It's another year of Spring Festival Gala, and the editing clip of a classic sketch exploded all over the Internet, setting off a vigorous nostalgic killing.
In the comment area, netizens said to the code: "Palace jade liquor, one hundred and eighty glasses." ”
24 years after she left the world, people still frequently mention her name - Zhao Lirong.
Sima cylinder smashed cylinder, Sima Guang smashed light. ”
Sima Guang smashed the cylinder
My real name is Zhao Lirong, and my stage name is still, also, and still called Zhao Lirong. ”
Her real name is Zhao Lirong
Tango is just walking and walking, three steps and one jump, two and two turns. ”
Tango is all about walking
She is the queen of sketches who have appeared on the Spring Festival Gala for 8 times, and she is also the godmother of the trend of singing English songs and reading rap.
No one who has seen her sketches can not love this simple "national grandmother".
Today, I once again remember Zhao Lirong's name and extend my most sincere remembrance to this old artist who has laughed for generations.
The first queen of sketches
Zhao Lirong's sketches are like a reef that can withstand the erosion of waves, even thirty years later, the jokes and irony in it are still not outdated.
In the sketch "A Day of a Heroic Mother", Zhao Lirong plays the role of a hero's mother.
Seeing the director played by Hou Yaowen coming to interview, the old lady who was in a hurry to buy tofu did not forget to accept the gift as soon as possible.
She politely said, "Come on, what else do you bring?" and reached for the camera on the director's shoulder.
A day in the life of a heroic mother
Zhao Lirong listened to "director" as "inverted master" and "idea" as "tofu silk".
The classic lines "Sima Cylinder Smashing the Cylinder" and "Sima Guang Smashing the Light", coupled with her serious expression, made the audience laugh out loud.
Sima Guang The theme of the interview is clearly the daily life of the hero's mother, but the director asked Zhao Lirong to "pose for photos" in various ways, and called it "fiction".
So much so that Zhao Lirong complained accurately: "Understood! It's Mengren! ”
The sketch in just a few minutes not only has an interesting baggage, but also sharply satirizes the pathological practice of posing, falsifying, and pursuing false "positive energy".
In "Star Chaser", the grandmother played by Zhao Lirong and the rebellious star-chasing girl played by Cai Ming start round after round of collision of old and new ideas.
Star Chasers Seeing her granddaughter plastering the wall with posters, Zhao Lirong spoke sharply:
Who is this, why is it hanging such a big **, this is not panicked in the house? ”
The four kings of the entertainment industry in her eyes are:
Four Heavenly Kings? The first king has to be said to be the king of Tota Li? ”
She regards the "star chasers" as a minority:
Is the star chaser a singing clan? That's Liu Sanjie's clan, the Zhuang clan! ”
When the audience laughed and burst into tears, the sketch used the actor's mouth to ask about the phenomenon of star-chasing:
In the eyes of you children, it seems that there are only a few singers and a few pop songs in the world, and if our big country with a history of 5,000 years of civilization wants to develop, can it be done by relying on those few singers and a few pop songs? ”
The humor is mixed with affectionate appeals, which is compared with the works pieced together by many online jokes today.
"So Packaged" tells the story of Zhao Lirong going to a packaging company to shoot MTV.
The businessman played by Gong Hanlin worked hard to package her as a "trend star" and gave her a foreign stage name - "Marie Kees".
Zhao Lirong repeated it a few times and remembered it - "spicy chicken shreds".
Gong Hanlin urged Zhao Lirong to perform "rap", and Zhao Lirong asked cutely: "What is rap?" ”
rap is foreign allegro! ”
Countless people regard Zhao Lirong as the first generation of rap enlightenment, and her rap back then was also better than many little fresh meat now.
Blooming in the spring, fourteen or sixteen, June six, watching the solo show, spring hitting six or nine heads, such a package is simply too uncomfortable, I can't open my mouth, I can't keep up, you say uncomfortable is not uncomfortable. ”
A sentence of "just your packaging, all the good things are bad!" The lines directly express the old lady's critical attitude towards "paying too much attention to packaging and forcibly chasing trends".
