At the end of the sixties of last century, there was a rather eye-catching thing, that is, Lin Liguo's choice of objects that year, open to the outside world under the guise of "selecting confidential personnel", and set a lot of high standards, such as the requirements of red and specialized, cultural level, and then physical characteristics, boys to about 175, girls to be around 165, temperament to be beautiful, but can not have a charming atmosphere, to be dignified and generous, walking can not be crooked grin. In addition to other requirements: the skin should be bright, there should be no spots, scars, no moles, only the facial shape, skin color and eyes, ears, mouth and nose are refined into nearly 10 standards... All in all, the card is very strict. At that time, this matter was once jokingly called "concubine" or "beauty pageant".
After the standards were formulated, those below were naturally very busy, and they also got a "work group" in the name of a "work group", and a group of people acted separately and spread a "beauty pageant" net throughout the country, mainly concentrated in literary and art groups, schools, hospitals, factories, shopping malls, farms, and rural knowledge and green spots in various places to conduct a round of auditions. In those days, unlike now, the selection of people was mainly from the photos in the archives, so it was selected and compared from a large number of photos collected, and then the sand panned for gold, and the thousands of people chose one, and then the interview was conducted after the initial qualification.
Through nearly a year of extensive casting of the net, layer by layer screening, strict comparison, finally set the target in the few initial pioneers. According to the recollection of a girl named Zhang Ning who was finally selected: In the end, only she and a girl surnamed Ran in Xi'an were left.
Zhang Ning, whose ancestral home is Yuankeng Village, Zhangmu Township, Xingguo, Jiangxi, was born in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, her father Zhang Fuhua, an old Red Army soldier, successively served as a battalion political instructor, regimental political commissar, division political commissar and other positions, participated in the first to fifth anti-"encirclement and suppression" and Long March in the Central Soviet Region, during the Period of Anti-Japanese Resistance and Liberation War, all held important positions, in 1955 was awarded the rank of colonel, died in Nanjing in 1957, only 45 years old.
Zhang Ning's father Zhang Fuhua died, she was only seven years old, her mother Tian Ming, also an old revolutionary, had three sons and a daughter, daughter Zhang Ning, that year, Zhang Ning was selected by the Nanjing Military Region Political Department Frontline Song and Dance Troupe to learn dance, a show, Zhang Ning served as the leader of the "Shell Dance" in the large-scale song and dance drama "East China Sea Outpost", her elegant image temperament and skillful skills impressed the audience, Zhang Ning's name did not go away.
Zhang Ning is one meter 68 tall, long legs and thin waist, the figure is very symmetrical, the oval face is slightly emaciated, the skin is white, the nose bridge is high, and a pair of eyes are beautiful and energetic. Some people have commented that Zhang Ning has a very heavy squeamishness, and she feels like a delicate flower in a greenhouse.
At that time, when Zhang Ning was on the front line singing and dancing, when he went to Indonesia to perform, he caused Indonesian President Sukarno to fall in love at first sight, saying to the Chinese ambassador that he could not succeed in kissing, and almost using force to rob his relatives, which showed how charming Zhang Ning was at that time. Therefore, Zhang Ning in this selection activity, no matter what aspect of the conditions are qualified, and successfully selected, but in the end, there is still a Xi'an girl left to compete with her, how is her situation?
This girl's name is Ran Zhiyan, her nickname is Yan Yan, her hometown is in Henan, her parents are working in the Northwest Cotton Factory, so he has become a son of the National Cotton Factory, and there are 5 brothers and sisters in the family, 3 girls, and two boys. Her parents looked average, but Yan Yan was like a flower.
Yan Yan is very beautiful, the skin is very fair, even the blood vessels on the forehead are faintly visible. A pair of standard almond eyes, eyebrows into the sideburns, nose straight and delicate, mouth is particularly small, laughing the corners of the mouth upwards. In high school, she was about one meter six or seven tall, slender, a little shoulder-length. The whole person looks like a refreshing and smooth water onion.
And Yan Yan's temper is also very good, has always been gentle and elegant, she became a girl, and some of her peers went out shopping, partying, walking together, tall, combing long braids, slender figure, very temperamental, the return rate is very high, the following picture is a photo of Yan Yan at that time.
Zhang Ning and Ran Zhiyan were selected, and in the end, Zhang Ning's conditions were superior to Yan Yan's, so in the end, Zhang Ning was put on first, and Yan Yan brushed down, so what was the fate of the two of them?
Both can be described as fatefully bumpy. First of all, Zhang Ning, who was elected, her fate has completely changed, under the pressure of power, she has suffered all kinds of unfair treatment, three in and three out of Beijing in 7 years, Zhang Ning was forced to enter Beijing for the third time, walking between Maojiawan and Beijing Trinity Hospital. When the matter with Lin Liguo was not yet eyebrow-raising, the outbreak of the 913 incident was seriously affected, the third time into Beijing was 4 years, plus 2 years of control in Nanjing, the depression and depression for 6 years, until the reform and opening up, so that Zhang Ning, who finally broke free from the cage and regained his free body, cried with joy, both sad and relieved. After marrying, Zhang Ning suffered family changes, and finally followed her current husband and lived in a foreign country.
After Ran Zhiyan returned to her place of residence, her colleagues asked where she had been missing for two weeks. She told everyone that she was going to the Kaowen Labor Troupe, and her expression was very mysterious, and it was estimated that the relevant departments strictly required her to keep it secret at that time. Soon, it was rumored that she participated in the selection of concubines, and it was not until later that zhang Ning's article was disclosed.
Ran Zhiyan, who was not selected, later went to the countryside of Guanzhong, and in the early 1970s, she was recruited to work as a worker in a sewing machine factory near the Terracotta Warriors of Qin Shi Huang, and a Shanghai Zhiqing pursued her desperately, and eventually she married him and gave birth to a daughter.
Later, due to the serious anemia after giving birth to the child, the condition deteriorated, and the place where he lived was far from the hospital, after the onset of the disease, on the way to the hospital, he died, before the age of 30. It can be said that he died young with a red face and a short life.
Originally, it was understandable that the male eldest should be married and the female eldest should be married, but in that special era, this sports-style so-called "concubine selection" was indeed a sensation, and it is still enjoyable to this day, and the final ending of the two heroines, Zhang Ning and Ran Zhiyan, has made posterity sigh and sigh.