Zhao Liang: From show business to chicken farming
When it comes to Zhao Liang, everyone may not be familiar with this name, but when it comes to "Sandezi", many viewers will involuntarily flash his face in their minds: big round face, small eyes, laughter and dimples.
In 1997, after the broadcast of "Kangxi Microservice Private Interview", it became popular all over the country, and Zhao Liang, who played the third son in the play, also became famous overnight, and women and children are known.
After 24 years, the emperor Zhang Guoli in the play has become an old drama bone and is still active on the screen. However, Zhao Liang "did not do his job" and ran to raise chickens, and became a "chicken breeding professional".
Acting well, why did he suddenly run to raise chickens, is he experiencing life?
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Zhao Liang lived in the compound since he was a child, his father was a soldier who joined the army, worked as a drama actor in the Chengdu Military Region Battle Banner Song and Dance Troupe Drama Theater, and his mother also worked in the Cultural Troupe.
Because they are children in the compound, Zhao Liang often has the opportunity to watch them rehearse plays and film. Sometimes there are children's roles in the play, and the director will directly replace the children in the compound, so he filmed a lot of scenes when he was a child. In this strong artistic atmosphere, Zhao Liang gradually cultivated his comedy talent.
Due to his lack of confidence in his appearance, Zhao Liang did not think about becoming an actor, but was influenced by his father and determined to become a soldier since he was a child. However, after graduating from high school, he was admitted to the People's Liberation Army Academy of Art.
Zhao Liang has a high passion for acting, and during his time in the army, he participated in many cultural activities, performing dramas and sketches.
In 1992, he appeared on the drama stage for the first time and collaborated with Liu Yugui and others on "Walking Together".
Xu is many years of stage performance to make his acting skills continue to improve, drama debut, won the 12th Drama Plum Blossom Award.
The Plum Blossom Award is the highest award in the Chinese opera industry, and it is a very high honor to receive the Plum Blossom Award. That year, Zhao Liang was 23 years old, and he won such a weighty award at a young age, with good results and a promising future.
In 1994, Zhao Liang appeared on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala again and collaborated with Wang Fuli and Qi Hui in the sketch "Starling Letter". This skit advocates that women should be independent, cultural, and meaningful. Since then, Zhao Liang has officially entered the entertainment industry.
Performing for the national audience on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala is an honor and an important way for the audience to know. But this Spring Festival Gala did not bring much fame to Zhao Liang, and what really made him stand out was the broadcast of the TV series "Mountain City Baseball Army".
Speaking of which, Zhao Liang's appearance in "Mountain City Stick Army" is purely accidental and quite dramatic.
Zhao Liang accompanied a friend to the crew of "Mountain City Stick Army" to test for the role. When he arrived at the crew, the director did not notice his friend, but took a fancy to Zhao Liang, pointed at him and shouted "This is Maozi". Zhao Liang didn't know why, after the director's explanation, he knew that Mao Zi was the starring actor of this drama.
I finally met a suitable actor, and the director didn't want to miss him, so he took out the script and invited him to play Maozi. Hitting it off, Zhao Liang accepted the invitation.
After Zhao Liang received the play, he went around to observe the sticks and understand their movements and some living habits. The preliminary preparations were not in vain, and he played the kind and a little clever Maozi in the play and performed the soul.
In 1997, after the broadcast of "Mountain City Stick Army", it stirred up thousands of waves. Zhao Liang's interpretation of Maozi left a deep impression on the audience and was very popular, and since then, strangers will greet him whenever he goes out.
"Mountain City Baseball Army" made Zhao Liang loved by the audience, and also won the favor of professionals, reaching the peak of career development.
At that time, Zhang Guoli was preparing for the filming of "Kangxi Microservice Private Interview", and the other roles in the play had been determined, except for a small eunuch with comedy characteristics.
Zhang Guoli's younger brother Zhang Guoning and Zhao Liang are good friends who play well, and as soon as they heard his brother's appeal, he recommended Zhao Liang to his brother.
After watching "Mountain City Stick Army", Zhang Guoli greatly appreciated Zhao Liang's acting skills, so he invited Zhao Liang to play Sandezi. After filming three films, rave reviews, Sandoko has also become a classic character.
In fact, "Kangxi Microservice Private Interview" was filmed a total of four, and in the second part, Zhao Liang was absent from filming because he was a literary soldier and needed to participate in the army performance, and the crew found an actor Wu Jun who looked similar to Zhao Liang to replace him.
Although the shape is similar, Wu Jun did not interpret the essence of the character of Sandezi, and the Sandezi he created was always inferior to Zhao Liang, so the audience only remembered Zhao Liang.
Initially, he bought 500 chickens to raise them, but within a few days a large number of them fell, and he had no experience in farming, so he was at a loss.
However, among the roles he later played, no role could be compared with Maozi and Sandeko.
"As an actor, I'm lucky to have a role to remember, and I have two more, which is very lucky."
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Zhao Liang, who has been smooth sailing in his career, also ushered in his own love.
Like "Mountain City Stick Army", Zhao Liang's acquaintance with his wife Hu Jing is also very dramatic.
The acquaintance of the two was on a blind date bureau, Zhao Liang and Hu Jing accompanied their friends on a blind date, but the friend did not hold hands successfully, and they looked at each other.
Although he saw the beautiful Hu Jing at a glance, Zhao Liang did not directly launch an offensive. He slowly became friends with Hu Jing, and only after getting to know her personality in the process of getting along did he reveal his heart to her.
