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In the 1980s, there were many classic rural films that were always well received and loved by audiences.
Especially in 1981, "Xiyingmen", directed by Zhao Huanzhang of Shanghai Film Studio, is a classic among classics, which makes people tired of watching.
Recently, I accompanied my old mother to revisit "XiyingMen" again when I was idle, and I watched her care about the current situation of several female protagonists in the play.
In order to give the old mother an explanation, but also specially to check the relevant information, it is better to review and share it together today.
Xiyingmen is a comedy feature film starring Wang Shuqin, Wen Yujuan, Wang Yumei, Yu Shaokang, Hong Xuemin and others.
Released in 1981, the film tells the story of a peasant family in the north in the early 1980s, the eldest daughter-in-law Qiang Ying always considers the gains and losses of small families, and calculates everything;
The second daughter-in-law, Shuilian, is the opposite, she is virtuous and generous, doing things with the overall situation in mind, and finally under her influence, Qiangying corrects the mistake and the family gets back together.
On the surface, the film is nothing more than a chore in a family of four generations, but in fact it reveals far less deep meaning than that.
After the release of the film, the audience relished it and won the Honorary Award of the Golden Rooster Award of Chinese Film and the Best Music Award;
The Best Feature Film Award of the Hundred Flowers Award for Popular Films, the 1981 Ministry of Culture Outstanding Feature Film Award and many other honors;
Several of the heroines in the play also became popular because of this, becoming a popular movie star in the 1980s, but they did not have the same life.
After 41 years, some of them have died, some have been consummated, some have been unable to say a word, and the gap is still quite large.
01 Wang Yumei, who played Renwen's mother, has passed away at the age of 87.
Stills of Wang Yumei's "Xiyingmen"
When she participated in "Xiyingmen", Wang Yumei was 47 years old, and before that, she had already starred in movies such as "The One Who Dares to Think and Dare to Do", "After the Harvest", "Pingying Tomb" and so on.
In "Xiyingmen", the renwen mother she plays has a virtuous and kind personality, is filial to the father-in-law, and is kind to the daughter-in-law of the lower heartache, and is a good daughter, a good mother, a good mother-in-law, and a good daughter-in-law.
But there is also a weak, introverted side of her personality, and when she is wronged, she will only give in and swallow tears into her stomach, just like most of the images of loving mothers we see around us.
With the portrayal of Renwen's mother, Wang Yumei won herself the reputation of "mother professional household", and then she played the mother of Ni Ping, Li Xuejian, He Zhengjun and others on the big and small screens.
"A Generation of Gun Kings" Cixi stills
Wang Yumei is a true artist of virtue and art, after "Xiyingmen", she won the Best Supporting Actress Award at the 8th Hundred Flowers Film Awards and the Best Supporting Actress Award at the 4th China TV Drama Feitian Awards for "Wreath Under the Mountain".
In 1989, in the movie "A Generation of Gun Kings", cixi she played was also a classic;
After that, she starred in the movie "Five Kui", and in 1996, she won the Golden Eagle Award and the Feitian Award for Best Actress in 1996 for her role as "Fang Xiuyun", who was kind in appearance and inner kindness in the TV series "Children's Love", and became a double actress.
The "mother" image created by Wang Yumei was deeply impressed by the audience who saw it, as if she was her own mother on the screen.
It's just this mother on screen, who has devoted most of her life to art, and she owes her husband and son in life, but fortunately they can understand and support her.
Wang Yumei's husband Zhai Jianping, like her, has also struggled for her artistic career all her life, and in the early years he created dramas such as "Ying Chun Hua", "Decisive Battle", "Restless Seashore", etc., and he also suffered unfair treatment in special years.
After the injustice, before retirement, he was the head of the Shandong Repertory Theatre, Zhai Jianping and Wang Yumei throughout their lives to support each other, do not abandon, they are like-minded, from youth to old age, very affectionate.
Their son Zhai Xiaofei inherited the mantle of his father, first as a choreographer, and then became a director, directing film and television drama works such as "The Highest Honor", which has a certain influence in the industry.
Zhai Jianping
Seeing that his son's career was successful, Zhai Jianping and Wang Yumei hoped that he could start a family as soon as possible, and he was happy to hold a big grandson and a family of three people, but unfortunately he did not wait for that day.
On September 30, 2005, Zhai Jianping died of illness at the age of 77. The death of her husband made Wang Yumei very devastated, and for a long time she was immersed in grief, and it was the companionship and encouragement of her son that made her get back on her feet.
In order to enrich her later years, she has successively starred in "Caoyun Wharf", "Late Marriage", "Dance Department", "Seven Heroes and Five Righteousness of the New Bao Qingtian", and she has not been in the role since 2012.
On the one hand, because of the relationship of age, on the other hand, because of the lack of good health, Wang Yumei in her later years suffered from Alzheimer's disease, good and bad, when she was sober, she looked at her son who took care of herself, she felt guilty, always asked him if he did not blame himself, when she was a child, she was always busy with work and had no time to take care of him.
