In the Chinese music scene, no one can be like Wang Kun, who is both Taishan Beidou and a pioneer.
What she shaped"Xi'er".The role is one of the most familiar characters for the Chinese.
Everyone was amazed by her, **and*** praised her, and the rock pioneer Cui Jian even said frankly to **: I want to call her mother.
Why does Wang Kun have such a cross-generational influence, and what is her story?
On the evening of April 28, 1945, during the "Seventh National Congress" of the Communist Party of China.
The large-scale opera "The White-Haired Girl" premiered in Yan'an's ** auditorium, and there were as many as 1,400 spectators who came to the ** performance that day, all of whom were delegates from all over the country, as well as party leaders such as ***.
At that time, "The White-Haired Girl" was hard to find, and even Chen Geng's ticket was taken away by his family. When the ticket was taken away, Chen Geng also shouted: "Lao Tzu has no tickets."
Although Chen Geng is a senior cadre, discipline is discipline, and there are no exceptions, even if it is a senior cadre. Chen Geng obeyed the discipline, and he finally stood by the window of the auditorium** to perform.
Before the opening, looking at the familiar faces in the auditorium, the performers of "The White-Haired Girl" felt the pressure. But Xi'er's actor Wang Kun felt a little excited.
The White-Haired Girl was created to salute the party's "Seventh Congress", and originally the role of Xi'er was played by Lin Bai, but before the rehearsal, Lin Bai found out that she was pregnant.
After everyone's election, Wang Kun, who was only 20 years old and was known as the "lark", became the first heroine of "The White-Haired Girl".
In the subsequent rehearsals, Wang Kun perfectly showed the demeanor of Xi'er's role, which made director Zhang Geng very satisfied.
After the performance officially began, Wang Kun's bright and sad voice, as well as the simple and in-depth performance, brought everyone into the snowy Chinese New Year's Eve, the ugly Yang Bailao's home.
As the plot deepened, everyone felt sad for Xi'er's fate, and some people also secretly wiped their tears when they saw *** in **.
The performance was a great success, and everyone was touched by the different encounters of Xi'er's character in old and new societies, and the audience applauded for a long time after the performance.
After that, "The White-Haired Girl" became famous all over the country and was praised by people from all walks of life. In the following years, "The White-Haired Girl" was performed in various liberated areas, and it achieved very good publicity results.
As the first generation of Xi'er, Wang Kun has become one of the pioneering figures of Chinese national opera.
Wang Kun was born in the North China Plain during the warlord war. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Wang Kun, who graduated from primary school, joined the women's anti-Japanese relief organization and served as the head of the propaganda department.
In that era of widespread illiteracy, women's literacy rates were even lower. Therefore, the heavy responsibility of anti-Japanese propaganda fell on Wang Kun, who was only 13 years old.
In the propaganda activities at that time, the villagers would see the immature Wang Kun singing anti-Japanese songs such as "March of the Great Knife" and "On the Songhua River" on stage.
Seeing that Wang Kun, who was still a child, was busy fighting against Japan, the villagers were very moved. In the areas where Wang Kun has performed, the anti-Japanese enthusiasm will become high.
Because of his outstanding performance, Wang Kun's reputation spread throughout the anti-Japanese base areas, and the masses knew that there was a female cadre in Tang County who sang well.
It is said that several young men listened to Wang Kun's "On the Songhua River" and "March of the Great Knife", and were deeply moved and shocked, and then signed up for the Communist Party's team.
Zhou Weizhi was collecting wind in the anti-Japanese base at that time, and after hearing Wang Kun's deeds, he came to Tang County to watch Wang Kun's performance.
After listening to Wang Kun's pleasant voice, Zhou Weizhi said on the spot: "Really good!" He thought that Wang Kun was a manufacturable material, so he selected Wang Kun into the "Northwest Field Service Corps" as a vocal actor.
And the decades-long fate of the two began from here.
After several years of battlefield literary and artistic work in the "Western War Regiment", in 1944, Wang Kun came to Yan'an, which he had longed for. During her stay in Yan'an, she entered the ** Department of Lu Xun Art Institute and joined the Lu Yi Work Group.
During her study at Lu Yi, she got acquainted with artists such as He Jingzhi, Sun Li, Ling Zifeng and other artists, which made her theoretical level improve rapidly and laid the foundation for playing "The White-Haired Girl" in the future.
After becoming Xi'er, Wang Kun did not monopolize this role, she believes that the character of Xi'er comes from the poor people, and it is also a character created by everyone, so Xi'er belongs to everyone.
