Every era has its unforgettable stars. In this article, we will talk about the female star Jiang Lili who fascinated many young men in the 1980s.
You are so good-looking, you should become a movie actress in the future
In 1954, Jiang Lili, originally from Shenyang, Liaoning, was born in Harbin Railway Central Hospital, Heilongjiang. Her parents named her Li Li just hopes that her life will be as beautiful as the fate of the great motherland, and that she will walk into the brilliant dawn together.
Jiang Lili’s parents are employees of the Harbin Railway Bureau and have a busy schedule. However, no matter how hard they work, they love literature and art and still attend weekend dances organized by the work union on weekends.
The young Jiang Lili likes to go to weekend dances with her parents very much.
Deeply influenced by her parents, Jiang Lili showed talent in singing, dancing, and reciting when she was in elementary school. And because she was good-looking, her teachers and classmates often said to her: "You look so good." Looks good, you can become a movie actor in the future.”
But for Jiang Lili, who was still young at the time, movie acting was an unattainable dream, and she didn’t think too much about it. She studies seriously and actively participates in school cultural activities. Because she was so good at art, her teacher recommended her to join the school's art team. She also became the captain and organized the art team to participate in various art performances. She also wrote and acted in several sketch programs, and took everyone to the factory to perform condolences, and the venue was full.
When Jiang Lili graduated from middle school, she was admitted to a health school. After graduating from health school, she was assigned to Shenyang Heping Hospital, where she became a nurse.
In Jiang Lili's mind at that time, she believed that since she had taken up the job of a nurse, she should do this job seriously and give her heart to the patients.
But when she was working as a nurse, Jiang Lili did not give up her literary hobbies. When there are theatrical performances in the hospital, she will also actively participate.
When Jiang Lili worked at Heping Hospital for a year, something happened that changed the trajectory of her destiny.
In 1975, Changchun Film Studio was recruiting actors from the public. When Jiang Lili saw the news, she was a little moved. What Jiang Lili didn't expect was that when the hospital leaders learned that she was interested, instead of criticizing her for not doing her job properly, they encouraged her to apply for the exam and wrote her a letter of introduction.
With the support of her employer, Jiang Lili went to apply for the exam. In the end, she stood out from more than 2,000 young men and women who applied for the exam in Shenyang and was hired by the Changchun Film Factory. At that time, the Changchun Film Factory only had one studio in Shenyang. 3 people were admitted.
This year, Jiang Lili was 21 years old, and her acting career officially began.
Unexpectedly, she became popular all over the country with "Red Peony"
After entering the Changchun Film Studio, Jiang Lili starred in the movie "Yanming Lake" in 1976, which was her first role in her life. A movie. She then appeared in several movies, but none of them received much response until she encountered the movie "Red Peony" in 1979.
One day in 1979, Jiang Lili, who had just finished filming the movie "Sacred Mission", met Zhang Yuan, the director of the same studio, at the gate of Changchun Film Factory. Zhang Yuan, who was always friendly to others, asked Jiang Lili if she had anything going on now. Jiang Lili said there was nothing wrong. So Zhang Yuan took Jiang Lili's hand and came to the conference room of a crew, and this crew was the crew of "Red Peony".
In the conference room, Zhang Yuan introduced Jiang Lili to several other creators of "Red Peony", and everyone asked Jiang Lili to try out the role in "Red Peony". This audition made Zhang Yuan decide on the spot. Jiang Lili was asked to play the heroine "Red Peony" in the movie. Before that, the crew of "Red Peony" had been looking for a suitable actress to play the role of "Red Peony" for half a year but could not find a suitable one.
Because "Red Peony" is a chivalrous woman who knows martial arts, in order to play this role well and not to disappoint director Zhang Yuan and the audience, Jiang Lili first went to a cavalry company to experience life and learn to ride horses. , archery, and later she went to the Texas Acrobatic Troupe to experience life, eating and living with the actors of the Acrobatic Troupe.
