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Early in the morning of July 19, I heard the bad news

Well-known actress Cheng Pei-pei passed away at the age of 78

Screenshot of director Hu Xuehua's Moments

Host Cao Kefan posted a message of condolences

I first got to know Cheng Pei-pei because of her role as Madam Hua in Flirting Scholar.

When she played this role, Cheng Pei-pei was already in her forties, so in my impression, she always seemed to be in the image of middle-aged or elderly people.

It was not until recently that I saw photos of her when she was young and realized how beautiful she was.

However, the love life of beauties is mostly bumpy.

Cheng Pei-pei is no exception.

She got pregnant eight times and had four miscarriages just to give her husband a son.

But in the end, she chose to divorce at the age of 42.Leave the House。

Cheng Pei-pei was born in Shanghai in 1946. When she was young, her father was arrested and reformed, and she never saw him again.

She is the eldest in the family and has to take care of her three younger siblings.

In order to survive, her mother brought them to Hong Kong to live with relatives. She was 15 years old that year.

At that time, the Hong Kong film industry was developing very rapidly. She was admitted to the Southern Experimental Theatre in 1963 and joined Shaw Brothers Film Company after graduation.

In 1963, Cheng Pei-pei, who was only a teenager, played a male role in a movieThe Lotus LanternThe heroic beauty was noticed by director King Hu, who invited her to star in the pioneering work of China's new martial arts film.The Drunken Master。

Since then, she has carved out her own path in the Hong Kong film industry in the 1960s, with her free and easy image of a chivalrous woman, and was dubbed "TheMartial Arts Queen”。

Stills from The Drunken Master

No one expected that she, who was at the peak of her life, would chooseRetiring for Love, returned to her family and became a wife, and she was gone for 21 years.

Cheng Pei-pei's love story started with "Drunken Master", where she fell in love with Yue Hua, who played the male lead.

Unfortunately, Yue Hua fell in love with Zheng Peipei's friend, and the relationship came to an end.

In 1971, Cheng Pei-pei met businessman Yuan Wen-tong. Unlike other suitors, Yuan Wen usually contradicted her, which she found very attractive.

At the age of 25, she got married and immigrated to the United States with Yuan Wentong.

During her time in the United States, Cheng Pei-pei worked many jobs, including looking after her husband's store, running around to set up a TV station, and helping her sister-in-law take care of her children.

More importantly, she wanted to give birth to a son for Yuan Wentong.

So, in 20 years,Cheng Pei-pei was pregnant eight times and had four miscarriages before she finally had three daughters and one son.

Even though she had given everything for this marriage, it ended in divorce.

Yuan Wentong filed for divorce because his wife's investment failed. When divorcing, Cheng PeipeiI chose to leave the house with nothing.

In order to be with her children, she wanted to live in the United States, but she couldn't find a suitable job for a long time and had no way to maintain a normal life, so she chose to leave in desperation.

In 1992, she returned to Hong Kong and decided to return to the film industry.

With the role of "Mrs. Hua" in "A Chinese Odyssey: Part One", Cheng Pei-pei not only returned to the public eye, but also gained popularity in mainland China.

In 2001, she starred in the film "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" directed by Ang Lee, playing the role of "Blue Eyed Fox", and won the Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Supporting Actress and competed for the Academy Award.

In 2014, she participated in the reality show "Flowers and Boys" at the age of 68. Her kindness and happiness quickly made her popular and became the most popular grandma.

In May this year, Liu Tao revealed that Cheng Peipei's health was not good and she was very worried, "She needed support."

Liu Tao recalled the moments she spent with Cheng Peipei, revealing that there was a time when she was under a lot of pressure, and Cheng Peipei wrote a calligraphy for her, which read:“I can’t live up to everyone’s expectations, but I just want to live up to my conscience”Liu Tao always carries this calligraphy with her.

In 2021, Cheng Peipei's daughter Yuan Ziyi also revealed in an interview that her mother's physical condition had deteriorated and her movements had slowed down, and these were mainly due toShe used to shoot too many fight sceness reason.

In the last stage of her life, although Ms. Cheng Pei-pei's health condition deteriorated, she always remained optimistic and strong.

According to Hollywood media reports, Cheng Pei-pei was diagnosed with neurodegenerative atypical Parkinson's syndrome in 2019, informally known as corticobasal degeneration (CBD). This is a rare disease.Symptoms similar to Parkinson's disease, current human medical treatments are unable to slow the progression of the disease.

Cheng Pei-peiHis medical condition was not disclosed during his lifetime., leaving the rest of her life to her children and grandchildren. At the end of her life, Cheng Pei-pei hopes that everyone will support medical research organizations andDonated his brain, for human medical research.

Talking about life and death, she said:

"When I was still sober, I could arrange everything. They were all what I wanted to do. When I was alive, I didn't want to buy a house. Why should I buy a cemetery when I died? Now is always your golden age, because after today, you can't come back."

Today, she is no longer with us, but her spirit continues to influence generation after generation.

Rest in peace, the heroine of this generation, Cheng Pei-pei.

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