Mention Wang Xuexi people's first impression is often a diligent and earnest acting of the "old drama bone" image, when in the army literary troupe he and Li Xuejian, Pu Cunxi three people and called "three dragon sets", debut so far more than forty years he is undoubtedly a representative of the actor of the late formation, from the "Mei Lanfang" in the thirteen Yan to "October Siege" in Li Yutang, 38 years old to emerge he used solid acting skills to create too many screen classics for us.
Recently, Wang Xuexi, who has not appeared for a long time, appeared on the red carpet of the Golden Rooster Awards, and he could not see that he was already 76 years old, but it was such an old artist who resolutely divorced his wife who had been with him for more than forty years ten years ago, to know that he had just won the crown of the Film Emperor with "October Siege" ten years ago, what happened to make him throw out 2 million, and he would rather face the insult of the negative man to make such a decision?
Wang Xuexi was born in Beijing in 1946, grew up in the head of the organ college, he was very interested in literary and artistic activities such as singing and dancing very early, and the prevalence of military-themed movies gave him the idea of becoming an actor, so at the age of 14, Wang Xuexi was conscripted into the army and joined the literary troupe.
Although the cultural and labor troupe said that it is easiest to bury people in the training of talents, the talent-rich troops simply do not have the opportunity to perform, seeing that he is getting farther and farther away from his dreams, in 1969, Wang Xuexi returned to Beijing after retiring from the army and entered the Machinery Bureau to become a worker, when Wang Xuexi, who retired from the army and returned to Beijing, had just turned 23 years old, and under the introduction of the matchmaker, he met his future wife Sun Changning.
Sun Changning was also born in Beijing in a scholarly family, her father was a well-known educator, and she grew up in a family environment with high cultural literacy in reading poetry and books and had a stable job in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
When they first met Wang Xuexi, Sun Changning had an inexplicable liking for the boy in front of him who was not good at words, and the two gradually developed feelings in getting along again and again.
In 1971, Wang Xuexi, who had been in love for two years, and Sun Changning walked into the marriage hall hand in hand and gave birth to a son Wang Daqing shortly after, when Sun Changning had little private time to take care of the family because of the nature of his work, so he spent relatively more time with his children than his wife.
However, years of military life have made the taciturn Wang Xuexi often serious and restrained in front of his son, which also affected Wang Daqing's personality to a certain extent, and many years later, he often lamented that he felt guilty about his son.
As the child grew up day by day, his wife Sun Changning was also sent by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to travel abroad for a long time, and in the long run, Wang Xuexi became more and more taciturn, unwilling to be lonely, he regained the acting career he once loved, with the foundation he had laid in the literary troupe and his unremitting efforts Wang Xuexi was finally admitted to the Air Politics Repertory Troupe in 1978, and he was admitted to the troupe with Li Xuejian and Pu Cunxi.
When he first entered the troupe, Wang Xuexi could only do some miscellaneous work of the installation group, and he did not have the opportunity to appear on the program list with Li Xuejian and Pu Cunxi, who was called the "three dragon sets", and occasionally there were performances that he could only play some dragon set roles such as bandits and soldiers, and it was precisely because there was enough time to accumulate precipitation so that Wang Xuexi and other "literary and artistic light cavalry" trained their skills.
In the days when he studied in the drama troupe, although there was no performance opportunity, he was able to engage in the acting career he loved, Wang Xuexi still felt full and joyful in his heart, but after a long time watching Li Xuejian and Pu Cunxi and other people around him come to the fore because of starring in film and television dramas, he was still doing dragon sets, and he was sometimes sullen and unhappy, but fortunately, wang Xuexi also ushered in his own day soon after.
At that time, Beijing was in a special period and there had been no drama performances for a full decade, and the Air Politics Repertory Theatre Specially found He Jiping, the author of "The First Floor under the Heavens", and Lan Tianye, the director of human art, to jointly create a "Song of Quenching".
Perhaps it was doomed, before the performance of the actor who was originally scheduled to be the number one male accidentally broke his foot, so the director decided to be temporarily replaced by Wang Xuexi, and when he rehearsed for the first time, he nervously did not even know where to go on stage and asked the director, but in the end, with the usual accumulation, Wang Xuexi still completed his first drama stage well.
