Speaking of today's well-known directors, Zhang Yimou is a big god who cannot be avoided.
Since the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008, he has directed the opening ceremonies of some important and grand events in China.
At the opening and closing ceremonies of this year's Winter Olympics, Zhang Yimou also did not disappoint the audience.
But there were also small episodes under the praise, zhang Yimou's wife Chen Ting opened her heart on her social platform to express her concerns about her 72-year-old husband.
Unveiled director Zhang Yimou as an ordinary person, as a small family pillar.
In the eyes of outsiders, Zhang Yimou, as a famous director, should be a big guy who masters the "power of life and death" of all actors involved in the opening ceremony.
Most people overlook that he is also an old man who is too old.
If it were not for Chen Ting's voice, it is estimated that many people would not know Zhang Yimou and even joked:
"If it messes up, let's run away."
Many people have criticized Chen Ting for not knowing the overall situation and not being able to take into account the overall situation.
Zhang Yimou's achievements in his career can be said to be unquestionable, and there are too many bitterness and pressure behind his achievements that no one knows.
Today, it is the 11th year that Zhang Yimou and his 31-year-old Chen Ting have received the license.
This love, which is 31 years apart and has a huge disparity in status, is not favored by others.
Zhang Yimou once had a daughter with his wife Xiao Huayu, and after the divorce, he was with Gong Li for 8 years.
From the perspective of outsiders, Zhang Yimou has failed two women who love him in this half of his life, but in emotional matters, who can simply distinguish between right and wrong?
Regarding the feelings of Xiao Hua and Gong Li, whether Zhang Dao has ever felt guilty we don't know.
But for Chen Ting, who followed his wife at the age of 18, Zhang Yimou will definitely not fail her, and will continue to shield her from the wind and rain for the rest of her life...
One
Zhang Yimou was born in 1950 in Xi'an, Shaanxi.
His grandfather was a very high-ranking man in Xi'an, and his father had served as a quartermaster.
The two uncles were also highly qualified students at the Whampoa Military Academy.
So this is a very typical famous family.
In 1965, 15-year-old Zhang Yimou was still in junior high school for some reasons of the times, and a girl from Beijing came to her class.
The girl's name was Xiao Hua and she later became his first wife.
It was also this year that Gong Li, who was far away in Shenyang, Liaoning Province, had just been born, and Chen Ting was still far from birth.
Fifteen or sixteen years old is the best youth in life.
At that time, Zhang Yimou had thick eyebrows and big eyes, and his study was not bad. Xiao Hua is just gorgeous, plus his personality is very cheerful.
During the class, the two were front and back tables, and they became friends when they came and went.
At that time, Zhang Yimou was also very fond of painting, and they naturally had some ambiguous feelings when they had similar interests.
After graduating from middle school, Xiao Hua gave up the opportunity to return to Beijing and began to follow Zhang Yimou to the countryside from then on.
The two spent 3 years together in the countryside, when they lived in a cave.
Zhang Yimou "boiled water to wash his hair" for Xiao Hua, so that day after day of thoughtfulness, Let Xiao Hua completely fall.
The two had a very hard time.
After those hard days passed away with the times, they returned to the city together, and Zhang Yimou, who entered the cotton mill to work, came into contact with the camera by chance.
Since then, Zhang Yimou has been exposed to a different path, that is, since then, his dream of being a photographer has quietly sprouted.
After the resumption of the college entrance examination in 1977, everyone had the opportunity to go to college.
Two years later, with the help of Xiao Hua and her family, Zhang Yimou entered the Beijing Film Academy to study photography.
At that time, Gong Li was still in the school literary and art team of the middle school, dreaming of becoming a singer in the future.
Before the two went to Beijing, Zhang Yimou and Xiao Hua received a certificate.
The time when he went to college to study can be said to be Zhang Yimou's happiest day.
Every day, you can learn your own passion for photography and get exposed to advanced cameras.
At that time, he and his wife Xiao Hua were also like gods and immortals, and they were very affectionate.
Soon after, there was a love crystallization, daughter Zhang Mo.
Two
Half of Zhang Yimou's success stems from the times, and the other half comes from his own talent.
