On June 23, 2007, Hou Yaowen, a famous performance artist, crosstalk master and national first-class actor, regrettably left this world at the age of 59 because of sudden cardiac infarction caused by sudden cardiac infarction.
As the so-called "the dead are great", after his death, the first thing his relatives and friends should do is to let him enter the soil for peace and let him leave with peace of mind, but the result was greatly unexpected by everyone!
The first is Hou Yaowen's ex-wife Yuan Yin, 2 days after his death, she hurriedly married his nephew Dai Zhicheng and formed a new family despite the world's gaze, followed by Hou Yaowen's daughter Hou Zan and his brother Hou Yaohua, after his death, because of the inheritance of the inheritance, not only completely broke up, but finally came to the point of going to court!
It is precisely because of this that Hou Yaowen, who died in 2007, did not have to be buried until 2011, 4 years after his death, and it is estimated that he never imagined that leaving tens of millions of inheritances after death would not be exchanged for the peace of the family...
One
Hou Yaowen, formerly known as Hou Yuewen, was born on July 17, 1948 in a literary family in Beijing, his father is named Hou Baolin, is a famous crosstalk master, has created and performed a large number of popular crosstalk famous passages, such as "Drama Miscellaneous", "Night Travel", "Guan Gong Zhan Qin Qiong" and so on.
Hou Baolin, who is full of peach and plum, also taught many excellent crosstalk actors, including Jia Zhenliang, Ma Ji, Ding Guangquan, Hu Pida, Shi Shengjie and other well-known crosstalk celebrities.
Hou Baolin has three wives and has given birth to 7 children with these three wives, Hou Yaohua is the second child born to Hou Baolin and his third wife Wang Yalan, ranking fifth in the family.
Hou Yaowen's mother, Wang Yalan, is also a literary and artistic worker, but is not engaged in crosstalk art, but a Peking opera actor, and the reason why Hou Yaowen has a profound foundation in Peking opera is all thanks to his mother.
Because of the influence of his father Hou Baolin, Hou Yaohua has liked crosstalk since he was a child, and with his continuous efforts, he has laid a solid foundation at a very young age.
In 1960, 12-year-old Hou Yaowen appeared on the stage for the first time and performed the crosstalk work "Drunkenness" with his father Hou Baolin.
At that time, Hou Yaowen was looking forward to growing up soon and becoming a respected crosstalk actor like his father in the future, but his father asked him to study hard and resolutely opposed him taking the road of crosstalk.
In order to continue to speak crosstalk, when he was 15 years old, Hou Yaowen, who had just graduated from junior high school, went to the entrance examination of the Railway Art Troupe without telling his father, wanting to give his father a cut before playing.
With solid basic skills, he not only successfully passed the exam, but also met his lifelong partner Shi Fukuan here, and his father could only reluctantly agree after learning that he had been admitted to the Art Troupe.
After entering the Art Troupe, Hou Yaowen followed his colleagues in the unit to perform everywhere, and in just a few years, he created more than a dozen crosstalk jokes such as "Wise and Courageous" and "Small Ball Pushing Big Ball Turn".
Although it later encountered a special period of ten years, this did not dampen Hou Yaowen's enthusiasm for crosstalk art, on the contrary, he allowed himself to settle down during this time.
Two
In 1976, with a spring breeze blowing across the motherland, the literary and artistic undertakings re-emerged, and Hou Yaowen returned to the stage again.
With a lot of accumulation, he and his partner Shi Fukuan have successively launched crosstalk works such as "Fortune Fan Zhangren", "See Righteous Courage", and "Opera Rambling", with these excellent works and excellent performances on the stage, they quickly became popular.
While his career was improving, Hou Yaowen also gained his love and came together with his first wife Liu Yan.
Liu Yan, like Hou Yaowen, was also developing in the Railway Art Troupe at that time, she was a dancer in the Art Troupe, although her popularity and popularity were not high, she was beautiful and a particularly virtuous woman.
In 1979, after Hou Yaowen's career stabilized, the two of them, who had been in love for a long time, entered the palace of marriage under the witness of all colleagues of the Art Troupe and reaped their happiness.
In the second year after marriage, the two of them gave birth to a daughter named Hou Zhan, and the arrival of the child not only made their relationship more stable, but also made their small family more lively.
Hou Yaowen, who developed his career with peace of mind after marriage, with his outstanding talent, has successively brought excellent crosstalk works such as "The Destruction of a Myth" to the audience, but when it comes to what really makes him popular across the country, it is the stage of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala.
In 1983, when the first CCTV Spring Festival Gala was held, 35-year-old Hou Yaowen was invited to appear on the stage of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala and performed the work "Speaking Politely" with Shi Fukuan.
