In 2003, Liu Kangda visited teacher Huang Wanqiu
With this old article, I would like to mourn Teacher Huang Wanqiu!
All the way!
The heavens and the earth will always echo the song of "Liu Sanjie"!
Eternal "Liu Sanjie"
Liu Kangda
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In mid-October this year (2003), I was specially invited by the Guangxi Bureau of Radio, Film and Television to Nanning. After successfully completing the lecture task on radio drama screenwriters at the "All-Region Radio Literature and Art Seminar," he went to Tianyang, Jingxi, Xincheng, and other places in southwest Gui to interview and collect styles on the theme of "Mrs. Wa." Finally, go sightseeing to Guilin.
Three years ago, I visited Guilin. Today, Guilin is much more beautiful than three years ago, and it is more cultural. Although the landscape is still the same, because it incorporates a large number of colorful, distinctive, profound and elegant cultural content, so that the landscape is full of culture, and culture is infiltrated with the landscape, Guilin has added a vitality and charm that not only attracts attention but also touches people's hearts.
Among the many new cultural landscapes, the most charming and touching thing for me is the "Liu Sanjie Landscape Park" and the large-scale Guilin landscape real scene performance - "Impression Liu Sanjie".
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"Liu Sanjie Landscape Park" is initiated and founded by Huang Wanqiu, the actor of Liu Sanjie in the movie "Liu Sanjie", with "Liu Sanjie" culture as the brand, integrating folk customs display and national song and dance performance. Among them, in addition to imitating Zhuang, Miao, Dong, Yao and other ethnic minority villages and houses and a bird garden gathering rare birds in Guangxi, the bamboo house of the A Niu family and the large mansion of Mofu were also built according to the scene of the movie "Liu Sanjie".
In Mofu there is an exhibition about the movie "Liu Sanjie". It shows in detail the inside story of the filming of this film in 1962 and the far-reaching grandeur of "Liu Sanjie" being welcomed by the people and having a far-reaching influence at home and abroad for more than 40 years, and there are many precious photos and objects. Among the dazzling exhibits, a letter from a warrior fixed my eye.
The letter was written to Huang Wanqiu by a soldier squatting in a cat's ear hole on the front line of the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam. The effect is: The "Liu Sanjie" cassette you sent received it, thank you very much! The last letter I asked you for a box was written on the back of the can label paper, which is very rude, and I really couldn't find the letter paper in the cat's ear hole at that time, please be considerate. This time, I finally found the official stationery (the big red desk head with "so-and-so unit letterhead" printed on the stationery). In two hours we'll be charged, and some of us may never come back. But we have all listened to the cassettes you sent, and the singing of "Liu Sanjie" echoes in our hearts, and we have no regrets in death!
Looking at the yellowed letter paper that could vaguely smell gunsmoke, and looking at the extremely neat handwriting written in carbon ink, I couldn't help but feel hot in my heart, my nose was sour, my eyes were damp, and I couldn't help but think a lot...
The hot spot in the landscape park is the folk song and dance performance. Three or four performances a day, each more than an hour, the main axis of each show - the last show is always Huang Wanqiu singing "Liu Sanjie". As soon as they appeared, they met each other, and the stormy applause led to the cordial and affectionate singing voice of "Liu Sanjie":
"Thank you,
Thank you to all the folks,
I don't have good tea and rice tonight,
Only mountain songs honor loved ones.
Don't talk about poverty,
Mountain songs can fill the sea,
Heaven can drive away the dark clouds,
Going down to the ground can urge the five grains to grow..."
When the audience was smiling and their hearts were blooming, "Liu Sanjie" walked down from the colorful and mountainous stage and took a photo with the audience. At this time, the atmosphere of joy reaches its boiling point. The biggest wish of tourists from all over the motherland and even the world is to see the style of "Liu Sanjie" with their own eyes, at this time, not only to see the real person, but also to take photos with "Liu Sanjie" like their own family, which really makes people overjoyed. "Liu Sanjie" was originally a member of the people, and she was heart-to-heart with the people of the world. Therefore, "Liu Sanjie" can always do things to people's hearts.
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The three of us were treated as VIPs. First watched the song and dance performance, and then accompanied by Mr. He Youcai, the husband of Huang Wanqiu, the executive chairman of the landscape park, visited the entire landscape park. Director Yang Haiyan came prepared, brought the interview machine, recorded an interview with Huang Wanqiu, and prepared to do a radio program.
