Dong Wenhua sang "The Fifteenth Moon" at the ** TV Spring Festival Gala in 1985, which deeply moved the audience.
Since then, Dong Wenhua has become a well-known singer, and has appeared on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala 13 times in succession.
Her image of short hair neatly styled and wearing a military uniform is unforgettable, and as one of China's top female singers, Dong Wenhua has sung many popular songs that have left a deep impression on the audience.
Why did Dong Wenhua choose to disappear at the peak of his career, and now he can only rely on commercial performances to make a living?What kind of ups and downs has this former resident star of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala experienced?
Dong Wenhua, born in Shenyang, Liaoning Province in 1962, has a family of six and relies on the hard work of his parents to maintain his basic life.
Dong Wenhua is the eldest in the family, she has an older sister and two older brothers. In order to provide for their family, their parents spent most of their time working outside the home.
When she was a child, Dong Wenhua was taken care of by her sister, who liked to imitate singers on TV and often posed as a singer in front of her sister.
My sister and Dong Wenhua both like to sing, so after school, my sister Dong Shuangqiu often takes Dong Wenhua to the Children's Palace to participate in ** activities. Sometimes, they meet a lot of people to rehearse songs with. When the Children's Palace holds performances, my sister will always take Dong Wenhua to participate.
Although Dong Wenhua was born in an ordinary family, God seems to have endowed the children of the Dong family with good singing talents. When his father found out that Dong Wenhua also had a talent for singing, he was very supportive of his daughter's hobbies.
In order to cultivate Dong Wenhua's hard training endurance, his father got up at five o'clock in the morning every day and rode a bicycle to take Dong Wenhua to a park not far from his home for vocal training.
Dong Wenhua has to do vocal training every time he is at home, but opening his voice will affect his neighbors. Therefore, his father let him climb into the large vat used to pickle vegetables in the house, which has a certain soundproofing effect, which naturally reduces the disturbance to the neighbors.
Dong Shuangqiu saw her sister practicing so hard, and she was determined that she would definitely be able to achieve something in the field of singing. In order to help Dong Wenhua improve his singing skills faster, Dong Shuangqiu traveled many times to find a teacher to teach his sister to sing.
Sister Dong Shuangqiu naturally became the leader of Dong Wenhua's **world.
My sister is getting older, but she chose to leave the road of **, worked in a factory, and entrusted her future dream to her sister Dong Wenhua.
Dong Wenhua showed her love for singing as soon as she arrived in elementary school, serving as the class president and literary and art committee, and she always took the lead in standing up every time the school held an event.
Through her active efforts, good results were finally obtained. Every time she performs on stage, Dong Wenhua can hear a wave of applause from the audience, and this recognition makes her more confident.
Dong Wenhua excelled in school, excelled in his studies, and never let his parents and teachers worry about him. As class leader, he also initiated a Lei Feng learning group to help two disabled students with limited mobility.
After Dong Wenhua returned home, he became his parents' pistachio. Every day after school, he would go to the vegetable market with his sister to buy vegetables. Before his parents come home from work, he is also responsible for feeding the chickens and ducks at home to make sure they are well fed.
After graduating from primary school, Dong Wenhua was admitted to a key high school in Shenyang with excellent results. While studying in No. 4 Middle School, he came across an opportunity that could change his life.
In the winter when Dong Wenhua was 15 years old, the Shenyang Military Region sent literary and artistic soldiers to his high school to recruit new students. Literary and artistic soldiers refer to members of special units who can learn various arts and sports knowledge in the army.
Dong Wenhua signed up desperately in order to embark on the road of singing as soon as possible.
At that time, Dong Wenhua, as the daughter of a worker, had no acquaintances to rely on, so she could only rely on herself to move forward. At the exam site, Dong Wenhua sang a song "The Sun is the Reddest, **The Dearest".
Dong Wenhua performed the best in the entire exam and scored the highest. After entering the propaganda team, he and Zhu Xiaohong became roommates, one lived in the upper bunk and the other lived in the lower bunk.
A few years later, the propaganda team was disbanded, and Dong Wenhua and Zhu Xiaohong joined the Shenyang Military Region Advance Song and Dance Troupe. When they arrived, they all fulfilled their desire to put on the military uniform of their dreams.
