Xie Weicai

Xie Weicai

Xie Weicai (1941-may 28, 2020), male, Han nationality, actor from mainland China.

Major film works: "decisive battle" and "great march in Nanjing, Shanghai and Hangzhou"; major TV works "power", "last road 1997", "love and hate of the ancient city", "Jiangnan wind and cloud", "seven battles and seven victories", "battle of Eastern Henan", "decisive battle of Northern Jiangsu", "hero Meng Lianggu", "Jinan campaign", "longpiao", "director of the National People's Congress", "New Fourth Army", "Shenzhou" and "red boat" He also wrote a series of books, such as "the sun", "Meng Luochuan", etc.

Actor Xie Weicai died on May 28, 2020 at the age of 79.

Life figures

In November 1948, the Huaihai Campaign, which shocked China and foreign countries, began. The officers and men of the people's Liberation Army swept away thousands of troops with the momentum of destruction, and the Kuomintang army was defeated. Among the defeated troops, a major officer, Xie Degui, with his wife and four children, ran for their lives in a panic. Accidentally, he lost his eldest child. the child separated from his parents was Xie Weicai, who was only seven years old at that time. Like many families of the Kuomintang army, he became a "prisoner" of the PLA. Xie Weicai didn't know that it was Su Yu, the victorious general, who was in charge of the war at that time. In the PLA reception team, Xie Weicai told the soldiers that his grandmother's family lived in Jurong County, near Nanjing, and he wanted to go back to find her. The people's Liberation Army entrusted him to a prisoner who had been demobilized and returned home, and gave them the travel expenses and the road signs. The man promised to send him to his grandmother's house. Who knows, in Nanjing, the man left behind Xie Weicai and left alone with the fare. Xie Weicai had no choice but to beg for food in Jurong county. Although Jurong is small, the 7-year-old child is younger. In Xie Weicai's memory, grandma's house is just a warm and fuzzy shadow. Where can he find it! He wandered on the streets of Nanjing and became a beggar, hoping to meet his lost parents here. a few months later, "the wind and rain in Zhongshan turned yellow, and a million mighty troops crossed the river". In the roar of the guns for the liberation of Nanjing, Xie Weicai was thrown into a car and fled to Yiwu, Zhejiang Province with the training team of the Kuomintang army. After an encounter, the Kuomintang army was completely destroyed, and Xie Weicai fell into the hands of the PLA for the second time. He is determined not to stay in the Communist Party wherever he goes. On May 6, 1949, Xie Weicai joined the art troupe of the 12th army of the second field army of the Chinese people's Liberation Army. The orphan, who had not studied for a day, became a revolutionary literature and art soldier. at that time, the army was marching into the southwest. On the way to war, Xie Weicai not only took part in the performance, but also studied culture. He is smart and studious, and a dictionary is rotten. Finally, he can read such a big novel as how steel is made. At the age of 14, he was able to write poetry. He became a cultural man by self-study. When Xie Weicai was 8 years old, he appeared on the stage for the first time. He played a child of a poor family in a small opera. From the beginning to the end of the play, there was only one line of his, that is, crying "Mom" repeatedly. At first, he held his strength and just howled. No matter what, he couldn't cry. Later, the monitor reminded him: "kid, think about your own mother." The more momless a child is, the more precious maternal love is. This sentence stirred Xie Weicai's heartstrings of missing his mother. He cried and couldn't stop. Until the end of the performance, he was still sobbing. The chief praised him and said, "it's really exciting to play seriously." Xie Weicai often told people about this experience. He said that beauty is life, which was his initial artistic enlightenment. Since then, every role he plays and every performance he performs has been pursuing to be more serious, more real and more moving! Xie Wei was transferred to the Beijing Opera team of the 12th army because he was too young and hard to March and fight. Although he was in the second line, he still had to practice, rehearse and perform every day, which was not easy in the Peking Opera team. Once, in the performance of empty city, Xie Weicai played Zhuge Liang's zither boy. Unexpectedly, he fell asleep standing on the "City Tower" and was dreaming. The laughter woke him up. It turned out that he fell from the "city head" and knocked down a large part of the "city wall"! after the outbreak of the war to resist US aggression and aid Korea, Xie Weicai crossed the Yalu River with the Peking Opera Troupe of the volunteer army. In North Korea, one of the things that impressed him most was that when Zhou Enlai visited North Korea, the Peking Opera Troupe performed the traditional play Qin Xianglian. Qin Xianglian was played by Mr. Fang Rongxiang, and Xie Weicai played Qin Xianglian's son. This time, Xie Weicai met chief of general staff Su Yu for the first time. Su Yu is wearing a general uniform. Although he is not tall, he has bright eyes and strong courage, which makes Xie Weicai, a teenager, admire him. after returning home, Xie Weicai was transferred to Shandong Peking Opera Troupe, where he worked as an erwusheng. Later, he moved to Shandong Opera Troupe. At that