The rain was pouring down, and the wind was howling. A woman clung to a cold corpse, numb both physically and mentally. This is Bao Xi's weakness, her husband Yang Tiexin made a painful decision to kill himself in order not to affect his friend Qiu Chuji.
Yang Tiexin's last sentence still echoed in her ears: "From now on, you and I don't owe each other, you are free." Bao Xi was weak and cried, she thought that she could get along with her son by reuniting with Yang Tiexin, but she didn't expect fate to play tricks on people.
She no longer has the courage and hope to live. She picked up the short sword that pierced Yang Tie's heart, took a deep breath, and stabbed it hard at her heart. Blood soon overflowed from the corners of her mouth, and she completely lost the breath of life.
It turned out that 18 years ago, Bao Xiqiao was just an ordinary Niujia Village woman, with a beautiful face, red cheeks, and starry eyes, and was called "peerless beauty". A fictitious lie deceived her into going to the distant kingdom of Jin and becoming a princess.
That winter night, Bao Xiqiao saw a man covered in blood slumped in the snow, and she was kind enough to rescue him and feed him a decoction. Unexpectedly, that person was actually the prince of Jin, Wanyan Honglie, and when he saw Bao Xi's weak face, he was obsessed with her and tirelessly flattered her.
Bao Xiwan didn't know that in order to get her, Wanyan Honglie actually secretly framed her husband Yang Tiexin and her friend Guo Xiaotian for rebellion, causing the officers and soldiers to arrest them. Guo Xiaotian was killed on the spot, his wife Li Ping fled to Mobei while pregnant, Yang Tiexin and Bao Xiweak were also displaced, and had to go incognito under the pseudonym "Mu Yi".
It was a snowy night, and the goose-feathered snowflakes outside the house covered the sky, and it was white as far as the eye could see. Bao Xiwan had just added charcoal to the fire, and when she heard someone moaning outside the door, she followed the sound and saw a man covered in blood slumped in the snow, dying.
The kind-hearted Bao Xi didn't say a word, didn't care about anything else, and hurriedly helped the man back to his home to carefully check his injuries. The man had a heavy stab wound and had lost so much blood that he was dying.
Bao Xiwan hurriedly cleaned his wounds with warm water, and boiled a bowl of medicinal soup to feed him. It turned out that this man who was trapped in the tiger's mouth was the prince of the Jin Kingdom, Wanyan Honglie. After some hard work, Bao Xiqiao finally saved him.
After Yan Honglie gradually regained consciousness, he was fascinated by Bao Xiweak's peerless face at first sight. Hibiscus is beautiful, her cheeks are red, her starry eyes are like waves, and she is like a fairy.
Wanyan Honglie's heart suddenly ignited a nameless evil fire, and he worked tirelessly to curry favor with Bao Xiweak. Forge attentive. Poor Bao Xiwan didn't know that Wanyan Honglie secretly fabricated a major crime of rebellion against her husband Yang Tiexin and friend Guo Xiaotian out of selfishness, and framed the two families.
When the imperial court sent people to arrest him, Guo Xiaotian's family suffered this catastrophe, Guo Xiaotian was killed on the spot, and his wife Li Ping fled to the desert pregnant. And her weak husband Yang Tiexin also suffered this fate, and their family of three had to fly away, flee to the mountains, and change their names incognito.
A kind woman's benevolence to save people turned out to be a tragedy that led wolves into the house and caused the destruction of the family. Bao Xiwan suffered such an injustice, but he still didn't know anything about it, and left Lin'an with Wanyan Honglie and embarked on a painful road of life.
The years have flown by, and 18 years have passed in the blink of an eye. Over the years, Bao Xiwan has been incognito, living a life of beating the ground and being tortured. She always thinks about her husband Yang Tiexin, who is far away, and she is even more worried about her son Yang Kang, who was forced to be separated from her.
Until one day, Bao Xiweak finally reunited with Yang Tiexin in many hardships. 18 years of longing, 18 years of lovesickness, all relieved at this moment. She was so excited that she could finally relieve her heart of the burden of so many years and tell him the true life experience of her son Yang Kang.
Bao Xi anxiously summoned Yang Kang, and the long-awaited recognition of mother and son was right in front of him. However, Yang Kang stubbornly did not want to recognize each other, and the mother and son came and went, and the atmosphere was tense.
"Kang'er, my mother has never told you half a lie, can't you just check your ancestral hometown?" Bao Xiwan cried and begged, tears falling down her eyes. Yang Kang retorted with a sneer: "Just rely on your mouth? How can I believe it! Didn't Mu Nianci say the same thing?" Bao Xiwan looked at the son in front of him in despair, tears welling up in his eyes.
Her heart is dripping blood, and the love between mother and son is originally the strongest and purest relationship between heaven and earth, but her biological flesh and blood are so blind to her. Yang Kang stubbornly turned around and left, leaving Bao Xiweak alone and speechless for a long time.
She was very sad and regretful. If Yan Honglie hadn't been saved at the beginning, he wouldn't have caused such a tragedy. But the iron wheel of fate has rolled forward, how can she turn back? Bao Xi was weak and helpless, crying until his eyes were blank.
