In the obscure old alley, there were several families crowded in a mess, she wore a short shirt with big flowers on a green background, her unkempt perm was randomly piled on her head, she carried an environmental protection bag in her hand, smeared her round and rolling body, and skillfully shuttled through the hall alley...
Old Shanghai gossip, bright little steps, and open laughter, a "Shanghai Mom" stands in front of you, natural and real.
This is Zhang Zhihua, and most of the time, she appears on the screen as a mother-in-law, whether it is shrewd calculation, or kind and simple, her performance is extremely lifelike, as if she is the neighbor aunt who lives next door.
In the 1980s, Zhang Zhihua was a well-known "screen beauty", with Gong Xue, Zhang Yu, and Zhao Jing, and was a veritable "factory flower" of The Studio, starring in many classic film and television dramas.
Compared with her acting career, her marriage to the handsome young student Guo Kaimin is more enjoyable, exploring her fate, all born of cause and effect.
I. The "Screen Beauty" of the 80s
In 1958, Zhang Zhihua was born in Xuhui District, Shanghai, her parents are intellectuals, since she was a child, she had the ambition of "only reading high", but she mistakenly embarked on the road of performance.
The little girl was born beautifully, especially a pair of large black pearl-like eyes, clear and transparent, the eyes seemed to be able to speak, two horns were tied on her head, and a "really cool" shirt with a tooth collar was very angry.
Her parents are very strict with her education, standing and sitting must have the appearance of a girl, and her temperament is calm and gentle, even more sensible than children of the same age.
In junior high school, Zhang Zhihua, who can sing and dance, was admitted to the Shanghai Children's Radio Choir, and because of his loud voice, he went to sing the role of desolate and thick Lao Dan
Once, in the background was seen by Zhang Ruifang, I thought this child was quite interesting, grew a face of Li Tiemei, but sang the grandmother's play, and left a deep impression.
Don't look at the young age, in the troupe, every time he receives foreign guests and important leaders, Zhang Zhihua is entrusted with a heavy responsibility and arranges for him to present flowers to foreign heads of state.
The model play "Sha Jiabang" is her unique work, often as a reserved program, used to receive foreign guests, the "Sha Grandma" played by her is a kind old mother, kind and kind, Zhang Zhihua will be the character state very accurate.
In 1975, the black-and-white film "Little General" was preparing to shoot, due to actor adjustment and other reasons, Zhang Zhihua, who had no filming experience, was accidentally pushed to the position of heroine, and has since successfully debuted.
In the 1970s, Shanghai Film Studio was in urgent need of talents, under the leadership of the head of the group, recruiting students from all over the world in batches, taking advantage of this spring breeze, Zhang Zhihua was admitted to the Shanghai Film Studio, and became the same art trainees as Zhang Yu, Pan Hong, Zhao Jing, etc.
Just entered the troupe, the first lesson is not to teach how to be a star, but to teach how to learn to be a person, a few children follow the old predecessors, carry a hoe, lift the iron barrel, go to the countryside, go to the army, climb the mine, experience life, accumulate practical experience.
And the reverence of the elders for art has also deeply influenced Zhang Zhihua, until today, she has never dared to neglect any role, acted in a lifelong drama, and has never been late.
Zhang Ruifang, who was the leader of the group at that time, liked this simple and hard-working girl very much, and taught Zhang Zhihua to perform hand in hand, giving her lines word by word, while Cheng Zhi was also teaching her to sing Peking Opera.
In life, in order to add meals to these children and supplement some nutrition, Zhang Ruifang often opens small stoves for them, saves food and drink by himself, and stews braised pork and sauce elbows for them.
"A few of our children, who were not polite at all, ate the meat clean every time," Zhang Zhihua said with a smile.
Looking back on the past, in the days of the film studio, simple and happy, surrounded by lovely people, with lovely dramas at hand, immersed in a strong creative atmosphere, let Zhang Zhihua feel very happy.
In just 2 years, she has been able to pick the beams, starring in four dramas of "Exposure", "Thousands of Rivers and Mountains", "Sweet Cause" and "Delivery Road", becoming a rising star of the Studio.
