Since ancient times, the Chinese nation has regarded honoring one's parents as a traditional virtue.
However, many people do not respect their parents enough in society, even in the entertainment industry, there is such an old man, he is a national first-class actor, but the money he earns is divided by his children, and now at the age of 75, he still needs to take care of his sick wife and film life together, this old man is Zhang Hongjie.
In 1945, Zhang Hongzhuli was born in Gongzhuling, Jilin Province, when New China had not yet been established and the three eastern provinces were in financial difficulties. Zhang Hongjie's family is very poor, and the whole family barely survives on his father's meager income, and often goes hungry and full.
As he grew older, Zhang Hongjie gradually understood responsibility. He has loved acting since he was a child, so he went to a theater in the hope of learning skills to support his family financially.
Zhang Hongjie has an excellent talent and can learn many things easily. He is very diligent and practices even the simplest movements repeatedly. As a result, his teachers praised him as a talent with great potential.
Subsequently, Zhang Hongjie successfully found a satisfactory job, and soon reached the age of talking about marriage.
Under the introduction of a friend, he met a girl, and the two got along well, hit it off, and finally came together and stepped into the palace of marriage together.
The wife gave birth to three children after marriage, including two daughters and a son. Despite the hardships of life, they lived very happily, and the birth of their child brought motivation and good luck to Zhang Hongjie.
In 1991, Zhang Hongjie was invited to join the crew of the TV series "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" as an assistant director.
Three years later, he was favored by the head of the Jilin Provincial Quyi Troupe and starred in "Jiuxiang", his outstanding performance won the love of the audience, and won the Changying "Little Hundred Flowers" Outstanding Supporting Actor Award.
After that, he successively starred in "Director of Men and Women", "Today is a Good Day", "Taiwan Strait" and other plays, and won the Special Performance Award at the 4th British Wanxiang International Chinese Film Festival and the Best Supporting Actor Award at the 19th Chinese Film Golden Rooster Awards.
Zhang Hongjie is recognized as a well-deserved veteran actor and won the title of national first-class actor. Someone commented on him:
Zhang Hongjie is an outstanding actor who combines screenwriting, directing and acting, and his works are numerous. Because he mostly starred in TV series with rural themes and played many village chief roles, he was known as "China's first village chief".
Although Zhang Hongjie's career is smooth sailing, family chores are complicated.
In 1994, when Zhang Hongjie was 49 years old, his wife suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and was admitted to the hospital for surgery, which successfully saved her life, but she has since needed to be cared for for for a long time.
Since then, he has always taken his wife with him when filming, gave up many scenes, and even sometimes chose to reduce his salary in order to take better care of his wife.
Zhang Hongjie's biggest headache is his children, because his daughter doesn't want to live with her mother-in-law, she asks Zhang Hongjie for money to buy a new house. The son, on the other hand, stayed at home, doing nothing all day, and asked his father for money when he was short of money.
The father filmed to make money for the sake of the children's lives, after all, they were all his own children, and he couldn't bear not to give them to them. What's even more excessive is that the son even asked Zhang Hongjie to buy a house for his grandson in advance ......
Zhang Hongjie's property was divided among his own children, and now there is not much left;He is 75 years old, but he still has to take his sick wife out to film to support his family.