Talking about the name Yang Likun, everyone may feel relatively unfamiliar, but if you talk about the two images of "Golden Flower" and "Ashima" that she has created, it must be familiar.
In fact, in Yang Likun's acting career, she has only starred in two film works, but she has a high degree of popularity and influence, and is known as "the first beauty of the 60s".
The life of this beauty was not smooth, because because of these two works, she went to the altar, but she also fell into a nightmare. After starring in two works, she quickly became popular, and then disappeared, what kind of life did she go through?
In 1942, Yang Likun was born in a small town in Ninger County, Yunnan Province, with twelve brothers and sisters in a family, and she was the ninth oldest, so she was called Xiaojiu by adults.
At the age of five, the family was in turmoil, his mother died, and his father was falsely imprisoned. At a young age, she fell into the dilemma of being left unattended and raised.
Fortunately, her second brother-in-law was the organization director of the Yunnan Provincial Party Committee, and his living conditions were good compared to other siblings, so his second sister took Yang Likun to his home in Kunming, took care of her food, clothing, and living, and sent her to school to study.
Since childhood, Yang Likun has been liked by adults because of her cute appearance and simple personality.
When she was 12 years old, she once accompanied her second sister to watch a performance in the provincial song and dance troupe, and Hu Zonglin, the head of the troupe, happened to see her and felt that this should be a good seedling for dancing, so he included her in the song and dance troupe for training.
Sure enough, Yang Likun's talent is extremely high, and she has become a solo dancer at the age of 13. "Spring River Flower Moon Night" starring her caused a lot of repercussions at that time, so she got a valuable opportunity to visit and perform abroad.
However, what everyone did not expect was that the times forced yang Likun's status in the song and dance troupe as the second sister and second brother-in-law who raised her were classified as rightists.
She is no longer a star-like being, but a small servant who is dominated to do all kinds of chores and tiring work.
However, Yang Likun did not fall silent, the god of fate once again cared for her, in order to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the founding of New China, the central government is preparing to start filming a TV series, called "Five Golden Flowers", the heroine needs to be recruited and selected from dance troupes across the country.
The story of "Five Golden Flowers" takes place in Yunnan, so the director hopes to find the right person from the song and dance troupe in Yunnan, and also comes to Yunnan himself. After learning this news, the actors in the song and dance troupe were naturally overjoyed, and they all understood that this was a perfect opportunity to become famous, so they signed up for the audition.
However, Yang Likun did not sign up, still doing the chores that others dumped her, and the rest of the time she was still immersed in her own world, hoping to dance better.
Unfortunately, the director was not very satisfied with the image of the actors who had signed up in the troupe, so the actors were screened out one by one.
Just when the director was discouraged, he accidentally saw Yang Likun, who was doing chores. Immediately attracted by her pure and lovely appearance and temperament, he immediately decided to choose Yang Likun as the interpreter of Jinhua.
The director's vision is indeed unique and keen, Yang Likun is perfectly qualified for the role of Jinhua, her distinctive simple temperament has been loved by the public, and the film has achieved great influence, so Jinhua Yang Likun became famous overnight.
Yang Likun, who became famous through "Five Golden Flowers", was soon invited to the second film, that is, "Ashima", which was originally an ancient legend handed down by the Yunnan people, which was poignant and mysterious.
No one has ever seen Ashima, so no one knows how beautiful her appearance is, so the beautiful and moving Yang Likun is worshipped by the world as a goddess Ashima.
However, what people did not expect was that the just-finished "Ashima" was judged as a "cancer" that "preached the supremacy of love", and that era could be described as a changeable situation, and the heroine Yang Likun was naturally classified as a bourgeois member and was criticized.
The sound of framing and questioning was also endless, and charges such as "black line characters" and "black seedlings" followed, and Yang Likun, who fell from the altar, had a mental breakdown for a while and often lost sleep at night.
Not long after, the two TV series starring Yang Likun, "Five Golden Flowers" and "Ashima", were banned, so "Ashima" pushed Yang Likun to the altar, but also pulled her into hell, and since then, she has fallen, and even disappeared.
In 1967, the atmosphere of the political movement quickly spread throughout the country, and the provincial cultural and labor groups formed revolutionary committees. Yang Kewen, Yang Likun's fifth brother, took her to the countryside in order to protect her sister's safety.
At that time, Yang Likun was in her youth, and a boy named Gu Chunyu fell in love, and Yang Likun's act of hiding in the countryside was a betrayal of love in Gu Chunyu's view. So he insisted on bringing her back to town.
Although the fifth brother was very reluctant, he could not stand Yang Likun's insistence on love and the stage, so he reluctantly agreed.
In addition, Gu Chunyu also assured Yang Kewen that he would protect Yang Likun like protecting his eyes, and the worries in Yang Kewen's heart were also reduced, and he handed over his sister to Gu Chunyu with confidence.
Unexpectedly, yang Likun and her fifth brother happened, and Gu Chunyu did not keep his promise.
Yang Likun, who returned to Kunming, did not succeed in standing on the stage of her dreams, but was pushed to the stage of criticism by her former colleagues as bourgeois elements, and was oppressed and bruised under their slogan of "Down with Yang Likun", and then sent to a dark little black house without even a quilt, where she lived every day with leftovers.
