There is an old man, the lyrics he created have influenced generations, it can be said that the life of Chinese is in his lyrics, who is this old man, how many legendary stories he has in his life, today we will talk about it.
The chaotic world is born cold, and the book is fragrant and talented
On November 16, 1927, in a small alley called Caishenge Street in Jining District, Shandong Province, a loud cry from the home of a family surnamed Qiao spread throughout the alley, attracting neighbors to come to congratulate them. To say that this Joe's family is definitely worthy of the title of Shuxiang Mendi.
The Qiao family's ancestral home is Qiao Village, Pingshahe Station Town, Tai'an, Shandong, and later in order to make a living, the boy's grandfather Qiao Dongyuan led his family to Jining to make a living, and has lived in Jining ever since. Mr. Qiao Yu's grandfather was a late Qing Xiucai, and the private school he opened was very famous in the tens of miles.
The boy's father is also a reader, the boy was born when the father was 64 years old, is a typical old man, naturally regard the boy as a treasure, so he named the boy "Qiao Qingbao".
When Xiao Qingbao was born, it was a critical moment when the Chinese nation was deeply disastrous. On the morning of his 10th day on the world, his mother was nursing him, when suddenly a bomb penetrated the roof and planted it in front of the bed, flushing a room full of smoke and making people breathless, fortunately it was a dud bomb, and he and his mother did not die. My father rushed to find someone to drag the bomb into the wild and detonate it.
Despite his turbulent life, his father never gave up his education of Xiao Qingbao. When Xiao Qingbao was 3 years old, his father taught him to recognize characters, read the "Thousand Character Text", and at the age of 4, he knew more than 3,000 Chinese characters and could recite hundreds of Tang poems and Song poems.
Although Xiao Qingbao's mother was illiterate, she had a belly full of folk tales. At night she often sat under the kerosene lamp and told stories to lull him to sleep.
Due to the poverty of his family, Xiao Qingbao only went to school at the age of 9, attending a Church School run by the Germans, and the tuition fee was one silver dollar per semester. The family had no money, so Xiao Qingbao's brother went to the bun shop to work as a buddy and earned a silver dollar for his brother as a tuition fee.
In 1941, when Xiao Qingbao was only 14 years old, his father died in the difficult autumn. He suddenly felt the desolation and hopelessness of the world, and indulged in the confused choices of life. Although the family is in difficulty, in order to support Xiao Qingbao's study, his brother strives to work as a clerk to earn money to support the family. Later, Xiao Qingbao was admitted to Jining Zhongxi Middle School (the predecessor of jining No. 1 Middle School) with excellent results, and was able to study for free, reducing the burden for the family.
Jining Fortuna Pavilion Street
The fire became Qiao Yu, and the shot showed its sharp edge
In 1946, when the apricot blossoms were in full bloom, 18-year-old Qiao Qingbao was at a fork in the road of life choices, and where to go became the wandering of many young people in that era. One day, a Communist Party underground worker surnamed Wang approached him and four other classmates and asked them if they would like to study at the Communist Party-run Northern University.
Go! Qiao Qingbao replied very firmly. Writer Liu Qing once said: Although the road of life is long, there are often only a few steps at the critical point. This choice is undoubtedly qiao Qingbao's most critical and successful decision.
At the recommendation of this communist underground worker, Qiao Qingbao secretly entered the Northern University in the Luyu Border Region of Jinji and Hebei. On the day he left home, it was raining heavily, and he didn't have time to greet his family, so he secretly rushed to the Taihang Mountains with a letter of introduction issued by the underground party, and his whole body was drenched.
In order not to bring trouble to his family in the future, he looked at the pouring rain and moved, so it was better to change his name to "Qiao Yu". However, he immediately felt that the word "rain" was inappropriate, not as interesting as the word "yu", so he changed his name to Qiao Yu. "Guan Yu and Xiang Yu in ancient China were all good, and Lu Yu, who wrote the Tea Classic, now there is another Qiao Yu."
