On April 15, 2001, The Big House premiered in the central set and won the annual ratings title with a rating of 17.74 points.
This modern legendary drama, which presents the history of the rise and fall of the centuries-old Chinese pharmacy "Bai Cao Hall", was hailed as "a modern version of Dream of the Red Mansion", and became one of the peaks of domestic TV dramas.
At the 2019 National Drama Ceremony, Sichin Gao Wa, Chen Baoguo, and Liu Peiqi reunited, and returned to the plot of "The Great Mansion" in a trance, which made people feel a lot of emotions.
In 2021, the director of the "Mansion Gate" Guo Baochang's new work "Dong Si Pailou Dong 》 aired, both as the director of Guo Baochang or 3 writers and actors have attracted a lot of suspicion, the quality of the entire drama so that many fans rushed to open the "Mansion Gate" in an attempt to flush the classic to evoke their own beautiful imprints.
Now, a full 20 years have passed since the opening of The Big House.
The lead actors in the show have also changed dramatically, so let's take a look at how they are doing today.
The character who holds up the Bai family in the drama is none other than Bai Wen, played by Sichin Gao Wa.
Bold and decisive, smart and capable, far-sighted and wise, Sichin Gova interpreted Bai Wen's flesh and blood.
But what many people don't know is that director Guo Baochang didn't have her in mind for the role of Baiwen.
In his opinion, Bai Wen should be a thin and lean image, and Sichin Gao Wa slightly rounded.
And after this reached Sichin Gao Wa's ears, she was determined to lose 16 pounds before the TV series started shooting, and finally perfectly portrayed Bai Wen, who has an age span of nearly 60 years, to Guo Baochang's satisfaction.
In fact, in the heart of the actor Sichin Gao Wa, has always been the theater than the sky.
Take her famous work "Camel Xiangzi" for example, in order to play a good tigress, Sichin Gao Wa "self-destructive image" of their own tanning, fattening more than 10 pounds, but also wearing braces;
In order to perform her spicy mercenary, Sichin Gao Wa not only learned to smoke and drink, but also worshipped the master of the opera Ma Zenghui.
In order to perform her role as a shrewd and mercenary
Because of her hard work, she eventually won the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers awards for her role as Tigress.
From the movie "Like Water Flowing Years" in the Ah Zhen, to the TV series "Kangxi Dynasty" of the Empress Dowager Xiao-zhuang, the life of the portrayal of a number of classic roles Sichin Gao Wa, in the filming of the scene had three times fell off the horse, resulting in the fall of the left leg into a half-disabled, all covered with injuries.
As a result, in recent years, often see Sichin Gao Wa many private photos in a wheelchair.
In 2017, she participated in the "Reader" recited a "written to the mother" attracted countless audience tears, but also let Dong Qing sobbed, from the line skills, performance strength, dedication, Sichin Gao Wa are worthy of the title of "national treasure actor".
2020, a netizen saw in Henan filming Sichin Gao Wa, the whole process is supported by the screen, 70 years old, she is still insisting on filming.
Chen Baoguo, who has been preparing for the role of Bai Jingqi for four years, the play finally started shooting the year he turned 44.
Chen Baoguo acted from Bai Jingqi's 18 years old to his old age, and the image of a dashing, self-contained, daring, and dignified man was established.
In fact, many young viewers have only seen Chen Baoguo in his middle-aged image, but he was also a handsome man when he was young.
In 1982, at the age of 26, Chen Bao Guo starred in the TV series "Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Blue and Purple", which not only allowed him to win the best actor award at the first Chinese TV Golden Eagle Awards, but also made him the first generation of youthful idols in new China, and was known as the "Cold-faced young man " by many people.
Obviously, he can rely on his face to make a living, but Chen Baoguo has always given 100% to acting.
In the 1986 movie "Divine Whip", Chen Bao Guo in order to play the role of glass flower eyes were broken state, in that era of no contact lenses, he ground a button into a similar contact lens look, hard to put in the eyes!
It is also because of this play, Chen Baoguo's eyes were irreversibly damaged, eyesight declined rapidly.
From movies to TV dramas, after The Big House, Chen Baoguo became synonymous with emperors again, from Emperor Han Wu in Han Wu Da Di to Emperor Jiajing in Da Ming Dynasty 1566.
Despite the popularity of the emperor's image, Chen Baoguo was not satisfied with eating his old favorite roles and kept challenging himself with new types of roles.
In 2010, Chen Baoguo portrayed Wang Lifa, a lowly citizen in the Teahouse, which won him a lot of praise from the audience.
