31-year-old Weng Dazhi was born in Xinhui, Guangdong, an ordinary family, his father is a middle school music teacher, his mother is a kindergarten teacher, on the upper sister, younger brother, Weng Dazhi's father and frail, often away from the pot of medicine, a family of five people live a very difficult life.
When he was seven years old, Weng Dazhi was in first grade. At that time, often people in the market in front of his house, with three playing cards set up a gambling stall, there are always people who are deceived, but do not know how to expose, so they have to admit their own bad luck. Wengda Zhi from a young age love to ponder things, he ran to watch every day as soon as school was over. To see the seventh day, he finally saw the mystery of the stall cheating: the original, the stall in both hands when the cards, the right hand in the left hand under the very fast movement, but also in this movement, the cards have been replaced. Weng Da Zhi, who is a straight-talking man, immediately revealed to the bettor that the stallholder's dastardly trick, and the bettor was so angry that he wanted to beat up the stallholder, scaring him into fleeing.
The Spring Festival when he was 8 years old, Weng Dazhi went with his parents to visit relatives in Zhongshan, Guangdong Province. At the entrance of a park, he saw an old man performing the magic trick of turning an empty glass into water. He was dumbfounded and thought it was incredible! He immediately begged the old man to teach himself this magic, the old man said: Magic is not something that can be taught casually, if you can give me 300 yuan tuition, I will teach you.
Weng Dazhi then pestered his parents for money to learn magic, and what he got was a scolding. But he was not discouraged, he was determined to save money to learn magic. After returning home, Weng Dazhi went to the street every day after school and holidays to pick up glass bottles, cardboard and other scraps to sell money, summer vacation and go to sell popsicles, trying to earn money by all means.
The second year of the Spring Festival, Weng Dazhi pestered his parents to take him to play with relatives in Zhongshan, his parents could not persuade him, so they had to take him to go. Who knows, once in Zhongshan, Weng Dazhi secretly ran to the park to find the magician old man went. Seeing the old man, he excitedly took out his only 282.25 yuan, timidly said: Master, I just so much money, you teach me the magic of turning an empty cup into water! The old man was so surprised and moved that he not only taught Weng Dazhi the magic of changing water from an empty cup, but also gave him back 2.25 yuan in change. This is the only magic trick that Weng Dazhi has ever learned in his life.
After returning home, the excited Weng Dazhi couldn't wait to show his magic trick of changing water from an empty cup to his teachers, classmates and relatives. He took an empty cup in his hand in a decent manner, then waved his hand and covered it with a piece of red cloth, and then waved his hand again and flicked off the red cloth, only to see that the empty cup had been filled with water. Everyone was mesmerized by his performance and praised Little Dazhi for his intelligence. The adults' praise made Little Da Zhi's heart happy.
Since then, Weng Da Zhi has been obsessed with the world of magic, and he has tried to collect all the magic books he can and read them over and over again. Because he was so obsessed with magic, Weng Dazhi's academic performance fell dramatically, and in the first semester of the sixth grade, he finished third from the bottom of the school, which disappointed his parents, who scolded him incessantly for not doing his job. At this time, Weng Dazhi's father was seriously ill and hospitalized, the family has been carrying a lot of debt. The first thing you need to do is to take the initiative to drop out of school and go out to work to supplement your family's income.
In this way, 13-year-old Weng Dazhi followed a group of adults to the city to work at a construction site, at first, the contractor did not agree to accept him, in his softly and as long as half of the wages pleaded to take him in, his task is to pick concrete. The first afternoon, his tender shoulders were heavy burden pressure burning pain, but still clenched his teeth until the end of the day. After work, Weng Dazhi's shirt has not come off, because the shoulder has been abraded flesh has been stuck to the clothes ...... Weng Dazhi in the construction site is three years, usually, in addition to most of his salary to take home to honor his parents, he also secretly left some private money to buy magic books and magic programs on video tape. Those books and videotapes became the only source of joy in Weng Dazhi's grueling working life.
In between jobs, the quirky Weng Dazhi took the initiative to perform magic shows for his fellow workers, such as simple water changes from empty cups, magic poker, and so on. To the hard workers brought a lot of fun. Gradually, some units around the construction site also know this little magician. Every holiday, some units will ask Weng Dazhi to perform magic programs, on the one hand, exercise their magic skills, on the one hand, you can also get the red envelope, he naturally happy. At that time, Weng Dazhi only regarded magic as an entertainment program, and did not take it as his lifelong career to pursue.