Obviously, she is a flower girl with just the right youth, but she has been tortured mentally and physically, which is the nightmare of Yang Likun's life. Soon she went crazy.
In 1969, Yang Likun's madness had reached a very serious level, and Yang Likun's good friend Yin Peixian later said that one morning, before the sky was light, she heard a miserable song coming: "You are going to kill me, blind your eye sockets, I will not die, I want to live!" After yin Peixian carefully recalled and recognized, she realized that it was Yang Likun's singing.
Despite this, those who were jealous of her and persecuted her claimed that Yang Likun was pretending to be crazy and ignored her, thus missing the best treatment period for madness.
Yang Likun's brother was distressed by his sister, looking around for help, and finally took Yang Likun to the hospital for treatment. After the doctor's treatment, Yang Likun's spirit has improved, at least her life can barely take care of herself, although complications such as auditory hallucinations and insomnia are still with her.
At that time, Gu Chunyu, who said that he wanted to protect Yang Likun, had become a member of the Revolutionary Committee of the Yunnan Provincial Song and Dance Troupe, with unlimited scenery, and had long forgotten the lover who had promised the Sea Oath mountain alliance.
At that time, Yang Likun was 28 years old, missed the best marriage age, although she was once a big star with unlimited scenery, but now she has fallen to this point, and no one wants to marry her.
Fortunately, at that time, there was a good friend of the Yang family named Chen Zetao, who acted as a matchmaker to introduce Tang Fenglou, a graduate of Shangwai who was being placed in the Guangdong mine, to Yang Likun.
Tang Fenglou is full of admiration for the former female star Yang Likun, and is even more sympathetic to her suffering.
Tang Fenglou, who met for the first time, was somewhat shocked by Yang Likun, who was tormented by illness and blessed. After the conversation between the two, Tang Fenglou was touched by Yang Likun's kindness and sincerity.
The two began a year-long exchange of letters, and felt the sincerity of the other party even more, and finally the two fell in love, although the family did not support, but Tang Fenglou still insisted on marrying Yang Likun.
However, less than two months after marriage, Yang Likun had great emotional fluctuations, and her condition became more and more unstable, and in the end she did not even know her husband.
At that time, she was pregnant, Tang Fenglou was distressed by his wife, and he and his wife proposed the idea of not having children first, but they were opposed by Yang Likun and the third sister, in order to reduce the impact of drugs on the fetus, Yang Likun only took traditional Chinese medicine to control the disease.
In May of the following year, Yang Likun gave birth to twin sons, named Tang Yan and Tang Tao.
Although the arrival of the two little ones has brought a lot of joy to the family, Yang Likun's physical and mental state is very poor, and she cannot take care of the children. Therefore, Tang Fenglou, who was still working, shouldered the burden of taking care of Yang Likun and the two children at the same time. Such a responsible man was almost crushed by life.
In 1978, Yang Likun's fate went to an important inflection point, the famous writer Chen Huangmei watched the movie "Ashima" in Kunming, was greatly shocked, and wrote an article called "Ashima, Where Are You", which also described Yang Likun's tragic fate.
Soon, this article was successfully published in the People's Daily, and after that, the Liberation Daily also published "Ashima is Around Us", and the influence of public opinion made Yang Likun's grievances smoothly rehabilitated.
In the same year, the organization transferred her to the Shanghai Film Studio, and she was finally reunited with her husband and son who had been in a different place for many years. After that, Yang Likun never returned to Kunming.
In 1979, Ashima was released across the country, a full 15 years after it was banned. The film still received a lot of attention and praise.
The former Ashima has aged and is no longer as pure and beautiful as it was then. In her later years, Yang Likun had nothing else to think about, and only hoped to accompany her family.
In order to let his wife and son live better, Tang Fenglou chose to go to the sea, opened a foreign language training class in Shenzhen, and also did the work of translating English books, running at both ends of Shanghai and Shenzhen.
In 1997, the accident came again, Yang Likun suddenly suffered a cerebral hemorrhage, and after being discharged from the hospital, Tang Fenglou worked in front of her sickbed, never leaving his wife. Yang Likun often quietly watched her husband's work next to her, which was very reassuring, of course, there were regrets, she hoped that she did not have the disease and could take good care of her husband.
Tang Fenglou never complained about her, and often took time out of his busy schedule to take her and the children outside to relax. The family lived a plain but warm life.
On July 21, 2000, due to complications of cerebral infarction, Yang Likun passed away at the age of 58.
Ashima on earth is no more, and she is back in the mythical world that belongs to her.
In 2001, half of Yang Likun's ashes were sent back to her hometown, and the other half remained in Shanghai, and she once again returned to a place where she had been away for more than 20 years, and tens of thousands of local people cried and bid farewell to "Ashima".
In the film forum, a movie fan evaluated her as an actress who has not been unmatched in China so far, and Yang Likun's beauty is eternal.
On the big screen, she created a very classic role and was widely admired by the audience. After the screen, her life is bumpy, but she never bows to fate, we pay tribute to this human Ashima and thank her for bringing us more courage to live.
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