Charmaine Sheh won hemp with "The Queen of News", but I want to applaud "She Who Fell Down"!

A while ago, Charmaine Sheh's "Queen of News" won a lot, and swept 8 awards at the just-concluded "Thousands of Stars Awards Ceremony 2023", among which Charmaine Sheh scored three times and won the three major queens with the role of "Wen Huixin", the heroine of the elite in the workplace.

This workplace drama has naturally become the light of Hong Kong dramas, reproducing the glorious moments of TVB's workplace dramas back then.

I think I was still a student back then, but I didn't watch those popular workplace dramas, such as the legal drama "No. 1 Royal Court", the forensic drama "Forensic Record", the fashion medical drama "Wonderful Hands and Benevolence", and the flight attendant drama "Rushing to the Clouds".

At that time, TVB's star Hua Dan "Chen Huishan", who specialized in playing the ever-changing workplace elite, was definitely more sassy and heroic, decisive and capable than today's "Charmaine Sheh".

Although Chen Huishan is not very beautiful, she has a unique style and an outstanding temperament. Her slightly angular cheeks and intellectual calm eyes just neutralize the sensuality and gentleness of women, highlighting women's rationality and wisdom.

No matter what workplace role she plays, Chen Huishan always feels natural and real, as if she is acting in her true colors, and thus has become a "teacher" of career enlightenment for a generation.

For a long time, Chen Huishan rarely appeared on the screen, and when she was mentioned again, it was all about her simple and twilight life after she was "outdated".

In fact, in the more than ten years since she faded out of the audience's field of vision, she has quietly completed a gorgeous turn, and seriously played the roles of "English teacher", "mother", "doctor of education", "educator" and other roles in her life script, which is equally wonderful.

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Chen Huishan herself has a good educational background, she graduated from Boston University, one of the "New Ivies" in the United States, majoring in journalism and communication, and belongs to the highly educated talents in TVB.

But what brought Chen Huishan "knowledge and wisdom" was not only her academic qualifications, but her life experience, and her father was her first teacher.

Chan was born in Hong Kong to a progressive middle-class family, her father was a dancer and a former dance director at Hong Kong Television.

In order to get a better education for his children, Chen's father chose to move his family to Boston, USA when Chen Huishan was 5 years old, so Chen Huishan grew up under the American education system.

The decision to emigrate suddenly became more stressful, and Chen's father had to work as a bilingual teacher at a public school, teach Chinese dance, and open his own dance institution.

Chen Huishan was infected by her father's enthusiasm for bravely pursuing her ideals and tireless motivation to move forward, which became the source of her spirit for daring to explore in the future.

Although Chen's father advocates learning, he never blindly worships learning, and when it comes to recruiting dance students, he prefers to choose students with poor academic performance, and in his opinion, dance may be a tool for them to regain their confidence outside of studying.

Chen's father has always been sincere and attentive to students, and he believes that only when students really care about them will students establish a more trusting relationship with their teachers, which is more effective than spurring and scolding students.

These educational concepts made Chen Huishan feel for the first time that students understand that love is a more important thing, and reading is not the only Yangguan road, life is all roads lead to Rome, and you can have dreams and a future if you don't study well.

Under the influence of her father, Chen Huishan also likes to dance, she hopes to embark on the road of dance and become a dancer, but the road of life is not the one she wants to take.

Due to her hard work, she was forced to interrupt her dance learning due to an ankle injury during a practice, but she also had more time and determination to devote herself to learning.

In the end, Chen Huishan was successfully admitted to Boston University with all A+ scores. After graduating, she worked as an assistant director in the news department of Boston TV Station, and when she first entered the workplace, in an environment that discriminated against Chinese people, no matter how hard she tried, she was only rewarded with criticism and injustice.

In 1994, Chen Huishan, who had already married a family, decided to return to Hong Kong for development, and she successfully joined the news department of TVB Pearl Channel, serving as a news program and weather program host, reporter and director.

At this time, her Bole appeared, and TVB's well-known director and producer Deng Texi found that this girl had an intellectual, capable, mature and stable temperament, which was very suitable for workplace dramas.

