Zhang YueKai

Zhang YueKai

Zhang YueKai (1925-1997), a famous actor in Cantonese theatre, is a national first-class actor. He graduated from the Department of civil engineering, Lingnan University, Guangzhou in 1949. In 1950, he abandoned his work to become an artist and joined the South China People's theater company. He was transferred back to the Cantonese theater in the summer of 1957. Zhang YueKai is versatile, and Liu Lanfang is also known as "North Liu and south Zhang". During the whole four years from 1983 to 1987, his novels such as "outlaws of the marsh", "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Yang Jiajiang" and "Mao Zedong in his later years" in Cantonese were continuously broadcasted, and became the programs pursued by Cantonese people. His language is fluent and clear, his voice is expressive, and his characters are vivid, which has attracted the audience in Guangdong and Guangdong. He died of illness in Guangzhou on May 24, 1997 at the age of 72.

Life of the characters

Zhang YueKai graduated from the Department of civil engineering, Lingnan University, Guangzhou in 1949. In 1950, he worked as a construction technician in a construction company in Hong Kong. He heard that the South China People's theater company affiliated to the South China Institute of literature and art was founded. He returned to Guangzhou to join. In the large-scale drama "the voice of the American people", Zhang YueKai made a big hit for playing Captain Kidd. Later, Zhang YueKai was transferred to Henan, Guizhou and other provinces to participate in highway construction. In the summer of 1957, Zhang YueKai returned to the Cantonese theater and married he Yunhua.

He and Liu Lanfang are called "North Liu and south Zhang". In Guangdong People's radio station, he broadcast such long stories as outlaws of the marsh, romance of the Three Kingdoms and General Yang.

In fact, Zhang YueKai moved his story telling in Guangdong teahouse to radio station. Every time his opening remarks are "the preceding text continues, the book continues, saying...". His language is fluent and clear, and his pronunciation is accurate and standard. Without the help of any soundtrack and sound effects, he imitates the sound effects with his own voice to express the situation of the scene. For example, "cluck" means the sound of a horse's hoof. Some of the novels originally written in classical Chinese are translated into vernacular to facilitate the audience to understand and enhance their appeal.

In the early 1980s and early 1990s, the Chinese mainland mostly used radio as the main reason for the economic underdevelopment. Zhang YueKai's Cantonese "Shuo Gu" (Shuo Shu) is usually broadcast at 12 noon and 6 pm, which meets people's entertainment needs, so it is very popular.

Zhang YueKai is versatile all his life. Besides speaking cross talk and storytelling, he also performs stage plays.

Anecdotes of characters

Give up work and become an artist

Zhang YueKai used to study engineering. He graduated from the Department of civil engineering of Lingnan University in 1949. In 1950, he was working as a construction technician in a construction company in Hong Kong. He heard that the South China People's theatre was founded. In order to develop the cultural cause of the motherland, and out of his love and pursuit of dramatic art, he resolutely gave up his generous treatment and returned to Guangzhou to join the South China People's Theatre affiliated to the South China Institute of literature and art. Then he came to prominence as Captain Kidd in the big play voice of the American people. At that time, many girls, beautiful, modern and rich, were willing to get close to him, and their words showed obvious favor. However, Zhang YueKai has his own opinion: beauty and money are gone, and a person's personality and quality are important, and they belong to him or her forever. The value of human beings lies in the spirit of selfless dedication to society. Wait! It is said that things exist correspondingly. Since there is one heart in the world, there will always be another heart calling to him.

love life

Love may often come with sunshine, breeze, music and poetry. However, their love was bred in a stormy night. That night, thunder and lightning, torrential rain, wind with its huge claws tearing trees, houses. All the students in the College of literature and art shut themselves up in their dormitories. Some of the female students simply went into the quilt to read a book. They just wanted to be far away from the roaring world outside. The lights are out and I'm sleeping. Suddenly, an urgent notice came: a wall of the college library was blown down by the storm, and the comrades of the drama troupe and the graduating class immediately organized to rescue the books. A group of people quickly lined up to move bundles of books to a safe place. Zhang YueKai was doing a good job when he found that a little girl in wet pajamas was standing at the beginning. Usually, he would find it funny. At the moment, he was only moved and asked, "are you in the graduating class, too?" "no, not long ago." The little girl quickly wiped the wet bangs, and her bright eyes were childish. All of a sudden, he felt that his heart was hit and radiated heat. Is this the telepathy of the spirit, the call of the heart. What a warm-hearted girl! It would be nice to have such a lover in the future. Love sprouted quietly on this stormy night.

