The road to pursuing dreams
For Ding Yongdai, a grassland child, the yearning for the vast world seems to have become his instinct. As a toddler, he chose to run on the prairie; From the age of seven or eight, football became his best friend.
The figure of stroking the ball, passing the ball and carrying the ball is like an undulating Mongolian melody, flying with the wind. "I want to be a good football player when I grow up!" This was Ding Yongdai's original dream.
However, an accidental fall left his leg broken to pieces. Wrapped in a heavy plaster, he had to face the fact that this dream was interrupted. During the long and boring recuperation period, Ding Yongdai Xi flipped through the movie magazines that his mother brought back from the city.
Pages of black-and-white print slide by, and the star-studded world of the screen attracts the admiration of the teenager.
The simple soul of a northern teenager is precious, almost unstained with dust. Even if he was delegated to work on the construction site, Ding Yongdai only bowed his head and studied his own work. He understands that hard work deserves a better life.
A basket of coarse sand slipped through his fingers, and the meager return of two cents was exchanged for a touch of relief in his mother's eyes...... The light like water sprinkled warmth in his heart.
The details of using the first bucket of wages to buy roast chicken to treat his mother are even more heart-wrenching. Not to be moved by external objects, this is the sense of responsibility of the northern son. Later, he went south to Wuhan with his father to learn technology, but he never let go of his dream of acting.
In 1980, the spring breeze blew across the grassland again, Ding Yongdai returned to his homeland, and was successfully admitted to the Inner Mongolia Art School to learn Xi performance with a recommendation. Turning a new chapter of life and connecting with the vast blue sky, Ding Yongdai smiled.
College romance
For every young soul, college means the germination of ideals and the fragrance of emotions. Ding Yongdai is no exception. The Inner Mongolia Academy of Arts inspired all his passion for acting, and the script and stage became his mentor and friend day and night.
Classmates get together less and leave more, and a few good buddies often get together to make up stories to coax outsiders to treat them - this is a small spice in their lives. Ding Yongdai's first TV series was "Sini Lama" in his sophomore year in 1981.
Although it was only the beginning of his youth, he felt the infinite charm of art.
College life flew by like a white horse, and in the blink of an eye, it was the season of graduation in 1983. Ding Yongdai was admitted to the Inner Mongolia Repertory Theatre and officially tried his voice on the stage. Drama performance requires richer use of expressions and body language, which is undoubtedly a new test and challenge for him.
Soon after the run-in period, fate gave Ding Yongdai a big surprise - he met the love of his life, Zhao Xuehua. A pair of energetic eyes and a pair of red cloth shoes instantly outlined the most beautiful waves in his heart.
Under questioning, it turned out that she was also from Inner Mongolia and lived in Beijing because of her work transfer. Thanks to her mother's careful matchmaking, the two soon entered the marriage hall. A marriage letter in exchange for their sweet happiness fruit.
Acting career is rising step by step
Over the years, Ding Yongdai has worked closely with the Repertory Theatre on the same stage. He integrates himself into the fates of very different characters - there are good and evil, but they are all real and palpable.
Although the road to the scene is mostly bumpy, the tears he shed in front of the camera and the blood shed on the screen are only the best memories for the actors. In 2000, the TV series "The End of the Road 1997" reopened Ding Yongdai's popularity, and he won both the director and the audience praise for playing Bai Baoshan, a cruel bandit.
Afterwards, many passers-by even had a fear of him because the character was portrayed too deeply, which shows his excellent performance. Ding Yongdai also switches back and forth between different roles in and out of the play, hiding himself behind the ever-changing mask.
Later, he successively participated in the literary and artistic works "The King of Fighters" and "Wreath Under the Mountain", which won Ding Yongdai a place in the drama industry. With years of accumulation and understanding, he has also matured day by day, and has shown his skills in many types of film and television dramas.
Among them, the role of Peng Deyi played in the 2010 TV series "The Battle of Crossing the River" is the most impressive. In order to perfectly present the personality traits of this general, Ding Yongdai consulted a lot of information in advance and found that Peng De had the characteristics of a slight hunchback; So he did not hesitate to straighten his teeth, and always maintained a slightly bent posture in front of and behind the camera, depicting the details vividly.
After the show was broadcast, the ratings were as high as 2.84%, once again demonstrating Ding Yongdai's excellent acting skills.
Son North America developed into a knot in the heart
For any parent, accompanying their children to grow up is the greatest wish in this life. At first, Zhao Xuehua took care of her son and chose to stay in Inner Mongolia to work and live.
It wasn't until the child was in the fifth grade that the family of three moved to Beijing. The picture of happiness and happiness is about to face parting in an instant. When he grew up, his son was determined to study abroad and try to make a career in the Canadian film industry.
This is tantamount to a bolt from the blue for Ding Yongdai and Zhao Xuehua. The father, who had always doted on his son, vehemently opposed the decision, and the mother was torn between two sides.
Sure enough, raising children to prevent old age and send children far away, and the distance of thousands of miles made Ding Yongdai and his wife anxious. Fortunately, time has passed, and they have gradually accepted their son's choice.
It's just that the 35-year-old son is still a single, which inevitably becomes a thorn in the hearts of the old couple. Hope that the son will become a dragon and hope that the son will become a phoenix, how can he hope that the end of the world will be lonely.
The years have gone by, and the couple has gradually entered the age of antiquity, only this concern and knot in their hearts have not been resolved, and it has become an eternal pain in their hearts. Looking at the direction of Canada, Ding Yongdai couldn't help but let out a long sigh, full of complicated emotions that could not be calmed down for a long time.
A life full of emotion
The years are long, and counting Ding Yongdai's 64-year acting career and life experience, it can't help but make people feel a lot of emotion.
When he was a teenager, he was full of ideals but suffered setbacks one after another, and still chose to rise up on the verge of despair; Middle-aged people open up a new situation in their careers, but they also experience the helplessness of adjustment and separation; And now with white hair on their heads and their son far away, the husband and wife are snuggling up to each other in Beijing, exchanging the waves of the world with the constant care of parting up.
Life is like a play, and the performer is Ding Yongdai himself. The countless individuals he has starred in are not perfect, and their stories are worth savoring. Because under fiction, there is always a shadow of reality.
We see his success, but we also experience the hardships that are not for outsiders; We envy his affection, but ignore the precipitation after years of tempering. No one's experience is smooth sailing.
Ding Yongdai and his bosom friend Zhao Xuehua have also been walking side by side, working together to confess this ethereal and vivid drama life.
They were once young and ignorant, but now they are old; The blood was once boiling, and now it is indifferent to the silence between the eyebrows. Looking into the distance, my heart was full of arms, and I couldn't help but hold up my old body and sigh for a long time.
It is a commemoration of the past, but also an expectation for the future, a summary and treasure of an actor's life.