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As a result, he is a famous domestic artist, who has participated in "The Cow King", "Under the Eaves of Shanghai", "Longsugou", "Tea House", "Ice Sugar Gourd", "Thunderstorm", "The Great River Rushing", "Qiu Jin", "Song of Youth", "Bile Sword" and other film and television works.
As a generation of drama performance masters, the characters of the family played by him were fascinated and poured out a large number of "infatuated" people. Relying on his superb acting skills, he was rated as one of the 100 outstanding actors in Chinese films, and won the Golden Rooster Award of Chinese Film, the Golden Lion Award of Chinese Drama, the Achievement Award of Performing Arts, the National Outstanding Contribution Drama Artist, and the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Chinese Drama Award.
On January 20, 2013, he died in the hospital due to ineffective medical treatment, at the age of 86. His death has pushed his wife, who has been with him for more than sixty years, into the abyss of grief.
Now that she has died of illness for 9 years, what kind of living state is widow Li Manyi in the days without a husband, and has she come out of the grief of her widow?
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Therefore, yu Miao, whose original name was Yu Miao, was born in 1927 to an ordinary family in Tangshan, Hebei Province, the father was a soldier, and the mother was an ordinary farmer.
In the 100th day of his birth, his father died on the battlefield. Since then, he and his mother have been in love with each other and dependent on each other.
Because they were born in a completely uneducated family, living with their widowed grandmothers and mothers, they could not read a word, they could not even write their own names, and even their grandmothers and mothers did not have names.
In such a difficult situation, I still struggled to study hard. When he was still in middle school, he became obsessed with classical Chinese literature and phonology, and dreamed of becoming a scholar when he grew up.
It was only because of the poverty of his family that he could not afford to go to school at the age of 15. After dropping out of school, he lived a poor life of "one house, two mortgages, three sales, four loans".
No matter how poor life is, he tries to read as much as possible, he thinks: Reading makes me not grow randomly.
Even years later, he was still relieved that he had a study of more than ten square meters.
At that time, because he didn't have money to go to school, he let a few friends take him to Fu Jen University to listen to lectures, which was a short learning experience.
In 1944, he happened to see an admissions advertisement on a telephone pole on the side of the road. So he went to school while working, working during the day, going to night school to learn French and French literature, and every day on the way to and from work, while walking, he would memorize ancient texts and send words.
This summer, when French night school was out of summer, his classmates dragged him to act, playing the male lead in the French script "The Cow King". Seeing that the male protagonist was a poor young man, he felt that it was not difficult to do so, so he agreed.
Unexpectedly, in this short performance, so he also fell in love with the performance. So later, so he also wrote a short article for this experience, "I starred in the "Cow King"", laughing and tearfully saying: When playing "The Cow King", I was quite bitter.
It is said that nephews are like uncles, so zhi is no exception, the uncle is the "drama emperor" Shi Hua, he also got the inheritance of his uncle. Since he was a child, he has been infected by his uncle and has been helped by his uncle many times.
When he grew up, Shi Cheng, Shi Hui's younger brother, also pulled him into the Motherland Theater Troupe and participated in the performances of plays such as "Metamorphosis" and "Leading by Example".
Later, he entered the Beiping Art Museum and participated in the performances of plays such as "Under the Eaves of Shanghai" and "Reunion".
02.
In the Spring Festival of 1948, the family was still "eating the last meal without eating, often not opening the pot".
Although he became an actor and appeared on the stage of the drama, his salary was so small that both mother and son lived a poor life.
Knowing the situation at home, a good friend also specially sent a fish, which made the mother very happy, hurriedly cleaned the fish and braised it, waiting for her son to come back and eat it together.
However, because of the money earned by acting in the troupe, especially during the Spring Festival, there were so many performance activities, and the mother heated the fish, just to give her son a taste.
While waiting for her son, the mother picked out the thorns in the fish one by one, and until she was finished, the meat of the fish did not move.
At noon on the fifth day of the first year, so he finally returned, and the mother brought the fish to the table and let her son eat it while it was hot. When he ate the fish, but found that there was not a single thorn in the fish, he hurriedly put down his chopsticks and looked at his mother's pale, dry, wrinkled face, his heart tightened, and tears swirled in his eyes.
