As a famous actor in the mainland, Liu Xiaoqing was a well-known star at that time, and in an interview, she finally cried when she talked about the "Burning of the Yuanmingyuan" and "Listening to the Government", which was filmed that year, "Burning the Yuanmingyuan" with the anglo-French coalition burning the Yuanmingyuan as the historical background, telling the story of how Cixi grew from an unnoticed girl to the favorite concubine of the Xianfeng Emperor. The film premiered in Hong Kong on September 21, 1983, and in the same year, the film won the Special Award for Outstanding Film from the Ministry of Culture.
Liu Xiaoqing told that it was the early 80s, there was no remuneration for filming, especially co-productions, mainland actors and overseas actors did not have the same price, when filming "Burning the Yuanmingyuan" and "Hanging Curtains and Listening to The Government", the Hong Kong and Taiwan actors liang Jiahui who cooperated were very well treated, at that time all the Hong Kong and Taiwan actors had too many meal tickets to eat, Leung Ka-fai also washed away a lot of excess meal tickets with the toilet, Chen Ye and I saw it, often looked for Liang Jiahui for meal tickets, at that time Liang Jiahui had a high salary, felt that they were very foreign, there was a kind of unspeakable fashion, At that time, the actors on our side were relatively dirty in terms of dress.
In the movie, I played Cixi as the absolute protagonist, Liang Jiahui played the Xianfeng Emperor, Chen Ye played Ci'an, Chen Ye and I did not have a film remuneration at that time, 50 yuan per month, and there was no subsidy, the hotel food expenses were very high, Chen Ye and I often did not eat breakfast in order to save money, when the mainland actors ate every meal on the set was a plastic bag of food distributed by the crew, which had 2 steamed buns, a sausage, a piece of black pickles, but the dining car pushed for the Hong Kong and Taiwan actors put rice and big fish and meat. The first two minutes everyone was still filming together, the last two minutes when everyone was eating, but one was in the sky, one was underground, I was often hungry on the set, so I asked the drama director to eat, he gave me a bowl of rice, when I asked him for some meat to eat, he unceremoniously refused, these meats are not for you to eat, it is for Hong Kong and Taiwan actors to eat, the tears in my eyes at that time suddenly flowed out, originally begging for meat to eat is very humiliating, this time I was directly refused to beat my face, I cried even harder, Shy and angry, I threw down my rice bowl and cried, the production director came to coax me, I said I wanted to eat meat, he said he wanted to buy it for me, I said that the mainland actors should eat meat, and as a result, I ate rice and meat alone, while the other mainland actors in the crew were still the same - steamed buns, sausages and pickles.
Later, the two dramas "Burning the Yuanmingyuan" and "Hanging curtains and listening to the government" were completely popular, and I was the absolute protagonist at that time, and they did not believe that I was not paid to make these two films at that time.
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Chen Ye