"That is the poplar tree, an ordinary tree in the West Arctic, but it is really an extraordinary tree."
Poplar Shupeng, its human god, is like a stubborn and upright tree, all branches grow upwards angrily, never to escape, and stand straight in the howling northwest wind.
He was praised by the public as a "poet and director", and he considered himself a native of the Tang Dynasty, drinking and writing poetry, riding a horse and waving bamboo, and a happy life.
However, surprisingly, his films are full of Kurosawa-like fierceness and confrontation, a person who can combine ethereal style with sharp realistic attempts, destined to be extraordinary and destined to be lonely.
Therefore, his marriage with Zhang Xinyi has written the ending from the beginning.
"I think the best love is in the most desperate place, in the most impossible place, because they will inevitably not get it, so love can arise," he once understood about feelings.
Perhaps, this sentence gives the best answer.
1. A teenager wandering on the street
In 1970, Yang Shupeng was born in an ordinary family in Baoji City, Shaanxi Province, his father was a film projectionist and his mother was a housewife.
When he was a child, Yang Shupeng always followed his father, squatting in the crowd to rub movies, and those old films that alternated black and white were his initial enlightenment for movies.
Because of the nature of his father's work, the family lived in five or six cities before settling in the remote Gansu.
From the upheaval of childhood, he finally grinded away the naivety and brightness of his body as a teenager, with a cold temperament and a dislike of excitement, like a lonely bird far from the crowd, rampage.
Rebellion is the "big banner" standing in his youth, skipping class, fighting, mixing the streets, winning the support of a group of boys of the same kind with his fists, but also becoming a "bad boy" in the mouth of the neighborhood.
The days of "fighting during the day and writing poetry at night" were deeply engraved in his memory, so that later, in many films he directed, the shadow of his youth appeared.
After graduating from junior high school, 16-year-old Yang Shupeng was sent by his parents to work as a firefighter in the fire brigade of the Qingyang Public Security Department in Gansu Province.
In the eyes of colleagues, Yang Shupeng has very few words and a little prickly, but the training is never vague, but he can make movies, but everyone never expected, some people ridiculed that he is the most fire-fighting in movies.
In 1990, Yang Shupeng finished his work as a firefighter, and later, he was admitted to the art education department of the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts for four years of advanced training, which was getting closer and closer to becoming a director.
In fact, many internationally famous directors are masters of art, such as Zhang Yimou, Tsui Hark, Kurosawa Akira, Hitchcock and other directors, who have extremely essence and unique insights on the beauty and design of films.
After graduating from university, the aimless Yang Shupeng, inadvertently, was attracted by the cover of a notebook Shanghai South Island View, and plunged headlong into Hainan.
In order to survive, he worked in advertising, did futures, guarded hardware stores, and finally accidentally went to a film and television drama company as a screenwriter, with a low salary, barely surviving.
Most of the time, he does not go out, Hurilla slags at home, almost all his salary is used to buy books and CDs, the reading volume is very wide, and he also pulls a lot of films, and his favorite filmmaker is Akira Kurosawa, which has a deep influence on him.
Two years later, he wandered to Beijing with a bag on his back, and with his talent, he was hired by CCTV to become a choreographer and planner, and successively created two well-known programs "Tell the Truth" and "Film Legend".
In 2006, he did not hesitate to quit the "iron rice bowl" and tried to prepare his first film "Beacon", which allowed him to truly enter the world of movies.
In 2009, he directed the costume action comedy "My Tang Dynasty Brothers", inviting Hu Jun, Jiang Wu and Li Liqun to star, and he also made a cameo in the film as a "Li Bai" who reads Tang poems.
Finally doing a "Tang Dynasty man" in a bright way, Yang Shupeng was happy like a child.
On Zhihu, someone once asked, "How to evaluate Yang Shupeng's "My Tang Dynasty Brothers"?" ”
He himself replied: "The watch thing, walking fast, or slow, is not a good watch, you watch, go faster."
A meaningful sentence, but also expressed the pride and ambition hidden in his heart, whether it is a good watch or not, but must be a filmmaker who dares to be the first, and unique, there is no semicolon.
This year, with this film, he won the Best Director Newcomer Award at the 2nd Macao International Film Festival, and his future is limitless.
Second, 7 years of love broke Wang Zhifei
Later, the girl written into Yang Shupeng's life was Zhang Xinyi, and she and he were simply people from two worlds.
Zhang Xinyi has always been a person standing at the center of public opinion, with constant topics on his body, and Yang Shupeng is almost a marginal figure in the entertainment industry, and the only intersection between the two is movies.
Since childhood, Zhang Xinyi, who has a poor life, grew up under his mother's strict stick education, and his temperament is also rough, like a boy, strong and bold.
