Jiang: In seventy-seven days, a senior educated youth wandering in the entertainment circle realized her next dream.

"I don't want to visit, I don't want to go out in a dress, I don't like socializing, I don't want to smile. Sadly, this is the job I have to face every day. I don't think' red' will make me happier. My job is just to find myself. Please allow me to be myself. "

I remember the first time I met her, because she and Hu Jun starred in a TV series "Spark Like a Butterfly". At that time, I didn't think she was beautiful, but looking at her, I felt that she could show a wonderful charm, but it was mixed with a fresh and refined temperament. It's hard to say. I think that's probably when I remembered this actress.

Later, for a while, it seemed that such actresses with online acting skills were rarely seen on the silver screen. And when I noticed her again, I couldn't take my eyes off her.

I have to admit, she has become my favorite. I was attracted to her.

Nearly 10 years after her debut, she has not appeared in many TV dramas and movies, and even many people don't know her. Generally, I take two or three plays every year and only shoot my favorite characters.

I want to describe her in one sentence.

Our whole life is to get rid of other people's expectations and find our true self.

For her, her "job" is to find herself.

1*

In 2007, she starred in China's first film and TV series "Youth with Nowhere to Place", playing the quiet and pure heroine Zhou Meng, which attracted much attention.

In the play, her eyes are pure and clear, and she looks at everything around her naively. Every time you walk slowly, you will feel that the whole world has become quiet.

Ginger's fresh, soft and calm temperament makes Zhou Meng, a simple little girl, come alive.

Therefore, when the final beauty becomes incomplete in the cold reality, you will feel more distressed about her fate.

This role once made Jiang the dream first love of many boys.

If you continue acting according to this person's design, Jiang may become an idol star with more attention.

It's not what she wants to do, but stick to the established performance routine step by step.

What she is interested in is the charm of the character itself. What she enjoys is a kind of freedom and happiness to try various styles and types of role performances.

2*

As early as July and An Sheng, when everyone thought she was a good girl in July with a gentle and quiet appearance, she lived to be an An Sheng with half sea water and half flame, which won a lot of praise from the original author and fans.

Jiang understands that his personality is more like a rebellious messenger of peace, happily loving, happily living and persistently pursuing freedom, no matter what others say.

In order to study abroad, she rejected the script of a famous director.

I had the opportunity to walk down the red carpet with the famous screenwriter who won the lifetime achievement award at Berlin Film Festival, but she failed to "go home to spend the New Year with her mother".

This woman with a free soul knows what she wants, so she is not tired of foreign things.

She tries her best to avoid thousands of people and create more challenging and charming roles.

3*

In Nanjing! Nanjing! In this film, she plays the dancer Xiao Jiang.

At first, you will think that this is a woman who "doesn't know the national subjugation and hate, but still sings the backyard flower to cross the river".

When the country was in danger, she still insisted on keeping her hair and relying on it to eat.

However, when the Japanese army asked the refugee area to hand over 100 women, the stubborn woman volunteered to come forward and sacrifice herself in exchange for more people to live.

The moment she was taken away, she turned around and smiled at everyone, but tears slipped quietly.

Even death can't make her compromise, tenacity and dignity have declared that her soul can't be underestimated.

4*

In The Lost Bullet, she plays Fu Yuan, a morbid female prisoner with high IQ, who commits a crime through accurate layout.

Jiang's outstanding performance in this film won her the nomination for Best Supporting Actress in the 32nd Hong Kong Academy Awards.

There is almost no obvious overlap in her role types, and her style is very wide. From prostitutes to female prisoners to martial arts ladies, her works are diverse and her roles are different.

But after careful study, we can see that these characters still have something in common-they are all trying to break away from some kind of bondage and pursue freedom of thought.

Someone once felt sorry for her. If she hadn't wasted so many opportunities, she might have become a big hit.

But she is indifferent, she can play the role she wants well, and that's enough.