At the beginning, Dong Wenhua was regarded as a training object for opera singers by the troupe, and he was strictly supervised when practicing, both in form and lines.
I started practicing as soon as it was dawn, and even if I didn't do it well, the ring ruler in the teacher's hand was whipped down with a "snap", and even if tears welled up, I couldn't stop training.
Dong Wenhua's ** enlightenment teacher is Lu Menglan, and Dong Wenhua in her memory is a smart and clever little girl.
She didn't work very hard in the group, but she always got the highest score in every assessment.
Many students who can't memorize the lyrics for a week go to Dong Wenhua, and they can memorize them in less than one night.
Children born in intellectuals' ** families are not as good as children from ordinary workers' families like Dong Wenhua.
Dong Wenhua gradually stood out in the team by virtue of talent and diligence, not only working hard in training, but also knowing how to be polite in dealing with people.
Dong Wenhua used to pick up dishes for her teacher first every time she had a dinner, and she always gave the delicious food to other partners to enjoy. It is precisely because of this humble character that Dong Wenhua is very popular in the team.
As a result, there will naturally be some boys who appreciate Dong Wenhua, at that time, there was a member of the song and dance troupe who served as a tenor, and he was Zhang Nan.
In Zhang Nan's thoughts, she originally thought that Dong Wenhua was an ordinary female soldier, and she didn't know that Dong Wenhua joined the song and dance troupe as a soloist.
Zhang Nan and Dong Wenhua were assigned to the same group to participate in the performance by chance, and they needed to set up the venue and were busy carrying out all kinds of trivial and heavy work.
Zhang Nan originally thought that Dong Wenhua would hide because he was tired, but he didn't expect Dong Wenhua to not only work longer hours, but also not complain.
Since the performance location is located at the top of the mountain, it is not directly accessible by vehicle, so the summit can only be reached on foot. Dong Wenhua was wearing a pair of big scalp shoes that didn't fit well, and he struggled to climb the top of the mountain.
On the way, a male colleague wanted to help Dong Wenhua, but she resolutely refused, bluntly saying that she could solve it on her own.
After reaching the top of the hill for the show, the team members were exhausted and out of breath. Taking into account everyone's physical condition, the team decided to ask everyone to perform only one piece.
Dong Wenhua appeared on the stage, and her singing voice was loud and clear, which made everyone present fall for it, including Zhang Nan.
After the soldiers finished singing a song, they felt that it was not enough, so they asked Dong Wenhua to come again. Dong Wenhua agreed very happily and sang two songs in a row. The colleagues in the audience applauded and cheered when they saw Dong Wenhua's amazing singing skills.
Zhang Nan chased Dong Wenhua after the event and asked a series of questions, until Dong Wenhua opened his mouth to answer, only to learn that he came out of a low bungalow. It's no wonder that he exudes an air of simplicity and sincerity.
Since then, Zhang Nan has liked Dong Wenhua even more, and this extraordinary girl is destined to be entangled with Zhang Nan for the rest of her life.
In the cold season of 1980, Zhang Nan took the initiative to invite Dong Wenhua to a quiet and uninhabited path, and against the backdrop of snowflakes, Zhang Nan mustered up the courage to express his love for Dong Wenhua.
When Dong Wenhua heard this, she was a little overwhelmed for a while, and she hurriedly replied: "I'm only 18 years old, and I don't want to fall in love so early."
Zhang Nan also felt anxious, and he hurriedly said: "It's okay, I'd rather wait for you, whether it's a year, two years, or even five years, I'm willing to wait for you." ”
Dong Wenhua may find it difficult to bear such a promise, she is worried that she has failed Zhang Nan. But Zhang Nan seems to be a little too obsessed with Dong Wenhua, and his heart has been completely attracted to Dong Wenhua.
A few months later, Zhang Nan found Dong Wenhua again and expressed his wishes again, admitting frankly that even if he had to wait until his hair was gray, he would not be reluctant.
Dong Wenhua couldn't refuse cruelly in her heart, so this time, she looked at Zhang Nan's affectionate appearance and agreed to him.
Despite the team's constant busyness with performances, Zhang Nan always manages to keep in touch with Dong Wenhua, and his only wish is to make Dong Wenhua feel safe at all times.
As we all know, good things come in pairs, and Dong Wenhua's singing career has gradually become brighter.
The author Tie Yuan was deeply impressed by Dong Wenhua's singing skills during a performance and praised it.
This teacher is from the Tieyuan family, has rich experience in creation, and has composed many well-known songs, such as "Where the Peach Blossoms Bloom" and "I Stand Guard for the Great Motherland".
After listening to Dong Wenhua's singing, Tie Yuan decided to give the song "Fifteenth Moon" that he had written to Dong Wenhua to sing.
Tieyuan took Dong Wenhua to Liaoning TV station for song recording, and the recording equipment at that time was a little rusty, and it was often jamming that it was impossible to complete the recording at one time. However, fortunately, Dong Wenhua's singing skills are solid, and he only needs to record and sing once to complete the recording of the whole song.
With this song, Dong Wenhua participated in the Liaoning Singer TV Grand Prix, and successfully won the championship of the competition with his excellent singing performance and the excellent songs of Mr. Tieyuan.
CCTV Spring Festival Gala quickly took a fancy to this song "Fifteenth Moon", because it is different from other passionate and heroic military songs, mainly based on the nostalgia of soldiers for their hometown, and the style of the whole song is beautiful and moving.
On the stage of the 1984 Spring Festival Gala, Dong Wenhua officially showed her singing voice to the national audience.
The moonlight of the hometown, like the full moon of the fifteenth, shines quietly on the border pass. On this quiet night, you are also missing, I thought I was the only one missing.
After Dong Wenhua's performance, "The Fifteenth Moon" completely swept the country, and the 23-year-old Dong Wenhua at the time never thought that the ** dream he had dreamed of since he was a child would come true so quickly.
Dong Wenhua slowly ushered in the peak of her career, but Zhang Nan, who had been guarding behind her, began to feel a little timid.
Zhang Nan felt that he was a little unworthy of Dong Wenhua, because the latter became famous overnight.
Zhang Nan has always had a voice in his heart that inspires him: "A girl in her early twenties suddenly became a well-known singer, will she still look at me who has nothing?"”
When Dong Wenhua reunited with Zhang Nan, she seemed to sense Zhang Nan's uneasiness, but she chose to remain silent and continued to walk and talk with Zhang Nan as usual.
Dong Wenhua is still the shy girl in the moonlight, she is still tender like water, and the smile on her face is as charming as ever.
When Zhang Nan saw Dong Wenhua, he found that she was still the same as before, which made him finally able to slowly let go of the worries hanging in his heart.
Zhang Nan's five-year contract with Dong Wenhua ended at the end of 1984, and Zhang Nan was no longer as obedient as before, but said to Dong Wenhua bluntly: "Let's get married."
Dong Wenhua saw that her career was thriving, and she had the idea of thinking about lifelong events, so she nodded resolutely and frankly agreed.
Each other was each other's first love, and after years of commitment, they ended up walking hand in hand for life.
Soon, in a low-key manner, they held their wedding and officially entered the ranks of husband and wife.
For the sake of her career, Dong Wenhua discussed with her husband and decided not to have children for the time being, and Zhang Nan also firmly supported his wife's idea.
In 1986, Dong Wenhua was invited to participate in the Spring Festival Gala again and sang a song "Looking at the Starry Sky", and the audience left deep memories in front of the TV.
Dong Wenhua always felt as if she was missing something, and she began to realize that her professional knowledge reserves were not enough, after all, she joined the army before finishing high school.
In various difficult circumstances, Dong Wenhua found that her academic qualifications were not enough to meet her requirements to stand on the stage, so after getting married, she decided to apply for the People's Liberation Army Academy of Arts.
While stepping into the campus to study, Dong Wenhua had to be separated from her husband for a long time, and in the following years, she has maintained their relationship through letters.
Despite studying in school, Dong Wenhua still appears on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala every year, namely "The Sun, Moon and Stars" in 1987 and "The Road" in 1988.
In 1989, Dong Wenhua successfully graduated from the People's Liberation Army Academy of Arts, and finally stopped struggling with her husband's thoughts.
After Dong Wenhua returned from school, he joined the General Political Song and Dance Troupe and worked as a soloist. At the same time, her husband Zhang Nan also worked in the song and dance troupe, so that the husband and wife performed together and lived a plain but happy life.
Dong Wenhua frequently attends various evening parties, and her figure often appears on the TV screen, so she has properly become a "big name" at that time.
Men can feel a little inferior, and even feel stressed, because they know that women outperform them in their careers.
Although Dong Wenhua thinks that her husband does not show such emotions, she is delicate and still thinks a lot. She just wants to take care of her husband and let him not worry too much.
In 1992, Dong Wenhua was pregnant with a child, and Zhang Nan, who was 38 years old at this time, jumped to his feet with joy.
Dong Wenhua's friend said to her: "You are now at the peak of your career, and your prospects are promising." If you choose to have a baby at this time, you will have to disappear for at least a year, which is enough to make the audience who loves you forget about you. ”
Zhang Nan's words also made sense, but Dong Wenhua insisted on giving birth to the child, because she felt that she owed too much to her husband, and even reached the point of irreparability.
In June 1993, Dong Wenhua just hoped that Zhang Nan could experience the joy of being a father as soon as possible, so they welcomed their son.
When Zhang Nan saw this child, she was excited, she hugged this hard-won baby tightly and kissed it again and again.
Seeing such a warm scene, Dong Wenhua also realized that her original insistence was correct, and the arrival of her son did not make her pay all her attention to the child.
She still has a deep love for her husband, and every time Dong Wenhua goes out to perform, she will talk to her husband for a long time. Even though they have been married for many years, the two are still able to talk a lot about their love.
Dong Wenhua firmly believes that a family must have a husband and children, and family members must be lively and happy. She believes that a true woman should be a kind and virtuous wife, and she should also educate her son well.
After Dong Wenhua returned to the arms of his career, he sang the song "The Great Wall", and finally this song won a number of awards, making Dong Wenhua's popularity as a singer rise again.
Dong Wenhua became famous in 1994 for singing "The Story of Spring".
In the spring of 1979, on the shore of the South China Sea, an old man drew a circle.
The song sung by Dong Wenhua is easy to understand, full of life, and gives full play to the taste of the song.
During that time, Dong Wenhua created many masterpieces, and together with Jackie Chan and Zhang Yimou, he was named "an artist loved by the people", and he became famous for a while.
Just when Dong Wenhua's career was at its peak, he suddenly disappeared from the TV screen. Everyone is speculating about what happened to Dong Wenhua and why the popular singer suddenly disappeared.
Although there are various speculations about the reason for Dong Wenhua's retirement, no one still knows the exact reason for his retirement.
Dong Wenhua's career took a sharp turn for the worse under the crowd, and overnight, there was no news of him everywhere.
Dong Wenhua couldn't clarify the mixing of various reasons for a while, but fortunately, her husband has always been by her side to support her.
When his wife was so helpless, her husband Zhang Nan unconditionally chose to believe her, stood with her, and faced the gossip together. In the end, Dong Wenhua slowly came out of the shadows, but she rarely appeared in the public eye.
Since then, Dong Wenhua has rarely appeared on the big stage, but she still works hard and strives to complete every performance.
Dong Wenhua admitted frankly that he never left, but changed from a former singer in front of the stage to a behind-the-scenes worker, which is why he no longer appears in front of the stage.
Dong Wenhua, 59 years old, has occasionally taken on some commercial performances recently, and has been going around to make money. For her, no matter how big or small the stage is, she can enjoy singing to the fullest.
Dong Wenhua has experienced a ** turmoil, and seems to have a new understanding of many things, and he is also relieved a lot. once fell to the bottom at the peak of his career because of his fame.
Dong Wenhua was reborn again because hope was rekindled in his heart.
Dong Wenhua and her husband have been together for 37 years and have experienced ups and downs together. She deeply understands the true meaning of "I didn't marry the wrong man". As his son grows up, perhaps after gaining fame and fortune, what Dong Wenhua longs for most is a dull life.