Wei Ji'an: The spirit of power grid employees fighting hard battles is very similar to that of soldiers

Wei Ji'an Han ethnicity, born in January 1956, yantai, Shandong. National first-class actor, artistic director of the General Political Drama Troupe. Members of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference enjoy special government allowances. He has played a leading role in many large-scale dramas such as "There is a Cluster of Sacred Fire in the Sky", "Fish and Water", "Li Dazhao", "Ballad of Loess", "Light of the Holy Land", "Ice and Snow Dan Heart" and so on. He has won the 7th Chinese Drama "Plum Blossom Award", the 2nd Shanghai International Arts Festival "Magnolia" Best Actor Award, twice won the "Wenhua" Performance Award, and won the first prize of the All-Army Performance Award for many times. In 2007, he was rated as "Excellent Drama Worker" by the Ministry of Culture, and in 2008, he was rated as an advanced individual in cultural and artistic work of the whole army. He has participated in the Spring Festival Gala and double support party held by CCTV for many times, and the skits performed are deeply loved by the audience. He was awarded the second class merit twice and the third class merit three times.

Wei Ji'an took out a cigarette and lit it, took a deep breath, and sighed: "My childhood night did not have electric lights. Outside the window, the sunlight at 3 o'clock in the midsummer afternoon was very dazzling, and the light shone into the room through the dappled tree innuendo, and Wei Ji'an sat against the light, unable to see his expression clearly, but his exclamation was particularly heavy.

Mr. Wei spent his childhood in a village in Longkou, Yantai, Shandong Province, and until the early 1970s, when he joined the army, his hometown had no electricity. Wei Ji'an's homework from elementary school to high school was done under a kerosene lamp. "The kerosene lamps you see on TV are all glass-covered, right?" We call that kind of lamp a foreign lamp, and very few people have it. Wei Ji'an said as he drew a line. He said the kerosene lamp he used at the time was homemade, a simple small bottle of kerosene with a wick in it. "The wick should be short and thin, so that it can save fuel." He is proud that he has always been very good in his studies and his eyes are not short-sighted.

Wei Ji'an said: "As long as you don't finish your homework before dark, the lights will definitely be lit at home at night." "This is the greatest support his family has given him in his studies. Every time he wrote his homework under the kerosene lamp, his mother would sit next to him and do needlework. This warm image is still imprinted in his mind today.

On the night without electricity, the people in the village went to sleep after dinner, "there is no entertainment, there is no electricity, there is no TV to watch, there is a computer to play." When there is an event in the village, or when there is a New Year' Day, the villagers will use gas lamps. ”

"What is a gas lamp?" Looking at me dazed, Wei Ji'an smiled. Perhaps in his view, it is a little difficult to mention the gas lamp for young people who enjoy the convenient life of electricity at birth, which is a mark of the times. Wei Ji'an patiently explained that the tone was slow, like gently touching the long-shelved utensils, and like slowly opening a long-sealed memory: in the countryside of the 1960s and 1970s, when the production brigade held a mass meeting at night, there would be bright gas lamps hanging high; in addition, during the New Year, the village set up a stage to sing, and the stage lights also used gas lamps. The appearance of the gas lamp and the horse lamp are somewhat similar, but the specific structure is different, the gas lamp needs to be pumped into the oil pot at the base for a period of time in order to generate a certain pressure, so that the kerosene can be sprayed from the lamp nozzle above the oil pot. The light of the gas lamp is white and dangling, the brightness is very high, and a gas lamp can illuminate the surrounding ten meters.

"'Upstairs and downstairs, electric lights and telephones' was the biggest dream of our time. Now that's happening. Nowadays, the appearance of Wei Ji'an's hometown has changed a lot, there are also street lamps in the village, the home appliances of the villagers are readily available, electric lights are no longer only used for lighting, and many families have also installed decorative lamps.

As a professional troupe actor, Wei Ji'an's work is inseparable from electricity, stage, lighting, art... Nothing can be done without electricity. He told me that not long ago, the Bayi Theater held a big show, the guests and the chiefs arrived, and when the show was about to start, suddenly there was a traffic accident on the road outside the theater, and the vehicle that caused the accident cut off the cable and caused the theater to lose power. No way, all the activities stopped and the show was postponed for more than an hour. "In the summer, to turn on the air conditioner, computers, telephones, fax machines are inseparable from electricity, for modern people, electricity is as important as air."

Wei Ji'an remembers the ice and snow disaster in early 2008, which made him deeply aware of the importance of electricity, and the development of all walks of life needs electricity as a guarantee. In the drama "Ice and Snow Dan Heart", the image of Wei Ji'an playing the hero of the power grid, Wei Guo, allowed him to have a deeper understanding of the employees of the power grid. "The spirit of power grid employees who bear hardships and stand hard work and dare to fight hard battles is very similar to that of soldiers, and power grid employees are cute, respectable, and even more great!"

"I noticed that when you first entered the door, you only turned on the air conditioner and didn't turn on the lights, was it to save power for the troupe?" I said jokingly. Wei Ji'an smiled: "Habit, completely habit, I think the natural light is very good, in the afternoon the house is a little dark, stay for a while to adapt, does not affect our conversation." Speaking of saving electricity, Wei Ji'an said with feeling: "Man, this is it, when there is no time, it is desired; when there is, it does not know how to cherish." "The desire for electricity in his childhood made Wei Ji'an unforgettable, so he cherished electricity extraordinarily, never forgot to turn off the lights when he left work, and when he watched TV at home at night, he always turned off the headlights and only turned on a 15-watt small lamp.

Wei Ji'an said sincerely: "During this time, the temperature is very high, the news says that electricity consumption continues to climb to a new high, although the power supply enterprises promise to the public that there is sufficient power security, but I think that everyone should have the awareness of saving electricity, so that people and themselves and society are good, why not enjoy it?" ”