Until 2015, with five dramas, "No War in Beiping", "Old Farmer", "The Mekong River Case", "The Original Country", and "Children of the River", Chen Baoguo won the Outstanding Actor Award at the 30th Chinese TV Drama Flying Sky Awards.
Chen Baoguo, who won the Flying Sky Award for the fifth time, confessed to his wife, Zhao Kui'e, at the scene:
As a film, television, and theater actor, Chen Baoguo has been in the industry for more than 40 years, and has made more than 120 works, but there is little scandal, not only a good actor, but also a good husband.
Next, he also has "National Action", "Mountains and Rivers and Moon", "The End of the Sea is the Grassland" and many other works will soon meet with the audience, and is still highly productive.
Before playing the role of Bai Mengtang, the head of the Bai family's old number, Du Yulu's acting experience was actually very winding.
He graduated from the Harbin Academy of Arts in 1960, and entered the Harbin Drama Theater as a playwright in the same year.
After two months in the theater, Du Yulu was sent down to a warehouse to look after the goods, and was convicted of being a "gangster".
After that, the theater was canceled, and the 29-year-old was transferred to a grain depot to carry sacks, and worked for a year and a half before returning to the theater.
Until after more than 10 years of drama, a chance opportunity, Du Yulu was able to play the role of political commissar in the movie "Spy," before officially entering the acting circle.
Before "The Great Mansion", Du Yulu had attracted a lot of attention with his superb acting skills, whether it was Zhang Tingyu, the loyal minister in "Yongzheng Dynasty", or Fang Yingda, the deputy commander of the military region in "Outstanding Siege".
Over the course of his 40-year acting career, Du Yulu has played a wide range of roles, from the decent to the villainous, and one of the most memorable roles was his portrayal of Chiang Kai-shek in the TV series Red Stone.
In order to play this role well, Du Yulu bought "The Complete Biography of Chiang Kai-shek" and studied it carefully, and with his superb acting skills, he portrayed a different Chiang Kai-shek's image.
It is also because of the affirmation of the people, in 2008, Du Yulu in the TV drama "East is Red" and a second time in the role of Chiang Kai-shek.
And what makes Du Yulu most proud is that after he married his wife Zhu Yongjue, he gave birth to his son Du Gang, who at the age of 19 was not only the youngest table tennis coach in the province at the time, but also handily trained the later table tennis world champion Kong Linghui.
(Kong Linghui and Du Gang)
Unfortunately, on February 21, 2020, Du Yulu died of lung cancer at home at the age of 79, and it was not until then that his daughter, Du Qiuhua, told the truth --
It turned out that as early as 2009, when filming "The Dark War Before Dawn". Du Yulu had already been diagnosed with lung cancer.
In the 10 years that he fought the disease, he also gritted his teeth and shot more than 20 works, which was very tenacious.
After Du Yulu's death, the funeral was all but simple, with only six close family members present to say goodbye, and the last words he left to time were:
Like Sichin Gao Wa, Liu Peiqi wasn't the best candidate in the mind of the movie Guo Baochang at the beginning.
For the role of Bai Yingyu, Guo Baochang began to look for Li Chengru, the results because Li Chengru in the filming of the "six groups of serious crimes" can not come, Liu Peggy to become a "replacement".
And before playing a lot of the bottom of the small man Liu Puiqi, the beginning is not good, many people think that Liu Puiqi play the rich kid.
Because of this, Liu Puiqi put in a lot of hard work to study the role, and finally interpreted a "blessed and sinful" Bai Yingyu, surprised everyone.
Although the role of the portrayal of brilliant, but Liu Paiqi heart have never erase the regret.
It turns out that in the filming of the "mansion", Liu Paiqi's father died, Liu Paiqi because of filming, did not see his father's last face, become his heart forever pain.
It can be said that Liu Paiqi treasures every chance of interpretation, and every time he tries to make his role more colorful.
As early as 1991, before "The Big House", when Zhang Yimou filmed "Qiu Ju fights the lawsuit", Liu Puiqi played Wang Qinglai, Qiu Ju's husband.
Originally, Wang Qinglai was only kicked in a scene, but Liu Puiqi, with his superb acting skills, was frozen let Zhang Yimou for him to add six scenes.
From winning the Golden Rooster Award for Best Actor with The Day I Left Lei Feng to playing the role of Mr. Zhu in White Deer Plain, Liu Puiqi has been working hard for more than 30 years to burn himself out for the role.
