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In 1987, the Hubei Provincial Peking Opera Troupe sent children to Beijing Daipei in various areas of Hubei Province looking for children who could become Peking Opera seedlings, and when they arrived in Jingzhou, they saw Zeng Li, who was sitting in a classroom at a tall age of 11.
At that time, Zeng Li did not know anything about Peking Opera, but fate pushed her to the track of Peking Opera.
Prior to this, in order to cultivate her temperament and shape her body, her mother sent her to the Children's Palace to learn form, vocal music, dance, and she also participated in the "Red Scarf Song and Dance Troupe" to learn rhythmic gymnastics.
Zeng Li's mother could not have imagined that she had let her daughter learn these things and laid the foundation for her daughter to learn Peking Opera well. After being photographed by the Hubei Provincial Peking Opera Troupe, Zeng Li took the examination of the Attached Middle School of the China Academy of Performing Arts and was successfully admitted.
She took a green-skinned train for a day and a night to study in Beijing, majoring in Qingyi.
This year, Fu Dalong, who was born in Tianshui, Gansu Province, and the same age as Zeng Li, has become a child star, he starred in the movie "Winning lottery" at the age of 8, and won the Outstanding Performance Award of the Second China Film Child Cow Award at the age of 9 with the movie "Young PDH".
This year, Chen Kun, who was far away in Chongqing, was also 11 years old. He has been living with his grandmother because of his parents' divorce, but in this year, he can return to his mother.
At that time, Zeng Li would not have thought that these two men would witness her attitude towards fame and fortune and the ups and downs in her feelings many years later.
01
Before meeting Fu Dalong and Chen Kun, Zeng Li studied at the Affiliated Middle School of the China Academy of Performing Arts for 7 years.
After graduation, she was assigned to the Hubei Peking Opera Troupe with a monthly salary of more than 300 yuan. However, it wasn't long before Zeng Li realized that this was not the life she wanted.
At that time, because Peking Opera was not taken seriously, Zeng Li practiced and walked in the Peking Opera Troupe in the morning. In the afternoon, I drank tea and chatted with my colleagues.
Zeng Li felt that such a life was boring, very empty, and he could see the end of his life at a glance.
She wanted to change, but she couldn't find the direction to change.
Until she met an old classmate. Her old classmate was admitted to the Chinese opera, and when they were chatting, they talked about the Chinese opera, and the old classmate suggested that she also take the Chinese opera examination and improve her academic qualifications.
Listening to his old classmates say this, Zeng Li felt that it was quite good to study acting in the middle of the examination. So she found a teacher from a drama troupe to train herself in acting.
In 1996, Zeng Li walked into the examination room of Chinese opera, and she was admitted to Chinese opera with the third place in the professional class, and became classmates with Zhang Ziyi, Liu Ye, Qin Hailu, Yuan Quan and others.
As Zeng Li walked on the campus of Chinese opera, Chen Kun also strolled around the campus of the Beijing Film Academy. The year before that, he had worked as a singer in the Oriental Song and Dance Troupe, but his salary was too low. In order to survive, she borrowed money from her sister, who sold blood and collected 450 yuan for her. Chen Kun was very touched and determined to change the status quo, and the actor became a breakthrough for him to change his destiny.
This year, Fu Dalong became two years higher than Chen Kun, and while he was eager to learn professional knowledge, he cooperated with Ge You and Chen Daoming in the TV series "Kou Lao Xi'er".
At this time, there were still 6 years before Fu Dalong and Zeng Li met. It is still 7 years before Chen Kun and Zeng Li meet.
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After Zeng Li entered the Chinese opera, she surprised her classmates with her super high appearance and was called "the flower of the Chinese opera school". Years later, Qin Hailu recalled: "Zeng Li was the most beautiful in the class, as long as the class was over, the school's small playground was full of her fans." As she walked over, the boy whistled and coaxed. ”
Even Zeng Li's senior Bao Jianfeng was also obsessed with her, and Bao Jianfeng said bluntly in an interview with the media: "She is famous for her good looks in Chinese opera, and Chinese opera has not appeared so good in the past two hundred years, and I think there will be no beautiful women like her in the future." ”
Zeng Li, along with Zhang Ziyi, Yuan Quan, Qin Hailu, Hu Jing, Mei Ting, Zhang Tong and Li Min, is also known as the "Eight Golden Flowers" of Chinese opera.