This mother-son reunion should have been the happiest moment in Bao Xi's weak life, but it ended up with such a hateful ending, which was really too cruel. In order not to implicate his friend Qiu, Yang Tiexin decided to apologize with death.
He said to Bao Xiweak: "From now on, you and I will not owe each other, you are free." After speaking, he drew his sword and stabbed it in the abdomen, and the blood was embarrassed. Bao Xi weakly pounced, crying bitterly, holding Yang Tiexin's head, tears raining down.
"Iron Heart, how can you do this? Aren't we finally meeting again?" She wailed and burst into tears. At this moment, she seemed to see their difficult fate for many years.
In the blink of an eye, their family of three was already shattered. Now that her husband has passed away, and her son is unwilling to recognize her as a mother, she has completely lost the courage and hope to survive.
Seeing that Yang Tiexin was gradually losing his breath, Bao Xiqiao picked up the short sword that pierced his abdomen, took a deep breath, and stabbed it fiercely in the same position. Soon, blood spilled from the corners of Bao Xi's weak mouth, and she left this world forever.
How innocent and unjust a benevolent woman should be to suffer so much suffering and misfortune because of a wrong choice. For many years, countless outstanding actors have played the tragic role of Bao Xiweak.
In 1976, Chen Sisi first interpreted this image in the Hong Kong TV version of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes". As one of the "Three Princesses of the Great Wall" in the film industry, Chen Sisi has outstanding looks and looks very dignified.
It's a pity that only the last clip of Bao Xi's weak suicide was left in this drama that year. In 1977, Liu Huiling, who had a bold figure, starred as Bao Xiweak in the Shaw Brothers version of "Shooting the Condor", but her temperament was a little stiff and rude, which was a little different from the image of the "gentle and virtuous lady" in the original book.
Li Siqi in the 1983 TVB version portrayed Bao Xiqiao more expressively, demure and elegant, with a contradictory but real and natural expression. In recent years, the interpretation of this role can be described as a hundred flowers.
He Qing in the 2003 mainland version is the most acclaimed, her eyes are bright, Chu Chu is moving, whether it is makeup or facial expression, it is almost a perfect fit with the portrayal of "Hibiscus beautiful face, red cheeks" in the original book.
The 2017 version of Liu Qianhan is slightly younger, and her style is too gorgeous, which makes people feel a little disobedient. In general, each family's interpretation of the role of Bao Xiweak has its own characteristics, but the most appropriate is He Qing.
She has an outstanding temperament, a beautiful face, and a gentle and atmospheric temperament in her gestures, coupled with superb acting skills, she can be described as the best candidate for this role.
In the original work of Mr. Jin Yong's martial arts novel "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", Bao Xiqiao is a rather tragic character. She came from a humble background, but she was born as beautiful as a flower, and was known as a "peerless beauty".
Kindness and kindness are her nature, but they have also made her ill-fated life. A wrong choice saved the prince of Jin, who was disguised as a handsome son, Wanyan Honglie, but also brought endless disasters and tribulations to himself and his family.
She was deceived into going to the Kingdom of Jin, became a princess, and gave birth to her son Yang Kang. 18 years later, she reunited with her husband Yang Tiexin, and was heartbroken because her son Yang Kang did not want to recognize him. In the end, after her husband Yang Tiexin committed suicide by martyrdom, Bao regretted his weakness and ended up with hatred, and obeyed him to death.
Having been passively bearing the arrangement of fate all her life, her origin, appearance, and encounters make her an important figure in the plot, causing a series of contradictions, and also highlighting her kind, cowardly, and hesitant character flaws, making her a pitiful and pathetic tragic character.
By comparing the interpretations of each family's role of Bao Xi's weak one, it is not difficult to find that the performance styles and aesthetic concepts of different generations are quite different. Some versions have some discrepancies from the original depiction in terms of makeup or performance techniques, but on the whole, most of the actors are able to capture the essential characteristics of Bao Xi's weakness, softness and gentleness.
Among them, the one that best fits the image of the original character is He Qing in the 2003 mainland version. She has an outstanding temperament, a beautiful face, a pair of bright eyes and bright teeth, and she is very moving. Whether it is the dress or expression, it is almost perfectly consistent with the description of "Hibiscus has a beautiful face, red cheeks, and starry eyes like waves" in the original book.
Every detail of He Qing's version of Bao Xiweak is appropriate, the stage posture, tone and tone, and eyes are revealed, revealing a gentle and atmospheric temperament everywhere. Coupled with her superb acting skills, she is free to show kindness and cowardice when she is weak, hesitant and hesitant, and her feelings are sincere, which can be said to be the best candidate for this role.
Other actors have more or less flaws in their appearance, temperament and acting skills. Some people are too young and tender, some people have too hot and gorgeous images, and some people do not do enough to control their emotions.
But He Qing is undoubtedly the closest version to the original book, and her excellent interpretation has won praise from audiences and critics alike.