Thus, at the 2018 TV drama quality ceremony, Liu Paiqi, who won the annual Outstanding Old Drama Quality Fruit Award, revealed that:
Next, Liu Paiqi will also star in the movie "My Father and I" and the TV drama "The Snowy Sword", and look forward to meeting the audience soon.
If you want to talk about the impressive female characters in "The Great Mansion", there is absolutely no shortage of Yang Jiuhong and Bai Yuting, both of which are related to Jiang Wenli.
Jiang Wenli, who made her debut in 1989, attracted a lot of attention after appearing in the movie Farewell My Concubine directed by Chen Kaige.
Jiang Wenli, who played the role of Little Douzi's mother in the movie, portrayed the femininity of a woman who was forced by life to be a woman of the world, and she did it beautifully, despite the fact that it was only a short 7-minute scene, but it was totally eye-catching.
And the play also made Guo Baochang feel that the role of Yang Jiuhong, who was trapped in a greenhouse in The Great Mansion, was not Jiang Wenli.
However, what he didn't expect was that after Jiang Wenli read the script, she fell in love with the role of Bai Yuting.
In her opinion, because of her obsession with Peking Opera and her infatuation with the playwright Wan Xiaoju, and finally even put aside the world's prejudices and photographs to marry Bai Yuting, such a role is simply rare, and if you miss it, you won't be able to have it again.
Therefore, Jiang Wenli, who wanted to break through the inherent path of the theater, insisted on interpreting the role of Bai Yu Ting, even if Guo Baochang asked her husband Gu Changwei to persuade her to come back to her heart.
It must be said that Jiang Wenli's obsession outside the theater is similar to Bai Yuting's obsession inside the theater.
(Jiang Wenli's niece, Ma Sicun, played the role of the young girl Bai Yuting)
Finally, Jiang Wenli interpreted the role of Bai Yuting as she wished, and in her this stubbornness has actually been accompanied by her acting career.
In the movie "Spring", Jiang Wenli put on 30 pounds of weight, wearing buck teeth to play ugly, the heart is higher than the life of the paper-thin Wang Cailing to play live, smooth Golden Rooster Awards after the trophy in the bag.
Next, in the TV series "Golden Wedding", Jiang Wenli brilliantly portrayed the role of Wenli, which spans nearly 50 years, and with this role, she won the Best Actress Award at the Magnolia Awards of the Shanghai Television Festival.
Not only is the "Queen of Film", but also the "Queen of Vision" Jiang Wenli did not stop breaking through, in the 2015 movie "Master", a head of short hair, full of offense Jiang Wenli played Zou Rong, and once again, let people see.
For the 55-year-old Jiang Wenli, the next role is always worth waiting for.
Since Jiang Wenli insisted on playing Bai Yuting, the role of Yang Jiuhong was left vacant.
So, who should Yang Jiuhong get to play?
At this point, CCTV's Yu Shengli gave Guo Baochang a recommendation for He Saifei, but Guo Baochang felt that He Saifei, who was born in the south of Vietnam, could not play this northern drama.
Afterwards, during the audition process, He Saifei's performance instantly impressed Guo Baochang, allowing him to finalize He Saifei's role as Yang Jiuhong.
Yang Jiuhong, who is trapped in a greenhouse but aspires to freedom and bravely pursues love, has been trying to seek acceptance from the "big house" all her life, but has always been rejected, and finally died in loneliness.
In fact, He Saifei's interpretation of Yang Jihong, the heart has been holding back a force, but also in the cast of a dinner, she only to Guo Baochang drunkenly spit out the truth:
In the end, He Saifei really is a very tragic character Yang Jihong interpretation of a very good, in the bean petal of the high praise of the short comments are the role of the favorite:
In fact, He Saifei in the "Big House In fact, He Saifei has created many classic roles before.
In 1986, he played Miaoyu in the movie version of Dream of the Red Mansion directed by Xie Tieli;
In 1991, he followed his teacher for more than four months to learn Peking Opera in order to play Mei Shan, a famous Peking Opera actress in Zhang Yimou's "Red Lanterns Hanging High";
In 1994, he played the role of the greenhouse girl Xiao Calyx in the movie Red Pink directed by Li Shaohong, and played the role of a young woman married to a young woman in the movie "Wind and Moon" directed by Chen Kaige;
He also played the role of a young woman married to a young woman in a movie directed by Li Shaohong. Wind and Moon" as Yu Xiuyi, who married into a prominent family, both were unforgettable.
After that, she not only played the role of Mrs. Xiao in Ang Lee's "Lust, Caution", but also played the role of Fourth Grandma Zhu in "The Paper Drunk", and became a " Auntie Specialist ".
