Text | Li Peishu
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One evening in August 1997, Li Ruiying was about to enter the studio to broadcast "News Network" when her phone suddenly rang.
When Li Ruiying learned the news that her son had fallen and been injured, she was anxious.
But she was about to start live news broadcasting, and she couldn't immediately rush to her son's side to accompany her.
In the "News Network" that night, Li Ruiying's performance was as calm as usual, still so calm and calm, and the anxiety in her heart was well hidden, and she could not see that her son had just had an accident.
After the live broadcast, Li Ruiying almost flew to the hospital. Fortunately, her son was only slightly injured, otherwise she would never have forgiven herself.
Li Ruiying, who was immersed in self-blame, would not have imagined that at this time, a good person would post her photo on the Internet, with the caption: In order to broadcast the news, even her son is not wanted.
After the matter fermented online, many people accused Li Ruiying of being ruthless and unworthy of being a mother.
But more people understand that the nature of Li Ruiying's work determines that she can only give up her small family to take care of everyone at a critical moment.
This can't help but make people think: What is the story of Li Ruiying? Is she really as cold-blooded as people suspect?
01
In July 1961, a new life was ushered in in a military family compound in Beijing, and her parents named her Li Ruiying.
Overall, Li Ruiying's childhood memories are still very good, she plays with the big children in the yard to play with mud, catch clams, roll iron rings, and every day is very happy.
But when she reached the age of 6, the good times came to an end, and her father, a soldier, began to militarize her, hoping to raise her into a heroic female soldier.
But compared with being a soldier, Li Ruiying is more interested in being a salesman.
At that time, Li Ruiying had just entered elementary school, and unlike most girls, mathematics was her favorite subject, and doing math problems was the source of her happiness.
Therefore, when he went to the store to buy something, Li Ruiying could not walk as soon as he saw the salesman counting the money. In her opinion, the picture was very similar to the math teacher calculating the mathematical problems of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
Zhang Yuyan, who grew up in the same yard as Li Ruiying, also has the same feeling, and the like-minded two often lie on the counter of the commissary after school and quietly enjoy the salesman's money counting performance.
However, as she grew older, Li Ruiying soon forgot her dream of being a sales clerk, and she put more time into her homework and actively prepared for various exams, and her outstanding performance made her unanimously loved by teachers and classmates.
By the third year of high school, Li Ruiying, who was both good at character and excellent learning, had once become a prominent figure in the compound, and parents had called on their children to learn from her.
However, what everyone does not know is that At this time, Li Ruiying is very confused, and she does not know where her future path is.
A good friend of Li Ruiying has already planned everything, and she plans to enter the Beijing Broadcasting Institute and become a host in the future.
When she learned that Li Ruiying had not yet found the target, she proposed that Li Ruiying accompany her to the school to register, and feel the atmosphere of the university campus.
Faced with a friend's proposal, Li Ruiying readily agreed, and the two then came to the Beijing Broadcasting Institute. There were so many people who signed up on the spot that day, it was almost to the point of rubbing shoulders, and Li Ruiying signed up with his friends on a whim.
After the registration was over, the friend left first because of something at home, Li Ruiying wandered around the campus alone, she walked east, looked west, and unconsciously walked to the door of the communication room.
When he saw a white-haired old man lying on the table reading the newspaper in front of him word for word, Li Ruiying, who had always been enthusiastic, pushed the door in, intending to help him read the newspaper.
"Hello old man, you have been working here for so many years, you must have the ability to recognize under the influence of your ears, can you please listen to my voice, help me analyze the possibility of my admission to the broadcast department?" In order not to hurt the old man's self-esteem, Li Ruiying found a euphemistic reason.
Hearing this, the old man raised his head, and while handing over the newspaper in his hand, he smiled slightly at Li Ruiying: "Naturally, there is no problem." ”
So Li Ruiying read the newspaper content for the old man with great emotion, the old man listened and listened, and his eyes gradually showed appreciation, and when she finished reading, the old man gave a thumbs up and said: "Ya Tou, you test the broadcast, eight or nine do not leave ten." ”
The old man's affirmation made Li Ruiying's heart blossom, and she thanked her one after another, and then withdrew from the communication room.
