In 2006, just when everyone was in full swing preparing for the CCTV Spring Festival Gala,
Wei Ji'an, who had already been hammered out to star in the sketch, suddenly asked the director for leave.
At this time, he took a leave of absence, which meant that it was very likely that he would not be able to participate in the rehearsal and lead to the killing of the show.
In the face of the director's regret and the incomprehension of colleagues, Wei Ji'an still resolutely left.
Some people say that no matter what happens to him, he should not just give up.
They all say that "drama is bigger than the sky", but he can't do it.
Countless people wanted to board the Spring Festival Gala stage, Wei Ji'an actually took the initiative to give up,
What was the difficulty with him? How is Wei Ji'an doing now?
1 Military career actor road
In 1956, a family surnamed Wei in Longkou, Shandong Province, welcomed its fifth child.
In order to take the meaning of peace, his family named him Wei Ji'an.
Because he was the old man in the family, Wei Ji'an was loved by his family.
However, the family is large, all rely on the meager income of their parents to survive,
Life is still very hard, but Wei Ji'an is very sensible,
As long as he has time, he will take the initiative to help his parents do some housework and reduce the burden on their parents.
But no matter how sensible the child is, it is inevitable that there will be naughty times,
Although Wei Ji'an is not very naughty, he loves to watch dramas and movies.
When he was idle, he would gather his friends in the village.
Recreate the highlights of the movie with them, standing on a high place in a sheet,
Dreaming of being a hero, the branch in his hand is a sword.
By the time Wei Ji'an went to school, he had already heard a lot of opera.
And he not only loves to listen but also loves to learn to sing, and gradually like duo turn, Shandong fast book, Peking Opera, etc.,
He can hum a few performances, and Wei Ji'an has become a well-known literary and artistic representative in the school.
Wei Ji'an may have a talent for acting, as long as he is young, as long as he is allowed to perform on stage,
He doesn't feel scared, and always generously finishes the prepared show.
Then the curtain fell on him, and the adults said that he had the potential to be a "big star".
In 1974, at the age of 18, Wei Ji'an applied for the Xinjiang Repertory Theatre and was successfully admitted.
However, at that time, Wei Ji'an did not receive professional acting teaching.
He can only play some small roles, but he is very satisfied,
Because it was his first step towards an actor career.
Two years later, the Xinjiang Military Region Drama Troupe enrolled, and Wei Ji'an rushed to the exam.
He was admitted with excellent grades and began his military career.
When he first entered the army, Wei Ji'an was tall because of his big height of more than one meter and eight meters.
He was given the title of "Great Wei".
However, he soon ran into a big problem, that is, Mandarin was too poor.
Wei Ji'an's hometown has always spoken the dialect of the Jiaodong region,
Although everyone can understand it in daily life, it cannot be brought to the stage to speak.
In desperation, Wei Ji'an could only play some small roles while learning Mandarin.
But when he learned Mandarin well,
The main model plays of the repertory theatre have been eliminated by popular dramas.
Therefore, for a long time, Wei Ji'an could only take on some ordinary roles.
However, he knows that there are no small roles in this world, only small actors.
No matter what the role, it will be carefully interpreted and try to present the best side to the audience.
Wei Ji'an has been acting in the drama troupe for 8 years, and he has gone from group acting to supporting roles.
From a supporting role to a protagonist, his acting skills are getting better and better in the continuous grinding.
In 1981, Wei Ji'an participated in the competition with the troupe.
He also successfully won the "Plum Blossom Award" of the drama festival, and attracted attention for it.
After that, he was arranged to go to Shanghai to participate in the performance, and it was at this time that he met the man he was destined to do.
When he was in Shanghai, Wei Ji'an and the General Political Song and Dance Troupe had work exchanges.
He met Dong Zhenqiong, the dance teacher of the song and dance troupe, and was deeply attracted to this girl.
In the process of cooperation between the two, Wei Ji'an was impressed by Dong Zhenqiong's elegant temperament.
