Director Chen Kaige, known as the leader of the fifth generation directors in Chinese mainland, is also an intellectual director with elite consciousness and critical consciousness.

Some people use this sentence to evaluate Chen Kaige: Based on the subjectivity of China people, he thinks about the modernity transformation of China people from three dimensions: philosophy, society and history, using unique image language.

Of course, this sentence is a little obscure. Simply put, the film made by Chen Kaige is very special, beautiful and deep at the same time. The film has a sense of historical depth, and sometimes it is even a little difficult to understand, but it is based on China people themselves.

In fact, the best way for a director to prove himself is his works. When it comes to director Chen Kaige, a Farewell My Concubine is enough. This film is a model of China's appreciation of elegance and vulgarity, and it has established an insurmountable monument in the Chinese film circle. At the same time, Chen Kaige is also the first director in China to win the Palme d 'Or award in Cannes.

Farewell My Concubine, ostensibly about the joys and sorrows of two Peking Opera artists for half a century, is actually about China people's thinking about the living conditions and human nature of people.

Of course, Chen Kaige has made many impressive films. For example, in "The Promise", fantasy is skin, which is actually about how to arrange the inner emotional fable; The Legend of the Demon Cat, in a suspenseful story, lays out the fables about the truth, the beauty, the purity and the perfection in China people's ideals.

Then, the director who can make such a complicated and meaningful film has the same ups and downs in his life experience, and his emotional experience is full of frustration, helplessness, passion and excitement.

Chen Kaige was born in Beijing in 1952 into a literary family. His father was a famous director Chen Huaiai and his mother was a senior screenwriter Liu Yanchi.

When I was a child, Chen Kaige often went to the scene where his father was filming to watch the fun. After several visits, he stopped. Because I often wait for several hours, I only see a group of people preparing props and machines, but they just don't start shooting. After a long time, I feel that "making movies is really boring and boring."

In 1969, after graduating from junior high school, Chen Kaige went to the countryside of Xishuangbanna Agricultural Reclamation Bureau, Yunnan Province. Because he played basketball well, he quickly became a sports soldier.

It is said that Chen Kaige left the farm secretly at that time, fearing not to let him go, and said to the head of conscription: I still have 11 tubes of toothpaste in my luggage!

Toothpaste was bought by Chen Kaige's father Chen Huaiai.

He was a soldier in the army for five years. In 1975, Chen Kaige returned to Beijing and worked as a worker in Beijing Film Printing Factory. Three years later, I resumed the college entrance examination and applied for the Beijing Film Academy.

In fact, at first, Chen Kaige wanted to enter the Chinese Department of Peking University because he thought his composition was good.

In the examination room of Beijing Film Academy, the teacher came up and asked Chen Kaige: What is the movie rhythm? At that time, Chen Kaige knew nothing about movies, but he talked for a long time.

Hong Huang, Chen Kaige's ex-wife, once said: Chen Kaige is so talkative that he can tell you flowers for a boring thing.

However, to Chen Kaige's surprise, he failed in the exam.

Later, Chen Kaige asked the teacher why he was brushed off. The teacher said: I expected you to say that you don't know anything about movies. You don't understand that we can teach you. As a result, what else can we teach you?

Fortunately, Chen Kaige was lucky. At that time, the Minister of Culture issued an instruction to the Beijing Film Academy to expand enrollment, and Chen Kaige was finally admitted to the 78th director department of the Beijing Film Academy.

high flyers, then a director, was directly assigned to Beijing Children's Film Studio after Chen Kaige graduated.

In 1982, 31-year-old Chen Kaige, after graduating from Beijing Film Academy, was in high spirits and vowed to make a career.

However, the male should be married and the female should be married. At this time, Chen Kaige met the girl he liked, who was said to be an outsider.

It's hard to find information about girls on the Internet. I only saw it sporadically. In 1984, Chen Kaige filmed the literary film Yellow Land, which won the Yin Bao Prize at the Locarno International Film Festival and the Akira Kurosawa Prize at the Tokyo Film Festival, so Chen Kaige decided to marry the girl.

But soon after they got married, the girl decided to live abroad, and Chen Kaige's career was at home, so he couldn't leave, so they ended their short marriage.

Chen Kaige was hurt by this marriage.

However, God never shuts one door but he opens another. At that time, there was an excellent woman in China who especially liked the works directed by Chen Kaige. She was Hong Huang, who was known as a "famous girl".

Hong Huang is not an idle person. Hong Huang was born at No.51, the famous Shijia Hutong in Beijing in 1961. His grandfather was Zhang Shizhao, a great scholar, and once served as the chief justice and education minister. Mother Zhang Hanzhi, known as "the last celebrity in China", used to be a foreign language teacher for teachers and comrades. Her father was Hong Junyan, a professor of economics at Peking University, and her stepfather was Qiao Guanhua, a former foreign minister.

Hong Huang himself was sent to study in the United States at the age of 2112. After graduating from Vasa College, the top liberal arts college in the United States and even the world, he got a green card. In 1986, Hong Huang served as the representative of German Metal Co., Ltd. Beijing office, with an annual salary of 71,111 US dollars, equivalent to more than 211,111 yuan. Ma Weidou said that at that time, a quadrangle in Beijing was only over 11,111 yuan.

