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Editor | Chaofang
In 1999, the TV series "Young Hero Fang Shiyu" was broadcast to rave reviews and the ratings soared. The ratings in Hong Kong once surpassed the popular "Huan Zhu Ge Ge".
In "Young Hero Fang Shiyu", in addition to Fang Shiyu, there was also his mother Miao Cuihua who left a deep impression on the audience.
Miao Cuihua has a cheerful personality, is chivalrous and courageous, dotes on her son, has a lovable personality, and is favored by the audience.
When the drama is popular, so are the people.
Tian Niu, who played Miao Cuihua, became famous and returned to the public eye, returning to the peak of her career.
Prior to this, Tianniu had reached a point where she had nothing to film, and the emergence of the character Miao Cuihua helped her get out of the predicament.
Tian Niu couldn't help but sigh: "The role of Miao Cuihua was determined in one shot."
As early as 20 years old, Tian Niu won the Golden Horse Best Actress and won awards. God bless her, no matter what she does, she will never be without filming.
What has she experienced?
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Tian Niu’s real name was Kelly Chu. She was born in Taiwan, China in 1958. Her sister is the famous actress Tian Ni.
Tianniu debuted early, became famous early, and reached her peak when she debuted.
Tian Ni is 10 years older than Tian Niu and debuted earlier than her, so when Tian Ni was filming, Tian Niu was still a naive child.
Although the age difference between the two is too big, it does not prevent the two from having a good relationship.
In the 1970s, after Tian Ni joined Shaw Brothers, she had many filming appointments and stayed on the set almost every day. Tianniu couldn't help but miss her sister after not seeing each other for a long time, so in her spare time, she went to the crew to look for Tianni. Over time, she became a frequent visitor to the crew.
Tian Niu’s entry into the entertainment industry is attributed to Tian Ni.
In 1976, director Chang Cheh was preparing for the movie "The Legend of the Condor Heroes". All the actors had been confirmed, but Huang Rong had no suitable candidate.
By coincidence, Tianniu came to the set to look for Tianni. After seeing her, the staff praised her as "chubby and cute" and she was very suitable to play Huang Rong.
As a result, Tianniu was roped in to play Huang Rong, and performed "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" with the already famous Fu Sheng and Hui Yinghong.
"The Legend of the Condor Heroes" is Jin Yong's classic work, which has been put on the screen again and again.
Among the many versions, Huang Rong played by Weng Meiling in the 1983 version of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" is considered an unsurpassed classic.
Audiences know that Weng Meiling’s version of Huang Rong is quirky and beautiful.
However, few people know that the 1977 version of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" was the first remake. Huang Rong, played by Tian Niu, is also a ghostly spirit, and her chubby cheeks are a little more cute. .
Tian Ni’s performance in the film is remarkable. Her natural and agile performance made the audience get to know her and attracted the attention of directors.
Soon, drama appointments came to my door.
The following year, Tianniu was invited to star in the movie "Didi's Diary". With this film, Tianniu won the Golden Horse Award for Best Actress and the Panama International Film Festival Best Actress Award.
Tianniu, who had never studied acting, became an actress in the 20s.
The audience applauded her, the actors cast envious glances at her, but Tianniu was stunned.
At the Golden Horse Awards ceremony, when the host announced the winning actors and called Tian Niu, she didn’t even react. Jackie Chan reminded her and she walked to the podium.
Winning an unexpected award and lacking experience, she did not know what an acceptance speech was and did not prepare in advance. After taking the stage to receive the award, she didn't say a word, bowed and left the stage.
Many years later, Tianniu felt regretful when mentioning this incident, but she was not sorry.
In her opinion, she was ignorant at the time, did not understand acting, and had a very shallow understanding of acting. The award is recognition of her acting skills by others, but in her heart, her own "thickness" is not enough to support this award.
Looking back on the past, if she could choose, the role she hopes to win the award is Miao Cuihua in "Young Hero Fang Shiyu".
After many ups and downs, Tianniu was already in her forties when she played Miao Cuihua. At this time, she had a deeper understanding of acting and a sense of sanctity in performance.
Her performance and character creation have become more quality.
Miao Cuihua in the play is multi-faceted. She is gentle, rude, impulsive and strong.
She has both the characteristics of traditional women and the characteristics of new era women.
Tianniu’s acting skills are natural and unique, and she grasps all the characteristics of the character just right. The audience all praised her acting skills.
This role is also her most deeply rooted role.
