中英雙語話中國影視演藝圈 第12期:嚴姍姍

Yan Shanshan (1896 ~1952)

嚴姍姍（1896 ~ 1952)

Yan Shanshan, birth name Yan Shuji, was born in Nanhai County, Guangdong Province in 1896. She was China's first film actress and Yan Shansahn was her stage name used to Zhuang Zi Tests His Wife (1913).

嚴姍姍，原名嚴淑姬,1896年生於廣東南海縣。中國電影第一位女演員， 嚴姍姍是她爲演《莊子試妻》（1913)使用的藝名。

Yan Shanshan graduated from Hongkong Yide Normal School and was a member of the female bomb squadron during the Republican Revolution in 1911. When Chinese films were just beginning，as in plays influenced by traditional doc-trine, there was a rule against female performers sharing the stage with male performers, so female roles were played by male actors. The first Chinese film，The Battle of Mount Dingjun, could not break through the cultural custom. Even in the film with the theme of marriage relationship in 1913, all actors and actresses were acted by the male. However, China's first film actress, Yan Shanshan, appeared on screen in 1914 as China's first film actress.

她畢業於香港懿德師範學校,辛亥革命時參加過廣東北伐軍女子炸彈隊。受 傳統禮教的影響，中國戲曲舞臺上一向遵循着男扮女裝的規則。1905年問世的中 國首部電影《定軍山》自然也難以突破這一文化習俗。甚至在1913年《難夫難妻》 這部以婚姻關係爲主題的影片中，所有的男女演員仍都是由男演員扮演的。1914 年，嚴姍姍作爲中國第一任電影女演員出現在銀幕上。

In 1913, Yan Shuji founded the Hong Kong Meihua Film Company with her husband Li Minwei, she played the role of the servant girl in Zhuang Zi Tests His Wife, became the first Chinese actress in Hongkong and Chinese film history. After that, Yan joined Shanghai Xinmin Film Company and starred in The God of Peace (1926) , Five Revengeful Girls (1928) , and Reviving Romance (1928) , which were all produced by Shanghai Minxin Film Company. She stopped acting in 1928 and passed away in 1952 at her age of 56.

1913年,嚴姍姍與丈夫黎民偉共同創辦香港美華影片公司，並在該公司攝製 的短片《莊子試妻》中飾演使女，成爲香港及中國電影史上第一位女演員。此後，嚴 姍姍加入上海新民影片公司，主演了《和平之神》、《五女復仇》、《再世姻緣》等影 片，1928年退出影壇，1952年去世，享年56歲。