In 1996, Man Wenjun, a singer from rural Beijing, won the first place in the popular singing professional group at the CCTV National Young Singers Television Grand Prix with a song "Understand You".
Shortly thereafter, Manchu Wenjun and "Understand You" became the loudest terms in the mainland music scene, and the streets and alleys were everywhere and everyone knew.
However, today, 26 years later, the name Manchu Wenjun is mentioned again, and few people can remember him.
Some people may say that the Manchu Army is a pity, but some people will certainly say that he is taking the blame.
So, what was the real reason why this singer who was popular all over the country came to the point where no one is carefree today?
1. The bricklayer's child
In 1969, Man Wenjun was born into an ordinary family in Zuwu Village, Jinhaihu Town, Pinggu District, Beijing.
Like many small rural areas, Manchu Wenjun's hometown is not large, but its family population is quite large, and it can be regarded as a large household in the local area, pushing forward 20 years, and even belonging to the "rich peasant" class.
However, to say that he was a "rich peasant", in fact, by the time Man Wenjun was born, the quality of life could not open any gap, at best, he also had more than one or two cents of pocket money per week than other students, and that was it.
Man Wenjun in the elementary school campus, like most ordinary children, has medium grades and an honest personality, and as long as the teacher speaks loudly after making a mistake, he is easily frightened and crying.
But in junior high school, the students more or less intersected with the little outside, and the courage was not so small.
What's more, the 10-year-old is the age when the love sinus first opened, just after junior high school, Man Wenjun had a crush on the female classmate Gao Xiaoying in the same class, and he had no intention of reading, and his grades naturally deteriorated.
In 1984, Man Wenjun, who was in the third year of junior high school, could no longer press his already hot heart, and he began to take the initiative to pursue Gao Xiaoying, either writing love letters or entrusting female classmates to tell his heart, full of thoughts only wanting to be with each other.
At that time, the rural children were more reckless and had a single idea, including Man Wenjun, and the way he expressed his good feelings was to intercept Gao Xiaoying halfway and then send her home.
It's just that Man Wenjun's behavior not only failed to win a good feeling, but on the contrary, he was strong and frightened the other party, so Gao Xiaoying reported the matter to the school, and Man Wenjun felt that he had no face, so he simply dropped out of school.
But to say that Man Wenjun is a person, he really has a bit of a "silly person with a silly fortune" temperament on his body.
After dropping out of school, I don't know whether it was out of guilt or hindsight, Gao Xiaoying gradually developed a good feeling for Man Wenjun, plus Man Wenjun still went to pick her up from school every day, and the two came together.
After staying at home for almost a year, Man Wenjun felt that it was not a problem to continue like this, so he followed his father, who was a bricklayer, to work around and became a small bricklayer.
Building walls, laying pigsty... The bricklayer work was tired and dirty, and Man Wenjun worked for almost half a year, although he did not work hard, but because of his young age, he beat his son away.
2. Enter the singing team
The bricklayers could not continue, and the Manchu Army thought of other ways to make money.
In 1986, When Man Wenjun learned that the first Rural Singers Grand Prix in Beijing was being held, he planned it and ran to the county to register for the competition.
Thanks to his parents' genetics, Man Wenjun was born with a good voice, especially his mother, who sang very well when he was young.
In this way, Man Wenjun successfully won the Outstanding Singer Award, not only receiving a 300 yuan prize, but also a camel brand landing fan.
After returning home with the prize money and prizes, full daddy to see, this kid is OK! Maybe being a singer is also a good way out.
It coincided with the second year, the Pinggu Grain Bureau set up a singing team at the test site, and Man Wenjun, who was born with a good voice, joined as a contract worker, usually carrying sacks to work, and going to perform in various places in his spare time.
After entering the singing team, Man Wenjun's requirements for music also gradually increased, in order to make his son achieve better results, Man's father gritted his teeth and used a month's salary plus the money from selling a pig to buy a tape recorder for his son.
And the facts have also proved that Man Papa's move played a crucial role in the musical path of The Manchu Army.