He developed a crush on her, but he would soon be leaving Shanghai after finishing his work.
Before leaving, Wei Ji'an finally plucked up the courage to confess to Dong Zhenqiong,
Unexpectedly, Dong Zhenqiong did not reject him, but expressed her concerns.
Dong Zhenqiong, who originally lived in Beijing, felt that it was too far away from Xinjiang, and if they fell in love,
This long distance would become an obstacle to everything and make her very insecure.
After hearing this, Wei Ji'an secretly made up his mind that he must rely on his own efforts to transfer to Beijing to work.
He also asked Dong Zhenqiong to give him a chance, waiting for him.
After returning to Xinjiang, Wei Ji'an worked harder, and he kept honing his acting skills.
I hope that one day I will be seen and transferred to Beijing to be with my beloved.
Two years later, Wei Ji'an's hard work was rewarded, and he was successfully transferred to the Nanjing Military Region Repertory Theatre.
One step closer to Beijing, he wrote to Dong Zhenqiong,
I want Dong Zhenqiong to see his efforts and know that he is getting closer step by step.
And Wei Ji'an's sincerity also touched Dong Zhenqiong, and she promised to fall in love with Wei Ji'an.
This year, Wei Ji'an was 27 years old, while Dong Zhenqiong was 25 years old.
2 Get married and have children at the Spring Festival Gala
After Wei Ji'an and Dong Zhenqiong fell in love, the two would run to each other's cities to meet as soon as they had a holiday.
Long-distance love makes the two suffer from lovesickness, so they simply get a license to get married,
Got a short marriage leave and lived together for a while.
But soon, the two had to go back to their respective units at the end of their vacation, and at this time Dong Zhenqiong was pregnant.
In 1984, Dong Zhenqiong gave birth to a son, Wei Chuan, but the family of three still lived in two places.
Wei Ji'an's career at this time went up a step, and he was very busy.
The chances of running to Beijing to meet his wife and children have also become less frequent.
Although there are fathers-in-law and mother-in-law to help take care of the son, he does not have to worry about anything,
But this was not the way to go, so he began to think about how he could transfer to Beijing.
Finally, in the following year, Wei Ji'an ushered in this opportunity.
At that time, Wei Ji'an starred in the drama "Silent Loud",
And thus got the application quota for transfer to the General Political Department of Beijing, even if his role in the play is very small,
But for this opportunity to be reunited with his family, he did not mind at all.
Finally, with the efforts of Wei Ji'an, the family was reunited in Beijing.
He also fulfilled his promise to his wife.
In the following period of time, Wei Ji'an studied at the People's Liberation Army Academy of Arts.
While acting in a play, gradually, he began to develop an interest in writing scripts.
And tried to write a sketch script called "Shuxiang Mendi".
The audition at school was good, and then Wei Ji'an took this work with him.
On the stage of the comedy sketch TV competition, and successfully won the first prize of the screenwriter,
As well as the first prize for performance, Wei Ji'an's career began to flourish.
In 1989, Wei Ji'an ended his refresher course, and at the same time he began to enter the film and television industry.
In 1990, Wei Ji'an starred in the movie "There is a Cluster of Sacred Fire in the Sky".
And for his role in the play, he was nominated for the Golden Rooster Award for Best Actor.
The following year, because of his excellent performance, he was recommended by the unit to appear on the CCTV Spring Festival Gala.
That year, Wei Ji'an took the stage to present the sketch "Rural Music",
This time, the hometown dialect he had been practicing for many years and wanted to change came in handy.
Wei Ji'an won the love of the audience with a sentence of "dude",
And the word followed him like a label for a long time.
After becoming popular, Wei Ji'an was still as low-key as before.
Be kind and friendly to your neighbors and filial piety to your mothers and elders.
One year, Wei Ji'an's hometown was snowing heavily, and the road was very difficult to walk.
But despite his wife's obstruction, he still insisted on going home for the New Year, and also brought a lot of New Year goods for his family.
His wife, Dong Zhenqiong, had no choice but to help him pack his luggage and then follow him home.
