Xia Meng is Jin Yong's dream lover, and many of the perfect heroines in Jin Yong's novels are the embodiment of Xia Meng, she is a recognized Xi Shi actor in Hong Kong, and also a representative of Hong Kong's left-wing films.
The appearance is gorgeous but not charming, chaste and peaceful, elegant and generous, and tall and tall. Xia Meng is good at acting and singing, whether it is fashion, costumes, opera movies can be competent, is a rare all-round actor in Chinese films.
In addition to the talent and appearance, the most respectable thing is that it is always ice and jade, out of the mud and not stained, and there is no "gossip" in life.
Dong Qiao said that Xia Meng is like an actor who is not like a star, he is telling a story rather than posing, and a sad and happy clutch on the screen on the stage is finally like a dream, only Xia Meng is still there.
Huang Tong Tong said that the 82-year-old is still beautiful enough for the younger generations to hold their breath, for fear of suddenly ignoring the beauty and disturbing this calm beauty that seems to be natural.
Xu Anhua said that Xia Meng's wisdom was more outstanding than her beauty.
Xia Meng was the best of the leftist movies of the 50s, more dazzling than the stars.
In 1950, she was valued by the head of the Hong Kong Great Wall Company, named herself Xia Meng, and first ventured into the cinema.
A year later, she starred in her debut film "Forbidden Marriage", which was a huge hit after its release, so it was also valued by the company and the director.
In less than two years, his acting skills have improved by leaps and bounds, starring in "The Flower of the Sea of Evil", which became one of the 19 films screened at the Fifth Edinburgh International Film Festival.
At the age of 21, together with Shi Hui and Chen Sisi at that time, he was called the "Three Princesses of the Great Wall".
Five years later, in the "Top Ten Stars of Hong Kong Chinese Films" election sponsored by the Great Wall Pictorial, Xia Meng ranked first.
Even Jin Yong was impressed by her charm, secretly pseudonym screenwriter Lin Huan, joined the Great Wall Film Company, tailored many scripts for Xia Meng, and later became a director, Xia Meng starred in his screenwriting, directing, and directing "Wang Tiger Robs Relatives", in the 1960s, set off a wave of Chinese opera films.
She has a pair of Dan phoenix eyes, flowing with the charm of classical Chinese beauty, three-dimensional facial features, and set off a little lively and beautiful.
Fans prefer to call her "Audrey Hepburn of the East."
Xia Meng is a native of Shanghai, born in Si, and grew up to be 14 years old before leaving Shanghai to go to Hong Kong. On the bulletin board of the outstanding alumni of the City's Three Girls' High School, her photo is proudly pasted, along with Song Qingling, Zhang Ailing, Gu Shengnian and so on.
When she was a girl, she left Shanghai, and later Xia Meng returned to her hometown in a special way. As a Hong Kong debut film star, her films performed at Great Wall Pictures were introduced and screened in Shanghai in the 1950s and 1960s as a special film.
The "Great Wall Pictorial" she made the cover can also be bought through some special channels and circulated in the folk. This kind of Hong Kong imported products are very different from the mainstream propaganda materials in Shanghai at that time, familiar and strange.
At that time, middle-aged and elderly people captured some of the old atmosphere that had dissipated in the movies starring Xia Meng, and the new generation of young boys and girls who grew up regarded Xia Meng as a youth idol.
In that era of material poverty and serious tension, she was as flawless and beautiful as the starry sky and bright moon, and she could not hope for it.
In fact, after Xia Meng became famous, he often traveled between the mainland and Hong Kong. Although she left Shanghai for Hong Kong at the age of 14, many relatives of the family, such as cousins and aunts, still stay in Shanghai, and their relatives are the constant ties between her and Shanghai.
Xia Meng's sister is practicing sports and playing basketball, Ben also went to Hong Kong with her, was selected to be a professional athlete, returned to the mainland, and later joined the national women's basketball team, and her status in the sports world is also equivalent to Xia Meng.
The prototype of lin jie, the role played by Qin Yi in "Women's Basketball No. 5", is her - Xia Mengna's sister is called Yang Jie. Xia Meng is a stage name, and her family name is Yang.