But then, an accident caused Weng Da Zhi to change the direction of his life. One day, Weng Dazhi picked a load of concrete to climb up to the third floor, but inadvertently in the third floor of the bamboo and wood frame lost his footing and fell, his feet right into the pile of rebar, the liberation shoes were poked by the rebar through several holes, while clamped in the pile of rebar in a small nail but penetrated through the shoes and socks after and then y pierced the board of his feet ......
The accident, so that the Weng Dazhi determined to leave the construction site full of danger, he also realized a truth from it: rebar is big and hard, but after passing through the shoes no longer penetrate, while the nail is small, but after penetrating the shoes can also pierce the foot plate, the reason lies in the nail has a pointed head. As the saying goes, "36 lines of work, line of work," does not lie in the merits of your choice of industry, you as long as you can be in the industry you are engaged in the tip, you will become the top. And one's most interested in this life is magic, why not to the goal of magic scholar development, and work hard to be a nail on the top of the bubble?
At this time, Weng Dazhi heard that the annual World Magic Convention will be held in the United States, he resolutely made an amazing decision: to go to the United States to watch the Magic Convention! So he took all the nearly 50,000 yuan earned in the three years in the construction site, not enough money, he looked for workers borrowed 30,000 yuan. This bold move, he angered everyone in the family, everyone called him a loser, parents angry almost do not recognize him as a son. In 1989, at the age of 16, Weng Dazhi went to the United States to participate in a magic convention by himself. At that time, he applied for a visa as a magician, and because he didn't speak English, he found a Chinese man in Chinatown to be his interpreter. When he came to the venue, he was told that he had to go through an examination before he could participate. So, Weng Dazhi in front of many magicians, performed an empty hook fishing - Weng Dazhi holding a fishing rod, walked to the stage filled with magicians, a rod, just now also empty fishing rod suddenly caught a red goldfish, the stage suddenly applause suddenly. The chairman of the American Magic Association walked up to the stage and embraced Weng Dazhi, saying: not only can you pass this magic trick, but also have the qualification to participate in the competition. Weng Dazhi was very excited.
The magic conference was held for seven days, with magic lectures during the day and magic shows at night, which made Weng Dazhi very happy. Here, he met a world-famous masters of magic: David Gobberfeld, Jack McBay, Kisdorfrick, Danny Gao ...... those magical and difficult performances, so that Weng Dazhi completely enchanted. This magic conference has opened the eyes of Weng Dazhi, but also learned a lot of new magic. Although he spent all his savings and got into debt, he has no regrets.
After returning from the U.S., Weng Dazhi was introduced to a large hotel as a porter carrying luggage for travelers. At night, but also from time to time in the hotel's nightclub to perform magic, the wage is also much higher than before, and is often invited to other units to perform magic, each performance, people give the red envelope is always more than 500 yuan, which also makes Wengda Zhi's income greatly improved. One day, a famous department store in the city to open a branch, the boss of the department store specially sent people to ask Weng Dazhi to give the opening performance. On that day, many government officials and some celebrities went there, but also invited singers and comedy masters, newspaper reporters also came. Weng Da Zhi was performing the Guinness Body Splitting. When he and an assistant on stage, the audience a commotion: so small magician, what good magic can be performed? On the stage, Weng Da Zhi was not panicked, only to see him use a knife to cut the throat of the assistant, and then use the knife to divide the assistant's body into three sections. The audience was silent. Weng Dazhi and give the assistant covered with a bed of red silk cloth, expressed regret for a long time, and then slowly lifted the silk cloth, the strange thing is that the assistant on the body of the blood is gone, the body also returned to its original form, the eyes began to rotate, followed by stood up ...... Weng Dazhi's performance was successful. Mountainous applause resounded throughout the square. This time, the department store gave Weng Dazhi's red packet is 3000 yuan. The next day, the city newspaper published an article -- "China's youngest magician first try his hand", and also published a photo of Weng Dazhi performing magic.
Weng Dazhi's performance at the department store was applauded by a girl named He Qian, who slapped her palms red on the stage. He Qian was a saleswoman in this department store, and she was mesmerized by the magic tricks performed by Weng Dazhi. By the time Weng Dazhi's third day of promotional performances for a real estate company, He Qian told a wine bar waiter to anonymously send a cup of coffee to Weng Dazhi to drink, Weng Dazhi was not easy to find out the bottom of the mystery, a love affair also pulled off.
