One day, Zhao received a call from CCTV, inviting her to attend the 1988 Spring Festival party. Since 1988, the Spring Festival Gala has been broadcast for five consecutive years, and the powerful star-making ability of the Spring Festival Gala began to stand out at that time. Many little people who were once unknown, including Feng Gong and Guo Da, became big stars at that time after being on the stage of the Spring Festival Evening.
At that time, according to Zhao's influence, she did not actually have the superior conditions to board the stage of the Spring Festival Evening, but the stage of the Spring Festival Evening unexpectedly threw an olive branch to her. At that time, Zhao was only a Pingju actor, and Pingju is a kind of traditional opera in China, which is popular in Northeast China. There happened to be two Pingju fans in the director group of the Spring Festival Evening. After watching Zhao's Pingju performance, they made up their minds to come to Zhao to perform a sketch.
Zhao plays in Pingju, which is what we call an "ugly girl". Her gestures are vivid, and every movement and every line often makes the audience laugh. Zhao's popularity among the audience even exceeded, and all the stars were eclipsed in front of her.
Unexpectedly, when Zhao, the director of the Spring Festival Gala, found it, she turned down this enviable opportunity. Zhao once said that art should be exquisite, but we can't make do with it! She has always had such a principle for scripts: there is no vivid role without meaningful role.
Although the old lady who still lacks the star aura put forward seemingly harsh requirements, the director group of the Spring Festival Evening urged Zhao to board the Spring Festival Evening. Zhao told the director that she would never agree before she saw the notebook. It was not until Zhao An, the director of the Spring Festival Evening, visited the house personally with the script that Zhao saw the sketch script they brought, and she agreed to play this sketch, because she had been attracted by the content of this sketch.
This sketch is "A Day of the Heroic Mother", which makes Zhao Hong popular all over the country. In this sketch, Zhao's sentence "Sima Gang smashed the jar" made this lovely and simple mother image enter the hearts of hundreds of millions of viewers overnight.
Kneeling on one knee became a classic, and Zhao endured the pain.
Surprisingly, Zhao didn't take this opportunity to make himself angry again. Since 1989, I haven't seen her on the stage of the Spring Festival Evening for two consecutive years. Less than a week before the Spring Festival Evening of 1995, the director group of the Spring Festival Evening suddenly decided to take away the sketch co-produced by Zhao and Gong Hanlin, the most anticipated program that had been rehearsed several times.
As for taking off this sketch, Gong Hanlin and all the directors already know, but only Zhao is still in the dark. Zhao suffered from leg disease in his early years and never recovered. On the Spring Festival Evening of 1992, Zhao finished a tango dance with his sick leg. If Zhao has finished the performance due to illness, the Spring Festival Evening sketch of 1995 is almost an impossible task for Zhao.
Because in this sketch, Zhao needs to dance street dance with a group of young people. However, to make matters worse, just one week before the Spring Festival Gala, Zhao injured his leg again. During the rehearsal, her knee was so swollen that she couldn't even put on her underwear. She was shivering with pain when she walked, but even under such circumstances, she insisted on rehearsing.
Every rehearsal, Zhao is full of energy, but after the rehearsal, as long as she is supported by the staff to rest, she will cry with pain. Seeing this situation, Gong Hanlin couldn't help but discuss with the director group, and simply reluctantly gave up what one favours and quit the program. But when Zhao found out, she strongly disagreed. Zhao said, "at this time, all the programs have been announced, and the audience is waiting to see them!" At this time, because I am no longer acting alone, I am sorry for you and the audience. Don't worry, I am responsible for the consequences! "
1995 Spring Festival Evening, Zhao's sketch "So Packaged" was a great success and won the first prize in the Spring Festival Evening, which became an insurmountable classic and artistic peak in the history of China's sketches. The 67-year-old Zhao's hip-hop image really made the audience happy when she rapped. In the end, her appearance on one knee became a classic action.
When Zhao knelt on the ground, he first lifted the ground with his hands. Many viewers may think that this is a pre-designed action, but this is not the case. In fact, Zhao didn't play until she had an injection, but the leg that suddenly knelt on the ground was her injured leg. After such a knock, Zhao couldn't hold on and almost fell.
After this sketch, Gong Hanlin and the staff almost helped the old lady into the car, pulling and hugging, and Zhao returned home without her old smile. She is not worried about her sick leg, but that she will ruin the sketch if she falls to the ground. Later, when Zhao heard the little babysitter at home ask, "Grandma, was that action you fell down today designed?" She breathed a sigh of relief and said happily, "So you all thought it was designed? That will do! "
In order to keep improving, Zhao practiced calligraphy hard.
Just when everyone was worried about her leg, Zhao began to wonder what new things the sketch would bring to the audience next Spring Festival Evening. 1996 Spring Festival Evening, Zhao and Gong Hanlin performed the sketch "Adventures of Working", and Zhao played an "old lady in the countryside" who applied for a restaurant waiter. In this sketch, Zhao will combine speaking, learning and singing perfectly, and at the end of the program, he wrote four characters of "genuine" in two minutes, which not only amazed the audience, but also made them familiar with Zhao.
