Hong Kong Seven Little Fu is the general name of the seven protégés who were admitted by the Peking Opera Mingwu Sheng when he opened the Chinese Drama Studies Institute in Hong Kong in the 1960s. The Seven Little Blessings include: Yuan Long, Yuan Lou, Yuan Biao, Yuan Kui, Yuan Hua, Yuan Tai, and Yuan Wu.
There are fourteen members of the "Seven Little Blessings" drama class, in addition to the seven people who are often mentioned, there are also Yuan Bin, Yuan De, Yuan Jun, Yuan Zhen, Yuan Bao, Yuan Qiu, and Yuan Qing. Only as the years passed, now looking back at this group of division brothers, Yuan Tai, Yuan Wu, and Yuan Zhen disappeared in the early 1980s; Yuanjun and Yuanbao are only mixed in the film world and are unknown; And Hong Jinbao, Jackie Chan, Yuan Biao, Yuan Kui, Yuan Hua, Yuan De, and Yuan Bin have become the most prominent figures in the Hong Kong film industry today, so the "Seven Little Blessings" in the eyes of the public are naturally specific to the seven of them.
The creativity of Hong Kong Seven Little Fuks in Hong Kong films is enormous.
Seven little blessings as children
1. YuanLong
Hong Jinbao was born in Hong Kong on January 7, 1952, and is an actor, martial arts director, director, producer, screenwriter and dragon and tiger martial artist.
In 1983, he won the Best Actor at the 2nd Hong Kong Film Awards for his film "Beware of the Little Hand", and the Best Action Director at the 2nd Hong Kong Film Awards for his action design in the movie "Loser Boy". Production cuts began in the mid-1990s.
In 1997, he directed the action comedy film "A Good Man".
In 1998, he went to the United States to shoot the TV series "Crossing the River Dragon".
In 2003, he directed the film "Undercover Veyron".
In 2008, he starred in the movie "Three Kingdoms No Miya Dragon Armor Removal" and served as the action director of the film.
In 2009, he won the Best Action Design Award at the 28th Hong Kong Film Awards for the action design of the movie "Ip Man".
In 2010, he won the Best Action Direction Award at the 46th Golden Horse Awards for "Ip Man 2".
In 2011, he won the Best Supporting Actor Award at the 5th Asian Film Awards and the Best Action Design Award at the 30th Hong Kong Film Awards.
In 2016, he directed and starred in the movie "My Secret Agent Grandpa".
On April 15, 2018, he won the Best Action Design at the 37th Hong Kong Film Awards for "Kill the Wolf, The Wolf".
Hong Jinbao is a versatile action superstar who has studied and innovated wing chun, cut boxing, karate, etc., and his style is self-contained. And unique vision, in the actor, action director, director, producer and other aspects have achieved outstanding achievements. Hong Jinbao has two marriages, three sons and a daughter. Now 69-year-old Hong Jinbao has faded out of the show business circle, has a grandson, and enjoys the joy of the world.
Second, the Yuan Building
Jackie Chan was born in Hong Kong on April 7, 1954, a national first-class actor and international kung fu movie superstar, who starred in films that have grossed more than 20 billion yuan worldwide.
In 1960, he entered the Chinese Drama School to study opera, and entered the film circle as a martial artist.
In 1978, Jackie Chan filmed "Snake-like Executioner" and "Drunken Fist" became popular.
In 1994, he starred in the movie "Red Fan District" after its release in the United States, making it a success in Hollywood.
In 1997, when Hong Kong returned to the motherland, Jiang Zemin called Jackie Chan "Big Brother" when toasting at the banquet, and since then the title of "Big Brother" has become synonymous with Jackie Chan.
In 2006, he was named one of forebes magazine's "Top Ten Charity Stars".
In 2007, Jackie Chan was elected by the South Korean people as one of the "big chinese figures", second only to Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping, ranking third.
August 24, 2012 The New York Times selected the 20 greatest action stars of all time, and Jackie Chan was crowned the first.
In 2013, Jackie Chan was elected as a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
In 2014, Jackie Chan was re-elected president of the Hong Kong Performing Artists Association. Jackie Chan and Zhou Runfa, Zhou Xingchi, and called "double Monday Cheng".
