Compared with the cemetery of Chen Peisi's father and Hou Yaohua's father, the gap is obvious, and he enjoys tens of millions of cemeteries

Chen Peisi and Hou Yaohua must be familiar to everyone, both of them are old artists in the mainland entertainment industry, Chen Peisi has starred in many comedies, and has also appeared in sketch shows of the Spring Festival Gala, and even dubbed the animation "Baolian Lantern" in the early years, and Hou Yaohua has also starred in many movies and TV series, served as a host, and is currently the vice president of the China Drama, Film and Television Research Institute.

The fathers of these two were also very famous performing artists back then, Chen Peisi's father Chen Qiang began to make movies in 1947, and he played the well-known bully landlord Huang Shiren in "The White-Haired Girl". Chen Qiang won the Best Actor Award and the Best Supporting Actor Award twice in his lifetime, and in 2008, he also won the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Hundred Flowers Award for Popular Films, and was named the "Glorious Artist" of the National Theatre of China.

Hou Yaohua's father, Hou Baolin, was born in Peking Opera, and later changed his career to cross talk, not only performed for Mao Zedong and other leaders, but also served as a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and a deputy to the National People's Congress. Many of the cross talk works he created have become classics for later generations, and most of the students he trained have become famous actors in the cross talk industry.

After their deaths, their graves were also located in Babaoshan, Beijing, with only one painting on one tombstone and the largest one worth tens of millions.

The "villain" on the screen, the good guy in life

Chen Peisi's father, Chen Qiang, first became famous by being a "villain", and he is known as a typical villain in the history of mainland films. The landlord Huang Shiren played by him in "The White-Haired Girl" is too vivid and realistic, too "hated", which impresses the audience. When he walked out into the street, groups of children followed him and called him a "bad guy" and "landlord Huang Shiren", and some of them threw stones, spit, and peed on him.

But Chen Qiang didn't mind these scoldings, but thought that they were all appreciation and recognition of his performance, and worked harder and enthusiastically into this acting career.

Chen Qiang's old friend and former head of the Beijing Film Studio Actors' Troupe, Yu Yang, commented on him: "He has drama in his eyes!" "He has always been striving for excellence in acting, as long as it is a role, he has to ponder and work hard, and even take the opportunity to understand the local customs and customs, just to accumulate more acting experience.

Because he performed so well, the image of the "villain" was too deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, resulting in almost all the roles in the future, almost all of them were villains. Premier Zhou Enlai once met him and said to him: "Chen Qiang, you have played a Yanghuang Shiren again!" Will you be able to play a good person in the future? So Chen Qiang decided to change his image, he couldn't always play the villain, and he wanted to give everyone a comedy image in the future.

Later, he successively participated in many comedies such as "The Way to Make Money" and "Three Years Early", but what really made his comedy image overshadow the villain's image was "Father and Son". In "Father and Son", Chen Qiang successfully portrayed a stubborn, upright, and very serious old worker - Uncle Kui, Uncle Kui is an old father who wants his son to be admitted to college, so that his son can be admitted to college, he locks his son in the room every day and forces him to study and review, but his son is not as he wishes, which makes his hopes all in vain. Chen Qiang's performance in the film is subtle and humorous, making people laugh and cry, and he is deeply impressed, this role has made his acting career reach new heights.

Unlike the villain role he once played, Chen Qiang has always been a broad-minded, optimistic and upright person in life. During the war years, Chen Qiang often distributed his clothes and supplies to friends who were short of materials, and laughingly called it "military communist life"; During the "Cultural Revolution", Chen Qiang, as one of the first "gangsters" to be imprisoned, not only was he not full of grief and pain, but he also told stories to other veteran comrades in prison, encouraging them to be strong and brave...... Even after the "Cultural Revolution", he still associated with those who had criticized him.

In 1950, Chen Qiang and his wife Li Yujie met and fell in love in the Northeast Film Studio, Chen Qiang's wife was 13 years younger than him, but the two have been living in harmony and beauty, friends say that Chen Qiang is a good father and husband, the husband and wife respect and love each other in peace and stability all their lives, and he is also dedicated to the cultivation and education of Chen Peisi.

A year after the marriage, their eldest son was born, and when Chen Qiang was visiting Budapest, Hungary with a delegation, Yujie named his son Buda, and the second son was named Pest. The second son, Chen Peisi, inherited his father's mantle and is also a well-known comedian, and the father and son also collaborated on comedy series such as "Father and Son Classic Car", which have also been well received.

When it comes to Chen Peisi, Chen Qiang is always very proud, he said: "In the past, when people introduced him, they all pointed to Peisi and said: 'This is Chen Qiang's son', but now when people introduce him, they all point to me and say: 'This is Chen Peisi's father'." ”

Bringing laughter and joy to the people

Hou Baolin is recognized by the people as a master of cross talk, and his cross talk not only brings people joy and laughter, but also is full of thought-provoking rationality and philosophy.

