Anonymized for 75 years, his life is even more legendary than the drama he played.
"Today, on the occasion of celebrating the centenary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, we are here to solemnly hold a ceremony to award the highest honor in the party to communist party members who have made outstanding contributions to the party and the people."
The first ceremony of the "July 1st Medal" was officially held in the Great Hall of the People.
"Loyalty Hymn" sounded, and the honor guard of the three services saluted, holding high the national flag and party flag, and escorting the medal into the hall.
A total of 29 meritorious party members have received this supreme honor.
Among them, a familiar and unexpected name broke into the public eye.
A famous mainland performing artist, Blue Sky Wild.
As the first batch of backbone actors at the beginning of the establishment of the Beijing People's Art Theater, this 94-year-old senior has really dedicated too many classic roles.
On the drama stage, he is Qin Zhongyi, who is empty-eyed in "The Tea House", Feng Leshan, who is morally calm in "Home", and the qi Yuxuan in "Wang Zhaojun".
On the TV screen, he is the weak and stuttering father of Puyi in "The Last Emperor", the regent Ai Xinjue Luo Zaifeng, and the Jiang Ziya of the Xianfeng Dao Bone in the old version of "Fengshen List"...
But what is really surprising is that it was not until he received the "July 1st Medal" that his other unknown identity was finally revealed.
It turned out that during the turmoil, Blue Sky Wild was also an excellent underground worker.
Risking the danger of passing intelligence and supplies to the front; With a sense of haste, he escorted the entire team out of the enemy' side.
The "Blue Sky Wild" is actually not his real name, and the initial path of acting also belongs to the "work arrangement".
"Organizationally, I let (I) do whatever I want, and the party decides what I do."
In a word, 75 years in anonymity, his life is more legendary than the drama he played.
01
In May 1927, a child was born in a large feudal family surnamed Wang in Raoyang County, Hebei Province.
According to tradition, his grandfather named him Wang Runsen according to the eight characters of the birthday, which is the original name of Blue Sky Wild.
Shortly after his full moon, four generations of his family moved to Beiping.
During the warlord melee, there was no peace everywhere. But fortunately, with the rich family foundation, the family can still live a worry-free life.
In the alleys of Beijing's hutongs, Lan Tianye spent a happy childhood.
During the day, I followed my mother to listen to Peking Opera, and at night my grandfather told traditional stories, and occasionally went to the temple fair to watch folk performances.
Subtly, it inspired Blue Sky Wild's love for art, especially the talent for painting.
Unfortunately, the good times did not last long, and the July 7 Incident broke out, and Japan launched an all-out war of aggression against China.
Blue Sky Wild, who had just turned ten years old, watched the fall of Peiping with his own eyes and began to taste the taste of the slaves of the country under the iron hooves of the Japanese Kou.
What is even more unfortunate is that the haze of national disasters is not dispersed, and the destruction of families is an inevitable end.
For two consecutive months, Blue Sky Wild's grandparents and father died one after another, leaving only orphans and widows to survive.
But even so, Blue Sky Wild did not give up the pursuit of knowledge and art.
With excellent results, he was admitted to the National Peking Art School. It was the first art education institution in China, with Xu Beihong as its principal.
At that time, many young students in the school began to rehearse patriotic dramas in order to dispel the bitterness and depression of the Japanese threat.
Influenced by his friend Su Min, Blue Sky Wild also joined in. But at this time, he did not expect that this would become a cog to reverse the trajectory of his life.
Suddenly, one day, the third sister of The Blue Sky Wild, Shi Mei, who had not heard from her for six years, returned home.
It turned out that her "disappearance" was due to the influence of advanced revolutionary ideas, early joining the Communist Party, and having been engaged in revolutionary propaganda work in the anti-Japanese base areas.
This time, when I returned to the big city, I was once again assigned by the party to carry out underground activities and recruit party members.
Blue Sky Wild's home has also secretly become a transportation station for the underground party in Beiping.
Watching the third sister assemble the shortwave radio every day and record the military district news. Although the 18-year-old Blue Sky Wild is young, he can't stop the heart of serving the country.
He followed in his sister's footsteps and became an underground party traffic officer.
While assisting her sister in engraving the text of the message into a wax plate, page by page mimeograph, after which it was handed over to the underground party members for distribution;
While risking his life, he rode his bicycle to transfer the documents and materials needed in the Xishan Liberated Area back and forth.
This is undoubtedly very dangerous.
Later, recalling this incident, Lan Tianye said that he did not think much of it at all, and only wanted to do his best for the party.
On the day of joining the Party, conditions were restricted, there were no ceremonies and no oaths.
But Blue Sky Wild still remembers that day vividly, September 23, 1945
He said, "Just as a person remembers his birthday, I will never forget it." ”
02
Soon after joining the party, the organization saw that Lan Tianye had experience in drama interpretation, and gave him a task - to change his career to acting.
