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In 2020, Tong Liya braved the doubts of the public and joined the CCTV Spring Festival Gala to host the Tiantuan, successfully completing the task Chinese New Year's Eve.
In fact, tracing back to the source, there is a precedent for actors to host the CCTV Spring Festival Gala.
Actor Jiang Lili is one of them.
In 1984, Jiang Lili, dressed in red, stood on the brightly lit stage of CCTV and presided over the party with Ma Ji, Jiang Kun and Zhao Zhongxiang.
She has a smile and a clear voice, and she speaks generously and without being afraid of the stage.
At that time, Jiang Lili was not a professional host, and she, like Tong Liya today, was an actress with great popularity.
In 1980, the film "Red Peony" starring Jiang Lili was released in major theaters, and in the era of monthly income of 30 yuan, "Red Peony" sold a total box office of up to 30 million yuan with a ticket price of 5 cents.
This result is equivalent to saying that half of the country has walked into the theater to see this movie, and if they want to buy tickets, they can't just have money, and they have to ask for people.
Think of Zhang Xiaofei, whose popularity soared with the movie "Hello, Li Huanying", you can know the degree of popularity of Jiang Lili that year.
Although Jiang Lili has achieved many good results in her career, it is more appropriate to describe her life as a good thing and a lot of grinding, big ups and downs.
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At dawn on December 18, 1954, a baby girl was born in the Harbin Railway Bureau Central Hospital.
Although the mother is very tired, the joy of welcoming the new life is even greater.
She paced to the window and slowly pulled the curtains open.
The scene in front of her stunned her, it was the middle of winter, the snow fell silently between the bright heavens and the earth, the trees on the side of the road were already piled with white, and in a trance she remembered a poem - thousands of trees and pear blossoms.
Dawn, pear blossoms, it is better to call the daughter Jiang Lili!
Image source: Jiang Lilili
Jiang Lili grew up in Harbin to be three or four years old, and then followed his parents back to his native Liaoning to live.
Although there were several children in the family and relatively scarce supplies, her parents gave her an unforgettable happy time.
When Jiang Lili was 6 years old, the grandparents who lived with them planned to return to their hometown, there were many children at home, and the parents who went to work could not take care of it, and the last family decided to let Jiang Lili go back with the grandparents.
In the eyes of the young girl, the new home is a deep mountain forest, a mountain full of towering trees, a big river that can't be seen, and a small grass house is located in it.
He drank water from the crystal clear river and ate coarse grains from his own fields.
Listen to insects chirping frogs in the summer, and sit on the climbing plow in the winter and walk through the snow.
At that time, life was really a bit bitter, but Jiang Lili recalled that it was really a god's day.
She was as unrestrained as Heidi, a teenage girl in the Alps, and was not taken back to town by her parents until a few years later.
Jiang Lili
Maybe it is the mountain life that exercises Jiang Lili, she has been very sensible since she was a child, and at the age of 8, she can already stand on a small bench to help her family cook dumplings.
Growing up, Jiang Lili rarely let her parents worry, although she always loved singing and dancing in her heart, but when her family asked her to go to the hospital to be a nurse, she obediently did it.
Her idea at that time was probably very simple, work is work, hobbies are hobbies.
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In 2018, Jiang Lili posted on social platforms lamenting the amazing remuneration of today's stars.
She recalled her generation, who regarded acting as a sacred profession, and imprinted the four words of drama as big as the sky in her heart, but the remuneration of her life was less than that of some stars today.
Such a phenomenon made her question "the disparity is huge, but is there really such a value?"
Indeed, the salaries of the 1970s and 1980s were really not high, and the actors were indeed more dedicated.
Jiang Lili, who was still working as a nurse in the hospital in 1975, learned that the Changchun Film Factory wanted to recruit actors for the society, and her love for art was undiminished, and she decided to try it.
Jiang Lili has been beautiful since childhood, and she is in the most beautiful years around the age of 20, and she also has a certain talent for acting, so this test was very smoothly selected.
From 1976 to 1979, because of her love affair with a man, Jiang Lili participated in only two films, "Yanming Lakeside" and "Sacred Mission", but she accumulated a lot of experience from them.
