On November 1, Ouyang Fenqiang posted an article revealing that Yang Junyong, the actor of Jia Rong in the 87th version of "Dream of the Red Chamber", died of a heart attack suddenly at the age of 56.
In addition, Ouyang Fenqiang also posted a chat record in a group chat called "87 Red Chamber Dreams", and the group members lamented the impermanence of life and felt sorry for Yang Junyong's death. Counting carefully, including Yang Junyong, the 87th edition of "Dream of the Red Chamber" has had 11 actors passed away.
Along with being mentioned, there is also Chen Xiaoxu, who plays "Lin Daiyu". Her eyebrows are bent and timid, and it is said that the director chose her to play Lin Daiyu at a glance.
Chen Xiaoxu was born in 1965 in Anshan, Liaoning. Her parents, who worked in the Peking Opera Troupe, brought her the influence of drama and art from an early age. She practiced ballet since she was a child, but in the end she was unable to enter the ballet company as she wished. Later, she joined the drama troupe, and every time she performed or rehearsed, she was a supporting role.
Chen Xiaoxu loved poetry as a teenager, and her favorite book at that time, in addition to "Jane Eyre", was Cao Xueqin's "Dream of the Red Chamber".
At the age of 14, she published her debut poem "I Am a Willow Flower", which was influenced by Lin Daiyu's "Yong Shu Poem" in the book. It is also this invisible temperament that lays the groundwork for her to play the role of Lin Daiyu in "Dream of the Red Chamber" in the future.
In 1983, "Dream of the Red Chamber" was officially planned. The boyfriend at that time knew that Chen Xiaoxu had always liked "Dream of the Red Chamber" and also liked Lin Daiyu, so he let her introduce herself. The two people summed it up, and in addition to the letter and photos, they also attached two small poems that Chen Xiaoxu had just written, and sent them to the director.
A week later, the director team replied. Before meeting director Wang Fulin, there was a round of preliminary selection, and the other two teachers of the crew interviewed her first, and only through the primary selection could they meet the director.
For Xiao Xu, who is familiar with the Red Chamber, even if the two teachers have asked hundreds of questions about "Dream of the Red Chamber", she still passed the primary election with ease. Originally, Wang Dao had a skeptical attitude towards whether the little girl had read "Dream of the Red Chamber" well, but she did not expect that after a long discussion, she found that she was not only familiar with the characters in the book, but also the poetry and songs were given to zhangkou, and what was valuable was that she had her own views on the characters of the Dream of the Red Chamber, which was not simple.
In order to increase the odds of winning, many actors have prepared two or three roles in the play. Only Chen Xiaoxu identified Lin Daiyu. On the day of the audition, Chen Xiaoxu, who appeared on the camera with makeup, stunned everyone present. From temperament to body shape, from facial expressions to actions, all of them are in line with everyone's imagination of Lin Daiyu. This meant that Chen Xiaoxu took another step closer to Lin Daiyu's side. When it comes to the formal audition, the multiple sides of Daiyu, whether it is crying, laughing, making trouble or shyness, Chen Xiaoxu interprets all of them to get the position and convey the gods. People in the crew all said that she was not playing Lin Daiyu, she was Cao Xueqin's Lin Daiyu.
After three years of filming, the 87th edition of "Dream of the Red Chamber" was finally completed and broadcast on CCTV in the same year.
Chen Xiaoxu also successfully entered everyone's sight by playing the role of Lin Daiyu and became the Lin sister from the book in everyone's mouth. At the same time, she also entered the palace of marriage with Bi Yanjun, who has been in love for many years.
But she went too deep into the play, and after the other actors were out of the role, Chen Xiaoxu could not get out of daiyu's role for a long time. She began to become melancholy, as sad as Daiyu's funeral flowers, and her temper became moody, and from time to time she quarreled with her husband Bi Yanjun, which eventually ended the marriage.
The success of "Dream of the Red Chamber" is both a blessing and a curse. Chen Xiaoxu also took on some other roles after this, but the audience saw that she was acting as if she was playing "Lin Daiyu". Chen Xiaoxu also mentioned this problem in a show, she said bluntly: "'Dream of the Red Chamber' let me see a very wonderful world, but it also closed another door, I have no development in my acting career, I had to choose a new path. ”
Later, Chen Xiaoxu met her husband Hao Tong, who hurt her and loved her. Hao Tong graduated from the Photography Department of Beijing Theater Academy. After the two were together, they began to study going to the sea to do business. After some hardships, in 1996 she established Beijing Shibang United Advertising Co., Ltd. and served as the chairman, and then in 1998, she expanded the company's business and established Beijing Shibang Cultural Development Co., Ltd. and served as chairman and general manager.
After that, it became more and more courageous, the advertising company reached the 4A level, the value reached 200 million, and in the "China Advertising List", it was rated as "China's 30 Outstanding Female Advertisers", and in 2005, it was awarded the honorary title of "China's Economic Person of the Year" by the "World Manager" Weekly. Who admitted that when the business was the hottest, Chen Xiaoxu had the intention of retreating.
In 1999, she was in a friend's car when she overheard a recording of a Buddhist sutra explanation. That feeling made her heart clear. However, in the following years, she still fought in the commercial sea.
Around 2005, she began to feel frequent pain in her right chest. Her family advised her to go to the hospital for examination, but Chen Xiaoxu always shirked. When the pain was really severe, she took Chinese medicine. In the end, the chinese medicine has no effect. After arriving, the pain was unbearable, and after the hospital examination, he was diagnosed with breast cancer.
In 2007, a shocking news came that Chen Xiaoxu, the actor of Lin Daiyu in "Dream of the Red Chamber", was diagnosed with breast cancer, and it has been two years.
In fact, this pre-cancer can be treated, but Chen Xiaoxu is unwilling. Because she knew that if she received treatment, she would need to remove all her diseased areas, but she would not be complete.
After Chen Xiaoxu fell ill, the idea of converting to Buddhism once again flooded into her mind. In fact, she had this idea a long time ago, but her parents did not agree at the time, but now that she has few days, it is time to complete the last thing she wants to complete. After her husband Hao Tong learned about it, he fully supported Chen Xiaoxu's idea and decided to accompany her to leave the family.
As the saying goes, a red face is short of life, and Chen Xiaoxu died only three months after he converted to Buddhism. On May 13, 2007, "Lin Daiyu" passed away and left this world forever, when she was only 41 years old.
Since then, zheng qianlong, the actor of Lin Daiyu's father in the 87th edition of "Dream of the Red Chamber", Li Ting, the actor of Jia Mu, the "Ban'er" actor of Liu Grandma entering the Grand View Garden, the actor Ofe Ma Guangru of "Jia Rui", the actor of "Jia Yu" Li Jie, the actor of "Grandma Zhao" Jin Yaqin, the actor of "Jia Zheng", Ma Jiaqi, and the actor of "Jia Rong" Yang Junyong have died successively.
The Slovaks are gone, but the classics live on. The 87th edition of "Dream of the Red Chamber" leaves the world with more than just a TV series, and these once vivid screen images are bound to remain in the hearts of the audience forever.