Many people in the industry posted messages of condolences to Zheng Peipei this morning. At 10 o'clock, Zheng Peipei's agency confirmed that she had passed away.
The obituary mentioned that Zheng Peipei had been in poor health for some time, but chose not to make it public and give time to her family. Mainland audiences immediately thought of Liu Tao's words in this year's "Flowers and Boys·Friends" that Zheng Peipei is in very poor health and needs support.
The details of Zheng Peipei’s illness were revealed by Variety: She was diagnosed with neurodegenerative atypical parkinsonism syndrome – informally known as corticobasal degeneration (cbd). It is a rare disease with symptoms similar to Parkinson's disease, but current treatments do not slow its progression. Zheng Peipei chose to donate her brain for medical research.
(△variety report title: Zheng Peipei, who starred in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and "The Drunken Man" passed away, which also reflects the international reputation of Zheng Peipei's performance)
"Donating brains for medical research", how brave and long-term choose. She passed away, but she hoped that those who would come after her would suffer less pain.
Zheng Peipei was dashing in martial arts movies when she was young. She left her marriage and returned to her acting career in middle age. When she is old, she participates in reality shows and takes care of everyone with all her heart.
She is a chivalrous woman. Looking back on her life, I would like to say that it would be great if she didn't have to carry so much.
All obituaries today will start from the beginning. Zheng Peipei was born in Shanghai in 1946. Her father, Jiang Xuecheng, was the boss of the police station before liberation. He also abandoned his official position and went into business to open an ink factory (said to be China's first ink factory "A-word ink factory"). "), after the founding of the People's Republic of China, his father donated airplanes to the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, but was later labeled as a "counterrevolutionary". Zheng Peipei's mother was an outsider. Her father is a "counterrevolutionary", and Zheng Peipei is a member of the counterrevolutionary family. The mother and father "draw a clear line", and the mother's children all took their mother's surname, and later came to Hong Kong to join their uncle.
Zheng Peipei stayed in Shanghai until junior high school before going to Hong Kong. She studied at the famous No. 3 Girls' Middle School in the city and studied ballet in Shanghai, which gave her the foundation for dancing and later becoming a martial arts actor. Zheng Peipei once went to Beijing to take the dance school entrance examination, but failed. However, she loved dancing deeply and continued to study ballet after arriving in Hong Kong.
The education she received in Shanghai had a profound impact on her. She likes the sentence in "How Steel Was Tempered" that "The most precious thing for a person is life... not because of wasting time... not because of inaction... when you are dying..." "That's a long paragraph.
In May 1962, Zheng Peipei was admitted as a student in the first batch of the Shaw Brothers Southern Experimental Theater training class in Hong Kong. After graduation, Zheng Peipei entered Shaw Brothers as an actor.
Zheng Peipei is the "eldest sister" and has had to take care of her younger siblings since she was a child. She is a woman who has fulfilled her "motherly duties" too early. Taking care of others has become her instinct and extends to all aspects of life.
Zhang Xiaoyan recalled director Hu Jinquan's praise of Zheng Peipei, saying that she was sensible and that she swept the floor while filming, and used this to reprimand other young people for living too comfortably.
A woman's hard work is the default value, and it is what everyone else needs to learn, even though actors do not need to sweep the floor in the first place. When
first joined Shaw Brothers, Zheng Peipei signed a five-year dead contract and a three-year active contract. In the fourth year, she became popular, so the company took the initiative to change the contract and made more money. But Zheng Peipei has no idea how much money she earns, because she is the "big sister" and all her wages are given to her mother to take care of her younger siblings. In the last three years of Shaw Brothers, Zheng's mother moved to Australia with her younger siblings, and Zheng Peipei needed to give all her money to her family. In addition to acting, Zheng Peipei also makes extra money by narrating Shanghai accent lines for movies.
When she was in school, Zheng Peipei performed in the dance "Cowherd and Weaver Girl" with another actress from mainland China to Hong Kong, Jiang Qing (not Jiang Qing, see the old article for Jiang Qing's introduction), and she played the male role. Jiang Qing and Zheng Peipei both studied dance and came to Hong Kong from the mainland. They got along very well and were lifelong good friends.
This handsome image laid the foundation for Zheng Peipei's future screen works to take off. Director Yue Feng asked her to play Liu Yanchang, a scholar disguised as a man in "Lotus Lantern" (1965), and the heroine was Lin Dai.Zheng Peipei recalled that the big star Lin Dai saw her as a newcomer in the dressing room and praised her: "You are Peipei, you are so handsome!"
