In the 1920s, a man named Zhao Bingzhong fled with his wife and children.
But fortunately, there is also a hand of authentic shaving of the head, barely able to support the family.
In March 1928, Zhao Bingzhong ushered in his 8th child, because he was the youngest daughter, loved by everyone, and his wife Meng Yunde gave the child a milk name "Old Love".
This old love is the "Zhao Lirong" that we are familiar with later.
To say why it was named "Zhao Lirong", I have to mention "Hibiscus Flower".
Hibiscus flowers
Hibiscus flower was the head of the revival drama class at that time, and was famous at that time.
One day in 1928, Furong Hua came to Zhao Bingzhong's shop to do hair, saw that Zhao Bingzhong's craftsmanship was good, and pitied him for having a little difficulty in supporting a big family alone, so she invited him to join the drama class to do it.
So Lao Ai moved to the drama class with her parents, brothers and sisters.
At that time, the old love of a few months was born festive and attracted people to love.
When the drama class starred in "Cowherd Weaver Girl", they put her in Cowherd's basket and picked her up on the stage.
The 8-month-old old love stretched out his head curiously, and his two eyes stared directly at the audience under the stage, and the people under the stage all watched the music, clapped their hands and clapped, but they did not expect that the old love also clapped their hands, laughing so that people leaned forward and backward.
This is Zhao Lirong's first time on stage, and it seems that she is destined to be inseparable from the stage.
When she was 12 years old, Furong Hua picked the word "Rong" in her name, named her Zhao Lirong, and asked her to worship the master of the drama Ma Jingui as a teacher.
Later, Zhao Lirong followed the drama class to Harbin to perform, and 13-year-old Zhao Lirong shined on the stage, but was unexpectedly favored by the police chief under the stage.
In order to help her escape this disaster, Furong Hua and her friends in the drama class fled to Beiping with her overnight.
However, his father, Zhao Bingzhong, was arrested and tortured, thanks to the hibiscus flowers up and down, left and right Zhou Xuan, he was rescued.
Zhao Lirong
In 1944, when the drama class came to Shanghai Beach, Zhao Lirong, who was 16 years old at the time, was famous, and even a film and television company invited her to make a movie with Furong Hua.
However, such a glorious day lasted only one year, and the drama class was disbanded in the war.
After the dissolution of the drama class, Zhao Lirong took the hibiscus flowers to her hometown of Baodi County.
After liberation, Zhao Lirong entered the China Critics Theater and also met her first husband, Sheng Qiang.
Sheng Qiang worked as a secretary in the theater, and the two fell in love and married in October 1953.
In 1955, the eldest son was born and named Fuchun.
In 1957, Zhao Lirong became pregnant with her second son, and she thought it was a happy thing for the family, but fate gave her a critical blow.
In this year, Sheng Qiang was beaten to the right and sent to the farm for labor reform.
Zhao Lirong takes care of her children while working to support her family.
In 1959, Shengqiang finally came back, Zhao Lirong could not sleep excitedly, full of thoughts about the happy scene of husband and wife reunion and family reunion.
But God gave her a big joke again, and a few days later, Zhao Lirong not only did not see her husband return, but received the news of her husband's death.
Shengqiang suddenly fell ill and died in the labor camp!
That moment was like five thunderbolts!
On this day, Zhao Lirong picked up her eldest son Fuchun from the kindergarten on the way home and said to her son: "Your father is gone, your father is dead." ”
Xiao Fuchun, who is only 4 years old, seems to understand what "death" is, he hugs his mother and cries, and Zhao Lirong also cries to die and come back to life.
Passers-by did not know what was happening, and the pain in it was only known to Zhao Lirong herself.
It was unfortunate to lose her husband, but she understood that crying all the time was not the solution, and she still had two children to support.
She packed up her mood and went to work, the stage is the wife who has just lost her husband, the stage is still a professional humorous commentator, she never brings personal emotions to the stage, "can not fool the audience" is what she often hangs on her lips.
In 1964, Shengqiang's sister and Zhao Lirong's brother discussed and wanted Zhao Lirong to marry Shengqiang's younger brother Shenghong, so that Zhao Lirong could also have a helper and the child also had a father.
Zhao Lirong was annoyed: "Where is the sister-in-law, married to the little uncle?" ”
However, the family repeatedly persuaded, and Zhao Lirong agreed.