With a good voice and strong imitation ability, Man Wenjun soon became the backbone of the team, and also learned to play bass, he also participated in the singer grand prix in six provinces and cities such as Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai and Chongqing, although he did not win the award, he was well known by more people.
Soon after, Man Wenjun's singing team became more and more famous, and not only was he often invited to perform at the Peace Hotel and Taiwan Hotel in Beijing, but at its most brilliant, he also performed for the leaders at a meeting of the Grain Bureau.
At that time, although there was no additional remuneration, the income was a salary of dozens of yuan, but for the Manchu Army, this was already a good job.
And it is worth mentioning that after the talent of the Manchu Army was revealed, the temperament of the whole person became somewhat different, including a female temporary worker in the team who even launched a warm pursuit of the Manchu Army.
However, considering that Man Wenjun has a stable girlfriend, the person in charge is also worried about the impact, and before the relationship between the two has been carried out, the female temporary worker was fired at the first time.
Although this was a little unfair to the female temporary worker, from the side, it also proved the importance of the Manchu army in the team and the importance that the person in charge valued him.
Third, abandoning one's wife and daughter for the sake of the future
As the singing team's performance work increased, gradually, Man Wenjun moved the idea of becoming a professional singer.
In 1991, it happened that the owner of the "Taiwan Hotel" nightclub in Beijing took a fancy to Man Wenjun and simply left him behind.
Man Wenjun also thought that his dream of becoming a singer would come true and his life would soon become better, but he did not think that his girlfriend Gao Xiaoying, who had been in love for many years, accidentally became pregnant.
After a brief discussion, Man Wenjun and Gao Xiaoying quickly flashed their marriage licenses, and at the end of the same year, their daughter Man Jing was born.
Married, the daughter also had, but the Manchu army ushered in new troubles.
From the mouths of the workers, Man Wenjun learned that the resident hotel did not want a married singer, and had no choice, Man Wenjun consulted with his wife Gao Xiaoying, and finally decided to "fake divorce".
After that, the Manchu army drifted north alone for four full years.
He lives in the basement of the Taiwan Hotel, where there is no sunlight in the house, and sometimes things are moldy.
Although I have an income of more than 1,000 yuan per month, in addition to my own living expenses, I also have to send living expenses to my family, and I basically can't save any money.
To this end, Man Wenjun had to eat instant noodles and nibble steamed buns every day, ride a broken bicycle out of the house, and take a tape recorder to perform all over Beijing, so he also got acquainted with Han Hong and other night singers of the same period.
In fact, at that time, although Man Wenjun was only a young man in his 20s, his sense of family responsibility was very heavy.
He not only bears the living expenses of his wife and daughter alone, but also uses the 4,000 yuan saved for his brother to go to Tianjin to finish secondary school.
Unfortunately, because he and his wife Gao Xiaoying gathered less and left more, plus he also had greater ambitions, the feelings between the couple naturally cracked.
In 1994, Gao Xiaoying was promoted to the head of the chicken farm of the Grain Bureau for her outstanding business, but her marriage to Man Wenjun also officially came to an end.
After the two agreed to divorce, the child was raised by the woman, and then, Man Wenjun left the marriage house that his parents gave him in the north of the village to his ex-wife, and promised to pay a one-time maintenance fee of 30,000 yuan to the child.
However, 30,000 yuan was not a small amount at that time, Gao Xiaoying's brother found Man Wenjun several times and did not arrive, and later the two almost fought, making the villagers well known.
Until Man Wenjun became famous and successfully paid the maintenance, he had no contact with his ex-wife and daughter, and a few years later, Gao Xiaoying remarried, and her daughter also changed to "Gao Jing" with her mother's surname.
Fourth, become famous with "Understand You"
In 1995, Man Wenjun, who had been a hotel singer for four years, was admitted to the Railway Literary troupe and became a professional singer, but in this year, Man Wenjun only performed with the troupe, did not go through formal procedures, and his fame was not passed on.
