In September 2002, "Tongali Body Art Portrait" was launched;
Within three months, more than 800 reports and more than 700 articles on related topics were reported, and people from all walks of life were concerned about this matter.
As Tongali herself, she felt uncomfortable in her heart, she did not understand: "Such a tasteful book, published by the news agency, how can it attract criticism?"
And why are all these criticisms pressing on her? ”
How popular was this photo album at the time?
Initially, 10,000 copies were printed, and after selling out, another 5,000 copies were printed, and they were still sold out.
Outside the doors of major bookstores, people came to ask: "Is there still a photo album of Tongari?" I want to buy it, as much as I want."
Everyone is not only curious about her, but also moral criticism, some people look at the photo album with starry eyes, but scold her in their mouths:
"It's really cheap, how could you shoot such an unbearable thing out"? That year, Tongari became popular, but it also brought sadness to the future.
For this reason, she lost her affection, love, happy family.......
I don't know if Tongali today regrets shooting this set of photo albums that changed her fate?
01. Tongali who has won two gold medals in gymnastics
Tongali's life before the age of 26 was smooth sailing.
She won two gold medals in gymnastics and became an excellent dancer.
During a performance, I met my husband, and the two were happy after marriage.
However, all happiness came to an abrupt end after Zhang Xulong's appearance.
Zhang Xulong, a well-known photographer, was surprised when he saw Tongali's figure.
Originally, both of them served the company, but Zhang Xulong found her privately and asked her to publish a photo book.
Tongali refused, saying that she could not break through the bottom line of morality in her heart.
In order to persuade her to shoot a photo album of human bodies, Zhang Xulong changed his strategy and used this art to explain.
Art + money, Tongali finally lost under his rhetoric.
During the more than two months of cooperation between the two, Tongali took thousands of body art photos.
After taking off her clothes, her figure is so graceful, Zhang Xulong often blushed when shooting.
But he still gritted his teeth and said that it was an art.
What came out of his mouth was art, but in his heart he was also fantasizing about sinking into the night with her.
Tangali seems to feel the greed of the other party, and after the two cooperated, Zhang Xulong wanted to sell these photo albums and make a lot of money.
Tongari took the lead and published these photo albums.
"Tongari Body Art Portrait" is the title of the book written by Mr. Chen Zui, and the preface is also written by him.
Mr. Chen Zui was a doctoral supervisor and has published more than 10 works such as nude art papers and nude art research.
In his eyes, Tongali's works are not vulgar, but a true photo.
She shows the feminine style and the form of dance in a more straightforward way.
This photo book, with a thickness of more than 120 pages, each page was printed using the best hot stamping process at that time, the cost was very high, and the selling price was exaggerated.
Initially, the publisher printed 10,000 copies, which disappeared within a month of sales.
Immediately after the publishing house made another publicity advertisement, 5,000 copies were printed, and it still sold out.
By the time the media noticed her, it was the second year.
At that time, Tongari's father was seriously ill in bed, and she did not tell her parents, and the family did not know.
But the following year, the Beijing Evening News published it, and everyone on the street knew about it.
The storm, jumping up, like a monstrous wave, pushed her to the cusp of the storm.
Tongari's photo album has been criticized by almost the whole Internet as an "unsightly picture".
Her parents went out to buy vegetables, the aunt in the vegetable market pointed at her, and her mother didn't know what was going on, but she still got her daughter's photo album from a vendor owner.
The shy photos made the parents almost faint.
They immediately called their daughter, and Tongali had to admit it was true.
"Get out, get out, our family doesn't have such a shameless daughter as you."
I originally thought that her parents could understand her, but unexpectedly, my father, who was old-thinking, directly threw her out with a broom.
The mother saw her daughter kneeling outside the door, a little distressed, but when she saw the photo album on the side, she still said with a cold face: "Don't come back in the future, we should be without your daughter."
Family affection, like a kite flying away, breaks the line.
Tongali cried while walking, and others in the alley saw her and pointed at her and scolded, how could she take such a cheap photo? Did you do anything with others?
People questioned not only her photo album, but also her chastity.
At this time, Tongali did not expect that a photo album would make her lose everything. Red is red, but the money does not earn half a point, and it also hitches a ride on family affection and love.
02. Dedication to art, husband resolutely divorced
"Why did you publish such a photo book"? When Tangali returned home, her husband held a photo album and looked at her angrily.
Tangali explained that this was published by the People's Art Society, if she really took a yellow photo book, how could it be published on the market?
The publication threshold of the art club is very high, and the general body photo book, they will not publish.
The husband did not speak again, and when he saw his wife and wanted to explain, he had sparks in his eyes, and wanted to scold her, but he couldn't bear it.
In the end, he vented all his anger on the sofa.
Tongali hugged her husband, who pushed her away, threw the photo album on the ground, and said, "Vulgar."
These two words, like a magic sound, lingered in her ears.
Her husband could not accept her, and her explanations were useless.
However, more and more media are forwarding her photo albums, related topic articles, and thousands of articles have been published on the Internet in less than a year.
Sina, Tianya, Yahoo, Baidu..... Almost every hot search list in the media has her photo album.
According to relevant statistics, her photo album is searched and watched by 100,000 people every day.
The heat is high, and she also gets a lot of dividends, one hundred thousand, two hundred thousand to her.
In those days, it was very difficult to make such a huge amount of money.
But what was in front of her was a big problem, because Zhang Xulong took the photo, she did not give him money, and he sued him.
Zhang Xulong asked her income to be divided equally, and she didn't want the other party to take advantage, so she refused this appeal.