Zheng Peipei first filmed "Lotus Lantern", but another "Lovers' Stone" (1964) is the earliest work to be seen by the audience. The film participated in the Asian Film Festival and won the "Golden Samurai Award for Most Promising Film Star" from the International Independent Producers Association of the United States.
In 1966, Zheng Peipei starred in Hu Jinquan's "The Drunken Man". This screen role was also the one that director Hu Jinquan decided to create as a chivalrous heroine after seeing Zheng Peipei playing the role of a cowherd. Zheng Peipei's status as the most classic "screen heroine" was thus established.
However, a chivalrous woman can become a chivalrous woman even when she fails. Cheng Peipei wrote in her memoir "Looking Back Seventy Years with a Smile": "After "The Drunken Man", at Shaw Brothers, my martial arts films were the guarantee of box office, and I Once you become a natural "heroine", you will never have the opportunity to make other types of films.
But she is still grateful for this opportunity: "Without Director Hu, there would be no "Golden Swallow" like me, and without "Golden Swallow", there would be no "Zheng Peipei" like me today. "Hu Jinquan was very fond of her. When the company recommended other heroines, he also insisted on using Zheng Peipei to audition for opportunities. He also specially designed clothes for Zheng Peipei's figure, and used big hats to add momentum and balance to Zheng Peipei, who has a small head and small face. Proportions, round hats became a trend of martial arts style.
Cheng Peipei was not only good at sweeping the floor on the set, but also the most obedient and conscientious. She always arrived on time on set. Run Run Shaw personally awarded her the "Best Diligence and Punctuality" within Shaw Brothers. Award".
Because of the success of "The Drunken Man", Chang Cheh also approached Cheng Peipei to film "The Golden Swallow" (1968), but the outspoken Cheng Peipei recalled that the cooperation was not very pleasant many years later. First of all, press the role of "The Drunken Man" It's not good to make another movie. Secondly, Zhang Che arrived at noon, and Wang Yu, a "big-name niche student," delayed his arrival until two or three in the afternoon. The entire crew was in disarray, which made the "most diligent" Zheng Peipei unhappy. Zhang Che's lack of attention (or discrimination) towards actresses is obvious. The three heroes, the male hero, jumped out of the window, but he let Zheng Peipei go out. Zheng Peipei insisted that they should either jump together or leave together, but in the end they all jumped out of the window together. Zhang Che's explanation for this was: "I really do it for your own good. I'm afraid that if you continue like this, no one will dare to marry you." "
That's it. Looking back on the past, someone said to her: "Pepe, you should feel very proud, because in the plays directed by Chang Cheh, few girls have such a heavy role. "
Although there are other screen images, such as in the musical "Moonlight Night on the River".
But the audience at that time only had the impression of Zheng Peipei as a "chivalrous woman". After the filming of "Poisonous Dragon Pond" (1969), readers and media in Hong Kong and Taiwan Choose Zheng Peipei as the "Martial Arts Queen".
A generation of chivalrous women will be discriminated against by big directors when they work.
Zheng Peipei's famous predecessor is Yue Hua. Yue Hua, who played the role of young and old in "Jewelry" with Cai Shaofen, was recognized as "this is Xu Cunzi and Xibao". Zheng Peipei fell in love with Yue Hua, but Yi Shu intervened. Yi Shu broke up with Yue Hua and went to his room to cut them into pieces. His things stuck scissors on his bed (just like the story of Rose tearing apart Zhuang Guodong's house in the novel "The Story of Rose"). After Zheng Peipei got married, she was unhappy and wrote a letter to Yue Hua, which was also published by Yi Shu in the newspaper.
(△《 Jewelry" Yue Hua)
I always thought that female stars would gossip like this forever, but Zheng Peipei got married at the age of 23 and went to the United States.
Why did she get married at the age of 23? Because everyone does this, every woman does? Afraid of not being able to get married. Everyone is threatening women that you won’t be able to get married. Female stars in martial arts dramas are also afraid that if a man is afraid of them and doesn’t love them, they will get married as soon as possible.
In her eyes, the future of women is not martial arts movies, but romantic love movies like "Moonlight Night on the River", where they meet their beloved, get married and have children, and then the word "the drama ends" is marked.
In 1970, Zheng Peipei got married and retired, settling down with her husband in the United States.