Zhao grew up in a troupe. He has no culture at all. It is said that he wrote in calligraphy, and he didn't even know a few big characters. So the previous script was also read to her by the nanny, and then she recited it directly. Incredibly, it took Zhao a month to practice the word "truth".
What we don't know is that in this sketch, we originally wrote eight words "genuine, childlike innocence", but later, because of the age, we only wrote four words "genuine". But in order to practice these eight words well, the old lady began to practice them more than a month before the Spring Festival Gala, day and night.
According to Zhao's nanny's memory, Zhao picked up a pen and dipped it in ink. As soon as he wrote down the first stroke of "goods" in "authentic", the ink spilled on the floor, shoes and pants. Zhao immediately sighed: "this is not good, it looks easy, but it is really difficult to do!" " . At this time, director and screenwriter Zhao persuaded to give up. In fact, the original design of this sketch is to lift the written eight characters from the background, just because during a rehearsal, the director casually said on the spot on a whim, if only these words could be written on the spot!
Unexpectedly, the speaker had no intention of listening, but the serious old lady really listened to this sentence and insisted on writing the words on the spot. In this way, in addition to eating and sleeping, the old lady began to practice these eight characters day and night, and her home was full of rice paper. In just over a month, Zhao actually used up more than 1,000 pieces of rice paper. After practicing for a period of time, she began to count the time by pinching rice, writing eight words from the first 40 minutes, and finally it took only two minutes to complete.
Later, she mixed her own words with others' and gave them to the director to choose and pick out the best one. I didn't expect the director to pick out what she wrote at once. Seeing Zhao's handwriting, the director said excitedly, "Ma Zhao, I didn't expect you to practice like this!" And Gong Hanlin went on to say, "I've been on tenterhooks and told the director not to bother you. I didn't expect you to actually win! " .
At this year's Spring Festival Evening, Zhao won the first prize in the Spring Festival Evening sketch category again, and her handwritten word "authentic" has now been donated to the Chinese Medical Culture Research Association and hung in "assured pharmacies" all over the country. At that time, the audience also wanted to know what kind of unique skills the old lady would bring to everyone in the Spring Festival Evening next year.
The audience cheered on the stage and the third son cried.
From 65438 to 0998, in order to bring more surprises to the audience, Zhao began to pester her youngest son who was studying abroad to teach her to sing English songs. The old lady, who doesn't know pinyin or a few Chinese characters, wrote down the lyrics of the whole English song with her super memory. On the stage of the Spring Festival Evening, the 70-year-old lady sang the English song "My heart is eternal", which was a smash hit in those years, and ushered in applause from the audience.
However, at this time, Zhao's three sons were crying while watching the program. At their hand, there is a diagnosis book with four words written on it: advanced lung cancer. Zhao, who is performing on the stage, knows nothing about his illness.
Just two months before the start of the Spring Festival Gala, Zhao, who was rehearsing nervously, encountered an annoyance. She suddenly began to cough, coughing as soon as she sang, and the more she coughed, the worse she coughed, and finally she coughed up blood, while Zhao kept rehearsing while hiding her illness. It was not until half a month before the Spring Festival Gala that she went to the hospital accompanied by her family, and her chest pain was unbearable. After diagnosis, Zhao has advanced lung cancer, and her three sons also burst into tears.
However, after calming down, her three sons decided to hide, because they knew their mother, and they would do well even if they died. Therefore, in order not to affect Zhao's mood, the family tore down the names of the medicines she took and only told her that they were cough medicines.
The ignorant old lady couldn't sleep in pain every night, and even found a master of acupuncture, thinking that two injections could stop the pain. However, Zhao Zhen's don't know his illness? According to her nanny's memory, one day, Zhao moved out all the photo albums and was still choosing photos. The nanny was surprised and asked her, "Grandma, what are you doing?" Zhao Lirong held up a photo and said, "Look, is this photo good? I want to go to a nearby photo studio to enlarge and stay. Once I have that day, I can take it out and use it, so the children don't have to worry. " .
1999 Spring Festival Evening, Zhao left her kind smile for hundreds of millions of viewers with a whole body of pain, which was the last time she stood on the stage of the Spring Festival Evening. After the Spring Festival Gala, Zhao's illness became more and more serious. Her sons knew they couldn't hide it from her, so they told the old lady the truth with tears in their eyes. Unexpectedly, she was unusually calm after listening. Seeing her sons sad, she comforted them instead.
Zhao Lirong told his sons that every day people are fine, every day flowers are red, and eating grains does not make them sick. After chemotherapy, Zhao began to lose a lot of hair and often vomited when eating. Seeing her mother suffering, her sons were very distressed, but she smiled and said, "Nothing, mom can hold on!" " . In the last few days of Zhao's serious illness, she only weighed more than 70 kilograms, but even so, there was laughter in the ward.
On July 17, 2000, 72-year-old Zhao died of lung cancer. However, she left her optimism, simplicity and laughter in this world forever and in everyone's heart.