After discovering Guo Lanying's good seedling, Wang Kun and others trained Guo Lanying seriously, and in 1948, Guo Lanying officially became the second generation of Xi'er. And "The White-Haired Girl" has been inherited to this day with the efforts of countless artists.
In addition to "The White-Haired Girl", Wang Kun also starred in the Yang opera "Husband and Wife Literacy", "Brother and Sister Wasteland", opera "Family Glory" and other dramas, all of which were warmly welcomed by the masses in the liberated areas.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Wang Kun entered colleges and universities, and she created while teaching.
Wang Kun and her husband Zhou Weizhi and others created and sang songs such as "Nanniwan", "North Wind Blowing" and "Song of Farmers", which are milestones in the development history of New China and have made great contributions to China's nation.
It is worth mentioning that the 1964 "Song of Peasant Friends" was praised by the party and state leaders.
This song is an episode of the large-scale ** dance epic "Dongfang Hong", Wang Kun performed this song with joy and full of the heroic feelings of the peasants being the masters of the house, ** commented on Wang Kun's performance, saying that she "has the style of a Hunan revolutionary woman".
** Praise said: "Wang Kun is the "White-Haired Girl" twenty years ago, and the "Song of Peasant Friends" twenty years later."
In the 50s, "The White-Haired Girl" was made into a movie, and Wang Kun once again contributed his voice to the movie.
After this movie was transmitted to Japan, it caused a ** boom in Japan, and the Japanese people were overwhelmed by Wang Kun's singing. After that, Wang Kun led the troupe to perform in Japan, Eastern Europe, Africa, Latin America and other places many times, spreading the Chinese nation.
Mao Dun admired Wang Kun very much, and he wrote poems for Wang Kun in 1979.
In addition to shining on the art stage, Wang Kun also spares no effort in cultivating talents. In the 70s, after resuming work, Wang Kun discovered and cultivated many outstanding talents in the position of the head of the Oriental Song and Dance Troupe.
In the 80s, Wang Kun discovered many famous singers such as Yuanzheng, Zheng Xulan, Cheng Fangyuan, Zhu Mingying, and Guo Rong. She also actively helps students when they are in trouble.
There was once a young student who didn't buy a musical instrument to compose music, so Wang Kun took out a passbook and gave her a passbook, asking her to buy a musical instrument first, and then talk about it when she had money. Something like this, Wang Kun doesn't know how much he has done.
In addition to traditional art, Wang Kun has also adopted a very tolerant attitude towards the first form of the new era. In the early eighties, Wang Kunli overrode public opinion and invited Fei Xiang to the stage of the Spring Festival Gala.
At the beginning of the rock pioneer Cui Jian's debut on the music scene, ** for Cui Jian's rock ** was mainly blamed, but Wang Kun admired Cui Jian very much, she thought that the emergence of new ** is not a bad thing, don't look at new things with old eyes.
In 1985, in response to the call of the World Peace Year, the Oriental Song and Dance Troupe planned a performance of "Let the World Be Full of Love".
At that time, Wang Kun put Cui Jian on the performance list, which naturally aroused the opposition of many comrades, but Wang Kun still let Cui Jian go on stage under pressure.
Before Cui Jian's performance began, many comrades took the withdrawal as a **, which made the scene quite embarrassing. However, Wang Kun encouraged Cui Jian to ignore the doubts of the outside world.
After this performance, rock and roll quickly spread across the country.
After Cui Jian became famous, some people accused Wang Kun, saying that she introduced the "Glamorous Voice".
Wang Kun disagreed, she felt that Cui Jian was only promoting love in "Nothing" (Cui Jian's famous song), and this feeling was very sincere and beautiful.
Later, Wang Kun responded publicly: "I listened to "Nothing" as a love song. 'You still love me, I love me when I have nothing', isn't that great! ”
Cui Jian was both surprised and moved by Wang Kun's support. It was reported that Cui Jian also said when he came to power at that time: "I can't wait to call Wang Kun my mother." ”
After Wang Kun's death, Gong Linna said in an interview that she was very confused for a while.
Wang Kun saw her confusion, and at a dinner, teacher Wang Kun suddenly sang the black head of the Qin dialect to Gong Linna, and then continued to sing some folk songs in Southeast Asia, and also sang various operas.
Wang Kun's actions surprised Gong Linna very much at the time, and Gong Linna felt that Teacher Wang Kun was not only a "white-haired girl", but also a real national master. The meaning of Wang Kun's move is to let Gong Linna find her voice.
