"Only those who have eaten Huanglian know what sweetness is, and only those who have lived in tragedy can create laughter." This sentence that Zhao Lirong said has become a true portrayal of her own life.
Zhao Lirong, who grew up in Pear Garden, was gifted from an early age, becoming a pillar at the age of 15, and at the age of 25, she married Shengqiang, who was born in Shuxiangmendi, which was originally a happy family, and as a result, when she was pregnant with her second child, her husband was beaten into a rightist and died of overwork in the labor camp.
Orphans and widows were forced to make a living, and under the persuasion of many people for many years, she remarried her uncle Sheng Hong.
42 years old is not easy to look forward to the young daughter, but the daughter was diagnosed with a brain tumor, only 7 years old unfortunately died, and then her husband Sheng Hong also died of a sudden heart attack, experienced 2 degrees of widowhood, daughter cerebral palsy and bereavement of the daughter, she chose to swallow the bitterness herself, and dedicate the happiness to everyone.
60-year-old on the Spring Festival Gala to create countless classic sketches, famous as Song Dandan, leg injury recurrence but insist on carrying on the stage to perform, until the late stage of lung cancer cough bleeding, but also conceal the condition only for the work, the last Spring Festival Gala two months after, she refused to eat, personally sewed shou clothes, died.
In 1928, Zhao Lirong was born in Tianjin, Hebei Province, when it was in the war years, as soon as she was born, she was displaced with her parents, seeing that life was not good, her father Zhao Bingzhong thought of cooperating with people to do business, who knew that she was deceived.
In a fit of anger, he used gambling to turn the book, but also tossed the family to nothing, under the introduction of others, his father went to the pear garden to help the famous hibiscus flower shave his hair and braid, and life was better.
Zhao Lirong, who grew up in a pear garden, was carried to the stage to play "color dolls" at the age of 1, and since then she has formed an indissoluble relationship with the stage. Furong Hua saw that Zhao Lirong was a good seedling to learn drama, and under her care, 15-year-old Zhao Lirong had become a pillar of qingfeng theater.
At the age of 24, Zhao Lirong entered the General Political Review Troupe, playing the villain Three Immortals, and many people who came to see the play said: "We came to buy tickets to see the drama for the Three Immortals played by Zhao Lirong." Brother Zhao Lianxi also praised her continuously: "A person with a thousand faces is a good actor, that is called a skill!" ”
During the judging troupe, Zhao Lirong cooperated with Xin Fengxia to shine, many people came to visit, but she was not moved, it turned out that she had long been in love with the secretary of the judging theater, Sheng Qiang.
Unlike Zhao Lirong, who has not read any books, Sheng Qiang was born in Shuxiang Mendi, or a rare college student, there is a big gap between the two in terms of birth and cultural level, Zhao Lirong's mother once resolutely opposed, but the two still convinced their mother with affection. Soon they married and gave birth to a son the following year.
It should have been a happy home, but the weather was unpredictable, just when Zhao Lirong was pregnant with her second child, her husband Sheng Qiang was beaten into a rightist and sent to Tianjin Chadian Farm for labor reform, due to overwork, he died of illness and said goodbye to his wife and children forever.
Sheng Qiang died before he saw his younger son, and the correspondence at that time was very inconvenient, until Zhao Lirong went to Tianjin to visit her husband and heard the bad news. She was seriously ill for this, but the orphans and widows were forced to make a living, and when she first recovered from the serious illness, she endured the pain of performing on stage and endured the suffering alone.
If you want to survive easily, on the one hand, it is a continuous rotation performance, and on the other hand, you have to take care of two sons, and Sheng Qiang's sister persuades her to marry the third brother Sheng Hong.
"Isn't that ruining my reputation? Since ancient times, where have there been sisters-in-law and little uncles? Zhao Lirong was furious about this, and it was once difficult to accept.
My sister persuaded bitterly: on the one hand, he is like his brother Shengqiang, and he is very good to the children, on the other hand, the children do not have to change their surnames, and you don't have to live so hard anymore.
It was not until the age of 36 that Zhao Lirong agreed to the marriage under the constant persuasion of her relatives, but she paid the price for it, and the second brother Zhao Lianxi thought that this matter was too humiliating, and did not speak to her sister until her death.
After marriage, Zhao Lirong added a son to Sheng Hong, the life of a family of 5 and the united States, but both of them wanted a daughter, so she disregarded the 42-year-old to have a daughter, but it was hard to look forward to the young daughter, but let the whole family taste the pain of the cone.