Only unlike the other 7 golden flowers, they began filming in college, and Mei Ting even dropped out of school in order to shoot. Zeng Li chose to spend 4 years to hone his acting skills, so that his classmate Liu Ye felt that Zeng Li was too desireless and demanding.
However, Zeng Li, who had no desire and no desire, broke the hearts of a group of boys during his college years.
She fell in love, and her boyfriend was Niu Qingfeng, the head of their class.
It's just that this relationship ended with college graduation, and Zeng Li also began to step into the acting world.
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After graduating from university, Zeng Li went to the All-China Federation of Trade Unions Literary and Labor Troupe under the advice of her teacher, and while she was a host in the troupe, she followed the troupe to perform in various places.
If there was a scene, she would go out and shoot, and the first role she played in her life was a mother. At that time, Zeng Li was not yet 24 years old, and she felt that playing her mother just after graduation was testing her acting skills, but she was very confident in her acting skills and was not afraid at all, and she starred in her mother's play called "BenJia Brothers".
It's just that Zeng Li is famous for 3 years later. In 2003, Zeng Li collaborated with Lin Xinru and Lu Yi on "Male Talent and Female Appearance", which was a big fire after the broadcast, and many viewers remembered Zeng Li, who played "Yan Ruyu".
It was also in this year that Zeng Li met Fu Dalong, and they collaborated on the TV series "Homecoming Like a Rainbow". Because of the continuous communication in the crew, Zeng Li was impressed by Fu Dalong's talent and humor, and she became Fu Dalong's girlfriend.
Although the economic situation of Fu Dalong was not good at that time, and for a period of time he also delivered takeaway food to make a living, Zeng Li was not disgusted.
When enjoying the sweetness of love, Zeng Li would not think that the drama "Homecoming Like a Rainbow" laid an Easter egg for her life.
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Before the arrival of the Easter egg, Zeng Li and Fu Dalong broke up because of ju shao and some other reasons, and an actor named Li Yixiang appeared in her life.
In 2004, Li Yixiang and Zeng Li collaborated on the TV series "QinHuai Lamentations". When he saw Zeng Li, Li Yixiang felt "like a lightning strike, like a world away", and he fell in love with Zeng Li at first sight.
Li Yixiang launched a pursuit of Zeng Li, but Zeng Li had no feelings for Li Yixiang, he confessed several times, and Zeng Li refused several times. But Li Yixiang did not give up, he felt that "as long as there is a feeling for love, you must fight for it." ”
At that time, Zeng Li's mood had been bad, so he tried to make her happy, and finally he managed to hold the beauty.
When Zeng Li had a new boyfriend, director Chen Yifei was worried. At that time, he was planning to shoot the movie "The Barber", and he could not find an actress suitable to play the heroine "Song Jiayi".
The magic of fate was that one day he was watching TV at home, and accidentally saw "Homecoming Like a Rainbow" and saw Zeng Li. Chen Yifei's eyes lit up immediately, and he knew that the actress he was looking for was Zeng Li.
Soon after, Zeng Li received an invitation from the crew of "The Barber", and Zeng Li readily agreed.
This movie means a lot to her. Because this is her first time playing a female lead, the first time to make a movie.
It is also because of this movie that Zeng Li and Chen Kun met. At that time, Chen Kun had already become famous with dramas such as "Like Fog Like Rain and Like Wind" and "Golden Powder Family".
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Chen Kun is very recognized by Zeng Li's acting skills, he praised Zeng Li in front of the media, "Zeng Li's performance is really in place, not only sincere feelings, but also very tense, we often have a lot of inner collisions." ”
Zeng Li's impression of Chen Kun is also very good, she feels that Chen Kun is very gentlemanly, no matter what occasion, she can understand the lady.
And because the two were lovers in "The Barber", they began to have a scandal, and the two did not respond to it.
While the two were in the air, something happened that made them very sad. Chen Yifei died of gastrointestinal bleeding, leaving behind the unfinished "Barber".