After returning home, Li Ruiying began to seriously think about the possibility of learning to broadcast, but she couldn't figure out a clue when she thought about it, so she found Zhang Yuyan and wanted to listen to his advice.
After listening to Li Ruiying's narration, Zhang Yuyan looked into her eyes seriously and said: "You are beautiful and eloquent, and it is certainly no problem to be a host of the test broadcast." ”
Li Ruiying was very happy to be praised by the friends who played together from childhood to adulthood, but there was a hint of shyness, and at this time, she did not know that the affection had long been secretly breeding in the daily life of the two.
With Zhang Yuyan's encouragement, Li Ruiying's confidence was doubled, and she successfully passed the initial examination, re-examination and interview, and it did not take long to get the admission letter of the Broadcasting Department of Beijing Broadcasting College.
It is worth mentioning that this year, Li Ruiying's future partner Luo Jing was admitted to the Beijing Broadcasting Institute.
It was not until after the opening of the school that Li Ruiying discovered that the "old man" she saw in the communication room at that time turned out to be Professor Zhang Song, the founder of the Chinese broadcasting discipline system.
The reason why the old man is put in quotation marks is because Zhang Song is actually not old, at this time he was just 43 years old, it is the time of old age, but because of the lack of white heads, he is often mistaken for old age.
Under the leadership of Zhang Song, Li Ruiying made rapid progress, but the good times were not long, and she actually had the idea of changing majors in her sophomore year.
02
Every morning at 6 o'clock, if you walk around the grove of the Beijing Broadcasting Institute, you will definitely see Li Ruiying's figure.
As a student of the Department of Broadcasting, the first task is to learn Hanyu Pinyin well, so in order to practice the pronunciation of vowels and vowels, Li Ruiying is very hard, and he begins to practice before dawn, and in the evening, he spends more than an hour to read the People's Daily from beginning to end.
In addition, the announcer must also know as many Chinese characters as possible to avoid mispronouncing, at this point, Li Ruiying refers to Xia Qing, and takes the Xinhua Dictionary with her every day, and a year has passed, and the Xinhua Dictionary has been turned over by her.
After daily high-intensity practice, Li Ruiying made rapid progress, but slowly her broadcast level was overtaken by other students, and she did not even get the annual scholarship, which made her very disappointed, so she came up with the idea of changing majors.
After Zhang Song learned about it, he very solemnly advised her: "The knowledge you are learning now is laying the foundation for the future, as long as the foundation is solid, it will be easy to do in the future, but now it is just that I have not received a scholarship, it is nothing, and I must look at the long term." ”
Under the persuasion of her mentor, Li Ruiying quickly walked out of the dead end, and since then she has absorbed broadcasting knowledge more and more seriously, like an unsaturated sponge, and in the following years, she has taken various awards in the school.
When the school was successful, Li Ruiying also ushered in the harvest of love, she and Zhang Yuyan of the green plum bamboo horse officially came together, the two learned from each other, made progress together, and their figure is a beautiful landscape in the school.
In 1983, Li Ruiying graduated from the Beijing Broadcasting Institute, and Zhang Yuyan also graduated from Peking University, and then Li Ruiying was assigned to Jiangsu Television as an announcer, while Zhang Yuyan stayed in Beijing, planning to continue his graduate studies in economics.
Although they are separated from each other, the distance does not affect the feelings between them, as soon as there is time, Zhang Yuyan will take a ride to Nanjing to accompany Li Ruiying, and the two are more affectionate than when they were on campus.
When he first entered Jiangsu Television, Li Ruiying was like a brick, where he needed to move.
She works in several positions, both as an announcer, as well as a host and a journalist, and is busy like a top every day.
In order to reunite with her boyfriend in Beijing as soon as possible, although the pace of work is very tight, Li Ruiying still takes time to learn broadcasting expertise, and gradually she has gained more and more recognition and appreciation for her theoretical and practical knowledge.