When dating, Weng Da Zhi will often give He Qian some unexpected surprises, I remember once shopping in a big mall, saw a Chinese noblewoman with two bodyguards, the noblewoman is full of all kinds of noble jewelry to indicate the identity of the bodyguards to the people next to the overbearing said: "Let a moment, let a moment." This displeased many people. However, when they came in front of Weng Da Zhi and He Qian, they didn't say this anymore because they saw that He Qian was also wearing so many precious jewels of their master. Surprised, the three of them unanimously made way for He Qian. When He Qian walked out of the mall excitedly, she found that none of the jewelry on her body was left, which turned out to be the magic trick that Weng Dazhi had just done.
Gradually, the small magician Weng Dazhi's name spread. 19 years old, he did the magic program Xuanlai so on the provincial television, he performed magic in the program, but also debunked some of the pseudo-science, such as eating glass and other qigong, and at the same time debunked some of the card table of the cheating tricks.
In order to learn magic, to become a professional magician, Weng Dazhi in addition to some units or television perform magic, a time, he went to the world to participate in performances or observation. Every country, Weng Dazhi always creates some new magic tricks that the audience has not seen before, which makes many foreign magicians admire Weng Dazhi and call him the magic genius of the East. Although every performance abroad has several thousand dollars of income, but so all year round running around, most of the money earned are spent on travel expenses, and participate in each magic festival expenses is a lot of money. He basically had no money to save up for a year, so all his relatives and friends had nothing good to say about him, saying that he was not doing his job. But that didn't stop him from pursuing magic with confidence.
Because he dropped out of elementary school, as he performed more and more, Weng Dazhi felt his cultural knowledge was insufficient. By the time he was 20 years old, Weng Dazhi was back in amateur high school, learning English the hard way, in addition to studying and performing magic. Two years later, he was finally able to communicate in English. Later, he went on to attend an amateur college specializing in business administration.
With Weng Dazhi's growing international influence, more and more young people came to learn from him, but Weng Dazhi politely declined. He told them that magic can be used for entertainment, but to make a living from it, the future is not bright. But he still could not withstand some people's begging, and finally accepted Lin Xiaoming and Cai Jiehui two disciples.
Wong Dazhi saw that many people were interested in magic, and he couldn't help but develop the idea of selling magic props. Because most of the magic is inseparable from the props, if you open a magic props store, who buy what props to teach him what magic, so two birds with one stone, business may be good. In 1993, Weng Dazhi's magic props store finally opened in Guangzhou, and business was surprisingly good. Soon, Weng Dazhi opened three magic props stores.
In 1993, an international magic competition was held in the United States, and Weng Dazhi participated in it again. This time, he performed Christmas magic program won the fourth place in the contest, although and the contest's first runner-up, but in the international impact is exceptionally sensational, because this is a 22-year-old Oriental boy ah! Many of the world's media and all the newspapers in the United States almost all of the Wengda Zhi made a more detailed report. This poor boy who was taunted by his family and friends at home finally became internationally famous. Moreover, he was the first outstanding Chinese magician to be recognized internationally.
In August 1993, the China Magic Association officially sent an invitation letter to Weng Dazhi, asking him to give lectures to Chinese magicians at the annual China Magic Conference. During his travels around the world, Weng Dazhi y realized that Chinese magic lagged far behind western countries. The reason for this is that Chinese magicians are stuck in their ways. Because the Chinese magicians are generally paid by the state, the drought and flood, there is no pressure to survive, rarely study magic after work, and always perform with a dignified face, a high and mighty look. Foreign magicians are different, they have immersed their whole life in magic and always perform with a smile on their face. Therefore, when Weng Dazhi gives lectures to Chinese magicians, he always emphasizes one point: the magic show cares about the splendor of a moment, and its wonders are in the dark, so the audience should not see how difficult it is.
Some developed countries frequently invited Weng Dazhi to perform abroad, in order to learn from the best, Weng Dazhi traveled around the world all year round, and became one of the magicians with the most performances abroad in China. As his fame grew, Weng Dazhi's price rose to 5,000 U.S. dollars per show.
