When it comes to Teacher Li Mingqi, many people's first reaction is the role of Grandma Rong.
In fact, as an old artist who has acted in dramas all her life, she has created many roles, but in the end she is well known to the public, but only the vicious image of Rong Mama.
And Li Mingqi's image in the eyes of the audience was not "whitewashed" until she was more than eighty years old, and the real her in life made countless netizens sigh: it turned out that Rong Mama was a bad person!
Today, we will talk about the story of "Grandma Rong" Li Mingqi.
In 1936, Li Mingqi was born into a wealthy family in Liaoning, Shandong Province.
However, she did not enjoy the treatment of a big lady, and in the years when she was still learning to speak, the family gradually declined, and one of her hundred-day photos became the most precious thing for the whole family.
Li Mingqi's childhood was not easy, and with the arrival of his younger brothers and sisters, the family, who was often hungry, tightened their belts.
God did not give mercy because the family had a difficult time, and when Li Mingqi's father died of illness at the age of 10, this family that was not rich made worse and entered a period of turbulent years.
There are 8 children in the family to eat, as the eldest daughter in the family, she must learn to grow up and share the weight of the family with her mother.
What runs through her youth and adolescence is not ice cream and toys, not the pampering of her parents and beautiful dresses, but every day when she opens her eyes, how to do her best to maintain the life of this big family.
For Li Mingqi at that time, life was constructed of endless variables and suffering.
But no matter what age, it is not easy for a 10-year-old girl to make a living in the adult world.
Selling flowers, helping people wash dishes, selling newspapers, she has limited choices.
Under the pressure of life, Li Mingqi, who was only 10 years old, became one of the many little girls selling matches on the street.
And such a hard-working life to earn money to support her family, she passed for 10 years.
In 1956, when Li Mingqi was in her early twenties, she had been in the society for many years, which made her understand the difficulties of the world early.
Her mind matured prematurely, and she had no unrealistic hopes for the future.
If life goes well, marrying and having children after that, and continuing to live the life of an ordinary person, is the most beautiful future she can think of.
But the god of fate remembered this person who had been forgotten by her, and an olive branch was thrown at her.
The local tobacco factory needed to recruit a group of female workers, and at the age of 20, she finally had a stable job.
After she entered the tobacco factory, because her voice was really unique and good-sounding, she was invited to take the road of acting.
But for Li Mingqi at that time, poor people were not qualified to talk about dreams, and she resolutely refused such a wonderful opportunity, and the reason was nothing more than that the actor's salary at that time was not high, and it was not enough to support a family.
Later, after several twists and turns, she still mistakenly entered the propaganda team in the factory, and then began her long road of searching up and down in art.
Because her voice is sweet and unique, when she first joined the publicity team, her identity was not as an actress, but as a singer.
In order to cultivate her, the propaganda team even invited famous teachers from abroad to guide her at great expense, and during that time she also frequently participated in some performances organized by the opera troupe.
Heaven always seems to favor those who work hard to live, and after entering the propaganda team, Li Mingqi seems to have suddenly entered an easy mode.
Because of a chance at work, she was introduced to the repertory theatre again, and then officially became a drama actress.
At that time, the drama industry was not popular with ordinary audiences, and drama actors naturally often sat on the cold bench.
However, compared with the snub in front of the door of the drama, the newly rising film and television industry is very popular with the public.
As a result, some actors who are more active in the drama troupe have successively changed careers to become film and television actors, choosing a path that comes quickly and is relatively easy to make achievements.
But Li Mingqi was not willing to go with the flow.
Although drama actors do not earn as much as film and television actors, they are more than enough to support their families.
Years of poor life and struggle in society have given Li Mingqi firm wisdom.
In the past, she had no choice but to support her family, but now that her life is better, she must insist on her pursuit of art.
In the art circle at that time, there was actually a chain of contempt between actors, and most of the drama actors looked down on the film and were unwilling to give up the means to accept the popular art of the film.
Film and television actors also look down on the arrogance of drama actors, believing that movies and dramas are completely different forms of artistic expression, and drama actors cannot act well in movies.
Just at this time, the director of a film approached Lee Ming-kai and wanted to invite her to play a mother role in the film.
However, at that time, Li Mingqi was affected by the actor's chain of contempt, and she hesitated again and again when she was unwilling to bend her waist for five buckets of rice.
