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Wu Yufang and Jiang Jialiang
In the 1980s, Wu Yufang became famous for starring in the movie "Life" "Liu Qiaozhen". For this film, she won the Best Actress Award at the Hundred Flowers Award for popular films.
"Liu Qiaozhen", played by Wu Yufang, is beautiful, simple, kind and simple, and has touched hundreds of millions of viewers. At the same time, New Year paintings, postcards, and wall calendars with Wu Yufang's photos swept the country. In the 1980s, Wu Yufang became a national idol.
After becoming famous, Wu Yufang married Jiang Jialiang, the "Prince of Ping Pong", and gave birth to two daughters successively. In order to support her husband and raise her two daughters, Wu Yufang has been in the shadows for many years.
How did Wu Yufang come about over the years, and was her life happy?
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Wu Yufang was born in January 1963 in Yangpu District, Shanghai, the father of the Shanghai Metallurgical Electronic and Electrical Components Factory as a factory director, the mother is an ordinary worker in the 19th Wool Mill in Shanghai.
Wu Yufang
Wu Yufang also has 3 older brothers, and when they became adults, some became workers, some were motorcade drivers, and one worked in the research institute. In short, no one in the family except Wu Yufang was engaged in literary and artistic work.
When she was a child, Wu Yufang was smart and beautiful, and liked to perform. She learned a song and a dance at school, and the first thing she did when she came home was to perform for her parents and 3 brothers, and the whole family loved her.
Because of her literary and artistic expertise, Wu Yufang was selected to join the student class of Shanghai Children's Art Theatre at the age of 11. Interest is the best teacher, here she gets up early every day to practice her voice, press her legs, and work very hard.
Some children can't bear this kind of suffering, just two or three days after school, crying to go home, but Wu Yufang enjoys the artistic atmosphere here. Standing on the brightly lit stage, she never shyed away from the stage and showed her artistic talents to the fullest.
At a young age, Wu Yufang starred in children's dramas such as "ShenHualang", "Ma Lanhua", and "Rapunzel". Seeing the cheerful smiling faces of the children in the audience and hearing their warm applause, Wu Yufang felt that all the efforts were worth it.
Wu Yufang (right) and Li Ling
In 1979, at the age of 16, Wu Yufang graduated from the training class and was left to work in Shanghai Children's Arts. Because of her dedication and solid performance foundation, she continued to perform and soon became the backbone of the troupe.
In the following years, Wu Yufang tried to "electrocute", and she took over the film "Reserve Police Officer" and the TV series "Taihu Spy Movie" and "Colorful Melody", becoming a new star in the show business circle.
In 1983, Xi'an Film Studio was preparing to shoot the film "Life", and the famous director Wu Tianming planned to let Wu Yufang play the female number two "Huang Yaping".
Wu Yufang rushed to the crew audition, she brewed up emotions, just said a few lines, but found Wu Tianming shaking his head at the deputy director. Wu Yufang was disappointed and thought that she might not have a chance with this play.
When Wu Yufang was preparing to resign, Wu Tianming suddenly stopped her and said seriously: I found that there is a kind of innocence and simplicity in you, which seems to be more suitable for playing the female number one "Liu Qiaozhen".
Stills from Wu Yufang's "Life"
Subsequently, he asked Wu Yufang to audition for two more scenes of "Liu Qiaozhen". Wu Tianming was very excited after watching it, and made a decision on the spot to let Wu Yufang re-play "Liu Qiaozhen". Happiness came too suddenly, and the joy in Wu Yufang's heart was indescribable.
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In order to portray "Liu Qiaozhen", Wu Yufang came to Hejiawan in Yanchuan County, Shaanxi Province to experience life. She changed into the clothes of a local farmer and ate and lived and worked with her little sisters in the village.
In the morning, she followed the villagers to carry flat burdens to the well to fetch water. Returning from the fields in the evening, she learned to clean the chicken coops, clean the yard, and then make a fire to cook.
There is a group of "Liu Qiaozhen" riding a donkey in the film, and Wu Yufang borrows a donkey from her hometown and has the courage to climb up.
The donkey did not cooperate and threw her off her back several times. Undeterred, Wu Yufang practiced for a week and finally mastered a new skill— riding a donkey.
Wu Yufang and Zhou Lijing stills of "Life"
"Liu Qiaozhen" played by Wu Yufang
After 3 months, Wu Yufang not only did farm work, but also spoke a standard Shaanxi dialect and smoothly entered the "Life" crew.
The film is based on the novel of the same name by the famous writer Lu Yao, who came to the crew several times to check the shooting progress.
He told Wu Yufang: Rural girls walk harder under their feet, every step is very solid, and the steps are not as light as those of city girls. Wu Yufang pondered carefully and benefited a lot.
In the film, the male number one "Gao Jialin" is played by the popular young student Zhou Lijing, who is handsome and handsome, Yushu Linfeng, and the crew said that he was handsome 360 degrees without dead angles.
Wu Yufang and Zhou Lijing carefully cut every line and every action, and the two cooperated very tacitly.
