In this kaleidoscopic entertainment circle, some people will be inexplicably popular and pampered overnight; some people have never been popular, but he has devoted his life to acting. This person is Qin Pei, a powerful actor who has won numerous awards.
01
Qin Pei, whose original name was Jiang Changnian and nicknamed "Fat Fat", was born in Beijing on June 26, 1945.
Qin Pei's mother, Hongwei, was a Manchu yellow flag bearer, performed in a song and dance troupe with her brother at the age of 12, married the famous Shanghai actor Yan Hua (formerly known as Jiang Keqi) in the 1940s, and had 8 children, only the eldest son Jiang Hongnian, the third son Jiang Changnian, the fourth son Jiang Weinian (Jiang David) and the only daughter Jiang Huimin.
Qin Pei and his younger siblings went to the set with their parents and mothers since childhood, and they were no strangers to their uncles and aunts, and the director sometimes needed small actors, so he said: "Hey, bring that Yanhua son." ”
Qin Pei began filming at the age of 3, with the stage name Yan Chang, the first play played Bai Guang's son in "Slut's Heart", and the second play was "Spring Thunder" starring Li Lihua and her father Yan Hua.
When Qin Pei was 6 years old, Yan Hua died, and the next year Hongwei's younger brother also died, and Hongwei alone took on the responsibility of supporting the family of two families of 12. In order to share the pressure of his mother's life, Qin Pei and his younger siblings became child stars.
The younger sister quit the show business because she did not like acting, and Qin Pei and his younger brother Jiang David insisted until today.
Hongwei remarried to Shaw producer Er Guang with her children, and gave birth to Er Dongsheng in 1957.
The life of the whole family began to get better, and Erguang also provided resources for his children, forming a new company by himself, asking Li Hanxiang to direct "Little Angel on the Road", and Hongwei, Qin Pei, Jiang David, and Jiang Huimin's whole family went to the battlefield.
Film masters Li Hanxiang, Zhang Che and Hu Jinquan are their regular guests, and Li Hanxiang was promoted by Erguang all the way from the beginning of his special appointment to the director.
Hu Jinquan also started as an actor, and starred in "Wandering Child" with Qin Pei Jiang David.
After Qin Pei graduated from middle school, because of his good English, he went to the Hong Kong Patrol Inspectorate, and at that time the Patrol Inspector had a monthly salary of 500 yuan and a stable income. At this time, Li Hanxiang said to him, what to do, it is better to become an actor and go to Taiwan to shoot a drama.
Li Hanxiang's Guolian Company in Taiwan gives 800 yuan a month, 300 yuan more than the inspector. Qin Pei thought that the extra 300 yuan was just enough to earn all the rent money, so he went to the League of Nations Company and officially stepped into the film circle.
Li Hanxiang gave him the stage name "Qin Pei", which originated from the word "admiration" in Chinese.
Qin Pei at The League of Nations Company in Taiwan
Mainland audiences familiar with Qin Pei's screen image are mostly classic green leaves, among which there are many negative characters, with a treacherous smile hanging from the corner of their mouths and a bad stomach. Who would have thought that as early as the 1960s, Qin Pei was a popular student of Taiwan's first batch of Qiong Yao romance films, leaving behind several Qiong Yao films such as "Several Degrees of Sunset Red", "Silk Flower", "Moon Full West Building", "Moss Trace" and so on.
From the beginning of Qin Pei to the later Qin Han and Qin Xianglin, "Qiong Yao Xiaosheng wants to be surnamed Qin" has become a tradition.
In 1966, the Hollywood film "St. Paul's Gunboat" was filmed in Taiwan to find actors, directed by Robert Wise, the director of the famous "Sound of Music".
Qin Pei went to the interview, the other party asked him how old he was to start filming, Qin Pei said that he had been acting since he was 3 years old, and the other party was surprised, so Qin Pei became the first Hong Kong actor invited to appear in a Hollywood film.
Qin Pei also introduced his younger brother Jiang David into the crew of "St. Paul's Gunboat", following the martial arts instructor Tang Jia as a dragon and tiger martial artist. Jiang David followed Tang Jia back to Shaw's, and his career soared and became popular.
St. Paul's Gunboats
Qin Pei also entered Shaw in 1970, but instead of making martial arts films like David Jiang, he made love fashion films such as "Sunset Love".