Opportunities are not waiting for her all the time, the most important thing in the world is people, just when she hesitates a little bit, the role that should belong to her is played by someone else.
Three days later, she rode her bicycle to the crew, and Li Mingqi, who decided to put down her body, got the disappointing news that the role had been decided, but the director arranged another role for her.
The movie "12 Trains" is Li Mingqi's first contact with the screen, although the process is somewhat tortuous, but the good result is good.
For whether he can act in movies and whether he can create a good role, Li Mingqi at that time actually had no bottom in his heart.
But fortunately, she met a good director, and the director knew that she was worried, so he only said one word to her: "You act well, and the rhythm is controlled by me." ”
It was also this sentence that fixed Li Mingqi's heart, and those concerns in her original heart were also put down in an instant, and she began to devote herself to the film industry with her enthusiasm for drama.
This beginning was decades of dragon set supporting roles.
Fast forward to the 1980s, nearly two decades after Li Mingqi's last work.
Seeing that the actors of the same period all received flowers and applause, one by one, all of them boiled out, only they still played soy sauce between the various crews, saying that it was fake not to be anxious.
But the tortuous life made Li Mingqi understand that life is not what you want, and some people just need to pay twelve points of effort to get a little reward and gift of life.
Who doesn't want to be young and triumphant?
But when the favor of fate has not come, it seems that the only thing that can be done is to wait silently, water and fertilize and wait for the flowers to bloom.
In 1988, Li Mingqi finally ushered in another opportunity, and the crew of the TV series "Plainclothes Police" invited her to play the role of "Aunt Zheng" in it.
Originally, Li Mingqi thought that this was the same as countless times before, and he was an obscure background board, but what he did not expect was that this drama was on fire.
And Li Mingqi also attracted much attention because of her appearance in this drama, and won the title of "Best Actress" of the Golden Shield Award in one fell swoop that year, and after years of hard work, she finally entered the public's vision.
However, this year she was 52 years old.
Teenagers are mostly talented and lucky, and behind the late success of the big instrument is more the sweat and tears that have been shed for many years.
But the joy of fame did not last long, Li Mingqi was frustrated to find himself framed by the role, and the subsequent role invitation, no matter what the subject matter, was to play either a mother-in-law or a mother, and she was fixed in such a kind and kind image of a good person.
For an actor, plasticity is very important, no good actor only wants to play one type of role in his life, and Li Mingqi is certainly no exception.
And this state of affairs continued until she was almost 60 years old, and finally found a breakthrough.
In 1995, director Zhang Shaolin planned to shoot "Water Margin", and found Li Xuejian and other powerful actors to star.
"Water Margin" is a rare big production, and the requirements for actors are also high, and the story of Pan Jinlian and Ximen Qing is a high-profile section in Water Margin.
Who let the old treacherous and cunning queen mother let play, which is difficult to spoil the director of the casting.
Fortunately, assistant director Kang Honglei and Li Mingqi have cooperated, so they immediately sent an invitation to her.
This time, Li Mingqi finally waited for the opportunity to break the previous stereotype.
Mixed in the city, seemingly ordinary but actually has a heart and a wrist of the queen mother, very test the actor's understanding of the role and the ability to shape.
The crew also attached great importance to this role, and even the costumes were tried several times in a row before finally being decided.
Thus, there is the queen mother we later see dressed in ordinary and casual clothes, with a warm and cold face, and people hate to grit their teeth.
Of course, there is the credit of the director here, but the successful shaping of this role also benefits from the solid acting skills of Teacher Li Mingqi and the deep understanding of the role.
The success of the role of Wang Po broadened the drama path of Teacher Li Mingqi, and also paved the way for her later role as the well-known Rong Mama.
In 1998, the filming of "Huan Zhu Gege" began, and the role of Rong Mama was originally fixed, and the first choice was not Li Mingqi.
But things in the world are sometimes so yin and yang, the originally scheduled Rong Mama is ill, and Teacher Li Mingqi is temporarily pulled to the rescue because of the excellent acting skills of the role of Wang Po.
This rescue rescue rescued a well-known Rong Mama, and there was the peak of Li Mingqi's acting career.
In the drama "Huan Zhu GeGe", the character image of Rong Mama itself is actually not brilliant.
