Li Zonghan: An ordinary heart

Before becoming a graduate of the Central Academy of Drama, I studied opera and dance. Anyone who has studied opera and dance knows that if you don't practice today, you won't dare to go on stage tomorrow. In the whole process of learning opera and dance to becoming an actor, the teachers told us: to act, first be a person. First of all, we must do a good job of art itself, and we must have our own virtues before we have the face to face the audience. Dance Academy, Drama Academy, Drama Academy are the same, the audience is our food and clothing parents, we must have artistic virtue, art is the art of art, virtue is the virtue of virtue.

From more than 20 years of art, witnessing the development and growth of the performing arts industry, it is happy that more and more people pay attention to art and love art; unfortunately, there are more and more "art" that I can't understand and "art" that I can't understand.

The first time I came to Shanghai to shoot a scene, I was with the old actors of the studio, and I felt the atmosphere of serious and happy creation. I thought that I might live like them in the future, from young to middle-aged, until old, acting well in plays that every age can play, and constantly creating.

But suddenly one day, the market changed, it became an era of traffic, and I once witnessed an old actor talking to an actor in a rice circle, and the actor had been playing games and making the old actor cry. Of course, who is behind these traffic stars, and who has created the rice circle culture, everyone knows, this phenomenon has lasted for a long time. I hope that today's so-called traffic stars can join us in re-examining the style of literary and art workers.

I used to tell my friends that acting was my profession, like a doctor, a teacher, and a programmer. My profession happens to be an actor, and everyone is trying to do their jobs well. As an actor, you should interpret the truth, goodness, beauty, false evil and ugliness of life through "performance", and show it to the public in the form of film and television works. The public first appreciates the work itself, followed by the meaning given to the roles by the actors, and if you are lucky, these roles will eventually become the cultural imprint of a generation. However, in recent years, traffic first, rice circle culture, sky-high film remuneration... I seem to feel that the show business world is gradually being corrupted by these endless new words and stained with copper stench. I don't know when it began, the literary and artistic circles are not called the literary and artistic circles, but are called "entertainment circles", and the word "entertainment" sounds quite entertaining.

Speaking of which, I think of What Neil Potsman said in His Book Entertainment to Death: "The terrible thing about entertainment to death is not entertainment itself, but the increasing loss of the ability to think seriously and make rational judgments about social affairs, and the fact that the culture of being frivolous has cultivated a rational illiterate who is both ignorant and fearless without self-knowledge." "Obviously, the influence of the cultural environment on the course of history is not an exaggeration to say that it is crucial.

Therefore, we should always be vigilant and keep in mind "who I am, for whom, and who I rely on", create more works close to life, and reject the cool drama of "eyeball economy". I am very grateful to be engaged in literary and artistic work in the best era, because with the developed media communication form and the support of the public, works of art can be seen by more people, and the space for creation is broader. It is precisely because of this that as a public figure, we must pay more attention to our own social responsibility, transmit positive energy, and pursue healthy and upward cultural taste. I hope that every colleague who has entered or is about to enter this industry can always keep a sober mind and a normal heart, focus on their own works and artistic virtues, speak with their works, and show people with artistic virtues.

I remember that there is a famous line in the movie "Stage Sisters" created by director Xie Jin: "Act seriously, be innocent and innocent." This is a portrayal of the life of the famous Yue opera artist Yuan Xuefen, and it should be the motto of our literary and art workers. (Li Zonghan)