On the afternoon of April 27, Hong Kong media suddenly broke the news that veteran actor Zeng Jiang died at the age of 87 in the Hong Kong quarantine hotel.
The message then spread across the network. Zeng Jiang is an old drama bone that mainland audiences are familiar with, and the "Yellow Medicine Master" he played at that time is the childhood memory of a generation, and while everyone is sad, the most shocking thing is that he actually bid farewell to the world in this way, and died alone in an isolated hotel.
▲Kowloon Hotel is located in the bustling city, just behind the Peninsula Hotel
The Hong Kong media used the five words "corpse discovery case" to summarize Zeng Jiang's death -
"At 12:14 p.m. on the 27th, he was found dead in the Tsim Sha Tsui Quarantine Hotel, the hotel staff found that he was unconscious in the room and called the police for help, the police and ambulance officers came to the scene for examination, confirmed that he had died on the spot, the case was listed as a "body discovery case", the cause of death is still to be determined after the autopsy."
The photos transmitted back from the scene, police officers and ambulance personnel were busy in the hotel, everyone was wearing masks, wearing protective clothing, walking in a hurry, and the cold atmosphere made people's mood even heavier.
Through the descriptions of the media and his family, we restore the last moments of Zeng Jiang's life.
Earlier, he was on vacation at the end of filming, traveling alone to Singapore and Malaysia, looking in good spirits and tasting food everywhere.
On April 21 in Singapore, she also reminisced with her old friend Wang Huiqing:
Wang Huiqing said that she made a table for him and opened a bottle of French red wine. She said: "Zeng Jiang loves food. I can imagine opening up, he wants to come out and embrace the world, he's like a 17-year-old boy, looking for good food all over the world. ”
▲ Wang Huiqing is a famous anchor in Singapore, and now she is operating private dishes.
Later went to Malaysia.
According to the "Guangming Daily" report, Zeng Jiang from Singapore to Malaysia, and visited Hualing Gongxing old shop to taste the famous charcoal grilled pipa duck, according to the boss lady revealed that there were many fans in the store at that time to ask for a group photo, Zeng Jiang immediately promised no shelf, the boss lady also pointed out that Zeng Jiang also took the initiative to ask about the pipa duck making method, and pointed out that although Zeng Jiang used crutches, but the spirit was quite good, before leaving, he sent him homemade duck sauce in the store, Zeng Jiang was very happy!
TikTok also recorded his travels:
Everywhere you go, there are fan photos, buy durian, buy snacks:
After the trip, on Monday (25th), Zeng Jiang returned to Hong Kong from Singapore. According to the epidemic prevention policy, it is necessary to accept at least seven days of isolation at the hotel, so Zeng Jiang stayed in the Kowloon Hotel, did nucleic acid on the same day, and the test result was negative.
Zeng Jiang's ex-wife said that on the evening of the 26th, Zeng Jiang called his daughter to express heartache, and the son-in-law also went to the hotel to deliver medicine:
Last night (26th), he called his daughter to express heartache, and the son-in-law immediately sent the relevant drugs to the hotel and asked the staff to send them to the room on his behalf, after which Zeng Jiang said that he was hungry, and the son-in-law contacted the hotel to hope to send food to the room.
She continued that it is not clear whether the hotel staff has sent drugs and food to the room, so early (27th) daughter called Zeng Jiang, the phone has not been answered, and then contacted the hotel staff to go to the room to shoot the door, "It seems that after 15 minutes of shooting, no one responded, asked his (staff) to open the door to see what was going on, the staff said that it could not be opened, to ask the Department of Health, and finally the Department of Health informed him to open the door, and found that he had no breath." ”
Zeng Jiang's death is shocking, this way of leaving is even more unacceptable to Hong Kong citizens, and the discussion on the Internet is also very fierce. The latest development is the statement of the Department of Health that elderly people who arrive in Hong Kong and want to stay in quarantine hotels can apply to live with their caregivers, and the application form has also been hung up.
Zeng Jiang died, and people still pay attention to his niece, Hong Kong singer Wang Xinping.
