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She is the dream lover of Chinese men in the 20th century.
It is the most famous superstar in Hong Kong.
There was a line for three days and nights
Spend a lot of money just to see one of her movies.
She is the soul of all Jin Yong’s works,
The pain in Jin Yong’s heart for a lifetime.
For her, I have been pursuing for 60 years,
Finally, it was rejected.
He was once the lover of the famous director Cen fan,
After separation,
CEN fan died alone because she never married.
She is the most beautiful actress in Chinese film history,
It is a work of art that God bestows on the world.
The beauty is shocking.
Great director lihanxiang,
She was infatuated with her.
Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai
Have met her in person.
Even the night before LinBiao defected
She would not leave until she saw another film of her.
She is known as “Audrey Hepburn” in China,
She is the “beauty lover” in the eyes of the Chinese people
Her name is summer dream!
Next, we passed 108 precious photos
Uncover the man behind summer dream
those
A little-known story!
Because there is
Audrey Hepburn on the left, summer dream on the right
In February of 1933, a baby girl
Born in a literary family in Shanghai.
The baby girl looks sweet and her eyes glow,
Her parents named her Yang Meng. (original name of Xiameng)
Summer dream at the age of 6
At the age of 14,
Xia Meng moved from Shanghai to Hong Kong with her parents.
Deeply influenced by the art of old Shanghai since childhood,
Xia Meng showed her talent at a young age.
He is fluent in opera and opera.
Summer dream in teenage girls
1947 (summer dream girl’s plain face, extraordinary temperament)
1947 (worldly temperament)
Summer dream in youth
Xia Meng was keen on drama performance since childhood,
I especially love Shakespeare’s works,
At school, she participated in the stage play Joan of arc.
Deeply loved by students and teachers.
From then on, she began her life as an art fan.
Lihanxiang said, “Xia Meng is the most beautiful actress in the history of Chinese film. She has an extraordinary temperament and is intoxicating.”
Hepburn dress in 1949, later known as China’s Audrey Hepburn.
Summer dream swimsuit
Summer dream in youth
In 1950,
Yang Meng joined Hong Kong Great Wall pictures,
Take the stage name summer dream
From Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s dream
And she really became everyone’s dream,
But only dare to look up to the beautiful dream.
Captivated countless men.
Joined Hong Kong Great Wall Film in 1950
Beauty is more skin than bone
In 1951, Xia Meng was only 18 years old,
A forbidden marriage,
She plays a young woman as a young girl,
Immediately won the top box office in Hong Kong,
It was a big hit.
Xia Meng plays the heroine yangxiazhi in the film
In 1950, summer dream became popular.
Summer dream in 1952?
nyonya
?As Yang yongfen, the female number one.
Clean and pure appearance,
1.70 meters tall,
Elegant and noble temperament,
Smart and playful temperament,
Make summer dream fragrant and intoxicating.
In Hong Kong at that time,
Xia Meng’s name,
And her cheongsam, her beauty,
All become a mark,
Her hormones
People want to be close to her crazily,
How many infatuated men can’t even ask for it,
Infatuated with love and hate.
Summer dream cheongsam suit
Pure and beautiful summer dream,
Never thought that in the near future,
I will be with an infatuated fan,
Have an unexpected and wonderful love affair.
“No one has ever seen how beautiful Xi Shi is,
I think she should live up to her reputation like xiamengcai. “
This is Jin Yong’s evaluation of the goddess Xia Meng.
In 1953,
First in the literary world
Martial arts novel “Book sword gratitude and hatred record”
Jin Yong, a great Xia who is well-known in the Jianghu,
For the sake of the goddess in my mind,
Despite the “ridicule” of friends around,
Willingly join Hong Kong Great Wall film production company,
He worked as a small screenwriter under the pseudonym of “Lin Huan”.
Just to see summer dream.
Jin Yong, Xiameng
Secret love is beautiful,
It can make all the fantasies
All become possible in my mind.
After joining the great wall film production company,
Jin Yong made it for Xia Meng
The screenplay “peerless beauty”,
Turn love into words,
Use lines to tell the truth.
This may be the “fan” Jin Yong at that time,
The most romantic thing I can do for summer dream.
Stills of the film “the most beautiful woman”
Summer dream in 1954
Become a pillar of the Hong Kong Mandarin film company,
Together with Shihui and chensisi, they are called “three princesses of the Great Wall”.
Sponsored by the Great Wall pictorial
“Top ten stars of Hong Kong Mandarin films” election,
Xia Meng won the top spot with a high number of votes.
Summer dream sweeps the cover of Hong Kong film magazine
1954
1954
China’s most beautiful actress
Xia Meng has both talent and appearance,
The most respectable thing is that he is always pure and clean,
Out of the mud without being contaminated,
There is no “scandal” in my life.
When Xiameng was 22 in 1955,
With St. John’s University in Shanghai
Top student linbaocheng got married.
More importantly, summer dream
Always loyal to his husband,
For many admirers from all directions,
They are all rejected as cold as ice.
Jin Yong is deeply obsessed with Xia mengai,
Jin Yong wrote all his works around Xia Meng.
Jin Yong in another form
To repose their feelings for summer dream.
The little dragon girl in the eagle warrior,
Huang Rong in the legend of the Eagle Shooting hero,
Wangyuyan in the eight heavenly dragons,
Zhou Zhiruo in the story of heaven leaning and dragon slaying,
And “flying fox” and “flying fox on snow mountain”
Liancheng Jue, Luding Ji, Xiaoao Jianghu, etc. & \8230&# 8230;.
And the heroine prototype in all Jin Yong’s works is Xia Meng.
A woman a man can pursue for himself
Infatuation to this extent is rare.
