Xia Meng's later life photos. Profile picture
According to Hong Kong media reports, the famous actor Xia Meng died in Hong Kong in the early morning of October 28 at the age of 83. It is known that Xia Meng's funeral will be held next month, and her family did not want to disclose the news of her death, but now the death is public, but still insists on low-key treatment, does not hold any funerals in public, and plans to hold mourning activities in three months.
Xia Meng, whose original name was Yang Meng, was born on February 16, 1933 in a literary and art family in Shanghai, with his ancestral home in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, and his parents loved opera. Influenced by her family, she is also passionate about theatrical performances, especially Shakespeare's works. In 1947, Xia Meng moved to Hong Kong with her family.
Xia Meng died of illness, and the unique Qianying turned into a soul. Profile picture
41 works from 17 years of film
The origin of the name "Summer Dream", in addition to taking its names "Meng" and "Dream", some refer to the fact that when the writer Gao Xiong and the great director Li Pingqian named it, because it was a summer night, it thought of Shakespeare's "Dream of Midsummer Night", so it was called "Summer Dream".
In 1950, when Xia Meng entered the Hong Kong Great Wall Film Production Co., Ltd. and starred in her first work "Forbidden Marriage", she debuted and played the role of a young woman in place, and the film won the box office champion of Chinese Hong Kong film that year. Since then, Xia Meng has starred in a number of blockbuster films, which have become popular in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia, and have also become a representative figure of Hong Kong's left-wing films. She once joked that she had not studied acting, but she was not nervous on the set, and was praised by the director for acting naturally.
"Great Wall Princess" Xia Meng (middle) is full of merit in "Three Looks at the Royal Sister Liu Jinding". Profile picture
From the 1950s to the 1960s, Xia Meng became the chief actress of the Hong Kong Great Wall Film Production Company, and together with Shi Hui and Chen Sisi, she was called the "Three Princesses of the Great Wall". Chen Sisi died of illness in Shanghai in October 2007, and now Xia Meng has also passed away, and the three princesses of the "Great Wall" are only Shi Hui. Shi Hui's daughter Fu Mingxian said in an interview: "I am very sorry. This is a loss in the film industry, forever missing the Summer Dream Antie. She said that her mother was low-key and believed that she had no contact with Xia Meng.
Xia Meng (left) performs in "The New Widow". Profile picture
From the seventeen years of xia meng, he left 41 works, many of which are popular works, such as "Absolute Beauty", "New Widow", "Spring Dream of the Old Garden", "Golden Branches and Jade Leaves", "Three Looks at the Royal Sister Liu Jinding", "Wang Tiger Robs Relatives", "Beacon Marriage" and so on. She was also favored by many famous writers and tailored scripts for her. After starring in "Spring Flowers" in 1966, Xia Meng announced that she would stop filming. She married businessman Lin Baocheng at the age of 21 and moved to Canada. Lin Baocheng is a college graduate, engaged in business, and loves film and drama.
Xia Meng has an elegant temperament and talents. Profile picture
Andy Lau: She changed my destiny
Many years after the film, Xia Meng founded the Blue Bird Film Company in 1978 and personally supervised the production of "Run to the Fury Sea" and "Like the Year of Water". Xia Meng loved the country and Hong Kong all his life and made outstanding contributions to the Hong Kong film industry.
Andy Lau, who participated in "Running to the Fury Sea", said: "She is a noble person who cannot be forgotten in my life, she chose me, changed my destiny, and watched her life as magical as a movie, illuminating the front and back of the screen." Sister Dream, always remember you. ”
Xia Meng (left) played Princess Diao Man in "Golden Branches and Jade Leaves". material pictures
In addition, Xu Ann, the director of "Run to the Fury Sea", said sadly about Xia Meng's death: "After knowing the news, I felt so sudden and sad, and we all respected her very much." Ann praised Xia Meng as the most personable person, because she encountered many problems after filming that year, but all of them were faced and solved by Xia Meng herself, and said: "As long as she trusts you, she will completely let you deal with it, this kind of boss is very rare." "Have you seen Xia Meng in recent years?" She said that the other party was more quiet and low-key, so she did not bother, but she knew that her children and grandchildren were full of halls, and she was very filial to her, which could be described as a happy life.
Born in the Great Wall Film Company, Bao Qijing (Bao Jie), because her father Bao Fang cooperated with Xia Meng a lot, she had already seen Xia Meng when she was a child and was deeply impressed. She said: "For the first time in my life, I saw the most beautiful person in the world, she was tall, beautiful and personable, and I felt that she was the real big star." Unfortunately, when Sister Bao joined the Great Wall, Xia Meng had already left the nest, so the two had never cooperated, but Xia Meng's shadow would always remain in Sister Bao's mind.
Director Wu Siyuan felt sad and unhappy about Xia Meng's death, he saw her a year earlier and still felt that she was in good spirits, but the old man's matter was really difficult to say.
Jin Yong's pen is a world-class beauty
Jin Yong (left) took a group photo with Xia Meng in his early years. Online pictures
In "Sunrise", Xia Meng rarely plays the villain Bai Lu (right). Profile picture
According to reports, the writer Jin Yong has a deep affection for Xia Meng, Jin Yong once said: "No one has ever seen how beautiful Xi Shi is, and I think she should be like Xia Meng." According to media reports, the prototypes of Jin Yong's Wang Yuyan, Xiaolongnü and other worldly beauties are Xia Meng, and even Jin Yong changed his career to enter the film company to get close to the dream lover.
However, Xia Meng talked about Jin Yong in an interview, only saying: "Jin Yong and I, in fact, it is better not to say." ”