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The famous actor Li Xuejian, who has been in the industry for more than 40 years, has created countless classic images for the audience, and has won many actor awards.
Li Xuejian is recognized as an artist with both virtue and art, low-key and down-to-earth acting, which is really rare in this impetuous entertainment circle.
However, Li Xuejian's life was not all smooth sailing.
Early life experience
Li Xuejian was born in 1954 in a peasant family in Juye County, Heze City, Shandong Province.
At the age of 11, Li Xuejian followed his father to the third-line branch of Guizhou, and at the age of 16, he entered the factory to work, and fortunately, whether in school or factory, Li Xuejian was an actor in the amateur literary and artistic propaganda team.
In 1973, 19-year-old Li Xuejian chose to join the army to serve the country, because of his previous experience, Li Xuejian was transferred to the drama team of the Second Artillery Art Troupe of the Chinese People's Liberation Army in 1976.
Li Xuejian, who entered the drama team, began to learn various professional knowledge from those old-timers, he endured hardships and stood hard work, and worked tirelessly, and with his hard work, he was admitted to the Air Politics Art Troupe in 1977.
[Source: People's Daily Overseas Edition released on December 20, 2013]
and participated in the first screen work "Tianshan Xing" in 1980, and since then, Li Xuejian's superb acting skills have been known by more people.
In the same year, Li Xuejian won the first "Chinese Theatre Award-Plum Blossom Performance Award" for his role as Lin Biao in the drama "913 Incident".
[Source: Baidu Encyclopedia - Li Xuejian's Interpretation Experience, Tianjin Daily released on December 14, 2012]
It was also after this that Li Xuejian and his lover met, both of them were actors in the art troupe, Yu Haidan was 3 years younger than Li Xuejian, the two were very affectionate, in 1983 Li Xuejian and Yu Haidan officially married and welcomed their son Li Gen 4 years later.
[Information source: Baidu Encyclopedia - Li Xuejian's personal life]
Since then, Li Xuejian's acting career has been soaring and has won many awards, and he is very grateful to his wife.
Li Xuejian's career achievements
Li Xuejian was born as a farmer, so he has been hard-working and capable since he was a child, and when he learns, he is also down-to-earth, step by step, never perfunctory for the sake of speed, so what he has learned is really imprinted in his mind.
In 1990, Li Xuejian starred in Jiao Yulu in "Jiao Yulu", perfectly playing the role of Jiao Yulu, teacher Li Xueqin specially visited Jiao Yulu's wife Xu Junya, who knows, Xu Junya said that Li Xuejian is not like it at all, and described Jiao Yulu in her impression.
In order to perform Jiao Yulu's feelings, Li Xuejian could only stand in the sun all day long and tan himself, so as to match the color of Jiao Yulu's skin in the farmland for a long time.
Even in order to perfectly present Jiao Yulu's feelings, he lost weight every day, losing 20 pounds in just half a month, and when the filming started, everyone was surprised, Li Xuejian was completely like a different person.
Because of his efforts, the movie "Jiao Yulu" was very successful, and in the era when a movie ticket was 3 cents, the box office of "Jiao Yulu" was as high as 130 million, and Li Xuejian also won the Golden Rooster Award and the Hundred Flowers Award.
In 1973, the director of the Water Margin found Li Xuejian and wanted him to play Song Jiang in the Water Margin, but Mr. Li Xuejian did not want to play it, because the role of Song Jiang was a surrender faction, so Mr. Li Xuejian was a little resistant to this role.
Fortunately, Mr. Li Xuejian decided to give it a try.
Who knew that Li Xuejian played Song Jiang alive, and he vividly interpreted Song Jiang's eight-sided exquisiteness and servile image, so he was scolded by the national audience.
However, during the filming, Mr. Li Xuejian was repeatedly injured, just because of riding a horse, he caused a bone crack and a fainting.
Therefore, all the characters he created are classics, and they are all memorable to the audience.
After that, Mr. Li Xuejian participated in many well-known works, such as: King Qin in "Jing Ke Assassinates King Qin", played Yang Changji in "The Great Cause of the Founding of the Party", participated in the movie "1942" and won the Best Supporting Actor Award and other classic works.
[Information source: Baidu Encyclopedia - Li Xuejian's acting experience]
However, it was such an old-timer who was diagnosed with nasopharyngeal cancer in 2000.
Starring with illness
In 2000, when Li Xuejian participated in the filming of a high-tech military-themed TV series "China Orbit" in Shaanxi, he was diagnosed with nasopharyngeal cancer.
However, in order not to delay the progress of the entire crew, Mr. Li Xuejian endured the physical and mental torture caused by the illness, and finished filming the scene before going to the hospital for treatment.
[Information source: Baidu Encyclopedia - Li Xuejian's personal life]
It turned out that at the beginning of filming, Mr. Li Xuejian felt that something was wrong, he felt a small pimple on his neck, and his throat was extremely uncomfortable, and he didn't go to the hospital for examination until a month passed.
In a program, teacher Li Xuejian once said that when he was at the height of radiotherapy, his neck was rotten, and when he was seriously ill, he couldn't even swallow saliva.
At that time, considering the relationship between the condition and the sequelae, Li Xuejian did not choose surgical resection, but chose chemotherapy, and the pain of radiotherapy is well known.
After a long period of treatment, the cancer was very well controlled, but Mr. Li Xuejian seriously damaged his hearing and vocal cords due to long-term radiotherapy.
Mr. Li Xuejian only took a break for two years, and returned to filming in 2002, although the attack of cancer was fixed, but Mr. Li Xuejian's health was not as good as before, but he still insisted on going into battle in person during the filming.
The status quo
In "The Wandering Earth 2", the role of the Chinese representative played by Mr. Li Xuejian, although the lines are not enough, every sentence is sonorous and powerful, and the aura is full.
At that time, Mr. Li Xuejian was 68 years old, and he was in poor health because of cancer, but he still followed the team closely.
It is enough to see how dedicated Mr. Li Xuejian is.
Now Mr. Li Xuejian is 70 years old, but he is still active on the screen of the audience.
Last year, "The Wandering Earth 2" starring Mr. Li Xuejian was released and won unanimous praise, and in the same year, he starred in "Fengshen Part 1: Chao Song Fengyun", and won the 36th Chinese Film Golden Rooster Award for Best Supporting Actor with this movie.
[Information source: Shanxi Evening News released on March 7, 2022]
This year, teacher Li Xuejian wrote an article and posted on CCTV WeChat "Life is a big classroom", and on February 2, he was invited to participate in the CCTV program "Classic Night" Annual Ceremony.
[Information source: Baidu Encyclopedia - Li Xuejian's acting experience, released by CCTV on January 8, 2024]
And there is also news that "The Wandering Earth 3" has already been finalized, and I saw Mr. Li Xueqin among the actors who are about to participate, and "The Wandering Earth 3" will be released in 2027, to be honest, I am looking forward to it.