In 1965, Qiong Yao's works were put on the big screen by China Television, and since then it has been popular in Taiwan for more than 30 years.
In the early days, those who participated in Qiong Yao's films were basically popular stars in Hong Kong and Taiwan, and the actors included Zheng Shaoqiu, Qin Han, Fei Xiang, etc. In the mid-eighties, Qiong Yao's own company began to operate TV series, filming dramas such as "Several Sunset Red", "Wanjun", "Qingqing Riverside Grass", "New Moon Gege" and other dramas, all of which were popular and popularized wave after wave of newcomer actors.
By the end of the 90s, she even cooperated with Hunan Taiwan to expand the market scope to the mainland, creating popular masterpieces such as "Huan Zhu Gege" and "Deep Rain", during which countless handsome mainland actors were fortunate to become "Qiong Yao boys".
Below, let's talk about those mainland actors who have played supporting roles in Qiong Yao's drama.
1. Tong Ruixin
Tong Ruixin was born in Harbin, Heilongjiang, was admitted to the theater at the age of 21, and after graduation, he entered the Shanghai Film Studio to shoot movies such as "Wonders of Jiangcheng" and "Grand Canyon", and played supporting roles and male number one, but there was no splash.
In 1992, when Qiong Yao Company began filming "The Ghost Husband of the Three Alleys of Plum Blossoms", the 27-year-old Tong Ruixin was selected to play Yang Wanli, the male number two in the play.
Yang Wanli's character is very good, he is a doctor, and he is also a good buddy of the male protagonist Ke Qixuan played by Li Zhixi. He desperately rushed in to save Ke Qixuan's life when Ke Qixuan was engulfed in fire, and later he tried his best to heal Ke Qixuan day and night, touching countless audiences.
Tong Ruixin tasted the popularity for the first time after "Ghost Husband" became popular, when many Taiwanese fans came to the mainland to see him and send him a car refrigerator, although he didn't even have a car at that time.
In those days, mainland artists would always encounter exclusion from filming in Hong Kong and Taiwan, but Tong Ruixin was lucky, he and Li Zhixi formed a deep friendship in just a few months of filming, and the two have been friends for almost 30 years and often get together.
And Qiong Yao and his wife are also very good to him, the filming of this drama was in Yangzhou, Jiangsu, he lives in Qionghua Mansion with Qiong Yao and his wife, and they take great care of him.
After filming this drama, Qiong Yao started a new drama and invited him to star again many times, and he was still invited until the start of "Deep Love".
However, after filming "Ghost Husband", he stayed away from Qiong Yao drama, and the reason why he gave up the opportunity that others wanted to get by squeezing their heads was because he couldn't stand the twisted overlapping lines of Qiong Yao drama, such as a sentence "I love you" to say three times, he said that after playing Yang Wanli, he once had line sequelae.
He felt that this acting style was very different from his previous acting style, and then he calmly acted in mainland dramas, after all, he was not an actor who walked the road.
2. Liu Ziwei
Remember the male third Han Hongda in "Ghost Husband"? The second young master of the Han family, Yuan Lemei's cousin, is known as the "Three Musketeers" together with Ke Qixuan and Yang Wanli.
He liked Lemei, but became an assist for Lemei and Ke Qixuan, and finally got together with Lemei's maid Xiaopei.
Han Hongda's actor, Liu Ziwei, is also a mainlander, he was born in Beijing and graduated from the China Academy of Opera with a major in Peking Opera performance, studying martial arts.
At the age of 23, Liu Ziwei went to Hong Kong to perform with the Peking Opera Artists Performance Troupe in three provinces and five cities, and starred in the Peking Opera repertoire "Burning Pei Yuanqing" and "Washing the Floating Mountain" which set off a lot of repercussions in Hong Kong. At the age of 25, he won the Best Performance Award of the First National Youth Peking Opera Actor TV Grand Prix held by CCTV.
But it's a pity that he didn't meet many roles that could play his good kung fu, but because the 10,000-year-old spare tire in Qiong Yao's drama became popular.
He has starred in many Qiong Yao dramas such as "Xueke", "Qingqing Riverside Grass", "Ghost Husband", "Gehua Brand", "New Moon Gege" and so on, among which "Qingqing Riverside Grass", "Ghost Husband" and "New Moon Gege" are all "10,000-year spare tires" who are struggling to chase Yue Ling.
Liu Ziwei has been developing in Hong Kong and Taiwan in her early years, and after returning to the mainland in 2003 to shoot "The Son of Cloth", she faded out of the big and small screens and returned to the Peking Opera stage, and rarely appeared since then.
