In 2008, at the Hung Hom Sports Centre in Hong Kong, tens of thousands of people and hundreds of celebrities holding white flowers gathered to hold a memorial service for Shen Dianxia.
As shen Dianxia's beloved person for half a lifetime, Zheng Shaoqiu just appeared, and an unexpected scene occurred.
Shen Dianxia's eldest brother, the famous actor Deng Guangrong, stood on the stage and scolded Zheng Shaoqiu:
"Does Zheng Xinyi have no father?" Why do you need uncles and aunts to take care of the aftermath? I would like to ask you Zheng Shaoqiu to explain, what have you paid to Ah Fei over the years? What have you ever given to your daughter? ”
Zheng Shaoqiu looked embarrassed and the scene was in an uproar, and this scene has also become a classic scene in the Hong Kong entertainment industry.
The feud between Shen Dianxia and Zheng Shaoqiu lasted for more than 30 years, and it did not end until Shen Dianxia's death.
Back then, from love to killing, what really happened between them?
So much so that after Shen Dianxia's death, Zheng Shaoqiu did not even want to attend her funeral, and did not care about his daughter Zheng Xingyi?
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Their first encounter was on the "Happy Tonight" show.
At that time, Shen Dianxia's impression of Zheng Shaoqiu was very poor: oil-headed flour noodles, at first glance, it was a big turnip with a flower heart.
Therefore, when hosting the show, she was very rude to Zheng Shaoqiu, and from time to time she would make things difficult for him, and Zheng Shaoqiu could not come to the stage, and she did not have any good feelings for this little fat girl.
But no one expected that the men and women who hated each other would be married in 15 years.
In 1978, Shen Dianxia followed the crew to Malaysia to shoot locations, and Zheng Shaoqiu and actress Sensen were also listed.
At that time, Zheng Shaoqiu was dragging with Sensen, and when he left, Sensen handed a letter to Shen Dianxia and asked her to help hand it over to Zheng Shaoqiu.
Shen Dianxia thought it was a love letter, took the letter and threw it in front of Zheng Shaoqiu, saying: "Now, your love letter, remember to drink tea!" ”
At the end of the day, everyone agreed to eat together, but the staff could not find Zheng Shaoqiu no matter how to find it.
As a result, Shen Dianxia found him at the kitchen door and saw Zheng Shaoqiu holding a letter alone in silent tears.
It turned out that what she had given to Zheng Shaoqiu was a parting letter, and Shen Dianxia suddenly had a sense of guilt in her heart, blaming herself for being troublesome.
Seeing his lost soul, Shen Dianxia was a little surprised, and he didn't expect that he was still such an obsessive person.
Since then, Shen Dianxia began to take good care of Zheng Shaoqiu with a guilty heart, often pulling him to eat together, comforting him and enlightening him.
When going out, Shen Dianxia also specially instructed the staff to take Zheng Shaoqiu with them and not to leave him alone.
After coming and going, Shen Dianxia found that although Zheng Shaoqiu was a person with a good look, he loved his family very much and felt good about him.
Zheng Shaoqiu is on the verge of extreme pain from falling out of love, and he feels warm about Shen Dianxia's care, especially her cheerful and humorous words, which dispel the haze in his heart.
In this way, the two hearts slowly moved closer.
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The news of their dragging spread quickly, but most people did not support it, because whether it was in appearance, status, or family, the two people were far apart.
Shen Dianxia was born in a famous family in Shanghai, the family has been in business for generations, and her father is a tobacco merchant, which can be regarded as a big lady born with a golden key.
Although Shen's father settled in Hong Kong with his family, the skinny camel was bigger than The horse, and Shen Dianxia has been living a life of pampering.
At the age of 13, by chance, Shen Dianxia starred in the Shaw movie "A Tree of Peach Blossoms and a Thousand Reds", which appeared on the screen for the first time.
