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The TV series of the same name, adapted from Yi Shu's novel "Flowing Golden Years", premiered yesterday, and Liu Shishi and Ni Ni, the pair of eye-catching girlfriends, were widely acclaimed.
However, the "Golden Years" filmed by TVB in 1988 is still a classic that is difficult to surpass.
Maggie Cheung plays Jiang Nansun, and Zhong Chuhong plays Zhu Suosuo.
At that time, there were rumors that Jiang Nansun's prototype was Hong Kong movie star Shi Nansheng (Xu Ke's ex-wife), who was clear and calm.
The prototype of Zhu Suosuo is Li Zhi.
Li Zhi and Zhong Chuhong
Zhu Suosuo, a Shanghainese, is hot in stature, lacks maternal love, and is like a butterfly between various powers.
The same is true of Lee Chi, who grew up in a family that lacked love.
In the 1980s, he went south from Shanghai to the port alone, beautiful as a special thing, all the way through the bone-eating ridicule and fanatical preference, and there was always a faint loneliness and elusiveness between the eyebrows.
Yi Shu favored her: "If you are so lucky as I am, and you have talked with Li Zhi in Shanghainese, you will, for one or ten days and eight days, faint and drunk by her light Shanghainese, and second, you will find that she loves to replace evil qi with old words: old fashionable, old troublesome, old and wide..."
Such a girl, if she had not come to Hong Kong to wander, would have married into a rich family at the right age, lived a happy life without suffering anything, and walked on the street in exchange for countless looks.
But she has ambition, lust, natural beauty is difficult to give up, jumped into the swamp of the harbor altar, struggled for more than ten years, enjoyed the best praise, but also suffered so much wind and frost.
Li Zhi was born in Shanghai on December 31, 1961.
Children born at the end of the year, before they have time to prepare, will greet the New Year's salute.
Li Zhi was also like this, just opened his eyes and tried to recognize the world, and was forced to witness many ugliness.
Both parents graduated from the Shanghai Theater Academy, and after divorcing due to personality discord, Li Zhi was sentenced to his father.
Before long, her father was gone, and she had to live with her elderly grandmother, living a poor and difficult life.
The kind Li Zhi is extra close to the grandmother who loves her, once the grandmother is sick, the little she, on a rainy day, carries the grandmother to the doctor.
In those days, divorce was a disgraceful thing to be poked in the spine.
Coupled with the fact that Li Zhi is very beautiful, she has become the "bully" object of the male classmates in the class.
The unfair treatment she received led to her rebellious character.
At the age of 8, she ran away from home along the train route.
She walked from Xi'an to Guangzhou, from Guangzhou to Jiangsu, and from Jiangsu to Qingdao.
In the eyes of others, this is a somewhat eccentric child.
After many people asked her about this experience, she said: "As long as the child has a sweet mouth, it is not a problem to eat and live." ”
She was so young that she knew how to survive.
It wasn't until Li Zhi was 20 years old that Li Zhi's father suddenly appeared.
It turned out that he had been working hard in Hong Kong all these years, so he decided to bring Li Zhi to Hong Kong as well.
Li Zhi is full of longing for Hong Kong, thinking that it is a paradise on earth, but after going there, he finds that this is not the case.
In her hometown, Li Zhi's beauty is a sharp weapon, in exchange for thousands of favors, but in the crowded streets of Hong Kong, no one will look at her more.
In order to survive in Hong Kong, she looked around for a job, and with her qualifications, she could only work as a small salesman.
She was not willing to accept the status quo, and at that time, she happened to encounter the vigorous recruitment of actors by new art city film companies, and Li Zhi decided to go to the audition before going to dress up.
Unexpectedly, the recruitment team directly said that Li Zhi was "too rustic" and turned her away.
Li Zhi decided to study abroad in a huff, and she immediately returned to Shanghai and found an English teacher to attack English.
Three months later, she returned to Hong Kong to take the TOEFL exam and was admitted to the University of San Francisco in the United States to study business economics.
