In the blink of an eye, Shandong actor Yu Chenghui, who played the villain Wang Renze in the 82nd version of "Shaolin Temple", has been dead for 6 years. Some people say that the current jianghu has become very small, living like a film and television city, the people in the play have taken off their costumes, and none of them are real heroes. When Yu Chenghui died, he received the honorific title of "China's Last Sword Saint".
For thousands of years, there have been very few people who can be called "holy", which shows his honor, and he really deserves this glory. Yu Chenghui is not only famous for the drunken sword in "Shaolin Temple", as early as 1975, he based on the traditional sword method mantis sword, and incorporated a variety of sword methods, restoring the action essentials of the "two-handed sword".
Hold a sword with both hands together, because the two hands are held together, fast, powerful, more destructive and ornamental. This set of sword techniques danced with great momentum, quite a worldly high-ranking demeanor, combined with Chenghui's white hair and long beard, it was even more full of fairy wind Dao bones.
Some experts once commented that the old man's move was "sword body unity, body technique is exquisite". In today's film and television dramas and martial arts competitions, the most common is the one-handed sword, if it is not known as "martial fool" Yu Chenghui's dedicated research, we will not see the style of the two-handed sword at all.
Born in 1939 in Penglai, Shandong Province, Yu Chenghui claimed to have been energetic and participated in various sports activities since childhood, but because of his mischievousness, he was sent to the Qingdao Martial Arts School by his father. In the era when there were few entertainment projects, Yu Chenghui listened to many martial arts stories in the commentaries, and the morality and spirit of the Oriental chivalry were deeply rooted in his heart.
In the words of martial arts novels, Yu Chenghui is a natural martial arts wizard, at the age of 19, he won the Qingdao all-round martial arts championship, was selected into the martial arts team of Shandong Provincial Sports College, and won the east China wushu championship in 1963 with a set of "drunken swords". Although he is strong in martial arts, Yu Chenghui never takes the initiative to find someone to fight, in order to show how good his kung fu is.
Unfortunately, Yu Chenghui injured his knee during a daily training and had to retire from the martial arts team and transfer to Shandong Huangtai Paper Mill to do heavy work.
However, Yu Chenghui still did not give up learning martial arts, and in his spare time he still plunged into the study of martial arts, and finally restored the mantis two-handed sword method in 1975. In 1979, in order to make the two-handed sword more recognized by more people, Yu Chenghui went to participate in the national martial arts competition, and sure enough, the two-handed sword was shocked by the four seats, and also stunned the Hong Kong director Zhang Xinyan, who was searching for martial arts elites for "Shaolin Temple".
This year, Yu Chenghui is already 40 years old, bent on making greater achievements in martial arts, and feels that it is not necessary for him to enter the film and television industry at such an old age. But under Zhang Xinyan's soft and hard bubble, he still accepted the invitation of "Shaolin Temple" and entered the new world of martial arts movies.
At that time, "Shaolin Temple" can be said to have truly gathered martial arts masters from all over the country, Yu Chenghui and Yu Hai, Jet Li, Ji Chunhua, Wang Changkai and others trained in Zhengzhou, received special training, observed Hong Kong and Taiwan martial arts films, and listened to the director explain the plot...
The exchange between the masters and the sincerity of the crew for the shooting made Yu Chenghui decide to make movies as a cause to spread martial arts culture.
In order to pursue the truth, all the martial arts actions of "Shaolin Temple" are negotiated by the actors in advance, which has both strength and artistic beauty, and is also a real master competition, which was very popular after the release, setting a box office record of 160 million with a ticket price of 1 cent. Yu Chenghui, who plays the villain Wang Renze, has become a household star together with the shepherd girl Ding Lan and the little monk Jet Li.
In 1983, Yu Chenghui also starred in the TV series "WuSong" in the Russian Zhang Tuanlian, and also served as the martial arts action design for the first three episodes. After filming, Yu Chenghui wrote the article "Martial Arts is a Lyrical Means", which proved that the colorful film and television circle did not let Yu Chenghui forget his mission to carry forward martial arts, and he did not want to let martial arts degenerate into a pale fight and kill.
In 1984, the original team of "Shaolin Temple" gathered again and filmed the sister story "Shaolin Kid". Through this film, Hong Kong Shaw Film Company invited Yu Chenghui and Jet Li to shoot Liu Jialiang's "North and South Shaolin", which is also the only in-depth contact between Yu Chenghui and Hong Kong martial arts films.
In 1988, Zhang Xinyan took Yu Chenghui as the protagonist and tailored "Yellow River Hero", which is Yu Chenghui's real masterpiece. In this movie, Yu Chenghui played the style of the hero who serves the country and the people, and he bears the image of a martial arts master who stands proudly by the river, which makes martial arts movie fans still unforgettable.
