"Qiao's Courtyard" is a business war drama directed by Hu Mei, starring Chen Jianbin, Jiang Qinqin, Ma Yili, Ni Dahong, Juanzi, Lei Kesheng and so on. The drama began filming on March 3, 2005, and premiered on CCTV on February 13, 2006, with a total of 45 episodes, and has since been broadcast in Taiwan and South Korea. The plot background of this play is the story of the Qiao family of the Jin merchant family in Qi County, Shanxi, during the Xianfeng to Guangxu period in the late Qing Dynasty.
"Qiao's Compound"
In 2007, "Qiao's Courtyard" won the 2006 Chinese mainland TV series ratings champion at the 3rd TV Series Festival. In 2007, the play won the first prize of the 26th China TV Drama Feitian Award for Outstanding Long-form TV Series, and the 10th Wuyi Project Award for Outstanding TV Series.
Synopsis:
In the early years of Qingxianfeng, Qiao Zhiguang, the big owner of the Qiao family in Shanxi, failed in business and died of serious illness. Qiao Zhiyong (played by Chen Jianbin), the second young master of the Qiao family who went to Taiyuan to take the imperial examination, was urgently recalled to inherit the family business, but Qiao Zhiyong took over the mess left by his eldest brother, shareholders and merchants came to the door to ask for stock silver and payment, at the time of crisis, not only were the merchants willing to borrow money to help the Qiao family tide over the difficulties, but they all spied on the Qiao family's industry waiting for the opportunity to divide.
Qiao Zhiyong used the only remaining silver in the family to arrange the funeral for Qiao Zhiguang in a big way, which temporarily soothed the noise of shareholders and merchants, and also bought a little buffer time for the Qiao family.
Qiao Zhiyong met Sun Maocai (played by Ni Dahong), a poor talent full of scheming when he was rushing for the exam in Taiyuan, and Sun Maocai proposed to Qiao Zhiyong to mortgage his ancestral home cheaply, which became a turning point for the future comeback of the Qiao family.
In order to save the bankruptcy crisis of the Qiao family, Qiao Zhiyong had to give up his marriage contract with his childhood sweetheart, and they used the silver of the mortgaged ancestral home to marry Lu Yuhan (played by Jiang Qinqin), the daughter of Lu Dake (played by Lei Kesheng), nicknamed "Shanxi's first pick", with this relationship, Qiao Zhiyong actually borrowed funds from the iron rooster Lu Dake.
"Qiao's Compound"
Because Qiao Zhiyong's bold style did not play cards according to the rules, but these business veterans could not resist, and finally Qiao Zhiyong defeated Da Shengchang, who had killed Qiao's family, and turned his fight with him.
In the face of traditional bad habits such as deceiving merchants by various semicolons, Qiao Zhiyong made drastic personnel changes and formulated new store rules, which gradually expanded into a business order headed by "integrity". Qiao Zhiyong won the support and trust of all merchants and shareholders in Baotou with "righteousness, faith and profit", and the business of the Qiao family regained vitality.
"Qiao's Compound"
Qiao Zhiyong accidentally bought a map of a century-old trade route from a man named Huazi, and after diving into research, found that the tea road that had been blocked for many years due to the Taiping Army chaos contained huge business opportunities. Ignoring the strong opposition of his family, Qiao Zhiyong ventured to Wuyishan, Fujian, and after returning to Shanxi, he went north to Kyakhta until he reached the Sino-Russian border, and signed a long-term cooperative trade contract with Russian businessmen with the help of "righteousness, faith, and profit". At this point, the tea road that had been blocked for many years from Wuyi Mountain in the south to Kyakhta in the north was dredged by Qiao Zhiyong, and tens of millions of tea farmers were also saved.
In the process of selling tea and exchanging silver tickets, the convenience and speed of using silver tickets made Qiao Zhiyong have a strong interest in ticket numbers. After some understanding, Qiao Zhiyong resolutely went to Beijing despite Sun Maocai's strong opposition, tried his best to overcome the difficulties, opened a ticket number, and put forward the slogan of "connecting the world, connecting goods to the world".
