After the release of Liu Yifei's "Waterloo" work and the Hollywood blockbuster "Mulan", a generation of "kung fu superstars" Jet Li did not make a new work.
This is actually not unusual, you know, although he is a "tough guy", he is helpless to be "honest and old" - yes, Jet Li is 58 years old.
In the 39 years since he was in the film, he has created countless legends, but he has also been questioned repeatedly.
It is no exaggeration to say that Jet Li's biggest black material in this life is to divorce his first wife, Huang Qiuyan, when she is about to give birth, on the grounds that I am in love with someone else.
Even though it's been 30 years, it's still disgraceful.
But in fact, Jet Li and his ex-wife Huang Qiuyan's relationship is not bad now, after all, there are two lovely daughters among them.
However, about that period of the past, Huang Qiuyan should not have forgotten.
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Today's "kung fu superstar" is mentioned again, in addition to achievements, there is also enviable love:
His second wife, Li Zhi, is still interviewed today, and is still evaluated by her husband as "not caring about all fame and fortune, only caring about children and husband";
Jet Li also once entrusted his 2 billion worth to her when he was accidentally injured, even if he was in his 40s, he would say to the media in public: "I love her, I can die for her..."
Yes, the former Li Zhi was rated as Li Zhi's "rare beauty in 50 years" by the great talent Ni Kuang, and the two stood together as male and female.
But behind all this beauty, there is always another injured woman standing - Huang Qiuyan.
Many people don't even know who she is, or they will speculate whether she is not worthy of being "a kung fu superstar" to be "swept out"?
And the opposite is true.
Born in Beijing in 1961, Huang Qiuyan grew up in an artistic family, her father was a choreographer of the Military Region's Cultural and Labor Troupe, and her mother worked as a dance teacher in the Song and Dance Theater — so to speak, the first dance artists to be compensated by New China.
Huang Qiuyan was born in such a family and had a carefree childhood, while Jet Li, who was born two years later, was born in an ordinary worker family with four older brothers and sisters.
Because his father died unexpectedly at the age of 2, Jet Li's life was even more unsatisfactory.
At the age of 8, Jet Li entered the Shichahai Sports School in Beijing to start learning martial arts, where he met huang Qiuyan, the "sister of the master", and the two then began a period of more than 10 years of "green plum bamboo horse" time.
At that time, Huang Qiuyan was very hard at the time, talented, and soon won the Beijing Women's Snake Fist and SwordPlay Championship; Jet Li also won the first place in the junior group of the Chinese Wushu Competition and the all-around champion in 1794.
After learning of Jet Li's family situation, Huang Qiuyan, a sister of the master, visited Li's mother several times, and sometimes took out her own salary to relieve the pressure on the other party.
At that time, Huang Qiuyan also invited friends of the martial arts school to play in her home many times, and Jet Li was among them.
Father Huang also saw that his daughter was very fond of this master and disciple, but at that time, this relationship was still relatively sensitive, so they never broke through the window paper.
Years later, Jet Li recalled this hazy relationship again, saying:
"The first wife was met in school, she was two years older than me, often took care of me, at that time did not know what love is, is a kind of mutual love, this relationship is also vague to start filming "Shaolin Temple" ..."
In 1980, Jet Li got the opportunity to participate in the action movie "Shaolin Temple", and his role as Kuang Fu Zhengyi's martial monk Jueyuan once caused a sensation, and the film won 161 million at the box office, you know, the movie ticket price at that time was only 1 dime a piece.
There is no doubt that Jet Li was fortunate to become popular when he only filmed the first work, at this stage, although he has realized that he does not have much affection for Huang Qiuyan, he has not chosen to break up with him, and his concern is still in his "reputation":
"I wondered if the two of us had broken up at that time, wouldn't I have been sorry for others, and I was afraid that everyone would have misunderstood me at that time."
Perhaps to make up for the emotional inability to go all out, Jet Li then thought of other ways to compensate Huang Qiuyan: introducing her to filming.
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It was 1983, and Jet Li, who had already become popular, took over the martial arts movie "Shaolin Kid", and he introduced his girlfriend Huang Qiuyan to the crew and starred in the female number two "Three Phoenixes".
This film has made Jet Li's career set a new peak, and also let Huang Qiuyan enter the hearts of the audience, but she does not seem to have any obsession with being a star.
Years later, it will be found that the reason why she is willing to participate in this movie is entirely out of love and obedience to Jet Li.
Jet Li's idea at that time really hoped to fill his inner debt, if the two embarked on a different deduction path, perhaps there would be no next "unforgettable".
Because of the success of the two films, Jet Li was favored by Hong Kong Shaw Films and invited him to star in the action film "North and South Shaolin".
This time, Huang Qiuyan starred again, and directly rose to the position of heroine, and the Sima Yan she played was just, courageous, and very good.
However, this is also the last time she appeared on the screen, because Jet Li, in the process of filming the show, one bag at a time caused a misalignment of the spine and almost paralyzed.
Huang Qiuyan, who learned of this news, immediately pushed off all her work and ran to the hospital to take care of Jet Li, and has never filmed since.
Under the careful care of Huang Qiuyan, Jet Li fully recovered in 1986 and became a director for the first time, shooting the movie "Chinese Heroes".
Subsequently, he married his girlfriend Huang Qiuyan in 1987, and before that, both seemed to have been accurate about "breaking up", but it was that accident that changed them.
