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At that time, Zhang Shaohua became famous with "ugly lady" and even won the Magnolia Award, but in her kind mother image, it was very controversial because of one thing.
In 2017, painter Wu Huan, the son of Xin Fengxia, publicly claimed on social media that Zhang Shaohua, whose mother's disability, should bear great responsibility for this.
Subsequently, Zhang Shaohua was criticized by everyone, and she instantly became an evil person who "people are uglier and uglier", what kind of story is this?
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Zhang Shaohua's ordinary birth
Zhang Shaohua was born in Beijing in 1946 in a particularly difficult family with nine children, and it was difficult to feed so many children at that time.
When she was 3 years old, her father died of illness, and her mother took on the burden of raising nine children alone, and she had to rush home to cook for several children every day.
But even so, there are a number of nests and nests at home, in order to save money, several children often run to the mountains to dig wild vegetables, in order to reduce the burden on his mother, Zhang Shaohua was sent to live at his grandmother's house.
Grandma likes to comment on dramas, and Zhang Shaohua is also very interested in this, but because she has no money, most of the time she has been addicted.
At that time, grandma often took Zhang Shaohua to watch the performance of the opera team, and whenever she saw the actors on the stage begin to perform, she could no longer take her eyes off, trying to remember every movement and singing voice in her heart, and after returning home, she would secretly imitate the singing and chanting in the opera alone.
At the age of 13, because of her family's poverty and for her hobbies, she went to the theater garden to do miscellaneous work.
Despite the difficult conditions, the small and simple place to live, and the poor quality of the food, she never had any complaints, just wanted a chance to learn to sing.
She diligently practiced the basic skills and strictly demanded herself, but because her appearance was not outstanding enough, Zhang Shaohua never got the opportunity to perform on stage, and naturally could not become a so-called famous role.
It was not until she began to learn Caidan and Lao Dan that she had the opportunity to appear on stage, and after years of stage polishing, Zhang Shaohua gradually became a famous actor in the theater garden, and appeared on the screen in her 40s.
After that, it was even popular all over the country with the role of "ugly girl".
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An old case in China's drama critics
But I didn't expect that a dynamic on Weibo by contemporary calligrapher Wu Huan in 2017 quickly put her on the cusp.
In the public's impression, Zhang Shaohua has a good reputation and is an old lady with very acting skills, and in this dynamic, her caustic image is subverting everyone's cognition.
The matter also came to 1966, when traditional Chinese art was seriously affected due to special circumstances, in which many artists were unjustly treated because of their identity and family lineage, and became the target of "beating, robbing and smashing", and actor Xin Fengxia was a typical victim.
Xin Fengxia was a pillar in the drama industry at that time, and she was in love and married to the opera artist Wu Zuguang and had three children, and Wu Huan was one of Xin Fengxia's sons.
Xin Fengxia was born in a family of drama critics, attracted much attention since childhood, and later emerged in the drama criticism industry with her excellent acting skills and became a "big name" in the theater.
And her husband Wu Zuguang is also a famous artist in the opera industry, and the two have gained great prestige in the literary and art world with their artistic achievements obtained through years of hard study.
However, the good times did not last long, and in that special era, there were also fierce factional struggles in the critic theater.
Zhang Shaohua used the movement to retaliate against the opposition, and in order to show her power, she ordered her subordinates to drag more than a dozen leaders and leading actors from the room to the center of the courtyard, and all of them knelt.
Some people were unwilling to give in and tried to resist, but they were mercilessly kicked and injured by the "rebels" under her, and this so-called barbaric act of "beating the whole hall" caused many old-timers to suffer humiliation.
It is said that Zhang Shaohua, a newcomer, is not used to the limelight of the veteran artist Xin Fengxia, and out of jealousy, he also wants to rectify Xin Fengxia.
She personally took people to Xin Fengxia's home, under the guise of "sweeping the four olds", rummaged through boxes and cabinets everywhere, and finally set her eyes on several Qi Baishi paintings collected by Xin Fengxia.
Xin Fengxia is Qi Baishi's closed disciple, these calligraphy and paintings are all collected by her many years of painstaking efforts, can be said to be priceless treasures, Zhang Shaohua and others rudely removed the calligraphy and paintings, regardless of the frame, tied to a bicycle with rope and transported away. Such atrocities made Xin Fengxia heartbroken.
While rummaging through the cabinets, Xin Fengxia tried to protect her family's collection, but was beaten by a young man under Zhang Shaohua to the point of serious injury to her left knee, resulting in a permanent disability, and never appeared on the stage again.
For many years, Xin Fengxia has been unable to forget this experience, and she wrote a memoir in her later years to record in detail what Zhang Shaohua did, but she did not mention it again after the matter had passed, and let her descendants also put this matter down.
