2020 is destined to be an extraordinary year. This year’s New Year’s Eve has become a difficult New Year’s Eve for many people to reunite with their families. The CCTV Spring Festival Gala in 2020 is also the most watched Spring Festival Gala in recent years.
The last time there were so many viewers watching the CCTV Spring Festival Gala in front of the TV, I am afraid it was in the heyday of the Spring Festival Gala sketch more than ten years ago. At that time, the sketch actors such as Chen Peisi, Zhu Shimao, Song Dandan, Zhao Benshan took turns on stage, and their works led the year. The most popular buzzwords. And one of the most unique is the 60-year-old lady who only appeared on the Spring Festival Gala-Zhao Lirong.
Zhao Lirong
As early as before boarding the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, Zhao Lirong has become popular in the Pingju community. At that time, her partner with the most collaboration was Xin Fengxia, known as the Queen of Pingju Opera. The two have acted together since 1952, and each coincides with each other, such as "Liu Qiaoer", "Flower as a Match", "Xiao Erhei Marriage" and more. Everyone knows that many of them have become teaching materials for younger generations.
In 1956, Zhao Lirong played Aunt Li
in Pingju "Liu Qiaoer", but what really made Zhao Lirong a household name was her wonderful performances on CCTV Spring Evening.
In 1988, 60-year-old Zhao Lirong staged the Spring Festival Gala for the first time and played a pair of in-laws with marked differences between North and South in the sketch "Emergency" with "Jigong" You Benchang. Compared with the well-known comedian Chen Peisi and Zhao Benshan who is in the limelight, this simple and honest old lady who speaks Tangshan Mandarin has not attracted much attention.
In 1988, Zhao Lirong appeared on the Spring Festival Gala for the first time in the show "Emergency"
In 1989, Zhao Lirong and the crosstalk actor Hou Yaowen joined hands with her tailor-made sketch "Heroic Mother's Day", once again on the Spring Festival Gala stage, this time, 61 years old Zhao Lirong of Zhao Lirong became popular all over the country overnight. Whether it is an old man or a child, it is inevitable to discuss whether it is "Sima Guang smashing the tank" or "Sima Guang smashing the tank" when chatting.
1989 Spring Festival Gala "A Day of the Heroic Mother"
In 1992, Zhao Lirong, who had been away from the Spring Festival Gala stage for two years, returned again. At this time, she was already China's first international film festival queen, holding the popular film Hundred Flowers Award and the Tokyo International Film Festival. The best actress trophy. The partner with Zhao Lirong is the young actor Gong Hanlin. The two prepared a sketch-"Mother's Today".
1992 Spring Festival Gala "Mother's Today"
"Tango is just walking around, jumping twice and turning around three steps, five steps one waist, six steps one beckoning, and then you wander and walk again, this is called Tango child". With the end of Zhao Lirong and Gong Hanlin's performance, this line of rhetoric became popular all over the country at the speed of light, and it also triggered a nationwide boom in learning Tango.
"Tango is just walking around"
In 1993, Zhao Lirong partnered Guo Da and Cai Ming to perform "Star Chaser". In 1994, he starred in "Eating Dumplings" with Li Wenqi and Wang Tao. The effect was not as good as that of Gong Hanlin. So, in the preparatory stage of the 1995 Spring Festival Gala, Zhao Lirong immediately recommended Gong Hanlin to perform with her as soon as she got the script of "So Packed".
1994 Spring Festival Gala "Eating Dumplings"
The plot is not complicated, it is nothing more than Zhao Lirong was invited to a company to film Pingju MTV, and the result was a series of "laughing fruits" triggered by talking to the director Chicken and Duck. But being able to show such a dense smile in a 12-minute performance is also a test of the actor's skill.
This is a moving picture with sound: "Huh huh~"
65-year-old Zhao Lirong, incarnation of China’s originator-level female rapper (rapper) "spicy chicken silk", combines her classic work, an excerpt from the traditional commentary "Baohua" "Famous" was adapted into Tangshan-style rap, which was popular all over the country.
Zhao Lirong is incarnation of singing and dancing singer
"Spring blossoms 14th, 5th, 6th, June 6th, I see Gu Xiu, spring 6-9, so the packaging is simply too uncomfortable, I can’t open my mouth, I can’t keep up with the walk, you Say it’s not uncomfortable, you say it’s not uncomfortable". To this day, I am afraid that when everyone reads this passage, they will be unconsciously driven by the rhythm in the memory.
"It's too uncomfortable to pack this way"
This is Zhao Lirong's magic. Unlike the later sketch queen Cai Ming's "what word is popular and what is used", Zhao Lirong's funny words are more avant-garde. Her lines on the Spring Festival Gala will always become the buzzwords of the year, and it is not an exaggeration to say that she is the "King of Terrier" in the comedy circle. There is also an episode in this sketch of
. At the end of "So Packed", Zhao Lirong knelt on the stage. Gong Hanlin and the "woman secretary" took a lot of effort to pull Zhao Lirong up. The image of this simple, honest and somewhat funny old lady aroused the audience's excitement. laughing out loud.
