The actor of "Xi Er" in the red ballet film "White-Haired Girl", the heavyweight star on the art stage of that year, once "tiptoed into the hearts of the people of the whole country".
The expanded data of 1972 is a crucial year to determine the fate of Shi Zhongqin. This year, the ballet film "White-haired Girl" shot by Shanghai Film Studio began to be shown repeatedly on a large scale throughout the country. Shi Zhongqin's name, together with White-haired Girl, was firmly remembered by hundreds of millions of China audiences. For many people, this memory continues to this day. Shi Zhongqin is a white-haired girl, and the white-haired girl is Shi Zhongqin.
This year, Shi Zhongqin also became a participant and witness of the famous "ballet diplomacy" in the historical process of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Japan. She performed the ballet "White-haired Girl" with Shanghai Ballet in Tokyo, which was a great success. "The ice that once existed in the relationship between the two countries began to melt under the graceful dance steps of Shi Zhongqin".
From 1945, when Lu Xun Art College in Yan 'an collectively created the opera "White-haired Girl", to 1972, several versions of "White-haired Girl" appeared in China, including the opera version, the feature film version, the Beijing Opera version and the ballet version. There are also many versions of the white-haired girl.
Among them, even one role corresponds to multiple actors at the same time, but Shi Zhongqin has the greatest influence. Because "The Story of the Stone" and "The White-haired Girl" belong to one of the famous "eight model operas", they were shown in China for tens of thousands of times during the Cultural Revolution.
Reference source; Baidu Encyclopedia-Shi Zhongqin