The clever Li Zhi knows that no matter how beautiful the appearance is, it cannot change the fact that there is no ink in the "embroidered pillow" and the stomach, and only reading is the best way to improve temperament.
When Li Zhi was studying hard abroad, Jet Li met the first opportunity in his life.
Jet Li was as poor as Li Zhi in his childhood, born into an ordinary working-class family in Beijing.
When he was 2 years old, his father died of illness, and there were 5 children in the family, and there were two elderly people waiting for support.
When Jet Li was 8 years old, he was favored by martial arts instructor Wu Bin and joined the Shichahai Martial Arts School in Beijing.
He was talented, trained hard, and won the "Outstanding Performance Award" of the National Wushu Competition in just a few years of practicing.
He loves martial arts, and he also loves to take the competition prize money, not greedy, but the family is too poor, old and young, waiting for him to take money to eat.
He practiced kung fu step by step until 1981, when the opportunity came to him.
Director Zhang Xinyan prepared to shoot the kung fu film "Shaolin Temple" in the mainland, turned over the appropriate actor information, and finally decided to star - the national five-time martial arts champion, Jet Li.
"Shaolin Temple" was released in 1982, and in that era when the ticket price of the movie was only 1 cent, it sold more than 100 million at the box office, becoming a super hit.
Jet Li was on fire, and his family received more than a dozen sacks of courtship letters, and his road to kung fu superstarhood began.
Jet Li was only 18 years old when filming this play, and the newborn calves were not afraid of tigers.
In the movie, he really fought, filmed, and left a body injury, fortunately, there was a sister named Huang Qiuyan who took care of him at that time, so as not to fall ill.
Sister Huang Qiuyan, the love and concern for the master and disciple are well known.
At the martial arts school, Huang Qiuyan saw that he was hungry, so she took him home for dinner, her parents scolded her for being nosy, she still insisted on doing so, "The little master and brother have difficulties at home, and his mother has 5 children with a big one." ”
In the back and forth of care and companionship, the feelings of young ignorance began to ferment slowly.
A poor boy who had lacked love since childhood fell headlong into the gentle township of his sister.
He coveted that tenderness so much that he mistook it for love.
In 1986, Li Zhi returned to the United States and transformed himself into a dignified and dignified temperament.
She has all the conditions to become a big star.
Therefore, during the holidays of that year, Lee Chi participated in the 2nd Miss Asia contest held by Asia Television Hong Kong and won the "Miss Asia" of the year.
He also represented Hong Kong in the Asia-Pacific beauty pageant, winning three awards of "Best National Costume Award", "Most Photogenic Miss" and "Miss Peace", and entered the top five in the finals.
Overnight, all Hong Kongers knew Lee Chi's name.
Talented Ni Kuang praised her like this: "This is a rare beauty in half a century, if she can't choose YaJie, I will set fire to the TV station!"
Li Zhixiu's eyebrows were phoenix-eyed, a cherry-mouthed goose-egg face, and there was a bit of loneliness in his expression.
Coupled with the devil's three circumferences of 36/22/36, the opening is a crisp and raw girl's voice, which is very special among the Hong Kong girls with a low and rustling voice.
Such wisdom is regarded as a special thing by men, but in the eyes of women, it is simply a thorn in the flesh.
So that when she got the laurel of YaJie as she wished, there was a lot of booing in the audience.
When Liu Jialing debuted in Hong Kong, she was discriminated against as "Beigu", and Li Zhi was also bullied in the same way, because she made many mistakes because of her accent, and she has always been the laughing stock in the eyes of others.
On the day of the start of "Four Thousand Gold" co-starring Li Zhi with Liu Jialing and Wang Xiaofeng, Li Zhi stood in the first row as the first heroine, and as a result, the actress Wang Xiaofeng yelled at her: "Go to the back of the line." ”
Li Zhi really walked silently to the second row, which made the reporters present dumbfounded.
Because of his stature and foreigners, although the movies that Li Zhi has participated in after his debut are not few, the roles he can play are very limited.
