Performing artist Zhang Ruifang
On June 28, 2012, Zhang Ruifang, a 94-year-old artist of the older generation, passed away.
Speaking of the name Zhang Ruifang, it may be a little strange to many young people now, because she was active in the 1950s and 1980s.
The last film she worked on was 1986's '84 or '85 in T Province, and she hasn't made a film for 30 years since, so younger audiences may not be familiar with her name.
In 2007, Zhang Ruifang won the Lifetime Achievement Award for Chinese Films at the 10th Shanghai International Film Festival.
At that time, the reporter once asked her, who do you most want to give you the award? Zhang Ruifang's answer was: "I most hope that Premier Zhou Enlai can come back and present me with the award!" ”
In 1963, Premier Zhou congratulated Zhang Ruifang on winning the Hundred Flowers Award for Best Actress
Because in 1963, when Zhang Ruifang won the Hundred Flowers Award for Best Actress, she was cordially received by Premier Zhou.
Moreover, under the organization of Premier Zhou, the relevant departments selected 22 film stars in New China, and Zhang Ruifang was among them.
At that time, the land of China at the beginning of the twentieth century was plagued by internal and external troubles, shrouded in layers of haze.
In 1918, Mr. and Mrs. Zhang Ji of the Baoding Army Officer School had a third child, and they named her Zhang Ruifang.
As an officer in the National Revolutionary Army, Zhang Ji was ordered to go to various places to take up posts, and the family followed him to Hebei, Shandong and Jiangsu.
Father Zhang Ji is tall and handsome, with a height of nearly 1 meter 9, he likes the children very much, often pinching their little noses, at this time the children will deliberately hide and not let him pinch.
Zhang Ruifang (first from right) and his family at the age of 4
Unfortunately, such a happy time is very short, and zhang ji died when Zhang Ruifang was 11 years old.
The early death of her father was a great change for the whole family, and the cultured mother was determined to make every child useful.
From 1928 onwards, the family settled in Beiping, there were many girls in the family, and her sister Zhang Nan became the object of her sisters' pursuit.
Zhang Nan was first admitted to The Beiping Municipal Girls' High School and often took her sisters to see plays rehearsed by students.
At that time, Zhang Ruifang saw the students who took the stage and began to fantasize that she could also stand there.
At the age of 12, Zhang Ruifang was admitted to the girls' high school, where she took the stage as she wished.
Zhang Ruifang started from a small role, with a sense of love and aura, although there is no experience and skills, but her performances often win praise.
Zhang Ruifang
After graduating from middle school, Zhang Ruifang was admitted to the Department of Western Painting of Beiping National Art College.
Theatrical activities here are more lively, and Zhang Ruifang's performance talent has also been given more room to display.
And under the influence of her mother and sister, Zhang Ruifang also began to participate in revolutionary action.
During her studies at the art college, 19-year-old Zhang Ruifang met Zheng Zenghu, a like-minded sculpture student, and the two of them studied together, painted together, acted and traveled together, and the two had a love affair.
Unfortunately, for the sake of the revolutionary needs, Zhang Ruifang wanted to go south to Chongqing, but Zheng Zenghu could only obey his family's arrangement and continue to stay in Beijing to study.
When they were separated, the two people must be together after making an appointment, but they did not expect that this difference was a lifetime.
Zheng Zenghu later went to Taiwan, and they never saw each other again.
Since then, this past has become the most precious memory in Zhang Ruifang's heart.
Zhang Ruifang often participated in some anti-Japanese propaganda dramas and other performances in school. It was in the process that she met her first husband, a college student at Peking University named Yu Keji.
At that time, Zhang Ruifang's school wanted to rehearse a stage play, and it was necessary to invite a more knowledgeable person to be the director, and the director invited this time was Yu Keji.
Yu Keji liked Zhang Ruifang as soon as he saw her, and later after the rehearsal of the stage performance, Yu Keji began to write letters to Zhang Ruifang, about two letters a week.
The young Zhang Ruifang was touched by Yu Keji's true feelings, and she regarded him as her boyfriend from the bottom of her heart, and it was this interaction with Yu Keji that strengthened Zhang Ruifang's determination to take the road of acting.
At that time, there were many mobile drama troupes in China, also known as mobile drama clubs, which mainly carried out mobile performances in order to publicize the anti-Japanese resistance.
Most of them performed in the form of street art, which inspired the people's anti-Japanese fighting spirit during the War of Resistance Against Japan. Zhang Ruifang later joined a mobile drama club and participated in performances everywhere.
At this time, Yu Keji had graduated from college and was assigned to work in Chongqing, in charge of power engineering.
In his spare time, he set up a drama club, the name of the drama club is "Roar Drama Society", mainly to publicize the anti-Japanese resistance, calling on the Chinese people to fight and not to be slaves to the country.
In the process of establishing the RoarIng Drama Company, he often wrote letters to Zhang Ruifang, who had already followed the mobile troupe to perform everywhere.