Qin Pei sighed that It was very hard for Jiang David and Er Dongsheng to shoot martial arts films, and it was even harder to shoot literary and art films by themselves, because it was too tiring to run on the beach with the heroine and hold the heroine in circles!
Qin Pei had a conflict with Director Shaw when filming "A Thousand Miles Tracking", and was expelled by Shaw as a result.
Qin Pei turned around and went to Taiwan, following Li Hanxiang and Hu Jinquan as assistant directors, and when Hu Jinquan was filming "Empty Mountain Spirit Rain" and "Legend in the Mountains" in South Korea, Qin Pei was both an assistant producer, an actor and an assistant director.
Qin Pei said: "As a filmmaker, I can work with the international directors Li Hanxiang and Hu Jinquan, and I think I have nothing to regret. ”
But he thought that a play from preparation to post-production often takes seven or eight months, the director fee is not high, and as an actor in these months can shoot several films, and finally chose to be an actor.
After Qin Pei returned to Hong Kong, the development was not very ideal, from the male protagonist to a supporting role, some people laughed at his name as "diligent and earnest to do supporting roles", but he said: "Even in the bad drama, I Qin Pei still use a hundred hearts to act." ”
Qin Pei joined TVB in 1981 and played the Mongolian Khan Temujin in "The Legend of the Archery Hero" starring Huang Rihua Weng Meiling, which left a deep impression on mainland audiences.
Qin Pei participated in popular TV series such as "Heaven and Earth Pride", "Genesis", "Flowing Golden Years", "Peerless Good Dad" and so on, although they are all supporting roles, his performance is indispensable in the play. Whether it is a mall tycoon, a sinister villain or a good man at home, it is all interpreted in three points.
Qin Pei is a "father professional household" in the film and television circle, and has played the father of more than 200 stars, of which Hu Xing'er, Yang Qianwei, and Zhong Jiaxin also call him dad privately.
02
Although Qin Pei does not look as radiant as his two younger brothers, he is steady in his work, helping his mother to make breakfast and wash clothes since he was a child, and putting the family first everywhere, and is the most responsible brother.
Among the three brothers, he was the first to enter the industry, and in addition to filming and supporting his family, he undertook the tedious obligations of his brother. He found his brother's school, and he signed the report card.
Er Dongsheng did not study well when he was a child, and always went back with a test paper full of red crosses, and every time Qin Pei saw it, he would scold him.
When Qin Pei trained Er Dongsheng, at first he sat by himself, and Er Dongsheng stood; later, Er Dongsheng grew taller and taller, Qin Pei could only look up at him, in order to maintain the majesty of his brother, let Er Dongsheng sit down and stand and lecture himself.
Er Dongsheng was very annoyed that Qin Pei always talked about him, but there was no way not to let Qin Pei talk about him, because "when I was a child, he also bathed me."
Er Dongsheng was 12 years younger than Qin Pei, and his father Er Guang died when he was a teenager, saying that the eldest brother was like a father and had a father-son relationship with Qin Pei.
Although the two younger brothers are very independent, at a critical moment in their lives, they cannot avoid the help of this older brother. From Jiang David graduating from high school and entering the martial arts industry, to Er Dongsheng's first film "The Legend of the Epileptic Guy", Qin Pei has been silently working for them behind their backs.
In 1981, Er Dongsheng served as the screenwriter, Jiang David as the director, and Qin Pei as the producer, and filmed the spoof of Gu Long's martial arts comedy "Owl", which was the first nonsense film in Hong Kong.
In 1986, Qin Pei starred in Er Dongsheng's first film "The Legend of the Epileptic Guy", which played a mentally ill person into three points and won the 23rd Taiwan Golden Horse Awards and the 6th Hong Kong Film Awards For Best Supporting Actor.
In 1993, he participated in Er Dongsheng's "New Love", and won the Best Supporting Actor Award at the 13th Hong Kong Film Awards.
Er Dongsheng let his brother shine in the film circle again, saying that his brother was happier to win the award than he was to win the award. The three brothers help each other in their careers and go hand in hand.
Now Qin Pei has made more than 300 movies and more than 200 TV series, an amazing number, and he has also become the most heavyweight gold medal supporting role in the Chinese film and television industry.
03
Qin Pei's emotional life was not smooth, with twists and turns.