After Zhao Lirong and Sheng Hong got married, they had a son, Sheng Qian.
In 1970, Zhao Lirong finally had a daughter, and Zhao Lirong was 42 years old that year, and she regarded this daughter as a treasure.
Not only did her whole family love the child, but they also named her "Sheng Jia Huan".
But 3 days later, Jia Huan was diagnosed with congenital disability, Zhao Lirong went around seeking medical treatment, went to major hospitals, went to find various home remedies, spent all her savings, but still did not keep Jia Huan, Jia Huan died at the age of 7.
In 1979, Zhao Lirong and Sheng Hong worked hard to earn money to buy a courtyard in the countryside on the outskirts of Beijing, because Zhao Lirong has always been very yearning for rural life, and her wife has been turning over the soil at home, and all kinds of dishes are the happiest thing for her.
However, one day, Zhao Lirong went out to perform, and came back to find that her wife Sheng Hong had died of a sudden heart attack, and during that time she had been very remorseful for not taking good care of her wife.
"I have a big thing, anyway, I don't care what it is, what happens to me, is my life so flat?" No way! Anyway, just get a good night's sleep. ”
She was always so open-minded, maybe she just wanted to comfort herself!
In the commentary theater, although Zhao Lirong only starred in supporting roles, she could always make people impressed and clap her hands.
Aunt Li in "Liu Qiao'er", Ruan Ma in "Flowers as a Medium", Yang Mu in "Liu Sanjie's Complaint"...
Right Zhao Lirong
In 1986, she also played the queen of Che Chiguo in "Journey to the West" starring six children.
After retiring in 1988, I thought that the brilliance of my acting career only stayed on the stage of the commentary, but I did not expect that the Spring Festival Gala program team found her, and this time the glory brought was even greater.
This year's Spring Festival Gala program group collected the 1989 sketch manuscript from the whole country, and Shi Lin, the screenwriter of the Beijing Qu Art Troupe, submitted a script in his hand to the crew, and noted at the end: If adopted, Invite Zhao Lirong of the China Critics Theater to be the lead actor.
It turned out that Shi Lin was a fan of Zhao Lirong, and had seen many commentaries starring Zhao Lirong, especially impressed by the old lady Yang Mu with a Tangshan accent in "Yang Sanjie's Complaint", in his opinion, Zhao Lirong's humor was naturally revealed from the inside out, so he felt that the role of his mother in the sketch script was none other than her.
And this skit is "A Day of a Heroic Mother" that exploded on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala in 1999.
Sketch "A Day in the Hero's Mother"
Unexpectedly, the crew really adopted it and personally invited Teacher Zhao Lirong, but Zhao Lirong refused.
She did not have confidence, although she had participated in the sketch "Emergency" at the Spring Festival Gala in 1988, but Zhao Lirong was not the protagonist that time, but the actor of the explosive TV series "Jigong" that year, Teacher You Benchang.
Zhao Lirong You Benchang
And this time is different, her heart is playing drums, in case the performance is smashed, ruining other people's programs and smashing her own signboard of critics for so many years, then why not draw a satisfactory end?
But the director said: Teacher Zhao, you first read the script, I will visit you next time.
Seeing that the director was so sincere and the script was also very good, Zhao Lirong did not have the good sense to refuse.
On the evening of Chinese New Year's Eve that year, the people of the whole country remembered this kind old lady with a Tangshan accent.
"Sima Guang smashes the light, Sima cylinder smashes the cylinder." It has also become the hottest Spring Festival Gala discourse among the population.
In the face of the explosion, Zhao Lirong was not attracted by the aura in front of her, but returned to her courtyard to continue planting vegetables and trimming her flowers and plants.
In 1991, coinciding with the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Cpc, CCTV prepared for the literary and art evening.
There is a skit "Mother's Heart" starring Zhao Lirong, in which an actor who can speak Tangshan dialect plays her son.
The author of the sketch thought that there was an actor in Liaoning who could speak Tangshan dialect, and he was Gong Hanlin.
Under the arrangement of the crew, Gong Hanlin met Zhao Lirong for the first time.
Although Gong Hanlin partnered With Zhao Benshan in 1988 to participate in the Liaoning Spring Festival Gala sketch "So Competitive", his singing of "Thirteen Fragrances" was popular and also a little fire.
But Teacher Zhao Lirong was on the Spring Festival Gala and was an idol in the hearts of hundreds of millions of viewers.