Later, Hong Huang got tired of playing in the business world and was so concerned about money that he quit his job to engage in media, publish magazines, do what he likes and be himself.

In 2113, Hong Huang became the CEO of China Interactive Media Group and became a celebrity in the fashion and cultural circles in Beijing.

In those days, Hong Huang thought Chen Kaige's films were "like poems", so he quickly fell in love with Chen Kaige.

Chen Kaige was not famous at that time, and there were still seven or eight years before filming Farewell My Concubine. It is said that the two men got along after talking for a month.

"It was late at a party, so the two men held hands and kissed again."

At that time, Hong Huang said, "I thought at that time, how could a man be so attractive and worried that he would be robbed every day."

It wasn't long before they fell in love. Chen Kaige got a scholarship and went to the United States. Later, because the scholarship expired, if she didn't get married, she couldn't stay in the United States. At this time, Hong Huang was very brave and said, Can I watch him? So, in 1989, they got married in the United States.

It is reported that Hong Huang had a marriage before she married Chen Kaige. Her ex-husband was an honest engineer. At that time, Hong Huang University had not graduated, and no one said anything when she got married. On the way back from church, she hung up her mother and told her family that I was married.

Hong Huang and Chen Kaige didn't get married for long, and they found that they were not the same, and there were many contradictions. Chen Kaige is bent on doing great things, but Hong Huang is not so eager for "fame and fortune".

In addition, Hong Huang slowly discovered that there were more girls around Chen Kaige, and in 1991, when filming the movie "Walking and Singing", she had an affair with the heroine Summer Xu.

As a result, they often have fierce quarrels. Later, Chen Kaige was filming Farewell My Concubine and didn't agree to divorce. Hong Huang said, "If you don't divorce, I will cuckold you." Chen Kaige had to agree to divorce.

when Hong Huang hosted the talk show "Bright Talk", she talked about the marriage history with director Ying Da and said, "I didn't know what jealousy was until I made up with Chen Kaige. I suddenly found out how so many women like him, and I was confused. In the end, I even had the desire to be a bitch-bringing out my worst side. "

In fact, Chen Kaige and Chen Hong met while filming Farewell My Concubine. At that time, Chen Hong was as beautiful as a fairy, especially a face, which could be twisted into water. Of course, they really have a relationship, and there is still a Ni Ping distance between them.

Chen Kaige and Ni Ping met in 1989. Ni Ping's temperament is completely different from Summer Xu's. Ni Ping, like the big sister next door, is reserved, gentle and generous, while Summer Xu's temperament is charming, sexy and enchanting.

It is said that when Ni Ping and Chen Kaige met, they just ended a broken marriage, and their hearts were very painful. Chen Kaige gave them "psychological comfort" in time, and told her a lot about life philosophy. Ni Ping also took care of Chen Kaige's diet and daily life every day, and was called a good wife and mother by the insiders.

However, due to various reasons, they failed to make a positive result, so Chen Kaige fell in love with Chen Hong.

When Chen Hong was mentioned in those days, people's first impression of her was that she was a "great beauty", and how beautiful she was. In the words of netizens, the ancients said that "it's a shame to spend flowers when the fish are sinking".

In 1994, Chen Kaige was filming Farewell My Concubine. Chen Hong heard of Leslie Cheung's play, so he went to the studio with his friends to admire Leslie Cheung. As a result, he stood on the steps and saw Chen Kaige who kept staring at her.

Chen Kaige is a tall and powerful director, and Chen Hong feels "very manly".

After Chen Hong left, Chen Kaige praised Chen Hong:

Chen Hong was born in Qianshan County, Shangrao, Jiangxi Province in 1968. From primary school to high school, he was always good at singing and dancing. He was a literary and art committee member in his class and was admitted to the best Shangrao No.1 Middle School in high school.

in 1986, Chen Hong was admitted to Shanghai Theatre Academy, and Gai Lili were classmates.

Also in this year, Chen Hong played Liancheng, the heroine of the TV series Liaozhai, which was adapted from Pu Songling's Strange Tales from a Liaozhai. She gained some fame, so she was attracted by Qiong Yao and starred in the TV series Sunset.

In 1991, Chen Hong's career ushered in a high-light moment. The 84-episode historical drama "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" of CCTV started shooting, in which Chen Hong played The Story Of Diu Sim, a "great beauty".

Chen Hong, who is born with beauty, has not been rumored since her debut. She was selected by Beijing Youth Theatre before she graduated from college. Since middle school, many boys have pursued her, but she refused. She devoted herself to her studies until she met Chen Kaige.

In 1994, after directing Farewell My Concubine, Chen Kaige decided to strike while the iron is hot, and invited Leslie Cheung to play the leading role in the movie "Windy Moon", hoping that this film would hit the Oscar again.

