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Chinese-style coming-of-age ceremony

Chinese-style coming-of-age ceremony

The age of 24 is the starting point of the Chinese rite of passage,

It is also the first "honmei year" of adulthood,

In a way,

It carries the meaning of another new beginning in life.

"Jia Ren" opened its annual magazine in January,

We invited 3 people born in 1998,

A young actor who has just stepped into the 24-year-old life year -

Su Xiaowei, Zhai Zilu and Zhang Xinyi,

Talk to them about stepping into this year,

Their life experience,

and a spiritual ceremony above the rite of passage.

Chinese-style coming-of-age ceremony
Chinese-style coming-of-age ceremony

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Since leaving school this year to live officially alone, Su Xiaotong feels that she has grown up. Even if he occasionally refuses, and even complains about "when can it become smaller", he also accepts that everything is happening irreversibly. She is slowly adapting to the established rules of the adult world while adhering to her own standards of work and life at her own pace. She has her own attitude towards growth.

A person enters society

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No matter from which point of view, the 2021 year that has just passed is Su Xiaotong's harvest year.

At work, after the broadcast of the "Royal Gift of Little Servants" starring her, she was praised as a "dark horse drama", and the audience also remembered Su Xiaotong's agility and cuteness. Academically, she successfully graduated from the Beijing Film Academy, even if she almost missed the graduation group photo because it was the publicity period of the work, but this was still the "most fulfilling thing this year" in her heart. Although she has been filming since 2013 and is no stranger to the life of the crew, she still defines graduation as a watershed in her life, which means that she has "officially entered society". It was also after crossing this line that she began to slowly experience the life that truly belonged to adults.

It turned out that Su Xiaotong, who either lived in the school or lived in the crew, did not expect that the first specific dilemma he faced when he grew up was that when he washed his hair one day, the water suddenly became cold. "It's still foamy in my hair!" In fact, this was not a big deal, but it was completely unexpected, and she suddenly froze there, not knowing what to do. Before that, she was used to the days when she wrapped her colonel's uniform and went to the cafeteria every morning to do morning work with her classmates, and when she was hungry, she would go to the canteen to eat. Comparing before and after, it may still look like three meals a day, sunrise and sunset, there is no big change, but since then no one has arranged everything, and she needs to re-adapt to another set of rules.

In terms of adapting to this matter, Su Xiaotong is a slow and hot person. In other words, she is not used to forcing herself to catch up with the pace set by others, but likes to enjoy the process of everything, and does not care whether she is in the same pace as the others who have nothing to do.

In terms of age, even in the film and television industry, which is prone to age anxiety, she is not sensitive to the passage of time. "A while ago I recorded a video of myself introducing myself and I blurted out that I was 21 years old. People around me began to complain about me, saying that I was wrong, is 21 years old eternal? "At that time, I was about to cross the threshold of 24 years old, but I didn't realize that the 24-year-old self was different from the 21-year-old, "Just like when I first started 2 words, I didn't adapt, every time I grew up to be a year old, it was difficult to adapt to the change of mouth, I think this is true? In Su Xiaotong's calendar, since the years are not waiting for anyone, it is all the more important to do everything according to their own wishes, and it is not to obey the so-called "what should be done at what age".

"Time is not waiting for anyone, and I can do whatever I want, but I don't ask myself how many plays I have to shoot in a year." When it comes to being an actor, I want to do what I like. ”

Childlike credulity

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Whether it is age, or the distribution of positions such as protagonists and supporting roles, these external evaluation criteria for actors in this industry are not the core of Su Xiaotong's attention. In her mind, 24 years old has a suitable script for 24 years old, and at 34 years old there must be a suitable role for that time, so it is completely unnecessary to worry about such a thing that is not under her control at all. As for the rest, there is no need to worry about it, because "there are no small roles, only small actors". "For every good film we remember now, it's impossible to remember only one protagonist, right? What is remembered is the whole film. So how did it come about? It is created through the efforts of everyone. ”

