May 23, 2021
Tong Liya, Dilraba Dilmurat
Weibo
The Chinese entertainment world was taken by surprise when actor and scriptwriter Chen Sicheng, famous for directing the hugely profitable
The news came on May 20, an unofficial lovers’ holiday in China because its short form, “520”, sounds similar to
wo ai ni, which in Chinese means “I Love You”.
Tong, 36, is a member of the Xibe ethnic minority that lives in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region in China’s far west.
With features that differ from those of the majority Han people in China, and known for their extraordinary beauty, actresses from Xinjiang ethnic minorities such as Tong have a huge fan base in the country. Here are the five who are best known: