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Text: Fishing Moon Entertainment
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Preface:
How many times do you have the opportunity to write an impressive legend in your life?
How many people can re-examine the past and face their inner trauma after reading all the vicissitudes of life?
In your heart, have you ever wondered how the once glorious screen star will comment on the first half of his life after retiring for many years?
The most candid autobiography, presenting the most authentic Chen Chong
In 2024, when the 63-year-old Chen Chong enters the public eye again with his essay collection "Cat Fish", people are shocked to realize that a person can face the past so calmly and sincerely after experiencing the ups and downs of life.
This book not only records her personal growth process, but also contains her remembrance and attachment to her family.
Through the smooth and heartfelt text, readers can get a glimpse into the little-known slice of the famous actor's life.
The distress after becoming famous
In 1979, Chen Chong rose to fame with the movie "Little Flower".
The image of the rural girl she played is simple and moving, which has made countless audiences fall in love with it.
With the hit of "Little Flower", troubles after becoming famous also followed.
A large number of audience letters poured into the Shanghai Foreign Chinese College, where she studied, and she became the focus of attention on campus for a while.
In the face of the sudden attention, the young Chen Chong felt at a loss.
In order to be able to focus on her studies and get rid of the burden of fame, she made an important decision.
In 1981, Chen Chong, who had the dream of studying, went to United States alone.
In a foreign country, she quickly realized that her study abroad life was not as glamorous as she imagined.
In order to make ends meet, she had to work in a restaurant.
After the restaurant owner learned of her star status, he often teased her in front of the guests, "The actress from the mainland works in my restaurant." "
It made her feel uncomfortable.
Later, Chen Chong quit his job at the restaurant and took up cleaning jobs instead, cleaning toilets day in and day out.
In such a simple job, she unexpectedly gained a sense of existential value.
Sexual assault by the school doctor, unspeakable pain
During Chen Chong's study in the United States, she also experienced an unspeakable experience.
One day, she went to the school infirmary because of a rash on her body.
After briefly asking her about her symptoms, the male school doctor, who was about 30 years old, asked Chen Chong to take off all her clothes and lie naked on the hospital bed.
What's even more disturbing is that the doctor actually called another male doctor, and the two of them "checked" Chen Chong's body together.
At that time, Chen Chong's lack of understanding of United States culture made her mistakenly think that this was a normal medical treatment process.
It wasn't until a few years later that she realized she was being sexually assaulted.
In the book "Catfish", she plucked up the courage to tell this unbearable experience.
The deception of her first boyfriend is deep in the whirlpool of pain
While studying in the United States, Chen Chong also experienced the first love affair in his life.
Her first boyfriend, W, is eight years older than her, and the two agreed to go to United States together to continue dating in a foreign country.
However, Chen Chong didn't know that W already had a girlfriend, but he concealed the matter, making her become a "junior" without knowing it.
When Chen Chong accidentally discovered W's girlfriend's letter, her inner world collapsed instantly.
The betrayal of his first love made Chen Chong lose confidence in love.
During that time, she completely deprecated herself and even had a relationship with another international student, X, at a party.
When X learned what happened to Chen Chong, he angrily wanted to help her "avenge", and even called others to beat W.
Chen Chong is also in a state of "fragmentation" of this experience, and he only learned the details by relaying it from his friends.
hurriedly entered the marriage hall, and the nightmare began
The process of getting out of the haze of emotional trauma was extremely difficult, so much so that when Chen Chong decided to enter the marriage hall, he didn't care who the object was.
At that time, she randomly found an acquaintance fitness coach Liu Qing in order to obtain United States residency as soon as possible.
The two got married in a hurry after only seeing each other three times.
After getting married, Chen Chong began filming in Hollywood, while Liu Qing was in charge of household chores and served as her agent.
On the surface, Liu Qing is tall and handsome, and the match with Chen Chong seems to be a good match.
His irascible and suspicious personality makes this marriage full of gloom.
Whenever he saw Chen Chong with the opposite sex, he would be jealous and insulting uncontrollably.