Zhao Liang spent a lot of money in the early stage to build roads, divert water, and bring electricity to the mountains, and even if it is built, these infrastructures will be damaged in the event of natural disasters such as floods and mudslides.
Hu Jing was also very hesitant at first, but he was moved by Zhao Liang's gentleness and sincerity in getting along, so he agreed to be with him.
He said to her, "I want you to smile and I will definitely put a smile on your face every day." ”
It was a nice love word and a promise to her, and he did it. After 8 years of love, Zhao Liang and Hu Jing achieved positive results and entered the palace of marriage. The two held a banquet and set up 87 tables of wedding banquets to thank relatives and friends.
Initially, he bought 500 chickens to raise them, but within a few days a large number of them fell, and he had no experience in farming, so he was at a loss.
What was once a sweet talk has also become a simple action. Zhao Liang would go downstairs for more than an hour to buy her barbecue because Hu Jing casually mentioned that he wanted to eat barbecue. It is a romance with pyrotechnics, unpretentious but touching.
A reporter asked Zhao Liang: Are you raking your ears (afraid of your wife). Zhao Liang replied very calmly: This is the virtue of gay men, this is our honor.
Married for more than ten years, the two are still as loving as ever, but this does not mean that the two do not quarrel and have not argued, and the culprit that causes the two to quarrel is Zhao Liang's side business - raising chickens.
Celebrity development side business has become commonplace, but most celebrities open hot pot restaurants, milk tea shops or do their own trendy brands, only Zhao Liang takes an unusual path and chooses to raise chickens.
With his career in full swing, his family life happy and happy, and he could have enjoyed life easily, but he was shocked by his chicken farming.
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Raising chickens is not Zhao Liang's intention, in the final analysis, it is his sense of responsibility that governs him.
In 2008, after the Wenchuan earthquake, Zhao Liang and Hu Jing went to the disaster area to help, and by chance met villager Huang Changming. Huang Changming originally had his own pig farm, but after the earthquake, the farm was buried and his hard work was wasted.
Not only Huang Changming, but also the surrounding villagers are like this, and they are poor. After learning about these things, Zhao Liang, a soldier, decided to raise chickens here, hoping to help the villagers get rid of poverty.
In 2011, Zhao Liang transferred 1,000 acres of land in Ginkgo Township, Wenchuan County, and used it as a breeding base. But it is not easy to do a good job of farming, especially if the location is chosen in the mountains.
Zhao Liang spent a lot of money in the early stage to build roads, divert water, and bring electricity to the mountains, and even if it is built, these infrastructures will be damaged in the event of natural disasters such as floods and mudslides.
In order to take care of the farm, Zhao Liang had to climb up and down every day, and over time, he developed synovitis. The doctor advised him not to go up the mountain again, but Zhao Liang, who was dedicated to the chicken business, could not listen at all, and he still climbed the mountain on crutches.
His wife couldn't bear to see him so tired, and advised him to give up many times, and his mother also advised him to film well and not toss blindly, but he persevered. He knew he could simply leave to film and make money, but it was difficult for the villagers here to escape poverty.
Zhao Liang, who has never raised chickens, naturally encountered many difficulties. In the early stage of raising chickens, he paid a lot of tuition, and most of the time, in order to support the chicken farm, he invested his filming salary into it.
Initially, he bought 500 chickens to raise them, but within a few days a large number of them fell, and he had no experience in farming, so he was at a loss.
However, Zhao Liang was lucky, and after two years of exploration, he met experienced chicken farmers by chance.
At a certain opening ceremony, Wang Yao sponsored eggs for them, and then the two talked about chicken breeding from eggs, and finally the two reached a cooperation.
With the help of Wang Yao, Zhao Liang became more and more professional in raising chickens, and he was the first to talk about raising chickens.
"You buy it in the supermarket or outside the market, you go to see the chicken, 4 toes, but chickens that are more than half a year old are 5 toes."
In order to ensure the quality of chickens, the chickens in Zhao Liang's farm are raised for more than 10 months, and the food is also corn and other food crops, and there is no feed. In this way, the cost of breeding becomes high, and the price of chickens naturally rises, 300 yuan per chicken.
After several years of research, Zhao Liang successfully turned over, his farm has a professional breeding team, the number of chickens has changed from the original 500 to 130,000, and the breeding base is also expanding, with several breeding bases such as Bazhong, Luzhou and Wenchuan.
In addition, he once said very proudly in the program that his farm has created enterprise standards for chicken farming, and the chickens of the farm have reached the EU certification, and he is also applying for national patents.
The phrase "where there is a will, there is a way" is vividly displayed in Zhao Liang.
With production, there is also a market.
Initially, Zhao Liang sold the chickens in packages through his connections. However, as the number of chickens increased, his connections were no longer enough to support sales. So, he opened his own restaurant to achieve the integration of production and marketing.
Previously, some netizens posted a video of Zhao Liang personally stir-frying customers in the newly opened store, in which he did not have a star shelf at all and was very approachable.
Zhao Liang's business can achieve such a prosperous scene today, in the end because of his sense of responsibility and responsibility for his own products. He also advised to be a star in the catering industry to ensure the quality of products.
Although Zhao Liang focused his work on the farm in the later stage, he has been still filming. It's just that in acting, he prefers to go with the flow and settle with the situation.
"When people can think of me, they must find a role that suits me."
Admittedly, picking up the script, Zhao Liang is an actor whose acting skills are recognized, put down the script, he is a successful chicken breeding professional.
Whatever his identity, he switches easily.
