Chen Chong returned to her birthplace of Shanghai to take a set of photos, a city with too many memories and emotions, too many stories happening.
At the invitation of WSJ, she took a group of photos, and in a set of 9 cover photos, Chen Chong's figure still maintained a curve, and the charm and temperament did not diminish that year. And she just finished her 60th birthday.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="1" > years are quiet</h1>
From March to May last year, Chen Chong published a diary during the epidemic in the United States, recording his life status in the form of long texts, sharing his daily feelings, telling his feelings with her husband, interacting with her daughter's mother and daughter, and her views on life and the world.
In the days when "those times lost their units, not a few minutes and a few minutes, but where the sun shines", Chen Chong used words to bring everyone beauty and gentleness outside of reality.
She said years:
Before I went out, I went to the mirror to comb my hair and found a handful of white hair growing on the top of my forehead overnight, like a parrot. The years always seem to come this way, sometimes it forgets you, you forget it, even forget it cleanly. Then one day, it suddenly occurred to me that I hadn't been fiddling with this person for a long time. That day you will be surprised to find that it has arrived before you know it, and you are too careless to avoid it.
She wrote about early summer:
Before you know it, it's Already May. Daffodils, tulips, and freesias in the yards of the people began to wither and wither, and they returned to the roots of the fallen leaves and returned to the land where they gave birth; and right next to them, peonies, azaleas, and cloves bloomed, and the peony flowers were as large as a baby's head, gently swaying in the wind. Nature is endlessly changing and circulating, life and death are always very close, like light and darkness, beauty and terror.
She talks about everyday life:
My husband spread beach towels and blankets over the weeds, and we sat quietly on them, like two big pumpkins in the field. Occasionally, a cloud floated overhead, blocking the sun, and a hint of coolness appeared in the air. However, after the clouds, the sunlight becomes doubly brilliant and warm. Nature always seems to remind me that it gives gifts, not for granted.
She talks about the universe:
From a distant perspective, the Earth doesn't seem to have any particular significance. But for humans, it's different... It's here. It's home. It's us. Everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you hear, everyone you have ever existed, lives your life at this 'point'... In the endless darkness of the universe, our planet is just a lonely speck... It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and personality-shaping science—and nothing reveals the conceited folly of human beings more than this tiny dot of light. For me, this highlights the responsibility of people to be kind to each other and cherish this 'light blue point of light' together, which is our only home.
Her words are textured — delicate but powerful, and her words are precise — clear and sharp.
As an expressor, Chen Chong's literary accomplishment is obvious to all.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="1" > like a flower</h1>
Chen Chong was born on April 26, 1961 in Shanghai, China. Not long ago, on April 26, 2021, she celebrated her 60th birthday.
Chen Chong's 60th birthday chose to spend at home with her family, quietly like her words, with a long breath and reverie.
There are girls in the family who have just grown up, the eldest daughter Xu Wenting is 22 years old, and the younger daughter Xu Wenshan is eighteen years old, the best age, the best era.
Xu Wenting is a bully who studied literature at Harvard University and received an honorary award for a literary degree and a best paper award upon graduation.
Xu Wenshan likes acting, and has already emerged in her mother's films, quite the style of "Little Flower".
With his daughter like this, Chen Chong's heart is full of warmth and expectation.
As an actor, Chen Chong's experience is not exaggerated by the word "brilliant":
At the age of 19, Chen Chong won the Best Actress Award at the 3rd Hundred Flowers Awards for Her role in "Little Flowers", becoming the youngest Hundred Flowers Awards actress in history.
The popularity of Chen Chong in that era can be described as a household name. However, Chen Chong, whose acting career in China is in full swing, decided to study abroad. It was 1981, and she had just turned 20.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" Data-track="1" > life ups and downs</h1>
Chen Chong runs for his living expenses and tuition fees, brushes dishes, and works as a waiter. And experienced the first unsuccessful marriage in the United States.
Because he found that he made the most money doing acting work, Chen Chong became an actor again.
The hand of fate favored Chen Chong, and in 1987, the 26-year-old Chen Chong came to "The Last Emperor" and played Empress Wanrong in the play.
"The Last Emperor" won nine awards at the 1988 Academy Awards, and Chen Chong also took the stage with Zun Long. Chen Chong thus opened up the situation in Hollywood, and her oriental face became a famous Chinese face on the big screen in the United States.
In 1992, at the age of 31, Chen Chong married her second husband, cardiologist Xu Bide, and the double harvest of career and family allowed Chen Chong to truly settle down and gradually form his own artistic concept of integration of East and West.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="1" > is at ease</h1>
Not long ago in Beijing, a special behind-the-scenes photography exhibition was exhibited at Longfu Temple.
A set of photographs shows Chen Chong on the set of the Forbidden City in 1987 when he filmed The Last Emperor.
Hong Kong cinematographer Bao Haoxin is the person behind the cinematographer, and he took behind-the-scenes photos of the film's cast and crew.
Filming of the wedding scene in "The Last Emperor".
Beijing, the Forbidden City, where continuous rain delayed filming, outside the noon gate, an assistant from Italy inspected hundreds of costumes on the spot in order to shoot the next shot of the "expulsion of the eunuchs".
Bao Haoxin met director Bertolucci in Hong Kong in 1985, and he assisted in managing the 19,000 extras that appeared in the film on the set, which provided him with numerous opportunities to capture these wonderful behind-the-scenes photos.
At the small lake of the Summer Palace, two actors in the gap between the shooting.
Two actors like fashion models.
When asked in the interview of "Thirteen Invitations" about "what do years mean to you", Chen Chong's first reaction was "years mean years, and years can still mean something".
Thinking about it for half a moment, she continued: "Years are things that can be shown off. I have experienced and overcome so many pains, physical and mental diseases, what a thing to brag about. ”
For growth, Chen Chong has never been afraid: people must have continuous curiosity and continuous learning, not inertia.
As she once said in an interview: "Old age is not so terrible, I think what is terrible is decay, that is, a kind of decay that solidifies people's minds, a kind of oblivion and abandonment of ideals, cynicism." ”