"It's not too late in spring, Green Jiangnan."
On Children's Day 2023, Zhao Yazhi posted the above news on her social account, with a set of photos of her in Jiangnan.
In this dynamic comment area, almost all praise her beauty, 70 years old she is still so beautiful that people lose their ability to speak, and indeed deserves the reputation of "ageless myth".
Looking back on most of her life, the three top students and sons she has cultivated are her pride, and although she is a mother, she has never forgotten to maintain her own excellence and tenacity, so that she can live as the pride of her family and even her life.
In 1953, she was born into an ordinary family in Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Looking at her beauty and elegance for most of her life, it is estimated that it is difficult to imagine that she was very naughty when she was a child.
She climbed trees to catch birds, went down to the river to catch shrimp, teased pigs in the village, etc., and had fun all day long.
Almost every day at dinner time, she stayed outside to play, always asking her mother to shout several times before reluctantly saying goodbye to her friends.
After going home for dinner, it was always at the urging of my mother that I reluctantly started writing my homework.
At that time, if her mother hadn't seen that her academic performance was still good, she would have been beaten by her mother for her attitude of grinding and reluctantly doing her homework.
When she graduated from Schunk English College in 1971, Japan Airlines was recruiting flight attendants.
After learning the news, she quickly obtained her mother's permission and went to the airline for an interview.
Tall and beautiful-looking, she passed the interview in one fell swoop and became Miss Aviation.
And the reason why she wants to become a flight attendant so much is because she dreamed of one day being able to travel the world since she was a child.
That year, at the age of 17, she went to Japan for training, not only to learn etiquette and Japanese, but also to learn flight attendant expertise such as first aid.
She would have made a career in the flight attendant industry, but found that the future development of flight attendants was very limited, with a fixed salary every month and a fixed route, which was 108,000 miles away from her dream of traveling the world.
The fixed workflow and almost unchanged flight path soon led to her interest in the job as a flight attendant.
Her mother knew her character and her troubles, and seeing the recruitment order for beauty pageants on TV commercials, her mother felt that she could give it a try if she had an advantage over most people in appearance and figure.
In 1973, at the age of 19, she accepted her mother's advice and participated in the first "First Miss Hong Kong" contest held by TVB.
The first Miss Hong Kong can be described as a gathering of beautiful women, and they are all first-class beauties in the Hong Kong entertainment industry in the future, such as the champion Sun Yongen, the runner-up Judy, the third runner-up Liu Huide and the most famous beauty (fourth place) Zhao Yazhi.
At that time, the competition not only looked at its own internal and external conditions, but also tested the "backstage" of the participants.
The supporters behind Sun Yongen are Chow Leung Shuyi, a former member of the Executive Council in Hong Kong and a well-known name in the film and television industry; Judy was already famous before she entered the competition and was a special guest participant in TBV; And Liu Huide won over Zhao Yazhi because she was more open and free.
At that time, there were also relevant rumors that Zhao Yazhi could not let go in the too revealing swimsuit link, and was unwilling to accept the "unspoken rules", and the fourth place was all based on strength.
After the pageant, she returned to her job as a flight attendant and continued to work bored.
I have to admit that Miaoling's daughter, whose career is in the doldrums, is more likely to fall into feelings and enter marriage.
In 1975, at the age of 21, under the arrangement of her mother and relatives, she met and married Huang Hanwei, a doctor who was 10 years older than her but had a stable income.
It also happened that in this year, TVB invited her to become a program host, and she simply quit her job as a flight attendant and entered the entertainment industry.
After becoming a host, because the content is almost different every day, this makes it feel that the work of a host is more interesting.
In order to complete the work better, she was originally only responsible for the work in front of the stage, but took the initiative to undertake some work in the background.
Gradually, she learned props, costumes, drama, assistant director, and even filmmaking.
Later, she felt that the work of the double line behind the front desk was too hard, so she recommended herself to the TVB crew and decided to concentrate on being an actor.
In the same year, she successfully debuted in the film and television industry with the fashion inspirational drama "Riding the Wind and Waves".
In 1976, starring in the movie "Half a Pound and Eight Taels" with Xu Guanjie, she got a good broadcast rate, and she began to emerge in the film and television industry.
In 1977, she cooperated with Zheng Shaoqiu in the TV series "The Great Revenge" to obtain good ratings, and also participated in the movie "Fa Qian Han" directed by John Woo and became the annual box office champion, and played the role of "Du Shiniang" in Gu Long's work "Peony Pavilion of Folk Legend".
With the blessing of many excellent works, her fame and salary rose again and again this year.
In 1978, she starred in more than five works, and the actors she cooperated with were either Zheng Shaoqiu or Chow Yun-fat, and each work received good ratings while their acting skills were also highly praised.
In the next ten years from this year, she was named "Hong Kong Men's Best Dream Lover" by Hong Kong media, and was praised by Mr. Jin Yong as "the most temperamental oriental woman". ”
But even though she combines beauty and strength, she still can't escape the ravages of a failed marriage.
In 1979, she and Zheng Shaoqiu cooperated on the same stage again in "The Legend of Chu Liuxiang", and the ratings of the show reached 70% after it was broadcast, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a work that is crowded.
Her fame and worth jumped sharply as a result, with a salary of as much as 150,000 Hong Kong dollars per film.
