On April 15, 2017, the death of a director shocked the nation. Six days later, her memorial service was held in Beijing's Babaoshan, in addition to her friends, the actors in the works she directed, and the crowd that spontaneously came to see her off.
Major media and tens of millions of netizens have also expressed their condolences for her through various channels.
In the wreath sent, the name of the national leader appeared, who is this director? Why did even the central leaders send wreaths? She is yang jie, the general director of the 86th edition of "Journey to the West".
Yang Jie
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Looking at Yang Jie's life, you will find that her origin is not ordinary, she is the child of a martyr.
On April 7, 1929, Yang Jie was born, the eldest daughter in the family. His father, Yang Bokai, was a member of the Communist Party of China and was working in Shanghai according to the arrangements of the party organization, and when Yang Jie returned to his hometown of Sichuan a few months ago, he taught at Chengdu University and continued his revolutionary work.
However, not long after, the Guanghan Uprising occurred, yang Bokai in order to avoid persecution, returned to Shanghai, according to the original plan to open a bookstore, specializing in the publication of some progressive books, Yang Jie's mother Wei Shuyuan is also one of the editors of the bookstore.
Yang Bokai's family
After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Yang Bokai left Shanghai and, according to the organizational arrangement, sent his wife and children back to Chengdu first, where Yang Jie spent his youth.
During his time in Chengdu, Yang Bokai taught at the school and also ran newspapers, which were regarded as a thorn in their side because they stabbed the heart of the Kuomintang reactionaries like a sword.
They successively seized the "West China Daily" and "People's Times" founded by Yang Bokai, but Yang Bokai still persevered, and founded "Youth Garden" and "Times Digest" to continuously awaken the people.
Yang Bokai
In order to protect his family, Yang Bokai sent Yang Jie to Yan'an, and in this year, the Kuomintang army attacked Yan'an, and the central leaders turned to northern Shaanxi.
In June, Liu Deng's army broke through the natural dangers of the Yellow River, and the Chinese People's Liberation Army changed from strategic defense to strategic offense, which can be speculated that Yang Jie did not live long in Yan'an and entered the North China United University in Zhangjiakou.
North China Union University is the predecessor of Chinese University, yang Jie entered the school, soon joined the Chinese People's Liberation Army, became a soldier, and became a member of the cultural and labor troupe.
Advance into Dabie Mountain
Although her father made achievements, Yang Jie did not want to rely on them. According to the organizational arrangement, Yang Jie is responsible for the broadcast task, and many radio stations in the Liberated Areas have left her voice and figure.
On June 2, 1949, the Qingdao Municipal People's Radio was established, Yang Jie was transferred to Qingdao as an announcer due to her rich experience, and that night, she sent the first message of Qingdao's liberation to all Qingdao citizens. 【1】
Yang Jie, who works as an announcer in Qingdao
In the 1950s, Yang Jie's health was in a condition, lung disease caused her to lose four and a half ribs, and at the same time, her mother in Beijing was getting older, and the organization took this situation into account, transferred her to Beijing, worked at the Central People's Radio, and at the same time conveniently took care of her mother.
Later, Yang Jie turned to director and producer, starting from the recording of opera, and gradually changed to film and television dramas, leaving many classics, and at her funeral, relevant cast members also came to the scene.
Yang Jie funeral
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In 2017, director Yang Jie died of a heart attack in Beijing at the age of 88. [2] As soon as the news came out, the whole network was in an uproar, and many people felt that the news was too sudden, and they did not expect that the director who brought childhood memories to many people passed away.
On April 28, director Yang Jie's memorial service was held in Babaoshan, Beijing, and before the memorial service began, Qiu Yongli came to the scene, first cooperating with director Yang Jie in the historical drama "Sima Qian", and later playing the bhikkhu Guozhang in the sequel to "Journey to the West".
"Journey to the West" is the most famous one in the works directed by director Yang Jie, and it is also the childhood of many people. It is said that due to the increase in blood pressure caused by the Japanese filming of "Journey to the West", the central government decided to shoot a four famous works at the expense of the state, and three directors were generally responsible, and Yang Jie was the only female director.
Yang Jie in the interval between the filming of "Journey to the West"
With a momentum of not accepting defeat, she took over the shooting task of "Journey to the West", despite the fact that she had cut off four and a half ribs due to lung disease as early as 1952, left her teenage daughter, and led the film crew to wade through the mountains and rivers, traveled all over the country, and finally found a suitable scene in nineteen provinces and autonomous regions.
The beautiful scenes we see in the play today were filmed by director Yang Jie and the crew on the spot. For example, the birth of the Monkey King was filmed in Beidaihe, the water curtain cave ran to the Huangguoshu Waterfall in Guizhou, and Sun Wukong did not cross the ocean to learn art, but chose The Qingcheng Mountain in Sichuan "nearby".
