Lu Xiumei) Lu Xiumei is a famous soprano singer, who sang many popular songs such as "Spring in **", "Ode to Nanhu", "Jin Suo and Yin Shuo", "I Want to Kiss", "Villagers in the Township", "Look at Yangge", etc., and was elected as "China's Top Ten National Soprano Singers".
Lu Xiumei has also made great achievements in the field of opera performance, playing the heroine in operas such as "Sister Jiang", "Liu Hulan", "Gulandam" and "Wei Baqun".
She is broad-minded, sincere and kind, and has a good reputation in the entertainment industry. Lu Xiumei's husband Zhao An was once the director of CCTV's smash hit and served as the chief director of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala 4 times.
In 2002, Zhao An was sentenced to 10 years in prison for ** crimes. Lu Xiumei was implicated by her husband, and she fell off the altar and suffered from pain. Only 4 years after her husband was released from prison, Lu Xiumei died of rectal cancer.
Now that Lu Xiumei has died of illness for 11 years, what is Zhao An's life situation?
Lu Xiumei (back row, first from right) took a group photo with her classmates).
On February 18, 1957, Lu Xiumei was born in a working family in Yuci, Shanxi, and was born with a golden voice.
When she was in elementary school, her parents sent Lu Xiumei to the local Children's Palace to learn vocal music. When he was in middle school, Li Qinglong, a teacher, found that Lu Xiumei was a plastic talent, so he carefully cultivated it.
Li Qinglong graduated from Nanjing ** College, he taught Lu Xiumei to read stave music and teach her musical instruments.
In 1974, after graduating from middle school, Lu Xiumei was admitted to the propaganda team of Shanxi Jinhua Textile Factory. Lu Xiumei often performs in factories or in surrounding villages and towns with the propaganda team, and is quite popular everywhere she goes.
A group photo of Lu Xiumei when she was in the school's publicity team).
In 1977, Lu Xiumei went to Dazhai in Xiyang County with the propaganda team to perform. After staying in the guest house, the waitress wanted to listen to Lu Xiumei sing a model play, so she sang an excerpt from "Red Lantern" "My cousins are innumerable".
It just so happened that Wu Xue, then vice minister of culture, came to Dazhai to inspect the work and also lived in this guest house.
Wu Xue was a famous opera singer when she was young, and played "Yang Bailao" in the opera "The White-Haired Girl".
Wu Xue cherished talents, so she called Lu Xiumei to the room and asked her to sing another model play. Lu Xiumei didn't expect her fate to be changed like this.
Wu Xue (1914-2006)**
A month later, Lu Xiumei was transferred to the China Opera and Dance Theater in Beijing and became a professional opera singer.
Lu Xiumei is not from a professional class, she knows that she is a lot worse, she gets up in the early hours of the morning every day to practice her voice, and when her colleagues get up, she has been practicing for more than an hour.
Lu Xiumei is tall, beautiful, kind-hearted, and has a good personality, and the dancer Zhao An in the troupe loves Lu Xiumei.
Zhao An was born on September 30, 1959 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, two years younger than Lu Xiumei. He was admitted to ** Wuqi Art University in 1973 and entered the China Opera and Dance Theater as a dancer in 1976.
Zhao An) Zhao An is handsome, well-proportioned, and versatile. When the troupe went to perform in other places, he helped Lu Xiumei carry the box. When Lu Xiumei sang on stage, Zhao An danced with her.
Lu Xiumei felt that Zhao An was clever and self-motivated, and she also had a good impression of him. After a period of dating, the two fell in love.
In 1984, Lu Xiumei and Zhao An got married in Beijing. At that time, Lu Xiumei was the backbone actor in the troupe, starring in operas such as "Sister Jiang", "Visitors on the Iceberg", "Gray Magpie", "Long Water Flow" and so on.
The songs she sang such as "Jin Suo and Yin Suo" and "Spring is **" want to kiss" are even more popular.
