"Palace jade liquor, one hundred and eighty glasses, how about this wine?Listen to me blow it to you. This catchy line must be very familiar to everyone, it comes from Zhao Lirong and Gong Hanlin's classic sketch "Part-time Job Adventure". 
Speaking of Zhao Lirong, she is the representative of the "New Year's flavor" in the hearts of a generation. In the nineties of the last century, Zhao Lirong starred in sketches in the Spring Festival Gala several times, with a steady stream of classic lines, known as the queen of sketches, and every Spring Festival Gala accompanied by her, the audience was happy to laugh. In the early years, she was also a famous actor in dramas, and she deserved to be a well-deserved artist of the older generation. However, Zhao Lirong's life path was very bumpy, she lost her husband after marriage, her cousin broke off the brother-sister relationship with her, and her daughter died at the age of 7. Even so, she still insisted on bringing laughter to the audience in front of the stage. After Zhao Lirong died, she once helped ** arrest a spy because of a line. Every year after his death, there are still many official media posts mourning. Netizens also remembered: "Although Teacher Zhao Lirong has left, in retrospect, it seems that she is still by our side." Today, let's walk into the story of Zhao Lirong. 
Zhao Lirong was born in 1928 and is the youngest daughter in the family, so her mother Meng Yunde gave her the nickname "Lao Ai". Because of his father's good shaving skills, the family got acquainted with the famous female artist of Pingju at that time. Later, his father worked as a makeup artist in Furong Hua's troupe, and Furong Hua saw that Zhao Bingzhong's family was in difficulty, so he let their family live in the dormitory of the theater club. When she was 1 year old, Zhao Lirong was hugged on the stage by the actors in the troupe, acting as a "color baby", at that time, some children cried when they saw the audience, and Zhao Lirong laughed when she saw the audience. When she was four or five years old, Zhao Lirong and her siblings followed her father to watch the play in the side curtain, and at the age of 6, she appeared on stage again and played the role of "Tong'er". When she was 8 years old, Zhao Lirong and her second brother Zhao Lianxi were in the same primary school, often running outdoors from different classes, Zhao Lianxi showed a backflip, Zhao Lirong sang to her classmates, and the teacher told Zhao's father: "Your daughter and boy can't study, they don't do this, one sings, one dances, let the children do other things, and also affect other students." "The second brother first apprenticed to learn drama and specialized in martial arts, and Zhao Lirong also wanted to follow the path of the second brother. When she was 12 years old, Hibiscus Flower Trustee found her a drama master, Zhao Lirong was full of joy, but at this time her father called Zhao Lirong over. The father said: "Lao Ai, you are the youngest child in the family, we all love you the most, do you know the hard work of learning drama?"Do you want to sing in the future?Dad believes that you can understand the doorway here, but you can sing well, sing very well, and you need to work hard. Zhao Lirong looked at her father's old face, play, she saw the big one since she was a child;She also knows the hard work of the actors backstage with back pain and sore throat;She can't sing well, her basic skills are not solid, and she has also seen her beaten and scolded by her master. She made up her mind to learn to sing. Zhao Lirong's confident eyes, her father saw it in his heart, and no longer dissuaded. 
Zhao Lirong specializes in Tsing Yi and Hua Dan, and she has suffered a lot in the days of apprenticeship. Get up before dawn to practice. I heard that you can practice the sound of water by hanging your voice next to a place where there is water, and in summer, a group of apprentices stand by the dew to practice, and in winter they go into the ice cave to practice. After day after day of training, coupled with her exposure since childhood, Zhao Lirong became the most advanced among her apprentices, and appeared as the protagonist in Zhangjiakou Qingfeng Theater at the age of 15. When Zhangjiakou was liberated in 1945, Zhao Lirong participated in many "liberation dramas", such as "The White-Haired Girl", "Blood and Tears", "Brothers and Sisters Open the Wasteland" and so on. In the same year, Zhao Lirong joined the Beijing Mentougou Youth Drama Club, and on the day of the liberation of Mentougou, in order to celebrate the liberation, Zhao Lirong starred in "The White-Haired Girl", which received warm applause. In 1949, after the peaceful liberation of Beiping, Zhao Lirong starred in "The White-Haired Girl" in several important theaters in Beijing such as North China, Guanghe, and Democracy, which caused a sensation. 