All Jiang Lili's efforts were not in vain. When "Red Peony" was released in 1980, it became popular all over the country, and Jiang Lili became famous all over the country with this film.
How popular was Jiang Lili at that time?
Not long after the release of "Red Peony", Jiang Lili returned to Benxi City to celebrate her grandfather's birthday. Before she arrived in Benxi, the news that "Red Peony was coming to Benxi" had spread throughout the city. When Jiang Lili arrived at her grandfather's house, her grandfather's house was already surrounded by spectators and the roads were blocked. This situation lasted for three days. Everyone wanted to see Jiang Lili.
On the third day of being watched, Jiang Lili walked out of her house and met the audience. Seeing Jiang Lili walk out of the house, the audience immediately fell silent. Jiang Lili said a few words of gratitude to everyone. She was especially grateful to everyone for caring about her so much.
When Jiang Lili finished speaking, there was thunderous applause.
After that, Jiang Lili rode the waves in the entertainment industry. She starred in films such as "After Entrapment", "Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Purple" and "Red Dresses on the Street", and won the Best Supporting Actress Award at the 6th Popular Film Hundred Flowers Award for her movie "Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Blue Purple". In 1984, she even appeared on the stage of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala and hosted the Spring Festival Gala with Zhao Zhongxiang.
Just when Jiang Lili's acting career was at its peak, she made a decision that later led to her acting career becoming mediocre.
The "Disappeared" Jiang Lili
In 1986, in order to improve her acting skills and enrich her acting theory, Jiang Lili decided to receive formal education at the Film Academy. So she put aside her flourishing acting career and entered the Beijing Film Academy to study, becoming classmates with Tang Guoqiang, Guo Kaimin, Kou Zhenhai, Song Chunli and others.
What Jiang Lili did not expect was that by the time she graduated, the film industry had already undergone tremendous changes, and her position as the "leading actress" at the Changchun Film Studio was also replaced by young actors.
Faced with such a situation, Jiang Lili quickly adjusted her mentality. She actively transformed and directed the TV film "Gold Miners" which reflected the life of contemporary geological team members mining gold. "The King" stars Sai Jinhua, a famous prostitute with a changeable temperament.
It’s just that neither "The Gold Digger" nor "The Gun King" had much response. And a decision she made in 1993 caused her to "disappear" from the domestic entertainment industry.
In 1993, Jiang Lili, who was married and had children, moved her family to the United States to develop in Los Angeles. She worked as a host on an online TV station in Los Angeles.
When Jiang Lili returned to China again in 2000, she decided to return to China and settle down because she couldn't help missing her hometown.
It’s just that Jiang Lili was 46 years old in 2000. Many actors of her generation had already retired from the entertainment industry, and the popular artists were no longer of their generation.
Fortunately, Jiang Lili doesn't care about fame. She just wants to act because she loves acting. So she starred in film and television dramas such as "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", "Soul Pear Garden", "The Invincible Magistrate", "My Fair Princess 3", and "New Beijing".
After 2013, Jiang Lili gradually stopped acting. Instead, she focused her energy on the cultivation of children. She served as an artistic consultant for a children's art troupe in Beijing, guiding the children responsibly. .
The love with Wang Baosheng is enviable
Jiang Lili’s career has its peaks and troughs, and her married life is the envy of countless people.
Jiang Lili’s husband is Wang Baosheng, who is also an actor at Changchun Film Studio. They met while filming "Yanming Lakeside". At that time, Jiang Lili spoke with a Northeastern accent, and Wang Baosheng helped her correct her pronunciation. After going back and forth, the two secretly fell in love.
Before the two were in a relationship, some people spread rumors that they were having an affair with men and women, and also attacked them personally on the grounds that Changchun Film Studio's rules prohibit young actors from falling in love.
