Yu Feng

Biography

Actress Yu Feng was born in 1951 in Taiwan under her original name Lu Guixiang and became one of the leading actresses of Shaw Brothers Film Company in the 1960s and 1970s. She began her career at age 15 and appeared in many Shaw Brothers films during the 1970s, where she was the youngest leading actress at the company at that time, and also participated in television dramas for Asia Television and Television Broadcasts Limited. She married Liang Tingqiang in 1973 and had a son named Liang Zuohua, but they later divorced due to incompatibility. After her divorce, Yu Feng became a working partner with Hong Kong singer Yip Chun-tong, and their relationship developed into a romantic partnership. In 2013, she was diagnosed with stage four gastric cancer with the cancer cells having spread to her liver, and she traveled to Taiwan to receive chemotherapy. After more than 40 chemotherapy sessions, her condition worsened as the cancer spread to her lymph nodes and bones. She was transferred to Queen Mary Hospital in Hong Kong in February 2015, where she passed away on May 27, 2015, at the age of 63. She lived with Yip Chun-tong for over twenty years without marriage, and he cared for her during her illness until her passing.