When it comes to the "old cadres" of the entertainment industry, everyone often thinks of Huo Jianhua, Jin Dong, Zhang Yixing...
But none of them has the image of "old cadres" created by Liao Jingsheng on the screen more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
From Xia Zhiyuan in 1995's "The Sky is On Top" to Secretary Shi in 2020's "Books Everywhere", Liao Jingsheng has played a variety of leaders all his life.
And his handsome screen image has also brought indelible memories to three generations.
However, in 2015, Liao Jingsheng briefly faded out of the show business circle and refused almost all the drama offers.
The reason is that his wife has a brain tumor and needs his care.
Liao Jingsheng, who has always been low-key, never revealed his married life to the media. When everyone knew that his wife was he Qing, the actor who was beautiful throughout the four famous works, he couldn't help but be surprised.
Because, compared with Liao Jingsheng, who has never had any scandals, He Qing's love history can be described as brilliant ups and downs.
So how is the couple doing today?
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Who would have thought that today's old drama bone was once a boiler worker?
Liao Jingsheng, born in 1955, is a native of Beijing. But unfortunately, his entire formative years coincided with that special and turbulent decade.
When he was in elementary school, he was snubbed by the people around him because of his father's composition problems. At that time, it was difficult for this little boy to join the Young Pioneers.
After graduating from junior high school, because of the family composition problem, Liao Jingsheng had no way to continue to go to school, so he had to go to a radiator factory as a boilermaker according to the above assignment.
The youth of that era could not make choices for themselves. They can only passively accept all the sufferings or gifts that fate has given them.
The manual labor of the boiler workshop is so hard that today's young people can hardly imagine.
Liao Jingsheng, who was interviewed by tv many years later, recalled this experience, and it was difficult to explain the hardships in three words.
When he returned home from his daily work, Liao Jingsheng was simply wrapped in soot and turned into a "black man".
When the mother wiped his back with water, she could even see that the pores on her son's skin were blocked by ash, and her heart ached instantly.
But the pain alone could not change Liao Jingsheng's encounter at this time, and this boiler burned for a full six years.
During this period, because of his father's affairs, the colleagues in the factory workshop were very wary of him, monitoring his words and deeds, and making small reports to the leaders from time to time.
What's more, he even used his origin to sarcastically say: Liao Jingsheng, you can only be a boilermaker in this life.
Those days may have been the darkest of Liao's life, but years later, he was more grateful for this memory.
Because he did not experience the suffering of the world and did not feel the differences of human beings, Liao Jingsheng could not strengthen his determination to get ahead.
He loves singing and tries to change his destiny with musical performances.
Therefore, in addition to working hours, Liao Jingsheng kept looking for a place to practice his voice.
When he was young, he had a sensitive heart and cared a lot about the feelings of others. In order not to let his neighbors hear, he hid in the closet at home to practice.
But later, after the neighbors reflected, he found that this was tantamount to covering his ears and stealing the bell.
Then, Liao Jingsheng thought that the factory was noisy and could cover up his singing. But because he sang too hard, he was eventually heard by his colleagues.
Later, he found a treasure place to practice his voice- the Tube River. Here, Liao Jingsheng practiced three nines in winter and three volts in summer, during which he also grew a polyp on his throat because of excessive use of his voice.
There is nothing difficult in the world, but I am afraid of those who have a heart. Liao Jingsheng later joined the singing team and performance team of the Xuanwu District Cultural Center in Beijing with solid singing skills and tall and handsome appearance.
In 1977, the college entrance examination system was restored. Countless young people are eager to try, including Liao Jingsheng.
He applied for the Beijing Film Academy and the Central Academy of Drama, but was eventually turned away because of the abundance of talents on the one hand, and Liao Jingsheng's failure to systematically study professional acting on the other hand.
However, there are always people in the world who favor him, and the Central Experimental Drama Theatre has thrown an olive branch at him.
After studying at the Drama Theatre for several years, Liao Jingsheng completely made up for the lack of performance. Not only did he humbly ask for advice from teachers and classmates, but he also spent almost all of his spare time thinking about the roles and scripts played by his predecessors.
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In 1982, Liao Jingsheng starred as a shoemaker in his debut film "A Corner of the Downtown Area".
The following year, he became the male protagonist Jiang Erzhu in the movie "Qiao Ge'er". In order to play this rural youth, Liao Jingsheng also went to the countryside to experience and became a good farmer within a month.
Subsequently, he officially embarked on the road of acting.
From the 1980s to the 1990s, Liao Jingsheng appeared more and more frequently in film and television dramas, and became more and more familiar to the majority of audiences.
