"Many of my comrades-in-arms have left me, and I speak to them every day in my heart, and you can watch how I continue to serve the film and serve the people."
In 2021, when Tian Hua, a 93-year-old veteran artist and famous actor, attended the opening ceremony of the 11th Beijing International Film Festival, she said these words with special feelings.
After she said this, many young actors in the audience immediately applauded, and then Tian Hua continued: "My age is not capped, you are young, I am young, your youth is written on your face, and my youth is in my heart." ”
Seeing that the old predecessor of the show business is still contributing to the acting career at such an advanced age and still has such a high pursuit of art, everyone present is touched by her spirit.
Among them, Gong Li, as the chairman of the film festival, and Zhang Songwen and Chen Kun, who are the judges, as well as Zhang Yi, Zhou Dongyu, Bai Baihe, Yang Ying and other popular actors who are just red, have even red eyes.
I have to say that as an old artist who is respected and loved by people in the circle, Tian Hua has really brought us too many excellent works and shaped countless classic roles.
From "Xi'er" in "White Haired Girl" to "Li Yumei" in "Daughter of the Party", to "Yue Xian" in "Jiangshan Duojiao", and "Xiao Ting" in "Bihai Danxin", etc., this classic work and the classic roles she has created have left a deep impression on the audience!
However, most people only see the bright and beautiful side of her on stage and in her works, ignoring the bitterness she has experienced in her life.
She was accompanied by pain all her life, although she and her first love husband for a lifetime, but in her later years life was not satisfactory.
She has lost four close relatives in succession, on the day of her son's death, she also did not see the last side of her son because she went to be a judge, and now at the age of 94, she can only rely on her grandson for her life...
One
Tian Hua, whose original name was Liu Tianhua, was born in 1928 in a backward mountain village in Tang County, Hebei Province, to a very poor family.
Originally, the family's financial conditions were not good, and when she was very young, her mother died early due to illness, and since then her life has become more difficult.
Not long after the death of her mother, Tian Hua encountered a period of turmoil, in order to alleviate the pressure of life at home, but also in order to solve the problem of food and clothing, in 1940, at the age of 12, she joined the Anti-Enemy Drama Society of the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region of the Eighth Route Army and embarked on the road of acting.
After entering the drama club, the clever and clever Tian Hua soon became a popular small actor in the troupe, although every time she did not play much in the work, she could slowly improve her acting skills through the tempering on the stage.
However, before her career could develop, in the fourth year of entering the drama club, she first harvested her love and came together with her husband SuFan.
Unlike her, Su Fan was born in a scholarly family, his grandfather was the founder of Suncheon Daily, his father was a civil judge, compared to Tian Hua's family situation, Su Fan's family was more than a star and a half better.
Although the two met in a chaotic era, but in their youth they are full of expectations, one is handsome and talented, one is young and beautiful and considerate, not long after meeting, the two of them naturally came together.
But because of the chaotic times, although the relationship between the two is sincere, they do not have much time for children, and both of them have focused on work.
During this period, Tian Hua followed the drama club to various places to carry out publicity performances, and played important roles in many famous dramas, laying a solid foundation for himself.
Su Fan is also like her, mainly behind the scenes of his development, in the direction of stage art hard work, career development is flourishing.
In August 1949, the two of them, who had been together for many years, ended their romantic relationship and entered the palace of marriage hand in hand.
Not long after the marriage, both of their careers ushered in a new upturn.
Two
First of all, her husband Su Fan, soon after marriage, received the stage design work responsible for the founding ceremony of Tiananmen, and he knew that the task was heavy, and he instantly put all his thoughts on the work.
Although Tian Hua intends to enjoy the sweet and happy time after marriage with her husband, she also knows the importance of the matter and does not have a conflict with her husband.
In 1950, the second year after marriage, Tian Hua also ushered in a breakthrough in her career, and the Northeast Film Studio issued an invitation to her when remaking the opera drama of the same name, "The White Haired Girl", and let her participate in the role of "Xi'er" in the play.