With the big stage of the Spring Festival Gala, he quickly became popular all over the country and became a well-known comedian.
After that, he appeared on the stage of major events and evenings, performing works for the audience, and frequently participated in various crosstalk competitions, and achieved very good results.
For example, in 1984, he first won two first prizes for creation and performance in the "National Crosstalk Competition" with his crosstalk "Sweet and Sour Live Fish", and in the same year in the National Crosstalk Competition, he won the highest award of the competition "Hou Baolin" Golden Image Award!
In 1988, Hou Yaowen, who had developed his career particularly well, was once again invited to the stage of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala and served as the host of the party.
The following year, he appeared on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala again and collaborated with the famous performance artist Zhao Lirong on the sketch "A Day in the Life of a Heroic Mother".
It's a pity that he developed his career prosperously, probably because he put his mind on his career, so that his marriage had problems.
Three
Hou Yaowen, who has developed his career particularly well, often gets together with his wife Liu Yan less and separates more because of work, resulting in the relationship between the two becoming weaker and weaker, and their marriage has also lit up a red light.
In 1990, at the age of 42, he ended his marriage with his first wife, Liu Yan, and his daughter lived with him after the divorce.
In the same year as his divorce from Liu Yan, Hou Yaowen met Yuan Yin, who was 20 years younger than him, while filming the work "Special Police".
At that time, Yuan Yin played a model who fell in love with him in the play, but he didn't expect to shoot and shoot, and the two had an affair because of the play, extending this relationship from the play to the outside of the play, and quietly came together.
Although due to the large age difference between the two, Yuan Yin's parents raised strong objections after learning that they were together, but the two of them were still together desperately.
In 1993, after falling in love for more than two years, they happily entered the palace of marriage.
As before, after marrying his second wife Yuan Yin, Hou Yaowen is still trying to develop his career.
In 1994, he once again appeared on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala, performing the classic sketch "Playing Poker" with Huang Hong, and later he appeared on the stage of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala many times, bringing works such as "Romance of Beijing and Kowloon" to the audience.
At the same time, he often participates in performance activities with his unit everywhere, and has successively performed in Hong Kong with the Heart-to-Heart Art Troupe, participated in large-scale sympathy performances of the Nankun Cultural Train, and participated in charity performances in Phoenix, Boston, Dallas and other areas.
In 2002, he developed his career particularly well and became the deputy head of his railway art troupe, as well as the artistic director and rap leader of the art troupe.
Unexpectedly, like his first marriage, his second marriage also had problems while he was developing his career non-stop.
Four
Because after he married his second wife Yuan Yin, his mind was on his career, and his wife often stayed alone at home in an empty room, and like his first marriage, his relationship with the other party became weaker and weaker.
Although in 1998, five years after their marriage, the two gave birth to a daughter named Niu Niu, but the arrival of the daughter did not last their relationship.
Especially every time the family needs help, Yuan Yin can only support alone, at first she felt that it was fine, but as time went on, she also had complaints in her heart.
To this end, Hou Yaowen also thought of many ways, it just so happened that one of his nephews Dai Zhicheng lived with him in a community at that time, and every time he went out to perform and work, he asked Dai Zhicheng to help take care of his family.
As we all know, feelings are such things are accumulated many times, because Dai Zhicheng and Yuan Yin are similar in age, plus Yuan Yin looks young and beautiful, as the two come and go more and more, the relationship between the two is getting better and better.
On the contrary, Yuan Yin, who lacked Hou Yaowen's care, broke down more and more as the other party was away from home for longer and longer.
In 2004, after the relationship was completely consumed, Yuan Yin filed a divorce request to Hou Yaowen, although Hou Yaowen tried to keep it, but Yuan Yin still insisted on giving up the relationship, and finally Hou Yaowen could only reluctantly agree to divorce her.
After the two divorced, because their daughter was only six years old and Hou Yaowen was busy with work, the task of taking care of her daughter was handed over to Yuan Yin.
Also this year, Hou Yaowen's nephew Dai Zhicheng also divorced his original wife Yang Lei, and like Yuan Yin, resumed his single status.
The later situation is that Dai Zhicheng and Yuan Yin came together, and as for whether they had feelings before their respective divorces, or after their respective divorces, we do not know.
After Hou Yaowen and Yuan Yin divorced, in order not to be trapped by the trivialities of feelings and life, he continued to put his mind on his career.
Five
In 2004, the year of divorce from Yuan Yin, Hou Yaowen ignored the opposition and persuasion of many peers in the industry and took Guo Degang under his door, so that Guo Degang, who had been teaching out, had something to rely on.
