The 87-year-old Ceng Jiang Isolation Hotel died suddenly: I married three women and made 303 plays, which made me look down on life and death.

In 1950s, there was a very popular actress named Zeng in Hong Kong film industry.

Born into a merchant family, his family is well-off, playful and beautiful, and he was named "student lover" by the public.

The Cui Lins also have an equally handsome brother named Ceng Jiang (formerly known as Zeng).

From 65438 to 0955, Ceng Jiang, who was still in middle school, often acted as a "escort" on the set to pick up his sister from work.

Director Tao Tai saw the boy's tall and straight figure, half joking and half serious, and invited him to make a movie.

Ceng Jiang, a boy of 17 years old, is in a proud age. He waved his hand and readily agreed: "Just shoot, it doesn't matter what you are afraid of."

Fortunately, he stepped into the entertainment circle and starred in the first movie "Birds in the Woods". The first play was the hero.

The entertainment circle is quick to get money, and the temptation of fame and fortune is huge. However, after Ceng Jiang appeared in two films in a row, he had the idea of quitting.

He dislikes his poor acting skills, like a wooden head, and is not suitable for this bowl of rice: "I can't laugh, I can't walk in a figure of eight, so what am I doing?"

From 65438 to 0956, Ceng Jiang gave up his acting career and went to the United States to study. In the first semester, he won the first place and got a scholarship.

Near graduation, he received admission notices from famous universities including Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University. Finally, because he was afraid of the cold and wanted to stay on the warm west coast of the United States, he chose the University of California at Berkeley to study architecture.

Three years after graduation, he returned to Hong Kong to be an architect.

In the 1960s, the total land area of Hong Kong was less than 1000 square kilometers, but the population was nearly 4 million.

In this place where land resources are extremely scarce, there is only one design standard for buildings: maximizing space utilization.

Tang building is a typical representative of this kind of building. They are densely distributed and have a small space. They don't need any design ideas, just repeated template applications.

This is totally contrary to Ceng Jiang's architectural concept of pursuing living comfort and space design.

For three years, he has been doing the same job every day, which is very boring.

Although one of the most profitable jobs in Hong Kong society at that time was an architect (the other two were lawyers and jockeys), he still wanted to change careers: "I got material things, but lost my spiritual world. What's the point of doing something you don't like? "

It happened that someone in the movie circle invited him to make a movie. Zeng took a horizontal look. "Let's play again."

This play has been performed for 58 years.

Many years later, when interviewed, Hu Feng, a friend who is over eighty years old, sat on the left side of Ceng Jiang and joked about his "rejuvenation" experience, saying that it was not Ceng Jiang who chose to film, but the film industry needed him.

Although this has the meaning of teasing old friends, it is not unreasonable.

Ceng Jiang really took the actor's work to the extreme.

When she first returned to the cinema, Ceng Jiang felt that her acting skills were not good and she needed experience.

At that time, in Hong Kong, the status of Mandarin films was much higher than that of Cantonese films, but if only Mandarin dramas were filmed, only four could be performed a year, while Cantonese dramas could be performed as many as 20.

Ceng Jiang thought he needed more than 20 dramas to experience, so in the 1960s, he signed contracts with Shaw and Dianmao and starred in hundreds of Cantonese movies.

From1970s, Ceng Jiang began to set foot in the TV circle, from Chiayi TV to Lili TV, and then from Lili TV to tvb.

He took hundreds of roles, regardless of supporting roles.

In this process, Ceng Jiang has accumulated a lot of performance experience through prolific performance, multiple performances, and constant mistakes and trial and error. Finally, I accumulated a lot of acting experience in 1983 and met the role of Huang in The Legend of the Condor Heroes.

The Huangshi Yao written by Jin Yong has both good and evil, and is somewhat arrogant and eccentric, which is very consistent with Ceng Jiang's appearance and personality.

He was 49 years old when he played Huang Laoxie, but his acting career was just beginning to take off.

In the following years, Ceng Jiang played an important role in many films, such as Crossing the Sea, Being a Hero, My Nature is Kind, The Last Romance, A Hot-blooded Man, A Wiretap, etc., and gradually won the title of "Golden Supporting Actor".

And because he played many scary and daunting villains, he was also named as a "bad professional" by the audience.

In the 1990s, Ceng Jiang broke into Hollywood again because of his proficiency in English, becoming the first Hong Kong actor to join the American Actors Guild, and made great contributions to many Hollywood films, such as Rush Hour 2, Death on the Day of 007, Memoirs of a Geisha and Tokyo Trial.

The success of an actor depends not on whether he can go down in history, but on whether his role can be remembered by the audience.

Uncle Jian,,,,, Lu, Qi, and Long. ...

Needless to say, Ceng Jiang's achievement has its own function to speak for him.

In his 58-year artistic career, Ceng Jiang's works are amazing. Encyclopedia shows that he has appeared in 303 films, TV series and stage plays in his life, among which the film Marginal Man is being broadcasted, and there are four works waiting to be broadcast, including Crime of Origin and Hong Kong Love Story.

Ceng Jiang often appears in his later years, which gives people the greatest feeling that although he is a white-haired old man, he has no feeling of dying, and he is always in high spirits.

Actor Qiao Zhenyu was particularly amazed at this.

When he collaborated with Ceng Jiang on the TV series "Close Contact with the Ancient Style of Mahjong", he observed the scene of an old man at the dinner table: "He picked up a piece of meat with chopsticks and sent it to his mouth, while looking at his opponent's eyes, while continuing to read his lines ... That state is only in a state of transformation."

Ceng Jiang under the lens of passers-by is more real and intuitive.

In his 80 s, he still insisted on hanging Weiya to shoot martial arts-

A man traveled to Malaysia on crutches.