Among them, "Jin Shuo and Yin Shuo" was compiled into cross talk by Jiang Kun and was well known by the people of the whole country.
In 1986, in the title of the play inscribed by Comrade *** - China's second large-scale epic "Song of the Chinese Revolution", Lu Xiumei served as the soloist of "Ode to the South Lake" and made a movie.
Song of the Chinese Revolution" poster).
Lu Xiumei sang "Ode to the South Lake" in the film "Song of the Chinese Revolution").
In 1986 and 1987, Lu Xiumei also participated in the CCTV Spring Festival Gala twice in a row, and it became popular all over the country. And Zhao An is just an unknown dancer who lives under the aura of Lu Xiumei.
Dancers eat youth meals, and they have to change careers when they reach their 20s. In 1985, 26-year-old Zhao An was transferred to ** TV station as an assistant director through his own efforts.
In 1989, Zhao An and Zhang Xiaohai co-directed the CCTV Spring Festival Gala. Since then, Zhao An has directed the CCTV Spring Festival Gala 6 times and served as the chief director 4 times.
In the mid-90s of last century, Zhao An was promoted to deputy director of the CCTV Literary and Art Program Center and director of the Literature and Art Department, with the administrative level of deputy department.
Lu Xiumei and her masterpiece).
After Zhao An served as the director of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, Lu Xiumei suffered. In order to avoid suspicion, she has not appeared on the CCTV Spring Festival Gala for 10 years. Lu Xiumei had resentment in her heart, but she understood her husband and did not blame him.
In 1990, Lu Xiumei gave birth to her daughter Zhao Yingxuan in Beijing. After becoming a mother, Lu Xiumei's work has not been affected.
In 1997, at the CCTV New Year's Day party, Lu Xiumei sang "Villagers", which won the first place in the gold medal of the 4th China ** TV Competition. She is both virtuous and artistic, and was rated as a national first-class actor.
At that time, Zhao An was a hot director of CCTV, and there were many people who flattered him, and Lu Xiumei was also looked down upon. Many people try their best to get in touch with her, but Lu Xiumei is an upright person, does not take the wrong path, and does not cause trouble to her husband at work.
Zhang Junyi. Unknowingly, the appearance of a man named Zhang Junyi directly subverted the fate of Lu Xiumei and his wife.
Zhang Jun is not tall, has a mediocre appearance, and has a certain literary talent. Born on March 16, 1970 in Dongliao County, Jilin Province, he worked as the editor-in-chief of an in-house local newspaper before graduating from high school.
In the 90s of the last century, Zhang Jun came to Beijing to develop, and he had no social background and network resources, so he made a wide range of celebrity friends. Lu Xiumei's ancestral home is in the Northeast, and in 1994, Zhang Jun came to the door to recognize Lu Xiumei's distant relatives under the pretext of being a distant relative.
Lu Xiumei's parents have passed away and cannot be verified, and Zhang Junyi is very enthusiastic, so Lu Xiumei recognized him as a distant relative. Since then, Zhang Jun has called Lu Xiumei "sister" and Zhao An "brother-in-law".
Lu Xiumei signed autographs for fans).
In 1995, Zhao An served as the chief director of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, and Zhang Junyi came to Zhao An with 50,000 yuan, hoping that this Spring Festival Gala could sing the songs he created. He said that 50,000 yuan was to sponsor the CCTV Spring Festival Gala.
Zhao An accepted it, and as a result, Zhang Junyi's "New Year's Card" and "Colorful Moment" were adopted.
Since then, Zhang Junyi has had close contacts with Zhao An, and he also applied for a VIP card for Zhao An in a restaurant and saved 60,000 yuan in it.
Zhao An did not treat Zhang Junyi badly, and the feature film "True Love Forever" about Zhang Junyi was broadcast on CCTV.
Later, after Zhao An's accident, the case-handling personnel found Lu Xiumei to verify the situation. Lu Xiumei said that she has always regarded Zhang Junyi as a distant relative, and felt that it was not easy for him to drift alone in Beijing, so she tried to provide him with some help.
