Ma Shaohua and his wife Li Lanrong have known each other since they were 14 years old, and the two have gone from green plum bamboo horses to both of them are now white-headed.
But Ma Shaohua, who had just married, was young and vigorous and did not want to stay in the troupe with an "iron rice bowl" for a lifetime. So he quit his job and decided to go for a ride on his own.
At that time, Ma Shaohua was working as a conductor in the screening hall, and he couldn't make much money at all, and he couldn't even afford to buy cigarettes. When he pushed open the door of the house and saw Li Lanrong, who was wearing torn clothes and drinking porridge, he instantly felt sorry for his wife.
He said to his wife, "I must break out of my own fame, if I can't do it, I won't die for the rest of my life, I'd rather live ten years less, and I'll give you a good life."
Today' Ma Shaohua is already a national-level actor, from a poor and white boy to an old artist.
And the wife who accompanies him to fight rarely appears in the public eye, so who is his wife?
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In 1955, Ma Shaohua was born in Guizhou Province.
Ma Shaohua's father, Ma Junhua, was not only the head of the Peking Opera Troupe in Guizhou Province, but also a descendant of the Qi Sect of Peking Opera. Her mother, Wang Yunqiu, has been involved in the local Peking Opera education industry, and her grandfather is a comedy master Wang Incompetent.
Ma Shaohua's family did not chat and idle like other families after tea and dinner, but sat together as a family to study traditional arts.
Under the influence of the family atmosphere, Ma Shaohua has developed a strong interest in traditional Peking Opera since he was a child.
Therefore, at the age of 8, Ma Shaohua, who finished the third grade of primary school, went to the Peking Opera class of Guizhou Art School to study old students.
Because he studied Peking Opera with his father since childhood, Ma Shaohua, who came to school, appeared to be comfortable in learning. Coupled with the fact that the teacher was not as strict as his father, his child's nature was exposed.
He often ran out with the children in his class to play, and did not practice his voice and sing well.
During his schooling abroad, his father was often afraid that Ma Shaohua's pocket money would not be enough to spend, so he always gave him a lot of money. But Ma Shaohua always spends money indiscriminately, often after buying food, he feels that it is not delicious and throws it away, and he does not know the hard work of making money at a young age, so he does not think it is a big deal.
However, his behavior was known to his father, who immediately beat Ma Shaohua violently. He dragged Ma Shaohua, who was full of tears, to the street and asked him to see how many poor people could not eat, and he was wasting food.
The pain that his father left on him made him understand that not everyone can eat as much as they do, and that it is necessary to understand how to save food.
In 1969, the 14-year-old Ma Shaohua already had an extraordinary foundation in Peking Opera. But he didn't want to be accomplished only in art, but he also wanted to better temper his spiritual will. Therefore, he joined the Cultural Regiment of the Guizhou Military Region and became a literary and artistic soldier.
Although he was a literary and artistic soldier, Ma Shaohua regarded himself as an ordinary warrior. No matter how rigorous the training, you can see him. Therefore, in addition to performing Peking Opera during activities, he is not bad at training to shoot and shoot cannons.
It was not until 1975 that the 20-year-old Ma Shaohua was transferred to the Guizhou Repertory Theatre and became a drama actor, which was the right way to embark on the road of literature and art.
At that time, everyone said that he himself had a foundation in Peking Opera, and after the tempering of the literary troupe, and now there was the "iron rice bowl" of the drama troupe, he did not have to worry about it in this life.
Ke Ma Shaohua felt that this kind of life at a glance was not what he wanted, and he wanted to pursue a higher level of art, so he decided to throw away the "iron rice bowl" and applied for the performance department of the Shanghai Theater Academy.
Because the family did not agree with his approach at all, they only wanted him to work steadily, did not want him to learn any performance, and felt that there would be no future. Therefore, the family is not going to pay him tuition.
Ma Shaohua sold his only baby bicycle, borrowed a little money from a friend, and came to the Shanghai Theater Academy alone.
With his Peking Opera skills and many years of stage experience, 23-year-old Ma Shaohua won the first place in the 1978 opera list.
However, the world was unpredictable, and Ma Shaohua, who came out of the play, was "assigned" back to the Guizhou Repertory Theatre, which made many people who watched him leave Shanghai at that time see the joke.
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In college, Ma Shaohua studied the knowledge and skills of acting with all his heart, he wrote down his performance experience in a notebook, and when he graduated, he wrote a real 14 thick notebooks.
But at that time, his students were influenced by state policy and were subject to state distribution. Therefore, he was assigned back to his hometown and returned to the Guizhou Provincial Repertory Theatre again.
Ma Shaohua returned to the regiment again, and his life was not good. Although he has just completed his further studies, whether it is performing on stage or other work, he can do it well.
However, the "old oilers" in the regiment before saw him come back and laughed and said, "Ma Shaohua, don't you want this broken job and go to Shanghai to study?" How did you come back to do this unpromising job? ”
After hearing this, Ma Shaohua could only pretend to smile on his face, and his heart was naturally angry. He resolutely resigned from the Guizhou Repertory Theatre once again.
Ma Shaohua, who came out of the drama troupe, was dumbfounded, as if he would not have anything but acting, and in order to live, he had to go to the screening hall to sell tickets, and he could not even afford to buy a pack of cigarettes in his life.
As the saying goes, when the bottom is rebounded, Ma Shaohua's life will naturally get better when he is bitter to the extreme.
In 1983, director Ding Yinnan, after seeing Ma Shaohua, who was performing the stage, threw an olive branch to him and asked him to star in Sun Yat-sen.
