Give you warmth, give you companionship, lead you to grow, help you to be strong
Zhu Xu is a famous performance artist in the mainland, who has been practicing for nearly 70 years and has participated in more than 100 dramas such as "You Must Live Like This", "The Sinner of Time", "Blast Furnace Cremation", "The Man with the Gun" and so on.
He stepped into the show business at the age of nearly 60, and with decades of acting skills, he turned out to be a world in the film and television industry, starring in more than 30 film and television dramas, including Huabiao, Tokyo International Film Festival and many other film emperors.
In many films with profound cultural heritage, such as "Changing Face", "Bathing", "Gua Sha", as well as TV series such as "The Last Emperor", "Like Water Years", and "The Gate of the Great Mansion", Zhu Xu has performed a vivid character image.
And Zhu Xu's wife Song Fengyi is also a well-known actor and screenwriter, Zhu Xu's biography "Sunset Red Words Zhu Xu" in his later years is written by her wife, describing Zhu Xu's delicate and bumpy life.
In 1957, the two registered their marriage and walked through 58 years of married life hand in hand, with countless heartaches and tears buried behind them.
Two people who have dedicated their lives to art have two regrets in their lives, and the most regrettable thing at the time of death is that they are always ashamed of their two deaf sons.
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In the spring of 1930, Zhu Xu was born into an ordinary family in Shenyang, Liaoning Province, and because of his father's work, he moved to Beijing with his family at the age of one
When he was a child, his favorite thing was to listen to Peking Opera, and the first thing he did every time he came home from school was to take a Peking Opera record and put it in the "talk box", and then sit on the bench and listen to it very fascinatingly.
So from that time on, a seed of art was planted.
In order to receive professional training, Zhu Xu was admitted to the Second Troupe of Literature and Industry of North China University in 1949 (renamed the Central Academy of Drama Drama Troupe a year later), and it was at this time that Song Fengyi also entered the school and became an alumnus of different classes in the same department.
Zhu Xu is 2 years younger than Song Fengyi, and the family conditions between the two are quite different from childhood.
Song Fengyi is a native of Beijing, her father is in business, and her family is relatively rich.
In fact, she was not called Song Fengyi at the beginning, but she liked to perform when she was a child, but it was not very good to appear in that era.
When she was 14 years old, she participated in the one-act drama "Father's Return", but she did not dare to let her father know about it, so she changed her name.
At that time, she happened to be reading the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", which had a sentence "There is a Fengyi Pavilion in the book", so she named it Song Fengyi.
The drama is that when Song Fengyi later talked to Zhu Xu about this matter, Zhu Xu would ask her:
"Why don't you name a mink cicada?"
But these are all things after they got married, and when the two were in college, a very touching thing happened.
At that time, the conditions were not good, and he could not eat a meal of meat for a long time, and Zhu Xu thought about where to get some meat to eat.
There was a dog in the school at that time, and Zhu Xu thought of bringing this dog into the classroom and then making it into dog meat to eat.
But who knew that the dog liked Zhu Xu very much, no matter how Zhu Xu hit it, it did not fight back, and it was good with him, and finally the corner of the dog's mouth was bloodied, and he squatted in front of Zhu Xu and licked the wound with tears.
In the end, the meat was not eaten, and he moved himself to cry.
At that time, Zhu Xu liked to drink two mouthfuls of wine, sometimes there was wine without wine dishes, there were a few peanuts on his body, and then he would break a peanut rice into four petals, a mouthful of wine a clove of peanut rice, a peanut rice to drink four mouthfuls of wine.
Song Fengyi, who was still a classmate at the time, couldn't help but laugh out loud when she saw it, although the two usually met, but there were not many opportunities to talk.
In 1950, the Central Academy of Drama was established, the two were arranged to enter the drama troupe at the same time, and when the troupe held field and factory tours, Zhu Xu was always arranged to play the role of dragon set, what "bandit B", sometimes even playing a tree, unable to move for several hours.
At that time, Zhu Xu was a well-deserved handsome boy in the school, tall, with a straight nose, although he starred in a dragon set, but also attracted a lot of admiring eyes, including Song Fengyi.
