In 2020, a sudden outbreak of the epidemic broke out in Wuhan, and the people of the whole country responded to the call of the state and made contributions at home. The epidemic can be controlled in just over 2 months, which is inseparable from the country's rapid response mechanism and strong epidemic prevention and control measures, from the retrogrades who are fighting in the frontline of the fight against the epidemic, and from the donations and materials of patriotic and ambitious people from all walks of life.
In this donation, the donation amount of Hong Kong and Taiwan stars is very eye-catching, with a total donation of more than 300 million yuan, Jacky Cheung donated 50 million, Andy Lau donated 20 million, and Zhang Ting and his wife donated 20 million...
And there is a person, although only donated 500,000 yuan (in fact, 500,000 is still a lot), but the people in the mainland are very moved, have given him a thumbs up, this person is the 69-year-old fat cat Zheng Zeshi, a veteran Hong Kong artist.
What is even more lamentable is that Zheng Zeshi has been plagued by diabetes and was once affected by illness. According to online rumors, Zheng Zeshi, who was supposed to be a young man, had to come back to continue filming because of his wife's serious illness and in order to pay high medical expenses.
When the country was in difficulty, he still donated 500,000 yuan to Wuhan, completely comparing those mainland first-line stars who paid tens of millions of dollars for a film and were 200,000 in this epidemic donation.
Speaking of Zheng Zeshi, many post-90s and post-00s may not know, and his most recent appearance on the screen is the "Ip Man 4 Final Chapter" released in January this year, in which he played Ip Man's friend Fei Bo. He has portrayed many classic roles in Hong Kong TV series and movies, the most impressive is the fat cat, so everyone calls him the fat cat Zheng Zeshi.
Born in 1951 in Shantou, Guangdong Province, zheng Zeshi's family moved to Hong Kong when he was very young, living in a slum in Wan Chai, Hong Kong, where his parents struggled to survive but could only make ends meet. Because he was too poor, Zheng Zeshi, as the eldest in the family, dropped out of school to work to subsidize the family when he was in junior high school.
He worked many jobs, worked as a coolie, worked as a kitchen handyman, worked as a bartender. Later, he went to a jewelry store as an apprentice and became a jewelry mechanic. When he was a jewelry mechanic, he could earn one or two thousand yuan a month, and his family was very happy.
But in Zheng Zeshi's heart, there has always been a dream of stardom. When he was in elementary school, he also wrote an essay called "I want to be a star", but he was angrily reprimanded by his teacher for his love of vanity and tore up the text. After working as a jewelry mechanic, Zheng Zeshi's dream is still undiminished.
In 1972, the 21-year-old Zheng Zeshi resigned to attend the first actor training class held by Longbow Pictures despite his family's opposition, and this decision changed his life.
Soon after, TVB held the "Sound Treasure Set Acting Competition", and Zheng Zeshi won the overall championship of the first competition in one fell swoop, and has since become a signed artist of TVB.
From the appearance point of view, Zheng Zeshi is neither handsome nor dashing, and there is no star style at all. But fortunately, he looked very distinctive, chubby, looked cute, and soon had a place in the comedy industry, and became the male lead in the second year of the industry.
When Zheng Zeshi was young, he was not fat, even relatively thin, and was often bullied by his brothers in jewelry stores, and the underworld in Hong Kong was everywhere at that time. Zheng Zeshi went to a martial arts training class to learn boxing and weightlifting in his spare time.
After two years of practice, he became very strong, full of muscle, and his weight grew from 114 pounds to 178 pounds. But one day, he suddenly did not want to practice, began to eat a life of eating sea plugs, the result of less than half a year of weight gained 50 pounds, and out of control, the fattest time reached about 280 pounds (more than 250 pounds).
In the following years, Zheng Zeshi's film contracts continued to flow, and he starred in dozens of comedies in succession, and his acting skills were also well polished.
In 1984, he was nominated for the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actor for his outstanding performance in the film "Unmarried Old Bean", when he was 33 years old.
But Zheng Zeshi is not satisfied with just being a comedian. In 1985, Zheng Zeshi planned to write, self-direct and self-act a warm and tragic feature film "Why Should There Be Me", a film full of realistic care, which is still regarded as the peak of Zheng Zeshi's career many years later. This is his 40th film, and the first time he has not played a comedy, and the protagonist he plays, "Fat Cat", has become his most popular role.
