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Stills from Chen Xiaoxu's "Dream of the Red Chamber"
In 1987, the 36-episode costume love drama "Dream of the Red Chamber" was broadcast in a prime-time set of CCTV, triggering thousands of empty alleys. The unknown Chen Xiaoxu has become popular all over the country for successfully playing "Lin Daiyu".
The "Lin Daiyu" played by Chen Xiaoxu has become an insurmountable classic for posterity, but Chen Xiaoxu, who is very popular, has no drama to shoot.
In 1992, Chen Xiaoxu had to go to the sea to do business, and then gorgeous turned into an outstanding female advertiser. On May 13, 2007, Chen Xiaoxu, who was only 41 years old, died of breast cancer in Shenzhen.
Chen Xiaoxu's early death has pushed his parents, relatives and friends into the abyss of grief. Her two husbands still have pain in their hearts, and the tears in the eyes of Chen Xiaoxu's elderly parents have not yet dried...
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Chen Xiaoxu was born on October 29, 1965 in Anshan, Liaoning Province, the son of Chen Qiang, a graduate of the Chinese Opera School, is the director of the Anshan Peking Opera Troupe, and his mother Wang Yuanxi was an actor in the Anshan Peking Opera Troupe and later became a student class teacher.
Chen Xiaoxu (right) as a child with parents and sister
10-year-old Chen Xiaoxu with his mother
Wang Yuanxi is a native of Liaoning, born in 1937, with 7 brothers and sisters. Wang Yuanxi is 1 year younger than her husband Chen Qiang.
Chen Xiaoxu has a younger sister named Chen Xiaoyang, and the two sisters are 4 years apart.
In an interview, the elderly Chen Qiang recalled such an incident: When her mother was pregnant with Chen Xiaoxu, she had a dream in which a white-haired old man told her that your daughter's name was Chen (yé) Fen.
After his daughter was born, Chen Qiang consulted an old gentleman who studied the I Ching, and the other party said that the name was not good, and it was Lin Daiyu's life. Because his daughter was born in the morning, Chen Qiang named her daughter Chen Xiaoxu.
Chen Xiaoxu is weak in appearance, but stubborn in personality, and when she was 10 years old, her parents sent her to an anshan acrobatic troupe to learn acrobatics.
Early Years Chen Xiaoxu
A few years later, the acrobatic troupe disbanded, and Chen Xiaoxu joined the Anshan Repertory Theatre in 1979. In the regiment, in addition to running dragon sets, she also worked as a newspaper clerk.
In 1982, Chen Xiaoxu took over the TV series "Family Style", but it did not cause any repercussions.
The following year, Chen Xiaoxu saw the "Dream of the Red Chamber" crew in the magazine selecting actors in the national audition, and he had the idea of going to audition.
At that time, she talked about a boyfriend named Bi Yanjun, who was also an actor in the Anshan Repertory Theatre. He was born in Anshan in 1955, 10 years older than Chen Xiaoxu.
Bi Yanjun's father worked in the local Military Control Commission, and Bi Yanjun had the conditions to watch many films. His middle school class teacher was a young intellectual in Beijing, not much different from Bi Yanjun's age, and the two became good friends.
Bi Yanjun
Under the influence of his teacher, Bi Yanjun was interested in cross-talk and performance.
When Bi Yanjun had not yet graduated from middle school, the Anshan Repertory Theatre came to the school to recruit people, and Bi Yanjun, who was very tall and in appearance, was admitted.
He began to act in dramas at the age of 17, first running dragon sets, and then a major actor had a stomach perforation to go to the hospital for treatment, Bi Yanjun seized this opportunity and became the main actor in the troupe.
In 1983, Bi Yanjun was seconded to Shanghai to perform the drama "The Legend of the Young Marshal", and under the recommendation of the teacher of shanghai youth drama theater, he was admitted to the shangxi film performance cadre training class.
In 1985, after graduation, Bi Yanjun could have stayed in the Shanghai Youth Drama Theatre to work, but he felt that the drama troupe in his hometown had the grace of knowing him, and resolutely returned to his hometown to work.
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Chen Xiaoxu and Wang Fulin
After Chen Xiaoxu saw the news that the crew of "Dream of the Red Chamber" was recruiting actors, he wrote a letter to Bi Yanjun to ask for his opinion. Bi Yanjun said that her personal conditions were good and encouraged her to compete.
So Chen Xiaoxu wrote a letter to the general director Wang Fulin, the content of the letter is a poem: "I am a willow / Grown in the beautiful spring / Because my parents abandoned me prematurely / I became a confidant with the spring wind ..."