After Zhu Xu was transferred to the cast group, he often played with Song Fengyi, they were always arranged to be together, touring around the world, and Song Fengyi completely liked this handsome and talented Zhu Xu.
In 1952, the two entered the People's Art Theater at the same time.
One day, when the two were walking around the playground together, Zhu Xu suddenly said to Song Feng, "I like you."
However, after waiting for a long time, Song Fengyi did not speak, perhaps feeling that it had come too suddenly, and such a straightforward way of confessing made her not know how to be good for a while.
So In order to alleviate the embarrassment, Zhu Xu immediately said to her:
"It's okay, you can consider answering in a few days"
Just after Zhu Xu finished speaking, Song Fengyi said a "good" word. It meant agreeing to be with him.
In this way, the two walked from the school uniform to the wedding dress
In December 1957, the People's Art Theater was closed for a day to give zhu xu and Song Fengyi a wedding ceremony for three couples, and the school gave them a desk with drawers and several benches.
At that time, the wedding was simple and the gifts were simple, but the congratulations of the students and teachers of the school were very lively and particularly commemorative.
However, the life of the two after marriage was not smooth, but full of heartache and tears.
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The year after the two married, Song Fengyi gave birth to the eldest son, but at that time both of them were very busy, Zhu Xu had just returned to Beijing from Fujian, and he rushed to rehearse "Sparks of Fire" overnight, and he didn't even have time to go home to see his mother and daughter.
Song Fengyi is no exception, just after giving birth to a child, she went to participate in the collective creation of "Flowers Blooming Everlasting Fragrance", and the drama is that when Song Fengyi held the child to perform, she even forgot to hold a child in her hand.
Wait until the staff calls her:
"The child fell to the ground"
Song Fengyi quickly picked up the child and continued to devote herself to work.
Both of them are too serious about their work, and they have to make a lot of preparation before filming, and they are in a state of oblivion when filming
this also causes them to neglect the care of their children.
Time passed day by day, and Song Fengyi gave birth to a second child.
But slowly they found that their eldest son could not speak until now, and his parents said that he did not hear anything, so they carried the child everywhere to seek medical advice, and ran all over Beijing without a cure.
I thought that this result was already very bad, but I didn't expect that the second son was the same.
The two carried them to various hospitals for examination, looked for experts in Beijing, and even went to the hospital of the army, but they still could not be cured.
Zhu Xu and his wife thought, forget about it, because at that time there was a saying that "noble people are late", and Song Fengyi could only watch the two poor children unable to speak.
Until the eldest son was 5 years old, they bought a hearing aid for the eldest son, which was the first time the eldest son heard the sound of the world, and his first father also called out at this time.
But even so, the two deaf sons still can't listen to what others say completely, and what they say is not very clear, and they are very timid and shy.
When their parents took them out to play, the conductor did not hear what the two children said, so they asked him aloud:
"What do you say?"
The faces of the two timid children turned red at once, and looking at these two children, Zhu Xu and his wife did not hold back the tears in the corners of their eyes.
In fact, until the time of the two people's death, whenever they mentioned these two children, their hearts were full of regret and regret.
Since they brought these two children into this world, they have lacked care and concern for them, and it is their first regret to focus on putting their careers first.
At that time, Zhu Xu had to perform two plays a day, sometimes even three scenes in the morning, middle and evening, and after the performance, he had to collectively create a script to prepare for the next day's performance.
In 1960, Zhu Xu participated in many dramas such as "Comrade, You Went the Wrong Way", "Nu Tao", "Spark of Fire", "Three Sisters" and so on.
However, at that time, Zhu Xu also became a gold medal celebrity in human art, and his fame was getting bigger and bigger.
The two have performed a lifetime of dramas, but there are only two on the same stage, the father and daughter in "Camel Xiangzi" and "Left Neighbor Right House", "Left Neighbor Right House" There is no opponent play in this play, in total, the two are equivalent to cooperating in a play, which is also the second regret of the two.
At that time, in addition to acting, Song Fengyi also had to create, and she had no time to take care of young children, and when she was around her children, she was almost always in the hospital, and the time spent with her was very little, most of the time she followed her grandparents or grandparents.
