Feng Gong

This is a Chinese name; the family name is Feng.

Feng Gong
Chinese name	馮鞏 (traditional)
Chinese name	冯巩 (simplified)
Pinyin	Féng Gǒng (Mandarin)
Origin	Xiangsheng performer
Born	1957 Tianjin, China
Occupation	Xiangsheng performer, actor, film director, and screenwriter

Feng Gong (simplified Chinese: 冯巩; traditional Chinese: 馮鞏; pinyin: Féng Gǒng; born 1957) is a Chinese actor, xiangsheng performer, film director, and screenwriter from Tianjin, China. He is the great grandson of Feng Guozhang, a statesman and warlord of China during the early 20th century. He graduated from Central China Normal University with a master's degree in Chinese Literature.

Biography

In 1973, he performed a famous xiangsheng named "zun shi ai tu di" (尊师爱徒弟) in Tianjin. Then he started to learn the arts of xiangsheng from the xiangsheng master Ma Ji. Feng is talented and smart than any other students so he became thexiang sheng new star at that time and got many chances to perform on the stage with celebrity. Niu Qun (牛群) and Liu Wei (刘伟) were his partners when performing xiangsheng.

Feng is very popular among Chinese people since 1988. He got 5 awards at the Spring Festival Gala in a row.

In 1988, he won the championship at the competition of xiangsheng performances in Dalian held under CCTV.

In 2000, Feng became one of the TV presenters to hold Spring Festival Gala.

Filmography

• Unprofessional Policeman (1987)
• Xiao Po Qing Wang (1987)
• The Contract of the Divorce (1990)
• Stand on (1992) - Poet reader
• Kiss Russia (1996)
• Surveillance (1997)
• Happy Times (1998)
• Eat Hot Tofu Slowly (2005)
• Getting Home (2007)
• A Simple Noodle Story (2009)
• Just Call Me Nobody (2010)
• The Founding of a Party (2011) - Feng Guozhang
• The Grandmasters (2012)

External links

• Feng Gong at the Internet Movie Database