Bai Bonejing lives in the beautiful scenery of Zhangjiajie, the daughter king bid farewell to the Tang monks in the Suzhou garden, the Flame Mountain did not "go out of the province", and the great desert in the play is in Turpan, Xinjiang.
Filming daughter country
As for the Buddhist holy place lingshan in the book, the location is Thailand, which is because there are no large Buddhist places in the country, and Thailand is a country with Buddhism as the main faith, and There are Indian Buddhist buildings everywhere, so the lingshan was chosen here.
Because there are 9981 difficulties in "Journey to the West", probably in order to increase the "shooting atmosphere", Yang Jie suffered many more difficulties than in the filming process than in "Journey to the West", in addition to stunts and actor problems, but also faced a fund rupture, the theme song was almost killed.
It can be said that the 86th edition of "Journey to the West" is the most difficult one among the four famous TV series. However, director Yang Jie persevered, and after 17 years, he finally presented this famous work to the people of the whole country in a complete film and television image.
86 edition of Journey to the West
Although the filming of "Journey to the West" ended, the fate of the actors and director Yang Jie was not broken, so at the memorial service site of director Yang Jie, the staff of the "Journey to the West" crew occupied a certain number. In addition to Qiu Yongli, the most eye-catching thing is the sutra team.
The first is Sun Wukong played by a six-year-old child, who attended the memorial service with his wife Yu Hong. Yu Hong is the field record of "Journey to the West" and the actor after the King of Tianzhu, the couple's marriage is in the crew, and the strict requirements of director Yang Jie have left the six-year-old child a very classic Sun Wukong.
Tang Monk is played by three people: Wang Yue, Xu Shaohua, and Chi Chongrui. They all came to the scene, Wang Yue and Xu Shaohua originally left the crew for various reasons, but director Yang Jie forgave them in his old age, so on this special day, they rushed to send director Yang Jie on his last journey.
Chi Chongrui's Tang monk
There are many actors in "Journey to the West", many of whom have died before director Yang Jie, including Yan Huaili, one of the actors of the sand monk, and Liu Dagang, another sand monk, who attended the memorial service.
Ma Dehua of the Eight Precepts of the Pig and The Little White Dragon King Bozhao even cried at the scene, and Wang Bozhao even cried and said, "Why did you suddenly leave?" It is precisely because of the existence of director Yang Jie that they and "Journey to the West" have achieved each other.
Judging from the materials compiled by the fans of director Yang Jie, in addition to the four masters and apprentices, Zhao Xinpei, the actor of the red child, also participated in the memorial service, and the child who shouted at Guanyin Bodhisattva, "Are you a rescuer invited by the monkeys", has grown into the CEO of a computer company.
Zhao Xinpei, the actor of the red child
Chang'e Qiu Peining is the scene of the crew. In addition to "Journey to the West", she was also responsible for the field record work of "Dream of the Red Chamber", and the short dance that year surprised the audience. She lives in Hong Kong, heard that director Yang Jie died, and specially came to send the last journey.
Xingxian Wang Linghua is relatively low-key, and she has never been seen in the "Journey to the West" series of activities. But after the death of director Yang Jie, she came to bid farewell.
Erlang Shen Lin Zhiqian is the martial arts instructor of the crew, in "Journey to the West", he and Sun Wukong are both enemies and sympathetic to each other, in reality, Lin Zhiqian and the six young children have a very good relationship. Sun Wukong went to the memorial service, and the Erlang God naturally could not fall.
Erlang Shenlin Zhiqian
Zhu Lin, the king of the daughter country, has never cut off contact with director Yang Jie, and after many years, Zhu Lin's style is still undiminished. In addition, Princess All Saints, Miss Gao, and Grandmaster Bodhi also appeared at the memorial service. But there are some actors who are very low-key, such as the mouse jing evergreen, who also attended the funeral but did not leave a photo.
Among the staff behind the scenes, Li Chengru is undoubtedly the most eye-catching one, he is the police officer Da Zeng, Inspector Ou Guangci, who made a scene record in the "Journey to the West" crew.
Director Yang Jie once said that he did not give Li Chengru a role, but Li Chengru felt that doing a good job of the scene was also a contribution to the crew, and he was willing to hide behind the scenes and create this classic with director Yang Jie.
Daughter king Julien
Teacher Lü Zhong's husband, Wu Guiling, is the actor of Zhen Yuan Daxian. Zhen Yuan Daxian returned to the Heavenly Court one step ahead of Director Yang Jie, and Teacher Lu Zhong, despite his advanced age, came with the mourning of himself and her husband. She was accompanied by several old artists with both virtue and art.