Later, wu Siyuan, as the film's artistic director, directed and filmed Chen Yifei's unfinished part, which enabled "The Barber" to be successfully released in 2006.
After the release of the film, the acting skills of Chen Kun and Zeng Li were well received. Zeng Li was also nominated for the Best Actress Award at the Shanghai International Film Festival for "The Barber".
On the day of attending the opening ceremony of the Shanghai International Film Festival, Zeng Li was almost in the same frame as her ex-boyfriend Fu Dalong. At that time, Zeng Li and Fu Dalong were arranged by the organizing committee of the film festival to take the same car to reach the red carpet.
However, zeng li deliberately slowed down in order to avoid Fu Dalong. In the end, Fu Dalong took the first car, and Zeng Li took the second car.
Subsequently, the reporter ran to interview Fu Dalong and asked questions related to Zeng Li, and Fu Dalong replied: "I also hope that she can win the grand prize at the Shanghai Film Festival." ”
Another reporter ran to ask Zeng Li whether he wanted his partner Chen Kun to become a movie emperor or his ex-boyfriend Fu Dalong to become a movie emperor? Zeng Li started laughing, she said: "Haha, I hope both have it!" I really didn't think about it. ”
Even more interesting was 2007. This year, Chen Kun and Fu Dalong won the title of Film Emperor at the Huabiao Awards, and Li Yixiang won the Film Emperor Laureate at the 14th University Student Film Festival in April.
So some media published an article "Zeng Li was accused of "Wang Fu's life", and three boyfriends were also awarded the film emperor." However, because Zeng Li has not openly had a relationship with Li Yixiang, Li Yixiang, like Chen Kun, was Zeng Li's gossip boyfriend at that time.
What Li Yixiang did not expect was that a year later he took the initiative to disclose his relationship with Zeng Li, but it was not long before they broke up, and their relationship lasted for 4 years.
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After breaking up with Li Yixiang, Zeng Li continued filming. Because of Chen Kun's introduction, she joined the Rongxinda Company founded by Li Shaohong and Li Xiaowan, which is also Chen Kun's brokerage company.
Zeng Li, who joined the new company, is still serious about filming, and she has successively starred in dramas such as "New Chat Zai Zhiyi", "My Father and Mother", "Qingyunzhi", "Datang Glory" and so on, but she has not played the main role again.
This makes the audience who love Zeng Li very unhappy, they do not understand that Zeng Li has acting skills and looks, why is there no fire?
In fact, this is related to Zeng Li's personality, as Liu Ye said, she is too "desireless and undemanding".
Along the way, Zeng Li pays attention to going with the flow, whether she is picked to learn Peking Opera, or to learn acting, filming film and television dramas, she will not try her best to fight like her classmates, because she feels that her opportunity is hers, not her opportunity, no matter how hard she tries, she can't get it.
She didn't feel that she was unlucky, but she felt that she was lucky. She told the media frankly: "From graduating from primary school to Beijing, and then entering the university again, filming, this road, I feel very smooth." ”
Some people compared her with her classmates Zhang Ziyi, Qin Hailu and others, and she didn't mind, she said: "I have always compared myself, not with others." Because everyone's choices, everyone's lifestyle, everyone's hobbies are different, I am enjoying my present moment. ”
Zeng Li, now 45 years old, goes to film when there is a scene, and drinks tea, grows vegetables, travels, and accompanies his parents when there is no drama.
As for feelings, a few years ago, it was rumored on the Internet that Zeng Li and the actor Wu Jun, who had cooperated, were married, but in 2016, Zeng Li's agency carried out a rumor.
What is Zeng Li's emotional life like now? The outside world does not know. But outside of filming, she lives a very low-key life.
As a result, every time she appears in the open business of her work, she can always cause a sensation among the audience who love her. For example, on March 5, she appeared on the stage of the second season of "Sister Riding the Wind and Waves" as a kicking guest, and she was still so beautiful that the audience who loved her frantically called for her.
This is Zeng Li, a big beauty who makes the film emperors bend their waists, a "not red" artist who goes with the flow in her acting career, and a woman who makes fans crazy when she appears.
Although Zeng Li did not have a big red, I have to say that she lived according to her own way and lived the life she wanted to live, which was also very good.