Since then, Shen Dianxia has liked acting, and despite her family's opposition, she signed a contract with Shaw Film and Television and officially debuted as a child star.
With her cute appearance and the personality of the ghost horse elf, Shen Dianxia has become the most unique presence in the beautiful Shao Family.
She was a regular on the big screen during the golden age of Hong Kong cinema, appearing in 15 films a year at most.
In the "Rich and Powerful" series of movies, she and Dong Biao achieved the most grounded classic CP image, which the TV station will replay every summer vacation.
"The father of Hong Kong variety show" Cai Heping saw Fei Fei for the first time, immediately identified her talent: "She is a genius", without auditioning, let her serve as the host of the variety show "Happy Tonight".
It turns out that Shen Dianxia is indeed an "entertainment genius".
Hosted, choreographed and controlled by her, "Happy Tonight" was a huge hit as soon as it was broadcast. From the beginning to the end of the broadcast, up to 27 years, a total of 6613 issues, is the world's most "longevity" variety show.
Almost all Hong Kong artists have been on her shows, and because of her boldness and righteousness and true temperament, most people have become good friends with her.
The big brothers in the film industry, Xie Xian and Deng Guangrong, are her brothers in worship, the godfather of Hong Kong music, Luo Wen, is her close friend, and the song god Jacky Cheung worships her as a dry mother...
She not only works and dedicates herself to work, but also thinks about others in everything, is recognized in the circle as a "confidant big sister", and is also everyone's pistachio.
Jackie Chan did not hesitate to praise her: "With the fat sister here, everyone will be at ease with everything."
Zhang Guorong suffered from depression on the day, and It was also Shen Dianxia who had been interrogating him and accompanying him to dinner and drinking tea.
In Zhang Guorong's suicide note, in addition to his family and lover, Shen Dianxia is the only person he is grateful for.
In 1967, Run Run Shaw and his friends co-founded TVB, Shen Dianxia was one of the elders of the opening station, and Zheng Shaoqiu at this time was still a newcomer who had just stepped into the entertainment circle.
Because of this, when she and Zheng Shaoqiu were together, many people felt that Zheng Shaoqiu's motives were impure and advised her: "You should be careful, I am worried that people are using you." ”
But she is in love, she has long been addicted to the beauty of this love, how can she listen to the advice of onlookers?
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After being with Zheng Shaoqiu, in order to help him in his acting career, Fei Fei pushed off a lot of work and concentrated on becoming Zheng Shaoqiu's agent.
She used her connections to win many resources for Zheng Shaoqiu.
Zheng Shaoqiu was also very contentious, and with his ancient costume appearance in "Zhang Wujie" and "Chu Liuxiang", he quickly became popular in Asia.
Watching the beloved person grow step by step, it was the happiest time in Shen Dianxia's life, but in Zheng Shaoqiu's heart, there was a lot of unwillingness.
People in the circle said that the sound of eating soft rice has never stopped, and the relationship between men and women is ultimately a hurdle in his heart.
Whenever he faced Shen Dianxia, he always had a deep sense of depression.
In the time of loneliness and namelessness, this repression can be restrained and forbearing, but once it becomes famous, this repression will become a poison in love. Just like the article that was also popular with Ma Yili later.
After becoming popular with "Chu Liuxiang", the little dissatisfaction and unwillingness in Zheng Shaoqiu's heart could not be hidden.
He not only had ambiguities with a number of actresses on the set, but also forced Shen Dianxia, who suffered from high blood pressure and heart disease, to have a child:
"You can have a baby for me quickly, I'll give you another three years, and if not, you don't blame me."
Clear-eyed people can see that this is an excuse for Zheng Shaoqiu to leave.
However, in order to save Zheng Shaoqiu, Shen Dianxia ignored the doctor's persuasion and resolutely risked pregnancy.
Because of her obesity and 40-year-old pregnant woman, Shen Dianxia was in great pain throughout her pregnancy, and she had to be breathless and her stomach was so big that she couldn't sleep at all.
