As early as 1987, Gong Li was still a fledgling college student, while Zhang Yimou was already a well-known photographer and married. Although Zhang Yimou's reputation in the director circle was a little poor at that time, at least he was not unknown. Zhang Yimou and Gong Li met for the first time, which was the first film "Red Sorghum" in Zhang Yimou's life. At that time, Zhang Yimou was still worried about the heroine, and she met Gong Li. Later, after auditioning in Gong Li, Zhang Yimou decided that Gong Li would play the heroine of Red Sorghum.
However, after eight years of love, because of the movie Red Sorghum, he and Gong Li slowly began to have subtle feelings. Not only that, Zhang Dao actually had a family at that time, but he still had a love experience with Gong Li for nearly 8 years. Now everyone thinks that Zhang Yimou will choose to stay with Gong Li until she gets married after divorce. However, Zhang Dao didn't do this, but soon after they broke up, he began to fall in love with Chen Ting, who was 18 years younger than himself. In fact, many people naturally can't understand Zhang Dao's practice, so they gave up Gong Li in Absolute Beauty and chose an ordinary-looking Chen Ting. But when everyone knows what Chen Ting has done for each other, they will understand why.
Chen Ting's husband's godson Chen Ting is just an unknown actress. So far, I haven't seen her in a movie. She looks just so-so. But her strength is that she is willing to give up her career for Zhang Yimou, stay at home and teach children and have more children. When the super-life incident was exposed, Zhang Yimou said, "In the traditional ideas of my parents and me, I hope to have more children and grandchildren. My father told me before he died that he hoped to have a boy to carry on the family line, and my mother also thought that children could have more children and have a companion with each other. "
I'm afraid Gong Li couldn't do it at that time, because Gong Li's career was on the rise at that time, and even if she was willing to have children for Zhang Yimou, I'm afraid she couldn't give up her career. More importantly, at that time, Zhang Yimou was not as rich and famous as he is now, but just made his mark in the directing field. Even if he is afraid to give up his career and educate his children at home, he may not be able to support him.
It is said that marriage is virtuous. For a successful man, finding a virtuous and family-oriented wife is better than finding a beautiful and capable wife, which may be the ultimate reason why Zhang Yimou chose Chen Ting.