After looking down on these objective factors, Su Xiaotong, who is faced with a choice, has a more difficult filter: "I must read the whole story, and I will pick up the challenging ones that are suitable for me." "Of course, the agent and the team will also have their comprehensive consideration of each project, but as long as she gets the script in front of Su Xiaotong, she will immerse herself in it to analyze the role itself." For example, this play may play a cashier, or play a child of a single-parent family, then I think about putting myself into the role as indiscriminately as possible, thinking about how I can get closer to her. ”

Maybe that's the sense of conviction you have to have as an actor. "You told me that the sky would fall tomorrow, and I was going to believe that the sky would fall tomorrow." You told me I'm a disabled person now, someone who can never stand up, and I have to believe it too. Even after graduating, Su Xiaotong clearly remembers a teaching from Professor Qi Shilong when he went to school: "He said that faith is faith, courage and childlike credulity. In fact, everyone has had this ability when they were young, believing that dolls are alive and that everything around dolls is true, but as they grow up and have more and more distractions, they no longer allow themselves to continue to think like this - and for Su Xiaotong, she must always maintain this ability, for performance, but also for herself to be able to feel the world more keenly.

"Every time you finish, maybe the moment the director shouts to turn off the camera, there is not much feeling, but when you go back to the hotel room and watch everyone packing up their things, you will feel that this dream has awakened." You know that everything that happened in the previous few months was real, but at the end of the moment, it all became a dream. I might sit there for a long time, flipping through every page of the tagged script and looking at all the photos and videos on my phone about the character... Every time it was very sad, and I would cry silently, for a long time. ”

Perhaps in the eyes of others, there are clear techniques and methods of acting, but for Su Xiaotong, since she is already a professional actor from a class, it is time to master these basic methods and let more rare emotions bring performance to a deeper level: "Acting is not how much you have learned, but the true feelings." ”

Even if every time she feels true feelings, she has to spend a lot of effort to say goodbye to the character afterwards, she is still willing to use this somewhat "clumsy" method to believe. She is not in a hurry to enter the next group immediately after a play, she is willing to set aside time for herself to gradually recover, the important thing is that every "belief" has the result of this effort: "I am not a person with many works, but I am still very young, and it is good to accumulate slowly." ”

Give time to love

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Not only treating work with a meticulous attitude, Su Xiaotong when she rests, but also treating her life completely as her own.

For example, this time just did not shoot in the crew, her time is more, she has a lot of time to the hobby of skiing, and in the solid class, there is a clear goal is to one day shoot a "relatively handsome" video. "Now in class, soak in the snow to learn faster!" I'm a beginner, not too good yet, but I want to become a veneer god through hard work! ”

Although when it comes to skiing ability, she will also laugh at herself for "more people and vegetables equipped", as a novice, she has carefully equipped a full set of equipment, but in order to match the professional image of the appearance, she is not perfunctory in training: first seriously reported for indoor courses and took classes steadily, repeatedly fell and did not get depressed, and then went to the real snow field. Everything is not a whim, even if it is just a hobby, she also hopes to reap a result worthy of her love.

Including the drum kit she had loved before, once it started, it didn't put it down. It turned out that in an interview in 2019, she revealed that she went to the drum kit class because she liked to watch the movie "Burst Drummer", but she did not expect that more than two years later, she still left an important place for it: "I will use the fragmented time to learn the drum kit, which is something I am willing to spend a lot of time doing." ”

Speaking of the arrangement of time again, Su Xiaotong still seems to be unhurried, but in fact, she expresses her choice preference with a clear attitude: Perhaps compared with the fast-paced whole world at present, she is not a fast-paced chaser, but as long as she clearly knows what she wants, she will definitely allocate time and make arrangements in her own world. "I must seize the time to do what I want to do, I don't have to wait until many years later, I don't react to the fact that I haven't learned which skill I want, I don't want to regret it." 」 I don't give myself a clear timeline, but it's important not to waste my time, and no matter how old I am, I won't regret it. ”

In fact, she is slowly growing up, and she already has the thinking that can only be penetrated after she really grows up.

