Is Zhang Guoli dubbing Golden Wedding? Why does he speak Sichuan dialect?

The character of Zhang Guoli in the play is dubbed by Zhang Guoli himself. The character Tong Zhi is from Chongqing, so he speaks Sichuan dialect.

Zhang Guoli himself speaks Sichuan very well, and his wife Deng Jie is from Sichuan.

"Golden Wedding" is a family ethics drama directed by Zheng Xiaolong, written by Wang Wanping, and starring Jiang Wenli and Zhang Guoli. It tells the story of the marriage life of Wen Li, a young and beautiful elementary school mathematics teacher, and Tong Zhi, a technician at a heavy machinery factory. The drama won many awards including the Magnolia Award for Best TV Series at the 14th Shanghai TV Festival and the Feitian Award for Chinese TV Series at the 27th China TV Series.

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Plot summary

The story of this drama begins in 1956, when New China was in full swing. The young and beautiful elementary school mathematics teacher Wen Li and the heavy machinery factory Tong Zhi, a young pacesetter technician, got married. When they were young, they were a pair of happy enemies. Their personalities and living habits were incompatible with each other. They became parents early and gave birth to four children in succession in order to have a son.

Conflicts abound in married life, from food, clothing, housing and transportation to children’s education to the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law and then to sexual relations. In middle age, they entered a period of marital exhaustion. There was less and less communication between husband and wife, and they often fell into more dangerous cold wars. The relationship between husband and wife went from indifference to cold war to fighting, and the marriage seemed to have come to an end.

In their old age, they entered a period of stable marriage. Wen Li got seriously ill and was hovering on the line between life and death; the three daughters' emotional marriages were not smooth, and their favorite only son died young. They cared for each other. Help and support them through the darkest years of life, and finally enter the golden wedding hand in hand.

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