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Text: Feng Niuniu
Edited by Feng Niuniu
Preamble:
Once upon a time, her cute and playful image was deeply imprinted in our minds.
The bright smiles on the screen and the witty and humorous performances on the stage gave us countless happy moments.
But just when she was in full swing, fate slapped her hard.
Her image began to be misinterpreted, criticized, and even slandered and abused.
What did the former "sketch queen" Cai Ming go through that made her go from being admired by everyone to such an unbearable situation in the end?
Let's step into her world and find out what happened.
Glory days
In 1991, Cai Ming appeared on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala for the first time, and in the following 27 years, she was almost a frequent visitor to the CCTV Spring Festival Gala.
She and her partner Guo Da are known as the "golden combination of Chinese sketch industry", full of tacit understanding and shining with each other.
Their works satirize the various social situations in a humorous and witty way, bringing bursts of laughter to the audience.
Cai Ming is lively and clever on stage, turning the most ordinary life into a funny comedy, making the audience laugh.
Guo Da played the role of honesty and honesty, forming a clever contrast with Cai Ming.
The two work together perfectly, sometimes warm and romantic, sometimes exaggerated and funny, sowing the seeds of joy in everyone's hearts.
Under their wonderful interpretation, each sketch plot is vivid, lifelike, and impressive.
The sketch is no longer a simple performance, but an embodiment of life, reflecting the various states of society and arousing the resonance of the audience.
Under the halo of "Sketch Queen", Cai Ming was actually troubled.
At the beginning, many directors hoped that she could engage in the tragic drama route, but this did not fit her personality and temperament.
She is born with a witty and witty temperament, which is not a perfect interpretation of tragedy.
Fortunately, she met comedy master Chen Peisi, and under his excavation, development and careful cultivation, Cai Ming gradually found his talent - comedy.
Chen Peisi admires Cai Ming's keen observation and creativity, and she can always find all kinds of funny and interesting details in life, and apply them to her performances, giving people a refreshing feeling.
As a result, Cai Ming continued to contribute creativity in rehearsals and performances, and her outstanding talent was perfectly blossomed under the guidance of Chen Peisi.
With a unique sense of humor and creativity, Cai Ming soon became a popular fried chicken on the sketch stage.
She and Guo Da complement each other on stage, and the two of them have a good heart, look at each other and smile, and they can bring the lines into the situation and make people laugh.
They are constantly pushing the boundaries and creating one wonderful work after another.
Masterpieces such as "Robot Funny Stories" and "Romantic Things" have been endlessly remembered and have become the collective memory of a generation.
The vivid performances of the two made the audience in front of the screen laugh and resolved the pressure of work and life.
Under their leadership, the art of sketch has reached unprecedented heights and has become a unique form of comedy, leaving a unique and colorful mark in the hearts of the audience.
The scenery is gone
However, the good times were short-lived.
In 2013, as Guo Da grew old and left, Cai Ming began to cooperate with Pan Changjiang to create the contrast comedy "Jump If You Want to Dance", which received a good response.
But then her works became more and more lacking in creativity, with a single model, often Cai Ming playing the old lady with a poisonous tongue, insulting and ridiculing Pan Changjiang for being short.
This kind of pretentious and exaggerated performance technique has made many audiences more and more disgusted and feel that it is too contrived.
The audience is slowly bored with this single model, and expects Cai Ming to innovate and show a different style of interpretation from the past.
However, her works did not go as people wanted, but made her degenerate step by step into a "representative", and her image in people's hearts also fell from "sketch queen" to "old and venomous tongue", completely losing the favor of the audience.
Whenever the Spring Festival Gala is approaching, the voice of "I don't want to see Cai Ming the most this year" will appear on the Internet, which shows that she has completely distanced herself from the audience.
What made her even more helpless was that her father's death and her own health problems had to withdraw from the Spring Festival Gala stage in 2019.
Overnight, all the glory vanished.
Just when she was at her worst, fate still hit her hard.
Cai Ming had to travel from place to place to continue performing in order to make ends meet.
However, what followed was a wave of fierce questioning and abuse of appearance.
Her facial expressions became unnatural with age, and she was branded with vicious words such as "over-plastic surgery", "shoe face", and "snake face".
These hurtful words were undoubtedly a heavy blow to Cai Ming, who was at a low point, and made her spirit fall to the brink of collapse several times.
The popularity and good reputation that have been accumulated with great difficulty collapsed overnight, and the former "sketch queen" is only full of devastation.
Inner struggle
Faced with the heavy blows of life, Cai Ming once fell into a dilemma.
Will you continue to fight abroad and try to regain popularity, but at the same time, you will have to bear the hurt of public opinion criticism and abuse?
Or do you want to stay away from the stage and live the life of an ordinary person, but it also means giving up your decades-long pursuits and dreams?
It was a dilemma that challenged her will.
The turmoil in her heart made her confused and helpless several times.
She began to doubt her life and lost hope and hope for the future.
The self-confidence and fighting spirit that I once had seemed to be gone, replaced by boredom and numbness of life.
All his longings and dreams came to naught, causing Cai Ming to fall into a trough in his life.
After repeated thinking, Cai Ming finally chose to stay away from the stage and live the life of an ordinary person.
She completely distanced herself from the once glamorous stage and showbiz, and sought tranquility in ordinary life.
During the day, she cooks food and waits for her husband to come home from work, and at night, she browses health and wellness articles and takes care of potted plants.
On weekends, I go out for a walk and bike ride with my husband, feel the beauty of nature, and enjoy the peace and tranquility of the two worlds.
For the gorgeous neon on the stage in the past, she no longer yearns for it, and only hopes to stay with her family and live the life she yearns for.
For Cai Ming, having a happy and harmonious family is her greatest pursuit in this life.
She never regretted her choice, because fame and fortune are illusory things after all.
Only the care of family and affection is the most solid support to support her through difficult times.
She is very fortunate that she was able to successfully get out of the trough of her life and live the life she wants.
She has learned to be tolerant and forgive the voices that have hurt her, to face the ups and downs of life calmly, and to pursue only inner peace.
Now Cai Ming has lived the true life of life, no longer bound by external objects, showing unprecedented calmness and open-mindedness.
As for the aura and glory that once accompanied her, in her eyes, it may only be a passing moment.
She is no longer obsessed with fame, she just wants to stay true and live herself, which is the best way to be worthy of herself.
Although the sketch stage left her, her laughter still continued, shining into the hearts of countless people and becoming the eternal memory of that era.
Epilogue:
Some people say that Cai Ming's loneliness is self-inflicted, because her works lack creativity, coupled with the indiscriminate bombardment of public opinion, naturally lost popularity.
But there are also people who sympathize with her, thinking that she is just an ordinary person, and naturally she will not be as good as she used to be as she gets older.
After all, no one can escape the baptism of time.
In any case, Cai Ming gave us too much joy and joy.
Let's bless her, and wish her smooth sailing and happiness in the second half of her life.
Don't be bothered by the distractions of the world anymore, spend your old age in peace, and live the life you yearn for.