Zhang Yimou was famous for directing art films in his early years. He was the only director who could win all the major awards in Venice Film Festival within ten years. After 2002, the commercial films "Hero" and "House of Flying Daggers" directed by the transformation set the box office record of Chinese movies twice and won the annual Chinese box office championship four times.

Zhang Yimou's family

Zhang Yimou's name was given by his father. It was originally Zhang Yimou. I hope his children will achieve something in the future. Zhang Yimou's ancestral home is Lintong, Shaanxi, and his family is a big family in Shi Tian Town, Lintong City in the late Qing Dynasty. In the early Republic of China, after graduating from yenching university, my grandfather served as the county magistrate of Zhashui County, Shaanxi Province. Zhang Yimou's father, Zhang Bingjun, worked as a Kuomintang quartermaster and worked in Shaanxi Agriculture and Forestry Bureau after liberation.

1949 On the eve of the liberation of Xi 'an, 29-year-old Zhang Bingjun married 19-year-old female student Zhang Xiaoyou who was studying in Xi 'an missionary school. Zhang Yimou's mother is a doctor in the Second Affiliated Hospital of Xi Jiaotong University. Zhang Yimou was born in 1950. Zhang Yimou has two younger brothers, Zhang Mou Wei and Zhang Qimou.