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Shi Guangnan's wife, Hong Ruding
Shi Guangnan is a well-known composer, who composed songs such as "Toast Song", "Singing with Tambourine", "White Feathers Send Affection", "Turpan Grapes Ripe", "Amorous Land", "Anchovy Bamboo in the Moonlight", "On the Field of Hope", "If You Want to Know Me" and other songs, which have become eternal classics.
He is known as the "People's Musician", and since 1949, only three musicians, Nie Er, Xian Xinghai and Shi Guangnan, have won this honor. In 2018, among the 100 reform pioneers commended for celebrating the 40th anniversary of reform and opening up, Shi Guangnan was the only composer representative.
Shi Guangnan's wife, Ms. Hong Ruding, is an engineer, and the two have a daughter, Shi Honglei. On May 2, 1990, Shi Guangnan, who was less than 50 years old, died of cerebral hemorrhage, and Hong Ruding was only 44 years old. The young widow pushed Hong Ruding into great grief.
Now that Shi Guangnan has been dead for 32 years, what kind of unknown life situation does Hong Ruding and his daughter have?
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Hong Ruding and Shi Guangnan
Born in Singapore in July 1946, Hung Ru ting was 6 years younger than Shi Quang Nam. Hong Ruding's father, Hong Sisi, was born in 1907 in Kinmen, Fujian Province, and was a patriotic overseas Chinese. After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he served as the editor-in-chief of Malaysia's Guanghua Daily and Modern Weekly, using the cultural position to support the anti-Japanese resistance and attack the heinous crimes of the Japanese.
After the founding of new China, Hong Sisi returned to China with her family from Singapore and later served as the vice chairman of the All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese.
After graduating from high school, Hong Ruding was admitted to the Department of Precision Instruments of Tianjin University, and after graduation, he entered a state-owned enterprise in Tianjin as an engineer. She loves music, worships Shi Guangnan, and often goes to listen to Shi Guangnan's works.
In Hong Ruding's imagination, Shi Guangnan is not a 60-year-old man, but also a middle-aged man 40 miles away.
At the end of the 1960s, under the introduction of a friend, Hong Ruding met Shi Guangnan. After meeting, she was shocked, she didn't expect Shi Guangnan to be so young and create so many popular works!
Shi Guangnan with his parents
Shi Guangnan (left) with older brother and sister
Shi Guangnan was born on April 22, 1940 in Chongqing, the mother of Zhong Fuguang, a native of Jiangjin County, Sichuan Province, and was the first generation of female soldiers of the Whampoa Military Academy, and the anti-Japanese heroine Zhao Yiman was her student.
Shi Guangnan's father, Shi Cuntong, was born in Jinhua, Zhejiang Province in 1899, and was one of the earliest members of our party and participated in the formation of the Tokyo Communist Group. Shi Guangnan has an older brother and an older sister, and he is the youngest child in the family.
Shi Guangnan is a musical wizard, he was able to compose music at the age of 5, and after graduating from junior high school, he was admitted to the Affiliated High School of the Central Conservatory of Music. The Central Conservatory of Music was founded in Tianjin in 1950 and moved to Beijing in 1958. However, at that time, the Attached Middle School of the Central Conservatory of Music was still running a school in Tianjin, so Shi Guangnan left Beijing to go to tianjin to study.
After graduating from middle school, Shi Guangnan was admitted to the Composition Department of the Central Conservatory of Music. After graduating from university in 1964, he was assigned to the Tianjin Song and Dance Theatre as a songwriter.
Shi Guangnan is 1.80 meters tall, thick and simple, and only music in his heart. In the eyes of outsiders, he is a nerd and does not attract girls, so he has not been in love until he is 30 years old. Some people predict that nerds like Shi Guangnan will beat bare sticks.
When he was young, Hong Ruding stood tall, combing two braids, and had a pure and dignified beauty. She adored Shi Guangnan and liked to listen to him.
