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In 1992, actor Zhou Jie became a household star with the role of Yang Yuhuan in the TV series "Yang Guifei", but after becoming famous, Zhou Jie chose to go to the United States to develop, which was decades away.
Zhou Jie
In 2021, Zhou Jie, who is 59 years old, has no children and no daughters, lingering on the bed, and begged her friend Liu Xiaoqing to ask her to take her back to China, who knew that Zhou Jie would die on the third day after returning to China.
Why did Zhou Jie, known as the "most beautiful Yang Guifei", have no children and no daughters and no one to die? What is the untold story behind her beautiful and short life?
Zhou Jie
Revert to one 's origin
In 2015, Zhou Jie went to the hospital due to a severe physical discomfort, and after a series of examinations, she was diagnosed with cancer.
Zhou Jie was only 54 years old when she was diagnosed with cancer, and the disease tortured her to lose weight day by day, but it could not take away her optimistic attitude towards life.
In order to treat cancer, Zhou Jie went to a hospital in the United States for treatment, but this became useless, cancer cells spread in her body, and Zhou Jie's body deteriorated day by day.
Zhou Jie
Until 2021, Zhou Jie's physical treatment has not improved for many years, she vaguely feels that her time is short, and when she dies, Zhou Jie wants to fulfill her last wish, so she cried and called her friend Liu Xiaoqing.
After Liu Xiaoqing connected the phone, Zhou Jie's cry came from the other end of the phone: "Xiaoqing, my time is running out, I think even if I die, I will return to the motherland, let me leave in the United States I will never be blind!" ”
Liu Xiaoqing and Zhou Jie had a deep sisterhood, and she immediately agreed to Zhou Jie's request, so she began to find a way to take Zhou Jie back to China.
Zhou Jie and Liu Xiaoqing
But it was the epidemic prevention period, Liu Xiaoqing spent 270,000 US dollars to rent a small plane in order to take Zhou Jie back to China, but the plane broke down before leaving, and the repair of the plane was delayed for several days.
At the end of September 2021, Zhou Jie returned to China by plane, due to special reasons, Zhou Jie needed to be isolated and observed after landing, Liu Xiaoqing glanced at Zhou Jie from afar.
Zhou Jie
This look made Liu Xiaoqing shed tears, the former bright and moving Zhou Jie, the skin and bones tortured by the disease, weighed only more than 60 pounds, and the whole person was emaciated.
I don't know if Zhou Jie has long run out of oil, and she insisted on returning to China with her last breath, and on the third day of Zhou Jie's return to China, she passed away.
On October 1, 2021, national first-class dancer Zhou Jie died in Shanghai at the age of 59, which caused a sensation as soon as the news came out, and Zhou Jie did not have a son and a half daughter in her life, and in the end, no one sent her to death.
Zhou Jie
Fame at a young age
In 1961, an ordinary couple in Shanghai ushered in the crystallization of their love, they gave birth to a pink and cute daughter, and named her Zhou Jie.
Although Zhou Jie's family is ordinary, her parents Qin Se and Ming are very loving, and in this warm family atmosphere, Zhou Jie's personality is also gentle and kind.
Zhou Jie's parents dote on this daughter very much and treat her like a little princess at home, so their parents are very supportive of Zhou Jie's hobbies.
Zhou Jie in his early years
Zhou Jie loved music and dance when she was very young, and when her mother listened to the radio at home, the young Zhou Jie would dance to the music.
After the parents saw that their daughter had dance talent, they decided to focus on training, so they found a dance training class for Zhou Jie, and Zhou Jie began her dance life.
Zhou Jie improved quickly, and the teachers of the training class praised her one after another, she has always been the best dancing child in the class, and she stands in the middle every time she rehearses the dance.
Zhou Jie
Learning to dance back then required sufficient financial support, and although Zhou Jie's parents were ordinary people, they had been doing their best to provide their daughter with dance.
When Zhou Jie was 7 years old, she dreamed of going to a dance school, and there was a dance school to recruit students at that time, and Zhou Jie was very happy to sign up, but was quickly rejected by practical reasons.
It turned out that going to a dance academy required good family conditions as the cornerstone, and Zhou Jie could not enter the dance academy even if she passed the dance exam because of her ordinary family situation.
Zhou Jie
But this practical problem did not extinguish Zhou Jie's passion for dance, so she went to an ordinary school, during which Zhou Jie did not give up dance, she still insisted on practicing dance, silently waiting for her own opportunity.
Until Zhou Jie was 12 years old, after her own efforts, she was admitted to the Shanghai Opera House Academy after graduating from primary school, and since then she has embarked on the journey of her dreams.