2. Marriage with Guo Kaimin
Among the actors recruited in the same session, there is also a child who is also the object of the key training of the film studio, that is, Guo Kaimin, who was born in Changchun, Jilin Province.
His parents are both geologists, perennial travel, Guo Kaimin since childhood to follow the south to the north, practice a skill, can speak and sing, Mandarin speaking is particularly standard.
In addition, Guo Kaimin has a "national drama face", thick eyebrows, big eyes, righteous and awe-inspiring, is a rare piece of high-grade jade, by the old predecessors in the regiment baby tight, but any new film, will carry this offspring.
Not long after entering the troupe, he successively starred in many movies such as "The Second Spring", "Unforgettable Battle", "The Record of the Big Knife", etc., most of which appeared on the screen as "children of workers and peasants".
In the spare time, Guo Kaimin and Zhang Zhihua walked very closely, the two were similar in age, and the family background was very similar, so there was always an endless topic to talk about, and over time, a kind of flickering light and dark thing flowed in the hearts of the two people.
In 1979, the movie "Lushan Love" was released, Guo Kaimin played the straight cadre 'Geng Hua', and Zhang Yu played "Zhou Jun", a screen couple.
And this phenomenon-level movie made Guo Kaimin and Zhang Yu become top stars, and Guo Kaimin was the "dream lover" of hundreds of millions of young girls that year, and received many confession letters from obsessive fans every day.
In the play, his short and shy "face kiss" with Zhang Yu once made people blush and beat, and it also became the first kiss in the history of Chinese film, causing heated discussion among the whole people.
As a good friend, Zhang Zhihua actually had a slight fluctuation in his heart, and couldn't help but ask Guo Kaimin, "What is that kiss like"? After Guo Kaimin listened, he just looked down and smiled and did not answer.
In 1980, Zhang Zhihua and Guo Kaimin cooperated in the film "Good Things and Many Grinding", and after a long time together, the two finally broke through the window paper of feelings and came together naturally.
However, Guo Kaimin and Zhang Yu's "official match" is really too high, the audience is stunned not to buy Zhang Zhihua's account, all kinds of insults and attacks, making Zhang Zhihua sad.
A woman who falls into love, where there is a chance to escape, not to mention falling into the arms of such a clean and handsome man, is doomed to be unable to escape, Zhang Zhihua loves Guo Kaimin, love to the bone.
After 5 years of love, the two entered the palace of marriage, and the husband's career rose step by step, and Zhang Zhihua also followed closely behind, successively taking over many movies such as "Exile University" and "Female College Marriage".
After the college entrance examination resumed, Zhang Zhihua decided to stop filming for a year, review her homework and enter the Beijing Film Academy, realize her college dream, work hard, and finally get excellent results.
However, the factory only allowed one of the couple to go north to study, and Zhang Zhihua, who regarded her husband as heaven, resolutely gave up the opportunity to her husband, and at this point, Guo Kaimin went to school with a salary and became Nortel alumni with Tang Guoqiang and Song Chunli.
In 1986, Zhang Zhihua became pregnant, and in order to raise a baby with peace of mind, she gradually reduced her shooting work and slowly retired to the family, willingly being the woman behind Guo Kaimin.
However, in the year of childbirth, Zhang Zhihua had difficulty giving birth and hemorrhaged, and her husband who was far away in Beijing did not have time to rush back for some reason, Zhang Zhihua endured the pain of giving birth to his son "Guo Cheng", and his body was also severely damaged, and his back is still in pain.
This incident also seems to have become a knot in the couple's heart, and Guo Kaimin has always felt very guilty about his wife.
After having a child, Zhang Zhihua completely fell into the life of chickens and dogs, seeing the actresses of the same period, one brighter than a report card, such as Chen Chong has "Little Flower", Zhao Jing has "Pen in Love", Zhang Yu has "Bashan Night Rain".
At that time, after stranding her beloved acting career, Zhang Zhihua's heart was sad and lonely, and she wrote in her year-end summary: "In 1986, I contributed a healthy little citizen to the country."
