From "waiter" to "concubine", what has Li Yugang experienced in the 20 years of being insulted?

In the CCTV Spring Festival Gala in 2010, Li Yugang showed his charming tone and charming figure to the people of the country with this song "The New Drunken Concubine". In fact, before the Spring Festival Gala became popular, Li Yugang also entered our field of vision with the grassroots talent show "Avenue of Stars". From "Waiter" to "Concubine"

Li Yugang's family is not wealthy, because his parents are ordinary farmers, and he also has an older brother and an older sister. His parents have tried their best just so that their three children can go to school.

The winter morning in Jilin is bitterly cold and pitch black, but Li Yugang’s mother gets up early every day to go to the morning market. It's not to buy breakfast for the children, but to sell the eggs saved at home and convert them into money to pay for the children's tuition. Because Li Yu was the youngest child in the family, his mother sometimes boiled unsold eggs for Li Yugang to eat. His brothers and sisters are also very sensible. When his brother eats eggs, they put the egg skins in their mouths to taste.

At that time, Li Yugang was the hope of the whole family. His health and achievements affected the nerves of everyone in the family. Fortunately, Li Yugang was very ambitious. In 1996, he was admitted to the Jilin Provincial Art Institute's literary and artistic directing major with excellent results. At that time, Li Yugang was holding the admission notice, his eyes were hot, his lips were trembling, and all he could think about was what he would look like when he entered the campus. But Li Yugang's parents looked solemn outside the house because their family couldn't afford his tuition, but they were too embarrassed to tell Li Yugang this cruel fact. In the end, the sensible Li Yugang discovered his parents' difficulties, and after studying for a year, he offered to go out to work to relieve his parents' pressure.

Entering the society and starting a singing career. Faced with his parents’ guilty looks on him, Li Yugang decided to enter the society immediately to earn money to support his family. So in 1997, Li Yugang went to the big city Changchun alone with 200 yuan. The colorful world outside is very attractive, but all this prosperity does not belong to this young boy. Li Yugang could only start from the bottom, washing dishes, carrying plates, and serving food. Li Yugang practiced very quickly in those years. Later, because Li Yugang was young and energetic, he was unwilling to remain a waiter, so he used all his savings to open a housekeeping company with his friends. Because they had no connections or experience, the two of them lost everything.

With nothing, Li Yugang had to start all over again. He found that he was still interested in singing, so he bought a tape recorder and started studying singing. At that time, in order to become an all-round singer, he had a thorough understanding of male and female vocals, pop and opera singing. By chance, the actress who sang "For Whom" with him was late due to other matters, and Li Yugang could only sing two roles by herself. Li Yugang's heart was beating wildly when he came on stage. When he sang, he was so nervous that he couldn't even hear his own voice. But when he finished singing the curtain call, he won applause and cheers from the audience. During the 20 years of being reviled

Entering the entertainment industry, he was reviled. At this time, Li Yu just knew that he could sing well with male and female voices, so at the suggestion of a friend, he decided to participate in "Avenue of Stars". Therefore, it was on the 2006 "Avenue of Stars" that we saw the graceful and graceful "The Drunken Concubine". Later, Li Yugang won third place in the country.

Li Yugang not only became a guest of the Spring Festival Gala, but also went to the Sydney Opera House to hold a solo concert. In addition, Li Yugang also became a national first-class actor at the China Opera and Dance Theater. Although he has many honors, Li Yugang's "men disguised as women" has always been criticized.

Some people with feudal thinking think that Li Yugang's "cross-dressing" is neither fish nor fowl, neither male nor female, and it is difficult for such a person to be refined. Li Yugang only felt sad when he heard these words, but some people often asked his parents directly: "Why don't you take care of your son? If you continue like this, will he be able to marry a wife in the future?"

Facing doubts from others, although Li Yugang’s family understood that he was doing it for art, they still endured a lot of rumors. Until the death of his father and sister, they all continued to explain to others that this was an artistic technique that Li Yugang never tired of explaining. Now that his sister and father have left within a year, Li Yugang is so heartbroken that he can't breathe. But what he can do is to settle the rest of his mother's life in accordance with the last wishes of his father and sister.

There was a conflict between Li Yugang and Anita Mui's descendants

In 2006, when Li Yugang participated in "Avenue of Stars", a group of relatives and friends put up the slogan "There is Mei Lanfang before me, there is Li Yugang behind" in order to cheer him on. . As Li Yugang became more and more popular, Mr. Mei Baojiu, the son of Mr. Mei Lanfang, found out about this matter. Mr. Mei Baojiu thought that Li Yugang was using his father to hype up his behavior, so he was very unhappy with Li Yugang.

Later, Li Yugang met Mr. Mei Baojiu in a program, but at that time Li Yugang said the wrong thing. At that time, Li Yugang spoke directly and said: "On behalf of the broad masses of Mei School of art, I would like to express my gratitude to the people across the country." This sentence directly angered Mr. Mei Baojiu. The conflict between the two parties remained unresolved until Mr. Mei Baojiu's death in 2016.

Regarding the conflict between the two parties, some people say that Mr. Mei Baojiu is right, because Li Yugang is self-taught and has nothing to do with the Mei School. Some people also say that Li Yugang promoted Chinese opera culture to the whole world by innovating the old and bringing forth the new.