On the set in Hengdian, Zhejiang, a slender actress was playing with her co-star. She looked well-maintained and seemed to be only in her thirties, but her real age was already 58.

However, in the eyes of others, this is already pretty good. But she doesn't think so - since is going to take this path, it must be the best.

In the later period, she often got up early and stayed late at night, rehearsing the roles and lines of the drama over and over again. Even her roommate on the lower bunk was worried: "If you keep practicing like this, what will happen to your voice in the future?"

Therefore, Chen Jin has been taking some throat medicine for a long time. In short, she has heard a saying - After arriving at a place, if there is no performance in a short period of time, it will be buried in the future.

Soon, she won the olive branch of "Xuefeng Love" with her hard work and strength.

But although she was courageous, she was still shocked when she got the drama script: "The heroine actually needs to play 5 roles?"

This was still very rare in that era, but she thought about it again, and the script was given to me. Maybe it was the task that everyone thought I could take on.

Therefore, after Chen Jin communicated with her parents, she immediately started studying in advance.

Among the five characters, each one has a completely different personality. Therefore, Chen Jin read a lot of books and learned a lot of performances from seniors.

Whenever others fell asleep, she was still figuring out the role.I often don't fall asleep until two o'clock in the middle of the night.

Later, she won the fifth performance award for this work. suddenly became famous.

Many people feel that her success is inseparable from the upbringing of her family, and she thinks so too.

Therefore, she went smoothly in the following days, and became a hot new star in that era.

When Chen Jin was young, she had the same capable appearance as Chen Jin. She also had a determined heart that was not afraid of hardship. This all stemmed from the fact that she was born in a military family (Jinan City, Shandong Province).

Her father is a professor at National Defense University. After he met his wife in the later years, they got married quickly.

Chen Jin’s brother is called Chen Zhun. Like everyone in the family, he dotes on this cute and smart sister (born in 1964).

However, although his family is well off, Chen Jin's hobbies since childhood have been unique.

Whenever she sees extra rags at home, she starts to mend them. According to her, if others can make clothes, so can she.

In the later period, when she gave her crooked clothes to her brother, she couldn't help being teased by him: "No one wants to give it away, right? But I can collect it for you, so you can be considered half an artist."

Gradually, Chen Jin gave up this idea. After all, she realized that she was out of tune with the entire family.

Originally, her father wanted her to join the army when she grew up and find a job that would provide her with an iron rice bowl. But at that time, apart from her love of designing clothes, Chen Jin had no other specialties.

Therefore, the second elder basically stopped interfering with her hobbies and just asked her to improve her academic performance.

Because her father is serious and busy all year round, she chooses to stay with her mother.

Once, Chen's mother took her to the theater. Looking at her mother on the stage, she couldn't help but yearn for it: "If I could also perform, I would have many beautiful clothes and skirts to wear."

When she returned home, she would always stand on the steps in front of her house and imitate them in style. Unexpectedly, this imitation actually sent me to the theater.

When she was in junior high school, she listed Shandong Art College as her goal.

After the college entrance examination, she had a better choice with excellent grades. However, in order to realize her acting dream, she decisively applied for Shandong University of the Arts, despite her father's objections.

Fortunately, her mother respected her choice and did a lot of homework for Lao Chen.

Everything seems to be developing in the direction Chen Jin expected.

Her acting career was delayed due to health reasons

Since she had a place in the drama, she received an olive branch from director Fan Mingren, which was a movie called "The Swallowed Woman".

In 1990, at the age of 26, she got the script of "Mountains Don't Turn, Waters Turn", and once again had the opportunity to perform.

Compared with many drama actors at that time, they were not so lucky.

In front of the screen, she has attracted the attention of many people with her superb acting skills and cool temperament. However, also changed her appearance drastically because of her hard work and busyness.

Because of the high pressure of performing, she had to spend a lot of time studying. After being busy during the day, I am still busy at night, and there is very little time for meals.

After a year of this, she once gained 15 pounds due to often staying up late and overeating. was a taboo for actors at the time.

The most important thing is that her skin condition is so bad, because after traveling to various places, Chen Jin often doesn't adapt to the climate, and the skin care products at that time were limited, so she couldn't find a way to improve her appearance. After

got other scripts, she couldn't pass the audition.

Once, when she was wearing audition clothes and auditioning on the spot, a director took her old photos and started to scold her:

"Your image, temperament, and appearance are completely different from those in the photos. How did you fish in troubled waters and pass the second trial?"

These words shocked her.

At that time, there were no beauty and photo editing software. Her photos were indeed her own two years ago.

Upon seeing this, the other producers came to her rescue on the spot, but she also missed this opportunity.

Since she was already famous when she was young, she doesn't seem to care about these things anymore. The mentality has also become that of what can be accomplished, but what cannot be accomplished.

regained confidence

So she returned to her hometown in Shandong and reunited with relatives she had not seen for a long time.

But Chen Zhun was different at this time. Because he fell in love with photography, became a trendy and popular independent photographer.

Looking at his sister's appearance, he suggested that he take a break to adjust, so Chen Jin later participated in the photography with him.