When the two were dating, Shi Guangnan was red in the face and did not know what to say. Only when it comes to music does he gush. Therefore, every time he went on a date, Hong Ruding talked about music with Shi Guangnan.
The two were in love for more than a year, and Shi Guangnan never said the word "love" to Hong Ruding, and even when he proposed, he could not say this word.
Hong Ruding deliberately provoked him: "Do you not love me?" Or do you have other ideas? Shi Guangnan's face turned red: "I want to talk to you about music and write songs for you all my life." Hong Ruding felt that such a simple man was reliable and loved him even more in his heart.
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In 1970, Shi Guangnan's father died of illness in Beijing, Shi Guangnan said to Hong Ruding: "My brothers and sisters all have their own small families, and they are not in Beijing, and in the future, my mother will mainly rely on me to take care of you, and I am worried that it will drag you down." ”
Hong Ruding replied: "Who does not have parents?" Who doesn't get old? I would like to take care of my mother with you in the future. ”
On February 1, 1972, Shi Guangnan and Hong Ruding married in Tianjin. The matrimonial room is a bungalow of several square meters divided into units, without kitchen and toilet, and is shared with several neighbors.
On Hong Ruding's birthday this year, Shi Guangnan composed the song "Playing tambourines and singing songs" as a birthday gift to his wife. He hummed in front of his wife, and the beautiful melody and vivid and smooth lyrics intoxicated Hong Ruding.
Shi Guangnan and Luo Tianchan
Soon, this song was first sung by mezzo-soprano singer Luo Tianchan, causing a huge response. In the special era, Shi Guangnan suffered unfair treatment because of this song and was sent to the countryside of Hebei to work for more than a year.
In 1973, when his daughter Shi Honglei was born in Tianjin, Shi Guangnan did not stay by his wife's side. He did not return to Tianjin until a month after his daughter was born.
In order not to affect her husband's creation, Hong Ruding took care of all the household chores. On Sunday, Shi Guangnan also wrote songs at home, and Hong Ruding carried her daughter to the courtyard to play, and at noon she carried her daughter home to cook.
When Hong Ruding was cooking in the kitchen, Shi Guangnan held his daughter and sang the songs he created, and Hong Ruding's heart was sweet. Although life is poor and her husband is not romantic, Hong Ruding feels that his spiritual life is very fulfilling.
Shi Guangnan with his daughter
In 1975, Hong Ruding was transferred to Beijing to work, Shi Guangnan was still in Tianjin, and the couple began to live separately. Hong Ruding did not have a house and took his daughter to live in his mother's house in Hepingli, Beijing.
On Sunday, Shi Guangnan went to Beijing to visit his wife and daughter, and returned to Tianjin after a one-day stay.
In 1978, Shi Guangnan was transferred to the Central Orchestra in Beijing, and Hong Ruding and her husband finally ended their separation. The unit did not give them a house, and the Hong Ruding family was huddled together with their mother-in-law.
The mother-in-law's home is a small three-bedroom apartment, there is no living room, there is no decoration in the home, it is all cement floor. Hong Ruding and her husband renovated a room and made a study for Shi Guangnan. The floor tiles were laid by her husband, and the wallpaper was also pasted by them.
The most valuable thing in the study was an old piano, which Shi Guangnan's father bought for him in his early years.
Shi Guangnan (right) and Guan Mucun (left)
Shi Guangnan has always wanted to buy a set of combination audio, but he can't come up with this money. From the late 1970s to the 1980s and 1990s, it was the peak of Shi Guangnan's creation.
He has successively created many popular masterpieces such as "Toast Song", "Pinetail Bamboo in the Moonlight", "The Grapes of Turpan Are Ripe", "Amorous Land", "On the Field of Hope" and many other popular masterpieces, and Shi Guangnan has become a popular composer.
However, shi Guangnan, who is famous, is still poor, his monthly salary is only 105 yuan, and Hong Ruding's salary is even lower than her husband's. Shi Guangnan writes a song and is only paid 10 to 20 yuan.