Different from the filming of "Shaolin Temple", when the director asked him to make a fancy appearance, Yu Chenghui directly asked the director whether you were shooting a big hero or a small hero, and he thought that these superfluous actions would actually destroy the "potential" of the big hero when he made a move. His bluntness eventually got the director to accept his opinion. For Seung-hye, kung fu has never been a flower rack.
In 1993, Yu Chenghui personally wrote and designed "The Legend of the Hero of Donggui" was released. Since then, Yu Chenghui has gradually faded out of the screen and turned to the film behind the scenes. Compared with the classic roles he portrayed on the screen, the action design designed by Yu Chenghui is also amazing.
During the filming of "Sad Brooke", Yu Chenghui was inspired by the drinking posture of the local herders and designed the drunken horse shot. The scene of men galloping on the prairie while drinking wine, and falling on horseback without falling off the horse, is both exotic and dashing.
In "The Legend of the Hero of Donggui", in order to present the real visual effect, Yu Chenghui gave up the tightrope via, and through various accurate calculations, the real-time cavalry fell from the broken bridge into the canyon rapids, and at the same time ensured the safety of the actors. Sure enough, this scene was thrilling and daunting.
Unfortunately, a kung fu superstar like Yu Chenghui did not appear in the heyday of Hong Kong martial arts movies.
Legend has it that when filming "North and South Shaolin", the film company treated the mainland and Hong Kong staff disparity, which made Jet Li very angry, and then directed himself to act in "Chinese Heroes", if there is indeed a thing, the reason why Yu Chenghui is reluctant to appear in the Hong Kong film industry can also be imagined.
It's just a pity that in the martial arts jianghu of the ghost Talent Xu Ke, there is one less true martial arts master.
Yu Chenghui's reappearance in front of the audience is already a new millennium later. He has played the worldly masters and grandmaster heroes in Jin Yong and Gulong martial arts novels, Feng Qingyang in "Laughing proud of the rivers and lakes", Mei Niansheng in "Lian cheng tips", Huang Yaoshi in "Divine Eagle Heroes", Fu Qing lord in "Seven Swords Under the Heavenly Mountain"... He is also ip man in The Legend of Bruce Lee.
It wasn't until 2011, when martial arts novelist Xu Haofeng began filming his first film, The Trail of Wokou, that the 72-year-old Yu Chenghui officially returned to the big screen.
When filming "The Trail of Wokou", Yu Chenghui's sword was not old, or he did not have to hang Wei ya, and personally went to the battlefield to show his true kung fu. There were many young martial artists at the scene who wanted to practice martial arts with him, but they were all put down by him one by one.
In the film, Qiu Dongyue, played by Yu Chenghui, is free in the rice field, which has also become a classic famous scene in the film. Whether it is "The Trail of Wu Kou" or "The Arrow Soldier Liu Bai Ape", Yu Chenghui can be called a double cultivation of literature and martial arts, not only the hardcore of martial arts, but also very delicate when interpreting literary drama, and the emotions are in place.
Xu Haofeng once invited Yu Chenghui to make 10 movies, but when it came to the third "Master", Yu Chenghui declined Xu Haofeng's good intentions, because he felt that he was a true actor and could not play too many roles with too many intentions.
Rather than chasing fame and fortune, Yu Chenghui was fascinated by martial arts all his life and was particularly obsessed with swords. He not only studied swordsmanship, but also wrote many related articles, some of which were included in national martial arts textbooks. In his heart, the sword is the most representative of Chinese Zen, when the sword is drawn, the momentum is like a rainbow, and the quiet appreciation of the sword can feel the auspicious atmosphere.
He did not want the audience to think that martial arts was to fight and kill, and that the purpose of martial arts of justice and peace was the connotation he wanted to promote.
In Western culture, superheroes save the world; and the down-to-earth Chinese in the face of evil and injustice, they will rely on a chivalrous warrior in the pile of mortals, draw a sword to help each other, and eliminate harm for the people. The core of martial arts culture also comes from this, and the essence of martial arts should also be to promote justice, to meet friends with martial arts, to subdue people with virtue, and to impress with kindness, rather than becoming a tool for demonstration.
Gu Long said that the real big people look ordinary. Although in his later years, Yu Chenghui had become a respected master of swordsmanship, he remained low-key and did not seek fame.
Nowadays, there are still many people who love the martial arts jianghu, the special effects of martial arts movies are changing with each passing day, but it is difficult to climb the peak, and countless jumping beam clowns have emerged in the martial arts world. If there is still a small piece of pure land that can be called "wulin" in contemporary times, Yu Chenghui is a chivalrous warrior who has lived in that modern jianghu, he is gone, and the jianghu is gone.