Speaking of old movie star and singer Chi Zhiqiang, many young audiences should not know, and old audiences may not remember him very much. At that time, he was a very popular domestic male film star, almost on a par with Tang Guoqiang and others, and also had many contacts with female film stars such as Liu Xiaoqing and Chen Chong, and the future was unlimited.
And more people had an impression of him at that time, or because he sang songs such as "Tears of Remorse" and "December in Prison", the so-called "Prison Song". And the news that he was severely beaten and imprisoned has also spread wildly.
In the blink of an eye, more than 30 years have passed, and during this time Chi Zhiqiang has told his experience through video websites, which talks about the details of how he was arrested and imprisoned, which makes many netizens lament the difference of the times. Today's Chi Zhiqiang is over 60 years old.
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First of all, let's talk about How beautiful Chi Zhiqiang was as a movie star at that time.
Chi Zhiqiang is a native of Harbin and was born in 1958. Through layers of screening, teenagers became students of the Changchun Film Studio training class. In 1973, after a short period of training, Chi Zhiqiang participated in the filming of his first film "Sunny Days". "Sunny Days" was filmed on location in Hebei's xiangxian county at that time, and a few years later Chi Zhiqiang suffered "bad luck", also in a county in Hebei.
Later, Chi Zhiqiang became an official film actor, starring in films such as "Entrepreneurship" and "Reef", and then starred in his famous work "Small Characters". In this film, Chi Zhiqiang plays a passive and backward bus conductor, who is welcomed by the audience after the screening. "Small Characters" also brought great honors to Chi Zhiqiang, together with 11 young actors such as Tang Guoqiang, Liu Xiaoqing, Chen Chong, Pan Hong, etc., won the Outstanding Young Actor Creation Award of the Ministry of Culture, and the scenery was unlimited for a while.
On appearance, Chi Zhiqiang was not too handsome and young tang Guoqiang, and standing with Chen Chong and others was also a handsome man and a beautiful woman.
Later, Chi Zhiqiang also appeared in movies such as "Gu This and Lost", "Xizhao Street", "The Last Eight People" and so on, and was definitely an actor with an unlimited future.
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However, what happened afterwards reversed Chi Zhiqiang's career and life. In 1982, Chi Zhiqiang was seconded to the Pearl River Film Studio for filming, and under the arrangement of a friend, he and a number of young men and women participated in many ballroom dance parties at a friend's house.
Now, it looks how normal it is for people to dance this kind of dance, and at that time it was still a forbidden area. Therefore, in public, they did not dare to dance, and could only hide in a friend's house and close the curtains to secretly dance, in fact, everyone was dancing, but later the distance with the dance partner was closer, and the so-called "veneer dance" was danced. There, Chi Zhiqiang probably participated five or six times.
In 1983, when Chi Zhiqiang starred in the movie "Jin Bu Chang" in Guanxian County, Hebei Province, he was imprisoned in the county detention center for the previous dance. In October of that year, Chi Zhiqiang was sentenced to four years in prison for hooliganism, and there was a national uproar. You can imagine what public opinion would be like if a popular male star encountered this situation today. Looking at it now, Chi Zhiqiang encountered the "strike hard" of the whole country, and although his behavior was a little out of line, he was definitely dealt with seriously.
In any case, Chi Zhiqiang's film career ended. By October 1985, due to his outstanding performance in reform, Chi Zhiqiang was released from prison after two years of commutation and returned to the long film studio. At this time, he was no longer the same person he was then.
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From 1988 to 1990, Chi Zhiqiang recorded two personal albums "Tears of Regret" and "Embracing Tomorrow" in addition to filming, with a circulation of 10 million plates, and many songs on the album were very popular. Chi Zhiqiang changed from a movie star to a singer.
However, many years later, some musicians revealed that in fact, those songs that sang the popular national song were not sung by Chi Zhiqiang himself, but a small and famous song hall singer in Changchun. The producer saw that Chi Zhiqiang's voice was not suitable for singing at all, so he made this decision and gave the singer 50,000 yuan after recording. In other words, the people of the whole country have been "deceived".
Of course, Chi Zhiqiang is not without any contribution, he recited the monologue part of the album, including the sentence - "The greatest tragedy in life is the loss of freedom; the greatest pain in life is the loss of relatives and friends." Although Chi Zhiqiang only received a reward of 1500 yuan, he was indeed more famous because of it, and songs such as "Ten Should Nots" were sung all over the country.
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I also remember a thing from the past. Around 2007, I went on a business trip to Chizhou, Anhui Province, and unexpectedly found that there was a performance arrangement of Chi Zhiqiang in the humble performance place next to the hotel. According to the poster, Chi Zhiqiang is a famous male singer nebula in China. I did not expect at the time that Chi Zhiqiang, who had not appeared for a long time, was still quietly touring in third- and fourth-tier cities.
Over the years, Chi Zhiqiang has also participated in some film and television dramas, but it is not the same as the scenery of the 70s and 80s.
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To talk about the ups and downs of life, experiences like Chi Zhiqiang's are indeed extremely rare. The big hand of fate lifted him up first, then suddenly withdrew and pressed him to the ground, let go of his hand and then lifted him up again, full of magical drama.
Judging from today's video, Chi Zhiqiang's appearance and mental state are still very good, and it can be seen that after several baptisms of fate, life is relatively happy and happy.