Undoubtedly, the 87 version of the TV series "Dream of the Red Chamber" has become the most beautiful and classic memory of one generation or even two generations.
Each character in the play has its own unique charm, even if it is a supporting role with very few roles, it is like a short flower, although it is short-lived, it is difficult to hide the beauty of Fangfei.
This includes You Erjie, who was so weak that she was bullied by the big house and scolded by the concubine, and finally had no choice but to swallow gold and commit suicide and die tragically.
More than thirty years have passed, but does anyone remember Zhang Mingming, the actor of You Erjie, who I saw with pity and pure heart?
To everyone's surprise, although the actor played a tragic and tragic role in the play, in reality, he turned around gorgeously and became a senior software engineer and a big bull in the IT industry.
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Zhang Mingming's family is well-off, but this does not affect that she is a premature baby - less than six months into this world, as small as a doll in a window.
The nurse carefully put her into the incubator and observed her for several days before making her first cry.
The mother's hanging heart suddenly let go: the child lived.
Although the fate was picked up, Zhang Mingming showed a strong talent for dancing from an early age, accompanied by the nursery rhyme rhythm of "small leather ball, driving kick, Ma Lian blossom twenty-one", she slowly grew up and danced into the Beijing Dance Academy.
After graduation, he was assigned to work in the Central Song and Dance Troupe.
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Although he has good family conditions and has been regarded as a pearl in the palm of his hand by his parents since he was a child, Zhang Mingming is not at all pampered.
In the song and dance troupe, she is calm and humble, never argues with people for strengths and weaknesses, does not want to make a splash, and always quietly hides behind.
The famous composer Gu Jianfen's lover Xing Bo and Zhang Mingming were in the Central Song and Dance Troupe, and once, in front of many people, he made a joke about Zhang Mingming, he said:
If Zhang Mingming quarreled with people one day, the Third World War would break out.
A phrase reflects Zhang Mingming's indisputable and weak personality.
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On this day, at lunchtime, Zhang Mingming went to the practice room to get his lunch box.
She saw that there were a few strangers in the room, and she was indifferent and did not like to be lively, so she wanted to get the lunch box and hurry out.
Who knows, her charming silhouette turned around and actually looked at a person like a mesmerized.
That person is Li Jie, the casting instructor of the "Dream of the Red Chamber" crew and the actor played by Jia Yu, who came here to cast, and he saw Zhang Mingming's charm and vulgarity from it, and it is a pity that such a person does not play the Red Chamber.
In this way, because of this fleeting and charming silhouette, she was recruited into the Red Chamber crew.
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In the Yuanmingyuan, Zhang Mingming and 32 other sisters conducted three months of closed study training.
Playing the piano, learning to draw, practicing walking, learning to stand, prostrating one's head, smiling, everything must be proficient, everything must be like that.
The next is the audition, initially, the crew let her play the Mandarin Duck, and later changed to Musk Yue, but after Wang Fulin personally saw it, he very firmly believed that she was the best candidate for You Erjie.
Zhang Mingming obeyed and obeyed, let him play which one to play, without complaint, like the meek You Second Sister in the play.
Later, as soon as "Dream of the Red Chamber" was broadcast, people were surprised to find that this Second Sister You chuchu was pitiful and extremely charming, as evidenced by Mr. Deng Yunxiang's poem:
"A touch of xiuyun eyebrows, feminine and more delicate, remember the wedding dress, laughter and flowers in the deep alley." disconsolate! disconsolate! Fly into the net of broken intestines. ”
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In fact, after Zhang Mingming participated in the training of the crew of "Dream of the Red Chamber", the drama was not immediately filmed.
During this period, she was discovered by Xie Hong, the director of Emei Factory, and invited her to shoot a female-themed TV series "Queen of the Moon Season".
This is also the first and only time in Zhang Mingming's life as a heroine.
After the drama was broadcast on CCTV, it caused a great response, and many viewers sighed: the heroine is so beautiful that people have palpitations.
Zhang Mingming has attracted both attention from the outside world and the attention of the industry, and the well-known director Xie Jin has issued a film contract to her.
Just because the "Dream of the Red Chamber" crew had been promised before, all the film contracts were resigned by Zhang Mingming.
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In the original work of "Dream of the Red Chamber", You Erjie and You Sanjie accounted for a total of seven times, which shows that Cao Xueqin also attaches great importance to these two characters.
