On the fifth day of the first lunar month in 2009, Zhao Benshan officially established the "Zhao Family Class" in his hometown of Shenyang, and held a grand ceremony to worship the teacher.
In the midst of the lights, many disciples bowed down to him and his wife, and the second spring of Zhao Benshan's career began.
Under his leadership, many apprentices have continued to dominate the screen for many years, and the team and scale of Benshan Media have also grown.
In the year of the establishment of the Zhao family class, Zhao Benshan took Xiao Shenyang to the big stage of the Spring Festival Gala, bringing this obscure disciple to the fire of the whole country overnight.
In 2010, Wang Xiaoli, one of the first disciples, also became famous because of the Spring Festival Gala Battle.
After that, Zhao Benshan sent a number of disciples such as Song Xiaobao, Cheng Ye, and Wang Xiaohu to the show business circle.
In those years, the development of the Zhao family class was very smooth, the apprentices were all very competitive, and the team was also very united.
In 2010, Zhao Benshan, who made a lot of money, bought a private jet worth 200 million yuan, and from time to time took his disciples and big names in the circle to take photos.
At this time, Zhao Jiaban has become the object of the entertainment industry, and everyone wants to have something to do with them to improve their popularity.
In those years, many female stars whose painting style seemed incompatible with the Zhao family's Bange had also shared the stage with them.
In the mid-autumn of a certain year, Huang Shengyi and Zhao Benshan performed on the same stage, kneeling down on the spot to worship the master under the coaxing of the crowd.
After Cecilia Cheung's marriage change, she had close contact with Zhao Jiaban, and was not only recognized as Zhao Benshan's father, but also sang on the same stage with Xiao Shenyang.
Such a grand situation really responds to the saying that has been circulated in the anecdote: "Out of Shanhaiguan, there is something to find Benshan, follow Ben's third brother, buy a house and buy a car"
It's just that when the water is full, it overflows, and the prosperity will decline, and if you enjoy fame and fortune and don't know what is low-key, then decay will follow.
Zhao Jiaban went through such a process, from the original grass platform team to experience glory, and then gradually depressed and declined.
In the past few years, many of the disciples brought out by Zhao Benshan have thundered one by one, and their reputation has turned over, and now it is difficult for us to see their figures from large and small screens.
How did Zhao Jiaban get to this point?
Zhao Jiaban was established
Zhao Benshan is destined to be extraordinary, he came from a humble origin, but because of his literary and artistic talent. In 1974, at the age of 17, he was favored by the commune's propaganda team and has been running performances in the countryside and becoming a local celebrity.
In 1987, he met Pan Changjiang, and the "Blind Man Watching the Lights" starring the two became popular, and Zhao Benshan took this opportunity to be transferred to the Tieling Art Troupe.
In 1989, he participated in the Spring Festival Gala of Liaoning Satellite TV and made full preparations for appearing on CCTV.
In 1990, he officially appeared at the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, and became popular in half the sky with sketches such as "Blind Date" and "Selling Abduction".
In the following ten years, Zhao Benshan dominated the sketch world, and many viewers said bluntly: Watching the Spring Festival Gala is to see Zhao Benshan!
The success of the sketch career has given Zhao Benshan fame and fortune, and criticism has also come.
After twenty years of popularity, the outside world's evaluation of him gradually decreased, and negative effects such as "Jiang Lang's talent" and "Macau gambling" followed.
At this time, Zhao Benshan had recruited a number of apprentices, and also established the Benshan Film and Television Base, and in the face of the public opinion of the outside world, he made a decision - to withdraw from the Spring Festival Gala.
After retiring from the Spring Festival Gala stage, Zhao Benshan had more time to develop and expand his second career.
At the beginning of the self-reliance portal, the Zhao family class was in the city, and there was an endless stream of people who came to worship the teacher.
Zhao Benshan was also very happy to expand the team, so he recruited more than a hundred apprentices before and after.
In terms of business philosophy, he follows the principle of "giving the audience coarse grains" to maintain personal characteristics and exert "soil" to the extreme.
This is also the reason why the disciples who have come out of the Zhao family class for so many years have always had the same performance style and the fields involved for ten years.
Because of the popularity of Xiao Shenyang and Song Xiaobao and others, Zhao Jiaban was once very popular, and no matter where he went, he carried a string of division brothers, and the binding phenomenon was very serious.
Unfortunately, there is no blessing of cultural heritage, and there is no pursuit of innovation, coupled with Zhao Benshan's loose management of apprentices, the concept is incorrect, which eventually leads to the disciples rolling over one by one.
Most of the few people who can be named today have disappeared.
Many of them have either failed in their transformation, cheated, or gone to jail, which is a great disappointment.
Xiao Shenyang's deviant ways
There are many rumors on the Internet about the relationship between Zhao Benshan and Xiao Shenyang, the most famous of which is Benshan's words: "You are nothing without me!" ”
It is unknown whether this sentence is true or not, but it is certain that the two masters and apprentices are really not in touch now.
At the Spring Festival Gala in 2009, Zhao Benshan took the new face Xiao Shenyang to the stage.