It wasn't until many years later that Wu Huan, a contemporary painter and son of Xin Fengxia, posted an article on his mother's 90th birthday revealing that it was Zhang Shaohua who beat and injured Xin Fengxia, and he asked Zhang Shaohua if he remembered what he had done.
Wu Huan's revelation stirred up thousands of waves with one stone, arousing the attention of all walks of life, and public opinion condemned Zhang Shaohua's behavior and supported Xin Fengxia.
Under great pressure, Zhang Shaohua had to respond, she claimed that she only rushed to the scene later, saw the old man fell to the ground before coming forward to negotiate, she did not participate in raiding homes and beating people, she denied doing anything to Xin Fengxia, and claimed that the knee injury was caused by cerebral hemorrhage.
However, Zhang Shaohua's defense failed to calm the situation, her reputation fell to the bottom, a once highly praised old drama bone, in this public opinion storm withdrew from the stage, her life trajectory and what she did to Xin Fengxia back then, people can't help but reflect on the irrationality of the special era.
At that time, the suffering fate of many artists still strangles future generations, which has also become the eternal pain of the older generation of literati, and the times are progressing, and all this has finally become a thing of the past.
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I don't know the regret of coming to Japan
Since his reputation was discredited, the outside world has not seen Zhang Shaohua's figure for a long time, and when he sees him again, he can only sigh a bleak evening scene.
In the early years, Zhang Shaohua focused all her energy on her acting career, in order to play more roles to climb the peak of her career, she rarely went home, and her son Zhang Jing grew up with his grandmother since he was a child.
When Zhang Jing was 14 years old, Zhang Shaohua took him to his side, but the mother and son were like strangers and lacked feelings, and Zhang Shaohua regretted that he missed the opportunity to accompany his son to grow up.
In order to make up for his mistakes, Zhang Shaohua began to fully sponsor his son Zhang Jing to go to school, and Zhang Jing was later admitted to Tsinghua University, and Zhang Shaohua was even more ecstatic. In order to let her son buy a house and buy a house, she began to play a large number of various roles, unscrupulous to earn money.
But Zhang Jing did not appreciate and still kept her distance, Zhang Shaohua herself lived in a small 40-square-meter house allocated by the unit, while her son lived in the large house she bought with her savings.
Zhang Shaohua once shaved his hair to only a little in order to play a clown, and the whole person looked extremely weird.
But she is proud of it, feeling that she finally has the opportunity to show her acting skills through harlequins, and in order to enter the play, she often studies how to make ugly expressions in front of the mirror.
Zhang Shaohua's dedication is admirable, but it also leaves a bad impression on her son's heart.
In 2018, 75-year-old Zhang Shaohua was hospitalized due to illness, she hung alone in the hospital, once Zhang Shaohua could also rely on her contacts accumulated in the entertainment industry to get some care, such as having a doctor help her arrange a better ward.
But as she grew older, Zhang Shaohua felt that she was gradually forgotten by this circle, and her physical condition deteriorated, but she rarely visited her from old friends.
Fortunately, the "godson" actor Yang Zhigang she knows visits every day and takes care of them carefully, and they once collaborated on the role of mother and son in a play and established a deep relationship.
Zhang Shaohua has taught Yang Zhigang a lot of acting skills, and the two have a close personal relationship, but her biological son Zhang Jing has not appeared once, she does not dare to expose this relationship in front of the camera, but only vaguely makes excuses for her son.
In 2021, Zhang Shaohua died of illness at the age of 78, Yang Zhigang rushed to the hospital to take care of the aftermath, and handled the funeral from Jane according to her last wish.
And his son Zhang Jing is still working outside, indifferent to his mother's death, and the small house where Zhang Shaohua lived before his death was eventually sold by his son.
Zhang Shaohua devoted her life to acting and accumulated considerable wealth, but she ended her life with loneliness and loneliness, which is really embarrassing. We should all reflect that family and career also need time to operate, and the missed time is irretrievable.
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From being unable to go to being truly relieved
In this life, teacher Zhang Shaohua has made unremitting explorations on the road of art and left many classic works, and she has proved with her own efforts that an ordinary person can also realize his artistic dreams through hard work and persistence.
Just because of an old incident, Mr. Zhang endured too much criticism in his later years, and the truth of that year is unknown, but it is understandable that all kinds of complex experiences create a person's character, and a person should not be judged by moral standards.
Now, Teacher Zhang has passed away, and Wu Huan, the son of Xin Fengxia, also took the initiative to put aside his grudges and hoped that she would rest in peace, because no amount of arguments could change the fact that it was a foregone conclusion.
The end of the world is often unexpected. We thought that Teacher Zhang could not let go of her feelings in her life, but unexpectedly, her family first chose tolerance. This teaches us the best lesson in life: after suffering, tolerance is the only way to gain inner peace.