During his college studies, he was drawn out by the school to go deep into the countryside and participate in the land reform work, and after in-depth research, he wrote a 120,000-word "Investigation Report on the Experience of Land Reform in the Party".
The investigation report had a clear point of view, strict logic, and beautiful writing, and Wang Renzhong, the head of the land reform work group at the time, praised it and ordered that Qiao Yu be immediately transferred to the Policy Research Office of Ji'nan District.
However, Wang Renzhong's order was ultimately dashed by the CPC Central Committee's order that "none of these students can move and stay and wait for the liberation of all of China for unified use." However, this investigation report was reprinted by the "Ji'nan Daily" at that time, which played an important role in promoting the local land reform work and became Qiao Yu's earliest "famous work".
This year Qiao Yu was only twenty years old.
Former site of the University of the North
Meet Junchu, the double oars ripple
After the founding of New China, Qiao Yu was transferred to beijing to work in the Chinese script writing studio. When he was young, Qiao Yu was tall and handsome, dashing and masculine, and was very popular with girls.
In 1953, Qiao Yu was introduced by a colleague to a girl named Tong Qi. This girl is not simple, Tong Qi was born in Beijing in 1937, 10 years younger than Qiao Yu, her father is a famous general in the northeast, and her mother is a descendant of the Qing Dynasty royal family, so Tong Qi can be regarded as a gege.
And Qiao Yu was born in poverty, which is far from Tong Qi's family background, and many people feel that the two are inappropriate, and even persuade Qiao Yu to break up.
Some said to Qiao Yu, "You marry Gege and go home, and see how you wait later!" "
But Qiao Yu felt that Tong Qi was beautiful and elegant, knowledgeable and reasonable, and how to see that she was not a brutal woman, so she identified Tong Qi in her heart, and the two soon fell in love.
In 1954, the first children's film in New China, "Flowers of the Motherland", needed to be accompanied by a song, and the relevant departments arranged for Qiao Yu to compose lyrics.
Qiao Yu sat in the office and pondered for a few days, without writing a word. On April 16 of that year, Tong Qi happened to ask him to go to Beihai Park to play.
The little couple was riding a boat in the park, and suddenly a group of Young Pioneers paddled and paddled leisurely past them. The boat pushed the waves, and the smiling faces of the children were reflected in the water, like a painting.
Qiao Yu was suddenly inspired, and he quickly went ashore with Tong Qi and sat in the park to compose the lyrics of "Let's Swing the Oars". Later, this song was composed by Liu Chi and became an eternal classic of the century, and it is still widely sung today.
Later: Qiao Yu wrote in the book, "My lyric writing career of more than half a century began in this beautiful spring in the motherland."
A large river with wide waves
In the summer of 1956, Qiao Yu was collecting materials for the creation of the film literary script "Red Child" in the former Central Soviet District in the southeast of Gan and western Fujian. Changchun Film Studio director Sha Meng took one telegram after another, urging him to go to Changying to write the theme song for the movie "Shangganling".
However, Qiao Yu wanted to write the script of "Red Child" in one fell swoop, and several times called back to plead with Shamen to find someone nearby to write. But Salmon was non-negotiable, and came another urgent telegram, which was several pages long, and the last one used three "cut" words and three exclamation points!
Qiao Yu had to obey the order to rush to the Changchun Film Studio, and after going there, he found that this matter was really 100,000 urgent - the film had been filmed, the sample film had been cut out, leaving only the few minutes of the interlude arrangement, and had to wait for the song to come out and make up for it.
Sha Meng urged Qiao Yu to write quickly, and he did not dare to be sloppy, and asked the director busily: "What do you think this song should be written like?" Salmon said: "You can write as much as you want, I only hope that in the future, no one will watch this film, and this song will still be sung." ”
Qiao Yu immediately went to work and racked his brains to write lyrics, which made Sha Meng anxious. Sha Meng was anxious, qiao Yu was even more anxious. Sha Meng came to Qiao Yu's house almost every day, not in a hurry, and left with a few idle words. However, Qiao Yu knew that he was pretending to be calm, which only made him more stressed.
