Beijing Renyi is a magical place, and in the show business circle, it is a sacred temple.
People there, no matter where they go from, seem to have the breath of Beijingers as soon as they enter the gate of renyi.
There, there seems to be no old man, He Bing in his early 50s is Xiao He, Pu Cunxin who is walking to 70 is Xiao Pu, and Feng Yuanzheng who is fast to 60 is Xiao Feng.
The average person has an adjective to describe Beijing Renyi, called Talent Jiji, but in fact, Renyi has only trained 8 students in total.
He Bing was admitted to the joint class of Ren yi and Chinese opera in 1987, and the teacher was Pu Cunxin's father, and the people in their class now casually say that one is a wrist.
For example, Xu Fan, who later married Feng Xiaogang, acted in "Chen Xiaoyi" by a foreign sister, and Jiang Shan, who partnered with Wang Zhiwen to act in "Addiction", compared with female classmates, the brilliance of Hu Jun and He Bing is not so dazzling.
He Bing is not good-looking, but in his bones there is a kind of old Beijing man's rigidity and cleverness, he seems to be born to eat this bowl of rice, after his debut, all the plays that have passed his hand, there is no bad evaluation.
However, when he survived the dragon set, survived the loneliness and namelessness, and He Bing became a pillar on the stage of human art, there was no youth like him under the stage.
The new generation of actors represented by Lan Yingying seems to have paid less attention to the stage of human art, they are very difficult to enter, and then very easy to leave, not to take away a cloud.
Decades ago, human art was the place where all actors looked up, young actors could not shoot well, they were embarrassed to sit, who dared to speak when filming, stage supervisors can blow people out.
These old drama bones, which now seem to be familiar with acting, when they first entered the art of people, there was no one who did not run the dragon set, basically from 5 years.
Yang Lixin, Liang Guanhua, Song Dandan, Feng Yuanzheng, Wu Gang and these people all came this way.
He Bing ran for four years before he began to play a little decent, and after acting for 8 years in 1999, he won the Plum Blossom Award, but this award did not remember any waves in the theater at all.
Because in human art, there are too many plum blossom awards.
It is also because there are too many, so it is particularly difficult to prove oneself in the art of people, and many outsiders look at the shining honors, and even oral performances in the art of people will not be.
It is also because of this that in the art of people want to be recognized, that is, boiling, a play of boiling, from the dragon set to the role.
Because any one here, even if it is just a dragon set on the stage, if needed, may throw down the props, go to the center of the stage, and recite the protagonist's lines in a large section without violation, and perform without violation.
People here really love drama, and there are too many people who play well.
From the dragon set to the horn, He Bing has walked for 30 years, which is not long for the actor of renyi.
But these thirty years, not everyone can afford to wait.
Some people give up the difficult road of walking in the beginning, and some people leave halfway.
When Jiang Shan graduated, she chose to give up entering Renyi and signed a Record Label in Singapore.
Weizi was particularly beautiful when he entered Renyi at that time, because he won the Plum Blossom Award before graduating from Chinese opera, so Lin Zhaohua, the most well-known director of Renyi at that time, personally invited him to Renyi, and also solved his Beijing hukou incidentally.
In 1989, Weizi arrived with a talent, but two years later, the crew of "Love Full of Pearl River" found Weizi.
In the past, although Weizi had filmed a lot of scenes and won many awards, he basically had not filmed TELEVISION, so he was also happy to take a salary of 150 yuan per month in Renyi.
But after filming "Full of Pearl River", everything changed.
Here we talk about the background.
The watershed of China's TV drama should be "Longing" in 1990, "Longing" is the first phenomenon-level TV series, and since then, China's TV dramas have begun to develop by leaps and bounds.
In 1992, the investment in the TV series "Love You Is Not Negotiable" and "Beijingers in New York" were more than 1.5 million, which was already a big investment at that time, and it was a tide of marketization.
It is also because of this that in 1992, CCTV bought the copyright of "Love You Without Discussion" for 3.5 million yuan, and then exchanged the broadcast rights of "Beijingers in New York" with very favorable conditions.
Therefore, at that time, shooting TV dramas became a very popular thing, and the remuneration was much higher than other acting jobs, and when Weizi filmed "Love Full of Pearl River", the salary was forty thousand, and the average episode was one thousand.
Renyi has very strict rules for his employees to go out to shoot movies, and Weizi almost begged the leader to go in order to shoot the scene.
But after returning from filming, he found himself uncomfortable.
In addition to money, he could not adapt to the almost sculpted way of working of renyi, and a drama that did not seem complicated had to be rehearsed, polished, and modified repeatedly, often for a year.
In this way, Weizi persisted until 1993, in fact, at this time he was only 3 years old.
But fortunately than others, Ren yi thought that he could already play the male lead in the big drama, and the 1993 ren yi drama was "Ruan Lingyu", and the main character selected was Weizi.