As she wrote in the book "I am a reptile Jiang":

"I will never choose a role I don't like in order to get rich, nor will I compromise for my dreams. I am rich because I have always only taken the road I want to go and done what I like to do. It has nothing to do with the ridicule or contempt of others, the result, and the world. I am emotional, but true. "

That year, Jiang went to a small mountain village in Guangxi to film and met some children in the village. Every day, they have to climb mountains and walk to school for two hours. The children's feet were black and swollen from climbing the mountain. School couldn't be simpler. In the evening, five or six overnight students sleep in a wooden bed.

Since then, Jiang has taken a month off every year to teach in mountainous areas, teach public welfare, teach Chinese, music, sports and dance. She lives with the children, eats the same food, lives in the same wooden bed, and visits each child's home carefully.

She bought school uniforms and mosquito nets for the children, built a radio station, built a kitchen and funded scholarships. Everyone who studied well was rewarded, which made many children who dropped out of school come back, and the school suddenly increased 100 students.

Jiang has persisted in this matter for nine years.

Jiang's mother is a photographer. She was also obsessed with photography since she was a child.

After becoming an actress, others recorded her beauty with a lens. Carrying a big camera, she went to Europe, Africa and America, climbing mountains, wrestling, wading in mud and rivers to record the beauty and uniqueness of this world.

Her works have been selected in National Geographic magazine for many times.

Step 3: Sing

Generally speaking, Jiang is a creative singer. She has written several songs and likes to play and sing by herself.

She has three guitars at home, one is a piano taken at the Zhang Yadong bazaar, the other is an electric guitar given by the company, and her favorite one is specially made for her by Japanese fans, with her name engraved on it.

She said that whenever and wherever she has time, she will pick up the guitar, whether at home or when filming or traveling in other places. During the teaching period, I also wrote the school song "Song of Changdong Primary School" with the children.

Traveling around the world alone is the dream of many women.

Ginger has come true. Besides filming, she has been to more than 40 countries on five continents.

She described her trip to Africa like this: "I live in a wooden house, which is very primitive and close to nature." When I sleep at night, the hippo is in front of my window, and it feels like living in the forest. "

She didn't show the scream and weakness that girls should have. "It's not difficult. People who like nature have bugs even if they live in such a wooden house. I can feel the spiritual connection between people and animals, people and plants. When you love them in a friendly way, everything will feel. "

Whether you can capture the happiness of the soul through the pain of the body is the criterion for judging true love.

Whether you can devote yourself wholeheartedly to something that can't get real benefits and enjoy it is the standard to judge whether a person has a soul.

Jiang is a man with a soul.

Jiang published a book: I am a reptile.

Different from other photo albums, it records a lot of ginger's inner feelings.

The text of this book is simple, but it always contains emotions. Just like her face, it is pure and beautiful, but it always reveals some meaning.

Chen wrote a preface for the book. He said:

The age gap may make me unable to understand everything about you young people, but this does not prevent me from being infected and moved by your words.

It's like watching one of your performances, laughing or crying. As long as it is full of sincerity, it is difficult to avoid being loved.

And in this winter, her efforts finally got the glory that we hoped originally belonged to her.

Not only was she selected as the best hostess in the main competition unit of the 30th Tokyo Film Festival with her new film "Blizzard Coming".

She also won the Best Actress Award at the China-Canada International Film Festival for her role as a paraplegic female photographer "Blue Sky" in her new work "Seventy-seven Days".

This film is based on the true story of adventure writer Yang Liusong who passed through Qiangtang no man's land alone for 77 days. This is the first outdoor adventure film in China.

After three years of shooting, the film will bring strong visual impact to the audience in rhythm, picture and tension.

Just looking at the stills is very visually shocking.

Seventy-seven days

As the first polar adventure film in China, it won the special prize of Beijing Film Festival before its release.

In order to restore the truth, the film was shot in five uninhabited areas: Hoh Xil, Altun, Kunlun Mountain, northern Tibet and Qaidam. The local average altitude is over 5000 meters, and the highest is 6700 meters. It can be said that this is a National Geographic film, which is worthy of the hard work of the crew for three years.

