The new noonday sun drama "Meet the Season" is being broadcast, and Yan Xiaopin plays the role of Ning Hui in it. Ning Hui is bitter, and her husband Cui Hao and the factory owner Jian Zhiguo have a quarrel. In the course of the dispute between the two sides, Cui Hao stabbed Jian Zhiguo, and he then jumped off a building to commit suicide, leaving a pair of children to Ning Hui, an orphan and widow, and a difficult life.
Yan Xiaopin's acting skills are skilled, showing Ning Hui's suffering and struggle real and vivid.
In the play, Yan Xiaopin was widowed and widowed, but outside the play, she married her first love and was spoiled for 30 years.
In the 1980s, Yan Xiaopin was extremely popular, and won a lot of flowers and applause with popular film and television dramas such as "On the Side of the Water", "Two O'Clock in the Midnight", "Sun And Rain", "Daughter's Sutra", and "The Deal Under the Noose".
When Yan Xiaopin was at her hottest, she accompanied her husband Zeng Hai to the United States. Zeng Hai is Yan Xiaopin's first love, the two have been married for more than thirty years, support each other, and grow old.
Along the way, what kind of choices and opportunities has Yan Xiaopin experienced that seems to be smooth sailing?
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In 1965, Yan Xiaopin was born in a family of performing arts in Shanghai.
His father, Yan Xiang, was an actor at the Shanghai People's Art Theatre before retiring, and he graduated from the Shanghai Theatre College. In that era of black and white images, he starred in many classic film and television dramas such as "On the Assassination List", "Angry Island", "Very Big President", "Seongnam Old Things" and so on.
In 1988, a "Morning in Shanghai" made Yan Xiang win the trophies of "Golden Eagle Award" and "Feitian Award", becoming the "Emperor of Double Materials".
Mother Xu Shulian, the pillar of the China Welfare Association Children's Theater, Xiao Lan in "Ma LanHua", The White Bone Essence in "Sun Wukong Three Dozen White Bone Essences", the Big Girl in "Cinderella", and the Tong Zhijuan in "Child's Heart", she has acted for 30 years, bringing artistic enlightenment to countless children.
Yan Xiang and Xu Shuelian are both veteran actors with both virtue and art, and they have the same original intention and use their roles to transmit positive energy.
Under the influence of his parents, Yan Xiaopin has been interested in art since he was a child. But she never wanted to be an actress, because she also had a strong interest in history, humanities, geography and other subjects, and she wanted to become a teacher, teach and educate people, and delve into knowledge.
Yan Xiang's education of Yan Xiaopin is inclusive and open, and he supports Yan Xiaopin's decision that in the eyes of this old artist, truth, goodness and beauty trump everything.
If it were not for the heavenly arrangement, Yan Xiaopin would have become a teacher, blossoming and bearing fruit, and living a stable life.
In the spring of 1982, Yan Xiaopin was in her third year of high school, and she forgot to eat and sleep to prepare for the Normal University, but she welcomed the Beijing Film Academy to enroll in Shanghai.
You know, at that time, the Beijing Film Academy had not recruited acting students for four years, and this open enrollment was an excellent opportunity for people who pursued art.
Yan Xiaopin, 17, was a little moved, but she flinched when she had no acting experience because she knew the difficulty of the exam.
Yan Xiang and Xu Shulian learned that their daughter had this idea, and their hearts were overjoyed, so they encouraged Yan Xiaopin to apply for the exam, no matter what the result was, it was regarded as an experience.
The words of his parents made Yan Xiaopin's hanging heart let go.
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Yan Xiaopin looks gentle and intellectual, falls generously, and easily passes the initial test. When it came to the re-examination, it was necessary to take seven or eight sketches, and there were 25 people in the entire examination room, and Yan Xiaopin was the last three to complete the examination.
In the intensive examination room, some students were so nervous that they could not speak, and some students were discouraged as soon as they came on the field.
At critical moments, the more you want to have a good result, the more you often ask for it. In the affairs of the world, more often than not, there are hearts that plant flowers and flowers, and there is no intention to plant willows.
Yan Xiaopin held the mentality of trying it out, and her performance was much more natural and smooth, and her performance deeply touched the examiner.
In September of that year, Yan Xiaopin happily took a train to Beijing, and the school sent a bus to pick up the new students to Zhuxinzhuang (Nortel's old campus) and gave each of them a mattress made of straw.
