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"Dear audience friends, I want to kill you"
Every year at the Spring Festival Gala, you can hear Feng Gong's familiar greeting, just like the indispensable "fish" that Chinese New Year's Eve at the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner table at night, without it, it always feels as if something is missing.
What many viewers don't know is that this old artist with both virtue and art was caught in the scandal of "sexual blackmail" when he was young, and was even extorted by the woman for a sky-high breakup fee of up to 500,000 yuan.
Feng Gong's path to fame is far more than the legend we know.
01
In 1957, Feng Gong was born in the old mansion of the Feng family in Tianjin, his father Feng Haigang was a teacher, his mother Liu Yisu was a famous lady during the Republic of China, and his great-grandfather was Feng Guozhang, who was once the president of the Republic of China.
This eminent family lineage, which people relish, not only did not bring him the comfortable life he imagined, but on the contrary, because of this relationship, he suffered many different treatments in the process of growing up.
In 1966, a ten-year-long upheaval began, and due to family composition, 9-year-old Feng Gong followed his family from a spacious and bright mansion to a large courtyard, and the family was crammed into a cottage with only 12 square meters.
However, his parents were not overwhelmed by such a huge change, they taught their children to learn to face setbacks and difficulties with an optimistic attitude.
At the age of 16, he took his own creation of cross-talk "Respecting the Master and Loving the Apprentice" to participate in the Tianjin Excellent Program Show, and as a result, he was caught by the cross-talk master Ma Jixiang and entered his door to learn to speak cross-talk.
At that time, Feng Gong's dream was to become a literary and artistic soldier, and if his dream came true, he would be able to smoothly embark on the road of professionally engaging in music and art, but his origin was impossible to pass the political examination in the special context of the time, and the "dream of music art" in his heart could only be put aside.
With the end of the ten years of turmoil, at the suggestion of his father Feng Haigang, Feng Gong entered the Tianjin Wire Factory as a fitter, although he did not become a literary and artistic soldier, but in the factory he pulled up his partner Liu Wei, created and performed cross-talk together, did a good job, and became the "qu art celebrity" of their factory for a time.
In 1980, on the recommendation of Hou Yaowen, the two were recruited by the Railway Literary troupe, where Feng Gong, who was very successful, created a lot of fun works, and his ability was also affirmed by the leadership, after working in the literary troupe for a few years, he was transferred to the China Broadcasting Art Troupe to become a cross-talk actor, and his career has also been greatly developed.
There, his humorous and stable performance not only conquered the audience, but also won the recognition of the leadership. In 1986, Feng Gong first received an invitation from CCTV Spring Festival Gala, and this stage performance not only made him famous throughout the country, but also opened his Spring Festival Gala acting career like a "nail household".
The growth history of Feng Gong, the "Spring Festival Gala Nail Household"
02
In 1986, the 31-year-old Feng Gong and his partner Liu Wei brought a cross-talk performance with the theme of the Chinese zodiac sign "Speaking of the Tiger" to the Spring Festival Gala, and their performance received many praises and honors.
After this, Feng Gong, who quickly became popular, successively performed classic works such as "Qiao Pairs of Yang Lian" and "Five Senses Fighting for Merit" with Liu Wei, which exudes a funny and humorous temperament from the bones, with excellent performances, has been on the stage of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala for many years.
The two people's cross-talk career has also developed prosperously. However, just when Feng Gong planned to continue to show his fists with his partner, Liu Wei decided to go abroad to Australia to develop.
In order to continue his cross-talk career, Feng Gong found a herd of cattle to form a partner. At the Spring Festival Gala in 1995, Feng Gong said the golden sentence that has since become a "must-have dish for the Spring Festival Gala" in "Mr. Worst" in the "Worst Mr. Cow Herd" - "I want to die for you".
In the ten years of working with the cattle, they brought works such as "Point Subsidiary" and "Godson Youfang" to the audience, but when the two's careers reached their peak, the same plot was staged again.
In 2000, Niu Herd decided to suspend her cross-talk career and chose to go to Mengcheng, Anhui Province, as deputy county magistrate.
At that time, with the rise of Zhao Benshan, the king of sketches, cross-talk programs on the Spring Festival Gala stage have gradually declined, and what is in front of him is to continue to find a partner to carry forward his advantages in cross-talk programs, or to break through himself to try the performance form of sketches.
He chose the latter, and in 2000, he partnered with Guo Donglin to perform the sketch "Old Song and New Singing", contributing fun passages such as "Bamboo Board So Dozen, Secretary Wang Took My Three Strings", and Feng Gong also appeared on the CCTV Spring Festival Gala for 32 consecutive years with his poor mouth funny style like a "nail household".
