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Back in 1992, at the grand Spring Festival Gala, Guo Chang performed the sketch "Caotai Team" with the famous comedian Pan Changjiang with his unique Cantonese accent and excellent acting talent, which made the national audience can't help but leave a deep impression on this young artist from Lingnan.
However, who would have predicted that this was only the prelude to his short and magnificent life!
In the years that followed, Guo Chang made a name for himself in Guangdong, but he remained relatively low-key. It was not until 2000 that a drama series "Foreign Daughter-in-law Local Lang", which deeply revealed the essence of Lingnan drama, became popular all over the country, and his role as "Kang Qizong" finally made him appear on the stage of national attention.
The audience was deeply attracted by Guo Chang's witty, humorous and vivid acting skills, and many viewers praised him as "the Guangdong version of Stephen Chow".
However, this bad news was like a bolt from the blue, ruthlessly shattering people's hopes for his future. Sadly, the news of his death did not receive enough attention at the time, and many viewers were unaware of it, allowing time to pass quietly, and it was not until years later that people began to miss the glory of this art giant.
Although Guo Chang's life is as short and brilliant as a meteor, he has created unforgettable classic characters with full of enthusiasm and firm faith. Perhaps it is his persistent pursuit of his dreams that makes each of his works shine, radiant, and breathtaking.
Indeed, although Guo Chang's legendary life is short, it is also brilliant, leaving us with eternal memories and endless regrets. Let's start from this extraordinary starting point and look back at the legendary life of this outstanding artist.
The Spring Festival Gala in 1992 was undoubtedly a key turning point in Guo Chang's life. Although he only played a supporting role in the sketch "Caotai Team", his unique Cantonese accent and superb acting skills left a deep impression on the national audience about this young man from Lingnan.
In this series, Guo Chang created the highly influential character "Kang Qizong" with superb performances, which is full of wit, cunning and witty humor, vividly and realistically portraying the bitter and difficult life of small traders in the Lingnan area, and arousing strong emotional resonance from the audience!
With his excellent interpretation of the image of "Kang Qizong", Guo Chang successfully attracted countless attention, and the ratings of the series soared directly to an astonishing 40%, creating a ratings record at that time, which can be called a legendary story! Since then, he has been honored as "Guangdong Stephen Chow" and has become a well-known film and television superstar.
However, behind the success is often endless hardships and challenges. Just when Guo Chang's acting career was in full swing, fate played a cruel joke on him.
That's right, just as his career was reaching its peak, a sudden illness attacked him like a beast and pushed him to the brink of life and death. When the young actor was diagnosed with mid-stage stomach cancer and needed surgery, the deep sense of despair, confusion and helplessness can only be deeply experienced by those who have experienced it firsthand.
Faced with this sudden bad news, Guo Chang himself fell into extreme pain, and his young and beautiful wife and lovely little daughter also suffered a heavy blow.
The family felt as if they were in purgatory on earth, and they were struggling.
In 2003, just as Guo Chang's career was at its peak, and he gained both fame and fortune, a sudden illness ruthlessly destroyed all his dreams.
That year, Guo Chang often felt physically and mentally exhausted, but he did not pay enough attention to it, instead attributing it to overwork. Until one day, he passed out at home and fell unconscious, which alarmed his wife beside him.
Faced with his wife's anxious call, Guo Chang nodded hesitantly and reluctantly agreed to go to the hospital for an examination. When he sat in the doctor's office and saw the frightening words "stomach cancer" on the diagnosis report, he seemed to have been struck by lightning and froze instantly.
"You have been diagnosed with mid-stage stomach cancer and must be ready for surgery immediately!" The doctor solemnly announced.
This news was like a thunderbolt in the clear sky, which made Guo Chang's world collapse in an instant, and his wife was even more grief-stricken and couldn't cry. A family of three seemed to have fallen into an endless dark abyss, and despair, fear, and anxiety enveloped everyone's hearts.
However, as a veteran and dedicated artist, Guo Chang did not feel too much self-pity on his sickbed. Soon after his diagnosis was announced, he had to make the difficult choice of having surgery to remove three-quarters of his stomach.
After the operation, Guo Chang, who should have been fully recuperated, did not hesitate to return to the busy studio and devote himself to the intense creative process.
However, he seemed to completely ignore his beloved wife's pleas and shook his head resolutely. His life has long been occupied by his acting career, and even though his body can only rely on a quarter of his stomach for nutrients, he still can't let go of his love for the stage.
Doctors originally recommended that he undergo six rounds of chemotherapy, but Guo Chang barely completed five of them. Whenever he saw the grief in the eyes of his wife and children, his heart was equally painful, but he could not give up on his career, even if it meant that he was approaching the end of his life.
In this way, the artist, who had always been very dedicated, dragged on until 2006, during which time his illness recurred. Until that year, doctors coldly announced that the cancer had spread to an advanced stage and that his life was disappearing at a visible rate.
In fact, if we look back at Guo Chang's growth process, we can find that his achievements today are not easy to come by. In 1956, he was born into a poor northeastern family, with a difficult family and a difficult life.
Even more unfortunate, Guo Chang has been tormented by domestic violence since he was a child. His father had a violent personality and often inflicted corporal punishment on him at a young age, leaving a deep wound on Guo Chang's psyche.
Under the double oppression of violence and poverty, Guo Chang spent a long and painful childhood. It wasn't until she was ten years old that her mother finally couldn't stand her husband's brutality anymore and resolutely chose to separate from him.
Despite the extremely harsh living conditions in Northeast China at the time, his mother was determined to leave his hometown with Guo Chang and go to the far south of Guangdong in search of a better life, trying to escape this gloomy environment.
