When it comes to top luxury houses in China, Tangchen Yipin from Pudong, Shanghai is definitely ranked in the top few. When it opened a few years ago, it was shocking at a sky-high price of 110,000 yuan per square meter.
This is the most prosperous and high-end location in Shanghai. You can enjoy the magnificent Huangpu River and enjoy the beautiful scenery of the Bund!
And the life of Xu Feng, the head of Tangchen Group behind this, is far more legendary than this top luxury house.
She is the winner of the Golden Horse Awards two times. She was the favorite female lead of director Hu Jinquan at that time. The latter was the founder of martial arts movies in the Hong Kong film industry, and influenced later master film directors such as Ang Lee and Hou Hsiao-hsien.
She was once abandoned by her ex-husband, leaving behind a huge debt of millions, and losing her love in middle age.
Xu Feng experienced too many twists and turns in his life, but he never gave in. Instead, he took on the burden of life with his weak shoulders and was the business tycoon who was in charge of the 10 billion empire.
Xu Feng conquered the film and business circles with her chivalrousness and pride. Why did she, who was a poor man, become the heroine of the times step by step?
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Xu Feng's origin was unfortunate.
Her father died early and her mother remarried. She has lived in a slum in Taiwan since she was a child. My stepfather never cared for her.
She has seen the warmth and coldness of human kindness at a young age, so she cherishes everyone who has been kind to her even more.
1966, in order to make a living, 16-year-old Xu Feng was preparing to work as a female worker in an ordinary factory. By chance, the first turning point in her life happened, and she saw the notice of Hu Jinquan's recruitment of actors in "Longmen Inn".
The huge changes in fate are often at one or two important moments.
So, she went to the audition with a try-and-see attitude. Director Hu Jinquan gave a title: Facing the wedding photos of the man she loves and other women...
Xu Feng had no experience, so she looked at the photos and recalled her life experience, and she burst into tears without feeling like rain. Seeing those moving eyes with bright eyes, the keen Director Hu immediately concluded that this was the woman he was looking for, so Xu Feng won a supporting role in "Longmen Inn" with the highest score.
That's it, Xu Feng entered the movie circle. She cherished this opportunity very much, performed very hard on the set, and never took a laziness. When there is no show, I send lunch boxes and organize props, and I’m busy all the time.
Naturally, she and Director Hu collaborated on the second film "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", which is the pinnacle of Oriental Martial Arts films. It not only nominated for the Palme d'Original Awards that year, but also won the Cannes Best Technology and Visual Award.
This martial arts scene was filmed for four years. Even if he was accidentally injured by props, Xu Feng continued to shoot with injuries without saying a word. The hard work can be imagined.
Starting from the age of 16, Xu Feng has grown up in the martial arts movie world for 15 years, and the traditional moral character of "loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness" has penetrated into her heart.
"The word filial piety first", Xu Feng married a friend she did not love in order to satisfy her mother's last wish. Xu Feng, who was filming at that time, was quite famous. Her husband cheated on her name, owed a lot of debts, and then ran away irresponsibly. Their marriage ended, but Xu Feng did not choose to evade the debt, but promised to pay it back. The actors' pay was not high at that time. In order to pay back the money, she even made 6 movies a year, and was busy.
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There is a man named Tang Junnian, who is Xu Feng’s biggest creditor. During the debt period, Tang Junnian gradually fell in love with this open and strong woman, so he started his pursuit.
However, this was opposed by the Tang family's parents. They refused to let their son marry a woman who was married and had debts. However, Tang Junnian ignored his parents' opinions and even broke up with his parents, and finally married Xu Feng home as he wanted.
Xu Feng went from a movie star to a debt-in-debt woman and married into a wealthy family, which was a big ups and downs. She was grateful to Tang Junnian. After getting married, she quit the film industry and focused on being a housewife. She gave birth to two sons in four years and raised them.
However, Xu Feng's movie dream has not been completed yet, she wants to become a film producer and eventually gets the support of her husband.
In 1984, "Tangchen Film Co., Ltd." was founded in Taiwan, and the first film she promoted was the classic "Rolling World", which made three superstars, Brigitte Lin, Qin Han and Maggie Cheung famous. This film became the most popular phenomenon movie of the year and was very popular.
Since then, Xu Feng has become a more successful gold medal producer, and she is gradually approaching fulfilling her dream.
She is the best film investor and golden partner in Chen Kaige's eyes. It was she who led to Chen Kaige's encounter with "Farewell My Concubine".
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1993, the film "Farewell My Concubine" produced by Tongchen Company and produced by Xu Feng won the Palme d'Or for the first time in Cannes, and was nominated for the Golden Globe Award and the Oscar for "Best Foreign Language Film" that year.
It can be said that without Xu Feng, there would be no ceiling of the Chinese movie we saw today.
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In 2001, the husband resigned as chairman of Tangchen Group due to serious illness, and his wife Xu Feng took over. Just three years later, 56-year-old Tang Junnian died of complications of diabetes in Hong Kong. If you lose your husband in middle age, it will be an unbearable pain if you put it on anyone. Xu Feng's life is always tortuous. She once fell into depression, was weak and lost hope. It was not until a trip to Europe, when she looked at the masters' artworks in the museum, that she finally figured it out. She remembers Tang Junnian pointing to a wasteland in Pudong and telling her: "Architectural architecture is also an eternal cause, it can exist for hundreds of years." .
Xu Feng realized that it should help her husband realize his unfinished dream and let Tang Chen develop better. At the end of 2006, Xu Feng walked out of the haze and came out again, becoming the chairman of the board of directors of Tangchen Group. She and her two sons work side by side, both young men in their early twenties, in order to maintain family business in the storm.
At the 2017 Golden Horse Awards ceremony, 67-year-old Xu Feng won the heavy honor of the "Lifetime Achievement Award"!
On the scene, Zhang Aijia gave her an award speech:
For more than 40 years, she has enjoyed a very beautiful name - the hero. It was difficult to carry a good reputation, and she did it.
The Golden Horse Film Queen, who came out of the martial arts world, has been upholding the morality and tenderness of the chivalrous woman all her life.
Independent, courageous and persevering. From a chivalrous actress to a Chinese luxury businesswoman, Xu Feng did not go smoothly along the way, but she did not choose to escape or retreat. That's why her life is so touching!