Either a brainless vase that betrays hue, or a stupid clown who is bullied.
Donna, who starred in "Tiger Out", was bullied and beaten, and Li Zhi's face was swollen after shooting.
In "Gongzi Amorous", playing a mean rich beauty, Zhou Runfa played an old hat, and was hired to "play" Li Zhi...
In "The Love of Long and Short Feet", the fiery body is used as a selling point.
In "Ji Xing Gong Zhao", Li Zhi once again appeared as a villain, she was not only plump and charming in the film, but also vulgar and funny, and her constant ugliness was a big laugh in the film.
In "Dancing with Warblers", the prostitute who starred in the first brand of the village was bright red, and there were many sexy and provocative actions.
To add, in this film, Li Zhi cooperates with Guan Damei, and at that time, Li Zhi must not have imagined that she would eat fly vinegar because of her in the future.
After making these films, Hong Kong people not only did not feel sorry for her, but also loved to watch her being bullied.
The media also ostracized her, spreading rumors about her, writing on the cover of the magazine that "the income exceeds 3 million, and the daily socialization is 15 men." ”
But no evidence was given.
Unsightly posters on lace news
Li Zhi is a sweet peach, and these gossip reporters are pests living on Li Zhi, coveting her heat, but never pity her, until one day corroding the core of Li Zhi.
As for her real personality, the opponents during the game clarified and spoke for her, but her voice was small, and everyone only cared about the explosive gossip.
The failure of The Beauty is uneven for Li Zhi
Seeing What happened to Li Zhi, the "Poisonous Tongue Master Tai" Yi Shu said lightly:
"So many women who think That Li Zhi is not beautiful, strange, there is not a single Billy Zhi who is beautiful."
Li Zhi is very lonely, she does not like to make friends, she is bullied when she goes to school, and there is a girl in the class who protects her and takes her for her.
In the entertainment industry, Li Zhi, who has no friends, can only hold these discomforts in his heart.
The last straw that overwhelmed the camels occurred at the "1000 Stars Charity Concert" in 1987.
That night, Zhou Runfa and Zeng Zhiwei were originally throwing cakes at each other, and somehow, the two suddenly shifted their firepower to Li Zhi, who was present.
In the end, Zhou Runfa actually threw the whole cake on Li Zhizuo's face, and her face changed on the spot.
But still maintained his demeanor, smiled bitterly and went backstage.
She couldn't help crying backstage, and finally Zhang Guorong, who was passing by, came to comfort her.
Li Zhi told Zhang Guorong that she was most afraid of boos.
Zhang Guorong, who tried to throw a hat and drop the stage, was thrown back on the stage and explained:
"Don't be afraid, such a person will not boo until he is tired."
Li Zhi remembered Zhang Guorong's words and began to learn to "grow in boos".
In the years when Li Zhi developed in the depths of the water, Jet Li did not know that there was an actress named Li Zhi who turned out to be born, but was impressed by his sister and received a marriage license with her.
At the beginning, Jet Li relied on the fire of his debut work "Shaolin Temple" to gradually leave the sister who worked together behind him.
Jet Li said that at that time, he already wanted to break up, but the breakup would be scolded as "abandoning her when it is hot."
So he tried his best to introduce Huang Qiuyan as the heroine of his movie "Shaolin Kid".
Stills from "Shaolin Kid"
He wanted to make up for his sister's kindness to her in this way, but outsiders could see that helping her sister only wanted to reduce his guilt, not because he loved her.
But where can a woman in love feel this?
She thought it was just Jet Li's response, and she was getting better and better for her.
How good was Master Sister Huang Qiuyan to him?
During the filming of "North and South Shaolin", Jet Li broke his leg on the spot and was even accused of being disabled for life.
Huang Qiuyan was in a hurry, running to the hospital every day, hating not being able to accompany Jet Li 24 hours a day.
Jet Li was impressed and decided to marry her.
The two people hastily received a marriage license, jet Li was in bad conditions that year, they did not hold a wedding, let alone a banquet.
