Just now I saw the bad news that "the dancer Zhou Jie died", I was very shocked and sad. Although I knew before that her body was in a condition, after a few years, it seemed that she had recovered quite well, and the image she presented in the circle of friends was still so radiant. Nowadays, it seems that this "god of beauty", even in the last moments of his life, is unwilling to leave the moment of "unbeautifulness" to people, and the essence is pure and clean.
Life seems indeed fragile. I have more contact with Zhou Jie, and in most of her state, she looks like a goddess, as if the years cannot carve marks on her. But once a few years ago, I saw her vulnerable side. On that day, she and the movie star Yu Hui and Sun Yikan, who had a successful career on Wall Street in New York, met to come to the Literary Association to visit me. When we were having a good time, suddenly Zhou Jie said to me, if there is any food, we must hurry up and pad a little, I can't hold on... So I rushed to the family supermarket next door to buy a bunch of food to eat and drink, looking at her obviously thin body and slightly pale face, that delicate and helpless look made me feel painful...
She told me that she had just undergone a major surgery and that something was wrong with her lungs. But for aesthetic purposes, the mouth was cut from the back, leaving a long knife scar. She drew a comparison, which made me stunned: how can such a petite body withstand such a cruel operation? However, her psychological quality is too good, in the case of obvious physical weakness, the behavior is still not sick, talking and laughing. However, the sick beauty who has been stabbed by a large knife has greatly reduced her resistance, otherwise it will not be "unable to hold on".
She told me not to talk to outsiders about her condition. Naturally, I agreed and understood deeply. For celebrities with "mass lovers", any information that conflicts with "beauty" will damage the beauty in the hearts of fans. Not only Zhou Jie, but also other star artists have this mentality. I'm a personal friend of theirs on the one hand, and a media person on the other, and I understand their advice.
I really feel sorry for Zhou Jie, she is too delicate, and too strong. Listening to her talk about the past, many of the things she experienced were "spelled" very much. In the early years, Li Hanxiang handed over the role of "Lifei", who had eaten heavily in "Burning the Yuanmingyuan", to Zhou Jie, who had no film performance experience, and many of Lifei's scenes were filmed in the "jar", if it were not for Zhou Jie's ability to watch the dancers, who had the ability to curl up and act in the jar without moving? The poignancy of her performance, unmatched, left a deep impression.
Speaking of the deep impression of Li Fei in people's minds, there is an interesting example. Once, led by me and the Federation of Literary and Art Circles, i organized a number of literary artists to visit a certain aerospace institute where I worked before I went to college. The writers and artists were full of curiosity about rocket missiles and the like, and they could not help but chat happily after visiting the canteen of the institute. At this time, an uninvited guest came--a newly appointed deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the institute heard that the writer and artist had come to his "hometown" and rushed to meet everyone. However, because he has been working in the aerospace sector, he is almost unknown to a large number of well-known writers and artists in this industry. Until he walked up to Zhou Jie, he froze: Aren't you the same Concubine Li? That's the goddess in my heart! Then the topic followed the various roles played by Zhou Jie, LiFei, Yang Guifei... Be at home in. I couldn't help but be amused on the sidelines, and advised all the famous artists in other fields not to be "jealous". This is so understandable, for many people, Zhou Jie, who is known as the god of beauty, is really a veritable "public lover", ah, people who like literature and art in that era, who does not know her?
At the age of 12, she was admitted to the Shanghai Opera House From her hometown Fengxian, and soon played the female number one, she has starred in the large-scale dance drama "Little Knife Society", "Banping Mountain", "Mulan Piaoxiang", "Fengming Qishan", "Mountain Ghost"... Whether it is playing Mulan or Daji or a witch, as long as she dances, these images are played by her. She really fights, very strong, even after "not on the front line of the stage", she still devotes herself to opening a dance school, doing everything herself, from Houston, USA to her hometown of Shanghai and Fengxian, and she is very busy. I remember the grand ceremony of her dance school in Fengxian, and I rushed to the far suburbs to celebrate.
Zhou Jie's personality is very bold, quite like the female Middle School Meng Yujun, very generous to friends. I can't count how many dinner parties I've had with her, but I've been impressed by at least three of her feasts:
Once was to invite the Birch couple, Zhou Jie very thoughtfully arranged in the Meilong Town Square near the home of the big brother of the White Birch. I remember the next day Bai Birch sent me a text message and asked me, Zhou Jie asked him to help her new album name, how do you see the name "Goddess Who Came Out of the Field"? I was a little confused at the time, replying to Birch: It seems that it is not sensational enough. Birch replied helplessly: It is really difficult to name. I still remember this detail today because I saw that Zhou Jie's friends were very concerned about her affairs, and Bai Birch and her long-standing friendship was very sincere.
