For many excellent actors, it is very common for them to be unable to play after acting in a certain play, so that the character and fate of the characters in the play affect their normal lives, and Chen Xiaoxu is like this.
Because of this, viewers and fans who have learned many behind-the-scenes stories often think that Chen Xiaoxu is the real-life version of Lin Daiyu, and the two highly overlap, but after Chen Xiaoxu's death, his friend Hu Zehong said that Chen Xiaoxu was pretending, where did he start?
This is where the most beautiful dreams begin
Gusu Lin Daiyu, a young woman from the water town in the south of the Yangtze River, Chen Xiaoxu, who plays him, was born in a northern city like Anshan, Liaoning. Chen Xiaoxu's family is not wealthy, but in the sixties and seventies, it was a well-off family with good conditions, especially the occupation of her parents, which had a deep impact on her.
Chen Xiaoxu's father, Chen Qiang, graduated from the Chinese Opera School and is the director of the Anshan Peking Opera Troupe, while his mother Wang Yuanxi is a dance teacher.
At the beginning, her parents hoped that Chen Xiaoxu could become a Peking Opera performer, but Chen Xiaoxu had her own ideas, she preferred ballet, when she was ten years old, she began to learn ballet after she had a pair of red dancing shoes, and often performed on the school or even municipal stage in the famous dance drama "The White-Haired Girl" in the North Wind Blowing.
The dance study in her childhood not only made Chen Xiaoxu's figure very graceful, but also gave her a special artistic temperament, plus she likes to read and write poetry, no wonder Director Wang Fulin said in "A Date with Luyu" that Chen Xiaoxu and Lin Daiyu are like sisters.
Chen Xiaoxu is also very fortunate that she can get the role of Lin Daiyu in "Dream of Red Mansions", she often has a sense of gratitude, thinking that she is very lucky, she has many beautiful dreams in her life, and the most beautiful dream started from starring in "Dream of Red Mansions".
At that time, there were many actors competing for the role of Lin Daiyu, such as Zhang Li who played Xue Baochai and Hu Zehong who played Xichun.
As soon as the news that the crew of "Dream of Red Mansions" was going to recruit young actors from all over the country was released, young boys and girls from all over the country flocked to it, and even those who had never read "Dream of Red Mansions" came.
When Chen Xiaoxu read "Dream of Red Mansions" for the first time, she was deeply attracted by this tragic story, and resonated spiritually with the sensitive and sincere Lin Daiyu, she wanted to play Lin Daiyu, so she immediately chose to send a photo of herself to Director Wang Fulin, and wrote a poem written by herself on the back, called "I am a catkins".
However, Chen Xiaoxu did not get the role smoothly, because compared with Lin Daiyu's fairy-like beauty in the original book, Chen Xiaoxu is still a little less interesting.
However, after many rounds of selection, Director Wang Fulin found that Chen Xiaoxu is almost the only person with Lin Daiyu's temperament, and Chen Xiaoxu is just not as exaggerated as the beauty written in the original book, but no matter how you look at it, she is definitely one of the best beauties.
In this way, Chen Xiaoxu finally won the coveted role, but in addition to competition, Chen Xiaoxu actually formed a very deep friendship with Zhang Li, Hu Zehong and many other colleagues in the crew.
Especially Miaoyu's actor Ji Yu, who had a very big impact on Chen Xiaoxu's second half of his life, in the mouths of Chen Xiaoxu's friends, she is a little different from the melancholy Lin Daiyu in our impression, she is very lively and naughty, as for her later seemingly negative changes, they actually belong to the commonality of "Lin Daiyu".
Different Lin Daiyu has different troubles
No two leaves are exactly the same in this world, just as one person and another person are similar, they will have unique personalities and will not be exactly the same.
The reason why Zhang Li failed to win the role of Lin Daiyu at the beginning was because she looked too healthy, and it was difficult for people to think that she had been weak and sickly since she was a child, and the reason why Hu Zehong failed to win the role of treatment was because she was too wild, so she was passed.
Looking at Chen Xiaoxu, who is the most suitable for Lin Daiyu, is actually not exactly the same as Lin Daiyu, the reason why she was chosen is because she is the most similar compared to others.
This is not nonsense, because Chen Xiaoxu's second husband Hao Tong clarified after her death, saying that the reason why Chen Xiaoxu later chose to become a monk and suffered from breast cancer has nothing to do with the fact that he once acted in "Dream of Red Mansions", let alone because he couldn't get out of the role of Lin Daiyu.
There is no need for Hao Tong to lie, because in Chen Xiaoxu's first marriage, that is, the marriage with Bi Yanjun, the actor of Gu Hongming in the awakening era, she already understood that Chen Xiaoxu was Chen Xiaoxu and Lin Daiyu was Lin Daiyu.
At that time, Chen Xiaoxu's personality changed after playing Lin Daiyu, such as being easily sensitive, easy to speak, easy to be arrogant, etc., and her husband Bi Yanjun, who had no bottom line to support her, also began to drift away from her.
At first, she thought that her husband had changed, so she didn't realize her own problems, but after the marriage broke down, she realized that her husband was not to blame for all this, but she had changed.