As a result, because of the heavy snow, the tickets for the Spring Festival that year were particularly difficult to buy.
In the end, the two had to buy a hard seat ticket, a station ticket,
Took turns to take the car and stayed up in Shandong,
After getting off the bus, there is a 2-hour coach waiting for them.
The overly tired and tired environment made Dong Zhenqiong have a serious illness.
But seeing her mother-in-law's happy smiling face, she also understood her husband's idea of insisting on going home for the New Year.
In the following years, Wei Ji'an, in addition to starring in film and television dramas,
He also often appeared on the CCTV stage to perform skits, and he became a regular guest of the Spring Festival Gala.
He has cooperated with huang hong, Gao Xiumin, Chen Peisi and other well-known actors.
Because Wei Ji'an always acted in sketches, some viewers thought he was a comedian.
In this regard, Wei Ji'an explained: "Sketches are my hobbies, and acting is my main job. ”
Later, in "The Story of the Cooking Class" and "So Many Petites" and other dramas,
Wei Ji'an has a wonderful performance, and he has also been selected as a national first-class actor.
As life got better and better, Wei Ji'an also gained a foothold in Beijing.
After consulting with his wife, he took his mother to live at home in Beijing.
The old mother who has been in the countryside all her life lives in a tall building for the first time.
Wei Ji'an also specially pushed off some unimportant work and took his mother around.
Soon, however, my mother lost the freshness she had when she first arrived in the city.
In Beijing, she knows nothing, nor does she have anyone of her age to speak to.
Gradually, she began to miss her relatives and neighbors in her hometown and wanted to return to her hometown to live.
Seeing that his mother insisted on returning to his hometown to live, Wei Ji'an could only agree.
After sending his mother home, Wei Ji'an had some unpleasant feelings in his heart.
But he could only call his mother from time to time and ask her about her physical condition.
Buy some daily necessities to send back to your mother, and you can go back to your hometown every New Year's Festival.
Wei Ji'an's filial piety has become his signature, whether it is a relative of his hometown,
Colleagues in the unit know that he is a big filial piety.
In addition to being filial to his mother, Wei Ji'an was also very kind to the villagers.
However, his kindness to the villagers is to repay the villagers.
In 2002, Wei Ji'an and his wife and children went home to visit their mother.
As a result, the car he drove was stuck on a muddy country road, but it was still far from his home house.
Wei Ji'an thought of many ways around the car but couldn't get the car back on track.
At this time, a passing villager recognized Wei Ji'an and returned to the village to find someone to help.
Finally fifty or sixty people in the village carried the car out of the muddy path.
Everyone followed Wei Ji'an's car back to the village.
This experience made Wei Ji'an deeply moved by the simple folk customs of his hometown.
He didn't know how to repay his fellow villagers, so he could only let them ask him for help when they had something to do.
For a long time after that, Wei Ji'an became the "magic weapon" for the villagers to solve problems.
If you don't understand something, you can consult Wei Ji'an and want to go to Beijing to do things.
Just live in Wei Ji'an's home, and Wei Ji'an has never been troublesome,
He would always pack up clean bedding with his wife for the use of his fellow villagers.
3 Don't forget your hometown to help
Wei Ji'an's warm heart was seen by the villagers in their eyes and remembered,
They like to consult Wei Ji'an regardless of their size,
For example, whether the child should continue to go to school or become a soldier, he had to go to Wei Ji'an for advice.
And Dong Zhenqiong, in addition to her own work, takes care of her son,
She often had to take care of her relatives who lived in the house, but she never complained.
Although she loves to be clean, she will clean up her home very neatly every day.
But she also didn't care that the villagers messed up the house.
Because she knows that helping the villagers is a kind of spiritual sustenance for her husband.
However, Dong Zhenqiong did not say, Wei Ji'an understood his wife's hardships,
Therefore, as long as he does not work, he will immediately go home to help his wife deal with the questioning of relatives.
Help her with housework so she can rest a little more.
