"Sister Lin" Tao Huimin

Tao Huimin is recognized as a Jiangnan girl in the film industry. He has a slightly slender figure of about 1.62 meters. She has beautiful skin that is naturally white and delicate, her demeanor is quiet and elegant, and her appearance is suitable for the past and the present. On location for the movie "Guangzhou Story", I had several contacts and conversations with her.

Sister Lin fell from the sky

In 1986, Xie Tieli, a famous director of Beijing Film Co., Ltd., wanted to put the famous novel "Dream of Red Mansions" on the screen. When everything is ready and about to start, the heroes and heroines Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu do not have suitable candidates. The film crew dispatched several soldiers and horses, going north and south to search hard, and the actor finally decided that the young Shanghai actor Xia Jing would dress up as a man, but Jia Baoyu's sister Lin was still nowhere to be found. When his eyebrows were burning, someone recommended to Xie Tieli Tao Huimin, a rookie from the Xijiang Xiaobaihuayue Theater. Director Xie transferred the films "Five Women's Birthday" and "Beautiful Prisoner" starring Tao Huimin to watch, and his heart was slightly moved, so he urgently summoned Tao Huimin, who was far away in Hangzhou, to come to Beijing for an interview.

Tao Huimin received a phone call and rushed to Beijing. On that day, all the main creators of "Dream of Red Mansions" and some red scientists were watching, and the scene was quite solemn. Tao Huimin, a 19-year-old girl from Jiangnan, walked in, and everyone immediately looked at her with critical eyes. I saw that this girl had apricot eyes and peach cheeks, a black hair naturally draped over her shoulders, a duck egg-shaped face plate was delicate and small, a pair of beautiful eyes were bright but slightly melancholy, two eyebrows were faint and thin, such as distant mountains with green, as if there were wisps of sorrow, the skin was white and tender, but slightly pale, the figure was slender, the figure was slender and light, the demeanor was elegant, the bearing was good, and the voice was soft, like a warbler crying and a swallow murmuring. Ha, isn't this the Lin Daiyu who is "as demure as a delicate flower shining on the water, and acting like a weak willow supporting the wind"? After the audition and makeup, Xie Tiesu made a final decision: "It's her!" Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, in Jia Baoyu's words:

"It's really a sister Lin who fell from the sky!"

So from 1986 to 1989, Tao Huimin was Sister Lin in the "Grand View Garden" for three years. This was a major turning point in her fate, from an opera actress to a movie star.

Tao Huimin was born in 1966 in Ruian City, Wenzhou, Xijiang Province. Her parents were ordinary workers, and she was the third largest sibling. When he was young, his family was poor, and he joined the Ruian Yue Opera Troupe at a young age, and practiced solid basic skills for several years. In 1982, he was selected to study at Zhejiang Provincial Art School, and after graduation, he was transferred to the newly established Zhejiang Xiaobaihua Troupe and became an actor on the stage pillars. In 1984, she filmed the Yue Opera art film "Five Daughters' Birthday" in Changying, and the youngest daughter she played was full of sweetness, cuteness, and dazzling, which suddenly attracted the attention of many directors. As soon as she took off the costume of the little fifth girl, she was "caught" by Changying directors Yu Zhongxiao and Lu Jianhua to star in the movie "Beautiful Prisoner". This time, he took the lead among hundreds of candidates, and became the Lin Daiyu who attracted the attention of thousands of people.

"Didn't you feel stressed at the time?" I asked.

"At that time, I was young, I only felt a lot of pressure, but I didn't think much about it, and looking back today, I can have the courage to take on this burden. If I were to perform today, maybe I would refuse to perform because I was afraid of difficulties!"

After a few years of tempering, Xiao Tao is much more mature than when he first appeared on the screen.

"In any case, Lin Daiyu is one of the most memorable characters of my life, and although it may not seem satisfying today, she and her creative process are a valuable asset in my artistic career that I will cherish forever. Xiao Tao said.