On August 30, 2016, Jackie Chan won the Honorary Award for Lifetime Achievement at the Oscars, the first Chinese to win the award.
On September 30, 2017, the action movie "British Showdown" in which he participated was released in China;
On December 22, 2017, the sci-fi movie "Blood of the Machine" starring him was released in Chinese mainland.
On January 25, 2020, the starring movie "Vanguard" was released, in which he played Tang Huanting.
In addition to his acting career, Jackie Chan is enthusiastic about public welfare undertakings. He became a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in 2004. In 2006, he was named one of forebes magazine's "Top Ten Charity Stars".
3. Yuan Biao
is Xia Lingzhen's stage name, born in Hong Kong on July 26, 1957, is a Hong Kong actor in China.
In 1964, Yuan Biao entered the Chinese Drama Academy opened by Zhan Yuan to study Peking Opera.
In 1967, he began to participate in film and television dramas as a child actor.
From the late 1970s to the 1980s, he often followed his brothers Hong Jinbao and Jackie Chan to make movies.
In 1979, he starred in the action movie "Miscellaneous Boys" and became famous.
In 1983, he won the Best Action Director at the 2nd Hong Kong Film Awards for the film "Loser Boy", and in the same year, he starred in the comedy police film "Plan A".
In 2004, he returned to shoot the film "Naked Boxer".
In 2007, he starred in the TV series "Tongtian Gan Detective".
In 2008, he participated in the mainland TV series "Legend of Shaolin Temple 2".
In 2012, he participated in the TV series "The Legend of Wing Chun".
When he was studying art, Yuan Biao was as light as a swallow, and he could turn over more than twenty heels in one breath, so he was also known as the heel fighting king in the "Seven Little Blessings". Later, Yuan Biao joined Hong Jinbao's Hongjia class, and after a series of movie appearances, Yuan Biao quickly became popular, and even the limelight directly approached Jackie Chan and Hong Jinbao.
4. YuanKui
Born in 1951 in Hong Kong, China, he is an actor, producer, director and action director.
Yuan Kui inherited from the Peking Opera master Yu Zhanyuan with Jackie Chan and Hong Jinbao in his early years, and has been a dragon and tiger martial artist since 1970, serving as a producer, director, action director, etc. He is low-key and rarely appears, and is a practical faction that talks less and does more work and buries his head in work. Dozens of films such as "Fang Shiyu", "Comic Weilong", "Gamble Saint", "New Jingwumen" (Stephen Chow version) and so on are directed by him.
Yuan Kui's less appearance in front of the curtain is more pure than that of other division brothers, he is one of the most famous martial arts instructors in Hong Kong, and has a tacit understanding of cooperation with Liu Zhenwei, the most recent works are "Chibi" and "Love Epilepsy". He has appeared in "New JingwuMen" and "Gamble Saint", but the most memorable line of dialogue about him is the "safety first" that appears in "Fang Shiyu 2".
Yuan Kui has participated in film production for more than thirty years, has served as a producer, director, action director, etc., is a low-key person, is a practical person who talks less and does more work, and buries his head in work. He is Jackie Chan's brother and the leader of Yang Ziqiong's entry into the industry, and has cooperated with Jet Li in many films, with strong responses, including "Fang Shiyu", "Letter to Daddy", etc., and later the two cooperated in Hollywood to shoot "Romeo Must Die" and "Savior". His action directing style was accepted by Hollywood, and he was later filmed in "Extraordinary Traffickers" produced by Luc Besson.
5. Yuanhua
Born on September 2, 1952 in Hong Kong, He is a Hong Kong film and television actor.
In 1972, because of his similar size to Bruce Lee, Yuanhua starred as Bruce Lee's stand-in for the first film "Jingwumen".
In 1973, he again served as Bruce Lee's martial arts stand-in in the action movie "Dragon Fight Tiger Fight" starring Bruce Lee.
In 1978, he played Black Impermanence in the movie "The Legend of Lu Xiaofeng's Embroidery Thief".
In 1985, he starred in the horror movie "Mr. Zombie".