There is no dramatic conflict in this character's body, nor is there any deep-seated contradiction, and some are just the image of a fierce and evil crazy woman.
But even so, Li Mingqi still rationalized all the motivations of Rong Mama's character.
She not only let the audience see a fierce and evil Rong Mama, but also a loyal servant image who is loyal to the lord and is willing to go to the sword mountain and go down the oil pot for the queen.
Mama Rong is the childhood shadow of many post-80s and post-90s, especially the clip of the small black house using silver needles to prick Ziwei, which lingers in the hearts of many people, so that the audience can feel the pain across the screen.
Even for a long time after the broadcast of "Huan Zhu Ge Ge", some parents would use Mama Rong to intimidate disobedient children.
The role of Grandma Rong did make Li Mingqi red, but at the same time it also brought great trouble to her life.
Many viewers entered the play too deeply, and transferred their resentment towards Grandma Rong in the play to Li Mingqi himself.
Wherever he went, anyone who was recognized was either thrown rotten vegetable leaves or thrown rotten eggs, and even the windows of Li Mingqi's home were smashed by the audience.
Even she sent her grandson to school, but she was rejected.
But no matter how the audience looks at Li Mingqi's heart, she knows that Grandma Rong is only a person in the play, and the successful shaping of that role is just an experience of being a bad person.
She is very grateful to The role of Grandma Rong for making herself known to the public, but in real life, she did not put up the old drama skeleton because of the fire of the play.
She also lived the same low-key life as before, like every old lady in her life, shopping for groceries, dancing square dances, enjoying life to the fullest, and not treating herself as a public figure.
In addition to Mamma Yung, Li Mingqi has not played a more positive or touching role.
In 2005, Li Mingqi played the grandmother in Huang Xiaoming's version of "Eagle Hero".
The grandmother-in-law played by Li Mingqi has never asked Xiaolongnü for anything in her life, and after being seriously injured, she held her last breath and waited for her own miss to return, and the only request was to take care of Yang for a lifetime.
Compared with the jianghu love feud in the whole play, the clip of the grandmother-in-law receiving the lunch box played by Li Mingqi has become the tear point of many viewers.
In addition, in the TV series "Home with Nine Phoenixes", Li Mingqi is not a hated role.
Although in this drama, Li Mingqi is not playing a gentle and kind mother.
However, she played the characteristics of the character's dare to love and hate, softness and inner rigidity, which perfectly interpreted the characteristics of strong women in that era in the play.
However, because playing a role like Mama Yung is too deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, the audience's change in her image has to be postponed for 15 years.
In 2019, Li Mingqi, who is already 83 years old, also tasted fresh, and a video of taking the bus sent her to the hot search.
In the video, Li Mingqi stands on the dangling bus, and the little boy next to her says to her: "Grandma, you sit!" ”
Li Mingqi turned around, pressed the little boy to the seat with both hands, and supported the railing to protect him in front of him.
After the video was on the hot search, many netizens left messages: It turns out that Grandma Rong is a good person!
For the hot search, Li Mingqi was completely unaware, and after this, it also caused a flurry of topics of "giving up seats to the elderly".
Later, through her granddaughter, she responded to the outside world: Grandma can go where she can go, and getting used to it is nothing!
In this regard, many netizens said that there is such a cute and respected grandmother, but it is really happy!
After the "bus gives up", Li Mingqi's image in the eyes of the audience has been greatly reversed.
Whether it is the audience or the neighbors, they are very fond of this old man, and Li Mingqi, who is an actor, does not have a little shelf.
First, compared with the actions of the individual main actors of "Huan Zhu Gege", it seems that "Rong Mama" is more popular.
Now in her eighties, she rarely appears in front of the public again, but occasionally participates in some public welfare activities and makes some of her own modest efforts for China's acting career.
She used to be in the gutter, but she never forgot to chase the sun, but she kept working hard, and finally waited for the day when the flowers bloomed.
She knows how to advance and retreat, and when she is frustrated, she is not proud when she is discouraged, but silently does what she should do, loves what she loves and does what she does.
For the role created by Li Mingqi, there is such a sentence in Chinese literature and art as an evaluation: how much people hate Grandma Rong, how deep the love and praise for Li Mingqi are.