"Qiao's Compound"
However, Qiao Zhiyong's secret burial of the generals of the Taiping Army put him in prison, and the imperial court ordered Qiao Zhiyong to be banned and asked for a huge amount of silver taels, after which Qiao Zhiyong converged and stayed at home for ten years. After the Taiping Army was pacified, the imperial court's blockade order against Qiao Zhiyong was lifted, and Qiao Zhiyong still maintained his life, and in a wave of disaster victims, Qiao Zhiyong resolutely decided to open a porridge farm for 100,000 hungry people with his family's wealth.
"Qiao's Compound"
In 1900, the eight-nation coalition army captured the capital, Empress Dowager Cixi (played by Lü Zhong) fled in a hurry, and Qiao Zhiyong fled despite everyone's opposition and donated silver to the Manchu Qing court. This move made Cixi understand the convenience of Huitong Yinliang, so Cixi lifted the ban on foreign exchange of official banks by businesses in various places, and the Qiao family's business has been prospering since then, and he finally realized the dream of "Huitong the world, goods to the world".
1, Qiao Zhiyong (played by Chen Jianbin): Born in the Qiao family in Qi County, Shanxi, he originally wanted to apply what he learned and serve the country, but due to the sudden death of his eldest brother, he was ordered to write and engage in business. During this period, he experienced many ups and downs, and was persecuted by his peers and the imperial court. Just for the two things of saving 100,000 disaster victims and raising food and grass for the imperial court, Qiao Zhiyong almost lost his family twice. In order to achieve universal convergence, he had to obey the arrangement of the imperial court and put himself under house arrest in his hometown in Shanxi for twenty years, and his beloved wife who had been with him for sixty years suddenly passed away, which made him feel that there was nothing worth nostalgic in the world anymore, and he died abruptly after thanking Jiang Xueying, the lover who loved him all his life and hated him all his life.
Chen Jianbin (born June 27, 1970), a native of Urumqi, Xinjiang, actor and director, graduated from the acting department of the Central Academy of Drama. In 2010, he played the role of Cao Cao in the drama "New Three Kingdoms", which was widely praised at home and abroad, and won the Taiwan Golden Horse Award for Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, and Best New Director in 2014, breaking the record of awards in the history of the Golden Horse Awards.
Chen Jianbin, Jiang Qinqin
Chen Jianbin graduated from the Performance Department of the Central Academy of Drama in 1994 with a bachelor's degree, and in 1998, he graduated from the Performance Department of the Central Academy of Drama with a master's degree.
In 2002, he entered the National Theatre of China. In 2003, Chen Jianbin starred in "Ten Years of Marriage", which won the Outstanding Actor Award at the 24th TV Feitian Awards and the Most Loved Actor Award at the 5th Golden Eagle Festival.
In 2006, with "Qiao's Courtyard", he won the China TV Golden Eagle Award for the audience's favorite TV series actor again.
In 2010, Chen Jianbin played the role of Cao Cao in the drama "New Three Kingdoms", which was widely praised at home and abroad, and won the Best Actor Award at the 1st Asian Rainbow Awards in Hong Kong.
In 2011, Chen Jianbin played the Yongzheng Emperor in "The Legend of Zhen Huan in the Harem".
Chen Jianbin played the Yongzheng Emperor in "The Legend of Zhen Huan in the Harem"
In 2014, Chen Jianbin won the 51st Golden Horse Awards for Best Actor and Best New Director for his self-written, self-directed and self-acted film "A Spoon", and won the Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actor for the movie "Military Paradise" (as Sea Dragon Non-commissioned Officer Zhang Yongshan), becoming the first winner in the history of the Golden Horse Awards to win the Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor and Best New Director Awards at the same time.
He is currently the vice chairman of the Actors Working Committee of the China Television Artists Association.
In 2006, Chen Jianbin married Jiang Qinqin.