In 1952, Zhao Lirong joined the General Political Appraisal Troupe, and later transferred to the China Appraisal Troupe, and her status as a drama critic was greatly improved. She played the role of a matchmaker in the drama "Flowers as the Matchmaker", and the innovation of the "Flower Name" part won the audience's appreciation. She played Yang's mother in "Yang Sanjie's Complaint", and the image of her distressed daughter has been firmly imprinted in the hearts of the audience. She played Aunt Li in the drama "Liu Qiaoer", and cooperated with her second brother and the famous drama actor Xin Fengxia at that time, and Zhao Lirong became more and more comfortable with the drama. From 1952 to 1962, ten years of professional training have created Zhao Lirong's excellent drama speech skills. It is the professional ability that encounters new opportunities, and Zhao Lirong does not hesitate to win. In 1962, Zhao Lirong once participated in the drama "Flowers as the Matchmaker" was put on the screen, and Zhao Lirong also transformed from a famous role in the drama to a "big star" on the screen. From this year onwards, Zhao Lirong's road to the silver screen officially began. 
Xiao Erhei Gets Married", "Yang Sanjie's Complaint" and other commentaries have been made into movies successively, and the films are popular all over the country. In 1986, Zhao Lirong made a cameo appearance as King Chechi in the 86 version of Journey to the West, and later performed "The Edge of the Cabinet" in the crew's Journey to the West Qi Tianle Spring Festival Gala. 
In 1988, 60-year-old Zhao Lirong appeared on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala for the first time and played the aunt on duty in the sketch "Emergency". Although there are not many scenes, the response is good. In the second year, Zhao Lirong in the Spring Festival Gala sketch "The Day of the Heroic Mother", a line of "Sima Cylinder smashes the light", because the "light" and "cylinder" are reversed, Zhao Lirong's unconscious expression on the stage made the audience laugh. 
In 1991, Zhao Lirong played the protagonist's mother in the movie "Chinese New Year", and won the Best Actress at the Tokyo International Film Festival, the Best Actress at the 15th Chinese Film Hundred Flowers Awards, and the 4th China Film Performing Arts Society Award. The film is the first Best Actress award won by a Chinese actress at an international film festival. In the next few years, Zhao Lirong performed well in the sketch industry, cooperated with Gong Hanlin many times, and was known as the queen of sketches. 
In the sketch "Mom's Today", she pays attention to the material life and spiritual life of the elderly, and in "Star Chaser", she pays attention to the new preferences of the new generation of young people. The most classic is the sketch "So Packaged", and the stalk of "Spicy Chicken Shreds" is from this sketch. "Blooming in the spring, fourteen or sixteen, June six, watching the solo show, spring hitting six or nine heads, such a package is too uncomfortable, I can't open my mouth, I can't keep up, you say it's uncomfortable. ”
On the stage of the Spring Festival Gala, Zhao Lirong was wearing a silver shining vest and a big silver necklace, and she sang this drama into rap (rap) skills. "Palace jade liquor, one hundred and eighty glasses, how about this wine, listen to me blow it to you." This line that everyone can say comes from the sketch "Part-time Job Adventure". At the end, Zhao Lirong wrote the four brush words of "genuine", which was mistaken by many people for her to be a brush master, but in fact, Zhao Lirong did not know many words, these four big characters were the results of her practice for less than two months in the morning, and she wrote seventy or eighty pounds on the practice paper alone.
In 1999, in the sketch "Veteran Horse", Zhao Lirong introduced English into the lines for the first time: "Nod yes shake head no, come is come and go is go, say hello and shout hello, hello hello hehello." In this sketch, Zhao Lirong also sang the Titanic theme song "My Heart is Eternal", English is even more difficult for her, she still slowly learned one letter, one word, and one sentence.
