It is said that life is like a drama, and drama is like life.
Chen Xiaoxu used her acting skills to achieve a generation of "Dream of the Red Chamber", but her life was as tragic as Lin Daiyu in the play.
It is as colorful as a flash in the pan, and as fragrant as a flash in the pan.
At the age of 19, she became famous and did not choose to hit the iron while it was hot to achieve her acting career.
She turned around and stepped into business, standing out from thousands of advertising agencies and becoming a generation of business wizards.
However, at the peak of her career, she chose to retire and took refuge in Buddhism.
When she developed cancer at the age of 41, she did not choose to be treated in the first place, but confessed her fate.
Eventually, her condition worsened, and a generation of Fanghua fell.
Let's look back on her experience like Lin Daiyu and enter her legendary life.
Birth is destined to be extraordinary
Chen Xiaoxu was born in Anshan, Liaoning Province, to parents who are actors in the local Peking Opera Troupe.
Unlike the warm and cheerful Northeasterners, she was born gentle as water and has a very introverted personality.
Perhaps influenced by her parents, she has a high yearning for art since she was a child.
Only when she dances can she feel peace of mind and find her own pleasure in dance.
She aspires to be a good artist like her mother, and pursues her mother's footsteps all the time.
Providence tricks people, although she has the same dance talent as her mother, but she was born in an untimely era.
She went to the ballet audition site full of joy, and she has been preparing for this audition for nearly 2 years.
In the process of the competition, she will do every detail to the extreme, and strive to stand out in the vast sea of people.
As she had hoped, she became the only one among thousands of people to be selected by the opera house, and her clusters attracted every judge.
The whole family thought she would be able to enter the community smoothly, but did not think that there was a problem in the political trial.
During the special period, her parents as artists were severely attacked, so much so that she was also affected.
Because she did not pass the political examination, she did not have the opportunity to enter the opera house she most yearned for.
Life smoothed out her helplessness, but it never hit her positive heart.
She was reticent and didn't know how to vent her emotions.
During that time, her mood was very depressed, and she was not good at words, so she could only write poems to express her inner emotions.
With the injustice of her own destiny and the incomparable yearning for freedom, she wrote the poem "I am a willow flower".
Over time, she no longer fell silent in the grief of losing the election, but put all her emotions on poetry.
In this untimely era of her life, this was the only pleasure she had not been condemned.
Indecisive, she is almost the same as Lin Daiyu.
Perhaps at this moment, her fate has embarked on the trajectory that Lin Daiyu once walked.
Became popular for playing Lin Daiyu
I don't know how long this life has passed, and she has become a little depressed because she has been writing articles at home for many years.
With the end of the special period, she also gradually came out of the room and returned to the circle of art.
In 1979, she joined the Anshan Repertory Theatre as a announcer.
Although it was only a small position, she was already satisfied.
When she is not busy at work, she often rehearses with other actors in the community to try to learn more.
After a long time, she will also be assigned to some small roles in normal times.
There are not many scenes, but she cherishes every opportunity to perform.
It wasn't until 1983 that she had her first chance.
That year, she saw in the magazine that the "Dream of the Red Mansions" crew was recruiting actors, which gave her an idea.
Since she was a child, she has a very high yearning for Lin Daiyu in the book, believing that Lin Daiyu is really a clear stream in the Great View Garden of Hu Yan Miasma.
She wanted to sign up to compete for the role of Lin Daiyu, but she was not confident and could not make a decision for a long time.
While she was struggling, her brother Bi Yanjun came to her house with a magazine after hearing about it.
He persuaded Chen Xiaoxu to try the role of Lin Daiyu, a role that was simply tailored for her.
Under the persuasion of Bi Yanjun and his parents, Chen Xiaoxu wrote a cover letter to the director of the crew.
She said in the letter that if she did not choose Lin Daiyu, the audience specified that your Lin Daiyu would be turned away by you.
After the letter was written, she added a photo of herself wearing a cheongsam to the envelope and sent it to the director according to the address in the magazine.
From the moment the letter was sent, her heart began to be full of anxiety, waiting for the moment when the director called back.
I don't know how long it took for her to finally wait for the director's reply.
The director looked at the tone of the article and the photo of the cheongsam and sighed that this was the Lin Daiyu he was looking for.
Chen Xiaoxu successfully qualified for the interview and stepped on the train to Beijing accompanied by Bi Yanjun.
Director Wang Fulin saw her for the first time, and he was deeply attracted by her melancholy and cold temperament.
