Recently, Zhang Songwen suddenly mentioned his first experience of flying on a plane many years ago in the new variety show "Brilliant Garden".
At that time, he and his friend Lin Jiachuan had just debuted and were working as crew members on the set. Unexpectedly, their management ran away halfway. After the work was over, their wages were nowhere to be found, and they even had no money to return to Beijing.
When
was most distressed, actress Weng Hong, who was in the same crew, quietly bought the tickets for them to return to Beijing, and even thoughtfully saved their face, conveying warmth with only a note.
Even though nearly 20 years have passed since the incident, Zhang Songwen has never forgotten it.
After the incident was broadcast, everyone praised him for his kindness and righteousness. At the same time, they also became curious about Weng Hong, who had already been semi-retired from the entertainment industry.
At the age of 56, she is still active in the front office, but she plays small supporting roles.
However, if we go back to 30 years ago, her pretty face and excellent acting skills once occupied a place in the entertainment industry.
Moreover, Weng Hong won the title of "Sister Asia" with the title of "Kochi Beauty", but at the peak of her acting career, her career was hindered due to her huge performance.
So why did she make such a choice at that time, and what was the story behind it?
1. The "Asian Sister Champion" from "Kochi Family"
mentioned that the cooperation between Zhang Songwen and Weng Hong can be traced back to 2005. The two appeared together in the TV series "The Price of Love".
But at that time, Weng Hong was a real heroine, while Zhang Songwen had only debuted for two years and was completely "little transparent".
However, the peak of the womanâs career has actually passed. In addition, she had just ended her first marriage at the time and was exhausted both physically and mentally.
In desperation, Weng Hong had no choice but to refocus his energy on running his business, but it seemed that he had lost his previous good luck and remained tepid.
Weng Hong was born in an intellectual family in Hong Kong in 1968. Both his parents worked at Tsinghua University, and his grandfather was also a designer of arsenals in the late Qing Dynasty.
Unlike her brother and sister, who both grew up in Tsinghua University, she is the youngest in the family and the only child born in Hong Kong. She has been favored since she was a child.
Due to her parents' work, she was often sent to live with uncles, aunts and other relatives living in different places when she was a child, so she was particularly independent.
In 1981, 13-year-old Weng Hong began to learn dance in Beijing and participated in various dance training classes.
The following year, she made up her mind to become a ballet dancer in the future, but she missed the best opportunity because she started too late, so she had no choice but to learn folk dance.
A few years later, Weng Hong entered the Hong Kong Performing Arts School to continue learning dance. Here she established a romantic relationship with a previous male classmate who had pursued her.
However, the relationship soon fell apart due to the intervention of another girl, but Weng Hong found the "third party" unwillingly. Surprisingly, the two of them got along very well.
After an in-depth conversation, they dumped their so-called boyfriends together and actually became close friends.
At the age of 19, Weng Hong was still very independent and started to establish an advertising production company focusing on dance choreography with another classmate. Although the income was not much, at least he could support himself.
But things didnât work out as she wanted. Because of her back injury, she had no choice but to give up dancing. From then on, her life had another possibility.
In 1989, Weng Hong, who was already very beautiful, decided to sign up for the Miss Asia competition.
Although her opponent was Hidden Dragon and Crouching Tiger, she still won the championship with her intellectuality, elegance and other qualities, even defeating the future "most beautiful legs" Wan Qiwen and "all kinds of charming" Wu Yongwei.
The person who presented the award to her was Leslie Cheung, who was at the peak of his career at that time. He also left a passionate kiss on her pretty face, which became a hot topic at the time.
There is no doubt that Weng Hong was at the top when he debuted.
But coming from a Kochi family, she was too young and didnât know how deep the entertainment industry was. Soon, she fell into the "gentleness trap."
2. From "Beautiful Girl" to "Desirable Girl"
As we all know, Hong Kong wealthy families were most interested in female artists starting from Hong Kong Sisters and Asian Sisters.
As the "champion", Weng Hong has naturally become the target of many "female star snipers", including playboy Lin Jianyue.
The man once had close relationships with Joey Wong and Anita Yuen, and Weng Hong was not able to "escape" after her debut.
In 1991, his wife Tse Lingling had just given birth to a pair of twin children, and her husband Lin Jianyue was involved in emotional entanglements with three actresses, including Wan Qiwen, Anita Yuan, and Weng Hong.
At that time, she had successfully signed a contract with ATV, and appeared in the situation comedy "Enemies", playing a mother and daughter with Shun Dianxia.
At first, Weng Hong took the "beautiful girl" route, but scandals broke out when she was just starting out, which undoubtedly became the first hurdle in her acting career.
Unsurprisingly, this relationship cannot last any longer.
After that, she started to work hard for her career again, and successively produced urban drama "Temple Street" and costume drama "Crane and Needle", but they all received poor response.
Moreover, the "beautiful girl image" is too restrictive.
In desperation, Weng Hong chose to take a desperate risk and collaborated with Wang Jing in the suspense film "Unstoppable Crazy".