He knew that his mother pulled himself into adulthood, this road is very difficult, but he did not let his mother live a good life, he is very guilty, but also wants to be filial to his mother.
It just didn't make him think that at the end of the year, his mother would leave forever.
In 1949, he joined the North China People's Cultural troupe (now the Beijing People's Art Theater) and became a drama actor.
It was also in this year that he met his lifelong lover Li Manyi.
At that time, Li Manyi, sitting on the only means of transportation in the regiment, slowly went to the regiment to report, looked away, saw a group of members wearing gray coarse cloth uniforms, in this group of people, there was even a young man wearing a purple sweater, very conspicuous, let people not pay attention to it.
Seeing this conspicuous young man, Li Manyi was secretly happy in his heart, thinking that the leaders of the regiment were receiving me. When the results were introduced later, the young man said: My name is so, and I am hooked, and if it is not, it is also the life officer.
Listening to the characteristic self-introduction of this, coupled with the first impression, this made Li Manyi deeply remember this.
It is also because of this matter that the two have intersected.
During a small talk, Li Manyi knew that he had joined the group a month earlier than himself, and also found that the two had seen each other very early.
It was still in 1944, so when he was rehearsing the play "Thunderstorm", the two had a brief collaboration.
Li Manyi grew up in a large courtyard with several families, and these children got together to rehearse the drama "Thunderstorm", but they did not expect that there were not enough people, and a child was invited to come.
Coincidentally, So Zhi and Li Manyi are still rivals. Because it was a stranger, it also made Li Manyi very shy, and did not dare to look up and communicate with him, even if it was rehearsed to the end, Li Manyi did not look at it.
After 5 years, after talking about the past again, both of them laughed.
03.
Although both have just entered the troupe, it is also this year, which is the key period of their love.
This year, the troupe prepared to prepare the drama "Moscow Character", so he played the male protagonist, in order to be more appropriate to the role, he looked for "love materials" from the book to deepen his understanding of the role, and in the process, he actually found that he had the idea of love.
Since then, he has consciously observed the women around him, and at the same time he has fallen into contradictions. Why the contradiction? So he also wrote down: In addition to having more spiritual dependence on love, what are the benefits, can we really help each other and make each one play a more important role?
When pondering the role, Li Manyi's figure will also appear in his mind. However, what he didn't know was that Li Manyi also had feelings for him, and once wrote in his diary: Yu's question is still difficult to guess, and I am still hesitating.
The first love, so that both are very nervous and nervous, after all, in that era, there are indeed some constraints.
Fortunately, the two broke the window paper on the last day of 1949 and established a relationship.
Although the love relationship was confirmed, because of the difference in origin and family, the two also had different ideas, so they thought that Li Manyi had a "big miss" temper to change, and Li Manyi thought that everything was better than himself, and he had some inferiority in his heart.
After frank exchanges and communication, the two slowly eliminated their concerns and fell in love sweetly.
In 1950, the troupe was officially renamed the Beijing People's Art Theater, and "The Character of Moscow" was also officially performed.
At the celebration banquet of "Moscow Character", So Zhi and Li Manyi also held a wedding, and the leader thought that this was a joy and a joy. They clearly remember that the wedding was not very special, even the dresses of the two were homemade, there was no marriage certificate, no wedding photos, and some were just a piece of cloth for relatives and friends to sign.
This piece of cloth also makes It a great memorial for Suizhi and Li Manyi.
In 1951, Beijing Renyi wanted to shoot Lao She's "Longsugou" and gave the character Cheng Crazy to Him, which made him very happy and felt that this was an opportunity.
Because he had lived a hard life before, he was very familiar with the life of suffering, and he especially loved to learn, and he would write a stack of notes every time he rehearsed a play. In order to be able to interpret it more appropriately, he also traced the role of the madman in the process, and finally relied on his superb acting skills to interpret the role deeply into the hearts of the people.
04.
In 1954, Li Manyi gave birth to a son Yu Yong for her husband, which made him very happy.
