When it comes to Chinese movies, you can't get around Hong Kong movies, and when you mention Hong Kong movies, you can't get around Jackie Chan, Hong Jinbao, Yuan Heping, and when you mention Jackie Chan, Hong Jinbao, Yuan Heping can't get around the "Seven Little Blessings".
"Seven Little Blessings" is the general name for the drama class of the Chinese Drama Studies Academy opened in Hong Kong in the 1960s by the peking opera mingwu sheng (1905-1997). The name "Seven Little Blessings".
Yu Zhanyuan
(Kwan Andh Jeong-leung and Lin Jeong-young were also his students.)
Seven little blessings
In 1971, due to the downturn in opera, Yu Zhanyuan dissolved the Chinese Theater Research Academy (Qixiaofu Opera Class), and the Brothers of qixiaofu and brothers each made a living.
With the passage of time, Yuan Jun, Yuan Tai, Yuan Wu disappeared in the early 1980s, Yuan Zhen, Yuan Bao, etc. were only unknown in the film industry, while Hong Jinbao (Yuan Long), Jackie Chan (Yuan Lou), Yuan Biao, Yuan Kui, Yuan Hua, Yuan De, Yuan Bin seven people became the outstanding figures in today's Hong Kong film industry, "Seven Little Blessings" naturally specific to the seven of them. （
The following xiaobian introduces you to the "seven small blessings".
1, Jackie Chan
Jackie Chan (Yuan Lou) was born in 1954, formerly known as Chen Gangsheng, in 1961 to study with Yu Zhanyuan, in 1971, Jackie Chan began to work as a martial artist, in Shaw's role as a dragon runner, the film "Jingwumen" was beaten and kicked by Bruce Lee, the Japanese ronin is Jackie Chan (Suzuki's stand-in). In 1975, Xintiandi Company was established and signed a contract with Jackie Chan, and he changed from a martial artist and a stand-in to a film protagonist. But it wasn't until 1978 that Jackie Chan became popular with "Drunken Fist".
He also won the Oscar Lifetime Achievement Award (the first Chinese to win the award). He was named the first of the "20 Greatest Action Movie Stars in History" by the New York Times, and his starring films have accumulated more than 25 billion yuan in the world, and the films starring Jackie Chan have won the annual box office championship in Hong Kong seven times, won the global box office championship of Chinese films 17 times, and were rated as "the actors with the most stunts" by the Guinness Book of World Records. The film awards and accolades he has received are numerous.
2, Hong Jinbao
Hong Jinbao (Yuan Long) was born in 1952, studied under Yu Zhanyuan in 1958, entered the film circle as a child star in 1961, entered Shaw Pictures in 1966 as a martial arts instructor for the martial arts film "Drunken Man", in the early 1970s, Hong Jinbao set up an action movie team of Hong Jiaban, Peng Yuyan, Lin Zhengying, Yuan Biao, YuanHua, Zeng Zhiwei, Chen Long, Chen Huiyi, Di Wei, Zou Zhaolong and other stars are from Hong Jiaban. Known as "China's best action design first person"
Hong Jinbao has participated in more than 200 films, and the director has more than 40 films, "Game of Death" (one of the directors), "Plan A", "Dragon Drama Phoenix", "Summer Lucky Star", "Fuxing Gaozhao", "Rich Train", "A Knife Falling City", "The Demon Sect Leader of the Dragon Slayer", "Huang Feihong's Lion of the Western Regions" and so on are all works directed by him. As many as 80 or 90 works have been directed as an action director, and he has won the Best Action Design Award many times. In 1980, he self-directed and self-wrote the zombie film "Ghost Fights Ghosts", which was the pioneering work of Hong Kong zombie films.
3, Yuan Biao
Yuan Biao, formerly known as Xia Lingzhen, was born in 1957, and when he was 7 years old, Xia Lingzhen entered the Chinese Theater Academy in Zhanyuan to study Peking Opera, taking the stage name "Yuan Biao". In 1967, he began to participate in film and television dramas, and participated in Bruce Lee's "Jingwumen" and "Dragon Fight tiger fight". Yuan Biao is the closest seven little blessings to Hong Jinbao, Jackie Chan, who became famous in 1980 starring in the action movie "Miscellaneous Family Boy" directed by Hong Jinbao. In the 70s and 80s of the last century, Yuan Biao often appeared in the films of Jackie Chan or Hong Jinbao, and the three brothers also co-produced many films, such as the "Five Lucky Stars" series, "Plan A", "Fast Food Truck", "Flying Dragon" and other works.
