Regarding the bumpy fate of Yang Likun's life, I think everyone knows a little about it. Especially during special periods, she was subjected to inhuman treatment, which eventually led to her "going crazy". From a beautiful star who is like a jade flower and loved by everyone, he has become a mentally ill person with sluggish eyes and a disfigured figure. What a sad thing.
But how did Yang Likun "go crazy"? Did her illness have anything to do with a relationship she was talking about at the time? Today, let's look for clues through the stories of some of her colleagues and some memories of her family.
Many people say that the reason why Yang Likun was able to go to the screen and play the heroine in the movie "Five Golden Flowers" is because director Wang Jiayi inadvertently saw a pure girl who rubbed glass, and was shocked, and immediately decided that she would play vice president Jinhua.
That's true and it's not.
It is said that it is correct because Wang Jiayi did accidentally see Yang Likun when she was wiping the glass. It is not true because director Wang did not immediately decide to play the heroine by her at that time. At that time, the beautiful actress that Director Wang was interested in in the Yunnan Provincial Song and Dance Troupe was not only Yang Likun, in addition to her, there were several other people such as Yin Peixian. Yin Peixian is a good friend of Yang Likun, and both of them later participated in the performance of the movie "Five Golden Flowers". However, Yang Likun plays the main role, while Yin Peixian belongs to the dragon running set.
According to Yin Peixian's recollection, it was 1959, and many actors in the provincial song and dance troupe were very excited to know the news that the director of the long film had come to select actors. But everyone also knows that such an opportunity is not available to everyone. At that time, Yin Peixian and an actor surnamed Zhao were both considered by the director, and Yang Likun was personally recommended to the director Wang Jiayi by the head of the song and dance troupe.
At that time, Yang Likun was only 17 years old, very introverted, and did not like to talk. But unexpectedly, after she performed "Five Golden Flowers", she became a hit. On the screen, she is indeed as beautiful as a flower, bright and moving - she has all the conditions and advantages of being a movie star.
However, after becoming popular, Yang Likun is not proud at all, and she is still very low-key. Even her second sister, when she went to the cinema to see "Five Golden Flowers" in 1961, learned that her sister had become a movie star. At that time, Yang Likun also won an international best actress Silver Eagle Award for starring in "Five Golden Flowers", and the Ministry of Culture decided to give her a three-level salary after learning that her monthly salary was only 47 yuan, but Yang Likun refused. She said: "The salary should be given to the older and more contributing seniors."
Such a good actor with good character and excellent character has been jealous of individual colleagues in the unit. An actress who also ran for the heroine of "Five Golden Flowers" and later only starred in a small supporting role in it was very unaccustomed to Yang Likun, thinking that she pretended to be high, very proud, and very individualistic. This person later became the main activist in criticizing Yang Likun.
So although she acted in movies and became a star, in fact, after Yang Likun returned to the provincial song, her life was not very good.
But who made Yang Likun naturally beautiful and talented? Soon she got another good opportunity, that is, in the film "Ashima" shot by the Studio, she once again played the heroine. For a time, the limelight was unique, which made those who were jealous of her even more resentful.
In 1965, a young man named Gu Chunyu, who graduated from the Shanghai Chinese Orchestra Academy, came to the Yunnan Provincial Song and Dance Troupe and became a band player here. Gu Chunyu likes to sing and sometimes practices in the piano room. And whenever this time comes, Gu Chunyu finds that there is always a beautiful girl, lying on the window and listening carefully. Of course, Gu Chunyu knew that she was Yang Likun. Just like that, the two of them became acquainted. We also went to see a movie together. Then, the two established a romantic relationship. At that time, Yang Likun was only 24 years old, and she thought she had met love.
In Gu Chunyu's view, Yang Likun is a very kind and very simple girl, with a very introverted personality. But when you get to know her, she is very able to say and dare to say.
At that time, Yang Likun had already acted in two movies, "Five Golden Flowers" and "Ashima". However, after the filming of "Ashima", it was beaten into "poisonous weeds" before it was released. In 1967, in order to receive a foreign delegation, the film "Ashima" was screened in a small area in the small screening hall on the 3rd floor of the Red Star Theater. Gu Chunyu went, and Yang Likun also went. But Yang Likun only saw half of it and ran out. Later, she told Gu Chunyu that she felt very uncomfortable in her heart and regretted making this movie.
In fact, Yang Likun has been criticized as a "bourgeois beauty" since 1966, for which she often loses sleep and even has "auditory hallucinations".
In 1967, two different factions in Kunming fought, and Yang Kewen, Yang Likun's fifth brother, took her to the relatively calm Town of Zhenyuan for the sake of her sister's safety. At that time, Yang Likun was in love with Gu Chunyu. How could the sudden departure of the lover make Gu Chunyu bear it? According to Yang Likun's friend Yin Peixian, when she heard the news of Yang Likun's departure, Gu Chunyu was very angry, and everyone tried desperately to persuade him to stop.
And Yang Likun also missed Gu Chunyu. According to her seventh brother Yang Kewu, Yang Likun had proposed to the fifth brother Yang Kewen to let her colleagues Ma Moumou (female) and Gu Chunyu come to Zhenyuan to accompany her. Later, the fifth brother agreed to her request, so he made a phone call to Gu Chunyu and asked him to come with Ma Moumou. But when they went to the station to pick up people, they found that only Gu Chunyu was the only one who came, and Ma Moumou did not appear.
