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When they first met, Xiao Hua only regarded Zhang Yimou as a lively and active teenager, and never expected that he would enter the palace of marriage with him.
However, as time passed, Zhang Yimou's unpretentious quality and love for life gradually moved Xiao Hua, and the emotions between the two gradually sublimated into deep love in ordinary days.
So, Zhang Yimou and Xiao Hua spent three full years in that strange and isolated small village.
They live together in a humble cave and face the challenges of life together.
When night fell, the two hugged each other tightly, hiding in that small but warm space, sharing each other's joys, sorrows, and sorrows.
This special experience has made the relationship between the two more and more stable, and it has become deeper and more firm under the baptism of time. Whenever Zhang Yimou stares at Xiao Hua's silhouette under the kerosene lamp, endless love will always emerge in his heart.
And Xiao Hua was also deeply attracted by the innocence and kindness of this naughty teenager, and in him, she found the warmth of home and the sustenance of the years.
At that time, they were like a pair of lovers made in heaven. However, fate is always so unpredictable, and the relationship between Zhang Yimou and Xiao Hua has not escaped the fate of separation after all.
Just when Zhang Yimou and Xiao Hua's relationship reached its peak, fate played a cruel joke on the lovers.
In 1971, they had to end their life in the countryside and return to the city to continue their studies.
Since then, the two have embarked on a long journey of separation.
Although Xiao Hua once rejected the warm hearts of three enthusiastic suitors, her poignant love with Zhang Yimou could not escape the fatal reincarnation of the pain of separation. After returning to the bustling city, Zhang Yimou devoted himself to the film career he loved.
With his extraordinary talent and dedication to his artistic career, he quickly made a name for himself in the film industry and became a well-known emerging director in the industry.
At this moment, Xiao Hua is alone in the empty home taking care of housework, taking care of her daughter Zhang Mo, and an indescribable resentment towards her husband's career gradually grows in her heart.
Whenever she sees her husband leaving in a hurry, there is always a touch of sadness in her eyes, and Zhang Yimou is often exhausted by the pressure of heavy work, and the awkward atmosphere when the husband and wife get along is getting aggravated, replaced by endless silence.
Finally, when their daughter Zhang Mo was six years old, they had to make the difficult decision to separate. The once warm and harmonious family was shattered, leaving only painful memories full of devastation.
After the divorce, Zhang Mo's resentment towards her father reached its peak in her heart, and her father was a ruthless, career-oriented person who did not hesitate to sacrifice his own happiness and his mother's happiness for the sake of the film industry, and even had a prejudice against his own gender.
When Zhang Yimou fell in love with international film superstar Gong Li in 1998, Zhang Mo's anger was as uncontrollable as a volcanic eruption. She hates that the "Angel of Destruction" ruthlessly intervened in the relationship between her parents, trying to completely destroy it all, and hopes that her parents can be reunited.
However, the harsh reality ruthlessly shattered all her beautiful fantasies.
Just as Zhang Mo was full of anger and trying to mend the rift in his parents' marriage, Zhang Yimou's life once again underwent earth-shaking drastic changes. In 2000, a chance encounter led him to meet the other half of his life - Chen Ting.
The woman, who is 31 years younger than Zhang Yimou, met the talented director by participating in the role audition for the movie "Happy Times" directed by him.
The first time the two met, it was like an old friend reuniting, and Zhang Yimou was deeply attracted by this youthful, innocent and lovely girl. And Chen Ting was also fascinated by Zhang Yimou's thoughtful, calm and introverted temperament and witty and humorous personality.
As a result, they quickly fell into a sweet love vortex.
Although Chen Ting seems so gentle, elegant and calm, Zhang Yimou still chose to hide the fact of marriage for a period of time in order to protect this young relationship and prevent it from being controversial and slandered by the outside world.
Whenever Chen Ting felt unsettled due to the pressure of public opinion in her surroundings, Zhang Yimou always appeased her fragile heart with an extremely careful and thoughtful attitude, whispered loving words to her, and gave her full protection with practical actions.
