Zhang Zhiyun (1904 ~197?)
张织云（1904 ~ 197?)
Zhang Zhiyun was born in Zhang Ahshan (Ahxi) a village of Panyu in Guangdong, now a city of Guangzhou. She was three when her father died and moved to Shanghai with her mother. She was one of China's first generation actresses and the first Chinese film empress.
张织云，原名张阿善（阿喜），广东番禺（今广州）人，三岁丧父，幼年随母移居上海，中国第一代女明星之一，中国第一位“影后”。
In 1923, Zhang Zhiyun entered the Dazhonghua Filim Company through the test and Starred the silent films A Poor Heart (1924) and Amid the Battle of Musketry (1925), which made her attracting. Her appearance in Dazhonghua Film Company brought her to the attention of the Star studio.Playing the lead in a string of three popular silent films A Sincerely Pity Girl ( 1925 ) , Suspects of Couple ( 1925 ) and Lonely Orchid (1925) for Star quickly made her one of what the press New World in Shanghai termed the Mingxing studio's uFour Great Dan" (actresses), a-long with Yang Naimei, Wang Hanlun and Xuan Jinglin.
1923年张织云考人上海大中华影片公司，主演无声片《人心》（1924)、《战功》(1925)而引人注目。她在大中华公司初露头角后，又受聘于明星公司，主演《可怜的闺女》（1925 )、《新人的家庭》（1925 )、《空谷兰》（1925)等系列无声片。
In 1926, the Shanghai magazine, New World, conducted a fan poll, which made Zhang Zhiyun No. 1 actress among Star's Four Great Dan and she was selected as "Film Empress". In Why Not Her (1926) directed by Bu Wancang, she acted a country girl, for which had her named a “tragic Empress”.
1926年，上海《新世界》杂志社举办电影皇后选举,结果张织云独占鳌头，被选为“电影星后”，其他依次是杨耐梅、王汉伦、宣景琳，于是她们被合称为明星公司中国电影早期的“四大名旦”。在卜万苍导演的《玉洁冰清》中，张织云在片内因饰演乡村少女，被人称誉为“悲剧圣手”。

In 1927, she went to America with Tang Jishan and married him thus left film-dom since then. In 1931 she was abandoned by his husband, and after that, there came the sound age of films. Not speaking Chinese Language made this " Empress" hardly be employed and had to depend on and live with her friend. In 1933, Star Company produced Disappointed Love according to her suffering. In 1935, she starred New Peach Blossom Fan, and then moved to Hongkong and acted Cantonese films. For a long time since then, she had lived a helpless life and beggared along the street. Zhang Zhiyun had starred thirteen tragic love films in her life and she was drowned by her tragic life just as the main characters in films. She died in Hong Kong in 1970s.
1927年张织云随唐季珊去美国结婚，离开影坛。1931年被唐抛弃。婚变后，电影已经到了有声时代，这位“影后”不会讲国语，很难找到受聘用的机会,只好寄居朋友家中。1933年明星制片公司以其遭遇拍摄《失恋》，并由其本人主演。1935 主演《新挑花扇》。后移居香港,曾参加粤语片的拍摄，以后长期生活无着，曾沿街乞讨。张织云一生主演了13部爱情悲剧，自己和影片中的主角一样，被人生的悲剧所淹没,20世纪70年代在香港去世。