Zhang Jizhong's appearance has attracted a lot of attention, he is the producer of the new version of "Journey to the West", with reverence for director Yang Jie, and Zang Jinsheng, the actor of the Eight Precepts of the Pig, specially came to send it off. [3] In addition to them, Director Yang Jie's relatives and friends before his death have come to BabaoShan.
Outside the Spirit Hall, the fans of director Yang Jie held the made photo album in their hands, pulled up banners, held up cards, and the citizens who did not know each other gathered at the door with flowers, and they expressed their sorrow for director Yang Jie in different ways.
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In the solemn spiritual hall, in the center hangs a banner that reads "Mourn director Yang Jie with deep sorrow", with white characters on a black background, and the body of director Yang Jie is placed in a glass coffin in the middle for mourners to admire, surrounded by flowers, and wreaths are placed around the spiritual hall. Due to the remarkable achievements of director Yang Jie, the national leaders also expressed their condolences.
At the beginning of the funeral, Director Yang Jie's husband Wang Chongqiu and his children stood next to each other, and every guest bowed solemnly, then walked around the body to show respect, and finally walked to the family to express greetings. Wang Chongqiu is a photographer for CCTV, and Yang Jie began to cooperate in 1979 at the latest, and they have a tacit understanding with each other.
When filming "Journey to the West", he carried the only camera of the whole crew over the mountains, and his daughter Yang Yunfei was one of the makeup artists of the sequel to "Journey to the West". Three of Yang Jie's four children are abroad, so in her later years, most of them are accompanied by her husband Wang Chongqiu and daughter Yang Yunfei.
Yang Jie and Wang Chongqiu
In his later years, director Yang Jie and her husband Wang Chongqiu lived in an ordinary residential building, according to Wang Chongqiu's recollections, the most common thing yang Jie did in his later years was to brush Weibo and watch movies, although he was older, Wang Chongqiu's evaluation was "the brain of young people, the heart of the elderly".
Unlike most elderly people of the same age who do not ask about the world, director Yang Jie is very concerned about current affairs, and the couple often discusses some popular events on the Internet, usually when director Yang Jie proposes topics.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, director Yang Jie also made up for the old American movies that she did not have time to watch when she was young, so that Wang Chongqiu was worried about her body, and this behavior was no different from that of young people.
In addition, she has written two books, one is "Dare to Ask Where the Road Is" about the filming process of "Journey to the West", and the other is the autobiographical "My Ninety-Nine Eighty-One Difficulties". [4] Later, director Yang Jie was in poor health and refused many interviews about Journey to the West, and in 2015, she made her last public appearance.
Although there were too many regrets at the beginning, it was fortunate that after seventeen years, I was finally able to finish the unfinished part of the original, and in 2000, the sequel to "Journey to the West" was released, and Yang Jie's wish to be directed was fulfilled.
After the memorial service, director Yang Jie's body was not buried immediately, but was buried in Jiugong Mountain a year later, and the crew of "Journey to the West" including the masters and apprentices once again wore plain clothes to participate in the funeral.
Journey to the West actors came to mourn Yang Jie
Wang Chongqiu wrote an article to tell the life of the past year to director Yang Jie in heaven, she died, the "Journey to the West" crew did not disperse, they often went to visit Wang Chongqiu, even if they could not meet each other, they also contacted each other through the Internet.
Although director Yang Jie is gone, the spirit of "Journey to the West" has not been lost, and this spirit is exactly what director Yang Jie left behind.
Someone made a video, remembering the deceased 86 version of the Journey to the West cast, director Yang Jie appeared at the end, the video is a shot of her participating in an interview, she quoted the lyrics of the Journey to the West episode "Solemn My Divine Land", and the last sentence is "Round and full of solemn my Divine Land".
An interview with Yang Jie
This is a summary of "Journey to the West" and a summary of her journey to the west.
Last year, the four masterpieces were broadcast on a website, and the total number of broadcasts has exceeded 100 million so far, and few film and television works can match it.
In "Journey to the West", the interlude "Daughter Love" was personally written by director Yang Jie, which has a sentence "Say what is the king's power and wealth, afraid of what precepts and rules, only wish to be long and long, and follow the people I love" can be used as a portrayal of Director Yang Jie.
Director Yang Jie is a person who says one thing and one thing, she is selfless with an iron face, in order to make a good TV series, she is under great pressure, even if she is wronged. It is because of her persistence and tenacity that we can see the classics.
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[1] "Journey to the West" director Yang Jie died The news of the liberation of Qingdao was sent by her Today News Network 2017-04-08
[2] Yang Jie, director of the 86th edition of "Journey to the West", died of illness at the age of 88 China.com 2017-04-17
[3] Director Yang Jie bar The people who participated in Yang Jie's memorial service 2017-04-22
[4] Husband recalls Yang Jie: The memorial service specifications are high, and "Journey to the West" has a heart knot Beijing News 2017-05-15