In the early days of the People's Republic of China, weekly balls were held in Zhongnanhai, not only to satisfy political needs, but also to be part of life. The dance will be held in two places, one is the Ziguang Pavilion, which is hosted by *** organization, and ** and *** and others have danced here.
The other is the Spring Lotus Zhai, sponsored by the Security Bureau of the General Office, which can be said to be specially set up for the leaders, whose purpose is to allow the leaders to get full rest and relaxation after their busy work.
In order to solve the inconvenience and safety problems of temporary personnel during the ball, in 1953, someone proposed to set up a art troupe in Zhongnanhai. However, in the process, there were some obstacles.
Although the chairman agreed with the idea of forming a cultural troupe, after Xiao Hua, deputy director of the Political Department of the Military Commission, approved this telegram by ***, who was then the vice chairman of the Military Commission.
** believes that since the "three antis" movement has just ended, the formation of a literary troupe may have political implications, so he opposes the issuance of this telegram.
**After being reminded, the plan to form an art troupe was shelved, and Xiao Hua reviewed it. **In Xiao Hua's review report, it was instructed: **Yang Shangkun dealt with it, the art troupe should not be set up at all, Xiao Hua should only bear the error of wholesale telegrams, and the main responsibility lies with the public security organs.
** and *** both have a negative attitude towards the formation of an art troupe in Zhongnanhai, so in the next six months, no one mentioned the formation of an art troupe. Although the initiative to transfer personnel from the army's art troupes to participate in the art troupe has provided a certain degree of security for the top leaders, there are also certain risks.
On the one hand, each art group has its own performance arrangement, and the deployment of bands and actors sometimes has problems; On the other hand, the actors who enter Zhongnanhai to come into contact with the supreme leader need to be vetted, and the background of each person cannot be quickly ascertained, and the consequences cannot be predicted in case of mistakes.
Half a year after Xiao Hua's review report, the formation of the Zhongnanhai Art Troupe was put on the agenda again, and the reason was still security issues. The formation of a troupe was the best solution, and the matter was approved.
After the order was issued, various literary and artistic groups in the army selected qualified actors and went to Beijing to arrive in Zhongnan Poster. Since all the people who were transferred were literary and artistic workers, Wang Huayu, director of the Political Department of the ** Guard Corps, was appointed as the person in charge of the matter.
After the literary and artistic workers reported one after another, they were managed in the guard regiment, and some people suggested that the art troupe should be called the "guard regiment art troupe". However, some people retorted that this art troupe does not mainly serve the guard troupe, and its business and performance affairs are not under the management of the guard troupe, and should be directly called the "literary and artistic squad" or "propaganda team".
After a long discussion, the name of the art troupe was still inconclusive, and finally we had to adopt the common name and call it "Zhongnanhai Art Troupe".
The Zhongnanhai Art Troupe brings together heroes from all over the world, from the North China Military Region, the East China Military Region, the General Political Department, the Volunteer Army, the Navy and other units, with as many as 40 to 80 personnel.
The art troupe is composed of an instrumental band and a performance team, and the instrumental band is highly skilled, adapting traditional Chinese music, folk songs and old songs sung in the base area as dance music, which makes the leaders feel more friendly and comfortable, and stimulates their interest in dancing.
In addition, the conditions and qualities of the literary and artistic workers are quite outstanding and their performance is outstanding. They spent most of their time dancing with the leaders, and occasionally wrote and performed their own small shows to inject vitality into Zhongnanhai.
After the formation of the art troupe, the morning in Zhongnanhai was full of vitality, and the actors practiced singing, vocalization, splitting, spinning, blowing, playing and singing in the morning light, which was very lively. These actors are young, but they have already held important positions in their respective art troupes and played a leading role.
During one of the exercises, the actors sang in one place as usual. Suddenly, they saw someone running to the shore on the opposite shore, ignoring the wide water, and kept making the "pause" gesture.
The girls looked at this scene and felt a little funny, and were amused, but they did not know the man's intentions and continued to sing. At this moment, the instructor Ge Baorui hurriedly came, immediately stopped the girls' singing, pointed to the other side and asked, "Do you know what kind of place it is?" ”
The girls shook their heads, and Ge Baorui said, "That's the *** office place, very solemn and serious. He pointed in the other direction and said, "It's a place to rest, *** likes to work at night and rest during the day, and now he just rested." ”
When the girls heard this, they suddenly realized that they immediately stopped singing. Then they turned to the back of Wanshan, where there was a spacious platform surrounded by a white marble carved fence.
If you sing here, the sound will only spread to the north and will not affect *** rest. Since then, this place has become a place for actors to practice singing.
When the fellow saw the fellow, his eyes were full of tears. "The original intention of forming the art troupe was to add entertainment activities to Zhongnanhai, and the core members included *** and **.
The actors had the opportunity to get close to these leaders, and one of the most eager to see was that one day, instructor Ge Baorui came to the rehearsal hall and announced: "Everyone hurry up and rehearse a few small shows, and tonight we are going to attend the dance party of the ** organ." ”
This is the first dance party of the art troupe, and the venue is set in front of the Qinzheng Palace, north of Yingtai Bridge. When the members of the group saw *** dancing in the crowd, only a few miles away from themselves, their hearts beat faster.
During the break, Zhang Meixia, an actor of the art troupe who had just come down from the Korean battlefield, kept staring at ***, and the captain walked over and gently pushed her with his elbow: "Go and dance, dance your dance on the battlefield, the soldiers like it very much." ”
Under the reminder of the captain, Zhang Meixia remembered the famous dance - "I want to see *** Whenever she performs this dance, the enthusiasm of the soldiers will be instantly ignited, and they will surround her excitedly and say with confidence: "We must win the battle, be heroes, and go to Beijing to meet ***."