After a long journey, the mother and son finally arrived in the bustling Lingnan city. Guo Chang's life has ushered in a new chapter. In order to allow her son to go to school smoothly, Guo's mother worked day and night, and her family life was difficult.
After graduating from junior high school, Guo Chang decided to go out to work to relieve the financial pressure on his family. At the age of 19, he joined a bus company and began a life of self-reliance.
Although Guo Chang was born poor, his passion for art surged deep in his heart. Once, he was fortunate enough to witness a shocking and wonderful performance by an art troupe, and he was deeply moved in an instant, and he made a firm determination to become an excellent actor.
The senior leaders of the bus company were keenly aware of Guo Chang's unique talent, and not only made an exception to approve his long-term leave of "leave without pay", but also actively recommended him to the professional training institutions of radio and television stations for in-depth study.
It was this rare opportunity that allowed Guo Chang to show himself in the palace of art, and since then he has embarked on a brilliant and brilliant acting career. Starting as an unknown intern choreographer, he has won the praise of many seniors with his rigorous and persistent work attitude and energetic personality, and has gradually emerged in this industry.
On February 28, 2006, when Guo Chang dragged his tired body to appear at the celebration party of "Foreign Daughter-in-law Local Lang", everyone present was infected by the happy smile on his face.
At that time, he was full of energy and radiant, who would have expected that this would be the last time this high-profile actor would meet the public.
Indeed, just three months later, in May, Guo Chang, who was only 50 years old, hurriedly bid farewell to us and left the stage that had pushed him to the top. The legendary life of a man who died young has come to an end.
Guo Chang's death is undoubtedly a major loss in the art world, and it was a heavy blow to the crew at that time. As the bad news spread, almost all members of the crew attended his simple and solemn funeral, as a way to express their last respect and condolences to this outstanding artist.
Everyone was full of emotion, why did such a young and promising life that should have bloomed with a more dazzling light, but it came to an abrupt end so suddenly? What's even more sad is that Guo Chang did not hesitate to give up the opportunity to spend time with his family for the sake of his career, and devoted himself to the intense filming work.
Looking back on the past now, that dedication was exchanged for an eternal regret.
Guo Chang's sudden death was undoubtedly like a bolt from the blue, which brought a heavy blow to the once smash hit TV series "Foreign Daughter-in-law Local Lang". In order to fill the gap caused by his departure, the production team had to make significant adjustments to the original plot while forcibly integrating the character of "Kang Qizong" into the plot of "going to Africa".
However, although the crew then invited a new actor to take over the role, the ratings showed a cliff-like decline, all the way to the bottom. The audience lamented that after losing Guo Chang's vivid performance, even the best actor could not interpret the role of "Kang Qizong" vividly.
In this way, after losing Guo Chang, the soul figure, the glorious work of "Foreign Daughter-in-law Local Lang" gradually declined and disappeared from people's sight. In just a few years, it quietly left from the audience's field of vision, and finally fell silent in the long river of history, leaving people with endless regret and nostalgia.
The years go by, inexorably. Now, it has been 17 years since Guo Chang's death. Although time has gradually diluted people's memories, the demeanor known as "Guangdong Stephen Chow" back then is still deeply imprinted in the hearts of countless old audiences and has become their eternal memories.
17 years have passed, and Guo Chang's death has long ceased to be as sensational as it was back then. However, his unique performance style, as well as the classic roles he has portrayed, have always been unforgettable.
I still remember that an audience member once gave Guo Chang a very high evaluation: "Guo Chang's acting skills are really exquisite!" He played the role of 'Kang Qizong' to the fullest, as if he was the local stingy self-employed deity in Guangzhou.
Indeed, it is precisely because of Guo Chang's wonderful performance that this character, who originally had many flaws, has become the joke and focus of the whole series.
Now, although Guo Chang has been away from us for 17 years, people's respect and nostalgia for him are no less enthusiastic than they were back then. Many old viewers are still deeply saddened by his untimely death and sigh.
What is even more suffocating is that the news of Guo Chang's death was not widely disseminated, and many ordinary viewers who did not pay attention to entertainment news did not even know anything about it, and let time go by until many years later to learn the sad news.
Fortunately, although Guo Chang's acting career is like a meteor in an instant, his relatives are now able to live a peaceful and peaceful life. Just last year, his widow posted a thought-provoking post on social media, revealing that their only daughter had entered the sacred marriage hall and started a new stage of life.
When we read this news, we couldn't help but feel endless emotion in our hearts, perhaps this was the deepest wish that Guo Chang had in the last moments of his life.
Looking back, in order to give his daughter a good education, this great actor did his best, even if he was seriously ill, he still stuck to his job, and regarded his family as a treasure in life.
Now, he has finally been able to witness his daughter grow into a mature and independent woman, with a warm family of her own, and his soul will be extremely happy and satisfied in heaven.
In addition, Guo Chang's wife also shared her current life situation in the news. Reading between the lines, we can deeply feel that the artist's widow is now living a very happy life, despite losing the company of her husband, she did not choose to enter the palace of marriage again, but took on the responsibility of raising her daughter alone.
Undoubtedly, this steadfast and magnanimous quality is one of the important reasons why she attracted Guo Chang to become her husband in the first place.
It is true that in the eyes of many people in the know, although Guo Chang's life is regrettably short, his artistic achievements have long been deeply engraved in the memory of countless audiences. From walking out of an ordinary family to dying young, from the wonderful performances on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala to the popular film and television works, every change and every role is deeply imprinted in the depths of people's hearts, so that he will never be forgotten by the world.
Now, the daughter has started her own family, and the wife is living a comfortable old age. For Guo Chang, life may be such a short process, but it allows his family to enjoy long-term tranquility and happiness.
There are no regrets in life, and may you continue to pursue your artistic dreams in the next life, this artist who has shown his talent on the stage.