Tangali's refusal made Zhang Xulong very angry, and he called her to tell her that her photo album was as high as several thousand.
If he sells these photos to some unknown channel, will she be able to suffer the consequences?
These words made Tongali completely see the other party's selfishness.
In the end, in court, she ended up losing the case and compensated the other party more than 100,000 yuan.
Can't Tongali win the case?
She can win, but she is afraid that the photos in the hands of the other party will flow to the market again, which will cause her more turmoil.
The photo in Zhang Xulong's hand is more bold and exaggerated than the published photo.
If he sells them all, her reputation will completely change from "dedication to art" to "vulgar yellow".
The publishing house was not criticized, Zhang Xulong got money and got a good reputation. Only Tongari lost her reputation, as well as her affection and love.
In 2003, Tongali did not go out to work for a year. She was particularly afraid that going to film by herself would cause trouble for the crew, what should she do if others asked her to shoot a set of photo albums on the spot?
Not only pushed off the contract, but even the performances in the song and dance troupe, she refused one by one.
The leaders of the song and dance troupe were not disgusted by her photo album, believing that she was using another way to explain art.
But the outside world does not understand that if she frequently appears in the song and dance troupe, it will definitely cause trouble for the song and dance troupe.
Wearing or not wearing clothes cannot be used as a standard for obscenity, but if you do not understand art and show too much, it is obscenity.
The world is so big, how many people really understand art?
For Tongali, the outside world does not understand, the family does not understand, and her husband does not understand.
In 2008, her husband filed for divorce, and Tongari cried very sadly.
She said that she would never shoot again in the future, and the two would have a child together to live a good life?
The husband waved his hand and said, "Do you know why I sleep in a separate room with you?" I feel sick at the thought of your body being seen by so many people;
I really can't stand it, don't push me. ”
Tongali looked at her husband, and there was no half love in the other party's eyes, only disgust. She compromised, and the two divorced the next day and never intersected again.
03. I was thrown out of my home by my parents, and now I live alone
Tongali knew that her words and deeds were amplified by people. Many women adore her and think that she is bold in her thinking and able to break through herself.
But some men, but admire her graceful body, but care about her chastity in their bones.
People are curious, there are not many people shooting photo albums in China, why is Tongari's response so violent?
In fact, she is more likely to publish it herself.
Most people will stream their photo albums to the market, hoping to make money through this.
Tongali is different, she wants to prove that she is playing art, not just making money.
When there is a conflict between the original intention and the outside world's ideas, it will cause great controversy.
If she had admitted that she was vulgar at the beginning, perhaps everyone would have thought she was ordinary.
Tongari said that she was holy and dedicated to art, and there were countless voices to refute her and criticize her behavior with a moral eye.
After experiencing this right and wrong, it is impossible for her to return to the mentality of the past.
The only thing that can be done is to adapt and break through yourself again. She never published another photo album later, mostly because she didn't dare anymore.
She is also afraid that her photo album will make a fuss again, making her really faceless.
Once bitten by a snake, she was afraid of the well rope for ten years, and her feelings could not be understood by outsiders, let alone understood.
Tongari took a step back, and she returned to her ordinary world, continuing to delve into opera and acting.
In 2009, Tongali participated in the movie "The World is Too Busy".
In it, she plays Qin Ye's wife. In the work, she is a weak woman, knowing that her husband is having an affair, but still forgiving her husband and accepting her husband.
However, Tongali outside the play has an unspeakable experience of the work.
When she said, I can forgive you, she remembered her ex-husband's cold-blooded ruthlessness towards her.
Tongali once complained about her ex-husband, thinking that he was also a person who did not understand art.
But when she saw so many people criticizing her from the outside world, she was at a loss, feeling that she was the one who did not understand art.
What exactly is art? Is it from everyone's approval, or is it a different way to wander on steep peaks?
In 2010, director Wang Yongli filmed "Dancing Hu Butterfly".
Tangali liked this work, but Wang Yongli felt that her public opinion was too much and did not want her to be the star.
After many times of communication, Tongali could not retreat, and directly said that she participated in the performance with zero pay.
In fact, she does not have to go to filming, but wants to divert everyone's attention through some roles.
Let others see that she Tongali can not only shoot body art, but also film, and also singing and dancing.
Unfortunately, when everyone talks about her, they still put photos first.
In 2013, Tongali became behind the scenes, and she directed "Looking for You at the Same Table".
The career returned to stability, and Tongari's heart relaxed a lot. She can sit quietly in the café drinking coffee and savoring a plate of red velvet cake.
She looked at the people coming and going outside the window, but she couldn't find a real home for her.
Her parents have not forgiven her so far, and every time she goes home to visit her parents, she can only be turned away.
Every time my father saw her, his eyes were full of helplessness and disgust.
She's his daughter! How could they look at her with such eyes?
Tongari's heart was like a knife, but she couldn't break this ending.
Epilogue:
The art of Tongari is higher than the body and sublimated to the soul.
Unfortunately, her art is not fully accepted, but is often confused with yellow.
Perhaps, for Tongari's photo album, only some art students can experience the charm of the human body.
After 21 years, Tongali has experienced great prosperity and sadness of falling to the trough.
She lost all her loved ones, lovers and friends in that photo album.
If you ask her now, do you regret shooting a photo album.
Presumably she will say, "I regret it, but when I go back in time, I will still shoot photo albums."
This art, no matter how high the artistic component, everyone will still be classified as "yellow".
However, this is just the idea of ordinary people, there is still a group of people in the world who understand her charm and understand her breakthrough.
The support of these people, for Tongari, is enough.