Precious photographs of Xia Meng being received by Zhou Enlai and Mao Zedong circulated on the Internet, which were taken when she returned to the conference in 1957 and the leaders met with people in the film industry. The lineup of group photos also includes Shangguan Yunzhu, who later committed suicide, Bai Yang, who was tortured during the "Cultural Revolution", and Li Lili, who played herself when Guan Jinpeng filmed "Ruan Lingyu" in the 90s.
Xia Meng is their descendant, and unlike them, she went to Hong Kong, and like them, she is also devoted to new China. Xia Meng once recalled that when she was celebrating with the leaders, she asked Premier Zhou: "Please ask the premier to give some instructions on our work." ”
The prime minister smiled and said, "You're talking about 'Beijing'!" You are a Hong Konger, don't speak Beijing dialect, you must speak Hong Kong dialect. In this part of Hong Kong, a lot of work can be done. Use films to unite overseas Chinese and promote patriotism. ”
Of the more than thirty works made by Xia Meng before and after, four are very special, and they are Yue opera films. Yue opera movies are rare now, and hong Kong filmmakers made four films at a time.
First, we can see the composition of the film industry practitioners at that time, there are many people in Shanghai Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and second, we can see the audience group, the Chinese who left their hometowns in the big era, and collectively regard Yue opera as a "rural sound" - the same is true of the popular Huangmei tone films in the same period.
And Xia Meng really returned to Shanghai to study opera for these Hong Kong-made Yue opera films. The world praised Zhang Guorong for filming "Farewell to the King" in the 90s to learn Peking Opera, in fact, there were already Xia Meng's predecessors who studied opera and performed the fine tradition of the whole drama.
This is not a three-legged cat kung fu with a fist embroidered leg. It's hard work plus talent.
Until many years later, in 2015, when I saw the re-screening of "Three Looks at the Royal Sister Liu Jinding" at the Hong Kong Film Archive, I was still fascinated by Xia Meng's lyrics and figure.
Many of the audience members sitting in the audience were white-haired old people, or they were all fans who looked up to Xia Meng.
Unfortunately, I don't understand the appreciation of Yue opera, I am just appreciating Xia Meng, just imagine if there are young idols like Xia Meng today who learn to act like Xia Meng did back then, our traditional opera will have a better situation - but it can only be imagined like this.
Xia Meng, however, had not refuted anything. Until the age of 82, he returned to Shanghai to participate in the "Summer Dream Film Retrospective Exhibition" and was still asked about Jin Yong. She said: "It is better not to say it. ”
In addition to Jin Yong, Xia Meng also has many friends, although she is not active in Hong Kong's social circle, but her popularity in the film industry has always been good.
Actresses of the same generation regard her as a good friend, and the stars of the younger generation regard her as a highly respected predecessor. Xia Meng, with her influence and connections, has been shining.
An old Hong Kong star once told me that in the early 1980s, many people in the film industry wanted to go back to the mainland but did not dare to return to the mainland.
Xia Meng patted her chest and said to her, "It doesn't matter, the inland is not a flood beast." "People now have a hard time understanding the panic of that year, and Xia Meng was their confidence at that time.
Xia Meng is gone—there is not a single autobiography, only many legends. Her family's old house near The town of Meron has long been demolished and there is no trace of it.
Where can we honor this legendary star who was born in Shanghai, debuted in Hong Kong, and became popular in Southeast Asia? She will live forever in the more than thirty films she has left behind, and when she laughs, she penetrates the film and whispers the dream of light and shadow.
Mr. Jin Yong once pursued Xia Meng, but unfortunately was rejected, but Xia Meng was always Jin Yong's dream lover, Jin Yong once commented on Xia Meng, "How beautiful Xi Shi is, no one has ever seen, I think she should be like Xia Mengcai worthy of the name." ”
Flowers blossom and fall, flowers fall and blossom, if the sky is affectionate, the sky is old, the red sideburns are also white hair, and the past is like smoke.
The summer dream has gone, and the beauty is rare again.
For a modern woman with a successful career and a happy family, the story written by the writer is no matter how bizarre and moving, it is only a carefully woven illusory fairy tale, like fireworks, how gorgeous, but fleeting.
Born as brilliant as a summer flower, passing as quiet as an autumn leaf, in order to sacrifice a generation of red faces.