The 86th edition of "Journey to the West" can be described as a classic childhood memory of the 80s and 90s, not only its story content is rich and colorful, but also a lot of things are experienced behind the scenes.
At that time, the equipment of Chinese film and television was not advanced, and only 26 episodes of "Journey to the West" were filmed for six years, and the actor of one of the four leading actors, Tang Monk, was changed three times.
In addition, due to economic pressure, director Yang Jie opened a precedent for filming while broadcasting, and broadcast the first 11 episodes before the end of filming.
Unexpectedly, the effect of broadcasting was very good, and soon broke the ratings of tv stations and became the best in film and television dramas.
Xu Shaohua, who plays Tang Monk, has attracted much attention, and he has vividly interpreted tang monk's elegant temperament, and has been called "the most handsome Tang monk" by the audience, so his acting career is constantly climbing upwards, which is a rare and valuable opportunity.
However, Xu Shaohua, who had filmed nine episodes, resolutely resigned despite the honor brought to him by this drama, and he never had the opportunity to shine in front of the screen again.
Later, Ma Dehua, who played the role of Pig Eight Commandments who worked with him in the filming, revealed that it was because of Xu Shaohua's salary of five yuan that he left.
A mere five yuan salary made Xu Shaohua reject such a classic work, is it too sloppy? Is someone behind his back? Where should he go after he resigns?
Xu Shaohua was born in 1958 in Qingdao, Shandong Province, different from the impression of Shandong Han, he has a beautiful face and delicate skin, and is a delicate and beautiful doll.
Coupled with a cheerful personality, Xu Shaohua has formed an indissoluble relationship with art since childhood.
When he was eight years old, he entered the Qingdao Children's Palace to study ballet and starred in the stage play "White Haired Girl".
In this, he played Dachun, acting with great feelings, and people who have seen it say that he has artistic talent.
After that, Xu Shaohua joined the school's literary and art propaganda team and followed suit to learn drama.
After graduating from junior high school, he had the honor to participate in the literary and art backbone study department organized by the Qingdao Municipal Party Committee and was successfully selected by the Shandong Provincial Repertory Theatre.
Since then, Xu Shaohua has begun a real acting career, and he also met his lifelong love here - Yang Kun.
The two can be said to be the best in the Shandong showbiz circle at that time, and when they met, they were in their youth and flourishing.
Although Yang Kun is not outstanding in appearance, he is full of talent, has self-confidence, talks on the stage, and aspires to be a big director; Xu Shaohua also has the dream of being an actor and hopes to stand on a bigger stage.
Such two people are deeply attracted by the flashes on each other, and soon fall in love and become lovers.
In fact, Xu Shaohua has been a child with excellent character and learning since he was a child, and he is not only full of love for his acting career, but also eager to gain more knowledge.
When the college entrance examination system was restored in 1978, he immediately reported for the examination and successfully passed three consecutive examinations.
However, in the end, Xu Shaohua, who thought that he was about to enter his college career, received the news of falling off the list, and he failed to achieve his wish.
After the failure of the college entrance examination, Xu Shaohua poured more energy into the road of acting.
In 1980, Xu Shaohua, who had just entered the film industry, starred in the movie "Jingchang" in the "silly boy" Yuan Feng, which became a hit and was praised by the Hong Kong Ta Kung Pao at that time as "China's first young student".
In 1982, "Journey to the West" began to prepare for filming, recruiting actors.
Xu Shaohua saw this recruitment and thought that his image was more suitable for Bai Longma, so he interviewed the role of Bai Longma.
On the day of the interview, director Yang Jie immediately took a fancy to Xu Shaohua, thinking that his appearance was very in line with the beautiful and elegant Tang monk, wanted him to play the Tang monk, and offered a salary of 50 yuan, which was good at the time.
In this way, Xu Shaohua entered the crew of "Journey to the West".
At that time, the crew was different from the current equipment and personnel configuration, and the actors themselves had to undertake a lot of work in addition to acting.
However, Xu Shaohua, who loves acting, gladly accepted.
Because of all kinds of tedious things, the shooting process is constantly delayed, and no one expected that this shot was filmed for nearly four years, which has far exceeded the budget time.