In the creation of "On the Field of Hope", the remuneration was high, and Shi Guangnan got 30 yuan.
Shi Guangnan with mother and daughter
In 1981, Shi Guangnan composed the opera "Wounded Death" for the China Opera and Dance Theater, and was busy for more than 3 months without a penny of remuneration.
Hong Ruding is busy at work and does not have much time to take care of the family, Shi Guangnan has to take care of his daughter and mother, but also rides a bicycle to change gas, pushing a scooter to store cabbage in winter.
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Once, a relative of Hong Ruding's Singapore came to Beijing as a guest and saw that the Shi Guangnan family was living such an embarrassing life that he could hardly believe his eyes.
He told Hong Ruding: "Musicians in Singapore live in villas, drive luxury cars, eat and go to high-end hotels. If Mr. Shi goes to Singapore to develop, I don't know how much money I will make. ”
Hong Ruding relayed the other party's words to her husband and said: "I have a lot of relatives and friends in Singapore, are you willing to go there to develop?" ”
Mr. and Mrs. Shi Guangnan with their daughter
Shi Guangnan refused without hesitation: "I am Chinese, the root of art is in China, what to do over there?" I think this kind of life is very good now, the material life is a little poorer, but the spiritual life is very rich. ”
Hong Ruding understood her husband and did not force it.
In the mid-1980s, the "northwest wind" blew in the music world, and many singers found Shi Guangnan and asked him to write relevant songs for himself. At that time, Shi Guangnan wanted to compose the opera "Qu Yuan", and there was no time to write popular songs for the occasion.
So the singers in turn communicated with Hong Ruding, hoping that she would convince her husband. Who knew that as soon as Hong Ruding opened his mouth, he was rejected by Shi Guangnan, and the two had their first friction after marriage.
After Hong Ruding gave birth to two days, she saw her husband working in the study late at night, and the white hair born prematurely on her head was particularly dazzling under the light, and she softened her heart again and reconciled with her husband in her heart.
Shi Guangnan participates in social activities (September 1988)
In 1986, Hong Ruding was sent to the United States to work for a year. At that time, there was a wave of going abroad in China, and many acting talents went abroad. When Hong Ruding was working in the United States, several acting companies found Shi Guangnan through her and invited him to the United States to develop with generous treatment.
Shi Guangnan refused: "I will not go abroad for the rest of my life, I want to write more songs for this amorous land." ”
Her husband always wanted a set of combination sounds, and Hong Ruding saved money during her work in the United States, and when she returned from work in 1987, she bought her husband a set of combination sounds.
Shi Guangnan was excited, stroking the stereo like a child and playing songs with the stereo. This scene made Hong Ruding particularly sad.
My husband is a well-known musician, but he can't even afford a stereo!
Hong Ruding with her husband and daughter
At that time, the family did not have money to install air conditioning, the temperature in the house was as high as 36 or 7 degrees in the summer, Shi Guangnan was writing songs in the study with his bare arms, and soon the vest was soaked. Hong Ruding took a basin of clean water every once in a while and wiped the sweat on her husband's back.
Since 1987, Shi Guangnanguan has composed the opera Qu Yuan at home, and he has been preparing for this opera for 10 years. Every time he finished writing a singing voice, he taught his daughter to sing at home.
Shi Honglei has a lot of musical talent, and Shi Guangnan intends to train her daughter to become a singer.
In 1989, Hong Ruding's father died of illness, and she was immersed in grief. At that time, Shi Guangnan's "Qu Yuan" had reached the most critical stage, and Hong Ruding took care of the lives of her husband and daughter.
Shi Guangnan (second from left) goes out with friends to collect wind
On March 17, 1990, the opera "Qu Yuan" was released in Beijing in the form of a concert oratorio. The famous conductor Zheng Xiaoying served as the conductor, and Hong Ruding, her husband and daughter came to the scene by bicycle.