After marriage, the two lived in a small house of only a dozen square meters.
In 1988, Jet Li wanted to go to the United States to develop, and Huang Qiuyan accompanied him to the United States with a big belly to wash his hands and make soup for him.
In order to do a good job of Kenuchi, she pushed off the invitations of the two crews of "Thirteen Sisters of the Hero Girl" and "Journey to the West" and concentrated on staying at home with the children.
The two took out a loan to buy a house in Los Angeles, and Huang Qiuyan gave birth to a daughter for him.
Huang Qiuyan, who was happily waiting to be reunited with her husband, did not expect that her marriage was already in jeopardy.
In 1989, Jet Li went to San Francisco to shoot "The Dragon at the End of the World", and saw the heroine Li Zhi for the first time, which was amazing.
In the process of getting along with Li Zhi, he forgot that he was a husband with a wife and forgot that he was the father of a child.
Stills from "The Dragon at the End of the World", the love affair of the two
Like himself, Li Zhi came from a poor background and was a foreigner who came to Hong Kong to work hard and was discriminated against.
When he was in Beijing, he often went to the Yuanmingyuan alone, and his family did not understand his suffering, which was the same experience as Li Zhi's running away from home.
She is empathetic, she has a brain, she is smart, she is very attractive.
"She knew me better than my mother and siblings."
The 26-year-old kung fu boy announced to the public:
"I love her, I can not name her, I can not benefit her, I can die for her, I can ruin all the so-called future." 」
Years later, he talked about this experience on the show, and he still swore that he would not regret his original choice.
This relationship, which was not blessed by the world, made Li Zhi and Jet Li bear half a lifelong infamy.
After divorcing his wife, Jet Li and Li Zhi made a romantic "ten-year contract" - if after 10 years, you still love me like this, we will get married.
Jet Li, who found love, seems to have opened a hanging in his career.
In 1991, Xu Ke brought Cheng Xiaodong, the martial arts instructor of "Ghost of a Woman", and prepared to shoot a unique kung fu film together.
Who will play the male protagonist Huang Feihong?
At that time, Jiahe insisted on using Dillon, and Xu Ke had only one candidate in mind - Jet Li.
In the end, everyone did not beat Xu Ke and chose people as Huang Feihong.
Later results proved that Xu Ke's choice was correct, and "Huang Feihong" won 30 million box office "Huang Feihong" in Hong Kong, becoming the representative of "New Wave Martial Arts Films".
Xu Ke thus became a generation of masters, and Jet Li finally began to be called the "Emperor of Kung Fu".
In this film, Guan Zhilin and Huang Feihong, who play the thirteenth aunt, have a lot of intimate scenes, and after Li Zhi knew, he called Jet Li and cried: "I'm leaving, I'm going back to my mother's house, never back to Hong Kong." ”
Jet Li ran to the airport to chase after him, pleading bitterly before leaving Li Zhi behind.
Since then, Jet Li has never taken on an intimate scene again.
However, just as Jet Li was developing like a day in the sky, Li Zhi was in trouble.
The source of the matter was in 1991, Li Zhi also organized the "Ya Sister" of that year, set up a charity meeting "Renmei Qingshu", and later held a charity dance.
On that day, Macau gambling king Ho Hung Sun also attended, everyone knows that the gambling king likes to dance, and he and Mrs. Liang Anqi of the fourth room were a dance and a love affair.
At the charity ball that night, the gambling king invited Li Zhi to dance with 300,000 Hong Kong dollars.
The media took two ambiguous photos to show the world, spreading the rumors of the gambling king and Li Zhi all over the sky.
Gossip said that according to the development trend of the two of them at that time, Li Zhi was very likely to become the "five-room wife" of the gambling king.
Her beauty and talent are beyond the previous ones.
Obviously, Li Zhi threatened their position, causing the fourth Tai Liang Anqi to be jealous, and she joined forces with the second Tai Lan Qiong miao, using the underworld forces to issue a hunting order in the jianghu, and finally it was the gambling king who interceded before letting her go.