Whenever this happens, Zhai Xiaofei always says that his parents are his role models.
In Zhai Xiaofei's heart, the deep affection of his parents for a lifetime, and the attitude of conscientiousness to work, is the best education and love for him, he will spend his life to treasure and learn, they are truly artists with both virtue and art.
On April 13, 2022, Wang Yumei died of illness in Beijing at the age of 87.
Many of the actors and actresses in the entertainment industry who have cooperated with her have sent tributes, and the audience who have watched her plays have also spontaneously expressed their deep nostalgia, she is a person who really works hard, it is worth it.
"Mountain Chrysanthemum" Wang Yumei and Ni Ping stills
02 Wang Shuqin plays Wang Qiangying, the daughter-in-law of Chen's parents
"Xiyingmen" is Wang Shuqin's first film, in which she plays Wang Qiangying, who is the eldest daughter-in-law of the Chen family.
Before that, although Wang Shuqin also studied acting, she had not made films before, she had performed on the drama stage, and after that she was not an actor for a long time, and when Zhao Huanzhang, the director of "Xiyingmen", found her, she was already working in the Propaganda Department of the Hebei Provincial Party Committee.
Being able to star in a movie is a very fortunate and happy thing for her, who used to be a drama actress.
However, she also plays drums in her heart, one is that she has not made a movie, and the other is that she is very gentle and introverted in life, and she is thousands of miles away from the spicy and selfish roles in the play.
Wang Qiangying, played by Wang Shuqin
Wang Qiangying, played by Wang Shuqin, is a contradictory focus of the whole drama.
As the eldest daughter-in-law of the Chen family, Wang Qiangying is industrious and capable, she loves her husband and children deeply, but because she was an only child since she was a child, she was doted on by her parents and was affected by her mother's poor education, and she developed a competitive personality and was extremely selfish.
In order to achieve her personal goals, she did not hesitate to destroy the harmony of the family, competing with her sister-in-law for polyester pants, forcing her husband to break up the family, and abusing the elderly, in short, it was a very unpleasant situation.
It is such a role, with the trust and help of the director, Wang Shuqin took over and played it for three points.
With the role of "Wang Qiangying", Wang Shuqin returned to the show business circle.
After that, he played roles in many films such as "In the Ripe Place", "Ordinary People's Home", "Chen Yisheng on the City", "Contemporary People" and so on.
In 2013, in the TV series "The Legend of Divine Doctor Xilaile" starring Li Baotian, she also played the role of Empress Dowager Cixi, and then played Li Daying in "Shangxia Line" starring Si qinggaowa and Gao Ming.
Since then, she has not played roles, and now that she has passed the age of ancient rarity, she enjoys her old age at home.
03 Wen Yujuan plays the water lotus, the most complete life
Unlike Qiang Ying, played by Wang Shuqin, Wen Yujuan's shuilian in the play is a very virtuous and generous person.
Shuilian is gentle and considerate to her husband, filial to her grandfather and mother-in-law, respectful to her brothers and sisters-in-law, concerned about her sister-in-law, doing things in consideration of the overall situation, for the sake of family harmony, she will swallow her grievances into her stomach, knowing that her sister-in-law is hostile to her, she also takes the initiative to unite and help her.
Shui Lian is simply a flawless person, and when she played this role, Wen Yujuan was only in her early twenties, which was her first film in her life.
She became popular with this role, known as "China's first virtuous daughter-in-law", and "water lotus" has also become synonymous with Wen Yujuan.
However, Wen Yujuan is a very low-key and modest person, and after becoming popular, everyone praised her for acting well and called her a goddess.
She said that it was the credit of the role, not that she acted well, but the screenwriter wrote well, and it was her own luck to play this role.
"Water Lotus" should not belong to me, she is a representative of our traditional culture, and the spirit of dedication and great love embodied in her is not only enlightening to the family, but also of great significance to social harmony.
With this humble and sober spirit, Wen Yujuan's artistic path has been smooth.
She was first transferred to the Air Force Political Department Drama Troupe, and starred in the drama "Hot Heart" and won the first prize of supporting actor.
In 1987, she won the Fourth Chinese Drama Plum Blossom Award for the role of Jiang Man in the drama "Triumph in the Midnight", and at the same time, she also made films such as "What Are You Thinking", "Such a Person", "Our Veteran" and other films on the big screen, becoming one of the popular movie stars in the 1980s.
Wen Yujuan pursues the diversification of art forms, in addition to acting in dramas and films, she also shoots TV dramas, acting in sketches, poetry dramas, and sitcoms to become a veritable performance artist.
In recent years, she has starred in many popular dramas such as "Zhang Xiaowu's Spring", "Little Station Wind and Cloud", "Thousand Golden Nanny", "The Most Beautiful Arrangement", "Blue Sky Flowers", "Plugged in the Wind and Clouds" and many other popular dramas.
The first half of Wen Yujuan's life was as simple and clean as a water lotus.
She is low-key and not hype, with unremitting efforts and solid and exquisite acting skills, she has won many awards, was rated as a national first-class actor, won the third class merit three times, and was rated as a "moral and artistic double Xin" television artist.
