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In the 1980s, the popular actressEs Chen Ye and Liu Xiaoqing were equally famous. She starred in classic films such as "405 Murder", "Half An Engagement Photo", "Danfeng Chaoyang", "Burning Yuanmingyuan", "Hanging Curtains to Listen to The Government", and "A Generation of Demon Queens", which have influenced generations.
In 1986, Chen Ye went to the United States to study at his own expense, and since then he has gradually faded from the public eye. Now that 35 years have passed, Liu Xiaoqing Fanghua is still the same, and what kind of unknown life experience does Chen Ye have?
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Chen Ye was born in Shanghai in 1955 to a family of intellectuals, in front of her shanghai opera house. Chen Ye stood by the window and could see everything inside the opera house.
Young Chen Ye
Sometimes seeing the actors hanging their throats in the courtyard and dressing up strangely to rehearse the show, Chen Ye felt very curious.
Chen Yeming of the Girl's Generation has bright eyes and teeth, is born beautiful, and has excellent character and learning. After graduating from Shanghai Huashan Middle School, Chen Ye joined the team in the suburbs of Shanghai. At that time, she was assigned to the Fengxian May Fourth Farm Paper Bag Factory Paste Paper Bag.
Chen Ye is skillful and strong, colleagues paste 800 a day, she wants to paste 1,000, and later she was promoted to the director of the workshop.
Living conditions on the farm are quite harsh, with 8 people living in a dormitory. The ground was not paved with cement, it was mud, and they slept in a large bunk with straw on it.
Film Actors (Zhang Yu, Chen Ye, Zhang Zhihua)
Fengxian is near the sea, and the sea breeze blows in winter is particularly cold and wet. Her mother specially sewed a thick quilt for Chen Ye and bought her a thick cotton vest, which Chen Ye could barely resist the cold.
One day it was raining heavily, and the dormitory was flooded with water, and the washbasins, clothes, and shoes were all drifted away. Chen Ye did not care about salvaging personal belongings, but led the sisters into the workshop to grab paper bags. Half of the paper bags were soaked with water, and Chen Ye was in tears of pain.
The hard life of the farm has tempered Chen Ye's will. After that, Chen Ye went to any place and was able to survive.
In 1975, the Shanghai Film Studio prepared the film "Unforgettable Battle" and selected actors throughout the country. One day, 7 members of the crew came to Fengxian May Fourth Farm to interview Chen Ye.
Chen Ye
Chen Ye only knows the actress Zhu Manfang (the mother of actress Wu Junmei), and she does not know any of the directors, assistant directors and other people.
Chen Ye did not have any acting experience, did them a set of broadcast gymnastics, and also told a story "Daddy's Eyes". The crew did not give Chen Ye any results and left, and Chen Ye felt that there was no drama.
Two weeks later, Chen Ye received a letter from the Shanghai Film Studio asking her to audition for the crew. After arriving at the crew, Chen Ye learned that there were more than 10 actresses competing for the only female protagonist in the film, "Fan Kejun".
Chen Ye stills
Stills from Chen Ye's "Unforgettable Battle"
As a result, the director team felt that Chen Ye's image temperament was the closest to the role, and Chen Ye left the farm and began his acting career.
After the release of "Unforgettable Battle" nationwide, Chen Ye's beautiful image and fresh acting skills made the audience shine. After that, she became an extra actor in the studio, and after starring in three plays in the factory, "The Secret of the Axia River", "Blue Sky Defense Line" and "Dawn", Chen Ye was officially transferred to the studio and became a professional actor.
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With the release of films such as "405 Murder", "Burning the Yuanmingyuan", and "Hanging Curtains to Listen to the Government", Chen Ye became a famous actress with Liu Xiaoqing in the 1980s.
Stills of Liu Xiaoqing's "Burning the Yuanmingyuan"
Filming the two dramas of "Hanging Curtains and Listening to Politics" and "Burning the Yuanmingyuan" made Chen Ye unforgettable. In the play, Chen Ye played the "Empress Dowager Ci'an" of the Eastern Palace, and Liu Xiaoqing played the "Empress Dowager Cixi" of the Western Palace. At that time, Director Li Hanxiang of Hong Kong led the actors to shoot in the Forbidden City.
