In 1961, she won the Best Actress Award at the inaugural Hundred Flowers Awards for the war film "The Red Detachment of Women". In 1962, Zhu Xijuan was named one of the 22 biggest film stars in Chinese cinema by the Chinese Ministry of Culture.
58 years ago, on the streets of the capital, people rushed to buy the "Popular Film" magazine with the votes for the first "Hundred Flowers Award" and filled in the "Hundred Flowers Award" ballots carefully, and nearly 120,000 readers participated in the awards. On May 22, 1962, the awarding meeting of the "Hundred Flowers Award" of "Popular Film" was solemnly held in the auditorium of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference in Beijing. On that day, the "Best Actress" award was won by Zhu Xijuan, who played the female warrior "Wu Qionghua" in "The Red Detachment of Women", when she was a college student at the Shanghai Theater Academy.
In that year, Zhu Xijuan was selected as one of the "22 Greatest Movie Stars" of New China by the Ministry of Culture, and in that era when there was no television, Internet and media, the "22 Big Movie Stars" were the most well-known "Chinese Faces".
The reason why she was able to play the role of Qionghua well and vividly was entirely to find feelings in her life, because she personally received a revolutionary traditional education on Hainan Island, so that she slowly understood the Girl Scout Army, so that she had a complete change from the heart to the appearance, and entered the role in a subtle way.
At that time, during the days when she experienced life in Hainan, her face was obviously black, but it seemed more spiritual. Her favorite thing is the gun, every day wearing shorts, leggings to practice carrying the gun, shooting, keeping her hands off the gun, when sleeping is also put the gun on the side of her bed, walking is also a board and a glance of the "military foot". During the day, she followed Feng Zengmin's veteran soldier to learn to shoot guns, learn to play leggings, etc.; At night, listening to the thrilling stories of the fight and life of the Girl Scout Army, it was difficult to sleep for a long time.
I remember that as soon as she arrived at the crew, the director asked her to treat Chen Qiang "as an enemy". She said that Chen Qiang gave her a lot of help.
When filming "Red Detachment of Women" that year, Zhu Xijuan had not yet fallen in love. By 1963, the "Prince Charming" of her life, the versatile painter Hou Fengmin, entered her heart. A pair of "big eyes" made her a "Qionghua", and it is precisely because of this pair of "big eyes" that she deeply touched a handsome and handsome painter Hou Fengmin. Hou Feng's people's livelihood is open-minded, open-minded, fast-talking, imaginative and imaginative when painting; Zhu Xijuan is straightforward and heroic, kind and modest, good at image portrayal, unique aesthetic feeling, the two learn from each other's strengths, cooperate with tacit understanding, and combine pearls.
In 1965, because Zhu Xijuan was more than 6 months pregnant, she missed the opportunity to play a sweet girl in Yan Jizhou's film "The Great Wall of the South China Sea". After 1966, Zhu Xijuan was imposed a lot of crimes, and Zhu Xijuan could not be convinced. Hou Fengmin took her back to the northeast and lived in her hometown of Dalian for a long time, surviving the most difficult days.
After becoming famous, Zhu Xijuan came to the Shanghai Youth Repertory Theatre, and later, the 45-year-old Zhu Xijuan moved her family south to the forefront of China's reform and opening up, serving as the deputy director of Shenzhen Television, opening up another new world. Later, after the establishment of the Shenzhen Television Center, she served as the director of the Television Center.