Every time you travel to Yunnan, you feel like you always have a few more names, and you will have different names in different places.
Brother Apeng corresponds to the golden flower, Ahei brother corresponds to Ashima, just like in the movie, and when it comes to "Five Golden Flowers" and "Ashima", there is always a person, Yang Likun, she is the most beautiful golden flower and the most beautiful Ashima.
For Yang Likun, everyone knows that she is very beautiful, her life is also very bumpy, half her life has been tormented by mental illness, only acted in two movies but has become a generation of memories, but she does not know much about her marriage.
In fact, Yang Likun's marriage is very poignant, there are poignant experiences and touching love, and the combination of her and her lover Tang Fenglou is also a legend in itself.
1. Heaven forbid
Yang Likun was born in 1942 in Mohei Town, Ninger County, Yunnan Province, and was the ninth eldest among the twelve brothers and sisters, so her name was Xiaojiu. Her mother died when she was five years old, and when she was ten years old, she was taken to the care of her second sister in Kunming by her eldest sister.
Yang Likun's eldest sister and second sister joined the revolution before liberation, when the eldest brother-in-law served as a leader in the public security bureau of the Zhaotong Prefectural Committee, the second sister served as the leader of the Yunnan Provincial Women's Federation, and the second brother-in-law was the director of the organization department of the Yunnan Provincial Party Committee at that time, so Yang Likun was able to enter the primary school of the cadres and children and get a good education.
At the age of 12, Yang Likun was selected to join the Yunnan Song and Dance Troupe, and at the age of 17, she was selected by the director to star in "Five Golden Flowers" and won the Asian-African Film Festival, with this film she became a famous film star in the country, and received more than 1,500 courtship letters alone. At the age of 22, Yang Likun starred in the movie "Ashima".
Unfortunately, Yang Likun was persecuted in the ensuing movement, her introverted and stubborn personality, in the process of suffering from neurosis due to great mental stimulation, after which the condition began to develop severe auditory hallucinations, mental disorders were sent to the hospital, and then under the supervision of the prime minister, she was sent to the best Hunan Chenzhou Psychiatric Hospital for treatment.
Born in Shanghai and graduated from the Shanghai Foreign Language Institute, Tang Fenglou was a year younger than Yang Likun, who was influenced by the movement and was assigned to the quarry of the Fankou Lead and Zinc Mine in Shaoguan, Guangdong Province, in 1970 as a re-quarryman.
One is a movie star from Yunnan, one is an intellectual from Shanghai, one is being treated in Hunan because of an illness, and one is working as a miner in the ravine of Guangdong, which is almost impossible to come together.
Second, the sky is the limit
According to some insiders in the interview, Yang Likun suffered emotional injuries when she was in Yunnan, which brought some trauma to her emotional world. When her condition was stable, the eldest sister and the third sister had introduced her to the object, but she always did not say a word when she saw people, for Yang Likun, this is a rejection attitude, she has been like this since she was a child.
Tang Fenglou also met the girl he liked when he was a miner in Shaoguan Fankou, but the other parents resolutely disagreed with his marriage with the girl because Tang Fenglou had been on some blacklists in the movement, which made him a little disheartened.
Tang Fenglou has a good friend Chen Zetao in the mine, he is a graduate of Kunming Institute of Technology, was assigned to the mine as an underground wind driller, because they are college students, many things are the same point of view, the two people became the most intimate friends.
Chen Zetao's father once served as the leader of the Yunnan Provincial Public Security Department, and Yang Likun's eldest sister and second sister's two families are very close, Yang Likun and Chen Zetao are also friends they knew when they were young, so one day Chen Zetao suddenly introduced Yang Likun to Tang Fenglou, and he felt that Yang Likun and Tang Fenglou were quite a match.
Tang Fenglou's first feeling was that it was a fantasy, although he knew that Yang Likun's situation was not very good, but after all, she was a well-known movie star in the country, and she was just a miner, how could she expect to be able to associate with someone like Yang Likun.
But Chen Zetao was serious and thoughtful, and he had observed Tang Fenglou before he broke this matter, and even wrote a letter to Yang Likun's eldest sister to introduce Tang Fenglou's situation.
Chen Zetao's idea is that Yang Likun has loved to read books since she was a child, especially Western literature, and she has almost no other hobbies in her life except dancing or reading books. Tang Fenglou, who graduated from the Shanghai Institute of Foreign Languages, is also very familiar with foreign literature, so that the two have a common language.