Chen Xiaoxu also attached a photo of himself to the letter.
Soon, Chen Xiaoxu received a notice to go to Beijing to audition, she asked the unit for 3 days off, and took a train to Beijing. It was this long trip that completely changed Chen Xiaoxu's fate.
When he saw Wang Fulin, the weak Chen Xiaoxu caressed the braids on his chest with his hands, and there was a faint melancholy between his eyebrows.
Stills from Chen Xiaoxu's "Dream of the Red Chamber"
Stills of Chen Xiaoxu and Ouyang Fenqiang's "Dream of the Red Chamber"
Wang Fulin has seen "Lin Daiyu" in various dramas such as Peking Opera, Yue Opera, and Commentary, and there are more than 10 to say the least, but he feels that Chen Xiaoxu's temperament is closest to Lin Daiyu.
The crew of "Dream of the Red Chamber" has a total of 153 actors, most of whom are boys and girls in their early 20s.
In 1987, "Dream of the Red Chamber" was broadcast in a prime time set on CCTV, triggering thousands of empty alleys, and the fates of these boys and girls were changed, of which Chen Xiaoxu was the most popular one.
Although she was a first-line star, according to Chen Xiaoxu's father, Chen Qiang, recalled: Chen Xiaoxu was very poor at that time, she borrowed a friend in a small bungalow of 10 square meters, the house was sunny in the west, and the temperature in the house was as high as 40 degrees in the summer.
Her father came to see Chen Xiaoxu from Anshan, and she was reluctant to buy the whole pig's trotter, only half of the pig's trotter, and Chen Qiang felt very uncomfortable.
Chen Xiaoxu
The second time he came to Beijing to see his daughter, he brought Chen Xiaoxu 4,000 yuan. At that time, Chen Qiang and his wife's monthly salary was more than 100 yuan each, and the 4,000 yuan was saved by their thrift.
Chen Xiaoxu said happily, "Dad, you saved me." ”
In 1989, on the recommendation of the famous singer Ma Guoguang, Chen Xiaoxu enlisted in the army and became an actor in the Beijing Military Region Comrades-in-Arms Cultural and Labor Troupe.
The unit did not arrange a house for Chen Xiaoxu, she still rented a house everywhere, often moved, and there were many hardships in life.
Chen Xiaoxu and Lin Daxin stills of "Home Spring and Autumn"
After filming "Dream of the Red Chamber", Chen Xiaoxu only acted in two film and television dramas of "Home Spring and Autumn" and "Black Grapes", and then there was no director to find her to shoot. The reason is that her role in "Lin Daiyu" is too classic, no matter what role is portrayed, the audience will think of Lin Daiyu.
In fact, Chen Xiaoxu also has the opportunity to earn money, but her personality is relatively stubborn. In 1990, a Beijing company wanted to buy out Chen Xiaoxu's portrait rights for 600,000 yuan, but Chen Xiaoxu refused.
After filming "Dream of the Red Chamber", Chen Xiaoxu and Bi Yanjun got married. In 1989, Bi Yanjun left the Anshan Repertory Theatre and officially came to Beijing to develop.
In the past, the two lived apart, met less, and many contradictions were not revealed; after Bi Yanjun came to Beijing, the two often collided. In the early 1990s, Chen Xiaoxu and Bi Yanjun divorced.
In an interview before his death, Chen Xiaoxu objectively and rationally analyzed the marriage: because there are too many edges and corners of his personality, he cannot tolerate others, so we are separated.
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Chen Xiaoxu took a group photo with the wax figure "Lin Daiyu"
In 1992, Chen Xiaoxu went to the sea to do business as the production headquarters manager of an advertising agency in Beijing. Her personality is still very stubborn, and she has encountered many difficulties in the process of starting a business.
Chen Xiaoxu's father, Chen Qiang, recalled in an interview: "An old friend of his was a media reporter who wanted to interview Chen Xiaoxu and write an article about her from a famous actor to a shanghai liren, and after three appointments, Chen Xiaoxu said that he didn't have time.
Later, when Chen Xiaoxu returned to Anshan, Chen Qiang asked the reporter to rush over from abroad, but she still did not see her.
The father criticized his daughter, and Chen Xiaoxu said, "I have nothing to talk about." ”
Sometimes the customer asks Chen Xiaoxu to dinner, she is reluctant to go, arranges for the company's staff to go, and the result is that people are offended.
Chen Xiaoxu and Hao Tong
Once, a large customer came, Chen Xiaoxu invited the other party to dinner, and as a result, a table of vegetarian dishes was arranged, and the other party was very dissatisfied. Due to personality reasons, Chen Xiaoxu has encountered many walls in the business sea and taken many detours.
