On the Spring Festival Gala of 1996, Zhao Lirong played the role of an old lady who came to work from the countryside to the city in the sketch Working Adventures . She met the "black-hearted boss" Gong Hanlin . In the sketch, she said, "Palace Yuye wine, one hundred "Eight cups..." is still familiar to people.
In 2019, a netizen posted on Weibo, claiming to be from northern China, and spoke nonsense about the events in Hong Kong. He was full of principles and urged people to be tolerant and generous, but he never mentioned the actions of the troublemakers in Hong Kong.
A clever netizen quoted teacher Zhao Lirong’s classic lines to test his true identity. As a result, the netizen claimed that he was too old and did not understand the popular sayings of young people.
The police soon followed the clues and quickly figured out that the netizen was a northerner pretending to be a special person from abroad.
You can tell Li Kui and Li Gui with just one sentence: "palace jade liquor ". While netizens laughed at foreigners, they also couldn't help but recall the laughter that teacher Zhao Lirong brought to us.
She became associated with opera
Zhao Lirong was born in Baodi, Tianjin in 1928. As the eighth daughter of an old family, her parents loved her very much, which can be seen from her nickname "Lao Ai".
Her father is a costumer in the theater, and most of her brothers and sisters also work in the theater to make a living. It can be said that Lao Ai has been immersed in a strong atmosphere of opera since she was a child, which may have laid the foundation for her to embark on the path of folk art.
When Lao Ai was one year old, she guest-starred as "Cai Wazi" in the opera. She didn't cry or make trouble on stage, which was very popular with people in the theater. From then on, whenever there was a child's plot, Lao Ai would let Lao Ai Come and act.
Later, when I reached the age of going to school, I was addicted to drama and had no time to study. From time to time, I would play a few plays in school and always get a round of applause from my classmates.
Because she had no intention of studying and affected other people's studies, the school teacher asked Lao Ai's mother to take her back.
Lao Ai put down his schoolbag and devoted himself to opera. In 1940, through the introduction of his sister Furonghua , he officially became Ma Jingui as his teacher and changed his name to "Zhao Lirong".
Zhao Lirong pressed her fingerprints on the document as usual, kowtowed to the master three times, and also kowtowed to Furonghua and other apprentices in the same troupe as usual.
htmlAt the age of 115, Zhao Lirong appeared on stage as a protagonist for the first time. The song "Du Shiniang" started her Pingju opera career. As she gets older, after Zhao Lirong switched to Caidan , she collaborated with Xinfengxia in "Hua Wei Matchmaker ", which became even more well-known to people.
At that time, Zhao Lirong also had the opportunity to play Yang Xiangxiang, the protagonist of "Flower as Matchmaker", but she felt that her appearance and voice were not as good as Xin Fengxia, so she voluntarily gave up the role and played the supporting role of "Ruan Ma".
In 1987, 60-year-old Zhao Lirong stepped off the opera stage where she had stood for half her life. At that time, she did not know that the highlight of her life had not really begun yet, and that a brand new field would be waiting for her.
stepped off the stage and onto the Spring Festival Gala
At the end of 1987, Spring Festival Gala director Deng Zaijun paid a visit to Zhao Lirong and invited her to participate in the sketch "Emergency". Because the performance methods of Pingju opera and sketches were different, Zhao Lirong was a little worried, but after careful consideration, she agreed.
That year, Zhao Lirong, who was in her 60s, appeared on the Spring Festival Gala stage for the first time, starring in a sketch with You Benchang (the actor of "Living Buddha Jigong" Jigong ), and received unanimous praise.
At this point, Zhao Lirong started her career as a sketch queen.
The next year, Zhao Lirong appeared on the Spring Festival Gala again and co-starred with Hou Yaowen in the sketch "A Day in the Life of a Heroic Mother". In the
sketch, the simple mother who spoke Tangshan dialect and wanted to buy tofu was very popular among the audience, and the phrase "Sima's vat smashed the vat" has been passed down to this day.