But at this time, Weizi has no intention of fighting, because director Yan Hao invited him to shoot "Rolling Red Dust", in addition to the new drama "Heavenly Contrarian" partnered with Sichengova, it will also start filming.
Weizi knew that his leave of absence would not be approved, so he proposed his resignation earlier, and after proposing his resignation, he did not wait for approval and never went to the unit again.
In 1994, "Love Full of Pearl River" was broadcast, Weizi was red through half the sky, and Jiang Shan, who chose not to enter the art at the beginning of this year, also became popular with "Addiction".
It was also this year that the heroine of "Beijingers in New York", Wang Ji, won the Golden Eagle Award for Best Actress, and it has been 7 years since Wang Ji "ran away" from the human art.
This year, He Bing played a role in the costume historical drama "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Zhuge Ke, just a role.
Wang Ji was six years older than He Bing, and when He Bing was admitted to the ren arts training class, it was when Wang Ji left.
Wang Ji is a classmate of Song Dandan and Liang Guanhua, and she stood out from 1400 people that year, saying that it is not too much to choose one out of a thousand, but after entering the art of people, she has no other achievements except running dragon sets.
In contrast, Song Dandan won the award in 1984 for the drama "Red and White Happy Event", and in 1985 and 1986, he won the Feitian Award and the Silver Award at the Salerno Film Festival for "Finding the World Back" and "Crescent Moon".
Also participating in "Red and White Happy Event" is Liang Guanhua, who has won multiple awards for this work, including the 1987 Plum Blossom Award.
And Wang Ji, still playing soy sauce endlessly, her only chance was to replace the female star of the drama "Home" in a play, after the audience and the director said good, after stepping down, she went to the bathroom and cried bitterly, which was suppressed for too long.
But after that, it was an endless supporting career.
After that, there were some movies and TV series, and the program host came to find Wang Ji, but they all failed because she did not take a leave, and these bits and pieces slowly became a hurdle that could not be passed in Wang Ji's heart.
After a quarrel between her and her leader, Wang Ji broke out, she resigned and boarded a plane to the United States.
They were gone, but the art was still there.
The treasure of the town house of human art is the play, and "The Tea House" is one of them.
This big drama, which premiered in 1958, is almost the soul of human art, and the actors who played "TeaHouse" are Lan Tianye, Ying Ruocheng and Zheng Rong.
These faces have played the same role on stage for decades, and many times, for many people, their performances are imprinted on the growing years of many people.
In 1992, these veteran artists performed their last "Teahouse".
When performing this play, He Bing had only been in the art for a year, and he still took a T-shirt for the old artist to sign, but he was already suffering from Senile dementia.
That scene, in the process of performance, so forgot the words, the blue sky wild took over, the audience did not feel anything, that kind of natural acting skills, shocked the descendants.
That scene was the farewell of the old artists, and it was also the best lesson for the younger generations such as He Bing and Wu Gang.
In this class, they got a glimpse of what Hong Zhong Da Lu was.
At that time, Wu Gang was better than He Bing, there was a dragon set role, Liang Guanhua was the B corner of Huang Fatzi, they all nervously watched the performances of these predecessors, and their eyes did not dare to blink.
For them at that time, the performance of these predecessors was the mountain, and they were the people at the foot of the mountain who were ready to climb.
When the curtain came down, the applause from the audience lasted for ten minutes, and some spectators shouted "So Teacher, goodbye!" At that moment, the tears of the old artists dripped down.
At that time, the end of an era, this group of people created an era, although their stage rarely walked out of the door of human art, but they were there, no one could shake.
In 1999, a new version of "The Tea House" was born, and Liang Guanhua, Feng Yuanzheng, Wu Gang, and He Bing came to the top, inheriting the mantle of Lan Tianye, Huang Zongluo, and Ying Ruocheng.
On the day of their premiere, these old gentlemen all came, and these actors who were already actors in the role were nervous, and after the performance, the old gentlemen said "it is not easy".
He Bing's generation won "Tea House".
In 2018, "The Tea House" has been performed 700 times, and at this time, He Bing has been acting for more than 20 years, but in these twenty years, almost no one has come up to them except them.
But director Lin Zhaohua said that in the past 20 years, renyi has not had a new treasure of the town house except for "Tea House", which cannot but be said to be a pity.
At 22 Wangfujing Street, this is the theater of human arts, and the actors who come and go here must be the best they can to be eligible to stand in the spotlight when the curtain is open.
He Bing in 2018 is already a pillar of human art, and the drama bones such as Feng Yuanzheng and Wu Gang have survived the career of the dragon set, and they have already faintly had the wind bone of the grandmaster.
However, behind them, there was no young man holding a T-shirt to sign an autograph, and there was no B corner at the table where he was nervously drinking tea.
After a long time, Renyi seems to have no successor, and after He Bing's generation, Renyi seems to have never stepped out of an actor who can pick a beam.