While acting in film and television, Yuan Biao also did action design "Huang Feihong's Ghost Foot Seven", "Five Lucky Stars of Strange Tricks", "New Shushan Swordsman", "Loser Boy", "Tibet Kid", "New Dragon Gate Inn", etc. Yuan Biao won the Best Action Director of the Hong Kong Film Awards twice and the Best Martial Arts Director of the Golden Horse Awards of Taiwan Film once.
4, Yuan Kui
Yuankui, formerly known as Yin Yuankui, born in 1951, in 1970 Yuankui debuted as a dragon and tiger martial artist, in 1971 starred in the martial arts movie "Deaf Dumb Sword", Yuankui also participated in bruce Lee movie "Jingwumen" as a Japanese samurai, in 1982 directed his debut film "Dragon Ninja", after which Yuankui also directed "Jiuyi Divine Eagle Hero", "Fang Shiyu", "Fang Shiyu 2 Who Fights with the Front", "Zhongnanhai Bodyguard", "Rat Guts Dragon Wei", "Letter to Daddy", "Five Lucky Stars Collide with Ghosts", Thousand Machines Change II. Flower Capital War", "Full of Guts", "Royal Master Sister" and other film and television works.
Yuan Kui
YuanKui is also a set. Yuan Kui has cooperated with Jet Li many times in Hollywood on "Sky Cannon 4", "Deadly Romeo", "Dragon's Kiss", "Cosmic Pursuit Order" and so on.
5, Yuanhua
Yuanhua, formerly known as Rong Jizhi, was born in 1952, because of his body shape and Bruce Lee's resemblance, Yuanhua starred in the first film "Jingwumen" as Bruce Lee's stand-in in 1972, and won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the chartered public played by the movie "Kung Fu". Yuanhua is a set of actors and action directors in one, and his film and television works include "Dragons And Treasures", "Summer Lucky Star", "Deer DingJi", "Modern Rulai Divine Palm" and so on. He is good at acting as a villain and a "zombie" film.
Yuanhua
6, Yuande
Yuan de, formerly known as Kong Xiangde, is the seventy-fifth generation grandson of Confucius, once used the name Jiang Lin, joined the Chinese Drama Academy in Hong Kong in 1962, began to work as a dragon and tiger martial artist and stuntman in 1978, Yuan De also acted in many films but there was no big response, so he concentrated on the work of martial arts behind the scenes. In the 1980s, he began to become an action director, and his films as an action director include "Heavenly Silkworm Change", "Royal Female General", "Jiuyi Divine Eagle Hero", "New Jingwumen 1991", "The Break of the Five Tigers", "Gambling Bully", "Fang Shiyu Sequel", "Hong Xiguan", "Three Kingdoms Zhi Zhi Zhi Zhi Dragon Unloading Armor", "A Loyal Spirit Yang Jiajian", "Crossing the River Dragon", "Myth", etc., won the Academy Award for Best Action Director with "Fang Shiyu", and won the Golden Horse Award for Best Action Director with "Rat Bile Dragon Wei" and "Fang Shiyu". His directed works include "SWAT Vanguard", "Peerless Gold", and "Bu Yun Qu".
Yuande
7, Yuan Bin
Yuan Bin, born in 1954, when the other division brothers of The Seven Xiaofu began to lead the way in the 1980s, Yuan Bin was still unknown and rarely cooperated with other division brothers, and later cast under Cheng Xiaodong's door, and became popular by serving as the action director of "Huang Feihong Three Lions King Battle" and "Huang Feihong's Four Kings Wind". His works as an action director include "God of Gamblers 2", "The Story of Ah Lang", "Undefeated in the East", "New Dragon Gate Inn", "Deer Dingji", "Green Snake", "Sword", "Dragon City Fighter", "True Heart Hero", "Judo Dragon Tiger", "Warring States", "Dragon Gate Flying Armor", "Di Renjie's God Dragon King", "One Man's Martial Forest" and so on.
Yuanbin
His works include "Huang Feihong's Lion King Battle", "The Wind of the King", and "Angry Sea Weilong". With "New Dragon Gate Inn", he won the Golden Horse Award for Best Martial Arts Design, and with "Dragon Gate Flying Armor", "One Man's Martial Arts" won the Academy Award for Best Action Design
In addition to the above introduction, there are also Yuanchang, Yuanfu, Yuantai, Yuanwu, Yuanjun, Yuanhui, Yuanqiu (the "charter wife" in Kung Fu), etc., most of whom are now unknown or working behind the scenes.
In conclusion, Jackie Chan and Hong Jinbao are the best of the Seven Little Blessings and have made great contributions in the history of cinema, although the other division brothers are not as famous as the two of them, but they have not lived up to the original teachings of Master Yu Zhanyuan, how much do you know about the Seven Little Blessings? You are welcome to leave a comment.