Original Li Xijiu Li Xijiu vision
Listening to the Sound of Foot Sound in the Great Change of the Country (Series 4)
"Two people turn" on the black soil
At the end of the last century, in order to inform the "TV Monthly" that Zhao Benshan, one of the fourth national "top ten" TV actors, was selected, I specially went to Shuiquan Village, Qingyuan County, Tieling City, Liaoning Province, his hometown. Gong Hanlin, Pan Changjiang, and our old Zhao are all out of this land. So I had the opportunity to see the two of them perform in the village. But the thoughts, along with the smooth and kind melody of the "Northeast Wind", bring back the years of Zhiqing...
Snow field. Duck shed. In the distance, a flock of ducks rests by the pond, and in the near side is a lying black dog "guarding the fence". In the bamboo shed, Master Du Xianchu wore reading glasses to weave a fishing net, and I leaned on the floor with the smell of straw to listen to the radio.
This is a multiplayer show. This time in Tieling City, I met Mr. Li Zhongtang, a researcher of Northeast Chinese culture, who gave me a collection of his own works. When I saw the opportunity coming, I asked if there was such a program in those days: an old lady went to Inner Mongolia to look for her son who was a soldier, but the letter and envelope were lost, and only what "Haote" was remembered. The voices of men and women sang in turns, with the charm of the black earth breath, and a voice said, "Big Lady! The affectionate title, a warm current soothes the anxious old man's heart, and also warms the heart of the duck in my cold wind shed.
Teacher Li said that he remembered many years ago, but it was too difficult to find the original script. What a pity, but my heart is warm.
In order to inform Zhao Benshan, I found Shuiquan Village, and the first person I saw was Zhao's second uncle.
He was blind and lived in a home for the elderly, but he was strong and optimistic. Speaking of his nephew, who has become a big instrument, 52-year-old Zhao Deming is like a hanging river. With his gushing voice, a picture of Zhao Benshan's childhood appeared in front of his eyes:
Heavy snow in northern Liaoning, closed mountains and roads. In the snowy forest, only a child was alone cutting down trees. Flying snowflakes, melting on his childish face, only to see him bring his frozen red hands to his mouth from time to time to breathe. Hungry, nibbling on a few tacos, thirsty, holding the snow to moisten his throat, and talking to the teenager, there was only the whistling north wind. The native cloth coat was soaked with sweat and then dried with the body, and there was still ten miles to sell firewood. A few hours passed, and he pulled the climbing plough and approached the village of Lone Elm step by step, and on the climb the plough were ten bundles of pear trees, hazelnut firewood, and glass buds. Arriving in the town where twilight fell, the child took the two dollars handed by the buyer and carefully tucked it into the pocket of his underwear. Well, when Ming'er goes to school, the first thing he does is pay the tuition he has saved.
The sky was dark, the rain was pouring, and the child led the blind man back from the mountain. Covered in rain and mud, but talking and laughing, cleaning up, the sky is already light. Why? It is to go to Baoan Qiu Jiagou to see a local drama of Changtulai. When I went, it was sweltering, and the mountain side was full of miscellaneous thorns, and after 6 miles of walking for 40 minutes, I came back and became a chicken in the soup. The child is Zhao Benshan, and the blind man is his second uncle. Kangtou is warm, the winter night is difficult to endure, and the lonely uncle tells the lonely child the stories heard in "Liaozhai" and on the radio; Under the tree on a summer night, the second uncle pulled the erhu, singing sentence by sentence, and the onlookers were very crowded, becoming the entertainment center of the daily team.
Later, Xiao Benshan grew up, and the village came to Shenyang to join the team. He has culture, loves literature and art, and has become the backbone of the commune's literary and artistic propaganda team. The commune specially set aside a piece of heaven and earth in the isolated elm village a few miles away from the town and became the station of the propaganda team.
Zhao Benshan and Pan Yangtze River in dry years
In mid-November 1996, I met with Wang Yonghe, the head of the propaganda team and the current township cultural station chief, in Lianhua Township, who recalled the scene when Zhao Benshan came to the station to play and learn art after class
Wang Yonghe is a local young man who has returned to his hometown, and after graduating from Weiyuan Ninth Middle School, he went to Tieling Normal School for further study in music, so he is considered a professional talent. During the day, Zhiqing and a small number of local young people still have to cultivate the land, and when they have the task of performing, they will go from village to village to house and perform programs in line with the situation. The evening is when they are most active. Wang Yonghe led everyone to practice the basic skills, blowing and playing and singing, needless to say, there is also a subject to imitate the various forms of the characters, this training laid the foundation for Zhao Benshan to "go out of the mountain" and become a famous comedian. For example, they imitate the walking, sitting and lying of the elderly, imitate the basic characteristics of blind people, and learn to call livestock.
