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Two long, thin eyebrows.
A pair of soulful eyes.
This is Cao Xueqin's description of Lin Daiyu.
It is not too much to apply to Loh Ti.
Loh Ti is a famous classical beauty in the old days of Hong Kong cinema.
She has a melancholy temperament and a soft body.
She has played the role of Lin Daiyu, Nie Xiaoqian, and Zhu Yingtai.
She also played the four most beautiful women in ancient China.
The 50s and 60s of the last century.
Hong Kong film industry beauty like a cloud of each style.
The elegant and the heroic, the colorful and the pure.
And when it comes to classical beauty, it is Loh Ti.
Loh Ti's melancholy temperament.
This has a lot connections with her childhood experiences.
Loh Ti's original name was Xi Chongyi.
When she was not yet born.
Her father was killed by the Japanese bombing.
On August 29, 1937.
Her mother gave birth to her in grief over the loss of her husband.
As she was the sixth child in her family, she was nicknamed Sixth Brother.
Loh Ti was brought up by her mother's family.
Her maternal grandfather was a prominent gang leader in Shanghai.
Jiang Bei mogul Gu Zhuxuan. He set up the Yi Fu stage.
It is a place where famous Peking Opera artists such as Mei Lanfang Gai Yutian often performed.
As a child, she had frequent contact with Peking Opera artists.
Loh Ti often imitated the artists on the stage.
She learned how to perform well.
Even Mei Lanfang's wife praised her acting talent.
It's just that she lived in a time of turmoil.
Loh Ti had to drift around like floating duckweed.
Her mother died of a heart attack when she was 11 years old.
After losing both parents, Loh Ti and her siblings and her grandparents.
They left Shanghai in the midst of the turmoil and moved to Hong Kong.
The misfortune of her childhood left a mark on her heart.
Although Loh Ti grew up to be a literary beauty with great talent and beauty.
But she also developed a fragile and sensitive soul.
At the age of 16, Loh Ti graduated from Ivey English School in Hong Kong.
She enrolled in the Great Wall Film Company and signed a five-year contract.
She was given the stage name Lottie after her nickname Luk Tei.
While studying at the Great Wall's artist training program.
Loh Ti met a handsome young man, Gao Yuan.
Gao Yuan was born into a family of performing artists.
His mother was an actress in the Chinese silent film era.
His father, uncle, and aunt were all fans of Peking Opera.
Gao Yuan grew up learning to sing Peking Opera from his family.
He often acted in plays at school.
When he was twenty years old, Gao Yuan went to Shanghai from Hong Kong.
He went to visit his uncle, Jiang Shi, who was a film photographer.
And his aunt, Anyzhi, who was a director.
He was recommended by his aunt to become a film actor.
At that time, Gao Yuan was still a newcomer to the industry.
He was still an innocent young man who was blushing in love scenes with actresses.
During that time, Loh Ti and Gao Yuan's love affair.
Should be pure and beautiful.
The leading actresses in the Great Wall at that time were Xia Meng,Shi Hui and Chen Sisi.
The three of them were known as the three princesses of Great Wall and were in the ascendant.
Although Loh Ti joined the Great Wall Company.
But for a long time, she could only work as a supporting actress for Xia Meng and others.
Until 1957 when she played the lead role in "Suspicion".
The first and only time she played the lead role.
Loh Ti was not well received at Great Wall.
After her contract with the company expired.
she joined Shaw's film company.
From then on, she began her illustrious acting career.
She was the beautiful Xiao Qian in "The Enchanting Shadow".
She was also the role of the idiot Yingtai in "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai".
She is also the delicate Daiyu in "The Story of the Stone".
The melancholy and beautiful Loh Ti has left a deep impression on fans time and again.
She is regarded by Westerners as the most beautiful Chinese actress.
She is also known as classical beauty.
With her brilliant performance in "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai".
Loh Ti even won the second Golden Horse Award for Best Actress.
During this period of time, Loh Ti and Gao Yuan.
From young movie newcomers to the most popular movie stars.
They were busy with their careers and were separated from each other a lot.
The original simple Gao Yuan has also long been contaminated by the entertainment industry.
He and Chen Si Si have fallen in love with each other and cheated on Loh Ti.
Loh Ti was heartbroken by the betrayal.
At this time, she was shooting "The Rose of Summer" and fell in love with the popular actor Chen Hou.
Chen Hou was still married and had children at the time.
But he took advantage of the situation.
And started to pursue Loh Ti fiercely, So Loh Ti fell in love with him.
She was interfered by other mistress.
Finally became someone else's mistress.
The incestuous relationship is opposed by her grandmother and her brothers.
But Loh Ti, overwhelmed by her feelings.
She falls headlong into the love affair and cannot extricate herself.
In 1961, the betrayer Gao Yuan and his mistress, Chen Sisi, get married.
This pair of popular movie stars scum's combination make a sensational time.
Also the same year.
Loh Ti lost her beloved grandmother and was physically and mentally weak.
Loh Ti who was pregnant decided to marry Chen Hou, who was already divorced.
On January 29, 1962, Loh Ti and Chen Hou got married.
They became an enviable couple.
A few months after the marriage, Loh Ti gave birth to a daughter, Chen Ming Ming.
In the early days of their marriage, Chen Hou and Loh Ti had a very sweet relationship that had gone through many trials and tribulations.
Chen Hou personally designed and decorated their new house, the villa in the village of Hao Tao.
He often praised Loh Ti in front of his friends, "My wife is very nice."
The beautiful woman in front of the screen, Loh Ti, is at ease to make soup for her husband.
But Loh Ti was wrong once again.
Chen Hou, cannot resist the temptation of the women around him.
He has been having frequent affairs with women from outside.