On the screen for the first time, Chen Huishan became an instant hit, and the lawyer Ou Ziqiang she played in "Huangting No. 1 5" is calm and cool, focused on her career, and does not rely on her boyfriend. Chen Huishan's appearance has become the biggest highlight of the show, making the ratings of the TV series rise instead of falling.

Since then, Chen Huishan has ushered in her golden 7 years, acting in what profession is like what profession, and becoming the fastest star in TVB to become a leading star.

Nie Baoyan 👇, the female forensic doctor in "Forensic Records".

Le Yishan 👇, who set off a trend of uniforms in "Rushing to the Clouds".

It is said that after the broadcast of "Forensic Records", the number of female applicants in the forensic medicine department of Tongji Medical College increased significantly, and a forensic doctor from the Changchun Railway Public Security Department also stepped into the forensic profession under her influence.

Whenever she hears such news, Chen Huishan is very satisfied in her heart, and the "work" that affects other people's career choices is so meaningful, this feeling is familiar, like the influence of Chen's father's career choice and education concept on herself.

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In 2004, Chen Huishan left TVB and gradually faded out of the screen, she explained: "When I was in TVB, the work was very smooth, but there was really a part of your heart that was missing, you didn't know what the unsatisfied part was, and if you were in it, you would never find the answer." ”

However, the path of search is still full of unknowns, and it takes time and opportunity.

Two years after divorcing her first husband, Chen Huishan and her agent Zhong Jiahong entered the marriage hall, and the two had a baby daughter the following year.

Until 2012, her husband Zhong Jiahong declared bankruptcy, and Chen Huishan, who had been silent for a long time, was forced to return to work, and also took over some programs and performances, but her main job was to be an English teacher in an English training institution in Shenzhen, which lasted for 5 years.

When people learn that the former TVB transformed into an English teacher, they can't help but sigh and regret it.

Chen Huishan was not affected by the sighs, she focused on her real role. Those words of praise that once surrounded her on the screen are still applicable when she is down-to-earth and really steps into the workplace.

"She focuses on improving children's language ability and quality, and there is never any hype", she is an "outstanding educator", "an excellent English teacher", and she will always be a "intellectual, beautiful, intelligent, and knowledgeable" workplace image in front of and behind the scenes.

The education she received from school and family was not in vain or buried, and she continued to shine in new fields with the knowledge she learned and her tireless spirit.

In 2012, at the age of 41, Chan started her master's degree in education (English education) at HKU, and two years later, she continued to study for a doctorate in education, graduating in 2020 at the age of 49.

As for why she returned to school when she was not confused at 40, Chen Huishan explained that the most important reason was her daughter.

"My daughter grows up, sometimes I don't know if I taught her or she taught me, and I find that I am more and more lacking in something, and the knowledge and ability I have are not enough to teach her, and the knowledge I have learned is always my own, and it will never be taken away. Although I have not completely decided where to go after studying, I hope to have the opportunity to contribute to education. ”

Chen Huishan has always believed that "teaching yourself" can "educate others", which is also the way she benefits the most from education, and it is also the way she educates her daughter.

Chen Huishan's daughter Zhong Luran Mira was originally a shy and introverted girl, she often took her daughter to meetings with collaborators, so that her daughter could see what her parents were working on, what they said, and what kind of person they were doing.

Over the past few years, Mira's self-confidence has increased significantly, and her daughter, who was afraid to be on camera before, offered to participate in her mother's filming, she will be more willing to contact different people, and discuss some meaningful things and life goals with her classmates and friends at school.

Once Chen Huishan went to pick up her daughter from school, her daughter was worried that her classmates would be late for school in traffic jams, and she was worried that her classmates walking on the road would be wet in the rain.

In addition to teaching by example and tutoring, Chen Huishan pays great attention to cultivating her daughter's autonomy and letting her explore and experience it on her own.

When her daughter asks her how to answer her homework like any other child, Chen Huishan will patiently help her analyze the problem and guide her daughter to find the answer by herself.

"After going through a tough test, I can feel happy at the end. If I tell her how to do it or the answer right away, then the process is meaningless. ”

How to find the answer to life, Chen Huishan and his wife are also the same to guide and educate their daughter, standing on the 2,500-year-old pagoda in Nepal, Chen Huishan has feelings: "The process is sometimes more important than the result, when encountering some things, sometimes it is impossible to make a decision quickly, but it takes a certain amount of time to witness, explore, and go through a long journey of perseverance to find the answer, even if it is partial." ”

So when many parents are worried that their children will not be able to enter top universities, Chen Huishan is not worried, she very much agrees with the Swiss education philosophy: academic qualifications are not the most important, the most important thing is the attitude of lifelong learning, a person can find their passion, life will naturally be wonderful.

