Four hours after Mother's Day, Qin Yi left.
At 4:08 a.m. on May 9, 2022, Qin Yi, the "People's Artist" and "the Most Beautiful Strivers", passed away at the age of 100 in Huadong Hospital in Shanghai.
On January 31 this year, Qin Yi just celebrated her 100th birthday and was jokingly promoted from "post-90s" to "post-00s".
However, just 99 days after her 100th birthday, this old artist, whose life was tortuous, brilliant and legendary, and carried the memories of generations, left us.
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In 1922, Qin Yi was born in Shanghai into a declining feudal family.
The most said sentence by people familiar with Qin Yi is: She is so beautiful.
Friends thought she was as beautiful as Helen who had overthrown Troy, so they gave her a foreign English name, Helen.
Legend has it that Qin Yi once went to the zoo with a group of colleagues, and how many people stood in front of the peacock it was indifferent, only Qin Yi stood over - the peacock opened the screen.
In 1939, participating in her first film "Good Husband", Qin Yi began her film career.
It was also in this year that drama actor Chen Tianguo began to pursue 17-year-old Qin Yi.
One day, Chen Tianguo asked her to climb the mountain, proposed to her on the mountain, and said that if Qin Yi did not agree, he would jump down.
Under the pressure of the other party's death, Qin Yi, who was not deeply involved in the world, reluctantly married him.
The feeling of being newly married is not good.
Chen Tianguo was an alcoholic man. On the second night of his marriage, he was so drunk that he had not yet returned home in the middle of the night.
"At two o'clock in the evening, I was sleeping. He knocked on the door, and it took me a long time to open it, but as soon as the door opened, an umbrella flew over my head. He was going to beat me up, so that I thought the robbers were coming. ”
Later, when Qin Yi recalled the marriage, he said that he was completely forced and did not have any heart at all.
In this way, Qin Yi still barely survived 5 years with Chen Tianguo.
During this period, Qin Yi repeatedly beat Chen Tianguo, and sometimes even beat him to the point that he could not find a piece of skin without scars all over his body.
In 1944, their daughter was born. Chen Tianguo, who was profligate, could not even afford to buy milk powder for his daughter, and even offered to give her daughter to someone else.
This time completely angered Qin Yi, and finally ended the marriage relationship with him.
Shortly after ending her first marriage, Qin Yi met the "right person",— Jin Yan.
At that time, Jin Yan was a fragrant bounty in the entertainment industry, known as the "Emperor of Movies", and had cooperated with Ruan Lingyu many times, and Qin Yi, who was 12 years younger than him, admired him.
Like Qin Yi, Jin Yan was also married once, and his ex-wife was Wang Renmei, a very famous actor at that time.
Perhaps it was a similar experience that made them feel good about each other, and the two quickly fell in love.
A few months later, Jin Yan and Qin Yi held a wedding ceremony in Hong Kong, and Guo Moruo testified about their marriage. Qin Yi's daughter born to her ex-husband was also renamed Jin Feijiao.
The next year, their child was born, named Jin Jie, and Qin Yi called him "Little Brother".
This marriage made Qin Yi feel happy and sweet.
Since then, Qin Yi's career has gone all the way up, but Jin Yan has gradually become lonely, and the feelings of the husband and wife have gradually drifted apart under the great changes of the times.
Finally, the derailment of the Golden Flame collapsed.
Qin Yi wanted to divorce, but at this time, the 48-year-old Jin Yan suffered from a serious stomach disease, unable to take care of himself after the operation, and could only lie in bed all year round.
She could only harden her scalp and carry the burden of taking care of Golden Flame.
But fate was still torturing Qin Yi.
In 1965, his 16-year-old son was diagnosed with schizophrenia and even injured people when he was sick.
When the illness broke out, Qin Yi could only hold her head and let her son's fist swing over, and then begged him not to punch him in the face, because her mother still had to act to make money.
Qin Yi blamed herself, believing that it was her neglect to take care of her that made her son suffer from such a serious mental illness.
