In the early 1980s, Zhiqiang Chi was a household name. He has starred in films such as Younger Generation, Zhao Xi Street and Moon to Mid-Autumn Festival. Like Chen Chong, Liu Xiaoqing, Tang Guoqiang and Pan Hong at that time, he was the winner of the second National Outstanding Young Actor Award. However, just as his career was in full swing, Zhiqiang Chi was suddenly arrested and imprisoned in Nanjing 1983, and was later arrested and imprisoned for four years by the Nanjing Procuratorate for "hooliganism". The national public opinion was in an uproar.
Zhiqiang Chi was released from prison early on 1985 because of his good behavior. Two years later, according to his life behind bars, he wrote and sang songs such as Tears Behind bars and Sorrow, which became popular all over the country and was called the "King of Prison Songs". But later, with the social criticism of the popularity of "prison songs", Zhiqiang Chi once again disappeared from people's vision. ...
As a public figure, Zhiqiang Chi's experience can be described as ups and downs. Why on earth did he go to prison? What kind of spiritual purgatory did he go through from the highest point to the lowest point of his life? Now, can he make a comeback? Recently, Zhiqiang Chi disclosed in detail to our special correspondent for the first time how he got out of the shadow of "rogue criminals" in the past 20 years. ...
From 65438 to 0958, Zhiqiang Chi was born in a citizen's family in Harbin, Heilongjiang. Chi Jia is his fourth brother, and he ranks second in the family. When graduating from junior high school, changchun film studio recruited actors, the national 16 index. Good at singing and dancing, recommended by the teacher to sign up, after layers of screening, become a student of changchun film studio training class.
1974, 16-year-old Zhiqiang Chi participated in the filming of the first film "Entrepreneurship", which received excellent response, and then quickly became popular because of starring in films such as Younger Generation and Zhao Xi Street. 1979, 2 1 year-old, together with Liu Xiaoqing, Tang Guoqiang, Chen Chong, Pan Hong and other 1 1 actors, won the second "National Excellent Young Actor" and was received by the central leadership. Young Zhiqiang Chi is proud of his success in his career.
1982, when Zhiqiang Chi went to Nanjing to shoot the Mid-Autumn Festival, "eight or nine boys and girls often played together, listened to the sweetness of Teresa Teng, danced face to face and watched small movies in it" (in Zhiqiang Chi). At that time, they didn't care whether this "ahead" behavior affected their other neighbors, let alone whether it caused their disgust. Zhiqiang Chi even rashly had sex with a girl. As a result, when the 1983 nationwide "strike hard" campaign began, Zhiqiang Chi, who was filming "Jin Buhuan" on location in Wanxian County, Hebei Province, was suddenly arrested by the Nanjing Public Security Bureau. It turned out that Zhiqiang Chi's behavior towards several young people in Nanjing was accused by his neighbors as "naked dancing" and "collective improper sexual relations"! After the matter was disclosed by the media, the whole country was in an uproar for a time. The Jiangsu Provincial Judicial Committee quickly made a decision: in the case of Zhiqiang Chi, all the people involved were punished as "hooliganism"; Zhiqiang Chi's behavior has constituted hooliganism, and he was imprisoned for four years!
Almost without any transition, Zhiqiang Chi fell from the peak of "National Excellent Young Actor" to the bottom of his life. In prison, Zhiqiang Chi can't drink, eat or sleep. Sometimes when his mind is slightly clear, his heart is full of regret, despair and panic. He kept asking himself: Why was he dizzy at that time? How can there be no self-control? I'm sure I can't be an actor after the four-year sentence expires. What should I do in my next life? ...
After spending some time in prison, he was transferred to a labor camp. At this time, someone can visit, but he doesn't see anyone; After his girlfriend broke up with him, he even had the idea of suicide. As soon as the reform-through-labour comrades saw that the situation was wrong, they sent him directly to Huashan Coal Mine in Jiangsu Province, hoping that a lot of manual labor would occupy the gap in his thinking and prevent him from thinking. Who knows, Jiangsu Huashan Coal Mine has become a household name in China because of the arrival of Zhiqiang Chi. When he first went to the dock to unload coal, I don't know who released the news, which actually attracted thousands of people to watch. Zhiqiang Chi bowed his head and, like all prisoners, walked barefoot to the hut. The onlookers immediately became excited: "Look, look, that's Zhiqiang Chi! That rapist! " In August, it was very hot in Nanjing, and Zhiqiang Chi worked silently on the boat. Onlookers on the shore, some spit at him, some threw stones at him ... Zhiqiang Chi didn't speak, sweat and tears flowed down together, and two long tears of regret appeared on his face completely smeared by coal unloading. ...