In May this year, after Li Zhixi connected with Kuroko in the live broadcast, he asked Kuroko to help contact Liu Ziwei, but he didn't expect that Kuroko really helped them connect successfully. Li Zhixi later revealed in the live broadcast that he had called Liu Ziwei, and the two chatted for half an hour, reminiscing about the year together.
3. Luo Gang
Some people say that "Ghost Husband" is the most correct of the three views in Qiong Yao's drama, and "New Moon Gege" and "Water and Clouds" are the most broken of the three views.
In "Between Water and Clouds", a child with six people rushing to be a father, the second female Wang Zixuan said that everyone's opportunities to be fathers are equal, and she treats everyone equally. This bridge is still on the list.
Wang Zimo, played by Luo Gang, is one of these six fathers, but his real identity is Wang Zixuan's eldest brother and the child's uncle.
Wang Zimo was friends with the male protagonist Mei Ruohong, played by Ma Jingtao, at the beginning, and later he fell in love with the heroine Du Qianqian, played by Chen Derong, almost at the same time, and his sister Wang Zixuan was the old love of the male protagonist, and after the sister became pregnant, he didn't know who the child's father was, but he decided that the child was the male protagonist's.
His sister was abandoned, and the beloved woman was robbed, so his friendship with the male protagonist broke apart and began to do things...
Generally speaking, the male second man who works against the male protagonist is unpleasant, but Wang Zimo is different, Mei Ruohong's personality is too scum, and Wang Zimo has a feeling of great pleasure in making a move against him.
And Luo Gang is also really handsome, wearing a suit, wearing glasses, and getting rid of a merry young master. Compared with Mei Ruohong, the "soft rice man" who can only roar, it is simply heaven and earth.
Luo Gang, a native of Changsha, Hunan Province, starred in the movie "Half is Flame and Half Seawater" adapted from Wang Shuo's novel of the same name after graduating from Nortel, but it did not become a hit.
Later he starred in "Red Cross Team", "Beijing Love Story" (Xu Jinglei version), "Da Ranfang" and so on, but he was always in an embarrassing situation where the drama was not hot.
However, he is one of the few "Qiong Yao boys" of that generation who is still active on the screen, and has transformed into a father in recent years.
4. Zhou Jie
At the end of the 90s, when Qiong Yao returned to her hometown in Hunan to visit relatives, she reached a cooperation intention with Hunan Satellite TV and filmed "Huan Zhu Gege" together. Many of the protagonists in the play were selected by Qiong Yaofang in Taiwan, such as Su Youpeng, Lin Xinru, Chen Zhipeng, etc., and Er Kang's actor Zhou Jie was selected from the mainland.
Qiong Yao originally planned to find Huang Haibing to play Erkang, but at that time, the male protagonist of Huang Haibing's martial arts drama had to fly, and he had no intention of acting in the crying Qiong Yao drama.
Before the trial lenses recorded by Zhou Jie were taken to Taiwan to let Qiong Yao clapp, Zhou Jie was not sure that he could appear in Qiong Yao drama, because in his concept, Qiong Yao drama can cry especially whether it is an actor or an actress, and what he is most afraid of is crying. In addition, he felt that Qiong Yao would definitely not find an actor from the mainland to play the protagonist.
So at that time, after he auditioned for "Returning the Pearl", he turned around and signed a contract with "One Hundred Years of Ups and Downs", and he didn't have any hopes for this audition.
Who knew that a few days later, the producer called him and told him that Qiong Yao chose him among four or five male actors. This time can make him sad, he doesn't know whether to play the "Hundred Years of Ups and Downs" that has been negotiated or the bottomless "Return the Pearl", so he decided to choose by tossing a coin, and it was "Returning the Pearl" twice in a row, and finally he went to play Erkang.
Ercan made him famous, and since then the film has continued. A few years later, when he was about to receive "Young Bao Qingtian", he called Qiong Yao, and Qiong Yao was very angry when she heard that he was going to play Bao Heitan, and she couldn't accept that the Bai Jing Gongzi she had created with great difficulty was going to make herself black.
But Zhou Jie took Bao Qingtian despite Qiong Yao's opposition, and pushed his career to a new height with this role.
But Zhou Jie became also Erkang, defeated Erkang, and later because the "Huan Zhu" co-actor complained in an interview about his "tongue kiss" constantly fermenting, his reputation was greatly damaged, and his popularity was also frustrated one after another.
Later, when everyone mentioned Zhou Jie, the first thing that came to mind was the series of memes about Erkang circulating on the Internet.
5. Zhu Hongjia
Xiao Jian, who was launched in the second part of "Huan Zhu Gege", is played by mainland actor Zhu Hongjia. This role is a rare highlight role in Qiong Yao's play, he is both literary and martial, with both the elegance of a scholar and the dashing frankness of a warrior in the rivers and lakes.
