According to Xinhua News Agency, Mr. Li Xing, a well-known director and chairman of Taiwan's Cross-Strait Film Exchange Committee, died in Taipei at the age of 91 at 9:55 p.m. on the 19th due to heart and lung failure. Born on the mainland and studied in Taiwan, Li Xing laid a solid foundation for cross-strait film and cultural exchanges.
Li Xing has in-depth contacts with famous directors such as Xie Jin and Wu Yigong. In 2008, when the host Cao Kefan was interviewing Li Xing in Taipei, the bad news of director Xie Jin's death suddenly came. Upon hearing this information, Li Xing was shocked at first: "Is it really fake?" When the mood calmed down, he said, "The death of director Xie Jin is the end of an era in film, he is a giant of Chinese cinema, we should miss him..." As he spoke, Li Xing couldn't help but shed tears.
Li Xing recalled in the show that he and Xie Jin had known each other for a short time, but at first sight, they were "like friends and brothers who had not seen each other for decades."
According to Ge Yanping, former secretary general of the Shanghai Film Association, on June 15, 2010, during the Shanghai International Film Festival, Li Xing made a special trip to Wu Yigong's home to visit Wu Yigong, and then to Xie Jin's home to visit Xie Dao's wife Xu Dawen. "At that time, accompanied by He Lin, deputy secretary of the party group of the Shanghai Municipal Federation of Literary and Art Circles, he ran to two places in half a day." Her collection of Shanghai Filmmakers Association materials left precious photos of that year, and when chatting with Li Xing, Wu Yigong almost fell on the sofa with a smile, which showed that the friendship between the two was extraordinary. After that, Li Xing also came to Shanghai to participate in the 8th Cross-Strait Chinese Traditional Culture and Modern Culture Seminar - the Cross-Strait Film Industry Development Forum.
On June 15, 2010, during the Shanghai International Film Festival, Li Xing visited Wu Yigong's home
Born in Shanghai in 1930, Li Xing, whose real name is Li Zida, was born in Shanghai in 1930, went to Taiwan in 1948, and later entered The Taiwan Normal College (now Taiwan Normal University). Li Xing began to dabble in the film industry in the 1950s, and in 1958 he participated in directing "Brother Wang Liu Ge Tour to Taiwan", completing his directorial debut, which was a box office hit after its release, becoming one of the masterpieces of comedy films in the history of Taiwanese cinema.
On June 15, 2010, during the Shanghai International Film Festival, Li Xing visited Xie Jin's wife, Xu Dawen, at Xie Jin's home
In the 1960s, Li Xing pioneered the path of creating healthy realistic films in Taiwan. During his creative career, he shot 52 films, winning the Golden Horse Award for Best Director three times for "Duck Farmer's Family", "Autumn Decision" and "A Boat in the Ocean", and 7 works won the Golden Horse Award for Best Drama Film, and won the Golden Horse Award for Lifetime Achievement.
Li Xing's film "A Boat in the Ocean"
Li Xing has cooperated with the writer Qiong Yao to adapt Qiong Yao's novels into literary and art films, including "Wan Jun's Cousin" and "Dumb Girl's Deep Love". The two films set off a "Qiong Yao novel fever" at that time, and also led to the development of Taiwanese films. In the 1970s, Li Xing filmed films such as "Seagull Flying Place" and "Blue Cloud Sky", which set off a second wave of "Qiong Yao fever".
Since the 1980s, Li Xing has been committed to promoting cross-strait film culture exchanges. In 1990, he led a Delegation of Taiwanese films to Beijing for the first time. In 1991, he organized a delegation to the mainland to participate in the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Awards, which was the first time that the Taiwanese film industry participated in the mainland film festival. In 2009, Taiwan's Cross-Strait Film Exchange Committee was established, and Li Xing was elected as the chairman of the committee. In the same year, the agency and the China Film Foundation jointly held the first cross-strait film exhibition. Li Xing has also donated his works to the China Film Archive many times.
Jiang Ping, director of the office of the first Shanghai International Film Festival, former general manager of China Film Group, director of the art committee and director of China Film Group, learned of Li Xing's death and said sadly, "The good people who love to eat 'garlic seedlings fried meat shreds' are gone", "When I knew the name of Li Xing's predecessors, I was just in my early twenties, and at that time I was very touched to see him direct "A Boat in the Ocean". Later, I read the article he wrote about Lukang Town and knew that the old man was a fellow villager in Jiangsu, and his favorite hometown dish was 'garlic seedlings fried with shredded meat'. ”
Li Xing and Jiang Ping
Jiang Ping recalled that in 1994, he and Qiu Fusheng invited Wu Yigong and Zhu Yongde, the former director of the Shanghai Film Studio, to lead a delegation to Taiwan to participate in the film exhibition, but in the end they failed to make the trip. In 1995, Li Xing accepted the invitation to participate in the Shanghai International Film Festival, Wu Yigong set up a banquet to receive the wind, Xie Jin was accompanied, and Jiang Ping specially let the restaurant on the third floor of the Shanghai Cinema Add a plate of "Garlic Seedling Fried Meat Shreds", which made Li Xing happy and bad, and the two also became friends for a long time. "After that, no matter what film exchange activities between the two sides of the strait and the four places, as long as director Li Xing is there, we will always find ways to make a plate of 'garlic seedlings fried meat shreds', and every time, he will eat with relish, and said that this is a strong nostalgia."
The mainland has held Li Xing Film Exhibition many times. In 2015, the China Film Archive hosted the "Nostalgia for the Countryside - Film Retrospective Exhibition of Taiwanese Director Mr. Li Xing" in Beijing, and Li Xing said at the event: "I will spare no effort for cross-strait film exchanges and cooperation. As long as I am healthy and I can walk, I will continue to work hard to promote the development of Chinese films and cross-strait film festival exchanges. ”
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