Chinese-style coming-of-age ceremony

M.C.24 years old is your second life year. What is your understanding of the year of the Natal Life? Is there anything you have to do in this year?

Su Xiaotong: For me, the most important thing in this life year is peace and smoothness. Especially now, because of the impact of the epidemic, I feel more and more that health and peace are a person's greatest wealth, and I hope that everyone around me can be safe.

M.C.24 is the first life year of adulthood, when did you first realize that you were really "adult"? What does adulthood mean to you?

Su Xiaotong: When I started living on my own and living on my own, I found that I really grew up. I need to know how often to pay utility bills, how long an egg is boiled to cook... These details turned out to be far away for me, because living a group life in school, I didn't really need to worry about these trivial things, but after a person was really independent, I found that there were really too many things to face. At first, I would not adapt to these things, and I thought it was difficult to grow up, but slowly rationalized, you will find that this is a process that everyone must go through.

M.C.The cycle of 24 to 36 years old is a very golden age for a person. What are your expectations for the next 12 years?

Su Xiaotong: This is the best time for me, I really want to know what will happen in the future, I have a lot of expectations. But if specifically, I don't think I can predict the future, so, anyway, live well!

M.C.Current life and work, what is there that you hope to change or break through?

Su Xiaotong: I really hope that I can practice English better, I hope that I can turn to the big screen as soon as possible, and I hope that I no longer have choice entanglement. In life, I am a person who is extremely entangled in choices, and sometimes the people around me can't look down and want to help me make decisions, but then I will be angry because it is not a decision made by myself. But after I made a decision, sometimes I regret it... This question is extremely troubling to me, and if this year can change, I really thank myself!

M.C. Have you ever thought about what else you might do if you don't become an actor?

Su Xiaotong: I want to go to Disneyland to be Lingna Belle, or to be a princess sitting on a float, to be happy myself, and to make others happy!

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Chinese-style coming-of-age ceremony

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Zhai Zilu, 24 years old this year, officially entered the show business circle three years ago by starring in the TV series "Full-time Master".

He described himself at that time as "ignorant and looking forward to becoming an actor to try more possibilities", three years passed suddenly, for zhai Zilu now, serious life, serious feeling, enriching his life experience, so as to project into the role, is what he wants to do the most, but also the most enjoyable thing.

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At the beginning of the actor industry, Zhai Zilu did not set himself too much. "I always had the idea that I would always draw up someone who worked 100 times harder than me and was better off than me in every way, and I believed that such a person was absolutely there. I told myself this at the time, after studying, taking art exams, and even after going to Chinese opera later. If I can't do my best within my current reach, I can't go out, so I'm going to redouble my efforts. ”

For the understanding of actors, Zhai Zilu is also learned in continuous practice. He would do his homework before filming, "When I read the script myself, I would get used to reading all the characters' lines. The first time, he would play the characters and characters of the different characters I understood, and how he would say this. What this way helps me is that it allows me to feel the whole story objectively enough, not just watch my own plays, and have a deeper understanding of each character. ”

In the recently aired "Octagonal Pavilion Mystery Fog", in this play, he and Zu Feng, Xing Minshan and other predecessors have a large number of opponent plays. He regards this as a process of learning, "I went with a learning mentality, and the seniors were very patient and friendly to us young actors, and would dissect the motivation and story malleability of an action in a play, these very delicate and detailed things." ”

Zhai Zilu remembers a rival scene with Zu Feng, the content of which is that Zu Feng jumped off the battery car and kicked him away, and the scene was filmed back and forth many times. On the one hand, it is because it is necessary to take care of different camera positions and angles, and on the other hand, it is to strive for the most authentic and natural state. "On the basis of the framework line of the script, we feel as realistically as possible, not completely controlled by the scheduling to perform, so the cameraman also uses a handheld camera to follow the shooting, showing a sense of documentary."

