On the day of the Guyu Festival, CCTV released a short video "Yidan Says The Weather" to take the audience to feel the scenery of the Great Wall in spring.
In addition to the fixed guest Jing Yidan in the video, there is also Xu Li, a retired CCTV host who has not been seen for a long time.
The two sisters travel together to enjoy the vibrant scenery of spring.
At the end of the show, Xu Li stood next to a pool of spring water and recited a poem by Lin Huiyin with a smile on her face, "You are the April Day on Earth".
Xu Li in the shot, the classic short hair style is smart and neat, unloading the seriousness of the host, and the smile is gentle and lovely.
This scene is really a perfect fit with the verse in the poem, "Laughter lights up the wind on all sides, and the light spirit dances and changes in the light of spring." ”
Teacher Xu Li is the first female host of the first program "China News" of CCTV International Channel, and is the well-deserved "news sister" of CCTV's four sets.
The hosting style is concise and capable, the news focus is accurately grasped, and for twenty-nine years, he sat in front of the camera to broadcast Chinese news to the audience.
Although she is now retired and returns to family life, her beautiful and elegant temperament is still like the first sight.
So how did such a beautiful host "cultivate"?
01
In 1961, Xu Li was born in Jishou, Hunan.
The famine years had just passed, and my mother did not keep up with nutrition when she was pregnant in October, so she was weak from an early age.
In Xu Li's memory, she spent her time in the hospital before she was six years old.
Hepatitis, pneumonia, boiling water burns, medical accidents, every unfortunate thing made her little girl who was not very lucky catch up.
At that time, her mother's expectation for her was that her daughter would be able to walk well in the future.
Xu Li's fate with voice work began with an interest in film dubbing, and she especially liked the voice of Pan Dongzi in "Shining Red Star".
For this reason, she watched this movie many times, just to imitate the tone and voice in the movie.
Although she liked dubbing, she did not consider it as a career at the time, because she wanted to become a writer.
She solemnly wrote in her diary: "At the age of 40, I want to be a writer. ”
Later, this dream came true, and she really published a personal essay "Woman is an Attitude" at the age of forty.
In 1977, the national college entrance examination was resumed, and Xu Li, who was 16 years old that year, happened to graduate from high school, and she was so excited that she took the college entrance examination that year.
Three volunteers were filled out, and none of them were recorded, and one of the three volunteers was the Broadcasting Department of the Beijing Broadcasting Institute.
I didn't catch the youth train of the university, but I caught the last train of the countryside to know the youth.
At the age of 16, she went to the countryside of Hunan for several months to work hard, and when she returned, she happened to run into the Changsha People's Radio and Television Station to recruit people.
When she first entered the broadcast training class, she was still a Xiang girl with a strong Hunan accent.
Just like most Hunan people, she does not distinguish between "f" and "h", and she will also read Hunan as "Fu" South and Fujian as "Lake" Jian.
In order to "quit" the accent, Xu Li only spoke Mandarin during that time, and by the end of the two-month training class, she was already a standard Beijing Mandarin.
In her spare time, she spent time studying the pronunciation of the announcers of the Central People's Radio, pondering their timbres and intonation.
From the beginning of imitation, to the gradual formation of her own broadcast style, she went farther and farther down the road of sound art.
People in that era generally married early, and Xu Li was no exception, she entered the "siege" of marriage at the age of 21.
But at that time, she was young and had a strong sense of work, and after getting married, she was still focused on her work.
In 1986, Xu Li was transferred to Changsha Television Station, and the tasks that needed to be undertaken became more and more complicated.
At the age of 27, due to the constant supervision of her parents and in-laws, she conceived and gave birth to a boy in October.
After only two months of maternity leave, she handed the child over to her mother-in-law and returned to work.
At that time, the husband and wife were busy at work, going out early and returning late every day, and they might not be able to say a word all day.
As a result, the two have a difference in concept, and often have some small contradictions because they do not handle the relationship between family and work well.
02
In 1992, Xu Li had come to the year of establishment.
She knew more clearly what she wanted, so that year she made two fate-changing decisions.
The first is to end this bitter marriage and put aside heavy burdens.
Later, Xu Li never shied away from saying that she had a marriage, but she rarely talked about her ex-husband, but there was an evaluation:
"He's a great guy, but two good guys don't necessarily have a good marriage, and I'm always grateful for my first marriage."
After separation, not to denigrate each other may be the best respect for a relationship.
The second is to leave the familiar Hunan and want to take the children to Beijing and join the bigger stage of CCTV.
Xu Li's family did not stop her, but only advised her to weigh it carefully.
At that time, there were many problems in front of Xu Li, not a simple question of choosing one or two.
First of all, CCTV clearly told her that there will be a one-year probationary period, and inappropriate words will be returned to the risk.
Compared with the stable work and comfortable house in Changsha, Hunan, is there any need to take this risk?
Xu Li knows that she loves the work of the host, and if she does not try now, she will spend her life in regret.
The second is the question of who will raise and who will bring the 4-year-old child.
"Now the child is only four years old, in Changsha we can still help around, you take your child with your child in Beijing, it will definitely be very hard, you have to think well."
Her father had a heart-to-heart talk with her, and after consultation, she decided to leave the child in Hunan at the beginning.
Wait until the work can be stabilized in the future, and then take the child to Beijing to take care of it.
The child's grandparents are also very good people, saying you go, the child handed over to us, you are at ease.
If you choose one of these directions, you are bound to owe something in another aspect.
When the child is young, because he is particularly busy, he locks the child in the house, and the child with a lively personality is trapped in a cabin, and sometimes it is inevitable that anxiety will occur.
