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Liu Qingtang
Liu Qingtang is a famous ballet dancer who became very popular in the 1960s and 1970s. The stills of "Hong Changqing", played by him in the ballet "Red Detachment of Women", were made into stamps, New Year paintings, paintings, etc., and were widely circulated throughout the country.
Liu Qingtang, who came from a rural background, became vice minister of culture in a special era and was sentenced to 17 years in prison in 1976. In 2010, Liu Qingtang died of illness.
Liu Qingtang had a failed marriage, and his ex-wife Xu Jie was a famous dancer, and the two had two daughters and a son. Now that Liu Qingtang has been dead for 12 years, how are his 3 children?
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Liu Qingtang was born in 1932 in Guangrong Village, Sunsheng Township, Gai County, Liaoning Province, to farmer parents. He has 3 younger brothers and grew up poor.
In 1948, Liu Qingtang was admitted to the Baishan Art School in Liaoning Province and studied ethnic dance. He was handsome, of good shape, gifted in dance, and a top student in school.
In 1951, Liu Qingtang and 6 dancers performed "Fan Dance", which was selected to participate in the 3rd World Youth Festival in Berlin, Germany, and won the gold medal in one fell swoop.
Subsequently, the organizers organized a European tour, and Liu Qingtang performed abroad for 1 year and 3 months. When Liu Qingtang returned to China in 1952, the relevant departments formed the Central Song and Dance Troupe, and Liu Qingtang was left to work in the troupe.
In 1956, the Beijing Dance School opened a ballet major, and the school specially hired five Soviet experts such as Pi Ann Gushev to teach at the school.
Gushev loves his students very much, he knows that everyone's life is hard, and he often asks students to eat roast duck out of his own pocket.
Gu Xuefu instructed Bai Shuxiang to practice ballet
Liu Qingtang proposed to the leader to learn ballet, he was 23 years old at the time, learning ballet was too late, the leader did not approve. But Liu Qingtang's resolute attitude, coupled with the need for ballet dancers in China at that time, the leader finally agreed.
So Liu Qingtang came to the Beijing Dance School and became a student of the Ballet Workshop.
His classmates are all teenagers, and Liu Qingtang's joint flexibility is not at all as good as theirs. Every time he lowered his waist and pressed his legs, the pain made his head sweat.
When he first entered the school, Liu Qingtang was in the lower class, and the result was the last. Liu Qingtang, who came from the countryside, did not accept defeat, and got up every morning before dawn to practice, training for up to 10 hours a day.
In just over a year, Liu Qingtang entered the senior class and ranked first.
Bai Shuxiang
In 1958, under the guidance of Gu Xuefu, the Beijing Dance School rehearsed the ballet "Swan Lake", and Liu Qingtang and the famous ballet dancer Bai Shuxiang were selected as male and female protagonists.
"Swan Lake" caused a huge response after the national performance, and Gu Xuefu called Liu Qingtang "the first Chinese prince".
A year later, Liu Qingtang was sent by the relevant departments to the Soviet Union to study ballet.
In 1960, Liu Qingtang returned to China after completing his studies and entered the Ballet Troupe of the Central Opera and Dance Theatre as an actor. He starred in the ballet "Swan Lake", which became the most famous ballet repertoire in China at that time.
Over the past few years, he co-starred with Bai Shuxiang in ballets such as "Sea Hero" and "Fountain of Tears". Liu Qingtang is known as "the first male ballet dancer in China".
Stills of Liu Qingtang's "Red Detachment of Women"
In December 1963, the National Ballet of China prepared to adapt the film "Red Detachment of Women" into a ballet, which was supported by Vice Minister of Culture Lin Mohan.
So Liu Qingtang and Bai Shuxiang and other main creative staff went to Hainan Island twice to experience life, which lasted for more than 3 months.
On September 26, 1964, "The Red Detachment of Women" was performed at the Tianqiao Theater in Beijing with great success. Subsequently, "Red Detachment of Women" was performed in Guangzhou for the Autumn Export Commodities Fair, which also achieved a sensational effect.
Immediately after, the play toured shanghai, Beijing and other places, and received rave reviews everywhere it went. Major newspapers across the country have reported on the ballet "Red Detachment of Women" one after another, and Liu Qingtang has become extremely popular.
The stills of "Hong Changqing", which he played, were also printed into stamps, New Year paintings, albums, etc., which were popular throughout the country.
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In 1966, the special era began, and the ballet "The Red Detachment of Women" was listed as one of the eight model plays. With the growing fame, Liu Qingtang's selfish desires have swelled, and he is no longer satisfied with being an ordinary actor.
In 1967, he was promoted to head of the National Ballet of China. For personal gain, Liu Qingtang has done a lot of wrong things and hurt many innocent people.
Among them, Li Guoquan, vice president of the Central Opera and Dance Theater and a famous conductor, could not bear the framing and insults, and as a result chose an unnatural death.