"Part-time Job Adventure" is even more explosive:
The group of heroes gathered, and I think it was a radish meeting. ”
Palace jade liquor, one hundred and eighty glasses. ”
Radish meeting. Zhao Lirong held a brush and wrote down the words "genuine".
Many people thought that Zhao Lirong was proficient in calligraphy and came to her to find an inscription, but in fact, Zhao Lirong was illiterate.
The 20 seconds of calligraphy on stage were written by her three months of retreat and daily practice in the newspaper.
Zhao Lirong has brought joy to generations, not just a classic work of the Spring Festival Gala.
She is the timid and kind-hearted Queen Chechi met by the four Tang monks and apprentices in "Journey to the West".
During the filming of the 89 version of "Dream of Red Mansions", Zhao Lirong bought a set of villain books, listened to the analysis of the crew's red experts, and portrayed the image of Grandma Liu very well.
On the stage, Zhao Lirong used a natural and interesting performance to arouse the smiles on the faces of the audience, but when the curtain fell, no one saw how she silently and forbearably survived the cold and snow in her life.
"Keep your grief to yourself".
Zhao Lirong was born in poverty, her father learned to do business from others, but he was cheated out of his family property and became addicted to gambling, while his mother worked as a maid for a wealthy family to subsidize the family.
She was the eighth child in the family, and at that time her father found an errand in the theater - helping the drama actor Furong Hua comb her hair.
In a scene of holding a child, Zhao Lirong, who was less than a year old, was hugged on stage.
In the face of the lights and the audience, she not only did not cry, but laughed, and since then, everyone in the theater has recognized her as a good seedling on stage.
At the age of 12, Zhao Lirong officially became a drama actor, and she practiced basic skills every day, kicking her legs, lowering her waist, and hanging her voice.
When she heard that "practicing near the water, her voice can bring water sound", so she stood in front of the ice cave every morning in the cold winter weather and practiced her voice hard.
In the past five years, Zhao Lirong has become a famous actor in the drama and shines on the stage.
In the Ping Troupe, she also met her lover - Sheng Qiang, the secretary of the Ping Troupe, who was a young and promising college student.
The two who fell in love soon got married, and in that era of material barrenness, they used love to create a warm family.
It's a pity that something happened soon after, when Zhao Lirong was pregnant with her second son, Sheng Qiang was imprisoned for "bad ingredients"**.
Zhao Lirong waited for her husband to return, but two years later, she learned the news of her husband's death.
Zhao Lirong hid the heavy grief in her heart, laughed and groaned on the stage, bringing laughter to the audience, but she didn't know how to fill the hole in her heart.
It was not easy for a single mother to drag her two young children alone in those days. Two years later, at the begging of her family, Zhao Lirong remarried Sheng Qiang's younger brother Sheng Hong.
The days were plain and comfortable, Zhao Lirong gave birth to a son, and ushered in the little daughter she was looking forward to.
She named her daughter "Jia Huan", which means "family happiness".
But fate hit Zhao Lirong hard again, and Xiao Jiahuan was found to have cerebral palsy shortly after birth.
Zhao Lirong, who only has a salary of a few dozen a month, takes out hundreds of yuan a month and travels between various hospitals to see a doctor for her daughter.
She was in debt, wore patched clothes, washed her face with tears all day long, and looked forward to her daughter's safety over and over again.
Despite her best efforts to pull with death, Jia Huan's life still stopped at 7 years old.
After suffering the pain of losing her daughter, Zhao Lirong beat her spirit and numbed herself with her career.
But the cruel fate did not stop there, just when Zhao Lirong was standing on the stage of a foreign country to perform, her husband died of a heart attack.
Zhao Lirong cried so much that she almost fainted, and she blamed herself for all her sins:
If I stayed by his side, he wouldn't be gone, and I couldn't stop him! ”
Poor as a young man, a middle-aged child, and a husband twice, Zhao Lirong's life is full of holes, but she soothes her grief, conveys laughter on the stage, and brings warmth to the memories of countless audiences.
