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In recent years, in China's TV drama market, there have been many portrayals of historical figures "LingFei".
The TV series "Yanxi Raiders" broadcast in 2018 subversively recreated the character image of "Lingfei", which is very different from the gentle and virtuous "Lingfei Niangniang" that appeared in "Huan Zhu Gege" 20 years ago, and a large number of post-80s and post-90s viewers have exclaimed subversion of the three views after watching it.
And when at the National Opera Festival, Wu Jinyan and Zhao Lijuan, two generations of concubines, rarely shared the stage, many audiences who liked their performances were amazed - where did the time go.
Yes, in the blink of an eye, Zhao Lijuan, who starred in "Huan Zhu Gege", is now 55 years old.
In the past 22 years, The Golden Lock has become a "Fan Ye", Xiao Yanzi, and Ziwei who have gained fame and fortune, but LingFei is still the Ling Concubine of the year, and she also acts, but she is low-key and quiet.
Can only sigh that people born in different eras have different values for fame and profit, career and family, and their values are deeply engraved with the brand of the era when they were born and raised, which also dooms them to different destinies.
Born in the mid-1960s, Zhao Lijuan is the most typical Beijing woman, gentle, virtuous and versatile.
Zhao Lijuan spoke softly from a young age, and Zhao Lijuan, who could sing and dance, graduated from middle school and was admitted to the Railway Literary troupe, and two years later, she was sent to the Central Academy of Drama to study acting, and Wang Zhifei, Feng Lei and others in the 84th class were classmates.
After graduating from Chinese opera, Zhao Lijuan has been active on the drama stage, and this experience has honed her acting skills.
However, from graduating from college in 1988 to meeting "Huan Zhu Gege" in 1998, Zhao Lijuan struggled in obscurity in the position of actor for ten years.
Before "Huan Zhu Gege", in 1989, in the movie "Tomb of the Night Thief Zhenfei" starring Lei Kesheng and Chen Baoguo, Zhao Lijuan played a wind and dust woman in the film.
In 1991, in the comedy film Urban Monk, starring Xu Shaohua, Liu Lijuan played a hotel singer.
In 1995, Zhao Lijuan played a role called "Cui Yuan" in the TV series "Tracking Without Regrets" starring Wang Zhiwen, Li Bingbing, Liu Peiqi, He Bing and others.
When the director of the "Huan Zhu Gege" crew found Zhao Lijuan, Qiong Yao had already interviewed countless people for the role of "LingFei", but none of them was suitable.
Because Qiong Yao always felt that these actors who had been interviewed did not have the beautiful and dignified temperament she wanted.
Later, the director team found Zhao Lijuan and told her to play the role of a gentle and kind emperor's pet concubine in the play, equivalent to the second female, and Zhao Lijuan gladly went to audition after hearing it.
During the audition, Zhao Lijuan raised her hands and feet to reveal a mature woman's charm, but behind this charm, she did not lose the gentle atmosphere of a concubine, and Zhao Lijuan's performance made Qiong Yao teacher fall in love at a glance.
However, when the play officially began filming, Zhao Lijuan knew that the role she played was not a female number two, at most it was just a supporting role, but out of reverence for the profession of an actor, no matter what role it was, if she wanted to act, she would act it well, which was Zhao Lijuan's guidelines for being an actor.
Under the support of excellent scripts, Zhao Lijuan interpreted the role of "Concubine Niangniang" in a subtle and vivid way.
In the emperor's mind, Concubine Ling and the empress dowager were the complete opposites, their own confidants and people who could be completely trusted.
When Xiao Yanzi showed off Ziwei's relics, coupled with the sentence "Emperor, don't you remember the Summer Rain Lotus on the shore of Daming Lake 19 years ago", for this pearl suspected of being left behind in the palm of his hand, the emperor was eager to hold it in the palm of his hand, but due to the restrictions of various etiquette, he chose to entrust Xiao Yanzi to Lingfei for the first time, which shows the status of Lingfei in his mind.
And Concubine Ling's gentleness and virtuousness are more reflected in the dialogue when she tried her best to persuade the emperor to recognize Xiao Yanzi, the illegitimate daughter of the people, she knew what the emperor wanted to hear and liked to listen to, so she wholeheartedly followed the emperor's meaning, praised Xiao Yanzi's eyebrows and extraordinary temperament, and had the emperor's genetic temperament, and the sentences came to the emperor's heart, making his emperor more loving and pampered her.
When Ziwei blocked a knife for the emperor, making the emperor even more confused and thinking of this girl, as the emperor's favorite concubine, Ling Concubine's line was:
Although the concubines were a little jealous, they were also quite grateful to her.