Facing the microphone, Huang Wanqiu said very simple and sincere.
She said: "The movie "Liu Sanjie" was filmed and released in the early sixties, and it has been forty years now, and it is still generally and warmly welcomed. Statistics at the Retrospective Exhibition of Domestic Films held in Hong Kong show that the highest attendance rate of domestic films so far is still "Liu Sanjie". In foreign countries, "Liu Sanjie" also has a great influence. When I met with Singapore's cultural officials, he said that Liu Sanjie was a cultural treasure of China; Former Japanese Foreign Minister Tianguang Harada's wife came to Guilin to see the opera "Liu Sanjie" and took my hand and said, although the language is not clear, but I can understand it completely. She wants to tell her Japanese compatriots that when she comes to China, she must go to Guilin, and when she comes to Guilin, she must watch "Liu Sanjie". It's true that the more national, the more world...
Huang Wanqiu also said: "'Liu Sanjie' has been universally and long-term popular with people, because 'Liu Sanjie' is the embodiment of the kind, upright, brave and hardworking Zhuang people, and she embodies truth, goodness and beauty. As a performing artist, I have the opportunity to play, shape and combine such a typical and excellent artistic image, which is really the greatest blessing and most precious honor. In people's minds, I am 'Liu Sanjie', and my name Huang Wanqiu people don't know or remember. Although I was the deputy director of the Guilin Municipal Bureau of Culture and the head of the Guangxi Song and Dance Troupe, people rarely called me Deputy Director Huang and Head Huang, and they all affectionately called me 'Liu Sanjie' or 'Third Sister'. Occasionally someone called me something, I didn't respond, I didn't know who it was called...
She also said: "I have formed an indissoluble bond with 'Liu Sanjie' in my life, and my rise and fall of honor and disgrace are all due to 'Liu Sanjie', for 'Liu Sanjie'." In order to repay the love of the public, meet the requirements of the public, and in order to carry forward the culture of 'Liu Sanjie', I have never gone to the cave for so many years, and only sang 'Liu Sanjie'. After several years of hard work, he founded the 'Liu Sanjie Landscape Park'. Although I am sixty years old, I have to sing every day and every performance, and I have been advised to pay attention to rest and sing a few times, I don't. I can't let the audience who love 'Liu Sanjie' be disappointed. As soon as I saw the audience so enthusiastic, I was not tired at all, full of endless energy, and people felt young...
In the end, she said with emotion: "The artistic image of the working people 'Liu Sanjie' is really high-level and has artistic vitality. It's just that there are too few artistic images of working people on today's stage and screen. I really hope that our literary and artistic workers can create more artistic images of working people who are better than 'Liu Sanjie' in the future." This is extremely pertinent and profound, and "Liu Sanjie" speaks the voice of the working people.
As the executive chairman of the landscape park, He Youcai told us that the social and economic benefits of the landscape garden are very good. In addition to the "SARS" affected, it is very hot every day.
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In the center of the landscape garden, there is a statue of the song immortal "Liu Sanjie", more than five meters high, with delicate and superb knife skills, the pure, sweet and healthy image of "Liu Sanjie" on the screen is conveyed. The most innovative thing is that only half of the body is carved, and below the knee there is no carved stone blank. In the form of "Liu Sanjie", it is the creation of the landscape and the earth, and it is integrated with the landscape and the earth. The stone is made of the finest white jade from Shandong Province to show the immortality of "Liu Sanjie".
In front of the statue, Huang Wanqiu enthusiastically took a photo with us first, and then one by one. And gave each of us a hydrangea embroidered with the words "Liu Sanjie". Although Huang Wanqiu is old, her body is healthy and refreshed, and her eyes are still shining with the brilliance of the eternally young "Liu Sanjie". A Zhuang ethnic cloth cloth is both very simple and elegant. She said that she never dressed up beautifully, so she would not be "Liu Sanjie". Huang Wanqiu not only assimilated fate but also her life with the artistic image "Liu Sanjie", which shows the charm of "Liu Sanjie" and Huang Wanqiu's dedication.