In the drama, she plays the female anchor Huang Jieyi, who is charming and addictive. However, in this drama, she also gave a large-scale performance, which caused the "Jade Girl" character to be shattered.
was actually able to shoot this film. In addition to the pressure from the public, Weng Hong also had to face pressure from her parents. When her family learned that she was going to make a romantic movie, they were very dissatisfied and even threatened to "sever ties" with her.
But Weng Hong risked everything because of Wang Jing's words, "Follow me and you will become popular."
After that, she had no way out and starred in popular films such as "The Twelve Chambers of Brothels" and "The Ten Tortures of the Qing Dynasty", becoming a hot "star".
Although she did not follow the "beautiful girl" route and opened the door to a new world for Weng Hong, it also put her career at a bottleneck.
During this period, the "Queen of ATV" Yang Baoling took a fancy to Weng Hong and invited her to be the spokesperson of her jewelry brand.
She was also very optimistic about this career at the time, but the two beauties were not good at managing it and ended up losing everything.
had no choice but to go to Taiwan in 1997 to develop her career. Then she was discovered by a Japanese agency and traveled across the ocean to Japan for training. She even released two Japanese songs.
During this period, Weng Hong met Masami Sakada, the vice president of the agency at the time, because of a photo shoot.
The man fell in love with her at first sight, and the two established a relationship soon after.
However, the label of "female heroine" has always been on Weng Hong. She failed to "put on the clothes she took off one by one" like Shu Qi, and her career collapsed as a result.
The turning point occurred in 1998, when Weng Hong came to the mainland to develop and took over the filming of the mythological drama "Springs Are Beautiful".
Although she is not the heroine in the play, her role as the vicious cat demon Miaomiao is very brilliant, and she once became a "childhood shadow" in the hearts of many viewers.
After that, she starred in the martial arts drama "Emperor Qianlong" and the costume drama "The Four Talented Men in Suits", etc., and her career improved.
But at this moment, Weng Hong desperately wanted to start a family with Sakada Masaru and make soup.
They were even engaged in 2000, but after they actually lived together, they found that their life was not happy, and they parted ways two years later.
3. Love was hurt many times, but finally met the right person
During this period, Weng Hong failed to focus on business management, and therefore missed the best opportunity to become famous.
But soon, she met a businessman named Wu Weijie in 2003. The two also fell in love at first sight and decided to get married in a flash marriage after being together for 8 months.
"I will add Weng Hong's name to stocks, real estate, and car properties."
At that time, the man vowed, and the two of them also became successful.
But the real married life has been put to the test. It is said that her mother-in-law made things difficult for Weng Hong in every possible way because of Weng Hong's experience. Wu Weijie also began to distrust his wife, and later she even monitored her.
This marriage lasted for 3 years, and Weng Hong chose to leave by "cleaning up and leaving the house".
She recalled in an interview a long time later: I lost 13 kilograms in a week.
But life goes on. After picking up her mood, Weng Hong started over again and devoted herself to the acting career. Then she starred in "The Legend of Two Dragons of the Tang Dynasty", "The Price of Love", "Urban Hot Girl" and other works. The story between
and Zhang Songwen happened during this period - although her own life was still painful, she was still willing to maintain goodwill towards others.
Within a year of developing in the mainland, Weng Hong met Liu Guanting, a Taiwanese who grew up in the United States, through friends.
The man is also considered half an insider. He owns a fitness consulting company in Shanghai and is a fitness consultant for many actors and directors.
The two also fell in love quickly, but Weng Hong once had no intention of facing a new relationship because of repeated relationship failures.
Faced with the man's passionate pursuit, she asked directly several times: "I'm three years older than you and I'm divorced, don't you care?"
Liu Guanting made the same vow every time, and finally moved Weng Hong.
At the beginning of 2007, the two registered their marriage and gave birth to their daughter Xiao Shuijing in October of the same year.
After that, with her husband's caring company, Weng Hong quickly regained her good figure, and then joined the filming team, and successively appeared in "The Legend of Sun Tzu", "Love Blown by the Breeze", "Accidentally Falling in Love with You" and other works .
Although she is no longer the "beautiful girl" or "desire girl" in the previous public impression, Weng Hong, who has experienced several ups and downs, is obviously more mature and rational.
In recent years, Weng Hong has begun to play supporting roles for various little flowers, such as Yuan Shanshan, Chen Duling, and Sun Zhenni. She is over 50 years old and is called the "frozen age goddess" by the outside world.
In addition to the steady progress of her acting career, what is even more enviable for her is her happy family and her daughter, who is known as the "most beautiful second generation star".
However, Weng Hong said that she would not let her already very beautiful daughter Xiao Jingshu enter the entertainment industry for various reasons.
In fact, if Zhang Songwen had not revealed the origin of the two this time, Weng Hong's presence as an artist would not be high, even though she has new works released every year.
Now, perhaps, she is in the best condition since she started her career:
is not famous, but she has filming, fans silently supporting her, and a comfortable life. Everything is enough, isn't it?
