Cheng Zhi is known for playing villainous roles. He was the head of the secret service, Chief Qi, in "Corrosion", the police chief in "All My Life", the enemy chief of staff in "Red Sun", and the editor-in-chief in "The Laugh of the Afflicted". Cheng Zhi also played a series of positive characters, such as the PLA soldier Lao Dong in "Guan Lianchang", the Red Army doctor in "Red Detachment of Women", and the upright yet humorous Li Zhongman in "Flying Dagger Hua", which all were quite distinctive. Cheng Zhi has a good cultivation of language art, and is good at both Mandarin and local dialects. He was the voice of Montellini in The Gadfly, the narrator of Marshall, Welcome, which still maintains the humor of the original film, and the voice of He Long in the feature film Aurora. Cheng Zhi was also a multi-talented actor, in addition to Peking Opera, he was particularly fond of comedy, and had performed more than 360 shows between January and April 1977, each segment of which was a blend of his life experiences. His specialty lies in his ability to speak ten local languages, including Shanghai, Hunan, Sichuan, Ningbo, etc., as well as in his devoted study of language arts. Cheng Zhi has also made frequent appearances on the television screen as a program host. Cheng Zhi loved Peking Opera since childhood, at the age of six, he learned to play the Peking Hu without any teacher, at the age of eight, he went to the radio station to broadcast and sing Peking Opera, and at the age of eleven, he produced the Peking Opera record "The Royal Orchard", and from then on, he was given the nickname of "Little Big Flower Face". After graduating from high school in 1944, Cheng was admitted to the Economics Department of Fudan University. Because of his love of drama, he participated in a charity performance organized by the newspaper "The Declaration" to raise funds for scholarships during his studies at Fudan. The play was "Fortune and Flying Clouds", directed by Mr. Huang Zuolin. On January 1, 1945, Cheng dropped out of school and joined the Bitter Dry Theatre Troupe, which was created and directed by Mr. Huang Zuolin, and thus embarked on his life-long pursuit of acting. In 1947, Cheng Zhi joined the Wenhua Film Company. The first movie he participated in was "False Phoenix", in which he played the role of "Barber No. 5", a scene in which Barber No. 5 sings a pop song to himself, leaving a deep impression on the audience. Then Cheng Zhi shot more than ten films such as Nightclub and Corrosion. In 1952, eight private film companies in Shanghai merged to form Shanghai United Film Studio, which was incorporated into Shanghai Film Studio in 1953. During this period, Cheng Zhi took part in the shooting of "My Life" and "Guan Lian Chang". Cheng Zhi's outstanding performance as the police chief in "My Life" won him the Silver Medal of Excellence in Acting awarded by the Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China for the first time in 1956. During the fourteen years from 1953 to the beginning of the Cultural Revolution in 1966, Cheng Zhi took part in the shooting of more than twenty films, including Chicken Hair Letter, Home, Red Sun, The Magician's Adventure, Iron Window and Fire, Flying Daggers, and Desert Bandit Chase. In the mid-fifties, Cheng Zhi had performed the Peking Opera "The Empty City" and "Catching and Releasing Cao" for the donation of airplanes and cannons, and recorded Peking Opera and comic dialogues for the Shanghai People's Broadcasting Station and Fujian People's Broadcasting Station, contributing to the understanding of the motherland by the people of Taiwan and the enhancement of exchanges across the Taiwan Strait. At the beginning of the Cultural Revolution in 1966, Cheng Zhi was not spared, and was transformed overnight from a revolutionary mass into an "object of the revolution"; in July 1967, he was ordered to stay in the factory for probation, and to attend the so-called "study class", which was disguised as "isolated review". In July 1967, he was ordered to stay in the factory to attend the so-called "study class", which was a disguised form of "isolation censorship", and he was locked up for ten months. In 1969, a large number of people in the film system were sent down to Fengxian's "May 7" dry school for labor, and Cheng Zhi was still a "target of censorship" and worked in the dry school for four years. 1973, Cheng Zhi was listed among the first group of people to return to the factory. In 1973, Cheng Zhi was listed as one of the first batch of people who returned to the factory to join the work. After returning to the factory, he took part in the shooting of the film "Unforgettable Battle", and on January 1, 1975, he took part in the play "Spring Seedling", which was performed by the SIPO Actor's Drama Troupe to the public, playing the important role of "Dean Du", which was the 30th anniversary of his career in the industry. In 1978, Cheng Zhi took part in the filming of "Special Mission", the first post-Cultural Revolution movie at the Shanghai Film Studio. Subsequently, he made such films as Sons, Grandchildren and Seeds, The Laugh of the Afflicted, and His Two and Her Two. At the same time, he also directed the play Sweet