Speaking of the name Ma Dehua may not be familiar to everyone, but when it comes to the Eight Precepts of the Pig in the 86 version of "Journey to the West", it can be said that everyone knows it.
But what everyone doesn't know is that Teacher Ma Dehua is a Hui.
Pigs are a big taboo among Hui compatriots, and the Hui people are forbidden to eat pork and talk about pigs.
Not to mention playing a "pig" like Madhua.
It is also Ma Dehua who overcame these psychological concerns to have such an enduring 86 version of "Journey to the West".
This divine work, no matter when it is taken out to see, is more than enough.
Since its broadcast in 1982, in 39 years, it has been repeated more than 3,000 times, and no drama can be surpassed so far.
The film and television myths created have become childhood memories for generations.
The four masters and apprentices in "Journey to the West" have also left an indelible impression in everyone's hearts.
Sun Wukong, who has great supernatural powers, Tang Sanzang, who is compassionate, and Sha Wujing, who is calm and honest.
Of course, there is also the eight precepts of the pig that is delicious and lazy, addicted to beauty, and brings us the most joy.
Ma Dehua's Eight Precepts of the Pig is also the only character besides Sun Wukong that everyone can talk about.
Born in 1945 in Beijing to a merchant family, Ma Dehua grew up in a very prosperous life.
Although Ma Dehua's father was a businessman, he was very fond of martial arts, and he had high hopes for Ma Dehua when he was very young, hoping that he would learn martial arts.
At this time, although Ma Dehua was young, he had his own opinions.
At this time, he showed a strong obsession with Peking Opera, fantasizing that he could one day become a Peking Opera actor and stand on the stage and sing.
Ma Dehua's father said to him: "Learning martial arts well can lay the foundation for learning Peking Opera, and it is easier to act."
Ma Dehua was willing to learn martial arts, and his father took him everywhere to visit famous teachers as soon as he had time.
At the age of 15, Ma Dehua felt that he had studied martial arts for so many years and could learn Peking Opera.
He secretly applied for the student class of the China Peking Opera Theater without concealing his father.
A few months later, when the news of Madwin's admission reached his home,
Ma Dehua's father suddenly jumped like a thunderbolt, grabbed him and beat him fiercely, but fortunately, several other elders in the family repeatedly dissuaded him, which calmed his father.
Since Mu had become a boat, he had no choice but to send Ma Dehua to the Peking Opera Academy to study, but at the same time, he also warned him that no matter how hard and tired he was in the Peking Opera Theater, he was not allowed to withdraw from school.
In this way, Ma Dehua began a three-year long Peking Opera study career at the Peking Opera Academy.
Fortunately, Ma Dehua really likes the industry of Peking Opera, coupled with many years of experience in martial arts training, no matter how tired he is, he has not given up.
In 1963, at the age of 18, Ma Dehua was assigned to work in the Chinese Peking Opera Troupe after graduation.
However, he did not become a martial artist as he wished, but was arranged to be an inconspicuous clown, which made him feel very disappointed.
Just when he thought that as long as he persisted in his efforts, he would definitely be able to become a martial artist.
Ma Dehua's Chinese Peking Opera Troupe was about to merge with the Northern Kun Opera House at this time, and he was transferred to study Kunqu opera at this time.
This is simply a thunderbolt on a sunny day for Madhua.
Because once you go to learn Kunqu Opera, it means that you can't be a martial artist in this life.
But at this time, a Kunqu teacher came over and told Ma Dehua: "This stage and the world are actually the same, there are not so many heroes and good men, although we play a clown, it is really not very good to look at, but as long as you play hard, the clown will also shine." ”
After hearing this, Ma Dehua came with confidence.
Immediately, he put down his body, put down his baggage, and constantly pondered the board and glance of learning clowns, thinking about how to play the clown to the hearts of the people.
His efforts were not in vain, and when he stood on, he could make the audience laugh with just one action.
In 1981, Ma Dehua, who was now 37 years old, was already a well-known clown in Kunqu opera, and with the laughter of the audience, he also fell in love with this line of work and enjoyed it every day.
At this time, the Northern Kun Theater adapted the song "Sun Wukong Makes a Big Fuss about Basho Cave", which needs a clown to play the "Eight Commandments of pigs".
I thought of the well-known "clown" Ma Dehua.
When receiving this role, Ma Dehua also considered it and asked the director if he wanted to wear a "pig nose", and after getting a negative answer from the director, Ma Dehua took over the role.
After the success of the performance, Ma Dehua's performance was also looked at by everyone, although it was only a supporting role, it shined on the stage this time.
In the same year, Yang Jie, the director of "Journey to the West", was struggling with the casting of the four masters and apprentices, and happened to see Ma Dehua, who played the "Eight Precepts of the Pig" in the Kun opera.
Then he sent an invitation to Ma Dehua and asked him if he wanted to participate in the Eight Commandments of pigs in "Journey to the West".
But this time it made Ma Dehua feel difficult, unlike the Eight Precepts of the Pig in Kun opera, just a simple makeup can be performed.
The Eight Precepts of the Pig in this "Journey to the West" must be really pasted with pig noses and pig ears, and you must wear a pig belly as a real "pig essence".
For a moment Ma Dehua didn't know what to do. On the one hand is one's own faith, on the other hand is a rare opportunity.
How can it be reasonable for a Hui to "be a pig"?
In the face of repeated invitations from director Yang Jie, Ma Dehua's heart was still shaken, so he also ran to the clan elder specifically to see if he could act.
The clan elder told him, "Because it doesn't matter when the work is needed." ”
He packed up his things and walked into the "Journey to the West" crew, and this stay was a full 6 years.
