Who is Ying Ruocheng from Yingda?

Ying Ruocheng (1929-2003) is a famous Chinese performing artist and translator. Executive director of the Chinese Dramatists Association, Beijing Drama Assistant, former Vice Minister of the Ministry of Culture, Deputy Director of the Art Committee of the Beijing People's Art Theater, and Director of the Script Office. He has starred in classic plays such as "Camel Xiangzi", "Tea House" and "Death of a Salesman". At the same time, Ying Ruocheng has also achieved world-renowned achievements in film and television performances. He is the only artist among the older generation of Chinese actors who can be called an "international superstar". Mr. Ying Ruocheng is also an excellent theater director and one of the most famous translators in contemporary China. Born in Beijing on June 21, 1929, Manchu. When he was a teenager, he studied at Tianjin St. Louis Mission Middle School. In 1945, he was admitted to the Department of Foreign Languages ??and Literature of Tsinghua University with excellent results. When he was a student, he began to devote himself to the stage art activities that he loved throughout his life. Mr. Ying Ruocheng was admitted to the Beijing People's Art Theater in 1950. During his decades of stage career, he created a series of famous artistic images, including "Longxugou", "Thunderstorm", "Bright Days", "The Scrooge", "Teahouse", "Homer's Dream" Played an important role in dramas such as "Trouble and Loss". After the Cultural Revolution, with the expansion of China's foreign cultural exchanges, Ying Ruocheng made great contributions to Chinese and foreign drama exchanges. In 1979, he translated Lao She's masterpiece "Teahouse" into English and published it abroad in preparation for his successful visit to Western Europe. In the spring of 1980, Ying Ruocheng followed Cao Yu to the UK for drama exchanges, and later collaborated with a British director to rehearse Shakespeare's famous play "Enter the Urn" for the Beijing People's Art Theatre. In 1983, Ying Ruocheng was appointed Vice Minister of Culture of the People's Republic of China and the Ministry of Culture. In 1983, he translated the masterpiece "Death of a Salesman" by the famous contemporary American writer Arthur Miller into Chinese, and collaborated with Miller to put it on the stage of Beijing People's Art Theater, and also successfully created the protagonist Willy in the play. · Roman. In August 1982, the Snow Foundation, the Fulbright Foundation and universities in the Midwestern United States jointly issued an invitation to Ying Ruocheng to be a visiting professor in the Department of Drama at the University of Missouri to teach acting classes. Ying Ruocheng rehearsed the Chinese drama "Home" for students based on his own teaching practice, and the performance in the United States created a sensation. In August 1984, Ying Ruocheng once again went to the United States to give lectures as a permanent professor at the University of Missouri. He rehearsed a drama adapted from the Chinese Kunqu Opera "Fifteen Passes" for the students, and conducted a study on the combination of traditional Chinese opera and modern drama. Useful exploration. In 1998, Ying Ruocheng was awarded the Philippine "Magsays Prize for Journalism and Culture", known as the "Asian Nobel Prize", for his outstanding contributions to Sino-foreign cultural exchanges and drama. At 1:35 a.m. on December 27, 2003, Ying Ruocheng passed away at the Union Hospital at the age of 74 due to respiratory and circulatory failure caused by liver disease. Family Ying Ruocheng's grandfather Ying Lianzhi came from Zhenghongqi, Manchuria, while his grandmother Aisinchoro Zhongshu came from the royal family. Ta Kung Pao and Fu Jen Catholic University were both founded by Ying Lianzhi. Ying is Ying Ruocheng's father and the second generation celebrity of the Ying family. At the age of 12, he went to study at Cambridge University in England. After returning to China, he became a professor at Fu Jen Catholic University. Ying Li Qian's English level is quite high. Qian Zhongshu once recalled: "Chiang Kai-shek once said that he would find two people who speak English best in China to translate for him. One is me and the other is Li Qian." Ying Ruocheng's mother Cai Baozhen was born in an official family Family, his father Cai Rukai was the governor of Shandong Province in the 1920s. Cai Baozhen was the director of the Beijing Children's Library after liberation. Ying Ruocheng's aunt Yingyin was the first member of the Ying family to embark on the path of acting. Her original name was Ying Fengzhen, and she was an actress in the second studio of Mingxing Film Company at that time. She had appeared in movies such as "Lucky Money" and "Cross Street" before committing suicide for some reason. It is said that the image of Chen Bailu created by Mr. Cao Yu in "Sunrise" is based on Yingying. Ying Ruocheng’s wife Wu Shiliang is also a performing artist and translator. Ying Ruocheng is a classmate of Tsinghua University. After graduation, the two became partners and were assigned to Beijing People's Art Theatre. Because Ms. Wu Shiliang's English is very good, she also served as Mr. Cao Yu's secretary and Premier Zhou's translator. Yingda is the son of Ying Ruocheng. After graduating from Peking University, he studied directing in the United States. After returning to China, his outstanding performance in "The Last Nobles and the Siege" made him famous. His sitcoms such as "I Love My Family" and "Northeast Family" became popular across the country and ushered in the era of Chinese sitcoms.