Although he was not very good at expressing his feelings, he liked his son very much and would write letters to his wife every time he went to perform in a foreign country.
Although the two are free in love and have their own children, marriage is not long-lasting by you and me, they are from different families and need to constantly run into each other.
So he likes to sulk, and even hammers the table with his fist, and when he is angry, he also drops the teacup. In the face of such a result, Li Manyi said that this was the limit of his tantrum, and he would not quarrel with people.
Because they did not know how to please their wives, when they went to Moscow to perform, many colleagues went to the store to buy gifts for their families, but they were very reluctant, and finally the colleagues kindly picked a delicate double-layer sewing box and asked him to bring it back to Li Manyi.
In response to this sewing box, Li Manyi also said with emotion: If it is equivalent to choosing a gift for me, there is probably no hope.
In order to better fit the role, he also read many famous books, such as "War and Peace", "Les Misérables", etc., and it is precisely because of his persistent high-quality reading that he has created a role with deep connotation.
At the end of 1957, the filming of "The Tea House" began, and the director selected him as the protagonist and played the role of Wang Treasurer.
Faced with the script and the role of "Teahouse", Wang Treasurer, so he liked it very much, and remembered his neighbor Uncle Chen when he was a child, when Uncle Chen was working as a school worker in elementary school.
It was back to Uncle Chen that he went to visit Uncle Chen before rehearsing "The Tea House". As it was said: A kind of person who is always hardworking and clean is "plagiarized" from Uncle Chen.
It is rare and fortunate that an actor can capture the most appropriate gesture for a character.
In the rehearsal process, the last piece at the end, so he had his own ideas, and wanted to change it, but because the original work was the writer Lao She, he went to seek his opinion, and Lao She agreed very happily.
It is precisely because of this that at the end of "The Tea House", the Wang Treasurer, Chang Siye, and Qin Erye throw paper money to pay tribute to their most desolate, desperate, and colorful scenes.
When the drama "Tea House" premiered in Beijing, it also received a lot of attention. From this moment on, he went all the way from Beijing to Europe, and audiences speaking different languages applauded him.
In his acting career, Wang Was one of his most famous roles and established his artistic status in drama performance.
You know, even the author Lao She was very excited after watching the performance, and he could not calm down for a long time, and he even wrote a banner with a pen: Those who work hard to do so, succeed almost?
Not only that, the work "Tea House" has been circulating in the drama industry, but also for the younger generation of actors to have an example, Pu Cunxin said: The role of Wang Treasurer has created a model of stage art, so that this role has become a theatrical performance can not talk about "Tea House".
05.
Because of the advent of the special era, he also suffered unfair treatment.
Not only was he tortured, but even his family was affected, talking about this tragic past, so he felt sorry for his son, and he couldn't help but shed tears.
Fortunately, the times have passed, so it has returned to the stage.
In this life, there is the brilliance of the stage role, and there is also the helplessness of the leadership role.
In 1984, he was appointed as the first vice president of Beijing Renyi. He left the stage and began an 8-year leadership career.
During this 8-year period, there is no so-called commuting or rest and holiday, and reporters will visit at any time, but every time they talk about creation, because they love it the most in their hearts.
Every day at noon, lunch had to be solved by themselves, which made the writers of the script group get together one by one with the meals they bought from the canteen.
Nominally, Cao Yu was the dean of Renyi, so he was the first vice president, but it was he who took on the actual work.
During his tenure as the First Vice President, he used his personality charm to unite a group of outstanding playwrights and directors to create excellent plays.
At the same time, he was also exhausted and even miserable by the tedious administrative work.
In the 1980s, Beijing Renyi entered the golden period of creation, and successively launched a series of works such as "The First Floor under heaven", "Dog Grandpa Nirvana", "Xiaojing Hutong" and so on, entering the peak period, and behind this, it can be said that it is indispensable.
Even the actor Liang Guanhua couldn't help but say: In addition to the success that everyone saw on the stage, I think his greatest contribution to Beijing Renyi was that in the years when he was the vice president and presided over the theater, he supported a group of artists who were still young and middle-aged at that time, laying a good foundation for the later construction of the theater.