Leaving the landscape garden, on the way back to the hotel, I said to director Hu Peifen and director Yang Haiyan: "I watched the movie "Liu Sanjie" when I was in junior high school. The students were all dumped. At that time, although there was no word 'star chasing', there was also the psychology and practice of 'star chasing'. The girls on campus sang the episode of "Liu Sanjie", which became popular; Those little boys who seem to have no heart and lungs also have special performances, and many people deliberately detour to and from school from the place where the movie poster is pasted, just to take two more glances at 'Liu Sanjie'.
Among these little boys who detoured to see 'Liu Sanjie' was me. At that time, I just wanted to see the movie poster twice, and I never dreamed that I would see the real person of 'Liu Sanjie' forty years later, and the group photo and hydrangea gift - what a dream! Director Hu and Director Yang laughed when they heard this, and they both felt very interesting. They all complained again that why didn't I say this to Huang Wanqiu just now? I said, "Look at my gray hair, how embarrassed to say this." Moreover, the contemptible identity is an expert from Beijing, so he must be a little 'gentlemanly'. Later, Director Yang insisted that I record the above paragraph, saying that I must use it when doing the program. I think that as long as it is a sincere feeling, it is beautiful and timeless, and it can be used.
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The next day, go down the Li River to Yangshuo. That night, he watched a large-scale Guilin landscape real scene performance directed by Zhang Yimou - "Impression Liu Sanjie" in Yangshuo. This is a show spectacle that has never been seen in the world!
The performance is set against the background of twelve mountains such as the famous Shutong Mountain, with a two-kilometer water surface where the Li River and the Tianjia River meet, and equipped with high-tech lighting and sound to form the world's largest landscape theater. The traditional stage performance is the creation of people, and this landscape performance is the co-creation of man and heaven and earth - this trick of Lao Mozi is really incredible! This form alone embodies the concept of the unity of heaven and man, and it has a strong shocking power.
"Impression Liu Sanjie" Impressionist art has very distinctive characteristics, no dramatic plot, and no story can be told. Began to use the voiceover as an introduction, and the voiceover was Zhang Yimou's narration of his heart. The meaning is that he was deeply moved by watching the movie "Liu Sanjie" when he was a teenager, and treasured a "Liu Sanjie" complex in his heart. "Liu Sanjie" is a song immortal bred by the beautiful waters of Guangxi's Lingshan Mountains, and he wants to use this landscape to express the "Liu Sanjie" complex in his heart. It seems that Lao Mozi also belonged to the "little boy" family at the beginning, and his feelings about "Liu Sanjie" are the same as ours. I believe that I am not the only one sitting in the audience today with the experience of "little boys" and "little girls" hidden in my hearts. It is precisely because the complex in Zhang Yimou's heart is also the complex in the hearts of the majority of the audience, so this performance can arouse strong resonance with the audience.
The whole performance lasts for an hour, with the narrator "I" reliving the inner "Liu Sanjie" complex, body taste, the flow of thoughts, the expression of emotions, and the openness of imagination as clues. By externalizing the inner emotions into beautiful soundtrack pictures, it creates a new performance that is both extremely audio-visual impact and very meaningful, carrying both traditional life and emotions and presenting a modern style.
I feel that there are three most exciting scenes in "Impression Liu Sanjie".
First, the joyful Li River - under the seemingly empty water surface for two kilometers, there are countless red silks across the water. As countless sailors with bamboo paddles pulled the red silk from the water, the river was red in an instant, and it was like a sea of fire under the sweeping light of countless searchlights. Coupled with the passionate and deafening music, it makes people's blood boil. I understand that this scene expresses the passion of vigorous labor, the passion to create life, and the long-lasting vitality.
Second, the ghostly dream—everything was silent, the water was dark, and suddenly a long string of bright and changing flashes floated up the water, coming from the other side of the far away, and when they floated to this shore and entered the audience, people saw clearly that the long flash turned out to be composed of more than 200 hand-in-hand girls, each with a head covered with small light bulbs. Two hundred shining girls shuttled through the audience, wearing jewelry and fluttering skirts, which was intoxicating, I don't know if it was in reality or in a dream. Fantasies and dreams are human instincts, especially dreams are people's spiritual needs. I think this performance is probably for the audience to experience the dream and enjoy the pleasure of releasing their minds.
