In 1955, Jiao Huang, with his love for theater, was admitted to the coveted Shanghai Theater Academy.
This year, a family of intellectuals in Tianjin welcomed their son, named Chen Daoming.
Chen Daoming's father, a translator, graduated from Yenching University.
At that time, Chen Daoming's family did not know that when their son grew up, he would become a household actor because of his role in Kangxi. They would not have thought that because of his role in Kangxi, his son was often compared with his predecessor Jiao Huang by the audience.
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Jiao Huang was born in Beijing in 1936 to intellectual parents.
His father, Jiao Shufan, and Chen Daoming's father, Chen Leiguang, are alumni.
Coincidentally, after graduation, these two people engaged in jobs related to foreign languages.
Jiao Huang's mother, an ordinary teacher, has an extremely kind personality.
She had never blushed at anyone else for anything, not once.
In addition, she has given Jiao Huang two lives.
In 1937, the people were shrouded in the horrors of war, and everyone's mood could not be stretched, and most of them chose to flee with their families.
At that time, her mother took Jiao Huang and her two older sisters and fled to Chongqing to join her father, who was working at the central bank.
They descended from north and south, taking trains, horse-drawn carriages, and even rickshaws on the way.
After more than two months of arduous trekking, the family was finally reunited.
At that time, Chongqing played a role equivalent to that of the capital. It was during that period that Jiao Huang gradually began to come into contact with the drama that he loved and followed throughout his life.
At that time, in Chongqing, which was in a special period, there were many drama performances, and every unit had celebrations and drama performances.
When Jiao Huang was in the 4th grade of primary school, because of his good looks and good Mandarin, he was named by the teacher to perform a drama.
A small child, but the performance is an adult's emotional drama. Therefore, decades have passed, and Jiao Huang still remembers the script.
He did not expect that his future life would be related to performance. He would not have thought that because of his good acting skills, he and he would be regarded by the audience as the "South Jiaobei Yu" of the drama industry.
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Jiao Huang's family went from Chongqing to Shanghai.
Strange cities, strange people, everything has to start anew again. Jiao Huang, who is in middle school, is about to face an important turning point in his life.
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Once, the teacher asked Jiao Huang to read a text.
Because he was not familiar with Shanghainese, he could only pronounce it in Beijing dialect, and he did not expect that the classroom was silent.
When he finished reading, everyone looked at him with adoring eyes.
As a result, Jiao Huang, who was superior to others in Mandarin, was once again selected by the teacher to act in a drama.
After that, Jiao Huang suddenly became solemn from a naughty ghost who only knew how to play marbles all day.
He fell in love with acting completely.
After graduating from junior high school, because he behaved too well, the school wanted to keep him to continue to participate in the drama group.
With this recognized sense of accomplishment, after three years of high school, Jiao Huang has begun to prepare for the drama school.
At that time, he was in better shape and good at sports. Sprinting and athletics, up to the standards of a third-tier athlete.
In 1955, Jiao Huang was successfully admitted to the theater with his good appearance and good acting talent.
On the play, a place that records his unforgettable time for 4 years; a place that opens the door to art in his life.
That year was not like now, and the new students had a series of opening projects like military training. Jiao Huang wanted to experience the hard life of grassroots agricultural students and workers together with his classmates.
In his senior year, Jiao Huang played a veteran soldier in "Shanghai Rapid War", and everything had to be carried out according to the infantry drill code.
Once, it was raining.
In April, it was warm and cold, and the wet cotton sweater pants clinged to the body, damp and sticky to the skin.
There is a scene of charging, Jiao Huang has to carry a gun to run six thousand meters, in addition to maintaining a good formation, but also to create an atmosphere to keep shouting, although the physical fitness is good, but a scene down, will also be tired.
When it comes to filming "Leopard Pass Battle", you have to rehearse the spelling, and you have to practice like the real spelling.
Decades later, Jiao Huang still remembers the training at that time:
As long as I am given a flat shoulder, I can play the momentum of that year.
It was like a fierce tiger descending the mountain, killing the sky.
