Recently, Chinese media reported that Liu Yifei, with her role as Huang Yimei in the film "The Story of Roses", won the Actress of the Year/Best Actress (Best Actress) award at the 3rd Annual Chinese Television Drama Awards of CMG - China Central Television Broadcasting Corporation.
On the evening of January 12, the keyword "Liu Yifei, Queen of Call Center" climbed to the Top 1 hot search (trending search) of social network Weibo and surpassed 100 million reads after 10 hours.
After the news of Liu Yifei winning the “Best Actress” award spread, a post appeared on social media claiming that the four female stars, including Tong Yao, Nhiet Y Tra, Liu Yifei and Trieu Le Dinh, should be included in the list of “Four Great Actresses of 85” - referring to actresses born after 1985 who won the Best Actress (Best Actress) award at major television awards.
According to the post, Dong Yao is the Golden Eagle and Magnolia Queen. Retire Zha is the Fei Tian Queen. Zhao Liying is the Fei Tian and Golden Eagle Queen. Liu Yifei is the CMG Queen and the Golden Lotus Queen (Macau International Film Festival).
Fans congratulated Liu Yifei on winning the prestigious award, as the organizer CMG is a ministry-level public authority.
Some commentators say that the CMG Chinese Drama Awards are not inferior to the three most prestigious Chinese drama awards - Fei Tian, Jin Ying and Bai Yulan (The Three Great Television Awards). Because the organizing units are all ministerial-level agencies and organizations.
However, this list is also controversial. Many opinions say that the CMG Awards cannot be placed on par with the “Big Three Television”.
The CMG Awards ceremony is only in its third year, while the "Big Three Television" awards have a history of decades.
Some analysts say that the CMG Awards are only equivalent to the "grand" events (annual summary ceremonies) of satellite TV stations such as Hunan, Dongfang, Zhejiang, or online platforms such as iQIYI, Tencent to honor internal works, and are not official "film awards".
Therefore, Liu Yifei's award status cannot be on par with Trieu Le Dinh, Dong Dao, and Nhiet Y Tra.
However, Liu Yifei's fans argued that the CMG Awards not only honored works broadcast on CCTV, but also films from satellite stations and online platforms were nominated and received awards.
In 2023, Beijing TV's "Happiness Comes to Thousands of Families" (starring Zhao Liying) was awarded the Outstanding TV Drama of the Year. Zhejiang TV's "Heart of the Heart" and Hunan TV's "Xiao Min's Family" were nominated.
Zhao Liying for her role in the Hunan TV series “The Next Stop is Happiness” was nominated for Actress of the Year. Zhang Jiayi for the Hunan TV series “Growing Pain 2” was nominated for Actor of the Year.
In 2024, Tencent's "The Long Season" was awarded the Outstanding TV Drama of the Year. Liu Yifei, who starred in Hunan TV's "Go Where the Wind Blows," was nominated for Actress of the Year.
The debate among the actors' fans has not ended yet. But it cannot be denied that Huang Yimei in "The Rose Story" is a role that left an impression on Liu Yifei in 2024.
