1958, Zhiqiang Chi was born in a cadre family in Harbin, Heilongjiang, and his father was the director of Harbin Railway Public Security Bureau. Chi Jia is his fourth brother, and he ranks second in the family. When graduating from junior high school, changchun film studio recruited actors, and there were 16 indicators nationwide. Good at singing and dancing, recommended by the teacher to register, through layers of screening to become an actor of changchun film studio Actors Troupe.
1974, 16-year-old Zhiqiang Chi participated in the filming of the first film "Entrepreneurship", which received excellent response, and then quickly became popular because of starring in films such as Younger Generation and Zhao Xi Street. Because of his outstanding performance, he was awarded the second "National Excellent Young Actor" by the Ministry of Culture and received by the central leadership. At this time, he also served as a member of the Youth League Branch of changchun film studio Actors Troupe and a member of the trade union. Young Zhiqiang Chi has a successful career.
1982, Zhiqiang Chi met some princelings' children when he went to Nanjing to film The Moon to the Mid-Autumn Festival. He and these friends listened to Teresa Teng's Sweet Honey, danced face to face and watched small movies. At that time, they didn't care whether this "ahead-of-the-way" behavior aroused the resentment of their neighbors, during which Zhiqiang Chi had rashly had sex with two girls. 1983 at the beginning of the "strike hard" campaign sweeping across the country, Zhiqiang Chi, who was filming "The Golden Exchange" on location in Wanxian County, Hebei Province, was suddenly arrested by the Nanjing Public Security Bureau. When this matter was required to be handled internally as a life problem, it was disclosed by two media reporters as "a star on the screen and a criminal in life", which caused an uproar in the whole country. Wang Shangsheng, the presiding judge of the Nanjing Intermediate People's Court who tried Zhiqiang Chi's case at that time, said: "The contents of the newspaper articles are inconsistent with the facts of the case. After the article was published in the newspaper, it happened to be a "strike hard" period. We have received many letters from readers who don't know the truth, demanding that Zhiqiang Chi be sentenced to death. Some readers don't believe that Zhiqiang Chi would commit such a crime, and public opinion almost killed Zhiqiang Chi. We are not influenced by public opinion, nor are we disturbed by readers. We only sentence according to the actual law ... "
Zhiqiang Chi was sentenced to four years in prison. In prison, Zhiqiang Chi can't drink, eat or sleep. When he got there, he felt his feet were empty. He thought that after the expiration of four years' imprisonment, he would definitely not be an actor again. What should he do in his next life ... after his girlfriend broke up with him, he even had the idea of suicide. As soon as the comrades of the reform-through-labour team saw that the situation was wrong, they sent him to Huashan Coal Mine in Jiangsu.
Huashan Coal Mine is the seat of Jiangsu Labor Reform Bureau 17 Labor Reform Detachment. Zhiqiang Chi has been here for more than a year. He quarries, cultivates land, picks dung, transports coal and picks tea. In a word, he did all the work of the reform-through-labour detachment and did a good job. When he led more than 20 people to the dock to unload coal, I don't know who let the news out, which actually attracted thousands of people to watch. Zhiqiang Chi bowed his head and, like all prisoners, walked barefoot to the hut. The onlookers immediately became excited: "Look, look, that's Zhiqiang Chi!" Others shouted to him: Zhiqiang Chi! Come on! ""Nanjing is very hot in August, and Zhiqiang Chi works silently on the boat with bare arms; Don't talk, sweat and tears flow down together, and two long painful tears appear on the face completely erased by coal unloading. ...
During his imprisonment, apart from taking part in labor, his only pleasure was to keep a diary, and then hum a song: "Sorrow" ... Tears of regret ... "This song was full of remorse for his absurd behavior in the past ... The squadron also gave full play to his specialty and asked him to organize and set up a literary propaganda team and arrange programs, not only for internal performances, but also for social performances. After Zhiqiang Chi joined the propaganda team, he won the first prize three times because of his outstanding performance. The squadron praised him 10 times and the detachment praised him twice. The squadron trusted him and let him stand at the gate. This is a job of great responsibility. Zhiqiang Chi said with deep feelings: "Someone became a reform-through-labour prisoner, his wife abandoned him, his friends ignored him, and his colleagues gave him the cold shoulder. But now there are so many friends who care about me, trust me and encourage me, and I have gained loyal friendship ... "1In May, 985, Zhiqiang Chi was released from prison two years earlier because of his outstanding performance in prison.