Once Xu Li went to the Great Wall for an interview, and when she returned, she found that the child had cut all the sheets and curtains, and cut himself into a bald.
The first time she was not angry, she hugged her son in pain, trying to make the child understand that her mother was deeply in love with her.
After Xu Li was forty years old, her concept changed and she became more focused on family and children.
In the past, career was more important than children, and now children are more important than work.
As a parent, the most feared thing is to owe their children, because in the process of their children's lives, they miss many key moments, and they will no longer have the opportunity to make up.
Choosing to divorce her first husband, the child did not receive full fatherly love, and her own mother was also busy with work and often absent.
Deep in her heart, Xu Li has always felt guilty for not paying her responsibilities as a mother.
"I often think that if he is given a choice, maybe he will choose not to have a mother like me."
And these problems, as Zhang Tianwei broke into her life, there was a turnaround.
03
In 1994, Xu Li was asked for an interview by Beijing Youth Daily, and the reporter who came to interview was Zhang Tianwei.
Beautiful, flying, and radiant, this is Zhang Tianwei's first impression of seeing Xu Li.
Xu Li's feelings for him are like a "grizzly bear-like man".
"Can you eat Hunan cuisine, let's talk while eating."
During the conversation, Xu Li found that the man in front of him was not as rough and bold as he looked on the outside.
The language is full of wisdom and reason, but the tone is also a warm feeling.
Xu Li told herself in her heart that this was a character she would like, but at that time she did not know that the man opposite had been "picked" by him.
The two of them had a great conversation at this meal, and the more they talked, the higher the interest, and the discussion was far beyond the scope of the interview.
Since then, the two people have often contacted by phone to share interesting things in their lives, and they often meet for walks, fitness, shopping, and talking about everything.
Through a period of time together, Xu Li learned that Zhang Tianwei, like herself, had been married for ten years.
It is also known that he was born in a Kochi family, his parents were engaged in sculpture work, his father was a senior professor at CAAM, and his younger brother was a doctor of study abroad and a well-known painter.
The hearts of the two people are already intertwined with each other, and they like each other unreservedly.
But for almost half a year, no one was willing to take that last step, until their friends were in a hurry.
In the end, Zhang Tianwei broke through the window paper, and one afternoon he came to Xu Li's house with flowers.
There is no dry stone fence of the sea oath mountain alliance, no romantic confession ceremony, only three simple words "Is it okay?"
Xu Li nodded slightly, and then neither of them showed more joy, just like the old husband and wife for many years.
In 1995, the two bought a new house and began a loving married life.
After marriage, Xu Li felt that the time was ripe, so she took her children from Changsha to Beijing to live.
Xu Li usually has a high work intensity, while Zhang Tianwei is a flexible working time, so he usually has more time to take care of his children.
He has always regarded his children as his own, taking the time to understand his children's preferences, and accompanying them to play, learn and grow.
And in order to get his wife to devote herself to work, the two have not had new children since marriage.
Later, when Xu Li was interviewed, her eyes were red when she said this, and she bluntly said that this was the regret of her life.
"I think women in this life, first, women have to be mothers, nothing is bigger than this mission." 」
04
After Xu Li worked at CCTV, she was arranged to do news broadcasts, and at first she was a little uncomfortable.
She had worked at the local station for 14 years, had been doing special programs, and had never been exposed to the work of journalism.
The nature of these two types of work is very different, the former requires emotional language expression and the latter serious elaboration.
In this process of adaptation, Xu Li gradually changed her "voice" image.
In order to be able to explain the news content quickly, accurately and forcefully, so as to reflect the dignity of the country.
She gave up her previous artistic pursuit of sound and instead pursued a concise and informative way of broadcasting.
But the fast-paced, focused, serious and dignified hosting style of the language has also been questioned as somewhat "domineering", including her mother-in-law has had similar ideas.
After the two began to communicate, Zhang Tianwei did not dare to tell his parents about this matter directly, and planned to give his parents some preventive injections first.
During that time, he often watched the programs hosted by Xu Li at home and stared intently.
Zhang Tianwei's strange behavior successfully aroused her mother's curiosity.
He took advantage of this to secretly ask his mother, what was his impression of the CCTV host on TV?
"Looks very good, the hosting skills are also very good, who wants who has this daughter-in-law is amazing."
Later, he asked his brother to quietly disclose the news of his love affair with Xu Li to his parents, which caused a shock in the family.
"You have a gentle and peaceful personality, how can you get along with such a powerful woman?"
His parents advised him to think about it carefully, but Zhang Tianwei had already prepared, and he took this opportunity to arrange for Xu Li to meet with his parents.
On the afternoon of the meeting, Xu Lisu faced the sky, dressed in simple civilian clothes, and gently greeted the second elder, which brought the distance between the two sides closer in an instant.
Then he followed Zhang Tianwei's parents to drink a meal of Beijing special bean juice, which completely touched the hearts of the old couple.
It is said that the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law is difficult to get along with, but Xu Li and her mother-in-law have always gotten along very well.
The couple later planned not to have a new child, but also got the in-laws to nod their approval.
In August 2021, Xu Li hosted "Today's Attention" for the last time, and at the end of the show, the camera was aimed at the anchor Xu Li.
"Dear audience. Good bye. ”
Xu Li was reluctant to say goodbye to the audience, bid farewell to the CCTV stage where she had worked for 29 years, and returned to family life.
After retirement, she often shares the couple's retirement life on social media, sweet and warm.
On the new stage of life, Xu Li is still practicing her creed of a beautiful life.
Live young and be happy.
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