In his sixties, he became a "hero" and planted a father, son, and hero for his whole life

Wearing a battle robe and a long sword, with a cold and stern face and a resolute expression.

This "Jianghu Xiake" is named Zhang Yifang, 67 years old this year. He is an authentic northwest farmer, and "Sanxi Grandpa" is his more well-known name.

Without magnificent stages and dazzling lighting, these videos shot by Zhang Yifang's son as his father have become popular on the internet in just a few months, and "Grandpa Three Happiness" has attracted hundreds of thousands of fans. Even a netizen left a message asking him, "Daxia, do you still lack a younger brother?" Grandpa Sanxi replied in seconds, "Yes."

How did Zhang Yifang become a "hero"? What kind of story is behind it?

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An unintentional shooting

Qingsi Village, Datong Town, Yongdeng County, Lanzhou City, Gansu Province, is the place where Zhang Yifang has lived for a lifetime. Because his nickname is Sanxi, the villagers call him "Sanxi Ye".

Zhang Yifang loves to perform. "As soon as I step onto the stage, the music plays, and I dance to it. The more people I watch, the more I get excited." Every day in the village, as long as Grandpa Sanxi stands on stage, this place will instantly become his home ground.

In recent years, Zhang Yifang's four children have been settling down in the city one after another, and her husband has also come to the city to help her son take care of his grandson. The children want to take the old man to live in the city for a long time, but he is always not used to it. In the morning, he was taken into the city, and at night, he ran back to the countryside by bus alone, leaving no one to stop him.

Once, Zhang Yifang went to the field to harvest wheat, and his son Zhang Jianzong accidentally took a photo of his father eating watermelon. Facing the camera, the old man showed a simple smile. Zhang Jianzong shared his photos on social media and received four to five thousand likes.

The father I accidentally captured had a fire set on, and more importantly, he was also very happy. So, from the fields to the fragrant harvest of wheat and rice, Zhang Jianzong decided to take pictures all the way.

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Father and Son's Dream Fulfilling Journey

At the height of her popularity, Zhang Yifang made a request to her son: why not take the beautiful hometown as the background and let him play the role of a Northwest hero who wields a sword and walks the rivers and lakes?

Zhang Jianzong was well aware that his father had always had a hero's dream in his heart - he loved watching movies, especially martial arts films, but at that time his family couldn't afford to buy DVDs, and there were no cinemas in the town or county. Every night after dinner, his father always urged him to finish his homework quickly, and then took him to the neighbor's house to watch martial arts movies.

My father worked hard all his life to support his four children by farming, enabling them to realize their dreams; Now, Zhang Jianzong also wants to help his father achieve his chivalrous dream.

However, during the filming process, the father and son often had minor conflicts due to different ideas.

My son hopes that his father can take some cool, natural, tall and powerful photos, but Zhang Yifang wants to take some funny and ugly photos, just to make them enjoy themselves. Ji Gong is his favorite character image. Ten years ago, he played the role of Duke Ji in a performance in the village. Playing the role of Duke Ji again has always been Zhang Yifang's wish.

However, Zhang Jianzong was worried that his father's imitation video would be compared with that of an old artist by netizens. If he encountered negative voices, he was afraid that it would affect his father's emotions.

To his surprise, the video received recognition and praise from many netizens. Another netizen wrote a poem for the old man: "In the desert, the solitary smoke reveals the blue sky, and the sound of camel bells reveals the presence of a hero. When asked where the swordsman is going, the third master wields his sword and walks through the Western Pass."

The continuous popularity of the video not only gave Zhang Yifang more confidence, but also made the father and son more familiar and close to each other. "If we hadn't filmed a short video for our father, we would have visited the old man regularly like other children. The old man would have returned to the city regularly to take care of his grandson. But now it's different. He has something he wants to do, and he's happy," said Zhang Jianzong.

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Northwest "Xiake", endorsing his hometown

While enjoying the current beautiful life, Zhang Yifang is also thinking about what she can do for the village and villagers?

It is understood that Yongdeng County, where Zhang Yifang is located, is located in the northwest suburbs of Lanzhou City, bordering Qinghai to the southwest and Ningxia and Inner Mongolia to the north. It is the gateway of the ancient Silk Road. Zhang Yifang has a wish to let netizens learn through short videos that the northwest is not as poor and barren as people imagine. There are historical sites, a paradise, and their eternal spiritual home here.

On the National Day of 2021, Zhang Yifang disguised herself to showcase the living conditions of farmers over the past 72 years and the happy and beautiful scenery of the new countryside.

With more and more times of accompanying his father back to his hometown, Zhang Jianzong felt that he was more and more attached to his hometown.

In Zhang Jianzong's impression, when he was a child, his buttocks froze when he went to the bathroom, and there was dust everywhere. He couldn't finish farming, he couldn't finish farming... Now that he returned to the countryside, he had already changed his appearance. The village is as prosperous and convenient as the city; Neighbors are as close as one family, greeting each other and chatting in local dialect... More importantly, here, Zhang Jianzong can accompany his father to slowly feel the joy of life.

Once upon a time, a father took his son to watch martial arts movies. Now, my son has fulfilled his father's martial arts dream and gained such a harmonious father son relationship through filming short videos. In the dreams of martial arts, heroes emerge one after another, and in the new era, there is a variety of excitement. May everyone in this hot land, like Grandpa Sanxi, interpret their own legendary era.

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