Film artist Zhang Xin died, and well-known actors such as Zhang Fengyi and Zhang Tielin were trained

Beijing News (reporter Liu Yang) On March 15, the Beijing Film Academy released an obituary through the official platform that Zhang Xin, an associate professor of the school's former acting department, died of illness on March 14 at the age of 101. The farewell ceremony of Zhang Xin's body will be held at 10:00 on March 20 at the Plum Hall of Babaoshan Funeral Home.

Pictured is Zhang Xin, who was evaluated as an excellent film educator. The image comes from the Northern Shadow Obituary

"Teacher Zhang Xin is a loyal communist fighter and a fearless revolutionary." According to the obituary, Zhang Xin, formerly known as Zhang Ruishan, was born in Beijing on December 6, 1919, and was the first generation of teachers in the acting department of the Beijing Film Academy. She graduated from the Beiping Municipal No. 1 Girls' High School in 1937 and joined the National Liberation Vanguard in the same year; during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, she joined the "Peking Student Mobile Group" led by the underground Party of the Communist Party of China, and successively carried out anti-Japanese propaganda work in Lu, Henan, Jiangsu, Hubei and other places; and joined the Communist Party of China in 1938. In the winter of the same year, he went to Yan'an, entered the senior class of Shaanxi North Public School, and then studied at Yan'an Women's University, and became an actor in the Luyi Experimental Theater Troupe after being seconded to perform the drama "The Man with the Gun".

As the first generation of teachers of Beiying, Zhang Xin is an excellent film educator. In 1954, the former Soviet performing artist Bao Ma Kazansky came to the Beijing Film Academy to teach in the actors' special class, and the college assigned Zhang Xin and Xiao Long, Di Li, Ouyang Ruqiu, Shi Kuan and other teachers to assist Soviet experts and participate in teaching work. After graduating from the intensive course, she worked as an acting teacher and class teacher. In addition to teaching, she organized students to shoot film and television works such as "Lily" and "Marathon Wedding".

The Beijing News reporter learned that Zhang Xin is also an excellent film artist. After the founding of New China, she worked as an actress in the Beijing Film Studio with her second sister Zhang Ruifang. In 1950, he participated in the filming of the feature film "Gods and Ghosts", playing the aunt of the great god; in 1953, he played the female director in the film "Zhao Xiaolan". According to public reports, Zhang Fengyi, Zhang Tielin, Fang Shu, Shen Danping, Tang Guoqiang and Kou Zhenhai of the 78th class of the Beijing Film Academy are her students.

Beiying said that the whole school teachers, students and alumni expressed deep condolences for Zhang Xin's death. In her decades of teaching career, she has cultivated a large number of outstanding performing arts talents for the new Chinese film industry with her rigorous academic spirit and excellent artistic pursuit, and has done a lot of meticulous work in the ideological progress and business growth of young teachers, and has won the love and respect of teachers and students with noble teacher morality and excellent character.

Reporter Liu Yang Editor Miao Chenxia Proofreader Li Shihui

Source: Beijing News