In fact, after going through two marriages and quitting the entertainment industry twice, Tianniu's acting career suffered a serious blow.
Before filming "Young Hero Fang Shiyu", Tian Niu not only had fewer film appointments, but also the roles that came to her were all mothers, so her film roles were very few.
Even Tianniu once reached a point where she had no filming.
In desperation, she shifted her work focus to the mainland and developed in the mainland.
Fortunately, Miao Cuihua made her famous in the mainland. She became popular again, and her acting appointments increased. Although she has no other role that can surpass Miao Cuihua, at least she no longer has to worry about being out of filming.
Today, she still shuttles between various crews for filming.
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After being banned from acting at a young age, she has reached a height that many actors cannot reach. However, the young Tianniu only regards filming as her job and does not have the sacredness of an actor.
She entered the circle by accident, and she never thought about what kind of results she would achieve.
Tianniu was born into a drama family. Her father, Zhu Shaolong, is a famous Peking Opera pianist.
Leveraging her father’s status and connections, Tianniu started wearing high heels on stage for shows at the age of 5, and has not changed for decades.
For her, she has been working for too long and is tired. She needs to find a shoulder to lean on and take a rest.
Therefore, it doesn’t matter to her what her grades are. She is not interested in this, but in getting married.
During her filming, her mother served as her agent and stayed with her. Tianniu will confide all her worries to her mother, and she will not hide her desire to get married.
She once said to the people around her: "If there is someone, one day I open the door, and that person says, no matter what he does, he will tell me, will you marry me? I I must marry him."
Facts have proved that Tianniu really did this.
In 1984, Tianniu attended a dinner party with friends, and she met Ye Conghao, her first husband, at the dinner table.
When they first met, Ye Conghao showed strong admiration for Tianniu. He always seemed very excited when talking to her.
When leaving the meeting, Ye Conghao got Tianniu's contact information, and then he launched a fierce offensive against her.
Ye Conghao is a veteran in love, but Tianniu is still a novice who is completely blank in relationships. She can't resist his sweet words at all. Soon, she falls in love.
In addition, Ye Conghao learned about Tianniu's desire for marriage and her lack of requirements from her friends.
"Marry me," he, a chicken thief, came to Tianniu's dressing room to propose to her while she was out performing. At this time, they had known each other for less than two months.
Tianniu is new to the world, and just like her name, she is a bit "silly, white and sweet".
She was addicted to her love for Ye Conghao. She only saw him giving her the imaginary proposal, but she never thought of carefully understanding his life experience and character.
She agreed to the proposal without hesitation and was immersed in the happiness of being proposed to.
As everyone knows, under the appearance of happiness, an undercurrent is surging. What awaits her is not a happy marriage, but an abyss.
Ye Conghao set the wedding venue in Las Vegas and held the wedding abroad. It looked very romantic. When his relatives and friends praised his intentions for her, only Ye Conghao knew that he had bad intentions.
If you get married in Las Vegas, the marriage relationship is only valid locally.
On the day of the wedding, the covers of newspapers in Hong Kong, China, were all blessing them.
However, just as the wedding was about to begin, her friend called her and stopped her from getting married. A friend told her on the phone that Ye Conghao already had a family.
This sentence was like a bolt from the blue, catching her off guard.
She immediately went to ask Ye Conghao, but Ye Conghao denied it without changing his face or heart. His mother also strongly denied it and said that someone wanted to cause sabotage.
Although she was dubious, Tianniu did not continue to ask questions and the wedding went on as usual.
Talk sweetly when you don’t get it, but throw it away after you get it.
On the night of the wedding, Ye Conghao showed his true colors. Not only did he have no scruples in talking to his wife and children on the phone in front of Tianniu, but when Tianniu questioned him, he admitted everything very arrogantly.
Only then did Tianniu realize that she had been deceived. From beginning to end, he was just acting.
"I was thinking about divorce on the night of the wedding."
However, she was deeply influenced by traditional concepts and could not accept divorce. Not to mention divorce, even she liked it at the time. Rare. Furthermore, Tianniu was already pregnant at the time. This marriage was a disaster, and she had to get out of it.
In addition, their wedding was widely publicized by the media, and almost everyone knew about their wedding. Shenli would definitely be discussed, so she endured it for the sake of face.
She swallowed all the pain and followed Ye Conghao back to Indonesia. After returning to his own territory, Ye Conghao became even more aggressive and very indifferent to her. The sentence "Why are you laughing every day? I don't like to see you laugh, I like to see you cry" makes people shudder.
