Nowadays, the ever-changing showbiz circle, fresh blood continues, and many sunny, handsome, young and beautiful young actors emerge in an endless stream, as if to cover up the movie stars of the 1990s one by one.
But the real classics will never be buried, in the long river of time they can still shine, once they left a wonderful performance on the big screen, is still an eternal classic in the audience's memory.
Time has passed, and when they reappear in the audience's field of vision, I believe they can still make the hearts of countless viewers ripple.
I don't know if you will remember the TV series in the 1990s - "Sixteen-year-old Flower Season", playing "Chen Fei'er" Chi Huaqiong.
She appeared in front of our eyes with great youthfulness, and the actor Ji Xueping, Warrior Qiang and others brought us countless touches, making us remember to this day.
Decades later, how is Chi Huaqiong, the "campus goddess" who has long faded away, living?
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Chi Huaqiong, born on January 1, 1975 in the "magic capital" of Shanghai, her father is a Shanghai branch youth, at the age of 18, she left Shanghai for Xinjiang, and this is more than thirty years, until the age of 50, her father returned to Shanghai to reunite with the family.
Therefore, Chi Huaqiong, who grew up, was missing in terms of fatherly love. In the thirty years of separation from her father, it was Chi Huaqiong's mother who raised her and her sister alone to grow up, so much so that Chi Huaqiong said that her mother had a great influence on her.
When chi Huaqiong was still young, she knew that her mother worked very hard for the family. But her mother has always been very strong in supporting everything in the family, setting a good example for little Chi Huaqiong.
Chi Huaqiong was born beautiful and moving from an early age, with a pair of clear and moving eyes on her girlish face and a small nose that made her look more delicate.
At a very young age, Chi Huaqiong showed interest in the big screen. Chi Huaqiong enjoys looking in the mirror and collecting photos of Hong Kong and Taiwan movie stars at home.
Like many little girls, she loves to dream and fantasize, and she thinks that TV dramas and movies are dreams. Therefore, at a young age, she very much hopes that one day she can "create" her own dreams on the big screen.
The opportunity came quickly, and it could even be said that the "god of luck" came and took care of this youthful girl.
In 1989, Chi Huaqiong graduated from WuSong No. 2 Junior High School when the film crew of the film "Sixteen-year-old Flower Season" was selecting actors.
There are hundreds of interviewers, and Chi Huaqiong also signed up for the interview with a dream and an attitude of trying it out.
At that time, Chi Huaqiong had never attended an performing arts training class, nor had she ever practiced dance, and even she, a native of Shanghai, could not even speak Mandarin standardly.
However, Chi Huaqiong still relied on the temperament that was highly similar to the characters in the script and was selected by the director group to play the role of "Chen Fei'er".
It is worth mentioning that the professional actors of the film "Sixteen-year-old Flower Season" gathered, and only Chi Huaqiong and Ji Xueping were selected by the sea, which shows how lucky Chi Huaqiong was at that time.
Luck is lucky, however, but making a film is not just about being lucky enough.
Because there is no performance skill, Chi Huaqiong can only "temporarily assault" the evil repair skills, forget to eat and forget to memorize lines and practice drama, only hoping to exude the most natural feelings in the film, not to disappoint herself, the crew and the audience.
In order to shoot the film "Sixteen-year-old Flower Season", Chi Huaqiong almost spent a semester, but fortunately the kung fu did not pay off, the film was well received as soon as it was broadcast, the response was enthusiastic, her eyes in the play were very charming, the eyes flowed, as if a pair of bright eyes were full of unspeakable stories, many viewers were deeply attracted by such "Chen Fei'er" in the film.
After filming, in the next semester, Chi Huaqiong received an invitation from the crew of the movie "Married Girl". At this time, Chi Huaqiong was already very skilled in acting, and her acting skills had also made remarkable progress.
Perhaps it is the result of talent and hard work, and the response to this film after its release has also been very enthusiastic.
At this time, Chi Huaqiong has participated in a TV series and a movie, her "ambition" has begun to grow, she has not been satisfied with her ordinary life, and has picked up the "star dream" again.
Although Chi Huaqiong did not have much contact with her father in Xinjiang when she was a teenager, her father still taught her many enlightened truths in the few days, and her parents respected their opinions from childhood to adulthood, and let them decide everything.
Therefore, Chi Huaqiong resolutely applied for the children's drama student class of Shanghai Opera School in 1990.
The school system of Shanghai Opera School is four years, where Chi Huaqiong and Lu Yi are classmates, but because the training class is targeted training, Chi Huaqiong can only perform children's dramas after completing the school.
Therefore, Chi Huaqiong, who loves film and television drama performances, decided to choose to quit at an early time.
Chi Huaqiong learned a lot of things during the training class, and after completing the training, Chi Huaqiong thought that she had honed her acting skills here very well, so Chi Huaqiong, who had studied in the children's drama student class of Shanghai Opera School for three years, chose to drop out of school and embarked on the road of individual actors in advance.
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During this period, Chi Huaqiong also took over a number of films, such as the film "Love Full of Pearl River", which tells the story of the stumbling life experienced by a group of intellectuals in their decades of life, in which Chi Huaqiong played the role of "Lin Bijiao".
In the TV series "Evil Debt", he played the "Ma Yumin" who was expected by his family to grow into a well-behaved woman, but eventually grew into a "little sister".
