He created three classic screen images in his life:
Guan Yu in " Romance of the Three Kingdoms ", Niu Mowang in "Hamish to the West: The Great Sage Marrying HTML ", and Qin Shihuang in "Ancient and Modern Warriors of Qin Terracotta". However, the most praised is the "Martial Saint" , Guan Yunchang .
28 years ago, he became famous in one fell swoop, but after becoming popular, he gradually faded out of the screen, and even suffered controversy, disappearing from the public's vision.
On the morning of November 1, 2022, he died of a sudden myocardial infarction at the age of 66.
He is "Guan Yu" and also Lu Shuming.
01 Unintentionally planted willows and willows to form shade
Lu Shuming once said, "This character has been around for more than 20 years, and everyone still remembers it freshly, which is enough."
Dreaming of being a Peking Opera actor, but becoming a basketball player and an aviation photographer. Lu Shuming's first half of his life has nothing to do with Guan Yu. But fate is so magical.
In 1956, Lu Shuming was born in Qingdao . He was tall and mighty and was a typical Shandong man.
html When he was 310 years old, Lu Shuming accompanied his father to support the construction of the northwest and moved his family to Shaanxi.
When he was in middle school, the music teacher praised him for his good conditions and was a good seedling for studying Peking Opera . 14-year-old Lu Shuming decided to apply for an opera school, but was strongly opposed by his father.
Lu Shuming had to give up and worked as a professional basketball player and aerial photographer, and his life was also quite interesting.
As an adult, he has risen to 1.86 meters. Kong Wu is powerful, but he still has a literary dream in his heart.
As the saying goes, the willows are planted in a shade. In 1980, Lu Shuming accompanied his neighbor's sister to the Xi'an Drama Theater exam. Unexpectedly, one of the examiners had a keen eye and saw Lu Shuming who was accompanying the exam at first sight. He decided that he was the material for being an actor, so he made him take the exam in an extraordinary way.
Lu Shuming did not disappoint the examiner's expectations and successfully entered the Xi'an Drama Theater.
And that examiner of Bole was the famous actor Guo Da. Guo Da is not only a guide for Lu Shuming to enter the entertainment industry, but also a noble person in his life.
In 1983, 27-year-old Lu Shuming was "electrically shocked" for the first time. In 1989, he collaborated with Zhang Yimou and Gong Li in the movie "The Love of the War between the Ancient and Modern Warriors of Qin" to play Qin Shihuang.
Although he doesn't have many scenes, he interprets the momentum of Qin Shihuang dominating the world and lays a solid foundation for his next role.
Not long after, Lu Shuming met the most important role in his life.
02 A note that changes destiny
In 1990, CCTV was preparing to film the TV series "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". Director Wang Fulin successively finalized important roles such as Liu Bei , Zhang Fei , but the role of Guan Yu is particularly difficult to choose. The crew looked for more than 30 actors, but they did not meet the right candidate.
At the same time, Lu Shuming is filming in Xianyang, Shaanxi, without knowing about this. He didn't know that the door of fate had been opened to him, and it was his "noble man" Guo Da who opened the door.
● Lu Shuming and Guo Da
Guo Da learned that Guan Yu's candidate was not decided, and the image of Lu Shuming immediately appeared in his mind, so he introduced him to Wang Fulin. The director team of
immediately rushed to Xi'an to invite someone, but because Lu Shuming was filming in other places, it was inconvenient to communicate that year and that month, so he waited for a few days but couldn't contact him. In desperation, the director team could only leave a note at Lu Shuming's doorstep and wait for a few more days.
The so-called "no coincidence" was made. At that time, heavy rains fell in Xi'an. Lu Shuming was always worried that the doors and windows of his home were not closed, so he asked the crew for leave and went home to take a look.
When I got home, I saw that the doors and windows were closed properly, and I was worried about it. But at the same time, he found a note that the crew of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" invited him to the audition, and the signature date was three days ago.
"At that moment, I felt that this was mine." Lu Shuming recalled later.
When Lu Shuming appeared in front of Guan Erye dress, "he was nine feet long, beard two feet long, face like heavy dates, lips like polish, Danfeng eyes , lying silkworm eyebrows, look tall and majestic." It seemed as if Guan Yu from Luo Guanzhong's book came out.
And the first sentence Lu Shuming said after entering the door was : "All generals, please forgive Guan for coming late!"
Everyone criticized the final. In the end, without any suspense, Lu Shuming was selected and became an important role in the final filming of the crew.
03 "I am not Guan Gong, but I am moving towards him"
The opportunity is hard-won, and Lu Shuming cherishes it particularly. In order to play Guan Yu well, he did his homework and suffered a lot.
Everyone knows that Guan Yu has two phoenix eyes, but Lu Shuming does not. The makeup artist forced his eyes to hang up with white latex. Although the image of
is correct, in the first half of the year, he still couldn't find the feeling, and he was like an empty shell.
So he copied all the passages and lines about Guan Yu in the script and posted them all over the head of the bed and on the wall. When I returned to the dormitory, I memorized lines in front of the wall and figured out the characters' feelings.