Emotionally, Wen Yujuan and her husband are affectionate, hand in hand is a lifetime, they raise a son, a family of three happy and harmonious.
Compared with the other heroines of "Xiyingmen", Wen Yujuan's life should be the most complete and happy, because she just played her first role and became popular, and then her acting career has been singing all the way, there is a happy family, and now she is over sixty years old and active on the screen.
Looking back on the first half of Wen Yujuan's life, she was lucky, but all her luck was due to her hard work.
She is modest and low-key, even if she is rich and famous, she still maintains her original intention, adheres to principles, is a people's performance artist, a good wife of her husband, a good mother of her son, and most importantly, she is herself, and she has lived as she likes.
04 Chen Renfang, played by Hong Xuemin, has changed from a female entrepreneur to an "old Lai", which is difficult to say
Hong Xuemin played Chen Renfang, the younger daughter of the Chen family, in "Xiyingmen".
She is smart and clever, straight-talking, is a tractor driver, and renfang is most unaccustomed to the selfishness of her sister-in-law Qiangying, often opposing it, anyway, she will not let herself suffer half a loss.
Officially because of this, her love affair with Long Gang was almost yellowed by her sister-in-law and the matchmaker.
With superb acting skills, Hong Xuemin has also become popular all over the country and has become an object of the audience's enjoyment.
In fact, before playing Chen Renfang, Hong Xuemin had already starred in many movies such as "Haixia", "South China Sea Storm", "Hunting Word No. 99", "Sea Love" and so on.
However, compared with "Xiyingmen", the other protagonists do not seem to have The supporting role of Chen Renfang.
After that, she successively played important roles in "The Legend of Tianyun Mountain", "The Field is a Green Yarn Tent" and "Dunhuang", and enjoyed the title of "Gold Medal Supporting Actress" with her superb acting skills.
Hong Xuemin was also very popular in the 1980s, but she changed her career to Hong Kong after filming "The Field is a Green Yarn Tent", and did not continue to cultivate in film art, I believe that if she continues to make movies, she will definitely bring more classic roles to the audience.
However, as a businesswoman, Hong Xuemin is also very successful.
After she went to Hong Kong, she started from scratch, first renting a small façade to represent American makeup brands.
With a good image and reputation, Hong Xuemin is getting better and better in the cosmetics business, and after several years of hard work, she opened a cosmetics company and has a considerable scale.
After 2000, Hong Xuemin turned his target market to the mainland, while investing in high-tech fields such as chips, mobile animation, and animation software have achieved varying degrees of success.
She has successfully transformed from an actress to a strong businesswoman, and in 2006, Hong Xuemin registered an information company in Beijing, and her career has become bigger and bigger, becoming a valuable female entrepreneur.
Three years later, Hong Xuemin suddenly changed from a strong business woman to an old lai who owed money and did not pay it back.
It turned out that Hong Xuemin's credibility had always been very good, but this time she was sued in court, or a friend, it was inevitable that there would be some strangeness, and bad public opinion suddenly made her image collapse.
What the hell is going on? It turned out that between 2006 and 2007, Hong Xuemin borrowed five million yuan from Mr. Wang on three occasions, and she originally promised to repay it at the end of December 2008, but because of the problem of capital turnover, she failed to repay the loan in time.
In addition, she is the most reputable in her daily life, but this time she is not on it, she hid without seeing anyone, and Mr. Wang could not contact her, so he sued her in court half a year later.
In October 2009, the court ordered Hong Xuemin to repay the arrears and interest, and bear more than 20,000 yuan in litigation costs, and after the judgment took effect, Mr. Wang applied for compulsory enforcement, and in December of the same year, two properties under Hong Xuemin's name and a car were seized by the court.
Although this matter was later said to be a misunderstanding, and the debt was paid off, the impact on Hong Xuemin was still quite large.
Not only was her reputation affected, she originally had a boyfriend, the two were scheduled to marry in 2009, and the result was also stirred up by this matter, this year Hong Xuemin was 51 years old.
After that, Hong Xuemin rarely appeared in public, but silently ran his own business.
Now 63 years old, she is still unmarried, compared to other female protagonists in the same play, Hong Xuemin's experience is more difficult to describe, she has been red, experienced highs and lows, but she has not given up and has been moving forward.
She said that she was never afraid of adversity because she knew how to face it, and there were many friends around her who supported her and helped her, so she was not afraid because she was not alone.
Hong Xuemin
All the past is the prologue; All the future can be expected.
Whether it is Wang Yumei, who has passed away, or Wang Shuqin, who enjoyed his old age in peace, Wen Yujuan, who has a complete life,
Or Hong Xuemin, who is now alone, those past are just an experience, let it disperse with the wind,
Cherish the people and things in front of you is the most important, heaven will not live up to everyone who strives hard, as long as the heart is sunny, it will wait until the years are fragrant, everything in sight is beautiful, and the heart is sunny.
Life has good times and bad times, lows and highs are real, we must believe in the end of suffering, will be willing.
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