So from then on, he always took Jin Jie with him and took good care of him.
"Since then, I have extinguished all my desires." Qin Yi said.
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During the filming of "Thunderstorm", Qin Yi suddenly received a critical illness notice from the hospital.
The golden flame is gone.
She hurried to his hospital bed, only to hear him murmur in a trance: "Little brother, little brother." ”
Qin Yi knew that he was worried about their son, so he said to Jin Yan, "You can rest assured, I will never leave my little brother." ”
Jin Yan didn't speak anymore, only stared at Qin Yi and smiled.
"I used to love his laugh the most, how could he still laugh like that?" Qin Yi recalled.
Soon after, Golden Flame closed his eyes forever.
He failed Qin Yi, but also let her taste the sweetest love in the world.
After a long period of treatment and Qin Yi's meticulous care, his son's condition gradually stabilized.
Not only that, Qin Yi also cultivated his son's talent for painting.
In 2000, Arnold Schwarzenegger bought Qin Yi's son Jin Jie's "Hengshan Park" sketch at auction for $25,000.
Schwarzenegger said: "Qin Yi is a Chinese movie star I admire and a great mother. ”
In the more than twenty years that Jin Jie was ill, Qin Yi's life was very hard. In his first year of discharge, she was diagnosed with bowel cancer.
Many colleagues wanted to donate money to her, but she did not agree, and she ran a dragon set, rolling in one crew after another, earning performance remuneration.
Qin Yi said: In this way, I can feel at ease.
Someone once asked Jin Jie, what is his mother?
He said my mom was just "do it, do it, do it."
On the eve of the age of 60, Jin Jie was gone.
Qin Yi also stood in front of his hospital bed and said to him:
"Little brother, don't be sad, I tell you, wherever you go, your mother is by your side."
The last painting of his son before his death was "I Love My Mother", and Qin Yi in the painting was still the same as when he was young.
This is also Jin Jie's last gift to his mother.
The first marriage was a nightmare.
The second marriage was betrayal.
Love makes Qin Yi lose her soul, and her body is also repeatedly illuminated with red lights.
After 7 surgeries, he suffered from lipoma, thyroid tumor, removed gallbladder, and was diagnosed with bowel cancer.
But she carried them all over.
The reporter asked Qin Yi how to view these sufferings in life, and her answer was:
"If you get used to it, you won't feel bitter." Personally sending away one close relative after another, Qin Yi's later life is still busy and full.
The only thing that has sustained her through the long and difficult years is her most beloved career - film.
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When she was 19 years old, Qin Yi went to a friend's house for dinner, and a man asked her what kind of work she was doing.
Qin Yi said that his current job was not interesting, and he was just messing around there.
After learning that Qin Yi was filming a war movie, the man said:
"How can it be a jerk?" Your work is very rewarding. You know that thousands of people, inspired by your work, have gone to the front line and fought bloody battles and achieved victory? ”
This man is Premier Zhou.
From this point on, Qin Yi began to realize the significance of his work.
Later, there is another legendary deed, she rescued the members of the West China Evening News, and successfully plotted against the Kuomintang pilot Xu Junying.
From 83 years of art, Qin Yi has portrayed many female characters that are deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
From Ma Lan in "Ma Lan Blossom", Fang Lin sister-in-law in "Railway Guerrilla", Lin Jie in "Women's Basketball No. 5", to Ah Kuan sister-in-law in "Lin Zexu", Lin Hong in "Song of Youth", actress in "Distressed Laughter"...
Qin Yi combined her own experience with her role and created many vibrant female images of the times.
Lin Hong in "Song of Youth" is a heroic and fearless female revolutionary.
She had lofty ideals and kept her unwavering revolutionary ideals even when she was in prison.
This role allowed Qin Yi to conquer the audience and also win honors.
In "Ma Lan Blossoms", she is not willing to be a mediocre housewife, despite the opposition of the family and the ridicule of everyone, unswerving, studying hard, and finally learned to drive a bulldozer and devote herself to socialist construction.