An opportunity to stand on a new level of career has also quietly arrived.
Before Jiang Lili filmed "Sacred Mission", director Zhang Yuan was selecting actors for the new film "Red Peony", and the actress of "Red Peony" had not yet been found when Jiang Lili returned to the factory half a year later.
As soon as Zhang Yuan saw that Jiang Lili had returned, he invited her to try the play, and the result was surprisingly good.
The crew broke the news like a reassuring pill, they had tried more than 100 actresses before, but they were not so suitable.
In 1980, Jiang Lili, who gradually matured in all aspects, was given the opportunity to star in "Red Peony".
After the release of the movie, the response was excellent, and even the singer of the song in the film, Jiang Dawei, had no way to buy tickets.
As a last resort, he watched a reverse "Red Peony" backstage.
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Jiang Lili is famous, but few people know that in order to make the characters in the film not distorted, she went into the cavalry company of the army to learn to ride a horse, and went to the circus to experience life firsthand.
The time is short and the task is tight, and it is common to fall off the horse, but fortunately, Jiang Lili is bold and quick-witted, and has not suffered a serious injury.
In this way, she was filming while learning, and many of the difficult scenes in the film were completed by herself.
There is a scene in which Jiang Lili jumps from a height of three or four meters to the horse, and the director is afraid of mistakes, suggesting that the effect be made through post-editing in a risk-free way.
Jiang Lili thought about it, or decided to complete it more coherently and realistically by himself.
During the filming, everyone pinched a handful of sweat for her, but fortunately, Jiang Lili's practice results were good, and the whole action was completed again.
On another occasion the horse was frightened and galloped across the field covered with fine wires.
Jiang Lili leaned over and hugged the horse's head tightly, afraid that one would accidentally be cut in half by a steel wire.
Image source: Network
After starring in "Red Peony", Jiang Lili also participated in the movie "Red Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue and Purple", in which she played a female driver whose personality was very different from her own.
This time, in order to find the feeling of the character, she walked into the motorcade and mingled with the female driver, capturing the unique temperament of this group and joining the role she played.
The same thing, Ge You did when he played the driver in "My Dear Motherland". This is probably a necessary process for the older generation of actors to create characters, which seems laborious but effective.
For this play, Jiang Lili also learned to smoke, and once she concentrated on practicing the smoking demeanor in front of the mirror, who knew that because of the large amount, she directly sucked herself out.
Despite this, when watching the film back, Jiang Lili still felt that the performance of the scene was not natural enough.
With this role, Jiang Lili won the trophy for Best Supporting Actress at the 6th Hundred Flowers Awards for Popular Films.
At that time, Jiang Lili was in the limelight, and Jet Li, who became popular for starring in "Shaolin Temple", were both good years of prosperity.
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However, just when Jiang Lili's career was in full swing, her body had a problem.
In 1984, Jiang Lili, who had just appeared at the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, had a continuous high fever in the stage of preparing to shoot a new film.
The crew is about to go to Xinjiang, and the doctor learned of Jiang Lili's condition and did not recommend her to continue filming.
But Jiang Lili did not want to delay the start of the crew, so she still insisted on going, as soon as she arrived at the destination, she had a high fever of more than 40 degrees, and the whole person trembled like chaff.
After being admitted to the local hospital, the doctor thought that a small operation could be solved, but he did not expect to go to the operating table to find that things were much more difficult.
In this way, Jiang Lili was pushed to the operating table, injected with anesthesia and transfused, and pushed down again.
Being in a foreign land, plagued by disease, what a desolate situation.
And the good fortune in misfortune is that someone has been with her and has been her solid backing.
This person is Jiang Lili's husband, Wang Baosheng.
If we want to explain the ins and outs of Wang Baosheng, we must turn the time back to 1975.
That year, Jiang Lili first arrived at the Changchun Film Factory, and a chance question for directions made her acquainted with the young predecessor Wang Baosheng.
He was 3 years younger than her, but he entered the factory 3 years before her.
Although the process of asking for directions is very common, the beautiful and simple Jiang Lili still left a good impression on Wang Baosheng.
