There is a cemetery in Beijing's Changping district, the Tianshou Cemetery, in which a celebrity rests in peace.
She is an actress, known for starring in the 87th edition of "Dream of the Red Chamber", and next to her tomb, a remarkable white jade statue perfectly portrays the character image she starred in.
She is Chen Xiaoxu, the delicate and sick "Lin Sister", who finally lived her life into a role, and was buried in the Tianshou Cemetery in 2007, and the image of Lin Daiyu carved with Han white jade next to the tomb made people look pitying.
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It is not an exaggeration to say that Tianshou Cemetery is a celebrity cemetery, because it is home to famous chinese music artists, actors, entrepreneurs, military celebrities, literary figures and so on.
The cemetery sits north to south, has mountains and water, and is said to have cost about seven million.
In this cemetery, there is a dazzling artist who lived there, she is Chen Xiaoxu, who played Lin Daiyu in the 87th edition of "Dream of the Red Chamber".
Mention Chen Xiaoxu, everyone must have the first impression is her "Lin sister", weak, sick and even a little bit of work, the Lin sister in the play is sentimental, and finally complains about the end of the illness, the reality of Chen Xiaoxu seems to have lin Daiyu's life over again, is the real life like a drama, drama like life.
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On October 29, 1965, in Anshan, Liaoning Province, a couple working in the Peking Opera Troupe welcomed their child, a girl, who had a kind of unconcealed beauty and handsomeness in her newborn appearance, and they named her Chen Xiaoxu.
Chen Xiaoxu's father is the director of the Anshan Peking Opera Troupe, and his mother is a teacher of the Peking Opera Troupe's acting class, Chen Xiaoxu seems to be destined to take the road of art since he was a child, but what the couple did not expect was that their daughter was unwilling to inherit her father's business when she grew up.
After growing up, his father wanted Chen Xiaoxu to start learning Peking Opera as soon as possible, but this stubborn little girl was unwilling to accept peking opera that she had heard since she was a child, but became fascinated by Western ballet art.
The essence of the East and the dance of the West, these two extremes, like chen Xiaoxu's Scorpio personality, are resolute and extreme, and also like her mixed life.
The origin is because when he was ten years old, Chen Xiaoxu coincidentally got a pair of red dancing shoes, the shoes were bright red in color and soft in texture, chen Xiaoxu fell in love with this pair of shoes and the ballet it represented for no reason.
Although her parents expressed regret that she did not choose Peking Opera, they did not prevent their daughter from learning ballet, so Chen Xiaoxu began to learn her beloved ballet, this Scorpio girl will do it to the extreme as long as she chooses, and later at a young age, she can already perform in the whole school and even the city's activities.
Everything seems to be going smoothly, not only in school, in family life, Chen Xiaoxu also enjoys a "doting", does not want to go to the countryside to learn labor, parents turn a blind eye to obedience, in a water to wear "black and white gray" among the students in strange costumes, even braids have to be made up differently.
Only for ballet, Chen Xiaoxu has always maintained a high degree of enthusiasm, but she can endure extremely painful training from childhood, and she can persevere from beginning to end, learning for two years to make difficult dance moves, that year she passed all the ballet exams and sat and waited to enter the ballet company.
Excellent professional results but unqualified political review, a "four bodies are not diligent, grain is not divided" petite daughter can not be selected for the dance troupe, that is the first time someone to help her examine herself, many years later Chen Xiaoxu looked back, she is very grateful for this experience.
Ballet dreams shattered, where will Chen Xiaoxu go next, and where will the big hand of fate eventually push her?
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The ballet troupe was rejected, 13-year-old Chen Xiaoxu entered the Anshan Acrobatic Troupe to learn some basic skills, and after half a year transferred to the Anshan Repertory Theatre, because there is a good physical foundation, so every day while helping others, from time to time can also catch one or two small roles to perform.
Chen Xiaoxu outside the stage is in adolescence, and she has just experienced the shattering of her dreams at a young age, so she chooses to put her thoughts into the pen, writing a diary and writing prose, and the tip of the pen reveals maturity and sorrow that do not match her age.
Chen Xiaoxu's parents began to teach her to recite ancient poems when she was three years old, from the failure of the ballet company, Chen Xiaoxu picked up the habit of reading before, and slowly fell in love with writing, at that time she often wrote poetry, at the age of 14, she published her first poem in a magazine, "I am a willow flower".
Silent and taciturn, weak on the outside but like fire on the inside, the idyllic expression makes Chen Xiaoxu independent in the crowd, she often worries on the stage that belongs to others, where will the stage that belongs to her be.