At that time, the sketches starring Zhao Lirong frequently won the first prize of the Spring Festival Gala sketches, and as long as the audience saw Zhao Lirong on stage, the corners of their mouths were already slightly raised. To this day, her sketches are still timeless and classic. The name of the queen of sketches is well deserved.
Zhao Lirong's life seems to be smooth sailing, but in fact, there are many twists and turns behind it. In October 1953, Zhao Lirong met the theater worker Sheng Qiang under the guidance of her friend Xin Fengxia, Sheng Qiang was born in a scholarly family, with a quiet personality and a good demeanor, and after graduating from university, he became a theater manager and a theater secretary. Zhao Lirong and Sheng Qiang fell in love at first sight, but Zhao Lirong's mother did not agree to this marriage, and her mother said that Sheng Qiang's culture was too high, and he was handsome and unreliable. But in daily life and work, Sheng Qiang shows his care and intimacy for her. Later, my mother agreed. In 1953, Zhao Lirong and Sheng Qiang got married, and in 1955, the eldest son Sheng Fuchun was born, and the family lived a happy life. Two years after the birth of the eldest son, Zhao Lirong became pregnant with her second child, and the mutation came at this time. That year, Sheng Qiang was beaten as a rightist and sent to the farm**, before leaving, Sheng Qiang shed unwilling tears, Zhao Lirong had a big belly, pulled Sheng Fuchun, and promised her husband that she would take care of the children. Unexpectedly, this was the last time I saw my husband.
For a year, two years, three years, and four years, Zhao Lirong never waited for news from her husband. In the autumn of 1960, Zhao Lirong took her two children to her husband's farm, she wanted to let her husband see the face of her second son, who knew that she had received the news that her husband had already died of illness. Although Sheng Qiang has passed away, the relationship between Zhao Lirong and the Sheng family is still as good as ever, Sheng Qiang's sister Sheng Ximin saw that Zhao Lirong was too hard to bring two children alone, and wanted to match Zhao Lirong and her younger brother Sheng Hong together, Zhao Lirong thought that the two children would not have to change their surnames, and it was okay. Later, through getting along with Sheng Hong, the two gradually fell in love. At this time, Zhao Lirong's second brother Zhao Lianxi scolded after learning about the incident, saying that if Zhao Lirong and Sheng Hong were together, they would cut off the relationship between brother and sister in the future: "I don't agree!."Since ancient times, how can there be a sister-in-law who follows the brother-in-law!After that, until Zhao Lianxi died, the brother and sister never said a word.
In 1964, Zhao Lirong and Sheng Hong got married, and gave birth to their son Sheng Qian after marriage. Zhao Lirong has always wanted a daughter, and in 1970, her daughter came to the world as she wished, and she named her daughter Sheng Jiahuan. But just three days after the birth of the daughter, the family realized that something was wrong, the child could only eat, could not open his eyes, and could not move. After being sent to the hospital for diagnosis, I learned that Sheng Jiahuan was a child with cerebral palsy!Since then, Zhao Lirong has reduced her work and left more time for her daughter. She woke up before dawn to boil water and cook, and when she went to bed, it was already early in the morning, and she was often so tired that she fell asleep with a pillow. She often thinks that as long as the child grows up healthily, it is worth being tired. Sheng Hong is the same, after finishing his work outside, he goes home as soon as possible to take care of his family.
In 1977, the bad news came that her daughter died suddenly of illness. Zhao Lirong instantly felt that the sky had fallen, she had worked hard for so many years for the child to grow up healthily, her heartache was indescribable, she kept thinking in her heart: "Huanhuan, you live a good life over there, you can finally run happily, and finally don't have to suffer by your mother's side." A few years after her daughter's death, her son went to school, and family life did not need to be as hard as before.
