Now few people remember the name Chen Zurong.
But at that time, her beauty also surprised the eyes of many people. Among them, there is also the big star Liu Xiaoqing.
Her extraordinary beauty once made the fledgling Liu Xiaoqing "jealous". At that time, Liu Xiaoqing often looked at her beautiful face in a daze and thought, how can there be such a beautiful person? It's like a fairy.
Liu Xiaoqing still remembers the scene when she first met Chen Zurong, she sat there, it was a scenery, so that everything around her was eclipsed, so that Liu Xiaoqing could not help but blurt out: You are simply so beautiful.
But Chen Zurong was completely unaware of his beauty.
It was 1975, Chen Zurong was 33 years old, and his body exuded the unique charm of a mature woman, like a blooming peony, fragrant and rich, which shocked the young Liu Xiaoqing.
That year, together with the famous screen handsome brother Wang Xingang, they co-starred in the movie "The Great Wall of the South China Sea". Wang Xingang played the male protagonist Ou Yingcai, while Chen Zurong and Liu Xiaoqing played a pair of sisters Ah Luo and Sweet Girl respectively. It was also from this film that Liu Xiaoqing and Chen Zurong established a sisterhood of up to 30 years.
Chen Zurong was born in 1942, and his ancestral home is Nanchang, Jiangxi. In 1962, Chen Zurong, who had loved music since childhood, graduated from the music department of Henan Normal University, was first assigned to Guangzhou as an actor, and in 1965, she entered the Wuhan Air Politics Cultural and Labor Troupe. At this time, she was naturally beautiful, and she was favored by the director of the North Film Studio, Cheng Yin, and arranged for her to play the beautiful and cheerful but a little arrogant city girl Xiang Fei in the movie "Female Pilot" directed by herself.
The film was released in 1966, because there were not many new movies at that time, so this film full of characteristics of the times was still welcomed by many audiences after being released in theaters, and the young actresses who played roles in the film were also well known. Especially Chen Zurong, she is too conspicuous among this group of girls, because she is indeed very beautiful, temperament and foreign, almost every time she appears on the screen, it will always make many fans moved.
On the screen at that time, the audience saw more of the tall and robust "image of workers, peasants, and soldiers." So both actors and actresses are trying to move in this direction. And the really dignified and beautiful actresses are very few, among them, Yang Yaqin, who has successfully portrayed the image of Juanzi in "Bitter Cauliflower", is particularly prominent. Another actress of the same type is probably Chen Zurong. Her beauty is not inferior to Yang Yaqin's, and the two have many similarities.
Chen Zurong quickly became famous for starring in "Female Pilot", became a movie star, and her beautiful image also appeared in the "Popular Film" magazine at that time.
But just as she was about to show her skills on the big screen, a movement surged like a wave, shattering Chen Zurong's dream.
Not only was she unable to perform on stage or screen for a long time, but in 1970 she was also assigned to the Kaifeng Combine Harvester Factory in Henan Province as an ordinary female worker. And here, it's seven or eight years.
But many film directors still remember the beauty of Chen Zurong. In 1975, when Bayi Factory was preparing to shoot "The Great Wall of the South China Sea", it was decided that she would play the role of Ah Luo, and Wang Xingang would form a "husband and wife file". Yang Yaqin, the head of the Bayi Factory, originally also played a role in the film, but later because she had another shooting task, she withdrew from the performance, so that we could not see the scene of the two beautiful women playing on the same stage that year. The role of Ah Luo's sister Sweet Girl was handed over to Liu Xiaoqing, who debuted on the screen, to play.
As a result, Chen Zurong and Liu Xiaoqing lived up to expectations, and with the help of experienced veteran actors Such as Wang Xingang and others, they both completed the task very well. Left a very good screen image for the audience.
In 1978, the Hangzhou Repertory Theatre in Zhejiang, in order to develop the drama career, recruited outstanding performing talents across the country, and Chen Zurong, who had already starred in two films, was recommended by people to enter the eyes of the leaders of the Hangzhou Repertory Theatre, thus she returned to the cast from a female worker.
At this time, Chen Zurong got another opportunity to make a movie, that is, in the movie "Milk Yanfei", which showed the growth experience of female gymnasts, filmed by Xi'an Film Studio, she played female coach Li Guifang. This movie not only made the 17-year-old Mongolian girl Na Renhua become a movie star loved by the audience, but also made Chen Zurong enter everyone's sight again.