As an art form closely linked to society, drama has become an important way for the student movement in enemy-occupied areas.
At that time, every school in Peiping had a student theater troupe, and the members of the troupe were basically the leaders of the student movement.
Lan Tianye gave up his art studies and joined the Party Branch of the Beiping Opera Federation established by the underground party.
Cooperate with the student democracy movement under the leadership of the Communist Party, participate in the performance of the troupe, and develop the members of the literary and artistic revolution.
Concentrate wholeheartedly on the theatrical front and strengthen the work of the Beiping underground party on the literary and artistic front.
But the activities of the drama club with progressive ideas soon attracted the attention and suspicion of the Kuomintang.
The situation is obviously in crisis, and the backbone members of the Beiping Opera Federation must be immediately and covertly transferred.
At this time, Lan Tiantian could not leave, and he was further directly entrusted with a more important task - to enter the second team of the Nationalist Army.
On the surface, the second team was dispatched by the Kuomintang, but in fact it was under the leadership of the Communist Party, and the members of the team were all young Communists.
Lan Tianye, who openly identifies himself as a major of the Kuomintang, must continue to serve as a cover for these underground workers and protect the progressive literary and artistic forces in the Kuomintang area.
At this time, he was only 19 years old.
In 1948, the situation became more and more tense, the Kuomintang stepped up its search force, and individual members of the second team were also included in the key surveillance.
In a critical moment, the Party organization secretly drew up a plan for the members of the troupe to withdraw to the Liberated Area.
Unexpectedly, the Kuomintang took a step faster, immediately blocked the university for a large-scale search, set up a special criminal court and a special prison for torture, and published the "blacklist" of arrests in the North China Daily for three consecutive days.
In order to be able to fully control the movement of the second team, the National Party appointed a new captain to take office, planning to find out the "internal ghosts" in the team.
At the moment of the first attack, Blue Sky Wild maintained his composure and came up with a new response plan.
On the eve of the Mid-Autumn Festival, he took the lead in leading the members of the group and held a warm "wind receiving" ceremony for the new captain, and during the staggering of the chips, Blue Sky Wild proposed to the captain that the new official should win the hearts of the people when he took office, so it was better to let the drama team members take turns to take a three-day holiday in the Mid-Autumn Festival.
The captain adopted, how could it be that after a night, the entire second team of the play actually disappeared out of thin air.
Under the cover of the blue sky and wild, the second team of the drama had already divided into many roads, and after three days they all successfully retreated to the Cangzhou Liberated Area.
In order not to affect the relatives of comrades on other fronts, but also for their own safety, the organization asked them to immediately change their names and reset their identities.
Since then, Wang Runsen has completely disappeared in the human world, and in the future, the world will only know the blue sky and wilderness.
When he followed the troops to Beiping again, the city he had known since childhood was renamed Beijing, just like him.
When he was 10 years old, he watched Peiping fall, and at the age of 22, he witnessed the rise of Beijing.
At the founding ceremony, Chairman Mao stood on the tower of Tiananmen Square, solemnly announced the founding of New China to the whole world, stared at the rising five-star red flag, and the blue sky ambition was surging and full of emotions.
The two heavens of the old and the new, China is different.
At this moment, the mission of Blue Sky Wild is not over.
The title of "Major" no longer exists, and he is still a national actor, turning around and participating in the celebration of the founding ceremony, and continues to shine and move forward.
03
After the founding of New China, dramas loved by the people became the top priority in the development of China's literary and artistic undertakings.
To this end, the Beijing People's Art Theater was officially established, referred to as "Beijing Renyi".
Strive to be able to build it into the world's top theater with Chinese style. Make Chinese drama a performing art with its own national characteristics.
Lan Tianye, Diao Guangqin, Tian Chong, Zhu Xu and others have naturally become the first batch of backbone actors of Beijing Renyi.
This place has also become the beginning of a new artistic life in Blue Sky Wild.
"Beijing Renyi" insists that if art is to be realistic and moving, it must pay attention to the accumulation of life.
Therefore, at the beginning of the establishment of the hospital, the drama was not rehearsed immediately, but the professionals of the whole hospital were required to go to the factory and go to the countryside for half a year to experience different lives.
Experience first, rehearse later. It has also become the "acting secret" of Blue Sky Wild throughout his life.
Later, Mr. Lao She's famous drama play "The Tea House" was put on the stage, and one of the most important roles was assigned to the head of Blue Sky Wild - Qin Erye.
This figure is a reformist national capitalist.
When he was young, he was full of spirit and arrogance, and dared to fight against the feudal forces. When he was old, he exhausted his efforts and experienced the failure of industry to save the country, and he showed the infinite sadness of an ordinary elderly man.
