Do you remember that clever and witty Santokuko? In 1997, a "Kangxi Weifu Private Interview" pushed the name Zhao Liang to the national audience, and the eunuch Sandezi played became a well-known classic role. However, as time passed, Zhao Liang's name seemed to gradually fade out of the public's sight. Many people are beginning to wonder, how is this actor who once swept the screen doing now?
The "Three Virtues" that swept the country
In 1994, Zhao Liang participated in the performance of a stage play for the first time and played the main role in "Letter from Starling". Backstage in the theater, Zhao Liang often discusses with the director and other actors how to better interpret every detail of the script. They often get together between rehearsals to audition and revise the script over and over again around key scenes.
"Letter from Starling" was also selected as the finale of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala that year. As the largest annual TV event in China, the Spring Festival Gala has gathered the attention of countless audiences. In interviews after the show, many viewers said that they were deeply impressed by Zhao Liang's performance.
With the success of "Letter from Starling" in the Spring Festival Gala, Zhao Liang's name began to spread like thunder in the Chinese theater world. In the same year, he was nominated for and eventually won the Plum Blossom Award.
In 1997, with the premiere of the TV series "Kangxi Weifu Private Interview", Zhao Liang's acting career ushered in another wave of climax. In this drama, Zhao Liang played a role named "Sandezi".
In the drama "Kangxi Weifu Private Interview", Sandezi, as a great eunuch, always accompanies Emperor Kangxi, gives advice to Kangxi at critical moments, and even shares responsibilities for Kangxi at critical moments, playing multiple roles.
The three deoks in the play are witty and intelligent, and can react quickly and solve problems. Whenever Kangxi encounters a problem, Sandezi can always have an idea and propose a countermeasure. However, his intelligence is not blindly honest and selfless, and sometimes mixed with a little bit of cleverness and personal interests. In the play, he often relies on his "careful machine" to resolve crises, and because of this, this character seems particularly real and flesh-and-blood.
Zhao Liang's performance caused a great response among the audience. Soon, "Kangxi Weifu Private Interview" became a well-known TV series, and the role of Sandezi also became an iconic image. With the popularity of the series, Zhao Liang's name is increasingly associated with "eunuch professional", a title that is undoubtedly a testament to his outstanding performance in this type of role, although it has a certain joking meaning.
However, Zhao Liang did not rest on his laurels. In his acting career, he has always sought diversity and challenge. In the years that followed, he took on a variety of TV series and films, covering costumes, modernity, comedy, tragedy and other fields.
The fate of Zhao Liang and Hu Jing
One day in February 2003, the cold in Beijing had not subsided, and Zhao Liang was busy filming on the set. One day, he suddenly received a call from a friend, and the friend on the other end of the phone spoke with some eagerness and invited Zhao Liang to accompany him on a blind date. Zhao Liang originally thought that his role on the set was almost finished, so he agreed to his friend's request. Unexpectedly, this temporary blind date trip turned out to be an important turning point in Zhao Liang's fate.
The object of the blind date is a girl named Hu Jing, who is a model, young and beautiful, with an outstanding temperament. Hu Jing is a full 15 years younger than Zhao Liang, and his height is 10 centimeters taller than him. This significant height and age difference should have been a barrier, but the atmosphere was surprisingly harmonious. The two quickly chatted naturally, but the interaction between the friend and Hu Jing was not much, and it didn't seem to produce much spark.
Surprisingly, as time went by, the dialogue between Zhao Liang and Hu Jing gradually increased. Zhao Liang is a somewhat clumsy person, and there is not much flowery rhetoric in his words, but there is a kind of truth and straightforwardness in his words, and Hu Jing is obviously moved by this frank attitude.
With the end of the blind date party, Hu Jing's friends did not have much interest in Hu Jing, and Hu Jing's attention had already been attracted by Zhao Liang. Although Zhao Liang didn't realize anything at the time, Hu Jing was deeply impressed by his straightforwardness and sincerity, especially the tenacity and integrity brought by that military family background.
After the blind date, Zhao Liang and Hu Jing kept in touch, and they began to meet and get along more often. Zhao Liang is busy with work, but every time he has free time, he will find time to meet Hu Jing. As a model, Hu Jing's working hours are relatively flexible, so he often visits Zhao Liang when he is filming, and the relationship between the two quickly warms up in this natural interaction.
Although Hu Jing is 15 years younger than Zhao Liang, the age difference has not affected the relationship between them. Hu Jing is full of admiration for Zhao Liang's maturity and steadiness and his focused attitude at work, while Zhao Liang appreciates Hu Jing's independence and understanding.
Their relationship experienced five years of steady development, until after the Spring Festival in 2008, Zhao Liang and Hu Jing finally decided to enter the palace of marriage.
