Die had never given him the opportunity to do so.
Soon after arriving in Chongqing, Hu Die was invited by the China Film Studio to participate in the shooting of the movie “The Road to Founding the Nation”. The film was directed by Wu Yonggang, with Wei Hering and Hu Die as the male and female leads respectively. The story is about the national people who risked their lives to build the Qian-Gui Railway for the victory of the war. After Hu Die took the role, she left for Guangxi with the location team to shoot the scenes. But the film was not shot in the end, and Hu Die recalls.
“The film was shot on the highway soon after we arrived in Guilin, and we encountered the fiercest general attack of the Japanese on the Xianggui Highway. …… We walked and rode along the highway, with blisters on the soles of our feet and lice all over our bodies, and returned to Chongqing in such a hurry that the filming of “The Road to the Founding of the Nation” was naturally interrupted, and this is the only film I have not finished.” [21]
The participation of Houdie in the location shooting of “The Road to the Founding of the Nation” has survived in many materials, which will not be repeated here. The time was around August-October 1944 (the Japanese attacked Guilin at the end of October 1944, when they launched their attack on the Xianggui Highway a little earlier).
In other words, the rumor that Dai arranged the residence for Hu Die and interpreted it as Dai’s “golden house to hide his mistress” is totally unfounded. If Dai had taken over Hu Die’s “golden house”, why was Hu Die able to leave Chongqing freely and risk her life to shoot patriotic films?
In addition, there are two other points worth mentioning: 1, the originator of the “golden house hides his mistress” theory, Shen Drunk, when describing the construction of a house for Hu Die by Dai Gasa, mentioned that Dai Gasa had openly borrowed the land from the Sichuan warlord Wang Lingji, He Cheng Bank Wu Jinhang, and Datong Bank Xiao Zhenying, and the house was built in the public houses of Wang Lingji, Wu Jinhang, and Xiao Zhenying, respectively. Nearby. The location of the house and the construction process were so unprivate that it was obviously just to solve the housing problem of Hu Die, not to “hide the beauty in a golden house”. 2, Pan Yousheng operated daily necessities, medical supplies and timber business as a “commissioner of the wartime freight bureau” and traveled between The business content is similar to his previous business in Qujiang and Guilin; besides, Pan was a keen gambler in Hong Kong and lost a lot of money, so he left Hong Kong for two years and did not have any income. “This is not evidence that Dai hogged Hu Die.
The rumors were rampant. But in his later years, Hu Die already took it lightly, but he said, “There are many rumors about this period of life (in Chongqing), and they have been passed on as blackmail, which has become a fact with solid evidence. The important thing is not to be ambiguous on the issue of national justice.” [22] The story of Houdini’s death is almost 30 years old.
It has been almost 30 years since the death of Hu Die. It was time to put an end to this rumor.
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[1] Shen Drunk, The Dai Qing (戴笠) I Know, Mass Publishing House, 1962, P116. [2] Huang Kangyong’s oral notes, The Rise and Fall of the Military Junta: The Personal Recollections of Nationalist Generals, Zhejiang University Press, 2014, P164. [3] Yang Huimin, The Eight Hundred Strongest Soldiers and Me, Boai Publishing House, 1970. [4] Shen Drunk, The Dai Qing I Know, Mass Publishing House, 1962, P04. 1962, P04.[5] Ibid, P120-124.[6] Yang Huimin, The Eight Hundred Strongest Men and Me, Boai Publishing House, 1970.[7] Ibid. All the following quotations from the book are not otherwise noted. [8] and Kousuke Wakuda, “Mei Lanfang and Hu Die in Hong Kong during the War,” in Memoirs of a Chinese Theatre Master, Writer’s Press, 2012, P175-186.[9] Hu Die / Oral Narration, Liu Huiqin / Collation, Memoirs of Hu Die, Culture and Arts Press, 1988, P190.[10] Second Historical Archives of China / Collation, “Luo Jiyi Reports on Wang-Ji Activities to A set of letters from Luo Jiyi to Chen Bre,” Republican Archives, No. 2, 1999. [11] Gao Boyu, Listen to the Rain House Essays 6, Oxford Press, 2012, P13. [12] The verdict is cited in Yang Huimin, The Eight Hundred Strongest Warriors and Me. Yang highly agrees with the verdict, “so during my lifetime, and in the future, when I am dying, I will instruct my two sons in my will that it must be preserved forever.” The verdict is actually very rough, including “Yang Huimin stayed at Luo Siwei’s house in the summer of 1991, and there were no American planes forced to land in that year” – Doolittle’s bombing team forced to land in Zhejiang, that is, in the thirty-first year of the Republic of China, can it be said that “there was no forced landing of American planes in that year”? [13] Fu Zhong, The Story of the Doolittle B-25 Bombing of Tokyo, Shanghai People’s Publishing House, 2012, P27, P51. [14] Huang Mulan, The Autobiography of Huang Mulan, Encyclopedia of China Publishing, 2004, P282-284. [15] Ibid. [16] “A Communist with Iron Bones – Chen Zitao,” in Biographies of Martyrs in Southeast Guizhou, First Series, Party History Office of Yulin District Committee/Ed. [17] Cao Juren, “Addendum on Yang Huimin and Hu Die,” in The Listening Room Character Tan. [18] Li Hua, “Red Rock Archives Declassified”, China Youth Press, 2008, P24. [19] Houdie/Oral narration, Liu Huiqin/Collation, “Houdie Memoirs”, Culture and Art Press, 1988, P192-194. [20] Gao Yuewen, “Qiannan Incident Record”, in “Guangdong, Guizhou, Qian and Yunnan War of Resistance”, China Literature and History Press, 2015, P415-424. -424.[21] Hu Die / oral narration, Liu Huiqin / collation, Memoirs of Hu Die, Culture and Art Publishing House, 1988, P195.[22] Ibid, P197.
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