When singing "Worried", Gong Linna was also worried about whether it would cause ** opposition, but Wang Kun found her for the first time and asked her to continue to adhere to her own style, not to be the same, let alone blindly chase the trend.
Wang Kun's husband is the ** master Zhou Weizhi, Zhou Weizhi's original name is Zhou Liangji, born in Dongtai, Jiangsu Province in 1916, and his father is a soldier of the Northern Expeditionary Army.
Under the influence of his father, Zhou Liangji followed his father through the streets and alleys since he was a child, propagating revolutionary ideas, posting revolutionary slogans, and creating revolutionary literary and artistic works.
In his youth, Zhou Liangji carried out revolutionary propaganda work in Shanghai, and in order to draw a clear line with the old forces, he changed his name to Zhou Weizhi. Zhou Weizhi has worked in Shanghai and the China ** Association.
After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, he followed Li Gongpu and others to the front line in North China, and joined the Eighth Route Army in the same year and became a literary and artistic soldier of our party.
In the literary and artistic system, Zhou Weizhi is one of the few talents who "understands both ** and management".
The master, who has composed "March of the Anti-Japanese War", "Military Song of the People's Volunteers" and "Ten Miles of Long Street to the Prime Minister", has served as the head of the ** Song and Dance Troupe, the president of the ** Experimental Opera House, the vice minister of the Ministry of Culture, the acting minister and other positions, and has cultivated a large number of literary and artistic talents for New China.
In terms of marriage, the marriage between Wang Kun and her husband Zhou Weizhi can be called a model of the combination of love and career. During the Anti-Japanese War, Zhou Weizhi followed the "Western War Regiment" to the south and north, and selected Wang Kun into the "Western War Regiment" in Tang County.
In the long-term revolutionary struggle, Zhou Weizhi and Wang Kun became more and more familiar with each other, and the revolutionary friendship between the two gradually sublimated into love.
With the encouragement of their comrades, the two married in 1943 and became an enviable revolutionary couple.
Whether at work or in everyday life, the couple not only loves each other, but also helps each other.
Both of them are fond of ethnicity, so they often study, compose and perform works together. During their seventy-year marriage, the couple would often sing together.
In the 1964 large-scale ** dance epic "Dongfang Hong", Zhou Weizhi was the chief conductor, and Wang Kun was responsible for singing "Song of Peasant Friends". And this"Husband plays and woman sings".The form is a good story within the literary and artistic system.
The death of the two is also a good story. On September 12, 2014, 98-year-old Zhou Weizhi passed away due to ineffective medical treatment.
Wang Kun sat on a chair in the mourning hall and looked at the portrait of her husband, and once said something like this: "The two of us collide when we are close, but we can't be far away." This sentence seemed to be an omen, and two months later, Wang Kun also followed her husband.
After the death of her husband, although Wang Kun was sad, she still continued to work.
In order to prepare for "Leaving the Singing to the Future - Wang Kun and Her Friends Special Concert", Wang Kun still insisted on going to the Great Hall of the People to rehearse.
The concert was attended by many students and celebrities, who wanted to give a special gift to the teacher in the form of **.
However, on the morning of November 12, Wang Kun felt a headache, nausea, and fainted for half an hour.
Wang Kun's daughter rushed her to the hospital, and in the ambulance to the hospital, Wang Kun woke up, she burst into tears in the car, she felt that she might not be able to do it, saying that she still had a lot of work to do.
After arriving at the hospital, the doctor found that Wang Kun had a cerebral hemorrhage, and due to the ferocity of his condition, Wang Kun had been in a coma for more than ten days from hospitalization to death.
Her students and friends came to visit, but none of them said a word to Wang.
On November 21, 2014, Wang Kun died of cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 89.
After Wang Kun's death, her daughter Zhou August did not play mourning music at the memorial service, and played the songs she had sung before, such as "The White-Haired Girl" and so on.
Some students also came to sing some classic songs, and everyone said goodbye to Wang Kun in a singing voice. Everyone believes that this kind of farewell is the best tribute to Wang Kun's life.
Wang Kun's life is a complete life, and it is also a life with a capital letter.
To become a good person, you only need talent and opportunities, but to become an admirable person, you rely on persistence and morality. Wang Kun, whether it is a career or a person, is a model for my generation to learn.
References:
People's Daily Online Wang Kunyi's "White-Haired Girl" was staged: Someone saw *** wiping tears
Communist Party of China News Network Behind the scenes of the opera "The White-Haired Girl".
China Literature and Art Network Comrade Zhou Weizhi's life
CCTV "Xi'er" actor Wang Kun passed away, Zhu Mingying and many other ** memory teachers