To talk about the eighties and nineties of the last century, the active beauty in the film industry, it must be said that it must be Li Yuanyuan.
Although she has long since left us, the works left by Li Yuanyuan are still endlessly evocative.
Of course, in addition to those classic works, Li Yuanyuan's legendary life also makes us sigh.
She has experienced feelings that people do not understand, and she has also enjoyed the marriage of talented women.
She eventually married a thoughtful wealthy businessman and became an elderly pregnant woman when she was about to turn forty.
Originally thought to be a happy ending with The United States, he was diagnosed with cancer during pregnancy.
At the age of 40, she risked her life and gave birth to a son. But when his son was still waiting to be fed, he died.
In October 2002, Chen Daoming, Chen Kaili, Zhang Fengyi and other veteran drama bones all came to send her on her last journey.
Especially Chen Daoming, who has always been moody and angry, was so sad at the funeral of this old partner that he couldn't cry.
After 19 years, what happened to the son and husband who risked death?
One
In 1961, Li Yuanyuan was born in the historic city of Jinan, Shandong.
Her parents are both literary and art workers, and under the influence of her parents, Li Yuanyuan has developed a strong interest in acting since she was a child.
In that era of scarcity.
Li Yuanyuan spent a childhood with a very rich spiritual life.
With the help of her parents' work, she has been immersed in the world of movies and dramas since she was a child.
Li Yuanyuan, who was deeply influenced by her parents, even organized her classmates to rehearse dramas together when she was in elementary school.
And when she was eleven years old, she also represented outstanding primary and secondary school students in the reception ceremony of Prince Sihanouk.
Although Li Yuanyuan's talent for acting has been revealed since childhood, her parents do not want her to embark on the path of opera.
Because in that era, being able to serve an "iron rice bowl" was the best way out.
But Li Yuanyuan did not listen to her parents' opinions and secretly applied for the Shanghai Theater Academy.
Perhaps in order to reassure her parents, Li Yuanyuan did not immediately step into the show business circle after graduating from college, but stayed in the school to teach and educate people.
During the period of staying in school, people have sighed, with Li Yuanyuan's superior temperament, it is a pity to stay in the school and teach.
Similarly, Li Yuanyuan's heart has always been holding back a lot of energy, looking for opportunities to show her fists in film and television works.
Opportunities are always reserved for those who are prepared, and in 1983, Li Yuanyuan was given a chance to appear in a movie.
The director of the movie "Li Bing" approached Li Yuanyuan and hoped that she could help play a supporting role in this movie.
Although it is only a small role, Li Yuanyuan still completes her shooting task very dedicatedly.
In the next three years, Li Yuanyuan never received an invitation to the film again. Therefore, she threw herself into the stage of the drama and took this opportunity to hone her acting skills.
Two
In 1986, the Shanghai Youth Repertory Theatre was preparing to move the play "Antony and Cleopatra" to the Chinese drama stage.
The male protagonist soon spent on the jiaohuang head that was in the limelight at the time, and the choice of the female protagonist made the director Hu Weimin feel sad.
Because in the Shanghai Youth Repertory Theatre, the actors who have the strength to play the heroine are older, which is very different from the original setting.
So Hu Weimin set his sights on Li Yuanyuan, a teacher at the Shanghai Theater Academy.
The Shanghai Youth Repertory Theatre attaches great importance to this play, and the daily rehearsal task is very heavy, especially Jiao Huang and Li Yuanyuan, who are the male and female protagonists.
Other actors can finish work at six o'clock, but Li Yuanyuan and Jiao Huang have to work overtime to rehearse until the early morning.
After more than a month of rehearsal, the play finally met with the audience.
As soon as "Anthony and Cleopatra" was listed, it caused a huge sensation, especially the tacit cooperation between the male and female protagonists, which was even more touching.
What everyone saw were two tacit partners on the stage, bringing a wonderful performance to everyone.
What I don't know is that this tacit understanding between the two is completely out of the love of both sides.
But in that era when thought was still relatively closed, two people with a great age distance were doomed to love each other and were doomed to be unacceptable.
Moreover, at that time, Jiao Huang had already had two marriages.
Li Yuanyuan, who was overwhelmed by love, disregarded the eyes of the world and began a "yearless love" with Jiao Huang.
When the love is strong, the two even go to the street together to go on a date.
Sometimes the harsh reality can easily destroy a love.
The gossip of friends, as well as the strong opposition of her family, soon let Li Yuanyuan's first love quietly end.
