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[转载]中国日报网站
As the old Chinese saying
goes, "beautiful women suffer unhappy fates." Lin Daiyu is so, and
her impersonator Chen Xiaoxu re-acted the play in her real life.
Chen Xiaoxu has taken the tonsure at a
Buddhist temple in Changchun, capital of Jilin province in
northeast China.
Chen Xiaoxu, former Chinese actress and
business celebrity, who took the tonsure at a Buddhist temple in
Changchun, in northeast China in February, died of breast carcinoma
at the age of 42 last Sunday in Shenzhen in South China, her
relatives and friends confirmed yesterday, People's Daily Website
reported.
According to the website, a friend of
Chen's Master of the temple and the manager of her former broker
agency also confirmed her death.
Fans will pay a last tribute to Chen on
Friday.
Chen Xiaoxu became a household name in
China in the 1980s after being cast the lead role as Lin Daiyu in
the TV play "Dream of the Red Mansion", an adaptation of the
Chinese Qing Dynasty literary classic of the same name written by
Cao Xueqin.
In the play, Lin Daiyu is an
introverted and sensitive well-bred girl; in real life, Chen Xiaoxu
acted her role in the play: She disappeared from public view for
several years after the play until re-catching people's attention
as a successful businesswoman and billionaire in advertising.
According to media reports, Chen's
decision of tonsure came among rumors that she turned to the temple
because of terminal breast carcinoma.
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