Breaking into the besieged city of marriage, Zhang Zhihua retreated step by step, making her gradually lose herself, and also making her closer and closer to the truth of life.
The plight of single mothers
Guo Kaimin, who returned from school, seemed to see the larger world, and he was already uneasy about the status quo, and his heart was like a small volcano, which was about to erupt at any time.
And the gap between him and his wife is also getting bigger and bigger, Zhang Zhihua is a traditional woman, she longs for a stable family, more eager for her husband's delicate love, the gap in career makes the relationship between the two unbalanced, and the difference in ideas makes the two go farther and farther.
After successfully directing his first work, "The Brothers of Yangjingbin", the restlessness in Guo Kaimin's soul was completely released, and he decided to become a director and shoot his own works.
He told his wife what he thought, but Zhang Zhihua was very opposed, she did not want her husband to give up the iron rice bowl and toss it in an orderly manner.
However, Guo Kaimin directly resigned behind his wife's back, agreed to the invitation of the director of Hainan Television Station, and used to be the director of the establishment.
This move directly became the trigger for the marriage of the two, and in 1991, the two ended their 6-year marriage.
"I can suffer as a person, but I can't hurt my dignity, I look very honest, but I am very stubborn", for the loss of trust in the partnership, Zhang Zhihua chose to keep his last dignity.
After the divorce, Guo Kaimin left the house, and Zhang Zhihua took his son and embarked on the road of a single mother, which was hard, not enough for outsiders, and could only grit his teeth to survive by himself, because life never believed in tears.
Years without works, coupled with the figure out of shape, Zhang Zhihua fell into the endless darkness, she was anxious and inferior, looking at her 5-year-old son next to her, Zhang Zhihua wiped away her tears and decided to cheer up again.
After that, she used the posture of a freshman to pick up all the things that had fallen in the past, host, dubbed, acted, sang, and as long as there was work, she would do it.
In addition to acting, she dubbed people part-time, walked the cave and sang Peking Opera, and was so busy that she could hardly go home, and even Chinese New Year's Eve were running around outside.
"At most, I change the recording studio five times a day, and I feel like a ghost, from morning to night in the studio, it's all dark, I can't see the sun." 」
Once in the New Year, Zhang Zhihua settled to the salary of the cave, full of a large school bag, she carefully put it in her arms, trotted all the way home, poured the money on the bed, all in bits and pieces, a piece, she dipped in spit, one by one, a total of three thousand pieces.
That time, she smiled like a child.
In Zhang Zhihua's heart, there are only two simple wishes, the first is to act well, and the second is to raise the child well by himself.
After many years of absence from the screen, the opportunity to pick up the lost time is very small, and with the help of director Wu Zhennian, Zhang Zhihua was able to return to the stage.
However, at that time, she was no longer a heroine, could not receive gentle and bright female roles, although she was only in her thirties, she could only play some mother-in-law and mother-in-law.
In the TV series "Women", Zhang Zhihua changed the image of a lady in the past, playing a textile worker, with a straightforward and spicy personality, a loud voice, and a mingle with her co-workers, and this role also released the resentment that had accumulated in her heart for many years.
After that, she cooperated with Xi Meijuan and Wu Mian to star in the family drama "Children's Love" as the shrewd second daughter "Tong Jianmei", not only dressed vulgarly, but also quarreled until the brain was lacking oxygen.
Zhang Zhihua's acting skills are real and natural, and he has won the love of many fans, and in 1998, with the role of "Zhou Ruomin" in the movie "Mr. Zhao", he won the highest gold prize in Locarno, Switzerland.
After the divorce, Zhang Zhihua can be said to be reborn in adversity and reborn, no longer the "family wife" who looked up to people's sniffles, but the "big heroine" who was alone.
Fourth, the woman who regains happiness
For his son, Zhang Zhihua has always felt guilty, when he divorced his ex-husband, he was still a child who had never been in the world, did not understand anything, only knew that his father was going to go out for a long time, and he never came back for a long time.
Growing up, the lack of father's love is that no matter how hard Zhang Zhihua tries, he can't make up for it for his son.
