Cultural Revolution
1967 summer, Xia Meng visited Guangzhou and witnessed the chaotic situation where the Cultural Revolution had just started. The dire effect was soon to be felt on Hong Kong's Studios which were influenced by Communist Party of China, and Great Wall's movies would no longer had the same cachet as before. Xia Meng realized the facts and she did not agree with that, as well as the Cultural Revolution after the visit.
Feeling insecure and threaten, Xia Meng who was pregnant at the time excused herself from involved in this grand political movement. hence, soon after she finished the screen performance in Oh, The Spring Is Here (1967) in September, she resigned from studio, and quietly left for Canada even before the film was released. It wasn't until two years later that she returned to Hong Kong, and started the business in garment manufacturing, which she kept a distance from the film industry for about 10 years.
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