Xu Shaohua, as one of the four leading actors, was asked to stay on standby at all times and start shooting as soon as he had the opportunity.
In four years, he pushed out many performances for the play, and even rarely returned home.
Half of the content has already taken four years, and no one knows what will happen later.
In order to alleviate the shortage of funds, the director adopted a plan to shoot and broadcast at the same time.
"Journey to the West" broke the record as soon as it was broadcast, causing a big sensation across the country, and many viewers were very fond of the Tang monk played by Xu Shaohua, especially after the episode of "Fun Jing Daughter Country" was broadcast.
In the play, Xu Shaohua and Zhu Lin are paired, perfectly interpreting the love of Tang Monk and the king of the daughter country.
In the 1980s, China's folk customs were not too open, and The young Xu Shaohua did not have much intimate drama.
So when the king of the daughter country appeared in front of Xu Shaohua, he was nervous and sweaty.
Zhu Lin, who played the king of the daughter country, quipped after seeing it: "Tang Monk originally had to have a sweat, and he didn't need makeup at all." ”
In addition, director Yang Jie also complained: MingMing Xu Shaohua privately memorized the words well, and after meeting Zhu Lin, he forgot everything, and a shot had to be filmed four or five times to pass.
Fortunately, Xu Shaohua's state was very much in line with the monks of the Tang monks.
"You say that the four are empty, but you close your eyes, and if you open your eyes to look at me, I don't believe that your eyes are empty."
The cooperation between Xu Shaohua and Zhu Lin in the play makes the audience can't help but fall into it.
In the end, Tang Monk left the king of his daughter country and became the pride of many people.
Some fans shifted to reality and began to observe the relationship between Xu Shaohua and Zhu Lin.
The news of "Zhu Lin bitterly in love with Xu Shaohua" and "Zhu Lin divorced Xu Shaohua" began to appear, and many people expected them to achieve positive results in reality.
Unfortunately, this is not possible.
In the spring of 1983, Xu Shaohua and his girlfriend Yang Kun ended their nearly seven-year love run and entered the palace of marriage.
Just three days before the journey to the west was filmed, the two held a wedding ceremony.
At this time, Xu Shaohua had been debuting for three years and was in the ascending period of his career, and marriage would more or less bring some impact to his acting career, but he still resolutely chose to give Yang Kun a home.
Xu Shaohua took out a thousand yuan to hold the wedding, which was a huge amount of money in that era when the salary was only a few dozen yuan.
The two moved into the 10-square-meter cottage arranged by the leader, small and warm.
In the years when Xu Shaohua was filming Journey to the West, Yang Kun has been silently taking care of the family behind his back. Xu Shaohua could not go home, Yang Kun took good care of his parents for him, and Xu Shaohua was full of gratitude to his wife.
With the broadcast of Journey to the West, Xu Shaohua became known to more and more audiences, and his private life was also pulled out.
The audience lamented the news that Xu Shaohua had been married, and some unscrupulous media learned that Yang Kun looked mediocre, compared it with Zhu Lin, and even directly scandalized Yang Kun, which had a great impact on Yang Kun's life.
Fortunately, Xu Shaohua did not abandon his wife.
In the face of these gossip from the outside world, he always protected his wife behind him, often saying in public that he was married, hoping that everyone could respect his wife, in order to break the scandal with Zhu Lin.
Xu Shaohua is a good man, and he gives Yang Kun a hundred percent sense of security.
When filming Journey to the West, Xu Shaohua hoped that he could increase his salary by 10 yuan, because sun wukong who was also starring in the six-year-old child and Ma Dehua who was also the eight precepts of the pig were paid 60 yuan, and he and Yan Huaili were 50 yuan to make Xu Shaohua grumpy.
He repeatedly told the director that he would increase his salary, because he had the most roles, and at first he was given 5 yuan, which was equal to 55 yuan.
After all, in terms of makeup design, the heavy appearance of Sun Wukong and the Eight Precepts of pigs is incomparable to the image of Tang Monk.
Each makeup effect takes a lot of time and energy, and after the end of each day's shooting, the six-year-old child and Ma Dehua are sweating and almost collapsing.