As early as 1992, Chen Xiaoxu and Hao Tong remarried. Hao Tong graduated from the Photography Department of the Beijing Film Academy, was a choreographer and photographer at the Central News Documentary Film Factory, and after marrying Chen Xiaoxu, he also went to the sea to do business.
In 1996, Chen Xiaoxu founded Beijing Shibang United Advertising Company, she served as the chairman, Hao Tong served as the general manager, and the couple ran the company well.
After the economic conditions improved, Chen Xiaoxu bought a large house in the Asian Games Village in Beijing and took his parents and sister to Beijing to live together.
Chen Xiaoxu
In 2004, Chen Xiaoxu was named one of the 30 Outstanding Female Advertisers in China. In 2005, she was named "China's Economic Person of the Year" by World Manager Magazine.
At this time, Chen Xiaoxu was 39 years old and should have conceived a baby. However, because he was busy starting a business, he shouldered too many responsibilities and undertook too much pressure, Chen Xiaoxu could not spare a large chunk of time to conceive a baby.
Chen Qiang and his wife Wang Yuanxi have been spawned many times, and Chen Xiaoxu always said to wait. Who knew that this had become the eternal regret and pain of Chen Qiang and his wife.
In 2005, Chen Xiaoxu was diagnosed with breast cancer. Worried that his parents could not bear the blow, Chen Xiaoxu hid his illness from his parents.
When her aunt Chen Wenna came to Beijing to visit her family, Chen Xiaoxu told her aunt about her illness and hoped that she would keep it a secret for her.
Chen Xiaoxu's aunt Chen Wenna
But Chen Wenna could not suppress the grief in her heart and told her brother and sister-in-law. Chen Qiang and Wang Yuanxi's hearts were broken.
The father asked his daughter to go to the hospital for treatment, and Chen Xiaoxu said: If I use Western medicine, I will choose to die.
It turned out that Chen Xiaoxu loved beauty, she said that Western medicine treatment is surgery and chemotherapy, and people will not look like them after tossing and turning.
Chen Xiaoxu was to be treated with traditional Chinese medicine, and Chen Qiang asked Hao Tong to do the work. Hao Tong said: I can't convince her, because I have quarreled with her because of the treatment.
A doctor surnamed Kou in Beijing said that he could help Chen Xiaoxu treat his illness, and after Chen Xiaoxu paid the other party a sum of money, the doctor surnamed Kou gave Chen Xiaoxu 8 bottles of medicine, and she took medicine at home every day, but she could not stop the spread of cancer cells.
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Chen Xiaoxu with his father and aunt
On the second day of the Chinese New Year in 2007, Hao Tong summoned his parents and in-laws to his home. Suddenly, he knelt down in front of the 4 old people and said, "Xiao Xu is going to leave home on the sixth day of the first month, and I am going to leave home on the sixteenth day of the first month." ”
As soon as the mother-in-law heard that her son and daughter-in-law were going to leave the house, she fainted on the spot, and the father-in-law quickly pinched the mother-in-law, and the mother-in-law woke up, and the two old people hugged their headaches and cried.
Chen Qiang and his wife Wang Yuanxi also cried and persuaded their daughter and son-in-law to give up their plans to leave the family. In fact, Chen Xiaoxu has already made a decision, and now she is just informing the parents of both sides, and her decision will not change.
On the sixth day of the first lunar month in 2007, Chen Xiaoxu left Beijing for Changchun in the tears of his parents and in-laws, and underwent a shaving ceremony at the Xinglong Temple, with the legal name "Miaozhen". On the sixteenth day of the first month, Hao Tong also became a monk.
Because drug treatment did not work, Chen Xiaoxu's breast cancer rapidly worsened. In May of that year, she went to Shenzhen for treatment and eventually died on May 13 at the age of 41.
Chen Xiaoxu's parents
The early death of his daughter pushed Chen Qiang and his wife Wang Yuanxi into a huge abyss of grief. They could not accept the reality of their daughter's death, and when they woke up in the middle of the night, Wang Yuanxi often went up to the 3rd floor to see the lights in her daughter's room.
Chen Xiaoxu's room had the lights on all day, and due to poor contact with the wires, the light bulbs flashed one after another. Wang Yuanxi said to Chen Qiang: You see your daughter has returned. So she lay on the railing and talked to her daughter, crying as she spoke.
In an interview with "Lu Yu Has a Date", the elderly Chen Qiang said with tears: Today so many friends came to the scene, I went home at night, saw the lights in Xiaoxu's room flashed, I told her, so many friends are worried about you, you have to be fine over there.