The marital crisis escalated, and the hotel room was stained with blood overnight
In 1987, Chen Chong traveled to China to shoot "The Last Emperor," an experience that further escalated her conflict with Liu Qing.
Once, in the face of her husband's unwarranted jealousy, Chen Chong finally couldn't bear it anymore.
Liu Qing was so angry that he threw something at her, causing her forehead to hurt.
In order to avoid the matter being exposed, Chen Chong did not dare to seek medical treatment, so he could only treat the wound secretly and clean up the blood stains in the room alone.
When she took a leave of absence, she lied to the producer that she had accidentally fallen.
The producer seemed to sense something and asked meaningfully, "Can you promise not to fall again next time?" Where is Liu Qing?"
Knowing that Liu Qing had returned to United States, the producer was relieved.
This unhappy episode became the last straw that crushed this marriage.
Ambiguous with married actor Hal fell into pain again
In 1989, Chen Chong, who ended his first marriage, collaborated with Lutger · Haar in "Strong Blood", and both sparks sparked in and out of the play.
The good times didn't last long, and when Hal's wife visited the class, Chen Chong fell into the pain and guilt of an unruly relationship again.
She began to take the initiative to distance herself from the actor.
may be the arrangement of fate that made Chen Chong finally wait for the right person.
On Chinese New Year's Eve 1991, she met her current husband, Peter, a Chinese-American cardiologist.
Only a year later, the two entered the marriage hall hand in hand.
A happy destination, hand in hand with Peter
Peter was born in Guangdong and is well known in the medical community in the United States.
During his relationship with Chen Chong, the two got together less and separated more, and they only met three times, and Peter proposed to her on the phone.
After half a year of consideration, Chen Chong finally agreed to marry this man who understood her and loved her.
After marriage, Chen Chong and Peter had two daughters together: Xu Wenting and Xu Wenshan.
Although Peter works 14 hours a day, he takes care of the children's development.
Every night, he would make up a "J and T story" to lull his daughter to sleep.
If Chen Chong takes his daughter out to film, he will record the story and send it to his wife's mailbox.
It is countless such warm moments that have built a happy harbor for this multinational family.
The haze reappeared, and the last side of the mother was missed
However, a happy life is not all smooth sailing.
In 2021, Chen Chong's mother, Professor Zhang Anzhong, a renowned neuropharmacologist, passed away from cancer.
The pandemic halted Chen Chong's return to her homeland, and she suffered a lot during the quarantine period, and finally failed to see her mother for the last time.
Only by truly facing the past can we achieve spiritual liberation and tranquility.
The 63-year-old Chen Chong used "Cat Fish" to re-examine the ups and downs of the first half of his life.
She candidly confronts the trauma of the past, analyzes her loss in love and marriage, and touches on those little-known family stories.
Chen Chong's maternal grandmother, the famous sociologist Shi Yifan, was forced to commit herself to the powerful for a pass.
Mother Zhang Anzhong was separated from her parents when she was a child, and this trauma has always affected the relationship between mother and daughter.
And Chen Chong himself almost repeated the mistakes of his mother and grandmother.
The experience of generations of women is like a mirror, reflecting their helpless struggles in the torrent of the times.
The ups and downs of life eventually make a legend
Looking back on Chen Chong's life, there have been glories and valleys, confusion and persistence.
At the age of 18, she became famous for a "Little Flower", but she soon tasted the bitterness behind her fame.
went to the United States to study, she experienced hardship, bullying, frequent setbacks on the emotional road, and both marriages ended in failure.
It is these twists and turns that have forged Chen Chong's indomitable and tenacious.
She was not defeated by fate, but got up again and again and continued to move forward towards her dream.
She became a shining Chinese star in Hollywood, interpreting the power of oriental women in her own way.
Perhaps, Chen Chong's life just reflects the epitome of many women.
In her, we see the imprint of an era, and the suffering and loneliness that women endure on the way to pursue themselves.
Epilogue:
When you close the book "Catfish", will you also have a deeper understanding of the word "legend"?
After all, the real legend has always been paved by countless joys and sorrows, and composed of the joys, sorrows and sorrows of countless ordinary people.
And Chen Chong's story is the most touching one among countless legends.
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