He not only has a different liking for photography, he also has a good talent.
When he was in junior high school, he liked to draw, and his starting point was different from that of ordinary people.
For many ordinary people, the layout of light and shadow, the imaging effect, is as simple as eating and drinking for him.
This made him an excellent photographer, and after graduation he was assigned to guangxi film studio as a cinematographer.
After two years of working as a photographer, Zhang Yimou's sense of lens is getting better and better.
"One and Eight" won the China Excellent Cinematography Award, and since then Zhang Yimou has gradually been noticed by the film industry.
After several films were filmed, he felt that acting was also a good profession, and he also became an actor across the industry.
In 1986, Zhang Yimou starred in the movie "Lao Jing" and won three best actors, becoming China's first A-level international film festival film emperor.
Such an experience gave him great confidence that he would not be a good director if he did not want to be a cinematographer for an actor!
It was also because of this that Zhang Yimou had a dream of being a director and began to enter the directing industry.
At that time, Chen Ting was still just a 5-year-old child, and she didn't even have a concept of what the movie was.
37 years old is an age when life is gradually mediocre for most ordinary people, but Zhang Yimou has started a new career at this age.
In 1987, Zhang Yimou selected Gong Li, a sophomore in Chinese opera, to let this 22-year-old newcomer play the heroine of the movie "Red Sorghum".
Someone commented on the film:
"The desire and wildness that are everywhere in the film are like a flame that never goes out."
After the film was released, it went all the way to the Berlin Film Festival and won the award.
Zhang Yimou and Gong Li have both taken a crucial step towards fame, and it is precisely because of this film that they have a different story.
At this time, Chen Ting was just preparing to go to elementary school, and she never dreamed that she would intersect with these two in the future.
Three
In the long-term cooperation, Zhang Yimou and Gong Li have a good feeling for each other.
But at this time, Zhang Yimou still has a legal wife Xiao Hua, and Gong Li also has a boyfriend who is dating.
Sometimes, people's feelings are so strange, they obviously do not lack love but want more love.
When the affection was strong, Gong Li also took the initiative to confess to the man who was more than ten years older than himself:
"If we get married, I'll be a housewife at home and have three or four children for you."
Zhang Yimou was also moved, but he was not as naïve as Gong Li.
Later, Xiao Hua revealed her emotional experience with Zhang Yimou in the book "Past Events", and she wrote about Gong Li's intervention.
Originally, Xiao Hua just felt that Zhang Yimou became a director, and people with different achievements were different.
By chance, she knew that Zhang Yimou and Gong Li were very close, and at first she felt sad, but she still chose to forgive and wanted to solve this family and love crisis with Zhang Yimou.
Gong Li's boyfriend at the time called Xiao Hua and said that Zhang Yimou would have been with Xiao Hua in the first place, but it was just a misunderstanding when he went to the countryside.
For Xiao Hua, the three years that she gave up the opportunity to go to Beijing and went to the countryside with Zhang Yimou were the most beautiful three years of her youth.
But it turned out that in Zhang Yimou's heart, this time was just a misunderstanding.
While washing Clothes for Zhang Yimou, she accidentally found a letter signed by Gong Li.
When she saw the word marriage in Gong Li's letter, she was completely crushed.
At this time, Xiao Hua truly understood that no matter how he insisted, this marriage could not be maintained.
So Zhang Yimou and Xiao Hua divorced in 1988, when their daughter Zhang Mo was 5 years old.
She was the one who had the greatest impact on the changes in the family.
Without the shackles of marriage, Zhang Yimou and Gong Li began to get out of control.
The two have both been on fire with the cooperation of films such as "Ancient and Modern Wars of Qin Figurines" and "Ju Dou".
The love affair between the two was also exposed in 1989, and one loved without hesitation, and the other also sat firmly in the victory.
The age difference between teenagers is that of a director and an actor, and their feelings have also suffered a lot of questioning and insults from the outside world.
But this is not enough to destroy the relationship between the two.
No one thought that the biggest barrier between Zhang Yimou and Gong Li was "a marriage book".