His screenwriter friend Li Dong mentioned to Liao Jingsheng after a trip to Sichuan to collect wind: Now people all over the streets in Sichuan know you and are inquiring about your personal situation.
It was not until 1995, when he starred in the anti-corruption drama "The Sky is On The Sky", that Liao Jingsheng really embarked on his own road of "old cadre professional households".
Looking at Xia Zhiyuan, the mayor's assistant on the TV, everyone suddenly found that Liao Jingsheng had grown a "leader face" in his life.
Liao Jingsheng obviously understood this, and most of the roles he played since then have also been the same type of role, such as Xiao Daoqing in "The Right Way on Earth", Yang Cheng in "Life and Death Choice", Tang Liangsheng in "Citizen Conscience"...
There are two kinds of actors in this world who are superbly acting, one is to play a thousand-faced actor who looks like what, and the other is to take a road to the black role "professional household".
The former is the generation of Liang Jiahui, Liu Xun, and Yang Xinming, while Liao Jingsheng is precisely the latter.
To this day, as soon as people see the familiar face of Liao Jingsheng in the TV series, they can expect that the role he plays is a leader in all probability, and it is likely that he is still a secretary.
Just like when everyone saw Zhang Guoguo and Zhang Tielin appear, they had a premonition that they were going to play the emperor.
After the millennium, Liao Jingsheng is older, his temperament is more calm and mature, and he is more suitable for playing old cadres.
In contrast, his married life is much more deserted.
His first hair-tie wife, Dai Ke, was an outsider, and the two could be described as a veritable "young couple", but unfortunately they did not accompany each other until they were old.
Liao Jingsheng has been working hard in the show business circle for many years and creating his own drama path. Even the strongest people are too weak to take care of their families.
Later, in the long years of staying alone in the empty house, Dai Ke's marital feelings for Liao Jingsheng slowly ran out, and finally agreed to divorce.
As a responsible husband and father, Liao Jingsheng felt guilty about his unfulfilled responsibilities and did his best to compensate his son and take care of his ex-wife.
So far, he and his son have a very good relationship, and he and his ex-wife Dai Ke have also released their former suspicions and become friends.
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In the next few years, when his son was in high school and faced with the college entrance examination that affected his life's fate, Liao Jingsheng poured all his energy into the growth of his son.
Until 2008, when filming "Who Is My Father", Liao Jingsheng and He Qing saw each other as before.
At that time, the two played a couple in the TV series, who knew that outside the drama, they really became husband and wife.
Speaking of He Qing, I have to mention the Manjushri Bodhisattva she played in the "Journey to the West" TV series, which can't help but remind people of a poem: "Falling city and falling country, beautiful people are difficult to get again."
He Qing showed her acting talent from an early age, often singing, dancing and hosting on stage. At the age of 14, he became an alternate actor in the Zhejiang Kun Opera Troupe.
Under the influence of years-long opera performances, He Qing, who originally had a classical and gentle appearance in Jiangnan, fell into a proper "painting of the United States".
Because of his outstanding appearance and classical temperament, He Qing can have a valuable opportunity to appear in "Journey to the West" at the age of only twenty.
With this good performance, the young He Qing continued to play in the following days.
The directors have taken a fancy to her high degree of adaptation with classical Chinese beauties, and in this way, from Manjushri Bodhisattva and Qin Keqing to Xiao Qiao and Li Shishi, He Qing has gathered the beauties of the four famous works.
To this day, Qin Keqing, played by her, is also regarded by contemporary young people as the well-deserved first beauty in the 87th edition of "Dream of the Red Chamber".
Immediately after, He Qing stepped out of the classical masterpiece and became the royal heroine of Qiong Yao, the grandma of the contemporary romance industry, and starred in Hua Youlin in "Qingqing Riverside Grass".
However, He Qing is like a brilliant ephemeral flower on the screen, and his debut is the peak. Since then, there have been no more brilliant characters and works.
Perhaps it was because her controversial emotional scandals had a negative impact on her subsequent career path.
At the beginning, He Qing's lover was Liu Wei, who had thick eyebrows, big eyes, and a thick face.
In order to please the goddess, Liu Wei once responded to every request. He Qing proposed what he wanted to eat, and Liu Wei would run from the east of Beijing to the west to buy it for her, just for the sake of his girlfriend's happiness.
It is reasonable to say that such a considerate and enthusiastic boyfriend should be a good match, but He Qing said that if you don't want it, you don't want it.
In this relationship, it is obvious that Liu Wei loves He Qing more, even a hot head. Years later, Liu Wei mentioned his love experience with He Qing in an interview, and he laughed at himself for being "set up".
Compared with the former, He Qing's later love with Xu Yajun can be described as earth-shattering, and even broke through the worldly snare.
