You may have seen posts on the Internet with topics like "the most beautiful name". A good name can help everyone get to know you, especially in today's society, when people's living standards are improving. Since then, they have paid more attention to spiritual and cultural cultivation. Many people will feel frustrated because their names are not "elegant" enough, while those with good-sounding names are more likely to be sought after.
What kind of name sounds good? For example, Liu Rushi, a famous woman in the late Qing Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty, was named after Xin Qiji's line "I see how charming the green mountains are, and I know how charming the green mountains are. When I see the green mountains, I should be like this." The name of Lin Huiyin, a talented woman from the Republic of China, makes people feel elegant and noble. "The Book of Songs·Daya": "The great Si's heir is Huiyin, and Baisi is male." As for the name of Nan Huaijin, a master of modern Chinese studies, it also comes from ancient books. It is the name of the famous patriotic poet Qu Yuan in the pre-Qin period in his work "Nine Chapters Huaisha" One sentence: "Huai Jin holds Yu Xi, but I don't know how to show it."
Why are there so many nice names listed here? Because the woman I’m going to talk about today is quite peculiar. Her real name is actually very elegant. It sounds like she was given the name by a scholar in her family. But later, she was ostracized by her classmates because her name was too nice, so she accepted the principal’s suggestion in desperation. She chose to change her name, but eventually became very popular in Shanghai. She is Wang Renmei.
To be honest, the name Wang Renmei is a bit rustic and not as meaningful as her real name Wang Shuxi. To talk about the name Wang Shuxi, we have to start with her origin.
Wang Shuxi was born in Changsha, Hunan in 1914. His father was a teacher at Hunan First Normal College, so he came from a scholarly family. At that time, the Wang family used the word "人" in Wang Shuxi's generation, such as her brothers Wang Renxuan, Wang Renlu, and Wang Renyi.
But because Wang Shuxi was a girl and could not use her family name, her father gave her a very beautiful name, Shuxi, which was taken from a passage in "Shangshu": "Yunli Baigong" "Shuji Xianxi" means prosperous career.
The name is good, but Wang Shuxi’s destiny is not very good. Her mother and father passed away one after another. Wang Shuxi, who graduated from Hunan Provincial No. 1 Women’s Normal School, said goodbye to her hometown and joined her brothers. Go to Shanghai Beauty School. Beauty school sounds like it is related to appearance. Indeed, this school is the predecessor of the Chinese Song and Dance Ensemble. The principal is Li Jinhui, the founder of Chinese pop music. He is also a good friend of Wang Shuxi's father.
It has to be admitted that compared to traditional schools, the cultural literacy of students in this kind of singing and dancing schools is more uneven. Many of them have to come to learn singing and dancing because their families are poor. Therefore, the names are also very down-to-earth, such as "Xiaofang", "Xiaocui", "Xiaohong" and so on. Wang Shuxi's bookish aura has influenced her from her heels to her hair. Even her name seems so elegant, so she is naturally similar to her classmates. They seemed out of place.
Sometimes these students may not mean it deliberately, but when they get along with each other, they will always exclude Wang Shuxi invisibly. This makes Wang Shuxi extremely distressed and can't help but talk to Li Jinhui. Li Jinhui naturally had much more life experience than Wang Shuxi. He knew immediately what the problem was, so he changed Wang Shuxi's name to Wang Renmei, which was more down-to-earth and based on their family's genealogy.
The name Wang Renmei made her classmates feel very friendly, and she was accepted immediately. At the same time, although the name is quite rustic, it also has the feeling that "the commonplace is the elegant". Speaking of which, this name change is really good, and it is very suitable for the "stage names" of those popular stars during the Republic of China.
As expected, it didn't take long for her to become famous through her first movie "The Sound of the Monkey in the Hollow Valley". After that, she acted and sang, and she became very popular in Shanghai. She starred in "Yu Guang Song" , "Children of the Storm" and many other popular films, and also contributed many wonderful tracks.
In 2005, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Chinese film, Wang Renmei was successfully selected into the list of "One Hundred Outstanding Actors in Chinese Film". Her achievements are enough to be recorded in history.