There are seven girls in Yan Xiaopin's dormitory, all from the north and south of the world, because they love art and gather together, there is a sense of pity for each other. Every day after school, seven people gathered around there was always an endless topic.
Yan Xiaopin is the youngest student in the class, and her classmates Na Renhua, Zhang Xiaomin, Lin Fangbing and others have all had acting experience, but she is a blank piece of paper. When she was in acting class, Yan Xiaopin was often worried and uneasy, she was afraid that she would not be able to act well, and she was also afraid of her own trouble.
In order to catch up, she worked harder than other students, watching seven or eight movies a week and carefully writing and analyzing each work. The days were busy and hard, but Yan Xiaopin was in pain and happy.
At that time, there were not many nortel students, and every week the teacher would take the whole class to the film archive to watch and study. On the shuttle, young boys and girls, you are next to me, I squeeze you, talk and laugh, leaving a beautiful youth all the way.
After watching the movie, it is often late at night, and Yan Xiaopin and his classmates are still unsatisfied, either discussing the plot or writing character analysis.
The strong artistic atmosphere on campus infects Yan Xiaopin and also leads her to a good actor's road.
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In 1984, Yan Xiaopin ushered in the first Easter egg on the road of acting.
At that time, Li Shaohong's mother, Jin Shuqi, was still a director at the Shanghai Film Studio, and she took a look at Yan Xiaopin and sent her to the crew of "Gold and Silver Bay".
The TV series is divided into two episodes, and the filming process is very arduous.
Yan Xiaopin followed the crew to Shanxi, and had to sit in a tank cage to shoot more than 200 meters underground, and one shot was more than ten hours. When he came up, his whole body was blackened, leaving only the whites of his eyes and teeth flashing in the air.
This year, Yan Xiaopin was 19 years old. The harsh shooting environment did not make her retreat. After the release of this TV series, Yan Xiaopin had a name in the interpretation.
The career has begun, and the peach blossom luck has followed.
As early as middle school, Yan Xiaopin fell in love with a male classmate named Zeng Hai. The reason for the heartbeat is a physical experiment, and Zeng Hai's meticulousness and talent have made Yan Xiaopin's heart stir up waves.
At that time, I was still young, and this feeling could only be buried in my heart. After Yan Xiaopin went to Nortel, the two separated the two places, the mountains were high and the waters were far away, and love became a luxury.
Unexpectedly, after Zeng Hai was admitted to a university in Hangzhou, he wrote to Yan Xiaopin to express his heart, and Yan Xiaopin seized this cupid arrow.
In that era of insufficient transportation, Yan Xiaopin and Zeng Hai could only rely on letters to convey affection. Every word is affectionate, and every stroke is sincere.
At that time, the carriages and horses were very slow in mail, and they only loved one person in their lives. Zeng Hai became a tug that Yan Xiaopin could not get around in his life.
In 1986, Yan Xiaopin graduated from Nortel and was assigned to the Shanghai Film Studio as an actress.
In the 1980s, TV dramas adapted from Qiong Yao's novels swept Taiwan, and the mainland market was still blank. After Qiong Yao and Ping Xintao established Yiren Communication Company, they wanted to blow this wind to the mainland.
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Director Li Zhongxin and Kojima looked at Qiong Yao's "On the Water Side". The novel was adapted into a film as early as 1975 and starred Lin Qingxia. With a successful precedent, it is not difficult to create brilliance.
In the end, "On the Side of the Water" was filmed into a 4-episode TV series, starring Yan Xiaopin and Li Yun, Wang Shihuai, and Ma Xiaowei.
As the first Qiong Yao drama in the mainland, it became popular as soon as it was broadcast, making Li Yun rated as "Top Ten Actors in Film and Television" by the audience, and Yan Xiaopin became famous overnight.
In the following two years, Yan Xiaopin's films continued, and she played the female number one in dramas such as "Two Midnight", "Sun And Rain", "Daughter's Sutra", and "The Deal Under the Noose". At the same time as gaining fame and fortune, she participated in two visits to Singapore by the Chinese film delegation, and also participated in the exhibition of the Shanghai Film Studio to the Federal Republic of Germany and France.
"Sun Rain" won Yan Xiaopin the Best Actress Award of the "Bachelor Award" of the University Student Film Festival, and she was compared to Jiang Wen, who shot "Red Sorghum".
During the filming of "Daughter Jing", Yan Xiaopin and Jiang Wen became friends, and later Jiang Wen competed for the film emperor in one movie after another, but Yan Xiaopin suddenly disappeared into the show business circle.
