#zhang yishan

[sunriseverse]

the zhang founding twins! left is the elder sister, zhang yihai, and right is the younger brother, zhang yishan.

relevant names/titles:

张一海 - zhāng yīhǎi

张大宗主 (zhāng dà zōngzhǔ) - eldest master zhang

锷女士 (è nǚshī) - lady of the blade, lady above

张起灵 (zhāng qǐlíng) - zhang who carries ashes

张一山 - zhāng yīshān

张二宗主 (zhāng èr-zōngzhǔ) - second master zhang

馥郁君 (fùyù-jūn) - the lord of fragrant flowers

[paranasloc]

春风十里不如你

[the-monkey-ruler]

Prequel of the Monkey King (2009) 齐天大圣前传

Director: Liang Hansen Screenwriter: Liang Hansen / Li Weilong Starring: He Jiong / Zhang Yishan / Wang Hantao / Li Yang / Lu Nuo / Xie Na Genre: Drama / Comedy / Fantasy / Adventure Country/Region of Production: Mainland China Language: Mandarin Chinese Date: 2009-09-29 Also known as: Monkey King - Prequel / Prequel of the Monkey King Type: Retelling

Summary:

Sun Wukong (voiced by He Jiong) has no father or mother. He is a monkey that jumped out of the stone. With his extraordinary courage and wisdom, Sun Wukong quickly found a place for himself among the monkeys and became the Monkey King leading the monkeys in one fell swoop. However, after witnessing the death of an old monkey, Sun Wukong began to doubt his own existence and significance, and he decided to embark on a journey to find a way to make himself immortal.

Sun Wukong met Patriarch Bodhi and became his disciple. After going through many difficulties and dangers, he finally achieved enlightenment. After that, he came to the East China Sea Dragon Palace and turned the Dinghai Divine Needle into his handy weapon, the Golden Cudgel, and thus mastered powerful power. An accident caused Sun Wukong to break into the underworld by mistake, get the book of life and death from the Lord of Hell, and thus gain eternal life

Source: https://chinesemov.com/2009/Prequel-of-the-Monkey-King

Link: https://www.bilibili.com/s/video/BV1wt411L74u

[chineseredcarpet]

Zhang Yishan for the 6th Hainan Island International Film Festival closing ceremony

[cfensi]

Promo Round-up: Inside Man #潘粤明 #张一山 Inside Man is a Republican espionage drama starring Pan Yueming and Zhang Yishan as brothers who work for different governments. The 45 episode drama airs daily.

[dramasauce]

A Seven Faced Man (2017)

[shenmeizhuang-blog]

Bonus: 

And also her front teeth are slightly smaller.

—when you simultaneously want him to disappear off the face of the Earth and be with you

[aubreyge]

same

[movielosophy]

[motmatlemo]

Trustworthy data

Top 100 Forbes Chinese celebrities 2019/2020

#1 Jackson Yee (Yiyang Qianxi)

#2 Xu Zheng

#3 Zhou Dongyu

#4 Jay Chou

#5 Lay Zhang (Zhang Yixing)

#6 Yang Mi

#7 Zanilia Zhao (Zhao Liying) - co-star

#8 Kris Wu (Wu Yifan)

#9 Wang Yibo +62

Singer, actor, dancer, motorcycle racer

In “Being A Hero” Wang Yibo will also take on the main lead, who is a police force member who overseas the fight against drug trafficking. However, in daily life, he remains the shy and adorable boy who loves racing and dancing very passionately.

#10 Karry Wang (Wang Junkai)

#11 Dilraba Dilmurat

#12 Zhu Yilong

#13 Yang Zi

#14 Victoria Song (Song Qian) - co-star

#15 Lu Han

#16 Angelababy

#17 Hua Chenyu

#18 Turbo Liu (Liu Haoran)

#19 Li Xian

#20 Li Jiaqi

#21 Tamia Liu (Liu Tao)

#22 Jiao Zi (Yu Yang)

#23 Wu Jing

#24 Hu Ge

#25 Sun Li (Susan Sun)

#26 Wang Kai

#27 Zhang Weili

#28 Shen Teng

#29 Liu Shishi

#30 Crystal Liu (Liu Yifei)

#31 Cai Xukun

#32 Zhang Ruoyun

#33 Roy Wang (Wang Yuan)

#34 Deng Lun

#35 Jing Boran

#36 Johnny Huang (Huang Jingyu)

#37 Z.TAO (Huang Zitao)

#38 Viya (Wei Ya)

#39 Li Yuchun

#40 William Chan

#41 Jackson Wang (Wang Jiaer)

#42 Zhou Shen (Charlie Zhou)