Hou Baolin was born in the Peking Opera team at the beginning, and later changed his career to become a cross talk actor, at that time, cross talk actors had no social status, and often said some dirty and bad words in order to make the audience laugh, or pretended to be ugly and sold sand, and belittled themselves, and most of the content of the works did not talk about any artistic pursuit. However, Hou Baolin was unwilling, he insisted on not saying cheap words, and he wanted to use civilized words and make people laugh.

After making up his mind not to rely on those vulgar means to win cheap laughter from the audience, Hou Baolin began to pay attention to his words and deeds on and off the stage, whether in performance or in life, he paid attention to fashion, neatness and elegance. However, his efforts to improve the status of cross talk performances have not been recognized, and even his peers look down on him, thinking that this is a "fake Qinggao", a cross talker, what kind of suit is he wearing?

However, the artistic development of cross talk shows that Hou Baolin is indeed forward-looking, and of course, behind this is the joint efforts of people who have the same aspirations as him. Hou Baolin once established a mass organization in the early days of liberation - the "Beijing Cross Talk Improvement Group", which played a great role in reforming and developing the mainland's cross talk cause, and Hou Baolin's efforts and contributions in it cannot be ignored.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Hou Baolin even became the first cross talk actor to serve as the male lead in a comedy movie, and once the movie was broadcast, his role was widely acclaimed.

He was the first to say cross talk to Chairman Mao, and in 1949, he and his companion Guo Qiru were in a big mansion in Beijing and told Chairman Mao "Drama Miscellaneous". He was the one who spoke to Chairman Mao the most in the cross talk world, and was later nominated by Chairman Mao as a representative of the National People's Congress. Not only that, Hou Baolin also served as a professor of Chinese Chinese literature at Peking University, and also studied quyi in depth and published relevant textbooks......

Hou Baolin is a leader in the cross talk industry and a recognized master, and he has contributed to the improvement of the artistry of cross talk and the improvement of the social status of cross talk actors. He is not only elegant and funny when he talks about cross talk, but also maintains humor and wisdom in life.

In the 80s of the 20th century, Reagan, who was a film actor, was elected president of the United States, and some Western reporters deliberately used this to ridicule Chinese actors. Hou Baolin only replied calmly after hearing this, but he said loudly: "Reagan is a second-rate actor, and I am first-class." After speaking, the audience immediately applauded.

Hou Baolin is a master of cross talk, and his two sons are one is a cross talk actor and the other is a comedian, but Hou Baolin is not very funny at home, and often seriously teaches his two sons how to turn acting into an art that is appreciated by both the elegant and the vulgar. Hou Baolin was very busy when he was young, he was not only a cross talk actor, but also a professor, and a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

Hou Baolin's wife is also a traditional good wife and mother, who is diligent and thrifty. Sometimes, when Hou Baolin finished his performance and arrived home at ten o'clock, he was still hungry, and his wife would immediately cook for him, and for decades, even after her sons had started to work, she had to prepare meals seven or eight times a day.

After their deaths, the difference between the cemeteries of the two was so great

In 1993, Hou Baolin died of stomach cancer at the age of 76. In 2002, Chen Qiang died at Beijing Anzhen Hospital at the age of 94.

Hou Baolin has been worried about his career during the hospitalization of tumor recurrence, and even after the hospital issued a critical illness notice, he talked with his disciples about the experience of cross talk, and three days before his death, he also asked his family to publish his article "Last Words" to the "Beijing Evening News" to thank the audience.

After Chen Qiang unfortunately suffered a stroke, he has been taken care of by his two sons, Chen Peisi and Chen Buda, in turn for four years, and they are responsible for the trivial tasks such as bathing and feeding, but Chen Peisi does not feel hard, but thinks that it is very happy to accompany his father. Half a year before Chen Qiang's death, Chen Peisi gave up all his work and concentrated on taking care of his father.

After the death of the two old men, they were buried in Babaoshan, Beijing. Chen Qiang's tombstone is just as humorous as he is, with only a stick figure portrait and his name on it, and the front of the cemetery is clean and tidy, without too much decoration. The cemetery of Hou Baolin is located at the foot of Tianshou Mountain, adjacent to the Peace Temple of Changping, a thousand-year-old temple in the suburbs of Beijing, covering an area of 35 square meters and costing at least 7 million, which is currently the largest in the entire Tianshou Cemetery.

Unlike Chen Qiang's cemetery, Hou Baolin's cemetery is a family cemetery, and the tombstones that have been built so far belong to Hou Baolin, his wife and his youngest son Hou Yaowen. The entire cemetery was almost entirely funded by Hou Yaohua, and the site selection and construction of the cemetery began after Hou Yaowen's death.

The two masters have left us, they have been fighting for their acting careers all their lives, and they have also sent laughter to the audience in their respective fields, and they will always remember!

Resources:

1. Hou Baolin's family affairs revealed_Hou Jun
2. The sword is not old, and the majestic style is still there-remember the famous film performance artist Mr. Chen Qiang_ Xiao Yun
3. Speaking of Chen Peisi's father - a fragment of Chen Qiang's artistic career_Zheng Jin