There are not only endless grasslands, snow-capped mountains and glaciers and many endangered wild animals and plants, but also various natural disasters, which make people feel the gifts and challenges of nature all the time.

Yang Liusong, the protagonist in "The Open Space in the North", is a young man who has lost himself in life, wandering in the snowy plateau, and he made such a crazy decision to cross the Qiangtang no man's land on foot.

Facing the extremely harsh environment and poor equipment in the wilderness, he completed the first self-reliance journey in human history by himself, riding a bicycle and carrying limited food, and spent 77 days walking through Qiangtang no man's land.

And "Seventy-seven Days" is based on Yang Liusong's "The Open Space in the North". When she learned that this was the author's personal experience, she admitted that she was very surprised and wanted to know what kind of opportunity prompted the author to enter such a wilderness that ordinary people dared not stop. So, with great curiosity, she walked into the crew and opened the book. She became the leading role for nothing, and during the filming, she appeared without makeup.

In order to practice wheelchairs, I often fall down and grind countless blisters on my hands; I have to endure altitude sickness and shoot under extreme conditions. Even because the weather is too cold, my face is frozen, my chin has problems, and I can't say a word. But she persisted with great endurance.

She said: A director mortgaged his house in order to make a movie in his heart. The film has been filmed for three years, and he is still filming. Because there will be no compromise.

They said I was the representative of idealism, and I didn't feel lonely until I met you. The world is very realistic, but we still have to be people with light on us.

The girl named Blue Sky played by Jiang is also a real person. Blue sky and Jiang have many overlapping personalities, such as their love of photography, outdoor and getting along with nature. The difference is that Jiang and Lantian actually experienced completely different lives.

Blue sky was paraplegic because of a dangerous shooting experience and had to spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair. A young girl, who loves freedom and is so unrestrained, has suffered such a fate. She once felt sorry for herself and even wanted to end her life.

Friends worry that she "can't stand up", not only physically, but also psychologically.

Later, after a painful struggle, she finally accepted. It took me a long time to walk down the steps in a wheelchair, see the world in a wheelchair, and even go where I want to go in a wheelchair. Besides, she also learned to drive.

Jiang, who has always given people a weak impression, talked about the challenges he encountered in filming-the extreme environment in the wild put his body to a great test, he needed to perform the role and operate the wheelchair, and blisters on his hands and wrestling were commonplace.

But it was the harsh shooting experience that made her have a strong * * * voice for what Yang Liusong expressed in her book. When she reached the holy mountain regardless of the dangers brought by the environment, she almost burst into tears in the face of the mountains in Gangrinboqi.

She said that in fact, everyone has a Qiangtang in their hearts.

Qiangtang, full of idealism, is not so much a charming wilderness as a symbol of spirit. Everyone has such an ideal place to set foot.

Maybe it's a trip waiting to start, maybe it's an unfinished goal, maybe it's a long-lost juvenile ideal hidden in my heart, or even a secret love that I fled because of timidity. Faced with the "Qiangtang", some people fled to hide, some people hesitated, some people looked timidly, and some people reached for it in despair. Which one are you?

Chiang Kai-shek's Open Space in the North is actually very objective. He didn't encourage everyone to be a hero, as long as he knew what he really wanted.

Free and easy as ginger, she always seems to be the "brave" who dares to follow her heart. Whether it is the choice of filming role or the coincidence of idol identity and self-world, she looks so natural now. However, she did not experience those difficult and panic moments.

Jiang agreed with this passage in the book, saying that the destination is not important. When we are eager to reach the place we want, and have experienced the baptism of wind, sand, snow and ice in the predicament, what we are pursuing is no longer the end of that coordinate, and the experience of life has given this journey more meaning.

So, why worry about whether the final scenery is brilliant or not, and put your inner hopes on the shelf, just as the book says-

"When I am old, I will look back. I don't want to fail to complete many things that should have been completed because of my inner timidity. "

This is Jiang, a senior educated youth who lives in the entertainment circle but has simple humanistic feelings.