Mention of the sister Lin, many people will first think of the old version of the "Dream of the Red Mansion" in the role of Lin Daiyu Chen Xiaoxu, but unfortunately the red face of a thin life, just 42 years old, has been lost to death.
Many people will first think of Chen Xiaoxu as Lin Daiyu in the old version of "Dream of Red Mansions".
In the stage carved over the years, in fact, not only Chen Xiaoxu's Lin Daiyu, has always been memorable to the audience, in the stage of Yueju Opera Wang Wenjuan's Lin Daiyu, but also had a generation of people, and dance artist Chen Ailian, but also has the reputation of "living Lin Daiyu"!
The old generation believes in fate, so we always feel that Chen Xiaoxu's fate, and Lin Daiyu has a thousand links, and Chen Ailian and Lin Daiyu's childhood is not surprisingly similar?
Chen Ailian, born in 1939 in a garden house in Shanghai, her father is a policeman, the family is well off, she and her sister in the love of their parents, carefree growth.
However, although the family is happy, but she was born with a slender, gentle, sensitive and delicate mind, love to cry, so adults often jokingly called her "little Lin Daiyu", did not expect a prophecy.
When she was 10 years old, her father suddenly died of illness, and her mother followed in her father's footsteps in a few months and died of depression, the death of her parents came as a surprise, but unfortunately she was different from her mother at the age of 6, 11 years old lost her father's Lin Daiyu, at least there is still a full of rich grandmother can rely on.
Overnight, the happy family was shattered and shaken by the storm, and the young Chen Ailian, with her 7-year-old sister, had to start an independent life as an orphan.
They rely on renting out their own house to live, but the meager income is not enough for them to live, in order to live, Chen Ailian can only follow the street homeless, together with collecting rags to sell money.
Fortunately, with the end of the war and the founding of the new China, happiness knocked on their door, and they were sent to a temporary shelter for children, and then to the Shanghai Yixin Reformatory.
Chen Ailian is no longer an unattended orphan, she no longer has to pick up garbage for a living, and she can finally go to school and read and write like a normal family child.
She grew up with a love of dance and a high level of talent. At the age of 13, she enrolled in the dance troupe affiliated with the Central Academy of Drama with honors, and 2 years later, she enrolled in the first dance school in China, the Jing Dance School, with honors.
She knocked on the door of art with her own hard work, and began to perform on stage at the age of 18, starring in Zhang Yu and Qiong Lian, The White-haired Girl, Dream of the Red Chamber, and The Peony Pavilion.
In 1959, at the age of 20, Chen Ailian graduated with full honors and stayed on to teach at the school. She starred in the first Chinese dance drama combining ballet and Chinese dance, "The Fish Beauty", and became an instant hit, becoming one of China's youngest dancers at the time.
She is the dancer who has starred in the most dance dramas in China, and on this stage, she has bonded with Dream of Red Mansions, and with Lin Daiyu, who spent her whole life acting as Sister Lin.
In 1981, at the age of 41, Chen Ailian appeared in a classical dance drama choreographed by Dream of Red Mansions, playing Lin Daiyu, which was also the first image of Lin Mei in the dance drama.
The dance drama was performed for nearly 400 performances, and her similar childhood situation with Lin Daiyu, so that she better understand the sentimental and weak Lin sister, the state of mind of the fence, she used her heart in the performance, with the emotion of empathy, was praised by the audience, "play the living Lin sister".
In the constant repetition, in the view of many people are boring, boring, but at the age of 58, she funded nearly a million, and the original director of the dance drama Yu Ying and **** with the restoration of the "Dream of the Red Mansion", and once again acted in the role of Lin Daiyu.
She has a special affection for Lin Daiyu, she has appeared in the full "Dream of Red Mansions" nearly 700, and starred in the dance clips, but also countless, until the age of 80, she is still interpreting Lin Daiyu, it is no wonder that it will be the audience as a "living Lin Daiyu".
Her career is very successful, and her relationship is also like a fish in water, her husband is Yang Zongguang, a Beijing dance school teacher, handsome, and her love, the same interests, in the eyes of many people, they are very good couples.
Their marriage was a honeymoon, and in the six years of marriage, their love did not fade away, and her husband was very considerate and supportive of her dance career.
But the flower of happiness is always delicate and cannot withstand the frost and cold, the storm clouds of the times came suddenly, and both their careers were hit hard.
Both of them had no choice but to leave their beloved careers, and their hearts went through a serious test, the days were long and torturous, and the husband finally failed to resist suicide.
The loss of both parents at a young age was the first change in her life, and the loss of her husband in middle age made her life gradually bright, again covered with gloom, in the toughest days, dance was her only pastime and the only support of her heart.
No stage, with the days of farm work, she has never given up, so in the empty farm, more than a beautiful scenery, she ran alone, kicking, leg press, somersaults, but also the village moncler outlet online is her best audience.
As long as you do not give up on life, life will not abandon you, and then a chance, she met with the pliers Wei Daoneng, the two a serious and melancholy, a lively and happy.
In 1974, she was 4 years younger than her own Wei Daoneng entered the marriage hall, after the marriage of Wei Daoneng became a good partner in her career, and the two have been together for 46 years is still just like the first love like sweet happiness.
But there are still some hurdles that can trip you up. In 1979, she developed anorexia, and her doctor said she was suffering from "over-training syndrome", suggesting that she stop practicing and recuperate.
However, without dance, what is the meaning of life, she said: Lin Daiyu's fate is determined by the author; my life path, by my own decision.
"My life is determined by me, not by God", Chen Ailian eventually overcame the disease, with "**Princess" back to the top again, and since then she is more than life, dance.
In 2019, she also 80 years old and Liu Jia soar dance, *** performance "Thunderstorm", for her career in the arts, Wei Minglun gave her 70th anniversary of the arts to write a couplet, summarized the most wonderful and accurate:
Drily life of eighty years, is still acting in the red building Daiyu; dance age of seven years, has exceeded the Ulanova !
To our deep surprise is has been a strong body, hale and hearty her, but in November 21, 2020, due to stomach cancer and passed away at the age of 81 years!
She is a milestone figure in the history of contemporary Chinese dance, with the strength to turn the tables, complete the impossible, interpretation of their own life of dance legend, and may you have a dream in your heart, are able to swim against the wind, to create their own legend!