This year's college entrance examination in the mainland has ended a few days ago, and every year from the beginning of June, many celebrities will either send videos or texts to express their good wishes to the candidates.
This year, I accidentally found that a male star who had not been seen for a long time also made a film to cheer up the candidates.
Chen Tingwei, a former "ATV brother" and now 60 years old.
I remember the last time I saw him, I was blessed to be ridiculed as an "old man", and now I seem to have recovered a little.
Born in Hong Kong in 1961, Chen Tingwei was originally in charge of the family's clothing business, and there was no drama in the family road, but he suddenly liked acting.
Don't look at him as "ATV brother", in fact, he came out of TVB at the earliest time.
In 1984, he graduated from the TVB Artist Recruitment Class, and the artists in the same period included Aaron Kwok, Lai Mei Xian, Deng Cuiwen and Shao Meiqi.
After graduation, it is natural to go to filming, Chen Tingwei's development has always belonged to the kind of decent, the role is not very dragon set, nor is it very important.
For example, Pan Deming, who played in the "Sequel to The New Za Master Brother".
His career has been tepid, but his relationship has developed well.
Since 1984, he has been with Aaron Chan, whom he has written about before.
The two men parted ways after four years of clap and drag.
At the end of 1989, he participated in the filming of the explosive drama "I Am Kind", playing the villain of the play, Shi Jiarong.
After that, he took Zeng Huaqian for filming "Happy Mountain City".
At that time, Zeng Huaqian, who had been divided and merged with Liang Chaowei many times, was injured to the fullest, and Chen Tingwei "took advantage of the void" and cared for him very much, and finally touched the other party, and the two walked together.
But at the end of 1992, Zeng Huaqian suddenly announced that she and Chen Tingwei broke up, she said that she really could not stand Chen Tingwei's machismo, and said that she would never find a man in the circle again.
Since then, I have not heard of Chen Tingwei's love affair.
Many people said that it was because he could not let go of Zeng Huaqian in his heart.
During this period, Chen Tingwei terminated his contract and left TVB in 1991, and "Happy Mountain City" became his last drama filmed on TVB.
Chen Tingwei, who left TVB, chose to jump badly to ATV, where he officially started his fiery career.
In the first scene of ATV, he partnered with Kwan Wing Ho to play Chow Wai Kwong, who would generate electricity in "Electrocution".
After that, it was the business war drama "Giants" that made his popularity soar.
Because of this drama, he met Shen Dianxia, and also recognized him as a dry mother, "Fat Sister" took very good care of him, introduced resources to him, and helped him expand his connections, so every year on Mother's Day Chen Tingwei will express his nostalgia for her.
Later, it was the "Winner is King" that set the highest rating after the opening of "ATV".
This drama not only made him super popular, but also let him have been washed away because he liked to seduce his sister too much, and the stigma of being named "human wolf power" was washed away.
At that time, Chen Tingwei was known as the "God of Gamblers" of the new generation.
And his ATV also surpassed wireless because of the ratings of this drama.
Under the chase of victory, he starred in "Winner is King II Invincible in the World" the following year.
From left: Zeng Huaqian (first from left), Zhang Jiahui (second from left), Chen Tingwei (right)
At that time, Zhang Jiahui could only match him.
Since then, Chen Tingwei's status in ATV has also risen, and in every drama he has filmed later, he is almost the male protagonist, and he has made a fire, becoming a veritable "ATV brother".
In 1997, WHENV wanted to shoot the TV series "I am from Chaozhou" based on former chairman Lin Baixin, Chen Tingwei, who is also a Teochew native, should be selected as the male protagonist.
This drama still achieved good results, and it can be regarded as one of the more classic dramas of ATV, and the next year he starred in the same type of drama "I am from Guangzhou" while it was hot.
In 1999, Chen Tingwei got the opportunity to play Hai Rui in "Hai Rui Dou Yan Song", which is one of his few costume dramas.
Unfortunately, many blockbuster dramas still failed to save the reality of ATV's declining decline, and the funds that could be used to produce dramas under the burden of debt were getting smaller and smaller, so Chen Tingwei had to start to find another way out.
He did not go to TVB, which was still on fire at that time, like others, but chose to switch to the mainland to shoot dramas.
In 2000, he co-produced with Li Xiang to shoot the costume light comedy "Fast Mouth Li Cuilian", which was based on "Qingping Shan Tang Dialect Book".
After that, in 2001, he filmed "Zheng Chenggong".
In 2002, he filmed "Detective Thunder".
All three of these dramas have been broadcast on CCTV.
In 2004, he returned to ATV and left completely after filming "Bus Stop No. 8".
Since then, he has been staying in the mainland to seek development, and rarely returns to Hong Kong, although it is no longer as beautiful as it once was, but there have always been dramas filming.
In the 2017 movie "Chaoshan Smoke and Rain" he played Lin Taozai, the patriarch of justice, which was released nationwide last year (2021).
Just this month, he opened a social platform for a video number, and everyone expressed their nostalgia for him, and sure enough, the classic never goes out of style, and many people just get old, not die.
In their memories there is the existence of "Zhikang".
Now Chen Tingwei does not have too much obsession with "red", saying that "it is good to be happy", and he still wants to act, otherwise he would not add a label of "(script collection)" to himself.
As for the "fa fu" that has always been said, he is 60 years old, and he can have such a good state, what else is required?