Tianniu swallowed her anger and was obedient to Ye Conghao. Finally, when her child was born, she could finally find a chance to escape from Indonesia.
When the child was one month old, she found a reason to ask her mother to take the child back to Taiwan, China, to ensure their safety. She stayed temporarily, but from that day on, she put her passport under her pillow, looking for an opportunity to escape at any time.
Later, Ye Conghao took the initiative to let her return to Taiwan, China. The night she returned to her children, she saw a newspaper saying "Tian Niu and a man were holding hands in New York." You don't need to think about it to know that this is what Ye Conghao did. He wanted her to take the initiative to divorce.
After that, the pimp couldn't stand it anymore. He risked losing a big client and found Tian Niu, saying that Ye Conghao did business with him every day and told him the room where he was.
Tianniu went to find Ye Conghao, and the two divorced smoothly.
"She is good at everything, but her marriage is not good." Tianniu's mother did not expect that the fortune teller's words really came true.
After the divorce, she resumed her acting career and met her second husband, actor Wan Ziliang.
Tianniu and Wan Ziliang became acquainted through drama.
In 1988, Tianniu and Wan Ziliang*** starred in the movie "Big Brother". During the filming, the two were not familiar with each other, and their relationship was limited to ordinary colleagues. After the film was completed, Wan Ziliang asked for Tianniu's contact information, and the relationship between the two gradually increased.
The following year, the two collaborated again in the movie "He Comes from Jianghu", which also made their relationship quickly heat up.
Because she had been deceived before, Tianniu was afraid of making the same mistake again, but Wan Ziliang moved her with his tenderness and sincerity. After falling in love for three years, the two walked into the palace of marriage hand in hand.
In 1992, the two held a grand wedding, which shocked the Hong Kong and Taiwan entertainment circles. The witness was Run Run Shaw, Stephen Chow was the best man, and the guests were all celebrities such as Eric Tsang and Simon Yam.
At the wedding, Wan Ziliang promised in public that he would not only take good care of Tianniu, but also treat her and her ex-husband's daughter as his own daughter: three people, one life.
No one can refuse such an affectionate confession, and Tianniu was knocked unconscious by the sweetness again.
Unfortunately, happiness is short-lived.
In 1996, after only four years of marriage, Tianniu and Wan Ziliang announced their divorce.
In the past four years, Wan Ziliang did not cherish his feathers and made several bad movies one after another, which caused his reputation to deteriorate and his acting appointments to decrease. With no business acumen, he devoted himself to the clothing industry and founded his own brand. As a result, he suffered a heavy loss.
Wan Ziliang has been going smoothly all the way, but suddenly faced with failure and downfall, he simply cannot accept it. In the face of adversity, he felt extremely depressed.
Tianniu couldn't make him happy: "I can make everyone around me happy, but I can't make him happy."
Perhaps it was these reasons that made the two of them feel at odds. But the final straw that brought their relationship to an end may be Wan Ziliang's betrayal.
During the filming period, Wan Ziliang was not only rumored to have an affair with an actress from the same crew, but was also photographed passionately kissing a woman on the street, as if he was passionately in love.
Many years after the divorce, Wan Ziliang also admitted in an interview that he felt sorry for Tianniu.
After the divorce, the two lost contact. It wasn't until 2016 that the two reunited by chance on a train and resumed contact.
Tianniu has long been relieved of all the disturbances. For her, her daughter is the most important thing.
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When Tianniu agreed to marry Wan Ziliang, a large part of the reason was because he was very good to his daughter Zhu Yufeng, and she wanted her daughter to experience the missing family affection.
Since the divorce, she has put all her energy into her daughter.
When Zhu Yufeng went to Switzerland to attend university, Tianniu accompanied him throughout the whole journey. The tuition was too expensive, so Tianniu set up a roadside stall selling hot sauce in order to make ends meet.
For Tianniu, her daughter is everything to her, so she will sacrifice anything for her.
In 2014, Zhu Yufeng’s love affair with mainland actress Ye Qing was exposed by the media, and later it was confirmed that she was gay.
Tianniu has a traditional mind. She was shocked when she learned the news and said she could not accept it. But after all, she was her daughter, the one she regarded as her treasure, and she finally accepted this fact calmly.
Like Miao Cuihua, Tianniu has also become friends with her daughter. She often shows off her mother-daughter love on her social account. She is so unhappy!
Time is always gentle to beauties. Tianniu, now 63 years old, has a kind of beauty that has accumulated over time on her face.