In 1948, Wei Qing was born into a family of revolutionaries, and his parents were both Red Army soldiers who followed the party and participated in the Long March. Although the family is not wealthy, she has been educated in poetry, books and music since she was a child.
Whenever her parents sang those revolutionary songs, Xiao Weiqing always sang along with her immature voice, her expression was serious and engaging.
At the age of 14, Wei Qing joined a local art troupe and had the opportunity to perform on stage for the first time. She was pleasantly surprised to find that she had a special talent for it, and every time she rehearsed, her body would dance to the rhythm of the music, and her whole body would be brought into the music and dance, and it aroused extremely passionate emotions.
"I want to be a professional stage performer!" After the first performance, Wei Qing said firmly to her parents. The parents looked at the glint in their daughter's eyes and smiled with satisfaction.
Unfortunately, the good times did not last long, the Cultural Revolution came, the art troupe was disbanded, and Wei Qing could only return to the countryside with his parents and work hard in the fields. The enthusiasm for performance and the vision for the future when they were young were also slowly suppressed by the burden of life.
It wasn't until the age of 60 that the seeds of acting were finally awakened again.
At the age of 60, Wei Qing's son Mao Hao finally passed the selection and became a professional actor, and joined the group to shoot his first TV series. Wei Qing was very relieved and began to frequently go to the crew to visit the class.
When she walked into the shooting site for the first time, watched the staff busy adjusting the props and lighting, and listened to the director's continuous modification of the camera position and lens language, Wei Qing felt a burst of enthusiasm.
The stage dream of many years seems to be rekindled in her heart.
"Mom, do you want to try acting too?" One day, the hairy boy jokingly said to Wei Qing, who was still in a trance.
"After all these years, I'm no longer suitable. Wei Qing responded with a smile. However, this joke caught the director's attention, and he couldn't help but be interested when he saw Wei Qing's focused and engaged expression on the monitor many times.
In this way, 60-year-old Wei Qing started his first scene with the encouragement of his son. "Very good, very good, your talent is hard to find!" After that audition performance, the director was full of surprise.
After years of hard work, the 75-year-old Wei Qing has grown into a veteran actor and has played an important supporting role in many popular film and television dramas.
In the movie "I Am Not the God of Medicine", Wei Qing interprets the image of an elderly woman suffering from leukemia. She is terminally ill but still misses her children's Xi movements and subtle expressions, which made many viewers cry after watching it.
This also directly drove the box office of the whole film to exceed the 3 billion mark.
Later, Wei Qing successfully created a remarkable image of a martyr's mother in "Wolf Warrior 2", which moved countless audiences. So far, she has officially become the first "10 billion old lady" in the Chinese film industry.
Years of hard work have not been in vain, Wei Qing has proved with her skilled and exquisite acting skills that even the elderly can also radiate dazzling light in the film and television industry. She has gradually become synonymous with an "acting school" in the film and television industry.
Now, 75-year-old Wei Qing has finally fulfilled her stage dream of girlhood and stands at a new height in her life and career. She has starred in popular film and television dramas such as "River God" and "I Am Not the God of Medicine", which has achieved a box office income of more than 100 million, among which "Wolf Warrior 2" in which she participated broke the box office record of 20 billion, making her the first "10 billion old lady".
It's hard to imagine that this "tear maker" on the screen was once an ordinary person who was passionate about acting but couldn't realize his dreams. After experiencing the many blows of life, it was not until she was 60 years old that she really took the first step towards stardom.
We often say that after the 70s is a person's second spring. And Wei Qing's success proves to people that at the age of 70 or even 90, you can still have a beautiful and wonderful life.
With her incomparable hard work, she can be called the best example for middle-aged and elderly people to realize their dreams.
Life is a long road, and dreams never have an expiration date. Just like Wei Qing, no matter how old you are, as long as you insist on yourself and chase bravely, nothing is impossible. Her story has also invisibly inspired countless middle-aged and elderly people in adversity.