In 1968, Yang Kewen was transferred to Simao to work, and Yang Likun and Gu Chunyu also went with him. At this time, Yang Kewu, Yang Likun's seventh brother, visited his sister Yang Likun in the city every weekend. One day, Yang Likun suddenly proposed to brother Qi, Gu Chunyu wanted her to return to Kunming with him. At that time, the situation in Kunming was still relatively chaotic, and in the consideration of his sister's safety, Yang Kewu did not agree. However, several times in a row, Yang Likun made such a request to her brother, and the last time she was very resolute, saying that Xiao Gu told her that there was a performance task in the troupe and asked her to go back to perform for the workers, peasants and soldiers.
I think this should be the biggest reason why Yang Likun insists on returning to Kunming - she loves her career too much, and she can't let go of the audience.
And Gu Chunyu also swore to Yang Kewu: Seventh brother, you can rest assured, I like Xiao Jiu (Yang Likun's nickname) very much, and I love her very much, I will not let her suffer any harm, I will protect her like protecting my own eyeballs.
With the assurance of Gu Chunyu, the "flower protection messenger", Yang Kewu's heart more or less alleviated some worries. In addition, the little sister Yang Likun wanted to return to the stage to dance, so after obtaining the consent of the fifth brother Yang Kewen, he promised Gu Chunyu to take Yang Likun to Kunming by plane.
However, no one thought that returning to Kunming again was the beginning of Yang Likun's real misfortune. She did not return to the stage as she wished, but was pushed to the stage of the criticism. At that time, Yang Moumou and Ma Moumou, who had competed with Yang Likun for the role of Ashima, shouted "Down with Yang Likun", pushed her, kicked her, and forced her to kneel. Eventually, the group also imprisoned her in a low, dark, damp basement of the Nationalities Academy, where she was provided with only a wooden bench, not even a quilt, and the food she ate was all leftover soup.
Yang Likun's good friend Yin Peixian later recalled that 1969 was the worst period of Yang Likun's illness.
At first, she was only slightly suspicious, but since she was locked up in the basement, her illness has become more and more serious. And those who were jealous of her and her whole thought that she was pretending to be crazy and delaying the best treatment period. So one morning, when the sky was still dark, Yin Peixian suddenly heard a poignant song: You are going to kill me, blind your eye sockets, I will not die, I want to live! Yin Peixian carefully distinguished, only to find that the song came from the basement where Yang Likun was imprisoned.
So, at this time, where was the Gu Chunyu who had sworn to "protect Yang Likun like protecting his own eyeballs"?
He became a member of the Revolutionary Committee of the Yunnan Provincial Song and Dance Troupe.
But how did he become a member of the Provincial Song Revolutionary Committee? He was a man from a "not very good" background. This is a question that Yang Likun's seventh brother has been wondering about.
Gu Chunyu was born in a musical family, his father was a professional violinist, but in 57 years he was classified as a rightist, and later tortured to death in labor. At that time, after Yang Likun heard the news of Gu Chunyu's father's death, she also went to comfort him. And how could the son of a "rightist" become a member of the Revolutionary Committee? This made Yang Kewu, Yang Likun's seventh brother, feel very strange.
Therefore, he concluded that gu Chunyu "betrayed" Yang Likun and "tricked" her from Simao back to Kunming, and then when Yang Likun was imprisoned and criticized, he severed relations with her and drew a clear line.
However, Gu Chunyu had his own opinion on this. He said that after bringing Yang Likun back to Kunming, he had made plans to take Yang Likun to Shanghai for treatment. Seeing that Yang Likun's condition was improving, her brother Yang Kewen and others changed their minds and insisted on taking her away. He said that the breakup was proposed by Yang Likun, and she wrote him a letter to cut off contact.
Yang Kewu could not agree with and accept this statement. The reason is that during his time in Simao, because he was worried about his sister Yang Likun, he also wrote a 16-page letter, which was sent to Gu Chunyu in the form of a double registration and a receipt from the recipient, and asked him to personally hand it over to Yang Likun, hoping that he could protect his sister. However, nearly a month later, the letter returned to Yang Kewu's unit, and it was said that Gu Chunyu had sent it back. The point is that there is also a criticism on the letter, asking Yang Kewu's unit to strictly supervise Yang Kewu, a "rightist" element. For this reason, Yang Kewu suffered even more.
Everyone already knows the situation later. Yang Likun was crazy. Gu Chunyu went to Beijing after getting married, became a member of the Musicians Association, and has composed many songs such as "The Joy of the Torch Festival", "Colorful Yunnan", "Sunshine in July" and so on. He has also served as a curator and judge for many music competitions.
The beautiful Yang Likun is said by many to be "the spirit that fell into the world". Her beauty is unparalleled, and her screen image is bright and moving. She has also met love, and should have dreamed of a better life. But what did life bring her? What did her former lover bring her? Was the person who had said he loved her a "flower protector" or a person who "betrayed" her? We do not draw conclusions here. But I think it's definitely a question worth pondering.
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This article is original by DJ Yaqing, please do not copy without permission! Violators will be prosecuted!
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