After meeting more people of all kinds, she began to realize that her efforts in the past few years could not be in vain, and she began to think about ways to lose weight and improve her skin condition.

In addition to going to bed early, she also likes to eat vegetarian food, but after a week of persistence, it still has no effect.

So she asked around for other ways. It was already 1992 and she was 28 years old. It was also at this time that she started drinking only one cup of coffee and eating an apple a day, and had to run regularly to exercise.

After persisting for half a year, the whole person looks much thinner. But due to malnutrition, his complexion still doesn't look good.

So in the later period, she began to eat vegetarian dishes, such as broccoli , etc., and occasionally ate some lean meat that was not prone to obesity.

However, only uses peanut oil even when eating meat dishes.

By the end of 1992, she was almost back to her previous weight.

But the temperament is very different from before. Therefore, Chen Zhun changed the style for her. Whether it was retro or fresh , Chen Zhun tried them all.

You must know that she was close to 30 years old at the time, and there would be no hope if she didn't work hard.

After adjusting for a while, she began to submit her resume and audition for roles. The opportunity came to

in 1996, when she was already 32 years old. Relying on her past works and current appearance conditions, the director team of " Campus Pioneer " found her.

At that time, Chen Jin knew that this was his only chance to make a comeback, so he quickly joined the group to study.

At that time, there were still 5 candidates, including 24-year-olds and 28-year-olds. In short, Chen Jin’s age did not have the upper hand. In the later stage of

, when the director team arranged the most difficult scene for everyone to test, they immediately settled on Chen Jin.

Because her acting skills and professionalism are simply unmatched by anyone. However, in addition to her daily busy schedule, she still insists on eating less on the set - a peach in the morning, an apple in the evening, and just eating vegetarian dishes at noon.

Many people do not understand her behavior, but only she knows how important self-discipline is.

When the day "Campus Pioneer" was finalized, she went around to audition non-stop. After her mother learned about this, she felt that her child had taken the wrong path.

Therefore, he always advised her sincerely: "My child, you have reached the age where you should start a family. If you don't worry about marriage, you will have no choice in the future."

At the peak of her career

Chen Jin told her mother that she would take this matter to heart after she was busy.

But her mother never expected that her daughter would still be single after she reached the age of 58. All this stemmed from an agreement between her and her brother.

The two of them agreed not to get married or have children for the rest of their lives, and Chen Jin kept this agreement very well.

However, although Chen Jin gave up on love, her career has improved.

During the New Year, the family was having a reunion dinner, and Chen Jin received a call: "Teacher Chen, you won the award." Then she was informed of the time and place of arrival, as well as the person in charge of the meeting. In the later stages of

, Chen Jin knew that this award was the 17th Chinese TV Drama Feitian Award Outstanding Actress Award. And it was obtained precisely because of his appearance in "Campus Pioneer".

On the day of the award, she put on a gorgeous dress. In her heart, she always felt that this award had been years late. When giving his acceptance speech, his brother Chen Zhun also shed tears.

As an excellent photographer, he took many commemorative photos of his sister. With this valuable award, Chen Jin got another opportunity to perform.

In 1998, at the age of 34, she received an invitation from the audition team of " turned out to be ". Just like before, she successfully won the opportunity to play a supporting actress.

also participated in other heavyweight figures, such as Li Xuejian teacher, Li Youbin teacher.

The play was broadcast in 1999. In the same year, she won the Best Supporting Actress Award at the 5th China Changchun Film Festival, the Outstanding Actress Award at the 6th China Film Huabiao Awards, and the Best Supporting Actress Award at the 20th China Film Golden Rooster Award for this film.

In that era of greater competition, she was almost an award-winning actress.

In 2000, she won the 8th Shanghai TV Festival Magnolia Award for Best Actress " dependence every year ".

But she was already 36 years old at that time, and there were many talented female stars in the contemporary era. In order to retain resources, she decided to be more moderate. gave up rice since then. 22 years have passed and she still has not changed this habit.

In 2006, at the age of 42, she starred in the movie "The Golden Armor " directed by Zhang Yimou . In 2010, she participated in the movie " Tangshan Earthquake " directed by Feng Xiaogang .

Coincidentally, because of her status as a "veteran drama star", she was called the female version of Chen Daoming. Unexpectedly, the two actually played a military couple in the drama.

However, she has almost no scandals in private and has never announced her relationship. She only has one "male bestie" who has been with her for 20 years Wu Gang . Countless people are wondering when Teacher Chen will get married?

Since participating in " Ode to Joy 2" in 2017, Teacher Chen Jin has tried many transformations. She occasionally appeared in the costume drama "Do you know if it should be green, fat, red and thin ", and occasionally appeared in emotional dramas.

In short, she has already regarded her career as a part of her life.

On September 25, 2022, the TV series " Hutong " in which she participated was launched. Many old fans commented: "Teacher Chen has contributed too much to the career. It is a pity that Mr. Chen is not married and has no children."

But she hardly responded to these related matters. topic, in an interview, the reporter asked: "Do you have any plans to get married?"

Teacher Chen Jin responded to the other party in only 10 words: "We are living well now."

Nowadays, many people have mixed attitudes towards marriage. What do you think of it?

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text | ancient oasis

editor | book