Jin Yong and summer dream
Audrey Hepburn of China
1959 summer dream
It’s a pity that the king of Xiang had a heart and the goddess had no intention.
Jin Yong was destined not to have a summer dream,
After falling in love with Lin Baocheng all her life,
There is no room for others.
For Jin Yong,
Love without love may be the most precious.
Summer dream in 1958
Audrey Hepburn of China, summer dream
And a man,
Just because I saw Xia Meng more in the crowd,
From then on, I was born and died alone,
This infatuated man is
CEN fan, the famous director of the true story of ah Q.
Famous director Cen fan
Marriage prohibition
Someone asked what was good about Xia Meng,
After all those years, he still couldn’t forget.
CEN fan once recalled:
“Xia Meng’s beauty is second,
Her heart is more beautiful and very kind.
If you haven’t known summer dream,
Maybe at some point in my life
Marry a woman and have children.
But I know Xia Meng,
No one else can compare with her
?
We have not let anyone down,
And always keep the purity of brother and sister… “
To love someone is to be nice to them.
As long as she lives well, he will be very happy.
It’s a pity that Cen fan was poisoned by Xia Meng’s life.
Xia Meng is not only natural beauty, but also excellent in acting,
Dong Qiao, a famous Hong Kong writer, once said:
Xia Meng is like an actor but not a star,
It’s a story, not a pose
On the stage and on the screen
The joys and sorrows of separation and reunion are dreamlike,
Only the summer dream remains.
Screen image of summer dream
Summer dream has so far
The highest status among Hong Kong actresses.
The beautiful shadow of summer dream is condensed in
Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping, etc
In the historical film of the party and state leaders’ meeting,
She was elected a member of the National Committee of the Chinese people’s Political Consultative Conference for many years,
China Film Association
The only female consultant in Hong Kong.
At the award ceremony, Xia Meng shook hands with Chairman Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping was next to him.
Xia Meng and Premier Zhou Enlai shook hands and talked cordially
Xia Meng took a group photo with Zhou Enlai, dengyingchao, etc
What’s more interesting is that,
It is said that LinBiao
The night before he defected in 1971,
A film was shown at Beidaihe official residence
Sweet honey starring Xia Meng,
This is the last film he has seen in his life,
Then he took his family to Shanhaiguan airport,
Finally, he died in a plane crash
?
Sweet honey stills
Xia Meng’s acting career ended at the age of 34,
She moved to the United States with her husband, and has since ceased to take photos.
In her own words:
One should not ask too much, but learn to accept what is good.
Summer dream in 1967
In 1979,
Xia Meng sold congealed herself and her husband
A family clothing factory that has worked hard for half a life,
Plus all my savings from years of filming,
Established “Bluebird film company”.
In 1980, summer dream returned to the Hong Kong film industry,
As a producer,
He has successively produced “going to the angry sea”
Time like water and heroes from ancient times
And so on.
Andy Lau regards Xia Meng as a noble man in this life.
Among them, Andy Lau and linzixiang starred in “going to the angry sea”
It became the most popular literary film of that year,
Won the best film award in 1983
And “best director”.
In 1982, when I was filming to the angry sea,
Summer dream is willing to lose
A signed contract deposit,
It’s also important to make the script perfect before you start.
She is also very critical in choosing plays,
In her opinion,
A script is a prerequisite for a good film,
It is also the most basic requirement.
Stills of “going to the angry sea”
Therefore, Xuanhua has always said:
“Xia Meng’s wisdom is more outstanding than her beauty.”
Andy Lau is also grateful to Xia Meng for his insight.
“Going to the angry sea” and 1984
Supervised the “fleeting years”,
Two works respectively
Two Hong Kong Awards for best film
Best director and best screenwriter
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Summer dream in old age
The summer dream in his old age is as beautiful as Hepburn in his old age.
With the traces of years
Calm and indifferent, the charm is natural.
The summer dream of cherishing feathers all my life,
The summer dream of holding the destiny by oneself,
It is undoubtedly the most dazzling star.
Incomparable youth
There are beauties in the South
The most beautiful person is to be the most beautiful person,
Then it became the most beautiful scenery in others’ dreams.
A man is like his name,
She is as beautiful as a midsummer night’s dream.
On April 18th, 2014,
At the 65th anniversary of Xia Meng’s film career,
Host dingliuyuan used “listening to the years, feeling the present
Warm my heart and never forget my original heart “salute summer dream.
Today, Xia Meng is left to the film history,
It is not only the eternal charm of a generation of beauties on the screen.
As a generation of progressive filmmakers in Hong Kong,
Xia Meng is in a turbulent era,
Choices in the film industry
Achievements and regrets not only contain Xia Meng’s artistic pursuit,
The persistence and patriotism of their own film ideals,
It also condenses the changes of the times in the mainland and Hong Kong.
Thank you letter from Xia Meng’s sister Yang Jie to the author.
Xia Meng’s film life,
It is the epitome of Hong Kong’s film history,
It is also the life portrait of a generation of filmmakers in the history of Chinese film.
In 2015, Shanghai International Film Festival,
83 year old performance artist Xiameng
Won the Lifetime Achievement Award for Chinese films,
She did not arrive at the scene in person,
But a short video was specially sent,
She said hello to the audience in her native Shanghai dialect,
More importantly, “Shanghai is where I was born,
Movies are my lifelong dream,
I feel happy with these two things.
”
The summer dream in his old age continued his beautiful life.
Xia Meng, whose name is derived from the “Midsummer Night Dream”, has a beautiful life of its own
On November 3rd, 2016,
Xia Meng died in his dream at the age of 83,
Ended her dreamlike life.
Let’s cherish the memory of classic movies
Miss the classic beauty!
The smile is like a blooming flower, and the jade voice flows gently.
A lifetime of light and shadow dreams, there are beautiful women.