The point is that Tang Fenglou is a down-to-earth person, and Yang Likun is very disgusted with people who are full of money and status, so Chen Zetao, after observing Tang Fenglou for a while, decided that he and Yang Likun were very compatible.
Third, the combination of heaven
Under the mobilization of Chen Zetao and other friends, Tang Fenglou first corresponded with Yang Likun's eldest sister for a period of time, and the two sides briefed each other on the situation, and then he took two days off from Shaoguan to Chenzhou to see Yang Likun.
In the Chase Shop room of Chenzhou Hotel, Yang Likun's eldest sister and little sister accompanied Yang Likun to see Tang Fenglou for the first time, unexpectedly, Yang Likun was very talkative and willing to talk to Tang Fenglou more, which was the same as the previous blind date.
Tang Fenglou first saw Yang Likun and felt the devastation of life on her, she had long since lost the brilliance in the movie, the torture of illness made her face yellow and her eyes a little sluggish, due to the drug effect, her body was also fat, and she could not see the appearance of the dancer.
However, although Yang Likun only has a primary school culture, her understanding of Western literature has impressed Tang Fenglou.
Tang Fenglou even played a small trick in the chat between the two, he deliberately said the wrong name of a character in "The Captain's Daughter", and Yang Likun immediately corrected him.
Yang Likun sometimes talked and sometimes smiled and listened, her conversation did not see any mental illness, her laughter was very sweet, a little milky feeling, let Tang Fenglou feel that she had a kind of childlike innocence.
A Shanghainese, a Yunnan, a miner, and a movie star sat on the edge of a Chase bed in a Hotel in Hunan and chatted all morning.
After Tang Fenglou returned to the Fankou Mine, Yang Likun's little sister lived in the mine for a few days and "inspected" Tang Fenglou's work and life on the spot.
At the end of 1972, Yang Likun's third sister accompanied her to go through the discharge procedures, and secretly came to the Fankou Mine in Shaoguan, Guangdong Province, without the Yunnan Song and Dance Troupe, this time to distract Yang Likun, the second was to let her and Tang Fenglou have more contact, or simply to talk about love.
Yang Likun lived in the Fankou Mine for more than two months, and she and Tang Fenglou knew each other better, and their hearts also came together.
For Tang Fenglou's work, Yang Likun feels that being a miner is very good, better than engaging in artistic creation, although she is very distressed that Tang Fenglou cannot engage in her own professional counterpart work, but she does not want Tang Fenglou to go back to translation and writing, she is scared.
At the beginning of 1973, Tang Fenglou and Yang Likun decided to register their marriage in Fankou, and in order to keep it a secret from the Yunnan Song and Dance Troupe, he registered Yang Likun as an employee of Fankou Mine in the marriage introduction letter, and the two received marriage licenses locally.
On the way back with the permit, Yang Likun suddenly stopped, she confessed to Tang Fenglou that her auditory hallucinations were not good, and she might repeat it in the future, if Tang Fenglou regretted it, she would let the eldest sister introduce the little sister to him. In this regard, although Tang Fenglou was a little confused, he comforted Yang Likun and said, if you are not well, you will continue to recuperate, and I can do more housework in the future, as long as the two of us treat each other sincerely, life will be very harmonious.
In this way, a miner, a star, two people who were originally on the same side of the sky, in a place that no one could have imagined, finally came together.
Fourth, the end of the world is at hand
In 1973, Tang Fenglou took the opportunity to return to his hometown in Shanghai on a business trip, Yang Likun came from the eldest sister of Shijiazhuang, and the two held a small wedding in a narrow room in the Shanghai lane, and the news that the Tang family boy married a movie star made the whole lane lively for several days.
Soon after the marriage, the Yunnan Song and Dance Troupe heard that Yang Likun was secretly married, and sent someone to the Fankou Mine to find Tang Fenglou to understand the situation, and at the urging of the unit telegram, Tang Fenglou could only leave for the unit to continue to work, entrusting Yang Likun to his parents to take care of.
Unexpectedly, when he left, Yang Likun's condition recurred, she often sat at home in a daze, and then went out alone, got up in the middle of the night to wash clothes and shampoo, said some inexplicable words and often quarreled to go home, which made it difficult for the in-laws to cope.
Tang Fenglou, who was impatient, returned to Shanghai, but found Yang Likun returning to Kunming alone with her pregnancy. He could only take a long leave to rush to Kunming, and the comrades of Fankou Mine very humanely arranged the task of going to Yunnan for a business trip.