From then on, Zhiqiang Chi always tried his best to do the most tiring work every time he worked. He hopes that he can use labor to alleviate his inner guilt. Because of his good performance, one year later, he was promoted to team leader. During his imprisonment, apart from taking part in labor, his only pleasure was to keep a diary, and then hum a song: "Sorrow" ... Tears of regret ... "This song is full of remorse for his absurd behavior in the past. ...
Later, in order to enrich prison life, Huashan Prison decided to give full play to the strengths of prisoners and set up a literary propaganda team. After joining the propaganda team, Zhiqiang Chi performed well and won the first prize three times. 1in may, 985, Zhiqiang Chi was released from prison early.
After several ups and downs: "The Prince of Prison Song" quickly became popular and then disappeared.
Where will you go after you get out of prison? At that time, Zhiqiang Chi was surprised and grateful that any unit dared to accept a reform-through-labour prisoner, because the prison spoke highly of him, and changchun film studio accepted him again-but he couldn't restore the old establishment, so he couldn't make a film and had to do odd jobs.
Zhiqiang Chi returned to changchun film studio with a broken schoolbag on his back before his hair grew out. He serves all the workers in the factory, and his work is all chores, including maintaining the house, pulling mud, transporting coal and even serving tea and water for employees. The workers who work together are handymen who have served him before and he has never really seen them. Here, Zhiqiang Chi began the second baptism of his life.
Brilliant in the same place, and fell down, that kind of huge gap, Zhiqiang Chi is always difficult to really accept at first. Once, a worker's sewer was blocked. He went to dredge with a temporary worker named Wang. Seeing that his partner was too slow, he habitually urged: "Hurry up!" Unexpectedly, this temporary worker surnamed Wang is also a straight man. He rolled his eyes, threw a wrench and said, "Do you think you are still a movie actor?"? Come on, you do it alone ... "Zhiqiang Chi had to do it alone.
Even more embarrassing things come from old friends. Old friends Song Xiaoying, Guo Kaimin and Peisi Chen are afraid of his sadness, so they always make a detour when they meet him. But the whole factory in Chang Ying is so big that we always meet. Once, he met Song Xiaoying at the gate, and Song Xiaoying took his hand and cried and said, "Hadron ..." He was flattered and couldn't help crying. From then on, in order to avoid this embarrassment, Zhiqiang Chi put on sunglasses to avoid looking at his old friends.
Zhiqiang Chi's pious attitude of correcting mistakes gradually won everyone's respect. 1At the end of 986, the famous screenwriter Zhang Xiaotian wrote the screenplay "Ancient Days" and found Zhiqiang Chi to play the leading role. Zhiqiang Chi was ecstatic, especially cherishing the filming opportunity that he never dreamed of after he was released from prison: the crew traveled 10000 kilometers, shooting from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to Shanghai Wuhukou without a single complaint. When he was on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, he couldn't eat for six days and six nights because of severe altitude sickness, but he still insisted on working ... his desire was not high. He just hopes that through this film, the people of the whole country can see that he has turned over a new leaf and is no longer the confused "hooligan" of that year. Unfortunately, this work was not released because of the economic problems of the crew. But Zhiqiang Chi felt inferior and blamed himself: "Is it because of me?"
But this experience reawakened his love for movies. After doing odd jobs, he often goes to the movies quietly alone. During that time, he was often seen wearing sunglasses in the corner of the cinema. He is both an audience and a waiter. After watching the movie, he had to tidy up according to the instructions of the general affairs section.
Just then, a girl named Chi came into his life. Xiaochi, an accountant in Hangzhou, once went to Changchun on business. Her friend invited her to the movies. She recognized lonely Zhiqiang Chi hiding behind sunglasses in the cinema. After returning to Hangzhou, Chi wrote to encourage: "I hope you can return to the screen as soon as possible." Soon after receiving the reply, Chi went to visit Changchun. In this way, the two established a love relationship. Chi's love and encouragement made the self-abased finally get a kind of happiness that had never been seen before. Sometimes, when he works hard, he hums the songs he wrote in prison.
As luck would have it, one day, Zhao Ziming, editor-in-chief of Movie World, passed by Zhiqiang Chi and heard his humming song Tears Behind the Prison. Zhao Ziming said cheerfully, "Let's record a song for you and make a tape!" Zhiqiang Chi was deeply surprised. He thinks that the lyrics are basically the expression of his true feelings and the confession of his parents and past days. Just when he couldn't make up his mind, his girlfriend wrote to encourage him in time, hoping that he could take this opportunity to get out of the shadow of the year and stand up again.
In August, 1988, Tears Behind bars was put into the market after finishing and recording. Unexpectedly, the response was unprecedented. Some people are dating, some are opening a shop, and some people feel "something is wrong" on their birthdays and sing "Sad to death". This scene, even Zhiqiang Chi himself felt incredible: "I was going to shoot birds, and finally got a tiger back!"
