When it comes to Zhao Lirong, for several generations, she is a childhood memory, and she is a well-deserved sketch queen.
Court jade liquor, one hundred and eighty glasses, how about this wine?
Nod yes shake no haha
The lines that many people are familiar with are from the sketches she starred in.
But what few people know is that when Teacher Zhao Lirong last appeared on the Spring Festival Gala, she was already in the terminal stage of cancer.
The three children and her partner at the time, Gong Hanlin, never told her the truth in order to keep her from leaving regrets on the stage.
And even though she endured physical pain, she left us a classic eternity for the last time, which is admirable.
One
In 1999, it was the last time that Teacher Zhao Lirong appeared on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala, and long before that, her body had already shown a lot of abnormalities.
She couldn't stop coughing, and even coughed up blood several times.
When the children found out, they were very worried about her and immediately took her to the hospital for a check-up.
Unexpectedly, when they went to the hospital for an examination, the doctor told them that Teacher Zhao Lirong was already in the advanced stage of lung cancer and there was no cure, so she could only try to reduce her pain, but she couldn't last long.
The sons didn't know how to let their mother face the bad news, and when Teacher Zhao Lirong received the notice of the Spring Festival Gala, she was very excited to pull Gong Hanlin to rehearse.
They knew the importance of the Spring Festival Gala to their mother, and in order not to leave her regrets, they unanimously decided to hide the truth about Teacher Zhao Lirong's illness.
Tell her that it's just a small problem, and she will come back for treatment after the Spring Festival Gala is over, and she will get better soon. They only told Gong Hanlin the news.
Hearing the news, Teacher Zhao Lirong went to rehearsal every day, and Gong Hanlin reminded Teacher Zhao Lirong to take medicine on time every day.
In order to avoid goofs, they tore all the instructions on the medicine, and even melted the medicine into water to "trick" Teacher Zhao Lirong to drink it.
But how can you not know what your body is like?
Even so, the white lies of the people around her made Teacher Zhao Lirong always give everyone the optimistic side even though she endured physical pain.
After the end of "The Veteran", Teacher Zhao Lirong sang "My Heart is Eternal" affectionately in English throughout the whole process, and in order to sing this song well, Teacher Zhao Lirong practiced over and over again.
Teacher Zhao Lirong is illiterate, let alone English, but she is willing to make up for this deficiency by repeating it again and again.
This kind of hard work and sincerity have been seen in the sketch "Part-time Job Adventure".
The four words "genuine" written by her pen are sonorous and powerful, and it is impossible to imagine that this is written by a person without the slightest calligraphy skills.
Dedication is the most evaluation of her by the people around her.
In the sketch "So Packaged", teacher Zhao Lirong knelt directly on the ground after dancing a dance because her hind legs could not support her.
But she skillfully resolved it with her acting experience, and also caused the audience to laugh, thinking that this was a well-designed plot.
In fact, this fall seriously injured Teacher Zhao Lirong, and after the sketch, she was carried off the stage on a stretcher.
Teacher Zhao Lirong rarely cried that day, and the staff thought that she was in unbearable pain, so they came over to comfort her, but she didn't expect her to ask them instead, "Did I mess up?"
It turned out that she was afraid that her performance would make a mistake, and it was never because she was injured.
She has always been such a sincere person that people are touched.
Two
In 2000, in the last days of Zhao Lirong's life, she was tortured by illness and skinny.
The pain made her look dazed, and she was actually awake less and less.
Probably realizing that her limit was approaching, she left a suicide note, prepared a birthday coat for herself, and even asked the hospital to help her get out.
"I'm miserable, I don't have any regrets, I want to go easy. ”
The children were reluctant, but modern medicine was not yet capable of curing her.
After she left, nearly 20,000 people crowded on both sides of the street to see her off for the last time, each with a sad expression and holding up a photo of Teacher Zhao Lirong.
They couldn't imagine that the person who had brought them so much joy had already suffered from illness, but until the last moment, she still left her optimism to the world.
And before Teacher Zhao Lirong was well-known on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala, her life experience was also full of tribulations.
Teacher Zhao Lirong's father was a head shaver, born in troubled times, and life was not easy.
met Hibiscus Flower by chance in the troupe, which opened the door to Zhao Lirong's theatrical performance.
Throughout her childhood, Zhao Lirong basically spent time in the troupe. At the age of seventeen, she was already able to raise the banner of the theater troupe, until the war broke out and everyone lost everything in an instant.
Fortunately, in 1954, Zhao Lirong was introduced to Sheng Qiang, the literary director of the opera troupe, and formed a family.