Now, from the water village woman in "Those Women" to playing a square-dancing mom in "Sweet", 58-year-old He Saifei has washed her hands of the world, showing the beauty of natural aging.
From the beginning of the love affair, privately engaged, to be driven out of the house after becoming a couple in distress, in Bai Jingqi's life, Huang Chun is the white moonlight in his heart.
And the gentle, tender Huang Chun is exactly how the actor Ru Ping looks.
Born in Hangzhou, Ru Ping grew up in a pile of books, and after entering the Hangzhou Drama Troupe, he was discovered by the director of the Western Film Weng Luming, and began to embark on the road of acting.
It wasn't until 1994 that the TV series Wu Zetian, starring her alongside Liu Xiaoqing, Bao Guoan, and Chen Baoguo, was launched, bringing huge attention.
In the drama, Shangguan Wan'er, who combines beauty and wisdom, is portrayed by Ru Ping with a different flavor.
The next year of 2001 was very significant for Ru Ping, in which she not only played Huang Chun in The Great House, but also Suma Lagu in The Kangxi Dynasty, bringing two classic roles to the audience.
From starring in Dreams of the Forbidden City with Wang Gang and Ning Jing to guest starring in The Yanxi Raiders, Ru Ping's life has been brought to completion by a period of regret as she has performed a series of roles in an unhurried manner.
Back in 1990, 24-year-old Ru Ping married 42-year-old painter Xi Tianying, and the marriage, which was 18 years apart, finally failed to escape the "seven-year itch".
In 1997, after the divorce, Ru Ping took her daughter Xi Wang to live with her, and after that, when she starred in the movie "All the Way to the Rain, All the Way to the Love," she met and fell in love with Liu Zhi Bing, the lead actor, and got married in 1998.
In 2019, in I Am an Actor, Liu, 67, and Ru Ping, 53, performed together again.
After 24 years, Ru Ping's slightly affluent face reveals all the happiness.
There are many actors whose acting skills are greater than their fame, and Bi Yanjun is one of them.
The scene in which Bi Yanjun plays Bai Yingxuan and sees Bai Jingqi off from afar is definitely one of the unforgettable classic scenes in "The Great House".
In fact, Bi Yanjun has acted in many different roles, which can be called "head-swapping" acting.
He was Zhao Gao, the murderous, deep-seated eunuch and prime minister of the Qin dynasty in "The Straight Path of Qin";
He was the clever and confused Xia Zhaobao in "Breaking into the East";
He was also the eccentric and impetuous Koo Hong-ming in the highly acclaimed 2021 drama "The Age of Awakening".
Still, many people know him because he's Chen Xiaoxu's ex-husband.
Initially, the two met and fell in love at the Anshan Drama Troupe, and when the 1987 version of the TV series Dream of Red Mansions recruited actors across the country, it was Bi Yanjun who strongly encouraged Chen to bid for the role of Lin Daiyu.
Afterwards, Chen Xiaoxu was indeed selected, and after filming Dream of Red Mansions, Chen Xiaoxu became an overnight sensation, and the two got married soon after.
However, the good times didn't last long, and perhaps because Chen Xiaoxu hadn't gotten over the role of Lin Daiyu, the marriage eventually came to an end.
For Bi Yanjun nowadays, he often shares his insights and experiences on social platforms while filming, and is a veteran artist who respects his profession and loves life.
As the son of three generations of Pearland, Zhao Yi, his grandfather, his father is a martial arts clown actor, his grandfather also performed with Mei Lanfang.
And in the Chinese Opera School for seven years, sang two years of clown Zhao Yi, aspirations but not in the singing, but turned to be an actor.
After making his debut as Li Wei in the 1997 drama "The Yongzheng Dynasty," directed by Hu Mei, Zhao Yi couldn't find a role that showcased him.
It wasn't until The Big House started casting actors with a background in Peking Opera that Zhao Yi knew he had his chance.
From the first meeting, he tried to "sell" himself to director Guo Baochang, and then the next day, after reading the script, he approached the director again, saying that he was absolutely capable of acting, and asked the director to believe in him.
But the director told Zhao Yi to go back and think about it again, and then Zhao Yi came back and insisted that he could play the role of Bai Jingye, and that's how he finally got the role.