At the age of 17, in order to support her family, she ran to the Shenzhen Song and Dance Troupe alone to earn money, and later, she was admitted to the Central Academy of Drama and became a student in the performance department, fulfilling her university dream.
At every step of her life, Zhang Xinyi clearly knows what she wants, and in the four years of college, she desperately seized the opportunity to study, often with short ear-length hair, laughing and a mouth of big steel teeth.
Although she is not the most beautiful girl in the class, she is a very good actress.
At this point, his university teacher "Cai Yin Shanshan" once confirmed on Weibo that when Zhang Xinyi went to the Chinese opera, he and Li Guangjie, Zhang Luyi and Shen Jiani were all students with good acting skills.
In 2004, Zhang Xinyi, who is in his third year, starred in his first TV series "The Wind Blows Clouds and Moves the Stars", in which he played the well-known red prostitute "Lin Moqin" on the beach.
Among them, Wang Zhifei plays the only son of the richest man in Jiangnan "Niu Wuyang", madly in love with Lin Moqin, for her, he forgot his family, his wife and children, he forgot business, dared to go to life and death, and was obsessed.
Unexpectedly, the love in this play also extended to the outside of the play, once vigorous.
In the eyes of the fledgling Zhang Xinyi, 39-year-old Wang Zhifei is elegant and handsome, has a successful career, and has all the conditions to attract a little girl, she adoringly calls him "Teacher Wang".
For Wang Zhifei, the youthful and wanton Zhang Xinyi is like a small stone, stirring up his stagnant water that has not moved for thousands of years, and the two broke through the age difference of 16 years and the shackles of morality and came together.
At this time, Wang Zhifei was still married, and he gave birth to a son Wang Ye with his wife Li Jian outside the circle, but because of the gathering less and more separation, the relationship between the two has long been passionate.
After two years of negotiation, in 2007, the two went through divorce procedures.
Wang Zhifei, who threw herself into Zhang Xinyi's arms, spoiled her as a princess, reluctant to suffer a little, and even regarded her as the whole of life, and loved her on the tip of her heart.
It is said that Zhang Xinyi's house, car, and Beijing hukou were all run by Wang Zhifei and Zhang Luo, but later, Zhang Xinyi clarified the matter, saying that the hukou was solved by his teacher, and the house and car were bought by himself.
However, on the fast ship Wang Zhifei, Zhang Xinyi's career rose rapidly, almost without worrying about resources, in addition to the five dramas she cooperated with Wang Zhifei, she also took on many dramas introduced by the other party, including the TV series "Beijing Love Story" that made her famous overnight.
In the play, she plays the hearty and frank "Lin Xia", and therefore has the reputation of "second sister".
Outside the play, Wang Zhifei, who has always been traditional, is more strict with his girlfriend and does not like Zhang Xinyi to get too close to the actor, however, Zhang Xinyi, who is already young and playful, frequently has scandals with the actor.
For example, she once ridiculed her relationship with Jia Nailiang, but angered Li Xiaolu, his girlfriend of the main palace, and posted that she wanted to "endure".
Seeing the situation, Jia Nailiang confessed, apologized to his girlfriend, and left Zhang Xinyi alone to embarrass.
The gap in age, thinking and life made Wang Zhifei and Zhang Xinyi go farther and farther, and finally broke up.
In March 2012, Wang Zhifei unilaterally announced on the Internet that he had broken up with his girlfriend Zhang Xinyi, who had been in love for 7 years, and wrote: "The rumors of Zhang Xinyi's marriage with many men have seriously troubled my work and life", and the ending point is "I wish you happiness!" ”
However, the last sentence pushed Zhang Xinyi to the cusp of public opinion, who does this "you" refer to?
3. Meet you at the right time
Soon, the man who snatched Wang Zhifei's "treasure" appeared, he was Yang Shupeng.
It can be said that Zhang Xinyi, who stands next to Yang Shupeng, lives like a queen, short in stature, and his appearance is not good, standing with female stars is particularly clumsy, but on the contrary, there is also a kind of ingenuity.
If Yang Shupeng is not powerful, how can he catch up with the bright and moving Zhang Xinyi!
The talented Yang Shupeng, who can write poetry, can carry a guide tube, and will make girls happy, and people never rely on appearance.
In fact, long before Zhang Xinyi, Yang Shupeng was married, but there is very little information about his ex-wife on the Internet, only know that the woman's name is Wang Yimei, who is also an investor in his film, but when the two divorced, it is unknown.
When Zhang Xinyi and Yang Shupeng were together, they specially declared that "the man is unmarried, the woman is not married", implying that the two were single when they were dating.
For this marriage, Zhang Xinyi had expectations and was publicly grateful to Yang Shupeng for giving himself a home when he needed his family the most.