Zhang Jun wrote lyrics for songs such as "Mother's Hair is White" and "Snow and Sunshine", Lu Xiumei asked a composer friend to compose music for these songs, and the other party confiscated Zhang Jun with a penny.
Lu Xiumei also asked her actor friends to sing these songs during the performance. According to the regulations, singers have to charge a certain fee for singing such new songs, but the other party did not charge Zhang Jun a penny for the sake of Lu Xiumei's face.
In 2001, Lu Xiumei and Zhao An moved into a new house, and Zhang Jun bought them a set of stereos for 500,000 yuan.
In 1997, Zhao An wanted to compete for the position of the leader of CCTV's literature and art department, but learned from his colleagues that someone spoke ill of him in front of the leader and wrote an anonymous letter to slander him. Zhao An was anxious in his heart.
After Zhang Junyi learned about it, he proposed to Zhao An to write an anonymous letter to the other party.
Zhao An wrote the anonymous letter and handed it to Zhang Junyi, who asked a female employee surnamed Yang to print it out and send it out.
What Zhao An didn't expect was that Zhang Junyi kept the manuscript of Zhao An's anonymous letter.
In 2001, Zhao An and Zhang Junyi fell out over some trivial matters. So Zhang Junyi dug out the manuscript of Zhao An's anonymous letter, added some slanderous content to the leader, and then asked a female employee surnamed Yang to rush from Beijing to Hangzhou and send it to CCTV from a post office in Hangzhou.
After receiving the anonymous letter, the relevant leaders immediately launched an investigation, and on September 25, 2002, Zhao An was summoned by the Beijing procuratorate. But the next day, Zhao An was released on bail and returned home pending trial.
Seeing that Zhao An was not brought down, Zhang Jun and a female employee surnamed Yang wrote an anonymous letter in the name of Zhao An again, harming the leadership of CCTV in the letter, and then sent it from Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei and other places.
Don't stretch out your hand, you will grab it when you stretch out your hand).
In October 2002, Zhang Junyi was detained, saying that he had given Zhao An 110,000 yuan and 500,000 yuan worth of audio, and then Zhao An was formally arrested.
When the news came out, ** was hyped. It was also reported on the Internet that more than 10 million yuan was found in Zhao An's home, as well as 4 high-end cars.
However, according to the "Incident and Arrest History" provided by the case-handling personnel of the First Branch of the Beijing Municipal Procuratorate, all the passbooks and cash found in Zhao An's home totaled 3 million yuan, of which only 1 million yuan was in cash.
Lu Xiumei and Zhao An also do not have luxury houses or famous cars, and their family only has a Guangzhou Honda car, which they bought in 1995.
On December 12, 2003, the Beijing No. 1 Intermediate People's Court sentenced Zhao An to 10 years in prison for the crime.
Zhang Jun was sentenced to 6 years in prison for bribery and ***. The female employee surnamed Yang was sentenced to 4 years in prison for ***.
Zhao An was imprisoned, Lu Xiumei fell from the altar, and suffered cold eyes and criticism from the outside world. The friends who used to have a good relationship with her now treat her as a plague and do everything possible to stay away from her.
Some obviously have a good relationship with Lu Xiumei, but they claim that they only know Lu Xiumei outside. In all fairness, Lu Xiumei has a good character, and the leaders of the unit did not discriminate against her. When the unit went to the grassroots level to perform, it also arranged for Lu Xiumei to appear.
Lu Xiumei) Lu Xiumei often cried at home, and her daughter comforted her with tears: Mom, if you want to be strong, I will be strong. Lu Xiumei held her daughter in her arms, tears falling in her eyes.
After experiencing this blow in her life, Lu Xiumei realized that this had something to do with her careless friendship, but the main responsibility was still her husband. During her husband's imprisonment, Lu Xiumei wrote to Zhao An many times, encouraging him to reform well.
She also took her daughter to visit the prison many times, and said to Zhao An: My daughter and I are waiting for you to come out.
