Huang Zongying in his youth (infographic)
In the early morning of December 14, the famous performance artist and writer Huang Zongying died at the age of 95.
Born in Beijing on July 13, 1925, Huang Zongying thought of being a nurse and a teacher when she was a child, but she never wanted to be an actress.
Enter the industry
In the troupe to save the scene "Metamorphosis" thus stepped onto the theatrical stage
Huang Zongying recalled before his death that because he worshipped his eldest brother Huang Zongjiang when he was a child, he was deeply influenced by him. Therefore, in 1941, the eldest brother wrote to him that the Shanghai theater troupe had just been established, and it was precisely on the occasion of employing people that Huang Zongying did not hesitate to leave for Shanghai. In the Shanghai Professional Theater Troupe hosted by Huang Zuolin, he helped with the pipes and equipment, and usually rehearsed with the actors.
Once, the troupe performed Cao Yu's "Metamorphosis", an actress was absent for no reason, and Huang Zongying was temporarily asked to play. She recalled that she was very panicked backstage, suddenly could not remember when she should be on the stage, just when she was panicked, she did not know who pushed it, and Huang Zongying came to the stage. The lights on the stage were very bright, and she couldn't even see the big brother on the stage, let alone the audience under the stage. The panicked Huang Zongying recited his own lines hard, "The stage is very chaotic, dragging me to the ground, I stomped my shoes and fell off, backstage, the egg fried rice I called before was also cold." Huang Zongying, who felt that he had messed up, was very frustrated, but he did not expect that after the play was over, Huang Zuolin said to her, "Little sister, I will pay you back tomorrow." ”
In this way, 16-year-old Huang Zongying was "fixed for life" and thus stepped onto the stage of drama. In 1942, "Sweet Sister" made Huang Zongying red on the beach and is still known as "Sweet Sister".
Bonded with the movie, I have a deep affection for "The Crow and the Sparrow"
In 1946, Huang Zongying acted in his first film, Shen Fu's "Chase", playing a big lady of a comprador family, sympathizing with and covering for her cousin to participate in the revolution, and was thus caught by the directors of Kunlun Factory, Chen Liting and Zhao Danxiang, and in the early summer of 1947, she came to Shanghai from Beijing and participated in "Rhapsody of Happiness". This movie made Huang Zongying and Zhao Dan make love, and then Huang Zongying starred in "The Crow and the Sparrow", "Li Ren Xing", "Home", "Nie Er" and so on.
Among them, Huang Zongying has the deepest affection for "The Crow and the Sparrow", in which she plays the mistress of a small Kuomintang bureaucrat, and her performance can be described as subversive for herself. It was from this film that Huang Zongying changed from a natural actor to a character actor, "This film, we shot in the cannon to welcome liberation, filmed in a down-to-earth manner, with sound and color."
recall
Pure love "The most successful thing is to marry Zhao Dan"
In 2018, director Peng Xiaolian's film "Please Remember Me" was released, and director Pan in the film is a depressed idealistic director, facing the demolition and disappearance of urban architecture and culture, she has her own choices, and even sometimes "disdains success", but she has never given up her faith, and Ah Wei, under the influence of director Pan, continues to insist on shooting documentaries by veteran filmmakers Zhao Dan and Huang Zongying. Huang Zongying herself appeared on the big screen, she recalled a lot of things, she said: "The most successful thing I have done is to marry Zhao Dan. ”
Director Peng Xiaolian has more than once shown the story of Huang Zongying and Zhao Dan on the screen, and she has also directed a film called "Shanghai Rumba", starring Yuan Quan and Xia Yu. The film does not use the real names of Zhao Dan and Huang Zongying, but is based on the two people, telling a pure love story experienced by the two in Shanghai in the late 1940s.