In fact, after many days of thinking, Qiao Yu has three choices: First, sing heroic praises, both posting titles and emotions; The second is to use a "counter-attack" tactic, singing hate songs, accusing the cruelty of US imperialism, and both attaching to the topic and relieving hatred; The third is to follow the idea of praise, and come to a few paragraphs of singing lyrics such as "the land is vast, the culture is long, and the mountains and rivers are magnificent".
However, all three of the above were vetoed by him. This was not what Sha Meng wanted, nor was it what Qiao Yu wanted.
When he can't write, Qiao Yu always likes to go around on a basketball court.
One day, the weather turned cloudy, and suddenly a few raindrops hit his face, and then there was a loud thunderclap, torrential rain, and the land was a vast expanse of water. After the heavy rain, Qiao Yu found a group of children laughing and putting grass boats in the ditch. It was this small detail that made Qiao Yu have a lyric in his mind: A big river with wide waves.
He hurriedly turned back to the house, and in one breath, he wrote out the lyrics of this song that seemed to have been "stored" in his heart for a long time: A big river with wide waves...
The next morning, Sha Meng went to Qiao Yu's room as usual, and Qiao Yu handed the manuscript to Sha Meng to read. Shamen was stunned for a moment, and quickly spread the manuscript on the table, and the lyrics of less than 200 words were read repeatedly for half an hour. However, after Sha Meng saw the lyrics, he felt that "a big river with wide waves" was a bit stingy, and asked Qiao Yu why he did not write "The waves of the Yangtze River are wide", wouldn't it be more imposing
Qiao Yu said: Although the Yangtze River is imposing, after all, only people living along the Yangtze River have experience, which may make people who have not seen the Yangtze River have a sense of distance psychologically, and from the experience of the motherland, no matter where you are, there will always be a river at your doorstep, as long as you think of home, you will think of this river...
Salmon listened and clapped immediately
"That's it!"
After that, the composer Liu Chi completed the composition, and Qiao Yu elected Guo Lanying to sing. After Guo Lanying finished recording the song, it was first broadcast nationwide by the Central People's Radio. Therefore, "Shangganling" has not yet been released, and "My Motherland" has become popular.
Because he successively created two classic songs of "Let's Swing the Oars" and "My Motherland", Qiao Yu began to become popular across the country.
At the end of the Spring Festival Gala every year, I will never forget this evening
The creation of "Unforgettable Tonight" is even more legendary. In 1984, at the rehearsal site of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, the general director Huang Yihe suddenly felt that there was a lack of a song that matched the entire party, so he hurried to Qiao Yu's office and asked for lyrics directly, "You write me a lyric right away, and use it at the Spring Festival Gala." ”
Qiao Yu was very surprised at the time, "You said 'immediately', what concept?" ”
"Right now, I'm sitting here waiting, and when I'm done, I'll take it!" Huang Yihe said anxiously.
Qiao Yu saw that the general director was in a hurry, but he could not write on the spot, so he asked the director to return first, promising to deliver the manuscript at 5 o'clock in the morning. But it was already 3 a.m. to send the director away, and the matter came too quickly, and the director did not even give an explanation of what he wanted to write.
At this time, Qiao Yu could not care less about asking, he thought of the party at that time, Chinese New Year's Eve family reunion, everyone has good wishes, this should be a day worthy of people's eternal commemoration... Inspiration strikes and spring rains.
Qiao Yu immediately began to write, waving a little bit, "Unforgettable tonight, unforgettable tonight, no matter the end of the world and the cape, the land of Shenzhou embraces together, I wish the motherland is good, the motherland is good", the lyrics are deeply emotional, and the voice of all the Chinese in Chinese New Year's Eve night. In two hours, at 5 o'clock in the morning, the song was handed over to the director on time.
The song "Unforgettable Tonight" is sung by Li Gu, which has dominated the CCTV Spring Festival Gala for more than 30 years, which can be called a legend in the song world.
