In the 1970s and 1980s, there was a unique title called "Shadow Flower".
It is awarded specifically to actresses in films who portray their characters to life.
It sounded earthy, but at that time, only female stars who won the Hundred Flowers Award and were on the list of "Popular Movies" could have this honor.
Today's protagonist is such a girl.
Her name is also very peculiar: Ren Yexiang, renren xiang.
In the era of no Internet, Ren Yexiang is a hot cover girl.
At a young age, he was nominated for the Hundred Flowers Award and the Golden Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival.
Like her, it is Liu Xiaoqing and Chen Chong, one is the "immortal goddess", and the other has become an Academy Award judge.
But Ren Yexiang seemed to have been forgotten.
What happened to her when she fell off the altar from the red pole?
01
In 1976, the laughter of a group of children broke the tranquility of the campus of the Central Academy of Drama.
The youngest of these children is only 11 years old, and the oldest is only 15 or 6 years old.
It turned out that they were the young students of the "Children's Drama Actor Class" jointly organized by Chinese Opera and Chinese Children's Arts.
Among them, there is Ren Yexiang.
The selection of children's drama classes is the most stringent in the history of Chinese opera, in addition to the necessary sounds, stages, lines and tables required for art examinations, their family composition must also be examined.
Whether it is the appearance or background, it must definitely be rooted in the red.
At that time, the earliest famous girl in the class was Xue Bai, and in Chen Kaige and Zhang Yimou's "Meeting Master" work "Yellow Land", Xue Bai played the heroine Cui Qiao, which was greatly praised.
She is even known as the first generation of "Mou Girl", and when she was studying, many boys had a good feeling for her Xue Bai.
Xue Bai was the most popular female classmate in the class, and Ren Yexiang was the most ordinary one.
Ren Yexiang first appeared on the screen in 1980 as Hao Zhen, the sister of pianist Hao Ping, in the movie "Sails".
At that time, the "Yangfan" crew took a fancy to her innocent and lovely temperament and gave her the role of "Hao Zhen" as her name.
Ren Yexiang's performance in it is very good, and that natural beauty has attracted countless audiences, so another film of Zhuying Studio also found her.
This film was the "Nostalgia" that later won the award.
In "Nostalgia", Ren Yexiang and Huang Xiaolei play a pair of two little brother and sister lovers, and she and the brother played by Huang Xiaolei are both adopted children of their adoptive mothers and are not related by blood.
As the adopted daughter of Tian Qiuyue, she and Tian Guiqingmei Bamboo Horse are both in love, gentle, kind, and industrious, but also stubborn and stubborn, and decisive in handling things.
She dared to boldly fight for her love, but when Tian Gui's birth mother refused to accept Tian Qiuyue, she preferred to sacrifice her love and stay to serve her adoptive mother.
Ren Yexiang's performance in this film was very successful, and "Nostalgia" was widely acclaimed.
The film won the 1981 Ministry of Culture Outstanding Film Award and the 5th Popular Film Best Feature Film Award in 1982.
It was also nominated for the Golden Bear award at the 32nd Berlin International Film Festival.
With her outstanding performance, Ren Yexiang was nominated for Best Actress at the 2nd Golden Rooster Awards of Chinese Cinema.
That year, Ren Yexiang was 20 years old, became a hit, and became a youth idol with great characteristics of the times.
02
Because of his lovely and pure appearance, Ren Yexiang has become the memory of a generation.
To be honest, up to now, an actress as pure as water as her has been very rare.
About 1982, Ren Yexiang received many film contracts as a popular movie star.
But she chose a film with a middle school theme, that is, the film "Long Live Youth" based on Wang Meng's novel, in which she played the enthusiastic heroine Yang Qiyun.
At that time, shi Tianyin, Zhang Haiyan, and Wu Junmei, who played her in "Long Live Youth", all appeared on the screen for the first time.
It is not easy for Ren Yexiang to stand out among many actresses, not to mention that the personality of the heroine Yang Qianyun is exactly the opposite of her. But surprisingly, her performance left a very deep impression on everyone.
In the film, Ren Yexiang changed his quiet and introverted personality, and interpreted the passionate Yang Rose Cloud to the fullest.
