"Wulin Waichuan", which sits second on the Douban rating TV series list, I believe is the childhood memory of many people.
At that time, five young people, a child, an ambitious director and a screenwriter who was anxious to pay off the mortgage made a First Sitcom in China that still cannot be surpassed.
Looking back at this point in time, the "Tale of Wulin" 15 years ago was a turning point in many people's lives.
Yan Ni, who played Tong' treasurer, has since made many movies and TV series, and won 6 awards related to TV series.
"Guo Furong" Yao Chen received an invitation from the "Latent" crew in 2008, and partnered with Sun Honglei to burst into flames, and was later named "Queen of Weibo".
"Bai Zhantang" Sha Yi, since 2012, the Spring Festival Gala and lantern party have been commonplace, coupled with their own funny cells, Sha Yi has got a lot of resources in the circle.
Compared with others, Yu Entai seems too ordinary.
Yu Entai was born in 1977 in Nanchang, Jiangxi.
From an early age, he has achieved excellent results and is a child of other people's families in the mouth of his parents.
Parents have high expectations of Yu Entai, and in order to let their son concentrate on reading, they locked up the TV and could only watch it during the New Year.
And Yu Entai did not live up to the expectations of his parents, from middle school to high school, Yu Entai's performance was very good. Even in his junior year of high school, everyone thought he could attend famous schools such as Tsinghua Peking University.
But fate often does not go according to people's wishes.
Before the college entrance examination, Yu Entai learned that the Shanghai Theater Academy was enrolling. Because he had a special feeling and yearning for television since he was a child, Yu Entai held the mentality of trying it out and applied for the Television Arts Department of the Shanghai Theater Academy.
Unexpectedly, without intentionally planting willows, Yu Entai was admitted in advance.
In 1995, at the age of 18, Yu Entai entered the Shanghai Theater Academy with the first overall score. The legend of China's first doctor of drama began from this moment.
Even at the Shanghai Theater Academy, where the dragon and crouching tiger are hidden, Yu Entai's results are still outstanding.
After 4 years of college, Yu Entai was able to take away the full scholarship. He never saw learning as a burden, but rather enjoyed it.
After graduation, Yu Entai, like most of his classmates, entered the society.
After two years of trial and error, Yu Entai found that his knowledge was far from enough. So in 2000, he went to the Shanghai Theater Academy to study for a master's degree.
In the second year of his master's degree, he received a full scholarship from oxford university in the United Kingdom and went to England as an exchange student to study Shakespeare's plays.
Yu Entai used his own practical actions to explain what is called endless learning.
It was hard to wait until I graduated from graduate school and filmed a period of drama. Yu Entai was admitted to the Shanghai Theater Academy with the first place in the doctorate of directing.
At this time, it was only a few months before the filming of "Wulin Waichuan" began.
In 2006, wulin waichuan was officially broadcast, and it immediately occupied almost all the TV screens of Chinese.
Many actors in the play have become household names because of this drama, and Yao Chen, Yan Ni, Sha Yi and others have climbed to the peak of their careers through this drama.
Yu Entai chose to turn around and leave.
When Yu Entai filmed the drama "The Tale of Wulin", his father was already in the late stage of liver cirrhosis. But his father has always supported him, don't delay his career, go out more to see the outside world.
Yu Entai, who got the script at that time, did not hesitate at all. But when the filming of the months was over, the only thing that returned home to greet Yu Entai was the cold body of his father.
So much so that later in a talk show, Yu Entai said: If life can be repeated, I will not play "The Legend of Wulin". It can be seen that Yu Entai is really a very filial person.
When Zhai Tianlin single-handedly became a star that nearly ten million students have to greet every year, people lost trust in the entertainment industry.
But you can always trust Yu Entai.
Yu Entai has said more than once: Drama can be performed for a lifetime, but the best time to read is now.
After filming "The Legend of Wulin", in 2006, Yu Entai was once again admitted to the doctoral student of Chinese drama directing with high scores, and was the first doctor of double drama in China.
He participated in "The Tale of Wulin" to see how far he could practice so many theories. After the explosion, he rejected all the film offers and returned to school to continue his studies.
Teacher Wang Gang once commented that Yu Entai said that he could get an actor from top to bottom, and firmly believed that he would have great achievements in the future.
Unlike Lu Xiucai in the play, Yu Entai not only reads to death, he is also a stock speculator.
In 2007, Yu Entai became interested in stocks, entered the market after some research, and could buy low and sell high every time, and coincided with a bull market, earning hundreds of thousands of dollars a day.
The stock speculation article he wrote was also included in the financial weekly, but he felt that it was too easy to make money in this way, so he sold all the stocks that were in a good situation, and just escaped the financial crisis in 2008.
He wrote in the article: Don't think of stock speculation as a way to live, but to correct the mentality and take participation in economic development as fun. Leave yourself a little space, too greedy people tend to ruin their homes, on the road to making money, greed is the wrong way.
For actors, it should be more practiced.
But in Yu Entai's dictionary, reading always comes first.
In order to concentrate on his studies, he has pushed out 13 plays in a row, including many big productions such as "Breaking into Kanto", and even Ang Lee, a big director that many actors dream of wanting to cooperate with, has also been ruthlessly rejected by him
He didn't read for utilitarian purposes, he didn't read for utilitarian purposes, just because he liked it.
In an interview, Yang Lan asked him: Have you ever regretted your original choice?
He shook his head firmly: never regretted it.
In this increasingly impetuous society, we generally lack the courage and patience to slow down.
In this era when everyone is pursuing wealth. We are used to defining success in terms of money and status.
But success cannot be defined, because there is only one kind of true success, and that is to live your life on your own terms.
Compared with inner happiness and fulfillment, what is the merit and fame?