In Taiwan’s early years, he was called the “Beauty Pageant Emperor” and was also the main promoter of Taiwan’s beauty pageants in the 1990s. (Photo / newspaper information photo)
In the early years of Taiwan, beauty pageants were popular, and many women chose “Miss China” as an affirmation of their own beauty and temperament; now there are many actresses, celebrities and women in the entertainment industry who shone through the Miss Beauty Pageant stage back then, so it is known. Regarding beauty pageants in Taiwan, I have to mention that in the past, Tang Rirong was called the “emperor of Taiwan’s beauty pageant” by the outside world. He was the main driver behind the popularity of beauty pageants in Taiwan in the 1990s, but he liked to show off his wealth in a high-profile way. Even the toilet in his home was inlaid with gold, he also had disputes emotional with beauty pageants. In the end, he fell ill in his last years, debts were due everywhere, and he was even seriously ill. After the operation, the family members could not find the signature, and finally died of kidney failure aged 58.
Tang Rirong, born in Sichuan province, mainland China, came to Taiwan with his father Tang Yi during the civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party in his early years, he later graduated from High School that’ n Affiliated with the Normal University and the English Department of Soochow University. Tang Rirong, who left the campus and just came out of society, first worked as a famous English tutor and opened a clothing factory. Later, he claimed to have met Hussein, who later became the president of Iraq, when he studying in the United Kingdom, which enabled him to live in the 1980s. During the Iraq War, he became rich from the opportunity to contract the business of Iraqi weapons and military products, which opened his “golden” period of luxury and wealth.
Tang Rirong, who claimed to be rich from weapons, founded the “Republic of China Beauty Pageant Association” in Taiwan in 1987 and served as the chairman until 1995. Due to his promotion, he was able to bring the beauty pageant activities that had been interrupted in Taiwan for more than 20 years in the early years and resumed in Taiwan, pushed forward.
Looking back at the period between 1988 and 1995, this was the peak period of Taiwan’s beauty pageants. Under the leadership of Tang Rirong, “Miss China”, “Miss Jiale”, “Miss International” and other beauty pageants were held every year. Tang Rirong was in high spirits, participated in all beauty pageants in person, and showed his wealth in an obvious way, either he took long white Rolls-Royce and Cadillac limousines when he went in and out, or he showed off the golden toilets and business cards at home.
As for Tang Rirong’s exaggerated and high-profile display of his wealth, and because of the beauty pageant relationship, he is always surrounded by beautiful beauties with good figures. Although he has become the darling of the media, he has the title of “Taiwan Beauty Pageant Emperor”. But it has also attracted social discussion, good and bad.
Later, after Tang Rirong gave up his post as chairman of the beauty pageant association of the Republic of China, he was in constant trouble, and his last years were desolate and desolate. He first had emotional and financial disputes with his successor and his model Jiang Wenshu , who also came from beauty contests Because of the noise, the beauty pageant was later stopped; then he and his wife divorced, there was a financial crisis, and he owed money everywhere. In the end, he died of kidney failure, ending his glorious but controversial life in just 58 years.