When the two of them were in love, Xu Yajun still had his wife. In today's entertainment industry, it is the rhythm of hot search headlines every minute.
Even in an era when the media was not very popular, this incident caused an uproar.
What is even more disgraceful is that Xu Yajun's wife at the time also suffered from heart disease. Her husband's red apricot came out of the wall, which brought her a huge blow, resulting in a heart attack and nearly dying.
Just when everyone pointed at He Qing's nose and scolded, she herself was very calm:
"Even without me, it would be sooner or later for him to divorce his current wife."
Who hasn't had the years of youthful madness for love? But love is love, and morality is morality. The emotional edifice built with selfishness is ultimately vulnerable.
Eight years later, Xu Yajun divorced He Qing.
This flower of love, nourished by passion, when the passion gradually passes, the final result can only be withered.
After the passion, the two people's wind reviews were corrupted, and their acting careers suffered a heavy blow.
He Qing, who is as beautiful as a fairy, can only appear sporadically in some TV series to play a female supporting actress.
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I don't know if He Qing has any regrets in her heart for this fanatical experience, but later her marriage with Liao Jingsheng seems to reflect her own growth and understanding.
People are middle-aged, and they pursue more plain and warm husband and wife feelings. After being with Liao Jingsheng, both of them were very low-key.
After a bumpy road, they finally learned how to cherish and manage their marriage.
For Liao Jingsheng, He Qing and himself are both actors, have a lot of common topics, and can better appreciate the particularity and hardships of each other's work.
For He Qing, Liao Jingsheng is more reliable and responsible than her ex-husband. He was not only kind to He Qing, but also unconditionally accepted her and her ex-husband's children, as if they were his own.
In the following time, Liao Jingsheng experienced the taste of a happy family for a long time.
Unfortunately, the weather is unpredictable, and people are not blessed.
In 2015, singer Huang Qishan revealed the news of her friend He Qing's illness on Weibo.
From the words, it can be seen that He Qing is suffering from a serious illness. It turned out that she had been examined for a brain tumor.
At that time, when 19-year-old He Qing was filming his debut work "Shaolin LayMan's Disciple", his father suddenly suffered a cerebral hemorrhage.
Not catching up with his father's dying instructions became the biggest regret of He Qing's life.
And 30 years later, fate tricked her, and she got a brain tumor again.
Fortunately, medical technology is changing rapidly, and once serious diseases can now be successfully operated on, coupled with proper post-care, it can also restore health to a certain extent.
Careful netizens found that during the illness, He Qing was still participating in the filming of "The Biography of Female Doctor Mingfei", which is also her last TV series so far.
I have to say that although He Qing's concept of love marriage is very controversial, as an actor, she has achieved professionalism and dedication.
At that time, the burden of caring for He Qing completely fell on Liao Jingsheng.
As an "old cadre" professional household, Liao Jingsheng became more and more popular the older he got, and unlike He Qing, he was constantly playing at that time.
But at this time, he remembered his ex-wife who had divorced himself because of the gathering of less and more, and he was secretly determined to cherish the current marriage.
Therefore, he gave up almost all of the film contracts and drama routes, and concentrated on accompanying He Qing.
During He Qing's surgery, he cheered up around her and gave her a great sense of security. After the operation, he accompanied He Qing throughout the whole process of radiotherapy and chemotherapy.
During this period, He Qing once said: "I can feel my father's soul supporting me." ”
"He told me that nothing, including the disease, could defeat this strong He Qing!"
And what really supports her behind He Qing is not only her father, but also Liao Jingsheng, who works hard and complains.
They are not married, but they are better than the original match. Others are "young couples and old companions", and the two of them are "halfway husband and wife to whiteheads".
Under the careful care of Liao Jingsheng, He Qing recovered well and quickly. Now this stunning classical beauty has faded out of the show business circle and lived a comfortable old age.
And her husband now occasionally gets active on Douyin, endorsing health products, and sometimes catching up with the fashion to participate in live broadcasts.
In Liao Jingsheng's short videos, a young man often appears. Some fans have speculated that this big boy is not his son.
Liao Jingsheng replied mysteriously: You guessed it?
In the past two years, He Qing has also occasionally appeared as a guest on some TV shows.
Undefeated beauty, she still seems to be as gentle and beautiful as when she first debuted decades ago.
Lucky people meet partners who can stay together for a lifetime at a young age, but most people are actually like Liao Jingsheng and He Qing, whether in career or love, there will always be ups and downs and unhappiness.
There are nine times that things are not satisfactory in the world, but we are still willing to believe that after the peak turns, there is always a person waiting in front of us.