Alone on the hillside, the height is not high, and fate is sneering, suggesting that there is no way. Floating clouds swam around, issuing warnings, and I looked up and strode.
——Guan Zhengjie, "Higher than the Sky Again"
The older audience in the mainland should have heard this Cantonese song, which is the theme song of the martial arts drama "Heavenly Silkworm Change and Heaven Is Higher", which has been broadcast on mainland TELEVISION, and its starring actors are xu Shaoqiang, Hui Yinghong's brother Hui Tianci, and Michelle's sister Sydney, as well as Yin Tianzhao.
For many post-70s and post-80s mainland audiences, the name Yin Tianzhao should not be unfamiliar, in addition to "The Silkworm Changes and The Sky Is Higher Than the Sky", the "I Have a Date with Zombies" series starring him, Zhen Zidan's version of "Jingwumen", etc., have also been popular in the mainland.
Yin Tianzhao will celebrate his 57th birthday this year, and he is the same age as Hong Kong stars such as Liu Qingyun, Wen Zhaolun and Wu Qihua. He came from the "Asian Television Artist Training Class", which although it is not comparable to the "TVB Artist Training Class" that later produced superstars such as Stephen Chow, Liang Chaowei and Andy Lau, but also honed wan Ziliang, He Jiajin, Zhang Jiahui and other personality stars.
After Yin Tianzhao came out of the artist training class, he successfully joined Asia Television and participated in many famous ATV dramas in the 1980s, such as the epic drama "Qin Shi Huang" starring Liu Yong, Pan Zhiwen, Liu Songren, etc., playing Qin Shi Huang's younger brother Cheng Yu; in the costume drama "Wu Zetian" starring Feng Baobao, playing Li Xian; in "Zhuge Liang" starring Zheng Shaoqiu, playing Hua Tuo's younger brother Fan Ke (Michelle playing Xiao Qiao, He Jiajin playing Liu Qi); in He Jiajin's "Chinese Hero", playing Situ Moqing...
The 90s of last century was the peak of Yin Tianzhao's career, and he successively starred in popular dramas such as "Heavenly Silkworm Change and Then Compare with Heaven", "Zombie Daochang 2", "Jingwumen", "I Have a Date with Spring", "I Have a Date with Zombies", especially the popularity of "I Have a Date with Zombies", which made Yin Tianzhao win the title of "ATV Brother".
Yin Tianzhao and Wan Qiwen
Like Jiang Hua, Qian Xiaohao and other male stars with handsome but bumpy careers, Yin Tianzhao's career and life have also suffered major setbacks. When he was filming "I Have a Date with a Zombie", he had a scandal with the heroine Wan Qiwen, Wan Qiwen is Zhen Zidan's ex-girlfriend, a pair of big beautiful legs have been talked about by the media and the audience, Yin Tianzhao once confessed in an interview: Even his wife feels that he has a relationship with Wan Qiwen, in fact, the two are just "like brothers", often hooking up and going out to drink together.
After filming "I Have a Date with Zombies", the popular Yin Tianzhao, who had left Asia Television due to treatment problems, did not enter wireless in the end because he did not get a positive reply due to the request to "be the protagonist". So when filming "I Have a Date with Zombies 2 or 3", his identity is no longer an ATV actor.
I don't know if this is the reason, when he was filming "I Have a Date with Zombies 3", he was accused of harassment by an actress named Wang Xiulin (Mango), and many details were exposed. In the end, the matter was not conclusive, some people thought that Yin Tianzhao was acting recklessly, some people thought that Wang Xiulin took the opportunity to take the throne, and some people thought that it was a propaganda trick of "I Have a Date with Zombies 3". But there is no doubt that this incident has hit Yin Tianzhao's career very hard, and he has fallen into a situation where there is no drama to shoot. Here's one more thing, Wang Xiulin once had a relationship with Aaron Kwok, and was once exposed to self-harm and hospitalization for Guo Tianwang.
Wang Xiulin in "Gambler 2002"
Later, he chose to develop in the mainland, cooperated with Li Baotian, Chen Xiaochun and others in "The Great Situation of the North and South", and participated in the "New Detective Alliance" produced by CCTV and starring Wang Kai and others, but these works failed to improve Yin Tianzhao's situation.
Once a person's life loses the potential energy to move forward, internal and external troubles will follow. When Yin Tianzhao's career was frustrated, his wife suddenly fell seriously ill, and in order to take care of his wife, Yin Tianzhao almost quit the entertainment circle. Yin Tianzhao's wife is named Teresa, and the two met when Yin Tianzhao first debuted, and although the relationship between the two has had major twists and turns, they have finally chosen not to give up.
Yin Tianzhao, who has been silent for many years, has chosen a low-key comeback in the past two years, but there is no good chance. In 2019, he participated in a big online movie called "Fu Demon White Fish Town 2", and this year there is a movie called "Drama Mage", and the starring lineup has Xu Shaoqiang, who has cooperated with Yin Tianzhao in "Heavenly Silkworm Change", but it is obviously also a work with very little investment.
The Dramatist
When Yin Tianzhao was young, because of the early death of his parents and the loss of his family education, he had an extremely rebellious personality, a short temper, and skipping school and fighting was a common thing. Nowadays, Yin Tianzhao, who is nearly a flower armour, seems to have lost the sharp edge of his youth, and what he often shares on social media is some parents' short and trivial lives. The glory and misery of the past have vanished.
Yin Tianzhao and Chen Shaoxia
We can only recall the handsome teenager who once tried to compare with the sky in the song of Guan Zhengjie's "Higher than the Sky Again".
A hero in my life, never believing in the number of fates, more proud to withstand the waves; wiping away tears, carrying anger on my back, let me climb dangerous peaks, and then compare with the sky.
Author: Little Hero Lin Whirlwind (Film Terrier Doctor Editorial Department), please do not reprint at will.