In "Women's Basketball No. 5", she is an excellent basketball player, but also a kind, strong, brave single mother, which is also a breakthrough and unprecedented role.
Intelligent and diligent, Qin Yi acted appropriately with his profound acting skills.
These characters shine with the kindness, wisdom and steadfastness of Chinese women, and are more vivid and vivid through Qin Yi's interpretation, which impresses the audience.
Foreign media praised her as the "Venus of the East" and Premier Zhou called her "China's own star."
The last time Qin Yi met audiences in the form of a commercial film on the big screen was in 2017's "The Legend of the Demon Cat" directed by Chen Kaige.
She was 95 years old that year, but when she received the invitation, she decided to cherish this precious opportunity.
"It's not necessarily good to act, but you have to work hard." Qin Yi said.
In the movie, she played the role of a white-haired palace girl who witnessed Yang Guifei being lured to death.
Although there are not many scenes, the poetry of Yuan Shu "the white-headed palace girl is here, sitting idly and talking about Xuanzong" has been brought to life.
In 2019, Qin Yi also participated in the public welfare film "Everything Like You".
This is a drama film with the theme of "pension" co-starring 16 veteran artists.
The grandmother played by Qin Yi, because she could not accept the death of her husband, held a thermos bottle every day, sat in a wheelchair, and came to the door of the intensive care unit.
The doctor played by Xi Meijuan told the grandmother that "he" had left, and Qin Yi just remained silent and touched the lunch box in his hand.
Isn't this her love for Golden Flame?
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In an interview, Qin Yi once said that he had three major regrets in his life:
I have not experienced sweet love, my son is sick, and I have not created a real character.
In 2015, the 93-year-old Qin Yi wrote and self-funded the film "Qinghai Lakeside" on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau at an altitude of more than 3,000 meters.
She plays a 60-year-old meteorological engineer in the film, and her makeup is not contradictory.
As a screenwriter, Qin Yi designed two love affairs for this role, perhaps to realize an unfulfilled dream of herself.
At the age of 61, Qin Yi sent away her husband Jin Yan, and at the age of 85, she sent away her son Jin Jie, who was suffering from uremia and pneumonia.
The husband was not loyal, and the son was not able to take huan's knees, but Qin Yi never failed them until they left.
After the news of Qin Yi's death was on the hot search, some netizens said that she left after Mother's Day.
In her lifetime, she has shaped her mother, and she has also become a mother in life, bearing the pain of parenting beyond others.
But she is also more than just a mother, she has always maintained a passion for life, a love for her acting career, and a respect for her profession.
Qin Yi once said that her wish when she was young was to "live a little longer, a little longer, and not to walk in front of her little brother."
After his son left, Qin Yi was once depressed, lost motivation, and his life was once plunged into great grief.
Until one day, she saw a boy with bone cancer on TV, at the last moment of his life, not only donated his cornea, but also hoped that the children in the orphanage could wear new clothes for the New Year.
Qin Yi suddenly realized that she could also help more people.
After the Wenchuan earthquake, Qin Yi donated more than 200,000 yuan, and after the Yushu earthquake in Qinghai, he donated another 30,000 yuan.
At the disaster relief charity performance held by the filmmakers, the white-haired she said when she came to the stage to speak:
"I don't have much money, I have lived frugally over the years, and I have accumulated 200,000 yuan, all of which I donated to the people in the disaster area!"
According to statistics, Qin Yi donated more than 600,000 yuan before and after, and he almost left nothing.
Someone once described Qin Yi this way: she is like a sponge, absorbing essence and also absorbing bitter water.
For many years, Qin Yi had accepted all the hardships, honors, and humiliations entrusted by fate, and had never felt resentment or laissez-faire.
She once said:
"I never admit it, I analyze it, like peeling an orange, peeling these knots one by one, layer by layer."
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Author | Cuckoo