The popular TV series "Human World" a few days ago made Song Jia angry again. However, when I say Song Jia, I am another one. When Song Jia was on fire, this Song Jia was not yet in elementary school!
In 1986, the TV series "Frog Girl" based on the novel of the same name by writer Hu Wanchun was launched. At that time, there were few TV series and people's choices were limited, so "Frog Girl" became a target for everyone to watch. In the play, Song Jia, who played the mother of the female number one frog girl, immediately became popular and received a round of applause. At the same time, she married the "secret news" of Zhang Xuejin (zhang Junqiu's son), a famous Peking opera artist who was more than 20 years older than her, and was also dug up and "fried" in some newspapers and periodicals. As a result, Song Jia became a news figure in the show business circle.
In mid-June 1987, Zhang Xuejin, a famous actor of the Beijing Peking Opera Second Troupe who won the second National Drama Plum Blossom Award, went to Changchun, Northeast China, to perform the "Ma Pai" representative play "The Orphan of Zhao". For several days, the spectators have been like clouds, and they have made a lot of traffic in front of the spacious Changchun Workers' Cultural Palace!
The husband travels far away as his wife Song Jia accompanies and takes care of him. It is said that the protagonist of this trip was Zhang Xuejin, who played the role of picking up the beam in "The Orphan of Zhao", and the burden was not light; Song Jia had no other task but to take care of her husband. I don't want some of our peers to chase after the film and television star Song Jia, and her life secrets are the focus of exploration. I don't think much of this: from a journalistic point of view, isn't this a matter of giving up the Lord for a second time? Therefore, I chose to visit Zhang Xuejin at the guest house.
I didn't plan to interview Song Jia, but she was the one who opened the door. She thought that I was also a star chaser in the press, and said in her mouth, "I came this time for a completely private matter, I don't want to..." Her face was already showing embarrassment, and there was a posture of closing the door to thank guests. "No, I'm not looking for you. I'm here to interview Mr. Zhang. Hearing me say this, Song Jia was a little embarrassed, but quickly changed her enthusiastic face and invited me into the room.
Zhang Xuejin has quite an artist's demeanor, and when he speaks, he looks at it one by one, is real, and does not render. He said to reporters with some emotion: "They all say that the opera crisis, let me see, or the quality of the art." ”
Yes, Zhang Xuejin first went to "Kanto", and the audience in Changchun was not familiar with him, but heard that he was the eldest son of the famous performance artist Zhang Junqiu and the senior disciple of the famous performance artist Ma Lianliang. However, his singing in the first performance of "The Orphan of Zhao" was a blockbuster, winning bursts of applause and applause. "Truly worthy of being a famous person"! "Worthy of being called a descendant of the 'Ma Pai'"! These praises from strange fans objectively confirm Zhang Xuejin's feelings.
Zhang Xuejin, who was 46 years old at that time, was influenced by his father's art since childhood, and at the age of 10, he entered the Beijing Opera School to learn art from Wang Shaolou, a famous old student of the Yu Sect. After graduating in 1959, he took Ma Lianliang as his teacher and devoted himself to further study, which was quite authentic. In the 1960s, he sang a song "Laizi Ah..." in the modern Peking Opera "Arrow Pole Riverside", which was popular in Kyoto and was sung forever. During the Cultural Revolution, Zhang Xuejin, who was in full swing, was beaten into an active counter-revolutionary and imprisoned in a "cowshed," losing the opportunity to further display his talents. After smashing the "Gang of Four", he regrouped and once again appeared on the stage of Peking Opera.
Song Jia was not willing to be lonely on the side, and interjected: "He is a person who is particularly serious about learning anything, and mr. Baima is a teacher, so he learns bit by bit, and his eyes look exactly like the teacher." He played Zhuge Liang in "Borrowing the East Wind", and as soon as the goose feather fan was taken, the old audience said: Too much like Ma Lianliang! Even the 'Three Whites' of the 'Ma Pai' he inherited. ”
"What 'three whites'?" Although I am not a person in the pear garden, but I have been a literary and art journalist for several years, I still know a little bit about the general drama terminology, and this "three whites" is the first time I have heard of it. I couldn't help but look at Song Jia with admiration. When a journalist wants to contact all walks of life, it is impossible to be proficient in everything, and it is my principle not to pretend to understand. I thought it was a strange opera term, so I asked for advice.
Zhang Xuejin smiled and pointed out the "lost jin" for me: "It is the water sleeves, collar protection, and boot soles, which must be washed every day to keep it white." This is not a term, but our teachers and apprentices call it so, convenient. ”
I see! At this time, I couldn't help but wonder: Did I snubb Song Jia, and she deliberately threw out such a word to embarrass me?
"Blue is better than blue". Zhang Xuejin was not satisfied with inheriting the "Ma Pai", he was also ambitious to develop the "Ma Pai". He believes that the formation of an artistic genre is inseparable from representative works. For example, "Ma Pai's" "Borrowing the East Wind" and "Zhao's Orphans" and other dramas, although Mr. Ma has been dead for more than 20 years, they are still performing in various places and have always maintained their artistic vitality. He wanted to try to put the image of the ancient great poet Li Bai on the Stage of Peking Opera, write and perform himself, and use it as his own reserved repertoire.
Zhang Xuejin is well aware of the artistic law of "kung fu outside the play". Therefore, in addition to adhering to the stage practice, he also participated in the filming of the TV series, and successfully shaped the image of the national capitalist Shi Jianguo in "Frog Girl". At the same time, he also studied the art of painting and calligraphy with ink to enrich his knowledge and broaden his horizons. With such a courageous and enterprising "Ma Pai" descendant, I believe that the "Ma Pai" art will definitely be the icing on the cake and more colorful.
Two years later, I heard that Zhang Xuejin and Song Jia had a daughter named Zhang Chuchu. When their daughter was 5 years old, they somehow divorced.
At about 3 p.m. on December 21, 2012, Zhang Xuejin died at the age of 71 in Beijing You'an Hospital due to ineffective liver cancer treatment. At the memorial service, people saw Song Jia and her daughter appear. According to reports and analysis, Song Jia grew up in a single-parent family and never knew what her father looked like, so it also caused her to have a deep father-in-law complex. It is because of this father-in-law complex that after 3 months of acquaintance, Song Jia married Zhang Xuejin, who was 21 years older than her, at the age of 21. In today's parlance, it's flash marriage. This also laid the groundwork for their divorce.
After the divorce, Song Jia left the show business circle and took advantage of the hot time to go abroad to the United States with her daughter. She went to Columbia University to study choreography and directing, and also went to sea to do business. A website she invested in was a success, bringing her a huge income, and the mother and daughter duo had no worries about food and clothing in the United States.
Three years later, Song Jia returned to China with funds and turned around to become a producer. She invested in the filming of the TV series and announced a high-profile comeback. Returning to show business, she was quickly recognized, and in 1999 she won the Feitian Award for Outstanding Actress for her TV series "Sister-in-law". Since then, she has won two Golden Eagle Awards for the TV series "Dust Settled". In 2017 he married a Belgian. It is said that she is also a wealthy businessman, and she is quite handsome when she looks at the photos, and she still looks charming when she is nearly a year old. Since then, Song Jia has faded out of the entertainment circle and rarely hears news about her.