On this day, Zhang Ruifang received a letter from Yu Keji, opened it, and dropped out a briefing note, which was a marriage statement between Yu Keji and another woman.
In that era, two people did not need to get a marriage license to get married, and people with some status in order to show the world that they were married, they were going to the newspaper to publish a marriage statement.
If the divorce is also in this way, it is also a divorce notice.
When Zhang Ruifang saw this newspaper at that time, it was simply a thunderous explosion, fortunately, in addition to this newspaper, there was a letter in this envelope, in which Yu Keji explained the matter to Zhang Ruifang.
It turned out that this woman had a very good relationship with Yu Keji from childhood, and grew up together, and when she grew up, she must marry Yu Keji, yu Keji did not agree to her to find short-sightedness, but forced by the pressure of the two parents, Yu Keji had to marry her and publish a statement.
Yu Keji confessed to Zhang Ruifang in the letter, saying "first slow down", wait for her to calm down and then divorce her, although Zhang Ruifang is reluctant in her heart, but there is no other way to do it, can only wait patiently.
Soon after, Yu Keji did indeed divorce the man and sent the newspaper with the divorce statement to Zhang Ruifang, but because Zhang Ruifang was following the mobile troupe to perform in various places at that time, there was no fixed address, and the letter did not reach Zhang Ruifang's hands in the end.
Yu Keji was also anxious not to receive Zhang Ruifang's reply, and he heard that Zhang Ruifang was acting in Henan, so he quickly rushed from Chongqing to Henan.
After seeing Zhang Ruifang, he poured out his love to her, and Zhang Ruifang was touched by Yu Keji's true feelings, so he followed Yu Keji to Chongqing to join the Roar Drama Club.
At this time, Premier Zhou was working in Chongqing, mainly leading some underground anti-Japanese activities in Chongqing.
At that time, Zhang Ruifang was already a party member, and Premier Zhou could be said to be his direct leader, and Zhang Ruifang and Yu Keji asked Premier Zhou for instructions to start a family.
With the approval of the organization, the two men came together.
When in love, due to the relationship of distance, two people see each other's advantages, but after entering the marriage, the inappropriate places of the two people in the day and night are exposed.
Over time, Zhang Ruifang found that Yu Keji's personality was somewhat indifferent, especially an incident that happened at home, which made Zhang Ruifang very sad and made her feel disappointed in Yu Keji.
At that time, Zhang Ruifang's sister was also in Chongqing, because her husband was not around after pregnancy, in order to take care of it, Zhang Ruifang took her sister to live in her own home.
When her sister was about to be in the basin, Zhang Ruifang was too busy filming, so she asked Yu Keji to take care of her sister.
On this day, Zhang Ruifang returned home very late after filming, and when she arrived home, she found that her sister was not there, so she asked Yu Keji about her sister's situation, and Yu Keji said with an attitude of not caring about herself that she may have gone to the hospital.
Zhang Ruifang rushed to the hospital and found that her sister was only alone, gave birth to a child, and there was not even a person to take care of her, and the sisters immediately hugged and cried.
Zhang Ruifang and Jinshan
This incident hit Zhang Ruifang very hard, which caused great disappointment in this relationship.
And when a person is disappointed in one relationship, it may also give another relationship the opportunity to take advantage of the void.
The name of this person who took advantage of the void was Jinshan, and Jinshan was not an ordinary person, he was not only an actor, but also a director, but also a very famous theater theorist.
In this case, Jinshan began to pursue Zhang Ruifang with the opportunity of acting.
At this time, Zhang Ruifang is in the disappointment of her husband, the feelings are in a cold period, she also needs to have an object to talk to, so she and Jinshan have a lot of getting along, the two people talk about art, talk about life, there is a lot of common language.
At that time, the Chongqing drama circle had the saying of "four major hua dan", which were Shu Wenxiu, Qin Yi, Zhang Ruifang and Bai Yang, who were very beautiful stars. It is said that at that time, Jinshan pursued these four major huadan.
Therefore, Zhang Ruifang still has some hesitation in his heart for the pursuit of Jinshan.
The emotional breakthrough between the two people stems from one night, Zhang Ruifang's husband Yu Keji is not at home, Jinshan came to find Zhang Ruifang, but he did not enter Ruifang's house, but stood outside the window and talked to her.
In this way, Zhang Ruifang was in the window, Jin Shan was outside the window, and the two people actually talked for a whole night. Zhang Ruifang's feelings began to slowly tilt towards Jinshan.
This matter has been seen by many people, including Zhang Ruifang and Yu Keji's witnesses when they were married, such as Guo Moruo, Cao Yu, Wu Zuguang, and other great literary heroes.
They all have the same judgment about Jinshan, that is, Jinshan is emotionally unreliable and is a playboy.
In 1961, Zhang Ruifang appeared on the cover of the People's Pictorial
To this end, Cao Yu and Wu Zuguang also specifically found Jinshan, invited him to dinner, and advised Jinshan not to play with Zhang Ruifang's feelings.