Zhao Lirong accidentally knelt down
in "So Packed". What I didn't expect was that Zhao Lirong's leg was so painful that he didn't support it. This old man who sang and danced on the stage had been suffering from illness. Whether it was Gong Hanlin's wife Jin Zhu or other actresses, Zhao Lirong and Gong Hanlin always had such a seemingly useless female partner by their side. Their only task was to help Zhao Lirong who had old problems in his legs.
Gong Hanlin, Jin Zhu and his wife took a photo with Zhao Lirong
On the Spring Festival Gala in 1996, mother and son Zhao Lirong and Gong Hanlin once again appeared on stage, deconstructing the false prosperity of the year with the work "Working Adventure". In this performance, the fashionable old man "Spicy Chicken Shredded" disappeared. As an old lady of justice, Zhao Lirong, as a former militia platoon leader, launched a fierce confrontation with the profiteer played by Gong Hanlin.
The old lady incarnates as a "Cixi" soliciting customers
"Walking around, you can see if you have a taste, the food I cook is not fragrant." One hundred and eighty cups, how about this wine, listen to me."
"Palace jade liquor wine, one hundred and eighty cups"
"What's the beauty, it's actually the Erguotou, the boiled water that was mixed."
"In fact, it's the Erguotou, the boiled water that was redeemed."
From Han Lei's "Walk the Quartet" to Peking Opera "Shajiabang" to Xie Dong's "Smiley Face", Zhao Lirong used the melody of these songs to intersperse and rap the name of the dish. , Once again show their talents on the Spring Festival Gala stage.
And Zhao Lirong's four characters "genuine at a fair price" written by Zhao Lirong became the finishing touch of the sketch. People sighed that the old lady even wrote calligraphy so imposingly. After the Spring Festival Gala, many people asked Zhao Lirong for words, and she smiled and said: "I don't know how to read." These four words are the old lady who spent several months in the old newspapers. Practiced on.
Zhao Lirong’s inscription "genuine at a fair price"
On the 1998 Spring Festival Gala, Zhao Lirong wore a red exercise suit and sang a song "Chinese Kung Fu" and a song "Heart Too Soft" in the short "Kung Fu Order". The former was a hit song in 1997, and the latter became the love of mainland audiences because of Zhao Lirong's singing. Even the original singer Ren Xianqi, who was frustrated by entering the mainland at the time, became popular.
1998 Spring Festival Gala "Kung Fu Order"
Later, when Ren Xianqi recorded the variety show "In My Singing", he also talked about this incident. He said with emotion that he was able to become a first-line singer in the Mainland at the beginning. I am most grateful to the two women. One is to recommend " Faye Wong of "The Heart Is Too Soft", and the second is Teacher Zhao Lirong who sang it in the Spring Festival Gala.
Zhao Lirong sang "The Heart Is Too Soft"
1999's "Veteran" is Zhao Lirong's last Spring Festival Gala gift to the audience. The stage was laughing, and the bleak old lady said the last line of her life-Welcome to China.
"Nod yes shook his head no, come is come and go is go"
As early as dozens of days before the Spring Festival Gala, Zhao Lirong felt pulmonary discomfort and coughed up blood during rehearsal. Gong Hanlin immediately notified Zhao Lirong’s son when he saw it. She went to the hospital for an examination. After getting the test results of advanced lung cancer, everyone reached a consensus that they must hide from the old lady and let her perform with peace of mind. On the
stage, Zhao Lirong sat cross-legged on the kang head, holding the wheat, and sang the theme song "My Heart Is Eternal" for the best Oscar film "Titanic" in the London sound full of Tangshan. The old lady on the stage was intoxicated, and the audience in the audience was also smiling and standing.Gong Hanlin was very sad, and her three sons also cried in tears in front of the TV.
Zhao Lirong's "My Heart Eternal" turned out to be a swan song
After saying "Welcome to China", the skit ended. Zhao Lirong on the stage waved to the audience and left her last shot on the screen, belonging to the laughter Zhao Lirong The stage ended here.
On July 12, 2000, the "old lady who performed the best in pingpian operas, sang pop songs the most vigorously in the sings, and dressed the most fashionable in pop" died. On the day of the funeral, more than 30,000 spectators gathered at Babaoshan Cemetery spontaneously. Artists such as Feng Gong, Chen Peisi, Liu Xiaolingtong, and Ge You all went to send off the old lady for the last time.
Zhao Lirong
For many years afterwards, the Spring Festival Gala stage without Zhao Lirong still laughed and laughed, but the audience always had to say a few words, but the old lady left too early to see her show again. Fortunately, the audience remember her classic lines and the joy she brought us.