Because not long ago, Wang Xinping's father Wang Yu had just died (for the story of Wang Yu, please click), and Zeng Jiang was Wang Xinping's uncle.
The most coincidental thing is that Wang Xinping planned to hold a memorial service for his father on the 28th, but he did not expect that the day before the memorial service, his uncle also left...
▲ Jiao Jiao, Zeng Jiang, Wang Xinping, Wang Xinping's husband used to gather together.
▲During the Spring Festival, Wang Xinping took a group photo with his uncle and aunt.
A reporter called Wang Xinping, where she was preparing for the memorial service in an intensive manner, "At this moment, I am not convenient to say anything, because I have my father's affairs to deal with." ”
Within a month, two close relatives died, presumably Wang Xinping's feelings were more complicated, she sent a Weibo:
At the same time, many stars in the circle also expressed their condolences, such as Jackie Chan:
Chen Farong, Liu Songren, Chen Sicheng, Shu Qi, Zhao Wenzhuo and others all posted on Weibo, most of them cooperating with Zeng Jiang.
The movie "The Edgewalker", which was just released this month, sent out Microblogs to the whole crew, because Zeng Jiang participated in this play and still played the role of the belly black gangster he was best at, and this play also became his screen legacy.
Hong Kong TVB also sent condolences:
Zeng Jiang had been very active until his death, looked in good health, and often appeared in the social state of his friends:
I have also been filming and recording programs:
Or just go around sightseeing:
Nearly 90 years old, in addition to the back of his ears and gout, bad legs and feet, need to wear hearing aids, crutches, and do not see anything unusual. I am afraid that this time it is because of physical exhaustion and sudden heart attack due to traveling abroad? Of course this is just our own guess...
But in the words of his daughter, "Dad loves to play and spends his last day doing what he loves." It's a relief.
Tsang Is One of the Few Cross-Era Actors in Hong Kong who has worked until the end of his life, from black-and-white Cantonese films to the rise of Hong Kong films in the 1980s to TVB Golden Series;
Even now, he is more able to adapt to the changes of the new era than other Hong Kong artists, even many young artists, and is more able to adapt to the shooting rhythm and entertainment ecology of the mainland, and is one of the most familiar Faces of Hong Kong by mainland audiences.
Zeng Jiangduo plays a supporting role, and today, he is the protagonist of this article, to tell his story.
The bones of the officials are bones and bones, and they are spontaneous for a lifetime
Many people will feel that Zeng Jiang has a noble spirit, in fact, this noble gas is not acted, but born with it.
Zeng Jiang was born in a wealthy upper-class family, the family is thick, the father is a Vietnamese overseas Chinese businessman, graduated from St. John's University in Shanghai, his grandfather was the first generation of foreign education students in the Qing Dynasty, the family lived a good life in Shanghai, in Zeng Jiang's words - I did not know the taste of no money in my life.
Zeng Jiang has two younger sisters, one of which is Lin Cui, the "student lover" who was very popular in Hong Kong at that time, that is, Wang Yu's first wife and Wang Xinping's mother.
▲Zeng Jiang family portrait. The two in the back row are Lin Cui and Zeng Jiang.
▲ Zeng Jiang's sister Lin Cui.
▲Comparison of brothers and sisters when they were young.
We mentioned in the last article about Lin Cui, Lin Cui is a typical rich little princess, receiving the most advanced and elite education of that era, riding and shooting swimming, and in the fifties there were fashionable fitness equipment such as rowing machines at home.
As an older brother, Zeng Jiang of course also grew up in this kind of rich environment, and unlike his sister who entered the film circle early, Zeng Jiang studied well since he was a child, so he wanted to take the road of reading.
In the early 1950s, when the family moved from Shanghai to Hong Kong, he had always been a school bully, belonging to the kind of school with good grades and random school picks, and finally studied architecture at the University of California, Berkeley.
Around 1956, he went to Texas for high school, and in his first semester he won the first place and scholarship. The teacher asked him what department he wanted to study in the future. Zeng Jiang initially replied that he wanted to study medicine. However, after careful consideration, he thought that it was not interesting to memorize medical science for a long time, and the process of practicing medicine also needed to face corpses, so he gave up the idea of practicing medicine.