He Bing's generation still has their persistence, in a discussion about the script, He Bing stood on the table and asked who wrote the script, and finally he said, "Since we are all in a thief's boat, I will say it directly, if this play is finished like this, there will be no shortage of carrots and tomatoes in the Renyi Canteen." ”
At this time, it had been 30 years since He Bing entered renyi in 1991, and just a year before He Bing entered renyi, Lan Yingying was born.
In 2020, there is a variety show that brushed the screen, called "Sister Riding the Wind and Waves", one of which is also an actress named Lan Yingying, lan yingying is one of the few female artists with a certain degree of popularity in recent years.
"Sister Riding the Wind and Waves" began broadcasting on June 6, and Lan Yingying submitted her resignation certificate to Renyi in May.
Because the director of the theater's new drama "Raisins in the Sun" was Yingda at that time, she chose to resign because of the conflict of schedules. This move is the same as Weizi many years ago.
After "Love Full of Pearl River", WeiZi also made some films, but the impact was not too big, until 2001's "Laughing Pride of the River", he successfully played the hypocrite Yue Buqun, only to return to the audience's attention.
After the success of "Beijingers in New York", Wang Ji's life took an unexpected turn, she was too tired because of filming, resulting in a child with mental disabilities after giving birth, and after that, the child became the weakness of her life.
Jiang Shan briefly became a film and television singer after "Addiction", but after that, she became a single mother because of the breakdown of her marriage with Gao Shuguang, after that, she felt that she longed for a life abroad and went to the United States.
Now she has bluntly said that returning to China is to earn money, and the pension still has to return to the United States.
But Wang Ji, who has also had experience living abroad, has always had a feeling for the renyi stage, and in 2012, she appeared in the drama "Koshien" for the sixtieth anniversary of the establishment of renyi, when she was 50 years old.
Finally becoming the heroine of the human art, she burst into tears.
Lan Yingying, who was born in 1990 this year, was only 22 years old, and she starred in "The Biography of Zhen Huan", "The Biography of Zhen Huan" became popular, and Lan Yingying also had a certain popularity, and entered the human arts in the same year.
Two years ago in 1988, Weizi had joined Guo Jingyu's Guo Jiaban and starred in "Iron Pear Blossom", and another big drama "Playing Dog Stick" was also on the way, but the absolute male protagonist of these two plays was Yang Zhigang, who is now controversial Yang Zhigang.
After Lan Yingying ran the dragon set for several years, she ushered in her own big drama "Fish Eye" in 2014, but she was not popular, and compared with the TV series, it is not too much to say that the salary of Renyi is a world away.
A few years later, Lan Yingying participated in the variety show "The Birth of an Actor" and entered the top three.
After the tv publicity, her popularity soared, and she became the heroine of many TV dramas at that time, at this time he may have recognized the influence of variety shows.
So in 2020, between the drama of renyi and the variety show, she chose variety show, and her departure took effect in June, and "Sister Riding the Wind and Waves" premiered almost at the same time.
Whether it was thirty years ago or thirty years later, there have always been people who insist on human art, and there have always been people who have left.
The difference is that thirty years ago, Weizi left with Feng Yuanzheng, He Bing, Wu Gang, Liang Guanhua, and Wang Ji with Song Dandan, Xu Fan, and Chen Xiaoyi.
These people, without acting, stand there, many people will feel stable, but for them, they feel that the previous generation is stable standing there.
Now, there are very few young actors, even if the impression is very young Sun Qian is already 38 years old.
In today's market, Renyi still insists on slowly grinding one drama after another, seemingly completely isolated from the world, allowing how time passes outside, Renyi seems to be an island.
Not high salary, super long dragon set career, strict rules, almost everything is in confrontation with the entire entertainment industry.
Wu Gang, born in 1962, was only well known in 2009 with "Latent", He Bing's "Great Song Ti Criminal Officer" was only interviewed in 2005, and He Bingji is almost a person who can be called a young genius in the new generation.
When we are discussing traffic and love beans outside, here we are discussing aesthetic styles, here we are discussing stage presentation, and when we are discussing digital actors outside, here is a line from a book that has to be memorized for several months.
Because there is no camera scheduling, there is no way to trick, so stage performance is the most difficult road.
But in an interview, He Bing had such a conversation with the reporter, he said that even though there are many scripts looking for him now, he is still willing to act in Renyi because he feels that it is the most worthwhile.
One thing, and being able to make a living for himself and enjoying himself, for him, is the greatest enjoyment in this life.
He said that because he had experience in stage performances, he felt safe when he faced the camera, because film and television could start over.
Those who leave the art of humanity get what they want, and those who stay walk a more difficult, but can be passed on.
Perhaps He Bing's look back is a little lonely now, but as long as the audience is still there, as long as people still know what beauty is, there will be no loneliness under the stage.
I hope that these people who insist on it are getting better and better, not to live up to the drama, not to the audience, and not to their own lives.