Remembering that he was going to see Teacher Zhao Lirong, Gong Hanlin was so excited in his heart! I'm nervous! In Gong Hanlin's words, it's like seeing the emperor!
When they really met, Zhao Lirong looked at Gong Hanlin and said, "This is the son!" ”
Gong Hanlin quickly replied: "To Teacher Zhao, I play your son." ”
"That line, then we are the two women."
This sentence made Gong Hanlin feel very kind.
Because of this cooperation experience, the relationship between the two is really like mother and son.
Gong Hanlin has a "Zhao Mother" and Zhao Lirong has a "son".
The time soon reached the end of the year, Zhao Lirong was once again invited by the Spring Festival Gala program group to participate in "Mother's Today", this time still lacking a son as the last time, Zhao Lirong immediately thought of Gong Hanlin.
After several rehearsals, Zhao Lirong always had the tango dance at the end of the sketch that was not ideal, and her mood was very sad.
Zhao Lirong is a person who pursues perfection, and she will never be able to talk about it, and she cannot apologize to the audience.
All this Gong Hanlin saw in his eyes, looking at Mama Zhao who was anxious and anxious.
For a good burden, he is thinking of ideas all the time.
One day Gong Hanlin was walking on the street and heard a tango dance, he stopped to listen carefully, and he couldn't help but jump up at his feet, and at that moment he suddenly realized: Isn't this tango just a whirlwind?
So here's what we hear:
"Tango is to go by and fro, three steps and one channel, two times, two turns, five steps and one waist, six steps and one wave, and then you go again and again."
This passage is the climax of the entire sketch and has become the buzzword of the year.
In 1995's "So Packed", Zhao Lirong tried rap and break dancing for the first time.
But during the live broadcast that night, Zhao Lirong made a mistake.
At the end of the break dance, there was a kneeling hand lifting movement, but Zhao Lirong supported the ground with her hand.
It turned out that Zhao Lirong's leg was injured in the early years of practice, and there was a bone in the knee that was free, and the injuries were repeated and repeated when she was older, and it became more and more serious.
During the rehearsal, her knees were already swollen and difficult to walk, and her family and director repeatedly advised her not to go to the Spring Festival Gala this time.
But she refused, even if she had to get a closed injection.
She knows her responsibility as an actress in her heart, and the audience knows that Zhao Lirong is going to the Spring Festival Gala, and everyone is waiting for her.
It turned out that on the stage, when she knelt on one knee, she supported the ground with her hand, and it was she who really bumped her knee, and the moment she stood up, the uncomfortable expression was that she was really uncomfortable.
Gong Hanlin, who was standing nearby, saw that his heart was all tugged together.
After the curtain call of the skit, Zhao Lirong was taken off the stage by Gong Hanlin and the staff next to her.
All this the audience did not know.
In the 1996 Spring Festival Gala "The Adventure of Part-time Work", Gong Hanlin had one more person by his side, and this person was his wife Jinzhu.
The audience has always thought that Gong Hanlin is to hold his wife, but Gong Hanlin wants jinzhu to support Teacher Zhao at any time on the stage, so that she can save some effort. Because according to the relationship between the characters in the sketch, Gong Hanlin cannot help Teacher Zhao.
So when we look at this sketch, we can see that Teacher Zhao is supported by gold beads when he goes up and down the table.
At the end, Zhao Lirong waved four big words "genuine" under the pen vigorous and powerful, making people clap their hands!
But in fact, Zhao Lirong herself does not know how to write brush characters, and she can't even read a few words.
Zhao Lirong did not go to school when she was a child, and when she performed and commented on the drama, the script was read to her by others, and later entered the China Critics Theater, and the courtyard let her participate in the literacy class, she began to learn to recognize and write, but she really couldn't write to write brush words.
But why did she write later in "The Adventure of Part-time Work", and even wrote it very well?
This is back to the rehearsal of "The Adventure of Part-time Work".
The original plot design of "genuine, tong sou no deception" eight words, from the background directly taken up.
But the director always felt that the ending was almost interesting, and casually said: "There is a scene of on-site writing in the commentary "Peach Blossom with a Human Face", how good is the effect!" ”。
Speaking unintentionally, listening to intentional, Zhao Lirong excitedly patted her thigh: "Yes! Then I will write on the spot. ”
From then on, Zhao Lirong retreated for half a month, practicing during the day and practicing at night, writing in the newspaper, writing on the wall, almost crazy, did not expect that kung fu did not pay off, and really practiced, every friend who came to see her, there was no one who did not admire.