However, before Zhiqiang Chi's spine was completely straightened, overwhelming criticism fell from the sky. Many people think that Zhiqiang Chi has not walked out of the shadow of "prison", and he has brought deformed, abnormal and even unhealthy emotions to the society; Others think that Zhiqiang Chi is completely showing off his sufferings to win the sympathy of the audience ... Tears at Iron Window has turned from hot to cold in less than a year, which has been said to be useless.
Zhiqiang Chi was deeply wronged. He just wants to use his confession to warn all young people to understand the law and obey it, and not to regret it for a long time. Who knew this would happen? He asked himself: Do you still live in the shadow of the past?
After some thinking, Zhiqiang Chi decided to leave the stage again. He feels that if he really wants to start all over again and forget the shadow of the past, he must enter a wider world. In this way, he disappeared from people's sight again. This time, it disappeared 10 for many years.
10 years of tempering, waiting to clean up the old mountains and rivers from scratch.
Quietly left Changchun for Hangzhou and married Chi. He is thinking: What occupation can make him forget the past and face the future again as soon as possible?
At that time, it happened that going to sea became the norm, so a few friends pulled Zhiqiang Chi into the partnership to "play in the sea". Later, six people invested together and opened a hotel in Harbin, Zhiqiang Chi's hometown, named "Jinshida Hotel". The layout and decoration of the hotel are first-class, including catering, accommodation, bathing and entertainment.
When the hotel opened, although there was no hype, when Harbin people learned that Zhiqiang Chi was involved in the operation of Jinshida Hotel, they all came to the hotel for dinner. Therefore, Zhiqiang Chi became a pure hotel "receptionist". At that time, whenever someone came, he had to call Zhiqiang Chi. Invite more guests to sing with him; If you ask a few guests, ask him to sign a photo; At most, please ask him to accompany you to the wine ... No matter which table, everyone who comes to eat must call Zhiqiang Chi in the middle to propose a toast. On one occasion, two tables of guests were named Zhiqiang Chi at the same time. He went to the table near himself first, but unexpectedly angered the guests at another table. The other party shouted curses at first, but before Zhiqiang Chi came, they knocked on the table. When Zhiqiang Chi arrived, they were already very impatient. One of the guests angrily threw the leftover soup in Zhiqiang Chi's face and scolded, "Isn't it just a bad singer?" ? How ignorant! "In the face of this humiliation, Zhiqiang Chi can't be angry. There are tourists from all over the world. If customers are unhappy, isn't it a blow to hotel business?
About half a year later, Zhiqiang Chi was often drunk by customers until his stomach bled. "You didn't make much money, and then you explained," said Chi distressfully.
Helpless, the couple had to withdraw their capital and have been living in Hangzhou ever since. His wife Chi Daiying works as an accountant in a joint venture. Zhiqiang Chi, who has no job for the time being, goes to the cinema to watch other actors' performances whenever he has time. If he has any acting experience, he will show it to his wife at home to make solid preparations for his comeback in acting career.
With the birth of his son, Zhiqiang Chi felt it was time to take on the dual responsibilities of father and husband, and really began to find his own foothold. Soon, he took a fancy to Qinhuangdao, a tourist resort in Hebei Province. After consulting with his wife, he opened a small hotel in Qinhuangdao in partnership with friends and named it "Mingmen Hotel". This time, Zhiqiang Chi didn't use his fame for any publicity. The finance of the hotel is managed by his wife Chi, and the operation is entirely in the charge of his friend. He only occasionally puts forward some constructive suggestions for the development of the hotel. More often, he laid hands on his wife and friends like an ordinary employee; Sometimes the waiter is too busy to bring his own tea ... gradually, he is no longer shrouded in the shadow of "being in prison" and becomes confident. He takes off his sunglasses and can chat calmly with any guest like an ordinary friend. In this ordinary life, he was quite satisfied for a while, and even wanted to be plain, guarding his wife, taking care of his son, doing some housework and improvising programs for his son. However, when performing for my son, there is always a voice inadvertently reminding him: go back to the stage, show your acting talent and repay the society!
Zhiqiang Chi finally realized that during the time when he disappeared completely, he never gave up his pursuit and yearning for movies, but longed for the right opportunity to come. In 2003, the opportunity finally came. He was invited to play a role in the TV series Master Lu Ban. After the film was broadcast in Beijing, Zhiqiang Chi's skillful acting was widely praised by the audience. Many viewers commented: "He is a little more dull and calm now." In August 2004, he starred in the TV series Dignity again at the price of 6000 yuan per episode.
