Famous Stories: Historically, what are the stories of composer Huang Zhun?

Teacher Huang Zhun, a famous composer, the first female composer in New China to compose film music, the composer of "The Song of the Girl Scout Army", and a famous artist.

My musical enlightenment, she said: "My interest in music should be said to have infected myself with the revolutionary singing movement in the War of Resistance Against Japan." I was twelve years old at the time, very young, and I went to the streets with them to march. I am most satisfied with the work, she said: "I was really touched after listening to my own music, that is, the music of "The Red Detachment of Women", at that time I had an idea, that is, I may never be able to write such a movie song in the future." My creative motivation, she said: "The motivation to support my creation, I just feel that this is my, as if it is what I pursue all my life, if I don't write, then there will be nothing, my own tasks, my hobbies, my own work is creation."

Speaking of Huang Zhun, everyone may not be very familiar with this name, but when it comes to film and television dramas such as "Red Girl Scout", "Kitten Fishing", and "Staggering Years", everyone will definitely think of that popular song. Indeed, the composer Huang Zhun's works are much more well-known than her name, and this masculine name has also brought many misunderstandings to her work life. After she created, many people wrote to her, and when they wrote letters, they generally called themselves Uncle Huang Zhun, and when they were older, they called themselves Uncle Huang Zhun, and then they called themselves Huang Zhun Grandpa. Once a person came to her house to contact her about something, probably to ask her to do a creation, but he was already in front of him, he was still looking for where Huang Zhun was, and then he told him that I was Huang Zhun. Ah, he said you are Huang Zhun, I thought Huang Zhun was a very tall man. Huang Zhun, whose original name was Huang Yuxiang, went to Guizhou with his sister to participate in the Anti-Japanese Salvation Movement when he was a teenager, and for unarmed students, songs were the best weapon for them to accuse the Japanese and reactionaries, and it also became the enlightenment of Huang Zhun's music. I heard a song behind me, the song is very beautiful, I think it is very beautiful, when I was a child, I had not heard this kind of song, when I was twelve years old, I felt very good. When I looked back, I saw my sister singing while she was shedding tears, and she sang "My home is on the Songhua River in the northeast", and after listening to it, I was fascinated, and from then on, I not only had an understanding of the japanese principles, but also liked music. However, the Kuomintang reactionaries threw these anti-Japanese youths into prison, including Huang Zhun, who was only twelve years old. I remember that the prison was a very black strip, on top of which was a kang, and nothing on the top was a little straw, and the straw was full of fleas and lice, which made them itchy; Then what is not light is a small iron window. Faced with such a dangerous situation, the young Huang Zhun did not retreat, but instead burst out of his amazing courage to catch the Kuomintang officers who interrogated her a little off guard. During the interrogation, he said that you little children, you little children, are so young, you are following these young people to march and demonstrate, you are making trouble, you are guilty, you know, you want to kill the head, that's what he said at that time. At that time, I was very tough, I was not afraid at all, I said that you were going to kill the head, you opposed our resistance to Japan, you should kill the head, you just did it to him, and as a result, they could not do anything, and then they could only laugh, this little girl was really powerful, so he took her back.

After the active rescue of the underground party, Huang Zhun finally escaped from the clutches of the reactionaries, and in order to avoid her future misfortune, her family decided to let her leave Guiyang. One is to go to Yan'an Luyi, then one is Xingzhi School, then Xingzhi School is very convenient to go to, and you can often be with your family, but I said I was going to Yan'an. Huang Zhun's choice began an unforgettable long march in her life, and she was taken like a parcel to Sichuan, Hubei, Shaanxi and other places, along the way through the bombing of the Japanese Kou, the interrogation of the reactionaries, and then walked more than 800 miles with a group of revolutionary youths to taste hardships before finally arriving in Yan'an.

