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Zhang Yimou, the leading figure of China's fifth generation of directors and the world's only double Olympic director, is affectionately known as "National Teacher" by countless Chinese.
There are many honors engraved on Zhang Yimou' body, and now everyone mentions it mostly positively, but in fact, in 2013, Zhang Guoshi's personal reputation once fell to the bottom and was insulted by countless netizens.
Nine years ago, Zhang Yimou, who filmed classic film and television works such as "Red Sorghum" and "Alive", was exposed to the violation of the family planning policy and gave birth to three children out of wedlock.
Finally, in early 2014, the Wuxi Municipal Family Planning Bureau decided to fine Zhang Yimou and his wife Chen Ting 7.48 million.
As soon as the notice of the fine of 7.48 million yuan came out, the love story of Zhang Yimou and his wife Chen Ting, a 31-year-old child, was widely discussed by netizens.
Everyone did not understand why Director Zhang Da would abandon Gong Li, a powerful film queen who had lived together for 8 years, and be with Chen Ting, a female college student who was only 19 years old at the time, and even have three children in five years.
First, Zhang Yimou's road to fame
In 1950, Zhang Yimou was born in Xi'an to a family of scholars, whose ancestors had served as county magistrates and his uncle had been admitted to the Whampoa Military Academy. This unique family atmosphere has cultivated Zhang Yimou's resolute and introverted personality.
At the end of the 1960s, Zhang Yimou responded to the call of the state and went to the countryside to join the loess plateau, saw the difficult life of farmers, and accumulated a lot of material for his follow-up works.
After the intellectual youth movement to the countryside, Zhang Yimou returned to Xi'an and entered the textile factory as a worker under his mother's arrangement. When he was bored at work, Zhang Yimou bought his first camera and took his own artistic path.
Zhang Yimou is very talented in photography, and even helped the textile factory take a lot of promotional photos.
Later, the state resumed the college entrance examination, and the 27-year-old Zhang Yimou decided to change his hobby into a specialty and worked hard to apply for the camera department of the Beijing Film Academy.
Although Zhang Yimou's grades are very good, the school has regulations that only students under the age of 22 can be enrolled, so Zhang Yimou has been brushed off.
Zhang Yimou, who lost his dream, did not give up easily, and after washing a few of his most proud photographs, he wrote a letter and sent it to Huang Zhen, the minister of culture at the time.
After Huang Zhen received Zhang Yimou's letter, he felt his sincerity, and coupled with the chaos that had just restored the college entrance examination at that time, the masses had great opinions, so he admitted Zhang Yimou out of the box.
Zhang Yimou did not become a big director as soon as he graduated, after finishing nortel's studies, he was assigned to guangxi studio as a cinematographer and filmed "One and Eight", which made him a little famous in the film industry.
Later, by chance, Zhang Yimou transferred to Xi'an Studio and began to cooperate with his old classmate Chen Kaige. The two filmed "Yellow Land", a masterpiece of the fifth generation of directors, and began to emerge.
After that, Zhang Yimou originally planned to be a director to shoot the film himself, but the director of the Western Film Studio took a fancy to this young man and let him act, and Zhang Yimou transformed into the male protagonist of the movie "Old Well".
Acting and directing, in 1986, Zhang Yimou saw Mo Yan's "Red Sorghum" in "People's Literature", and the intricate interpersonal relationships in the novel gave him the idea of independently directing films.
After getting the copyright, Zhang Yimou began to look for candidates for male and female protagonists. The male protagonist is easy to get, giving Jiang Wen, who is already famous in the film circle, as for the heroine Jiu'er, she finally chose Gong Li, a 22-year-old female student of Chinese opera, through layers of screening.
At this point, Zhang Yimou officially began his own road of directing, and also began to share a love story with Gong Li.
Second, the mutual achievements of Zhang Yimou and Gong Li
Some people say, "One Zhang Yimou biography, half Gong Li biography." It can be seen from this that Gong Li accounts for a large proportion of Zhang Yimou's films and even her life.
In the months of filming "Red Sorghum", Zhang Yimou and Gong Li spent time and night together, and they had a long-term relationship. One is a well-known film genius, the other is a fledgling ignorant girl, and the two are passionately in love because of the drama.
You must know that at this time, Zhang Yimou has married Xiao Hua, and even his daughter is already five years old. But despite this, the two quietly fell in love with each other regardless of their disregard.
Some secrets can be hidden from others, but not from those around them. Xiao Hua, who has to help her husband wash clothes every day, accidentally found Gong Li's love letter to Zhang Yimou in the pocket of Zhang Yimou's clothes.
The love letter reads: "You are gone, and you have taken my heart with you." ”
Xiao Hua, who saw this love letter, could no longer hold back his anger and directly questioned Zhang Yimou.
Xiao Hua
Zhang Yimou, who has a heart of belonging, did not choose to deceive his wife who had accompanied him for many years, but sincerely said that he hoped that she could fulfill his love with Gong Li.
Although Xiao Hua was unwilling, when a man no longer loved his wife, even if the wife was saved, it was useless, and in the end Xiao Hua chose to divorce Zhang Yimou.
Later, the daughter of the two, Zhang Mo, wrote a book called "My Father and Mother", in which Zhang Mo wrote:
"It was because Gong Li appeared in my father's life that my childhood was less fun."
"It was Gong Li who deprived me of my father's love."
This shows how much Influence Gong Li has on Zhang Yimou.
After Zhang Yimou and Gong Li were officially together, they opened the mode of strong alliance and created one classic film work after another
Zhang Yimou once said in front of the public that Gong Li is his muse and one of the important sources of inspiration for him, and he will only make movies for Gong Li in the future.