The hero has decided on Leslie Cheung, but the heroine has been unable to decide. The original protagonist was Gong Li, but Gong Li went to shoot Zhang Yimou's "Shake, Shake, Shake to the Waipo Bridge".

after auditions, the cast finally locked in four people, namely Wang Jingying, Zhang Ting, Chen Hong and Zhou Xun.

Wang Jingying, recommended by director Tsui Hark, is a famous actress and model in Taiwan Province, China. Her beauty was once comparable to that of Brigitte Lin and Joey Wong. At that time, Chen Kaige praised Wang Jingying as "the most beautiful woman I have ever seen".

However, after nearly a month of filming, Chen Kaige decided that Wang Jingying was too slow to enter the play and lacked talent in acting, so he abandoned Wang Jingying. Later, I went to Zhou Xun, but Chen Kaige found that Zhou Xun was too petite to play Miss Da, so Chen Hong was the first choice.

On receiving the phone call, Chen Hongyi heard that she was going to play opposite Leslie Cheung, and went to the cast for an audition early in the morning. When I was making up, I suddenly opened my eyes and saw Chen Kaige in the mirror. They looked at each other for half a second, and suddenly they felt dizzy. It was the feeling of weightlessness, as if they were going to fall into the water.

But later, Chen Hong still couldn't appear in "The Romantic Moon" because of the anonymous letter incident, which said that Chen Hong had something to do with director Chen Kaige in order to play the leading role.

At that time, Chen Kaige was so angry that he lost his temper and told Chen Hong on the phone: "I officially inform you, Comrade Chen Hong, that you will never be hired".

Chen Hong was so angry that he cried himself out when he heard this "bolt from the blue".

However, the real situation of this matter may be that the actresses in the same cast are jealous of what Chen Hong did. The official reason why Chen Hong missed the leading role in "The Wind and Moon" is that it conflicts with the contract for filming "Silver Jewelry". What the truth is, I'm afraid only the parties concerned know it.

The time came to October of the following year, that is, October of 1995. Chen Kaige and Ge You were eating in the food city and called Chen Hong over. They drank a lot of wine together, so they ran to the corridor to chat, and the more they talked, the more speculative they became. Then Chen Kaige often asked Chen Hong to go to concerts and auto shows, and they fell in love.

Later, Chen Kaige went to Vancouver to propose to Chen Hong. Chen Kaige directly asked Chen Hong, "Do you want to get married?"

Chen Hong said, "All right, it's not suitable to leave again."

When Chen Hong's words came out, Chen Kaige was unhappy: "No, I've been divorced twice. This time I'm determined to get married, and I want to spend my life with you. You have to promise me that if you get married, you are not allowed to divorce. This is the only condition for me to marry you. "

In 1996, Chen Kaige and Chen Hong got married. Shortly after their marriage, Chen Hong gave birth to her eldest son, Chen Yuang, in a hospital in Hollywood, USA. Chen Kaige was 44 years old and Chen Hong was 28 years old.

At that time, Chen Kaige was filming "Jing Ke Stabbed the King of Qin" with Gong Li on a boat in the Summer Palace. When he heard the news of the birth of his eldest son, he was so excited that his eyes filled with tears.

Chen Kaige and Chen Hong are very happy after marriage.

Chen Kaige lost more than 1 million yuan for management reasons when he filmed Jing Ke Stabbed the King of Qin. It was Chen Hong who took out his savings from filming for many years to help Chen Kaige tide over the difficulties.

Later, Chen Hong simply went abroad to learn advanced film-making experience, and went to Tsinghua University to study EMBA Economic Management. Later, he took a back seat as a producer and took care of his children after work, just like a good wife and mother.

four years later, in 2111, after a lapse of four years, Chen Hong gave birth to her youngest son, Chen Feiyu.

At present, Chen Yu 'ang, the eldest son, is studying in the United States, and he is a schoolmaster, while Chen Feiyu has inherited the super-high reputation of Chen Kaige and Chen Hong and has become an actor.

In 2119, Chen Kaige forced his son Chen Feiyu to star Chen Feiyu and Haoran Liu in "Daylight Meteor" in My People，My Country.

Chen Kaige and Chen Hong have been working together for 25 years since they got married in 1996. In the complicated entertainment circle, their marriage was questioned at first, but they loved each other and tolerated each other, and their marriage life was very stable.

Time flies, and the years are affectionate. Chen Hong, the "great beauty" of that year, is now 52 years old. Although the body is a little fat and out of shape, but the temperament is still noble, coupled with a successful career and a happy family, it is undoubtedly enviable.

In recent years, although there are not many directors in Chen Kaige, they actively participated in the recording of the variety show "Actors in Place" to cultivate new artists.

This year, although Chen Kaige is 69 years old, he is fighting in the front line of directors, and he is in charge of the literary drama in the big The Battle at Lake Changjin just released.

Chen Kaige, who has always been good at dealing with delicate emotions, handles the friendship between brothers implicitly without losing emotions. According to statistics, as of 9: 11 last night, the box office of the film Changjin Lake has exceeded 1.5 billion, and the box office directed by Chen Kaige has broken 6 billion.

I sincerely wish Director Chen and Chen Hong a happy family.