● Lu Shuming (second from right) and crew members
Until one day, when he was filming, he suddenly felt as if he was helping his god, "there was a feeling of leaving the body."
is now quite overwhelming and understatement. In fact, there is no secret, it is just a few hundred days and nights of hard work.
There are many martial arts, swordplay, and horribly scenes in the drama, all of which are played by the actors themselves.
Lu Shuming fell from the horse's back many times, and the worst one was injured in his leg, and he couldn't move. "At that moment, I felt that I couldn't breathe."
Doctor treated him, and used a needle tube that was two fingers thick, to extract pus and blood. The long and rented needle was pierced into the flesh, which made Lu Shuming scream. Unexpectedly, the doctor said, "Whatever you shout, Guan Gong is fine if he scrapes his bones and heals his wounds!"
Perhaps it was from then on that time that Guan Gong's chivalrous spirit began to invisibly penetrate Lu Shuming's limbs and bones. Although it was not him, he was constantly moving towards the light around him.
That time, he lay in bed for nearly a month. After he healed from the injury, he felt that he had a complete transformation.
In the long shooting of the past three years, he stumbling and struggling, but he was always diligent and did not dare to slack off. In the end, he lived up to expectations and played Guan Yu in the book.
In 1994, "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" became popular all over the country as soon as it was broadcast. The image of Guan Yu, who "beautiful beard fluttering and majestic", created by Lu Shuming, was also deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and was known as "Living Guan Gong".
and later Lu Shuming almost became Guan Yu's incarnation. Games, comics, and sculptures were all designed according to his image.
Because of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Lu Shuming's life was closely connected with Guan Yu.He served as the image spokesperson of the Wucai God Guan Gong, participated in a series of activities to commemorate Guan Gong, promoted Guan Gong's spirit, and was also elected as the top ten coordinate figures of the third Global Chinese Guan Gong Award...
But the so-called success is Xiao He and failure are Xiao He. Guan Yu made Lu Shuming successful, but to some extent, it also restricted Lu Shuming's acting career.
04 Goodbye, Bearded Man
After becoming famous, it may have been fixed or raised its requirements for itself. Lu Shuming had almost no scenes to shoot for a long time.
In 1995, Lu Shuming was invited to play the Bull Demon King in "A Chinese Odyssey: The Great Sage Marrying", which is impressive, but wearing a headband and a mask made it impossible for the audience to associate it with Guan Gong at all.
Since then, Lu Shuming has rarely published works, and even if there are works participating in them, the response will be mediocre.
In this way, the once popular "Jun Erye" gradually disappeared from the public's vision. However, whenever people think of Guan Gong, what they think of Lu Shuming is still what comes to mind.
In 2015, a song " A pot of old wine " was browsed on the circle of friends, singing and crying thousands of wanderers working hard outside.
People were surprised to find that the singer and creator of this song turned out to be the long-awaited "June Guan Erye" Lu Shuming
In recent years, in order to support his family, Lu Shuming began to take on commercial performances and even went to the wedding scene to be the emcee. For a time, a lot of criticism began to appear on the Internet, questioning his excessive consumption of Guan Yu.
Later, live broadcasts on the Internet platform emerged, and Lu Shuming also joined the army of live broadcasting and was criticized for his poor skills and selling feelings under the banner of Guan Yu.
In fact, even if he interprets "Guan Gong" in a superb way, we cannot equate it with "Guan Gong". We cannot deify an actor, nor do we require an actor's words and deeds based on the standards of "god". After all, we have not stolen or robbed him, and it is not embarrassing to make a living by hard work.
Lu Shuming repeatedly emphasized that the role of "Guan Gong" will benefit him for the rest of his life, but he is really not "Guan Gong".
"Guan Gong" not only changed his destiny, but also made him forge a lifetime of friendship.
In 2018, Li Jingfei, the actor who played the "third brother" Zhang Fei in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", suffered a sudden stroke, leaving serious sequelae and no one took care of it.
When Lu Shuming learned about it, he was filled with emotion and posted on his circle of friends: "My brother, that year, peach blossoms were blooming, and he was in his prime and generous... After many years, he passed by... Now is the good time... but you are using crutches..."
As the "second brother", Lu Shuming immediately took the "third brother" into the nursing home. The subsequent treatment cost a lot. Lu Shuming ran around to raise money for the "third brother" and find a doctor.
Lu Shuming did a lot, but there were more details that outsiders didn't know.
● Li Jingfei in a wheelchair
"The rolling Yangtze River flows eastward, and the waves wash away the heroes." The hero is old and the beauty is old, which often makes people sigh.
"I don't seek to be so brilliant, but I just need to make some contribution to society." Lu Shuming said.
He left, but he at least left a vivid image of Guan Gong for the world, which lasts forever.
yunchang is gone! A pot of old wine becomes a sound, and the world has nothing to do with the clouds. Goodbye, beautiful bearded man! Text/Yu Ting