Without setting in advance, there is more room for on-the-spot play, and Zhai Zilu enjoys this feeling of immediacy. "When I do my homework in filming and acting, I don't do too much setting and frame myself. On the contrary, it is important to go to the scene to feel the opponent, feel the environment, feel the breath, and feel the eyes of the opponent. Every moment, making a knee-jerk reaction, brought him closer to the character.

When he was studying in Chinese opera, he would often discuss many problems with the teacher after class, sometimes not from the professional, but from the perspective of life, how to treat something. Including some setbacks and tribulations encountered in life, or unhappy things. "When you were in college, you had the school protecting you, the teachers guiding you, and it was a very secure stage. I think acting is the recognition of life, society, and even the world, it is your inner portrayal and your understanding and expression of the world. ”

Zhai ZiLu is sensitive. For him, acting is one of the mediums of exposure to the world. Whether it is to get any text, or a work of art, or even when admiring a painting or listening to a song, he will feel it more emotionally. There is no difference between high and low feelings, what matters is that what he feels in the moment is the most real.

"I think acting is a slow accumulation process, and the so-called accumulation is to live slowly and seriously."

Protect everything you love

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Introspection is the most common thing Zhai Zilu does.

Not deliberately, because "review" has become a habit of his. "I'm an insecure person, sometimes trying something I haven't done, I'm going to be more steady, every word, every choice I make, I'll think about it."

In the scene that is currently being filmed, Zhai Zilu will go behind the monitor to chat with director Yi Jun when he is fine. Much of the chat was about the script, the characters, and how it was filmed. "Everybody has their own way of reading the script, and I talk to the director about it. The director will share with me a lot of his understanding, how he uses the lens to narrate, to tell a story. ”

In this process, Zhai Zilu suddenly realized that the director was in that position, and he could still listen to him patiently, on the contrary, could he not only think of discussing with each other, but should listen more carefully to the director's ideas when the director expressed himself? This is the content of his recent "review".

Some time ago, he ended the filming of "A Year Without Work". He plays a character called Jin Chengwu, a community property worker who occasionally delivers takeaways part-time. Because he grew up with his mother and has been sending people to the fence, he is particularly eager to have a home of his own, which can make him feel more secure, which is Jin Chengwu's goal in life. "It can be said that he is a senior 'house slave'," Zhai Zilu commented, "but when he does not have any negativity, the more difficult the situation, the harder he works, like playing chicken blood, his goal is very clear." ”

He especially understood Jin Chengwu, "I think for men, a big mission in life is to protect the people they want to protect, their families, including your lover." You need to be strong enough to protect them, so you have to keep moving forward and have no time to complain and grievance, because your goal is very clear, that is, to hope that the people around you can live well. ”

He does not attribute this "desire to protect" to a sense of responsibility, "that is what I want to do, through my own way to make the people around me happy, I will be happy from the bottom of my heart, feel that I have been realized." 」 Feeling that I am valuable and that I can benefit the people around me is a very happy thing for me. It's not responsibility, responsibility has a feeling that the outside world is attached to me, and it sometimes even drives me. ”

The expression of Zhai Zilu is often simple, even simple. The growth he understands is not a dramatic opening and closing, but "eating bite by bite, day by day", he is not afraid of the so-called pressure and mistakes, "if you do something wrong, you are brave to admit it, this is a process of facing yourself." Whoever doesn't make a mistake can go on a lifetime without making a mistake, who can eat a lifetime of fish without getting stuck with a thorn. We've stuck the sting, so do we still eat it? ”

Fish will also be eaten. Zhai Zilu is not hurried, his life is the same as the performance he loves, step by step, slowly.

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M.C.24 years old is your second life year. What is your understanding of the year of the Natal Life? What kind of gifts can you expect to receive? Is there anything you have to do in this year?