Loh Ti is tormented by the pain.
She wants to end her life with 200 sleeping pills.
However, she cannot bear to die because of her young daughter.
After repeatedly asking for a divorce and being rejected.
Loh Ti went to the scene to catch the adultery herself.
Finally, she successfully appealed to the court to obtain a divorce.
She was awarded custody of her daughter, Chen Mingming.
As a bright and shiny public figure.
Loh Ti tore off the shame of her marriage with her own hands.
This is so tragic and so determined.
Unfortunately, after experiencing such heartbreaking pain.
Loh Ti did not come to her senses.
She even renewed her love affair with her ex-boyfriend Gao Yuan.
Gao Yuan wants to leave Phoenix and join Shaw's
And had a disagreement with his wife.
But because Lottie helped him to connect with Shaw's and rekindle the old love.
Maybe from the time, she lost both parents at a young age.
She had to spend her life learning how to love herself.
Who would have thought that Chen Si Si was also an idiot woman?
She committed suicide by swallowing sleeping pills with a lot of liquor.
Fortunately, she was found in time and rescued.
Although Gao Yuan was a philanderer, he was lucky to have a conscience.
He was forced to change his mind.
But his marriage with Chen Si Si.
Finally ended in divorce in 1970.
Chen Sisi learnt from her pain.
She later married Gao Yuan's uncle, photographer Jiang Shi.
She became her ex-husband's aunt.
But Loh Ti fell into the bitter sea of love and separation again.
This time she finally decides to live for herself.
In the late 60s.
Martial arts films began to take over the Hong Kong market.
All the major studios were making fight movies.
Shaw Brothers were no exception.
A lot of women were fighting on the screen.
The martial arts films were in vogue and literary films were in decline.
So Loh Ti and her brother and sister-in-law Lei Chen and Yuan Qiufeng founded the Golden Eagle Film Company.
Loh Ti became the boss and actress at the same time.
She starred in "The Vagabond Swordsman"and "Duel at the Supreme Gate", two martial arts films.
A change from the gentle image of the past.
She became a heroic heroine in the movie.
However, the heroine version of Loh Ti was not well received by the market.
She lost her savings for years.
Finally decided to quit the partnership.
She also announced that she would no longer play the heroine.
In 1968, Loh Ti was ready to go.
She was ready to make a literary film for Dian Mao company.
"The Fog" and " The Spring Break".
She had already set her makeup photos.
The morning of December 27th.
She met with her brother Lei Zhen at Golden Eagle and met for dinner.
At noon that day, She took sleeping pills to take a nap.
But did not get up until after 5:00 pm.
When the maid went to call her, she was found unconscious.
The evening of December 27, 1968.
When the maid called her to wake up from her nap, she couldn't knock on the door.
Loh Ti lay in bed unconscious and unaware.
An ambulance took her to a nearby hospital for treatment.
Life is sad and there is no way to stay.
After all, doctors are mortals, not immortals.
Loh Ti was still asleep.
This sleep will never wake up.
31-year-old Loh Ti died.
She died at a young age.
What's going on?
Rumor has it that Lottie committed suicide.
By taking sleeping pills because she was physically and emotionally exhausted from her unhappy marriage and career.
But police and hospital reports say they did not find an overdose of sleeping pills in her stomach.
Loh Ti's family said that Loh Ti died of a heart attack.
Loh Ti eventually died at the age of 31 after an unsuccessful rescue attempt.
Although she had tried to commit suicide several times before that.
But this time the police investigation and the hospital diagnosis have shown.
She did not overdose on sleeping pills.
Instead, she died of cardiac shock caused by the side effects of sleeping pills.
Loh Ti was a Catholic before she died.
How desperate is she to commit suicide over and over again?
Loh Ti played many sad women before she died.
In the end, she became the saddest heroine of her life.
Two years later, her ex-husband, Chen Hou, suffered from chronic dietary irregularities that took a toll on his health.
He died of gastrointestinal cancer at the age of 39.
Sadly, their child became an orphan.
She had to live alone as her mother had lived when she was young.
Six months before Loh Ti's accident in June 1968.
Loh Ti wanted to make it easier for her daughter to go to school.
She had just moved into a new home across the street from the prestigious San Marino School in Kowloon.
Just as she was about to raise her daughter on her own, the accident happened.
It was a major life change for her daughter.
It changed the future of Chen Ming-Ming.
After Lottie's death, her ex-husband, Chen Hou, gained custody of her daughter, Chen Mingming.
He changed her name to Chen Rude, and took her to America.
And cut off from her uncle Lei Chen and others.
Chen Hou died in 1970.
Chen Mingming became an orphan without a father and mother, just like her mother.
Before he died, he took out the entire Loh Ti estate held in the HSBC Bank in Hong Kong and sold it.
He entrusted his daughter to his brother to raise.
Since then, Chen Hou's brother and his mother's family have been living off this estate.
As a result, he could no longer afford to pay for Ming-Ming Chen's college education.
Chen Mingming did not obtain U.S. status.
Without a college diploma, she had a hard time making a living.
She had to marry an American husband in a hurry to obtain naturalization.
It was not until 1990 that she regained contact with her uncles.
In 1998, after the 30th anniversary of Loh Ti's death.
Hong Kong fans set up a website in her honor.
Among the stars of that era.
Loh Ti was the first person to have a memorial website.
The critics of Lot Ti's life called her a living embodiment of Daiyu.
But her life was just as sad and pathetic as Lin Daiyu.
Her talent, beauty, and struggle are deeply impregnated with an air of tragedy like fate.
Her lonely heart is always full of struggle.
Finally, thank you for reading this.
Let me know that this magnificent woman was always missed.
Not as Daiyu as in the death of everyone has been forgotten.
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