On December 14, 2021, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out in his important speech at the opening ceremony of the 11th National Congress of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and the 10th National Congress of the Chinese Writers Association: "I hope that the majority of literary and art workers will stick to the people's stand and write endless people's epics." I was fortunate to listen to it on the spot, I was deeply inspired, and it became more firm in my creative direction. Looking back on the characters created by Cong Ying over the past 20 years, all the people who are loved and talked about by the audience, their creative inspiration and nutrients all come from real life and from the ordinary people who are extraordinary.
The story of the movie "The Man and the Dog in the Mountain" really comes from ordinary people in life. In the 1980s, in the remote mountainous areas where no roads were opened, a father and son of a rural postman worked together for many years to deliver parcels to villagers in the mountains by walking and ziplining. The film shows the daily life of the rural postman father and son. There are not many lines in the whole film, and it looks like a diary with a gentle tone. I was just 20 years old at the time, and I always felt that my first movie should be grand and intense. But in the mountains in the western part of Hunan, my daily work was to carry heavy parcels and walk, from one village to another, and I felt a little depressed. I asked Director Huo Jianqi, "Where is the best part of our movie?" The director just replied, "It's amazing to be able to truly record the life of the father and son of the rural postman, and what we can shoot is only a small part of their wonderful life. Part." In order to make this film well, the whole team worked very hard, and I was tanned and tanned, just like a boy in the mountains. By the end of the film, I couldn't tell whether I was acting or living.
The film was released the following year, moved many people, won many awards, and people still watch and talk about it to this day. Everyone said that the black, black and naive guy in the movie was very handsome. I knew that it was the young postman I played who was shining. It was the beauty of the laborer, the kindness and purity of the laborer who moved the audience. As creators, we just record and sincerely express the original brilliance of the characters.
In the TV series "No War in Peiping", I played the role of the Communist Party member Fang Mengao. He is an underground member of the CCP lurking within the enemy, and he is the epitome of countless hidden heroes of that era who kept their names incognito and put their lives on the line. The biggest test during the filming was to show the audience the forbearance and calmness of the underground members of the Communist Party of China on the surface and the grandeur of their hearts at the same time. Fang Mengao has never been able to tell the truth to his lover, and can only express his thoughts in the famous passage in "Don Quixote": "When these deeds of mine are circulated in the world, the era of happiness and the century of happiness will come." Countless The revolutionary martyrs exchanged their lives for our happy life today, and also left behind a story that can be heard. As literary and artistic workers, we must express and remember them with artistic works.
The movie "Island Keeper" is an affectionate portrayal and warm praise of "the people's model" Wang Jicai. Since 2019, director Chen Li has taken us to Kaishan Island to collect scenery. It took me a long time to slowly penetrate the heart of this island guard hero. Wang Jicai has been sticking to the border island for 32 years and has experienced loneliness and wind and rain unimaginable by ordinary people. He persevered and paid without complaint, and wrote an extraordinary chapter of life in an ordinary post. This shooting lasted more than half a year. Avoiding the typhoon, being exposed to the scorching sun, and being knocked out of blood by a reef were all trivial things, and everyone was always motivated. The director has also been encouraging us: "We must use Wang Jicai's spirit to shoot Wang Jicai." After the film was released, the most memorable thing for me was that a woman at the audience meeting said with tears: "Thank you, I am an ordinary I saw Wang Jicai's perseverance in the film, and I also saw my own shadow. I am very moved that ordinary people like us can be recorded by the film and remembered by the times." Hearing her words, I I really feel that the efforts of myself and the whole crew for more than two years before and after are worth it.
In this land under our feet, moving stories happen every day, and there are ordinary heroes worthy of praise everywhere. As long as we dig and express with our hearts, we will gain something. The people are life, and life is the people. As literary and art workers, we come from the people, benefit from the people, and be worthy of the people. On the road of art in the future, I will continue to express the people affectionately, sing praises to the people, and write endless epics of the people with excellent works.