However, only a year later, the "Goddess of Luck" took care of the Manchu Army.
In 1996, "Understand You", composed by Xue Ruiguang of the Railway Literary and Labor Troupe and filled in by Huang Xiaomao, was officially released.
Xue Ruiguang was very satisfied with this song, and sent it to the "Oriental Time and Space: Music TELEVISION" column group at the first time, and hit it off with the program producer Wang Jianping, and decided to find a singer to shoot a MV.
At this time, Xue Ruiguang remembered the Manchu Wenjun who he had seen before in the examination hall of the Railway Literary and Labor Troupe and had a "very suitable voice", and in this way, the Manchu Wenjun was officially in line with the song "Understand You", and won the first prize of the Popular Group Singing Method of the Seventh National Young Singers Grand Prix in the same year.
At that time, the concept of "pop" in the mainland song world was not yet available, and there were very few singers who could win awards in the "popular group" of the Youth Song Competition, and the first prize won by Man Wenjun was not only full of gold, but also meant that his future was unlimited.
After winning the Prize in the Youth Song Competition, Man Wenjun not only successfully turned positive in the Cultural and Labor Corps, but also was credited with meritorious service once and awarded a bonus.
Most importantly, the regiment also made a special trip to his hometown in Pinggu to apply for a non-agricultural household registration for him, and gave him a two-bedroom and one-hall house located in the Lugu residential area of Shijingshan.
As for the later days of the Manchu Army, it is naturally and smoothly at a glance.
In 1997, Man Wenjun signed the record contract to Chia Tai International, and in 1998, Man Wenjun won the gold medal in the CCTV Television Music Competition again with "Understand You".
Subsequently, Chia Tai Company filmed another version of the MV for "Understand You" and introduced it to the market, and Man Wenjun was truly popular all over the country.
Fifth, the second marriage to marry a rich woman
What many fans did not know was that his feelings had quietly rejuvenated for the second spring in the year when Man Wenjun became popular.
As early as the 1996 Youth Song Competition, a female audience member named Li Li had a deep impression on him.
Later, Li Li met and fell in love with Manchu Wenjun through a gathering of friends, and after the two spent two years in a long-distance relationship, in August 1998, Li Li returned from Singapore and registered her marriage with Manchu Wenjun.
Regarding Li Li's background, there have been many speculations from the outside world.
At the beginning, there were various sayings that she was a family business, as well as studying in Singapore and the second generation of the rich.
But according to media reports, insiders revealed that Li Li's parents are actually just ordinary workers, and Li Li is still married for the second time, working as a waiter in a hotel in the early years, knowing a rich man in Singapore, and then divorcing her for hundreds of thousands of dollars, which has the first bucket of gold.
But what is certain is that before marrying Manchu Wenjun, Li Li had indeed become a rich woman, and the claim in this regard is that she briefly returned to China in the early 90s and then made a fortune by investing in real estate.
Of course, no matter how Li Li made her fortune, at least it is certain that she and Man Wenjun were really in love with each other.
After two years of marriage, the son was successfully born, and in the following years, Li Li has also been living behind the scenes as the promoter of the Manchu military industry.
In those years, Man Wenjun successively released two albums of "Make Your Sky The Most Beautiful" and "Wangxiang", and then jumped to Sony to release "Love Without Boundaries", "I Need You", "Season of Missing / I Listen", and in 2005, he appeared on the Spring Festival Gala and signed a contract with Taihe Maitian, which is indispensable to Li Li's credit.
Sixth, drug abuse and self-destruction of the future
Although Li Li is a businessman, her relationship with Man Wenjun has allowed her to maintain a very good relationship with many people in the entertainment industry.
At that time, many people in the circle called Li Li "Sister Li", and Li Li also married Na Ying, a singer of the same period, as a sister.
As for Man Wenjun, he is a peasant singer who came out of a small place, and he is naturally packaged by his wife with famous brands all over his body, and he has completely entered the road of fashion.