In 2006, Peng Xiaolian published an article entitled "Take to See Huang Zongying" in Popular Cinema, in which she told the story that when Huang Zongying saw the scene on the set when he watched the movie, he felt very similar to the set when they filmed "The Crow and the Sparrow": "Like! It was very touching and reminded me of a lot of things. ”
Zhao Dan's son Zhao Jin was a classmate of Peng Xiaolian's, and he tried to make the atmosphere a little happier, and Peng Xiaolian wrote in the text, "Say loudly: 'Comrade Huang Zongying, do you think Yuan Quan is acting like you?'" Aunt Zongying really laughed, 'Like! The side is most like... I was riding my bike very fast, and it was still a 28-inch men's flat car...'"
creation
Three times in the past rare years, he wrote "Log Cabin"
Since the mid-1960s, Huang Zongying began to engage in literary creation, and made special achievements in reportage literature, creating works such as "Big Goose Love" and "Beautiful Eyes". "Big Goose Love", "Beautiful Eyes" and "Orange" have won her three consecutive China Excellent Reportage Awards. In addition, Huang Zongying also co-authored the reportage collection "For You, My Motherland" with Xu Chi and Xiao Fuxing, co-created the reportage collection "A Generation of Tianjiao" with Ding Ling, and published the essay collection "Half Mountain, Half Water, Half Book Window" and "Xiao Jun". 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 order to show the work and life experience of scientists in the Plateau Ecological Research Station, she entered Tibet three times in recent years. Many readers began to enter Huang Zongying's literary world from "Log Cabin", "At that time, I thought she was as cool as a female scientist in the plateau and the owner of the log cabin." One reader said emotionally.
Writer Zhao Lihong once told the story behind the creation of "Log Cabin": "That year, when Huang Zongying, as the leader of the group, led a group of writers to Tibet to collect wind and prepare to return to Beijing, she suddenly announced that she would not leave and would go back to interview Xu Fengxiang, an environmental scientist. Before going to the plateau for interviews, Huang Zongying wrote a suicide note and went to the harsh environment with a determined attitude to interview. She lived in the highland region for three months and wrote the 30,000-word reportage "Cabin". ”
appraise
"Always curious, dare to try anything"
In 2016, at the age of 91, she published the "Huang Zong English Collection". In December 2016, the book launch was held in Shanghai. At the event site, as the finisher of the anthology, writer Li Hui introduced to readers the publication of the "Huang Zong English Collection", which was published by Shenzhen Haitian Publishing House and divided into four volumes - the first volume is a character chapter, writing about the family, writing Zhao Dan, and writing Feng Yidai; the second volume is literature, including reportage, poetry, film and television scripts; the third volume is essays; the fourth volume is "Pure Love", which contains the correspondence between Huang Zongying and Feng Yidai.
Speaking of the publication of the anthology, Li Hui said: "Huang Zongying has been creating for more than 60 years, although there are not many works, but each one has paid a lot of effort. Compiling this collection of essays, we hope to be her best gift. In Li Hui's impression, Huang Zongying is a person who is always full of curiosity, "She dares to try anything, even if she may not do it well, she will be very interested." ”
"Her words have influenced generations." Writer Zhao Lihong has read the reportage "Little Girl Carrying the Big Banner" and "Special Girl" and believes that "Huang Zongying's words are sincere and true, writing about the feelings of this generation of young people in that era, their real living conditions." ”
In 2019, Huang Zongying won the "Lifetime Achievement Award" of the 7th Shanghai Literature and Art Award. Because of physical reasons, 94-year-old Huang Zongying could not go to the scene, his son Zhao Zuo received the award for his mother, and read the acceptance speech on her behalf, "At this moment, I want to say to Ba Lao, Zuo Lin and all the teachers: The students did not disappoint you, the little sister did it!" I want to thank the audience and readers in Shanghai for their love for me for nearly a century; I want to thank the party for teaching me for nearly a century; I want to thank this land, the people, and for raising me for nearly a century; I bow. ”
Text/Reporter Xiao Yang Zhang Zhiyi
Co-ordinator / Man Yi Photography / Lu Beifeng