On June 20, 1966, an ordinary intellectual family welcomed their daughter, Jiang Wenli, in Bengbu, Anhui Province, China. Because her parents are very busy with their respective jobs, little Jiang Wenli has mainly lived with her grandparents since she was born.
Dad is an engineer and needs to go out a lot for work; My mother works as an operator in the railway bureau and has to go to work every day. Although she can't always be with her children, her parents are very concerned about Jiang Wenli's education.
The father would bring back some world classics for his daughter in other places to cultivate her literary taste. The mother also enrolled her daughter in various interest classes such as dance, calligraphy, and painting, so that she could get a comprehensive enlightenment education.
Both parents hope that Jiang Wenli will be admitted to a key university in the future, and it is best to follow in her father's footsteps and become an engineer. However, in the college entrance examination, Jiang Wenli only reached the admission line of the ideal college with a difference of only 3 points.
Under the arrangement of her parents, she entered a water conservancy college to study Xi, and was assigned to work in the water plant after graduation.
For this result, the ambitious Jiang Wenli was not reconciled in her heart. She didn't want to live that ordinary and unpromising life. So, 22-year-old Jiang Wenli chose to say goodbye to the "iron rice bowl", and through her own efforts, she was finally admitted to the Performance Department of Beijing Film Academy.
Here, her path to stardom has only just begun.
In the acting department of Beijing Film Academy, Jiang Wenli quickly gained attention for her handsome appearance, and she and her classmate Xu Qing were called "two golden flowers" by everyone.
In her sophomore year, Jiang Wenli fell in love with a boy, Wang Quanan. Wang Quanan is her senior brother, from Shaanxi, with a bold personality. The two often clasped their fingers and walked across the campus, receiving the blessings of many classmates.
However, the good times did not last long, and in 1989 the school organized a sorority and invited a number of alumni who had already become famous. Among them are famous directors such as Chen Kaige and Zhang Yimou, as well as Gu Changwei, who is already a well-known photographer at the age of 32.
At the party, Gu Changwei noticed the 23-year-old Jiang Wenli at a glance. She has a good look, and she is gentle and generous, giving people a bookish feeling. The two chatted speculatively and both left each other's contact information.
Since then, Gu Changwei has begun a four-year pursuit. He used various names to invite Jiang Wenli to attend the event and express his love for her. At first, Jiang Wenli also had a good impression of Gu Changwei, but she still thought about Wang Quanan in her heart.
It wasn't until 1992 that Gu Changwei recommended Jiang Wenli to star in the new film "Farewell My Concubine" by the great director Chen Kaige, and the situation changed.
In 1999, 33-year-old Jiang Wenli won the Best Actress Award at the 19th Feitian Awards for her outstanding acting skills in the TV series "Holding Hands". This is the first major award in her acting career, and it was a blockbuster, which made the entertainment industry look up to this powerful actress.
Eight years later, Jiang Wenli won a number of actress awards again with the movie "Lichun", including the Best Actress Award at the 2nd Rome International Film Festival and the Best Actress Award at the 27th Chinese Film Golden Rooster Awards.
This film established her status as a top-notch acting actor in the film industry.
Then, in 2008, Jiang Wenli won the Best Actress Award at the 14th Shanghai TV Festival Magnolia Award for the TV series "Golden Wedding". In just 10 years, she has won top awards in the field of films and TV dramas, and has become one of the best actresses in the mainland.
With these three masterpieces, Jiang Wenli proved herself with her strength. Her superb acting skills and unique charm have been highly recognized both inside and outside the industry. While contributing outstanding works to Chinese film and television art, Jiang Wenli has also strengthened her acting skills, accumulated popularity, and has since occupied a place in the entertainment industry.
After Jiang Wenli and Gu Changwei got married for many years, their marriage gradually existed in name only in the eyes of the outside world. In 2009, some media revealed that Gu Changwei and a young woman were ambiguous in the car.
In order to avoid being negative, there were subsequent reports that falsely claimed that there were constant ambiguous scandals between Jiang Wenli and Xiao Xianrou Huang Xuan.
Huang Xuan is 19 years younger than Jiang Wenli, and she brought it into the brokerage company to cultivate. In the TV series that the two collaborated on, there was no shortage of kiss scenes and intimate scenes. This made the rumors more and more outrageous, and some media even disclosed the "evidence" of Jiang Wenli's private meeting with Huang Xuan.
In the face of these scandals, Jiang Wenli, who was in the center of the whirlpool, must have been under great psychological pressure. One wants to keep her family, the other wants to keep her career, and she is in a dilemma.
Her husband's romance has brought a shadow to her marriage, and Huang Xuan is related to the character she has built over the years. has been up and down in the entertainment industry for many years, Jiang Wenli has experienced unprecedented tests.
These negative news undoubtedly also affected Jiang Wenli's impression in the public mind. Viewers don't know whether it's true or not, and can only choose to believe the more eye-catching gossip news.
For actresses, scandals are tantamount to a cancer in their careers.
Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, Jiang Wenli has transformed from a slender girl to a 53-year-old mature woman. In 2019, she won the Magnolia Award for Best Actress at the Shanghai TV Festival again with the TV series "Little Women Under Zhengyang Gate", which is her fourth post-TV title.
In her 30-year acting career, Jiang Wenli has been a first-line actress in the mainland with her strength and popularity, and her TV series are also deeply loved by the public. However, since the crew finished in 2019, everyone found that Jiang Wenli rarely appeared in public, and there was no news of the new product.
For a while, there was a lot of discussion about whether Jiang Wenli chose to fade out of the entertainment industry. For the majority of TV drama fans, it is a great happiness to be able to enjoy Jiang Wenli's wonderful works.
If she really quits the film and television industry, it will undoubtedly be a huge regret for fans.
The popular star gradually faded out of sight, which also confirmed the impermanence of the entertainment industry. Those who are truly top actors often need to maintain a continuous creative passion in order to gain a foothold in this circle.
And artists with a single acting path or declining popularity will inevitably be replaced by newcomers in the end. That's the cruelty of this circle.
Looking back on Jiang Wenli's acting career, we can't help but sigh that she came through with perseverance and the spirit of nirvana. From being admitted to Nortel at the age of 22, to winning both actresses in the film and television industry, and then to being plagued by various scandals, her road is by no means easy.
However, Jiang Wenli never chose to be afraid, but faced all kinds of difficulties and faced difficulties. has won the post-TV crown many times, which represents the industry's high recognition of her acting skills.
Despite her sudden disappearance last year, her contribution to the Chinese TV drama industry will be recorded.
We don't know the reason for Jiang Wenli's retirement, maybe she wants to protect her family, or she simply wants to start a new life. But we should respect her personal decision and be grateful for the wonderful work she brought to everyone.
After retiring, I sincerely wish her a happy life. Regardless of whether she returns to the entertainment industry in the future, Jiang Wenli will always be the only amiable actress in our minds. Her superb acting skills will become a model for future generations to learn from Xi.
Hope she's well.