Business. In 1980, Cheng Zhi took part in the play Gilded by the Actor's Theater Company of Shanghai Film; he also took part in the film O Love, What's Your Last Name? In addition to taking part in the filming of "Love in a Pen" and "Horse Outreach", he also dubbed the role of "He Long" in the movie "Dawn". In 1986, he played the role of Elder Jin Chi in the CCTV movie Journey to the West, which won him a good reputation from the Chinese audience. By the end of 1994, he had made more than eighty films, including "The Night of the Son", "The Edge of the Mail", "Shoot, Send Him Off", "Smiling and Sad", "The Director of the Wind", "The Cat and the Iron Spider", etc. He also directed the TV movie "Lihu Lake", "The Iron Spider", and "The Iron Spider". Directed the TV films Lihu Smoke Green, The First Pass under the Sky, Eat White, Hidden Trouble, etc.; participated in the shooting of TV dramas such as Under the TV Tower sketch series, Journey to the West (6th episode), Spring Silkworms, Autumn Harvest, Remnant Winter, Stereo Crossing Bridge, Q and his descendants, Peony Pavilion, Mourning River and Lake, Anecdotes from Pickle Street, Legend of Little Shaoxing, etc.; and adapted and directed them, He also adapted, directed and starred in the two-episode TV drama "The Death of a Famous Artist", and directed the Peking Opera TV art movie "Li Kui Visits His Mother", and so on. At the same time, Cheng Zhi also hosted the program "Shanghai Tang" in the international department of Shanghai Television. Cheng Zhi has been dubbing for translation films since the 1950s. Many famous movies, such as The Three Musketeers, The Prince's Revenge, Othello, The Gadfly, Orphan of the Mist, etc., have left his very charming voice. At the same time, he also dubbed, composed and sang for many domestic art films, such as "Jigong Fighting Cricket", "Taoist Master of Maoshan", "Three Wolves", etc., of which the "Three Wolves" piece won an international award. In 1961, Cheng Zhi and Yu Fei performed Cheng Zhi's own comedy "Makeup and Cremation" for Premier Zhou and Vice Premier Chen Yi, which won the two Premiers' hearty laughs. Cheng died in Shanghai in 1995. Performing Experience Cheng Zhi loved Peking Opera since childhood, under the cultivation of the artistic atmosphere of his family, he learned to play the Peking Hu at the age of six, and then went to the radio station to broadcast and sing Peking Opera at the age of eight, and then produced the Peking Opera record "The Royal Orchard" at the age of eleven, and from then on he got the nickname of "Little Dahuafang". After graduating from high school in 1944, Cheng was admitted to the Economics Department of Fudan University. Because of his love of drama, he participated in a charity performance organized by the then "Declaration" to raise funds for scholarships during his studies at Fudan. Fourteen universities in the city **** jointly participated in the charity performance of the play "Fortune Floating in the Clouds", directed by Mr. Huang Zuolin. This performance had a great impact and laid the foundation for Cheng's future entry into the drama industry as a professional actor. On January 1, 1945, Cheng dropped out of school and joined the Bitter Dry Theatre Troupe, which was created and directed by Mr. Huang Zuolin, and from then on he embarked on his life-long struggle for his acting career. In 1947, Cheng Zhi joined the Wenhua Film Company, where he made his first film for the Wenhua Film Company, a movie that was directed by Mr. Huang Zuolin, and his first film for the Wenhua Film Company. The first movie he took part in was False Phoenix and False Phoenix, in which he played the role of "Barber No. 5", a scene in which Barber No. 5 sings a pop song to himself, leaving a deep impression on the audience. In an article about "False Phoenix and False Phoenix" published in "The Declaration", Cheng Zhi was praised for his "ability to play and sing, and for being a smart man". Then Cheng Zhi shot more than ten films, including Nightclub and Corrosion. In the fourteen years from 1953 to 1966, before the Cultural Revolution began, Cheng Zhi participated in the shooting of more than twenty films, including Chicken Hair Letter, Home, Red Sun, The Magician's Adventure, Fire in the Iron Window, Flying Daggers, and Desert Bandit Chase. In the mid-1950s, Cheng Zhi had performed the Peking Opera "The Empty City" and "Catching and Releasing Cao" for the donation of airplanes and cannons, and recorded Peking Opera and comic dialogues for the Shanghai People's Broadcasting Station and Fujian People's Broadcasting Station, contributing to the understanding of the motherland by the people of Taiwan and the enhancement of exchanges across the Taiwan Strait. At the beginning of the Cultural Revolution in 1966, Cheng Zhi was not spared, and was transformed overnight from a revolutionary mass into an "object of the revolution"; in July 1967, he was ordered to stay in the factory for probation, and to attend the so-called "study class", which was disguised as "isolated review". He was ordered to stay in the factory in July 1967 to attend the so-called "study class", which was a disguised form of "isolation review", and he was locked up for ten months. Endless write "historical problems", write "thought report". 