However, later, for the length of the program, the eight words were shortened to four words "genuine".
The audience once thought that Zhao Lirong could really write calligraphy, and many people asked Teacher Zhao to give words after the program was broadcast.
But such a good, hard-working, and modest performance artist, life is full of tribulations.
In 1998, Zhao Lirong's cough has been repeated repeatedly, and she even coughed up blood when rehearsing "The Veteran Out of the Horse" at the end of the year.
Gong Hanlin was frightened and immediately and the eldest brother Sheng Fuchun took her to the hospital, and when the results were checked out, the brothers inhaled a cool breath, and their hearts were full of mixed feelings, and the four words "advanced lung cancer" on the test report were so dazzling.
They immediately consulted with their families and finally decided to hide it from their mother.
Because Teacher Zhao Lirong has been rehearsing with Gong Hanlin, urging Zhao Mama to take medicine is a necessary matter for Gong Hanlin every day.
In order not to let Mama Zhao find out, they unwrapped the package of the medicine for treating cancer and lied to her that it was an ordinary medicine for coughing.
Although the cough was uncomfortable and her family discouraged her, Teacher Zhao Lirong still insisted on going to the Spring Festival Gala, and she did not expect that "The Veteran Will Come Out of the Horse" became her last work.
She performed the stage, a come is come go is go, nod yes shake your head no, to say hello and shout hello, hello hello hello haha laughed at countless viewers inside and outside the TV, but Teacher Zhao's children were in tears, only they knew that their mother's time was running out.
After the Spring Festival Gala, countless fans in the background wanted to take a photo with this great performing artist and wanted Teacher Zhao's autograph.
Gong Hanlin was worried about Zhao Ma's body and wanted to refuse the fans' request to let her hurry up and take a rest.
But Mama Zhao said: People have come from afar, that's because they like us, so they signed it.
At that time, many star artists signed with art, but Zhao Lirong would always write the three words "Zhao Lirong" in one stroke and one stroke.
She said: Let the family recognize what is written.
Backstage was crowded, and there wasn't even a place to rest and sit.
On that day, Gong Hanlin got angry with the director group for the first and only time.
"You guys should make room for Mama Zhao to sit."
"Hanlin, look here, where else can I make room?"
There was no way, Gong Hanlin could only find a place by himself, and it was difficult to find a place of two square meters of land, or a place where the cleaner put the mop.
Later, it was moved to the boiler room next to it, which was also a two-square-meter place, but it was better to be warmer, and moved a chair for Mama Zhao to sit and sign for fans.
After the Spring Festival, Teacher Zhao's condition became more and more serious, and the sons tearfully told her about cancer.
I thought that Teacher Zhao Lirong would be very sad, but she was very optimistic and said: "I have to do it, then I have to go sooner or later." ”
Because of the torture of cancer, Teacher Zhao Lirong's weight fell from 140 pounds to 70 pounds, completely changed a person, afraid that her friends would look sad, she did not allow others to see her.
At 7:30 on July 17, 2000, Teacher Zhao Lirong passed away.
On July 27, the memorial service of teacher Zhao Lirong was held in Babaoshan, and many stars and fans rushed to send them off, and countless people burst into tears.
In fact, when Teacher Zhao Lirong died, the editor Aso was still learning to speak in his teeth, but why did he know Teacher Zhao's sketches?
Because of the classic !!!
Every year, in the collection of classic sketches of each David TV, there will definitely be works by Teacher Zhao.
Every time I brush teacher Zhao's work on TV or mobile phone, I will definitely watch it, and even watch it several times.
Because it's just good-looking, funny!
After truly understanding her deeds, she likes and appreciates her open-mindedness, and no matter how fate tortures, she always faces it calmly.
Treating work is always the pursuit of perfection, the pursuit of trends, and the courage to innovate.
Sing rap, break dance, dance tango, sing the Tigers' "Love", "Heart Is Too Soft", sing "My Heart Is Eternal"...
She learns what is popular and integrates them perfectly into the sketches.
Excellence on stage is strict about the work, but offstage is indeed an amiable old lady, not playing big names, not pursuing fame and fortune.
I think that's why a lot of people still miss her!