Speaking of southern red, some people may think that it is a variety of agate. However, Dasheng thought of the famous film stars in the Hong Kong film industry in the last century, witnessed the entire change of Hong Kong films, and was a witness of an era.
Nan Hong, formerly known as Su Shumei, is known as "Mei Jie" by the jianghu people. Born in 1935 in a family of performing arts in Guangdong, her mother is the famous singer and actor Chen Xiena, and Nanhong is also the niece of the famous Cantonese opera singer Ren Jianhui, with these connections, Mei Jie has been studying drama under the master of Cantonese opera and the founder of red school art since she was a child, and the master changed her stage name to NanHong. Later, he and Wang Yuesheng learned Cantonese opera singing, laying a solid foundation for entering the film industry.
When Nan Hong was studying in the Cantonese Opera Troupe, she married Seven famous Cantonese opera actresses of that year, namely Yu Lizhen, Phoenix Girl, Deng Biyun, Luo Yanqing, Yu Suqiu, Wu Junli and Lin Feng. Together, they are known as eight peonies, and the southern red is a green peony. A bit like the taste of the Seven Princesses of The Shaw Family, the relationship between them is also very good, and later they are also very popular actresses.
The family moved to Hong Kong in 1949 and began shooting Cantonese films in the 1950s. When he was in Guangyi Film Company, he cooperated with Xie Xian in many films, such as "Seven Heavens", "Ninety-Nine Murders", "Tangshan Sister-in-law", "Coconut Grove Moon" and other films.
However, the most classic film for the two to cooperate should be "Divine Eagle Hero" in 1960, Nan Hong and Xie Xian are also the first generation of Xiaolongnü and Yang Guo, who was Jin Yong Daxia himself as a screenwriter and was still very young. Nan Hong and Xie Xian were also a pair of golden boys and jade girls at that time, and the films starring them were also very popular.
In 1962, NanHong and Chu Yuan co-founded the "Rose Film Company", one as a director and one as an actor, the division of labor was relatively clear, although they were not married at that time, but it was almost the same. Husband and wife match, work is not tired, produced many classic works. The most well-known is the "Black Rose" series! Chen Meiru (Nan Hong) and Chen Meiling (Chen Baozhu) are a pair of sister flowers, and they are also black roses, chivalrous bandits who rob the rich and help the poor.
This theme was very popular at that time, and later Nanhong continued to play the role of Chen Meiru in "Black Rose and Black Rose" and "Black Rose Righteous Knot Jinlan". And there were many adaptations in the 1980s and 1990s, and Liu Zhenwei once directed "92 Black Rose vs. Black Rose".
In addition to the "Black Rose" series, there are also "Avatar Lover", "Happy Marriage", "Elevator Girl", "Bitter Phoenix Nest" and other films, when Nanhong and Chu Yuan were a good pair, under the happy cooperation, the two married in 1967, typical talent with a beautiful person. The family lineage of the two is also similar, Chu Yuan (formerly known as Zhang Baojian) father is the famous Cantonese film actor Zhang Huoyou. Nanhong is also an acting family, which can be described as a strong combination.
Chu Yuan, one of the four directors of Shaw Film Company, is known for shooting Gulong martial arts films, and has not acted in his martial arts films, and he does not dare to call himself an actor. Later, with the defeat of Shaw Film Company, the former big director began to appear in Hong Kong films and Hong Kong dramas in the 1980s and 1990s, and one of the most familiar characters was Zhu Tao in "Police Story". He was also nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the Hong Kong Film Awards for his wonderful performance in "Cher".
His figure is also common in TVB Hong Kong dramas, such as Gu Tianle's boss in "In Search of Qin", Judge Cheng Lotte in "Court One", Shen Zhou in "Four Talents in Gold", Yu Youbao, restaurant owner of "Delicious Heavenly King", Cheng Feng's father Cheng Shouzhong in "Sister of the Gun", "Journey to the West" such as Buddha, and so on. In the play, they are all shown with cute charity, and they are all representatives of Mr. Good. Looking at the Hong Kong film industry, which director can have such a state of mind.
In addition to being an actress, Nanhong has also written film scripts, "Red Flower Rogue" is from her, and she has also sung many movie interludes. Moreover, he also cooperated with Ren Jianhui in the opera "Twelve Railings and Twelve Bars", which is very tacit understanding.
Nan Hong participated in most of her husband's films in the 60s, relatively few in the 70s and 80s, in 1973, in "Seventy-Two Tenants", which surpassed bruce Lee's "Dragon Fight and Tiger Fight" box office, Nan Hong played Fu Sister-in-law, when her son was ill, everyone raised money for him, interpreting the friendship between neighbors.
In 1987, Chu Yuan directed "Good Night Flower Lane Moon", Nan Hong played Mrs. Xie, and Dong Biao was a couple, and they were worried about their son's blind date all day.
In "The Working Emperor" directed by Xu Ke, NanHong plays Xu Guanjie's mother Maria. In one of the episodes, she was watching TV at home, crying so hard that she didn't know which film she was starring in.
Like her husband Chu Yuan, both of them have starred in many dramas, but Chu Yuan is basically in TVB, while Nan Hong has been in BOTH TVB and ATV, and even the early Li's TV station has also starred in dramas. She is also featured in the classic dramas of TVB, such as Wang Yide of "Family Change", Tang Shaomei of "People in the Net", Mrs. Di of "Parting Hook", Mrs. He of "Jinghua Spring Dream", Mrs. Lin of Zhou Runfa's version of "Smiling Proud of the Jianghu", the mother of Maggie Cheung of "New Za Master Brother", the eldest wife Wu Ruifang in "Famous Doors" and so on.
Joined ATV in the 90s, played many roles in the "Bao Qingtian" series, did not know that it was played by one person if you did not look carefully, and later cooperated with The Ninth Uncle Lin Zhengying in "Zombie Road Chief", and at the same time starred in "I Have a Date with Spring". Nanhong, like her husband Chu Yuan, can put down the shelf of the previous big star and seriously play every role.
After the new century, Nanhong gradually faded out of the show business circle and put more time into other interests, such as guzheng, erhu, Chinese painting and so on. Her husband, Chu Yuan, has rarely appeared in recent years, preferring to watch TV, eat and sleep at home.
In 2014, when the Internet rumored that Chu Yuan had cerebral degeneration, and later Nanhong clarified that her husband was in good spirits, but he was unwilling to go out, unwilling to socialize, and was photographed as mentally poor, but also without makeup, and relying on crutches to travel was only worried about safety.
Nanhong and Chu Yuan are a model couple in the circle, who have walked together for 50 years, spent a golden marriage, and are really envious of others, and the two also explain to us what is true love. I wish the second elder good health and a long life!