The ballet film "The White-Haired Girl", released in 1972, is adapted from the Shanghai Ballet's large-scale dance drama "The White-Haired Girl", and the main actors are the original members of the ballet.
In the dance drama, the heroine "white haired girl" Xi'er has two actors, the first half of the Xi'er is played by Mao Huifang, and in the second half of the plot, the "white-haired girl" who has escaped from the tiger's mouth and fallen into the mountains and forests is played by Shi Zhongqin, and the reason why there are two female protagonists is because a large number of scenes in this dance drama revolve around the heroine Xi'er, if the same actress dances from the beginning to the dance on the stage, the physical strength cannot keep up.
Mao Huifang
In the movie, the two female protagonists of Shi Zhongqin are also retained, in order to distinguish the two, it is generally called "Xi'er" Mao Huifang and "White Haired Girl" Shi Zhongqin.
The 25-year-old Mao Huifang is well known for this role, her pure and sweet smile and a pair of big eyes full of hope for the future, so that the audience strongly feel the tragic atmosphere of "tearing beautiful things to pieces", and thus hate Huang Shiren and the poor people nowhere to complain about the old society.
In 1984, Mao Huifang left Shanghai with her husband who went to the United States to study for a doctorate, and later settled in the United States, living a quiet life behind the scenes.
In 2000, a so-called long-form documentary literature called "Xi'er" Mao Huifang Floating and Sinking Record" suddenly came out of nowhere, first published in the "Celebrity Biography" magazine, and then reprinted by many newspapers.
The article conclusively claims that Mao Huifang "took advantage of her beauty and fame to hook up with Kang Sheng, Zhang Chunqiao, and others, jumped from the drama stage to the political stage, and finally jumped from the political stage to the prison", and said that "her ultimate fate is to go to prison to wash her face with tears." ”
When Mao Huifang's Relatives and Friends in Shanghai saw it, they called her one after another.
Mao Huifang was very angry, the content in the article was completely fabricated, but under the guise of documentary literature, it was written with a nose and an eye, and it was reprinted by more than a dozen media, which caused her a very bad impact.
With the support of her husband, Mao Huifang specially returned to Shanghai from the United States and entrusted a lawyer to take Luo Xuepeng, the author of "Floating Sinking", the Henan Literature and Art Publishing House, the publisher of "Celebrity Biographies", and 11 media that reprinted this article to court.
In April 2001, the Shanghai No. 1 Intermediate People's Court ruled that Mao Huifang had won the first instance and ordered Luo Xuepeng and others who had infringed on her right to reputation to publicly apologize and compensate for mental and economic losses of 230,000 yuan.
"Xi'er", who took up the legal weapon, won the eyebrows and breathed out, and lived a bright and upright life.
Mao Huifang, a native of Shanghai, was born in 1947 and enrolled in the Shanghai Dance School, which was founded in 1960, and was the first student.
During the school period, the school rehearsed a small dance drama "White Haired Girl", and the actors were selected from the first batch of outstanding trainees who had just been trained.
Mao Huifang came from a working family, with a beautiful image and good proportions, so she became the actor of "Xi'er" in "White Haired Girl", and has since formed an indissoluble relationship with this dance drama.
The drama was adapted into 8 large-scale ballets in 1965, and participated in the first performance of "Shanghai Spring" in May of that year, which became a hit, and 18-year-old Mao Huifang attracted attention for playing "Xi'er".
After dancing on the stage for 6 years, the Shanghai Film Studio decided to put the dance drama on the screen, so the original team of the dance drama spent 13 months to polish and shoot the film, in the Spring Festival of 1972, the film was released, becoming a classic of the 70s, Mao Huifang's bright smile and soft dance posture made her a popular "ballet star" throughout the country, and her influence was not under Xue Jinghua, the female star of "Red Detachment of Women".
At that time, most of the actresses were honest, and Yang Xiaomin, a classmate of Mao Huifang and who danced the black haired woman in the fourth scene of the play "Escape into the Mountains", said: "At that time, we went from the stage to the practice room every day, and then from the practice room to the stage, there were almost no social activities, and we lived a monastic life. Ballet dancers have relatively short stage careers, and we all married after the age of 30 according to the requirements of Premier Zhou Enlai. And love is introduced by people, we read relatively little, we all want to find learned college students. Mao Huifang's husband, Shen Weidian, was an ordinary physics teacher in a middle school at the time, and Mao Huifang valued his character and talent. In 1978, Shen Weidian was admitted to Fudan University and became the first batch of physics master's degree students in China after the Cultural Revolution. ”
In order to live up to the training of the school and the troupe, many actresses of the Shanghai Ballet married late.
Mao Huifang did not marry Shen Weidian until 1979 at the age of 32, at least seven or eight years later than her peers, after marriage, she gave birth to a son, soon returned to the stage, and starred in dance dramas such as "Giselle" and "Spring River Flower Moon Night", and was also a member of the Standing Committee of the Fifth CPPCC Shanghai Municipal Committee.
