Speaking of seven small blessings, almost everyone knows, in the late 80s and early 90s of the last century, Hong Kong action movies can be said to have been created by seven small blessings, although another action master Yuan Heping is not a member of the seven small blessings, but it is also a teacher out of Zhan Yuan, if you have to say, the real Hong Kong action movies should be a generation of grandmaster Yu Zhanyuan.
The world knows that Yu Zhanyuan taught a group of powerful apprentices, and even now, Jackie Chan and Hong Jinbao are still big-guy figures in the film circle.
Yu Zhanyuan is a generation of Peking Opera masters, at first running drama classes, and later opened the Chinese Drama Research Academy, receiving many apprentices, in fact, in the same period, there was also a famous Peking Opera master who also taught a lot of powerful apprentices, she is pink chrysanthemum.
Pink Chrysanthemum was once a very famous knife Ma Dan, in the early years of the Shanghai performance in the eyes of Zun Long, when Zun Long's mother was very poor, so Zun Long's mother sent him to pink chrysanthemum opera class, and began to learn Peking Opera.
Zun Long followed the pink chrysanthemum to Hong Kong, after completing the study, Zun Long chose to go to the United States to further study, but accidentally mixed in the United States, and finally by a "Last Emperor" to enjoy the world's reputation, Zun Long also let Westerners recognize the beauty of asians, but Zun Long chose to return to China at the peak of his acting career, at that time the domestic film and television industry has long been occupied by the action movies of Seven Xiaofu, and later out of Wu Yusen, Wang Jing, these Hong Kong film golden generation directors, Zun Long's development is limited, and finally gradually faded out of the film circle.
Pink Chrysanthemum's other apprentice was also very powerful, he was Lin Zhengying.
Lin Zhengying in 1963 to learn Peking Opera from Pink Chrysanthemum, Pink Chrysanthemum is from Wudan, the requirements for kung fu are still very high, so Lin Zhengying is to learn the real kung fu, after learning art for 5 years, he devoted himself to the martial arts industry, and later met Bruce Lee, Bruce Lee admired Lin Zhengying very much, and also let him star in "Tangshan Big Brother" and served as the martial arts director of the film, even the king of a generation of kung fu Bruce Lee recognized Lin Zhengying's kung fu foundation, and the teaching ability of pink chrysanthemums can be seen.
Later, Bruce Lee died, and Lin Zhengying joined Hong Jinbao's Hongjia class and starred in Hong Jinbao's movie "Ghost Fighting Ghosts", and it was also in this movie that Lin Zhengying established his own film style.
In 1985, with a "Mr. Zombie", Lin Zhengying suddenly became popular throughout Hong Kong and the whole of Southeast Asia, and later continued the style of this movie, Lin Zhengying made many classic zombie movies, "One Eyebrow Road Man", "Zombie Family" and "Mr. Phantom" are all films that were loved by audiences later.
In the zombie movie, Lin Zhengying is very particular about both his skills and the props and techniques, although this involves some non-scientific knowledge, but in the eyes of everyone at the time, Lin Zhengying is a high person, and even now, he is still a Taoist master in the hearts of many people, there may be many people who have nightmares when they are young and think that the person who can give themselves the most sense of security is Lin Zhengying, after all, a sound of nine uncles, great luck.
At that time, mainland audiences were watching Lin Zhengying's movies through movie discs, a few dollars a classmate bought together, and then went to the home of classmates with VCD to watch together, and they were afraid and stimulated and wanted to watch, this was Lin Zhengying's movie, but unfortunately Lin Zhengying was too devoted to his early work, often stayed up late to create movies, suffered from liver disease early, and finally became cancerous, taking his life, at the age of 45. What a jealous talent.
After Lin Zhengying's death, zombie films also fell lonely, because no one could shoot the style of Lin Zhengying before, Lin Zhengying's apprentice Qian Xiaohao also became self-destructive because of the departure of his master, and finally was exposed to scandal and disappeared from the audience's vision, until 2013, Qian Xiaohao made a movie in honor of master Lin Zhengying, the movie name is called "Zombie", which is also the last authentic zombie film in the film circle.
Lin Zhengying and Zun Long are the two most well-known apprentices of Pink Chrysanthemum, but she is also like Yu Zhanyuan, in addition to Hong Jinbao and Jackie Chan, there are also many less famous apprentices, such as Luo Jiaying, Meng Hai, Hui Tianci and so on.
Luo Jiaying later found his place in the film of Stephen Chow, Meng Hai was very popular in the early days, but later retreated into the background for personal reasons and gradually faded out of the show business circle.
Pink Chrysanthemum is only five years older than Yu Zhanyuan, is a famous Peking Opera artist of the same period, Yu Zhanyuan taught the cornerstone of Hong Kong action movies, Pink Chrysanthemum taught a generation of zombie film ancestors, and zun long who went abroad, the same generation of grandmasters, Yu Zhanyuan let me see what is called a famous teacher out of a high disciple, and pink chrysanthemums let us know what is called the scarf and do not let the eyebrows be shaved.