This experience made Chen Xiaoxu cherish her second marriage very much, and she would also be careful not to let herself and Lin Daiyu be indistinguishable, but in fact, every girl can be Lin Daiyu, even if she has never read "Dream of Red Mansions".
Lin Daiyu's troubles are that she has neither parents nor siblings, she is under the fence, and Baoyu's early stage is out of tune; and Chen Xiaoxu's troubles are that the breakdown of her marriage is the inevitable secret aging of her parents, but she is powerless, even if she has achieved worldly achievements after the ups and downs of the business sea, she still can't let herself and her family get real happiness, every Lin Daiyu has her own troubles, and every girl has her own sorrows.
In the eyes of many people, Chen Xiaoxu is definitely not very down-to-earth in real life, always floating in the air like a fairy, but in the process of starting a business, Chen Xiaoxu occasionally has some vulgar actions, such as at dinners, Chen Xiaoxu will raise his glass and say to people: "Everyone earns money together." ”
In the process of actually managing the company, Chen Xiaoxu will continue Lin Daiyu's formal style and treat people with sincerity, but her success is just a pile of money, not happiness, because she found that her parents are quietly aging, no matter how famous she is or how much money she makes, she can't stop all this.
Is it pretended? Isn't it pretended?
In order to deal with these negative emotions, in order to deal with sorrow and sentimentality, Chen Xiaoxu began to look for a spiritual way out, in "Dream of Red Mansions", Lin Daiyu caused her a lot of pain and troubles because of reality and fate, but she couldn't find a way out, couldn't find a way to digest, and her physical condition deteriorated, she killed herself, and finally passed away.
Like Chen Xiaoxu, the actor Ji Yu, who played Miaoyu at the beginning, has been living in the shadow of Miaoyu all the time, he will try to experience Miaoyu's state of mind, and will try to feel Miaoyu's possible life state, for which she also began to study Buddhism, read Buddhist scriptures, and visit thousand-year-old temples when she was a vegetarian.
But at the same time, Ji Yu has come to a completely different understanding from Miaoyu in Buddhism, she is inseparable from Miaoyu, indistinguishable from each other, and can maintain herself, even if her name was changed for Miaoyu, she was originally called Ji Peijie.
This positive attitude infected Chen Xiaoxu, Chen Xiaoxu had been very wary of being caught in the role of Lin Daiyu and unable to extricate himself, so as to hurt the people around him again, paradoxically, Chen Xiaoxu always thought that he and Lin Daiyu had quite a lot of similarities. After learning about her friend Ji Yu's life and inner world, she also has a new understanding of herself.
When giving a speech at Peking University, Chen Xiaoxu finally said directly that he still likes others to call him Lin Daiyu, his former self was lively, why is Lin Daiyu not lively?
After reading the original book carefully, everyone can have their own understanding, like and not, how to live depends on their own attitude towards life and has nothing to do with others, so in the end, Chen Xiaoxu can be so open-minded when he chooses to become a monk, and if he wants the care of friendship, he directly "complains" that Zhang Li doesn't come to see him, like Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai are sisters in the later stage.
After Chen Xiaoxu's death, Lu Yu also interviewed Hu Zehong, who played Xichun, Hu Zehong said that Chen Xiaoxu's Lin Daiyu was pretended, and if she didn't pretend, it would be easy to lose this role, because there were many competitors, and she was one of them.
Hu Zehong is right, because Chen Xiaoxu was still only in the realm of seeing mountains as mountains, or seeing mountains as mountains, and for Lin Daiyu, Chen Xiaoxu could only perform. As for the other actors in the crew, they can only play the role, after all, reading the original book and training does not mean that they can fully integrate into the role.
But later Chen Xiaoxu no longer needed to pretend to be Lin Daiyu, because she was Lin Daiyu, and she didn't have to be exactly the same to be called "yes", as long as the core spirit was the same, you could say who was who. Chen Xiaoxu has Lin Daiyu's open-mindedness, Lin Daiyu's sentimentality, and more importantly, he has Lin Daiyu's sincerity and facing his heart, not only does he not deceive others, but he also does not deceive himself.
Is Chen Xiaoxu's Lin Daiyu pretended? Isn't it pretended? Everyone must have the answer in their hearts.
Epilogue:
Throughout Chen Xiaoxu's life, we can say that Lin Daiyu influenced the second half of Chen Xiaoxu's life, but why is it that Chen Xiaoxu reinterpreted Lin Daiyu?
made the fictional characters in the book become flesh-and-blood spiritual idols in reality, making an 18th-century aristocratic lady resonate with the independent women of New China, and unconsciously, Chen Xiaoxu used his life to play Lin Daiyu.
Many ordinary girls may not have that kind of artistic temperament or extraordinary beauty, but they can also listen to their hearts, perform their own "Dream of Red Mansions", and write their own "Funeral Flower Yin" in their own inner world.
Resources:
[1] Wu Xiaoyan Chen Xiaoxu: I have always wanted to be an invisible person
[2]彭苏 “林妹妹”拂袖出红尘
[3] Xu Shenghan, Chen Xiaoxu and Lin Daiyu's psychological combination