This is Tian Hua's first time on the screen, with the role of "Xi'er" she became a hit, not only won the love of the national audience, but also won her a gold medal issued by the Ministry of Culture!
She also once became a "white-haired girl" in the minds of audiences and fans because of this work, and was recognized and supported by everyone.
Soon after, she and her husband Su Fan were sweet in love, and she became pregnant with their child, and gave birth to their eldest son Yang Xuelei the following year.
Later, Tian Hua gave birth to two sons for Su Fan, named Yang Xuepei and Yang Xuehong.
The arrival of the child not only did not let Tian Hua temporarily delay the pace of development of her career, but also did not know whether it was the good luck brought to her by the child, and her acting career began to take a qualitative leap.
Three
She first entered the performance cadre training class of Chinese opera, and after graduation, she successively participated in works such as "Flower Good Moon", "Daughter of the Party", "Jiangshan Duojiao" and so on.
Later, after being transferred to the Bayi Film Studio and becoming an army film actress, she successively shot "Capture the Seal", "Doctor Bethune", "Secret Drawings", "Inside and Outside the Courtroom" and other works.
Among them, the role of the female dean "Shang Qin" played by her in "Inside and Outside the Court", because of the interpretation of the image of the character's integrity is very good, she also won the nomination for the best actress of the first Golden Rooster Awards.
With this classic work, Tian Hua's acting career has also developed better and better.
In 1983, at the age of 55, she should have retired, and became the head of the actors troupe of bayi film studios.
In order to continue to contribute to the acting career she loved, Tian Hua stayed in the troupe to develop until 1990, when she was 62 years old, she chose to retire and left the Bayi Film Studio.
After retirement, Tian Hua is still contributing to the acting career she loves, and has not completely faded from the public's attention.
She has participated in many works and has also attended many large-scale events and evenings.
In view of her significant contributions to the mainland's performing arts career, in 1995, she also won the Actress Award of the Chinese Film Century Awards in the commemorative conference commemorating the 100th anniversary of the birth of world cinema and the 90th anniversary of the birth of Chinese cinema.
In their acting careers, they have achieved fame and success, their families have also lived in harmony and happiness, and their sons have long been married and have their own lives.
For Tian Hua at this time, she can be called a winner in life and live an enviable life.
Unfortunately, all this was broken with the arrival of one accident after another.
Four
In 2008, at the age of 80, Tian Hua was enjoying her old age when the wife of her youngest son, Yang Xuehong, her daughter-in-law, was diagnosed with breast cancer.
After nearly half a year of treatment, the daughter-in-law's condition was gradually controlled, but before the daughter-in-law's condition stabilized, Tian Hua's young son Yang Xuehong was found to have liver cancer, and it was still advanced.
The income of the young son and the daughter-in-law is not particularly high, in order to make the little two feel at ease, Tian Hua, who is already 80 years old, has to continue to return to the show business circle to earn money to see his family.
She first participated in the youth inspirational film "Looking for Jackie Chan" directed by Jiang Ping, and later participated in works such as "Quit Smoking and Not Drinking" and "Flying Over the Old People's Home".
During this period, she also won important awards such as the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Golden Phoenix Award of the 12th China Film Performing Arts Society and the Lifetime Achievement Award of the 30th Hundred Flowers Award.
With her efforts, her young son Yang Xuehong and her daughter-in-law have gradually been under control after long-term treatment.
But before Tian Hua could relax, in 2012, the wife of her second son, her second daughter-in-law, was also diagnosed with breast cancer.
What surprised her even more was that shortly after the second daughter-in-law was diagnosed with breast cancer, in early 2013, her first love husband Su Fan was also found to have liver cancer, and it was already advanced as when her younger son was found to have liver cancer.
This blow after blow was unbearable for even a young man, not to mention Tian Hua, who was 85 years old at the time.
In order to treat the 4 cancer patients in the family and to support the family, Tian Hua had to shoot dramas everywhere to earn money and run around.