In 2005, he won the Best Supporting Actor Award at the 24th Hong Kong Film Awards, the Best Supporting Actor Award at the 10th Hong Kong Film Golden Bauhinia Awards and the Best Actor Award at the 1st Global Chinese Golden Arts Awards for starring in the action comedy film Kung Fu.
In 2008, he went to Australia to participate in the filming of the movie "Australia's Troubled World".
In 2010, he starred in the horror movie "Zombie New Warrior".
In 2014, he starred in the movie "Taoist Descending the Mountain" directed by Chen Kaige.
In August 2017, the starring movie "Kimchi Loves Crayfish" was released.
Yuanhua is still active in the film and television circle and has great achievements in martial arts instruction.
6. Yuantai
Yuan Tai was a protégé of Yu Zhanyuan
7. Yuan Wu
Yuan Tai and Yuan Wu are now gone.
"Seven Little Blessings" is a Peking Opera, but also a drama class, but also a general term for Yu Zhanyuan's group of proud protégés. Many friends think that "Seven Little Blessings" refers to seven people such as Jackie Chan, but in fact, there are more than one. It turned out that master Yu chose yuanlong, yuanlou, yuanbiao, yuankui, yuanhua, yuanwu and yuantai in a Peking opera performance as the protagonists of "Seven Little Blessings" (Note: Jackie Chan's stage name at that time was Yuan Lou, and Yuanlong was the stage name of master brother Hong Jinbao. Later, when Jackie Chan, who was five years older than Jackie Chan, was about to go out to the film world first, Jackie Chan only topped the name of Yuan Long), because the performance was very successful, Yu Zhanyuan took this opportunity to form a "Seven Little Blessings" drama class, which not only allowed the apprentices to increase their performance experience, but also earned some silver, which is the so-called "one stone and two eagles".
VIII. Yuande
Born on February 6, 1956 in Hong Kong, he is a director, action director and actor. Formerly known as Kong Xiangde, he is the seventy-fifth grandson of Confucius.
1962: Joined the Beipai Drama Class of the Chinese Theatre Academy in Hong Kong founded by Master Zhan Yuan.
1978: Dragon Tiger martial artist and stuntman for various film companies in Hong Kong;
1979: Joined Shaw Brothers Film Company as an actor and deputy action director.
1982: Promoted to Action Director at Shaw Brothers Films;
1985: Joined TVB Hong Kong Limited as a motion director;
1988: Joined Jiahe Film Company as an action director;
1990: Independent martial arts instructor and action director.
Since many years in film, he has participated in the performance of many films and martial arts instruction. Won-deok's first work was "Flying Crane", and he then played the male lead in the kung fu film "Betrayal of the Master".
In 1995, he first directed the tube, shooting SWAT Vanguard. Yuen Tak has been nominated for Best Action Design at the Hong Kong Film Awards ten times, including the Best Action Design Award at the 13th Hong Kong Film Awards in 1994 for "Fang Shiyu".
He has starred in many movies, "Rats and Dragons", "SWAT Vanguard", "Myth", "Fortuna Inn" have wonderful performances.
Nowadays, Yuande has faded out of the film and television circle.
9. Yuanbin
Born in 1954, originally from Shanghai, he is a Martial Arts Instructor and Director in Hong Kong.
In 1992, he won the Golden Horse Award for Best Martial Arts Design with "New Dragon Gate Inn", in 2012 he won the Golden Horse Award for Best Action Design with "Dragon Gate Flying Armor", and in 2015, he won the Golden Horse Award and the Golden Horse Award for "One Man's Martial Arts" and "Wise Tiger Mountain".
10. Yuan Qiu
Born in Hong Kong in 1950, she is an actress in a martial arts film in Hong Kong, China.
In the autumn of 1967, he began to enter the film industry as a stand-in.
In 1974, he participated in the movie "Donkey Kong vs. The Golden Gunner". In 1978, he starred in the action movie "Five Disciples".
In 2004, after 18 years of filming, he was repeatedly invited by Stephen Chow to return to the movie "Kung Fu", and won the Best Supporting Actress at the 42nd Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards and the Best Supporting Actress at the 28th Hundred Flowers Awards for Popular Films for playing the role of Chartered Wife in the film.