2, Lu Yuhan (played by Jiang Qinqin): Beautiful but not ostentatious, scheming but also kind. She knows how to do business, and her abacus is better than Mr. Accounting Office, but she is willing to be the little woman behind Qiao Zhiyong. She dares to love and hate, dare to be daring, it was her own secret marriage, and when she got married, she found that she broke the good marriage between Qiao Zhiyong and Jiang Xueying, but she was able to turn things around and win Qiao Zhiyong's recognition step by step.
Jiang Qinqin (born September 3, 1975) is an actress from Chongqing. In 1994, he was admitted to the Beijing Film Academy with the first place in the country. After graduating in 1998, he worked in Beijing Film Studio.
In 1992, Jiang Qinqin played the role of Mei Guanyin in the TV series "Mei State Guanyin" filmed by Chongqing TV, and staged his debut film in his screen career at the age of 16. In 1994, he was admitted to the acting department of Beijing Film Academy with the first place in the national art category, graduated in 1998, and became popular after filming Qiong Yao's drama "There Are Tears in the Sky" in 1998, and got the stage name "Water Spirit" by Qiong Yao, and developed in Taiwan in the early years with Shui Ling as a stage name.
Jiang Qinqin in "Kangxi Microservice Private Interview"
Although Jiang Qinqin has played many gentle and gentle "jade girl" roles, she actually has a hearty personality. His specialty is Peking Opera, especially Wu Dan in Peking Opera.
In 2002, writer Zhang Ailing's work "Half Life" was made into a TV series, and 26-year-old Jiang Qinqin played Gu Manlu.
Jiang Qinqin and actor Chen Jianbin met because of their collaboration in the TV series "Qiao's Courtyard" broadcast in 2005. On February 22, 2006, the two received only a marriage certificate but did not hold a wedding, and now they have two sons.
Jiang Qinqin and his son
In 2014, Jiang Qinqin accompanied Chen Jianbin to Taiwan to participate in the 51st Golden Horse Awards, Chen Jianbin went on stage three times to receive the award, Jiang Qinqin cried three times in the audience, and she also came on stage as a wife to thank Chen Jianbin when he received the actor award.
Because Chen Jianbin played the Yongzheng Emperor in "The Legend of Zhen Huan in the Harem", and Jiang Qinqin's face was considered to be somewhat similar to Sun Li, many Chinese mainland netizens jokingly called Jiang Qinqin Empress Chunyuan with the title of Yongzheng Emperor in the play.
3, Jiang Xueying (played by Ma Yili): A woman who dares to love and hate, but also a woman who has been ruined by love. The inability to stay with the man she loved for the rest of her life was due to the situation at the time, but since then she has lived in pain, desolation, and loneliness all her life, but it is her own choice. Because of love, she used the huge financial resources of the He family to oppose Qiao Zhiyong everywhere in business, and even took the opportunity to denounce Qiao Zhiyong and put Qiao Zhiyong into the heavenly prison, and finally although she took three million taels of silver to rescue Qiao Zhiyong, the Qiao family had to pay 1.5 million taels of silver to the imperial court every year.
Ma Yili (born June 29, 1976), born in Shanghai, graduated from the undergraduate class of the acting department of Shanghai Theater Academy. In 2003, he was known to the public for his role as Ziwei in the third part of the TV series "Huan Zhu Gege". In 2007, he starred in the youth inspirational TV series "Struggle" directed by Zhao Baogang and became famous. 2011 Chinese Opera Festival won the best actress in 2011.
Ma Yili
Ma Yili and her actor husband Wen met in the crew of the TV series "Jinyiwei", married in 2008, and the two had a daughter, Wen Junzhu. In March 2014, the underground affair between the article and actor Yao Di was exposed. In the early morning of March 31, the article published a statement apology on his personal Weibo, saying that he had failed Ma Yili and his children, his family, and his husband and father. In the Weibo chapter Chinese, he wrote that he would make up for the harm he had caused to his family and implied that he would not divorce. Almost at the same time, Ma Yili also posted a short Weibo, saying that "although love is easy, marriage is not easy, and it is okay and cherished". On July 28, 2019, Ma Yili and the article officially divorced.