The teacher handed over his grade point average of 4.0 to the university. As a result, several universities are planning to recruit him, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University. Zeng Jiang finally decided to enroll in the Department of Architecture at the University of California at the University of California because his relatives lived in California, and he was afraid of the cold and wanted to stay on the West Coast of the United States to study.
▲ Zeng Jiang and Lin Cui.
Good study, good family, famous schools pick at will, sister is a popular actress, the most important thing is to look handsome, you say that people are not angry.
Therefore, later people in the circle have reflected that Zeng Jiang is too arrogant, speaks too straight, his vision is not generally high, and he has a feeling of looking down on people, which is probably the sense of superiority formed from childhood.
After graduating and returning to Hong Kong, it is logical to become an architect, originally the family is rich, he is more profitable as an architect, "lawyer, jockey, architect, the three most profitable divisions in Hong Kong", this is what Zeng Jiang said.
Once there is no worry about money, people begin to pursue spiritual heights. Soon Zeng Jiang found that being an architect was too boring, "the apartments on Shanghai Street in Kowloon all look the same, it doesn't matter about the design", so he began to work as an actor by chance.
At that time, her sister Lin Cui was a big star, and her brother-in-law was a big director Qin Jian, who was a famous earthquake, and she was so beautiful, so the first play was to cooperate with the popular big star, called "With the Forest Bird". I didn't expect Zeng Jiang to act well, after all, he was a handsome man.
▲ You Min is a beautiful woman, even Lin Qingxia is worshipped, her story, we have also written, here can be recalled.
▲ Hu Feng was more famous than Zeng Jiang at that time, and when he saw that he could act with a beautiful woman, he was jealous to death, picture source: high-energy E Beizi
Since then, Zeng Jiang has acted in many plays, he has thick eyebrows and big eyes, and quickly became a popular student in Cantonese films, in fact, at that time, he did not need how superb acting skills, this face, this figure to that station, it is very popular with the audience.
Zeng Jiang cooperated with many actresses at that time, and in that era he often played roles such as rich men, after all, no one was more suitable for this kind of natural young master.
The actress who worked with him is now either dead or has long disappeared, and Zeng Jiang has witnessed several waves of red faces coming and going. The picture below compares him and Xue Ni, when they were young and old.
Actor Michelle once said that in the circle, Zeng Jiang is a real "official bone", and he pays great attention to it. This means that he lives a delicate and standard life, and often shows a little bit of the style of a young master.
Michelle recalled that when they went to Nepal to shoot a drama, everywhere was dirty, everyone ate blindly, only Zeng Jiang would use a plastic bag to pack boiled eggs, clean, and take it to the crew to eat, which made Michelle extremely impressed.
However, Zeng Jiang's acting path encountered a big pit in the early stage of his life, that is, the love triangle between his sister Lin Cui and Qin Jian and Wang Yu, as well as suicide.
As we said in the previous article, Lin Cui initially married the big director Qin Jian, but then the marriage did not go well, and Lin Cui and Wang Yu got along. It also happened that Qin Jian's career was low, addicted to gambling, and could not bear the pressure to commit suicide. The day after the suicide, Lin Cui and Wang Yu actually held a press conference holding hands, saying that they were pregnant with Wang Yu's child.
▲ Lin Cui and Wang Yu walked into the press conference with a solemn look, when Lin Cui was already pregnant with Wang Yu's child.
This incident shocked the Hong Kong film industry and changed the fate of many people, Lin Cui and Wang Yu were first accused by thousands of people, almost ruining their acting careers in Hong Kong (so they later went to Taiwan to develop).
The butterfly effect also affected Lin Cui's brother Zeng Jiang, and the audience transferred the anger to him, saying that he was the most arrogant actor in Hong Kong, and That Zeng Jiang's star was dim, which was why he switched to the television circle after the 1970s.
Of course, everyone is right, the arrogant Zeng Jiang did say a lot of radical things that year, such as "Hong Kong actors, employ a professional, become a class of chai dolls...", which means that Hong Kong actors do not have a professional, they are all playing blindly.
