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"Night incense, I sing for you, night incense, I think for you..."
The song "Night Fragrance", I don't know if you have heard it, the original song of this song is Li Xianglan.
Li Xianglan, a Japanese expatriate, was born into an intellectual family and immigrated to China from her father's generation, whose real name is Shuko Yamaguchi.
She speaks an authentic, thick-accented Kyokata dialect, but instead is supposed to be a native Japanese speaker, and she was not very good at it when she was young.
In 1932, after the Pingdingshan Massacre, her father was detained on suspicion by the Japanese side of having dealings with Chinese anti-Japanese elements.
At the age of 13, Shuko Yamaguchi and her mother had to go to Shenyang to join her father's good friend Li Jichun. On the train to Shenyang, Li Xianglan met a Russian girl Liuba, the two became friends, through Liuba, Li Xianglan worshiped the famous Soviet song and dance actor Madame Podoresol as a teacher, since then she began her own acting path.
In 1933, under the arrangement of her father, Li Xianglan recognized Li Jichun as her adoptive father, which gave her a Chinese name: Li Xianglan.
After the establishment of the puppet Manchu regime, Chinese singers were recruited to beautify the Japanese army, and then Li Xianglan was selected, but no one doubted her Japanese identity.
In order to strengthen her Chinese identity, she also worshipped Pan Yugui, a political tycoon in North China, as her righteous father, and had the name Pan Shuhua, and also used this name to learn characters in Beiping. Because she could speak fluent Peiping and never revealed her origins, her teacher did not know that she was Japanese. At a party invited by a friend, she learned that this was a rally to denounce the Japanese invasion, and when the Japanese were asked by her classmates what everyone should do when they were about to attack north China from the northeast, Pan Shuhua said that she would stand on the walls of Beijing and let any army kill her. It can be seen that she is very jealous and helpless about her double-sided identity, and may be the best choice to kill.
Li Xianglan, who studied under Mrs. Bodolisov, soon showed her amazing artistic talent, and by chance, she was photographed by the Japanese pseudo-"Manchurian Film Association" and officially debuted as a Chinese singer in 1938, singing many Chinese classic songs.
She officially took the stage under the name of Li Xianglan, and filmed the classic film "Wanshi Liufang" for China Film Company, China United Production Company and sang the theme song of the movie "Selling Sugar Song" and the interlude "Quit Smoking Song". The film and its interludes soon became popular throughout China, and the subsequent works such as "Night Fragrance", "Hate Not Meeting And Not Marrying", "Haiyan" and other works made it even more famous, and she also became one of the "Seven Queens of Songs" in Shanghai Beach with the same name as Gong Qiuxia, Zhou Xuan, Yao Li, Bai Guang, Bai Hong, and Wu Yingyin.
Li Xianglan is very artistically talented, in order to whitewash the motives of the invasion of China, Japan set up a pseudo-Manchurian Film Association, learned that Li Xianglan sang well, pulled her into the association, widely packaged, and soon launched "Meng Jiang Girl" and "Night Fragrance" and other popular songs on the radio station.
For a time, Li Xianglan's great name was popular all over the country and was well known by many Chinese. As soon as the Japanese saw the opportunity coming, they immediately asked her to do propaganda for the Japanese army and began to implement the "sugar-coated shell" policy for the Chinese army.
In such a war-torn era, people may be attracted by her talents, or perhaps they need psychological comfort in the chaos of war, showing great enthusiasm for her. Young Li Xianglan did not know what these meant, she thought that she could really bring happiness and light to people, but unfortunately became a tool used by the Japanese army to whitewash the Taiping.
She not only sang some movie interludes and cover songs of some Chinese songs, but also inadvertently promoted Japanese militarism, and in many of the films she participated in, she played the Role of a Chinese woman who fell in love with the Japanese invaders.
In the following 6 years, under the planning and packaging of the Japanese "Manying" company, Li Xianglan participated in and sang a series of works that publicized the "Japanese army is close to the people" and whitewashed Japan's war of aggression, such as "Wanshi Liufang", "Buy Sugar Song", "Quit Smoking Song" and so on.
Despite the turmoil, Li Xianglan's popularity in China has increased unabated. As long as it is the movie she participated in, it will definitely sell well at the box office; As long as it is a song she sings, it will be a fire. Thus achieving the goal of paralyzing the Chinese people on the spiritual level by the Japanese side.
It was not until 1944 that the 24-year-old Li Xianglan left Manying. But Li Xianglan's insult will not end because of this.
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the Manchurian Printing and Painting Company also collapsed, losing the support of the company, and Li Xianglan quickly fell from the clouds.
After the war, the government liquidated the traitors, and because of the filming of films about the spread of Japanese culture, Li Xianglan inevitably became the target of government criticism and was arrested and sentenced to death.