During production, it is more like the ghost door has been closed. However, Zheng Shaoqiu did not cherish Shen Dianxia's hard work and dedication.
When confinement at home, Shen Dianxia found that Zheng Shaoqiu was always staring at a box in a daze, and she was confused, so she opened the box and found that it was all intimate photos of Zheng Shaoqiu and actress Guan Jinghua going out to play.
Shen Dianxia was suddenly in pain, coupled with the influence of postpartum hormones, she was crying every day, and her eyes were already crying without a full moon.
In fact, as early as when Zheng Shaoqiu took over the filming of "Chu Liuxiang's New Biography", he and Guan Jinghua were together.
At that time, Guan Jinghua had just turned 20 years old, and Zheng Shaoqiu was already 37 years old, and her youthful vitality deeply attracted Zheng Shaoqiu's attention.
Soon, the two spread a scandal. However, at that time, when Shen Dianxia was pregnant, in order to hide her eyes and ears and fear the accusations of the outside world, Zheng Shaoqiu had no choice but to marry Shen Dianxia.
Because of the rush of time, they did not have a wedding, and Shen Dianxia did not even have a wedding dress. She only wore an old blue cheongsam, accompanied by the priest's blessing, and married Zheng Shaoqiu.
Even the wedding was so hasty, perhaps this confirms the end of their feelings.
After the birth of her daughter, it was true that Zheng Shaoqiu stayed by Shen Dianxia's side for a short time, but those who were determined to leave could not stay sooner or later.
When Zheng Xinyi was 8 months old, Zheng Shaoqiu hurriedly moved out of the house.
Allowing Shen Dianxia to plead with all kinds, and even playing the family affection card with his daughter, Zheng Shaoqiu was indifferent:
"I will take care of my daughter, but I have met someone I like and we are still separated well."
Shen Dianxia hugged her daughter tightly in her arms, and the tears fell involuntarily.
In order not to let her daughter live in a quarrelsome environment, when the child was 2 years old, Shen Dianxia reluctantly signed a divorce agreement.
Zheng Shaoqiu was relieved and immediately went to Taiwan to look for the new official Jinghua, and the separation was for many years.
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After the divorce, Shen Dianxia took her daughter alone and her life was very difficult.
Because of obesity, she did not have a good rest during confinement, resulting in her very poor physical condition, heart disease, diabetes, hypertension and other diseases intertwined, and her hair almost fell out.
But thinking of her daughter, who had nothing to rely on, she had to grit her teeth and come back with an explosive-headed wig.
Before she could recover from her grief, Zheng Shaoqiu had already taken Xinhuan Guan Jinghua to register for marriage.
When she heard the good news of the two, her strong smile broke down again.
She hugged her daughter tightly and sobbed, "Your father is still married to that woman." ”
Zheng Xinyi did not understand her mother's meaning, but when she saw her mother crying, she also cried with her.
Shen Dianxia hugged her daughter tighter, and tears kept dripping on her daughter's hair.
For so many years, midnight dreams back, she always remembered the beauty of being with Zheng Shaoqiu, the pain in her heart would be more, did he use himself, or did he really love?
On a show, she asked Zheng Shaoqiu with 3 points of expectation, 4 points of persistence, and 5 points of trepidation:
"I would like to take this opportunity to ask you, have you ever really liked me?"
Zheng Shaoqiu "wow" in surprise, and then said word by word: "I like you very much." ”
She laughed and shouted, "Okay, that's it." ”
It seemed to graciously forgive the past, but when she turned her head, she burst into tears.
In the first few years of separation, as long as she heard each other's names, she was sad and could not control her emotions.
In "Lu Yu Has a Date", she once said: "I can not worry about anything, only this matter can not be ignored." ”
But no matter how much resentment she had towards Zheng Shaoqiu, she never revealed it in front of her daughter, nor did she ever say anything about Zheng Shaoqiu in front of her daughter.