But Chen Zurong's job is as a drama actor, so she spends more time shaping various roles on the drama stage. It was only in between performances that she was able to participate in some cameos in film and television dramas. Among them, she has twice starred in "Dream of the Red Chamber" and cooperated with Liu Xiaoqing again, which has always been a topic of discussion among the audience.
In 1983, CCTV set up a crew to shoot the TV version of "Dream of the Red Chamber", and director Wang Fulin selected actors from all over the country, including Zhou Xianzhen, Jin Lili and Chen Zurong from Hangzhou, who respectively portrayed the roles of Madame Wang, Jia Yingchun and Xiangling's mother Feng shi in the version of "Dream of the Red Chamber" broadcast in 1987. Every character in the 87th edition of "Dream of the Red Chamber" is a classic, and the Fengshi played by Chen Zurong, although there are not many scenes, is a dragon set role, but it still makes a deep impression.
Chen Zurong and Liu Xiaoqing have become best friends after having a pleasant cooperation in the movie "The Great Wall of the South China Sea" in 1975, and have always kept in touch and corresponded continuously. Every time Chen Zurong went to Beijing, he would go to Liu Xiaoqing's home, and when Liu Xiaoqing went to Hangzhou, it was Chen Zurong who came forward to receive him. Although Liu Xiaoqing had become China's most popular movie star by then, this did not affect their sisterhood in the slightest.
Therefore, when the North Film Studio was also ready to start filming the series of movies "Dream of the Red Chamber" and arranged for Liu Xiaoqing to play the role of Wang Xifeng, she immediately thought of her good sister Chen Zurong in Hangzhou and recommended her to play the role of You Shi. It is precisely under the efforts of Liu Xiaoqing that Chen Zurong once again won the opportunity to star in the film version of "Dream of the Red Chamber", becoming one of the lucky people who participated in two versions of "Dream of the Red Chamber" at the same time.
When she starred in the movie version of "Dream of the Red Chamber", Chen Zurong was already middle-aged, but her screen image was still so dignified and beautiful that people could not see her age. And at this time, her acting skills are more calm and sophisticated, so she has portrayed Youshi, a cowardly woman with no ability and no backing, very successfully.
As an actor, Chen Zurong, although she looks outstanding and has a very photogenic face, her star path is not very smooth. In her early 20s, she debuted in "Female Pilot", but then a sport interrupted her acting career, making her waste her youth. And when the country once again set off a boom in feature films, she did not get more opportunities to show. So it hasn't been very red. Although she is only two years older than Yang Yaqin, and has the same extraordinary appearance and temperament as Yang Yaqin, she is far inferior to Yang Yaqin in terms of fame, not to mention compared with Liu Xiaoqing, whose future acting career is in the sky.
This is a very regrettable thing for Chen Zurong.
But fortunately, her personality is not so strong, and she does not attach great importance to fame and fortune. Without film shooting, she was at ease to participate in drama performances, and at the same time, she put more energy into family life, and trained her son into a powerful film and television actor.
Her son, Yao Lu, seems to be more famous than her mother, Chen Zurong.
Yao Qiu, born on January 28, 1968, was admitted to the Beijing Film Academy in 1987 and became classmates with Zhang Jiayi and Wang Quan'an. His image is very characteristic, he looks like a foreigner, and his personality is also easy-going. As early as 1995, he starred in the role of Feng Xijiu in a TV series that was very popular at the time directed by Zhao Baogang, "East Side Sunrise West Rain", which made a deep impression. Subsequently, he starred in film and television dramas such as "Cao Cao", "Chen Zhen's Later Biography", "Chicken Dog Restlessness", "Confucius", "Let the Bullets Fly", "Di Renjie's Heavenly Empire", "Tongquetai" and other film and television dramas, and now he has become an old drama bone with good acting skills.
After Chen Zurong retired in 1995, he lived a peaceful life in Hangzhou. When we met her in Hangzhou in 2001, she was in good spirits. Unexpectedly, on August 1, 2009, the national second-level actor died of a sudden heart attack at the age of 67. After Liu Xiaoqing heard this news, he was sad from the heart, but because he could not come to send off his sisters because of filming, he had to entrust the person to send the largest wreath.
After Chen Zurong's death, her son Yao Qiu said that my mother was an angel, beautiful and kind. It can be seen that in the heart of his son, his mother Chen Zurong is also the most perfect woman.
Yes, Chen Zurong is not a particularly famous actor, but anyone who has seen the movie she starred in will not forget the beauty she once bloomed on the screen, right? So in everyone's memory, which role did she play the most memorable? Welcome to interact with more fans and netizens through the message area. I am Yaqing, thank you again for your attention and sharing, we will meet again at the same time tomorrow.
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