During the filming of "Journey to the West", compared with Sun Wukong's full body hair, the modeling of the Eight Precepts of the Pig is not only difficult, but also very difficult to play, and a big belly of the Eight Precepts of the Pig weighs 10 pounds.
In order to make the stomach look more real, director Yang Jie let the staff stuff a lot of cotton into Ma Dehua's stomach.
In the summer, with such heavy equipment, Ma Dehua was covered with prickly heat and itchy.
Not only that, his pig ears and pig nose are directly glued to the skin, as long as it is a makeup, it must be torn off the skin hard, and when the makeup is finished, it will be glued back with glue again.
Under such repetition, Ma Dehua's face was also directly torn off a layer of skin.
But this is not the hardest, the most difficult is that during the filming process, in order to avoid repeated makeup, you can only eat a lot of things before makeup.
After the makeup is painted, you will not eat, even if you drink water, you must use a straw, and after the end of the daily shooting, you can remove your makeup and eat.
The pig eight precepts in the play shout every day to divide things and scatter the gang, but Ma Dehua outside the play is very dedicated.
Once, when filming a scene that required hanging Weah, suddenly the wire broke, and Ma Dehua had already fallen heavily to the ground before he could react, and although there was a cushion of props, the ribs on his body were still deformed.
During the filming of the episode "Tongtian River", because the cotton in his belly was oozing with water, he was almost washed away by the river after falling.
In the episode where Sun Wukong surrenders the Eight Precepts of the Pig, there is a scene where Sun Wukong sets fire to the residence of the Eight Precepts of the Pig, and in order to pursue the real effect, director Yang Jie ignites two barrels of gasoline next to Ma Dehua, and burns him up and down.
But this is also the effect that director Yang Jie is pursuing, and Ma Dehua endured the pain in the fire and finished the play.
When he was helped up by the staff, he also smiled and said to everyone at the scene: "I almost became a roast suckling pig just now." ”
When the 86 version of "Journey to the West" was broadcast, it instantly swept the country and directly created a ratings miracle.
Even today, the miracle created by "Journey to the West" has not been surpassed by a TV series.
And Ma Dehua not only played a role in the play, he even participated in more than ten roles such as the Heavenly Soldier, the Mountain God, and the Robber before and after, and no one found that this was played by the "Eight Precepts of the Pig".
This is all because the role of "Eight Commandments of pigs" is too deeply rooted in people's hearts.
Because in the play, as long as the master is captured by the youkai, he shouts that he will divide the luggage and scatter the gang, and he wants to go back to Gao Laozhuang to marry Miss Gao; but when he sees other female goblins in the back, his eyes are shining and his saliva is direct.
Even when the goblin was about to eat him, she didn't forget to say, "Hey, this is the blessing of the old pig." ”
It is also this image that is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, after Ma Dehua performed the TV series, took off the props and returned to real life, there will be many people who say "The Eight Precepts of the Pig have become humanoid." ”
This also led to Ma Dehua's indirect lack of drama, because people who met him would say that he was "the Eight Precepts of the Pig".
Although there is no drama to shoot, "Journey to the West" is undoubtedly a successful TV series, and Ma Dehua is also a successful actor.
A person can play a role alive, which also proves his acting skills.
Although he is very in the play, he has always dreamed that he can marry Chang'e Fairy, and when he meets a beautiful goblin, he sees one and loves one.
In reality, Ma Dehua also married a big beauty as he wished.
As early as before the filming of "Journey to the West", in 1972, Ma Dehua was introduced by a neighbor and met his wife Hou Yumin, who was 3 years younger.
The two fell in love at first sight, fell in love, and the next year the two joined hands to start a family.
Ma Dehua's wife was also a great beauty when she was young, although Ma Dehua was not able to be with Chang'e on TELEVISION.
In reality, Ma Dehua married a beautiful and "Chang'e" wife as he wished, not only good-looking, but also understanding.
When Ma Dehua went out to film, his wife took on the responsibility of taking care of the family and taking care of the whole family in an orderly manner.
He also gave Ma Dehua a lot of support in his career.
This year is the 49th year they have walked together, the long married life has not erased the feelings between them, the two are still as loving as ever, and the sons of the two are also very good-looking.
He also opened a media company in Malaysia, and was already worth over 100 million yuan at a young age, which is also a jackie Chan for Ma Dehua and his wife.
Although In the play, Ma Dehua is greedy and lustful, delicious and lazy, but in real life, he is very low-key, and he is also deeply affectionate with his wife.
Although he has long achieved a double harvest of fame and fortune, there is no scandal so far, and his degree of dedication and role are also unforgettable.
Even today, everyone talks about their arduous journey in filming "Journey to the West", and they are full of praise.
Now Ma Dehua is still active on the stage, in 2019, he wore a pig eight precepts dressed as standing on the stage of Shandong Satellite TV Spring Festival Gala, brought a program "Second Master Brother is coming", and also sang a song that keeps pace with the times "Burn My Calories", which ignited the enthusiasm and feelings of all the audience in an instant.
At the age of 74, he is still full of love for the stage, as long as he can still stand on the stage and bring laughter and emotion to everyone, perhaps this is also Ma Dehua's lifelong pursuit.
But some viewers said that Ma Dehuai could only play the "Eight Precepts of the Pig" in his life, and he could no longer play any role except the "Eight Precepts of the Pig".
However, a 25-episode TV series, it took a full 6 years to shoot, all the scenes are live-action shooting, "Journey to the West" also took all the audience through the great rivers and mountains of the motherland, for such a divine drama, although there is only one role in life, it is also a step to the heavens, which is a role that is enough to seal the gods.
All of this is inseparable from his persistence, just like his understanding of "enlightenment", which is not only the name of the Eight Precepts of the Pig, but also his faith in this life.
As he said, "Realize what you can, stick to what you're good at, and do it to the extreme is success." ”