Former CCTV personality Bi Fujian, who was banned for mocking Mao Zedong at a dinner party, has made few public appearances in more than five years. A video (click here) of him interacting with a blind singer has been making the rounds on the Internet. In the video, he sings with the singer while writing brushstrokes, and at the end he mocks himself by saying, “Lian Po is old, but he can still draw!”
This year, 61-year-old Bi Fujian, once hosted “Avenue of Stars”, “Dream Theater”, “May Day Seven Days” and other programs in CCTV, and became extremely popular.
In April 2015, Bi Fujian rapped an excerpt from the Chinese Communist Party’s “We are the sons and daughters of workers and peasants” from the Chinese Communist Party’s “Taking Weihu Mountain” at a dinner party, mocking it with emotion: “The Communist Party’s Mao Zedong” “can make us suffer!” When he got to the line “Down with the landlord”, he commented, “Hey, what did the landlord do to you?” After singing “Sweeping the Weihu Mountain”, he added, “Blow XX!” This led to laughter in the room.
After the video was secretly filmed by someone at the table and posted on the Internet, Bi Fujian was immediately attacked by the Maoist left and later qualified as a “serious violation of political discipline” by the Chinese Communist Party’s General Administration of Radio, Film and Television. He was forced to resign and leave CCTV in a climate of terror.
After his banning from CCTV, Bi Fujian has been living in seclusion, rarely appearing in public, and even his whereabouts were once a mystery, but news about him has been in the spotlight for more than five years.
In recent years, it is rumored that Bi Fujian loves painting and calligraphy, and rarely participates in official and large-scale activities of the host. In June last year, some netizens broke the news that on a stage in Vancouver, Canada, Bi Fujian, who has a somewhat fat body, picked up the microphone and looked radiant, making people see the “old Bi” who hosted “Avenue of Stars” in the past, hosting a seemingly popular program abroad, making many netizens concerned about whether he can make a comeback.
According to the land media Netease Entertainment, not long ago, Bi Fujian braved the rain in a fourth-tier city in Anhui Province for a commercial performance with a full audience and umbrellas.
Recently, a video of Bi Fujian painting and singing has been circulating on social media such as ShakeYin. The video shows Bi Fujian painting and singing “The Bent Moon” with Liu Sai, a blind female singer who became popular with “Avenue of Stars”.
When Bi Fujian finished singing, Liu Sai teased, “It would be good if grandpa was younger, we can both sing more fashionable songs.” While talking, Bi Fujian for their own painting of an old loofah to fall, stamped.
At this time, Bi Fujian’s painter friend Zhang Hanzhong, commenting on Bi Fujian’s “old loofah”, said, “When the loofah was young, it could be fried and boiled in soup, and when it was old, it could also be used to brush pots and wash dishes.”
Bi Fujian laughed heartily when he heard it and lamented, “Lian Po is old, but he can still paint!”
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