In 2011, the two met the crew of the movie "Pifu", and this movie is Yang Shupeng's work.
"Really, when I looked up at him, he also looked up at me. It was such a moment that we both froze and were shocked," Zhang Xinyi recalled emotionally.
At this time, Zhang Xinyi was saddened by the previous relationship, and the best way to heal the wound was to invest in a new relationship, and the funny and humorous Yang Shupeng was the one who relieved the flower.
This year, Zhang Xinyi suffered a heart attack in Beijing, and in the next 30 hours of life and death, Yang Shupeng took care of her step by step, and finally won the hearts of beauty.
Suffering from this calamity, Zhang Xinyi understood that happiness could not wait, and immediately decided to marry Yang Shupeng, and after knowing each other for half a year, the two got married in Baoji City, Shaanxi Province in May 2013.
After getting married, the two also had a sweet day, on any occasion, they were ten fingers together, Zhang Xinyi also publicly confessed to her husband many times that she loved him.
It's just that desperate flash marriage, the stamina is too great, when the tide of passion fades, all that remains is a devastated mudflat, if there is no deep feelings as a foundation, who can easily deal with it!
In front of Yang Shupeng, Zhang Xinyi, who has always been strong, is willing to be the one who shows weakness and lies small, and every time she quarrels with Yang Shupeng, she endures it again and again, and her heart is unhappy for a long time.
However, for Yang Shupeng, Gemini's Zhang Xinyi is a complicated girl, he often does not understand her, the two are more and more conflicted, and finally choose to return to the position of friends.
In October 2014, the two divorced, a marriage that lasted more than 1 year, and finally went into decline.
However, in the end, both gave each other the greatest decency, Yang Shupeng as always talented, affectionately announced their breakup with a "love letter", and advised Zhang Xinyi to find a good man in the future and stop being dragged down.
And Zhang Xinyi also responded generously, "The past is in my heart, please continue to believe in love", and he is also her respected and adored "ex-husband brother".
Fourth, one is different and two wide, and each is safe
It seems that the divorce is light, but it has hit Zhang Xinyi very hard, and a home she once desperately wanted is shattered in front of her like this, and there is no room for turning.
And she has also become, in the eyes of her father, a "divorced woman", no longer expensive, and no longer extravagant to love.
In 2014, when filming the TV series "Princess of Relief", Zhang Xinyi and Yuan Hong slowly became acquainted.
Yuan Hong is a well-known good person in the entertainment industry, and he is very good to everyone, including Zhang Xinyi, but after a long time, this "good" has an extra layer of ambiguity, and after Zhang Xinyi noticed it, he immediately avoided Yuan Hong.
In her heart, she is a second-hand woman, and she is not worthy of Yuan Hong at all.
However, the relationship is unreasonable, it comes and comes, and under Yuan Hong's persistent pursuit, the two finally came together.
In May 2016, Yuan Hong arranged a grand wedding for her, in Stuttgart Castle, Germany, surrounded by a group of handsome best men, Yuan Hong married his bride in a high profile.
In 2019, 38-year-old Zhang Xinyi, risking giving birth at an advanced age, gave birth to a son "Four Tuo" for Yuan Hong, and the family of three was happy, and Zhang Xinyi also expressed his hope to add another daughter to her husband.
Looking at the "ex-husband's brother" Yang Shupeng, originally after the two got together and dispersed, they had nothing to do with each other, however, Zhang Xinyi's quick mouth always invited trouble.
In 2017, Zhang Xinyi was interviewed by the media and asked: "Do you regret going through some stumbling experiences after all these years?" Or is it that if life can be repeated, I hope to meet Yuan Hong at once? ”
As a result, Zhang Xinyi replied without thinking: "To be honest, I regretted it, and I won't say who it is." Anyway, during that time, I was too willful and did not love myself too much. ”
As soon as this word came out, her ex-husband Yang Shupeng was immediately sent to the hot search, and netizens interpreted that Zhang Xinyi's extraneous voice implied Yang Shupeng.
This time, the low-key poet was no longer silent and choked back: "You make me sick."
Perhaps, worried about the spread of the war, Zhang Xinyi did not respond again, and the matter ended without a problem.
After the divorce, Yang Shupeng put more energy into the movie, and in 2016, he directed the movie "Teenager", Zhang Yi, Yu Nan, Guo Xiaodong, Ou Hao and Guo Shutong and other actors joined and received a lot of praise.
In 2017, he filmed the police and bandit-themed online drama "Fantasy Hunter", which is Yang Shupeng's first online drama and has not yet met with the audience.
In terms of feelings, Yang Shupeng has never had any romance, and now at the age of 52, he has no emotional fetters, and pursues his poetry and distant places more freely and honestly.