But it is clear that whether it is Manchu Wenjun or Li Li, the two seem to be mixed in high society, but their nature is still an upstart, and in the big city of red and green, it is not easy to maintain the original intention.
In the early morning of May 19, 2009, Man Wenjun and His wife Li Li were arrested at cocobanana, a nightclub at the West Gate of workers' stadiums in Beijing's Chaoyang District, on suspicion of gathering people to take drugs.
In addition to the couple, there are also singers to buy red sisters, as well as Huang Xiaoming's stylist and a northeast singer and a number of more than 10 people, all of whom were also taken away by the police.
Buy Red Sister quickly clarified the next day that she was just going to a birthday party and did not commit any crime.
But Manchu and Li Li obviously could not be so easily separated from each other, and after 14 days of detention, Manchu was released.
A few days later, the "When the Rule of Law Is In Progress" column broadcast a program about the Manchu Army's involvement in drugs, and the Manchu Army himself appeared on the scene of the program and publicly apologized to the whole society.
As for Man Wenjun's wife, Li Li, because the evidence of the crime was conclusive, and because Manchu Wenjun wrote the testimony exposing his wife during the subsequent trial, even if Li Li said with tears that "what Manchu Wenjun said is not the truth", she was sentenced to 1 year in prison and fined 2,000 yuan.
Seven, many attempts to comeback
After the storm, Man Wenjun has been interviewed by TV stations on many occasions, and he also denied the rumors of divorce with his wife Li Li, expressing his thoughts for his wife and his family's deep apologies to fans, saying that the family was willing to serve his wife's sentence.
But in fact, during Li Li's imprisonment, Manchu Wenjun did not visit her many times.
After that, the outside world also filmed many times li li taking his son to appear, but without exception, Manchu Wenjun was not accompanied.
The outside world also speculated that Man Wenjun and his wife had a discordant relationship, but the two parties did not respond.
Until August 22, 2017, some netizens met Man Wenjun and Li Li at the door of the Civil Affairs Bureau.
After being questioned by the media and confirmed, the couple did go through the divorce procedures, and as for the reason, there is no way to know.
In fact, this is also the first time that the Manchu Army has been widely reported by the media after the storm.
Prior to this, Man Wenjun had participated in the New Year's Day gala of Anhui Satellite TV, and also participated in the recording of the "Voice of China" program in Chengdu in 2013.
In the past ten years, Man Wenjun has also released a number of albums and solo singles, including many public welfare.
He has also run commercial performances, participated in many music programs, served as a judge, and competed as a singer, including many popular programs such as "I Am a Singer".
However, no matter how The Manchu Army tries to make a comeback, the heat is limited after all, not to mention, what hangs on the head of the Manchu Army is the label of "bad artist", which can never be erased.
In 2018, after Chen Yufan was arrested, Man Wenjun expressed his opinions directly on Weibo, ostensibly like "shouting injustice" for Chen Yufan, believing that he should not be banned, but in fact, anyone can see that he is pouring bitter water for himself.
More importantly, in order to wash white, Manchu Wenjun even frequently hung words such as public welfare and charity on his lips, confidently and boldly shouting: "The prodigal son will not change his gold."
But who cares about him? Who would really believe him?
The Manchu Army, which has long been unable to gain a foothold in the entertainment industry, wanders around the edges of various industries.
He has posted songs on social platforms, but no one cares, and he also tries to get a piece of the pie on the short video platform, but with little success.
There are rumors from the outside world that in the past two years, Manchu Wenjun has started training classes and become music teachers, but in the end, not many people have really cared about his current situation.
It is undeniable that Man Wenjun is a rare talented singer, his voice is unique and thick, and he is completely unique in the music world.
However, there has never been any saying in this world that can crush everything by relying on talent, Manchu Wenjun is wrong, he has to bear the consequences of making mistakes, even if he is no matter how good he is, he cannot become a positive figure, and he will eventually be abandoned by society, which is also reasonable.
There is no regret medicine in life, and Man Wenjun has come to this step today, and he can only blame himself.