A song of acacia burst into tears
In contemporary China, almost no one knows the song "Missing" sung by Mao Amin, but few people know that this song is a love song written by Qiao Yu based on his family background and his second sister-in-law as the character base.
Qiao Yu's second sister-in-law, named Zhang Fuzhen, was born in 1915, the same age as Qiao Yu's second brother Qiao Qingrui, and the two were married by lightning under the arrangement of their parents.
At that time, Qiao Qingrui had been a soldier in the Kuomintang army for 8 years, and he was very disgusted with this kind of arranged marriage after seeing the world, but his parents' orders were difficult to violate, so he had to worship the "church" in a confused way.
But on the wedding night, when the bride Zhang Fuzhen waited for him to wash his feet, he suddenly felt that his eyes lit up and found that the heavens had given him a beauty. Like the literati at that time, he gave Zhang Fuzhen a particularly beautiful name: Wanjun. This night, they felt that they hated each other and swore to love each other forever.
However, on July 7, 1937, the "July 7 Incident" broke out. Qiao Qingrui received an urgent order from above to return to the troops immediately. The country is in trouble, and the military order is above all else. The next day, Qiao Qingrui had to say goodbye to his family and beloved wife.
I didn't expect this to be 51 years. In October 1949, Qiao Qingrui left the mainland with a Kuomintang regiment and went to Taiwan, and he tried everything he could to get in touch with his family without success. Later, he received a strange letter saying that the residents of WenDa Street in Jining Prefecture had been washed away by the cannon fire and blood of Japanese devils, and he was discouraged and married and had children.
After Qiao Yu became famous in the mainland, he entrusted overseas Chinese to inquire about the news of his second brother Qiao Qingrui, and the brothers established contact between them. Subsequently, Qiao Qingrui returned to his hometown after 51 years of absence.
In 1988, when Qiao Qingrui walked down from the train car trembling, Qiao's family, who had been looking forward to it for 51 years, suddenly hugged their heads and cried.
When he saw his wife, who was as beautiful as a flower and now had white hair, Qiao Qingrui came from it with sorrow, "Wanjun! Wanjun! Decades of grievances, thoughts, and torture have caused the couple to kneel on the ground at the same time, holding their heads and crying.
Qiao Qingrui and Zhang Fuzhen were reunited for 29 days and hurried back to Taiwan, because there were also wives and children there that he could not give up. Qiao Qingrui died in 1997 at the age of 82.
3 days before his death, he called Qiao Yu and asked about Zhang Fuzhen's recent situation, repeatedly saying that he missed home, and when he dreamed of going home, he met his parents and surprisingly wanted to eat the fried buns from his hometown.
The persistence and infatuation of the second sister-in-law has been precipitating in Qiao Yu's heart, and he recalled a butterfly that he met many years ago that hovered around and refused to leave for a long time, and the poet's feelings were stirred up, and a warm and tearful work "Thoughts" was written:
Where did you come from / My friend / Like a butterfly flew into my window / I don't know how many days to stay / We have been separated for too long and too long / Where did you come from / My friend / Like a butterfly flew into my window / Why did you go without a message / Only the thoughts were backlogged in my heart / Did you leave in a hurry again / And treat the party as a breakup...
In 2003, Zhang Fuzhen died of illness. This old man, who had insisted on a lifelong marriage for just 3 days of marriage, on his deathbed, pointed to the red lacquered wooden box that she never opened in front of people and let people open it. At first glance, the box contained her wedding dress and two pairs of red embroidered shoes. The family understood what she meant, and leaned her wedding dress and red embroidered shoes to her face, and she died peacefully. Its tragic love story ends here, and Mao Amin's first singing of "Miss" is only the beginning...