It was that year that Cai Lam went to Osaka to participate in the World Expo to shoot a documentary. The American Pavilion displayed "The One Hundred Most Beautiful Women in the World" shot by the photographer of the film magazine "Post", and Zheng Peipei was among them. When Zheng Peipei published his memoirs, Cai Lam wrote the preface and mentioned this photo. If Cheng Pei Pei had continued to act, where would her acting career have gone?
Zheng Peipei is so conscious of her "dedication" to women. To be a big star, she worked in movies to save money for her family, and to be a wife, she even learned tailoring in advance, which she thought would be useful after getting married.
In the first class of the tailoring class, Zheng Peipei told the teacher that she wanted to make her own wedding dress, and she did make it later.
Zheng Peipei's ex-husband Yuan Wentong is the son of a Taiwanese film distributor. Zheng Peipei was cared for by "Uncle Yuan" all the way. She met Yuan Wentong, who was three years older than herself, and fell in love and got married.
When a big star got married, it was mistakenly reported that she was "marrying a wealthy businessman who is 11 years older." This is a classic combination in the eyes of the media: an actress marries a rich man.
In Zheng Peipei's eyes, her ex-husband was just an international student of the same age as herself. She was familiar with Uncle Yuan and felt that their family was very good.
In that era, every woman was afraid of not being able to get married, so when Zheng Peipei met such a person, she got married.
Her ex-husband is a single son of the third generation. Zheng Peipei’s task after getting married is to have a son.
Zheng Peipei recalled her thoughts when she was young: "When I was young, I always believed that getting married and having children was a necessary stage for a woman. Especially when I married into my original family and knew that their family was a single generation, I felt that I had a mission. From the moment I got married, I had already made up my mind to lend my belly to their original family for sowing seeds.”
This idea was often recalled in her interviews. This is actually a common understanding in the old days.
Looking back on the past when she was old, she even described her mood before getting married like this: "I had to get married early in order to have children."
If these words were said today, the Internet would criticize them as sexism, and there are old and new ideas. impact each other.
When Zheng Peipei got married, everyone supported her marriage and thought it was the right choice, including director Hu Jinquan and every female friend around her. Her best friend also envied her for getting married early, but she had a trouble in her mind.
The only person who doesn't support her is her mother, because the mother can't see that her daughter cares about this person or this relationship. Zheng Peipei said that she didn't care much about anything.
There is a very contradictory situation here. According to Zheng Peipei's character, she doesn't care about anything, so what is most suitable for her is to be alone and free, rather than in a committed relationship.
But she is the most obedient and responsible. A little girl who takes the initiative to clean up on the set and always abides by the company's discipline as an actress, how could she think that "the lifestyle advocated by society is not suitable for her"?
It is precisely because Zheng Peipei is a responsible person that she is so active in getting married early. In her understanding, this is the responsibility itself.
Zheng Peipei: I think I may be a very strong person. When I was a daughter, I wanted to be a good daughter. I also wanted to be the best child for the children of New China. When I went to Hong Kong to be an actor, I wanted to be a good daughter. As a star, I also want to be the best; of course, if I am a daughter-in-law, I also hope to be the best. That's why I worked very hard to give birth, right? I think this is a woman's responsibility, to lend her own belly to give birth to a child for her husband's family.
I think my theories are all very strange. When I think about it myself, they are all very strange and not very logical. I don’t think of life in a very humane way. It is very rigid. Once you have done this, you should do that. , after doing that, do that... I think I am like this, this is my personality.
She taught her in a subtle way that it was natural for her to get married and have children, and it was a woman's responsibility to "carry on the family line" for her husband's family. When Zheng Peipei started getting married and having children, she realized that having a son was not her decision.
In order to "give birth to a son", Zheng Peipei became pregnant eight times and had four miscarriages. It’s hard to imagine what kind of physical and mental torture this is, but Zheng Peipei said that she would not scream even if it hurts to give birth: "Maybe at a certain point I feel like a heroine, what else can I call such a trivial matter as giving birth." (via Phoenix.com) Road)
But after she experienced a miscarriage, when she gave birth to a son for the third time, she cried for three hours. Her ex-husband didn’t offer any comfort. He just said, “Can you please stop crying? When people see you crying like this, they think I’m scolding you.”
Zheng Peipei loves her daughter very much, and her goal of having a son is entirely because of “ The original family needs a son."
Marriage changed Zheng Peipei. When filming at Shaw Brothers, after she finished filming the fight scene, director Luo Wei (Zheng Peipei called him "Uncle Luo") would treat her to a big meal. When she got pregnant and wanted to eat rice, her ex-husband told her, "If you don't eat it, you won't die."