This descendant, who wears a small Scottish apron and an orchid finger, quickly won the love of the audience with the sketch "Not Bad Money".
After becoming popular, Benshan Media once praised Xiao Shenyang, fought for satellite TV resources for him, let him star in "Country Love", and even his wife Shen Chunyang was even dipped in light and was arranged to star in many film and television dramas.
Unfortunately, the good times did not last long, Zhao Benshan and Xiao Shenyang's ideas clashed, and this apprentice had his own ideas too much.
He was not satisfied with the stage of the two turning and sketches, and began to expand the commercial value with his master's heart, and privately accepted the advertising endorsement.
Not only that, Xiao Shenyang also followed the example of the master in business, and soon after the fire, he founded a two-person transfer school to recruit students with fame.
These practices have aroused the dissatisfaction of Zhao Benshan, who has repeatedly advised him to focus on his old business.
Xiao Shenyang didn't think so, and still went his own way.
The news of the discord between the master and the apprentice spread instantly, and there were even more rumors that Zhao Benshan slapped Xiao Shenyang backstage at the Spring Festival Gala.
Although Xiao Shenyang's wife urgently refuted these rumors, the number of teachers and apprentices has decreased significantly since then.
In the film and television drama produced by Benshan Media, Xiao Shenyang's drama lines are gradually decreasing, and he himself has also had the idea of going it alone.
When the foundation was not yet firm, he starred in Zhang Yimou's "Three Guns Shooting Surprise" and finally hit the street.
But the first failure did not stop the pace of Xiao Shenyang's transformation, and gradually, he no longer performed sketches on the stage and put the focus of his career on the film and television circle.
"Laughing Jianghu" and "Strange Hero Ouyang De" have been launched one after another, and the result is that one is not as good as one.
But even if he did not have the talent to be an actor, Xiao Shenyang still did not give up his dream, and after starring in countless bad films, he was not addicted and began to prepare himself to be a director.
In 2018, Xiao Shenyang's comedy film "Raptor Across the River" came out, and the results can be imagined, people who have seen it have given bad reviews, and the Douban score once fell to 3.7 points.
The goodwill of passers-by accumulated by the Spring Festival Gala in the early years has been completely destroyed at this time.
Some people may ask, why didn't he go back to acting in sketches?
On the stage of "I Am an Actor", he replied: I gave up the sketch, the sketch is now a happy and sad end, I don't like it.
His evaluation of the status quo of the sketch has resonated with many netizens, indicating that there are still ideas.
Unfortunately, there are too many ideas, and it is still difficult to succeed if the strength does not match.
In addition, in the early years, he became famous for a while, resulting in being abandoned by Zhao Jiaban first, and then abandoned by the audience.
Wang Xiaoli was abandoned by Zhao Jiaban
"Country Love Story" is Zhao Benshan's proud work, a series filmed for 13 years, which shows how deep the mass base is.
The role of "Liu Neng", as the soul of the play, has always been contracted by everyone's laughter.
The actor Wang Xiaoli is also a member of the Zhao family class, and he can be described as a late bloomer
After the fire with the role of "Liu Neng", Wang Xiaoli was taken around by Zhao Benshan to participate in the performance.
At the Spring Festival Gala of 2010, his "Donation" cooperated with Xiao Shenyang and Zhao Benshan was well received.
Since then, he has also begun to enter the film and television circle in line with Xiao Shenyang's route, but the difference is that he is relatively low-key.
In these TV series, Wang Xiaolidu only starred in supporting roles, only picking the beam in the hometown love.
His audience popularity is also quite good, the image is grounded, the lines in the play are classic, and there are memes about him widely circulating on the Internet.
If you honestly eat the benefits brought by the characters like this, after surviving for many years, maybe Wang Xiaoli will also become the "old drama bone" in the crowd.
But this is not the case, the overturned car soon came, and the news of master-apprentice discord after the red also appeared frequently.
In 2021, "Rural Love Story" is preparing to shoot the latest one, but the official released the news that Wang Xiaoli will no longer play "Liu Neng", and this role will be replaced by Zhao Mingyuan.
So, what did Wang Xiaoli do to make Zhao Benshan decide to replace him?
It turned out to be the bane of live broadcasting.
In recent years, the rise of online live broadcasting, many members of the Zhao family class have thrown themselves into it.
The same is true for Wang Xiaoli, who has nothing to say about, but the problem is that he has not been able to grasp the scale very well, and he "does not pick" the product when carrying the goods, which leads to public opinion criticizing him.
During the live broadcast, he joined hands with the merchants to stage a "good play", saying that the original price of 29.9 yuan of wine, the live broadcast room only sold 12.9.
This price is already very low, did not expect Wang Xiaoli to bargain with the merchant, the two in the process of bargaining summary, the price of wine cut to 9.9.
Because of this live broadcast, Wang Xiaoli was labeled by netizens as using fame to cut leeks, and since then his reputation has turned upside down, and the outside world has criticized him more and more.
The negative public opinion may also be one of the reasons why he was abandoned by Zhao Jiaban.