After being arrested, Li Xianglan was very desperate, and she defended the government that she had never passed on intelligence to the Japanese government and had not harmed the Chinese soldiers and civilians, but no one listened to her explanation.
Just then, the friend who had helped her introduce her to Madame Podolesov reappeared. After learning such news, she rushed to the execution site without stopping, and claimed that she had brought evidence that could spare Li Xianglan's sentence. It is a household registration manuscript that says that his father, Fumio Yamaguchi, a senior employee of Mantetsu Co., Ltd., whose real name was Shuko Yamaguchi.
This is to prove that her nationality is Japanese, so what is wrong with interpreting for Japanese people? At the same time, I am an actor, starring is my own function, I have not participated in any political activities, and what reason do I have to sentence myself to death? Subsequently, the court acquitted Li Xianglan and was released in court.
After returning to China, Li Xianglan did not disappear from here, on the contrary, she became one of the most active figures in front of the Japanese public.
In 1951, Shuko Yamaguchi married the American engraver Isamu Noguchi, and only five years after their marriage, the two announced their divorce.
Li Xianglan dressed in Japanese costume
In 1958, Shuko Yamaguchi fell in love with diplomat Ōtaka Hiroshi and married soon after. After marriage, Yamaguchi took her husband's surname, changed her name to Ōtaka Shuko, quit the show business circle, began to work full-time as a diplomat's wife, and first entered politics at the age of 38.
In 1969, Li Xianglan served as the program host of Fuji Television, and became the "golden microphone" of Fuji Television in Japan, when Li Xianglan was 49 years old. During his tenure as a host, Li Xianglan interviewed Arafat, Mandela and other influential figures in political circles.
In 1974, at the age of 54, Li Xianglan participated in the election of members of the Japanese House of Councillors and officially entered the political arena.
In the many years of political work, Li Xianglan's greatest energy was to promote friendly relations between China and Japan. And she has always had a desire to personally explain to the CCP government authorities that she was not a spy of the year.
In order to fulfill this wish, in 1975, Li Xianglan deliberately passed through Beijing on his way to North Korea and explained to Sun Pinghua, secretary general of the China-Japan Friendship Association, everything that happened that year.
In that late night, the burden that Li Xianglan had been carrying in her heart for many years finally dissipated.
In 1978, Li Xianglan, who was already a member of the National Assembly, led a delegation to visit China. When visiting the Changchun Film Studio, she said sincerely: "I have two motherlands, China and Japan, China is the country of my mother, and Japan is the country of my father." China is my hometown, so going to China should say 'back' to China. ”
In November 1992, she was invited to China to participate in the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival held in Guilin, and she was still speaking a Beijing film when she was more than an old age.
In the same year, in order to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Japan, the Japanese Four Seasons Theater Troupe visited China with the musical "Li Xianglan" and performed 15 performances in Beijing, Changchun, Shenyang, Dalian and other places where Li Xianglan lived.
Li Xianglan, who has long served as vice president of the Asian Women's Foundation, hopes to promote the Japanese government to publicly apologize and compensate the war victims and comfort women who served in the army.
In 2005, when Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi visited the Yasukuni Shrine, Li Xianglan published an article exhorting Koizumi not to do so, because it would hurt the hearts of Chinese people.
In September 2014, Li Xianglan, 94, died in Japan. On the same day, Mr. Hong Lei, a spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, said: "Ms. Li Xianglan has made positive contributions to her post-war support and participation in the cause of Sino-Japanese friendship, and we mourn her passing away. ”
She made mistakes when she was young, glorifying the aggressive beast of the Japanese army, but fortunately she did not go on wrong and made up for the mistakes with the rest of her life. When the dust settles, Li Xianglan's life is so beautiful and helpless.
Ironically, a Japanese woman who was once coerced by Japanese militarism understands the truth, but now there are many Chinese born under the red flag and grown up in New China, so recently strange things have happened in Nanjing.
Doesn't it understand that the National Feelings of the Chinese people cannot be harmed by the plaque of the "Youth Patriotism Education Base" hanging from the Nanjing Xuanzang Temple, which is adjacent to the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall, but enshrines the tablets of japanese war criminals who participated in the massacre in the temple?
In addition, some time ago, Nanjing also held a traditional Japanese festival summer festival, held near the monument to the victims of the Nanjing Massacre, held on the eve of Japan's Surrender Day in World War II, and set up a similar thing at the entrance of the Yasukuni Shrine - the so-called super torii gate.
China's territorial sovereignty brooks no aggression, China's cultural sovereignty is equally important, it is time for "the golden monkey to rise up a thousand sticks, Yuyu to clarify Wanlie", the land of China will not tolerate these glamorous rays, stir up the wind and waves?
I hope that these smoky miasma things can be eliminated as soon as possible and return the land of China to a clean and clear!