"If I love you—not like a climbing flower, borrowing your tall branches to show off myself; if I love you—never learn from the infatuated birds and repeat monotonous songs for the shade; not just like a spring, sending cool comfort all year round; not just like a dangerous peak, increasing your height and setting off your majesty." Even daylight, even spring rain. No, none of this is enough! "
Love is not attachment, not a high-flying show-off, not wishful thinking, love, ah, should be a case of eyebrows, in the same boat. We stand side by side, seeing prosperity together, sharing glory, bearing the same wind and rain, and resisting suffering together.
True love, not you as my safe haven, but we become each other's right and left arm, you can let me snuggle, I can also provide you with a nap, career support each other, life depends on each other.
I believe that today, when women can carry a piece of the sky, such a concept of love has been recognized by more and more people, and in the early years of the film industry, such couples are not in the minority, such as Zhao Dan and Huang Zongying, Yu Lan and Tian Fang, Liu Qiong and Di Fan, Sun Daolin and Wang Wenjuan, Pang Xueqin and Yang Huan, Li Yalin and He Xiaoshu, Guo Zhenqing and Li Xiaogong.
The pair introduced to you today is the performance artist Li Wei and Zhang Ying, who are not only a loving couple in life, but also have been in the same frame many times on the screen, starring as lovers or couples.
Whether in life or career, they are closely linked to each other, and the same excellent of them, there is no accessory to who is who, apart is that they each hold up a piece of the sky, when standing together, they are strong and strong, but also a dazzling pearl.
Li Wei, formerly known as Li Zhiyuan, was born in 1919 in Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, to a railway family, his ancestral home is in Changzhou City, Jiangsu Province, he lives in a big family, eight brothers, and he is the second oldest.
"Fight brothers, fight father and son soldiers", there are not many brothers and sisters in the film and television circle, but the same outstanding ones are also relatively rare.
The "Three Brothers in shanghai film industry" can be described as famous in the show business circle, and it is well-known overseas, and it refers to Li Wei and his two younger brothers, the third brother Li Nong and the eighth brother Li Zhiyu.
Not only these three brothers are outstanding, Li Wei's wife Zhang Ying, Li Zhiyu's wife Hong Rong and daughter Li Yun also have a pivotal position in the film and television circle, which can really be described as an acting family.
Li Wei was intelligent and studious since childhood, and was very obsessed with Peking Opera, but at that time, the status of the opera was very low, so his father was strongly opposed to him learning drama, but it backfired, and later the three sons all embarked on the road of acting, and also broke into the hall of fame.
Although his parents did not approve of his acting, when we were young, we would always choose to go our own way, not to mention that he had early acquaintance with the famous director Sun Yu, who influenced his life's career, which was probably his fate with acting!
In 1937, at the age of 18, he starred in his first film "Children of China", thus starting his career as an actor, and in 1940 he entered the China Drama Art Society as an actor, and co-starred in "Long Sky" with Bai Yang and Jin Yan.
After that, his film contracts continued, and he also starred in films such as "Six Memories of Floating Life", "Spring in a Small Town", "Pingbu Qingyun", "My Life" and so on.
"Spring in a Small Town" opened the precedent of Chinese poetic cinema, and in 2005, the centenary of Chinese cinema, it was awarded the first place in the 100-year film awards of the Hong Kong Film Awards.
However, I believe that for Li Wei, the most special year should be 1950, because when he starred in the movie "Symphony of Life" in this year, he met Zhang Ying.
And that was just the beginning of their fate, the following year, he met again for the film, this time starring in the love movie "Just Love" based on Vasilevskaya's novel of the same name, and played a pair of lovers.
The closeness and understanding of each other have made them fall in love with each other because of the drama, from the couple on the screen to the real life, becoming a real lover, an enviable couple.
In 1957, they also starred as husband and wife again in "Night Flight of the Sea of Fog" and "Nurse's Diary", and in 1980, they also played the same drama again in "Blue Files", and appeared in the same film 5 times.
Zhang Ying, born in Beijing in 1926, she is 7 years younger than Li Wei, is born in a large family of Miss Qianjin, she is beautiful and generous, but she loves to perform.
In 1943, as a student at the "Juesheng Girls' High School" in Beijing, she gave up her studies because she liked acting, was admitted to the "April 1st Drama Society", and participated in dramas such as "Home".
In 1944, she also changed careers to work as an announcer, and it was not until 1948 that the 22-year-old Zhang Ying entered the "Northwest Film Company" and appeared on the screen for the first time in "Between Man and Beast".
At that time, she was beautiful and outstanding, and she was the only basic actor signed by Northwest Film Company for 3 years, after which she was very highly valued, and successively starred in films such as "Women's Spring and Autumn", "Regenerated Phoenix", "Symphony of Life", "Sons and Daughters of China" and so on, which can also be described as extremely popular.
It was only with the founding of New China that she entered the Shanghai Film Studio in 1953, and because her temperament was too foreign, it was far from the image of "workers, peasants and soldiers" pursued on the screen at that time, and she was gradually marginalized.
However, her love for acting has not diminished in the slightest, even if it is a small role, she also plays a very brilliant role, such as in "Money Dream", "Pen in Love", "Big Husband's Private Money", "Moon Hazy, Bird Hazy", "Happy Eyebrows" and other film and television dramas, although she is only a cameo, she still left a very deep impression on the audience.
In the early 1980s, she began to work as a TV drama producer, and she participated in the planning and filming of the sequel to "Today I Rest" that had a wide influence that year.
Zhang Ying and Li Wei are actually very different in personality, Li Wei is introverted, taciturn, and quiet; while Zhang Ying is extroverted, active and straight.
However, they have one thing in common - they are strong and competitive, especially in acting, they are very hardworking, and the characters they play must be brilliant no matter how much drama they play.
The famous actor Xiang Mei once commented on Li Wei: All over the body is drama, a look, a laugh are all through the play.
In acting, Li Wei is really too hard, 68 years old, when he starred in "Ju Dou", he played the sexually incompetent and sadistic dye shop owner Yang Jinshan, there is a scene from the upstairs.
In order to make the performance more vivid and realistic, he was stunned that he did not have to play in person, and he had never used a stand-in once in his life, and such professionalism was really awe-inspiring.
Unfortunately, in the mid-90s, when Li Wei starred in "Gold and Silver Jewelry", he was uneven because of a friend's affair, drank a mouthful of wine, and when he got up again, he "pounced" and fell to the ground, paralyzed by stroke.
His paralysis is nearly 10 years, but in addition to his mobility, his thinking is still agile, his memory is still clear, so he still insists on shooting several scenes, and his last film, "The Legend of Luzhen", was filmed in a wheelchair.
Even after he was paralyzed, his wife Zhang Ying still did not abandon him and took good care of him, but in 2005, he still died of illness at the age of 86.
Zhang Ying hugged his photo and cried bitterly, crying and complaining: I hate you! Say good life is not separated, how can it just go away! In the 54 years of marriage, they have braved the wind and rain and have never separated, but they have not been able to fight against life, old age, illness and death.
11 years later, 90-year-old Zhang Ying died, the lonely years are always difficult, they have been separated for too long, willing to be in heaven, they continue to the frontier, continue to walk happily hand in hand!