The contrast between the roles is so great that they are not easy to play.
"Tea House" drama Lan Tianye played Qin Zhongyi
However, Lan Tianye successfully performed the character of Qin Zhongyi on the stage to the fullest.
To this end, he went to a contemporary national businessman and carefully observed his experience and life.
Together with my colleagues, I went to explore and understand the different postures and trivia habits of the old Beijingers.
The thought reactions of old-fashioned entrepreneurs have long been familiarized by the blue field.
The Emperor's heavens paid off, and once "The Tea House" was staged, it was well received and well-known at home and abroad. It is also known as the "miracle of oriental stage art".
It is still the only classic play retained by "Beijing Renyi".
After every character, every character, Blue Sky Wild has been like a day for ten years, thinking hard and shaping wholeheartedly.
Zeng Wenqing, who played "Beijinger", raised pigeons and studied the "Pigeon Classic";
Dong Qi, who plays "Cai Wenji", carefully studies the contradictions between the relationships between the characters;
Shan Yu, who played "Wang Zhaojun", discussed the details of the design of the costume according to historical data.
In addition to acting, he also directed dramas, created excellent works such as "Qin Emperor Father and Son", "Noble Concubines Returning Home", "Home", and single-handedly cultivated and excavated a new generation of backbone actors such as Pu Cunxin, Yan Minqiu, Zhang Fuyuan, and Song Dandan.
After 43 years of hard work in the field of drama, Blue Sky Wild officially retired from Beijing Renyi.
But I never thought that because of my solid and rich experience in acting and directing, I accidentally entered the acting circle and supported the banner of the development of China's film and television industry in the early years.
And later in various works, we see that the role of Jiang Ziya is often always xianfeng Dao bone, Qi Yu Xuan appears like a high.
As everyone knows, this is also the result of Blue Sky Wild's painstaking solitude and laying the tone of the character.
Originally, Jiang Ziya, depicted in the script of the old version of the "List of Fengshen Gods", saw That Queen Zhou Wen was bent over and kneeling, with her hands bowed, no different from ordinary courtiers.
But Lan Tianye was not satisfied with anything, and finally decided to change the script himself.
He believes that Jiang Ziya in the traditional myth is a cockroach, who has insisted on fishing with a straight hook for more than ten years - rather than bending in the middle of the straight, rather than asking for the middle of the song.
In the 1990 version of the "List of Fengshen Gods", Lan Tianye played Jiang Ziya
For the arrival of King Wen of Zhou to request to go out of the mountain, he had long expected things. Therefore, Lan Tianye changed the action line of Jiang Ziya's role to: Stand up, Jiang Mou waited here for a long time.
In order to fully play this role, he also went to Beijing Baiyun Temple to experience life and read Taoist books. Strive to bring Jiang Ziya's temperament from outside the play to the play, and strive for excellence.
The episode was broadcast, and sure enough, it triggered another round of craze, and countless viewers are still impressed by Jiang Ziya's role.
Drama live, people live.
Blue Sky Wild really did it: people act for a point, and the drama is like a full of people.
04
When there was no longer a need to act, Blue Sky Wild did not choose to be idle.
On the contrary, he became more and more excited and full of energy. I feel that the opportunity to rekindle my childhood dreams has finally arrived.
Blue Sky Wild walked out of the stage and out of the screen. Travel through the mountains and rivers, hold a paintbrush in hand, and concentrate on drawing records.
In addition to painting, he also cultivated various hobbies, appreciating strange stones, learning to play chess, fishing and playing ball. Let yourself in your later years still be able to continuously stimulate stronger imagination and creativity in art.
He once said this:
Only when a person has enthusiasm for life, feelings for life, and interest in life can he engage in creation.
Blue Sky Wild's artistically appealing paintings have not only been recognized by professionals in the circle, but also held many solo exhibitions.
Blue Sky Wild Painting "Flowers and Birds"
Since then, he has added one more identity: the painter Blue Sky Wild.
In 2011, in order to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Party, after being invited by the director of the dean, after 19 years of absence from the drama stage, the 84-year-old Blue Sky Wild resolutely decided to return to the Beijing Renyi Drama Group again.
Rearranging the tribute program "Home", he also broke through the type of role he had played in the past and chose a villain Feng Leshan.
Again, as in the past, every time he acted, Blue Sky Wild integrated into his own creations, not repeating others, nor repeating his own.
He accidentally fell during rehearsals, fractured his finger, and still appeared on the scene the next day.
He also took the initiative to comfort everyone and said: "Yesterday I was sorry for everyone, I made you frightened." ”
Virtue is placed above art, and art is regarded as a mission.
This is the blue sky wilderness.
Source: Situation Watch