Yao Xijuan's Artistic Course

Yao Xijuan is from Shanghai. In junior high school, he was deeply impressed by a cadence recitation by the famous film actor Sun Daolin. She was unconsciously attracted by the charm of recitation art and became interested in it. In middle school, Xiao Yao was keen on reciting poems and fragments of famous foreign movies. In high school, he joined the Shanghai after-school students' art troupe. 1959, 18-year-old Yao Xijuan applied for the performance department of Shanghai Film Academy. In front of the examiner, she recited the lines "The Last Minute" before Jiang Jie was killed in Red Rock with passion, and performed a wonderful sketch. At that time, China Youth Daily introduced Yao Xijuan's excellent answer sheet. Three years of study and life will soon be over. Xiao Yao was assigned to Guangzhou Yangcheng Repertory Theatre and transferred to Guangdong Repertory Theatre seven years later. During her 20-year stage career, she has played various roles: Jie Jiang in Red Rock, Tie Mei in Three Generations, Fang in Young Generation, Pu, Silent Rhyme, Cathy in White Slave and Cherry Blossoms in Tears. ...

Yao Xijuan also often participates in radio plays and poetry recitals. On one occasion, she recited Li Ji's masterpiece "Just because I am a Communist Youth League member" in Guangnan Theatre. No sooner had the announcer named the poem than the audience was coaxed. Obviously, they are not interested in this poem. The recitation began, and Yao Xijuan deliberately rendered it and handled it carefully. When reciting "I only heard a click and ten fingers fell to the ground", she actually used the lowest voice and added a long pause, which deeply moved the audience! The image of the little hero Shi Hu was implanted in the audience's mind by Yao Xijuan's voice. Later, her recitation of "A Day of Premier Zhou" and "The Little Match Girl" became the favorite programs of Guangzhou audience.

However, after a year without doubt, Yao Xijuan didn't expect to marry the TV dubbing. In recent years, she has voiced Lu Shunzi in Volleyball Woman, Heidi Little and Xiuzhi in Huo Yuanjia and Xing Zi Oshima in Blood Suspicion. When dubbing Xing Zi, Yao Xijuan really took a lot of brains to distinguish the voices of two Japanese girls of similar age, Xing Zi and Junko Deer. By comparing and analyzing their family environment and experiences, she endowed Junzi with lively, enthusiastic and unrestrained voice characteristics, and expressed Xing Zi's naive and carefree character at first, and then his painful, melancholy and contradictory character with a lower, thicker and softer tone than that of the deer, which made Xing Zi's dubbing consistent with Yamaguchi Momoe's reserved performance style. People may not know that this middle-aged voice actor is friends with Shichang Da, a well-known film actor in China! Twenty-two years ago, they played roles together in Twelfth Night. Shichang Da plays the clown and Yao Xijuan plays Maria, the housekeeper, which is very humorous. No wonder they were so harmonious when they recited the parting dialogue between Xing Zi and Guangfu again at the TV drama award ceremony.

Like most intellectuals in China, Yao Xijuan is a middle-aged person with two shoulders-the double burden of career and family makes her breathless. Her husband, Xiong Wen Du, is a film actor and often goes out to shoot movies. After coming home from work, Yao Xijuan will buy food and cook by herself, help her two daughters with their homework and recite lines from the play to be staged tomorrow. She is often exhausted. However, Yao Xijuan has no resentment. When she participated in the translated TV series, she gained great comfort from the artistic enjoyment enjoyed by millions of viewers. She thinks that being a voice actor is happy. Not long ago, Yao Xijuan voiced Mara and the funny old woman Finka with complicated personality and epilepsy in the Yugoslav TV series "Kabila's bonfire". I believe she will use her own voice to push the new role with distinctive personality to the national TV audience.