Third, the morning makeup of the water mirror - in the distance, a screen rises on the surface of the water, and the backlit silhouette of Liu Sanjie and A Niu's tryst is reflected on it; Nearby, a crystal-like pavilion floats out, and on the floating platform in front of the pavilion, there is a beautiful woman bathing and dressing. After the light yarn floats, it is a naked dance that is as tender as water and passionate as fire. In the embrace of the landscape, although the carcass is full, it is absolutely natural and simple, its shape is extremely beautiful, and its love is holy. This beauty is undoubtedly the embodiment of love, and this performance is undoubtedly a tribute to love - this expression of the sublime of love is not only unique, but also a bold breakthrough in Chinese mainland.
"Impression Liu Sanjie" has been very popular since its performance on October 1, and the audience is woven every day, which has caused Yang Shuo's tourism industry to heat up rapidly. The 600 cast members who participated in the show were local farmers. When I met a few people at the entrance, they couldn't help but praise: "We've been watching more than two dozen performances while performing, and we still can't see enough." "They said it really well. The ancients had a saying that "when you hear the Tao, you can die". Watching "Impression Liu Sanjie", I want to say "watch this play at night, and seek eternal life" - the world can create such a wonderful "fairyland", who must not live well!
Zhang Yimou is a master of art that I admire very much. I have seen almost all of his film works, from "Red High Liang" to "Heroes". For the first time, admire his work outside of film. Zhang Yimou not only has an extraordinary imagination, but also whether it is a movie, a stage play or a landscape performance, he always thinks of it, and if he wants to do it, he must do it to the extreme, and must cause a sensation. However, I think the most valuable thing about him is that after his various whimsy is reflected, he can be fully accepted, understood and liked by the general audience, and there is no communication barrier. He was able to do this, I think, because his stuff is deeply and firmly rooted in the fertile soil of our national culture.
"Impression Liu Sanjie" has been declared for the Guinness World Record. I'm sure it will work. Not only because it is unique in the world today, but also because it is our nation's.
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The night before returning from Guilin to Beijing, Director Yang asked me to say a few more words about the "Liu Sanjie" culture, which she wanted to record for use in the radio program.
I said: "'Liu Sanjie' therefore has eternal charm, on the one hand, because 'Liu Sanjie' is a masterpiece of national art that gathers the culmination of Guangxi's national culture and is an integral part of our national culture with eternal vitality, and the roots of 'Liu Sanjie' are rooted in the depths of national cultural psychology and the thoughts and feelings of the broad masses of the people; on the other hand, because there are a group of loyal, active and highly responsible artists who devote themselves to the great cause of inheriting and developing national culture with their lifelong enthusiasm and talent. Huang Wanqiu and Zhang Yimou are the people who stand at the top of this artist team. For the 'Liu Sanjie' culture, I think that Huang Wanqiu's contribution focuses on inheritance, and Zhang Yimou's contribution focuses on development. What they have done is amazing and worthy of respect! In addition, Guilin's approach of 'grasping culture and promoting tourism' is the best strategy for cultural undertakings and tourism undertakings to complement each other and fly together, which is a long-term plan for sustainable development. ”
When the plane was about to land at the capital airport, it was faintly visible through the porthole's hometown of Tongzhou, which winding canal. I think Guilin's experience in promoting and developing the "Liu Sanjie" culture is also enlightening to Tongzhou, which promotes and develops the "canal" culture.
2003-12-8 in Tongzhou
About the author:
Liu Kangda is a famous radio playwright. He is a member of the Chinese Dramatists Association, a senior research librarian of the Tongzhou District Cultural Center in Beijing, and the chairman of the Beijing Senior Title Evaluation Committee. In 1995, he began to devote himself to the creation of radio dramas. He has created more than 30 "main theme" radio dramas such as "Canal Man", "Song to the Sky", "The Child" of the Republic" and "The Little Red Army Out of the Meadow", especially good at the creation of major themes and historical themes such as "Two Bombs", "Manned Spaceflight" and "Long March", which are recorded and broadcast by the central government, Beijing and provincial and municipal radio stations; He has won 15 "Five One Project" awards from the Central Propaganda Department and more than 20 Chinese and international awards. Published the 1.3 million-word "Liu Kangda Plays". He was awarded the title of "Model Worker" in Beijing, and his biography was compiled into the "Dictionary of Chinese Dramatists".