In 1986, the contract signed between Xu Shaohua's shandong provincial repertory theatre and the crew of "Journey to the West" expired, but the end of the filming of "Journey to the West" was still far away.
It coincided with the admission of Xu Shaohua to the cultural cadre training class of Shandong Academy of Arts, and he finally chose to quit his career and step into university life.
His wife Yang Kun also got the admission letter, and the two changed from colleagues to lovers and became each other's windows, which can be described as extraordinary and unforgettable.
Ma Dehua, who played the eight precepts of the pig, once had a lot of opinions about Xu Shaohua's resignation, and he said that the main reason for Xu Shaohua's resignation was because of money.
After playing his daughter's country to settle wages, he was still complaining about the crew for the five yuan salary, so that they would not necessarily take Xu Shaohua with them at the later Journey to the West dinner.
However, more than twenty years later, Xu Shaohua revealed the real reason: "Although I was very young at that time, I always thought that reading was a very important thing, and only through learning to understand historical figures more deeply, can we understand them more deeply, so that we can better shape the characters." ”
What Xu Shaohua never expected was that Tang Monk would be the most peak role in his acting career.
Xu Shaohua, who resigned from Journey to the West to further study, once again threw himself into the waterhole of the acting, but this time did not splash a little.
Like Zhang Liao in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Blood Spring", "Cloth Confucius", "Nie Shixing", "Tang Xuanzang" and so on did not arouse much splash.
Xu Shaohua's career has not made much progress, but his wife Yang Kun's directing career has taken a big step forward, and several dramas he has directed have been well received.
Subsequently, Xu Shaohua followed his wife's footsteps and began to turn behind the scenes, becoming the artistic director of the Social Love Art Theater and a visiting professor at the Shandong Academy of Arts.
In 1995, Xu Shaohua participated in the recording of the Spring Festival Gala in Dongying City, serving as the host, while his wife directed the sketch program at that time, and the two cooperated very tacitly, winning the third prize of the Shandong Provincial TV Variety Show Competition.
The staff who work with them have praised their dedication and dedication as a well-deserved veteran artist.
In addition to work, Xu Shaohua and his wife Yang Kun are also keen on public welfare undertakings.
After the Wenchuan earthquake, the couple immediately dismissed the original commercial performance and ran to the disaster area to perform condolence performances to comfort the suffering people in the disaster area.
Now, Xu Shaohua, who has passed the age of flower armor, rarely appears in front of the camera, has a stable job and a happy family.
Yang Kun, his wife, who was once criticized by the media for being useless, has continuously broken through herself in these years, making wonderful performances in various fields such as dramas, dramas, evening parties, and TV dramas, and winning countless awards.
In the past, the media commented that Yang Kun climbed Xu Shaohua and was an ugly wife.
Nowadays, it seems that Xu Shaohua cannot keep up with Yang Kun's achievements.
However, those things in love that are high and low, only two people who respect each other, equality, and support can come to the end, and all this time will give the best proof.
Xu Shaohua and Yang Kun's love is like this.
The thin water flows long and converges into a vast ocean, and each other has long been an indispensable part of each other's lives, which is really enviable.
Of course, time is also a pig killing knife. Some netizens found xu Shaohua in the scenic spot wearing a robe to stage, still the image of the Tang monk, singing the songs in the Journey to the West, but now he is no longer the appearance of Qingxiu Andya.
The years have smoothed out his edges and corners, and he looks like a big belly, and he no longer has the glory of that year.
However, the shape of the body does not mean anything, and it is inevitable that the people around us will be a little blessed after living a stable life.
And Xu Shaohua is not as weak as the Tang monks in "Journey to the West", in reality, he loves fitness activities very much and often shares his exercise experience on social platforms.
Xu Shaohua revealed that he still insists on doing pull-ups, which is not an easy task for people in their sixties, and it may not be able to persist in the current young people, it is still very valuable, which is enough to see that Xu Shaohua's life is very good.
"Journey to the West" has been broadcast for thirty-five years, the main actors are getting old, the audience is running and growing, everything is changing, when paying attention to the lives of others, we can also stop and look back at our own footprints, maybe there is a new way out.