time when the political color was very bright, Xie Weicai's background was somewhat "ambiguous". He was the descendant of an officer of the Kuomintang, but he was also an "old revolutionary" who joined the army at the age of 8. Which camp did he belong to? Because of his ambiguous identity and awkward situation, and his inability to deal with interpersonal relations, it is difficult for him to have any hope of joining the party, and his "official movement" is not prosperous. He has not even been a group leader for many years. it's hard to say that the official luck is not good, and the career is not smooth. Although many plays have been performed, sometimes there is not a word of dialogue. For decades, it has been unknown. It's not easy to play Jin Dayong in the Modern Peking Opera "surprise attack on the White Tiger Group". The name of the actor is not written on the poster, and the insiders don't say it. Who knows he played it? One day in June 1989, Xie Weicai received a telegram from the "decisive battle" crew of Bayi film studio asking him to audition. He was excited and uneasy. The opportunity finally came, but could he seize it? On the day of the audition, the make-up artist quickly put on Xie Weicai's make-up, and compared with the photo of general Su Yu, he said to him, "like, you have sufficient conditions, it's more like." Xie Weicai put on his military uniform and went to the video room. When he passed a big glass to meet the light, he swept his shadow with the rest of his eyes, and his heart suddenly cooled. In front of him, he is just a veteran. At most, he can only be commander Xie and commander Xie. He is definitely not general Su Yu who commands more than 300000 troops! I've been a soldier all my life. If I want to be a general in charge of a large number of troops, my momentum will be far from that. Xie Weicai walked into the video room with a stiff head. Fortunately, with 40 years of stage accumulation and performance skills, he won't forget his words, and his actions can be done continuously. The director was quite satisfied with him and told him frankly: "you look like Su Yu, and you can perform, but you don't have enough temperament. You need to read more information and enrich yourself. " the most important thing for an actor is his temperament. Without temperament, he can't be vivid, he can't have a soul, and his role can't live. How can we have the unique temperament of general Su Yu? According to the director's suggestion, Xie Weicai studied almost all the materials about Su Yu. He watched a famous general Su Yu more than ten times. Historical photos are instant records of characters, which can vividly and accurately capture the characters' temperament and physical characteristics. Xie Weicai ran to the Military Museum and copied the photos of Su Yu that he could find. He carefully thought about the spirit of professional soldiers and senior generals. Just in order to change his walking posture, Xibaipo had a small place that Xie Weicai had trampled so that the grass could not grow. Xie Weicai also found the map of "Huaihai Campaign" and other maps and pasted them in his room. He thought about the development process of the campaign over and over again. Gradually, he had a sense of grasp and strategy for the overall situation of the campaign. He not only grasped the main characteristics of general Su Yu's calm and thoughtful thinking, but also felt that he was integrating with it step by step General. There are not many scenes of Su Yu in the great showdown, but Xie Weicai saw something strange in his works. He successfully created the image of Su Yu, a revolutionary Confucian general, and received a lot of praise. At the premiere of "decisive battle", then president Yang Shangkun said to Xie Weicai, "you Suyu are doing well!" Li Ruihuan, chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), recognized Xie Weicai among the numerous actors and said to him, "you play Su Yu. Well done, well done!" Ding Qiao, head of the central leading group on major revolutionary history, also said, "I'm Su Yu's subordinate. I know him well. You look like him. You perform his style." "Decisive battle" became the turning point of Xie Weicai's acting career. He not only won the "PLA Art Contribution Award", but also became a professional actor who played Su Yu. Later, he successively completed his Su Yu Trilogy - "battle of Eastern Henan", "seven battles and seven victories", "hero Meng Lianggu", and "Jinan campaign". Now, he has more than 100 episodes, which has become a widely recognized "living millet" "Yu". Maybe the cultivation of internal skills has reached a certain degree, and Su Yu's inner temperament has penetrated into Xie Weicai's bones, so that Xie Weicai in his life has become Su Yu. He went to visit Mrs. Su Yu's Chu Qing's house. When her driver opened the door, he exclaimed, "ah, the chief has come home!" One day at noon, Chu Qing left Xie Weicai for dinner. Later, two boys sat down and watched him while eating. Chu Qing said to one of them, "this uncle plays your grandfather." The child said, "like, like! That look is very similar Another child also said: "no wonder I look so familiar, like, like my grandfather!" Xie Weicai is famous for his role as Su Yu. The most amazing thing is that because he plays Su Yu, he finds his family members who have been separated for more than 40 years. He is an ordinary person and has a good reputation

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