"My heart is eternal".
After more than 20 years, why are we still missing Zhao Lirong?
Maybe it's because of those enduring classic works that bring happiness to you and me, or maybe it's because of the old lady's character that is especially scarce at the moment.
Compared with the internal entertainment that won the red ears for the position, Zhao Lirong didn't care about the coffee position, and was willing to play a supporting role:
Xin Fengxia commented on her: "Never pick roles, don't stir up drama, don't steal shows, and don't be jealous." ”
Zhao Lirong, who originally sang Hua Dan, took the initiative to match her after seeing Xin Fengxia and played the harlequin "Cai Dan".
She put the success of the performance before her personal fame and fortune: "Xin Fengxia's appearance and singing voice are better than mine, and I can only do well in this play when I play a supporting role for her."
Supporting role Compared with the traffic fresh meat with a daily salary of millions at every turn, Zhao Lirong is professional and unpaid:
During a gala performance, near the opening, the actors learned that it was a live TV broadcast, and they went on strike one after another: "If it is live, the labor cost that I talked about before is too low." ”
In the midst of complaints and denunciations, Zhao Lirong, who is usually kind, suddenly said seriously:
It's about to start, you still have to raise money, how many audiences are waiting to watch! Don't mention it, whoever wants to think about the lack of money will give you my money. ”
After the performance labor fee was sent, Zhao Lirong pointed to the ground and said: "Love gives as much as you want, I don't have the money to give me this pot of flowers." ”
She did what she said, gave the performance fee to the others, and moved the pot of flowers herself.
Give me the flowers She is trendy and avant-garde, and everything is focused on artistic presentation:
Wearing a riveted vest and singing rap, showing calligraphy, singing English songs, ......She embraces new things and does not hesitate to work hard.
So wrapped dance
"Filial Sons and Virtuous Grandsons Waiting" has a scene of lying in a coffin and going out of the funeral, and the director was worried that Zhao Lirong, who was born in that era, would be taboo, but she agreed without hesitation.
She clearly endures a lot of fatigue, but she is open-minded and optimistic, and never sells miserably:
When arranging "So Packaged", she was found to have a mouse bone in her knee joint, which required surgery and bed rest, but she held on to the rehearsal:
I am responsible for the consequences, and I have nothing to do with the TV station. ”
The audience thought that her action of kneeling on one knee was deliberate, and laughed, and no one knew how much pain she had undertaken.
So the package fell
During the filming of "Chinese New Year", there was a long shot of kneeling and catching chickens, which was a huge challenge for her with a knee injury, but she refused the director's challenge to use a stand-in and gritted her teeth to complete the scene.
Just while resting, use a hot water bottle to compress the painful knee.
When arranging "Veterans Out of the Horse", Zhao Lirong coughed up blood many times and was diagnosed with lung cancer.
Despite the torture of illness, standing on the stage, she is still a spirited and infectious old lady.
The last time she appeared on stage in her life, she was illiterate, singing the Titanic's theme song "My Heart is Eternal" in English.
No matter how far away, my heart is eternal. ”
My heart is eternal After chemotherapy, her hair fell out, she was skinny, and death was approaching, but she could always ignite the laughter in the ward
She would grin and call the spray a "little jet" and a curtain bath a "big knife".
Unfortunately, the miracle did not come, and in July 2000, Zhao Lirong left.
Yiren is gone, and those familiar lines and smart movements are still active on the screen.
Every Spring Festival Gala, when we look at the sketches stitched together with various Internet buzzwords, looking at the exaggerated movements and deliberate elevation, we will always miss Mrs. Zhao's natural and agile and interesting performance, and miss the humor and power in the peaceful words.
Nowadays, how many fresh meat actors are popular, but they are not "human", they attach importance to their aura, but they lack care.
Perhaps, this is the meaning of our still missing Zhao Lirong.
Clicking "watching" is like giving Zhao Lirong another round of applause.
As long as the audience is still there, the old lady's performance will never end.