In 1981, the year when the first TV series "Eighteen Years of the Enemy Camp" was born in China, and Hong Kong dramas officially landed on the mainland in 1983, when domestic audiences could only focus their eyes on domestic films. At this time, Cong Shan was 19 years old, just freshman at the Central Academy of Drama, and at this time, Xie Jin, a famous director of Shanghai Film Studio, was preparing to shoot "Wrangler", in order to better release the pure simplicity of the heroine Li Xiuzhi in the role, so he selected Cong Shan, who was still a newcomer at the time.
When she was young, Cong Shan was not a particularly beautiful girl, but she had a unique charm in her, a temperament that combined simplicity, childishness, intelligence and spirituality. In 1982, "Wrangler" caused a national sensation when it was released, and Cong Shan, who played the heroine Li Xiuzhi, and Zhu Shimao, who played the male protagonist Xu Lingjun, became popular overnight.
When "Wrangler" was released, the audience reached 130 million, and this figure is appropriate to change to today, and the box office exceeds 5 billion. The aura and simplicity of Li Xiuzhi's character are seamlessly matched with the scenes at the foot of the Yin Mountain, "the sky is clear, the wild is vast, the wind blows and the grass is low to see the cattle and sheep".
Especially the audience who experienced that era, they will always have a different taste in their hearts when they watch this film, for the rural boys of that year, they were all overwhelmed by the temperament of "Li Xiuzhi", if you ask them to write a post-viewing feeling, I believe that nine out of ten will write "I hope that I can get a wife like Li Xiuzhi in the future.".
Cong Shan returned to the Central Academy of Drama to continue her studies after filming "Wrangler", and she was in the same class as Liu Bin, Lu Liping and Jiang Wen. It was not until 1985, after graduating from University, cong Shan starred in her second film "Good Family Woman", which received no better response in society than "Wrangler", but it also received a lot of praise, and also received multiple nominations for the Golden Rooster Award, and won many international film awards.
Everyone originally thought that cong shan after graduation could show her skills in the film circle and shine, but she became famous early and was jealous and suppressed everywhere, after "Good Family Woman", Cong Shan's career instantly fell to a low point, from an actor loved by the national audience to the point where there was no drama to shoot, so she could only run for two years.
In 1987, Cong Shan received a scholarship from the French government to study at the French Higher School of Drama, and it is said that she did not graduate because of emotional problems, and she performed a large number of stage plays during her time in France. In 1992, she returned to China to star in a Taiwanese-produced historical TV series "Drama about Cixi".
Although the title is called "Drama Cixi", this "Drama Talk" drama is much more sophisticated than the so-called "conscience" drama in the mainland, and Cixi, played by Cong Shan, has also become a classic character.
In 1995, Cong Shan accepted the invitation of hong Kong Satellite TV Chinese station and hosted a program "Satellite TV Five-Star Station" in three different languages, including Chinese, English and French. In the process, she filmed two dramas at ATV, namely "Jingwumen" and "New Bao Qingtian".
In "Jingwumen", Miss Qi Qiao played by Cong Shan has become an unforgettable classic for the audience, and at this time, her face has long faded the green and cute of the past, replaced by a mature and elegant, dignified and atmospheric temperament, and the charm is even better than before. In the play, the charm of Cong Shan, who is beautiful and elegant, has a unique temperament and hides a hint of melancholy in her eyebrows, even overshadows Wan Qiwen, who is known as "Hong Kong's first beautiful leg".
In 1996, Cong Shan officially left France and returned to settle in China, and at this time she had an additional son by her side. Regarding her son, there are rumors that she was born to Cong Shan and the French, but in appearance, she did not look like a mixed-race child, and there are also rumors that she was born to Shi Liang, who also studied in France, but Cong Shan never responded to questions about her son's father.
Although Cong Shan, who has returned to China, has successively made many film and television works, her popularity has long gone. Later, she married Xiao Feng, a mainland director, screenwriter and producer. The name Cong Shan has slowly been forgotten by the audience, but from Li Xiuzhi to Cixi to Miss Qiqiao, the classic role she created has always existed in the minds of the audience.
Today's Cong Shan is almost old, but she is still elegant, and in different periods, she has released the beauty of different temperaments, which also confirms the words of the undefeated true beauty of the years. Cong Shan's beauty is not the kind of impeccably beautiful, but it is heartwarmingly beautiful at that time.