With his help, Guo Degang, who has solid basic skills, not only entered the development of the railway art troupe, but also quickly became popular and became a household comedian.
After that, Hou Yaowen continued to develop his crosstalk career while accepting apprentices, opening a number of crosstalk special sessions one after another, and also frequently appearing on the stage of various David TVs.
It wasn't until 2007, after his sudden death, that his career development stopped.
At 18:30 on June 23, 2007, Hou Yaowen, who has always been very healthy, suddenly suffered a myocardial infarction.
Although he was found in time when he became ill, after 40 minutes of rescue, he finally died of illness at the age of 59.
According to media sources, on June 25 of the same year, two days after Hou Yaowen's death, his ex-wife Yuan Yin and his nephew Dai Zhicheng officially entered the palace of marriage and reaped their happiness.
On this side is Hou Yaowen, who has just died and has not yet entered the soil to be safe, and on the other side is Zhang Lantern knotting the knot, when the media exposed the news of Yuan Yin's marriage, it once caused a lot of controversy.
However, for Hou Yaowen, this is just one of the small episodes that occurred after his death, and more attention and embarrassment are yet to come.
Because Hou Yaowen's career developed particularly well during his lifetime, accumulating tens of millions of wealth and real estate, after his death, his family's first thing to do was not to deal with the aftermath for him, but to start dividing his inheritance.
Among them, Hou Yaowen's eldest daughter Hou Zan and Hou Yaowen's second brother Hou Yaohua completely broke up because of their disagreement on the distribution of the inheritance, accusing the other party of emptying their father's inheritance, and ignoring such accusations on the other.
In the end, Hou Yaowen's daughter Hou Zan was angry and took her "second uncle" Hou Yaohua to court and went to court with him!
In the end, we don't know how Hou Zan and Hou Yaohua negotiated, but we only know that after nearly four years of tugging, their uncle and nephew finally reached a reconciliation.
On March 23, 2011, after the issue of the distribution of Hou Zan and Hou Yaohua's inheritance was completely resolved, Hou Yaowen, who had died for four years, was finally successfully buried in the Changping Tianshou Cemetery in Beijing.
Six
Although it has been 15 years since Hou Yaowen's death, many people have been missing him in the years since his death.
The first is his apprentice Guo Degang, although Guo Degang has long been famous, but he has never forgotten his mentor, over the years, every time Hou Yaowen's death day, he will send a long text on social platforms to remember his mentor.
When Hou Yaowen's daughter and Hou Yaowen's second brother argued endlessly over the inheritance issue, Guo Degang always stood behind Hou Yaowen's daughter to support the master's daughter, and from this point of view, Hou Yaowen really did not make a mistake in accepting this apprentice back then.
The second is Hou Yaowen's eldest daughter, Hou Zhan, who has also been nostalgic for Hou Yaowen and his father's past over the years.
Every Qingming Festival and Hou Yaowen's death day, she would go to her father's grave to see him rain or shine, and in her opinion, her father never left and always lived in her heart.
In addition, many viewers and fans who like Hou Yaowen have also been missing him over the years.
On the day of his death, many people would spontaneously visit him at his grave and send him flowers, fruit baskets and so on.
Compared with these relatives, friends, audiences, and fans who have been missing Hou Yaowen, his ex-wife Yuan Yin has long begun a new life.
Since marrying Dai Zhicheng, Yuan Yin has been carefully maintaining this relationship, and with Dai Zhicheng's company, they have run their small family very well together.
As for Yuan Yin and her ex-husband Hou Yaowen's youngest daughter, Niu Niu, Dai Zhicheng has always treated her as his own and treated her as his own daughter.
With the joint efforts of Yuan Yin and Dai Zhicheng, although the life of their family of three is very low-key, they are living very happily.
It is worth saying that although Dai Zhicheng was controversial by the media and the public because he married Yuan Yin, with his development over the years, he has slowly been recognized by the audience.
In January 2022, he also appeared on the stage of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala and performed the sketch "Happy Dialect" with Jiang Kun.
Although compared with Hou Yaowen, there is still a clear gap between his artistic level and achievements, but his current development is also very good.
In fact, as a performance artist and crosstalk master, Hou Yaowen, whose works and artistic level have nothing to say, is really worthy of everyone's support and love.
Unfortunately, he died early due to illness, leaving his family, and leaving so many viewers and fans who liked and supported him.
Now that it is November 2022, many people may have forgotten Hou Yaowen as an actor and the laughter he once brought to the audience on stage.
However, for those who love and support him, he will always be remembered.
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