Due to the appraisal from the prison: "It is recommended that Zhiqiang Chi return to the factory because he is carrying heavy objects during the exercise." Changchun film studio took him back-he couldn't make a film for the time being and was assigned to the General Affairs Section to do some logistics work.
He served all the workers in the factory, including repairing houses, pulling cement, transporting coal and even serving tea and water. Here, Zhiqiang Chi began the second baptism of his life.
He was once brilliant in the same place, but now he has fallen. The huge gap is that he is at a loss, and even more embarrassing things come from friends he used to know. But the whole factory in Chang Ying is so big that we always meet. Once, he met Song Xiaoying at the gate. Song Xiaoying took his hand and cried and said, "Hadron ..." He burst into tears. From then on, in order to avoid this embarrassment, Zhiqiang Chi put on sunglasses to avoid looking at his old friends.
Zhiqiang Chi's performance in his work gradually won everyone's respect. 1At the end of 986, the famous screenwriter Zhang Xiaotian wrote the screenplay "Ancient Days" and found Zhiqiang Chi to play the leading role. Zhiqiang Chi was ecstatic, especially cherishing this filming opportunity that he never dreamed of: the crew traveled 1 10,000 kilometers, shooting from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to Wusongkou, Shanghai, and he didn't complain. When he was on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, he couldn't eat for six days and six nights because of severe altitude sickness, but he still insisted on working. ...
This experience reawakened his love for film art. After work, he often goes to the movies quietly alone.
At this moment, a girl named Chi came into his life. Koike is an accountant in Hangzhou. Once she went to Changchun on business, a friend invited her to go to the movies. She saw a movie in the cinema and got to know Zhiqiang Chi through the introduction of her friends. After returning to Hangzhou, Chi wrote to encourage: "I hope you can return to the screen as soon as possible." Soon after receiving the reply, Chi went to visit Changchun. In this way, the two established a love relationship. Chi's love and encouragement made the self-abased finally get a kind of happiness that had never been seen before. Sometimes, when he works hard, he will hum the songs he sang in prison.
One day, a person in charge of the unit said to him, "Let's record a song for you and make a tape!" " "Zhiqiang Chi was surprised. He thought it was a glorious thing and didn't want to record it, but when he heard that it could warn future generations, he agreed. Zhiqiang Chi was released from prison 1985 two years ago because of his good behavior. Two years later, Chang Ying Studio made use of Zhiqiang Chi's life experience and star effect to release the prison song album Tears of Regret. Later, due to the need to modify the contents of the album, Zhiqiang Chi was filming the film "Ancient Days" with the film crew in Tanggula Mountain at this time, and could not make up the recording. The producer kept Zhiqiang Chi's recitation, and two other actors sang the song. So far, there are many versions of prison songs
With the birth of prison songs, overwhelming criticism followed. Some people think that "his singing voice is hoarse." In less than a year, from hot to cold, they all said it was useless.
Zhiqiang Chi was deeply wronged. He just wants to use his confession to warn all young people to understand the law and obey it, and not to regret it for a long time. Who knew this would happen? He asked himself: Do you still live in the shadow of the past?
After some thinking, Zhiqiang Chi decided to leave the stage again. He feels that if he really wants to start all over again and forget the shadow of the past, he must enter a wider world. In this way, he disappeared from people's sight again. This time, it disappeared 10 for many years.
I left Changchun for Hangzhou and married Chi.
At that time, it happened that going to sea became the norm, so a few friends pulled Zhiqiang Chi into the partnership to "play in the sea". Later, six people invested together and opened a hotel in Harbin, Zhiqiang Chi's hometown, named "Jinshida Hotel". The layout and decoration of the hotel are first-class, including catering, accommodation, bathing and entertainment.