Smile and take a photo with the food stall owner-

Taking pictures with passers-by while tasting durian-

This is the last image he left to the world half a month ago, but he doesn't see any depression or fatigue at all.

In fact, Ceng Jiang was terminally ill in his later years.

He is almost deaf in his right ear and can hardly hear anything. His left ear can only be heard clearly through a hearing aid.

He has been suffering from gout for decades and often walks with a limp.

20 15 The famous incident of Xie Xian slapping Ceng Jiang in the face was caused by Xie Xian's suspicion that Ceng Jiang deliberately pretended to be ill and took turns to take care of him and two others.

In recent years, Ceng Jiang still suffers from high blood pressure and needs to take antihypertensive drugs and give up drinking every day.

Even so, the old man never thought about retiring.

He said that the word retirement was not in his dictionary. As long as he has physical strength and can remember the dialogue, he will play it forever.

"I am most happy that I am now in my 80 s and can still work. I hope my degradation can be slower. "

When he was young, Ceng Jiang was famous for his bad temper, and he often scolded the younger generation on the set.

Felix Wong Yat Wa once half-jokingly complained about Ceng Jiang's "reprimand" to himself, and even Chow Yun Fat was afraid of his three points.

It is such a "big devil" who admits that he is afraid of his wife in front of his wife.

If the popularity of temper is ranked from 1 to 10, Ceng Jiang admits that he used to be 10, and he was trained to be 7 after meeting his wife.

He has formed a family with three women. Because he was immature and didn't know how to be a good husband, the first two marriages ended in failure.

Until I met my present wife, Jiao Xiao.

Jiao Xiao was the best friend of Ceng Jiang's first wife. At that time, she went to her best friend's house to play cards, and saw a black-faced man with unhappy words written all over his face, only thinking that the man was too bad and scum.

It wasn't until she experienced a failed marriage in her forties and met Ceng Jiang in her fifties that she suddenly felt that their preferences were so compatible, and fate befell them.

At that time, Ceng Jiang rode a heavy motorcycle to various studios, and Jiao Xiao wore a long skirt and long hair, sitting in the back seat of the motorcycle, thinking of his disappointing youth for many years and crying.

She encouraged herself to "be brave and try again", so she started a "yellow love affair" with Ceng Jiang.

Before they got married, they went to the United States, drove from the west coast of California to the east coast and circled the United States.

After returning from this trip, these two people who have experienced the glory and frustration of life decided to start a new life in a new place.

It happened that Singapore TV invited Ceng Jiang to join the cast and Jiao Xiao to join the variety group, so they settled in Singapore and got married. After working for six years, they moved back to Hong Kong because they were too old to visit their children.

Ceng Jiang is straightforward and never considers other people's feelings, but Jiao Xiao is gentle and considerate. They reached a wonderful balance in principle.

Jiao Xiao is like a fire extinguisher. Ceng Jiang sometimes sticks to his own opinions, but knowing that his wife's words and deeds are the right choice, he will restrain himself and respect her.

"I'm such a fool. How can I have such an ideal angel?"

Ceng Jiang couldn't help admiring in the program.

April 27th 12: 04, in an epidemic prevention hotel in Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong, the staff routinely checked the interior of each isolation room, but could not wait for an answer.

After breaking into the house, I found an old man with white hair lying unconscious on the carpet in the room.

After the police and medical staff arrived, they confirmed that the old man had died on the spot. The deceased was 87-year-old Ceng Jiang, a famous Hong Kong actor.

He entered Hong Kong from Singapore on the 25th and was quarantined in just two days. Unexpectedly, something happened.

After the news spread, all walks of life were heartbroken.

Yam Tat-wah issued a document praising him as "a predecessor who always shines in the entertainment circle"; Jiang remembers what he learned when he partnered with his husband as a father and daughter, and wishes him a pleasant journey. Michelle Ye called him "ABBA" for the last time; Louis Koo said, "He is a good actor and a good predecessor"; Chen Sicheng hopes to meet him again in the world of light, shadow and dream in his next life. ...

Wang Xinping, the nephew of Wang Yu, who just lost his father this month, said sadly, "He also arranged a flower basket for me to worship my father."

His death marks another curtain call for the golden age of Hong Kong cinema, which is regrettable.

In the movie "The Walking Dead" that he is showing, there is a scene in which the whole process of "death" is finally played.

Ceng Jiang sitting in a chair, from shortness of breath to whole body spasm, to slowly losing strength, dying, makes people want to cry.

I don't know if fate is doomed.

In fact, as early as many years ago, Ceng Jiang discussed the issue of death with the media, and at that time, he had looked down on life and death.

"Death, I think, is an end. What I hope most is not to have too many regrets before this ending. That's good. "

First, he wants to spend all his money instead of spending it on hospital treatment. Second, he wants to "die of natural causes". It is enough to be alive and happy.

20 15 At the scene of the 34th Hong Kong Film Awards, when it was announced that the winner of the best supporting actor was Ceng Jiang, Ng Man Tat, who was sitting behind him, stood up and shook hands with him.

In just seven years, things have changed.

In recent years, many Hong Kong movie stars, including Chen Long, Li Xiangqin, Ng Man Tat, Chu Yuan, Liao Qizhi, Huang Shutang and Wang Yu, have passed away.

These people have witnessed the glory and desolation of the entertainment circle in Hong Kong, and also represented the character of the older generation of actors. Their love and persistence in performance is a rare quality in today's entertainment industry.

Ceng Jiang once said before his death: "90% of a person's life is just a lifetime, but an actor's life, I think, is four lives. Making a play is equal to someone else's life. If I had to live again, I would choose such a colorful career. "

If there is an afterlife, I hope to see you on the screen.

The old man walked well all the way

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