12-year-old Zhou Jie has already come out of the pavilion, she is young and beautiful, and her dancing skills are solid, and she has just entered the Shanghai Opera House.
Zhou Jie
Zhou Jie first because of her superior appearance, at the beginning was arranged by the director of the Shanghai Opera House to play a small supporting role on the stage, but did not expect that Zhou Jie was beautiful and danced better, and then she got the director's weight.
After Zhou Jie entered the Shanghai Opera House, in only half a year, she became the heroine in the show, Zhou Jie performed the dance to the fullest, standing on the stage she sparkled.
Zhou Jie
Zhou Jie honed in the Shanghai Opera House for three years, and when she was 15 years old, she was already a pillar in the troupe.
15-year-old Zhou Jie played the position of heroine and main dancer in operas such as "Mulan Floating Fragrance", "Banping Mountain" and "Fengming Qishan", and her beautiful dancing style made her gain great popularity at a young age.
After becoming famous, Zhou Jie was not impetuous, she practiced harder offstage, and it is said that when she starred in "Banping Mountain" at that time, Zhou Jie was still injured and performed on stage more than a dozen times.
Zhou Jie
During the rehearsal of "Banping Mountain", Zhou Jie took the position of the main dancer, and in order to perfectly interpret the entire dance, she became the hardest working actor in the troupe, often soaking alone in the practice room.
Soon Zhou Jie felt a burst of pain in his chest when he was practicing, and he thought that he would recover after a few days of strain, but this pain became more and more serious.
Seeing that the performance was close at hand, for the physical discomfort, Zhou Jie chose to hide, she endured the pain to complete one performance after another, and each one was completed perfectly, and received countless flowers and applause.
Zhou Jie's stage photo
After completing the last performance, the moment the spotlight went out, Zhou Jie's body could no longer hold on, fell on the stage, and then she was immediately sent to the hospital.
After arriving at the hospital for an examination, it turned out that Zhou Jie's ribs had been fractured for a long time, and she had endured the pain of fractures for so long to complete the performance.
And Zhou Jie's dedication to art is rewarded, and the perfect performances have made her a place in the dance industry, and she is even inseparable from Yang Liping.
Zhou Jie
"The most beautiful Yang Guifei"
After becoming famous, most of the audiences who came to see the performance at the Shanghai Opera House came for Zhou Jie, and among these many audiences, a director threw an olive branch to Zhou Jie.
The director is Li Hanxiang, in 1980 he was preparing to make a Qing Dynasty historical film "Listening to the Politics", but the role "Concubine Li" in it was slow to find a suitable actor.
Zhou Jie
Li Hanxiang's requirements for actors are extremely high, and the concubine in his heart is a bright and moving, dancing is pleasing to the eye, it is such a requirement, many actresses who come to the crew for interviews are not up to standard.
So someone recommended the dancer Zhou Jie to Li Hanxiang, and it was described that Zhou Jie danced like a fairy under the ordinary, and Li Hanxiang came to the Shanghai Theater Troupe to see Zhou Jie's face.
When Zhou Jie finished performing on the stage, Li Hanxiang also thought that it was not an exaggeration to describe Zhou Jie as a fairy, so he immediately went backstage to invite Zhou Jie to film.
Zhou Jie
In this way, Zhou Jie also entered the film and television industry in addition to dance, and in 1983, she starred in the role of "Concubine Li" in "Curtain Listening to Politics" directed by Li Hanxiang.
In the same year, Zhou Jie starred again in Li Hanxiang's other work "Burning the Old Summer Palace", Zhou Jie's performance in the play was loved by the audience, but what really made Zhou Jie a household name was to rely on another drama to make her famous.
Since 1980, Zhou Jie has been famous for "beauty in ancient costume", so most of the scripts she received after her were costume dramas, such as some classic film and television works "The Reproduction of Miracles", "Dunhuang Night Tan" and other costume dramas have Zhou Jie's figure.
Zhou Jie
In 1992, Zhou Jie was invited to star in the movie "Yang Guifei" directed by Chen Jialin, and Zhou Jie agreed after thinking twice, because there were many Yang Guifei roles on the screen before that.
In order to make the audience's eyes shine among the many "Yang Guifei", Zhou Jie brought herself into Yang Guifei's mission story early, spending a lot of time immersed in the task role every day.
Zhou Jie
As a dancer, Zhou Jie is very strict with her body management, so her figure has always been curvaceous and slender, in order to conform to the Tang Dynasty's plump beauty, Zhou Jie deliberately gained 20 pounds to interpret the image of Yang Guifei.
In order to make herself fat, Zhou Jie temporarily gave up daily practice, she fell on the bed to read the script after eating big fish and meat, and went to sleep directly when she saw sleepy.