In 1995, a female rapper singer named "MaLa Jeze" appeared in China and sang freestyle on the Spring Festival Gala.
danced to the music, and the stage atmosphere was like a DJ playing DJs, bringing a lot of warmth to the cold early spring.This ten-minute sketch made countless people realize what and are.
In the more than 20 years since then, this sketch has been replayed countless times by television stations. Children as young as five or six years old, as well as elderly people in their seventies or eighties, have laughed out loud at this rap, and it has become a memorable moment for countless people. Rap into DNA.
In order to learn tango dance steps, Zhao Lirong invited professional teachers to study hard.
Flowers bloom in the spring, fourteen fifty-six,
On June 6, I watch the valley show, and I shoot six or nine heads in the spring.
It’s so uncomfortable to be packaged like this.
I can’t open my mouth, and I can’t keep up with the walk.
You say it’s uncomfortable or not? Is it uncomfortable?
Many people remember the moment when Zhao Lirong knelt down at the end of the last dance step, her baggage shook loudly, making the audience laugh, but this part was not in the original script.
Long before taking the stage, Zhao Lirong was unable to walk normally due to bone hyperplasia in her knees. If she needed treatment, it would definitely affect the Spring Festival Gala, so Zhao Lirong insisted on going on stage. The female secretary who many people thought was redundant on the stage was Gong Hanlin who arranged to support her. From Zhao Lirong. After the
performance, Zhao Lirong was sent directly to the hospital.
At the end of "Working Adventures", Zhao Lirong had to write the four characters "genuine and genuine", which was simply too difficult for her who had only studied for a few days.
So Zhao Lirong copied these four big characters every day. Rice paper was reluctant to use them, so she used old newspapers, and that was how she came up with the vigorous and powerful big characters on the Spring Festival Gala.
made movies and won the Best Actress
In the two years of 1990 and 1991, Zhao Lirong did not appear on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala because she was filming the movie "New Year".
Looking at it now, this film brought together the top actors in the country at that time. Liuxiaolingtong, who has become popular with "Journey to the West", Li Baotian, who has not yet become prime minister Liu Luoguo, and Ge You, who will win the Cannes Best Actor in the future. When
was filming the scene of Li Baotian cupping Zhao Lirong, it was winter, and the temperature was more than 20 degrees below zero. The director asked for a stand-in to be used for filming, but Zhao Lirong insisted on appearing on stage herself, doing cupping shirtless.
After one scene, Zhao Lirong was frozen. After the filming of the film, she fell seriously ill and developed coughing and asthma.
In the end, Zhao Lirong successfully won the Popular Film Hundred Flowers Award and Tokyo International Film Festival Double Best Actress for her role as the mother in "Chinese New Year".
In July 2000, Zhao Lirong, who was suffering from lung cancer, passed away. Throughout her life, she brought so much joy and laughter to people. Many people thought she was an avant-garde old lady who sang modern songs and danced fashionable dance steps. But before that, she had been constantly learning.
Just like what Zhao Lirong wrote in "The Adventures of Working", she wants to bring a genuine tango performance to the audience, rather than just a few tricks.
Postscript
" I won't go, but you can represent us all by going. Say hello to me and Chairman Mao! My artistic skills are not enough, and I need more training... Besides, I am not very educated. , I can’t tell you what to say... ”
In the 1960s, the Pingju opera “Flower as Matchmaker” and “Xiao Erhei’s Marriage” in which Zhao Lirong participated were remade into movies.
After watching these films, Chairman Mao wanted to meet Xin Fengxia and other actors in person. After meeting Xin Fengxia, he suddenly asked: "Why is the Sanxiangu who has been following you not here? Where is she? "?"
The third fairy is Zhao Lirong, and Xin Fengxia told Zhao Lirong the truth. After hearing this, Chairman Mao sighed: " I didn't expect that this Sanxian Gu is still such a humble person. Good, good! Humility makes people progress! "
