Being low-key and acting down-to-earth is too hard to do in the fickle entertainment circle, and Li Xuejian is such a virtuous and cohesive artist who tirelessly pursues new heights in acting while keeping a very low profile on his private life.
At the awards ceremony of the 2017 Drama Ceremony, Mr. Li Xuejian won the annual Quality Performance Dramatist Award.
In many people's hearts, Li Xuejian is a role model, using the words "both moral and artistic" to describe him as a person is more than appropriate.
There have been countless classic works performed by Mr. Li over the years since his debut, and he is very much to be admired for what he has done.
And so many years in the entertainment industry is never gossip, never negative information, which in the entertainment circle can be called a stream of clean water, he deserves to win the entertainment industry inside and outside the widespread respect for the old actor praise!
Mr. Li Xuejian had a serious illness when he was young and has been working hard for TV for so many years, dedicated to never stop, sometimes in order to show the role of the character image is good, show the best and for this to ponder for a long time, and even sleep and eat to the point.
In the past 37 years, he has portrayed many different characters and seriously interpreted the different destinies of different characters. Among them, there are a few especially colorful, especially classic role image, such a household name of the great "movie star" "visionary", "screen" that is a matter of minutes. However, Li Xuejian, as one of China's most expensive actors, has been living a relatively simple and even hard life.
This is almost unbelievable. To say that he is China's "most expensive" actor is to say that his acting skills and strength can command sky-high prices, but also to say that his cultivation and character are so high that many of the younger generation can only admire him.
However, although his "price" is the most expensive, but Li Xuejian is not like those who have become popular to desperately go to the ads, endorsement of the same actors, the technique of the great use of money to wildly rake in the big money.
What's surprising is that Li Xuejian, who has been in the movie business for 37 years, has only taken one commercial endorsement, and has y blamed himself for it and repented of it!
In 1992, he was approached to endorse an advertisement for a liver drug at a price of 200,000 yuan. The price was so high that he didn't even make that much money on the movie. He only made 6,000 yuan for "Jiao Yulu," 8,000 yuan for "Longing" and 130,000 yuan for the entire "Water Margin.
Though there was a lot of money, Li Xuejian refused, though, because advertisers asked him to film in disguise as Jiao Yulu. He couldn't bear to make money off the image of the good guy, saying, "I can't do it for any more money."
Li Xuejian is different from those so-called stars who think of ways to get money from advertisements as soon as they are a little bit famous. He regards the theater as his life, and he doesn't want to bring a little tarnish to his career, to himself and to his reputation.
So he made a decision that has so far made those big and small, popular or not popular peers admire and even ashamed - never shoot commercials in the future.
But he'll do the right kind of public service announcements again, without restrictions. He said "there are some things you can't do, you have to take into account that you're a public figure."
Mr. Li Xuejian has done a lot of public service, the most famous of which is the "National Public Service Announcement on Integrity". Mr. Li Xuejian said, the country to train you is to let you shine and go for the people, either filming or life, nothing else matters!
From "Jiao Yulu" to "Yang Shanzhou", from a good cadre to serve the people, to the country's voluntary planting of trees for the workers, although older and older, but Li Xuejian's feelings and realm has not changed, always noble and pure!
Almost every one of his plays has won awards;
In 1980, he became the first winner of the Plum Blossom Prize for his play The 913 Incident.
In 1990, he won the Golden Rooster and the Hundred Flowers awards for the movie Jiao Yulu.
And it was really the movie that made Li Xuejian a star of thousands of families, and the movie that made Li Xuejian the most popular.
The roles that really brought Li Xuejian to millions of households
were Song Dacheng in the TV series "Longing" and Song Jiang in "Water Margin."
He became a popular and powerful actor because of these two familiar roles.
In 2001, Li Xuejian took part in the filming of the TV drama "China Orbit". Long before the move his body showed some changes, a small pimple grew on his nose and his voice was difficult. But he didn't go to the hospital for a checkup, and rushed to the location in Xi'an with anti-inflammatory drugs in his pocket.
It wasn't until his wife, Yu Haidan, visited him on the set a month later and realized that the bump on Li Xuejian's nose was getting bigger and bigger and was already affecting his health that he agreed to go to the hospital for a checkup. And the result of the examination surprised both him and his wife that it was nasopharyngeal cancer.
When he was seriously ill, Li Xuejian couldn't even swallow a mouthful of water, and when he moved around, he became dizzy and vomited.
The leaders of the troupe offered to let him suspend filming, but Li Xuejian politely refused. His wife, Yu Haidan, also knew that it was impossible for her husband to stop the show to cure his illness, so the couple decided to give up the option of immediate surgery in favor of conservative chemotherapy.
After treatment, Li Xuejian's condition was effectively controlled and he soon returned to the screen to continue his beloved acting career.
After his comeback, he starred in "Tangshan Earthquake" in 2010;
In 2011, he won the Huabiao Award for his film "Yang Shanzhou";
In November 2012, he won the Best Supporting Actor Award at Taiwan's Golden Horse Awards for his role in "1942";
On March 31, 2013, he was honored at the He won the "Annual Lifetime Achievement Award" at the "China TV Drama Annual Star Ceremony" on March 31, 2013;
In 2016, he won the Best Supporting Actor Award at the Taiwan Golden Horse Awards for his roles in "1942" and "The Young Marshal"! Old Man" and "Shao Shuai" two works, won the best performing arts award ............
Hu Ge said at the award ceremony: yesterday I was very fortunate to be able to come to Changsha on the same flight as Mr. Li Xuejian, who is highly respected and so high
Hu Ge said at the award ceremony: "Yesterday, I was very fortunate to be able to come to Changsha on the same flight as Mr. Li Xuejian, who is highly respected and has such a high age. The "longing" in the partner Kylie in the award also can not help but say: "I knew it was him, must be him.
The older generation of actors is like this, acting is acting, acting well, people look happy, like can. This year has been 62 years old, his hearing is also more and more bad. In the interview, but also with two pairs of hearing aids, their own while debugging which one is more effective, while also full of apologies to the reporter gesture.
Li Xuejian once said: from the beginning of the line, I am working, learning, living generation, are with the development of society step by step, I do not have the ability and level of design of their own future, or what the great cause, but also do not have this impulse. Art, culture, is meaningful and helpful to our lives, not pure entertainment, gossip, should see the significance of our profession, and what we have to do is to be a competent literature and art workers.
This is the real respectable actor!