When the hotel opened, although there was no hype, when Harbin people learned that Zhiqiang Chi was involved in the operation of Jinshida Hotel, they all came to the hotel for dinner. Therefore, Zhiqiang Chi became a pure hotel "receptionist". At that time, whenever someone came, he had to call Zhiqiang Chi. Invite more guests to sing with him; If you ask a few guests, ask him to sign a photo; At most, please ask him to accompany you to the wine ... No matter which table, everyone who comes to eat must call Zhiqiang Chi in the middle to propose a toast. On one occasion, two tables of guests were named Zhiqiang Chi at the same time. He went to the table near himself first, but unexpectedly angered the guests at another table. The other party shouted curses at first, but before Zhiqiang Chi came, they knocked on the table. When Zhiqiang Chi arrived, they were already very impatient. One of the guests angrily threw the leftover soup in Zhiqiang Chi's face and scolded, "Isn't it just a bad singer?" ? How ignorant! "In the face of this humiliation, Zhiqiang Chi can't be angry. There are tourists from all over the world. If customers are unhappy, isn't it a blow to hotel business?
About half a year later, Zhiqiang Chi was often drunk by customers until his stomach bled. "You didn't make much money, and then you explained," said Chi distressfully.
Helpless, the couple had to withdraw their capital and have been living in Hangzhou ever since. His wife Chi Daiying works as an accountant in a joint venture. Zhiqiang Chi, who has no job for the time being, goes to the cinema to watch other actors' performances whenever he has time. If he has any acting experience, he will show it to his wife at home to make solid preparations for his comeback in acting career.
With the birth of his son, Zhiqiang Chi felt it was time to take on the dual responsibilities of father and husband, and really began to find his own foothold. Soon, he took a fancy to Qinhuangdao, a tourist resort in Hebei Province. After consulting with his wife, he opened a small hotel in Qinhuangdao in partnership with friends and named it "Mingmen Hotel". This time, Zhiqiang Chi didn't use his fame for any publicity. The finance of the hotel is managed by his wife Chi, and the operation is entirely in the charge of his friend. He only occasionally puts forward some constructive suggestions for the development of the hotel. More often, he laid hands on his wife and friends like an ordinary employee; Sometimes the waiter is too busy to bring his own tea ... gradually, he is no longer shrouded in the shadow of "being in prison" and becomes confident. He takes off his sunglasses and can chat calmly with any guest like an ordinary friend. In this ordinary life, he was quite satisfied for a while, and even wanted to be plain, guarding his wife, taking care of his son, doing some housework and improvising programs for his son. However, when performing for my son, there is always a voice inadvertently reminding him: go back to the stage, show your acting talent and repay the society!
Zhiqiang Chi finally realized that during the time when he disappeared completely, he never gave up his pursuit and yearning for movies, but longed for the right opportunity to come. In 2003, the opportunity finally came. He was invited to play a role in the TV series Master Lu Ban. After the film was broadcast in Beijing, Zhiqiang Chi's skillful acting was widely praised by the audience. Many viewers commented: "He is a little more dull and calm now." In August, 2004, he once again appeared in the TV series "Dignity" co-produced by CCTV and enterprises, with an episode of 6000 yuan.
Dignity is a TV series about prison life. The film was completed at the end of 2004. After being broadcast in some areas, Zhiqiang Chi's portrayal of prisoners was incisive and touched many people. Zhiqiang Chi said with deep feelings: "Everyone should have dignity in different environments. Even prisoners should treat themselves and others correctly. Living with dignity is nothing more than looking at your past correctly. "
Zhiqiang Chi never gave up his dream of becoming a film actor. He said, "Now many people regard me as a singer, which is a misunderstanding. Actually, I'm an actor. Well, I have acted in more than 20 movies in my life. 1979 starred in films such as The Younger Generation, Zhao Xi Street, The Moon Arrives at Mid-Autumn Festival, Attending to One Thing and Losing the Other, which are well known to the national audience. 198 1 was rated as a national outstanding young actor by the Ministry of Culture ... "Although Zhiqiang Chi said that he is very satisfied now, he can still feel the lingering regret in his heart.
Because of that life experience, Zhiqiang Chi also encountered a lot of discrimination in his later life. Sometimes a play wants me to play the role of a policeman, but the director always thinks that I will play the role of a policeman, which will cause misunderstanding among the audience. In order to comfort me, I am often given a new role. Every time this happens, I turn my head and leave. I think it's all over. Why stay there? "
Now my son is studying law in Beijing, and my wife is also an accountant in a communication company. Regarding his wife's evaluation, Zhiqiang Chi said with emotion, "There is always an excellent woman behind a successful man. Although I am very unsuccessful, she is excellent.