Since childhood, the son's personality is very quiet, do not like to be lively, but also very shy, once in the middle of the class, he suddenly rushed out of the classroom, and then was arrested by the teacher, fiercely criticized.
Afterwards, Zhang Zhihua learned the truth, it turned out that when the child was in class, he saw his uncle passing by outside the window, with a flat head and a very strong back image of his father, so he chased him out to find him.
After listening, Zhang Zhihua burst into tears, and his heart felt like he had overturned a bucket of hot oil, and it hurt fiercely.
Here, after years, mentioning his ex-wife Zhang Zhihua again, Guo Kaimin said publicly: "She is a good woman, but I love to toss too much and lose this marriage."
Rushing to Hainan, Guo Kaimin found that he had been deceived, and made a cameo appearance as a host in the Hainan Taiwan Literature and Art Department for 2 years, not even a compilation, let alone his own director's dream.
At this time, he met the second woman in his life, drama actor Liu Xiaochun, and the two met and fell in love with the TV series "Taiwan Boy".
And Liu Xiaochun is also experiencing the trauma of a failed marriage, her ex-husband is the Northwest tough guy actor You Yongzhi, at this time, two people with the same disease, finally came together, and soon flashed marriage.
Although Guo Kaimin repeatedly failed to invest, Liu Xiaochun did not abandon him, willing to follow him to suffer, and later, he also gave birth to a son Guo Yihuan, and now the child graduated from college and entered the entertainment circle.
The son's length is better than his father when he was younger.
Under the persuasion of friends, Zhang Zhihua also gradually untied the knot and began the road of blind date.
In 1997, after being introduced, Zhang Zhihua met the famous painter Zha Guojun, who is now a visiting professor at the Shanghai Theater Academy and a tutor for postgraduate students, and his paintings are often collected by museums and consulates in various countries.
In life, the personalities of the two belong to the two poles of the earth, and they are completely two kinds of people, Zhang Zhihua is as fast as the wind, doing things fast, talking fast, and slipping; Zha Guojun is slow as a bell, slow in painting, slow in action, and slow in swallowing and hot.
It is these two people, but they get along extremely well and comfortably, as if the magical laws of mechanics in the universe can both rotate and rotate.
At home, the two have their own rooms, their own study, have their own relatively independent space, encounter a good movie, the two will discuss until late at night, if they see a boring film, Zhang Zhihua will retreat to the room, turn on another TV, or go to the study to read.
So for a certain period of time, if you only turn on a TV at home, there are probably good works to enrich the lives of the old couple.
For his stepson Guo Cheng, Zha Guojun regarded him as his own, got along very well with him, was very thoughtful and careful in all aspects, and gave enough of the child's missing father's love.
According to Zhang Zhihua, it is "feeling that the two of them are in love and have nothing to do with me."
Nowadays, the family of three is happy and happy, Zhang Zhihua has finally lived the way she wants, for the past, she has long looked away, every step of life, is her regretless choice.
Fifth, plain is the truth
Now, the 63-year-old Zhang Zhihua is still struggling in her acting career, although most of the plays she found are housewife roles, but she never sets limits for herself, and tries her best to interpret the differences of each role and impress the audience.
When she is not filming, she is like an ordinary aunt next door, going out to buy vegetables, cooking, knitting sweaters while watching TV, and most likes to visit the market, nagging with small traders, and there is no star shelf.
"I am a woman who wants to live a life, and I have been living seriously," Zhang Zhihua said.
Often, when her husband was painting in the study, she quietly accompanied him, with an old dog of almost 10 years old, Lucy, holding a book for an afternoon, and this small and warm little day made her feel very happy.
In the room of the two, there is still a portrait of her husband for herself, that is, her 40-year-old appearance, and the tenderness of a lover is full of brushstrokes.
Recently, the epidemic in Shanghai has touched everyone's heart, as a Shanghainese, Zhang Zhihua led by example, took the initiative to sign up as a volunteer, helped organize residents to conduct nucleic acid testing, delivered food and meals for the elderly living alone, often busy until late at night, such a move is very admirable.
Finally, I wish Teacher Zhang Zhihua happiness and health in his old age.