After arriving in Yan'an, of course, they were very happy, because they were very hard along the way, sometimes even hungry, no food to eat, no water to drink, because they did not dare to take the big road, sometimes they had to take the small road, so after the hardships along the way, they finally saw the pagoda mountain and saw Yan'an, and everyone was very happy in that mood. As a result, he went with about twenty of them, and when he arrived in Yan'an, when he saw the pagoda, no one cared who he was, and he ran to the city of Yan'an by himself. This photo is a photo taken when she was about fifteen or sixteen years old when she was in school in Yan'an, and behind this is their "Luyi" school building, which has a place where they live and where they take classes, which is called Qiaoergou, where they lived and studied at that time. Then this picture was taken by myself when I was fifteen or sixteen years old, and I don't know who took it for me, and I have forgotten it. Founded in 1938, Lu Xun Art Academy was a comprehensive literary and art school founded by the Communist Party of China during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression to train literary and artistic cadres and literary and artistic workers in the army. I remember playing a small militiaman, holding a red gun in my hand, and as a result, there was an actor who usually looked at him unfavorably, and she beat him desperately, that is, on this stage, she could not enter the play at all; In addition, it is in a rehearsal, the appearance of playing dad's dying, dying is very miserable, and I laugh when I see him ugly. As a result, some of these performances, the drama teacher was very disappointed in himself and felt that he could not do it. Subsequently, Huang Zhun switched to (to) the music department, and the daily singing and dancing classes made her, who originally like music, fall into the rice tank like a mouse, and she also had the honor of learning from music masters such as Xian Xinghai, laying a solid foundation for her future success.

Xian Xinghai taught them to compose, but there were no conditions because they were students, and they were relatively junior students, like themselves, they were equivalent to students who didn't know anything at all, and wanted to start from music theory. Xian Xinghai teaches free composition, he is not the kind that teaches very regularly; If you follow the foreign theory, it will have a lot of rules, but Xian Xinghai teaches them very free and unrestrained, and he mainly teaches them how to use music to express thoughts and feelings, so I feel that his education is very, very targeted, very, very beneficial to his future film music. In 1946, Huang Zhun graduated from the Lu Xun Art Academy, and in her later autobiography, she wrote: "As soon as I recalled my life in Luyi, my heart was full of sweet tastes, and my career, my growth, and even my life were all obtained in the cradle of this revolution." In 1947, Huang Zhun entered the Northeast Film Studio, and this organizational transfer not only became a turning point in her future career, but also made her debut film music by mistake.

At that time, the Northeast Film Studio had just been established, and she was in the cast group at the beginning, but there was no acting and nothing to do, everyone was idle all day, what to do, just at that time, her good friend was called Li Qun, she wrote a letter to herself, there was a songbook in it, and she wrote a song in it. When I saw that Li Qun composed the song, I also came to compose a song myself, and it was out of such a mood that I asked others to write the lyrics and wrote a song myself, and wrote a song at the Spring Festival gala. As a result, I did not expect that it was not long before the leaders at the time, Yuan Muzhi and Chen Bo'er, came to find themselves, looking for themselves not to let themselves sing but to let themselves compose, at that time they were filming a phone call called "Leave Him to Fight Old Jiang", then they wanted to give the composing task of this play to themselves, and they did not dare to listen to it. To make a movie, you have to have a band, to write a orchestra, it is very complicated, that composition is a very complicated thing, how can I do it, I think it is impossible, so I don't agree, I say I can't do it.

Under the soft and hard bubble of countless times of leaders present, Huang Zhun had to take over this task like a duck on the shelf, and she did not expect that the song she created after the film screening was widely circulated in the northeast region, and she also stayed in the composer position after the first victory. After the liberation of Shanghai in 1949, Huang Zhun was assigned to the Shanghai Fine Arts Film Studio the following year, and the first task he received was to compose songs for the cartoon "Kitten Fishing", which was a big challenge for Huang Zhun, who was in charge of revolutionary songs. This photo was taken in Shanghai, and I was playing the piano while playing the piano while rehearsing for the song "The Sun Shines Golden" and "The Most Glorious Labor". This is in a primary school, that is, I have already created a good teaching for children to sing, sing a sentence by themselves and teach them to sing sentence by sentence. At that time, I wanted to just come to Shanghai, I had to be very serious, although it was an animal film, so there was no way to experience life, then sometimes to the zoo, sometimes to see kittens and puppies, with imagination, is the rhythm of some of their actions, the characteristics of jumping, and when writing I really work hard, to measure the size, an action an action right. When I first recorded, there were many foreigners in the studio at that time, and many foreign musicians said that they were very powerful, and before they came to Shanghai, they heard that if you were not satisfied with this music, people would bomb you down, because they wanted to conduct themselves, they would not let you conduct you down, so they were very afraid, very nervous, very nervous to conduct, and they did not expect to just start that "Kitten Fishing" "Sunshine Golden Bright" after singing, the result of that rhythm made their band very like, While pulling while shaking his head, anyway, he smiled happily like this, after playing it, they gathered around, they all liked this song, and they finally handed over their first task in Shanghai.