In 1989, Zeng Hai was admitted to the Department of Physics of Stevens Institute of Technology in New York, USA, and went to the United States to study. The newlywed Yan'er, who also has to face the separation of the two places, is very cruel to Yan Xiaopin.
At that time, the film and television industry was facing an unprecedented low, and Yan Xiaopin wanted to find a way out, so he could only act in martial arts films to cater to the audience. But Yan Xiaopin has always had her own insistence, and she does not want to compromise for the market. Faced with her husband who was far away, she simply quit the show business circle and went to the United States to accompany Zeng Hai.
Yan Xiaopin's disappearance has attracted public opinion. There was speculation that she was divorced, while others said she had been banned. Yan Xiaopin did not care about these rumors, but only ran his own small life in the United States.
At that time, when going abroad to pan for gold, everyone longed for a glamorous life abroad. The real life of leaving home is much more difficult than imagined.
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In the United States, Yan Xiaopin lost her actor aura, she was buried in the sea of people, and she found a job to make a living. Because of her accumulation of film and television dramas, she later worked as a broadcast host on a Chinese satellite radio station.
Zeng Haixue, Yan Xiaopin went to work, two people who worked hard for their dreams, sparkling in ordinary days.
In 1991, Yan Xiaopin gave birth to his first son. Far away in a foreign country, parents can not catch up, from childbirth to confinement, Yan Xiaopin and Zeng Hai are busy. After the most difficult half a year, Yan Xiaopin sent her son back to China to be cared for by her parents, and she and Zeng Hai continued to stay in the United States to struggle.
There is only one opportunity a year to return to China to visit relatives, and the separation of mother and son makes Yan Xiaopin suffer. Without being tied up by his mother's triviality, he had the opportunity to turn popular with Yan Xiaopin.
In 1992, the "going abroad fever" reached a peak, the Chinese people with gorgeous dreams to New York to chase their dreams, in the big city of red and green, with thin bags of travelers lonely and confused.
Directors Zheng Xiaolong and Feng Xiaogang felt that this theme was in line with the main theme of society, so they adapted it into a script "Beijingers in New York" and prepared to shoot the whole process in the United States. Before this, Chinese TV dramas had no precedent for shooting abroad, and Zheng Xiaolong and Feng Xiaogang's move was particularly sensational among the chinese community abroad.
This year, Zheng Xiaolong and Feng Xiaogang led a film crew from the Beijing Television Art Center to New York. Chinese television gave Yan Xiaopin the task of interviewing Jiang Wen. When old friends meet, it is natural to have a long conversation.
When Yan Xiaopin was ready to take the interview transcript back to hand over, Jiang Wen said: "You are particularly suitable for playing Guo Yan." Guo Yan is the female number one in "Beijingers in New York", and Zheng Xiaolong has always wanted to find an actress with overseas life experience, but there is no suitable candidate for a long time. Until the appearance of Yan Xiaopin, the entire crew had a bottom.
For the invitation of Zheng Xiaolong and Jiang Wen, Yan Xiaopin was a little hesitant, after all, she had not acted for several years, and she had not read the script, everything was full of unknowns.
Finally, with the encouragement of Jiang Wen, Yan Xiaopin set up his makeup and directly entered the group.
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"Beijingers in New York" has limited filming funds, and the entire crew can only be stationed in a large house provided by China Minmetals. Yan Xiaopin and another heroine in the play, Wang Ji, became roommates for half a year, while Jiang Wen and other actors lived on the other side of the house.
Every time I discussed the script, I either went to Jiang Wen's room or Yan Xiaopin's room. The conditions are simple, but they can't resist the actors' enthusiasm for the script.
In order to save costs, the whole scene was filmed at a very fast pace. Yan Xiaopin is the female number one, with many roles and heavy tasks. To the back, you can only sleep for a few hours a day. Because the script changes temporarily, sometimes it is not until the evening that I know what I want to shoot the next day. Yan Xiaopin felt very stressed, and every day he took the thick script of 21 episodes with him, and seized the gap to check for leaks and fill in the gaps.
Yan Xiaopin's tightness, Jiang Wen looked in his eyes, he always comforted Yan Xiaopin: "Don't worry, you act very well." ”
After this drama was completed, Jiang Wen returned to China with the crew, and Yan Xiaopin still stayed in the United States to live a dull life, and she was unaware of the subsequent popularity.