From acting to chicken farming
After Zhao Liang achieved great success in his acting career, he gradually set his sights on other fields. As a native of Sichuan, he has a deep affection for his hometown, especially when he saw that the peasants in his hometown were not rich, so he had the idea of doing something practical for them. So, Zhao Liang began to think about how to help the people in his hometown improve their lives through his own strength. By chance, he came into contact with the breeding industry, especially the field of chicken raising, and gradually came up with the idea of entering this industry.
Initially, Zhao Liang did not know how to run aquaculture, especially how to achieve sustainable development and maximize profits in large-scale aquaculture. Therefore, he began to take the initiative to learn relevant agricultural knowledge, participated in various breeding training courses, visited some experienced farmers, and even consulted many professional agricultural experts. Zhao Liang's down-to-earth learning attitude allowed him to quickly master the skills of raising chickens, how to manage farms, how to choose suitable chicken breeds, and how to scientifically raise, disease prevention and control and other important knowledge.
Slowly, Zhao Liang established a large-scale chicken farm in his hometown in Sichuan. The chicken farm has grown from a few thousand chickens to tens of thousands.
By 2021, Zhao Liang's chicken farming business has been very successful. That year, he participated in a TV show that gave viewers a new understanding of Zhao Liang's alternate identity - a successful chicken farm owner. When the program team came to his breeding base, they were very surprised to see the vast farm, full of chickens running freely, and even the host was very surprised.
In the show, Zhao Liang gave a detailed account of his chicken farm. He mentioned that his chicken farm can raise up to 130,000 chickens a year, a figure that made many viewers wide-eyed. He works with farmers by helping them with technical support and sales channels to ensure they can get better prices in the market.
Zhao Liang's chicken farming business has gradually taken shape in the local area, and many farmers have achieved economic independence with his help, and some have even begun to run their own chicken farms. With the passage of time, many people came to him to ask him for breeding experience. And Zhao Liang is also very happy to share his successful experience.
A path of art that continues to be active
Even though Zhao Liang has made remarkable achievements in the chicken industry, he has never let go of his enthusiasm in the entertainment industry. Although the management of the chicken farm requires a lot of energy from him, he still takes every good acting opportunity. In 2023, Zhao Liang ushered in a busy year of acting.
In the movie "New Fengshen no Erlang God" to be released in 2023, Zhao Liang played a supporting role. Although not the protagonist, Zhao Liang's performance is still impressive. In such a mythical film full of special effects and fights, Zhao Liang still added a lot of highlights to the film with his delicate performance, which was well received by the audience.
Immediately afterwards, Zhao Liang appeared in the movie "In the Octagonal Cage". This is a sports-themed movie that mainly tells the dilemmas and challenges that boxers encounter in life. Zhao Liang played a supporting role in the film, although the role is not the main character, but his simple interpretation makes this role full of life. The audience saw his handling of details, whether it was the expression of his lines or his body language, which made people feel the real presence of this character.
At the same time, Zhao Liang also participated in the filming of the TV series "Under the Alien". The play is a work where science fiction and reality are intertwined, and the plot is complex and full of tension. Although this is a drama with a majority of young audiences, Zhao Liang's sophisticated acting skills form a strong contrast with the young actors, which does not steal the scene and adds to the heaviness of the story.
"Solid as a Rock", which was released later, is a high-profile police movie. Zhao Liang once again played a supporting role in the film, and Zhao Liang's years of performance experience accurately grasped the complexity of the role, which left a deep impression on the audience.
In addition to movies and TV series, Zhao Liang has also actively participated in some local works, such as "Hometown, Don't Come to Harm". This drama tells the story of returning to his hometown to start a business, in which Zhao Liang plays a middle-aged man who returns to his hometown to start a business, which is somewhat similar to his own life experience. In this drama, he naturally integrates his life experience into the role, and the performance is real and touching.
In February 2024, Zhao Liang was invited to participate in the "2024 Sichuan-Chongqing Spring Festival Gala". The program of the Spring Festival Gala is rich and colorful, and Zhao Liang, as a representative artist in Sichuan and Chongqing, performed a program called "Sichuan and Chongqing Life Show". In this program, Zhao Liang shows the unique lifestyle and customs of the Sichuan-Chongqing region in the form of sketches. His performances are light-hearted and humorous, full of local characteristics, and are loved by the audience.
Whether it's a movie, a TV series, or a large-scale event like the Spring Festival Gala, he goes all out. Zhao Liang always believes that the work of an actor is his passion, and he is willing to pay time and energy for a good role and a good script. At the same time, he also hopes to continue to bring more joy and emotion to the audience through his acting work.
References: [1] Gou Dongmei. China Agricultural Materials,2011(29):16-16