Beijing, December 14 (Reporter Shangguan Yun) Mention the famous performance artist Huang Zongying, people may think of "Sweet Sister", or Cousin Mei in "Home". She is a star on stage and an excellent reportage writer.
But now, she's forever gone from her audience and readers. According to a number of media reports, Huang Zongying, a famous writer and performance artist who won the Lifetime Achievement Award of the 7th Shanghai Literature and Art Award, died at 3 a.m. on December 14.
Become a shining star
Huang Zongying was born in 1925 and has loved literature and art since childhood. She has two older brothers, two older sisters, two younger brothers, seven brothers and sisters, and the eldest brother Huang Zongjiang has the greatest influence on Huang Zongying.
Huang Zongying. The picture is quoted from the "Huang Zong English Collection", published by Haitian Publishing House
When Huang Zongjiang was studying at Yenching University, he gave up his degree and went south to Shanghai to become a drama actor. Later, 16-year-old Huang Zongying came to Shanghai alone to join his eldest brother Huang Zongjiang and entered the Shanghai Professional Theater Troupe as an intern.
By chance, she also stepped onto the drama stage. Huang Zongying once recalled that there was an actress who wanted to get married and let herself play on her behalf, "It was time for me to play that day, I forgot to write down, the stage supervisor pushed me up, I didn't know that the stage was so bright, the footlights were so bright, and there was a big black hole at the bottom." ”
"My role is Torah, and I started to spit on Sarai and was dragged down. At this time, I thought to myself that it was really bad, probably the troupe would not want me, and the whole play was mixed up by me. Later, Huang Zuolin stood next to me and said, 'Zong Ying, I will pay you back tomorrow', and I am very happy. She said.
Since then, with her outstanding performance in the drama "Sweet Sister", Huang Zongying has become a dazzling stage star all over Shanghai, and "Sweet Sister" has also become synonymous with her.
In 1946, she starred in her first film "Chase", and then played important roles in "Rhapsody of Happiness", "Beauty Walk", "The Crow and the Sparrow" and other films. In addition, Huang Zongying also starred in the film "Home", adapted from Ba Jin's famous book, playing Mei's cousin in the film.
A good writer
Star status aside, Huang Zongying is also an excellent writer.
After the 1950s, Huang Zongying, as an actor, gradually faded out of the film world. According to public reports, after 1965, she specialized in literary creation, and made special achievements in reportage, creating works such as "Wild Goose Love", "Beautiful Eyes", "Orange", "Log Cabin" and so on. The first three have earned her three consecutive Chinese Outstanding Reportage Awards.
The English Collection of Huang Zong. Published by Haitian Press
In addition, she also co-authored the reportage collection "For You, My Motherland" with Xu Chi and Xiao Fuxing, co-authored the reportage collection "A Generation of Tianjiao" with Ding Ling, and published the prose collection "Half Mountain, Half Water, Half Book Window" and "Xiao Jun".
Her literary achievements are more than that. In terms of prose essays, she co-authored the prose collections "Selling Art Huang Jia" and "Selling Artists' Homes" with Huang Zongjiang and Huang Zongluo, and also created the essay collections "So I Am Still" and "Zen Meditation on Aging".
In 2016, Huang Zongying, who was already 91 years old, published the "Huang Zong English Collection". The anthology is divided into 4 volumes, "Survival of the World" is a close-up of the past of relatives and friends; "Little Girl Carrying the Banner" is a reportage, film script, poetry, TV script, etc.; "I Am Blatantly Old" is a collection of essays; "Pure Love" is a selection of love letters from Huang Zongying and Feng Yidai.
In 2019, she won the Lifetime Achievement Award of the 7th Shanghai Literature and Art Award. It can be said that Huang Zongying's artistic career has crossed the boundaries of stage, film and literature.
"She values literature more"
As the editor of the Huang Zong English Collection, Li Hui met huang Zongying many times. In his opinion, Huang Zongying always put surprises in front of people.
"She is a movie star, but she looks down on the dazzling star, but pays more attention to literary creation." From poetry, screenplay, reportage to prose, she is a representative of the successful transition from the world of acting to the world of literature. Li Hui told the China News Network reporter.
Regarding Huang Zongying's achievements in literature, Li Hui felt that her reportage "Log Cabin" and her writing of reminiscences of relatives and friends such as Zhao Dan and Shangguan Yunzhu were masterpieces. Huang Zongying and Feng Yidai's dusk love based on pure love, but with the book "Pure Love", left a good story.
Huang Zongying. The picture is quoted from "Pure Love", published by Haitian Publishing House
Indeed, Huang Zongying has always loved reading and writing. Previously, during his hospitalization in Shanghai, Huang Zongying, who was over eighty years old, recited poems every day, insisted on writing a diary, writing essays of different lengths, and named these short articles "Hundred Clothes".
Huang Zongying, who went from the stage and the screen to the field of literature, has actually been living in a scene designed for himself. Li Hui also described it in an article, "A long life is like a drama scene after another." She's a screenwriter, she's a director, she's an actress. Live in it, revel in it, feel it. (End)
Source: China News Network