And due to the plot, the "Su Rongrong" she played is the confidant of "Chu Liuxiang" (played by Zheng Shaoqiu), and the fact that the two did not form a bond in the play is the most difficult place for the audience, so the audience will inevitably enter the play too deeply, but it is unrealistic to hope that the two actors can come together.
However, in terms of the social atmosphere of the early 80s, even in Hong Kong, which was more open and modern, there was no "bump CP", but when actors and actresses had scandals, they often affected their careers and even their own feelings.
At that time, when she was riddled with scandals, she learned that people were terrible, and explained to her husband many times but did not get understood.
Since her salary was already one of the best in the industry at that time, her husband naturally refused to let her resign, but required her not to have intimate contact with the actor during filming.
But there has been a feeling of distrust, and in the end, it is still dying in doubt.
In 1980, with the strong broadcast of "Shanghai Beach" and the popularity throughout the country, the image of her and Chow Yun-fat's screen couple also became a hot topic after tea.
Her husband filed for divorce, not only asking her to leave the household, but also refusing to give her custody of her two sons.
Looking at her three-year-old eldest son Huang Guanghong and her second son Huang Guangyi, who had just turned one year old, she knew that she as a mother must not compromise.
She enlisted the help of her good friend and lawyer, Wong Kam-shen, and after a long time, she finally got what she wanted.
In 1982, she and Huang Weiguang ended their seven-year marriage and obtained custody of their two sons.
The divorce did not hit her too hard, and she soon returned to acting.
But what makes her more distressed by divorce is the education of her two sons, she is too busy filming to ask a nanny to take care of the children together, but the matter of educating children still needs parents to do it themselves.
At that time, Huang Jinshen, as her good friend for many years, understood that she wanted to support herself and her children with her own strength, so she would never give up the opportunity to work and earn money, and what could help her was to share the education of her two children.
While she was filming, Wong often helped take care of the children.
Unknowingly, the two children were very dependent on Huang Jinshen and always did not want him to leave at night.
But considering the impact of staying overnight on her career and reputation, he always left early.
As Vladimir Nabokov, author of "Lolita", said: cough, poverty, love cannot be hidden!
He admired Zhao Yazhi for a long time, and as the contact time continued to lengthen, he fell deeply in love with her, and finally revealed his heart to her when he had nothing to hide.
When she was white, she inevitably touched the pain of her first marriage, so she rejected Wong Kam Sun's pursuit, saying that she did not want to enter marriage again, and only wanted to concentrate on filming and raising two children.
After he was rejected, he did not give up and continued to silently take care of the mother and son.
In fact, it is not that Zhao Yazhi does not have feelings for him, but that he is not sure whether the other party is suitable to be the father of his two sons.
Later, when she saw that her two sons not only liked Wong Jinshen very much, but also incarnated as his assist, she finally nodded and agreed.
In 1984, she married Wong Kam Sun with her two sons.
In 1985, she gave birth to her youngest son, Huang Kaijie.
Unlike her first husband, her second husband not only loves her and her two sons, but also helps her achieve a better self in her career.
In 1988, with the help of Huang Jinshen, she also developed in the Taiwanese film and television industry, which allowed her to usher in another peak of her career after "On the Beach".
In 1990, she participated in the filming of "Play Qianlong".
In 1991, with the blockbuster broadcast of this drama, she once again became popular in both parts of the country and became a well-known powerful actor.
It is precisely because of her wonderful performance and exquisite costumes this time that she laid the foundation for her to become a "White Lady" actor.
In fact, "The Legend of the New White Lady" went through a vote on actors suitable for role-playing before it started, and she was the most vocal at that time.
In 1992, with the broadcast of "The Legend of the New White Lady", her career climbed to the highest peak.
This work can be said to send her to the "altar", she has won a number of heavyweight awards while earning 80,000 per hour.
The "White Lady" she portrayed has been more than 30 years ago, but it is still a classic that is difficult to surpass.
And standing behind her and becoming her strong backing has long been not only her husband Wong Kam Sun, but also her three sons.
The eldest son, Wong Kwong Hong, was nurtured by his mother and stepfather, and after graduating from the University of Hong Kong's Department of Chinese, he worked in a newspaper in Hong Kong.
He is 45 years old this year, although he has long been married and has his own small home, he still accompanies his mother to eat and shop.
The second son, Huang Guangyi, is also a top student, and he got a notice to study in Canada during his university years, and did not stay abroad to develop after graduation, but returned to Hong Kong to engage in the financial industry.
Now 41 years old, whether he is married or not is unknown, and he is often photographed eating and shopping with his mother and stepfather.
Compared with the two older brothers, the youngest son Huang Kaijie has a higher exposure rate because he is an artist.
He has been photographed shopping and eating with his parents many times before, and has also been exposed to take his girlfriend to meet his parents.
Zhao Yazhi and actor Wang Yuhuan
Although the youngest son is also an artist, he is also a proper student, and after graduating from the University of Southern California, in order to better develop in the entertainment industry, he also studied for a master's degree from the Beijing Film Academy.
As a mother, all three schoolboy sons became her pride and became a symbol of a successful mother.
As a wife, she and her husband Wong Kam Sun have been in the 40th year of their marriage but they are still as loving as ever, and every time they are photographed, they walk hand in hand, and the smile and happiness on her face are enough to prove that her marriage is happy.
As an actress, she has successively reached the pinnacle of her career on the career path, leaving the audience with works and images that are difficult to replace or surpass so far, and she deserves to be a good actor.
69-year-old Zhao Yazhi's birthday photo