In 1998, after the broadcast of "Huan Zhu GeGe", the grand event was unprecedented, and it quickly swept the country. After so many years, whenever the summer vacation arrives, Hunan TV will broadcast it repeatedly. "Huan Zhu Gege" accompanied the growth of many post-80s and post-90s, and also made Zhao Wei popular with "Little Swallow" and became a hot first-line star in China.
After Zhao Wei, Huang Yi and Li Sheng both challenged "Xiao Yanzi", but their reputation was not as good as Zhao Wei.
Earlier, Chen Derong and Li Tingyi had blown up some of their fate with Xiaoyanzi in some interview programs, but what many people did not know was that Li Jiaxin, the great beauty of Hong Kong, was once the first choice of Xiaoyanzi. The reason why Zhao Wei was able to successfully play Xiaoyanzi in the end, in addition to her own external conditions, was excellent enough, and she was also promoted by the big name hometown Zuo Hongyuan.
When it comes to the name Zuo Hongyuan, most people may feel very strange. But his musical works can be said to be known to everyone, "Aaaah, aaaah, the beauty of the West Lake in March, the spring rain is like wine and willows like smoke", the ending song "Crossing Love" (also known as "West Lake Beauty" in this "Legend of the New White Lady" is composed and sung by him.
In fact, not only "Crossing Love", all the music composition in "The New White Lady" is undertaken by him.
The music creation of "White Lady" alone is enough for ordinary musicians to be praised for a lifetime, but this is only a small part of Zuo Hongyuan's many achievements. Zuo Hongyuan, born in 1930, pen name Gu Yue, is a famous producer and composer in Taiwan. He composed more than a thousand songs and nearly two thousand songs, because the manuscripts of the musical works he composed in the early days were thrown away and the specific data was not yet counted. As a musician, he has brought up many juniors, Teresa Teng and Huang Shujun are his students. He has composed more than 100 songs for Teresa Teng, including the popular "Wine and Coffee", "Where the Wind Comes From", "A Thousand Words" and so on.
In addition to being a musician, Zuo Hongyuan also dabbled in film and television dramas, and participated in the filming of many film and television dramas as an investor. In the early days, Qiong Yao's "On the Side of the Water" (starring Liu Xuehua of Qin Han), "Geese in the Forest" (starring Lin Qingxia Qin Han), "Moon Hazy Bird Obscurity" (starring Lin Qingxia Qin Xianglin), "Wan Jun" and so on have his participation.
After Teresa Teng went to Japan to develop her career, Zuo Hongyuan (song) formed an iron triangle with Qiong Yao (lyrics) and Feng Feifei (singing), creating many classic film and television drama music soundtracks.
Because of his deep relationship with Qiong Yao, he also played a great role in promoting Zhao Wei when he starred in the role of Xiao Yanzi in "Huan Zhu Gege".
Although Zuo Hongyuan grew up in Taiwan and became famous in Taiwan, he was born in Wuhu, Anhui Province, and is a fellow countryman with Zhao Wei. At that time, someone recommended Zhao Wei to star in "Huan Zhu Gege", Zuo Hongyuan learned from Zhao Wei that this girl was a fellow with him, which was the first time he met a fellow countryman in the true sense after returning to the motherland, so he felt very kind. And he saw that Zhao Wei had a pair of big eyes that could talk, the eyes were very dramatic, and the speech was also very straight, like the combination of the personality of the north and south, which was very suitable for the role of Xiao Yanzi, and at that time, Zhao Wei was actually designated as a role of Ziwei.
Later, Zuo Hongyuan personally accompanied Zhao Wei to the Beijing Children's Theater to audition, and then brought the recorded sample back to Taiwan to discuss with Qiong Yao.
In addition to selecting a number of actors in the mainland, Taiwan is also vigorously looking for Xiaoyanzi candidates, such as li Tingyi who was contacted earlier, but Li Tingyi gave up this great opportunity because she was pit by her agent.
Because Qiong Yao already had a lot of blockbuster dramas in Taiwan at that time, when she learned of some of her "Little Swallow" candidates, the Taiwan media were following these "Little Swallows" for interviews and videos, including Hong Kong's big beauty Li Jiaxin. According to Zuo Hongyuan's recollection, Li Jiaxin was Xiaoyanzi's first choice at that time.
It is hard to imagine that Li Jiaxin actually had the experience of starring xiaoyanzi with a high probability.
In the end, after discussion, it was decided that Zhao Wei would play Xiaoyanzi and sing the interlude "There Is a Girl".
Zuo Hongyuan was very satisfied with her interpretation of Xiaoyanzi, bluntly saying that "laughing dead people" did not live up to his personal expectations of her.
"There is a girl" is Qiong Yao's lyrics, Qiong Yao's lyrics are characterized by relatively high, more upright, Zuo Hongyuan in order to be closer to the character of Xiao Yanzi added a monologue of "anyway idle is also idle". At that time, Qiong Yao strongly objected: "How can I add these things to my lyrics", Zuo Hongyuan assured her that the effect would be very special, and Qiong Yao reluctantly agreed.
"There is a girl" received a good response, and then Zhao Wei's singing talent was discovered, and the songs in it were all taken care of by her when she starred in "Deep Rain and Rain".
"Huan Zhu Gege" made Zhao Wei suddenly from a young girl to a household name big star, Zhao Wei said in an early interview that she and Xiao Yanzi's role is very resonant, she said that it is not Xiao Yanzi like her, it is she who interprets Xiao Yanzi as her like this, if someone wants to play Xiao Yanzi later, it is not to play Xiao Yanzi but to play her, because to serve the audience's inner feelings, not this role.
This is probably one of the reasons why the next few "Little Swallows" have been complained about by the audience.
Zhao Wei also said in the interview that no one who plays Xiaoyanzi can be popular, and even the host felt that her tone was arrogant, but it turned out to be true later.
At that time, Qiong Yao started filming "Huan Zhu GeGe" and "There Are Tears in the Sky" at the same time, and she was more optimistic about the latter, after all, lingering compassion is her best dish. She has been in and out of the set of "There Are Tears in the Sky" more times and has invested more effort. Zhao Wei, Zhou Jie, etc. of the "Huan Zhu Gege" crew starring Zhao Wei and Zhou Jie are newcomers who have just debuted, and the heroine of "There Are Tears in the Sky" Jiang Qinqin has already acted in the "Xi Shi" heroine Xi Shi directed by Yang Jie, and has acted in "Kangxi Micro Service Private Interview" and other explosive dramas, the male protagonist Yu Zonghua has been nominated for the Golden Horse Best Supporting Actor, the female second Zhu Yin is already a "Purple Xia Fairy", and the male second Jiao Enjun has been debuting for eight years and has a small reputation in the industry.
However, "Huan Zhu" became popular, and "There Are Tears in the Sky" was set off dimly. Of course, this cannot be attributed to the credit of Zhao Wei alone, but at least it has a great relationship with the successful shaping of the role of Xiao Yanzi.