But until many years later, Jiao Huang recalled Li Yuanyuan, still with a look of longing.
At the same time, another very important opportunity for Li Yuanyuan soon arrived, and in 1989, Qian Zhongshu's famous book "Siege of the City" was adapted into a TV series.
The director found Li Yuanyuan and invited her to play Su Wenyun, one of the three heroines in the play, although Su Wenyun is one of the three heroines in the play, but this role is not pleasing.
In the play, this Su Wenyun is a vain and jealous rich lady, although she has the experience of staying in the West, she still behaves like a child who has not grown up in terms of feelings.
It is such an unpleasant role, and there is even a touch of cuteness under Li Yuanyuan's interpretation.
During the filming of this play, Li Yuanyuan also met her close friend in life, Chen Daoming. And Li Yuanyuan is also the only "confidant with a red face" that Chen Daoming has ever admitted.
Years later, when Chen Daoming recalled Li Yuanyuan, he also said that she was the most temperamental and cultured actress he had ever met.
Three
Soon after, Li Yuanyuan once again met Liu Guoqing, who was also a graduate of the Shanghai Theater Academy.
At that time, Li Guoqing was also a small and accomplished editor, although it was far from Li Yuanyuan's status, but this did not affect Li Yuanyuan's determination to spend her life with Liu Guoqing.
At that time, the two could be called talented and beautiful, and had a happy marriage that everyone envied.
However, with the success of works such as "Anthony and Cleopatra", Li Yuanyuan's status in the drama and performing arts circles has increased greatly.
The gap between Li Yuanyuan and her husband Liu Guoqing has gradually emerged, but this Liu Guoqing is still a person who wants face.
Sometimes when Liu Guoqing wrote the script, Li Yuanyuan would also put forward some opinions on the side, but Liu Guoqing felt that his wife's behavior was very strong.
Over time, the marriage between the two became rifted and ended in divorce.
After ending her marriage with Liu Guoqing, Li Yuanyuan met her second husband, Yang Cheng.
Yang Cheng, like Li Yuanyuan, also experienced a failed marriage, and after meeting Li Yuanyuan, he fell in love with li Yuanyuan at first sight and launched a fierce attack on her.
At the beginning of Yang Cheng's pursuit, Li Yuanyuan resolutely disagreed.
After a failed marriage, Li Yuanyuan became very cautious in her feelings.
But this Yang Cheng seems to be different from other people who pursue Li Yuanyuan. The feeling that Yang Cheng brought to Li Yuanyuan was warmer and more down-to-earth.
After a long time, Li Yuanyuan was still touched by Yang Cheng's persistence. So the two entered the palace of marriage hand in hand.
After marrying Yang Cheng, Li Yuanyuan's career became more prosperous.
Although Li Yuanyuan has also starred in many classic works before.
She also won the First Award for Best Supporting Actress at the Golden Eagle Awards for Popular Television with the role of the third aunt Tai Lin Wan in the TV series "Shanghai Shanghai".
It was also because of the wonderful performance in the movie "Born Timid" that she won the Best Actress Award of the Popular Film Hundred Flowers Award.
But how can a good actress be willing to play only one supporting role?
In 1998, Li Yuanyuan finally won the 16th Popular Television Golden Eagle Award for the heroine of the TV series "Hong Kong Story" Zheng Arong.
Li Yuanyuan finally became completely popular at the age of 37. While the career is booming, Li Yuanyuan and Yang Cheng also have to be more affectionate.
Li Yuanyuan often because of filming, a few months away. If you miss your wife too much, Yang Chengcheng will go to the crew to work with his wife.
Yang Cheng's affection and tenderness completely melted Li Yuanyuan's heart, and in an interview, she said, "The place where Yang Cheng is there is home." ”
Four
2000 is a once-in-a-millennium celebration. And this year, for Li Yuanyuan, it is definitely a double happiness.
Li Yuanyuan, who was 39 years old at the time, not only picked the beam in "Century Life" and played the female number one.
It is also this drama that pushes Li Yuanyuan's career to another peak again.
In this year, Li Yuanyuan found that she was pregnant with her and Yang Cheng's love crystal.
Yang Cheng, who learned the news of his wife's pregnancy, almost jumped up happily. And Li Yuanyuan, who has a middle-aged son, suspended all the work in her hands in order to raise the fetus well.
Originally, pregnancy was the happiest thing for a woman, but Li Yuanyuan had just become pregnant not long ago, and found that she often bleeded inexplicably.