This relationship, which has been together for nearly 20 years, has become even more embarrassing and sad after actually entering the marriage.
In 1988, Jet Li, whose career was frustrated, went to the United States as a visiting scholar, accompanied by his wife Huang Qiuyan, who was pregnant, and then the eldest daughter of the two, Li Si, was born in the United States.
However, life in the United States is not good, Jet Li still has no chance, helpless, he had to open a martial arts class to barely survive.
A year later, Jet Li received an invitation to two Hong Kong films, "The Dragon at the End of the World" and "Wong Fei Hung".
For the sake of her husband's future and development, Huang Qiuyan, who is 7 months pregnant, chose to support him to return to Hong Kong to shoot, but what she did not expect was that Jet Li left her forever when she went.
During the filming of "The Dragon at the End of the World", Jet Li fell in love at first sight with his heroine Li Zhi, who was also two years older.
The other party entered the show business circle with the 1986 Miss Asia championship, and once filmed works such as "The Original Zhenxia and Wesley" and "Tiger Out of the Change", and was once excluded from the entertainment circle because of being ridiculed as "rustic".
After returning from studying abroad, her image changed greatly, and with her sexually perceptual appearance, she instantly captured Jet Li, the future "kung fu superstar".
And when all this happened, Huang Qiuyan, who was confinement, was still in the dark.
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During the days when she was separated from Jet Li, Huang Qiuyan lived quite comfortably, practicing English every day in addition to taking care of the children, afraid of disturbing her husband's work, and they could only talk on the phone once every two or three weeks.
Years later, she recalls the days she spent with Jet Li and still feels very sweet:
"We practiced together for twenty years, the feelings developed naturally, and the life was plain and not so romantic. As long as I am with him, I am quite happy, because his temper and personality are quite good. ”
However, she may never have thought that this man with a good personality would suddenly propose to her on the phone to break up, he only said: "I am not happy with you", Huang Qiuyan chose to let go.
"The person you love is not happy because you are around him", she completely understood at that time, feelings are not reluctant after all.
Maybe not as vigorous as Jet Li's confession to the camera many years later, but Huang Qiuyan's love for him is just as moving.
Even Jet Li himself said that my love for my ex-wife was only 20%, while she reached 80% for me - perhaps, Huang Qiuyan lost the 80% of her heart and lungs?
In 1990, Huang Qiuyan gave Jet Li the freedom she wanted, and Jet Li did give her the house in his name, but the house at that time still had a loan to pay.
Because Huang Qiuyan has not had a job since marriage and still needs to raise children, in the end, the house was auctioned off by the bank because she could not afford to repay the loan.
At the beginning of the divorce, Huang Qiuyan was once very painful, and occasionally called Jet Li to talk, but at that time, Jet Li's heart should all be on Li Zhi.
Freed from the entanglement of marriage, he quickly fell in love with Li Zhi, and the two once promised to enter into marriage if they were still together after 10 years together.
In 1992, after starring in the love movie "Vowing not to forget love", Li Zhi announced his official withdrawal from the entertainment industry and then went to business.
However, her business does not seem to be successful, and once lost to the end, at this time Jet Li desperately filmed and paid off the debt for his girlfriend.
Works such as "The Demon Sect Leader of the Dragon Slayer in the Heavens", "The Hero of Jingwu", and "Huang Feihong's Lion of the Western Regions" were all filmed at that stage.
By 1998, Jet Li began to storm Hollywood, and was nominated for the MTV Movie Award for Best Villain for an action film called "Lethal Weapon 4".
The following year, his ten-year appointment with Li Zhi arrived, and the two chose to end the 10-year love run and enter marriage.
And what about Huang Qiuyan on the other side? After leaving Jet Li, she suddenly lost her source of livelihood, but many old friends in Los Angeles reached out to her.
Subsequently, Huang Qiuyan also returned to Hong Kong to learn beauty techniques with the help of Zheng Mingming, and then rejected Zheng Mingming's proposal to invite her to work as a manager of a beauty salon in San Francisco, choosing to be only a "migrant girl".
In the ten years that Jet Li stepped onto the "kung fu superstar" step by step, Huang Qiuyan also worked as a beautician in a beauty salon for 10 years and also met many customers.
She then set herself up and shared a small shop with a barber and opened a barbershop.
During this period, many friends around her will worry about her "lifelong events", but Huang Qiuyan has not once paid attention to it.
Until she met a Shandong businessman surnamed Wang, the other party was a restaurant owner, the shop was close to her barbershop, Huang Qiuyan would occasionally go to dinner, and she got acquainted when she came and went.
Mr. Wang is also a divorced person, giving all his property to the other party when he divorced, and later heard that his ex-wife was ill, and he returned to the other party to take care of him until his death.
Huang Qiuyan was impressed by Mr. Wang's character, and finally the two chose to tie the knot after talking about love for more than two years.
Jet Li presented a car worth $50,000 at this time to show congratulations.
In addition, Huang Qiuyan and Jet Li's daughters have also grown up, and they are now enrolled in schools in Los Angeles, where they rush to reunite with their mothers every weekend.
Huang's father and mother Huang's mother are also very comforted to see today's daughter, knowing that it is not easy for today's daughter to take another step, and Huang Qiuyan also said to her parents: "Marriage is not for the sake of fame and profit, as long as their lovers have good character and truly love me." ”