Text: Wu Qingqian
When Chen Lijun became popular with the role of Jia Ting, the head of the East Factory stall of the Yue Opera "New Dragon Gate Inn", various performances continued, and she also appeared in some variety shows, which can be regarded as a popular artist. In many people's impressions, artists belong to a high-income group, which is very different from ordinary workers. But in fact, the income of drama actors is not high, and they belong to the kind that Zhang Songwen said, if they don't live, 99.5% of them will have a problem with food and clothing. So when Chen Lijun said in the variety show "Riding the Wind 2024" that she wanted to raise her old parents who were doing farm work, but she could only support herself in her thirties, and she was ashamed of it, it was still very resonant, and it would not make people feel that she was crying poor.
During Chen Lijun's group stage training, Sa Dingding said that when he was rehearsing, he wiped the snow on the hair of his sister Liu Yan in front of him, and he was particularly moved to look at the white hair.
Speaking of gray hair, Chen Lijun can't help but talk about her feelings about her parents getting older. said that she might see her parents once or twice a year, and once she suddenly found that they were old, their hair was gray, and their faces were wrinkled, but she didn't know when they had become so old and uncomfortable.
When talking about this, Chen Lijun also tentatively asked her sisters how their families were, they may feel that they are very ordinary families, and if the other three sisters have better family conditions, they may not have the feeling that her parents are getting old. After all, generally speaking, parents with better economic conditions age slowly, so it wasn't until Liu Yan said "Our family is very ordinary" that Chen Lijun continued to talk about her parents.
She said that her parents were very ordinary, because they were doing farm work, picking tea, and they worked very hard, so they aged faster than the average parents around them, and they looked older than their peers. At this time, Chen Lijun couldn't control her emotions, and her face was full of tears.
Liu Yan, who is also from an ordinary family and suddenly found that his parents were getting older, was very touched by what Chen Lijun said, and also talked about his own experience, saying that he instantly found out that his parents were getting old before. When they lived in Guangdong when they were children, their family lived on the seventh floor, and every time she went back, her father would wait for her on the side of the road and carry her two suitcases, her father was only 1.6 meters, but he still carried the boxes. Then slowly the suitcase couldn't be carried, and then she carried it, she said that my daughter I really couldn't carry it this time, and he said that his father was old. She didn't even realize that her parents were getting old.
Liu Yan suggested that Chen Lijun should take her parents for a physical examination. She said her father left them prematurely because he didn't pay attention to it. Her mother had cancer before, so the whole family focused on her mother, and took her for a check-up every year, but never thought of her father. Her father later found out that the stomach cancer was in an advanced stage, and when it was the most serious, he was gone in five months, and he was caught off guard. So I really want to accompany my parents more, some artists bring their families into the group, and she is actually envious of them many times, they don't delay their work.
Of course, Chen Lijun also wants to treat her family members as her side, but she, like many ordinary migrant workers, does not have the financial conditions - I can only support myself, and I will bring my family with me when I have the conditions in the future. Sometimes I think that I can't support my parents yet, and I'm ashamed to only support myself in my thirties.
Liu Yan comforted and said that you don't have to worry at all, I didn't buy my first car until I was in my thirties. This comfort made Chen Lijun cry even more. Liu Yan said that she was under too much financial pressure, Chen Lijun said no, either because of the financial pressure, or because her parents have always raised her and taken care of her, you are in your thirties, and you can't support your parents yet, I really feel guilty.
Later, Chen Lijun said that when she was about to graduate from the Xiaobaihua class, her parents were sick and hospitalized at the same time, and then she had to sign a critical illness notice, and her sister signed a lot of them, and in the end, her sister couldn't sign it, her hands were shaking, and the last few were signed by her. At that moment, she felt as if her days were running out, and she was afraid that she would not have time to be nice to them, but she felt very guilty because she had been busy outside. So when it comes to getting old, it's uncomfortable to remember that they were sick, and I didn't give them much in terms of emotional companionship or economic conditions.
Whether it is Liu Yan's early experience or Chen Lijun's current experience, there is a microcosm in many ordinary people, all of them are away all year round for work, and they can't see their parents a few times a year. One day, when you come home, you suddenly find that your parents are old and want to take them with you, but either the financial conditions do not allow it or there are other reasons, so you have to continue to separate the two places. Since the news of Chen Lijun's participation in Sister Lang came out, it has attracted some controversy, some people say that this is a popular and turned to the variety show circle for money. However, what's so bad about being on a variety show, Sister Lang is a good stage, not only to promote her favorite Yue opera, but also to increase her source of income, and then be able to have the conditions to bring her parents to her side and improve the quality of life of her parents.
This article is original by Qing Qianzhi, and it is forbidden to reprint without the author's authorization!