At the end of the performance, Shi Guangnan burst into tears, and Hong Ruding knew the hard work and efforts of her husband, and she was also in tears.
Who knows that more than a month later, Hong Ruding has ushered in an unforgettable parting of life and death.
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On the morning of April 18, 1990, Hong Ruding was preparing to ride a bicycle to work, and Shi Guangnan mischievously hid her car keys.
Hong Ruding looked everywhere, anxious to turn around, Shi Guangnan returned the car keys to her. Shi Guangnan had never made such a joke with his wife before, and Hong Ruding felt a strange feeling in his heart.
When her husband sent her away from home, he said to cook for her at night. After his wife left home, Shi Guangnan was revising the singing voice of "Qu Yuan" and letting his daughter sing.
Suddenly his hands were numb and dizzy, and his daughter helped him to the couch. Shi Honglei quickly called his mother, and Hong Ruding rushed home and took her husband to the hospital.
After diagnosis, Shi Guangnan suffered from cerebral hemorrhage, and there was brain death that night, and the hospital gave Shi Guangnan first aid.
It turned out that Shi Guangnan suffered from congenital vascular malformations, and some of the blood vessels were thick and some were thin. The thin part is only one-tenth of a normal person.
Due to long-term fatigue and excessive use of the brain, the blood vessels in his head ruptured. After 14 days of first aid, the hospital was unable to save Shi Guangnan's life. On May 2, 1990, the heart of people's musician Shi Guangnan stopped beating.
Shi Guangnan
The death of her husband and the absence of a word for Hong Ruding became her eternal heartache and regret.
While sorting out her husband's belongings, Hong Ruding saw her husband's white vest with two holes, and she couldn't help but feel pain. The husband has worked hard all his life, and he has been poor all his life, and he has not really enjoyed life, and Hong Ruding cried so much that he could not help himself.
At this time, the mother-in-law was more than 80 years old, could not withstand the blow of losing her son in old age, and died half a year later.
Hong Ruding buried tears and pain in his heart and showed his strong side in front of his daughter. Because at this time, Shi Honglei was in high school and preparing to enter college. Hong Ruding and her daughter heal each other's wounds, and the mother and daughter are strong in grief.
In 1991, Shi Honglei graduated from high school and was admitted to Beijing University of Foreign Chinese with honors. In the following 5 years, Hong Ruding's mother died of illness, and her second sister also died.
Hong Ruding
In just a few years, Hong Ruding lost her father, husband, mother-in-law, mother, and second sister, and her life was dark.
In 1995, Schwarzenberg graduated from university and went to graduate school in the United States. Hong Ruding remained alone in Beijing.
The husband was in too much of a hurry, and there were still too many things to complete, and Hong Ruding decided to help her husband complete his last wish to comfort her husband in heaven.
The husband wrote more than 1,000 songs in his lifetime, and more than 100 were never published. The opera "Qu Yuan", which he painstakingly created, was not officially put on the stage.
In 1997, the General Political Affairs Opera Troupe decided to rehearse the opera "Qu Yuan", and a company was willing to sponsor 200,000 yuan of start-up funds, but there was still a funding gap of 800,000 yuan.
Yang Hongji and Mi Hong
Hong Ruding decided to auction off her husband's musical works to rehearse the opera Qu Yuan. After the matter was reported by the media, Hong Ruding was pushed to the cusp of public opinion, and many people said that she was greedy for money.
As everyone knows, Hong Ruding did this and only wanted to fulfill her husband's last wish. But for various reasons, the auction did not bear fruit.
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Later, with the help of Shi Guangnan's students and friends, the 1998 opera "Qu Yuan" was finally officially put on the stage, with Yang Hongji and Mi Hong playing the male and female protagonists, which achieved great success.
On the night of the performance, Hong Ruding tearfully said to her husband's posthumous photo: "Qu Yuan has finally been performed, you still have a lot of things to do, I will help you complete them one by one." ”
Hong Ruding (second from right) with her daughter Shi Honglei (second from left) and Shi Zhiyou, music director of the Long Shadow Orchestra (first from right).