After her marriage, her ex-husband said that drinking cola was bad for her health, so Zheng Peipei stopped. When she saw Luo Wei, she no longer drank Coke. Luo Wei believed that this husband was too cruel to Zheng Peipei.
It's hard to imagine what it would be like to be pregnant eight times, but in such a marriage, Zheng Peipei took good care of the whole family. To what extent, Zheng Peipei's ex-husband went to Australia to find Zheng Peipei's sister Baopei, and directly said to his sister-in-law: "Baopei, please help me pack my luggage." Because Zheng Peipei packed everything for him after they got married, he was so used to it that he thought the Zheng family Any woman can take care of herself.
In addition to the heavy childbirth and housework, Zheng Peipei learned English, opened a dance studio, taught dance, and was responsible for sending home eight or nine children who were learning to dance. She also helped inspect goods in her ex-husband's import and export company. Later, she Opened a retail store again. In the eyes of others, Zheng Peipei is a "superwoman".
But she takes care of the children herself, and the power of command is not in her hands. As long as her husband's family sets the rules, Zheng Peipei can only enforce them.
The child was still young and there was no daycare. My ex-husband said that the child was clinging to his mother and had no independence. Her ex-husband was silent and only offered advice, but Zheng Peipei began to think about how to find someone to take care of the children and earn extra money to pay for the nanny. Also immediately train your child to not use diapers.
Our family is different. Although I am the one taking care of the children, the rules are set by my ex-husband’s family. The ex-husband believes that the child clings to his mother at home every day and lacks independence. But what should I do if the nursery doesn’t accept my child if he is too young? So at first I could only give it to an elderly person who specialized in looking after children for a few hours. During these hours, I had to work so I could afford to pay the nanny.
At the same time, in order to let the child enter the nursery early, the first thing is to get rid of some of her "bad habits", such as giving up drinking milk from a bottle. The most difficult thing is to no longer use diapers and be able to urinate and defecate by herself.
Zheng Peipei, who takes care of childcare, housework, and work all by herself, will certainly do something wrong. When she takes care of her child alone, the child falls and gets stitches. Her ex-husband still “teaches” Zheng Peipei a “hard lesson” when he comes back from a business trip.
It is hard to imagine that in such a heavy life, Zheng Peipei also completed a dance work.
Zheng Peipei’s ambition has not been wiped out by family and childcare.
html In the 1980s, Zheng Peipei opened a TV program production company "Star Communication Co., Ltd." in Los Angeles, USA, and produced and hosted the Chinese-American documentary series "Carrying on the Past and Forging a Future". On March 29, 1981, Taiwan's CTV news program "60 Minutes" established a production team in Los Angeles to report on American news events. Cheng Peipei was one of the team members when it was established. She can do everything, even act as a driver for the show crew, because no one can drive.(△Zheng Peipei as host interviews Gong Li and Zhang Yimou)
After having three daughters, the parents-in-law considered adopting their son from a relative. Without the fertility pressure created by her husband's family, Zheng Peipei immediately terminated her pregnancy to start a career. In the early 1980s, she thought about designing aerobics (she called it "healthy dance") and brought it back to Hong Kong and Taiwan to promote it. Zheng Peipei believes that the concept she promoted was successful, but she did not make any money as a business.
At this time, Zheng Peipei was pregnant again. At that time, older women in the United States could have their gender tested, and it was found that it was a boy. In 1985, Zheng Peipei gave birth to her youngest son Yuan Heyu. Zheng Peipei raised three daughters by herself. After her son was born, her mother-in-law began to feel that she would not be able to take care of children anymore.
Although her marriage is hard for her, Zheng Peipei still loves her children and values family ties. She said that even when she is a star, she rarely smiles. Only when her children are around, can there be laughter.
gave birth to a son, and Zheng Peipei has no nostalgia for marriage. In 1987, Zheng Peipei and Yuan Wentong divorced and left home.
She looked back on the divorce process and the conversation was so simple. The ex-husband does not seem to feel that he owes this wife.
After the divorce, Zheng Peipei began to make a comeback and make films; in 1992, she officially became a Buddhist.
Nowadays, young people's memories of Zheng Peipei's role are all based on her performance as an "old woman" after her divorce. The most well-known is Mrs. Hua in "Tang Bohu Spots Autumn Fragrance".
In the first season of "Flowers and Boys", Hua Chenyu met Zheng Peipei and found that it was a familiar face. He didn't know what to call her and he didn't know her past achievements. After hesitating for a long time, the two words "Huafu" finally came out Zheng Peipei answered with good temper: "Mrs. Hua." She has long been accustomed to young people only remembering this. I don’t bother to explain that I am a big star who became popular in the 1960s.