Liu Xiaoguang was exposed to the chaos of his private life
The two characters of Liu Neng and Zhao Si were once the driving force to support the audience to watch "Rural Love Story".
The two people in the play contributed a lot of famous scenes to everyone.
Liu Xiaoguang, the actor of Zhao Si, has also become popular, eating the old book for many years with a role, and can walk the world on the Internet by relying on memes.
Influenced by Nicholas Zhao Si's peasant filter, everyone thought that Liu Xiaoguang in private was also a simple and generous person.
Unexpectedly, he could not escape the iron law of "drifting when it became popular", and he flipped over one after another after becoming red.
In 2017, some netizens broke the news that Liu Xiaoguang's private life was inappropriate, and he also maintained an ambiguous chat record with female fans when he was married.
The netizen also posted the chat conversation between the two people, and the heroine of the incident also appeared to tell the story of the incident, which surprised people.
After this incident passed, his popularity quickly declined, and the audience has achieved the separation of human drama.
In 2020, Liu Xiaoguang once again challenged public opinion and was exposed to drunk driving.
Although he himself stood up for the first time to refute the rumors, the official did not give face, and a notice asked him to return to his original form.
In fact, before these two events, Liu Xiaoguang had also owed foreign debts because of gambling, and finally his master Zhao Benshan persuaded him to turn back.
It's just that Zhao Benshan at that time was holding an old father's heart to save him, and now looking at this momentum, I'm afraid I don't want to care about it anyway, right?
The female apprentice sold medicine and went to prison
There are not many female disciples in the Zhao family class, and among the few famous female disciples, some of them died unexpectedly, and some of them went to prison.
There was a fat handmaiden in the Zhao family's class, whose original name was Zhao Dan, who was the 22nd apprentice of Zhao Benshan.
This female disciple was taken to the Spring Festival Gala, and has also acted in many TV series, and has also appeared on "Happy Comedians"
As the name suggests, the fat man weighs 230 pounds, and his appearance on the stage is very joyful, because he is full of affinity and is loved by everyone.
Everyone has a heart for beauty, and the fat girl becomes popular by the image of fat, but still wants to change herself, so she began to lose weight.
In 2016, fat guy posted photos of weight loss success and shared his experience with fans, which stunned many people.
Such a successful case in the front, causing many netizens to ask what weight loss success.
The answer is simple – take medicine.
The fat girl herself did not know whether to eat or not, but she sold the medicine to fans to make a huge profit.
The end came quickly, and in 2016, there were fans who bought diet pills who had problems eating, and fat guys and their partners were all investigated.
This included several actors from Benshan Media, in which Fat Man played a major role in publicity, and was sentenced to three years in prison and fined 500,000 yuan.
Wang Xiaobao's character as a big name was questioned
Wang Xiaobao was known for starring in "Liu Laogen", joined the Zhao family class in 2003, and later became popular by the role of Wang Changgui in "Country Love".
In the play, he played a village cadre, with a grounded image and vivid and natural acting skills, which won unanimous praise.
Unfortunately, after becoming popular, he forgot his original intention and began to cause trouble everywhere.
In 2012, Wang Xiaobao was driving a Land Rover without a license plate and had a rear-end collision with a taxi.
As a celebrity, he should have dealt with this matter in a low-key manner, but Wang Xiaobao, with some fame on his part, got out of the car and beat the taxi driver, injuring the other party and hospitalizing him.
In the face of criticism from the outside world, Wang Xiaobao not only did not apologize, but also bluntly said that the driver saw the blackmail himself.
The matter came to an end in his defense, but the storm soon came.
When he and Lin Chiling filmed a TV series together, lin Chiling was used in the tidbits, which triggered a heated discussion among netizens.
In the photo, he forcibly hugged Lin Zhiling by the princess, and also held the other party's hand hard in his arms, which was quite disgusting.
In married life, Wang Xiaobao's behavior is also disgraceful.
After becoming famous, he divorced his original partner and fell in love with actress Wu Qiong, who was 19 years younger than himself.
The two met when they were working on "Country Love", and after a long time together, they developed feelings for each other, and the man abandoned the wife of the chaff for her.
In recent years, due to the overall decline of the Zhao family class, Wang Xiaobao has a bad deed in the front, and he is no longer the down-to-earth "Wang Changgui" in everyone's heart.
The former comedy market "three males" competed for hegemony, and now only Deyun She and Happy Twist flower are left.
Deyun Society is developing better and better, and the disciples trained are becoming more and more cultured and connotative, with diversified route planning and many fans.
Happy Twist is mainly engaged in the film market, Jia Ling, Shen Teng, and Ma Li can now stand alone, and the reputation of other artists in the team is also quite good.
In contrast, the disciples of the Zhao Family Class were like a flash in the pan, blooming briefly and then rapidly withering.
Zhao Benshan once created the "Northeast Comedy" era, but the disciples could not keep up with the pace and could not restrain themselves, and the whole team could only be abandoned by the times in the end!
Watching the members of the Zhao family class disappear into the entertainment circle one by one, the 64-year-old Zhao Benshan has been unable to return to heaven, and can only sigh: he is really old!