According to media reports at the time, Liu Qingtang's life style was also problematic, and he used his power to have ambiguous relationships with many actresses.
In 1975, Liu Qingtang was promoted to vice minister of culture and reached the peak of his life.
In October 1976, Liu Qingtang was formally detained. In April 1983, the Beijing Municipal Intermediate People's Court sentenced Liu Qingtang to 17 years in prison and deprived of his political rights for four years.
As early as the mid-1950s, Liu Qingtang got married. His wife Xu Jie is a backbone actor of the Central Song and Dance Troupe, and the "Lotus Dance" and "Flying Sky" led the dance won international awards.
Xu Jieting is elegant, elegant in temperament, like a water hibiscus, Liu Qingtang pursues her bitterly. Originally, Xu Jie did not accept him, but later Liu Qingtang grinded her to the point that she had no temper, and she accepted Liu Qingtang's love.
After marriage, Liu Qingtang and Xu Jie had two daughters and a son. The eldest daughter, Liu Ying, was born in 1959, the second daughter, Liu Hong, was born in 1968, and the son, Liu Zhong, was born in 1971.
Xu Jie is a kind and upright woman who is not accustomed to her husband's trampling and hurting the innocent, and has quarreled with Liu Qingtang. Moreover, Liu Qingtang's life was not in order, which also caused great harm to Xu Jie emotionally.
In the dark night, Xu Jie did not know how many tears he had shed. The three children live in this oppressive environment and do not have much happiness in their hearts.
Stills from Liu Qingtang and Xue Jinghua's movie "Red Detachment of Women"
In the 1970s, Xu Jie wanted to file for divorce, but at that time, Liu Qingtang was in such a position that she could not mention it, nor did she dare to mention it.
In Xu Jie's heart, her love for Liu Qingtang has disappeared, and the marriage is actually only an empty shell.
After Liu Qingtang was sentenced, he was held in Qincheng Prison in Beijing. In December 1983, Xu Jie came to Qincheng Prison and asked for a divorce from Liu Qingtang.
Liu Qingtang wept bitterly and begged Xu Jie to forgive him. Because the harm was too deep, Xu Jie's attitude of divorce was very firm. A few days later, Xu Jie brought the court's divorce judgment to Liu Qingtang.
He cried and tore up the divorce verdict, but the marriage was divorced, and the two daughters and a son lived with Xu Jie.
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Liu Qingtang and Fan Jianchuan
Being imprisoned and his family broken has dealt a huge blow to Liu Qingtang, who has been depressed in prison.
In the spring of 1986, Liu Qingtang suffered from varicose veins in the esophagus and often vomited blood. This disease is a cancer-grade patient, it is difficult to eradicate, if the bleeding is not stopped in time, Liu Qingtang is in danger of life at any time.
With the approval of the Ministry of Public Security and the Ministry of Culture, he returned to Gai County, Liaoning Province, on medical parole. Soon his second brother Liu Qingmeng rushed to Beijing and took Liu Qingtang back to his hometown.
Liu Qingtang's esophageal varicose veins were caused by cirrhosis of the liver and received medication in his hometown.
Liu Qingtang's hometown has 4 broken tile houses, Liu Qingtang's mother died of heart disease in 1983, his father lived alone, 3 younger brothers lived in one, and Liu Qingtang's third brother Liu Qingshi was unmarried.
The day after arriving home, Liu Qingtang went to his mother's cemetery. When he was busy, he did not fulfill his filial piety to his mother, nor did he let her enjoy a day of blessing, so he sat in front of the tombstone and wept bitterly.
A few days later, Liu Qingtang appeared to have blood in the stool, and he wrote a letter to each of his two daughters, and a letter to his good friend Han Zhen at the Baishan Art School. After Receiving the letter, Han Zhen came to Liu Qingtang's hometown, and the two shed tears when they met.
In December of that year, Han Zhen took Liu Qingtang to Dalian to meet with his classmates from the former Baishan Art School. So Liu Qingtang met Sha Yin (formerly known as Chen Qi), who was a student of the second batch of Baishan Art School, and Liu Qingtang was a third batch of students.
Sha Yin was pulling erhu at the Baishan Art School at that time, not too beautiful, but quite charming. Sha Yin's husband died 3 years ago, and after she retired from the South Work Group, she now lives alone.
It was the lowest point in Liu Qingtang's life, and he expressed his good feelings to Sha Yin. Sha Yin admired Liu Qingtang in his heart and accepted his feelings.
In his later years, Liu Qingtang
While Liu Qingtang was showing overtures to Sha Yin, he wrote a letter to his ex-wife Xu Jie, who was far away in Beijing, asking her to remarry her, and also let her take her 3 children back to her hometown in Gai County for reunion. His various requests were rejected by Xu Jie.