Well, a sentence overturned a boat of people, no wonder Zeng Jiang's later popularity is indeed not bad...
Because the smart brain turns fast, so Zeng Jiang often feels that others are stupid, but he has to say it, so he attracts hatred, in 1995, Zeng Jiang went to Singapore to shoot the TV series "Chaozhou Family", and scolded the actors of the same drama for being stupid, and was boycotted by more than a dozen local actors...
In the TVB period, Zeng Jiang, who is in his forties, has successively filmed some TV series, and often appeared in "Happy Tonight", acting in many funny sketches, always being a supporting role, and never being too popular.
▲ And Lin Jianming is acting in funny sketches.
However, astrology is a very magical thing, I have to admit that Zeng Jiang is a lucky person, because he later received two excellent jobs.
One is the forty-year-old hair coloring advertisement "Meiyuan Facai", which has been broadcast in Hong Kong, which is very famous and widely disseminated, and every Hong Kong person is familiar with it, which is the childhood memory of a generation.
The second fortunate thing, of course, is the 1983 "Legend of the Archery Hero", Zeng Jiang played Huang Yaoshi, Huang Rong's father, known as Huang Laoevil. This version of Huang Laoevil has also become the first place in the hearts of mainland audiences, and no one has surpassed it so far.
▲The opening ceremony of the Yellow Medicine Master classic.
This drama was only one of TVB's many martial arts dramas at that time, but it happened to coincide with the first wave of Hong Kong and Taiwan film and television dramas after the reform and opening up of the mainland, for mainland children who have just left the conservative and closed cultural environment, this version of "Legend of the Eagle Shooter" in 1983 is nothing less than the door of the new world and the enlightenment of entertainment culture, so no matter which role is an insurmountable classic in the mind.
As for Huang Yaoshi, he can probably rank the top 3 of the most popular roles, we like him, mainly because of Zeng Jiang's appearance, it is really, too dashing!
A jade reed, coupled with an evil charm smile, good guy, although he is already the father of others, but the charm of the opposite sex is also bursting. In the play, Huang Yaoshi is majestic and arrogant to everyone else, only good for his daughter, and he is also saddled with a deep affection, trying to resurrect his dead wife frozen, this kind of persona is simply too good.
▲ When Wang Tianlin, the director of "The Legend of the Eagle Shooter", died, Zeng Jiang was a person who supported the spirit, which showed his status in the jianghu. In addition, they are directors Du Qifeng, Lin Lingdong, Chen Musheng and artists Xie Xian, Liu Songren and Huang Rihua.
Because the Huang Yaoshi who was portrayed was too successful, Zeng Jiang's later drama path basically benefited from the core temperament brought by Huang Yaoshi - also good and evil, obedient and black, and at the same time a little expensive, a little dashing, a little handsome, this is the core competitiveness that Zeng Jiang cannot be copied. The villain boss or the hidden high-powered person are Zeng Jiang's best plays.
The most typical is that in the 1990 TV series "I Am Kind", he and Wen Zhaolun played the father and son of the Qi family, and I think this drama shows the excellent performance and line skills of the young Wen Zhaolun in an all-round way, and also shows Zeng Jiang's excellent performance with rich layers.
Father and son together, often can burst out of a particularly wonderful drama, their fierce quarrel, now look at it is still wonderful.
Zeng Jiang's acting skills have always been highly praised, everyone calls him an old drama bone, but suffering from age, unable to play the main role, supporting roles, and are almost the same feeling, in fact, limiting Zeng Jiang's play.
When the audience mentioned Zeng Jiang, they all had similar roles in their minds, big men in suits, and not many people talking harshly. He also said that he still wanted to play a beggar, but no one came to him.
But in fact, even so, his acting skills are still underestimated.
For example, he has acted in one of the finest plays in the history of Hong Kong drama, "Deling and Cixi", and the screenwriter is the famous Ho Ji Ping.
This drama often goes on and on, starting with Lu Yan playing Cixi and Zeng Jiang playing Rong Lu. In 2007, Tsang Wong Won best supporting actor at the 16th Hong Kong Stage Drama Awards for his role as Rong Lu.