Chen Xiaoxu randomly gave a self-created poem at the scene, and the breath of Lin Sister was all between the hands and feet.
After she left the scene, she was ready to return to the hotel to pack her bags and return to her hometown, and when she was waiting for the elevator, she happened to meet the director Wang Fulin.
"You can keep your train ticket, and you may be reimbursed when the time comes."
After she returned to the room, she carefully pondered this sentence, and her heart was secretly happy.
She then left Beijing with her luggage and returned to her hometown to await the results of the interview.
During the year of waiting, she did not slack off at all and continued to practice her acting skills.
She goes to work at the drama club during the day, and when she returns home at night, she will pick up "Dream of the Red Chamber" and read a book, carefully pondering the details.
A year had passed before she knew it, and one day a year later, she suddenly received a call from the director's team.
The other party told her that she passed the interview and asked her to go to the crew for a three-month training.
Three months pass quickly, and what awaits her below will be a long shooting career of up to 3 years.
She didn't feel the slightest bit of flinching from it, and it was a big thing in her life.
She has longed to be an arrogant person like Lin Daiyu since she was a child, and she must cherish the opportunity given to her by Heaven this time.
One minute on stage, ten years offstage.
She used her acting skills to shape a generation of classic Lin Daiyu for us, and the 87 version of "Dream of the Red Chamber" has also become the most sought after generation.
When the three-year filming career ended and the TV series was released, she instantly became one of the most popular characters in the audience.
Even some of her classmates blocked her door and asked her to sign a few more names for herself, so that she could take them home and sell them.
A large number of resources also came to the door in an endless stream, which would only make Chen Xiaoxu feel extremely embarrassed in his heart.
She filmed because she wanted to make a scene, and she didn't want to take any kind of drama because she had popularity, in order to make money.
She knows better than anyone that she must cherish her feathers and cannot blindly take over the drama to destroy the image in everyone's hearts.
At the peak of her career, she made a decision, that is, to continue to study her acting skills, and it was not too late to come back to filming after the fire was pure.
From actor to businessman
In 1989, she joined the army at the suggestion of a friend and became an actress in the Beijing Cultural and Labor Troupe.
During this time in the literary troupe, she never accepted commercial performances, even if some people looked at Maolu and refused tactfully.
But after a few years in the literary troupe, she found that her life felt very confused and did not know which direction to go next.
After meeting her husband Hao Tong, the fog in front of her eyes was gradually blown away.
Instead of choosing to stay in show business, she and her husband transformed into businessmen.
She has seen the rise of showbiz today, but the advertising agencies are extremely few and mostly unintended.
After a long period of visits and investigations, she joined Great Wall International Co., Ltd. and officially entered the business.
At first, the road was not as difficult as they thought, but it became better and better under the leadership of Chen Xiaoxu.
Coming from an artistic background, she is very meticulous in the conception of each advertisement.
Because of this, under her hands can appear a series of classic advertisements.
In just a few years, she has rejuvenated a company that is close to bankruptcy and has become a giant in the industry.
In 1996, she and her husband Hao Tong set up their own advertising agency.
Until 2003, she had been named "China's 30 Outstanding Female Advertisers".
Her life was like a hanging, all the way forward on the unimpeded road, but one day a bad news, became abruptly stopped.
In 2006, her body began to feel unwell on a regular basis, sometimes with chest pain so much that she could not stand up.
Accompanied by her husband, she went to the hospital for examination, but the results of the examination shocked everyone present.
Chen Xiaoxu was diagnosed with breast cancer and must be hospitalized immediately.
But at this moment, she made a bold decision, that is, to give up treatment and wait for the situation to be safe.
Despite many persuasions from her family, to no avail, she insisted on returning home to recuperate.
Over time, her body also became less and less adaptable.
Whenever the pain came, she was almost in so much pain that she couldn't breathe, so she could only lie on the bed and shout to her mother over and over again.
On February 23, 2007, accompanied by her family, she went to a local temple to cut her hair as a nun.
She knew that her life was short, and she hoped to fulfill her last wish before she died.
On May 13, 2007, at the age of 41, she ended her beautiful but tragic life.
Chen Xiaoxu's life is like Lin Daiyu, beautiful when it blooms, but in the end it is only fragrant and jade damaged.
Some people say that she has gone too deep into the drama and completely lived herself into a modern Lin Daiyu.
But life is like a drama, drama is like life, maybe she and Lin Daiyu have just become themselves in different environments for each other.