Ma Dehua
马德华
Dehua onStar Reunion in 2014.
Born	(1945-08-11)11 August 1945 (age 79) Peking,China
Alma mater	China National Peking Opera Company
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1982-present
Spouse	Hou Yumin ​ (m. 1972)​
Children	1
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	馬德華
Simplified Chinese	马德华
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Mǎ Déhuá

Ma Dehua (Chinese:马德华; born 11 August 1945) is a Chinese actor best known for his role asZhu Bajie in the 1986 television seriesJourney to the West.^[1][2][3]

Ma was born in a family of merchants inBeijing on 11 August 1945, with hisancestral home inWucheng County,Shandong, he is ofHui people ethnicity, he is the third child of four children.^[4]

Ma aspired to act from an early age. At the age of 5, Ma started to studiedChinese martial arts.^{[citation needed]}

Ma studied at theHigh School Affiliated to Minzu University of China. Ma entered theChina National Peking Opera Company by age 14, he learnedKunqu opera andBeijing opera there. After finished, Ma worked in the Northern Kunqu Opera Theater as an actor.^{[citation needed]}

During theCultural Revolution, Ma acted inShajiabang,Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy andDujuan Mountain.^{[citation needed]}

In early 1982, Director Yang Jie invited Ma to actZhu Bajie inJourney to the West, by the age of 37.^[5][6] The series was one of the most watched ones in mainland China in that year.

Ma retired in 1999, at the age of 54.

In 2007, Ma starred oppositeLiu Xiao Ling Tong,Chi Zhongrui,Liu Dagang inWu Cheng'en and Journey to the West.

Ma married worker Hou Yumin (侯玉敏) in October 1972, they have a son, Ma Yang (马洋; born 1973).^[7]

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