In 2008, he starred in the film "Peach Blossom Luck" directed by Ma Liwen.
In 2010, she played Miao Cuihua in the kung fu comedy "Gestapo Hero Fang Shiyu".
In 2013, he made a cameo appearance in the costume comedy "Dragon Gate Dart Game".
11. Yuanbao
Hong Kong martial arts actor, martial arts director, action director.
He has worked in Hong Kong TVB for nearly 30 years, participating in the production and acting as a martial arts director and action director to shoot nearly 100 film and television works such as "Shi Gongqi Case", "Chu Liuxiang", "Sister of the Gun", "Wuzun Shaolin", "Shanghai Beach", "Foshan Zanshi", "Su Qi'er", "Divine Eagle Hero", "Sun moon Sword", "Southern Fist and North Leg", "Yitian Slaughtering Dragon" and so on.
XII. Yuan Jun
Born in Taiwan in 1955, his original name was "Wu Jimin", his stage name was "Wu Yuanjun", also known as "Yuanjun".
After completing his master's degree, Yuanjun also followed his brothers to do martial arts in Shaw, Jiahe and other film companies, and in 1974, he was photographed by a television director, signed a contract with a television station, and from then on, officially became an actor, host, and singer.
In 1978, at the invitation of director Roma, he joined the Hong Kong Shaw Film Company as an actor. At the end of the 1970s, Shaw Company reduced production, Yuan Jun left Shaw Company, went to Taiwan to develop, in addition to movies, also signed as an actor of Taiwan China Television Company.
In 1987, At the invitation of Shi Asia Television (Former Beauty Television), Yuan Jun returned to Hong Kong to develop again, changed his drama path, played the role of a major villain, and received great acclaim, and then transformed from a child into a character actor, and performed back and forth between Hong Kong and Taiwan.
In 1996, Yuan Jun briefly left the show business circle and did business in Taiwan, until 2001, at the invitation of Singapore Television Station, performed (ice sweeper) and returned to the show business circle again, after which he also studied Hokkien language bitterly, participated in Taiwan's Daai Television, folk television, Taiwan Television, and participated in performances with his own voice.
In 2007, under the introduction of his sister Yuan qiu, he participated in the domestic TV series "Shu Jian En Vengeance" for the first time, then settled in Beijing, and now in addition to acting in film and television, he has also entered the background, began to work as an action director in the film in 2011, and will participate in the work of director and producer in the future, hoping to make a little contribution to the show business circle with what he has learned all his life.
XIII. Yuanqing
Yuan Qing is Yuan Heping, born in Guangzhou, action director and director.
In October 1962, he participated in the movie "The Legend of the White Snake" and entered the show business as an actor.
In 1970, he first served as an action director for the action film Crazy Killer.
In 1978, he directed the action film "Drunken Fist" and was nominated for Best Feature Film at the 16th Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards.
In 1982, he was nominated for Best Action Direction at the 2nd Hong Kong Film Awards for his action film "Qimen Dunjia".
In 1992, he won the Best Action Director at the 12th Hong Kong Film Awards for his action film "Wong Fei Hung No.2 Boy When He Strengthens Himself".
In 1996, he was nominated for Best Action Direction at the 16th Hong Kong Film Awards for the action film Black Man.
In 1999, he gained attention as an action director for the science fiction film The Matrix.
In 2000, he won the best action director at the 20th Hong Kong Film Awards and the best action design at the 37th Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards for his martial arts film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
In 2004, he won the Best Action Design at the 24th Hong Kong Film Awards for his action comedy Kung Fu.
In 2008, he served as the action director of the action film "The King of Kung Fu".
In 2013, he won the Best Action Design at the 33rd Hong Kong Film Awards for his kung fu film "Generation Grandmaster".
In 2014, he filmed the costume action film "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2".
In 2015, he served as the action director of the action film "Ip Man 3".
On May 6, 2020, he won the Best Action Design at the 39th Hong Kong Film Awards for "Ip Man 4 Epilogue".
14. Yuan Zhen
This person has disappeared.
Some people say that it is Korean actor Kim Won Won, who mistakenly thinks that he and Won Kyu and Won Biao are brothers, but in fact they have no relationship.