"The Yellow River on the left (Ma Oh Yo), the Stone Cliff on the right (Mo Oh Yo), the Snow White Pigeon (Mo), the Stunned, the Barn, the Purr, the Purr Zhu Zhonglu, the Fluttering Purr Zhu Zhonglu, the Fluttering Lala Lala Flying, the Water Flying (Ma Oh Yo)...".
This is a song recorded in the 1950s, "Flowers", more than 60 years ago, when this mountain wild song first floated over the city through the radio waves, people remembered a strange name - Zhu Zhonglu.
"Flowers" is the word of the heart
In 1922, Zhu Zhonglu was born in Tongren County, the famous Tibetan "Hometown of Regong Art", which is an agricultural area in the eastern part of Qinghai Province, a place where many ethnic groups live and live together.
His father, Zhu Rui, was the singer of the village at that time, and it was he who brought Zhu Zhonglu into the world of "flowers" as a child. The first song his father taught Zhu Zhonglu was the Hezhou Order" "Go up to a high mountain and look at the Pingchuan River".
There are also two great gods in Yong'an Village, one is a hundred songs of grandpa and a hundred songs, and the other is a folk artist blind Buddha. Zhu Zhonglu followed these two people, and the singing level of "Hua'er" increased rapidly, and when he was a teenager, he became the "Hua'er" who was famous in all four townships and eight miles. After being admitted to Kunlun Middle School in Xining, Qinghai, he met Wang Luobin, who was a music teacher at the school, and created many poems and sketches, and also filled in some "flower" words. These learning experiences laid the foundation for Zhu Zhonglu to become the "Flower King" in the future.
A song that the world hears
In September 1949, shortly after the liberation of Xining, Zhu Zhonglu was admitted to the third branch of the Chinese Revolutionary University in Dengjia Garden, and in October of the same year, Zhu Zhonglu was invited by the newly established Gansu People's Radio station to sing live, which was the first time that "Hua'er" was transmitted to the outside world through radio waves.
In the years that followed, he created the best of several "flowers":
On National Day in 1950, Zhu Zhonglu sang his newly compiled Qinghai "Flowers" "Chairman Mao Is Like Our Father-in-Law" at the "Great Unity Party of All Nationalities" held at the Xiannongtan Inlet in Beijing, bringing "Flowers" to the official occasions in Beijing for the first time. In 1952, he sang three "Flowers" for the movie "The Sun Illuminates the Red Stone Ditch", which made "Flowers" appear on the screen for the first time.
In 1953, as a representative of the northwest region, he sang "Flowers" into Zhongnanhai, and was received by Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai and other national leaders, and the China Record Publishing House also released his singing "Flowers" "Go up to a High Mountain and Look at Pingchuan" and the wine song "Ga Old Man", which was the first record in the history of "Flowers".
In 1954, he compiled another book, Selected Flowers, the second book in The History of Chinese Publishing related to "Flowers".
In the autumn of 1957, Zhu Zhonglu participated in the Seventh World Youth Festival held in Moscow, and "Flowers and Youth" was appreciated by foreign friends and won the reputation of the motherland. At the closing ceremony of the 11th Asian Games, the large-scale song and dance of "Flowers and Teenagers" was displayed in front of hundreds of millions of spectators, winning glory for the country.
A silent farewell at the peak
Just when Zhu Zhonglu's singing and composition were at its peak, he suddenly bid farewell to the Shaanxi Provincial Song and Dance Troupe that brought him success and left Xi'an, a city that gave him prestige and honor.
He knew that he had to return to the homeland of the "flowers" and to the richest soil of the "flowers" in order to blossom the most beautiful flowers.
In 1963, after a 13-year absence, the 41-year-old Zhu Zhonglu returned to Lanzhou, where he never forgot, and entered the newly established Northwest Nationalities College Song and Dance Troupe, and while running into the band, Zhu Zhonglu also gradually became very confused, whether to transform "flowers" into embellishments on the professional stage, or let him return to the folk fertile land that nourished it.
Two years later, due to the change in the cultural atmosphere at that time, Zhu Zhonglu's "flowers" were no longer out of place in that era, and since then, he has completely bid farewell to the professional singing stage and faded out of people's sight.
In 1970, at the age of 48, Zhu Zhonglu moved back to his hometown of Gamagou with his wife and children, at which point he became a sheep. What people can't imagine is that he stayed here for 8 years. For 8 years, the earthen ditch surrounded on all sides has always reverberated with Zhu Zhonglu's free and unrestrained singing, and he has completed the most difficult experience of his life here!
A generation of "flower" kings went away, leaving behind a grand sea of flowers
In his later years, Zhu Zhonglu once compared "flowers" to a sea of flowers blooming in the garden, and described himself as a flower that loved "flowers" and protected "flowers", and he almost worked hard for "flowers" and accompanied "flowers" day and night until the end of his life.
At 2:10 p.m. on December 22, 2007, Zhu Zhonglu, a generation of "flower kings", died at the age of 85 in his home in Xining, Qinghai.
In more than 70 years of flower singing career, flowers are accompanied by applause, prison and criticism are connected, and he has witnessed the whole process of flowers from ravines to the world.
In the distance we seemed to hear his song again: Oh... Go up to a high mountain and look at the Hirakawa River, and there is a white peony in the Hirakawa River. ”