In September 1949, on the eve of the founding of the People's Republic of China, ** made an important instruction: "The founding ceremony will be held in Tiananmen Square." "At this time, intense preparations are about to be in full swing, especially the Tiananmen Tower on the rostrum, which will usher in the largest mass review in history.
In addition to the necessary renovation work, the organization also plans to hang a portrait of the chairman of the Tiananmen Gate Tower. Prior to this, the city of Beijing experienced many turmoil, and Tiananmen Square had been hung with many figures, such as Yuan Shikai, Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kai-shek.
After the liberation of Tiananmen Square, the *** Mr. Zhu, ** and other representative figures of the CCP were hung in turn. Although these ** were temporarily found from the old film and washed out and hung on the city wall, it was because the conditions at that time were limited, and our party put the propaganda of the ideology of the Communist Party of China in the first place, and did not pay too much attention to the appropriateness of **.
However, this is different, because our party has already taken power in the whole country and is about to establish a new China. For the Chinese people who have been devastated by the war, this is an important moment for them to witness history.
1.* Deeply loved by the masses, **As the leader of our party, his ** also needs to conform to the temperament of our party, which is both solemn and deterrent. Thus, the first edition of the independent portrait was born.
2.* The process of selecting the portrait is not easy, it needs not only to conform to the temperament of our party, but also to satisfy the people. So, how are the portraits of ** selected?
Which one makes the people have the greatest opinion? Which pair lasts the longest? Let's uncover all of this. 3.As the preparations for New China proceeded in an orderly manner, there has been no progress in the matter of selecting the first China.
As the leader of our party, he needs to be in line with the temperament of our party, which is both solemn and deterrent. Therefore, how to select a portrait that not only conforms to the temperament of our party but also represents the will of the masses of the people has become a difficult problem.
**In order to ensure the smooth progress of the founding ceremony, skilled photographers are specially invited to Fengze Garden to take pictures for ***. According to the requirements of the organization, it is necessary to take multiple *** frontal clear**, but *** insists on taking pictures of life.
After the first shooting was developed, it was sent to the office of ***. **Looking at a few ** on the table, he felt a little embarrassed, so he took these** to the Juxiang Book House and asked *** to choose them personally.
However, none of the few he had seen were satisfactory to him.
If it is a random snapshot of the **, how will the people of China and the world think of ***? What kind of person would they think he was? So, he told the relevant departments to try to find one from the past Yan'an** or video, **almost positive and natural**.
After the unremitting efforts of the comrades, a precious ** finally surfaced. **Wearing a red star octagonal hat, smiling, looking ahead, with a solemn and kind expression.
And behind this **, there is a touching story hidden. It turned out that the *** in ** was talking with Comrade Zhu Rui about the preparation of the artillery school, and the two were strolling by the river, which was captured by the photographer.
However, **At that time, he didn't know anything about this **, and it was not until Zhu Rui died unfortunately during the liberation of the Northeast that he found this ** in Comrade Zhu Rui's relics.
This is not only a testimony of the friendship between the Chinese and Comrade Zhu Rui, but also the epitome of their common struggle for the cause of the Chinese revolution.
On September 30, 1949, the chairman and the prime minister took a group photo at the Tiananmen Tower. **Looking**, said meaningfully: "Just use this one." ”
This scene reminded *** of many past events. So, he handed over the task of making this ** to the painter Zhou Lingzhao. Zhou Lingzhao was only 30 years old at the time, and he was at the peak of his painting skills.
After receiving this order, he was so nervous that he stayed up all night. The next day, he took his wife, with a sketchpad and paint, to a cubicle on the upper floor of Tiananmen Square, and began intense creative work.
Because this ** is a group photo, Zhou Lingzhao first cropped **, then enlarged the part of the chairman, and finally started to shape little by little, and then colored little by little.
After several days of hard work, on September 30, 1949, the portrait of the chairman was finally completed.
At the beginning of the chairman's portrait, ** went to the "studio" on the city tower to inspect Zhou Lingzhao's works, and thought that the chairman's expression was well drawn, but the neckline was not tied up, which was not solemn enough.
Chow said that the chairman has always pursued natural and easy-going, and opening the neckline may be more in line with the chairman's wishes. But *** emphasizes that this ** should be seen by people all over the world, and it is better to be solemn.
So, Zhou Lingzhao and his wife began to revise the painting, which was not completed until late at night. Finally, the staff carefully hung the statue of the chairman on the tower.
**Coincidentally,** received a letter of suggestion from other leaders for the portrait of ***, which pointed out that the words "serving the people" at the bottom of the portrait were too conspicuous and not formal enough.
After receiving the instructions, Zhou Lingzhao and his wife immediately got up and came to the Tiananmen Tower again with paintbrushes and paint boxes. In the spotlight, the couple stepped on a ladder, covered the words "Serve the People" with paint, and added a button to reassure them.
On the eve of the founding ceremony, Zhou Lingzhao and his wife did not close their eyes. They were excited and a little apprehensive because they knew that something might come to them from the organization.
Finally, on October 1, 1949, they joined the delegation of the National Academy of Fine Arts, stood on Tiananmen Square, looked up on the city tower, and felt extremely proud.
However, a few months later, during a visit to the Soviet Union, the organization re-examined the octagonal hat with the red star, but found some problems. They decided to paint it all over again.