Ma Yili, article
4, Sun Maocai (played by Ni Dahong): extremely smart, intelligent comparable to Qiao Zhiyong, at first a poor scholar who sold peanuts and rice in the Gongyuan, and Qiao Zhiyong saw each other, like-minded, and made great contributions to the prosperity of the Qiao family's business. But because of his momentary greed, he wanted to marry the sister-in-law who was regarded as his mother by Qiao Zhiyong, and then obtain half of the Qiao family's property, and was swept away by the Qiao family. After that, he was extremely unintelligent to find Cui Mingshi, who had always been against Qiao Zhiyong in business, and wanted to find a career, but Cui Mingshi unceremoniously refused and fell into the street. Later, he became a member of the Criminal Department, and even presided over the case of Qiao Zhiyong's arrest after trying to obtain a home property from the imperial court. After the eldest grandmother committed suicide, he fled away and finally died in a foreign land.
Ni Dahong (born April 18, 1960), born Ni Jianhong, actor. Ni Dahong graduated from the Central Academy of Drama in 1986 and is an actor of the National Theatre of China. Mostly starred as a supporting actor. His wife Ni Wei is also a film and television drama producer and the cousin-in-law of host Ni Ping (Fuyang Asia).
In 1985, Ni Dahong cooperated with Tang Guoqiang to shoot the movie "Garland Under the Mountain". In 2007, with the role of Sun Maocai in the TV series "Qiao's Courtyard", he won the Best Supporting Actor Award at the 3rd TV Series Festival. In 2010, he participated in the TV series "Three Kingdoms" and played Sima Yi. In 2012, he won the 14th Golden Phoenix Award of the China Film Performing Arts Society for his role as Xiao An's father in the movie "Border Storm".
Su Daqiang played by Ni Dahong
In June 2019, Ni Dahong won the Best Actor Award at the 25th Shanghai TV Festival Magnolia Award for his role as Su Daqiang, the "fine father" in the family drama "It's All Very Good".
5, Lu Dake (played by Lei Kesheng), the first in Shanxi, but when his son-in-law Qiao Zhiyong was imprisoned, he took out all his property to rescue his son-in-law.
Lei Kesheng (born February 21, 1936), a native of Muping, Shandong, is an actor in drama, film and TV dramas, and a member of the China Drama Association. First-class actor, enjoying the special allowance of the State Council of the People's Republic of China.
Lei Kesheng was admitted to the Central Academy of Drama in 1956 and graduated from the acting department in 1960. In the same year, he worked as an actor at the Central Experimental Theater. He has starred in more than 200 roles in dramas such as "One Servant and Two Masters", "In the Silence", "The True Story of A Q", "The Merry Wives of Windsor", "Teahouse", "Thunderstorm", "Sunrise", "Beijinger", etc., and has created more than 200 characters.
Lei Kesheng and Song Dandan sketch "Blind Date of Lazy Men"
In 1984, he played a farmer in Chen Kaige's "Yellow Earth". He has participated in other films such as "Four Crossings of Red Water", "The Cabin Full of Vines", "The Sinking of the Rybilly in the Indian Ocean", "Fragrant Soul Girl", "Silly Hat Manager", "Qiu Ju Fights Lawsuits", "Back to Back, Face to Face", etc., and TV series include "Zhen San", "Aquarius Zangjiao" and so on. He has won many awards such as the Magnolia Award and the Academy Award.