1996 was the poorest year of Weng Dazhi's life. At the beginning of the year, his sickly father died, and he never forgave his son for his lack of work, and many of his friends and relatives said that his father was angry with Weng Da Zhi. This makes Weng Dazhi y guilty, all day long drowned in grief and self-blame.
Shortly after, his girlfriend, who had been in love with him for eight years, decided to leave him because she thought he was too poor. This series of blows to Wengda Zhi heart discouragement, all the ideas, lost the courage to continue to struggle. For two months in a row, Weng Dazhi shut himself at home, drinking to drown his sorrows, to friends and family advice is also indifferent. Finally, two neglected magic props store also closed. Weng Dazhi and a few disciples in Guangzhou City, Industrial Avenue, the last magic store, due to the mood to go out to perform, a few people almost have no money to eat, even a cup of coffee and watch a movie has become a luxury.
Until one day when he went to a friend's rented house and was once again stabbed in the foot by a nail, Weng Dazhi suddenly remembered the ideal and determination he had after initially being stabbed in the foot by a nail on a construction site, and so he regained his vigor. And worked even harder to devote himself to magic. In 1997, China would hold an international magic competition in Guilin. In order to participate in this competition, Weng Da Zhi studied intensively for a year. Finally, he created a large-scale magic program--Dream Time Machine, and won the third place. This success not only established Weng Dazhi's position in the international magic world, but also greatly encouraged his self-confidence!
November 1999, the quadrennial World Magic Contest was held in Hong Kong, and Weng Dazhi participated in it again. In this competition, Weng Dazhi performed a program called Oriental Legend - he held an ancient money in his hand, a blink of an eye, suddenly changed into a thousand ancient money; blinking again, the ancient money and turned into water; and then, there is nothing. This magical program received a burst of thunderous applause, and was also unanimously praised by the judges of the conference. Finally, Weng Da Zhi got the first runner-up of the World Magic Convention. This is also the first time that a Chinese magician raised his eyebrows at a magic convention.
Since then, Weng Dazhi has been creating new magic tricks, and his performance style has become more and more full of mystery, allegory, romance, beauty and high degree of difficulty, and he has been performing and lecturing in large and small international magic events, and has gained countless flowers and applause. This young man from the construction site, finally transformed into Asia's leading international master of magic. Moreover, he is the youngest one!
After his success, Weng Dazhi not only gave lectures to Chinese magicians at the magic conferences in China every year, but also did magic programs for many TV stations. The United States and many other developed countries in the magic of the annual magic festival, Weng Dazhi will still go every year, just the status of the change, he was invited to be the guest of honor, to their magicians lecture, can enjoy such a special honor, China is only Weng Dazhi one. Although many foreign theaters have raised his performance fee to $10,000,000 per theater, he has relatively reduced the number of foreign performances, focusing on researching new magic and training Chinese magicians. Now, Weng Dazhi's magic programs have been broadcasted on more than 200 TV stations in the world, and every provincial TV station in China has broadcasted his magic programs. He has also recorded a VCD of his teaching magic program, which has been distributed all over the world and has been reprinted again and again. This is the first Chinese magic CD-ROM, which fills the gap of teaching magic by CD-ROM in China. In the past, when Chinese people wanted to learn magic, they didn't know where to go and how to learn. And now, buy a Weng Dazhi's "Weng Dazhi teach you to learn magic", "Huaxia strange news book", "magic" and other CD-ROM can be learned. Weng Dazhi's name is also a resounding brand name in China's magic network, with many media calling Weng Dazhi the master of China's modern magicians.
In 2001, at the International Magic Competition held in Hebei, China, Lin Xiaoming, a student who had followed Weng Dazhi for several years, competed in the competition and finally made it to the finals, winning the Golden Lion Special Prize, once again bringing glory to Chinese magic. In 2002, in the highest honor national magic competition held in Nanjing, China, Weng Dazhi's student Lin Xiaoming won the silver medal in the stage category, and another student Cai Jiehui won the silver medal in the close-up category, also entering the final.
Weng Dazhi still walks around the world all year round, but more often than not he is traveling instead of performing. Weng Dazhi believes that a good magician should be full of wild imagination, and be able to make everything around him become props for magic, and as long as one can think of it, one may be able to do it, and dare to make all the impossibilities become possibilities. If you always see new things, you will naturally come up with many new creative ideas. Now, Weng Dazhi invents nearly 50 new magic tricks every year, and then teaches them unreservedly to magicians in China, and then discovers new tricks himself.