The cooperation between the two can be described as a match made in heaven, "Ju Dou", "The Big Red Lantern Hangs High", "Qiu Ju Fights the Lawsuit" and a series of works that are very famous in the history of Chinese cinema, all of which were born in this period.
With these film works, Gong Li became a new Chinese actress at the International Cannes Film Festival, and Zhang Yimou also successfully killed a bloody road in the film industry and created her own golden decade.
These films not only make the two people, but also can be said to be the crystallization and witness of their love. The success of her career made Gong Li begin to look forward to marriage.
In 1995, after Gong Li and Zhang Yimou collaborated on "Shake, Shake, Shake to Grandma Bridge", Gong Li, who was about to celebrate her 30th birthday, hoped that Zhang Yimou could give herself a name.
But at this time, Zhang Yimou, who was full of spirit, did not appreciate Gong Li's careful thinking, but only responded coldly: "Marriage is a piece of paper, I don't think it matters." Zhang Yimou, who has already had a failed marriage, does not want to be bound by marriage again.
Zhang Yimou's idea, Gong Li naturally could not understand, can not accept, so the lover who has been living together for eight years broke up.
Third, the mutual understanding of Zhang Yimou and Chen Ting
In 1996, a year after breaking up with Zhang Yimou, Gong Li chose to marry Huang Hexiang, a wealthy businessman in Singapore, completely cutting off the possibility of herself and Zhang Yimou renewing the frontier.
At this time, Zhang Yimou, who is in his forties, chose to focus all his energy on his new movie.
Time has come to two thousand years, Zhang Yimou, who is already 50 years old, is enough to be called a middle-aged man, looking at some people around him who have even hugged his grandson, Zhang Yimou can't help but feel a little lonely.
It is also a coincidence that Zhang Yimou was preparing to shoot the project "Happy Time", and an eighteen-year-old female college student named Chen Ting suddenly broke into his world.
Chen Ting, a female college student who came to the interview, had a dignified appearance, a generous demeanor, and a quiet and gentle personality. Although the acting skills are average, he did not choose the heroine of Zhang Yimou's film, but became the heroine of Zhang Yimou's life.
Zhang Yimou fell in love with Chen Ting at first sight, and the two people, who were 31 years apart, quickly established a relationship. Soon after, Chen Ting found out that she was pregnant, so she hurriedly called Zhang Yimou: "Uncle Mo, I am pregnant, the child is yours, I still have to go to school, what can I do now?" ”
After hearing that Chen Ting was pregnant with his own child, Zhang Yimou was very happy, and he gave Chen Ting two choices after he had achieved fame - either to retire the student child, or to beat the child to continue studying.
At this time, people around Chen Ting persuaded her to beat up the child to continue studying, but Chen Ting chose the former categorically, and in the following five years, she gave birth to a total of three children for Zhang Yimou.
To know that Zhang Yimou is already a well-known director at home and abroad at this time, Chen Ting asked herself that she could not catch up with his pace after a lifetime of hard work, plus she really liked Zhang Yimou, it was better to grasp the moment.
In this way, Chen Ting, with her three children and meticulous care for Zhang Yimou, gradually won the respect and love of Zhang Yimou.
In 2011, although Chen Ting did not appear in front of the public, in fact, she had secretly obtained a certificate with Zhang Yimou, and the family of four lived a happy and low-key life.
If it were not for the report by Zhang Yimou's subordinates in 2013, perhaps the public would never have known that behind Zhang Yimou's career success, there is a woman named Chen Ting who is silently paying.
At that time, the country had not yet opened up the three-child policy, which meant that the children of Chen Ting and Zhang Yi were all in the category of supernatural births. After an investigation by relevant departments, Zhang Yimou and his wife Chen Ting fined a total of 7.48 million yuan.
In fact, compared with Zhang Yimou's reputation, these fines are still small money. As soon as the supernatural incident broke out, Zhang Yimou's reputation instantly fell to the bottom.
Many people have advised Zhang Yimou to simply refuse to admit to marrying Chen Ting, so that at least he can retain part of his reputation and abandon his life as a baoshuai.
However, Zhang Yimou did not follow everyone's advice, but took the opportunity to announce the fact that Chen Ting was his wife, and then paid the relevant fines in a dignified manner.
In the time since, Chen Ting has also begun to generously post photos of the family in Weibo, and even share some very happy bits and pieces of life.
During the Winter Olympics directed by Guoshi Zhang Yimou this year, Chen Ting also posted on the Internet about her husband's difficulties, so that everyone can better understand how much effort and determination Zhang Yimou has made for the Olympic Games, and helped Zhang Yimou once again win people's praise, which can be described as a real good wife and mother.
epilogue
After reading the stories of Zhang Yimou and Gong Li and Chen Ting, I believe that many people have understood why Zhang Yimou abandoned Gong Li and chose Chen Ting as his wife.
In fact, in the end, it is only because Gong Li is as dazzling as fire, the two are strong and strong together, either the east wind overwhelms the west wind, or the west wind overwhelms the east wind, and there is always one side that will not accept defeat. Once there is a contradiction, it will be pointed at Mai Mang, and no one can convince anyone.
And Chen Ting is like a glass of water, she is soft and inclusive. She will give up her studies for Zhang Yimou and take care of the housework for the Zhang family, and with the support of Chen Ting, Zhang Yimou can free his hands and feet and carry out his career without worries.
Perhaps Zhang Yimou saw through the difference between Gong Li and Chen Ting, and would finally choose to marry Chen Ting, who was 31 years younger than himself, after rejecting Gong Li's marriage proposal.
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