The kindness of Wei Ji'an and his wife touched the fellow villagers,
Every time they visit, they also bring green cooking oil or fruit from their hometown.
And in order to protect the self-esteem of the fellow villagers, Wei Ji'an will not be too prevaricating.
In the end, I will always happily accept this wish from my fellow villagers.
Since then, Wei Ji'an has returned to his hometown no matter when,
Will be invited by the fellow villagers to take turns to be a guest at home, and when it is time to leave,
It was also stuffed with a trunk full of specialties, and this also made Dong Zhenqiong very moved.
Wei Ji'an established a high prestige in his comings and goings with the villagers,
Any local event will also like to invite him as a "big star".
Once Wei Ji'an took over the task of cutting the ribbon at the opening ceremony of the hometown cultural tourism festival.
But at this time, his wife Dong Zhenqiong and her son both had a cold.
The mother and son were still in the hospital at the time, but Wei Ji'an had to leave for work.
The uncomfortable son held Wei Ji'an's hand, hoping that his father would stay with him.
But Wei Ji'an told his son that this work was very important.
Let the son obediently listen to his mother's words, and he will soon go home.
As a result, Dong Zhenqiong, who was exhausted that day, returned home with her son.
Just after settling my son, I had to go to the kitchen to cook,
The high fever made Dong Zhenqiong have no strength in her body, but she had to be strong for her son.
It so happened that the son who burned badly was clamoring to eat fruit,
Dong Zhenqiong hurriedly washed two fruits, peeled them and gave them to her son,
Then she hurried back to the kitchen to stir-fry, so that she forgot that the oil in the pot had been burning for a long time,
As a result, when the dish with water droplets was thrown into the pot, a flame was lit,
The oil spot collapsed on her arm, burning several blisters and making her cry out in sadness.
After Wei Ji'an returned home the next day, he saw that his wife, who was tired and injured, blamed himself.
But again, with his character who plays bigger than the sky, it is estimated that he will still choose to go to work.
Not long after that incident, Wei Ji'an's military art selection "Harmonious Family",
And their family also took the certificate without hesitation,
After all, Wei Ji'an and his wife are very affectionate and filial to their parents.
Helpful again, there is no better person than their family.
The kindness of Wei Ji'an and his wife affects the people around them, and under their leadership,
More and more people have joined the construction of their hometowns, building roads and repairing schools,
Every time his hometown organizes public welfare activities, Wei Ji'an will also take the initiative to donate,
He will often go to the front line to participate in activities, which can be described as a combination of virtue and art.
Once, Mr. and Mrs. Wei Ji'an were invited to dinner with a business boss.
For the sake of face, the boss deliberately drove them to a 5-star hotel to eat,
As a result, both Wei Ji'an and Dong Zhenqiong rejected him.
Because they feel that an ordinary meal does not have to be so luxurious,
If the boss insisted on having a treat there, they had to leave.
The attitude of Wei Ji'an and his wife touched the boss and aroused his strong interest.
When several people chatted, Dong Zhenqiong also proposed that the money saved from eating be donated to Yantai's hometown.
The boss knew that Dong Zhenqiong was not from Yantai, so he asked her why she regarded Yantai as her hometown.
Dong Zhenqiong told him that because Wei Ji'an was from Yantai,
Her husband loves her hometown deeply, and now she and her husband are a family.
Naturally, she will also regard Yantai as her hometown, and she also deeply loves this land.
In the end, with the efforts of Wei Ji'an and his wife, they successfully won a big project for their hometown.
4 Resign the Spring Festival Gala to fulfill filial piety
In 2005, Wei Ji'an's mother was admitted to the hospital because of her advanced age and various complications.
In order to take more care of their mother, Wei Ji'an and Dong Zhenqiong traveled between Beijing and Yantai.
When his mother could not eat, Wei Ji'an would dilute the glucose and coax his mother to drink it.
And the mother was afraid of delaying their work, and always drove them away after a while.
But no matter what, Wei Ji'an did not casually put down his work,
At the beginning of 2006, Wei Ji'an's sketch was selected for the CCTV Spring Festival Gala that year.