Among them, the rivalry between Zeng Jiang and Lu Yan is the essence of the whole drama.
▲ The two people have emotional dramas, and thus create a vivid and human Cixi, He Jiping's pen is indeed worthy of the name.
This drama is almost popular, acting from Hong Kong to the mainland. When performing in Hong Kong, Lin Qingxia was addicted after watching one and said that she wanted to help perform this play to the mainland.
Zeng Jiang said: "Lin Qingxia is very popular, we are not too much contact. But she also likes it, she is a person who likes drama. She has this emotion, she likes things will want more people to see, she is quite sincere, this little girl. ”
▲ Zeng Jiang and Lin Qingxia once collaborated on a "Dao Ma Dan", and Lin Qingxia played Zeng Jiang's daughter. We have also written about the story of the three beauties of "Dao Ma Dan".
Later, this play really went to the mainland, and when the first scene was performed, look at who the people sitting below were:
▲ When performing in the mainland, Lu Yan was already 92 years old...
It is only a coincidence that Chen Kaige, Chen Kexin and Guan Jinpeng appeared in the premiere of "Deling and Cixi" at the same time, and while recommending this play, observation and learning is the main purpose of their trip.
Huang Lei, who is a drama actor, will not miss this good opportunity to understand and learn Hong Kong drama, as a teacher of Beiying, he is even more fond of "Deling and Cixi", and he is highly respected, claiming to be looking forward to the "Huang Lao Evil" version of Lu Rong.
Tang Wei and Lu Yan, who are not only friends of the year, but also have the name of master and apprentice, this time not only to support their mentor, but also to seriously study the performance of the mentor Zhang Chi. As the leader of the new generation of Hua Dan, Sun Li, who was born as a dancer, got the ticket for the first time when she got the news of the performance of "Deling and Cixi", and she liked Lu Yan when she was a child, and finally had the honor of watching the idol's performance up close.
Now "Deling and Cixi" is still performing, in which Cixi's actor has changed from Lu Yan to Jiang Shan:
Guangxu's actor changed from Pu Cunxin to Zheng Yunlong. Of course, Zeng Jiang is older and is no longer acting.
By the way, there is also a small episode here, when the drama is staged, the actress who has played the "four generations of Cixi" is still in the same frame. They are Liu Xiaoqing, Xi Meijuan, Lu Yan and Jiang Shan.
Here you can also expand an interesting knowledge point, Liu Xiaoqing played Cixi's two "Burning Yuanmingyuan" and "Hanging Curtains to Listen to the Government", and the voiced for her was Zeng Jiang's wife Jiao Jiao.
Well, back to Zengjiang. Having acting skills and at the same time having the temperament of a gentleman and gentleman, this is his magic weapon, thanks to the fact that he has been studying in the United States since he was a child, and he has that kind of style.
The most impressive is 1990's "Happy Tonight", he and Zeng Huaqian sang a song "Pastoral Spring Dream", two beautiful people, a smile is good-
Zeng Huaqian also posted this picture in her Weibo memorial.
It is reasonable to say that Zeng Jiang's seniority is too deep, and the audience popularity is too good, but he said that if he did not have a bad temper, he should be better mixed than now. His wife Jiao Jiao also said that they often quarreled over the matter of treating people and things, and felt that Zeng Jiang would not be a man.
The most famous example is the slap incident between him and Xie Xian in the background. Four old men filmed a travel variety show of TVB, did not expect that Zeng Jiang's legs were not good, he wanted to sit in a wheelchair, often let others push him, probably the attitude was very arrogant, and Xie Xian was anxious:
Zeng Jiang not only sat in a wheelchair, but also had nosebleeds, and he flowed for four hours, and Xie Xian asked him how you didn't die after bleeding for four hours? Zeng Jiang said that he did not die. Hahahahaha.
Xie Xian was so angry that he immediately remembered when he remembered the recording, Zeng Jiang was very impatient with him, so this breath did not go up, and the big ear scraper was pumped.
Knock off people's Glasses!
Xie Xian finally said harshly: I have long wanted to hit you!
This fight is also known as the oldest punch in history hahaha.
