Liu Yifei can be said to be one of the Chinese actresses with the highest face value, which is described in a sentence as "this woman is only because of the sky, the world is hard to get a few times to hear". But in China's show business, many people have noticed a phenomenon:

Pretty-looking actresses tend to be more skeptical about their acting skills. So how good is Liu Yifei's acting? It would be inappropriate to add any sweeping generalizations to her performance, as Liu Yifei's acting experience is still different from those of the popular flow of small flowers.

First of all, Liu Yifei's acting skills are unquestionable.

It can be said that before 2013, China's movie and TV industry was still an era that emphasized acting skills, and the fan economy had not completely turned black and white at that time. At that time, Liu Yifei was as beautiful as a fairy, and played a lot of "fairy" type of roles. Her knitted brows and smile are all innocent and natural, full of spirit, the perfect interpretation of female innocence.

Representative works are "Immortal Sword and Chivalry", "Eight Parts of the Dragon" and so on. Especially the role of Zhao Ling'er, in the future after the proliferation of fairy drama female characters, no longer able to surpass her image. She perfectly portrayed the girl's transformation from an uninitiated girl to a righteous girl, shouldering the burden of the country, and transforming into a courageous mother from a person who knows nothing about the world. She was able to accurately grasp each stage of the character's growth at a time when Liu Yifei was still underage.

Later, Liu Yifei used her age advantage to become a member of the flow of small flowers, and this is also a stage in which her acting skills gradually declined and were questioned. This stage in the development of Chinese film and television drama stage, an extremely obscure period.

The era of big data has given birth to the phenomenon of lowering the threshold for actors, so as long as they look good and have fans they can enter the ranks of actors. Liu Yifei, too, because of her reliance on fans and past status, has seen a serious decline in the quality of her films and TV dramas, and her ratings are not as desirable as those of later actresses.

As she grew older she was eager to seek a breakthrough, wanting to escape from the stereotypical patterns of her past roles to play grounded characters and put herself down from the altar of the fairy sister. She then filmed "The Third Kind of Love", but although this movie let the audience see her original intention to seek a breakthrough, but immediately drowned in the lace news, face value, fat and thin and romance into the focus of attention. Later with Yang Yang shooting "three lives" also seems to have failed to let the audience bright eyes.

Saying that Liu Yifei's acting skills have declined, more factors come from:

First, Liu Yifei did not choose a script with high artistic achievement. If she could have found a better creative team, she could have proved herself again.

Secondly, the image of the fairy in the past is y rooted in people's hearts, and her current age as well as her life experience. It is no longer suitable to walk the old path of the past, and the audience's expectations of her are still stuck in the past. In other words, she hasn't really freed herself from her past glory, from the stereotypes of the past. Even though she can fulfill her role in the script better, the audience cannot see the past spirituality or her breakthrough.

On the whole, Liu Yifei's acting skills have not declined, but the current acting environment and her own "stereotypical model" contradicts her upbringing, making it difficult for her to find a path that suits her. But I believe that as long as Liu Yifei can find a good script, find a piece of soil to nurture herself again, she will be able to bloom new flowers in the new soil.

Now the film and television environment in the gradual improvement, the next will have to look at Liu Yifei's own efforts, I believe that she will once again let the public recognized up, acting is no longer questioned.