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Preface
A person's life is intertwined with art and reality, can he have his own eternity?
Zhang Yimou, the film master who was once praised as a "generation of national teachers", was also questioned and ridiculed while adding a halo.
Do we look at him too idealistically and ignore his emotions and desires as an ordinary person?
Teenager flying
Zhang Yimou was born in an ordinary but culturally rich family.
From an early age, he showed extraordinary talent and a keen interest in art, which was inseparable from the influence of his family.
His parents were both educators, and his grandfather was a well-known local calligrapher, and the family was immersed in an elegant atmosphere all year round.
This environment has invisibly shaped Zhang Yimou's delicate and thoughtful personality and unique aesthetics.
He always sat quietly in his study and read all kinds of books, as if looking for some kind of mysterious revelation in those classics.
His childhood friends all said that Xiao Zhang Yimou was often fascinated by the scenery outside the window, and his eyes were full of dreams and reverie.
However, fate always plays tricks on people, and the road to his dream is not smooth.
In the turbulent years, when Zhang Yimou was young, he was forced to leave the familiar Xi'an and go to a small village on the Loess Plateau in northern Shaanxi, where he began a long career as an educated youth.
In that barren land, he experienced the hardships of hunger and cold.
On a hot summer day, he and the village children worked in the fields shirtless;
In the harsh winter, they can only wrap in shabby and thin cotton clothes and save money in the ice and snow.
However, in this difficult environment, Zhang Yimou's taste of life and his pursuit of art have never stopped.
Embark on the path of art
Despite the hardships of life, Zhang Yimou never gave up his pursuit of art.
In that barren land, he felt the ups and downs of life, and integrated these emotions into the genes of his artistic creation.
The customs and customs of the countryside, the simple and simple villagers, and those ordinary and extraordinary life scenes all imperceptibly affect Zhang Yimou.
He began to scribble on the old notebook with a pen, sketching a simple picture of the countryside.
After work, he often sits alone on the ridge in the field, gazing at the magnificent scene of the sunset, and feeling the world.
It was this ordeal that strengthened his determination to embark on the path of art.
The god of fate finally opened his arms to him, and after some hard work, he was admitted to the Beijing Film Academy as he wished, starting a new chapter in his life.
Although Zhang Yimou is talented, he has never been complacent, but more diligent and studious.
During his time at school, he was hungry for books, studied every course very carefully, and once read the autobiography of the famous director Martin Scorsese more than a dozen times in one go.
His enthusiasm and dedication soon won the appreciation and favor of his teachers, and he was hailed as "the most promising student".
The pinnacle of your career
In the film industry, Zhang Yimou quickly emerged with his unique perspective and bold and innovative style.
In 1987, his debut film "Red Sorghum" became an instant hit, winning numerous awards at domestic and foreign film festivals, and became famous in one fell swoop.
The film depicts the carnival and grievances of a low-class family with strong brushstrokes, perfectly blending the simplicity of the countryside with the decadence of the world, with strong artistic tension.
In successive years, his classics such as "The Red Lantern Hangs High" and "Man Jianghong" have won numerous praises at home and abroad, adding to his aura of "a generation of national teachers".
In 2008, he directed the opening and closing ceremonies of the Beijing Olympic Games, which amazed the world and amazed people.
With "blessing" as the main line, the opening ceremony skillfully integrated elements of traditional Chinese culture, and demonstrated the breadth and profundity of Chinese civilization with majestic stage scenes and exquisite artistic expressions.
The closing ceremony was themed "Grand Event, Fate", and led the audience to appreciate the unique charm of oriental wisdom and humanistic spirit through an audio-visual experience through time and space.
The whole performance demonstrated the extraordinary creativity and ingenuity of Master Zhang Yimou, which impressed the world.
Zhang Yimou has thus become the brightest new star in the Chinese literary and art circles.
The emotional world goes up and down
However, Zhang Yimou's emotional world is far less smooth sailing than his career.
During that difficult period of rural life, he met his first wife, Xiao Hua.
Xiao Hua is a simple and unpretentious girl in the village, gentle and kind, shy and shy, with big dark eyes full of innocence.
She has infinite curiosity and attention to Zhang Yimou, the "educated youth" young man from the city, and Zhang Yimou is also attracted by her innocence, and the two finally fall in love with each other.