Take a look at the static diagram:
For this matter, the caliber of Zeng Jiang and Xie Xian is inconsistent, Zeng Jiang said that the two grew up together, there is nothing to argue about, this is for the effect of the program, deliberately acted.
▲ In 1968, the two collaborated on the film "Purple Stormy Night" for the first time, and later it was often rumored that the two people had incompatible personalities and often made trouble.
Xie Xian said that he just stopped playing with him earlier, and he really wanted to beat him.
However, from the follow-up point of view, the two people have been reconciled.
▲ Xie Xian is good in having a good boy, in his old age there is a reliance, every day there is a driver to follow, jewelry to wear, do not need to earn money, about the matter of Mr. Xie, we have also written, here can be recalled, the source of the GIF watermark.
In any case, there are many people who have cooperated with Zeng Jiang in the circle for so many years, and there are many people who are not accustomed to him, many people say that Zeng Jiang has too many things, not only asking other actors, but also asking directors to do this and that, anyway, some directors annoy him, and some directors also love to use him, because they know that his requirements are ultimately for the sake of good drama.
In 2015, Zeng Jiang won the Best Supporting Actor Award at the 34th Hong Kong Film Awards for "Eavesdropping 3", when he was 81 years old, which was also a career statement.
All three wives are beautiful
Zeng Jiang in Hong Kong's entertainment circle, although the career is not top-notch, but also the number one person in the jianghu, marriage stories are also many, he has married three wives in his life, the first wife is the actress Lan Di who just met not long after entering the industry, the two people met in the movie "The Great Circus", this play was also directed by Lin Cui's husband Qin Jian at that time.
At that time, Zeng Jiang played a circus actor, look at this tall little body:
▲ It is Lan Di who wears green clothes.
Lan Di's original name was Zhang Laidi, and she also had the identity of Zhang Zhidong's great-granddaughter, but the prominent family lineage of that year was long gone, Lan Di's parents died twice, and she came out as an actor at a young age, and when she was young, she looked like this:
Lan Di has a total of three sisters, and her sister is also an actor, called Zhang Lailai.
▲ Zhang Lailai, Zhang Laidi and Zhang Laimei sang the 1954 movie "Ji Gong Chuan" episode "Dedication to Life".
Zeng Jiang and Lan Di were married for ten years and gave birth to a son. After the two divorced, the son went to Canada and basically had no contact with Zeng Jiang. Later, there was also a news that Zeng Jiang wanted to divide Zeng Jiang's property, and Zeng Jiang said, "Having a son is equal to not having a son." ”
Zeng Jiang later said that in his first marriage, he did not know how to be a husband at all. It is estimated that they are too young and have no sense of family responsibility, so the two maintained a ten-year marriage and then divorced.
However, there was a little dispute when he divorced, that is, Zeng Jiang soon married his second wife, Deng Gongbi, and was suspected of cheating in marriage.
Although Zeng Jiang loves to play, but he is also kind to Lan Di, Zeng Jiang makes a lot of money, all the money at hand is given to Lan Di, it is said that Lan Di had 7 suites in his hands when he divorced, and Zeng Jiang laughed and said that he only had 200 Hong Kong dollars left after the divorce.
There is another thing, Zeng Jiang's current wife Jiao Jiao, was a girlfriend with Lan Di at that time, at that time Jiao Jiao often went to their house to play mahjong, and also knew a lot of Zeng Jiang's things from Lan Di's mouth.
However, Zeng Jiang especially hated a group of women to play mahjong at home, and jiao jiao did not have a good face, and he did not expect to walk together more than ten years later, which was also fate.
After divorcing Zeng Jiang, Lan Di withdrew from the circle, the specific life is not clear, it should be good, after all, holding seven suites ah.
But she died early, in 1992, her sister told reporters that Lan Di was dead because of an accident: "My sister is so greedy, there are bones protruding near her two toes, I heard people talk about surgery to cut bones, and the result was that the operation failed and died!" 」
In 1979, Zeng Jiang divorced Lan Di and married Deng Gongbi the following year.