On the contrary, she never prevented the father and daughter from meeting, always took her daughter to see the movies and dramas in which Zheng Shaoqiu participated, and told her daughter to respect her father and call Guan Jinghua "aunt".
In doing so, it is nothing more than hoping that the daughter knows that she is born out of love, even if her father is not around, but she has his father's pain.
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Unable to let her daughter grow up in a sound family, Shen Dianxia has always felt that she owes her daughter too much, so she desperately tries to make up for it.
Zheng Xinyi's eating and wearing degree is the best, and seafood and abalone are commonplace.
Maybe it is inherited from her mother's obesity genes, or perhaps the nutrition is too good, and Zheng Xinyi's body shape is more and more similar to her mother.
Because of her bloated body, Zheng Xinyi was always unable to buy her favorite clothes, and even did not have the courage to try them on.
In her daughter's heart, Shen Dianxia really saw it, and whenever she finished shopping, she would buy two pieces of clothes that her daughter had looked at several times, and then let the royal costume artist change it and give it to her daughter.
Shen Dianxia's thoughts were enough to see her love for her daughter.
As she grew older, Zheng Xinyi began to love beauty and made up her mind to lose weight.
Therefore, Shen Dianxia found a weight loss company and personally experimented.
Unexpectedly, not only is the weight loss meal very difficult to eat, but the weight loss machine is also painful, and every time it is used, the body is bruised.
After personally experiencing the difficulty of losing weight, she was reluctant to let her daughter try. But Zheng Xinyi would rather suffer than be fat again, as a mother, she had to fully support.
Although Shen Dianxia was spoiled for her daughter, she never doted on her, and when she was adolescence, Zheng Xingyi began to have a little rebellion, she smoked and played greedily, which made Shen Dianxia very worried.
Once, the media took a photo of Zheng Xinyi smoking and reported it hyped, and Zheng Xinyi felt very faceless and begged her mother for help.
Shen Dianxia said: "You have grown up, you have to think twice about doing things, and find a way to deal with it yourself." ”
Zheng Xingyi, who has suffered losses, finally began to learn to take responsibility for her own actions.
Unfortunately, in 2006, Shen Dianxia was diagnosed with a tumor.
She saved the last momentum and used all her contacts and resources to pave the way for her daughter.
The torment of the illness made her once skinny and even panting, but she still took her daughter to various activities and told her "old friends" to take more care of her daughter.
Even at the party of the 40th anniversary of TVB, she also played a cardiotonic agent, forced herself to receive the grand prize, and let her daughter sing here to sing and debut as a singer.
In 2008, in the midst of regret and grief, "pistachio" Shen Dianxia quietly passed away.
Huo Zhenting, Deng Guangrong, Tsang Chi-wai and other high-ranking figures in Hong Kong's entertainment circles have mourned one after another, and even Hong Kong Chief Executive Donald Tsang Yam-kuen has expressed condolences, but Zheng Shaoqiu, who is "strict in his wife's management", has never expressed anything, and even did not attend her funeral in Vancouver.
If Shen Dianxia had knowledge underground, she would also feel sad.
In fact, she is most relieved by her daughter Zheng Xinyi, in order to let her daughter learn to be independent, she left an inheritance for her daughter that is enough for a lifetime, but she also made a will, and when her daughter reaches the age of 35, she can inherit, before which there was only 20,000 yuan per month living expenses.
At the beginning, Zheng Xinyi could not understand her mother's approach, under the hype of the media, Zheng Xinyi's negative emotions doubled, and she began to overeat, sell property, and talked about love countless times, using the wallet left by her mother to raise a small boyfriend.
Soon, she became the fat self again, and became a "poor egg", and in the most difficult time, her card was only 26 yuan left, and she could not even afford to buy a cup of coffee.
Seeing that Zheng Xinyi had become extremely depressed, the media laughed at her: "The 'princess' of the past has become a 'loser girl'."
