No.1
"Love, what's your last name?" Love, what's your last name? Is it a raging fire, or a cold frost? Is it a long night, or a bright spring light? O love, do you make me sad, or do you exalt me? Do you call me miserable, or do you call me joyful..."
I don't know if you remember this song, this is the 1980 release of "Love, what is your last name?" The episodic episode of the same name, "Love, what's your last name?" " by the famous singer Wu Yanze.

The film is a comedy film produced by Shanghai Film Studio, directed by Yan Bili, starring Yan Zheng'an and Wang Weiping, which reveals people's different views on love through the interesting experiences of several young lovers and middle-aged and elderly couples on a tour bus. Among them, Yan Zheng'an played the female number one Lin Rongrong, and Wang Weiping played the male number one, Lin Rongrong's lover Li Zhengang.
In the movie, Lin Rongrong, played by Yan Zhengan, is in love with Li Zhenggang, but because his parents have no status, he works in the street production group, and is despised by Lin Rongrong's parents. In order to convince her parents, Rong Rong specially pulled her parents to join the spring tour... The day's spring tour is over, Zhen Gang's talent and character have been affirmed by Rong Rong's parents, and on the way home, everyone's face is filled with happy laughter...
After the release of the film, the relaxed and lively plot and the beauty of love touched the hearts of people at that time, and people went into the theater to watch this movie, Yan Zheng'an, Wang Weiping, Hong Xuemin, Chen Hongmei, Kou Zhenhai, Zhang Min and other young actors' beauty and youth were pleasing to the eye.
On the back cover of the 2nd issue of Popular Film in 1981, there was a "Love, what is your last name?" The group photo of the three actresses laughing, they are Hong Xuemin, Chen Hongmei, yan Zheng'an (from left to right).
No.2
However, unlike several other actors who continue to "deeply cultivate" the film and television garden, after acting in "Love, what is your last name?" After that, Yan Zheng'an quickly disappeared, and people wondered, what happened to this "female number one"?
Yan Zheng'an, born in 1957 in Shanghai in a family of scholars, her father Yan Hechang is a pioneer in the field of cardiac medicine in the country, she liked literature and art since she was a child, and she was famous in Shanghai.
When he was still in middle school, due to his good temperament, beautiful looks, and good acting talent, Yan Zheng'an was favored by the "scouts" of the Shanghai Film Studio, and served as the female number one in a movie, playing a very powerful Red Guard young general. For a number of reasons, the film was never released. Later, she participated in several films such as "Flat Eagle Grave".
After that, Yan Zheng'an was admitted to the Nanjing Military Region's Frontline Drama Troupe and became a literary and artistic soldier. In 1978, she graduated from the Acting Department of the Shanghai Theater Academy. In 1980, he starred in the movie "Love, What's Your Last Name?" 》
After participating in "Love, what is your last name?" After that, Yan Zheng'an went through a period of deep reflection, and she gradually realized that she was actually not suitable to be an actor. After careful consideration, she finally decided to study abroad.
In 1981, Yan Zheng'an, as the only film student in the first public program sent by the Ministry of Culture to study in the United States, went to New York University in the United States to study film and television editing and directing, becoming the sister of Ang Lee, who also studied at New York University and is now a world-class director.
In 1982, six classmates from across the Taiwan Strait, including Ang Lee and Yan Zheng'an, drove two broken cars across the United States and made a special documentary called "From East to West" to observe the lives of Americans from the perspective of Chinese. These six former partners are still active in different cultural and artistic fields at home and abroad.
No.3
The above experience is that Yan Zheng'an starred in the movie "Love, what is your last name?" after that, the reason for disappearing.
Yan Zheng'an once said: "The best state of a woman is to do what she likes." At the same time, a grateful heart will make a woman very elegant every day. My dream self is to cherish every opportunity I get and work harder for it. Such a process is the process of self-realization in women's hearts. ”
In 1985, Yan received a master's degree from the New York University Film School. While in New York, she directed the film The Last Bureau, was the editor of National Geographic magazine, the Chinese producer of The Discovery Channel, and a visiting professor in the Department of Film and Television at Ngee Ann Polytechnic in Singapore. During this period, she also studied oil painting with Chen Danqing and Chen Yifei. After that, he has held solo exhibitions in Beijing, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Wuxi and other places.
Mr. Yan's husband, Kenneth Jarrett, is a former U.S. diplomat who served as U.S. consul general in Shanghai and has a special status as chairman of the U.S. Pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai World Expo.
The two met in 1980, when Ji Ruida was her foreign teacher when she attended english training before going abroad at Shanghai Chinese University, and at that time, they were just ordinary teacher-student relations. Yan Zheng'an, who studied at New York University a few years later, learned that her former "Teacher Ji" was also in New York, so the two met again, and soon, there was a spark of love between them, until they entered marriage. For decades, the couple has been loving and harmonious, with a pair of sister flowers.
Now 63 years old, Yan Zheng'an lives most of her time with her family in Shanghai, and her main energy is on painting, she hopes to be a fulfilling and happy painter, as for film and television, it has long become the past of her life!
Best wishes Tom Yan!
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