Deng Gongbi has been a model, a DJ, and a columnist, belonging to a woman with a very fast brain, and it is said that Zeng Jiang was fascinated by this talented woman and pursued it vigorously.
After Deng Gongbi and Zeng Jiang got married, they gave birth to a daughter named Zeng Muxue, the daughter who mentioned zeng Jiang's heartache at the beginning of the article and called to deliver medicine.
The marriage between Deng Gongbi and Zeng Jiang also lasted for ten years, and the reason for the divorce was said to be because Zeng Jiang was Western-minded, very open-minded, liked multiculturalism, and loved to play; while Deng Gongbi was addicted to Cantonese opera, reaching the point of inextricability, the values of the two people clashed, and then divorced peacefully in 1990.
Judging from the situation behind, the two are indeed quite peaceful, divorced or friends. Zeng Jiang then married the divorced Jiao Jiao, and Deng Gongbi then married the divorced Cantonese opera master Ruan Zhaohui.
▲ Deng Gongbi and Ruan Zhaohui.
In 2017, the daughter of the two, Zeng Muxue, got married, and the two couples were all present, which seemed to be quite harmonious.
▲ Ruan Zhaohui, Deng Gongbi, groom, bride Zeng Muxue, Jiao Jiao, Zeng Jiang.
The ceremony site was also happy and harmonious, and the two families took a group photo.
After Deng Gongbi and Ruan Zhaohui got married, they have been committed to the development of Cantonese opera, and often appear in front of the media, the most eye-catching thing is that she is always dressed beautifully, and pays attention to collocation and color.
To the third wife, it is Jiao Jiao, who has been accompanying Zeng Jiang until the end of his life.
Jiao Jiao and Zeng Jiang have known each other for a long time, in addition to her and Lan Di are girlfriends, Jiao Jiao acted in a very famous movie called "One-Armed Knife", the male protagonist is a hit Wang Yu, Zeng Jiang's future brother-in-law, the heroine is Jiao Jiao, this is also the initial fate.
Jiao Jiao was born in Chongqing, the family came to Hong Kong in 1949, and at the age of 18, she entered the industry as an actor because she participated in the Chinese Film Actors Preparatory Class, but has been tepid.
She was also married, marrying actor and director Wong Jong-xun, who was more than ten years older than herself, when she was married, but unfortunately her husband died in a car accident in Hong Kong in 1966.
When Jiao Jiao knew Zeng Jiang, she was still immersed in the grief of widowhood, it is said that Zeng Jiang rode a motorcycle to carry her, she saw things and thoughts, remembered that her husband also died on a motorcycle, suddenly collapsed and cried, and since then has a different feeling with Zeng Jiang.
Jiao Jiao and Zeng Jiang also had a lot of resistance when they began to fall in love, it is said that the reason why the two were together was that Lan Di wanted to reunite with Zeng Jiang, please ask Jiao Jiao to be a matchmaker, and the matchmaker became a bride, so the two waited until Lan Di's death before getting married. In Jiao Jiao's words, "there is too much past in Hong Kong".
So when two people are in love, they always run out, Shaanxi, Beijing, Taipei.
Before getting married, I also experienced a trial marriage, driving from the east coast to the west coast in the United States, which is probably Zeng Jiang's idea.
Finally got married in Singapore, did not invite too many people, very low-key, Zeng Jiang Zhao pulled a sandals to get married.
When they got married, one was 60, one was 51, and both had no children because they had both had children in previous marriages (Jiao Jiao and her ex-husband had a son). Jiao Jiao is a typical traditional woman, she said that her dream is to have a home, and Zeng Jiang is almost obedient to Zeng Jiang; and Zeng Jiang is fiery and hot-tempered, hoping that "his wife will listen to me", and at the same time, she feels that her wife is "too tolerant" to outsiders, making him unhappy.
It is conceivable that this marriage has also gone through a lot of running-in, Jiao Jiao said that it used to be "endured", but felt that if you endure more, people will get sick, so it becomes "acceptance".
But sometimes he will complain to reporters, thinking that Zeng Jiang has a psychological problem.