The bracelets, rings and other props worn by Chen Ye and Liu Xiaoqing are authentic national treasure-level antiques and are extremely valuable. If they are accidentally broken, they have to pay the actors themselves, and they can't afford to lose even if they lose their homes.
During the filming, Chen Ye and Liu Xiaoqing were under great pressure. It was not until the end of the filming that the management of the Forbidden City took away the props, and Chen Ye and Liu Xiaoqing were relieved.
Chen Ye, Li Hanxiang and Liu Xiaoqing
Moreover, Chen Ye and Zhou Jie, who played "LiFei", also became girlfriends. Zhou Jie was 6 years younger than her and was working at the Shanghai Opera House at the time, and Chen Ye realized that he and Zhou Jie had always been neighbors. It is worth mentioning that Zhou Jie's sister is the famous singer Mei Jia.
In 1986, under the impact of the tide of going abroad, Chen Ye went to the Drama Department of Heston University in the United States at his own expense to study. In this way, she left the Shanghai Film Studio. By this time, Chen Ye had starred in 18 films, 3 stage plays, and a number of TV series, and had served as a host on the Spring Festival Gala hosted by Shanghai Television.
During her study abroad, Chen Ye also found time to return to China to shoot a drama, and in 1988, she starred in the film "A Generation of Demon Queens".
Chen Ye (right) with her husband
In the 90s of last century, Chen Ye fell in love and got married. Her husband was an authentic American named Charles. Charles has been president of the Houston chapter of the Asia Society, where he has worked on cultural exchanges between China and the United States.
After marriage, Chen Ye gave birth to two sons in succession, she gave the eldest son Chinese named Chen Xiake, and the younger son Chinese named Chen Andong. After becoming a mother, Chen Ye basically faded out of the film world, focusing his time and energy on the family and his two sons.
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In the process of accompanying her sons, Chen Ye, like some Chinese mothers, carried out hardship education for them. She wrote her experience at the farm into an essay called "My Farm" and showed it to her two sons. Looking at it, both sons cried.
Chen Ye with Liu Xiaoqing and Zhou Jie
In order to let his son understand Chinese culture, he also let American children be interested in Chinese culture. When her son was in elementary school, Chen Ye wrote the script "Sun Wukong", she served as a director, and the actors were all Americans. After the film was released in the United States, it was widely acclaimed.
After his two sons graduated from college and joined the work, Chen Ye was completely freed from housework and devoted himself to Sino-US cultural exchanges. She serves on the steering group on the Cultural Exchange Board of the Asia Society of Houston and serves on the boards of two organizations, including the University of Houston Visiting Mission.
In 2015, Chen Ye and her husband spent more than 10 years and spent more than 50 million yuan to establish a guild hall in Houston. Painting exhibitions, Chinese training classes, qigong training classes are often held in the hall, and Chinese food culture is also introduced, so that more locals can understand China and love China.
Under the influence of Chen Ye, her girlfriend Zhou Jie also opened a dance school in Houston, teaching American children to learn Chinese dance.
Chen Ye is very influential among Chinese Americans, and the best-selling book "The Story of the Green Card" in the United States tells the story of 50 outstanding immigrants from all over the world, and Chen Ye is one of them.
Although Chen Ye rarely shoots dramas now, she feels that engaging in Sino-US cultural exchange activities is of greater significance than making several plays herself. She often returns to China to participate in events, introducing Chinese culture and film and television to the United States.
Chen Ye and Liu Xiaoqing
The gap between the quality and level of Chinese films and Hollywood classics is getting smaller and smaller, and Chen Ye is proud of this.
Chen Ye always has a Chinese heart and regards himself as a Chinese in his bones. She taught her husband and two sons to Chinese, eat Chinese food, and celebrate Chinese festivals.
In the spring of 2020, when the epidemic broke out globally, Chen Ye led the local Chinese to donate funds and materials to the epidemic areas in China.
Mr. and Mrs. Chen Ye with two sons
In 2021, Chen Ye has been out for 35 years, but she always misses her hometown. Speaking of everything in her hometown, thinking of her old friends in her hometown, her eyes are often moist.
After many actresses went abroad, the situation was not good, but Chen Ye wrote another kind of glory in life with his own efforts and patriotism!
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