Four
Gong Li and Zhang Yimou were together for 8 years, and they did not wait for Zhang Yimou to give her a name.
As a woman, what Gong Li longs for is a sense of stability and responsibility.
She repeatedly mentioned to Zhang Yimou that she wanted to officially marry him, and as long as he nodded, the international film queen was willing to become a housewife.
Look at Zhang Yimou, although he and Xiao Hua are divorced, they have always taken care of the lives of Xiao Hua and his daughter Zhang Mo.
Whether it is financial or living, it still bears the responsibilities of a father and husband.
Daughter Zhang Mo has always believed that the reason for her parents' divorce is Gong Li, so she has always opposed their feelings.
Zhang Yimou's parents were the same, and they didn't want to watch Gong Li enter their homes.
For various reasons, Gong Li has not been able to get the wedding paper as she wished.
Even Gong Li's second brother personally came to the door to ask Zhang Yimou about this matter, and he replied: "I didn't consider it."
Gong Li's answer was:
"Isn't marriage just a piece of paper?" Why do you have to value this piece of paper? ”
Zhang Yimou's freedom makes people a little confused, and the marriage that is more important than dignity in Gong Li's eyes is nothing more than a marriage book in his eyes.
If you think about it carefully, Zhang Yimou can also have feelings with Gong Li when he has a wife.
In his world, marriage is indeed like a piece of paper.
In 1995, Gong Li collaborated with Zhang Yimou on "Shake, Shake, Shake to Grandma Bridge".
The experience of "Little Jinbao" in the movie unveils the darkness under the exquisite and elegant life of some so-called upper-class people.
After the last shot of the movie, Gong Li also completely died to Zhang Yimou.
Maybe she really woke up, or maybe she was also touched by the experience of "Little Jinbao", and the two parted ways.
After the breakup, Gong Li married The Wealthy Singaporean businessman Huang Hexiang at a very fast pace.
Not to be outdone, Zhang Yimou began to use a new "Mou Girl", first Qu Ying, then Wei Minzhi, and then Zhang Ziyi, who later exploded.
Both are telling each other in their own way:
"I can live just as well without you!"
Just like the average man and woman in this world.
Five
In 1999, Xiao Hua still lived with the support of Zhang Yimou, and his daughter Zhang Mo also fantasized that her parents would one day be able to reconcile.
But all this can only be a fantasy.
This year, Gong Li collaborated with director Chen Kaige on the film "Jing Ke Thorn Qin Wang", which is already her third cooperation with Chen Kaige.
Zhang Yimou was preparing to make the movie "Happy Time", when 18-year-old Chen Ting met him under the intertwining of fate.
At that time, Chen Ting was studying at the Beijing Film Academy, and Zhang Yimou was the film actress who went to Nortel.
Chen Ting, who had an actor's dream at that time, was very excited to hear that Zhang Yimou had come to cast.
She has always admired Zhang Yimou, such a good opportunity, Chen Ting naturally will not miss the opportunity to meet idols.
By chance, Chen Ting performed a love drama in front of Zhang Yimou.
Her performance is not the appearance of the heroine of the movie in Zhang Yimou's heart, but it is in line with the appearance of the heroine of his life.
Chen Ting was brushed off during the re-examination, and Zhang Yimou's casting also opened the "sea selection" mode.
At the request of Zhang Yimou, the crew collected more than 40,000 girls' information and selected a new generation of mou girls, Dong Jie.
The work of the new film is proceeding in an orderly manner, while Zhang Yimou and Chen Ting are slowly getting closer and closer.
At that time, Zhang Yimou was 49 years old, and Chen Ting was only 18 years old at the time and was a sophomore.
In the face of a person she admired, Chen Ting fell not long after.
In this way, the two people, who are 31 years apart, have become a very low-key couple.
However, Zhang Yimou is older than Chen Ting's parents, which makes Chen Ting's parents somewhat difficult to accept.
At that time, Chen Ting's idea of being young and vigorous was very simple, that is, she wanted to be with Zhang Yimou.
Whoever objected was to follow him and say nothing to give up.
Many people may not understand what kind of charm Zhang Yimou has, which can make international film queens like Gong Li impressed.
