He became a talent at a young age and played a well-known Shaolin monk. His play scenes are so exciting. After becoming famous, he was invited by many crews to star in many works, all of which achieved good response, and even caught up with big stars such as Jackie Chan and Jet Li at the box office. He was once rumored to be Jet Li's successor.
Today, he has faded from the public eye for many years or even disappeared. What has he been through and how is he doing now? Record the imprint of the times, recall classic moments, and taste the taste of life. In this issue, Ziya Boy Fun Counts Popular Characters, and will take you into the martial arts child star Shi Xiaolong.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="26" > practice martial arts hard from an early age</h1>
In 1988, Shi Xiaolong was born in Zhengzhou, Henan Province, and because of the fourth generation of the family's martial arts training, his father had high hopes for him, hoping that he could become a celebrity like Jet Li and Jackie Chan. At a young age, he had to bear the dreams of his fathers, and his life was destined to be extraordinary. Shi Xiaolong's original name was Chen Xiaolong, and when his father sent him to the Shaolin Temple to learn martial arts, the abbot at the time, Shi Yongxin, gave him the title of Shi Xiaolong.
When he was 2 years old, Shi Xiaolong, who had just learned to walk, was about to start practicing. His childhood was different from that of ordinary children, and other children were constantly practicing martial arts while playing. At 5 a.m., his father would take him out of the bed and start a day of training, even if it was windy and rainy, and almost all the time of the day was spent practicing.
Because he was too young and he had no ability to resist, he had to obey his father's arrangement, and no matter how tired he was, he could only choose to grit his teeth and persevere. Under this kind of harsh training for a long time, he has laid a solid foundation at the age of 3.
When practicing in the temple, because Shi Xiaolong was too small, all aspects of physical strength could not keep up with the high-intensity exercises, and many movements could not be completed. But his father was very strict with him, and when he could not run, his father would take a rope, tie it to his waist and drag him to run.
When he practiced splitting but could not be suppressed, his father would not only angrily rebuke him, but also directly press him down, which caused his ligaments to be strained, and his feet were also worn by stones and bleeding, and the pain caused him to tears straight down.
Long-term hard training has brought certain results, and at the age of 4, Shi Xiaolong can already play kung fu such as drunken boxing, five element fist and Shaolin stick. When participating in international martial arts competitions, he won the first prize of Shaolin Luohan Stick and the second prize of Shaolin Boxing. Later, his father disciplined him more severely, as long as the posture was not right, his father would beat him, often crying while practicing.
The long practice time allowed him to learn to look at his father's face, and as long as his father made any movements, he would be afraid. Every day his life is very boring, eating, practicing, sleeping and so on. Every time his mother saw him practicing, she felt that he was too hard, and her father was too strict with him, but no matter how much his mother persuaded his father, he was not moved, and always thought that those who practiced martial arts must endure hardships and not be arrogant.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="30" > enter show business</h1>
In 1993, under the strong recommendation of his father, Shi Xiaolong was given the opportunity to participate in the recording of the Children's Spring Festival Gala program of Henan Television. He performed very well in this show. Because the scouts of this show discovered him, the child ushered in the peak of his career in the days to come.
The young Shi Xiaolong looks cute and has a very good kung fu, and when he first entered the film and television company, he participated in a comedy movie, in which he played a little Shami. Due to the cute performance and the blessing of kung fu performance, the film caused a huge response as soon as it was released, and for a while everyone was discussing this little actor, and overnight he became a well-known star, attracting the attention of other directors in the film and television industry.
This work is very successful, but few people know that in order to make the film plot perfectly presented, Shi Xiaolong suffered a lot for this work. Because the plot needs a little, he has to hang Weah.
At the beginning of the hanging Ofia, Shi Xiaolong was very scared, and immediately burst into tears, but his father did not soften at all, and directly yelled at him to make him a real man. The director couldn't bear it at the time, thinking that he was just a 5-year-old child, how can such a small person understand what a man is.
Because Shi Xiaolong's body was too small and the crew did not have a suitable Weiya suit, he could only wrap his whole body with tape and be tied up and hung in the air by five flowers. In order to present the perfect cinematic effect, the child hangs Weah back and forth in the air, and every time a scene is followed, all the blood marks and blood bubbles are drawn out, and the film is very much hanging pressure, and he needs to endure several times more pain than adults.
But he couldn't cry out to his father for pain and could only endure it silently and slowly adapt. His father only stayed in the crew for three or four days before leaving, leaving his brother to take care of him. In the crew he is very obedient and sensible and has no objection to any arrangement. In addition to filming, he also had to practice with his brother.
After the success of the first play, the other filmmakers saw the potential of Shi Xiaolong and came to him for an appointment. The father felt that this was a great opportunity to become famous, so he let his son take on many plays. Many times in order to catch the scene, he would shoot for twenty or thirty hours in a row, which was very difficult for adults, but the children kept persevering.
His endurance and resistance to pressure are very amazing, and it is closely related to his long-term high-intensity martial arts training. Fortunately, Shi Xiaolong's efforts have been rewarded, more people know him, and many of the movies he has participated in have extremely high box office, even catching up with Jackie Chan and Jet Li.
Shi Xiaolong, who has lived in the crew for a long time, may only have two or three months in school a year, which leads to a serious backwardness in his studies. Although the father invited his son to follow him with the teacher of the culture class, the shooting task was very heavy and there was almost no time to study. The long absence from campus and the fact that he had almost no friends on the set and the inability to provide him with the opportunity to get along with his peers led to Shi Xiaolong's incompatibility with his peers.
Always in the public eye as a monk, he needed to shave his head, and he didn't even have his hair free. Gradually, he found that he had done nothing but shoot on the set, and he didn't know exactly what he liked, and he seemed to have derailed from the times.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="28" > study abroad</h1>
When he was 15 years old, Shi Xiaolong thought clearly, he didn't want to stay on the set all the time to shoot, he wanted to be himself once. The teenager confessed to his father that he did not expect that this time his father actually agreed and sent him to the United States to study.
In those years in the United States, he felt free, no longer had to shoot endlessly, did not have to be chased for autographs, and walked down the street as an ordinary big boy. Shi Xiaolong can go to school like other peers, make friends, or grow his hair according to his wishes.
In 2008, Shi Xiaolong returned to China after returning to China, thinking that after returning to China, many people would pursue him as before, but time passed, and everyone forgot about him. Shi Xiaolong grew up and was no longer as smart and cute as before. At the same time, he is mainly good at playing drama, and his performance in literary drama is not so good, the acting market has also changed, and the drama of play also pays attention to literary drama, so Shi Xiaolong's fame has become smaller. After returning to China, although he took on several plays, none of them caused an effect, and now he is even only an insignificant dragon set role in some dramas.
The first half of Shi Xiaolong's life was very bright and beautiful in the eyes of outsiders, and he had a great reputation and success at a young age. But if a person drinks water and knows that he is cold and warm, his pain and pressure are enormous. At an early age, he was forced to undergo high-intensity martial arts training every day, and he had little freedom to shoot scenes continuously.
It boils down to his father's heavy pressure on him, desperate for his son to do something great, and hasteed it in the wrong way. After reading the story of Shi Xiaolong, what do you feel? Please leave a comment in the comment area to discuss.
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