That's all he had for four years on the theater.
After these four years, Jiao Huang, who changed from ignorance to maturity, entered the Shanghai Youth Repertory Theatre.
Because the stage expression is particularly strong, Jiao Huang quickly became the center of the stage, the most dazzling person.
At that time, he did not expect that success would come with a rolling name.
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That special historical period, as long as anyone who has experienced it, will be unforgettable.
During those 10 years, Jiao Huang had two failed marriages.
In addition, he was sent to the countryside for transformation.
During this period, his career was severely damaged, and he had no drama for more than 9 years.
His life seemed to have entered a wasteland.
After the torment of that month, Jiao Huang, who was in good shape, really tasted what it meant to be "sick like a mountain".
He had a high fever and was dying, like a flower that had just bloomed but was about to wither.
He was admitted to the hospital without the company of a lover.
Jiao Huang's mother arrived in Shanghai during the evacuation and often visited her son in the hospital.
She gave her son, a second life.
She smiled and kept encouraging Jiao.
The mother's love is ordinary and great, and she uses little by little love to fill her son with the desire to live.
I don't know if it was the mother's love that touched the heavens, or because of something else, Jiao Huang survived under the serious illness.
Even he thought it was a miracle.
Although he saved a life, in those difficult years, he lived worse than death.
This situation continued until 1975.
This year, he was devastated, and he was a little thin and out of shape.
Due to the image, he played the villain role of Deputy District Chief Liu in the film "Unforgettable Battle". This film is played on the TV all day long.
The mother could not watch her son play a bad role, so she hardly watched TV during that time.
Because the character was too successful, Jiao Huang did not dare to go out for a long time.
Even the neighbor's children are imitating the villain image in his film.
After 2 years, Jiao Huang really returned to the stage.
He was anxious to make up for the lost 10 years, so he was acting throughout the 80s and early 90s.
Although the days are relatively light, as long as he stands on the stage, he can find his own happiness.
Because he knows that that happiness is his "last heaven." Beyond that, there was no way back.
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In 1978, 23-year-old Chen Daoming had been in Tianjin Renyi and had been running dragon sets for 8 years.
At that time, he would never have imagined that he would be unknown in the crew, and he would star in "The Last Emperor" a few years later, winning the "Golden Eagle Award" and the "Feitian Award" in one fell swoop.
Jiao Huang, who is nearly 20 years older than him, starred in the drama "Anthony and Cleopatra", which was well received in the industry.
He also met the actor Li Yuanyuan from this play.
At that time, Jiao Huang's drama troupe, because it wanted to shoot a drama, suffered from the actor's lack of success, and the director Hu Weimin asked Li Yuanyuan, who was a teacher at the time, to substitute for the class.
The workload of this drama is large and the shooting time is long, so that Li Yuanyuan has to work overtime until 10 pm.
Li Yuanyuan worked tirelessly, and Jiao Huang also worked diligently.
The two often rehearse together, and each practice is late at night.
After the drama was facing the audience, it became a sensation. As a result, this popular drama lasted more than 4 months and performed more than 40 times in a row.
In the day and night together, it is difficult for the single Jiao Huang and Li Yuanyuan not to polish the spark of love.
However, the age difference of 25 years eventually became a barrier between them, a barrier that was difficult to cross.
In the opposition of Li Yuanyuan's family, the relationship between the two was over.
Two people who have intersected in the emotional world, after colliding, they fly separately, back to back in the opposite direction.
After that, Li Yuanyuan cooperated with Chen Daoming and played the role of Su Wenyun in the adaptation of Qian Zhong's famous book "Siege of the City". The play allowed the two to form a deep friendship.
In 2002, Li Yuanyuan died of illness, and his friend Chen Daoming appeared at the funeral and covered his face when he said goodbye to his friend.
At that time, Jiao Huang was always on the stage, showing the charm of drama in his way.
Until that moment, he always felt that acting was not for fame and profit, so the messy drama, no matter how much money he gave him, he would not take it.