It can also make a woman like Chen Ting, who is more than 30 years away from him, fall.
On the other hand, it is actually very simple to think about, in some ways Zhang Yimou is already a god-like existence.
And for those who worship him, love is just a way of worship.
Chen Ting once said:
"I studied dance, lived on campus at the age of 13, and became independent very early. He talked to me very formally about getting married and having children, and I identified him and promised him without hesitation. ”
Soon after, Chen Ting became pregnant.
Zhang Yimou's side has also been urged by his parents to have a son to pass on the generations, so in this case, it is natural to hope that Chen Ting can give birth to this child.
Zhang Yimou let Chen Ting choose for herself: whether to quit the student and have a child, or not to have a child and then break up.
Chen Ting, who is extremely stubborn about this relationship, naturally chose the former.
Six
In 2001, Zhang Yimou, who was 51 years old, had a son, and he named his son Zhang Yinan.
Chen Ting gave up his studies for Zhang Yimou, gave up a bright future, and gave him a son, but still could not wait for a name.
Zhang Yimou, who became famous at that time, was under the attention of the media every move.
After gong li's previous experience, he was more cautious about his private life.
In order not to give the media the opportunity to catch the wind and catch the shadow, they are not even willing to give Chen Ting a name that has long been worthy of the name.
Later, Chen Ting gave birth to a son and a daughter for Zhang Yimou.
The two already have three children, but they have never been licensed to marry and have never had a public relationship.
For Chen Ting, this is undoubtedly a big gamble. What makes people think that Chen Ting is more powerful is that she has not made a marriage certificate after giving birth to a child for Zhang Yi.
This may be the reason why Zhang Yimou's wife is now Chen Ting instead of Gong Li.
She used a few children to bet that she would not fall into the scoring like Gong Li in the future.
And Chen Ting did bet right.
Because Zhang Yimou and Chen Ting did not receive a license, several children did not even have a hukou.
However, when you enter junior high school, you must have a household registration.
In this way, Zhang Yimou and Chen Ting received a certificate in 2011.
After receiving the license, Chen Ting has not been open to Zhang Yimou, and even going out has to be hundreds of meters away.
The relationship between the two was exposed by Chen Ting's "good friend" He Jun.
In 2011, the He Jun was selected as one of the thirteen chao in Zhang Yimou's film "Jinling Thirteen Chao".
However, she made a big mistake because of her vanity and eagerness to be red.
Exposing the cheongsam shape he felt was on his social media, exposing the characters that were originally secret.
This is undoubtedly a major mistake for a film in production.
Zhang Yimou directly expelled her from the crew, and after the fallout, in March 2012, He Jun revealed the fact that Chen Ting had three children for Zhang Yimou.
At first, this matter was not confirmed, and later after being investigated and exposed by the relevant departments, Zhang Yimou was fined 7.48 million.
Zhang Yimou also passively admitted his relationship with Chen Ting in front of the media.
This 12-year "underground love affair" was finally opened, and Chen Ting was publicly certified as "Zhang Yimou's second wife" because of the misfortune and blessing.
Since then, Zhang Yimou has no longer hidden it, and has brought his wife Chen Ting to attend many public occasions.
Shows that she loves to sprinkle dog food at many events.
After obtaining a publicly acknowledged identity, Chen Ting's performance also made Zhang Yimou very pleased.
She was as plain as ever, still the same look of obscurity.
Do your duty as a helper.
As a girl, it is not easy to spend 12 years of youth and silently adhere to this relationship without "fame".
Fortunately, Chen Ting's efforts for so many years have not been in vain, and she has become a big winner in life.
Xiao Hua helped Zhang Yimou embark on a smooth path during his suffering, and Gong Li forged his glory at the beginning of his success.
Chen Ting, on the other hand, met him when he was radiant.
However, she is also extremely powerful, and has persevered with her love and youth until now.
Zhang Dao, who has entered the ancient age, has failed xiao Hua, his wife, and Gong Li, who has accompanied him for 8 years, in this life.
But he will spend the rest of his life sheltering his 31-year-old wife.
What do you think about zhang Yimou and Chen Ting's emotional experience?