Three years later, Li Ruiying was transferred back to beijing broadcasting college to teach, and after being a teacher for a while, she began to feel bored, and she longed to go to a bigger platform to play her full talent.
So in 1986, 25-year-old Li Ruiying went to CCTV with the program tape she had done before, and sure enough, she became a member of CCTV.
Li Ruiying recalled in an interview many years later: "My image at that time was a bit bad, I was wearing my mother's coat and my head was tied with a friend's turban, but my simplicity impressed the leaders, which was successfully admitted." ”
Li Ruiying, who had just entered the station, did not have many opportunities to appear on camera due to his low qualifications, but fortunately, at this time, fate threw an olive branch - the announcers of CCTV and Shanghai Television had to communicate.
This is obviously not a good errand in the eyes of others, what if you go to Shanghai and can't come back? Isn't that a big loss?
However, Li Ruiying did not think so, at that time, the announcer of Shanghai Television Station not only broadcast live, but also interviewed, which was a good exercise opportunity for her.
Zhang Yuyan also fully supported Li Ruiying's decision, he said: "You just have to go, everything else is left to me, if you miss this village, you won't have this shop." ”
Therefore, Li Ruiying took the initiative to go to Shanghai TV station to do an exchange, during that time in Shanghai, she benefited a lot, the business level has been significantly improved, after returning to CCTV, she finally got the dream of photogenic opportunities.
03
On July 20, 1987, Li Ruiying appeared on the screen for the first time as an announcer of "News Network", and her dignified and atmospheric face and rounded tone quickly won the favor of many viewers.
When Li Ruiying's career was booming, her love with Zhang Yuyan finally blossomed, and only a few months later the two entered the palace of marriage, this year she was 26 years old.
CCTV's platform is larger, correspondingly, the standard is more stringent, read a word wrong will be fined 50 yuan, read the wrong 3 words directly off the class, so Li Ruiying's psychological pressure has been very large, she is worried that because of her own mistakes and affect the image of CCTV.
When she first entered CCTV, Li Ruiying encountered the same problem as other announcers, that is, she often had nightmares, dreaming that she did not know a word on the manuscript, and then she was frightened to wake up, and after repeating it many times, her work status obviously declined.
Seeing this, Zhang Yuyan came up with a good idea, he took Li Ruiying to play badminton and tennis with him, and used sports to distract her nervousness.
It turned out that this method was very useful, Li Ruiying had never had nightmares since, and his mental state was much better than before.
In 1996, CCTV first tried to change the "News Network" from recording to live broadcasting, considering that Li Ruiying had experience in live broadcasting, it asked her to take the lead with Luo Jing and pilot broadcast for two weeks.
As we all know, live broadcasting is much more demanding than recording, and no mistake can be made, so although he has a little experience, Li Ruiying is still very nervous.
Once, there is still a minute of live broadcast is about to start, but the manuscript has not been given to Li Ruiying, she urged several times, and finally got the manuscript when there are 30 seconds left, she quickly browsed again, her heart beat fast, thinking that if she encountered a strange word that she had never seen before, it would be over, fortunately, with years of accumulation, she finally managed this live broadcast perfectly.
Li Ruiying later said: "Our work is full of landmines, so as journalists, we must have rich education, thick life accumulation and multi-faceted exercises, more inner things, the expression of thoughts will be fluent, and we can easily avoid landmines." ”
In addition to the usual accumulation, doing live broadcasting also requires the wisdom of adapting to changes.
In 1997, When Li Ruiying was commissioned to do a live commentary on the return of Hong Kong, she prepared two sets of plans in advance, using one set of words when it rained, and another set when it did not rain.
When there were still 10 minutes before the start of the live broadcast, raindrops were falling in the sky, which made Li Ruiying's heart settle, because she was more familiar with the phrase "rain".
However, Li Ruiying was just happy for a few minutes, the accident happened, she found that the voice of the broadcast was delayed, in a hurry, she did not have time to think about it and immediately made a change, she used the tone of the recitation to lengthen the voice, which perfectly covered up the matter.