The "little cabbage" that is getting better

In 1989, Tao Huimin, who had just taken off Lin Daiyu's costume and was still psychologically left in Sister Lin's artistic conception, was invited by Li Li, the director of Shanghai TV, to join the crew of the 14-episode TV series "Yang Naiwu and Xiao Bairong", playing the legendary character "Little Cabbage" known to Chinese folk women and children. With Sun Qixin who played Yang Naiwu, Zhang Min who played Yang Naiwu's sister and other actors, the tragedy of Yang Naiwu and Little Cabbage, one of the five strange cases in the late Qing Dynasty, was vividly interpreted, touching, and the audience was moved.

Tao Huimin's little white tea shape is charming and handsome, and everyone loves her. The hair is combed back into a bun of the late folk woman, and a lock of bangs is placed in front of the forehead, highlighting a sweet egg-shaped face that is slightly plump compared to Lin Daiyu, the makeup of the eyebrows and eyes is darker than that of the sick beauty Lin Daiyu, and the eyes look dark and bright. It was the appearance of the sinking fish and the wild goose, and the vague private relationship between her and Yang Naiwu, that led to an eternal injustice. Beauty is not her fault, so Tao Huimin's little cabbage style was fixed by director Li Li on the end of each episode, which was indeed popular for a while, making countless fans and audiences fall in love with it. Xiao Tao is also quite satisfied with the shape of his little white tea.

It is not difficult for those who are interested to find that Tao Huimin's little white tea is not only extremely charming, but also obviously begins to mature in performance. If her role as Lin Daiyu still bears traces of opera performances, and her performance in front of the camera has just been enlightened, then the performance in the corner of Little Cabbage has no traces of stage performances at all, and has begun to enter the state of real film and television performances. And it can be said that it has entered the good mirror.

The artistic image of the little cabbage is undoubtedly a success, and Tao Huimin won the title of the third national top ten film and television actors.

Xin Pingping - to the next level

In 1991, Tao Huimin, who had just finished playing the little cabbage, played the role of Aiyue in the movie "The Married Girl" directed by Zhuying Wang Jin, and was one of the heroines. The appearance of a rural girl in the twenties and thirties, combing a long braid hanging down the back of her head, short jackets, long pants and cloth shoes, innocent and cute, with buds, but unfortunately before she became an adult, she "committed suicide" with four other girls collectively, which is really regrettable. Aiyue's shape is not only different from Lin Daiyu, but also different from the little cabbage, but has a unique charm, like a delicate mountain flower. The character is not as complex as Lin Daiyu and Little Cabbage, but Tao Huimin has a distinct personality and completes the character shaping with a small film vocabulary, leaving the audience with room for aftertaste and unforgettable impressions. Tao Huimin won the China Film Performing Arts Society Award.

In 1992, Tao Huimin played the role of Xin Cuiping, a modern woman, in the 12-episode TV series "Chinese Merchant". Xiao Tao thinks that this is her proud work.

Tao Huimin is a Yue Opera actor, who started from the movie "Five Women's Birthday", and almost all of them play ancient and modern women. And her ancient costume appearance has also been familiar to the audience. Xin Shaping is the first modern woman image played by Tao Huimin. From appearance, demeanor to psychological personality, they are completely different from previous roles. Viewers who have watched "The Chinese Merchant" will remember the individual costume female boss who has a trendy hairstyle and clothes, a chic and charming demeanor, a well-behaved and clever speech, a witty and flexible mind, and knows how to enjoy youth and life and is good at creating wealth, right? If it weren't for the eyes that looked like Lin Daiyu on the screen and the little cabbage on the screen, people would not have seen that the female boss was Tao Huimin! We can no longer see Lin Daiyu's sorrow and sadness from those black and flexible eyes, and we can no longer see the contradictions and pain of Xiaobaicha, what we see is the dress of contemporary urban young women when they decorate, and the short hair that reaches to the ears makes Tao Huimin a little beautiful and lively, and the elegant and trendy skirt sets off Xiao Tao's graceful figure; Xiao Tao plays this role from the appearance to the spirit is a big gray "liberation", which shows that Xiao Tao is not stereotyped in ancient ladies and has the ability to control other types of roles with great contrast, and it also shows that Xiao Tao can not only play tragedy, but also play drama and even comedy.

