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Time flies! Time is merciless, it is like a white horse galloping by, and our lives are slowly passing away in endless gathering and dispersion. Once upon a time, the famous artist, Mr. Zou Dejiang, has spent half a century, but his former glory has been submerged by the long river of time.
Looking back, his bumpy life path is like the art of storytelling, which he is deeply obsessed with, full of complex and difficult twists and turns. Time freezes in 1966, when Zou Dejiang was born in an ordinary working family in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province.
Since he was a child, he moved to Shenyang with his family, and he has an incomparably passionate love for art, especially the art of storytelling.
When he was a teenager, he always watched storytelling performances with enthusiasm and memorized those wonderful lines. The arrangement of fate allowed him to get the encouragement of his teacher by chance, so he joined the army art troupe and served as the captain of the actor team.
After that, he was fortunate to get acquainted with the cross talk master Shi Shengjie and became his protégé.
However, just when his career was in full swing, in 2004, Zou Dejiang inadvertently offended the famous comedy master Zhao Benshan in a cross talk competition. This unexpected incident caused him to leave CCTV soon after and switch to the film and television industry.
However, it is a pity that he has not been able to achieve the desired results in the film and television industry over the years, and now, the 57-year-old Zou Dejiang looks a little out of place in the art world and cannot reproduce the bright light of the year.
Time goes back to 2004 20 years ago, when Zou Dejiang was in the glorious period of CCTV's great progress. At the time, he was in the prime of his career, hosting two well-known ace shows.
One of them is the variety show "Happy Weekend Meeting", which is loved by the audience, which brings together many elites and comedy stars in the art world, bringing countless laughter and touching moments to the audience.
The other is the "Quyuan Miscellaneous Altar" full of traditional cultural charm, which aims to "promote traditional Chinese culture" and displays a variety of colorful forms of quyi and art treasures such as world acrobatics.
As the host, Zou Dejiang hosted these two major programs to the fullest with his outstanding artistic talent and unique personal charmEvery time he appeared on the screen, the audience was all overwhelmed by his superb hosting skills, excellent acting talent, and profound attainments in quyi, which made him exude a unique personality charm.
At that time, Zou Dejiang was like a bright and shining star, whether he was shining in front of the stage or strategizing behind the scenes, he swept the world with an omnipotent attitude.
His outstanding artistic skills and extraordinary hosting talent have enabled him to rise step by step on CCTV and his career has climbed to an unsurpassable peak.
However, there are always twists and turns and obstacles on the road of life, just like the magnificent grievances and hatreds between Zou Dejiang and Zhao Benshan. The source of all disputes can be traced back to a cross talk sketch contest hosted by Zou Dejiang in 2004.
This event brought together many well-known comedy giants in China, including Zhao Benshan's protégé Zhang Xiaofei and his beloved wife He Meiling. Zhao Benshan was invited to serve as a judge and watched the competition in person.
During the competition, in order to win the attention of the audience, Zhang Xiaofei and He Meiling did not hesitate to be presumptuous and bold during the performance, and made some overly drastic moves.
At the scene, the contestants ignored everyone's gaze, lifted the cheongsam, and even made a weird action similar to a hair dryer, which was really out of place. What is surprising is that Zhao Benshan, as a judge, did not immediately come forward to stop it, but the host Zou Dejiang immediately made a decision to stop the farce and politely asked the contestants to leave the venue temporarily.
Originally, from the perspective of maintaining the order of the game, Zou Dejiang's measures were impeccable. However, a ridiculous remark he blurted out inadvertently pierced Zhao Benshan's nerves like a sharp blade.
Zhao Benshan immediately got up on stage to deliver a speech, and made a spicy sarcasm on Zou Dejiang, which made the atmosphere tense instantly.
This incident later became a lingering shadow in Zhao Benshan's heart. Even in an interview many years later, he still remembers that scene vividly, and frankly said that "Zou Dejiang's few words made me angry."
This is undoubtedly a major turning point in Zou Dejiang's life.
Since leaving CCTV, Zou Dejiang's acting career has not been smooth sailing. Although with the popularity and network resources accumulated during his time at CCTV, he once got involved in the filming of some film and television works, such as "Holy Water Lakeside", "Old House", "Beautiful Nanny" and so on, but because he played a supporting role in most of these works, it did not attract widespread attention.
Despite many adversities, Zou Dejiang, an artist with a firm and persistent pursuit of art, still sticks to the front line of the film and television industry and has never flinched even a step! Since then, he has dabbled in and starred in many excellent film and television works, such as an important role in the classic drama "Teahouse", the real-life TV series "Rules Before Marriage", and the costume comedy "Grandpa Ascension" and so on.
After entering the new millennium, although Zou Dejiang's acting career failed to reach the peak of glory again, he never gave up his dream and always worked hard in the film and television industry. He has successively presented a series of wonderful works such as "The Song of Peony", "No Problem with Thought", "Detective Romong", "Cat Winter" and so on.
However, it is a pity that although Zou Dejiang has participated in many excellent film and television dramas, he has never been able to achieve a major breakthrough on the road of acting and bring his career back to the peak. Time flies, and the years have ruthlessly carved deep traces on Zou Dejiang's body.
When he was over half a hundred years old and entered the 57-year-old stage of life, the outside world's attention to this former CCTV first-line host was not as good as before.
Until 2022, although Zou Dejiang is still working unremittingly in the film and television industry, participating in and starring in high-profile works such as "Holiday Warm Ocean 2", "Sanquan Creek Warm" and "Don't Make Trouble, Yingzi", but throughout his entire acting career, he has long lost the glory of the past, and it is difficult to reproduce the glory of the peak moment.
Behind every successful artist, there is a difficult and solid struggle. For Zou Dejiang, his artistic journey began with a deep obsession with the art of storytelling.
Zou Dejiang, who has had a strong interest in storytelling since he was a child, will always listen wholeheartedly whenever he hears a storytelling performance and memorize the lines in his heart. In order to be able to witness the grand occasion of the storytelling performance, he even cut back on food and clothing, and saved every penny carefully just to buy a precious ticket.
His ardent love for this art even infected his friends, making them indulge in the artistic charm of storytelling. The persistent pursuit of art in his youth has opened up a unique path for Zou Dejiang in the art world in the future.
Inspired by his mentor, he devoted himself to the army art troupe without hesitation and became a glorious literary and artistic soldier.
During this period, Zou Dejiang was fortunate to have access to a richer and more diverse art form of quyi, and won countless precious and rare opportunities for stage practice. Since then, he has gradually emerged on the road of art, and has been successfully promoted to the position of captain of the high-level art troupe.
It is this arduous and fulfilling training process that has made Zou Dejiang and Shi Shengjie, a master in the cross talk industry, form a deep friendship. His outstanding talent and unique performance charm deeply attracted Shi Shengjie, and thus became the proud protégé of this master, and won the high praise and inheritance of Hou Baolin, the master of cross talk.
Since then, Zou Dejiang has officially embarked on his artistic journey and written his own glorious chapter.
Life is like a long and challenging journey, and so is Zou Dejiang's artistic journey, which is full of ups and downs and twists and turns. However, it is this ardent yearning for art and the determination to climb the pinnacle of art that perfectly illustrates people's unremitting pursuit of progress and development in contemporary society.
Although he seems to be a little lonely and confused in the entertainment industry now, his hard work and firm belief in the past will undoubtedly be engraved in the long river of history forever and shine.
The true meaning of art lies in a firm belief in dreams and an endless love for passion.