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Washing away the lead, Chen Huishan has found the answer that was once missing, that is, lifelong self-education.

"If you graduate at the age of 30, you still have 60 or 70 years to go on the road of life, and education is not only about what you learn academically or at home, but also about lifelong learning. ”

With such thinking and enthusiasm, Chen Huishan and her husband paid out of their own pockets, spent 7 figures, and prepared for 5 years to shoot the educational documentary trilogy "After School", "In School", and "Before School Starts", hoping to root the concept of lifelong self-education in the hearts of more people.

In 2019, "After School" has been successfully launched, Chen Huishan interviewed people from more than a dozen industries and different age groups from 70 to 90 as a student, a parent, and an educator, including Xuan Xuan, Wu Zhenyu, Myolie Wu, Li Ruotong and other friends in the circle, entertainment celebrities, as well as ordinary people such as students, teachers, entrepreneurs, and senior political officials, to discuss the mysteries of education with them.

The show is not preachy and there is no chicken soup, Chen Huishan encouraged the guests to share freely and sincerely, and look at the dark and highlight moments of education and growth encountered along the way from the first perspective of life.

Hong Kong star Wu Zhenyu is not highly educated, his best teacher is his mother, who has never read, she is strong and unyielding, optimistic, and has her own set of life philosophy, and her mother often teaches her not to bully others, and not to be bullied by others.

Once Wu Zhenyu saw a bruise on his son's face, he asked his son why, it turned out that he was beaten by a classmate at school, but Wu Zhenyu did not intervene directly, but taught the child how to protect himself in the face of violence, which is a compulsory course for boys.

Chan and her old friend Xuan Xuan strolled the streets of England and chatted about educational moments that would affect her life.

Xuan Xuan studied abroad at the age of 12 and graduated from Imperial College London, one of the top 3 universities in the UK, where she learned a lot of social etiquette, which helped her gain the trust and recognition of others faster in her work.

She can also benefit from another teacher, who is her nanny Aunt Ying, who has been her nanny since she was a child, from trivial things such as how to fold clothes and how to go downstairs to play, to the sincerity and care she often feels, all of which have the influence of Sister Ying's simplicity.

Xuan Xuan, who is now in her 50s, is happy, although she was very anxious that her golden age is about to pass after the age of 30, but in retrospect, the time when she is really happy is after the age of 30, even if she has experienced the most difficulties and sadness at the age of 30-40.

What changed all this was an American actor he had never met, who said in an interview that his mindset when facing life's dilemmas was: don't ask why me, but try me.

Hearing this, Xuan Xuan's whole mind was open, she no longer had a detailed plan, but more relaxed and casual to take one step at a time.

During the interview, Chen Huishan heard the anxiety of many people, and also saw the bold attempts and efforts of many educators.

Natalie, born in the 90s, is an innovative education entrepreneur who founded the "Freedom Academy" to advocate the idea that wherever talent is needed, it is a student's classroom.

She believes that the notion that "only good grades in school can achieve something" is outdated, and that modern society pays more attention to internships and experiences, allowing children to boldly explore what they want at the age of twelve or thirteen, creating opportunities for them to practice and experience, and they will find their own possibilities.

Of course, there are many difficulties to face in education reform, and Natalie needs to spend a lot of energy to convince parents not to spend a lot of time taking up their children's time and satisfying their parents' sense of security, especially when children don't like it, and parents need to help their children discover their talents.

The bigger difficulty is that education requires patience, and new educational methods cannot give parents answers in a matter of weeks or even months, often taking three to five years or more.

Education is a grand topic, there is no standard and only answer, Chen Huishan is very self-aware and well-known, she said that "education is like a black hole, a journey in the unknown and exploration", but she also feels that the process of discussion itself has meaning, it can promote more people to think deeply about education.

In the future, Chen Huishan will continue to record her "In School" and "Before the Start of School" to continue self-education and discussion education.