#43 Li Yifeng

#44 Yang Yang

#45 Song Weilong

#46 Zhou Zhennan

#47 Leo Wu (Wu Lei)

#48 Huang Xuan - co-star

#49 Zhang Yishan

#50 Luo Jin

#51 Tiffany Tang (Tang Yan)

#52 Huang Bo

#53 He Jiong

#54 Louis Koo (Koo Tin Lok)

#55 Tong Liya

#56 Wei Daxun

#57 Wu Lei (soccer player)

#58 Donnie Yen

#59 Li Ronghao

#60 Sandra Ma (Ma Sichun)

#61 Lei Jiayin

#62 Xiao Yang

#63 Jin Dong

#64 Pan Yueming

#65 Zhou Xun - co-star

#66 Liu Wen

#67 Peng Yuchang

#68 Bai Yu

#69 Greg Hsu (Greg Han)

#70 Ni Ni

#71 Gabrielle Guan (Guan Xiaotong)

#72 Li Qin

#73 Ouyang Nana

#74 Jessie Li (Chun Xia)

#75 Xie Na

#76 Huang Xiaoming

#77 Zhang Jiayi

#78 Zhang Ziyi

#79 Mao Buyi

#80 Yang Chaoyue

#81 Zhang Zifeng

#82 Zheng Shuang

#83 Arthur Chen (Chen Feiyu)

#84 Ju Jingyi

#85 Jason Zhang (Zhang Jie)

#86 Elaine Zhong (Zhong Chuxi)

#87 Qin Hao

#88 Lang Lang

#89 Li Chen

#90 Andy Lau

#91 Jackie Chan

#92 Sally Jing (Jing Tian)

#93 Jia Ling

#94 Eddie Peng

#95 Aaron Kwok

#96 Wang Baoqiang

#97 Deng Chao

#98 Regina Wan (Wan Qian)

#99 Guo Qilin

#100 Bai Jingting

[sunriseverse]

problem: i want to work on sunrise but not jeopardise my momentum on distant stars.

solution: draw the zhang siblings who started the zhang sect.

[paranasloc]

I just finished watching 春风十里不如你 earlier today and when I tell you it is one of the best cdramas I’ve ever had the privilege to watch

The writing isn’t anywhere near perfect and it’s so SO 狗血 (in the words of the main male lead, “这真的是比���剧还戏剧”), but it has depth, unlike a big portion of 偶像剧 these days. Maybe I just haven’t watched enough cdramas to make a good assessment but that’s my opinion

And when I tell you the acting is so bomb...zhang yishan and zhou dongyu are truly two of the best post-90 actors. I will die on this hill. The supporting cast were also good, but especially zhou shuai and fang chuan

SPOILER BELOW between the two dots so skip this part if you haven’t watched the show

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Not more than watching the main leads, but I felt just as sad about the story of xiaoyu and daijiaoguan. It says at the end that she married an officer but they didn’t name the officer so we can only imagine and hope. I wouldn’t mind a spin-off where they show that it was daijiaoguan...

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I wish there were more cdramas like this one. Again it’s far from perfect but I learned and cried and laughed while watching. I saw a couple of comments on YouTube and I couldn’t agree more. 对许多人来说，青春就是一场遗憾，一去不复返，而生活就是各种错过、迷茫、一些说不清的坚持。

[skullsandwineglasses]

Yang Zi and Deng Lun

So I’ve been having a hard time trying to move on from Ashes of Love, and what I’ve been curious about is the lack of IRL interactions between Yang Zi and Deng Lun despite them being long-time collaborators, if not friends. They both participated in a lot of variety shows, just never together.

They’ve only appeared together publicly on 5 occasions (or at least 5 that I’ve seen): on Happy Camp in 2013 to promote Flowers in Fog, at 2 award shows, at an event to promote Ode to Joy 2 (though their interactions were minimal to none), and at a 2018 Oppo event. 

I’ve been wondering why they didn’t do any promo events for AOL, or why they never sang a duet together on stage. 

I then did some digging (using my limited literacy in Chinese) and came across the infamous instagram incident in September 2018 just after AOL finished airing, which caused fan wars that have persisted til this day. People are questioning how genuine their “friendship” really is, and their fans apparently hate each other, which makes it hard for them to even be in the same room together without being mercilessly harassed online. 

The incident didn’t seem to leave any hard feelings between them though, since they seemed to be friendly and cordial enough at the Weibo awards in early 2019 (with Deng Lun even coming up to Yang Zi’s seat to playfully flip her dress to get her attention and then sit next to her), and they spoke fondly of each other in separate interviews later that year too, but their fans can’t seem to let the incident go. And being two of the biggest stars in China, the longevity of their fame depends on them being able to read the room, which in this case is their respective fanbases. 