Another time was when Lu Yan went to Shanghai to perform a drama, and Zhou Jie did the east to invite her. This old Shanghai lady is also a friend of Zhou Jie's teacher and friend, and they meet in the United States. I have been paying attention to Ms. Lu Yan's demeanor during the meal, she is pure Beijing for a while, Wu Nong is soft language for a while, switching freely, thinking quickly. This senior beauty is empathetic, and does not forget to give the people on the side of the dish, always pay attention not to snub anyone, I can be regarded as a "Republic of China beauty" style. And Zhou Jie decently threaded the needle on the side, which is also a Shanghai lady's style.
The other time was to feast on Zhou Jie's best girlfriend Chen Ye and Yang Husband. That time at the dinner table, in order to let Chen Ye's foreign husband fully understand the charm of his wife that year, I searched through my mobile phone and found several stills of the movies in which Chen Ye participated that year, including "Unforgettable Battle" and "Danfeng Chaoyang", especially the kind and gentle Ci'an in "Burning Yuanmingyuan" and "Hanging Curtains to Listen to the Government".
When Arranging all this, Zhou Jie is always so understanding and meticulous, so that all people feel very comfortable and engaged, the friendship is strong, and the harvest is full. But I always felt a twinge of pain, thinking that she was too considerate of others.
In fact, more importantly, the heartache came from my understanding of her pure character. I think that her "mother's home" Shanghai Opera House invited Zhou Jie to "go out of the mountains again", but at that time, the cultural unit had the current strength conditions, lacking both funds and talents, and there was no decent work. However, she "had a heart of honor" and was bent on seizing this opportunity, and finally said that Chen Wei, the deputy director of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games and who had choreographed for herself in the movie "Yang Guifei", created a dance drama "Zhou Xuan" for Shanghai. For this dance drama, she really fought for her life. In the end, although the work was successful, she did not get her rightful place in the opera house because she was not good at interpersonal relations, and she was depressed for a while...
Being a good actor is not necessarily a good leader, which is theoretically true. But what I see from it is not "willing" or "should not be", but the innocent quality of her body that is not mixed with impurities. She is very good at art, but she is a bit "road blind" in secular life. As a friend, this valuable quality of sludge without staining is something I value very much. Of course, at the same time, it was also a little painful for her, for some kind of grievance she had suffered.
Her innocence and enthusiasm are from the heart, and it is the manifestation of that instinct. This is also manifested in the matter related to the "Guifei Bridge". Many people asked her, did the Fengxian Bridge once want to be called guifei bridge? She was embarrassed to explain, saying that because she had just finished acting in "Yang Guifei", the fame was very loud, and the leaders of fengxian in her hometown came to her, because there was no bridge, Fengxian's strawberries and watermelons could not be transported out, and they rotted a lot every year, and they wanted to appeal for the bridge through her popularity. Zhou Jie, who had a solid eye, ran everywhere to build bridges for his hometown, and finally drew the first sponsorship and laid the foundation. But then the Asian financial crisis broke out, the sponsored enterprises were unsustainable, and the project was stranded, so Zhou Jie also took the blame, which made her feel particularly wronged. Fortunately, the Fengpu Bridge was built later, and folklore still says that Zhou Jie funded the construction. Whenever I heard Zhou Jie "clarifying the original commission", I felt a pang of pain when I listened.
Seriously, as a good friend, I felt very sorry and ashamed that I had not been able to write a text about my friendship while she was alive. Her life is inseparable from dance, and I hope that heaven is the ideal place for zhou Jie, the god of dance, and there will be no more illness...
At the end of the article, I leave a group photo of me and Zhou Jie to commemorate the beauty of the past. We have taken pictures on many occasions, and some of them are very vivid. However, in this mobile phone, only this photo in front of the window of the Shanghai Building was found, and the Huangpu River was in the distance. The light was a little dim that day, but it was a little textured. I remember that on that day, oil painter Huang Azhong held a personal oil painting exhibition at the Shanghai Mansion, invited me and Zhou Jie to go and watch it, and left this group photo by the way.
Finally, allow me to transcribe Zhou Jie's last WeChat message in the circle of friends below (23:17 on May 27, 2021).
This is the text and video she forwarded from the "Dance China" public account introducing her dance. In addition to the film and television dramas she starred in, her dance is also remarkable and classic.
Looking at these three dance videos performed by Zhou Jie, a living Zhou Jie floated towards us, which was the image and memory of eternal life...
Heartache Zhou Jie, miss Zhou Jie, love Zhou Jie. (Liu Xunda)