After that, Wang Xuexi gradually stepped onto the right track with his wonderful performances in works such as "913" and "I Am Haiyan" and received the attention of director Chen Kaige, so that he finally starred in his first film work - "Yellow Land".
In the filming of "Yellow Land", Wang Xuexi deliberately sunbathed by the Yellow River for a long time until the sun peeling makeup artist stopped shooting, and the weather in May also wore cotton clothes and cotton pants to insist on shooting, fortunately, all of this he paid quickly ushered in, and the film was widely praised and awarded numerous awards after the release of the film, not only Chen Kaige became a first-line director with his debut work, Wang Xuexi also successfully transferred from the drama industry to the film and television circle.
Just when Wang Xuexi's acting career was booming and full of ambition, his wife had to go to Canada in 1996 because she was a cultural counselor of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which made the marriage between the two people, which was increasingly rifted by the long-term separation of the two places, move faster to an irreparable end.
Seeing that his marriage is already in name only, Wang Xuexi simply put his mind on his career, in 2008, director Chen Kaige prepared to shoot the movie "Mei Yanfang", and he was invited to play the role of "Thirteen Yans" in order to pay special attention to Mr. Li Shu, a famous Peking opera artist.
At that time, Wang Xuexi, who was already in his sixties, began to practice basic skills such as meridian style and running round field from scratch, and he was very serious about motion, and he fainted badly without turning a few times, and he also always observed the teacher's every move to learn his style of doing things during the time when he was not practicing.
With four months of hard work, Wang Xuexi won the Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actor at the Awards Ceremony, and the following year he played "Li Yutang" in "October Siege" directed by Chen Kexin and won the Best Actor award at the Asian Film Awards again.
Decades of hard work have finally made Wang Xuexi wait for his own spring, but his marriage, which has reached the peak of his career, has finally come to an end.
In the more than forty years of Wang Xuexi and Sun Changning's combination of these more than forty years, the number of times the two can see each other every year is countless, he has asked his wife countless times whether he can not go to work so far for the family, his wife insists on insisting on his ideals, obviously he can not put down his career for his wife to cross the ocean, not to mention that there is no emotion between the two, and finally in 2010 Wang Xuexi formally filed a divorce lawsuit with the court.
Sun Changning was very opposed to the idea that her husband wanted to divorce at first, after all, the two had gone through more than forty years of ups and downs, and now that they are more than 60 years old, divorce is really impossible to say, but she herself understands that the two have no feelings to speak of over the years.
So in June 2011, after Wang Xuexi filed a divorce lawsuit for the second time, after court mediation, the two formally reached an agreement to dissolve the married life that had lasted for more than 40 years, and finally ended with Wang Xuexi paying his wife a break-up fee of 2 million yuan.
For the father's decision to insist on divorce, the son Wang Daqing is very clear, after all, he has been crying to his father since he was a child why his mother is always not around, and over time he can gradually understand his father's mood, although his father has been very strict with himself since he was a child, but he feels that his father is a good father in his heart.
There is no doubt that this marriage has hurt everyone in the family to varying degrees, but what makes Wang Xuexi unexpected is that the choice he was forced to make was labeled a "negative man" by the outside world, and there are even rumors that he has already married a new family.
After all, the divorce storm is in the stall of his successive awards, in the face of many doubts, Wang Xuexi just laughed, and in the more than ten years after the divorce, he did not have a trace of emotional scandals.
When Wang Xuexi once again triggered a discussion on the screen, it was already in the 2019 court drama "Daming Style", and he played the role of Zhu Di at an old age, and what really caused him to arouse heated discussion was the matter of his big gift to the crew.
As an old actor, he understands the hardships of acting on kneeling, so on the day of the killing, Wang Xuexi "knelt down" to all the cast members.
At the age of 73, instead of playing a big card, he has led by example, which is really a model of virtue and art.
From Wang Xuexi's married life, it is not difficult to find that even the most beautiful love also needs to be operated by both husband and wife, and only mutual companionship is the longest confession of love.
Now 76 years old, Wang Xuexi is still active on the stage he loves, in addition to taking his grandchildren with him when filming time is leisurely, although his life is gradually becoming flat, he is also happy, and he sincerely wishes Wang Xuexi to live in peace in his old age, and at the same time continue to bring us new works in the future.