Xiao Lingmei, a new attempt to open up the way of drama

Tao Huimin is a young actor with a lot of personality, assertiveness and brains, she does not follow the crowd and follows the crowd. She loves her hometown, her soil, her relatives, and she is reluctant to love her film and television acting career. She stepped on the local soil, worked hard, filmed one after another, and consciously continued to move towards higher goals, following Xin Pingping, at the end of 94, she played a heroine Ye Zi who once became a nun in the 8-episode TV series "There is a Sea on the Other Side of the Mountain" that had just been broadcast on Central TV to reflect the life of the army, just to expand her own performance field. In the spring of 95, she played the heroine Xiao Lingmei in the movie "Guangzhou Story", which was another new attempt for her to update her artistic image and open up the road of drama.

Xiao Lingmei is different from the darling of the metropolis, Spicy Ping, who is a young woman who lives in modern times but has a bad fate. She was originally a popular Cantonese opera actress, but she changed her career to work at the Cultural Center against her will, and she was unhappy in marriage, single with a seven-year-old daughter, living a lonely and poor life. The loss of her career and the unsatisfactory life of her personal life made her depressed, but she was very independent and strong, and she still relentlessly pursued her ideals and happiness in order to realize her life value. This character is a new woman who has failed in her marriage and struggles independently with her children. Tao Huimin is married but has no children, her family is harmonious and happy, there is no unfortunate experience in marriage and love, and the roles she played in the past are all very different women, the reason why she chose Xiao Lingmei in several scripts is to make a new attempt.

On the location of "Guangzhou Story", I saw Tao Huimin wearing a flower sweater belonging to Xiao Lingmei, beige trousers, and a pair of ordinary mid-heeled leather shoes. Even so, she still can't hide her well-proportioned and slender figure, showing the mature charm of a professional woman. She wore long hair, a little light makeup on her face, and her lips were also lightly pointed, and for the needs of the character's identity experience, the makeup artist made her face look older than her real age, and it looked paler, with a little sense of the vicissitudes of life. For the needs of the plot, she often brought the little actor who played Xiao Lingmei's daughter with her to cultivate the "mother and daughter" relationship. Her "little daughter" is extremely well-behaved, and often shouts "mother, mother" in and out of the play, Xiao Tao was a little embarrassed at first, because she had never been a mother, and she was not used to someone doing this, but then she gradually got used to it, and shouted and answered with the little actor, and the intimacy was abnormal. After all, this is the first time she has played a mother!

On the eve of filming heavy scenes, she does not participate in any entertainment activities, and it is difficult to see her in public places. Her script is almost always on the left and right, and it is full of dense words. The director said that although Tao Huimin is a big name who has become popular in the north and south, he is the hardest working actor in this film crew.

That night, because of the tight filming, the lunch box was delivered at eight or nine o'clock. Xiao Tao picked up a white boxed lunch and ate it very sweetly, she said that she used it for at least eight months of the year to satisfy her hunger, and her body was not nutritious and began to show signs of anemia. When I waved goodbye to her, she stood in the cold wind under the eaves, a thin red Hawk shirt obviously could not stop the spring cold of even the rainy weather, the drizzle drifted into her hair with the wind, I advised her to go into the house quickly, but she still stood still in the wind and rain, looking stupid, I don't know what she was thinking at that moment. But the bright red jacket and her long hair fluttering in the wind, and the expression on her face were etched in my mind for a long time......