Once upon a time, the Hong Kong film industry was extremely brilliant, and Hong Kong films became a major symbol of the times, but during the Republic of China, Shanghai was the real mecca of the film industry, which once had the most advanced film shooting technology in the country and gathered the most popular movie stars in the country.
However, since the founding of the People's Republic of China, Shanghai's film industry has quickly moved to Hong Kong, including a number of movie stars, which has also created a prosperity of Hong Kong's film industry for half a century.
In the difficult years when everything was in ruins, many actors still chose to stay in the mainland to develop, and they went hand in hand with the mainland people to create a better tomorrow, the most representative of which is undoubtedly the 22 movie stars of New China.
The twenty-two movie stars of New China are just a common name, and its correct name is New Chinese actors, which are personally selected by the state and are very authoritative.
In 1961, with the joint efforts of the people of the whole country, the mainland was about to walk out of a difficult period of three consecutive years, and under this background, the birth of the 22 movie stars of New China had a great encouraging effect.
In the eyes of people, they are not only movie stars, but also role models for everyone to move forward, as Wang Xiaotang said, virtue and art are the most basic requirements for them, not like now, say that a star virtue and art double xin to each other to present an award.
In the blink of an eye, 62 years have passed, 16 of the 22 major movie stars in New China have passed away, and now only 6 people remain, the oldest Tian Hua is 95 years old this year, and the youngest Zhu Xijuan is also 85 years old.
Tian Hua was born in 1928, before becoming an actress, she was a soldier of the Eighth Route Army of the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region, and as a tried and tested old artist, her life was full of legends.
From Xi'er in "The White-Haired Girl" to Yumei in "The Party's Daughter", from Judge Shang in "Inside and Outside the Court" to Yan Shaochun in "Xu Mao and His Daughters", many characters created by Tian Hua are classics that are difficult to surpass, in the mainland film circle, she is a respected old-timer, so many businesses have invited her to endorse the products of the elderly, but they have been rejected by her one by one.
Now Tian Hua has been absent for four or five years, but her mental state is still very good, and her actions are also very flexible, but unfortunately, fate is very unfair to her, and four of her closest relatives have died of cancer.
For fans of the older generation, almost everyone has seen "Red Detachment of Women" starring Zhu Xijuan, and even watched it more than once, even if many post-70s and post-80s should be familiar with the film, because the film is too classic.
"Red Women's Army" is also Zhu Xijuan's debut work, even she herself could not have imagined that she had become popular all over the country as soon as she debuted, and fortunately, she successfully got on the last train among the twenty-two movie stars in New China because of the film.
Zhu Xijuan was born in 1938, although she is 85 years old, but she has no plans to stop filming, and her new movie "Woman in the Depths of the Coconut Forest" was officially launched at the end of last year.
Yu Yang was born in 1930, 93 years old this year, like Tian Hua, he is a people's artist who came out of the ranks of the Eighth Route Army, in that war-torn era, he was only fourteen years old when he first stepped into the battlefield, and in his decades of acting career, he also appeared as a soldier.
Classic films such as "Chinese Daughter", "Heroic Tiger Guts", "Defending the Country and Protecting the Family", "Handcuffed Traveler" and other classic films are Yu Yang's masterpieces in different periods, it is worth mentioning that Yu Yang and his wife Yang Jing fell in love at first sight when they experienced life before filming "Defending the Country and Protecting the Home".
Many people say that Yu Yang's later life is very happy, because he is in his nineties and his wife Yang Jing is with him day and night, but what everyone does not know is that eighteen years ago, Yu Yang's son Yu Xiaoyang left because of a sudden asthma.
Back then, Wang Xingang was the common male god in the hearts of old fans across the country, both handsome and masculine, he fully conformed to the aesthetic standards of that era, and more importantly, he was also a powerful actor.
Wang Xingang was born in 1932 and is 91 years old this year, although he has been absent for many years, his handsomeness is still deeply imprinted in the minds of old fans, and he starred in classic films such as "Sea Eagle", "Scout", "Wildfire Spring Wind Fighting Ancient City" and other classic films are still often revisited by everyone.
Compared with Yu Yang, Wang Xingang's later life is happier, his children are foreign company executives, in the early 21st century, he went abroad to bring grandchildren, now he and his wife back to Beijing seclusion, many TV stations want to invite him to the program were rejected by him one by one, it is worth mentioning that he is still so handsome when he is old.
These days, many netizens are arguing about who the C actress of "Weibo Night 2023" is, but sixty years ago, Wang Xiaotang was the first actress in the film industry.
Since the end of the fifties of the last century, Wang Xiaotang replaced Wang Danfeng and became the most popular actress of that era, and even the first edition of the star stamp sheetlet issued in the mainland used her photo, and the rumba she danced in "Heroic Tiger Guts" is a classic clip that makes hundreds of millions of male fans linger.
Wang Xiaotang's drama path is very wide, she can play a beautiful and kind Yi girl and a female spy with indifferent behavior, and her wonderful performance in "Wildfire Spring Wind Fighting Ancient City" is the best embodiment of her superb acting skills. Born in 1934, she is 89 years old, and her son and husband have been gone for decades, and she has lived alone all these years.
Xie Fang has a pair of bright and big talking eyes, among the twenty-two movie stars in New China, she is not the most famous or the most beautiful, but she has a unique intellectual femininity.
"Song of Youth" is Xie Fang's debut work and her famous work, since then, Xie Fang has played all kinds of advanced young women and talented women, and is known as the spokesperson of "the first generation of intellectual women in New China".
Born in 1935, she is 88 years old this year, and she has been living happily with her husband for decades, but on December 25, 2022, her 92-year-old husband left this world before her.