The twist of fate was that Chen Xiaoxu accidentally saw a message from a magazine saying: "How to choose Bao Daichao?" ”
It was 1983, CCTV wanted to shoot the dream of the Red Chamber, Bao Daichao three people to choose from ordinary boys and girls, Chen Xiaoxu was a little moved, because colleagues in the previous drama troupe said that her temperament was very similar to Lin Daiyu.
However, because of the ballet incident that year, Chen Xiaoxu was somewhat unconfident in herself, but she finally decided to try it, because she had read "Dream of the Red Chamber" since she was a child, so she wrote several pages of her understanding of Lin Daiyu's character, and prepared a photo of herself, behind which she transcribed the published poem "I am a willow flower", and then sent them to the director Wang Fulin.
A week after the letter was sent, Chen Xiaoxu received the news that she was going to Beijing for an interview, and on the day of the interview, it rained heavily in Beijing, and Chen Xiaoxu, who was drenched by heavy rain, started his interview in a daze, and after the end, director Wang Fulin said to her, You keep the ticket stub, in case you can report it.
After listening to the director's words, the clever Chen Xiaoxu felt that this interview had a score, she returned to her hometown to wait for the news, this wait is a year, originally when Chen Xiaoxu's family has no hope, she received a notice from the crew to participate in the cast training class of the crew.
According to Chen Xiaoxu's later recollection, at that time she felt that she was Lin Daiyu, and if she was asked to play other roles, it felt like Lin Daiyu was playing another girl.
Chen Xiaoxu's self-confidence makes her destined to belong to the role of Lin Daiyu, and director Wang Fulin said that Chen Xiaoxu has a unique poetic temperament, which is particularly in line with Lin Daiyu.
From the training in 1984 to the completion of all the shooting in 1987, it took three years, Chen Xiaoxu entered the group from the age of 18 to the end of the shooting at the age of 21, as if attending a "Red Chamber University", this experience for her short life is a "beautiful dream" that does not want to wake up.
Chen Xiaoxu once said in "Art Life": "I still like to call me Lin Daiyu, because Lin Daiyu and that experience in "Dream of the Red Chamber" are the most beautiful and unforgettable for me. ”
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After the broadcast of "Dream of the Red Chamber", Chen Xiaoxu, who was only 21 years old at the time, quickly became popular, this "red" is because there are various controversies mixed with it, and the Lin Daiyu she portrays is very liked by some people, some people are harshly criticized, some people are eager, some people are sneering, and there are a thousand Lin Daiyu in the eyes of a thousand people.
At that time, the popularity of an artist was not as good as it is now, and the actor's drama exploded, which meant that the actor could develop in the film and television song, so although Chen Xiaoxu was red, she was still a difficult life after performing "Dream of the Red Chamber", and there was no foothold in the "early North Drift".
This kind of day ended in 1991, originally to accompany friends to explore the way in the advertising circle, but he finally did this line of work, and finally became famous in the industry.
Chen Xiaoxu once commented on her entrepreneurial experience, she said: "There are many things, at that time you did not think it was an opportunity, but you seriously do it, it becomes an opportunity for you to settle down."
After saying goodbye to "Lin Daiyu" for three years, the former "Lin Sister" seized the opportunity to make her settle down, and in 1996, became the founder of Beijing Shibang Advertising Company.
From the shattered ballet dream to the dream of the Red Chamber to the ups and downs of today's commercial sea, Chen Xiaoxu, who is just in her early thirties, has experienced various ups and downs in her life, and the sentence she often hangs on her lips is that everything is the arrangement of fate.
Chen Xiaoxu after abandoning Wen in business is very successful, she has money, reputation, and status, but the more these foreign objects, the more uneasy her heart becomes, because she gathers less and more with her family at work, and every time she looks at her parents who are older than the last time they met, her heart begins to doubt.
What is the original intention of people's life, is it to cry, laugh, make a big fuss and then leave, then what is the most important, is love, is consummation, is an irresistible fate.
In 1999, when Chen Xiaoxu was visiting a friend, he accidentally heard the tape of the "Infinite Life Sutra" from a friend, and at that moment, Chen Xiaoxu seemed to understand at once that the beautiful world he had been clinging to was in this tape.
She was so excited, as if she had suddenly met a confidant and solved her lifelong difficulties, Chen Xiaoxu immediately applied for a visa and went to Singapore.
Looking at Master's wise and bright face, Chen Xiaoxu seemed to have an inspiration in her heart, and she said to Master, "Can I be your disciple?" In my heart, you are already my master. ”
The master taught refuge to Chen Xiaoxu and his sister Chen Xiaoyang, and Chen Xiaoxu embarked on the path of learning Buddhism, and under her influence, her husband Hao Tong also took refuge in Buddhism and studied Buddhism with her and practiced Buddhism.
