Pan Changjiang was born in 1957 in a family of Pingju, his parents are both folk artists, and he has shown great enthusiasm and talent for stage performances since he was a child, and often sneaks on the stage when his parents perform.
Who knew that when he was 5 years old, he suffered from the strange disease of "thirst quenching disease", and after being diagnosed by a doctor, he was sentenced to only live to be 25 years old in the future.
Such a desperate prognosis did not wipe out Xiao Pan Changjiang's love for acting, he began to teach himself acting knowledge at the age of 17, went to school during the day, and began to Xi practice hard after returning home at night, sometimes his fingers were bleeding from beatings and did not care at all.
Eventually, his efforts gained the approval and support of his parents. At the age of 22, Pan Changjiang was admitted to the Tieling Ping Opera Troupe as he wished and began his professional performance career.
During this period, he also encountered many difficulties due to lack of strength and could not be reused, but Pan Changjiang's dedication to performance made Pan Changjiang not care, as long as he could perform on stage, it was the greatest satisfaction for him.
The shadow of illness and fate did not crush this young man from a small town in Liaoning, but inspired his desire for a passion for life, driving him to choose to constantly break through himself, fight fate, and chase his dream of performance.
It was this persistent force that finally pushed him from the lonely town to the footlight on the stage of the Yangtze River, and became a comedy master who would be well-known in China in the future.
In 1986, fate allowed Pan Changjiang and Zhao Benshan, two dazzling new stars in the Northeast performance industry, to meet each other, and the two became in the Tieling Folk Art Troupe.
This year, they teamed up to create a satirical comedy sketch "Daguan Lantern", Pan Changjiang played a stuttering cripple, and Zhao Benshan played a blind man.
This sketch was like a breath of fresh wind, quickly swept the three eastern provinces, and it was performed 500 times in Shenyang alone, with the highest box office and reputation at that time.
The huge success of "Daguan Lantern" has established the status of the Pan and Zhao combination, and the two have become each other's best partners in their careers. In later years, they also collaborated on many popular classic comedy works.
For Pan Changjiang, the appearance of Zhao Benshan is undoubtedly a big gift package, which made him famous in one fell swoop and embarked on the road of no return to the throne of the god of comedy. And he, the "elf who grew up in the mountains", also laid the cornerstone for Zhao Benshan to become a comedy superstar in the future.
The meeting of the two can be called a great blessing in the history of Chinese comedy.
While his career was rising after cooperating with Zhao Benshan, the rural movie "Tomorrow I Love You" starring Pan Changjiang in 1999 also opened up a new direction for his career planning.
This film tells a warm and affectionate local love story, and Pan Changjiang's meticulous portrayal of the image of a professional farmer in the film is deeply loved by the audience. In the end, with this work, he liked to mention the highest honor in the Chinese film industry that year, the "Hundred Flowers Award for Best Actor", realizing a beautiful blueprint for the development of amphibious from comedy to film.
In the following years, Pan Changjiang successively appeared in many popular Spring Festival Gala sketches. Among them, "Crossing the River", which he co-created with his old partner in 2004, is still deeply remembered by Chinese audiences.
This work tells the story of a husband and wife crossing the river to get firewood in winter, with simple lines but close to life. The stalk of "crooked river" is also popular all over the country, and Pan Changjiang's popularity has reached its peak at this moment.
As a comedian, he can make the audience laugh once he watches it, which is what he is most proud of and proud of in his life.
It can be said that the successful ascent of "Crossing the River" made Pan Changjiang truly stand at the peak of his life. A performing artist from the back mountains of Northeast China, he is now famous at home and abroad, and is affectionately called "Uncle Pan" by the audience.
However, whether there are hidden crises and variables behind the success will require continued observation of the course of the second half of his life to find out.
Pan Changjiang, who is in full swing in his career, has also produced a certain amount of confusion and turmoil at this successful moment in his life. After "Crossing the River" became popular for half the world, he actually came up with the idea of divorce from his wife, and stubbornly argued with Yang Yun's wife repeatedly for two years.
The reason for this seems to be the delusion that success has brought to him. Standing at the peak of his life, he may think that he can choose a more satisfactory other half again. Or maybe this is the so-called "midlife crisis" that middle-aged men generally face, the insanity caused by the thirst for passion.
In the face of her husband's capriciousness, Yang Yun chose tolerance and understanding. She did not turn against Pan Changjiang, nor did she choose to divorce and leave "happily" at the moment when the power was in her hands.
Instead, he profoundly pointed out that on the long road of life, anyone will inevitably have wrong thoughts, but in the end, it was the "wife's words" that made Pan Changjiang wake up to the bottom of his mind, so as to think twice before acting, and finally converge his mind and protect the family again.
This may be the reason why they are so stubborn.
But even so, since 2009, Pan Changjiang has starred in a series of commercial films with uneven word-of-mouth and quality. This undoubtedly also caused his reputation as a comedy superstar to suffer a certain negative impact again.
In 2021, when actor Xie Mengwei caused controversy over selling fake wine in the live broadcast room, Pan Changjiang, a senior in the circle, did not hesitate to break through the online violence and speak out, and sternly taught Xie Mengwei not to strike while the iron was hot and abandon his original intention as an actor.
His words are rigorous and sharp, and people can't help but praise the old artist's righteous and awe-inspiring posture. However, to everyone's surprise, just a few days after the matter subsided, Pan Changjiang himself began to bring goods in the live broadcast room, selling all kinds of expensive drinks, and the method was exactly the same as Xie Mengwei, who he criticized at the beginning.
Such an obvious inconsistency between words and deeds made many fans who supported him in the past heartbroken. They asked one after another: How do you let us believe in your sincerity again? Don't you know how difficult it is to bring goods to innocence? Some people even think of the bad movie he starred in in 2009, and denounced it as a choice driven by profit for fame and profit.
Indeed, for a 65-year-old artist, the sketch market has become increasingly deserted, and the source of livelihood is worth considering. But should we abandon the moral bottom line for immediate interests? This may be the real disappointment of the public.
Coincidentally, just a few months later, Pan Changjiang's live broadcast room was also revealed to be selling inferior three-no products. Instantaneous public opinion condemned, and the price of choosing the shortcut of bringing goods was that the reputation he had accumulated throughout his life collapsed in an instant.
A mistake in business decision-making made 65-year-old Pan Changjiang fall from the darling of public opinion. In the face of doubts from all sides, he is undoubtedly experiencing great torture and pain in his heart.
From "10,000 people praise" to "10,000 people spurned", this contrast makes many people overwhelmed and despairing.
But we still hold on to hope, believing that deep in the heart of the old artist, the young man who smiled and held the joke and read the "words in his heart" still exists.
At the moment, Pan Changjiang's guilt, pain and confusion must be thousands of times greater than any passer-by around him. We should not jump to conclusions, but give him time to re-examine, reflect and redeem.
This is perhaps the most humane option at the moment.
Just like Yang Yun used a sentence to wake him up and realize his lost way in the past, we believe that one day, Pan Changjiang will regain his former happiness and love for performance and life.
At that time, he will once again open his arms to embrace this stage and magnesium light that once gave him infinite aura.
It's just that before that, it's a long road, and he has to walk it slowly and slowly.