But there are actually not many scenes in the TV series, but Zhang Mingming accurately grasps the characteristics of this character, and she experiences every performance with her heart, using her eyes to interpret the inner world of You Erjie's joy, helplessness, grief and despair.
For example, with Jia Lian, her eyes flow with joy; when Ping'er is together, her eyes contain grievances, and the tears that can't be stopped when she pours out are endless grievances; and when her sister commits suicide, her eyes are empty and dry, like candles about to be extinguished, full of the feeling that the screen is about to be loved.
Sure enough, Li Jie's appreciation during the casting was really amazing: it was Zhang Mingming's charming silhouette, but it contained too many connotations.
In this way, the role of You Erjie made Zhang Mingming famous in one fell swoop, and was quickly remembered by the audience.
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However, after the broadcast of "Dream of the Red Chamber", just when many actors were immersed in joy, Zhang Mingming flew to a foreign country and disappeared without a trace.
The director is unexpected, the friend is unexpected, the actor is unexpected, and the audience is also surprised.
No one knows why.
In 2017, when "Dream of the Red Chamber" was broadcast for thirty years, Beijing Satellite TV wanted to carry out a program for the reunion of the crew, and everyone hoped that everyone could come, and there was no shortage of one.
But no one has the contact information of "Second Sister You" Zhang Mingming, and no one knows how she is now.
In the end, Ouyang Fenqiang and others got news from Ms. Ren Yan, a famous singer who used to work with Zhang Mingming in the Central Song and Dance Troupe, and she could contact Zhang Mingming.
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Ouyang Fenqiang and others were overjoyed, but soon they were splashed by a basin of cold water, and Zhang Mingming replied to Ren Yan: I don't want to be disturbed, but I can add WeChat.
A few months later, Zhang Mingming passed the friend application, but after a simple greeting, there was no news.
It wasn't until the month before the Beijing Satellite TV Recording Festival that Zhang Mingming sent an explanation full of gratitude and apologies: not that he didn't want to contact, but he didn't know what to say, and hoped to give her a little more time to think about it.
On June 15, after thinking about it for a few days, Zhang Mingming finally made a phone call with Ouyang Fenqiang and others through WeChat voice for more than an hour.
The moment the voice was connected to hear Zhang Mingming's voice, Ouyang Fenqiang was very excited, and after the greeting began to dialogue, the strangeness of thirty years apart made each other a little restrained at the beginning, but they chatted and talked about the people and things that everyone was familiar with at the beginning, and the strangeness gradually disappeared, and each other seemed to have become old friends back to many years ago.
During the chat, Zhang Mingming expressed his regret that he could not return to China to participate in the reunion, and Ouyang Fenqiang and others felt sorry and gave full understanding at the same time.
It was through this call that people learned about Zhang Mingming's life after he left the crew.
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After arriving in the United States, Zhang Mingming, who did not speak English, began to learn sentence by sentence from ABC.
A few years later, she went to the University of California, Berkeley, where she studied and worked, before pursuing an MBA at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
In this way, Zhang Mingming became a senior software engineer in the IT industry in the United States step by step.
Probably no one would have thought that the actor "You Erjie", who had a deep dance foundation, had such a large career span later, and it was like a dream that could not be connected between the two, but Zhang Mingming realized it.
During the chat, Zhang Mingming talked about everything about himself, zhang Mingming was still as indifferent as before, but when he mentioned his son, his tone was full of pride and pride.
Her son was born in 1999, from elementary school to high school, he studied in the so-called talent class in China, and his grades were always all A, and he won many medals and medals.
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As for why Zhang Mingming is reluctant to return to China to participate in the reunion, perhaps the answer can be found in her performance in the United States.
She didn't like to take pictures for so many years, so she didn't even have a decent photo.
There, she was often recognized before, and in the face of inquiry, every time she shook her head in denial, and some people were not dead hearted, so they waited in the store where she often went shopping, and when she found out, she never went to that store again.
She doesn't want to live in the spotlight, but wants to live outside the public eye.
This is the character in her bones, but she knows if she has been further influenced by Sister You.
After all, many actors in the 87th edition of "Dream of the Red Chamber" have been unable to walk out of the Red Chamber since they entered the Red Chamber.