"What is the fear of making a big fuss in the Heavenly Palace, overturning the river and the sea and making waves." The golden-eyed fire-eyed furnace was refined, and the demons and ghosts escaped with their sticks. This is Zu You's poem in the Seven Laws - Praise of Sun Wukong.
As can be seen from the title of the poem, the whole poem praises Sun Wukong. Since wu Cheng'en's "Journey to the West" came out, Sun Wukong has always left a deep impression on the hearts of the people. To this day, many literary and film and television drama themes are related to him, such as "Journey to the West", "Journey to the West Voldemort", "Journey to the West". "Daughter Country" and TV series "Journey to the West" are all praised.
Among them, the TV series "Journey to the West" is particularly popular, and the number of times it has been played has exceeded the record. Many people also rely on it to have a smooth ride, and some people miss this opportunity and become a lifelong regret.
At the end of December 1981, director Yang Jie officially prepared for the filming of "Journey to the West", when the props, funds and most of the actors were ready, and only one Sun Wukong was missing. After thinking about it for a long time, Yang Jie decided to choose Liu Jianyang, the apprentice of the sixth-year-old boy of the "Southern Sect", to serve as Sun Wukong.
However, the six-year-old child chose Liu Jianyang and recommended his son six-year-old child to play this role. This decision has changed the fate of both people, and now how to evaluate the six-year-old?
In the 1980s, there were two factions that could perform in monkey dramas, the first being the "North Faction" active in the Beijing area and the second being the "Southern Faction" active in the Zhejiang region.
When Yang Jie prepared the actors of "Journey to the West", she basically selected talents according to the characteristics of the characters. Under her several efforts, the preparation work was quickly completed, and only the performer of the soul character Sun Wukong was left. At that time, she thought that Dong Zhihua in the "Northern Sect" was a very suitable candidate, but Dong Lao's schedule was full. In desperation, she had no choice but to choose another way.
Liu Jianyang, who represents the "Southern School", played the opera "Flame Mountain" when she performed the opera "Flame Mountain", and she was very impressed by Sun Wukong. After thinking of him in a flash, she decided to go to the "Southern Faction" to audition for Liu Jianyang.
At that time, Zhang Zongyi was known as the Southern Monkey King, the "leader" of the "Southern Sect", and his stage name was called "Six-Year-Old Boy", and if Yang Jie wanted to find Liu Jianyang, he had to go to the Six-Year-Old Boy to visit him first, because Liu Jianyang was a proud disciple under him.
Yang Jie therefore informed the sixth-year-old child in advance about the matter, and then took the train to Shaoxing. However, only the six-year-old boy and his youngest son, the six-year-old child, came to pick up the train, and did not meet his proud disciple Liu Jianyang, which inevitably made her feel a little disappointed.
However, under the arrangement of the six-year-old, she and her entourage stayed in the hotel. The next day, she said that she wanted to go to the crew to see it, and wanted Liu Jianyang to audition. At this time, the six-year-old said that Liu Jianyang was very busy, and his son six-year-old child could try it.
Yang Jie watched the performance of the six-year-old child several times, although she felt that the action was in place, she always felt that she lacked the stubborn spirit and spirit that "Sun Wukong" had, so she also wanted to see Liu Jianyang's performance. However, she still couldn't help the six-year-old, let the six-year-old go to Beijing to audition, and let the Beijing crew make the final decision.
Later, it was quite clear that Liu Jianyang missed the opportunity to play Sun Wukong.
In 1961, Liu Jianyang was born in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, two years younger than the six-year-old zhang Jinlai. At the age of eleven, he was successfully admitted to the Shaoxing Art School to study art, and because of this, he named him "Eleven-year-old Child"; at the age of sixteen, he officially worshiped under the door of the six-year-old child and learned the monkey play in Shao opera. Although he started a little later than six-year-old children, he was extremely talented in monkey play, basically able to do one point.
By the age of nineteen, he had become famous for starring as Sun Wukong in the Shao opera "Flame Mountain" and won two awards. What is even more valuable is that his name also reached Yang Jie's ears, which is the reason why Yang Jie tried his best to find him later.
In the same year, he was successfully admitted to the Zhejiang Kun Opera Troupe, specializing in martial arts, and played the role of Sun Wukong in the Kun opera "Wukong Borrowing Fan".
After missing Out on Sun Wukong in the TV series "Journey to the West", he concentrated on the development of opera. In 1993, he officially served as the head of the Zhejiang Shao Opera Troupe, not only taking over the mantle of a six-year-old child and becoming the "leader" of the "Southern School", but also winning various awards.
In 1999, he was named a national first-class actor, and the six-year-old child of the same disciple brother only won this honor in 2017. In 2013, the monkey play he inherited was designated as a national intangible cultural heritage, and he became the main representative and enjoyed the special allowance of the State Council.
He had a great influence in his self-created talk show "Shaoxing Big Talk", and because of this, he met Ma Yun's father. So by this time, talk shows had become another of his signatures.
In 2014, a group fight broke out at the funeral of a six-year-old boy, and the target was him. Therefore, he became a hot spot because of this incident, and the matter of being hidden by the master was mentioned again, setting off a wave of evaluation for six-year-olds.
In fact, before 1990, the status of TV dramas in film and television dramas was very low, and the impact on the audience was not large. Since "Journey to the West", "Huan Zhu Gege", "Iron Tooth Copper Tooth Ji Xiaolan" and "Kangxi Micro Service Private Interview" and so on, TV dramas have become well known, and many actors are also active in the front line because of them, and the same is true for six-year-old children.
Therefore, before the six-year-old child went to participate in "Journey to the West", no one knew what kind of impact it would bring to him. From all indications, the reason why the six-year-old let his son participate in the performance of this TV series instead of the beloved apprentice Liu Jianyang may not be intentional to cultivate his son, but just give him a path to the development of film and television dramas.
In the eyes of the six-year-old, Liu Jianyang is more talented in monkey opera performance, and if he studies opera wholeheartedly, he will be his best successor in the future.
Later, this incident was also proved that the sixth-year-old boy did not pass on the position of the head of the Shao Opera Troupe to the popular son of the sixth-aged child, but to Liu Jianyang, who was not related to him by blood.
Judging from the series of awards won by Liu Jianyang, many of them are related to drama, and later became the inheritors of intangible cultural heritage and enjoyed the allowances of the State Council, both in status and treatment, higher than that of six-year-old children. Not participating in "Journey to the West" certainly made his fame relatively small, but in terms of actual achievements, he won one honor after another.
It can be seen from this that the six-year-old child does not have a bias between his beloved disciple and his son, but more like letting them develop from an objective point of view.
Many people commented that Liu Jianyang's talent in performing monkey plays is very high, and it is a lifelong regret not to participate in the performance of "Journey to the West". However, monkey play and performance are two differences, if he can really go to the crew, he may not have the results of a six-year-old child.
When the six-year-old boy first arrived in the crew, the monkey play he learned was basically abandoned, and under the guidance of the action director and the assistant director, he basically achieved a rebirth, from a dramatist to a performer. Before the popularity of "Journey to the West", no one knew how much impact it brought, so there was no eccentricity for six-year-olds here.
If we have to evaluate him in this way, it is only from the perspective of the latecomers. In the long run, "Journey to the West" will certainly be forgotten by people one day in the future, replaced by a magic film with higher technology content; however, monkey opera, as a national intangible cultural heritage, even if the technology is high, can not be brought, so this is an immortal road.
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