The sunny smile, along with the fiery red beanie hat, entered the audience's heart.
For a long time, she became synonymous with Yang Qiyun.
In 1983, it also became the most popular time for Ren Yexiang as a film actor, and various wall calendars and magazines had her beautiful figure.
03
After that, Ren Yexiang was also featured in many film and television works.
The little daughter snowflake of Aunt Li in "Family Trivia" and the locust flower who partnered with Chen Baoguo in "All the Way to the Wind" are basically innocent and beautiful young women's images.
Another role she left us with a deep impression is Tian Xiaoxia, who played in the 89 version of the TV series "Ordinary World".
Later, in 2015, "Ordinary World" was once again made into a TV series, and the new version lasted for 56 episodes, with Li Xiaomeng playing Tian Xiaoxia.
Viewers who have seen the two versions will always compare them.
Although Tian Xiaoxia, who said that Li Xiaomeng, was also very beautiful, she always felt that she lacked a little heroism.
Ren Yexiang is the most perfect embodiment of "Tian Xiaoxia", and since her, there has been no "Tian Xiaoxia".
It is enough to see how much the audience loves her.
However, at this moment of fame and fortune, Ren Yexiang suddenly disappeared, and once people were missing.
Careful viewers found that Ren Yexiang was much fatter than before when he played "Tian Xiaoxia".
Everyone speculated: Is Ren Yexiang sick, or is there something difficult to say?
But none of the questions were answered.
04
Although Ren Yexiang disappeared, her classmates all embarked on the road of soaring yellow and tengda.
Take Cai Guoqing, the youngest of the Chinese opera children's class, to say that so far, Cai Guoqing should be the most famous actor in this "76-level children's drama actor class".
In 1986, when Ren Yexiang returned to school for further study, Cai Guoqing not only published his first solo singing album, but also was selected to participate in the 1st National 100 Singers Concert and officially entered the singing world.
Today, Cai Guoqing, who is called "immortal male god" by the audience, is already an "evergreen tree" that has not fallen in the song world.
And the little handsome brother Xu Yajun embarked on the path of an actor and implemented his handsome as always.
In 1986, Xu Yajun received a TV series that made him a big hit, "Finding the World Back".
He played the bad boy "Count", handsome and excellent acting skills, and became famous for a time, becoming a male god in the minds of many girls.
Because of this drama, he and Song Dandan became popular at the same time, and he is still a fan "forever big handsome".
In "Long Live Youth", Ren Yexiang met Wu Junmei, but at that time she was the main actor, and Wu Junmei was only a supporting role.
After the shooting, Wu Junmei returned to school to complete her studies.
Later, Wu Junmei was selected to star in Wen Xiu in "The Last Emperor", playing a concubine who divorced the emperor.
Her outstanding acting skills made her the first in Asia to be nominated for best supporting actress at the "Italian Academy Awards".
Later, because of "The Last Emperor", she went to the United States to study and study film, and since then she has entered the international film industry to shine.
At this time, Ren Yexiang has long been forgotten by the audience.
Star stubble after stubble, and who will always remember the person who was?
05
After many years, Ren Yexiang suddenly appeared in the "Flowing Golden Years" program before he told the mystery of the disappearance.
She said that after graduating from the Chinese opera training class, she became ill, her body gained weight quickly, and her energy was not as good as before.
In order to cultivate the body and leave the most perfect image on the screen, the helpless Ren Yexiang decided to quietly bid farewell to the film world.
That year, Ren Yexiang, who finished filming "Ordinary World", was only 28 years old, just in time for his youth and popularity.
Later, during his recuperation, Ren Yexiang met her husband.
Her husband is a soldier, giving herself a lot of security, the two people quickly got together after getting to know each other, and because of her husband's appearance, she was more determined not to return to the show business.
Later, the two people did business together, and their lives were colorful, even if they did not act again, life was very happy.
Now Ren Yexiang, in a calm and idyllic life, has lost his starlight and lives with his family in Shenzhen.
More than thirty years have passed, but Ren Yexiang's appearance and the classic character images he created are still cherished in the memories of many people.
Author: Sissi
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