The reason why Zhao Yi is so insistent, after years of interviews, he wiped tears and confessed:
And from the "mansion" in the Bai Jingye, to the "world grain warehouse" in the Xu Sanjin, "Taiping Heavenly Kingdom" in the Prince Gong Yi, the "Taiping Heavenly Kingdom" in the "Taiping Heavenly Kingdom" in the "Taiping Heavenly Kingdom" in the "Taiping Heavenly Kingdom" in the "Taiping Heavenly Kingdom" in the Prince Gong Yi.
In addition to starring in many small-budget movies, "Fly", "Little Six", "Walking in All Directions", Zhao Yi has also made guest appearances in "I'm not Pan Jinlian", "Old Cannonball" and other works.
In 1942, Zhao Yi also played a father and son with Zhang Guoli, showing good acting skills.
Looking at Zhao Yi's upcoming upcoming productions, many of his roles are still supporting roles.
Perhaps because of this, he has become a netizen, uploading many funny videos and has nearly half a million fans.
For Zhang Dinghan, it's a high starting point to make his debut with The Big House.
In the play, she played Bai Jia Li, who, due to the influence of her grandmother, looked down on Yang Jiu Hong, who was born in a green house, and refused to recognize her birth mother, which was saddening.
After this drama, Zhang Dinghan gradually rose to prominence from "Bigfoot Horse Empress", to "Dragonball of the Magic World".
Her highlight was undoubtedly the TV series "The End of the World", which started in 2012, in which she portrayed Zhuge Mingyuxin, the first female Zhuge in the martial arts, and gained a lot of love from the audience.
Not only did the drama's ratings repeatedly break two, the network clicked more than 700 million times, setting a new record for the number of broadcasts on many video sites.
Since then, she has also played two roles in The Legend of Wu Mei Niang, portraying the virtuous Empress Chang Sun, and the small-hearted Zheng Wan Yan.
On the one hand, her acting career has reached a new level, and on the other hand, Zhang Dinghan has gained her own happiness in her life.
In 2013, 33-year-old Zhang Dinghan and 48-year-old Wang Zhifei met for three days and got married, and their wedding was hosted by Zhu Shimao.
In 2017, Zhang Dinghan starred in the TV series "East Palace" with Wang Zhifei and Sichin Gao Wa, which was a "renewed relationship".
Nowadays, Zhang Dinghan can always be seen in the hot drama, like in the "Si Teng", she played the role of Jia Guizhi, which is also a career and family double harvest.
It can be said that their situation over the past 20 years is very different, good luck to receive a good role in the fruitful, a little less lucky, life has also more bumps. In addition to the 10 actors mentioned above, there are Zhang Fengyi, Jia Ni, Li Hongtao, Lei Kesheng, Alia, Lei Juan, Xie Lan, Huang Zhizhong, and dozens of other famous actors and actresses in the drama cameo.
What's even more rare is that the play also features "12 big names running the show" scenes.
Guo Baochang, who worked at Guangxi Film Studio, has known many filmmakers, including fifth-generation directors.
Therefore, the play Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, Tian Zhuangzhuang, Hou Yong, He Qun and other directors have come to the "mansion";
There are also actors Li Xuejian, Shen Junyi, Ning Jing, Yu Rongguang, Zhao Kui'e, Han Ying, etc., cameo, such a drag queue can be called the first of its kind.
After 20 years, in addition to the above mentioned Du Yulu, who was in the Men of the Mansion, many of the old actors have said goodbye to everyone forever.
Huang Zongluo, who played the role of Eunuch Chang, and Li Xinmin, who played the role of Zhan Yu;
Yu Liwen, who played the role of Mr. Lu, who played the role of the master of the Da Lisi, who played the role of Mr. Ma Zengshou;
Zhang Shaohua, who played the role of Mr. Ma Lichu, who played the role of Xiangxiu's mother. ......
The newest addition to the list is the newest addition to the list, which was created by the Chinese government. To this day, as the theme song of the mansion sings:
Whether it is Guo Baochang, who insisted on filming three times and destroyed three times, said:
Or as modest as Chen Baoguo, Liu Peiqi, said, "the light of the role.
In the face of today's drama subject matter, and many of the actors who have to go to the hospital for a bit of skin, "The Mansion" from the drama's historical heart and national temperament, to the director, screenwriter, the faith of the actors and the perseverance of the actors outside the drama -
It can be said that it has represented a wave of "the Mansion" across the ages.
Twenty years on, the presence of The Mansion is blinding, and one can't help but ask oneself how many TV dramas have surpassed it.
Nostalgia is to remember, remember is to wake up, revisit the "Big House" can still have a lot to gain, which is the meaning of the classics.
Greenstone Films Editorial | Chen Chen
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