He and Qing'er, who knows how to read and be polite, are a perfect match in terms of appearance and personality, some people say that Xiaojian is a noble man in the rivers and lakes, and Qing'er is a heroine in the deep palace.
Zhu Hongjia is a native of Nanchong, Sichuan, a graduate of Nortel, and was 28 years old when he starred in Xiao Jian. He only appeared in the second part, when the first part was not yet broadcast when it was filmed, and he did not know that the show would become popular after it was broadcast.
Halfway through the shooting, the first part was broadcast, a big hit, and then a large number of fans came to the set every day to watch, and he knew that he might be able to catch this popular ride.
He is not a handsome guy in the traditional sense, but he has a special temperament, coupled with outstanding acting skills, he easily stood up a dashing and unruly "ranger".
After that, he starred in dramas such as "Outer History of Wulin" and "Merry Talent Ji Xiaolan", but unfortunately he has not become popular, and the most important press about him later was his affair with Liu Dan, the actor of "Concubine Xiang". Many self-media have rendered their story as a story of a red-faced girl VS an infatuated man, saying that he will not marry for life because of Liu Dan's unexpected death.
A few years ago, he came forward to clarify: Liu Dan and I are just very good friends, and I am married and have children, I don't know when so many stories suddenly appear.
6. Huang Xiaoming
The third part of "Huan Zhu Gege" underwent a big change, from the protagonist to the supporting role have changed actors, although these actors who participated in the third part were later red, but they were not highly recognized that year.
It was Huang Xiaoming who succeeded Zhu Hongjia in the third "Huan Zhu Gege" Xiao Jian, but the Xiao Jian he portrayed was criticized and was complained that it was "Mengdan 2.0", and he was manic at every turn.
Huang Xiaoming, who is in his early 20s, has no choice in appearance, sword eyebrows and stars, and a righteous face, at this time, he has become famous with dramas such as "Dahan Tianzi" and "Invincible County Order", and taking over this dog-tailed drama not only does not add much to his popularity, but also ruins his reputation.
Many netizens complained that he would not take on dramas, and over the years he has taken on many roles without tension, but has pushed off many dramas that were later acted into blockbusters by others, such as "Langya List", "No War in Beiping", "Operation Red Sea" and so on.
7. Gao Xin
After "Return the Pearl" became popular, Qiong Yao started the original team to remake her Republican-themed drama "Deep Love and Rain", and Gao Xin, Su Youpeng and Gu Juji became the three male protagonists together.
Lu Erhao, played by Gao Xin, is the older brother of two heroines, a young master who inherited their father's "scumbag" gene. When he was young, he fell in love with Keyun, the daughter of the adjutant's family, but he couldn't protect her after she became pregnant, but Keyun became crazy under the double blow of losing a man and a child, but this buddy should be in love and enjoy it, and it was not affected at all.
Although the character is terrible, Gao Xin is really handsome. His appearance is Xiaoqingxin, his smile is sunny, full of youthful feeling, plus he is tall, and he has a feeling of being in the wind of a jade tree, which is perfect for the young master's personality.
Gao Xin was born in Beijing, his grandmother Murong Wan'er was a famous actor and translator in the forties and fifties of the last century, and his grandfather was also an excellent actor, who partnered with Zhou Xuan many times and later became a director.
Gao Xin grew up in such an artistic atmosphere and naturally chose to be an actor. After becoming popular with "Deep Love", Gao Xin also had the opportunity to show his strength in the entertainment industry, but unfortunately, his girlfriend Wang Yinan was injured while filming at that time, and he gave up his career like a sky, chose to accompany his girlfriend when the momentum was strong, and took her around for medical treatment for four years.
Later, Wang Yinan recovered and the two tied the knot, but he also missed the best time to become popular. Fortunately, he later gained a foothold in the market of middle-aged male actors with dramas such as "Langya List", "All Very Good" and "Special Combat Glory".
And his wife Wang Yinan has also starred in many hit dramas such as "The Bottom Line" and "Do You Know" in recent years, and the two are a model couple who advance and retreat together.
The end of "Deep Love" seems to represent the end of Qiong Yao's era, and later she grew older and had no intention of doing it herself, selling the copyright to Hunan Satellite TV to shoot "Flowers Not Flowers and Fog Not Fog", and remaking "Another Curtain of Dreams" and "New Returning Zhu Gege", but the response was very general.
The actors in these plays are basically switched sides with the early Qiong Yao dramas, and they used to be mostly Hong Kong and Taiwan actors, occasionally mixed with a few mainland actors, and later became a full mainland cast, and occasionally a Hong Kong and Taiwan artist made a cameo.
Now looking back at the male actors who mixed into Qiong Yao's drama back then, even if they only played supporting roles, their appearance, temperament, and acting skills were quite good, but it is a pity that most of them were not popular.