I believe that everyone has seen the 83rd edition of "The Legend of the Eagle Hero", and every time the familiar melody sounds, it will evoke the memories in the hearts of countless people. Now that 38 years have passed, many of the actors in the play have retreated to the background and lived their own lives. There is one person who has left us forever, and she is Weng Meiling.
Beauty Goddess: Weng Meiling
In "The Legend of the Archery Hero", Huang Rong, played by Weng Meiling, is playful and cute, eccentric, and is the ideal Huang Rong in the hearts of many people, although later Zhou Xun, Ariel Lin, Zhu Yin, Li Yitong, etc. have all been played, but they have not been able to surpass. Regrettably, Weng Meiling chose to commit suicide at the age of 26. What exactly did she go through? Why did you choose suicide when you became popular?
Weng Meiling was born in Hong Kong in 1959, and her nickname is Yuanyuan. But because when her mother and father were together, her father was already a family member, so as soon as Weng Meiling was born, she was scolded as an illegitimate daughter. Fortunately, her father loved her very much and gave her warmth. Unfortunately, in 1966, her father died suddenly, and Weng Meiling and her mother not only did not receive any property, but were even expelled from the house by the Weng family, when Weng Meiling was only 7 years old. At a young age, she experienced the cold and warm of the world early, and should have been carefree in the arms of her parents, but she endured the ridicule and insults of the people around her, which made Weng Meiling very inferior, after the death of her father, her mother chose to remarry, and went to England after marrying Liao Jintang, while Weng Meiling was left in Hong Kong because of formalities and lived with her uncle. It wasn't until he was 15 years old that he went to England to live with his mother. While in the UK, Weng meiling studied at Cambridge College of Arts and Sciences and Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. Maybe life with her stepfather is not good, Weng Meiling spent 7 years in school in the 8 years of the UK.
In 1981, Weng Meiling received a bachelor's degree, and after graduation, she entered the company of British designer Charles, working as an assistant designer. However, in 1982, a letter from Weng Meiling's Hong Kong classmate completely changed the fate of Weng Meiling's life. The classmate wrote in the letter that Hong Kong will hold a "Hong Kong Sister Beauty Pageant" and asked Weng Meiling if she wanted to participate. At this time, Weng Meiling had just lost love, and after seeing the letter from her classmates, she did not hesitate to quit her job and returned to Hong Kong to participate in the beauty contest. Although in the end, because of the height problem, only the eighth place, but Weng Meiling ushered in a new career.
After the competition, Weng Meiling was favored by TVB, first as the host of the program "Women's New Posture", and also filmed the first advertisement in her life, endorsing shampoo. After that, Weng Meiling was transferred to the crew to start filming, and the first TV series starring Weng Meiling was called "Thirteen Sisters", that is, in this drama, Weng Meiling met Tang Zhenye, who played the male protagonist, when Weng Meiling had just debuted, or was still with Huang Rihua, Andy Lau, Miao Qiaowei, Liang Chaowei and called "Hong Kong Wireless Five Tigers".
The first on the left is Tang Zhenye
Tang Zhenye took great care of Weng Meiling in the play, often teaching her to act. Charming and thoughtful, any girl will be moved, and Weng Meiling is no exception. In this way, the two established a love relationship, after filming "Thirteen Sisters", another TV series also began to openly recruit the heroine, this drama is the "Legend of the Eagle Hero" that later made Weng Meiling popular. At that time, Guo Jing, Yang Kang, and Mu Nianci in this drama had all been finalized, but Huang Rong's actor had never been a suitable candidate.
Later, TVB began to openly solicit "Ideal Huang Rong", and there were more than 3,000 people who registered at that time, and Weng Meiling was one of them. In the last round of sea selection, only to see Weng Meiling change into Huang Rong's costume, holding a wicker in her hand, landing in front of Jin Yong with a beautiful side flip, and then holding her fist and saying: "Huang Rong, daughter of the lord of Peach Blossom Island, meet Jin Daxia!" ”
Weng Meiling's move made Jin Yong's eyes light up, and she immediately made a decision: "This is the 'Huang Rong' I am looking for!" In the end, Weng Meiling became the best candidate for the "ideal Huang Rong", and during the filming of "The Legend of the Eagle Shooter", Tang Zhenye also took good care of Weng Meiling, often going to the crew to visit the class. During the period Weng Meiling because of the filming eye injury, Tang Zhenye knew, he personally learned to cook soup, and then went to the hospital to accompany Weng Meiling, the two people during that period, incomparably loving, envious of others, in 1983, "The Legend of the Eagle Hero" was warmly welcomed by everyone as soon as it was broadcast. In 1985, this drama was introduced to the mainland, causing a great sensation, creating a viewing miracle of thousands of empty alleys, and Weng Meiling also became popular overnight with the role of "Huang Rong", and to this day, as long as everyone mentions "Huang Rong", it is still Weng Meiling who thinks.
However, after Weng Meiling became popular, the relationship between her and Tang Zhenye had problems. Because the two were popular stars at that time, they often gathered less and left more, and Tang Zhenye was also often scandalous, so the two often quarreled. Coupled with the "Legend of the Eagle Shooter", Weng Meiling no longer has a work that can be handed, no matter what she shoots, everyone only remembers the "Huang Rong" she played, which makes her very bored.
The cold war with Tang Zhenye and the unsuccessful career made Weng Meiling give up on herself. Often go to bars to drink, dance, and never return home. Even in order to stimulate Tang Zhenye, he accepted the pursuit of Mei Yanfang's boyfriend zou Shilong at the time. I thought that this move of myself would make Tang Zhenye change my mind, but I did not expect that when Weng Meiling returned home the next day, she found that Tang Zhenye had already taken all the clothes in her house, and did not even say hello.