In the decades after her comeback, Zheng Peipei has acted in everything. In "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" she was the blue-eyed fox and won an Academy Award for supporting actress. In "Young Bao Qingtian" she was Bao Zheng's mother.
In recent years, in those major online movies known as the "sentiment tax", Zheng Peipei still appears with a smile, and dutifully advertises these works on Weibo. It's all work, and we'll take it seriously.
She has her own ideas about work. In 2014, she participated in the British film "Shake It Gently". A mother who discovered her son's sexual orientation only after his death faced the loss of her beloved together with her son's lover.
A few years ago, Disney's new "Mulan" still included Zheng Peipei, which also shows that she will always be seen by international production companies.
Many celebrities who paid tribute to Cheng Peipei today mostly had some connection with some part of her career. It turns out that she has worked so much, from classic movies to childhood memory costume dramas, to new generation TV series, and of course reality shows.
The first season of "Flowers and Boys" was released ten years ago. In this program that was once popular as "Shura Field", Zheng Peipei is the most warm and steadfast presence in it. She is good at English and has strong living skills. She drags several boxes with everyone, regardless of her age, just like young people. She says to others, "If you want to go, I will go with you." She will happily enjoy the journey.
When Hua Chenyu fans gathered around the Hua Shao tour group, Zheng Peipei came forward to communicate and asked them all to go back and play together the next day. She also quickly managed the fan group and selected a contact person.
But Hua Chenyu is very resistant to getting along with fans. Zheng Peipei said that if you work in this industry, you have to be with these fans (fans) for your whole life. If you want to work in the entertainment industry for your whole life, you have to hang out with them.
"Everyone knows me in Hong Kong, and I greet them all. I have been popular, very popular. When I was popular, I took the bus every day." Only a true superstar can say these words so calmly. It is true that she has been popular, but she is not in the clouds when she is popular. When she is old, it is also good for young people to call her Mrs. Hua when they see her. You can get along well with everyone.
I really admire Zheng Peipei when I watched that program. She used the communication skills of a program producer or manager to talk to the fans, allowing the fans to coordinate with each other so as not to affect the filming, but Hua Shaotuan also needs to be able to speak Spanish fans come to help and hope everyone will cooperate with each other. Every sentence she spoke was organized and logical, but her attitude was kind and lovely. No one would contradict her.
Zheng Peipei is particularly kind to Liu Tao, who participated in the show together. Probably because Liu Tao is also the person who takes the most labor and care in the show, and has always taken care of others in life. Zheng Peipei sees her own reflection in her. The message she wrote to Liu Tao in her own hand was: "It can never be as perfect as everyone wants, but I hope it will be worthy of my heart." Liu Tao later always called Zheng Peipei "Pei's mother". Today, Liu Tao's condolences on Weibo IP are in the United States, and they should accompany her as a family member. .
Zheng Peipei seems to have lived several times, in Shanghai, in Hong Kong, in Shaw Brothers, in the United States, and after her comeback. At 70 years old, she still feels like she is in her golden age.
Zheng Peipei, the person who seemed to be able to live on TV forever, is now gone. Her Weibo page looks like she has a mother's heart, advertising her daughter Atomjuan and son Yuan Heyu. When she posts on Weibo, she always mentions the acquaintances she can think of (including Liu Tao, of course), just like the elders in the family posting on social networks. What is the Internet? To her, it is just a place for good friends to talk. Say hello to your friends first.
The disappearance of childhood memories is always particularly sad.
reminds me of an inconspicuous moment when Zheng Peipei participated in "Xiaoyan's Date" in 2017. The program team found a group photo of Cheng Peipei in a swimsuit when she was young and beautiful during her Shaw Brothers years. Many actresses from the 1960s were among them.
The first sentence Zheng Peipei read was not that she missed her youth, but said calmly: "A lot of them are gone."
"No more." Just passed away.
Opposite her, Zhang Xiaoyan, who also had white hair, lamented that she didn't know someone had passed away. Then she said that when talking to old classmates now, "Who is gone, who is gone."
Now, we have lost Cheng Peipei. Looking back on her life as a heroine, I just think, of course it’s good to be a heroine, but it would be great if she didn’t become a superwoman. She was overloaded before.
Afterwards, her name is not only in film history, but also in the list of brave and great donors. This is a heroine-style departure.
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