At that time, Feng Gong was not only active on the Spring Festival Gala stage, but also often saw his figure in the film and television circles, and in the movie "Stand Straight, Don't Lie Down", he won the Best Supporting Actor of the Hundred Flowers Award in one fell swoop with the cowardly and timid intellectual Gao Wen played.
After that, he won the Golden Rooster Award for Best Actor for his performance in "Nothing to Steal",
Acting and excellent director, he has also successively launched his own self-written and self-directed films "Can't Eat Hot Tofu in a Hurry", "Don't Take Your Own Improper Cadres" and other works, which have received numerous awards and become a rapidly rising star in the Chinese directorial industry.
Feng Gong is not only profound in art, but in life he is still a person who attaches great importance to love and pampers his wife, unlike those directors who have a "magnificent" love history, the love story of him and his wife Ai Hui is sweet and touching at the same time.
03 Feng Gong's marriage and "unavoidable sexual extortion scandal"
Ai Hui is an alumnus of Feng Gong Middle School, the two can also be regarded as green plum bamboo horses, in 1983, 26-year-old Feng Gong and Ai Hui married, poor and white they did not even have a decent wedding,
Feng Gong had just been transferred to Beijing to work at that time, and they had no choice but to use a curtain in the corner of the rehearsal hall in the regiment to separate a "home".
Later, after Feng Gong stepped onto the stage of the Spring Festival Gala, the family's life gradually improved, and Feng Gong, whose career was getting smoother and smoother, became more and more busy, often working until late at night before returning home.
Relieved that he would return so late, Ai Hui bought a car as soon as she gritted her teeth, and no matter how late she would go to pick up Feng Gong and go home.
Feng Gong was distressed that his wife had to work, take care of the children, and even run this and that for herself, and he suggested that his wife simply resign at home and concentrate on being a "virtuous helper".
However, it is such a loving and peaceful married life, but it immediately caused a "storm" because of a letter.
In 2004, Feng Gong, whose career was in full swing, could not have imagined that he would be caught in the scandal of "sexual extortion" because of a little nanny Zhang Mou, who he did not know at all.
This year, Feng Gong went to a friend's house as a guest, the friend's little nanny claimed to be his fan, wanted his phone number, in order not to brush the friend's face, Feng Gong did not think much about it and gave her,
After that, Zhang Mou constantly expressed his admiration to Feng Gong and frantically called and harassed Feng Gong.
Feng Gong decisively refused and revealed to her that he was a person with a wife and children.
But he patiently explained that he did not dissuade Zhang, but harassed Feng Gong in a more intense way.
During the release of Feng Gong's self-directed and self-acting movie "Can't Eat Hot Tofu", Zhang sent a letter to Feng Gong, in which he said that he and Feng Gong had a relationship and asked him to give himself a breakup fee of 500,000 yuan.
Feng Gong, who received the letter, quickly found his wife to discuss countermeasures, and after her wife understood, she said, "Don't care, the rumors stop at the wise, and the cleansers clean themselves." Feng Gong's "indifference" completely made Zhang lose his mind, not only took the lawyer to Feng Gong's unit to make a big fuss, but even said that "the consequences of not handling this matter are quite serious."
Originally, For Zhang's extortion behavior, Feng Gong did not call the police to add her legal responsibility, and repeatedly "left a line" instead became a "certificate" for Zhang's wanton behavior and intensification.
As the media began to report on this matter, Feng Gong's reputation was also greatly affected, and finally Feng Gong sued Zhang in court, Zhang was sentenced to five years, and the sexual extortion storm subsided.
04
In 2019, Feng Gong was absent from the Spring Festival Gala for the first time, before which someone asked him: "You have been on the Spring Festival Gala stage for so long, if one day you can't go to the Spring Festival Gala, what will you think?" ”
Feng Gong smiled and said, "Even if you can't get on it, as long as one person in the audience remembers the phrase 'I want to kill you', it is enough." ”
Today's Feng Gong is 63 years old, and Brother Gong of that year has now become what we call Uncle Gong today, although his sideburns are slightly white, and although he left the Spring Festival Gala stage,
But as soon as he opened his mouth, he said the words "Dear audience friends, I want to kill you",
Time seems to have returned to the time when the family ate Chinese New Year's Eve meal in front of the TV set in their childhood.
Although the years will make people old, the classic memories can "always maintain youth".