In the dormitory of the Yunnan Song and Dance Troupe in Kunming, Tang Fenglou found that Yang Likun's auditory hallucinations had reached a very serious point, and there was always a "grandfather" in her mind who was speaking to her, she was not under her control, denied that Tang Fenglou was her husband, and thought that Tang was her brother.
Seeing that his wife was sitting on the opposite side, Tang Fenglou felt like facing a stranger, there was no possibility of communication between the two, and this state of being at the end of the world was completely different from when Yang Likun was in the Fankou Mine before.
In this case, the third sister could only send Yang Likun to Chenzhou for hospitalization again.
Tang Fenglou was worried that pregnancy was a burden on Yang Likun's body, and proposed not to have children first, but Yang Likun and the third sister resolutely disagreed, in order not to affect the fetus, Yang Likun only ate Chinese medicine with fewer side effects to control the disease.
In May 1974, Yang Likun gave birth in Shanghai, giving birth to twin sons.
During the confinement period, Yang Likun's condition recurred, although Fankou Mine let him stay in Shanghai for a long time to do procurement work in order to take care of Tang Fenglou, but in the face of the patients at home and the son who was waiting to be fed, he was overwhelmed.
In order to alleviate the pressure on Yang Likun, he chose to feed the child milk powder. But the child only has a temporary account, the milk powder indicators are not enough to drink, Tang Fenglou finally did the corresponding work, through a doctor's child as an English tutor to get some help.
Under pressure, Tang Fenglou occasionally had the idea of separation, and even had the urge to jump into the river to commit suicide, but when he thought of Yang Likun and the child, his heart softened again.
In order to communicate with Yang Likun, Tang Fenglou even came up with a bizarre idea, he pretended that he also had auditory hallucinations, and he could also hear the teachings of the "grandfather", through the words of "grandfather", he and Yang Likun actually established another level of communication.
However, because Yang Likun's condition could not continue to stay in Shanghai, she could only go to Chenzhou, Hunan Province for treatment again, and after being discharged from the hospital, she returned to Kunming to live alone. Tang Fenglou visits his family in Kunming once a year, and the rest of the time he takes care of his two children in Shanghai.
Fifth, the sky is barren and the earth is old
After the exercise, Yang Likun's condition slowly improved, and Tang Fenglou went to Kunming to take her back to Shanghai and met her two children who had been separated for several years.
However, many life problems still plague Tang Fenglou and Yang Likun, who want yang Likun to live in the hospital in Shanghai to slowly recuperate, but the hospital has never had a bed for them.
Tang Fenglou's teacher Wang Xilin saw Yang Likun's living environment and was unbearable, he wrote a material to send to the "Liberation Daily", the editor Zhang Shu wrote an internal reference on the basis of the material to reflect Yang Likun's problems, the relevant leaders in Shanghai immediately instructed yang Likun to care for and take care of yang Likun after seeing the material, she was successfully admitted to the hospital single room and received expert diagnosis and treatment.
In 1978, After reading Ashima in Kunming, Chen Huangmei wrote an article titled "Ashima, Where Are You" published in the People's Daily, which specifically mentioned Yang Likun, who had suffered a bad luck.
Immediately afterward, the article "Ashima is Around Us" co-written by Zhang Shu and Wang Xilin was published in the "Liberation Daily", breaking through the clouds and seeing the sky and keeping the clouds open to see the moon, and Yang Likun's fate finally took a turn.
Yang Likun's problems were successfully rehabilitated, she was also transferred to the Shanghai Film Studio, Tang Fenglou's work was transferred back to Shanghai from Guangdong, the two moved into the assigned new house, and the hukou of both sons was solved.
In 1982, Yang Likun was named one of the top ten actors in the country, and the group photo of "Ashima" and "Liu Sanjie" Huang Wanqiu was praised for a while, and Yang Likun, who was encouraged, began to resume training like a dancer, hoping to have the opportunity to make a comeback. She also danced her famous work "Spring River Flower Moon Night" for her husband Tang Fenglou at home, and Tang Fenglou said that it was really beautiful, and she was completely different from her in normal times.
Unfortunately, Yang Likun's comeback plan has been in vain due to more than ten years of repeated illness and drug effects, and her film works have always stayed in two films.
After Yang Likun died of illness at the age of 58 at her home in Shanghai in 2000, half of her ashes were buried in Shanghai and the other half in her hometown of Yunnan.
Although Yang Likun's artistic life is very short, she has left us with the best memories of beauty, although her life is very bumpy, but her marriage is very poignant and happy.
The past is like the river reflected by the setting sun,
I pick up the treasures of the shining in my heart.
——Tang Fenglou