1968 May, the end of the study class, Cheng Zhi was inexplicably locked up for ten months, and was released in confusion. In 1976, after crushing the "Gang of Four", the factory review team let Cheng sign a certificate of "purging the poison, restoring reputation, and overturning all untruths". From then on, the dark clouds to see the blue sky, ten years of wrongdoing to be vindicated. Cheng regarded this as the "second liberation". Excited, he secretly resolved to ten years of losses suffered with double the effort to compensate back. 1977 early, Shanghai set off a citywide denunciation of the "Gang of Four" propaganda activities. Cheng Zhi seriously into it, whether it is factories, docks, squares, streets, lanes, stadiums, he actively participated and self-written comedy, sketches and other programs, with the Shanghai Film Actors Troupe of Qin Yi, Wang Danfeng, Yu Fei, statement, Cao Duo and other comrades to perform together. He left early in the morning and could not return home until eleven or two o'clock in the evening, and on one day he performed eleven shows at the most. There was no time to eat, often in the "van to eat bread". 1979 January to April in more than a hundred days, *** counted more than 360 performances. In 1978, Cheng Zhi took part in the filming of the first post-Cultural Revolution movie "Special Mission" at the Shanghai Film Studio. After that, he made such films as Son, Grandson and Seed, The Laugh of the Afflicted, and Both of Them and Both of Them. At the same time, he also directed the play Sweet Business, which was performed for nearly a hundred shows in the theaters of Volkswagen, Xuhui, and Cao Yang, etc. In 1980, Cheng Zhi took part in the performance of the play Gilded by the Actor's Troupe of the S.F.C., which was performed for about forty shows, and then took part in the shooting of the film What's Your Surname, O Love? During the filming, he worked well with director Yan Bili and gave him many ideas to make the movie achieve the desired comedy effect, and was praised by director Yan as a "real movie actor". When director Yan took over the next film "Love in the Pen", she personally brought the script to Cheng Zhi and asked him to make a comprehensive arrangement and modification of the script in order to enhance the comedy color. Cheng Zhi gladly accepted Director Yan's trust and commission and took it seriously. Later, Director Yan divided the scenes according to Cheng's revision. After the completion of the movie, it was recognized by the leadership of the factory. During this period, Cheng Zhi not only participated in the shooting of "Love in the Pen" and "Horse Outreach", but also dubbed the role of "He Long" in the movie "Dawn". Cheng Zhi was honored as an "advanced worker" by the Shanghai Film Studio (1981) for his outstanding performance, such as working enthusiastically regardless of fame and fortune. By the end of 1994, Cheng Zhi had also participated in the shooting of more than 80 films, including "The Night of the Son", "The Postal Margin", "Shoot, See Him Off", "The Sorrowful Face", "The Director of the Windfall", "The God Cat and the Iron Spider", etc. During this period, Cheng Zhi had also participated in the shooting of "The Cat and the Iron Spider". During this period, Cheng Zhi also shot a lot of TV dramas and did some writing and directing work. Among them, he directed the TV films Lihu Smoke Green, The First Pass under Heaven, Eat White, Hidden Trouble, etc. The TV series Death of a Famous Man was one of the most influential and critically acclaimed works in Cheng Zhi's life. Peking opera actors Yuan Shihai and Tan Yuanshou said that the drama was well made and said that they did not expect Cheng Zhi's Lao Sheng to sing so well. Zhang Hui, deputy director of the Jiangsu Provincial Culture Department, drama actor and son-in-law of Mr. Tian Han, and his wife, Ms. Tian Ye, said excitedly after watching the play: "This play reminds us of our father". They also thanked Cheng Zhi for bringing their father's famous play to the screen and praised it as a high-quality, high-level drama. Many viewers wrote and called to give the highest praise to Death of a Famous Man. One of the most touching was a letter from a comrade worker of Tuanbai Coal Mine of Huoxian Mining Bureau of Shanxi Province and a teacher of their staff school, which said: the teacher's son was killed in a workplace accident, which made her feel pained, and she watched "The Death of a Famous Talent", and the soul-stirring drums inspired her to pick up her spirit and raise the sails of life again. She asked Cheng Zhi where she could buy the tape of "Death of a Famous Artist". Cheng Zhi received the letter and immediately made a copy of the audio clip of the play "Famous" for her and wrote a reply letter to send it to her. This teacher was thrilled to receive the tape and the reply letter. She and her students listened to the recording and read Cheng Zhi's reply letter together. In order to express their feelings, they went to Taiyuan, the provincial capital, and customized a silk banner with four big golden letters, "The audience loves you", which expressed the heart of the coal