After a melodious prelude, Zhang Meixia danced with **, and it wasn't until the last note stopped abruptly that she realized: "Haven't I already seen ***?"
I should use another set of dances to express my feelings. However, just when she was annoyed, there was a warm applause from the scene, and ** stood in the center of the crowd and applauded her.
Then, ** waved to her: "Little ghost, come here." This is the first time Zhang Meixia has spoken to ***, and she is so nervous that she can't speak. Fortunately, ** found the topic first: "There is this movement in the dance you danced." ”
**I don't know how to express it in words, so I imitate it with my body movements, only to see him slide out of the ground more than a foot away with his foot, Zhang Meixia immediately understood that *** refers to "split".
Zhang Meixia showed her splitting movement to ***, and ** was deeply touched by the hardships of dancing. At the dance party of the art troupe, the actresses did not have the courage to take the initiative to invite the leader to dance at first, and always needed to be reminded by others.
However, after a brave attempt, actor Wu Fengjun mustered up the courage to express his invitation to ***. The experience made the actresses no longer nervous, and they felt that the chairman was very kind.
**Ask for the name and unit of the girl in the dance**, and learn that she is the soldier of Mr. Chen of the East China Field Army, from Qingdao, Shandong. Hearing her hometown, laughing heartily and calling her a fellow countryman.
** I asked her about the year she enlisted, and learned that she participated in 1948, the year of the liberation of Jinan. After listening thoughtfully, then joke with her, calling her an old revolutionary.
This relaxed atmosphere made the juniors who danced with him not feel any pressure.
As spring turns to autumn, the actors of the art troupe have established close ties with the staff of Zhongnanhai, especially with the guards. They often take the initiative to talk to the actors of the art troupe.
In an event of Spring Lotus Zhai, before ** arrived, his guard Li Yinqiao came first and told the actors that the chairman has been busy with work recently and may have less time to rest, and he hopes that everyone will communicate more with the chairman.
When *** arrived at the dance venue, the actors of the art troupe immediately gathered around and chatted with the chairman. Seeing Zhang Meixia dancing alone at a glance, the chairman asked her: "I asked you that day and you haven't answered, are you a ** person?" ”
Zhang Meixia was no longer restrained, and replied loudly: "Huangyan, Zhejiang." The chairman smiled and said, "Huangyan, Zhejiang, that's where oranges are produced." Zhang Meixia heard that the chairman also knew the specialties of her hometown, and was very happy to begin to praise the tangerines in her hometown: "The tangerines in our hometown are very delicious, there are pearl red, early oranges, full oranges, and huet oranges, which are fragrant and sweet, and they are also exported!" ”
It is a way of propaganda with color, taste and content. *I especially like to communicate with the actors of these art troupes, which is also a way for him to understand the people's feelings.
Therefore, every time I see them, I ask about the latest developments. For a while, ** found that after Wu Fengjun returned from Anhui, he always deliberately avoided him, which made him realize that Wu Fengjun must have something to hide from him.
At first, Wu Fengjun was worried about discipline and was reluctant to say it directly, but he was repeatedly questioned by ***, and finally had to tell the truth. It turned out that when she went to Anhui, she found that there were many wandering and begging peasants, and an old man knelt down in front of him, just to beg for a cake.
Wu Fengjun experienced the scene when the art troupe was disbanded in 1958, and her feelings were very complicated at that time. It is said that this is because *** resolutely opposed the formation of the art troupe, which led to the dissolution of the art troupe.
However, Wang Huayu, deputy director of the Political Department of the ** Guard Corps, said that this is not the case. Because the formation of the art troupe was approved by the ** Military Commission, it was impossible for Mr. Peng to prevent all this from happening.
**During the formation process, amendments were made to individual articles in the group report. One of them is the regulation of the appearance of actors, and Mr. Peng suggested removing the word "good looks".
However, the reason for the eventual disbandment of the Zhongnanhai Art Troupe was that the army was being greatly streamlined at that time. During the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the whole country was mobilizing to defend the country, and many young people joined the army, which once numbered five or six million.
In 1958, all the volunteers were withdrawn, and the squadron began to be greatly reduced, and the number of people was reduced to between two and three million. According to the regulations, units at or below the army level are not allowed to retain the establishment of literary and artistic troupes, and only units at or above the level of a large military region can retain literary and artistic troupes.
Therefore, the Zhongnanhai Art Troupe must be disbanded.
When the art troupe was about to be disbanded, a wave of protection, development and reclamation of the frontier was set off in China. In response to the call to "go to the countryside, to the frontiers, and to the places where the motherland needs it most," 100,000 demobilized soldiers of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) resolutely marched toward the deserted Great Northern Wilderness.
At that time, they were selfless and dedicated, enthusiastic, and wholeheartedly for the construction of the country, and as long as the country needed it, they rushed to become the first batch of builders. The Zhongnanhai Art Troupe originally had only one chance to go to the Great Northern Wilderness, but due to the boom, the actors asked to go.
After hard work, more than 20 people, including Wu Fengjun, were finally allowed to go. As the disbandment date approaches, each member's heart is full of nostalgia and reluctance, they are reluctant to be here, reluctant to be kind ***
Not only the actors, but also their lovely children.
We are okay in the Great Northern Wilderness, and we eat according to the ration. ”
In that arduous environment, the demobilized PLA carried forward the glorious tradition of the people's soldiers and played an exemplary role. Although they have endured a little hardship, they are very relieved to see that the people's lives have improved.
The girl in front of her is their representative. Looking at her, ** couldn't help but sigh: "She's grown up!" "He was happy. The girl sent out an invitation to ***, hoping to dance another dance.