After saying that, the old man Chen Qiang shed tears, and the audience at the scene also wet their eyes with tears.
Chen Qiang and Wang Yuanxi have been immersed in grief and can't extricate themselves, and every bit of their daughter's family can cause them to grieve. In 2010, Chen Qiang sold his daughter's house and re-bought a house in Beijing with his youngest daughter, Chen Xiaoyang.
Where Chen Xiaoxu rested
Chen Xiaoxu was buried in a cemetery at Nankou in Beijing's Changping District, and in order to facilitate visiting his daughter in the cemetery, Chen Qiang and his wife did not return to Anshan, but lived in Beijing.
Whenever Qingming, his daughter's birthday and death day, Chen Qiang and his wife would go to the cemetery to visit their daughter. The old couple sat in front of the tombstone, recalling the bits and pieces of getting along with their daughter, and the tears were like broken pearls, which could not be stopped.
In 2015, Chen Qiang was 79 years old and his wife was 78 years old. The older people are, the more fragile they are, and the old two often cry and say: If Xiaoxu could have a child, we would also have a thought.
The daughter is gone, and her life has not been extended, how can Chen Qiang and his wife let go?
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After Chen Xiaoxu's death, what was the situation of her two husbands?
Stills from Bi Yanjun's Romance of the Three Kingdoms
After Bi Yanjun divorced Chen Xiaoxu, she remarried and had her own children.
Zhou Ling, the screenwriter of "Dream of the Red Chamber", said in an interview: Chen Xiaoxu found him when he was seriously ill and asked him to bring a message to Bi Yanjun, and she wanted to talk to Bi Yanjun on the phone.
At that time, Bi Yanjun could not turn a corner in his thinking, and he agreed to do the work of Zhou Ling.
In Zhou Ling's office, Zhou Ling dialed Chen Xiaoxu's phone and then handed the microphone to Bi Yanjun. The two talked for more than 3 hours, Chen Xiaoxu cried on the other end of the phone, Bi Yanjun cried on the other end of the phone, and many misunderstandings and entanglements were solved.
After Chen Xiaoxu's death, Bi Yanjun had pain in his heart, and now that so many years had passed, that pain still existed in his heart.
Bi Yanjun stills
Hao Tong
Bi Yanjun has been active in the film and television circle, and has starred in many film and television masterpieces such as "Blood Colored Agarwood", "Confucius", "There is love and home", "Secret Battle Emei", "Left Hand Affection and Right Hand Love", "Mountains and Rivers Moon Ming", "Outside the Drum Tower" and so on.
He is low-key and simple, the drama red is not popular, and many netizens still call him "Chen Xiaoxu's ex-husband".
After Chen Xiaoxu died, Hao Tong was still vulgar, and later married and started a family. The marriage with Chen Xiaoxu made him unforgettable.
To this day, Hao Tong still misses Chen Xiaoxu in his heart, and will go to her cemetery to lay flowers during the Qingming Festival.
In 2022, 15 years after Chen Xiaoxu's death, the tears in chen qiang and his wife's eyes have never dried. They asked a famous sculptor in Shanghai to make a statue of his daughter, and the old couple placed the statue in the cemetery, where they could see her when they visited the grave.
Chen Xiaoyang is already married and a mother, and Mr. and Mrs. Chen Qiang live with their young daughter. Now that they are all in their 80s, they are still determined to visit their daughters in the cemetery, and Chen Xiaoyang is responsible for sending the second elder over.
From left to right: Chen Wenna, Chen Xiaoyang, Chen Qiang, Lu Yu
Ouyang Fenqiang, his wife Kang Li and daughter Ouyang Wenxin
Chen Xiaoxu's aunt Chen Wenna, who has been missing her niece in grief, said with tears: If Xiaoxu had received Western medical treatment, she might not have gone so early.
Chen Xiaoxu's former friends Deng Jie and Ouyang Fenqiang often think of Chen Xiaoxu. Ouyang Fenqiang recalled: When the crew of "Dream of the Red Chamber" moved to Sichuan that year, Ouyang Fenqiang invited Chen Xiaoxu to his home for dinner.
Chen Xiaoxu said that Ouyang Fenqiang's father made cold mixed bamboo shoots was too delicious. Years later, Chen Xiaoxu still mentioned this matter to Ouyang Fenqiang, and he felt that Chen Xiaoxu was a grateful person.
Now that Chen Xiaoxu has been ill for 15 years, things have changed too much in the world, but Wang Yuanxi and his wife have never come out of the grief of the widow, and this pain will accompany them to life.
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