In 1950, in order to protect China and promote the recovery of the national economy, it was decided to visit the Soviet Union. Although this decision made some people dissatisfied, Zhou Lingzhao and his wife knew that it was a necessary step.
In order to welcome ***, the Soviet Union deliberately expanded his Red Army octagonal hat ** showing the "Yan'an style" into a wooden plank, which was displayed side by side with Stalin's military uniform.
However, this move made the accompanying CCP personnel feel a little inappropriate. Stalin's ** makes people feel both magnificent and majestic, which is in sharp contrast to the casual photos of ***'s life, giving people a feeling of being "weak".
Although *** himself does not care about this, in terms of momentum and national image, this has left some impression on the party organization. Not to mention what they will say if this ** is transmitted to the West.
After returning home at the end of the visit, the deputy director of the General Information Administration and the director of the Press Photo Bureau, Sakhon Li, immediately submitted a request to the organization to produce a long-term standard for the organization.
However, due to the fact that he did not have enough time to cooperate with the photographer to shoot, and he himself was not willing to deliberately pose for photos, the organization had to lobby in many ways, hoping that he could take into account the international image issue and find time to cooperate with the photographer's work.
After some hard work, ** finally agreed, and the photographer came to Zhongnanhai with the equipment. However, due to the very poor conditions at that time and the light in the courtyard was not good, none of the ** taken by the photographer could be used as a standard**.
After many considerations, Mr. Chen Shilin was selected as the standard retoucher. He focused on photography during the Anti-Japanese War, and had a wealth of skills in washing ** and repairing films.
Before receiving the task of making standard photos for ***, Mr. Chen Shilin has been repairing ** for celebrities and celebrities in Hong Kong. Nowadays, the country needs to send a lot of news and propaganda through Xinhua News Agency**, but there is a lack of professional revision talents, so Mr. Chen Shilin's expertise is particularly important.
When Mr. Chen Shilin was working in Hong Kong, he was invited to Xinhua News Agency and took on the important task of producing standard photos for China. He found inspiration from the photo with the model worker, the expression of *** in ** is natural and dignified, and the face is slightly three-quarters of the way, which is very suitable for standard photos.
However, there is a model worker in the background, which brings challenges to the production of standard photos. In order to solve this problem, Mr. Chen Shilin found the negative plate of the first class, used a knife to grind off others little by little, and then used a paintbrush to fill in the background little by little, and finally succeeded in making this perfect standard photo negative.
**Praise the portrait of the chairman of Tiananmen, personally hand it over to *** for review, **After reading it, he said with satisfaction: "That's it." * Subsequently, more than 50 sheets were printed and distributed to relatives, friends and foreign guests, and more than 20 million copies were printed by major publishing houses across the country, and even the fifth set of renminbi was printed with this one**.
This standard photo is very popular, and on the first anniversary of the National Day, the staff hung the first version of the standard photo on the Tiananmen Tower, attracting the masses to come and watch.
In 1951, Comrade Chen Shilin received a new task, which was to make a "second" ** standard photo, and this time the requirement was to have a straight face.
Mr. Chen Shilin used the resources in his hands to find a suitable ** from the group photo with other people, but this ** was taken with a hand-cranked old-fashioned camera, using American black and white aviation film, and the overall picture quality was very dark.
In order to ensure the quality of ***, Mr. Chen Shilin enlarged the negative film to 12 inches, changed the background of the negative to white, and finely trimmed the face of ***.
In the end, Mr. Chen Shilin made a second standard photo. **After washing it out, it was first sent to the organization for review, and after the review was passed, it was handed over to the painter to make and replace.
At the time when the first volume of the ** Anthology was about to be published, it was decided to use a second standard photograph as the title page of the book. This ** was used from 1951 until 1959, but it was not widely known because it was only hung on Labor Day and National Day.
One month before the celebration of the 10th anniversary of the People's Republic of China, Mr. Chen Shilin received an order from *** again to make the third edition of the standard photo for *** to show his radiant spirit.
After taking a clear profile photo, Chen Shilin made in-depth modifications to it, including adjusting the relationship between light and dark and the enlarged details to make it look natural and distinct.
In the end, this ** was recognized by ***, and was printed in large quantities, and published on "People**" as the third standard photo.
The ***, which had been hanging in Tiananmen Square for more than 6 years, was forced to be unloaded due to the doubts of the masses. Citizens have many questions about the portrait, such as "Why only one ear?" ”
Why isn't the face in front of you but next to it? And so on, which attracted the attention of the organization. After listening to the opinions of the masses, the organization found Mr. Chen Shilin to remake the fourth edition of the standard photo.
However, when the photographer used a telephoto lens to shoot, he only shot a 1-inch negative due to an operation error, which brought a lot of revision work to Chen Shilin. After a week of restoration, the fourth edition of the standard photo was finally completed.
In 1967, the fourth standard photo of ** was hung on the tower of Tiananmen Square, and the citizens expressed their appreciation, and even the daughter of *** spoke highly of the excellence of Mr. Chen Shilin's version.
What's special about this one is that no matter from which angle, you can see that *** is staring at you. Today, with the continuous progress of science and technology, although the portrait of the company has undergone many revisions and remakes, it still follows the fourth standard photo template carefully made by Mr. Chen Shilin.