Yu Xiaoying

Yu Xiaoying

Yu Xiaoying (1962-august 2, 2014), born in Beijing, is a director in mainland China and graduated from Tongliao Normal University.

In 2003, he directed his first film "want to be a village head in Europe", which was listed as one of the top ten excellent films on the theme of agricultural and pastoral areas in China. In 2004, director of the plot film "watchtower" won the 8th Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region "five one project" award. In 2007, he directed the plot film "my mother prairie", which was listed as one of the important environmental protection films in China at the first "International Environmental Film Week". In 2009, director of the plot film "love in the field" won the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region "five one project" award. In 2012, the plot film "little Poplar" directed by him was released. On August 2, 2014, Yu Xiaoying died of sudden myocardial infarction at the age of 52.

Character experience

When Yu Xiaoying was very young, he came to Inner Mongolia prairie with his father, who was beaten as a "rightist", and spent his childhood in Horqin prairie. In his youth, he loved literature and dreamed of becoming a poet. In 1984, after graduating from Tongliao Normal University, he became a teacher for one year. Later, he followed his father into Inner Mongolia Film Studio. In the 1980s, he published poems in Inner Mongolia Daily and grassland. In 2003, he directed his first film, I want to be a village head in Europe, which was listed as one of the top ten excellent films in China's agricultural and pastoral areas. In 2004, he directed the plot film "watchtower", which extols the dedication of firemen who are willing to be lonely and guard the watchtower all the year round to protect the forest and grassland. The film won the 8th Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region "five one project" award. In 2005, the TV series "I come from grassland" directed by him was premiered. It tells the story of Mongolian artists' struggle to push national culture to China and the world. It won the excellent film and television award of Chinese minority theme. In 2006, he directed the film "gentle grass" co starred by Bayin e'rile and Wang Sifei; in the same year, he directed the film "cool under the big tree"; in addition, he directed the love film "flower girl" co starred by Ma Xiaojing, Chi Yuan and sun Haohua. In 2007, he directed the environmental protection themed children's film "lonely camel tears"; in the same year, he directed the plot film "my mother prairie" co starred by Xiong Ying, Qi naritu and Ma Xiaojing, which was listed as one of the important environmental protection films in China at the first "international environmental film week". In 2009, he directed the plot film "love in the field" co starred by Ma Xiaojing and Altay, which won the "five one project" award of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. In 2011, he directed the plot film holy water, starring Wu rigen and he Shiyu. In 2012, the plot film "little Poplar" directed by him was released. On the evening of August 2, 2014, Yu Xiaoying died of sudden myocardial infarction at the age of 52. At 9 a.m. on August 4, a memorial service was held in Qingdao funeral home.

Personal life

Yu Xiaoying's father is Yu Jie, originally surnamed Ji, a Mongolian in Chaoyang, Liaoning Province. He changed his surname to Yu because of his worship of Yu Dafu. After implementing the policy, he became the director of Inner Mongolia Film Studio.

Main works

Director's work

Award winning record

Character evaluation

As a film and television worker, Yu Xiaoying pays close attention to the world themes of nature, ecology and national survival. It is this sense of national responsibility, historical mission and cultural crisis that drives him to travel tirelessly on the vast prairie. For the beauty of the vast prairie and the future of national culture, he releases his enthusiasm and devotes his painstaking efforts to elaborately create a series of grassland films of "Mongolian people in the new century" (review of Inner Mongolia's propaganda, ideological and cultural work). Yu Xiaoying's "Mongolians in the new century" series is a series of films focusing on the living conditions of ordinary Mongolian herdsmen. Its unique feature is that the director clearly put forward the creative concept before shooting, insisted on shooting and completed the series of works over ten years. Yu Xiaoying's thinking on the relationship between Mongolian traditional culture and modern civilization is unique compared with the directors such as seif, couple Meliss, zhuoghe, Ningcai and haschaolu. He doesn't focus on exposing problems like other directors, but on solving problems. Instead of praising Mongolian traditional culture, he focuses on expressing Mongolian traditional culture New vitality under modern civilization in the new century

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