Played Rong Fang in "Promise", and also because of this film, Chi Huaqiong got the opportunity to star in "Liu Hulan".
In 1996, the movie "Liu Hulan" appeared on the screen, and Chi Huaqiong, who played the protagonist "Liu Hulan", was highly sought after with her superb acting skills, and she perfectly interpreted Liu Hulan's stoicism, although she was still young but not afraid of hardships.
The following year, the film won the 6th China Film Performance Society Award.
Chi Huaqiong, who became popular overnight, successfully entered the Shanghai Film Studio Actors Troupe. And after working in the Shanghai Film Studio for four years, her acting skills have become pure.
Following the movie "Liu Hulan", Chi Huaqiong took over the film "Meet in the Rain", "Five Women and a Rope", "Darts the World - Peony Pavilion", "The Story of Two Women", "The Death of Wang Bo" and so on.
During this period, he even had a pleasant cooperation with the famous director Chen Kaige, and he also gained a lot in the performance process.
Therefore, Chi Huaqiong's acting skills are gradually enriched, her play path is getting wider and wider, and the roles she can control have become very many, whether it is a pure girl or a gangster boss, or a low-level citizen and a queen mother, she can easily take over the role.
Every play can bring people a new feeling, which is what people often call "drama throwing face".
With the increasing number of films, Chi Huaqiong's status in the show business circle has almost reached the position of a first-line movie star after participating in the feature-length TV series "Bashang Street" directed by Wang Jianrong in 2013, and she is admired.
Chi Huaqiong is a person with a clear purpose in life, and she knows very well what she wants.
Since more than ten years of filming, she has not forgotten to read and study, improve her cultural accomplishment, and the book she once said had the greatest influence on her was the foreign famous book "Gone with the Wind".
It was a book that Chi Huaqiong had read in one sitting in one sitting in her junior high school years, and she admired the character of the protagonist, Hao Sijia. It is a valuable spirit of positive treatment of life.
But she is not a very perfect woman, Hao Sijia was born in a large plantation owner family, came out beautiful and generous, dignified and elegant, but at the same time vain and willful, proud and conceited, after experiencing many hardships, but always strong to face, and finally completed the transformation.
In the eyes of readers, she is a person who will do her best to fight for career and love, and finally realize her ideals.
In an interview, Chi Huaqiong once said that she had always clearly remembered the last paragraph of the book:
"I'll go back to Tara tomorrow and think about it." At that time, I could withstand all this. Tomorrow, I'll figure out a way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day."
It is also this passage that encourages Chi Huaqiong to walk through the tormented years step by step and look forward to "tomorrow".
Looking back at Chi Huaqiong's film experience, it will be found that with this perseverance and optimism, she has lived "lucky" more than most people.
Without any acting experience, she dared to think and dare to do it, no matter what the ending, she went to the interview of "Sixteen-year-old Rainy Season" to have the opportunity to enter the show business circle.
The reason she was so "bold" was not only because of the encouragement of that book, but also because of the teachings of her father, who used to say to her:
"95% of the world's population is often unsuccessful"
So she is not afraid of failure, anyway, there are so many people who fail, and a failure is nothing.
In the face of failure, it is very fortunate that Chi Huaqiong not only has an optimistic spirit but also a down-to-earth spirit, and she has been down-to-earth all the way, moving forward step by step.
Even if she became famous at a young age, she did not dare to relax, and signed up for a training class to strengthen her acting skills when she was not born in a science class.
Chi Huaqiong also said very frankly that she is not greedy, and in her life, she has the masterpiece of the girl's generation "Sixteen-year-old Rainy Season" and the masterpiece of the youth era "Liu Hulan" to be satisfied, what she should do is to precipitate herself and improve the spiritual realm, the show business circle is too complicated.
After reaching middle age, Chi Huaqiong gradually came up with the idea of quitting the show business circle, and it was not her dream to be an actor for a lifetime, so she began to publish books.
In 2003, she published her first book, "Out of the Sixteen-Year-Old Flower Season", which wrote about the bits and pieces of her life.
She also joined a "reader website" as a "reader" to communicate with netizens.
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Such an excellent Chi Huaqiong in the emotional life but helpless, in the interview she once replied that she is single, unmarried state, from the communication process can be seen that Chi Huaqiong is very eager to have a sincere relationship.
She said that in her original year, she had a "Beijing-Shanghai love" with a Beijing youth for nine months. But the two eventually because of the long distance, the reason for gathering less and more slowly alienated, and finally the two chose to break up due to personality incompatibility.
Frustrated, she turned around and threw herself into work, because of the accumulation of reading over the years, so the failure of a relationship will not make her stagnant, she not only has to star in new films, but also try to work on the production of films.
Today's Chi Huaqiong has gradually faded out of the show business circle, but she often posts photos she took around the world on social platforms, and I think she should not be satisfied with "talking on paper" and chose to go out to see in person.
The world is so big, for her life is not only one direction, and being an actor is not her lifelong career. Life is full of possibilities, and living an ordinary life well is the most unusual thing.
As can be seen from the photos she has produced, she is still full of vitality, undefeated beauty in the years, her eyebrows still have the style of the past, and the brilliance brought by the deep knowledge accumulated over the years.
I wish she can always follow her dream and be as optimistic as Scarlett Hao in the book.