This also makes me believe that we’re not going to see them in another drama together any time soon. I’d love to be proven wrong about this, but based on the circumstances, I don’t know if they’d think that another collaboration is a good career move for them. 

1. The first reason is an obvious one. Their next collaboration is unlikely to match the success of AOL. AOL is kind of like a one-hit-wonder. You usually only have that kind of runaway success once (unless you’re Yang Mi or Zhao Liying). I don’t see them being in another fantasy drama, since people would be making too many comparisons. They would have to do something different that they haven’t done before (kind of like Tang Yan and Luo Jin who have collaborated 5 times, and each time their roles and relationships were completely different). 

2. I don’t see Deng Lun repeating co-stars (besides the fact that he collaborated with YZ twice already). He’s already spending this year focusing on variety shows, which means that his next drama isn’t going to be out in a while (depending on when he even decides to take on a new project). So, his body of work is already quite limited, meaning that he probably wouldn’t want it dominated by a single co-star. He also pairs up with the biggest actresses trending at the time (e.g., Sun Yi, Dilireba, Zhao Liying, Ma Sichun, etc) so I think he’ll continue this pattern and pair up with whichever rising actress has the public favour 2 or so years from now. (Unpopular opinion: That is, if he is still in demand 2 years from now. “Fresh meat” actors usually don’t stay in the spotlight for very long. They shine hella bright, but also burnout hella fast. They’re not very sustainable tbh. Lin Gengxin was similarly in a ton of variety shows when he peaked, and now I barely hear anything about him. Their staying power is fleeting. Also, while variety shows might keep you relevant in the short term, they’re not as memorable as dramas). 

3. I also don’t know if Yang Zi would repeat co-stars. It seems like she’s aiming to have at least one hit drama a year, so I would imagine that she would be more picky about her projects. But at the same time, I feel like she would be more open than DL to have another collaboration with him (though since we aren’t them, we can never know what they think). She usually takes on several dramas a year, so I would imagine that she wouldn’t mind having a repeat collaboration since she already has enough other projects to diversify her portfolio. 

4. As much as Deng Lun says that he admires YZ and acknowledges her hand in his success, I also don’t know if he wants to depend on her to keep his career alive (I imagine that his fans probably want to crucify me for saying this, but good thing that no one reads rants on tumblr). In both of his collaborations with YZ, it transformed his career and gave him a huge boost in popularity. So he probably wants to avoid that association. Don’t get me wrong, I think he’s a good actor and has a ton of potential (way better than other “fresh meat” actors before him), but I feel like he’s currently being pigeon-holed as an “idol” actor. And with a lack of notable acting projects in the near future, it’s a little concerning). He needs to take on more challenging and meaningful roles, like slice of life dramas, or smart historical/political dramas. He needs to diversify.

5. Top Billing. Yang Zi got top billing in Ashes of Love because she was more popular at the time, was signed first, and was the one who recommended DL for the role in the first place. But now that they rival each other in popularity, I don’t know whom top billing would go to. After seeing how heated fans got when debating who should get top billing for Love Designer and next year’s The Golden Hairpin, I feel like studios and producers would be wary of casting 2 mega A-list actors. 

That isn’t to say all hope of another collaboration is lost. They were recently in a pepsi commercial together (although it doesn’t look like they shot it together), but their faces appear next to each other on advertising posters, meaning that their partnering still has marketing value. 

I love them both, and I’m just trying to pull myself out of this rabbit hole and distance myself from them by facing the music and the reality of their professional relationship in order to tear myself away from their characters in AOL. 

I could go on another rant about how Deng Lun is nothing like Xufeng, and how Yang Zi’s interaction with Deng Lun seems to be mostly on a professional level, especially when you compare it with her unfiltered interactions with her childhood BFF Zhang Yishan and her shy interactions with her ex-BF Qin Jun Jie, but that’s another controversial rant that I won’t get into here. 

Thoughts, corrections, and addition input are welcome, thanks. 

[cfensi]

Pan Yueming, Zhang Yishan play brothers in Inside Man

Pan Yueming, Zhang Yishan play brothers in Inside Man

Inside Man 局中人 fits the typical spy drama mold of brothers who find themselves on opposing sides – younger brother Shen Fang (Zhang Yishan) returns a war hero, though older brother Shen Lin (Pan Yueming), a top-ranking Kuomintang official, suspects that his true loyalties lie elsewhere. (more…)

[shenmeizhuang-blog]

“我的骨头都酥了。”