Non-indifference is not clear-sighted, non-tranquility is not far-reaching
Qiao Lao smiled at the name of the merit, indifferent to LiLu, optimistic and open-minded. He usually likes to take a few sips of wine, smoke a few puffs of cigarettes, and love to make friends. He divided the day into two segments, writing behind closed doors in the morning, refusing visitors. Once you are engaged in writing, any phone calls are not answered, which shows the seriousness of the creative attitude. In the afternoon, the time is free to arrange, or to receive visitors, or to chat with old friends, or to take a walk. Enjoys fishing on weekdays. He said he especially likes to fish in the rain. Contentment is always happy, and it is safe to meet with encounters.
He used his talents to write songs, but in his eyes, writing lyrics was not a noble and sacred creation. Qiao Yu often said: "I have never regarded the lyrics as a beautiful thing in brocade, Gao Tang Hua Wu. It is an indispensable home-cooked meal for ordinary people' daily meals, coarse cloth clothes, or small courtyards that are not spacious but also warm. In his heart, with the simple atmosphere of life and the fragrance of earth, it is the best work.
People heard such ordinary lyrics, "The girl is like a flower, how broad-minded the young man is, the friend has a good wine, if the jackal comes, he will be greeted with a shotgun." And "people say that Shanxi has good scenery, fertile land and water and beautiful grains", how simple and concise!
Qiao Yu said: "I don't like to smear grease and powder, I like to go straight to the vernacular." In fact, his lyrics seem to be very ordinary language, but only Elder Qiao deeply realizes that they are "easy to write, difficult to write."
In his later years, everyone respectfully called Qiao Yu "the titan of the word world" and "the word altar is not old", but Elder Qiao laughed at it.
When the students called him a "titan in the field of music and literature", Mr. Qiao said seriously: "I oppose the claim of a titan." The titans are those who are always bright and guiding the way. And I'm just a lyricist. Now some newspapers and periodicals call people 'famous', and then they are masters and titans.
This is an impetuous social phenomenon. No one will say 'famous Lu Xun', we can only say Mr. Lu Xun. Cao Xueqin wrote "Dream of the Red Chamber", needless to say that he is famous, because when his name is mentioned, people will be in awe. Mao Zedong said: In addition to China's vast land and vast knowledge, there is also a "Dream of the Red Chamber." That's enough. ”
He believes that you are really famous, not "famous" but famous, not famous hard "famous" but nonsense. His favorite is the "writer" and sometimes calls himself "the one who wrote a few lyrics.".
Qiao Yu also said: "Whether it is a celebrity or an ordinary person, we all have two ears and one pair of eyes." Celebrities should be more mortal. Celebrities also come out of obscurity. I have never felt that I am a celebrity, so when I write something, I first grasp two things: one is to take care of most people's feelings; The second is to let ordinary people understand as soon as they listen to it, and like it when they listen to it, these two problems cannot be solved, I do not write...
"At any time, I want to express the most beautiful feelings in the hearts of the people in this era."
With the pen of immortality, composing the song of the naked son, he used simple and straightforward language, rubbed patriotic feelings into every lyric, and planted the feelings of home and country in everyone's heart, which is the original intention that Qiao Yu pursued and always practiced throughout his life.
On the evening of June 19, 2022, the famous songwriter Qiao Yu died of illness in Beijing at the age of 95.
As soon as the news of his death was reported by the media, it quickly topped the hot list of many websites. Countless people expressed deep condolences for his passing.
Singer Li Guyi posted in Zhihu: Unforgettable my Joe! A partner I respect and love! Although there is no longer his figure in the world, his noble patriotic spirit of loving the country and the people, his simple and unpretentious, kind, lovely and humorous character, and the great artistic talents and works that no one can surpass will always remain in the world and in the hearts of hundreds of millions of people! Qiao Yu old man I will always miss you, all the way good!
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Use the boat white tower and the green tree red wall to bid farewell to Qiao Yu
Say goodbye to Qiao Yu with a butterfly that flies into the window
Farewell to Qiao Yu with the end of the world and the cape
Bid farewell to Qiao Yu with a big river
He created numerous classics
thereupon
He also became a classic
And the meaning of the classic is
People will never forget
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