Beijing News Express According to the news of the "Shanghai Federation of Literature and Literature" on the 14th, at 3:28 a.m. today, the famous film performance artist and writer Huang Zongying passed away at the age of 95.
"Since I was a child, I didn't want to be an actor but became an actor, and I didn't want to be a writer but I became a writer."
"My life is my art, my art in the past, now, and in the future, is my true and unchanging life!"
--Huang Zongying
Huang Zongying was born in Beijing on July 13, 1925. When I was 9 years old, my father died of illness, the family road was middle-aged, and the economy was poor, "I dreamed of raising a family and filial piety for my brother to go to school all day at a young age."
◎ Childhood Huang Zongying
◎ Huang brothers and sisters. Front row from left: Huang Zongying, Huang Ruihua (aged 99), Huang Yanyu (aged 103). Back row from left: Huang Zongluo (aged 86), Huang Zongjiang (aged 89), Huang Zonghuai (died in the 1980s), Huang Zonghan (aged 83)
In 1941, at the age of 16, she came to Shanghai alone to join her eldest brother Huang Zongjiang and entered the Shanghai Professional Theater Troupe as an intern. Soon, an actress in the drama "Metamorphosis" was temporarily absent, and Huang Zongying began her stage career as a substitute.
◎ Huang Zongying and eldest brother Huang Zongjiang backstage at Lyceum Theatre (1942)
She has starred in a number of dramas and her reputation has gradually risen. In particular, the 1942 comedy "Sweet Sister" made her popular on the beach and became a popular stage star.
◎ Stills of the drama "Sweet Sister"
In 1946, she and Xie Tian starred in their first film, "Chase", from the stage to the screen. Because of her wonderful performance in this work, director Chen Liting decided to invite her to be the heroine of the film "Rhapsody of Happiness", and Zhao Dan was the male lead. After the film was released, it was well received by the audience and public opinion.
◎ Stills from the movie "Chase" (1946)
◎ Stills from the movie "Rhapsody of Happiness" (1947)
It is also because of this movie that Huang Zongying and Zhao Dan, who is ten years older than her, sparked, the happiness rhapsody in the movie was not heard, and the love march in reality was quietly played. In 1948, Huang Zongying and Zhao Dan married. They are both birds of prey in life and double swallows on the screen. In addition to their love work "Rhapsody of Happiness", Huang Zongying's other representative works "Li Ren Xing", "The Crow and the Sparrow", and "Nie Er" are also cooperated with Zhao Dan.
◎ Stills from the movie "Beauty Walk" (1948)
◎ The Crow and the Sparrow (1949)
In particular, "The Crow and the Sparrow", which began filming before liberation and was completed after liberation, in which Huang Zongying played the mistress of a small Kuomintang bureaucrat, sometimes charming and frivolous, sometimes fierce and vicious. This is a great contrast with her previous screen image, showing extraordinary acting skills.
◎ Huang Zongying and Zhao Dan
◎ On the eve of the liberation of Shanghai, Zhao Dan and Huang Zongying bought medical supplies in the charity store to support the Liberated Areas and signed autographs for fans (early 1949)
◎ Ba Jin (right) and Huang Zongying (left) at the Second World Peace Congress in Poland (1950)
◎ Stills from the movie "Blessings for the Children" starring Huang Zongying (1952)
◎ Huang Zongying's cousin Mei in the movie "Home" (1956)
"I am not a timid person, nor am I a brave person. I just want to speak to society with a pen. ”
"There are no two leaves with the same vein in the plant world, but in the human world, there are many people with the same fate."
Huang Zongying has an innate sense of compassion and poetry. After the 1950s, Huang Zongying as an actor gradually faded out, but Huang Zongying as a writer was like a fish, especially in the field of reportage, with remarkable achievements, "Little Girl Carrying the Big Flag", "New Panbo", "Special Girl", "Beautiful Eyes", "Orange", "Big Goose Love"... The response was enthusiastic and he won the National Outstanding Reportage Award several times. Huang Zongying stepped out of his own other world.