ZHAI Zilu: I didn't think about that. I don't like birthdays myself, and the sense of ceremony doesn't really matter to me. Growth is not achieved overnight, rice is eaten bite by bite, and days go by day by day. You can't rush into it, and you can't "lie flat" and wait. As long as you are doing it and living seriously every day, I think it will be rewarding. This harvest is not measured by the size of the financial resources, and many harvests are priceless. I think this thing is especially important to experience every day and not miss the experiences and feelings.

Gifts don't matter to me, but it's a happy thing for someone to remember my birthday. Sending a blessing to WeChat or something, it is enough, because I especially do not want to disturb the lives of others, especially for parties, I am used to taking care of everyone, and I do not want anyone to be left out in the cold. I like to take care of others, for people I feel important, if I can't protect them, who should protect them? The passive feeling I dislike very much, very insecure.

M.C.24 is the first life year of adulthood, when did you first realize that you were really "adult"? What does adulthood mean to you?

Zhai Zilu: Adulthood is when the family makes any decision and asks me for my opinion. Adulthood is like I don't love birthdays, not saying that I have to do something formalized. Adulthood made me feel like I had to work harder. Including after my sister gave birth, I will have more feelings of having to protect my little niece. I don't know how this feeling came about, but it was a natural desire to protect people who were important to me, and I had to work harder and stronger to protect the people around me who felt important.

M.C.In the cycle of the year from 24 to 36 years old, it is a very golden age for a person, with a certain amount of experience, but very young. What are your expectations for the next 12 years?

Zhai Zilu: Work well, live well.

M.C.Current life/work, is there anything you hope to change, or break through?

Zhai Zilu: I think it's quite good in life. At work, I hope I can try more roles and possibilities.

ZHAI Zilu: Chef. I will make a little home cooking, the process of cooking is very decompressing, your mind is in washing vegetables, cutting vegetables, stir-frying, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar and other things, there is no time to look at the phone, there is no heart to think about messy things, will be completely focused on cooking this one thing.

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Chinese-style coming-of-age ceremony

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Although she starred in her first role at the age of 12, Zhang Xinyi is not a child star, and from the beginning, she has treated acting with a serious and mature attitude. Zhang Xinyi, who has gradually grown up in the company of performance, has moments of confusion and annoyance, and now, she is learning to be self-consistent and is also looking for answers through performance.

Without a show, I would be broken

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In the last year of her life, Zhang Xinyi, who had just entered middle school, encountered the first major event in her life: she was selected by director Zhang Yimou to enter the crew of the movie "Jinling Thirteen Chao" and play a mature and strong female student. Since then, she has gradually turned her hobbies of staging sketches in class meetings and entertaining herself at home into a professional, and then was admitted to the directing department of the Central Academy of Drama at the age of 18, and was sent to graduate school after graduation. Up to now, twelve years have passed, and half of Zhang Xinyi's life is inseparable from the main line of performance, which has become the most important thing in her life.

Especially in the past few years since entering the university, Zhang Xinyi does not even have to distinguish between what is work and what is life, because her time is basically occupied by professional-related things. "Do some of my own thing every morning, like I have to prepare for the exam recently, and I have to rehearse in the afternoon, and I have to rehearse for about eight or nine hours a day." 」

Recently, Zhang Xinyi was rehearsing a drama "Glaciers Can't All Melt on the Day of the End", in which she wanted to play a female college student who wanted to marry her own smart stereo from the beginning, but when introducing the role, she would deliberately emphasize that she was not a fetish, but to convey a kind of thinking about interpersonal relationships through such stories. "Although it's just an object that makes sounds, I don't just think of it as an object, and the relationship between us is somewhat similar to the relationship between people."