Unfortunately, her efforts were eventually exchanged for the departure of her relatives one after another...
Five
In 2014, after Tian Hua went to the hospital to see her youngest son Yang Xuehong, she immediately rushed to the scene of a singing competition to be a judge.
The reason why she was in such a hurry was only because she wanted to make more money so that the four family members with cancer could overcome the disease as soon as possible.
But what she did not expect was that she had just left on the front foot, and the younger son on the back foot had passed away because of the spread of cancer cells, and the treatment was fruitless.
After the death of her youngest son, in order not to let this tragedy of white-haired people sending black-haired people to happen again, she worked harder and harder to make movies to earn money to treat her two daughters-in-law.
At that time, after a pharmaceutical company learned of her experience, it intended to help her, and offered a high price of 2 million endorsement fees to invite her to endorse and shoot advertisements.
In other words, an ordinary artist, she has long agreed to such an invitation, but Tian Hua is different, although she has long spent her savings in order to treat her family, but she did not give up her artistic pursuit for money, and she decisively refused this endorsement.
Compared with many young artists who are desperately shooting advertisements for money and endorsing various products without understanding the details, Tian Hua's soberness really does not know how many artists have punched their faces and how many stars have been ashamed of themselves!
And what is painful is that although she has done her best to keep her relatives and let them receive the best level of treatment, in the face of the ravages of the disease, her relatives have left her one by one.
Shortly after the death of her youngest son, her two daughters-in-law, who suffered from breast cancer, and her beloved Sufan, passed away one after another.
In the face of the successive deaths of four close relatives, Tian Hua was strong all her life, but she was still in a huge sadness for a while.
Thanks to her other relatives, especially her grandson, who were always by her side, she gradually came out of her grief.
Six
After coming out of the grief of the departure of the four closest relatives, Tian Hua and his grandson relied on each other for their lives, while putting their minds on their careers, through their careers to keep themselves from recalling those sad past events.
And these bitter past events she experienced behind her back were also known and understood by the public after her grandson Yang Xiao appeared on the variety show "I Am Not a Star" in 2017.
At that time, many people were distressed about her suffering, and they were also worried about her later life, so they intended to help her, but she politely refused: "I am an actor, I have a certain ability to earn money, and I can't increase everyone's burden." ”
"There are still families and patients in society, who are more difficult than me, who need help more than me."
Her selfless and loving words once again moved and touched countless people.
However, her words are also correct, from the perspective of her development and life in recent years, her life state does not need to be too worried and worried.
Tian Hua, who has always insisted on the development of the show business circle, although the works she has participated in in in recent years have become less and less, she is still active in this circle and is still making contributions to the acting career.
In recent years, her works such as "Step by Step" and "Everything Like You" have been supported and recognized by the audience.
Compared with participating in film and television works, she is more active on the stage of various evenings and events.
For example, he participated in the Lantern Party of CCTV in 2021, sang the song "Go to the People" with Hu Songhua and others, and CCTV's National Day special program.
In 2022, she also participated in the "Hundred Flowers welcoming spring" party, co-told "To Hundred Flowers" with Wu Jing, Jin Dong and others, and participated in the Spring Festival Gala of Beijing Television.
In May 2022, she also participated in the cultural program "Starting from Yan'an" launched by CCTV to commemorate the Yan'an Literary and Art Symposium, and led the audience to review the Nanniwan spirit of "self-reliance and hard struggle" with young actor Liu Haoran.
Although Tian Hua is now 94 years old, her love and dedication to acting and her dedication to acting are still difficult to compare with countless young artists.
In other words, compared with those artists who only develop for the sake of fame and popularity, artists like Tian Hua, who are single-mindedly for the sake of art and bring good works and good performances to the audience, can be called the old artists in the true sense of "virtue and art"!
Finally, I hope that this old artist, who has experienced ups and downs in her later years, will be able to enjoy her old age and no longer have to run around for her family as before.
I wish her a happy life, health and longevity.
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