In any case, jiao jiao and Zeng Jiang's marriage is the longest lasting, in recent years, the husband and wife have a tacit understanding, probably Zeng Jiang is older, and his personality is much softer. The two starred together in "Eavesdropping 2", Jiao Jiao played Wu Yanzu's mother, and Zeng Jiang played Huang Shitong, which is also a good story.
In his later years, Zeng Jiang's legs and feet were not good, but all public occasions needed Jiao Jiao to be by his side. But it was also strange that this time he chose to travel alone, and it was so long that he traveled alone. Probably want to temporarily stay away from marriage, to find their own happiness, did not expect to go away is to say goodbye, this is also fate.
After reading Zeng Jiang's story, I have to admit that he is a person who is loved by God, even if it is his death, in fact, it is a kind of luck from another angle, as his daughter described - "Don't suffer too much pain, don't let your relatives see that he is unhappy... Until his death he was doing what he loved."
Happy travel back, eat a lot of authentic food, enjoy a rare bachelor life, back to Hong Kong, fall leaves back to the roots, the final process did not experience too long illness, did not disturb the family, just like the feeling of his life.
The only regret is that he is too lonely and has no relatives to accompany him, but what Zeng Jiang wants is freedom and unrestrained in the final moments of life, from this point of view, he has walked very satisfactorily.
Old friend Wang Huiqing gave him an evaluation in an interview with reporters: "He is an optimistic and cheerful person. Also loves life, like an old naughty boy. He lived a wonderful life. ”
"Zeng Jiang came from a very good background and knows art very well. Charismatic, characterful, versatile and passionate. Even Xue Jiayan said that Zeng Jiang liked many actresses in those years, and was a warm and cheerful PLAYBOY.
To be able to become such a person, of course, is very rare, this is his family, his upbringing and his vision, education, experience given by the wealth, so that he has lived a very cool life, not too wronged himself, has not suffered any hardships, and there are many lucky, playing classic roles, a lifetime so smooth sailing.
But we also see that Zeng Jiang is full of clashes between Eastern and Western cultures.
The "straight forward" and "unbridled" that he admires are often ostracized or attacked in eastern society, which is also the "water and soil dissatisfaction" that Zeng Jiang, who has been living in the United States since childhood, has been experiencing.
Zeng Jiang is a person who will put it on his face, like is like, if you don't like it, you have to tell it to you.
The actor he admires the most is Zhou Runfa, because he appreciates that Zhou Runfa can take the subway and buy vegetables without scruples, "the only star in the world is him."
Of course, corresponding to this, he often took a clear stand of not liking others, those who were unprofessional, stupid, and wasted his time, but whenever he encountered them, he had to say two sentences, so that others could not get off the stage. It is indeed easy to make enemies in the workplace, at least, it is not easy to make people close.
So Zeng Jiang was a little troubled, even if he didn't admit it.
In an interview with Lu Yu, he said: "Fame and profit do not have any temptation for me, Li, I never know the taste of no money, as for fame..." At this point, he paused, and then said, "Name, I don't care, you see how low-key I am." ”
But in fact, when he won the Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actor at the age of 81, Zeng Jiang's eyes were wet and he almost burst into tears on the podium. A person who loves acting can't possibly not want more recognition.
However, in general, this is a dashing person on the screen, life is also dashing, in his later years he and Cai Lan got together, the two old men did not have much to say, Cai Lan raised a pen to send him four big words: Zhongxiang point ah.
Meaning: What more could you want? The subtext is that you've gotten too much.
Think about it, this is also full of sympathy and sighs between men, yes, beautiful women you have loved, only women you have married, wives are still docile, there are children and women, the death of male actors of the same era (Chen Honglie, who can compete with Zeng Jiang, also died early, here can be recalled), depressed depression, only he, has been so arrogant, so string, live to 87 years old, still have work, enjoy until the last moment.
Yes, Zhong wants to point ah, people look back at the twilight years, life is like a white colt through the gap, the really important things are not much, fame and fortune are indeed important, but not so important, in short, live freely, casually, do not tell lies, loyal to themselves, have been doing what they like, not suffering from illness, good and good, what do you want?
It is a blessed life, the so-called good end, probably so.