In the summer of 2022, Qi Qin was found singing in a furniture mall in Neijiang, Sichuan.
He had beads in his hand and a smile on his face.
Netizens sighed that big names such as Qi Qin could not escape the "destination" of going to the third- and fourth-tier cities in the mainland for commercial performances.
Coincidentally.
In that year, he acted in "The Temptation to Go Home" and was praised by Hong Shixian as a Hong Kong star Li Caihua.
He was also seen appearing on the streets of a small city, under the scorching sun, and singing beyond's masterpiece "Like You".
And then turn it forward.
A generation of superstar Wan Ziliang helped the Internet celebrities to stand on the platform, and the famous scene of eating and drinking with people in small shops is still vividly remembered.
Why do celebrities compete to appear in the unpopular "street performances"?
At the TVB Annual Awards ceremony in 2020.
The eldest sister, Wang Mingquan, once took the opportunity to plead with the bosses and shareholders under the stage:
"Can you give the actors a little more salary?"
Don't look at the entertainment industry with its own beautiful aura.
In fact, the competition is extremely fierce and cruel.
Except for a few top big names, most artists' incomes are not stable, and if they are not careful, they will be eliminated.
In particular, many artists who have been famous and even once popular, after the gas, from the spiritual to the material tragic situation is even more thrilling.
01, the story is sad - Singaporean actress Hui Meijing
"The sun is always after the storm"
"Please believe there is a rainbow"
25 years ago, Xu Meijing's song "Sunshine Is Always After The Wind and Rain" inspired countless people who ran in adversity.
It was even used as a team song by the Chinese women's volleyball team.
In 1992, at the age of 18, Hui Mei Jing made her debut by participating in the Miss Chinese Singapore contest.
Since then, the three albums have sold 5 million copies, and they have become popular throughout the Chinese world.
In particular, the song "Moonlight in the City" in 1995 has been sung to this day.
At that time, in various award ceremonies and song lists, along with her name, it was such a figure as Faye Wong and Lin Yilian.
At this time, it was Xu Meijing who received the award on the stage, and the Heavenly King sat down to watch
Xu Meijing's popularity is related to a man named Chen Jiaming.
Because almost all of her popular works, the lyrics and songs are arranged by Chen Jiaming.
So much so that Li Zongsheng, who was in the middle of the day at that time, hoped to write a song for her, but he was even rejected by Xu Meijing.
Li Zongsheng did not know, in fact, Xu and Chen had already sparked a spark of love.
It's just that Chen Jiaming has a family, and they must secretly fall in love.
The man has repeatedly stated to Xu Meijing that he will definitely divorce his wife, but the result is always an empty word.
This made Xu Meijing miserable, and she washed her face with tears all day long in private.
For the sake of love, she chose to stay in her hometown of Singapore for a long time, so she gradually alienated from the center of the Chinese pop music scene - China's Hong Kong and Taiwan regions.
In the entertainment circle of newcomers, Xu Meijing quickly passed.
When she was once again on the cover of major newspapers, the time had come to 2006.
She followed a stranger into a suite at a six-star hotel in Singapore.
Suddenly stop the other party in the way, and kneel down and shout: Call me god! (Shout me God).
Subsequently, Xu Meijing was taken away by the police, diagnosed with schizophrenia, and sent to a mental hospital.
According to the analysis of the outside world, this may be related to Chen Jiaming's emotional dispute, because at that time, Chen was still not divorced and was still entangled with Xu Meijing.
In 2019, some netizens found Xu Meijing selling songs on the streets of Singapore, the atmosphere was cold, and there was little attention.
On the side is also a handwritten "complaint":
Her family sent her to a mental hospital for the sake of property.
She wants to sever all ties with her corrupt family and her former lover, Chen Jiaming.
From being popular, to selling songs on the streets for help.
It is difficult to imagine that this is the "moonlight in the city" Xu Meijing.
If her miserable life stems from the choices she makes.