Because of her excellent work ability and zero mistakes, Li Ruiying has become a well-known host and is deeply loved by the audience.
Whenever people praise Li Ruiying, she always modestly says that she could not have come to this day without her husband and children to back herself up.
04
Unlike other female anchors of CCTV, Li Ruiying did not suspend or give up having children because of her career. In fact, she married Zhang Yuyan and gave birth to a son not long after.
When she was pregnant, she was in the ascendancy of Li Ruiying's career, so she kept on her job until a few days before giving birth, and did not return to the house to give birth, fortunately, her husband and in-laws were very considerate and took good care of her and the child.
In the years of marriage with Zhang Yuyan, Li Ruiying has never been in the kitchen, and the housework basically does not need her to do, although she does not have a princess body, she has a princess life because of her husband.
Growing up in this warm and harmonious family environment, Li Ruiying's son naturally came out very well, and he did not have to worry about the couple at all.
But Li Ruiying still feels very indebted to her son, because she is busy with work, she missed many important moments in his life.
Therefore, when his son was injured in that fall, Li Ruiying had the idea of retirement.
Saying that Li Ruiying is cold-blooded is the biggest misunderstanding of her.
When she learned that her son fell from the building and was injured, her heart was more uncomfortable than anyone, but fish and bear paws can not be both, as a CCTV anchor, her image represents the country, can not because of her son and ignore the national interests.
Li Ruiying later explained to his colleagues: "This has become a professional habit, and as long as you sit in a chair in the live broadcast room, you don't belong to yourself." ”
In May 2014, the 53-year-old Li Ruiying officially retired to the background, knowing that unless he is seriously ill, CCTV anchors will generally retire at the age of 60.
In order to compensate for her son's lack of maternal love over the years, Li Ruiying actually chose to give up the golden rice bowl of CCTV 7 years in advance, which shows her love for her son.
In the 8 years since her retirement, Li Ruiying has made a few public appearances, because she has spent most of her time with her family, visiting the park together, playing ball together, simple and happy.
She faded the aura of the CCTV anchor and became an ordinary person who cared about chai rice oil and salt.
After retiring from the anchor position, Li Ruiying expressed her true thoughts to Ouyang Xiadan: "Many of my friends are sorry for me, but only people in the industry know how much mental pressure we have in this post, and when I retired from this post, I felt very relaxed. ”
In an earlier interview, talking about his future retirement life, Li Ruiying said that he wanted to become a teacher at Hope Primary School, teach children to read texts and read, and of course, the most important thing is to teach them great recitation.
However, in fact, after retirement, Li Ruiying went to college, not primary school, she was invited to return to her alma mater as a lecturer, to teach students the hosting experience, on the podium she wore glasses, good looks, very bookish and socially precipitated intellectual beauty.
In addition to teaching, Li Ruiying occasionally participates in some offline activities, and on April 22, 2022, she attended the event as a reading promotion ambassador of Sichuan Provincial Library, sharing with readers some of the good books she has recently read.
Li Ruiying at the event site has fair skin, full of spirit, and basically can't see wrinkles, which is not much different from her 8 years ago, and the elegance is still the same.
However, what people did not expect was that because of participating in some social activities and doing some work to train hosts, Li Ruiying annoyed some people, who questioned Li Ruiying for doing these things and charged a lot of fees, so they criticized Li Ruiying for using the identity of a former CCTV anchor to earn gold.
In this regard, Li Ruiying did not respond, but in the author's opinion, participating in activities, doing hosting training work, charging some fees is not important, even if it is a former CCTV anchor, you also have to dress and eat, how can you not make money when you retire?
Besides, she only participated in a few activities and lectures, and did not infringe on everyone's vital interests, which is not much better than those celebrities who endorse fake and shoddy products?
Today's Li Ruiying is 61 years old, her face does not show vicissitudes, only after years of tempering graceful calm, she and her husband who has been married for 35 years have a lot of love, her son has already achieved success, for her, life has no regrets.