Dignity is a TV series about prison life. The film was completed at the end of 2004. After being broadcast in some areas, Zhiqiang Chi's portrayal of prisoners was incisive and touched many people. Zhiqiang Chi said with deep feelings: "Everyone should have dignity in different environments. Even prisoners should treat themselves and others correctly. Living with dignity is nothing more than looking at your past correctly. "
At present, Zhiqiang Chi has signed five TV series. However, in the interview, Zhiqiang Chi expressed his hope to shoot an autobiographical TV series "Tears of Regret" in the future, and invited his friends Liu Xiaoqing and Tang Guoqiang to star ... After 20 years of precipitation, Zhiqiang Chi finally found himself again. He faced up to the past and sincerely lived in repentance for the past. We don't know whether his film Tears of Remorse can start shooting smoothly and regain its glory, but one thing is certain: it is not terrible for a person to do something wrong in his life. The terrible thing is that he can't get out of this shadow, face the past and stand up again!
Once as famous as Liu Xiaoqing and Tang Guoqiang.
This time I came to Ning to participate in the second anniversary stage performance. At the beginning of the interview, the reporter talked to him about music, and he shook his head again and again. "Now many people regard me as a singer, which is a misunderstanding. Actually, I'm an actor. Well, I have acted in more than 20 movies in my life. 1979 starred in films such as The Younger Generation, Zhao Xi Street, The Moon Arrives at Mid-Autumn Festival, Attending to One Thing and Losing the Other, which are well known to the national audience. 198 1 year, Liu Xiaoqing, Tang Guoqiang, Chen Chong, Pan Hong, etc. 1 1 actors were rated as national outstanding young actors ... "Speaking of which, although Zhiqiang Chi has repeatedly said that he is now living a very satisfactory life, the reporter can still feel the lingering regret in his heart during the conversation. "If that year didn't happen, I will.
Stumbling in Nanjing, I don't hate but love.
Zhiqiang Chi revealed that he is now acting as a young artist in the TV series Dignity produced by CCTV. "He was later imprisoned for various reasons." At this time, Zhiqiang Chi also took the initiative to explain, "Playing this role is not because I have similar experiences with him, but because this role is tortuous and makes me excited." From this role, Zhiqiang Chi was slowly dragged into his own prison. "It was the police in Nanjing who arrested me. I still remember those years in Nanjing Wawa Bridge ..." Zhiqiang Chi did not elaborate on the details of his arrest, but kept saying, "In that closed era, men and women could not hold hands ... If it were now, I might not go to prison." Zhiqiang Chi, who lost his foothold in Nanjing, now has a particularly complicated emotion as soon as he sets foot on the land of Nanjing. Nanjing is my second hometown. Zhiqiang Chi, the nickname of the second hometown, also gives a good reason. "In my prison life of more than a year, I got along well with many prisoners. Now we still maintain a good friendship, and the prison guards have become my friends. Every time they come to Nanjing, they are particularly enthusiastic. "
Prison discriminated against him.
Zhiqiang Chi was sentenced to four years in prison for hooliganism, but he was released two years earlier because of his good behavior in prison. He said he couldn't bear to recall his prison life. "The greatest tragedy in life is the loss of freedom, and the days without freedom make my life worse than death ..." Because of this disgraceful history, Zhiqiang Chi also suffered a lot of discrimination in his later years, and this discrimination still happens from time to time. "Sometimes a play wants me to play the police, and the director always thinks about it. I think people like me who play the role of public security will cause misunderstanding among the audience. In order to comfort me, I am often given a new role. Every time I turn around and leave, I feel that everyone has slipped, but that's all in the past. Why do you always stay there? "
Now the family is happy.
In Tears Behind bars, Zhiqiang Chi wrote a monologue: The greatest tragedy in life is the loss of freedom, and the greatest pain in life is the loss of relatives and friends. So, what is the greatest happiness in Zhiqiang Chi's life today? He didn't think much, just blurted out these five words-family happiness. 1985 Zhiqiang Chi, who just returned from prison in changchun film studio, was temporarily assigned to the lighting workshop, mainly responsible for lighting and some odd jobs during filming. One day in June, 65438+ 10, I was introduced to Hangzhou Girl Pool by a friend. When we met for the first time, the southern girl also had a good impression on this northeast guy and sent a letter when she got home. Zhiqiang Chi said that although this letter has a history of 20 years, he still remembers its contents. "I have seen many of your movies before and think you are very good. Everyone slipped, but that's all in the past. You must stand up again and manage your future life ... "May 2 1988 After nearly three years of sweet love, Zhiqiang Chi and his wife Zhiqiang Chi followed her back to Hangzhou to settle down because they could not adapt to life in the north. Now my son is a senior one, and my wife is an accountant in a communication company. Regarding his wife's evaluation, Zhiqiang Chi said with emotion, "There is always an excellent woman behind a successful man. Although I am very unsuccessful, she is excellent. "