A few days ago, we introduced Li Junfeng, who played the male protagonist Dongfang Xu in the movie "Wulin Zhi", and some fans left messages for us in the background, hoping that we would introduce ge Chunyan, who played the heroine Gao Lianzhi in it, and wanted to know how she was doing recently. Today, Yaqing will come to fulfill your wishes. Specifically, let's talk about Ge Chunyan, who looks beautiful and good at martial arts.
Now, I think my attentive friends have noticed that in some beautiful parks, or wide squares, or even some small rivers, we can often see some people practicing bagua palms. It can be seen how popular this sport that can strengthen the body is in China.
And when did the boom in practicing bagua palms start to start? I think it was in 1983, when the movie "Wulin Zhi" was released.
At that time, when martial arts films were at their most popular, almost all martial arts films could achieve good box office results. The popularity of martial arts films has triggered too many people's martial arts dreams, and everyone has imitated the moves and actions of the actors in the film, and even many people have backpacks on their backs, packed their bags, and rushed to the Shaolin Temple or Wudang Mountain to learn the art from a teacher. One of the small hairs next to me was one of them.
And the movie "Wulin Zhi", in addition to being good-looking, also let everyone see the charm of Taiji Bagua Palm. As a result, a wave of learning Bagua palms was set off nationwide. What people did not expect is that now that 37 years have passed, this boom has not diminished, but has become more and more intense.
Why are people so interested in the Bagua palm? I think this is not unrelated to li junfeng and Ge Chunyan's outstanding performance in "Wulin Zhi".
But what everyone doesn't know is that in fact, at the beginning, Ge Chunyan did not want to act in this movie, because she felt that the character arranged by the director for her was not very suitable for her.
Yes, Ge Chunyan was only 24 years old that year, which was the age of a young girl like a flower. And Ge Chunyan is very beautiful, of course, I hope to be able to play a young girl and become a youth idol like Ding Lan, who starred in "Shaolin Temple".
But the director gave her the role of a married woman. This made Ge Chunyan unable to accept it for a while. In the end, it was under the patient persuasion of director Zhang Huaxun and the leader of the Beijing Wushu Team that he finally agreed to take on this task.
Ge Chunyan actually entered the Beijing Martial Arts Team very early. Born in 1959, she was elected to the martial arts class of the Beijing Shichahai Amateur Sports School in 1972 when she was 13 years old. In 1974, together with jet Li, Hao Zhihua, Li Xia and more than 30 other small partners, he entered the newly established Beijing Wushu Team and became the first batch of martial arts athletes. That is to say, Ge Chunyan is Jet Li's sister in the true sense.
After entering the Beijing Wushu team, Ge Chunyan's performance was very outstanding, winning medals in national martial arts competitions many times. And since 1982, she has won the title of traditional boxing bagua palm in the national martial arts competition for 5 consecutive times. In 1984, she also won the women's all-around championship at the National Wushu Competition.
I think, and because of this, when director Zhang Huaxun directed "Wulin Zhi", a film that shows the traditional fist and bagua palm, he felt that the heroine of the film, Gao Lianzhi, was none other than Ge Chunyan.
And Ge Chunyan's performance in "Wulin Zhi" is also really amazing. Although she had never made a movie before, with the help of director Zhang Huaxun and coach Li Junfeng, she quickly adapted to her performance in front of the camera and gradually became better. Although she does not play a young girl in the film, the real kung fu she shows makes the audience addicted. Especially at the end of the film, the scene where she fights with five gangsters is a classic, and the skillful bagua palm kung fu she shows is really dizzying.
After the release of "Wulin Zhi", the audience received rave reviews, and Ge Chunyan became a hit and became the best among martial arts actresses in the 80s.
Subsequently, she starred in film and television dramas such as "The Great Knife King V", "Chinese Martial Arts", "Yangmen Female General", "Dongying Ranger" and so on. In "The Great Knife King V", the role of Fei Feng she starred in, although there are not many scenes, I think her appearance is more beautiful, closer to Ge Chunyan's own appearance and temperament, and the performance is more calm, the martial arts moves are more fluent and powerful, all of which leave a very deep impression on the audience.
Many martial arts athletes act in movies, generally only focus on playing wonderfully, but Ge Chunyan reflects the character's personality through playing. Looking at her martial arts scenes, it is really beautiful, her martial posture seems to be weak, but it contains strength, like a lotus flower when quiet, but like a flying crane when shooting, light and dexterous, clean and clean, evocative.
In fact, in addition to the Bagua Palm, Ge Chunyan is also very good at other projects, such as swordplay, swordplay, and gunplay. Worthy of the title of "Wu Ying".
So why didn't Ge Chunyan make another movie later? This is because she believes that a martial arts athlete's more important responsibility is to carry forward the Chinese martial arts, rather than to make a name for himself by starring in film and television dramas for personal gain. So she later put more energy into training students, and refused many invitations from the film crew.
In 1994, Ge Chunyan came to Singapore as a martial arts instructor. Later, he founded the "Bafang Martial Arts Training Center" and the "China International Bagua Palm Academy" to teach the knowledge of bagua palm.
In 2013, the movie "A Generation of Grandmasters" came out, in which Zhang Ziyi once again showed the charm of bagua palms. And Zhang Ziyi is a dancer, so why can she show the Bagua palm so quietly and calmly, full of momentum and full of charm? Because her master is Ge Chunyan. In order to play the role of Gong Er well, Zhang Ziyi specially took Ge Chunyan as a teacher, like a primary school student, and learned from scratch until he knew all the starting, moving, and closing styles.
For this reason, Zhang Ziyi can be said to have suffered a lot, and at the same time, he also understood more deeply that "if you want to become a true martial arts master, it is far from enough to practice." From this, she also more truly experienced Ge Chunyan's arduous process from a student to a master - "plum blossom fragrance comes from bitter cold".
"A Generation of Grandmasters" made Zhang Ziyi popular again, while Ge Chunyan was still low-key in his favorite work. She is still strict with herself, even training herself to write with her left hand, and she is not left-handed. Today, she is 61 years old, because she has been training for many years, so she still looks very young, and her temperament is as elegant as ever.
At that time, there should be many fans and friends who liked Ge Chunyan, right? So, do you remember her screen image? Remember her martial arts style? Welcome to interact with more netizens through the message area. I am Yaqing, and once again I would like to thank everyone for their attention, likes and sharing, which is the greatest encouragement to me. We'll see you tomorrow at the same time.
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