In 1984, "Life" was released nationwide, and the film quickly became popular all over the country. The audience hates "Gao Jialin", who admires vanity and thinks differently, and sympathizes with "Liu Qiaozhen", who is beautiful, kind, simple and sad.
Wu Yufang's award-winning photo
Especially when Liu Qiaozhen was seen wearing a red hijab and tearfully marrying a peasant horse bolt, thousands of viewers shed bitter tears.
Almost overnight, the national audience remembered "Liu Qiaozhen" and remembered her actor Wu Yufang.
In 1985, Wu Yufang won the Best Actress Award at the 8th Popular Film "Hundred Flowers Award" for her role as "Liu Qiaozhen". At the same time, Wu Yufang's photos were printed as New Year paintings, postcards, and wall calendars, which swept the country.
Wherever she went, Wu Yufang was faced with flowers and applause. When she went to the store to buy a bottle of soy sauce, she would be recognized by fans and surrounded by groups asking for autographs.
At this time, Wu Yufang was already in love, and her boyfriend was named Yan Qiusheng, who was two years older than Wu Yufang and was born in 1961. The two were classmates in the Shanghai Children's Art Training Class, and later worked together in Children's Art.
Wu Yufang
In the face of honor and pursuit, Wu Yufang has a clear understanding: she graduated from a children's art training class, her education is equivalent to that of a high school student, and if she wants to go further down the road of acting, she must strengthen her learning and accumulation and improve her artistic literacy.
For his girlfriend's idea, Yan Qiusheng was very supportive, and he helped Wu Yufang find various review materials and encouraged her to apply for the Beijing Film Academy Cadre Training Class.
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After several months of hard work, Wu Yufang was finally successfully admitted to nortel cadre special training class, and became a classmate with Kou Zhenhai, Song Chunli, Tang Guoqiang, song Xiaoying, etc.
Wu Yufang cherished this learning opportunity very much and was reluctant to waste a minute. Due to the heavy burden of schoolwork and the fact that there are fewer and more gatherings, she has less and less contact with Yan Qiusheng, and eventually the two broke up amicably.
In her second year at the Beijing Film Academy, Wu Yufang met Jiang Jialiang, the confidante of her life.
Wu Yufang and Jiang Jialiang
In 1986, Wu Yufang attended a singer award ceremony. After the event, the organizers held a cultural and sports party. Wu Yufang found that there was a young man on the other side with bright eyes and was particularly handsome, and quietly asked the people around him who he was.
The other party felt a little surprised: you only know filming, how come you don't even know the famous "Ping Pong Prince" Jiang Jialiang?
Although their voices were very low, Jiang Jialiang heard them, and he nodded and smiled at the two of them, which made Wu Yufang a little embarrassed. Subsequently, she and Jiang Jialiang greeted each other, but did not leave contact information for each other.
After the event, Wu Yufang threw herself into intense study and quickly forgot about it.
A week later, Wu Yufang was studying for herself, when suddenly Song Xiaoying rushed over to tell her that someone had called her. I don't have any acquaintances and friends in Beijing, how can anyone look for them? Wu Yufang thought that Song Xiaoying was playing a prank, and she did not get up with a "hmm" sound.
Jiang Jialiang
More than ten minutes later, Song Xiaoying came again and asked her why she didn't answer the phone. Wu Yufang realized that someone was really looking for her, and rushed to the communication room.
As soon as I answered the phone, the other party turned out to be Jiang Jialiang. Let the other party wait for such a long time, Wu Yufang was a little too careless to go, and quickly apologized to him.
Jiang Jialiang, one year younger than Wu Yufang, was born in Zhongshan, Guangdong in 1964 and is a major member of the national men's table tennis team.
He was selected for the national team at the age of 15, won the World Table Tennis Championships team championship three times, won two consecutive World Table Tennis Singles Championships and one World Cup Singles Championship, and was known as the "Prince of Table Tennis".
Since meeting Wu Yufang at the last party, Jiang Jialiang could no longer let her go. After several tossing and turning, he finally heard Wu Yufang's phone call, which led to the above scene.
It can be heard that Wu Yufang does not hate herself, and Jiang Jialiang has since found various excuses to come to Nortel to find Wu Yufang, and gradually the two have fallen in love.
"Contract Couple" poster
At that time, Jiang Jialiang was in the State General Administration of Sports, nearly 20 kilometers away from the Beijing Film Academy, and he took a taxi to find Wu Yufang again and again, and spent more than 7,000 yuan on the fare alone for more than a year. Jiang Jialiang never felt sorry for money, and the pleasure of being with Wu Yufang was better than anything.
After graduating from the Beijing Film Academy, Wu Yufang successively took over the film "Serenade of the Ancient Castle" and "Contract Couple", and the majority of film fans once again witnessed her excellent acting skills. At the same time, her love with Jiang Jialiang also matured.
After the 1988 Seoul Olympics, Jiang Jialiang chose to retire. In the autumn of that year, he registered his marriage with Wu Yufang.
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After retiring from the army, Jiang Jialiang went abroad and successively worked as a table tennis coach in Malaysia, Singapore and other countries. Wu Yufang has no ambitions in her career, and she returned to her family after marriage.