In 1984, when Zhao Lirong was 56 years old, her husband Sheng Hong died of a heart attack. Zhao Lirong was stunned at first, and then regretted, regretting that she hadn't noticed her husband's physical condition in advance. Zhao Lirong didn't say a word, she didn't cry, she didn't shout, but only she knew how much it hurt. She has experienced the loss of her loved ones several times in her life, and this time, her tears have dried up. In her later years, Zhao Lirong became the queen of the Spring Festival Gala sketches, but at the same time, her health situation also deteriorated. During the filming of the movie "Chinese New Year", actor Liu Xiaolingtong, who played Zhao Lirong's son, once said: "I remember that there was a scene in which she knelt in the cellar to catch a chicken, and it took more than a minute to shoot." Zhao's mother had a bad leg at the time, and after filming, she secretly warmed her knees with a hot water bag, and I saw it and wanted to tell the director, but she didn't let it, saying: 'Son, the pain has to be kept to yourself, and joy can be sprinkled to the world.' In the sketch "So Packaged", Zhao Lirong finished singing the lyrics and made a one-legged kneeling action, but unexpectedly stumbled and almost fell, the audience thought it was a comedic effect, but in fact, her leg pain was unbearable, and she could no longer support her body steadily, so she almost fell.
During the rehearsal of the sketch "Veteran Out of the Horse", Zhao Lirong often coughed up blood due to lung cancer and interrupted the rehearsal, and the actors, including the director, advised her to rest, but Zhao Lirong didn't listen, she endured the pain and still walked on stage, bringing the audience the last sketch, Zhao Lirong was saying goodbye to the audience in her favorite way. Zhao Lirong, who knew that she would die soon, began to prepare a shroud, and her sons came to her from far away, she only said: "Don't cry, don't let people think that Mom is really sick." "In the end, you will be at my command. On July 17, 2000, Zhao Lirong died of lung cancer at the age of 72. Before her death, she explained to her sketch partner Gong Hanlin: "To do this business, you must pay attention to it, don't compromise!."On July 27, at the farewell ceremony of Zhao Lirong's body in Babaoshan, Beijing, more than 30,000 people came from all over the world that day, including not only young people, but also many elderly people, not only theater fans, but also other celebrities from all walks of life, holding Zhao Lirong's photo in their hands, reluctant and sad. The stage that belongs to her has come to an end. The "New Year's flavor" that belongs to Zhao Lirong is no longer there.
In August 2019, a news of the arrest of spies rushed to the hot search. The cause of the incident came from a netizen who incited national emotions and contradictions, and he was asked by other netizens to have a "code" for "palace jade liquor-", but this netizen not only did not match, but also said that he had never heard this line. Everyone expressed doubts about his national identity, jokingly: "You don't know about the palace jade liquor?".I'm afraid it's not a spy. The controversy is getting louder and louder, and when I asked offline, I found that the netizen was really a spy disguised as a foreign outlaw. The official media even quoted another line from Zhao Lirong's sketch: "I don't even understand what 'palace jade liquor' means, you are really a great mallet." ”
A netizen's comment once again made everyone miss Zhao Lirong, she said: "As long as there are still people who are worthy of the 'code' of 'palace jade liquor', there will still be people who remember Grandma Zhao Lirong!."This year is the 23rd anniversary of Zhao Lirong's death, and in July, many central media outlets have posted condolences. So far, there are still many classic clips of Zhao Lirong's sketches on the Internet**. She smiled happily, and we watched her sing and dance in front of the screen, but we couldn't help but tear ......
Throughout her life, she is a famous actor on the stage of Pingju, and the "queen of sketches" on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala. First married, she was the wife of two children alone;Second marriage, she is a mother who takes care of children with cerebral palsy, and her unyielding to fate shows the independent and strong strength of women. Facing life and death, Zhao Lirong said before leaving: "I am just an ordinary person, come ordinarily, and go ordinarily." It is a blessing not to seek officials, not to seek wealth, but only to seek peace, only to seek joy, and to have food to eat and clothes to wear. "Elder Zhao, I hope you are safe and happy in your next life, and everything is fine. We will always remember you. Thanks to Mr. Zhao for the classic role he created on the stage, which brought us endless joy.