In the second year after marriage, Zhao Lirong gave birth to her first child, and then took care of the children at home.
In 1957, during that special period, Zhao Lirong's husband Sheng Qiang was sent to the farm, when Zhao Lirong was pregnant with their second child and was about to give birth.
Not long after her husband left, the child was born, Zhao Lirong pulled the two children alone, and life became more and more difficult, but she always looked forward to the day when she reunited with her husband, gritted her teeth and persevered.
It wasn't until two years later that her husband was finally allowed to go home, and Zhao Lirong looked forward to the reunion, but she didn't expect to wait for the bad news of her husband's death.
It was as if the sky had fallen in an instant, and he didn't even have time to see his youngest son.
After Sheng Qiang's death, Zhao Lirong's mother's family also received bad news one after another, the eldest brother Zhao Shucheng died in a car accident, and his mother was also paralyzed because of this blow, and finally died after not holding out for long.
The successive blows made Zhao Lirong's whole person collapse, but she couldn't fall, and the young child still needed her care.
While performing to make money, taking care of the children made her lack of skills, but fortunately, at this time, the little brother-in-law Sheng Hong took the initiative to take care of the children, which reduced a lot of burden.
After getting along for a long time, Sheng Qiang's sister, that is, Zhao Lirong's sister-in-law, saw the clues, she took the initiative to ask the third brother what he meant, and after learning his intentions, she wanted to match the two.
Zhao Lirong was originally difficult to accept, but under Sheng Hong's sincere attitude, her heart was finally gradually shaken.
In 1964, Zhao Lirong married Sheng Hong, and then the two gave birth to a son, and life seemed to be on the right track again, but when she was closest to happiness, she was hit in the face again.
In 1970, Zhao Lirong, who had already given birth to three children, became pregnant again and gave birth to a daughter as she wished.
The birth of her daughter made the whole family very happy, and she was named Sheng Jiahuan, but for several days after she was born, her daughter did not open her eyes, so that Zhao Lirong gradually realized that something was wrong.
She hurriedly took the child to the hospital for examination, but she did not expect that the child had a congenital disease, brain dysplasia, and seizures.
In order to take care of her daughter, Zhao Lirong could only give up her job and stay by her daughter's side day and night, but unfortunately this careful care still failed to bring a miracle, and at the age of seven, Zhao Lirong still lost her dear little daughter.
Zhao Lirong was very sad in her heart, but in the past seven years, in order to take care of her daughter, she has spent all her family's savings to see a doctor, and she can only force herself to be strong. Push yourself forward.
Three
If fate is predestined, then everything is really unfair to Teacher Zhao Lirong.
After the death of her daughter, in order to make money, teacher Zhao Lirong took on many small roles, but left a deep impression on the audience.
For example, in "Journey to the West", Queen Che Chi, but it was also in that year that Teacher Zhao Lirong's life changed dramatically again.
Sheng Hong, who was alone at home, left her forever because of a heart attack, as if a joke of fate, the pain of two bereavements, Teacher Zhao Lirong fell into deep sadness.
This grief tormented her, and her heart was shattered like glass when she was separated from life and death.
It wasn't until 1988 that 60-year-old teacher Zhao Lirong appeared on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala for the first time and starred in sketches as a comedian, which made countless people like her, and she discovered that she could change her way of life.
Swallowing sadness into her stomach, bringing happiness to everyone, and watching everyone laugh and be happy because of her, she felt that everything was worth it.
Teacher Zhao Lirong once said: Only after eating Coptis chinensis can you know what sweetness is, and only when you have felt the tragedy of life can you really act in comedy.
Just like the epitome of her life, the grief of life and death is repeated again and again, she bites and swallows those bitterness into her stomach, and what she finally leaves the audience with is always that happy and always optimistic attitude.
In addition to this, there is also the attitude of this well-deserved old artist towards art.
Teacher Zhao Lirong has never been to school, it doesn't matter if she is illiterate, she has practiced hard for half a month, and she can also write the "genuine" words on stage without stage fright.
When she couldn't recognize the script when she was acting, she asked people to help read it, and then memorized it sentence by sentence, she put in more sweat and effort than others, and she never relaxed at all.
She has won everyone's recognition with her efforts, and we will always remember her.
Now in this impetuous era, celebrities have become synonymous with sky-high wages, and more than the sincerity of the past, we see only full of perfunctory.
I think it's precisely because of this that I am even more moved when I think of these old artists.
The works they left behind are classic and eternal, and they are always an example for those in the film and television industry to learn from!
Thanks for reading.
Written by Stars in the Deep Sea.
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