But while he was busy rehearsing,
My brother made a phone call and he hurriedly put everything down and ran home,
It turned out that the mother's health was already particularly bad, and it was estimated that she could not survive.
Wei Ji'an could only ask the director of the Spring Festival Gala for leave, but the director said,
Leaving the rehearsal at this point means that there is a good chance that their work will be killed.
Although Wei Ji'an felt very sorry for the actors who cooperated on the same stage,
But in his heart, the mother was more important, so he left a sentence:
"The Spring Festival Gala is not this year and can strive for next year, but there is only one mother", he hurriedly left.
Although Wei Ji'an and his wife rushed back to their hometown in time to visit their mother,
But they still could not save their mother's life, the day before Chinese New Year's Eve,
Wei Ji'an's mother, accompanied by her children, left peacefully.
Wei Ji'an and his brother discussed their mother's affairs before returning to Beijing for rehearsals.
The next day, he stood on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala and brilliantly presented the sketch "Honest Man".
The humorous and exquisite performance brought countless laughter to the audience,
But his heart was tormented by his mother's departure,
This year, he was also judged as one of the "Top Ten Filial Pieties in Showbiz".
In 2008, in the face of the Wenchuan earthquake, Wei Ji'an, who had a mediocre income, took out 100,000 yuan.
Donated to the disaster area for post-disaster reconstruction.
In recent years, Wei Ji'an has become more and more busy because of his promotion to artistic director of the General Political Repertory Theatre.
But he is still busy acting in dramas, filming film and television dramas, and he is very busy.
And his wife Dong Zhenqiong also understands him very well, often helping him solve problems.
For example, buy a comfortable bed that suits his height,
For example, hang a landscape painting of his hometown in his study to relieve his homesickness.
The husband and wife are getting better and better.
Someone asked How Did Wei Ji'an disappear, and why didn't he go to the Spring Festival Gala now?
In fact, it is not that he has disappeared, but that he has appeared less often because of his work.
In 2018, he also appeared on Jiangsu Satellite TV's Spring Festival Gala and performed another sketch.
Now he still has time to go to the school to give academic lectures to young students.
Recalling that when he was not famous, he also said:
"Endure loneliness and hold fast to your faith."
Only small actors, no small roles, small roles can also amplify the brilliance. ”
Now Wei Ji'an and his wife have been married for 37 years, and their relationship has always been very good.
Dong Zhenqiong's career development is also very smooth,
She has been named the main teacher of the 100 high-quality courses in the whole army.
He also led the revision of the Dance Technique textbook and won the Educational Achievement Award.
Wei Ji'an knew that his wife had paid a lot for his hometown plot,
Now he is also grateful for his wife's help and fulfillment.
Recently, Wei Ji'an was going to Texas to participate in film shooting.
However, due to the epidemic, this trip can only be postponed.
However, he still recorded a video that cared about the local people.
Cheer up friends in the epidemic area.
Wei Ji'an was loyal and filial, and he was loyal to the troops.
Before and after becoming famous, he has always been loyal to the army and contributed to the army's literary and artistic undertakings;
He is filial to his mother and can give up such an important opportunity as the CCTV Spring Festival Gala.
In order to accompany my mother on her last journey.
Wei Ji'an did not forget his original intention, he endured the pain of losing his mother,
Still adhering to the principle of "drama is greater than the sky", the Spring Festival Gala is happy for thousands of families;
After becoming famous, he did not forget the villagers who had helped him.
Be charitable and let the villagers live in his home.
Wei Ji'an was very happy, he married a kind wife,
I don't care that he helps the villagers in a big way, and he is willing to take care of the villagers with him.
Now that Wei Ji'an is 66 years old, no matter how many honors have become the past,
Now he has time to go to lectures to cultivate talents, occasionally cameo roles,
More time is still with his wife at home to share the joy of the world, live in peace in the old age,
It can also be regarded as making up for the missing two-person life of that year.