On April 27, 2022, veteran actor and actor of the 83rd version of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" " Huang Yaoshi ", was found dead in a quarantine hotel in Tsim Sha Tsui at the age of 87. He has been engaged in acting for more than 60 years and has created many classic roles.
It is understood that Zeng Jiang returned to Hong Kong from Singapore on April 25 and checked in a designated quarantine hotel. The new coronavirus antigen test was negative. His daughter arrived on the 26th to visit her and found no abnormalities. On the 27th, when the Department of Health staff arrived at the scene for inspection, no one opened Zeng Jiang's room. The hotel staff opened the door and found him lying on the ground. After preliminary investigation by the police, the case was listed as "corpse discovery" and the cause of death is subject to determination after an autopsy.
This month, Malaysian media reported that Zeng Jiang came to Malaysia through Singapore and reminisced about his old age with local friends. He said in an interview:
I will have time to be alone afterwards. I don’t know what the itinerary will be. Maybe I will be very risky, maybe I will run into a wall, maybe I will go smoothly. But so far, I am indeed considering whether I should continue. I feel that my physical strength cannot hold on. If it doesn’t work, I will fly back to Singapore and then fly home. If there is any need to isolate, I will quarantine.
The news of Zeng Jiang’s death attracted people’s attention as soon as it was announced. On multiple social platforms, this news ranks first on the hot search list. Weibo netizens left a message: "There is another old actor missing in this world, let's go all the way"; Douyin netizens sighed: "The shadow of peach blossoms falls and the magic sword is flying, and the tide of the blue sea is pressed on the jade flute! The master of Huangdao will walk all the way."
Many friends in the circle have posted messages to mourn him. Jackie Chan said that Zeng Jiang is the one who admires in his career:
Zeng Jiang, whose original name is Zeng Guanyi , was born in Shanghai in 1934, and moved to Hong Kong with his family in 1949. He participated in movies in middle school. After making two movies, he felt that his acting skills were very poor, just like a "wooden man", and it was difficult for him to survive in the entertainment industry, so he went to the United States to study architecture. Later, a friend came to him to make a movie. Zeng Jiang felt that his work as an architect was boring, so he returned to the Hong Kong entertainment industry in 1964.
In the 1960s Hong Kong Cantonese movie, Zeng Jiang has acted in hundreds of movies; he began to enter the TV drama industry in the 1970s, and became famous in 1983 in the martial arts drama "The Legend of the Condor Heroes". In a series of movies such as Hong Kong director John Woo " Bloody Two Heroes ", " Heroes Really Colors " and " Horizons All Seas ", the supporting role played by Zeng Jiang is also deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
In recent years, Zeng Jiang has been in poor health and needs to live on hearing aids, but he still insists on filming and participates in " Chinatown Detective 2", " Dragon Chasing " and the currently released "The Fringe Walker".
Zeng Jiang, who has been in the industry for 60 years, won numerous awards. In 2014, he won the Huading Award and the favorite film and television star of the national audience. In 2015, he won the Academy Award and the best supporting actor in for " Eavesdropping Storm 3". In 2019, he won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 9th Asian Leap Film Festival in Chicago.
tall and handsome Zeng Jiang had three marriages in his life. The first wife is the late actress Lan Di . The two have a son. After ten years of marriage, their relationship came to an end; the second wife is a columnist and famous model Deng Gongbi. They have a daughter. Their marriage has only lasted for ten years; the current wife and famous Taiwanese actress Jiao Jiao are Zeng Jiang's third wife, and the two got married in 1994.