Once, Song Fengyi was filming in the crew, playing a role of "Cai Wenji", but at this time, her father died and she did not know it, and Zhu Xu did not tell her.
Wait until the next morning to tell her, you go back and take a look.
Song Fengyi returned home, and when the old father sent the funeral, Song Fengyi did not go, because there was a performance that could not be late in the evening, and she had to go back to makeup in the afternoon.
In addition to rarely staying at home, Chinese New Year's Eve they also have two scenes to shoot, so every year when they Chinese New Year's Eve, the two sons are still busy, and the two sons look forward to their parents coming home early, but they have not waited.
By the time they got home, the year was over, and they could only hold the child and cry, and even the New Year together was a luxury.
In 1984, the nearly 60-year-old Zhu Xu had just stepped into the show business circle, but at that time, Zhu Xu already had a deep acting foundation, and as soon as he debuted, he appeared in various award ceremonies.
This year, the father played in the film "The Girl in Red" received many praises, and this film also won the Golden Rooster Award for Best Picture.
The following year, he was invited by Emei Film Studio to participate in the feature film "Alley Celebrities", and with his simple and natural acting skills, Zhu Xu was once again praised by the audience.
In 1993, Zhu Xu successfully played the role of "Kong Lingtan" in the movie "Que Li Ren Ren", winning the Best Actor Award, and the following year he won the Best Actor Award at the Tokyo Film Festival for the role of "Changing Face King" in the movie "Changing Face"
In 2014, the 84-year-old Zhu Xu participated in his last drama "Jia zi yuan" in his life, and it was also in this year that "Barbershop" held a press conference in Beijing, a film to make up for the regret that the two had not cooperated for many years.
At that time, someone asked Zhu Xu: "What is the evaluation of Song Fengyi?"
Zhu Xu was silent for a long time, and simply said three words: "It's not easy."
Perhaps at that time, Zhu Xu was full of heartache for his wife, because over the years, she always wrote seriously, watched it over and over again, changed it over and over again, and was already in her 80s and could not sit down and rest well.
In fact, as an old actor who is "old and popular", Zhu Xu also experienced a situation that no one wanted at the beginning.
He always asked some young actors:
"Do you see me pretty?" I was an ugly actor, and at first no director looked up to me, but I did the stage work first, and then slowly played small roles, little by little in the process, I saw how the old artists created the characters, and I learned the spirit of them. ”
Today's young actors, what we see is how handsome or beautiful the actor is, but acting is not about playing yourself, but about performing the understanding of life and inheriting the spirit of those people.
As Zhu Xu once said:
"What the audience sees on the stage is not you as a person, but what kind of teachings you express to the audience through the image you create."
Since Zhu Xu's participation in dramas, he has been engaged in actor work for nearly 70 years, worthy of the title of performance artist.
Not only does he have solid acting skills, but he can also teach the audience a lot of knowledge and bring today's young actors a real understanding of actors.
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However, until their old age, Zhu Xu and his wife still had two regrets in their hearts, and even when they reached the time of death, they still could not be consummated.
In 2015, Song Fengyi died in Beijing at the age of 87, and wrote a book called "Old Master Zhu Xu" before her death, and whenever Zhu Xu held that book, she always recalled the happiness and tears behind her 58-year marriage.
In 2018, the book was published, and it was also in this year that Zhu Xu also died in Beijing at the age of 88.
The film and television couple eventually left us, hoping that when they got there, they could take a sip of meat and wine, play the violin, instead of breaking a peanut into four petals and drinking, this difficult and bumpy life, once is enough.
In fact, until they left, they were still worried about their two deaf sons, more guilt and regret.
Song Fengyi once said:
"Although we have seen them all the doctors, we owe them too much in life"
And when I was young, I thought about having another daughter, but I was afraid of giving birth to such a situation, originally these two sons were already bitter enough, and I didn't want to see my daughter living so "lonely".
The Zhu Xu and Song Fengyi we saw, on the stage, presented a classic and vivid character on the screen, bringing joy to the audience at the same time, but also let us learn a lot of knowledge.
But in life, they live such an unsatisfactory life, if they can take a little time to accompany their children, maybe they will not have such a big regret in their later years.