Such a relationship is a bit like why Zhang Xinyi is willing to spend a lot of time acting in dramas. "Drama is a wonderful medium, everything happens that day and cannot be repeated. Film and television dramas can be repeated if they are not performed well, and editing can also help us, but on the drama stage, everyone is for the actors to be able to perform this drama well, all so that the actors and the audience can grasp this feeling of the moment very well, and I cherish and enjoy this relationship. For Zhang Xinyi, performance is not a one-sided output, it also undertakes the big task of "communication".

More crucially, acting is an important way for her to communicate with herself. When it comes to why she is an actress, Zhang Xinyi has no specific goals, but she has long decided that this is an indispensable part of her life. "Being an actor can't be separated from me, because there is a large part of my life that needs to be filled by being a director of the performing arts."

Zhang Xinyi in her life feels that she has a lot of personality parts that need to be improved, such as encountering things she doesn't like, she will habitually endure it first, and unconsciously she will accumulate a lot of emotions in her heart. Everyone has their own channels of pressure relief, some people like to sweat a lot of exercise, some people like to drink with friends, Zhang Xinyi's choice is to perform, when she becomes one role after another, through creation to understand the world, and then reflect on themselves, as if many unspeakable troubles have a way. "Everybody needs an exit, my exit is performance, and if I leave it, I'm going to be incomplete, I'm going to go wrong, I'm going to break."

It wasn't that she chose acting as a profession, but it was the wonderful fate that allowed her to find a door to open herself from a very young age.

At both ends of the scales of reason and impulsiveness

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Therefore, for the performance of this matter, Zhang Xinyi will inevitably have a lot of obsessions, these obsessions are both motivation, to help her continue to move forward in her career, and sometimes it will make her anxious, even she feels that she should let herself go.

"Of course people like to relax, but if I relax a little bit for a day or two, on the third day I will be very anxious, I feel relaxed, oh my god, it's the feeling of wasting my life!" 」 Now Zhang Xinyi's work and learning rhythm has given her little time to play like other peers, even if it is to chat with friends, the content is also related to the profession, "such as spitting out some things at work, thinking that rehearsing in society and rehearsing at school is completely different." ”

But even with this without leaving gaps, she habitually hopes to let the profession fill her time. "It had to be full, and I didn't like that my original plans were disrupted, and if something suddenly came over and asked if I could take a leave of absence, I would be very uncomfortable." Sometimes I also question myself, that is, to arrange a lot of things for myself, to do, to do, to do every day according to this plan, what is the meaning? But life still has to go on like this. She even has a special punch-in app in her mobile phone, which will enter the study, rehearsal, and reading plan that is to be carried out every day in advance, and then tick one by one, "If I don't fill it up, I will feel bad." ”

Compared with natural science, in fact, whether it is studying directing or acting as an actor, the field of drama is already a very emotional discipline, but Zhang Xinyi hopes that she can inject more rational judgment and thinking into this world that is originally occupied by emotions.

After all, from the beginning of her choice of directing profession, it was already this original intention. "I feel like a very emotional and impulsive person, so I think reading the directing department will make me think from a rational point of view." If you want to have a director's mindset, you have to analyze and solve a lot of problems, not just rely on feelings. In addition, I think this choice can force me to enrich myself, whether it is reading books or watching plays, which may help me in my future life. In fact, there may not be absolute sensibility or rationality, not necessarily work is meaningful, rest is a waste of time, when the current Zhang Xinyi began to realize that she was in this kind of pull, which in itself already means that some changes are slowly happening."

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She herself has felt a recent relaxation in her mind, and this relaxation has brought her real happiness.

Take a recent drama class at a secondary school, where the end result of the course is presented at the school's drama festival, where students compete through rehearsals of plays. In the past few years, Zhang Xinyi felt that she would definitely do everything to compete for the first, but this time she relaxed, and the happy rehearsal became a tacit understanding between her and the students. "Before, I was a person who was particularly easy to do things, even if it was a very painful creation, I must do it the best, and what makes me happy is that I come up with a good idea." But this time to the students to rehearse the play, we have a very fantastic setting, all kinds of fantastic ideas can be, I think it is so interesting, more than when we were undergraduate! Although what she does is still in the field of work, her attitude towards herself is no longer tense.

