In the age of the Internet, everyone wants to be the first person to eat the crab, and in general, this requires several necessary conditions. The first is accumulation, or skill; followed by innovation; Finally, there is courage.
Tongali can be said to have most of the conditions, beautiful body and good figure, can dance; Most importantly, she did something that no one dared to do before, that is, to take "body photos".
Overnight, Tongali climbed from obscurity to the top of the "Top Ten Beauty List".
Along with this, more criticism and condemnation followed, and the words that appeared most often on the Internet were: no face, offensive to morality.
The dream of stars in ordinary families
Born in 1976 in Hefei, Anhui Province, Tangali grew to a policeman father, and in those days, her mother only needed to stay at home with her husband and children, which was a rare family condition.
Tongali is very happy, from childhood to adulthood, everything at home revolves around her, in the 80s, most people were busy with their livelihood, many children did not finish junior high school and came out to work, and Tongali began to attend various interest classes.
She learned to draw, learn piano, learn dance, when she was 7 years old, Tongali was selected by the school to participate in a dance competition in Anhui, although she did not finish in the top 3, but was valued by a coach of the provincial gymnastics team, she found Tangali's parents and said to Tangali: "Little girl, would you like to learn gymnastics?" Tongali didn't know much about gymnastics at the time, and her mother meant to let her choose, so the coach offered to take her to their training gym.
In the gymnastics training gym, Tongali saw many girls about her age, they wore beautiful training clothes, like swans, flying in all corners of the training hall, some dancing with a ribbon, some on the horizontal bar with a wonderful arc, she never thought that dance could also be danced like this.
Two months later, her mother brought Tongali to the gymnastics team, and since then, Tongali has become an official member of the Anhui gymnastics team.
Tangali eagerly hoped that one day she could stand on the competition field and dance that moving move, so at the age of 7, she soaked in the training gym every day, and despite the hard training, she persevered.
Three years later, Tongali participated in the Anhui Provincial Youth Games for the first time, she only started training at the age of 7, she started later than others, but Tongali is obviously very talented in gymnastics, coupled with hard training day after day, in this Games, she became a blockbuster and won two gold medals in floor exercise and vault.
In the eyes of the coach, a star of hope full of potential is rising, however, during a training session in 1988, Tongali fell and injured her cervical spine, and although she basically recovered after several months of treatment, her parents were frightened. They have even seen athletes lose their balance in the air and head on TV.
Physical pain is secondary, in case of bad luck and disability, then what to do.
Despite the strong opposition of her parents, despite her reluctance, Tongali could only withdraw from this path. After returning home, Tongali was sullen, and her mother saw that her eyes hurt in her heart, so she asked her what kind of person she wanted to be in the future. Without thinking, Tongali said: "I want to be a big household name. ”
In the 80s, a large number of well-known singers and movie stars emerged in the Hong Kong entertainment industry, posters of the four kings, Lin Qingxia, Maggie Cheung and other stars were hung all over the street video stores, setting off a feverish tide of star-chasing, and there were also many high-quality stars in the mainland, Tangali's favorite is Peacock Princess Yang Liping, how she hopes that one day she can also bloom on the stage like Yang Liping.
With the support of her family, 3 years later, Tongali was admitted to Anhui Provincial Art School and continued to study dance. At this time, Tongali had already come out of the pavilion. Sometimes, Tongali even feels lucky to quit the gymnastics team, because most of the girls who practice gymnastics for many years are short in stature, and it is difficult to become a star.
At the age of 18, Tangali was admitted to the Beijing Dance Academy, and she was getting closer and closer to her dream.
In March 1996, Tongali, who was in her junior year, and several classmates met to sign up for a music short film shot by Bayi Film Studio, and after several rounds of screening, Tongali was successfully selected for the final list, and finally she and a group of girls stood in front of a young director.
This person is Tongali's later husband, Shen Dong. Shen Dong graduated from Beijing Film Academy and shot several very popular works in just a few years after his debut.
Not long ago, Shen Dong got a very good script, and after revision, Shen Dong was ready to make a dance drama called "The Great Tang Concubine".
This dance drama also received strong support from the factory, but several batches of dancers were selected in a row, and Shen Dong was not very satisfied. Da Yang Guifei, that is, Yang Guifei, we all know that the figure is slightly fat, but most of the dancers are skinny and bones, and they can't perform the kind of charm he wants.
But the moment he saw Tongari, Shen Dong was deeply moved, Tongali is tall and well-proportioned, and her proportions are perfect, probably because she practiced gymnastics in the early days, and her physique is fuller and more powerful than ordinary dancers. The most rare thing is that Tongali looks very delicate, with the charm of Hong Kong and Taiwan women, and the purity of oriental girls, for a while, Shen Dong was dumbfounded. In this way, the actress who played the role of Yang Guifei was decided.