Qin Pei is the first love boyfriend of Weng Qianyu, a generation of singers, Weng Qianyu is versatile and is known as "the first artistic goddess in the East". Her singing of "Dedication of Love" became a household name in the mainland and became extremely popular.
Weng Qianyu was born in Taiwan, went to Japan with her family at the age of 2, and returned to Taiwan from Japan at the age of 15, where Qin Pei happened to shoot the Hollywood movie "St. Paul's Gunboat" in Taiwan. Weng Qianyu went to the set to see the liveliness, and a handsome young man on the dock came over and introduced himself to her, saying that his name was "Qin Pei".
Qin Pei began to ask Weng Qianyu to eat and watch movies, and Weng Qianyu laughed and said that it was the first date in her life.
At that time, Weng Qianyu was 15 years old and Qin Pei was 21 years old, and for Weng Qianyu, Qin Pei was like a big brother and was very good to her.
After Weng Qianyu returned to Japan, Qin Pei often drew cartoons for her, and she also returned comics to Qin Pei.
Weng Qianyu's father liked Qin Pei very much, and Qin Pei saw that Weng Qianyu's father was also called "Daddy, Daddy".
"St. Paul's Gunboat" was nominated for the Oscar for Best Picture, but Qin Pei did not continue to enter Hollywood. At that time, a director wanted to send him to New York to study drama, and even arranged for Qin Pei to live in his home in New York, but Qin Pei refused such a great opportunity because he was reluctant to leave his girlfriend.
Unfortunately, Qin Pei and Weng Qianyu eventually did not have the opportunity to be together because of the distance, although this first love did not blossom and bear fruit, they maintained a lifelong friendship, and Weng Qianyu became the mother of Qin Pei's children. As soon as Qin Pei arrived in Japan, he asked Weng Qianyu to come out, and the two families ate together.
Weng Qianyu Qin Pei
Er Dongsheng broke the news that when He was young, Qin Pei had many girlfriends, and he called each of Qin Pei's girlfriends sisters. Because Qin Pei changed his sister very frequently, he once called the wrong sister's name, fortunately, Candy and Mandy sounded similar, so there was no big disaster, otherwise the New Year's Festival would definitely be less of Qin Pei's pocket money.
Qin Pei has many girlfriends, which brings trouble to her mother Hongwei. Hongwei never influenced her sons' choices, and accepted them as long as their sons liked her. When Qin Pei falls in love with a certain girl, Hongwei will also be fully devoted, and she will have a long-term affection, treating the girl as a future daughter-in-law and half a daughter. Whenever Qin Pei changed his girlfriend, Hongwei would snot and tear a handful, even more sad than Qin Pei.
One day Hongwei said to Er Dongsheng: "I am really neurotic, you break up with me and cry, I will never cry again!" ”
Er Dongsheng said that the number of times the three brothers broke up, it added up to a really incredible! For no reason, the mother secreted many tears, and she felt guilty when she thought about it.
Qin Pei's first wife, Liang Shengzi, was a Mixed-Race Chinese-Japanese, half-circle person, who served as a singer and a host of cooking programs. The two gave birth to a son, Jiang Wenjie, in 1980, and a daughter, Jiang Liwen, in 1986.
Qin Pei and Liang Shengzi's marriage did not survive the 7-year itch, and the two divorced in 1987. Qin Pei's marriage failed and was very sad, and every day after his children went to bed, he drank wine and poured sorrow.
The two went to court to fight for custody of their children, and Qin Pei gave his ex-wife 1 million yuan and spent all his savings.
After the divorce, Liang Shengzi married a lawyer who fought the divorce lawsuit, and Qin Pei moved to Canada with her children and began the life of a single father.
In order to earn money to support his family, Qin Pei entrusted his children to the care of his mother Hongwei, and he worked hard to shoot in Hong Kong, setting a record of 19 plays in two years.
One Christmas day, he went to drink with his friend Guan Zhilin and others and met a Japanese woman, Morishita Eiri.
Morishita Eri was dead set on Qin Pei and did not mind one of his children, when the two got married, Qin Pei was so poor that he could not even afford to buy a wedding ring, or borrowed money from Morishita Eri.