Zhao Benshan learned a lot like the old woman in the sketch performance middle school, the upper lip is rigid, and the mouth shape that produces the action with the lower lip is taught by Wang Yonghe in those nights. At that time, there was also a blind man named Kang who often came to the deer farm, and everyone followed this blind man to imitate, and the successful shaping of Zhang Zhi in Zhao Benshan's later "Wrestling Three Strings" also benefited from the influence of this period.
Once, when the meal was served, I overheard the cat calling, everyone was afraid that the food would make the cat dirty, looking around, and did not see the cat shadow, then Zhao Benshan triumphantly confessed that he let the big brothers and sisters blindly busy for a while.
In the propaganda team, the intellectuals and young people all like this rural child who squeezes in to join in the fun, calling him "Old Third". The "old third" is also well-behaved, and the work of cleaning the water is rushed to do it. Wang Yonghe still remembers the scene when Zhao Benshan pinched two nests with one hand when he opened the meal.
Time to go. In the nursing home, after taking photos of Zhao Benshan's blind second uncle like his father, he left Zhao's hometown Shuiquan Village and got on a minibus to Qingyuan County.
The neighbor's eyes were poisonous, and without saying a word, I concluded that I was a foreigner from the south and chatted.
What do you guys do? Acquisition of idle machinery and equipment. Some township enterprises collapsed, and when scrap iron was sold, it was not worth it. Low prices let people buy, always have a good idea in mind.
I said, this is not the first time to go to the northeast, you have three treasures here, ginseng, mink, and tartar grass. The guy nodded, hmm. I said again, there are three monsters, after saying that, the guy laughed, very knowledgeable! And said, the five monsters. Willing to listen.
Window paper paste outside; Raised children hang up; "Two people turn" jumped up on the kang; The big girl hung up the hookah. Fifth, the guy smiled slyly. Father-in-law - wearing the wrong clothes - daughter-in-law's shoes! The northeastern compatriots in the neighboring seats spoke in unison. Why? In the winter, all sleep on the kang, and the black lights are blind. The laughter brought the distance between the southeast and the northwest closer.
In this short period of time in the northeast countryside, like a marquee, there are new things every day: staying at a farmhouse overnight on the way, waking up "prematurely" in Kangtou, a fellow villager; Talk to the female township chief who was originally a Zhiqing and listen to her talk about the bittersweet of rural work; In the village, I took a group photo with the "two-person turning" actors, and listened to the drama of traditional plays such as "splashing water in front of the horse" and "Bao Gong indemnity" ...
The most memorable, when saying goodbye to Guan Hongye, the cultural station chief of Zhao's hometown, he also sent a book with an introduction to his own articles, I walked more than ten meters away, looking back, this tall former brigade branch secretary was still standing in the middle of the road, at this time I saw him raise his hand to me, shouting loudly, you have to come again! My heart is hot again.
When I was riding a tricycle with Zhao Benshan's father in Tieling City, I asked the master of the person who pedaled behind me (the southern pedaler), what did you do in the past? Steel mills. He sighed to himself again, or old Mao is good to our workers! I was speechless
The author and Zhao Benshan in the crew of "Late at Night"
This time I met Zhao Benshan himself, it was he and Gao Xiumin who filmed a TV drama together in Tanggou, one of the base areas of the anti-Japanese coalition forces in that year. When I told him that he had been selected as one of the "top ten" actors by television viewers across the country, his first words were "Is there Jiang Wen?" "Yes. Why would he think that?
This time in Shenyang, when I met Li Moran, the actor of Deng Shichang in "A Wu Feng Yun", his words can explain: If Zhao Benshan can be called an artist, I am an artist - don't want it! Look at what this said.
After returning to Wuhan, I connected the phone to the nursing home of the second uncle Zhao Benshan, and the warm, smooth, black earth atmosphere of the two-person transfer music in the electric box came from the end of the phone, and after his second uncle answered the phone, I said that I had returned to Wuhan safely, thanking me for accepting my interview. He said, where can I get our TV Monthly? I know that they must like the publications given to them, but these rural widows and elderly people have no conditions to subscribe.
Put down the phone, suddenly remembered the famous American blind female educator Helen, she also published books under the plight of blindness, deafness, and muteness, and also gave lectures around the world, and also helped helpless disabled people. And Zhao Benshan's blind second uncle, wasn't he also in his own dark world, lighting a small oil lamp, to the lonely nephew, illuminating the winding path out of the remote mountain village of the Linhai Snow Plain?
People like this ordinary person, such an ordinary story, people have long heard it is not new, but if you are unfortunate or fortunate to become a character in the story, then you have the hope of making a major event in life, which is also the truth of "the children of the poor are early in charge".
The northeast is the place where the anti-Japanese coalition forces fought, where Zhao Yiman, the Eight Daughters of Toujiang, and Yang Zirong sacrificed, and where the "Four Fields" of the Chinese People's Liberation Army sent the foundation ceremony for the liberation war. In this black land, I bought a lot of Northeast Da Yang Ge and the tapes of the duo, and I still remember the response of "um which" and "um which one", which is to agree with what you said.