I wanted to save Tang Zhenye's heart, but I didn't expect that the two young and vigorous people would not accept defeat, and finally drifted apart, which made Weng Meiling, who was eager to be loved, more sad and sad. However, the last straw that completely overwhelmed Weng Meiling was because of a photo.
On May 11, 1985, Miao Qiaowei invited Tang Zhenye to swim in Repulse Bay, accompanied by Qi Meizhen and Wu Junru, and then the media went viral with a photo of Tang Zhenye playing with his female companion.
On May 13, 1985, the media took this photo to ask Weng Meiling for verification, which made Weng Meiling very embarrassed. Late at night on the 13th, Weng Meiling called Tang Zhenye, but Tang Zhenye did not answer. Weng Meiling left a message: "If you don't reply to me, you will never hear my voice." Weng Meiling, who waited for one night, did not wait for Tang Zhenye's call after all.
In the early morning of May 14, Weng Meiling called Zou Shilong to tell her about the bitterness in her heart, and then she turned on the gas in her home and chose to commit suicide. Although Zou Shilong felt that the situation was not right, he rushed to Weng Meiling's house at the first time, but it was too late, and in this way, Weng Meiling fixed her age at the age of 26 forever. She left nothing behind, just wrote the last sentence on the calendar card: "Darling, I love you", to whom this sentence was written, it goes without saying.
As soon as the news of Weng Meiling's death came out, countless fans cried bitterly for it, and the people who sent Off Weng Meiling did not care about it, and even caused traffic paralysis for a time. Andy Lau, Liang Chaowei, Huang Rihua and many other friends in the circle also came to send Weng Meiling on her last journey. Many fans cried and shouted, "Mei Ling, you don't want to die." And there was another person at the scene who attracted everyone's attention, and many people accused him: "You killed Meiling, you killed Meiling." "This person is Tang Zhenye."
No matter how others accuse and insult, Tang Zhenye did not respond. In the spiritual hall, he pinned a rose to Weng Meiling's bun, and then broke a comb in half, half placed next to Weng Meiling, and half left by himself, which was the etiquette of the local couple to never say goodbye.
After Weng Meiling's death, Tang Zhenye was pointed out by thousands of people, and his career also plummeted. However, just when everyone blamed The cause of Weng Meiling's death on Tang Zhenye, one person stood up and not only built a Weng Meiling website, uploaded a lot of photos of Weng Meiling, and even said: "Weng Meiling committed suicide, I am not surprised." "This person is Weng Meiling's ex-boyfriend, Rob. Weng Meiling originally broke up with him and returned to Hong Kong to participate in the "Miss Pageant" competition. After understanding the story between the two, everyone will understand why Rob would say that "it is not surprising that Weng Meiling committed suicide to end her life", because Weng Meiling has chosen to commit suicide 5 times.
Weng Meiling and Rob met and fell in love when they were in high school in the United Kingdom, at first Weng Meiling's mother did not agree to the two together, but in order to fight against her mother, Weng Meiling chose to commit suicide, she swallowed a large number of sleeping pills, and her mother had no choice but to agree to the two of them.
And Weng Meiling committed suicide for the second time, because she and Rob were later admitted to a different university, because of longing, suspicion and loneliness, she swallowed a large number of pills again, fortunately, she was found by a girl studying medicine next door, and finally saved. When Rob arrived, Weng Meiling told him about it unusually calmly, and the tone was calm as if she was telling someone else's story. In fact, when she was 17 years old, Weng Meiling also secretly held an "underground wedding" with her boyfriend, the wedding ceremony was presided over by the man's brother, and the two also swore an oath to each other and exchanged wedding rings, which was very formal.
However, in 1981, for some reason, the two chose to break up.
In 1982, Weng Meiling returned to Hong Kong to participate in the beauty contest, and later filmed and Tang Zhenye walked together.
During her relationship with Tang Zhenye, Weng Meiling also committed suicide more than once, also because Tang Zhenye went out to shoot dramas, and the two could not see each other often. When the reporter asked her why she was unhappy, Weng Meiling just said softly: "I took the wrong medicine." Later, Weng Meiling took sleeping pills again, but when she was awake, she dialed 120 to save her life.
However, in May 1985, after Weng Meiling and Tang Zhenye had a cold war, they once again had suicidal thoughts. On May 14, 1985, she turned on the gas in her home, but this time she was not rescued in time as before.
In this way, Weng Meiling fixed her age at 26 forever.
In "The Legend of the Archery Hero", Huang Rong once asked Guo Jing to promise him three things:
First, after your own death, you are allowed to remarry, but this person must be Hua Zheng, because Hua Zheng is sincere to you.
Second, I will allow you to build a grave for me, but I will not allow you to bring a kite to worship me, because I have always been a stingy ghost.
After I die, you are only allowed to be sad for a while, but you are not allowed to be depressed for me.
I didn't expect Weng Meiling to say a word.
Is Weng Meiling really as stingy as Huang Rong? Of course not. The reason why she is the same ending today is inseparable from her growth experience. From birth, she was scolded as an illegitimate daughter, expelled from the house after the death of her father, and lived under the fence after her mother remarried.
She had never felt secure, she longed to be loved, she longed for warmth. She committed suicide again and again, not really want to die, but want to use this way to exchange for even a little bit of love from others, "suicide" is just a way of protection for her, from birth to be inferior, timid, fragile Weng Meiling, to death do not understand, in fact, the real care is not given by others, but given by herself. Why trade your life for the sympathy of others to keep someone who doesn't care about you at all?
If Weng Meiling had lived, she would be sixty-two years old by now. Although I don't know what Weng Meiling, who is in her sixties, will look like, if she is still alive, she will definitely feel how ridiculous and sad her original decision is!