miners. Cheng Zhi received this banner, could not help but tear up, this is really from the audience's voice, is the audience of Cheng's highest praise, is the biggest honor of his life from the art! "Cheng Zhi's deepest impression is that he is multi-talented and hard-working. Cheng Zhi has been practicing for fifty years, and has shot more than a hundred films and TV movies, and has portrayed many different types of characters, all of which are very vivid and lifelike. At the same time, his voice-over art, comedy and Peking Opera skills are also well known. Cheng Zhi has been dubbing for translation movies since the 1950s. Many famous movies, such as The Three Musketeers, The Prince's Revenge, Othello, The Gadfly, and Lone Star Tears of Blood, have left his extremely charming voice. At the same time, he also dubbed, composed and sang for many domestic art films, such as "Jigong Fighting Cricket", "Taoist Master of Laoshan", "Three Wolves", etc., of which the "Three Wolves" piece won an international award. In 1961, Cheng Zhi and Yu Fei performed Cheng Zhi's own comedy "Make-up and Cremation" for Premier Zhou and Vice Premier Chen Yi, which won the two Premiers' hearty laughs. 1985 and 1987, Cheng Zhi took part in the "China Movie Star Art Troupe" and "Shanghai Movie Star Art Troupe". In 1985 and 1987, Cheng Zhi took part in the "Chinese Film Stars Art Troupe" and "Shanghai Film Stars Art Troupe" to visit Singapore and Hong Kong twice, and the comedies "Dialect Talk" and "Songs and Laughs", etc., which were written by Cheng Zhi himself, were very effective and well received by the people both at home and abroad as well as by overseas Chinese and praised by the local press. Local newspapers and magazines also highlighted Cheng Zhi and his comedy and praised him as a versatile performer in the field of performing arts. Cheng Zhi's obsessive love for the art of Peking Opera has led him to work hard for the glory of our national treasure. With his profound knowledge, he has presided over various Peking Opera competitions organized by China Central Television and Tianjin Television and acted as a judge; he has also presided over the column "Talking about Opera and Song" for Shanghai Television, doing his best to popularize the knowledge of Peking Opera and promote the national culture. In order to inherit the excellent traditional culture and further spread the art of Tan School singing, Cheng Zhi has faithfully and wisely organized and recorded five famous Tan School plays for his father, Mr. Cheng Junmou, namely, "The Empty City Plan", "The Li Ling Monument", "Catching and Releasing Cao", "Beating Drums and Cursing Cao", "Lifting Tripods to View Paintings", which have now been published and presented to the opera schools of all major cities in the country as teaching materials for spreading the art of the Tan School, thus contributing to the propagation of the excellent traditional culture and the training of the young generation of Peking Opera performers. It contributes to the promotion of excellent traditional culture and the training of the young generation of Peking Opera actors and actresses. It has also been presented to friends who love Peking Opera at home and abroad. Cheng Zhi was a kind, modest and amiable person in life, while striving for excellence in his art. His motto, "Acting is life, life is not acting," has influenced and educated his family and children. He is sincere in life, take good care of the elderly, carefully cultivate offspring, children in his words and example, healthy growth, thrive. Cheng Zhi belongs to the ox, he is like an old ox, in the world of art, hard work, dedication to his artistic life. He once said: "I am not concerned about life expectancy, I am only concerned about artistic life". It is this simple and sincere feelings that made him set the highest record of 11 performances in a row in one day on the day of celebrating the crushing of "Gang of Four"; it is this persistent pursuit that made him endure the pain during the attack of sciatica and complete the shooting of the Peking Opera TV movie "Li Kui Visits His Mother" in only two or three days; it is this full-blooded enthusiasm that made him devote himself to his art life and work diligently in the world of art. It is this full of enthusiasm that makes him constantly participate in all kinds of social welfare activities: Community Poetry Festival for the Elderly, Flag-raising Ceremony in Middle School, Celebration in Lane, as long as it is beneficial to the society, as long as it is the favorite of the public, he is so devoted and serious to each performance. 14th, February, 1995, Cheng Zhi was invited to attend the Shanghai Political Consultative Conference's New Year's Eve Gala, and sang the selection of "Stealing the Imperial Horse". After that, he sang an excerpt from "Stealing the Imperial Horse", accompanied by Mr. Comfort on the zither, and performed an excerpt from "Li Ling Bei". At the end of the performance, he suffered a sudden massive myocardial infarction, and collapsed suddenly on his beloved stage. As a half a century from the art and won the flowers and fruits of the artist, Cheng Zhi practiced his promise, for the art of dedicating his precious life.