At that time, the little girl was Zhang YueKai's wife, he Yunhua. At that time, she was a student in the Music Department of the art college, majoring in vocal music and minor in piano, but she was better at dancing. By the time she graduated in 1953, Zhang YueKai had returned to work and was engaged in highway and bridge construction in Hainan. Because they have established a love relationship, Xiao He was assigned to Hainan song and dance troupe as a dancer. Unfortunately, when she arrived in Hainan, Zhang YueKai went to Guizhou with the engineering team. From then on, he walked through the thorny jungle in the wilderness all day, month and year, dealing with measuring instruments and yellow mud They are so far apart that they seldom meet. But he Yunhua still loves him deeply. Xiao He is ready to live a country life with him in the future. At night, I sit on a water bamboo stool, cool under a melon shed, and use a sunflower fan to drive out mosquitoes Because at the beginning, she did not admire his fame, but respected his frank and upright personality, sensitive and wise talent, and self-conscious spirit that the need of setting up the motherland was higher than personal volunteer. She believed in him and that he would make a difference no matter what he did. And he respected her and supported her career. In order to prolong his stage career, he Yunhua hopes to get married a few years later. Zhang YueKai fully understood this feeling and readily agreed. By the time they got married in 1957, Zhang YueKai was 32 years old. That was the eighth year of their love. At that time, Zhang YueKai returned to the Cantonese opera company. For the sake of their beloved art, they also agreed to have children in four years.

Back on stage

After years of turbulent life, two tired souls need the warmth and comfort of their families. Besides, there was no family leave at that time, and I don't know when I can get together again after my honeymoon. ——Don't go, stay for a few days. However, only ten days after their marriage, they declared the end of their honeymoon and each stepped on their own stage. They say, because - families don't just exist for love

My wife has cancer

People need career, love and family. These are often contradictory. However, when they can coexist, it constitutes happiness. However, it is not easy for them to coexist, especially in an actor's family. They often pick up their bags and go around the world, leaving a lot of annoying family affairs in the house. In the early summer of 1965, Zhang YueKai was working in Xinhui rites and music commune, and he Yunhua was participating in the four Qing movement in Zhongshan County. Unexpectedly, he Yunhua suddenly got nasopharyngeal carcinoma and had to go back to Guangzhou for radiotherapy immediately. At that time, when we talked about the age of cancer, once people got cancer, how scared and sad! Especially a woman, a wife, how much she needed her husband's love. But he Yunhua refused to tell Zhang YueKai, but he quietly treated himself in Guangzhou in order to make him feel at ease to create. People really can't see that what lurks in this weak body is such amazing perseverance and extraordinary love! When Zhang YueKai finally finished his creation, he learned the sudden news and rushed back to Guangzhou in panic. When we met, he Yunhua was washing clothes, just like every past day. Lao Zhang could not help but nervously ask: "I heard you are ill?" she said calmly while shaking off the water bead on her hand: "what's the matter, nasopharyngeal carcinoma?" "you should tell me!" he Yunhua just looked at her husband with a smile.

Business is above everything

Yes, families don't just exist for love. There are more solemn things waiting for the family to complete as its own cell. On many new year's Eve, when the firecracker went off and thousands of families were talking about their family happiness, he was on patrol and performing in other places, leaving his wife, son and loneliness behind. Many times before he set out, he looked at his wife's sick figure and the tears hanging on his son's sleeping face. He really wanted to open his luggage again and not go. But it's just a flash. His career is above everything else, and his heart is tied to thousands of audiences who are eager for art. Every time, he set foot on the journey with missing and passion. However, since I came back, you will cry to me, cry away your fatigue, cry away your worries. Why do you laugh? You cry! I feel better when you cry. He felt sorry for her.

Mutual support

It's impossible to beg or command for love. The flower of love needs constant watering and constant cultivation. To get love, we must first let the other party feel worthy of love, let the other party worship their own personality and spirit. His wife's virtue made him feel that she was respectable and lovely. In order to make her recover as soon as possible, in the process of treating nasopharyngeal carcinoma, he kept a detailed medical diary for her every day and nursed her carefully. He was never on duty“

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