After learning Buddhism, the two sons of the business community became compassionate and calm, they were fascinated by public welfare and charity, and once invested 5.5 million yuan to repair the Kongo Monastery in their master's hometown, and Chen Xiaoxu also funded the production of Buddhist sutra cartoons "Jizo Sutra" and "Buddha Says Amitabha Buddha" together with several lay people.
On February 23, 2007, Chen Xiaoxu was ordained at the Xinglong Temple of the Hundred Kingdoms of Changchun, with the name of Miaozhen, as if all this was also an arrangement of fate, escaping from the materialistic desires of the Shanghai, seeking a clean place, but surviving.
Chen Xiaoxu's sudden shaving of his family caused an uproar in the outside world, Chen Xiaoxu finally lived to become the "Lin sister" who had a tragic ending, in 2006, Chen Xiaoxu learned that he had breast cancer during a test.
Buddhists are compassionate, teach people to dedicate, and also teach people how to see life and death, but Chen Xiaoxu is in the Buddhist gate, but she is still a mortal root, she has not yet fully realized that she can see life and death, because she is not willing to give up, so she simply escapes into the empty door and asks for an end.
Scorpio, who has been pursuing perfection all her life, cannot reconcile with reality, and can only seek peace in the Dharma, even if she eventually suffers from terminal illness, she must preserve her last dignity, so the condition that could have been treated at that time was delayed by Chen Xiaoxu himself.
She refused to be treated, she refused to be incomplete after her own treatment, she loved beauty so much, she was so proud, although she had been practicing Buddhism for many years, she still retained that strength of not bending, even for life, she would never compromise.
Chen Xiaoxu, who is both shafty and rigid, has a very painful life in the last days, a gray cloth wrapped around the body of the withered body, she accompanies the Green Lantern Ancient Buddha every day, counting down the last days of her life.
In order to see her husband Hao Tong, who was already a monk in Shenzhen in the last days, she rushed to the Shenzhen Nianfo Hall despite her weak illness, and the long-distance fatigue and humid climate made Chen Xiaoxu's condition worse dramatically.
In the last days of her life, it was Chen Xiaoxu's aunt and sister who accompanied her all the time, repeatedly having low fever, high fever, until she was unconscious, and finally could not eat anything.
Aunt and Chen Xiaoyang looked at Chen Xiaoxu, who was tormented by illness, and their hearts were about to break, but even then she did not want her parents to come to see her, perhaps she wanted her relatives to remember her most beautiful appearance.
On the afternoon of May 13, 2007, Chen Xiaoxu passed away, and before she died, she cried and called her mother, mother... The tone was full of regret and reluctance, perhaps this was what she called "fate's arrangement", until May 16, Chen Xiaoxu's father rushed to Shenzhen, holding his daughter's cold body and tears.
Less than three months after his renunciation, Chen Xiaoxu, who was related to the Buddha, had a dark soul.
When she was a teenager, she was an arrogant little poet, when she was young, she was the "Lin sister" that everyone talked about, and in middle age, her main battle was the businesswoman of the merchant sea, and a person's life lived out the appearance of multiple people, with a variety of forms, vivid colors, and behind each role and each identity was the gift of fate to her.
Later, by chance, she became acquainted with the Buddha, until she became a monk, Chen Xiaoxu "fought monsters and upgraded" all the way on the road arranged by fate, and finally met the "Mahayana realm" that she had always longed for in her heart, so she could understand why she was unwilling to pull with fate in matters of life and death.
For Chen Xiaoxu's life, life is a process of infinite reconciliation, reconciliation with dreams, reconciliation with material desires, reconciliation with oneself, and finally reconciliation with life and death.
Chen Xiaoxu's resting place was finally selected in the Tianshou Cemetery, surrounded by mountains and rivers, leisurely and clean, and there are two stones next to the tomb, one of which is engraved with the inscription of the famous red scholar Mr. Feng Qiyong:
"The blue sea sinks into a comet, and the long sky crosses the sky in mid-air. For jun to stay in the shape of the sound, thank you daizhu a piece of love. ”
The stone is surrounded by flowers, and the people who visited Chen Xiaoxu in the years since her death have been in an endless stream, and the flowers in front of the tomb are clustered and fresh every day.
The most conspicuous thing in the cemetery is the statue carved with white jade, that image is Chen Xiaoxu's "Lin Sister", the white statue under the sun is surrounded by flowers, the statue has a vivid expression, and a glance can immediately recall the delicate and sensitive Lin sister in the 87th edition of "Dream of the Red Chamber".
And Chen Xiaoxu, who was buried underground, also said that the time in the Red Chamber crew was the happiest period of her life, and she hoped that everyone would call her Lin Daiyu.
Chen Xiaoxu is really interpreting her life with a role, she weakened Chen Xiaoxu and lived herself as Lin Daiyu.