She began to confront her own problem and then figured out a way to solve it. "I am an 'anxiety monster', and all the small things in life cause me anxiety." "I think a person's shortcomings can represent his problems, but in the long run, I can't see my own strengths." 」 Now that you have clarified the causes of your emotional distress, the next step you need to solve is to let go of these entanglements.

For example, she feels that she always can't help but be anxious, so she simply explores the source of the problem. "It's not about finding the root of something, it's about recognizing myself." In fact, it was not that I did not recognize myself before, but the same purpose is inevitable to go through a detour. For a while, she misunderstood her understanding into criticism, and she always couldn't help but compete with her shortcomings. "Every time I find a flaw in myself, it's like digging up a treasure!" Unconsciously, the advantages seemed to be all invisible, and the more she analyzed, the more painful it became—fortunately, a sentence from the mentor woke her up, "He said that no matter what you encounter, you should first accept it." ”

In the past, When encountering things she didn't like, Zhang Xinyi might resist, but now she is trying to change. "I no longer reject it outright, but accept it first, and then see how to face and solve it." Although these conceptual changes cannot be completely subverted overnight, at least Zhang Xinyi has given herself a chance.

Twelve years of acting experience, and Zhang Xinyi are like a pair of intimate twins, with deep warm moments of love for each other, but also because of each other's major problems - but at least because of this she is not alone. In the next twelve years, the performance will continue to accompany her through all kinds of new problems that she can't think of now, and with this exit, she will have the confidence to face all the unknowns.

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Zhang Xinyi: Maybe the older generation is more concerned about these things, for example, my mother asked me before, do you want to buy gold, jade and other things to ensure peace. But I think it's an ordinary year, the same as other years.

Zhang Xinyi: I realized that I had passed the rebellious period. When I was sixteen or seventeen years old, I often went to the crew to shoot a scene and then went back to school to study for a while, although I didn't have a head-on collision with my parents at that time, but every time they went to pick me up, I was reluctant to talk well in the car. I knew it was bad, but I was inevitably irritable when I saw them. But during the winter break of my freshman year, I realized that I didn't listen to them so much, even if they weren't necessarily right, but I would listen, accept, and really communicate with them. Even now, even if there are some small bumps and quarrels between the two of them, I can reconcile them like adults, and it is no longer a conversation between children and adults.

Zhang Xinyi: I didn't say how I had to be in the past few years, but in my current life plan, I hope that my career can be more improved. There is also the family aspect, I will be more concerned about the feelings of my parents, I hope that my parents are healthy and happy, and I used to be myself

Zhang Xinyi: I think I want to focus on myself, I want to try another way to get along with myself, maybe to see more of my own strengths, maybe other, in short, I hope that I can be less contradictory in the future. I am really a very contradictory person, on the one hand, I hope that I can live freely, on the other hand, I am not such a free person in essence, I hope to find a balance.

Xinyi Zhang: I really don't know. My friend also talked to me about this, and I thought what else could I do if I didn't do this? In addition, I am still more willful, although acting and directing are difficult, but I am willing to do it, if one day really let me do what I do not want to do, I do not accept.

Editor / Chen Baiyan ChicoChan

Photography / Li Yinyin (Su Xiaotong, Zhang Xinyi), Ghost Ma Yi (Zhai Zilu)

Written by / Zhang Fan (Su Xiaotong, Zhang Xinyi), Diao Xin (Zhai Zilu)

Styling / Kang Kang (Su Xiaotong, Zhang Xinyi), Zhu Dongri (Zhai ZiLu)

Makeup / Fan Hao (Su Xiaotong, Zhang Xinyi), Yang Changxiu (Zhai Zilu)

Styling Assistant / EDEN

Editorial Assistant / Chang He

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