Then this great beauty is really involuntarily, and her life is also involuntary.
02, because of the beauty of the "trouble" of a lifetime - Lan Jieying
On the Hong Kong Broadcastway, there have been five radio and television media organizations, including Radio Television Hong Kong, Commercial Radio, Asia Television, TVB TVB and Jiayi Television.
This street got its name from "Wutai Mountain".
Among these five media organizations, the most beautiful female artist is Lan Jieying.
She was known as "Beautiful Wutai Mountain".
Lan Jieying was born into poverty, and her early life was unfortunate: her parents divorced, and her stepfather was violent.
At the age of 20, he joined TVB, filmed "True Destiny" with Andy Lau, and partnered with Liang Chaowei in "Family with a Wife".
Mainland audiences are most familiar with her two roles, one is the beautiful, kind, affectionate and righteous Luo Huiling in "Big Time".
The second is the spring thirteenth lady with a variety of styles in "Journey to the West".
Lan Jieying can be described as a very popular moment.
Journey to the West
But after "Journey to the West", she faded out of the entertainment circle and almost stopped filming.
Just when people were about to forget Lan Jieying, in 2006 she suddenly declared bankruptcy and appeared on the cover of the magazine.
Next, there are constantly media exposures to Lan Jieying's photos, fat and thin, confused, and has long lost its former beauty.
More newspapers and periodicals have revealed that Lan Jieying has suffered from mental illness, living on the streets in a poor way, and even so miserable that she is hungry for picking up rotten vegetable leaves.
In this regard, Lan Jieying did not make any response.
Some people say that she committed suicide for two consecutive boyfriends because of her love.
Some people say that it was caused by a car accident and brain injury.
It was not until the beginning of 2018 that Lan Jieying faced the camera and told the media about her past that she had been violated by two big men in the circle.
This unforgettable event seriously affected Lan Jieying's life and laid the foundation for tragedy.
Her friend once pointed out in an interview that Lan Jieying was no longer pure because she felt that she was no longer pure, and once gave birth lightly, which became the inducement for her to be unable to focus on filming afterwards.
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At the end of the year when Lan Jieying broke the news.
She was found dead in her apartment at the age of 55.
In the eyes of the people in the circle, Lan Jieying is simple and kind, and she does not have any ambition to ascend to the top.
Perhaps she is not suitable for the extremely competitive Hong Kong entertainment industry.
Unfortunately, reality is not possible.
"Peach blossoms pass everywhere, no grass grows"
This is the most famous line of Spring Thirteen Niang, and it also reflects Lan Jieying's life.
03, the main actor of "Great Qin Empire" is suspected of being crazy - Jiao Changdao
Do you dare to believe that there are actors who want to win the red Zhang Yimou?
The name Jiao Changdao may not be familiar to you.
But the plays he has acted in, "The Fission of the Great Qin Empire", "The Alliance of Military Masters", "Tiger Howling Dragon Yin", and "The Twelve Hours of Chang'an", all of which are high-scoring dramas.
Jiao Changdao's experience is quite legendary, and his career as an actor began with "horizontal drifting".
In 2002, almost when Hengdian was just beginning to scale up, it was mixed on the set.
The first play was still in Zhang Yimou's "Hero" crew as a "human flesh background board", and he even stuffed a note for Zhang Yimou.
It half-jokingly wrote: "I want to win the red director".
It is said that Zhang Yimou smiled after seeing it, turned his head and handed it to the assistant.
In 2009, after hard work, Jiao Changdao finally appeared on the main cast list in the crew of "Great Qin Empire", alongside Noon Ma and others.
In 2013, CCTV produced a documentary about the Actors of Hengdian, "Horizontal Drift", and he was also one of the protagonists in it.
Despite a small fire.
But the entertainment industry is ultimately a fiercely competitive place.
Jiao Changdao's performance road is still bumpy, and he once said only a few words in front of the camera:
"Actors who graduated from the class and directors from Beijing actually look down on actors like us."
