"There is a beautiful legend, exquisite stones can sing...", people who know it should know that this is the famous tenor singer, Chinese song and dance actor Liu Shiming's "A Beautiful Legend", the song once interpreted will be popular throughout the country, becoming Liu Shiming's most meaningful masterpiece.
This song has been sung for more than 30 years, and Liu Shiming has changed from a once spirited young man to a white-haired old man. Liu Shiming divorced in 1970, he did not remarry in his life, no children and no daughters, he and Guo Lanying are old partners on stage, close friends offstage, in the eyes of the outside world, the two of them are incomparably right, why did Liu Shiming end up alone at the age of 80, and did not stay with Guo Lanying?
The twists and turns of art study
Liu Shiming was born in Beijing, when Beijing was still in the midst of war, weak and the youngest in the family, Liu Shiming, so he was almost sent away by his father, fortunately, with his mother's obstruction, Liu Shiming stayed.
Maybe it was malnutrition, 4-year-old Liu Shiming did not speak, but was very excited when he played songs and operas. In middle school, Liu Shiming not only had good cultural achievements, but also liked the art aspect. Because his father and brother are full fans of the play, the teenage Liu Shiming has appeared in plays such as "Yutang Spring".
Liu Shiming, who excels in the culture class, was admitted to the Beijing Foreign Language Institute and the Central Academy of Drama, and the parents in the family naturally did not want their son to give up the Beijing Foreign Language Institute, a school that can latch a rice bowl, but Liu Shiming, who faced a choice, was more partial to his hobbies and did not follow his parents' ideas.
Liu Shiming chose the drama performance major of the Central Academy of Drama, while studying drama, Liu Shiming also studied vocal music for four years because of his love of singing, and insisted on completing all the courses of the vocal music department, laying a good foundation for Liu Shiming's later career in singing.
The learning habits from childhood made Liu Shiming very serious about theater performance, and spent a lot of time exercising his body, voice, movements, etc. to make his performance more perfect. During his school days, Liu Shiming participated in the celebration of the 10th anniversary of the establishment of the school, and his solo was praised by the prime minister.
Near the graduation time, the China Song and Dance Theater went to the school to select actors, and Guo Lanying, a very famous soprano singer at that time, came to the interview as an examiner, and after Liu Shiming participated, he successfully entered the China Song and Dance Theater to engage in opera performance with the performance of two songs.
Here, Liu Shiming meets two people who have occupied decades of their lives.
The 24-year-old Liu Shiming thought that he could relax when he entered the crew, but he did not expect that the theater was full of talents, and as an alternative to the "black second brother" in the opera "Little Two Black Marriage", he wanted to cooperate with Guo Lanying, who had become a first-line singer at that time, and Guo Lanying's requirements for partners were very strict, and Liu Shiming felt pressure.
In the next few days, Liu Shiming repeatedly pondered the role, and met his lifelong good brother Li Xie during rehearsals, and Li Xie, as the previous actor of the "black second brother", enthusiastically pointed out the shortcomings in Liu Shiming's singing and gave him a demonstration. Liu Shiming, who won the true biography of Li Xie, got praise from Guo Lanying after the audition, and successfully became the actor of the "black second brother".
Li Shiming is six years older than Liu Shiming, because of his age, plus his voice is not good, he found Liu Shiming, and it is because of Li Xie's help that Liu Shiming and Guo Lanying's performances are very tacit. Since then, Liu Shiming has embarked on decades of cooperation with Guo Lanying, one like a red flower and the other like a green leaf, becoming an evergreen tree of modern opera.
The road is bumpy
Guo Lanying as a partner, but also like an enlightenment teacher, she taught Liu Shiming how to treat work, how to treat art, how to treat singing with sincerity, each role needs to be experienced by themselves, in order to know how to show to the audience.
Guo Lanying's more truthful performance and singing left a deep memory in Liu Shiming's heart, even if Guo Lanying fell down and lost consciousness, he had to stand up and finish singing, even if the crushing fracture persisted until the end.
Later, Guo Lanying quit the opera circle and turned to singing in the south, and the partnership between the two of them finally ended. This pair of golden partners, as the outside world seems, is different from the outside world.
Guo Lanying also bluntly said that he was sorry for Liu Shiming and failed his heart and time, but when he met the right person at the wrong time, Guo Lanying already had someone to accompany him.
In the late 1960s, Liu Shiming met his first wife, both of whom were engaged in literary and artistic work, and the two quickly married with similar personalities.
Liu Shiming's career began to take off, every day to participate in various programs, participate in various dramas, get along with his wife and get together less and more, plus for a long time this contradiction has become more and more. In the end, Liu Shiming and his wife ended the marriage.
When he divorced, Liu Shiming was in his thirties, but even if someone introduced him later, Liu Shiming was not very interested in making friends. Later, Liu Shiming's age was older, and his mother also urged him, and Liu Shiming bluntly said that he did not want to get married again, but only wanted to live alone.
Perhaps the first marriage made Liu Shiming see that not everyone in this world wants to get married, and perhaps for Liu Shiming, Guo Lanying is the person who surprised his youth, making Liu Shiming unforgettable. Clear-eyed people can see that the two have been partners for more than ten years, and Guo Lanying occupies an unusual position in his heart.
The later generations are lonely and fortunate to be close friends
To say that Liu Shiming in addition to the lives of his parents, the most important thing should be his brother Li Xie, the two have supported each other for half a century, even Li Shiming's lovers recognize Liu Shiming as a younger brother.
Since his divorce, Liu Shiming has devoted his energy to his artistic career while trying his best to help Li Xie and his wife in life, treating their son as his own. Li Xie also opened the walls of the two families to facilitate the care of the two families' elderly and children. Liu Shiming's mother also regarded Li Xie's son as her own grandson.
Later, Li Xie unfortunately fell ill, Liu Shiming and the nanny took care of it day and night, helped Li Wash turn over, changed the medicine, massaged, and accompanied Li Wash day and night for more than a year, and Li Wash was rescued from the brink of death nine times. Later, Li Shiming was still gone, and Liu Shiming was so grief-stricken that he cried until he collapsed on the ground and was sent to the hospital for a month of recuperation.
The brotherhood of Li Xie and Liu Shiming is regarded as a good story by the music industry, and the two convey to the world the story that they are not brothers like brothers.
Although Liu Shi has no wife and no children tomorrow night, he is accompanied by friends. Four years after Li Shiming's death, Liu Shiming was also diagnosed with cancer, and Li Shiming's son remembered his father's instructions and carefully cared for Liu Shiming during those days. His friend Guo Lanying also accompanied Liu Shiming through the last days of his life.
Others are afraid that in their old age, there is no family to accompany no one to retire and die alone, but Liu Shiming walked peacefully in the company of Guo Lanying and Gan's son. The best friends they made when they were young have been with each other for the next fifty years of their lives, which is more touching than many marriage relationships.