It was under such a strong shelter that the lovers' relationship flourished without hindrance. Soon after, they ushered in the crystallization of love - their son Zhang Yinan. In stark contrast to the growth environment of his sister Zhang Mo, Zhang Yinan has been bathed in the meticulous care of his parents since he was a child.
He seems to have a happy family, but in reality, he knows very little about his parents' past.
When Zhang Mo learned that her father and Chen Ting had indeed had a son, Zhang Yinan, her heart was full of complicated emotions. She couldn't hide her disappointment, and at the same time felt a hint of jealousy for the patron of her father's new family.
Faced with this situation, she resolutely resisted this "new family" at first.
Facing Zhang Yimou and Chen Ting's new family, Zhang Mo was full of contradictions in his heart. On the one hand, she is jealous of her younger brother Zhang Yinan, who was born of her father's union with Chen Ting; On the other hand, she knows that the time she spends with her father is extremely precious, and if she is too tough on Chen Ting, she may make the relationship with her father worse.
After a fierce ideological struggle, Zhang Mo finally mustered up the courage to make an important decision - she took the initiative to ask to visit her father's crew, hoping to take this opportunity to get in touch with her father's career more deeply, so as to resolve the estrangement between the two.
This visit completely subverted the trajectory of Zhang Mo's life.
At the scene of the crew, Zhang Mo witnessed his father's extreme devotion to work. I saw Zhang Yimou holding the clipboard in his hand, with a serious expression, sometimes savoring the lines, sometimes figuring out the composition of the shot, meticulous and meticulous polishing every detail.
He has a lot of trust in the crew, but he is extremely strict with himself. Even if there is even the slightest flaw, he must insist on revising it repeatedly until he reaches the state of perfection.
In the face of her father's dedicated work attitude, Zhang Mo's heart was filled with deep admiration and respect, and she finally deeply understood the incomparably noble significance of her father's career, as well as the great hardships paid by film art creators.
Since then, she no longer understands her father's love for work as a "selfish" performance for personal success, but a heartfelt admiration for her father's serious and professional dedication has risen from the bottom of her heart.
Influenced and inspired by his sister, his son Zhang Yi was precocious and became enthusiastic about the field of artistic creation. Growing up in that strong artistic atmosphere, he was born with an outstanding aesthetic talent.
As he grew older, Zhang Yinan resolutely decided to go overseas for further study, hoping to continue to climb on the road of film art and strive for excellence like his father.
So, under the influence of this atmosphere of pursuing the road of literature and art together, the family worked together to build a better life. Zhang Mo gradually got rid of the psychological trauma brought by the past years, and sincerely accepted the position of Ms. Chen Ting as a stepmother in the family.
It is worth mentioning that last year, Zhang Yinan also actively participated in the filming and production of the giant film "Sniper" directed by his father, and contributed his meager strength to his father with practical actions.
Today, Zhang Yimou has achieved brilliant achievements and is well-known in the film industry, and he has twice served as the chief director of the closing ceremonies of the Olympic Games. However, what he is most proud of is not the honor at work, but his warm and harmonious "family of six".
The eldest daughter, Zhang Mo, finally completely let go of her past resentments and insecurities and devoted herself to this new family. In 2016, she tied the knot with the well-known painter Meng Danqing, and since then she has started a new chapter of her independent life.
And his son Zhang Yinan has always been his father's most proud protégé, and the teacher-student relationship between them is as close as a brother.
Just last year, Zhang Yinan actively participated in the filming and production of the masterpiece "Sniper" directed by his father, and took on crucial behind-the-scenes work. Seeing his son maturing day by day, Zhang Yimou felt an indescribable sense of pride in his heart.
For him, who has lost the warmth of his family several times and has been traumatized physically and mentally, now he finally has a happy family of his own.
This happiness is not easy to come by, precisely because every family member has an unwavering belief in love and an unremitting pursuit of dreams. It is the power of love that unites this family; It is the call of dreams that allows the family to find a common topic on the road of art.
Today, they have regarded each other as the most precious treasure in their lives, with incomparable tolerance and understanding, full of appreciation and respect, and gazing affectionately at this seemingly ordinary but such extraordinary family affection!