I would like to ask which woman under the heavens loves her husband is not selfish, but the concubine's personality completely satisfies the fantasies of men all over the world about their wives, making her an unselfish existence, standing in the position of her husband, crying for him, laughing for him, and living for him.
The script is well written and Zhao Lijuan's play is also well performed, and the two are combined together, so that the image of the harem lady of the concubine Wen Liang Shuxian has made countless audiences vividly remember and become the embodiment of the ideal wife in the minds of many men.
Although Zhao Lijuan's image of being gentle and gentle like water everywhere in "Huan Zhu Ge Ge" is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
But after all, what she played was a concubine of the court, under the shackles of feudal etiquette, behind the obedience and respect was her forbearance and helplessness as a woman.
In real life, Zhao Lijuan is completely at the helm of a happy family, without the oppression of cannibalism and feudal etiquette in the TV series, she will live her little life full and rich.
Zhao Lijuan, who became famous with "Huan Zhu Gege", truly experienced the taste of being valued as an actor. After that, scripts that invited her to act came pouring in.
But Zhao Lijuan is not a fledgling child after all, and her many years of experience in the show business circle tell her that to act well and establish her own image, she has to choose between scripts and roles.
Therefore, after "Huan Zhu GeGe", the first script she chose was the TV series "Beijing Woman".
In the play, the heroine Fang Xiaoyu, she plays, is a weak woman in the double dilemma of career and feelings, but she uses the unique strength of Beijing women to shoulder the responsibility on her shoulders.
With this TV series, Zhao Lijuan won the Golden Eagle Award for "Audience Favorite Actor" in one fell swoop, which overshadowed the actresses Su Jin and Zhu Yuanyuan who competed at the same time.
In addition, Zhao Lijuan has also performed well in TV series such as "Divorce Revelation", "Women Are No Longer Silent", and "Qiao Family Compound".
Later, Zhao Lijuan chose to marry her other half, who had experienced many years of love and long-distance running, and her husband was a university professor and a producer.
One year after marriage, 37-year-old Zhao Lijuan had her own daughter.
In the stage of career development momentum, Zhao Lijuan decisively chose to teach her husband and son, and gradually shifted her focus to the family, which requires courage and wisdom for an actor.
Zhao Lijuan said that in fact, her personality is not suitable for the job of acting, but after the teacher's training, she slowly acted. She considers herself an experiential actor, and she also hopes that she can give back to the audience with more mature works after having a richer life experience.
In the vanity fair of the show business circle, as an actor, you can always stick to your own bottom line, maintain the awe of the profession of an actor, and maintain a sober mind, which is the belief that supports Zhao Lijuan's willingness to walk into the lives of ordinary people after the fire.
In 2017, "Ode to Joy 2" was broadcast, and Zhao Lijuan played the role of Xiao Bao's mother in the play, which made people shine.
At that time, Zhao Lijuan was 52 years old, and Zhao Lijuan's appearance as a sharp mother-in-law was still online.
Zhao Lijuan once said:
I can play the virtuous and gentle type, I can also play the "knife mouth tofu heart" type of woman, try different roles is a pleasure.
After having a daughter, zhao Lijuan has starred in a small number of works over the years.
The most impressive thing that remains in people's hearts is the "Ling Concubine Niangniang" in her role in "Huan Zhu Gege", which is an affirmation of Zhao Lijuan's acting skills and a proof of the artistic charm of classic TV series.
Just like the main creators of the crew of "The Legend of the New White Lady" at that time, when shooting the TV series, they did not think that it would accompany generations of people through childhood and youth, and "Huan Zhu Gege" is the same, because it is excellent, it has withstood the precipitation of the years.
Imagine what a person has done when he knows that he can get what he wants as long as he works hard, and when a person never knows where his end point is, but he does not want to write the most important stroke of his artistic career in a hurry, these are two completely different states.
The former is full of strength, only at that moment to erupt, the latter, because the future is uncertain, in a down-to-earth manner to take every step of the present, obviously the latter's accumulated strength, more long-term, more natural, in the future also know more about what is affordable and put down.
Zhao Lijuan has said that she is thankful that fate did not make her young famous.
This kind of statement is not a kind of modesty of hers, nor is it a kind of self-deprecation, but an objective and correct evaluation of her past efforts and returns, a kind of relief, and a great wisdom in the face of fame and profit.
Everyone will grow old, and the beauties will face twilight, but their pure hearts, their idyllic beliefs in life, will never fade, and will always remain in the hearts of those who fear it.
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