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In the unforgettable year of 1952, Zhao Lirong, who was 24 years old at the time, officially stepped into the artistic world of Pingju and launched her brilliant acting career!
In that troupe full of opportunities and challenges, she was fortunate to meet an outstanding actor named Xin Fengxia, Xin Fengxia's beautiful face and superb acting skills made her quickly win the love of the audience, and was known as the representative of "Hua Dan".
However, Zhao Lirong did not feel jealous because of this, but took the initiative to let Xian and was willing to serve as the supporting role of Xin Fengxia - "Caidan", showing her broad mind and selfless spirit.
Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, in 1953, Zhao Lirong met a handsome young man named Sheng Qiang, and the two fell in love at first sight and decided to spend the rest of their lives together. Sheng Qiang was born into a wealthy family rich in poetry and books, while Zhao Lirong came from a poor dramatic family.
Although Zhao Lirong's mother has a lot of complaints about Sheng Qiang's family background, and even does not hesitate to break with her daughter to prevent this marriage, for Zhao Lirong, sincere love is far better than worldly prejudices.
In the face of her mother's strong opposition, the 25-year-old young woman still firmly followed her heart and resolutely married Sheng Qiang, whose determination to bravely pursue true love and fearless family concepts completely changed Zhao Lirong's fate.
However, fate always seems to like to play tricks on people. In 1960, when it was supposed to be a happy day for the family, 32-year-old Zhao Lirong suffered the heaviest blow in her life. Her beloved husband Sheng Qiang died suddenly at the age of 32 while working hard in other places.
An excellent man fell, leaving Zhao Lirong and her two underage children Zhao Lirong fell into endless sadness, she hugged her head and cried, physically and mentally exhausted, and even bedridden because of this.
However, life has to go on. For the sake of her family and children, Zhao Lirong must be strong to get through. Just a few days later, Zhao Lirong, dressed in a white costume, stood on the stage again.
The audience in the audience didn't know what kind of pain and torture the actor in front of them had just experienced, Zhao Lirong endured her grief and devoted herself to the performance, she knew that she couldn't live up to the audience, and she couldn't be perfunctory because of personal misfortune, it was this high sense of responsibility to the audience and the stage that created Zhao Lirong's brilliant artistic achievements in the future.
After the sudden death of her husband Sheng Qiang, 34-year-old Zhao Lirong chose to enter the marriage hall again. Faced with the strong opposition of her relatives, she married Sheng Qiang's younger brother Sheng Hong without hesitation.
Sheng Hong treated Zhao Lirong's two sons as his own flesh and blood and raised them as adults.
In the years after marriage, Zhao Lirong and Sheng Hong gave birth to a son and a daughter together, although the good times were not easy to come by, but they were also fleeting. It is a pity that their 7-year-old daughter died prematurely due to severe cerebral palsy, and this sudden change made Zhao Lirong's heart deeply traumatized.
She and Sheng Hong tried their best to take care of this young life, but the tragedy still happened, and their baby daughter finally left this world.
What's even more sad is that only 8 years later, Zhao Lirong's second husband Sheng Hong also passed away due to illness. In the short course of two marriages, Zhao Lirong has experienced the endless pain of "remarrying relatives, and losing children and husbands".
She was devastated by the death of those closest to her life. Looking at the empty room, Zhao Lirong burst into tears. Faced with the relentless blow of life, Zhao Lirong's heart hurt as if she had been cut by a knife, but she did not choose to give up, but continued to move forward with an extremely firm will.
In 1986, Zhao Lirong, who was 51 years old, finally ushered in a glorious moment in her acting career. This year, she successfully created the image of "Queen Chechi" in the hit TV series "Journey to the West", which won warm praise from the audience.
Two years later, the 61-year-old Zhao Lirong appeared on China's most influential stage for the first time - CCTV Spring Festival Gala, and performed the sketch "A Day of a Heroic Mother" with Guo Degang, which became popular all over the country overnight and became a household name.
In 1992, 67-year-old Zhao Lirong collaborated with 35-year-old Gong Hanlin for the first time in the Spring Festival Gala, and their sketch "Tango" caused a national sensation, and many of its famous sentences and golden sentences are still circulating in people's mouths.
The 1995 sketch "So Packaged" was an unprecedented success as soon as it was unveiled, and won the first prize of the Spring Festival Gala sketch. Among them, lines such as "Flowering in the first month, fourteen or sixteen" and "Palace jade liquor, one hundred and eighty glasses" became hot topics in that era.
The partner combination of Zhao Lirong and Gong Hanlin is all the rage, and they have become "frequent visitors to the Spring Festival Gala".
Despite the hardships in her life, Zhao Lirong's passion for art has always remained the same. In order to be able to perfectly interpret each role, she did not hesitate to retreat and practice hundreds of times. It is this dedication and persistent pursuit of art that has won her deep love from the audience, and at the same time, she has left countless classic lines.
In order to avoid bringing more sadness to the audience, Zhao Lirong declined all visits. She carefully selected the most beautiful photos of her life and told her son to make sure that these photos were made public.
In addition, she deliberately wore a shroud and shoes for a commemorative photoshoot, and finally begged the doctor to stop the treatment so that she could leave this world peacefully.
Far east, on a sunny July morning, 71-year-old Zhao Lirong quietly left us in a sweet dream. At the last moment of parting, she earnestly told her beloved son not to reveal her face in pain.
Because what she wants people to remember is always the energetic and charismatic self, and this spirit of incomparable respect for the audience, so that everyone who has been moved by her performance can never forget this great artist.
Zhao Lirong, this is a household name in China. She politely declined Zhao Benshan's kind invitation, and resolutely married the beloved twice in the opposition of relatives and friends.
Her husband died one after another, her daughter died tragically, and she experienced more bitter twists and turns in life than Coptis chinensis, however, just like that yellow sorghum dream, when she woke up from the dream, she still firmly chose the persistent pursuit of art.
In 1986, 51-year-old Zhao Lirong finally ushered in a glorious moment in her acting career. In 2000, at the age of 71, she said goodbye to this bright stage with endless worries and attachments. In a short period of 14 years, Zhao Lirong has won the love of audiences in two eras with her superb acting skills and dedication, and her name has been forever engraved in the history of Chinese TV art.
In the past, popular lines such as "flowers bloom in the first month" and "palace jade liquor" spread all over the streets and alleys. Today, these classic dialogues are still deeply imprinted in the memories of the older generation of audiences.
These immortal art treasures are the crystallization of Zhao Lirong's lifelong persistent pursuit of art, and she used her life course to perfectly interpret what it means to respect and sincere love for art.
This is Zhao Lirong, an outstanding artist who practices the "craftsman spirit" with art.