Coincidentally, it was not long before the two were assigned to the "Yanming Lakeside" crew to cooperate, and Wang Baosheng liked Jiang Lili's personality more and more in the process of getting along.
Seeing that Jiang Lili's Mandarin is not standard, Wang Baosheng from Beijing took the initiative to help her correct her accent, and gradually love quietly sprouted.
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At that time, young people in their twenties were not allowed to fall in love.
For this reason, Jiang Lili and Wang Baosheng were respectively caught up in the criticism meeting and asked them to review their own behavior. Later, Wang Baosheng was sent to the countryside for two years to receive so-called basic education.
Jiang Lili almost did not shoot for more than a year, which is why she did not work much between 1976 and 1979.
What is valuable is that Jiang Lili and Wang Baosheng have never given up on each other, and they have finally joined hands to go to the palace of marriage.
This time, Jiang Lili's condition was dangerous and he was in a coma in the middle of the way, but Wang Baosheng was busy before and after and took good care of him.
After being pushed off the operating table, Jiang Lili was hospitalized for about a week, and the doctor quietly told Wang Baosheng that she might have cancer, and to do surgery to know whether the tumor was malignant or benign.
Although Wang Baosheng was full of sorrow, but it was inevitable that Jiang Lili's mood would fluctuate, he still pacified his wife while carefully waiting.
Jiang Lili and Wang Baosheng
During that time, Jiang Lili still had a high fever, only after taking medicine would she restore her normal body temperature, and people were also extra energetic, and every time Wang Baosheng sang to Jiang Lili to ease her nervous and depressed mood.
A few days later, everything was ready, and Jiang Lili was once again sent to the operating room, fearing that she would die in her sleep, and she was stunned to stay awake.
After a grueling 6 hours, the surgery was completed. The good news is that Jiang Lili's tumor is benign.
At this time, the heavens' test for Wang Baosheng did not seem to be over, and after the operation, Jiang Lili left a hole in his abdomen to flush the anti-inflammatory tube and urinary tube.
24 hours almost uninterrupted by manual completion, this task naturally fell on Wang Baosheng's head.
He persisted for 10 days, and finally helped Jiang Lili get out of danger step by step.
An illness caused Jiang Lili to lose from 120 pounds to 80 pounds, and Wang Baosheng almost turned white.
Through this disaster, the feelings between Jiang Lili and Wang Baosheng have also become deeper.
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1984 was probably the most turbulent year of Jiang Lili's life.
After a month of surgery, the factory decided to have Jiang Lili and Wang Baosheng appear in the new film "Popular Red Skirt on the Street".
Although Jiang Lili also wants to return to the camera, her body has not yet fully recovered. In order to give Jiang Lili time to recuperate, the factory decided to shoot the scenes of other actors first.
Another month later, Jiang Lili returned to the crew that had been separated for a long time. However, at that time, she did not get the doctor's approval to shoot the film.
For the sake of her career, Jiang Lili drank Chinese medicine while filming, and she spent half a year in such a day.
In 1985, Jiang Lili entered the Beijing Film Academy for further study, and in the following years, she successively shot films such as "A Generation of Gun Kings" and "The Story of a Female Singer".
In 1993, Jiang Lili's family chose to develop in Los Angeles, USA, and they still live there today.
Sometimes when encountering a suitable script, Jiang Lili will also return to China to shoot a scene.
In 2001, she collaborated with Su Youpeng and Wang Yan on "Invincible County Order", which was highly acclaimed.
The following year, her figure appeared again in "Huan Zhu Ge Ge 3", this time she took over the baton Dai Chunrong and played the role of empress.
Compared with the former, Jiang Lili's version of the empress is a little more gentle, less serious, and more feminine.
Jiang Lili, the goddess in the hearts of today's generation, has gradually entered old age, and she loves travel and sports.
She also likes to reminisce about her youth, and not long ago she shared an old publication with the public on social platforms, where she recorded her letters with Wang Baosheng full of tenderness and love.
Counting most of Jiang Lili's life, there have been twists and turns and thrills, and the most precious thing in her harvest is her husband Wang Baosheng.
The feelings between them are sincere and touching, just like the song sings - love is a long-term promise, and you and I will have to tell our stories for a lifetime.