Being in prison made Zhao An realize the huge mistake he had made, and he decided to reform himself to wash away the stains on his life.
Zhao An) During his sentence in Tianhe Prison in Beijing, Zhao An made adjustments and innovations to the prison's internal television program, and did a good job of the prison's television station, and was sentenced to 8 months.
In 2006, Zhao An was transferred to Yancheng Prison to serve his sentence, but his sentence was reduced by 3 years and 6 months for good behavior. On May 10, 2008, Zhao An was released from prison ahead of schedule.
After Zhao An was imprisoned, her daughter also became a "celebrity" at school. In order to change the environment for her daughter, Lu Xiumei sent her to study abroad.
Before Zhao An was imprisoned, he was expelled from the party and public office by CCTV, and he was the first middle-level cadre to be double-opened in the 50 years since the establishment of CCTV.
After his release from prison, Zhao became a freelancer, and for several years he did not show his head and recuperated at home.
At that time, ** flocked to interview Zhao An and Lu Xiumei. Lu Xiumei was disgusted by the hype of ** and politely rejected them one by one.
Not long after her husband was released from prison, Lu Xiumei was diagnosed with rectal cancer. In order not to cause trouble to colleagues and relatives and friends, Lu Xiumei did not tell anyone.
In 2009, Lu Xiumei underwent surgery to remove the lesion and her condition was controlled. Even during the period of recuperation, Lu Xiumei did not miss the performance arranged by the unit.
In the past few years, Lu Xiumei has been in and out of the hospital many times, fighting cancer tenaciously. Zhao An felt that he had dragged his wife down, and cried in front of Lu Xiumei many times.
In 2012, cancer cells spread wildly in Lu Xiumei's body, and she was admitted to the Cancer Hospital of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences in Beijing.
"At that time, I was an editor and reporter at a well-known ** in the country, and I visited Teacher Lu Xiumei in the hospital.
Although Lu Xiumei on the hospital bed has changed a lot compared to the stage, she is very sunny and strong, and she does not think of herself as a cancer patient.
Lu Xiumei's performance photo).
During the exchange, Lu Xiumei was very sincere, and when she talked about the ups and downs she had gone through with Zhao An, she sincerely dissected herself.
Zhao An was also in the ward, massaging his wife's back all the time. It was noon when the author left the hospital, and Lu Xiumei also told her husband to go to the hospital cafeteria to cook for the "fine celebrities".
The celebrity "didn't want to burden them, so he politely declined."
Walking out of the hospital, tears welled up in the eyes of the "fine celebrity".
Family and friends sent Lu Xiumei on her last journey).
On March 1, 2012, Lu Xiumei unfortunately passed away of cancer at the age of 55. On March 7, the farewell ceremony of Lu Xiumei's body was held in Babaoshan, Beijing, Cai Guoqing, Dong Wenhua, Zhu Jun, Yan Weiwen, Mao Ning and other friends in the circle rushed to the scene to mourn, and everyone's eyes were full of heartache tears.
Wei Yinjiu, vice president of the China Opera and Dance Theater, had tears in his eyes in an interview. He called Lu Xiumei an excellent actor, a good party member, and both moral and artistic, and her departure was a big loss to the unit.
Lu Xiumei's unfortunate early death pushed her husband and daughter into the abyss of grief. In the days without Lu Xiumei, Zhao An and his daughter relied on each other and healed each other.
It wasn't until 2017 that the father and daughter gradually came out of their grief. Since then, Zhao An has been engaged in behind-the-scenes work, working part-time at some TV stations, and living a frugal and low-key life.
Zhao An) After Lu Xiumei left, Zhao An has never been involved in feelings and has always been single.
Lu Xiumei's daughter Zhao Yingxuan is very strong, and now Beijing has her own cultural company, and she is also a shareholder of many companies, and she is a bold female entrepreneur.
In May 2023, Lu Xiumei died of cancer for 11 years, and Zhao An has never remarried, and is still single.