In 2001, Hong Ruding retired, single-mindedly ignoring her husband's last wishes. While sorting out the score in her husband's studio, she found that Shi Guangnan had planned three large-scale concerts for herself, with a total of 133 tracks, of which more than 100 had never been published.
Hong Ruding made many efforts to help her husband complete the concert. In August 2010, the 20th anniversary of Shi Guangnan's death concert was held in Beijing, and Guan Mucun, Luo Tianchan, Yang Hongji, Tong Tiexin and other singers who had sung Shi Guangnan's works took the stage with tears in their eyes.
Immediately afterward, the concert to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Shi Guangnan's death was held in Tianjin, which was also a great success.
Moreover, Hong Ruding also helped her husband to collect and sort out materials, Shi Guangnan's life, work photos, letters, articles, speeches, newspaper reviews on music creation, his CDs, tapes, etc., each of which was classified and carefully preserved.
Ms. Hong Ruding at the donation site
In 2014, Shi Guangnan's ancestral home was opened in Dongye Village, Yuandong Township, Jindong District, Jinhua City, Zhejiang Province, and Hong Ruding donated more than 1,300 copies of Shi Guangnan's creative manuscripts to the memorial.
When her husband died, Hong Ruding was only 44 years old, and because she had too deep feelings with her husband, she rejected many people's pursuits. Hong Ruding only had Shi Guangnan in his heart and could not accept other men.
After her husband left, Hong Ruding has been living alone. Every year on the Qingming Festival, she would go to Jinhua City's Jindong District to visit her husband's grave and have a spiritual dialogue with him.
After graduating from graduate school, Shi Honglei developed in the United States and ran a trading company on her own. Because of the early death of her father, Shi Honglei was unable to embark on the road of music, which became her eternal regret.
Hong Ruding usually lives alone in Beijing and occasionally goes to the United States to reunite with his daughter. Although her husband has been dead for many years, Hong Ruding still clearly remembers his appearance and remembers the stormy years they have gone through.
Statue of Shi Guangnan
In June 2019, Jinhua Evening News held a large-scale interview event and specially invited Hong Ruding to participate. Hong Ruding looked back at every day they had walked in front of her husband's tombstone, and tears blurred their vision again and again.
In January 2022, Hong Ruding has crossed the threshold of 76 years old, and her husband has been dead for 32 years, and she has always lived alone. When participating in the event, she always signed and wrote "Shi Guangnan's wife Hong Ruding".
Hong Ruding and Shi Guangnan have been married for 18 years, and after the death of her husband, she has been lonely for 32 years. Because there is love in her heart and thoughts in her heart, she and her husband's heart are always together. Hong Ruding's infatuation makes people cry with heartache.
"Savor Celebrity" Reviews:
Shi Guangnan is a rare musical genius, and his untimely death is heart-wrenching.
Hong Ruding's obsession with her husband is even more touching to tears. She was widowed at the age of 44, and for more than 30 years, she came alone to fulfill her husband's last wishes, and how many hardships she experienced!
Ms. Hong Ruding
Ms. Hong Ruding visited the Shi Guangnan Memorial Hall
Her unwavering love for Shi Guangnan is really rare in the world. Now Hong Ruding is 76 years old, and her husband's last wish has not been fulfilled, that is, she still has more than 100 pieces of music left by Shi Guangnan in her family.
These works have never been published and have not been sung by singers. Hong Ruding hopes that these works can be loved by more fans through the singer's singing.
In order to commemorate the people's musician Shi Guangnan, in today's Jinhua City, there are Shi Guangnan Square, Guangnan School, Guangnan Road, as well as The Guangnan Choir and the Guangnan Cultural Stage.
Shi Guangnan's name will also accompany the beautiful melody he created, which will always be praised and remembered!
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