Jiang Lili was publicly criticized online, and some even threatened Jiang Lili and said they would send her to the countryside. Wang Baosheng, who was not Jiang Lili's boyfriend at that time, directly said to the person who threatened him, "If you want to go, just send me there."
Not long after, Wang Baosheng was sent to the countryside to receive re-education as a poor and lower-middle peasant. Wang Baosheng's "education" lasted two years.
Jiang Lili was named "Miss Bourgeois" because she really couldn't find any substantive content. In the end, Jiang Lili was charged with loving to look in the mirror. She was suspended from acting for a year. Her name was omitted from the cast list of Yanming Lake.
It was precisely because of this disaster that the two young people truly understood each other's sincerity. During the days when they were "educated" and the show was suspended, they expressed their feelings to each other through letters.
Fortunately, in 1977, director Link took a fancy to Jiang Lili. He wanted Jiang Lili to star in the movie "The Reef" directed by him. For this reason, he went to Changchun Film Factory to secondment Jiang Lili, but he tried many times and failed. Success, for which he became angry with the people at Changchun Film Studio. He said: "Such a young girl, such a simple child, what mistakes can she make? If something goes wrong, I will be responsible."
Link's outburst made Jiang Lili break the ban on acting and starred in the second movie in her life, "The Reef".
When "The Reef" was released in 1978, the domestic situation had changed. Wang Baosheng and Jiang Lili, who had completed two years of rural education, began a free love.
And because both of them are actors, they spend less time together and more time apart while filming with the crew. But the distance did not dilute their feelings. They expressed their thoughts to each other through letters, and finally they tied the knot in 1981 and entered the palace of marriage.
But neither Jiang Lili nor Wang Baosheng expected that three years later, they would undergo a cruel test of fate, and this test would come at the cost of Jiang Lili's life.
In 1984, Jiang Lili felt unwell while filming "The Last Night in the Desert", so Wang Baosheng accompanied her to the hospital for examination.
After the examination, the dean called Wang Baosheng over alone and said to him: "We are going to have a hospital-wide general consultation. The first suspicion is that she may have leukemia or sepsis."
After the dean finished speaking, Wang Baosheng was stunned on the spot. Seeing that he didn't respond, the dean asked him if he knew what leukemia was.
Wang Baosheng replied tremblingly: "I know, it's a blood disease, actually it's blood cancer."
When Wang Baosheng walked out of the dean's office, he was in great pain, and all night His head turned white.
But after adjusting his emotions, Wang Baosheng decided to fight his fate.
He did not want to accept his fate.
He took good care of Jiang Lili seriously and carefully. On the eighth day of Jiang Lili's hospitalization, he got good news. The doctor told him that Jiang Lili's blood cancer was misdiagnosed, and that Jiang Lili's tumor might be malignant or benign.
Fortunately, after repeated confirmation by doctors, Jiang Lili's tumor was finally diagnosed as benign, but surgery was required.
Before the official diagnosis, in order not to hinder Wang Baosheng, Jiang Lili wrote a suicide note to Wang Baosheng, urging him to find a partner while he was young. Wang Baosheng firmly told Jiang Lili that he would never leave her.
Fortunately, Jiang Lili's operation was successful. After Wang Baosheng's careful care, Jiang Lili slowly recovered.
Six years after the operation, Jiang Lili, who did not want Wang Baosheng to be childless, took a huge risk and gave birth to her daughter Wang Jiang for Wang Baosheng in 1990. As for why she named her daughter Wang Jiang, Jiang Lili admitted in an interview with the media many years later that it was mainly to commemorate her happy marriage with Wang Baosheng and her own luck in having a daughter after surviving a catastrophe.
Now Jiang Lili’s daughter Wang Jiang is 30 years old. She has already graduated from the University of California, Riverside, and has entered the workforce. She is very outstanding.
After 44 years of ups and downs, Jiang Lili and Wang Baosheng are still very affectionate. While carrying out acting education, she and Wang Baosheng travel, work out, and do housework together, living a fulfilling and beautiful life. .