After 2019, Jiao Changdao disappeared from the circle.
Until 2022, he was found on the street, dressed strangely and behaving abnormally.
Repeatedly nagging in the mouth: failure is a successful mother, and today's failure will always succeed tomorrow.
20 years is a long time.
But not everyone, like Sima Yi, could withstand the hardships of 20 years of sharpening the sword.
Jiao Changdao's encounter is a microcosm of reality, which once again confirms that from climbing the clouds to falling down the mountain, only a few people can get up again.
04, the legendary diva, depression and desolation - Chen Shuhua
Chen Shuhua, the most popular female singer in the music industry from the 1980s to the early 1990s.
The representative works "When Waking Up from Dreams" and "Red Dust Rolling" are like thunder.
In 1966, 8-year-old Chen Shuhua debuted as a child star and sang "EveryOne Is Satisfied", known as a genius child star.
In 1990, with the album "Tell You To Listen to You" created by Li Zongsheng, it became the first record in the history of Taiwanese music to sell more than one million, and the main song was the popular "Dream Wake Up".
Then Jackie Chan hand-picked her to sing "Clearly Understand My Heart" together.
Xu Ke found her to sing the theme song for the movies "Undefeated in the East" and "Green Snake".
Gong Li and Chen Shuhua
At its peak, Zhou Huajian angrily praised Chen Shuhua as "the queen of the queens of heaven", and Li Zongsheng regarded her as "Teresa's successor".
Li Zongsheng and Chen Shuhua
But these big guys don't know.
Chen Shuhua, who was extremely popular, had already sown the seeds of the fall.
Chen Shuhua is a "mother treasure girl", from dressing and eating, to performances and public relations, all of which are strictly controlled by her mother.
Even, he extended the "claw" to his daughter's love world.
One of Chen Shuhua's former lovers was because Chen's mother secretly followed them, and she didn't tire of it and broke up.
In this regard, Mother Chen did not think so, and went on stage to publicly defend: There are so many bad people outside, what if you run into it?
Due to her mother's strength, Chen Shuhua is highly dependent on her mother in both life and career.
As a result, an accident rewrote her life.
In the spring of 1999, Chen's mother accidentally fell down the stairs in the corridor, resulting in her final death.
Heartbroken, Chen Shuhua found that without her mother's help, she could not read the contract, could not book a ticket, and even did not know how to receive money after the performance.
Her career was in trouble, and she had no choice but to quit, and her career came to an abrupt end in 1999.
In 2007, the media exposed that she suffered from depression under the double blow of mental imbalance.
In 2010, Chen Shuhua's father confirmed that his daughter was seriously ill and had mental problems.
Since then, there has been no news of her.
Only Li Zongsheng shouted to her at the concert: Shuhua, are you okay?
A generation of heavenly queens fell here, except for their own serendipity.
The entertainment industry's nostalgia for the past is also an important reason, the new people and new songs are overwhelming, and the fans quickly forget her.
The brutal pressures of this industry are evident.
In the summer of 2022, there is an uncle on the side of the road who is sweating and grilling.
Netizens fixed their eyes on it, this person turned out to be the actor Mach, representative works include "Si Meiren", "Embroidered Spring Knife 2" and so on.
Mach's classmates at Nortel at that time included Du Chun, Yang Zhigang, Ling Xiaosu and others.
His younger brother Marco is also a well-known traffic student in the circle.
Helplessly, Mach was not satisfied, and finally simply went to the street to sell barbecue meat without a long time.
Yang Zhigang and Mach
I remember Xu Huaiyu once said with emotion that when he was the most depressed, the chicken that Chinese New Year's Eve at home was sent by fans.
When we look at these stars, they have all had scenery, and some of them even have the position of diva.
But once there is no longer your place in the circle, this picture of sentient beings is lamentable.
However, life needs to be persistent, and no matter what, I hope they can survive this hurdle.
Text/Van Silli
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