Ma Shaohua was very happy at that time, and felt that his performance skills for so many years were about to be displayed, and he was about to turn over and become famous.
He began to devote his mind to "Sun Yat-sen", and he did not study Sun Yat-sen's data day and night. Through the imitation of his movements and tone of speech through images, he studied his style of doing things in books. He also felt that he was too fat, which would affect the temperament of the character, so he lost 20 pounds in one go.
As a result, before booting, the director told him: "You have been replaced".
At that time, Ma Shaohua looked puzzled, why was I well prepared and replaced? It turned out that the director looked too thin, which did not conform to the temperament of the character.
In this way, Ma Shaohua thought that the first filming failed with "weight loss success".
In order to live, Ma Shaohua joined the Wuhan Repertory Theatre in 1986 and became a drama actor again. Until 1996, Ma Shaohua, who had been engaged in drama performance for 17 years, participated in the movie "Hero Without Regrets", although he only played a small supporting role that could not be smaller, but this was the first film and television work he participated in in his life.
At that time, Ma Shaohua was 41 years old, and although he was only discovered in middle age, he did not care about the size of the role, as long as he had the opportunity, he would participate in the performance.
It was not until 2001 that he really went deep into the public's field of vision, and he used his good acting skills to play a generation of great people.
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Although Ma Shaohua starred in "Heroes Without Regrets" and then starred in film and television works such as "The Ninth Battalion" and "The Chief Justice", he was not very popular.
In the 2001 film Twenty Years of Wind and Rain, he starred as Sun Yat-sen. And it was this role that rejected him a few years ago that made him quickly familiar to everyone.
At that time, the audience thought that he was the most successful person to play Sun Yat-sen, whether it was Shen Yun or action, he was called "Sun Yat-sen" by many people.
Interestingly, in the crew of "Towards the Republic", Ma Shaohua always had ideas and inspirations about Sun Yat-sen's performance, and he often went to the director to discuss. The director's door was blocked by Ma Shaohua every day, so that the director took a detour when he saw him.
The crew said he was crazy for the role and called him "crazy".
He has played Sun Yat-sen 6 times, and everyone regards him as a special actor of "Sun Yat-sen". Just when everyone thought that he would only play Sun Yat-sen, he showed the greatness of another great man to the screen audience.
In 2014, the director of the TV series "Deng Xiaoping at the Turning Point of History" found Ma Shaohua and hoped that he could play "Comrade Xiaoping".
With only one month left before the crew began filming, Ma Shaohua felt an unprecedented difficulty in his work, he was afraid that he would not be able to create the image of a great man, and he was afraid that he would not be able to open people's limited cognition of his own drama path.
Ma Shaohua saw in the film and television materials that "Comrade Xiaoping" is a Sichuanese with a very strong accent, and as a Guizhou native, he began to practice the Sichuan accent every day.
He said: "At that time, for the sake of performance, I locked myself in the house every day to read his books and learn the tone of his speech."
In order to get close to the body shape of the character, Ma Shaohua began to eat fat meat every day, and only after eating high blood pressure did he gain thirty pounds of meat.
The crew members saw Ma Shaohua and laughed and said, "Teacher Ma has gone crazy for acting." Why bother yourself so much? In this regard, Ma Shaohua did not think so, he felt that only by really going deep into the role itself could the scene be filmed well.
At that time, after watching Ma Shaohua's play, the descendants of "Comrade Xiaoping" all directly called out that this was the old man of that year, and they all came forward to shake hands with the "old man".
As a veteran artist who has been practicing art for decades, Ma Shaohua has done his performance perfectly every time, and his wife is also "extraordinary".
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In 1969, 14-year-old Ma Shaohua met his wife Li Lanrong in the literary troupe.
Li Lanrong was the coach of the gymnastics team when he was young, and later the world champions Chen Fei, Li Xiaoshuang and so on were all from Li Lanrong's door.
The two can be said to be young plum bamboo horses, and they met at the age of 14. Up to now, it has been more than fifty years together.
When the two first got married, the living conditions were very bad, and Ma Shaohua did not perform seriously for a while, and worked as a conductor in the screening hall. But no matter how hard life was, the two never wanted to be separated.
Then, Ma Shaohua went to Wuhan because of his work, and the couple began a "long-distance relationship". Sometimes the two can only meet each other for half a year, and even because of the need for performance, the two are in the same place, and Ma Shaohua can't get out to see his wife.
Ma Shaohua kept in mind his wife's hard work over the years, and every time the performance remuneration would be handed over to his wife, but his wife never spent more than a penny, she kept the money for the family.
He deeply understood in his heart that without his wife's great efforts, everything he has today would be impossible.
Up to now, Ma Shaohua and his wife are still the preferred bus when they go out, and every time they eat the leftovers, they have to pack up and take them home, and some people say that they are so big and still eat leftovers.
They only feel that they have retained the hard and simple habits of life until now, only because they have experienced a life of poverty and suffering together.
As Ma Shaohua's wife, Li Lanrong, even if he has no career achievements, he can also live a rich and noble life by Ma Shaohua's side. Not to mention that she is also the "champion coach" in the gymnastics world, so tall, just low-key and simple.
Many people say that Ma Shaohua, who is now 65 years old, is low-key and no one knows, and many people say that he is like the old artist Li Xuejian. Both are good, low-key and simple in life, and they do not have a little shelf for people.
It is true that many people drift away after becoming famous and rich, forgetting the "roots". As soon as the living conditions are good, great changes have taken place in how people behave and do things.
Life should be simple and do your job well. Life can be a little bitter, but as long as you are happy.
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