On January 1, 1994, "Beijingers in New York" was officially released, as the first CHINESE TV series depicting the career and emotional experience of the gold digging group abroad, which caused a sensation in the country as soon as it was broadcast.
In the end, this drama won many awards such as the "Golden Eagle Award" and the "Feitian Award", becoming a classic on the screen.
Yan Xiaopin, Jiang Wen, and Wang Ji were in a mess. After this TV series, Jiang Wen transformed into a director to shoot "Sunny Days", which became popular with Tao Hong and Xia Yu, Wang Ji jumped from dragon set to female number one, and Yan Xiaopin also returned to domestic development with this wind.
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Also in 1994, Yan Xiaopin took over the filming of the famous director Huang Shuqin's Zhiqing-themed TV series "Evil Debts".
The fate of Yan Xiaopin and Huang Shuqin dates back to 1988. Yan Xiaopin, 23, went to Europe with Huang Shuqin to attend the Chinese Film Festival, and in West Germany, Huang Shuqin took Yan Xiaopin to a bar to see what punk and personality were.
Huang Shuqin, who was avant-garde in his thinking, left a deep impression on Yan Xiaopin.
After 6 years, Yan Xiaopin and Huang Shuqin gathered in the crew of "Debt of Iniquity", which was a destined encounter in the dark.
Just after playing "Beijinger" and playing "Shanghainese", and also having to use the familiar Shanghainese dialect, Yan Xiaopin once could not adapt to it. After filming for a while, Yan Xiaopin adapted to the change of role.
In the end, "Debt" was broadcast in Shanghai TV in Shanghai, setting a super high rating of 42.62%.
This is another popular work of Yan Xiaopin.
Later, Yan Xiaopin acted in film and television dramas such as "One Family, Two Systems" and "Sin", and her simple and sincere performance style left a deep impression on the audience.
In 1998, after a stable career, Yan Xiaopin gave birth to a second child. At that time, Zeng Hai was still working in the United States, and in order to take care of his family, Yan Xiaopin stopped the pace of the actor again.
In addition to one or two plays a year, she left the rest of the time for her family. Yan Xiaopin does not pay attention to fame and fortune, and pays special attention to his family.
When she was a child, because her parents who were actresses were on the run for many years, she and her sister lacked parental company, and she did not want her son to repeat the same mistakes.
There are some suitable scenes to shoot, and there is no companionship with parents and children, which is Yan Xiaopin's way of balancing career and family.
After the pace slowed down, Yan Xiaopin did not give up her love and persistence in acting, and she continued to enrich herself. In those years, she fell in love with recitation, and every time she recited, she would do enough work. For example, reading Lin Huiyin's "You Are an April Day on Earth", she will understand Lin Huiyin's life experience.
In 2012 and 2013, Yan Xiaopin also stood on the stage of the CCTV Qingming Poetry Club, reciting "Hazy", "The Wind of Hui" and "Poems for Mother".
In the past two years, Yan Xiaopin's two children have grown up, and she has received more plays.
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In 2021, she has performed and released four TV series, Madame Wang in "Like a Jade Heart", Wen Mu in "The Ideal Life of Love", Gu Xiaoying in "Detective Lies", and Jiao Mu in "My Father Jiao Yulu".
In 2022, she appeared in "There Is You in This Life" and "Meet the Season".
The 57-year-old Yan Xiaopin plays more of the role of mother-in-law, but she still treats each of her roles with high standards and tries to make each role have its own characteristics.
In this era of fast food, the creative atmosphere of the 1980s and 1990s no longer exists, but the standard of good works has not changed, as Yan Xiaopin said: "Actors must have a reverence for art in order to immerse their hearts in it." ”
Debuted for more than thirty years, Yan Xiaopin has not been wrapped up in capital and traffic, she has always followed her heart and interpreted every role.
Some people feel sorry for Yan Xiaopin, she originally had two opportunities to become popular, once when she graduated from Nortel, and once when she finished filming "Beijingers in New York", but Yan Xiaopin failed to continue to output works for her lover and family.
But for Yan Xiaopin, balancing all aspects of life is the most wonderful life. He has been in love with her first love husband for more than thirty years, and has cultivated her two sons into talents, and a plain and rich life is enough.
Feeling art in life, blooming life in art, the long flow of art is more precious than overnight fame.
Yan Xiaopin is old, wrinkles climb on her face, she is never anxious about her appearance, and she does not pursue the eternal youth brought by medical beauty. She accepts the aging of nature and accepts the gift of all life. The peace and indifference written on the face is a gift of time.