Xiao Hua's simplicity and gentleness touched Zhang Yimou's young heart, and the two entered the palace of marriage.
However, this sweet love was opposed by the families of both sides, who believed that the door was not in the same family position and resolutely disagreed with the marriage.
But love is like a burning flame, and no one can stop it from moving forward.
Zhang Yimou and Xiao Hua ignored the opposition of their families, held the hand of their son, and entered a new stage of life with great ambition.
Part company with
Soon after marriage, Zhang Yimou had to leave his wife and daughter for the sake of his career and came to Beijing alone to further his studies.
As a young man who has just stepped out of the countryside, Zhang Yimou's knowledge is too thin, and after coming to this dream metropolis, it is like opening the door to a new world.
Everything in the cultural city of Beijing, the capital, is so new and interesting that he is overwhelmed.
Although they continue this relationship with letters, distance and separation are like a ruthless knife, slowly cutting their love.
Xiao Hua worked in his hometown, repeating his hard work day after day; And Zhang Yimou is living a new life in Beijing, and the life trajectory of the two is getting farther and farther.
Just when the good news of Xiao Hua's pregnancy came, Zhang Yimou and Gong Li, the heroine of "Red Sorghum", sparked a spark of love, and a scorching love began.
New love, old love
When directing "Red Sorghum", there was an emotional entanglement between Zhang Yimou and Gong Li.
Gong Li was the most popular and hottest first-line movie star at that time, with outstanding temperament and powerful acting skills, which were widely praised.
In every cooperation with her, Zhang Yimou was impressed by her outstanding performance, and secretly admired the charm of this woman in his heart.
And Gong Li was also attracted by Zhang Yimou's wise artistic insights and steady personality, and the two gradually developed a good impression that could not be extricated.
Gradually, the relationship between the director and the actor deteriorated, and the actor was subtly subordinate to the director, and this power structure was subverted.
Gong Li took the initiative to approach Zhang Yimou and was courteous to him, and Zhang Yimou was also conquered by her enthusiastic and unrestrained personality and bold pursuit.
This mutual attraction of the physical and the spiritual eventually brought them together.
Zhang Yimou resolutely left his wife and daughter, followed his heart's desire, and hugged Gong Li.
However, this relationship is also full of twists and turns, sometimes they are separated, sometimes they are reunited.
Gong Li is eager to enter the palace of marriage, but Zhang Yimou has always avoided talking about it, perhaps because of guilt, or because of something else.
In this way, the relationship between the two people cracked in the huge differences in their marriage, and in the end, they chose to break up and bury this vigorous relationship.
Get drunk again and love again
Leaving Gong Li, Zhang Yimou set his sights on actor Chen Ting, who was 30 years younger than him, and a new relationship began.
Chen Ting is also a slim beauty, from an ordinary but heroic background, belonging to the lively and generous type.
Zhang Yimou was fascinated by her energetic and unpretentious frankness, and the two had been in love for many years and had three sons.
Despite having a happy family, Zhang Yimou still has doubts about marriage, probably because his previous two unsatisfactory experiences made him cautious about marriage.
But under the pressure of the world's eyes and public opinion, it was not until 2011 that he married Chen Ting amid public criticism.
However, he was severely punished for violating the country's strict family planning policy at the time, which made him criticized at the peak of his career.
Go crazy
In this way, Zhang Yimou, who was once praised as a "generation of national teachers", gradually embarked on a road of no return because of constant negative scandals and bloody plots in his private life.
His artistic achievements were obliterated by his actions, and his aura gradually eclipsed.
This former master of cinema was finally lost in the whirlpool of love and fame and fortune, unable to extricate himself.
From rural to urban, from ordinary to superstar, he has used his life to interpret an extreme artistic existence, but at the same time he has become a prisoner of secular concepts.
epilogue
Zhang Yimou's fate is like a bizarre drama, interpreting the ups and downs of life on two levels: art and reality.
He is a genius artist, but he is also an ordinary mortal with seven emotions and six desires.
His artistic classics live forever, but they are also overshadowed by his helpless private life.
Some people say he is crazy, some people say he is pathetic, but it is undeniable that he interprets an extreme artistic existence with his life.
His life was a relentless pursuit of love and freedom, but also an incorrigible obsession with desire and fame.
Perhaps it is this contradiction that has created the greatness of his art and the tragedy of his life.