Qin Pei has always been grateful to Morishita Eiri: "She raised my two children, without her, how can I concentrate on my work?" She married me, and she married my children at the same time. ”
Liang Shengzi ignored his children for many years, and in the hearts of Qin Pei's children, only his stepmother Morishita painted pears and no mother.
In 2019, Liang Shengzi died of cerebral hemorrhage in Canada. Her wish before she died was to get the forgiveness of her son Jiang Wenjie and daughter Jiang Liwen, but her children never understood her, and even did not attend her mother's funeral.
Qin Pei and Morishita have been married for more than 20 years, and Qin Pei said: "The two have been together for so many years, love is not important, but a habit. Now I still say to my wife, you must not go first, I will go first, I will go blind when you leave. ”
04
In the hearts of his children, Qin Pei was the best father.
Jiang Wenjie and Jiang Liwen said that as Children of Qin Pei, there was a little bit of pressure. Jiang Wenjie had acne on his face during puberty, and he most cared that Qin Pei's son did not look good.
After Jiang Wenjie went to work at the TV station, he never told his colleagues that he was Qin Pei's son, and he did not want to rely on his father's fame and had to rely on himself to break out of the sky.
Jiang Wenjie and Jiang Liwen inherited the family's literary and artistic cells, and when they grew up, the brothers and sisters entered the music scene as the group "Benji and Lesley".
The brothers and sisters did not go well when they first embarked on the road of music, but Qin Pei never used his connections to fight for his children. Jiang Wenjie said that he and his sister did not need their father to pave the way, but his father gave them a lot of encouragement in spirit.
Qin Pei said: "They once fell and then stood up, I think the experience of falling and standing up where they fell was very good, so they learned a lot of things." If I keep helping them, they will never grow up independently. That's what my mom taught me, too. ”
The brothers and sisters are called the most low-key star second generation by the media, Jiang Wenjie has no luxury car, and an ordinary car has not been changed for 10 years.
In 2011, at the 33rd Golden Melody Awards Ceremony of the Top Ten Chinese, the brothers and sisters won the Most Promising Newcomer Award, and Qin Pei, who was sitting under the stage, showed a happy smile.
In the eyes of his children, his father Qin Pei is a big parent who likes to worry. Before Jiang Wenjie was on the show, Qin Pei called his son and asked him to shave his beard clean.
Jiang Liwen's love life is also not smooth, in 2008 with TVB artist Zheng Junhong fell in love, Zheng Junhong with Qin Pei's son-in-law identity to get a lot of film contracts, and finally became a popular TVB student because of "Legend of Star Dreams". However, Zheng Junhong met a rich woman outside the circle and cruelly dumped his girlfriend Jiang Liwen, who had been in love for 6 years.
Jiang Liwen was devastated, suffered from severe depression, tried suicide three times, and was saved by her brother. Under the enlightenment of her father and brother, Jiang Liwen finally overcame depression and walked out of the haze.
Now Jiang Liwen has an engineer boyfriend Bai Hao, a stable relationship, originally planned to hold a wedding at the end of February this year, but because of the epidemic, the wedding was postponed.
Qin Pei was also very satisfied with the new son-in-law, because the new son-in-law was very good to his daughter and was very relieved to hand her over to him.
Qin Pei has been worried about his children for half a lifetime, he said: "There is a saying in Cantonese called 'raising a child for a hundred years, often worrying about ninety-nine', from the time you were born, as a parent, I will continue to worry about it." ”
In 2019, Qin Pei said in the "Thank You, My Home" program:
"Jiang Wenjie and Jiang Liwen, I am very happy to be your father, and I am also very grateful to you for being my children." Sometimes, I really forget how old you are, nagging all day long, this is the habit of inheriting my mother, your grandmother' habit of worrying, you know, I worry about you because I love you. No matter what, I will always support you. ”
Qin Pei dedicated his life to China's film and television industry, and was also a good son, a good brother and a good father in life, such a predecessor deserves people's respect.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > Welcome to read:</h1>
Asian film emperor Jiang David: a martial arts superstar of the same era as Bruce Lee, the 73-year-old style is still the same
Qin Pei Jiang David Dongsheng three brothers: Ling Zhao film and television circle for decades, the mother is Yehenara clan
A generation of superstar Dillon: Jackie Chan called him Daddy when he was the reddest, and tasted the cold and warmth of the world when he was angry
The pictures in this article come from the network, if there is infringement, please contact to delete.