In 1992, Wu Yufang gave birth to her eldest daughter Jiang Lixin in Singapore. In 1995, she gave birth to her youngest daughter, Jiang Jingjie. After becoming the mother of two daughters, Wu Yufang was full of happiness in her heart.
Wu Yufang and Jiang Jialiang
At that time they lived in the expert villa area provided by Singapore, the residence was spacious and bright, equipped with a swimming pool, and the various supporting services were very complete.
After Jiang Jialiang got off work, Wu Yufang and he held up cards to teach the children to learn Hanyu Pinyin; in the evening, they carried their babies to play in the pool, and their lives were full of joy and laughter.
As the eldest daughter entered the primary school, the younger daughter also began to attend kindergarten, and Wu Yufang felt a little empty. She often thinks: Did she study acting since she was a child and worked hard in the show business circle for more than ten years, just to live the life of a full-time wife?
In her spare time, Wu Yufang often watches some discs, while watching and thinking: if she plays this role, how will she deal with the details, how to act to be more brilliant.
In 1997, Jiang Jialiang accompanied Wu Yufang to see a Hollywood blockbuster, and the various sound effects in the theater were deafening, and less than half of it was seen, wu Yufang felt uncomfortable and left the scene early.
Wu Yufang with two daughters
Back at home, Jiang Jialiang said to her: It is not the film that makes you uncomfortable, it is you who are out of touch with society. He then encouraged his wife to make a comeback. Wu Yufang agreed.
Subsequently, Jiang Jialiang gave up the preferential treatment in Singapore, bought a house with Wu Yufang in Shanghai's Huangpu District, and returned to China with his family.
In China, Jiang Jialiang went to the sea to do business, founded a table tennis school, and served as a guest on many television stations, explaining major international competitions.
Wu Yufang took her mother to her side and asked her to help take care of her two daughters. She returned to show business after 9 years of filming and became a freelance actress.
The changing of performing arts talents is very fast, and Wu Yufang has to face a new jianghu. In addition, at this time, she was nearly 40 years old, and she did not have the age advantage of an actress, and could only play some supporting roles such as mothers and aunts.
Wu Yufang
Standing in front of the camera, Wu Yufang even felt very difficult to memorize her lines. She is very strong, afraid that others will say that she has filmed for so many years, how can she be at this level?
After the play, Wu Yufang took out the script on the way back to the hotel to study tomorrow's lines, and spent all her attention on filming. In the morning, when she put on makeup, she also went through the scenes she was going to shoot that day several times in her mind.
In only half a month, Wu Yufang found her former state and could calmly control various roles.
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Wu Yufang has a strong family concept and attaches great importance to the companionship and companionship of her family, and she usually only receives two plays a year. Jiang Jialiang understands his wife's difficulties, and often brings a pair of daughters to the crew to visit the class, so that Wu Yufang can feel the family atmosphere in the crew.
Over the past few years, Wu Yufang has successively filmed "Woman's Sky", "Red Carnation", "Snail House", "Red Lady", "Hey! Film and television dramas such as "The Old Man" are well received by fans.
Stills of Wu Yufang and Sichengaova's "Happiness Depends on Each Other"
When the two daughters grew up, they did not inherit their father's mantle to play table tennis, nor did they perform with their mother.
In college, the eldest daughter studied graphic design, and the younger daughter majored in jewelry design and iron design.
Wu Yufang looked at this very indifferently, she let her two daughters go with the flow, even if they are happy ordinary people in the future, Wu Yufang and her husband are also very content.
Wu Yufang's ability to control the role is particularly strong, when filming the TV series "Love Not Forgotten", she played Chengxu's mother, the other party was deeply impressed by his acting skills, and the two formed a mother-son affection.
In the TV series "Flowing Golden Years", Wu Yufang played the graceful and elegant "Mrs. Jiang", who did not hesitate for her daughter and impressed thousands of viewers.
Stills of Wu Yufang's "Little Shede"
In November 2019, Wu Yufang won the Best Supporting Actress Award at the Golden Rooster Awards of Chinese Cinema for her wonderful performance in the film "Send Me to Qingyun".
When his wife returned with honors, Jiang Jialiang specially set up a banquet to celebrate, saying that Wu Yufang was a hero in the family.
Wu Yufang replied with a smile: There is a husband's effort in honor, because with a harmonious marriage and a happy family, he can go to film without distraction.
Nowadays, Jiang Jialiang has to participate in the TV commentary of many major events every year, as long as Wu Yufang does not shoot a drama, the husband and wife will go to the scene of the competition together.
Wu Yufang is not interested in some sports, the field is still fighting, the crowd is boiling, but she can lean back in the chair and doze off. At the end of the game, she took her husband's arm and walked out, her two hearts never separated.
Wu Yufang and Jiang Jialiang
By May 2022, Wu Yufang was 59 years old, and her marriage to Jiang Jialiang had gone through 34 years. They still care about each other, they care about each other. The two daughters said that they would use their parents as a textbook to design their future love marriage.
Yes, a good marriage is not only a benefit for the couple, but also a role model for the next generation, Wu Yufang and Jiang Jialiang are very pleased!
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