But these are all speculations, and Li Zhi has never admitted it.
After so many years of debut, her only reasonable and well-founded feelings are jet Li.
In the early 1990s, jet Li founded the "Zhengdong Film Company" to focus on the mainland, but also to create "Zhongnanhai Bodyguard" and other kung fu film classics.
However, after "Fang Shiyu", the film was not very prominent at the box office that year, and the company was not very strong in operation, and gradually became unable to make ends meet.
Jet Li is hesitating, and Li Zhi gives him endless support behind his back:
"What you want to do is a big thing, you can do it if you want to, and if you fail, I will raise you for a lifetime."
Jet Li was touched by her words.
Li Zhi studied economics in the United States and was extremely good at financial management.
Although Lizhi has achieved great results in financial management before, Lizhi, who has always been shrewd, has also had a time to roll over.
Because of the failure of her investment, she owed a huge debt of tens of millions.
After Jet Li learned about it, he did not say a word, negotiated with Yuankui to close the company, signed a contract with Xiang Huaqiang and Xiang Tai, and made six films in two years, with an advance salary of 72 million yuan for Li Zhi to get out of trouble.
It seems that Jet Li sacrificed a lot for Li Zhi, but in fact, they are mutually fulfilling.
Among the six movies, "The Dragon Slayer in the Heavens", "The Five Ancestors of New Shaolin", "Jingwu Hero", "Rat Guts Dragon Power", and "Adventure King" are all classics.
It can be said that love brings him opportunities.
A few years later, Quentin, the director who made Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill, confessed that he had watched a Hong Kong-made kung fu movie and called the action scenes in it the best action scenes in history.
This confrontation comes from the immortal scene of Jet Li's "Jingwu Hero" challenging the Hongkou Dojo.
Jet Li's film achievements have affected the world.
In 1999, Jet Li and Li Zhi's ten-year pact expired and they officially married in the United States.
In 2000, Li Zhi gave birth to Jet Li's eldest daughter Jane.
From his wife's pregnancy to childbirth, Jet Li accompanied him the whole time, during which he also rejected Ang Lee's tailor-made movie "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".
On the cusp of public opinion, Li Zhi announced his withdrawal from the film industry and went to the business world to develop, and has since become the woman behind Jet Li.
Every appearance of Jet Li after gradually fading out of the film world, he had to say Li Zhi.
To this wife, he really loved it for thirty years.
When she first started pursuing Li Zhi, Jet Li waited for 7 hours on the road she often walked, hoping to surprise her, but she took another road and went home and fell asleep.
Jet Li said: "Li Zhi is a pen, I am a word, and words and pens are inseparable." Without a pen, how can there be a word, and our relationship will be fixed in this way. Li Zhi is the true love of my life, and she can make my blood boil every day. ”
If there is no relationship between Huang Qiuyan and Jet Li, the relationship between Li Li and Li will definitely be called a model couple in the entertainment industry.
But the facts are not satisfactory, and the right and wrong in the world cannot be offset after all.
After retiring from the circle, she officially lived the life of a husband and a godson.
Jet Li even said that Li Zhi did not care about jewelry and bags at all, and only had children and husbands in Li Zhi's heart.
The social circle is also very narrow, and there are few friends.
Jet Li expressed great pain in this regard, and in order to make up for his decision to "give this woman the greatest sense of security." ”
He gave his entire fortune (rumored to be 2 billion) to his wife, and he didn't even know where the money was.
There is a saying that goes: "The servant of Israel, the fading and loving." ”
Looking at Li Zhi now, her appearance is still beautiful, but it has been greatly discounted compared to when she was younger, but Jet Li's love for her is still undiminished.
In an interview, Li Zhi once used four words to express his feelings about marrying Jet Li: "Not worth this life."
A reporter interviewed Jet Li, who replied: "I will never regret it for the rest of my life."
Li Zhi went around and had such an ending, how could it not be a fortunate thing?