Fat Cat is an ill-fated and mentally inferior teenager. In order to accurately shape the image of intellectually inferior people, Zheng Zeshi visited the Hong Kong Social Welfare Society many times to learn more about their psychological and physiological characteristics, and took a lot of materials to study in detail, and pondered and practiced for three months before officially starting filming. This film won him the crown of male lead at the 5th Hong Kong Film Awards.
The great success of "Fat Cat" immediately attracted the attention of people in the Hong Kong television industry, and Hong Kong Asia Television took advantage of the opportunity to create a TV series "Fat Cat Zheng biography", invited Zheng Zeshi to play the male lead, and broke the ratings record of Asian Television drama programs in the year of release, and successfully produced a sequel.
Since then, Zheng Zeshi has become the embodiment of fat cats, and has made two movies and four TV series about fat cats in the past 20 years. So much so that people forgot his real name and called him Fat Cat.
After "Why Should There Be Me", Zheng Zeshi's drama path has also become wider and wider, not only starring in comedies, but also starring in tragedies, literary films, action movies, police films, etc., once becoming one of the highest paid actors in Hong Kong.
In 1996, Hong Kong director Cho Chung-kee released a new work "Three Wounded Policemen", in which Zheng Zeshi played a retired old and good policeman who died, he worked hard and treated people with respect, but the accumulated pressure of life finally broke down one night, performing a shocking scene of a police gathering and taking hostages. This role made him overwhelm the crowd at that year's Academy Awards, and once again won the film emperor crown.
At the same time, because of his stature, Zheng Zeshi, who is 40 years old, is alone, and he is accustomed to the division and combination of the show business circle, and he is not enthusiastic about marriage until the emergence of Lin Yanming.
Lin Yanming is 14 years younger than Zheng Zeshi, and the two met when they were filming.
"There were a lot of actresses who participated in the filming that time, but only she was particularly idyllic and self-satisfied, not grabbing the camera, not robbing the dressing room or anything, it can be said that 'people are as light as a chrysanthemum', leaving me with a good impression ..."
After a few dates, Lin Yanming became his girlfriend.
In 1991, zheng Zeshi married his wife Lin Yanming, who was 14 years younger than himself, with the blessing of his relatives and friends, and his career and love were both harvested. At that time, Zheng Zeshi, flowers and applause, money and fame, and happy marriage were all owned. He finally survived the hard days and moved into a 300-square-meter mansion with his family.
But blessings and misfortunes depend on them. At that time, Zheng Zeshi, who was full of ambition, and a friend partnered to open a film and television company, and due to investment failures, he lost 200 million yuan, and he also carried a debt of 20 million yuan.
Overnight, he fell from the top of the mountain to the bottom of the valley, and thus he saw clearly the cold and warm of human feelings, and the so-called friends around him hid far away, but fortunately, there were still family members who accompanied him and spent time with him.
In addition to his family, Zheng Zeshi said that the person he was most grateful to in his life was Andy Lau, and after his bankruptcy, it was Andy Lau who pulled him along. At that time, as long as it was a film starring Andy Lau, he would help Zheng Zeshi make an appointment, so that he could shoot a scene, support his family and pay off debts (Andy Lau's character is really nothing to say, and he has helped many people).
In order to repay the debt, Zheng Zeshi sold the property, he is already the emperor of the film, he does not pick the script, as long as it can make money, he will take any drama. Finally, in 2004, he paid off all his debts, and he was more than half a hundred years old, and his reputation was not as good as before.
Some time ago, some media posted a recent photo of him. In the photo, Zheng Zeshi's hair is gray, his face is old, he is much thinner than when he played the fat cat in the early years, and the three chins of the signature have disappeared, and it is rumored that because he is plagued by diabetes, his body is not as good as before, so he is getting older and faster.
After the dissipation of fame, Zheng Zeshi rarely saw his figure except for the occasional cameo in the movie, so he once became a pastime object of some unscrupulous media, and was repeatedly rumored to have "died".
But in recent years, Zheng Zeshi has begun to make a comeback to film, and the internet explosion is because his wife Lin Yanming is ill and needs to pay high treatment costs. However, there is not much information on the Internet about the rumors of Lin Yanming's illness. Although this is only a rumor, but the disease is rife, when his economy is not rich, in the face of the epidemic, he still generously donated 500,000 yuan to Wuhan is a fact.
500,000 is not a small amount for some high-paid stars, but it is not a small amount for some old artists who are old and have few resources. Kudos to such positive artists! I hope that the fat cat Zheng Zeshi is healthy and healthy, and the good man has a safe life.