He never admitted that he was a person in the film and television industry, he only did people in the theater industry.
In 1992, Jiao Huang, who insisted on himself, retired. However, for Jiao Huang, it does not mean to leave the market.
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Chen Daoming met Qian Zhongshu because of the actor Fang Hongwei.
In qian's old home, where there was no copper smell and only the fragrance of books, he thought of his villainous side.
He was ashamed of himself, and for this reason he gave up his career and cultivated himself at home.
It was not until many years later, invited by Wang Zhongjun, that Chen Daoming played Gu Weijun in the film "My 1919", and then won the "Golden Rooster Award" to return to the public vision.
At this time, Jiao Huang walked steadily on the road of art. He can not be famous, but the role he portrays must be a classic.
In 1997, director Hu Mei filmed "Yongzheng Dynasty" adapted by February River.
Before this play was filmed, it encountered the problem of casting.
Chief producer Liu Wenwu preferred Jiao Huang, but Jiao Huang did not think about it, and directly refused on the grounds of "not playing a Qing Palace drama that shaves his head and speaks modern words".
But Liu Wenwu and Hu Mei had more eyes and forced the script to Jiao Huang before saying goodbye.
After Jiao Huang finished the script, he made a big turn of one hundred and eighty degrees, ran directly to the crew to report, and patted his chest to predict:
"'Yongzheng Dynasty' will be a superior work in the history of China's tv dramas."
Unexpectedly, Jiao Huang's prophecy came true, this drama was really on fire, and he also followed the fire. He graduated at the age of 23 and began acting in dramas, and by the time he became popular at the age of 61, he had been silent for 38 years.
Of course, the reason why Jiao Huang's version of Kangxi is recognized by the audience is inseparable from his efforts.
In order to play the role well, he prepared a 10,000-word copywriting.
Liu Wenwu stipulates that actors are not allowed to change their own words, and there are strict requirements for actors to take their places.
Even for Jiao Huang, who has decades of stage experience, these requirements are a great challenge.
But Jiao Huang was well prepared, so he was called "Ai Xin Jue Luo Jiao Huang" by the audience, which is worthy of the name.
Jiao Huang would not have thought that the "Kangxi Dynasty", which began to be broadcast a few years later, swept in, and its ratings surpassed that of "Yongzheng Dynasty", and even the popular "Big Mansion Gate" at that time was not as good as it.
And when Chen Daoming took this play, he also had a small episode.
The original protagonist Kangxi was played by Jiang Wen, but Jiang Wen refused on the grounds of the schedule.
In this way, Chen Daoming got the role of Kangxi. In order to play Kangxi well, Chen Daoming also made great efforts to collect various materials related to Kangxi and carefully study the script without leaving home.
Chen Daoming's efforts did not disappoint him. From his youth to his later years, Chen Daoming interpreted every frame of the Kangxi Emperor to the fullest.
This version is also defined by the audience as the most classic Kangxi.
Since then, there has been no end to the comparison between the two in terms of acting skills.
Some viewers said that Jiao Huang's Kangxi was the most real, because he was Kangxi. Some viewers also said that Chen Daoming's Kangxi was generous and performed a real imperial spirit.
As for which of them is better, it can only be judged by the audience.
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Half a life of ups and downs, a warm and warm light finally shone into the anxious emotional world.
His third wife, Chen Xiaoli, is a veteran cultural journalist for Shanghai's Wen Wei Po.
After marriage, they conceived a daughter together, and their lives were low-key and happy.
Today, the 85-year-old Jiao Huang is still active on the stage.
In life, he will not worry about the character's affairs, but will be troubled by the relationship with his daughter.
Usually, he rarely chats with his daughter. This lack of communication between father and daughter is what he calls the "generation gap."
Still, he hopes his decades of experience will help her.
This is Jiao Huang, a good man who is responsible for the family, a good father who always cares about his children.
He is also a good actor worthy of the stage.
Only by being loyal to the acting career can we afford the title of actor.
He did it because he once said:
Drama is a mirror that allows people to see themselves more clearly and understand life.