In 1984, her husband Shen Weidian went to detrit University in the United States to study for a doctorate, and Mao Huifang went to accompany her and was hired to teach in the ballet department of the college, and later became the head of the ballet art department.
Shen Weidian is also quite talented in art, during his stay in the United States, Mao Huifang could not find an artistic partner when performing "The White Haired Girl", and Shen Weidian, who was a professor in the department of physics at Michigan State University, volunteered to go up to dance "Yang Bailao", and the performance won a round of applause.
Later, their son Shen Hanfei also inherited his father's mantle and was admitted to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the family of three lived a quiet, happy, and indisputable life.
In 2000, a long documentary literature created by Chongqing writer Luo Xuepeng, "Xi'er" Mao Huifang's Floating and Sinking Record, was published in the best-selling journal "Celebrity Biography" of Henan Literature and Art Publishing House, and was quickly reprinted by more than a dozen media such as "Liaoning Daily" and "Guangzhou Daily".
"Floating and Sinking" fabricates the bizarre story of Mao Huifang using beauty and dance skills to hook up kang sheng, Zhang Chunqiao and other "cultural revolution masters", jumping from the drama stage to the political stage, "calling the wind and rain", and finally being imprisoned, fabricating a vulgar and vulgar absurd plot, and slandering Mao Huifang as a morally corrupt character.
In May 2000, mao Huifang's relatives saw this ridiculous text and immediately called her to tell her, so angry that Mao Huifang could not sleep every night. Her youth was dedicated to the ballet career, and after each play, not only did she consume a lot of physical energy, but her emotions could not be calmed for a long time, she often had insomnia and nervous breakdown, and she had just lived a peaceful life for less than two years, but she encountered this kind of unscrupulous writer who maliciously consumed her.
In August of that year, Mao Huifang flew back to Shanghai from the United States, hired a lawyer from Youlin Law Firm, and submitted a complaint to the court to seek justice for her reputation and the crew of "The White Haired Girl".
After the lawsuit was reported in the news, Dong Xilin, the actor of Xi'er's father Yang Bailao and deputy head of the Shanghai Ballet, told reporters: "That article was widely circulated, and we also saw it when we performed in Ningxia. But how is this possible? From the creation and rehearsal of "White Haired Girl" in 1965 until Mao Huifang went abroad in 1984, I watched her grow up! Mao Huifang was my student, when she was a teenager, simple and kind, and usually did not talk much. Because Cai Guoying, who originally played Xi'er, suffered from severe kidney disease and sciatica and could no longer go on stage, the regiment chose Mao Huifang, because she was handsome and had good skills, which was not at all with Kang Sheng and Zhang Chunqiao. At that time, the crew was all collective action, even if the superiors received, the main actors also went together, Mao Huifang never accepted the summons of anyone alone. It can be said that "Floating and Sinking" does not have a little factual basis! I think this is some media hype for profit. ”
Mao Huifang's husband was also very supportive of her suing unscrupulous writers, seeking his own innocence, and returned to China with her to participate in the trial, in which the defendant Luo Xuepeng claimed that he was "well-founded and fearless", that he wrote this article, "as evidenced by historical materials", and that the historical materials he produced were a novel published by Zhejiang writer Hu Yuewei in 1986, "Crazy Shanghai".
Luo Xuepeng said: "I just borrowed a little bit of 'historical materials' from the book 'Crazy Shanghai' as material. The list of main characters before the main text of the book is clearly written: Fang Fang, 26 years old, member of the Shanghai Municipal Revolutionary Committee, deputy commander of the Red Rebellion Headquarters of the Shanghai Literary and Art Circles, and member of the 244 group. He believes that this "Fangfang" refers to Mao Huifang.
In this regard, Hu Yuewei, author of "Crazy Shanghai" and director of the Zhejiang Provincial Literary and Art Creation Center, said in a telephone interview: "I did not know Mao Huifang at all, nor did I hear of Mao Huifang during the Cultural Revolution,...... I'm writing fiction, not documentary. ”
Although the "historical materials" presented by Luo Xuepeng are not valid at all, he still said: "All of us readers in Jiangjin who have watched "Crazy Shanghai" think that the 'Fangfang' in the book is Mao Huifang. ”
At the opening of the trial, Mao Huifang's former classmates, colleagues and friends in Shanghai rushed to testify against her.
In the middle is Mao Huifang
Luo Xuepeng apologized on the spot, saying: "After collecting evidence and collecting information from many parties, I realized that the content of the article I wrote at that time was wrong and hurt Mao Huifang, who was innocent and of good character, for which I apologized to the plaintiff Mao Huifang, and at the same time I admitted the plaintiff's request to sue." ”
In the end, the court held that "the defendant's means and methods of infringement were so bad, the scope of social impact was wide, and the consequences of the mental damage suffered by the plaintiff as a result were really rare... The defendant Luo Xuepeng and 11 media, including Henan Literature and Art Publishing House, were ordered to compensate the plaintiff Mao Huifang for economic losses and mental damage totaling more than RMB230,000. ”
At this point, "Xi'er" finally won back the right to reputation for herself, washed away the sewage that fell across the sky, and returned to her quiet old age.