In the Spring Festival of 1987, the eldest daughter Liu Ying sent Liu Qingtang 500 yuan from Hong Kong. Liu Qingtang once wrote a letter to her daughter asking her to persuade her mother to remarry.
In the letter, my daughter told him: "I have no right to ask my mother to obey me, so let your business go with the flow." ”
Seeing that there was no hope of remarrying with his ex-wife, Liu Qingtang stepped up his pursuit of Sha Yin. After the Spring Festival, Liu Qingtang came to Sha Yin's house and has lived in her home ever since.
Sha Yin proposed marriage, and Liu Qingtang said that he was on medical parole and was not eligible to get married. Besides, his condition is very serious, and he is worried about dragging Down Sha Yin.
These words made Sha Yin's heart hurt, and she expressed her willingness to wait until Liu Qingtang completed his sentence in 1993 to get married.
In 1989, Liu Qingtang's esophagus was bleeding heavily, and Sha Yin and one of his sons and a daughter took Liu Qingtang to the hospital. The doctor rescued him from the death line, and all the medical expenses were borne by Sha Yin.
Since then, Liu Qingtang has bled twice, and it is Sha Yin who sent him to the hospital in time to save his life.
It should be said that without Sha Yin's full help, Liu Qingtang may have died a long time ago. However, for such a woman who is kind to herself, Liu Qingtang has given ruthless harm.
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In 1992, Liu Qingtang and Kong Li met. She is the first student of baishan art school, and Liu Qingtang has filmed with her. Kong Li's husband, who was the editor-in-chief of Popular Film magazine, died of illness many years ago, and Kong Li had a performance company in Beijing.
After knowing Kong Li, Liu Qingtang moved away from Sha Yin's house and followed Kong Li to Beijing. This happened on September 27, 1993.
In March 1995, Liu Qingtang asked his younger brother Liu Qingshi to go to Sha Yin's house and take his belongings away. He also asked his brother to bring a message, saying that he and Sha Yin had a disagreement and did not wait.
Sha Yin was heartbroken and came to Beijing to find Liu Qingtang's ex-wife Xu Jie and complain about her grievances. Xu Jie was tormented by rheumatoid disease, and both women were in tears, and both were hurt by Liu Qingtang.
In May 1995, Liu Qingtang remarried Kong Li. After marriage, Liu Qingtang taught dance at a university in Guangzhou. He created a classical ballet, Yue Fei, which he prepared to perform across the country. Unable to raise funds, the final performance was planned to be aborted.
After 2000, as higher education began to spread, Liu Qingtang sniffed out business opportunities. He founded the Liu Qingtang Art School at the foot of The West Mountain in Beijing and served as its principal.
In his later years, Liu Qingtang began to reflect on what he had done in his youth, often falling into pain and self-blame. At that time, for personal gain, he hurt a lot of innocents, caused great harm to his wife, and brought psychological shadows to his 3 children.
But life can not be torn down and started, and Liu Qingtang spent his later years in entanglement.
On May 2, 2010, Liu Qingtang died in Beijing at the age of 78. Xu Jie did not attend his funeral, and the 3 sons and daughters took care of Liu Qingtang's affairs together.
Now that Liu Qingtang has been dead for 12 years, his eldest daughter, Liu Ying, used to study dance and now lives in the United States, working in work that is not related to dance. The second daughter, Liu Hongyuan, was a dancer in the Beijing Song and Dance Troupe and later opened an advertising agency in Beijing.
After graduating from a university in Beijing majoring in computer science, his son Liu Zhong now works for an IT company in Beijing.
Liu Qingtang's 3 children are married and have their own children, and they are kind and upright under the education of their mothers. And with a father like Liu Qingtang, the 3 children have mixed feelings.
They never mention their father's name in front of outsiders, and usually live a low-key life, the relationship between brothers and sisters is very good, and life is calm and stable.
Liu Qingtang was interviewed by the media
"Celebrity" comments: Liu Qingtang's life fate has ups and downs, like a roller coaster, from a rural baby to a deputy ministerial cadre, and later became a prisoner of the order. All this he experienced, like a TV series, made people sigh.
Liu Qingtang has hurt many people, causing his wife to refuse to divorce him. Judging from his attitude towards Sha Yin, Liu Qingtang's behavior is chilling.
Sha Yin saved his life and allowed him to live in the family for several years, but eventually he married another woman.
In his later years, Liu Qingtang had repentance and self-blame, but everything had come too late. In this life, people must carry out self-restraint and management, do things with a clear conscience, and be worthy of their conscience.
Whenever a decision is made, ask yourself in your heart, will this bring harm to innocent people?
Sometimes one wrong step is a mistake, and life will be full of losses. Liu Qingtang's life is undoubtedly a tragedy, there are objective reasons, there are also subjective reasons, worth pondering.
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