But no matter how hard it was, she never opened her mouth to her father.
After Zheng Shaoqiu and Guan Jinghua remarried, they gave birth to 2 daughters in succession.
Zheng Shaoqiu loves his eldest daughter Zheng Yong'en and never restricts pocket money. Couture clothes, a series of purchases, he often takes Zheng Yong'en in and out of various high-end occasions.
Under his doting, Zheng Yong'en has a bold style, frequently changes boyfriends, and his life can be described as extravagant, often dominating the headlines in Hong Kong.
After studying in the UK, Zheng Yong'en was more self-contained, often posting large-scale photos on the self-media to attract people's attention.
What I never expected was that Zheng Shaoqiu actually vigorously defended her daughter:
"What's this? 20-year-old girls don't have to care too much, the most important thing is that people should be beautiful. ”
However, when Zheng Xinyi was hospitalized for surgery due to acute cecalitis, Zheng Shaoqiu did not appear from beginning to end.
The same is his daughter, he can indulge and spoil Zheng Yong'en without restriction, but ignore himself, Zheng Xinyi is doubly sad, and his heart also begins to resent his father.
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In those years, Zheng Xinyi has been deep in the lowest valley of her life. Fortunately, Shen Dianxia's former friend has always taken good care of Zheng Xinyi.
Under their company and enlightenment, Zheng Xinyi gradually walked out of the pain of losing her mother, and decided to live up to her mother's expectations and live well.
With the help of acquaintances, Zheng Xinyi took over the filming of "Beat Your Own People" and officially entered the show business circle.
The following year, she starred in the film "72 Tenants" in the film "72 Tenants" by her mother's former friend Zeng Zhiwei.
Zheng Xinyi is also very talented in singing, in 2011, she released a series of albums, of which songs such as "Half Care" and "Small" were also selected for the Excellent Golden Melody Award.
It is worth saying that since the establishment of this award in 1988, each award-winning singer has made great achievements in the future, from Zhang Guorong and Mei Yanfang, to Beyond and the Four Heavenly Kings, which is enough to see that the value of this award is not ordinary.
In 2016, her song "Goddess" was named "Women's Song of the Year", and her career was booming.
In 2021, she won the "Gold Award for Best Female Singer" and "My Favorite Female Singer" in the pop charts of the Hong Kong music scene.
Surprisingly, the Hong Kong media, who had always scolded her, finally changed the direction of the wind and unanimously expressed a high degree of affirmation for her efforts.
After 11 years of debut, Zheng Xinyi finally achieved success by her own efforts, and she finally understood her mother's hard heart.
If it were not for the mother's constraints, she would not have been able to understand the hardships of life so quickly.
Even if there are more connections, without their own efforts and strength, they will not be able to gain the respect and recognition of society.
Gaining a sense of accomplishment in her career, she began to reconcile with her obesity and with her father, who had little contact.
"I don't hate him, and I don't particularly love my dad, after all, he's always just my dad."
When her father gave a concert, he would invite her to attend. When she is on the variety show, Zheng Shaoqiu will also help at the scene.
Today's Zheng Xinyi, even without her mother's large inheritance, can also live very well, presumably Shen Dianxia has knowledge underground, and she will feel relieved.
postscript:
Zheng Shaoqiu once confessed, "I am a good actor, but I am not a good husband, nor a good father." ”
It is undeniable that from Qianlong to Chu Liuxiang, Zheng Shaoqiu's life has left too many screen classics.
But for Shen Dianxia, who helped him to the throne, he was not a good husband, and for his daughter Zheng Xinyi, he was not a good father.
Fortunately, Shen Dianxia did not complain about herself, nor did she bring negative emotions to her daughter, her strength and optimism left her daughter with valuable wealth, which is the best gift of parents to their children.
Love is voluntary, love has no regrets, I hope that every pair of people who love each other can be kind to their feelings.