13-year-old Chen Lijun has bright eyes and bright teeth, like a spring flower that has just bloomed, with an inexplicable love and yearning for Yue Opera. She still remembers the shock she felt when she walked into the Yue Theater for the first time. On the stage, the elegant Hua Dan was singing "Tianxian Pei", her voice was sad and crying, and every sentence was bitter, and Chen Lijun's heart was tightly grasped. 
She knew that she wanted to be that woman, to be a stage star who could overwhelm everyone. So, the sunny and cheerful Chen Lijun began a three-year professional Xi and chose the classic and gentle Gonghuadan. Every morning, she gets up early and practices Xi night, repeating the teacher's gestures and dance steps over and over again. Sweat soaked through the actor's uniform, and her legs were already sore, but Chen Lijun never gave up. Because she remembered that the elegant side face on the stage was the brightest star in her mind. Three years later, Chen Lijun has grown into a big girl, and she is no longer the delicate girl she was at the beginning. As her height increased by leaps and bounds, she was no longer suitable for playing a gentle and touching beauty. 
This is undoubtedly a blow to the sunny and cheerful Chen Lijun, and it seems that the future of continuing to study is bleak. However, she resolutely chose to transform and began to learn Xi strong and generous engineering students. This means that she needs to start from scratch and waste the sweat of the previous 3 years. More arduous training awaited her later, and Chen Lijun gritted her teeth to bear it. She no longer had time to cry or regret it, because the bright light in her heart was still flickering in front of her - it guided Chen Lijun to take a steady step towards the stage. In 2013, Chen Lijun graduated from the Yue Theater and officially became an actor on stage. This should have been the brightest moment of her life, and she began to shine on the stage. 
However, the reality was unsatisfactory, which gradually cooled Chen Lijun's heart. In the first few years, whenever she took the stage, Chen Lijun faced the audience with excitement. But no matter how many days she had been preparing and mastering the lines and singing, the seats in the theater were still empty. Occasionally, a few audience members sat in a corner far away, detached as if the theater had nothing to do with them. Chen Lijun realized that times had changed and people no longer had the heart to appreciate the elegance of this ancient art. They chase fast-paced, sensational entertainment, and think of going to a small theater to listen to a Yue opera for up to 3 hours. So year after year, Chen Lijun watched her favorite stage go cold. Countless times she has played the role of a talented and beautiful woman, or the story of her family and country, but all the wonderful performances are like a stranded lonely boat, and she can't find someone to listen to. This made the cheerful Chen Lijun feel unprecedented depression and powerlessness. 
Until one day, Chen Lijun ushered in a turning point in her life. With the encouragement of her mentor, Mr. Wen, she is ready to play a new role - the young Jia Ting. Mr. Wen has high hopes for this new play. He expects student Chen Lijun to break the audience's traditional impression of workers and show a more flamboyant and domineering side. So Chen Lijun began to train hard, she enhanced her physical fitness, learned all kinds of fighting movements Xi, and gradually built up the image of a hearty and heroic teenager. On the night of the premiere, Chen Lijun stepped on the stage with a heavy heart. When the costumes and props stopped being put on one by one, she saw a sassy and dignified young man in the mirror, and her confidence suddenly increased. Surprisingly, this new drama turned out to be a sensation!Jia Ting, played by Chen Lijun, is deeply loved by the audience and has also spread quickly on the Internet. 
People exclaimed what an excellent acting skill this is, whether it is a gentle gentleman or a domineering bandit, she can handle it with ease. What makes Chen Lijun even more pleased is that Yue Opera, a dying old artist, seems to have ushered in a new life. A large number of curious young people poured into the small theater, and they were impressed by Chen Lijun's sassy juvenile style and the potential contained in this ancient art. In the half-month-long full house, Chen Lijun saw the renewed passion in people's eyes. This current of enthusiasm inspired her long-dormant heart, and she devoted herself to every wonderful performance as if she had regained hope. However, Chen Lijun did not get carried away because of her popularity. In an interview with reporters, she modestly said that all this praise should be attributed to the charm of this ancient art, and she is just the most ordinary member of the stage. 
At first, seeing that her name was frequently crowned with the title of "Internet celebrity", Chen Lijun was not comfortable. She doesn't want to be regarded as a new traffic star who becomes popular overnight, because she is not here for fame and fortune, but has a sincere love for this ancient art. So she posted on social ** to clarify that she is just a Yue Opera actor who has worked silently all the way for more than ten years and finally has a little achievement, I hope everyone will not have too high expectations for her. Her dream is simple: to make the art she loves so much come to the fore again, so that more audiences can enter the theater and experience the beauty of tradition firsthand. In a later interview, when the reporters praised her for "leading the trend of the Yue Opera world" and praised her for "the Chu River and Han world", Chen Lijun smiled modestly and said that I have not changed, and I am still the little girl who had to go on stage ten years ago. 
She wants people to see not the charm of her person, but the eternal value of this ancient art behind her. However, even if Chen Lijun became popular overnight, the Yue Opera industry is still struggling. Theatre is still facing the dilemma of a sparse audience, and this ancient art has a long way to go to reverse its decline. Chen Lijun realized that this short-lived popularity was like a mirage, and it did not really change the marginal status of Yue Opera in the eyes of the public. Just because people are just a moment of freshness, impressed by her youthful heroism, doesn't mean they will become regular visitors to the theater. After this whirlwind passes, they will still chase the next entertainment hotspot, and the silence will eventually return. 
After all, the power of one person is too small. Chen Lijun also gradually realized that relying on her own success alone cannot fundamentally save the decline of the entire industry. The few performances she performed may be able to bring popularity and box office for a short time, but it is difficult to make the giant ship of Yue Opera turn for a long time. So she knew that she still needed to keep her feet on the ground and work with other unknown colleagues. For example, Li Yunxiao on the stage, her acting skills also amazed Chen Lijun. They need more actors of this calibre, and even more excellent new plays, to make people realize the infinite charm of this art. This will take a long and sustained effort, not overnight. 
Faced with the still bleak reality, Chen Lijun was not discouraged at all. From now on, she wants to start afresh and walk side by side with those who share the same passion. She firmly believes that one day, this old art, which she loves so much, will be rejuvenated in people's minds. For the future that she didn't know if she would be able to see, she was willing to give and wait in this life.