The first hit in Shanghai also attracted the attention of industry leaders, and in 1953, Huang Zhun was transferred to the Shanghai Film Studio, and the number of people who came to ask for manuscripts began to flow endlessly. One day a guest came, he did not know him, because he did not have a long time in the factory, then the composer did not have contact with people, did not know who he was, he introduced himself. He said that I was Xie Jin, the director of The Pegasus Factory (the predecessor of the Shangying Film Studio). Xie Jin came to hope that Huang Zhun would create music for his "Women's Basketball No. 5", Huang Zhun, who hated sports since childhood, politely declined after listening to it, but she still accepted it under the attack of Xie Jin's three-inch tongue, and Xie Jin's diligent pursuit of the film industry also deeply infected Huang Zhun. The characteristics of Xie Jin this person is that he eats in his mouth, he has to hold it in his pocket, he is like this, he has a movie script in his hand while shooting movies, he has a lot of spare scripts to put around, so he is very busy all day, he will not think about the original after this one, he will not think about the future. "Red Detachment of Women" is the second film cooperated by Huang Zhun and Xie Jin, which was well received and won numerous awards as soon as it was released, and the interlude in the film, "The Song of the Girl Scout Army", was also sung orally by generations of people with the release of the film. He said Huang Zhun I show you a script, you see if you like it or not, at that time I saw the name "Red Women's Army" is very attractive, I watched it myself, I read it myself, after reading it, I told him that I like it, I hope we can go out quickly, so there is no week, I went to Guangzhou with him first, and then found the screenwriter Liang Xin, and they went to Hainan Island together.

The early planning and shooting went quite smoothly, and the rich creative elements in Hainan also made Huang Zhun's work smooth, but at this moment, an unexpected thing happened. At that time, because the script was not to sing the song, after reading the script, the director read the script, and everyone thought it was a ready-made song, so they didn't care about it at all. I wanted to shoot this scene before I thought about this song, where is this song, I went everywhere to find this song, I went to experience what life is after I went, I have collected materials, but there is no song in it. At that time, Huang Zhun took the initiative to ask for help, hoping to create a girl scout song, but Xie Jin and other main creators did not believe that Huang Zhun could write a song they wanted, and some people even proposed to use "Three Disciplines and Eight Notes" to make up for it. I was anxious, I said I must be able to write this song, I had to write this song, at that time I gave them such a table and said, otherwise what to do, you always don't necessarily really look for "Three Disciplines and Eight Attentions" to sing it, so I was anxious to say that I must write well, and then they saw that they were very resolute so they let themselves write.

In order to fight for this breath, Huang Zhun crossed the mountains and invited veteran soldiers to look for clues, and then rushed to the archives and slept and forgot to check various historical materials. There are many difficulties in creating, because after all, the authenticity of its history is very strong, and you can't bring the feeling of modern songs into it, so you consider that the first one must have a local color; The second reason is that it is sung by the Niangzi Army, it is sung by the soldiers who are not professional, it should be short and concise, it should be easy to sing, it should be catchy, and the other main thing is to collect a lot of Hainan materials, on the basis of this Hainan tone, I wrote this song with a march combined with the tone of Hainan.

After three months of arduous creation, "The Song of the Red Women's Army" finally broke out of the cocoon, and the work that was won by the filming table and boasting haikou was finally included in the annals of Chinese film music.