The superb performance on the stage, coupled with the support of the young generation, has also been praised by the audience and the industry as "Mei Lanfang of the drama industry" and "the god of drama".
In 1992, at the Beijing Capital Theater, after the curtain call of "The Tea House", I remembered the endless applause.
So he stood in the center of the stage, bowed deeply to the audience in every corner of the audience, and choked up: Thank you for the audience's tolerance.
The appearance of this surprised many people present, they did not expect it at all, so what they wanted to say most was such a sentence containing self-blame.
This is the farewell performance of the first version of the drama "Tea House", at that time, it was already suffering from Alzheimer's disease, and the mouth was always twitching uncontrollably during the performance, and there were several times of forgetting words, completely without the talent of the peak period.
He did not expect that after performing more than 400 familiar plays, he would make repeated mistakes on the stage. In the face of this mistake, the audience did not care, and even more at the end of the curtain, everyone was very excited, and the theater resounded with applause and cheers for tens of minutes.
Amid the cheers, someone put up a banner that reads "Soul of Drama" and someone shouts "King Treasurer, Farewell Forever!" In the face of this spectacular scene, the stage thanked them with tears.
06.
In 1994, it was officially diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.
For a drama actor who regards acting as his lifelong pursuit, there is an obstacle in speaking, which is a very big blow to him and bears a lot of mental pain.
After getting ill, he did not give up his efforts to treat and return to the stage. As a wife, Li Manyi witnessed the whole process of her husband, which made her self-esteem very strong, and she also experienced a lot of pain.
Because of his illness, after leaving the stage, he was often hospitalized, and the nursing work was almost pressed on Li Manyi.
Li Manyi's age also gradually increased, so he hired two nurses, who have been taking care of him since 1999, scrubbing him every day and taking good care of him.
In the last years of this, Li Manyi went to the hospital almost every day to accompany her husband, rain or shine. Talking to his husband about his grandchildren and friends, giving him a massage during the period, and sometimes crying when he hears good memories or the names of old friends.
However, no matter how carefully it was taken care of, it did not stay there. On January 20, 2013, he died in a hospital in Beijing. His departure pushed his wife Li Manyi into the abyss of grief.
After her husband left, Li Manyi proposed to the leader of Renyi that she wanted her husband and the "home" he had worked for many years, his beloved stage, to make a final farewell.
On January 24, the hearse left the hospital and headed for the Capitol Theatre, where it started again after a week of circumference, stopping in the courtyard for a brief farewell ceremony.
Looking at the car constantly going away, Li Manyi meditated in his heart: Yes, he really set off, he went west, then west, and far away.
So after leaving, Li Manyi temporarily put aside his grief and began to sort out the information left by her husband, preparing to sort it out wholeheartedly and publish it for future generations.
While he was sick in bed, Li Manyi began to sort out the annals, the actor's diary, the manuscript of the unpublished article, and the correspondence between the two over the years.
Because there are many materials and there are too chaotic, which also cost Li Manyi a lot of thought, she thought that she could supplement the materials completely and write in detail, which can also be used as a "biography" of her husband.
As she was sorting it out, a good friend's daughter joined in, and she constantly encouraged Lee Man-yi not only to write almanacs, but also to write some stories that I knew were with me.
With the encouragement and support of her niece, she spent four or five years writing samples that had begun to take shape based on the information left by her husband and the story of the two of them.
In 2019, Li Manyi finally completed and wrote this book "I and This Life".
For this book, Li Manyi said that no one will read this book, even his son thinks so, if he goes to publish it, he will lose money.
However, with the support of a group of friends, he published "My Life and Me" to meet more readers.
Through this book, the public can see the trust and deep love throughout their lives, and let people know more about the real story of this performing artist.
In June 2022, more than 9 years after his death, Li Manyi's life returned to normal, and there was still pain in his heart, but he still had a strong life.
She will transform all her thoughts into writing books and sorting out materials, and whenever her husband or Qingming Festival is celebrated, she will cook a table of good dishes, which are her husband's favorite food before he dies.
Although she has been gone for so many years, Li Manyi knows that thoughts and pain will accompany her for the rest of her life.
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