◎ Huang Zongying and the protagonist of "The Love of the Wild Geese", Qin Guanzhi, in the Luonan Mountains (1978)
The special nature of reportage dooms Huang Zongying to give up a stable and comfortable life, run east and west, cross mountains and mountains, and even eat and sleep in the wind, and go to various places to experience life, and she is fully committed and tireless. Among her many reportage works, "Log Cabin", written in 1983, is the most well-known one, telling the story of female scientist Xu Fengxiang's dedication to building a plateau ecological research station. In 1985, CCTV produced a feature film for "Chalet", and she re-entered Tibet with the film crew. The film won the Bronze Award for Television Documentary at the 28th New York International Film Festival.
◎ Huang Zongying cooks for Xu Fengxiang's expedition team at the camp (1982)
◎ Huang Zongying and Alpine Forest Ecologist Xu Fengxiang (1984)
In 1990, Huang Zongying was appointed as the host of the large-scale documentary "Looking at the Great Wall", and together with a group of young people in their early 20s, they marched west into Lop Nur together. Over the age of flower armor, she followed the ruins of the ancient Great Wall, trekking through the vast grasslands and the long Gobi, and the old Ji was full of excitement. Huang Zongying always put surprises in front of people.
◎ At the side of the ancient Great Wall (1990)
In 1994, 69-year-old Huang Zongying followed Xu Fengxiang into Tibet for the third time, but unexpectedly suffered from severe altitude sickness, almost to the ghost gate closed. Lying on her sickbed, she wrote a short essay entitled "I Don't Regret It."
"Before I fell ill, I went to this third visit, which was very precious to me, and tasted the taste of dying, which was not so terrible, and the image of the dying was not too ugly."
"The places I can't go anymore are particularly tempting."
She wrote.
Huang Zongying is a brilliant and talented woman, but also a person who is always full of curiosity about knowledge. Over eighty years old, she still insisted on reading every day, keeping a diary, writing essays of different lengths, and named these short articles "Hundred Clothes" and published them in the supplement of the Luminous Cup of Xinmin Evening News. She even tried to learn English, listening to a half-hour English instructional radio every morning. "I know I can't learn. I make it a part of my life. "This kind of persistence and perseverance is breathtaking.
◎ The English Collection of Huang Zong consists of four volumes: the first volume, "The World of Existence", writes articles about relatives and friends; the second volume, "Little Lady Carries the Banner", contains reportage, character close-ups, early film and television scripts, poetry and other works; the third volume, "I Am Blatantly Old", mainly prose works; the fourth volume, "Pure Love", contains correspondence between Huang Zongying and Feng Yidai.
From drama to literature, imagination and reality, memories and dreams, pragmatism and romance, contemplation and passion, these constitute the whole content of Huang Zongying's life. She's a screenwriter, she's a director, she's an actress. Live in it, revel in it, feel it.
Huang Zongying once told director Peng Xiaolian that he had a romantic dream when he was young, hoping to be like the French actress Sarah Bernard, in her 70s, even if she was in a wheelchair, she would still perform on stage. Peng Xiaolian always remembered her words. In 2017, in Peng Xiaolian's film "Please Remember Me", the appearance of the lead actor Huang Zongying made the audience deeply moved.
"Huang Zongying is the kind of intellectual with passion, but as an actor, she still uses the stage as the place where she finally challenges, she can't give in casually, the whole life is whether it is writing or acting, or the host, the reality is her stage, she refuses to retreat casually." 」 Director Peng Xiaolian wrote in the article, "When black hair turns into white hair, when wrinkles tear the skin at the corners of her eyes, Huang Zongying is still full of romantic passion, as if she never felt that she would age." ”
The seventh "Shanghai Literature and Art Award" award, 94-year-old Huang Zongying won the Lifetime Achievement Award, because of physical reasons could not go to the scene of her, let her son Zhao Zuodai receive the award, and read the award speech on her behalf, "At this moment, I want to say to Ba Lao, Zuo Lin and all the teachers: The students did not disappoint you, the little sister did it!" I want to thank the audience and readers in Shanghai for their love for me for nearly a century; I want to thank the party for teaching me for nearly a century; I want to thank this land, the people, and for raising me for nearly a century; I bow. ”
"Dreams, pursuits, are the lives of people, the lives of groups, and the lives of a country."
"When one dream comes true, we start pursuing another dream. Desire to do something else that is hard to come by. The echo of dreams evokes new dreams, and the cycle is endless, and life goes on. ”
"And the dream is full of dreams, and the dream is broken."
Edited by Jia Congcong
Source: Shanghai Literary Association