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She went from the Spring Festival Gala to being hospitalized for mental illness. It is really a pity that the “Queen of Sketch” has reached this point.

2026-10-27 X5H 編輯部 14 min read

Some time ago, some netizens ran into Teacher Feng Gong, whom they had not seen for a long time.

During the Mid-Autumn Festival, heI rushed back to Tianjin from Hefei to spend the holidays at my sister’s house.Carrying a box of mooncakes in his hand, he greeted neighbors politely when he met them in the corridor, just like us ordinary people visiting relatives during the holidays, without any airs of celebrities.

Netizens in the comment area lamented: This is the real old artist, who is still down-to-earth after living a lifetime.

At this juncture, the venue for the 2027 Spring Festival Gala was announced a few days ago, and preparations for another year’s Spring Festival Gala have begun. Many people said that they felt like celebrating the New Year when they saw Teacher Feng Gong.

Speaking of the classic combination of the Spring Festival Gala, the “golden couple” Feng Gong and Jin Yuting are the memories of many people.

In 2003, Jin Yuting partnered with Feng Gong for the first time in the Spring Festival Gala to perform the sketch “Warm Winter”, which received a particularly good response. Since this collaboration, Jin Yuting has become Feng Gong’s “limited daughter-in-law” in the Spring Festival Gala. The two have appeared on the Spring Festival Gala stage for five consecutive years, a record that no one has surpassed until now.

For a long time, Jin Yuting was known as“The most beautiful sketch actress in the Spring Festival Gala”，Speaking of which, some people may be curious, where has Jin Yuting been over the years?

Jin Yuting has loved singing and dancing since she was a child. Although her family conditions were average, her parents supported her choice. When she was 16 years old, Jin Yuting tried to be admitted to the Shanghai Theater Academy for the first time. Unfortunately, she passed the major and was a few points behind in the cultural class. Her parents did not disappoint her, but encouraged her to come back the next year. This time, she lived up to her parents’ support and passed the exam.

In the years after graduation, she filmed many works, but her roles were always more popular than the actress herself. Fortunately, the Spring Festival Gala program team at that time saw her aura, so they invited her to perform a skit in the Spring Festival Gala. For the first time, she partnered with Guo Donglin in “My Dad and I Change Roles”, which immediately made people remember this actress. Later, “Warm Winter” performed with Feng Gong directly became a masterpiece.

In the next five years, she partnered with Feng Gong on the Spring Festival Gala. Those years were also the most popular years for Jin Yuting. Her sketches became popular and film and television resources came to her doorstep. However, after the Spring Festival Gala in 2007, she seemed to suddenly disappear from the public eye.

The reason behind this was not known until a few years later. It turned out that while the explosion brought attention, there were also many unfriendly voices surrounding her. Coupled with the high work pressure, she suffered from mental illness.

During a filming scene, she fainted and was sent to the hospital. The examination results showed that she was suffering from severe anxiety and depression. The doctor told her that she must rest and adjust.

After that, she did stay in the hospital for a while, but it was for treatment of mental illness, not what the outside world calls mental illness.

Coincidentally, her parents were also diagnosed with chronic diseases in those years. As the only daughter in the family, she chose to give up her job and focus on her family.

Until 2014, she completely got rid of depression, but she did not stay in Beijing, but returned to her hometown Qiqihar.

Now Jin Yuting has settled in her hometown and opened a charity organization, teaching traditional culture to children for free, giving free public welfare lectures, and also providing help and psychological counseling to people with the same mental illness as she once did.

Some people feel that it is a pity for her current situation. She was so popular back then, but now she has completely retired. Without those experiences, she would probably be a seasoned actress.

But the travel bug seems to me,Life is like this. When you make a choice at every hurdle, don’t think about what would have happened if you had made another choice at that time. Now she has obviously lived her life clearly. As for her former identity as an actress, it is enough to have works that remain in everyone’s memory. After all, those who work hard will shine wherever they go.

In this life, you don’t have to live according to other people’s standards. Standing on the stage and shining is success. How can returning to your hometown to accompany your parents and doing charity not count as success?

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