Today, Weng Dazhi's magic training school, built in Ximenkou, Guangzhou, has trained one batch of magic talents after another. He now has 18 magic prop stores in China and has opened them in the United States, Hong Kong and Macau. Chinese magic, under the leadership of Weng Dazhi step by step to the world.
Since Weng Dazhi has not yet married, in the harvest of flowers and applause at the same time, each year received hundreds of letters of courtship, many girls are from far away from the exotic country to find him, to him to offer the courting roses, but Weng Dazhi is still not out of the first love of the deep trauma.
September 2003, Weng Dazhi with his more than two years of research out of the magic program Dream Legend (today's magic world's largest and longest performing magic program, the world magician called the magic world of a major innovation), began to perform around the country. The performance time of "Legend of Illusion and Dream" is up to two hours, which is composed of many magic tricks, *** divided into three parts: namely, illusion, dream, legend, such as the illusion of the chapter by the illusion of the magician, the rose and the illusion of the cut, the dream of the music stage, the sunshine wine a few magic tricks. Weng Dazhi first with the "legend of illusion and dream" in Hong Kong, Macao performance, October Golden Week, he moved to Dongguan, Guangdong Province, Yingxian Villa, the entire venue was full of spectators, originally accommodated 4,000 people in the auditorium, hard to squeeze in 5,000 people, no seats in the audience would rather stand to get into the scene.
Soon, Weng Dazhi will take his Legend of Phantom Dream on a world tour. Weng Dazhi said he hopes to build a magic king palace of his own in China, which will have a magic restaurant, magic museum, magic show, magic training, magic props exhibition and sale ...... As long as you like magic, you can find what you want inside.
From the construction site workers to the world's masters of magic, Weng Dazhi on their own success have some insights: the stage of life is like magic, today you lose your hand on the stage, to the audience to make fun of, and then next time, hard to practise, to start all over again. Doom and gloom, that is, to test your time, life to the bottom, is the beginning of the rebound. People should have a kind of nail perseverance spirit, but should have a kind of nail dare to risk the courage, your life will naturally become wonderful. In 2006, founder Weng Dazhi won the U.S. SAM World Magic Championship.
In 2007, the co-produced program "Magic May Day" with Guangdong TV became the ratings champion.
In 2007, together with several world-class masters, the first international close-up magic show in China was held at the CPPCC Auditorium and the Hilton Hotel in Beijing, which was a box office hit and became a major event in the capital.
In 2007, he performed for the national leaders at the Beijing West Hotel, and was highly praised by the leaders.
During 2006-2010, the company took over the programs of CCTV, Hunan TV, Hong Kong Asia TV, Anhui TV, Korea BBS TV, Guangdong TV, and many continental TV stations in the US, and became the top three in TV ratings, winning all the advertisers.
In 2007, the company joined hands with Hong Kong and Taiwan celebrities, including Jolin Tsai, Ming Dao, Du Dewei, Aya, Wang Xi, Qi Qin, etc., and took over the production of "Starlight Magic Student", which became the top-rated program in the ratings.
2005 to today, the creation of the floor basin community magic show to help perform precedent, each time the day of the sale of properties for the million people, the transaction is active, for the organizers to earn considerable benefits.
The 2007-2008 tour of cultural centers around the world created the highest ticket sales for magic shows.
In 2006, Weng's magic show at the Magic Theater in Jeju Island, Korea, set a national record of 20 consecutive performances of magic shows in Korea.
In 2009, he co-organized a large-scale international magic competition with the American Magic Association and the International Magic Association, which was broadcasted live on the Zhujiang Channel of Guangdong TV.
During the period of 2006-2010, the company provided large-scale magic specialties and rides for the largest 5A-level parks in China, including Happy Valley, Ocean Park, Fisherman's Wharf, Datang Furong Park, Changlong Happy World, and the World's Greatest Wonderland, etc. The company has also organized a series of magic shows and rides for the largest 5A-level parks in China.
In 2010, the head of the group, the world champion of magic won the world's highest award for magic, the Merlin Award, which shook the world with David Copperfield.
In 2010, Weng invested millions of dollars again, purchased the latest foreign imports of large props, creating China's newest and most dazzling magic show.