As the most popular child of the Sheng family, Zhao Lirong named her daughter "Sheng Jia Huan". But the joy didn't last long.
The daughter was diagnosed with a brain tumor three days after birth, and the family was in pain.
"I have invited doctors all over the country, bought good medicines all over the country, tiger bones, white flower snakes, pythons, leopards, and Chinese medicines are a lot of them." The cost of medicine alone was more than three hundred yuan a month, and her monthly salary at that time was only a few tens of yuan.
The family went around seeking medical treatment and spending all their savings, but their daughter's condition could not get better, and she died at the age of 7.
The pain of losing her daughter ravaged her heart fiercely, but the reality was cruel, not many years after her daughter left, her husband Sheng Hong also died of a sudden heart attack, and 56-year-old Zhao Lirong was alone again.
"If I stay by his side, he won't leave, and I can't stop him!" Zhao Lirong cried bitterly, blaming herself for not taking good care of her wife, always thinking of retiring and then resting with her husband, but she did not expect to say goodbye to him now and become a lifelong regret.
After experiencing the pain of being widowed for the second time, her daughter's cerebral palsy and the loss of her daughter, Zhao Lirong wiped away her tears, and she swallowed bitterness to bring happiness to everyone.
In order to support her children, Zhao Lirong played Queen Che Chi in "Journey to the West" and Grandma Liu in the movie "Dream of the Red Chamber". She plays Liu Grandma, who has both gods and gods, and her funny mood makes people laugh incessantly.
In 1988, the 60-year-old Zhao Lirong boarded the Spring Festival Gala, and she brought her famous work "A Day of a Heroic Mother", a sentence of "Sima Cylinder Smashing Light", which made the audience suddenly brighten their eyes and laugh one after another.
From 1988 to 1999, she appeared on the Spring Festival Gala eight times, and as long as it was her sketches, she became popular and dedicated countless golden sentences to that era:
"Spicy chicken shreds", "Tango is just waddling and walking", "nod yes shook head no, come is come go go", "crowd gathering?" I see the turnip meeting", "Court jade liquor, one hundred and eight cups, how about this wine, listen to me blowing for you"...
In the popular work "So Packed", she had a recurring leg injury but said that she would also perform on stage, she sang rap catchy, danced street dance style, and finally stumbled to the ground when the audience laughed, but did not know that this kneeling was her knee water, the pain was unbearable.
In the sketches since then, Zhao Lirong has continuously broken through herself from modern dance to English songs, and in "The Adventure of Part-time Work", she has a large stroke of the four words of "genuine goods" in one fell swoop, and she has not read books since she was a child and cannot even write a word, and she has not hesitated to practice for more than half a month.
However, while the audience was laughing, no one knew that she was silently enduring the torment of illness.
"The Veteran Comes Out of the Horse" is the last work left by 71-year-old Zhao Lirong for the Spring Festival Gala, and in order to sing the English song "My Heart Is Eternal", she carefully prepared for several months. But just ten days before taking office, she went to the hospital to find out that she had advanced lung cancer.
For the performance of the Spring Festival Gala, she took a large number of painkillers, and she constantly coughed up blood during rehearsals. "If you have to get it, you have to go sooner or later."
After four rounds of chemotherapy, Zhao Lirong's bus lost her hair, but countless times told her son not to take photos of herself at this time, she should keep the best image in the hearts of the audience.
Knowing that she would soon die, she refused to eat and fed food to the chickens, and she directed the funeral for herself, even sewing her own birthday clothes and shoes and socks that she wore closely.
"I am an ordinary citizen, who comes or goes ordinarily, not seeking officials, not seeking wealth, seeking peace, only seeking joy, having food to eat, and having clothes and clothing is a blessing."
On July 17, 2000, Teacher Zhao Lirong finally closed her tired eyes. Ten days later, a farewell ceremony for her body was held at Babaoshan, and tens of thousands of people sent her off.
"Pain must be reserved for oneself, and happiness can be sprinkled into the world." This sentence she said to Gong Hanlin became the code that Gong Hanlin believed in all his life.
Zhao Lirong created a common memory of the times, zhao Benshan said in an interview earlier years ago that there was a teacher Zhao Lirong in the Spring Festival Gala, he could only stand on the side.
Fate was so vicious to her, but she never resented, but embraced all the audiences and the world with wonderful works, dedicated attitude and open-mindedness.
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Author: Lynn
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