However, Jin Shan repeatedly said that he liked Zhang Ruifang and said that he must pursue Zhang Ruifang without hesitation.
No matter what Kingsoft says, the surrounding public opinion environment will make a correct judgment.
Soon after, someone told Zhang Ruifang about Jinshan's past affair, and more than one person said that many people told Zhang Ruifang, Zhang Ruifang began to waver, and she decided to ignore Jinshan.
But in the end, Jinshan still pursued Zhang Ruifang and became her second husband, and through what did he make Zhang Ruifang agree to his marriage proposal?
On the one hand, it is because another incident has happened in Zhang Ruifang's family, which has once again caused a huge rift in her marriage.
Zhang Ruifang's mother wrote to her and told her the bad news of her brother's death, and Zhang Ruifang was extremely sad after receiving the letter and returned home to tell Yu Keji about it.
But what Zhang Ruifang did not expect was that Yu Keji did not have any comfort after hearing it, but just hummed softly and did not follow up.
Zhang Ruifang couldn't help but cry at home, she cried for a long time, Yu Keji just came over and said "sleep", and there was no other expression.
This time Yu Keji completely broke Zhang Ruifang's heart, she decided to divorce Yu Keji immediately, Jin Shan at this time was more comforting and considerate everywhere, thus completely impressing Zhang Ruifang.
On the other hand, Jin Shan also reported the matter to the organization, applying for organizational approval of his marriage with Zhang Ruifang, and Zhou Enlai saw this situation and approved their marriage.
After Zhang Ruifang and Jinshan got married, there was a very embarrassing situation that her ex-husband Yu Keji and her current husband Jinshan were in the same unit.
When Premier Zhou saw this situation, he knew the world, so he transferred Zhang Ruifang and Jin Shan to the Changchun Film Studio.
After the long film, Jinshan did help Zhang Ruifang a lot in her career, when Zhang Ruifang shot her second film "Songhua On the River", she was the heroine, and the director was Jinshan.
But unfortunately, the good times did not last long, and the marriage lasted only 8 years.
In 1953, the organization transferred Jin Shan and Zhang Ruifang to the Beijing Film Studio.
Here, there is a rift in the relationship between the two. At that time, when filming the drama "Paul Kochakin", the director of this film had another female director in addition to Jinshan, named Sun Weishi, who was the adopted daughter of Premier Zhou.
In the process of making this movie, Zhang Ruifang found that the feelings of Jinshan and Sun Weishi were not ordinary, and Zhang Ruifang could not tolerate Jinshan's empathy and love, and immediately filed for divorce.
And Jinshan also did not hesitate to agree to Zhang Ruifang's divorce request, and the two's 8-year marriage broke down.
The organization transferred Zhang Ruifang to the Shanghai Film Studio, where there are also many old friends of Zhang Ruifang, such as Qin Yi and Cao Yu.
Under the care and companionship of friends, Zhang Ruifang's pain was slowly alleviated.
When she first arrived at the film, Zhang Ruifang, who was single, had a very inconvenient life, and eating had become a big problem. At this time, there was an accounting couple colleague in the unit, and seeing that Zhang Ruifang was really inconvenient, he warmly invited her to his home to eat with them.
Like Zhang Ruifang, there is also a single actor in the studio, called Yan Li, so the couple simply invited Yan Li to the family to eat together.
After coming and going, Zhang Ruifang and Yan Li had a good feeling for each other, and coupled with the couple's efforts to match, Zhang Ruifang and Yan Li came together and began her third marriage.
In this last marriage of Zhang Ruifang, she really tasted the happiness of marriage, and in her life after marriage, Yan Li took care of Zhang Ruifang in every way, knew the cold and knew the warmth, and the two people's lives were harmonious and beautiful.
Zhang Ruifang and Yan Li
The happiness of life will promote the smoothness of the career. During this period, Zhang Ruifang starred in the movie "Li Shuangshuang", she played the female protagonist Li Shuangshuang, and Zhong Xinghuo played the male protagonist Xiwang, which can be said to be the peak of Zhang Ruifeng's acting career.
The image of Li Shuangshuang, for a long time, was the representative image of Zhang Ruifang.
In this way, Zhang Ruifang and Yan Li walked hand in hand for more than 40 years, until Yan Li died. This period of time can be said to be Zhang Ruifang's happiest time.
After Yan Li died, only Zhang Ruifang was left alone, and her life felt lonely.
In 2003, Sun Daolin, Zhang Ruifang, Qin Yi, Wang Wenjuan, Xu Yulan
In the twilight of her life, she took out all her life savings to open a nursing home, named "Aiwanting Respect for the Elderly".
Because she is also a lonely old man, she can best understand the mood of other lonely old people.
Zhang Ruifang died in 2012, and before her death, her adopted son Yan Jia rushed back from Australia with her family and accompanied the elderly through their last days.
Zhang Ruifang had a bumpy life, and her marriage had several twists and turns in that turbulent era, however, she was also lucky that she finally found her beloved.