The only problem is that Tongari's dance is more modern, and her body is not flexible enough to dance this ancient dance.
In the months that followed, Shen Dong went to the dance studio almost every day to direct Tongali. As soon as it came and went, there was a spark of love between the two.
After graduation, Shen Dong officially proposed to Tangali, and at this time, Tangali made a request, and she had only one request, that is, not to have children first.
Shen Dong was just 30 years old at this time, and Tongali was still young, it was understandable to work hard for a career first, and then have children later, so Shen Dong agreed to this request.
Soon after getting married, there was a disagreement between Tongali and Shen Dong, and Tongali wanted to make a TV series. In this regard, Shen Dongdu has a different opinion, he believes that Tongali's specialty is dance, as a dance student with a college background, she is still young, and she should continue to polish her profession in stage plays and accumulate performance ability and experience.
If you go to film a TV series now, you can only run the trick, not to mention the hard work, and the things you learn are not so rich.
When Tangali heard it, these words are not wrong, but her heart is always ready to move, in recent years, many young female stars have emerged in the film and television industry, often relying on a film to become popular.
Girls should take advantage of this golden age and seize the opportunity to climb up.
For his wife's thoughts, Shen Dong was very worried, and he advised Tangali in a serious manner: Your appearance conditions are very good, as long as you work hard for a few more years, hone and hone your stage performance, even if you can't be called a first-line dancer, but when the time comes, you will transform into making TV series or movies, your foundation will be better.
In the following years, with the help of Shen Dong, Tangali acted in many stage plays and became famous in the local area.
After performing together, Tongali was about to go home when he was stopped by a man, Zhang Xulong, a photographer, who said that Tongali conditions were very good, and he had just received an underwear advertisement recently and wanted to find Tongali to work with.
Tangali heard that it was an underwear advertisement, hesitated, at this time Zhang Xulong kept pouring soul soup into Tangali, he said that you have to save your most beautiful side while you are still young, besides, underwear advertising will become a very hot industry in the future, and people will accept it sooner or later.
Tangali wanted to go home and discuss with Shen Dong, but as soon as she remembered the previous dispute with Shen Dong, she gritted her teeth and agreed to Zhang Xulong.
In the following months, Tongali received several underwear advertisements, unexpectedly, this Zhang Xulong's level is very high, his advertising was widely praised in the industry, soon, more and more merchants came to the door, of course, the price is also rising.
Tangali couldn't hide this matter, so she went home and told Shen Dong about her underwear advertisement, and after Shen Dong listened, his brows locked, and he didn't agree with his wife doing this.
But Tongali, who has been willful since she was a child, doesn't care so much, her income from shooting a few advertisements is worth Shen Dong's income for a year. And, as Zhang Xulong's work appeared more and more in the media, Tongali also began to indulge in flash.
But the good times did not last long, in February 2001, an advertising product taken by Tongali was suspected of false publicity and counterfeiting, and was jointly and severally liable, and Tongali and Zhang Xulong were temporarily banned.
One day, Zhang Xulong came to Tangali with a foreign body photo magazine, and after an inner struggle, Tangali and Zhang Xulong began to take human body photos.
Until October 2002, Zhang Xulong and Tongali published "Tongali Body Art Portrait" after a year and a half of shooting.
As soon as this photo book was published, it immediately attracted overwhelming scolding on the Internet, but at the same time, in just a few days, their photo album was also sold out.
And Shen Dong only knew at this time what his wife had done in the past year. In fact, for practitioners in the art industry, with the development of the times, body portraits are not as dirty as most people think, but what man has suffered his wife appearing in front of the public naked?
In particular, all of what Tongari did was done without her family. As the saying goes, spit stars can drown people, and Tongali's father, as a police officer, also encountered too much cynicism and abuse during this time.
He never dreamed that his daughter would take a portrait of the human body.
However, even if his father threatened to break off the relationship, even if Shen Dong filed for divorce, this did not change Tongali.
At the instigation of Zhang Xulong, Tongali struck while the iron was hot, and soon released "Tongali Photo Diary", until this moment, Shen Dong finally couldn't bear it, even if his love for Tongali was so deep, but the marriage between the two finally came to an end.
Just a month before Tongali and Shen Dong divorced, her parents also officially announced in the media that they broke off relations with Tongali.
Now it has been exactly 20 years since the publication of Tongari's body photo book, the name Tongari still appears on the Internet from time to time, and she is 46 years old, still single, and has no contact with her parents and family.
Not long ago, when the reporter asked Tongali, did she regret her choice that year? Tongali was silent for a long time and said these words: "There are no ifs in life."