6, Cao Yuezhi (played by Juanzi): Cao Yuezhi is the grandmother of the Qiao family, she is a good hand at housework, and after the death of her husband Qiao Zhiguang, she resolutely let Qiao Zhiyong be in charge. But after seeing Sun Maocai, her mental activity was severely reprimanded by Qiao Zhiyong. Perhaps guilty, after Qiao Zhiyong was imprisoned and Sun Maocai proposed to let Qiao Zhiyong go on the condition of marrying her, Cao Yuezhi ignored worldly gossip and married Sun Maocai at the age of fifty. Finally, on the night of spending candlelight in the cave room with Sun Maocai, he committed suicide by taking poison.
Zhao Lijuan (born November 9, 1965), a native of Beijing, from Shenyang, Liaoning, stage name Juanzi, graduated from the Central Academy of Drama, film and television actor.
Zhao Lijuan
In 1997, Zhao Lijuan participated in Qiong Yao's TV series "Huan Zhu Gege", playing "Concubine Ling". In 1998, he won the "Audience's Favorite Actor" of the 2000 China TV Golden Eagle Award for his TV series "Beijing Woman". In 2006, he played the role of big grandmother Cao Yuezhi in the TV series "Qiao's Courtyard" directed by Hu Mei. In 2014, he participated in the TV series "The Child Returns to China". In 2019, the urban emotional light comedy "Love" was broadcast. In 2020, the urban love entrepreneurial drama "I'm Waiting for You in Beijing" will be broadcast.
Zhao Lijuan's husband is also an insider, a producer, named Zhang Mingming, the couple met because of the play, and then got a license to get married.
7, Cui'er (played by Gong Jie)
Gong Jie, born in Shanghai, is a mainland actress and host, graduated from the art department of Shanghai Theater Academy. In 2005, he participated in the costume drama "Qiao's Courtyard" directed by Hu Mei. In 2011, he participated in the main theme TV series "Open the World", playing Deng Yingchao in the play. In 2012, he participated in the "Light of Dreams" singing group launched by Japan's Lin International Group, and won the Excellence Award in the 10th National "Harbin Medicine Six Cup" Young Singer TV Grand Prix of CCTV. In 2013, she won the Best Actress Award at the Macao International Television Festival for her role as Bian in the costume TV series "Cao Cao".
Gong Jie
8, Changshun (played by Zhang Yi)
Zhang Yi (born February 17, 1978), originally from Harbin, is a mainland film and television actor. Zhang Yifei made his debut and served in the Comrades-in-Arms Repertory Troupe of the Political Department of the Beijing Military Region from 1997 to 2006.
In 2005, Zhang Yi played the stuttering servant Changshun in the TV series "Qiao's Courtyard" directed by Hu Mei.
In 2006, starring in the military inspirational TV series "Soldier Assault" written by Lan Xiaolong and directed by Kang Honglei, Zhang Yi played Shi Jin, a peasant family and a strong squad leader.
Zhang Yi plays Stuttering Changshun
In March 2009, Zhang Yi cooperated with Lan Xiaolong screenwriter and director Kang Honglei to star in the anti-Japanese war drama "My Regiment Commander My Regiment" adapted from the history of military-civilian joint resistance against Japanese invaders across China, playing Meng who came from an intellectual family but always loved to use poisonous language, Zhang Yi won the honor of "the most deeply rooted TV image" in the 2009 China TV list for this role.
In 2012, he won the Golden Lion Award for Chinese Drama for his drama "Me and My Classmates". In 2015, he won the Best Supporting Actor Award at the 30th Chinese Film Golden Rooster Awards for his performance in the movie "Dear". In 2017, he won the Best Actor Award of the China Film Directors Association and the Best Actor Award of the 24th Beijing College Student Film Festival for the movie "The Chaser"; In 2017, he won the Best Actor Award at the 23rd Shanghai TV Festival Magnolia Award for his TV series "Chicken Feathers Fly to the Sky", the 12th China Golden Eagle TV Art Festival and the 29th China TV Golden Eagle Award for Audience Favorite Actor Award. He is also the author of the essay collection "Unreliable Actors Love to Say If".
Zhang Yi won the award
His wife is Qian Linlin, host of "Kyushu Art Garden" and "Car Melody" of the Central People's Radio.