Feeling that things were not good, she came to the hospital for examination. Who knows, this investigation was actually found that Li Yuanyuan has reached the advanced stage of cervical cancer.
After seeing the results, it was even more difficult to accept than Li Yuanyuan was Yang Cheng, who could not believe that the woman he loved deeply could actually suffer from this disease.
The doctor told the couple that if they wanted to save the adult's life, they must sacrifice the unformed child in their wombs.
Different from her husband's grief and indignation, after learning that she suffered from an incurable disease, Li Yuanyuan showed unusual determination.
Because in her heart, she had already made a decision that she would give birth to this child in her womb no matter what.
In Yang Cheng's view, as long as his wife is healthy, it is more important than everything.
However, in Li Yuanyuan's view, even if her illness is treated by various means, it may not be cured well.
She is well aware of the fact that "people die like lights go out", and after she leaves, she is like a passer-by in this world, and no trace will be left.
If she gave birth to this child herself, the blood of her and her husband would not be lost.
In fact, as early as the filming of "Century of Life", Li Yuanyuan's body had already had problems, but at that time she focused on filming work and ignored the changes in her body.
But it is worth mentioning that the Golden Eagle Awards of that year deliberately changed the rules for her. An exception was given to her in the ward for the award for best actress.
Li Yuanyuan endured the pain of illness through a full pregnancy, and after experiencing a pregnancy in October, she successfully gave birth to a baby boy.
After giving birth to the child, Li Yuanyuan began to receive treatment.
Because of chemotherapy, Li Yuanyuan's figure began to become puffy and puffy, and her hair fell out a lot.
She has loved beauty all her life, and now she has become an "ugly monster". In the beginning, she couldn't accept herself now.
Seeing the change in his wife's mood, Yang Cheng thoughtfully hugged his wife and said that in his heart, his wife will always be the most beautiful person.
After hearing her husband's comfort to herself, Li Yuanyuan decided to accept reality.
She simply let people shave off all her hair, so that she could worry about these hairs every day.
Husband Yang Cheng saw that his wife was so strong, and he could only secretly wipe his tears.
At this time, Li Yuanyuan actually comforted her husband in turn, saying that her hair could still grow out.
When Li Yuanyuan's director friend came to visit her, she also joked with her friend that the heroine I could not play, but I could play a fat sister-in-law.
Her friend wiped her tears and comforted her, saying that she would always be the most beautiful heroine.
There is a saying in China that misfortune is not only a blessing.
Li Yuanyuan's mother learned of her daughter's serious illness and wanted to come and take care of her daughter with Yang Cheng, but because she was too excited, she suddenly suffered a cerebral hemorrhage before she arrived in Beijing.
Knowing that her mother also fell ill because of her own illness, Li Yuanyuan hid in the bathroom and cried bitterly. When I walked out of the bathroom, I became strong again.
She knew that everyone was like this because they were worried about themselves. Only now, she can only make herself stronger, so that she will no longer let her family worry about herself.
Five
Soon, the cancer cells in Li Yuanyuan's body had spread throughout her body.
Li Yuanyuan, who felt that her limit was coming, asked her husband to travel with her for the last time.
They spent their last vacation in Qingdao. After returning to Beijing, Li Yuanyuan's body began to grow weaker and weaker day by day.
For the next three months, she never got out of her hospital bed again. And Yang Cheng also put down all his work day and night to accompany his wife.
On October 16, 2002, Li Yuanyuan suddenly proposed that she wanted to meet her son.
When the son came to the ward, Yang Cheng took out a DV, and he said to his wife,
"Finally feed the child once, I will take a picture of your feeding, and show it to my son later."
After Li Yuanyuan saw her son, she was sent to the rescue room. The entire 36 hours of rescue failed to take back a generation of beautiful people from the hands of the God of Death.
On October 26, 2002, at Li Yuanyuan's farewell ceremony, friends in the circle came to send her on her last journey.
When his friends were crying bitterly and cried out that the lady had died early, Yang Cheng stood by his wife's coffin without a word.
This affectionate man had promised his wife that after her wife left, he would not remarry for life.
Now that Li Yuanyuan has been dead for more than 19 years, Yang Cheng still keeps his promise.
For 19 years, his obsession with his wife was tearful.
He raised their children alone and from time to time watched his mother's works with his son.
Time has proved that Li Yuanyuan marrying Yang Cheng is the best choice, and Yang Cheng is also lucky to marry her.
Once upon a time, she wanted to survive and grow up with her son.
Now, she can only silently guard her children in heaven.