After gaining weight, Zhou Jie looks much plump, very in line with the image of the Tang Dynasty noble concubine, luxurious dresses and jewelry set off Zhou Jie more bright and moving, after the movie was released, Zhou Jie became the audience's recognized "the most beautiful Yang Guifei".
Zhou Jie
Zhou Jie's "Yang Guifei" made her popular all over the country overnight, but she did not choose to continue on the road of film and television, but returned to her favorite dance industry.
By chance, Zhou Jie was invited to perform in Houston, USA, where she danced the traditional Chinese folk dance on the stage and stunned the foreigners in the audience.
After the performance, many foreign children flocked backstage to learn to dance with Zhou Jie, who felt that this was a good opportunity to promote Chinese culture, so she began to prepare to establish a Chinese dance school in the United States.
Zhou Jie
Promote Chinese culture
In 1997, Zhou Jie officially gave up her career in China and went to Houston, USA, to establish a Chinese dance school, and since then she has devoted herself to promoting and teaching Chinese culture.
At the beginning, Zhou Jie's school enrollment hit a wall everywhere, and many foreigners questioned Zhou Jie's dance, and in order to recruit students, Zhou Jie personally went to distribute leaflets and advertisements to promote the school.
In the crowded square, Zhou Jie will bring a small speaker, change into dance clothes and dance, and foreigners who see Zhou Jie dancing have stopped to watch the graceful dance of this "oriental beauty god".
Zhou Jie
In this way, Zhou Jie's school became the most popular dance academy in Houston, famous for teaching traditional Chinese dance.
The status of Zhou Jie's school in Houston cannot be underestimated, and the mayor of Houston directly designated November 20, the day of the school's establishment, as the local exclusive "Zhou Jie Dance School Day".
Zhou Jie teaches children to dance
And Zhou Jie also because of the establishment of the school to promote Chinese culture, her name was compiled into the "World Who's Who", I have to say that Zhou Jie has made great contributions to the spread of Chinese dance and Chinese culture.
In 2002, Zhou Jie returned to China and founded a dance academy in her hometown of Shanghai, which made her paint a brilliant color in the field of dance education.
Not only that, after Zhou Jie returned to China, she heard that the Shanghai Opera House was immediately at risk of closing, and in order to thank the Opera House for its cultivation, she not only funded but also rehearsed new works for the Opera Company.
Zhou Jie teaches children to dance
Zhou Jie's dedication is seen by everyone who knows her, so when people around her mention her, they will evaluate Zhou Jie as a warm and kind person, and there are many good qualities in her, and beauty has become her least worthy of mentioning.
However, the jealous and talented Zhou Jie was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2015, and after being diagnosed with cancer, she was still optimistic about life and actively cooperated with treatment in Houston hospitals.
But heaven did not have the slightest connection with Zhou Jie, her condition deteriorated while being treated, and the disease tortured her to lose weight day by day, and finally Zhou Jie's thin skin and bones were only more than 60 pounds.
Zhou Jie
Zhou Jie, who was getting weaker and weaker, could only recuperate in bed, panting even if she walked a few steps on the ground, and she could never return to the stage that carried the joy of her life.
In September 2021, Zhou Jie's condition suddenly deteriorated and she temporarily recovered her vital signs after rescue, but Zhou Jie knew that when she was dying, she still had one last wish that she had not fulfilled.
Zhou Jie
Zhou Jie's wish is that he can support his surviving body to return to China's fallen leaves and return to his roots, born in China, and as a son and daughter of China all his life, he must swallow his last breath in the motherland to be blind.
Zhou Jie did not give birth to a son and a half daughter in her life for dance education, and in the end there was no one to entrust, so she could only call her friend Liu Xiaoqing.
Zhou Jie, who has always been strong on the phone, cried and told Liu Xiaoqing his last wish, and Liu Xiaoqing immediately agreed after learning about it, and began to do everything possible to take Zhou Jie back to China.
Zhou Jie
At the end of September 2021, Liu Xiaoqing spent 270,000 US dollars to charter a small plane, picked up Zhou Jie lying in a hospital bed in Houston and returned to China, flew to China, Zhou Jie sat up with her body propped up and looked out the window at her soul-haunted motherland and immediately felt at ease.
On October 1, 2021, Zhou Jie passed away forever on the third day of her return to China, and her achievements and values in the dance industry will be passed down forever.
Zhou Jie
Zhou Jie has been dedicated to dance all her life, and dance is her child, and Zhou Jie has devoted her whole life energy and effort to dance.
Zhou Jie's life has brought many excellent dance, film and television works, her death is regrettable, may Zhou Jie have no illness in heaven and can dance freely.