Original: Qi Man
In 2021, I joined the army as a literary and artistic soldier for 51 years, and in 1970, I became a literary and artistic soldier, and performed modern Peking Opera, dance, drama, opera, and magic on the stage for nearly 10 years! It not only exercised my strong will and the spirit of hard work, but also cultivated my artistic skills and accumulated my artistic qualities!
On May 17, 1970, I was assigned by Tianjin 90 Middle School, and I came to the Heilongjiang Production and Construction Corps 3rd Division 20 Regiment And One Battalion with hundreds of classmates, in December of the same year, there were many troop propaganda teams to Tianjin to recruit literary and artistic soldiers who could sing modern Peking Opera. How proud and proud I am!
At that time, the propaganda team of the 12th Division of the Railway Corps urgently needed an actor who played Ah Qing's sister-in-law, and after being recommended, I rushed back to Tianjin from the Heilongjiang Production and Construction Corps to participate in the interview! The interviewer was Zhang Chengshan, an officer of the Propaganda Department of the Political Department of the 12th Division, and at that time I sang a passage from Ah Qingjie's singing section "We will be able to overcome the stubborn enemy and overcome difficulties" and "The Red Lantern" Tie Mei's excerpt "Brilliant Illumination Forever Forward", and Officer Zhang was very satisfied with my singing and performance! Immediately decided to want me, and took me to Beijing the next day! Come to the 12th Division Propaganda Team of the Railway Soldiers!
Officer Zhang took me to the auditorium, where I was personally interviewed by The Commander of the Road Division, and all the cast and crew of the propaganda team came to watch, and there were more than 100 people in that formation! I was nervous too, but when the band came together, I threw myself into the role! Not nervous at all! I still sing the singing of Ah Qing and Tie Mei! Master Lu was very satisfied with my singing and performance! Speaking in a thick Shandong accent, he said, "This kid sings pretty well!" Stay! Hurry up and rehearse "Sha Jia Bang"! "Me
This is a still of me playing Ah Qing's sister-in-law!
I was also in the propaganda team in the Heilongjiang Production and Construction Corps, and basically went to each company every day to perform modern Peking opera "Shajiabang" and "Red Lantern" excerpts, as well as other programs! Accumulated some performance experience!
The morning after I arrived at the army, I had not yet issued my uniform, so I went to the construction site with the propaganda team to perform for the soldiers, and since the late 1960s, line 1 and line 2 of the Beijing subway were built by the 15th Division of the 12th Division of the Railway Corps! In 1976, it was changed to the Infrastructure Engineering Corps, in 1984 it was disarmed, the Railway Corps was changed to the China Railway Group, and the Beijing Subway was still built by them!
I'm singing the Peking Opera "Sha Jiabang"
We rehearse Sha Jiabang, and we have unique conditions! You can be personally guided by peking opera masters! I've benefited a lot!
I hang my throat every morning, which is to practice!
These close-up photos of military uniforms, this is my first visit to home, in the Tianjin Department Store opposite the new photo studio to take a few photos of military uniforms, at that time still have big braids! Left a memory of youth!
My mother went to Beijing on a business trip, and by the way, I took a group photo of our mother and daughter at the famous Dabei Photo Studio on Qianmen Street!
This photo was taken on May 2, 1971!
Later, the instructor severely criticized us both at the weekend team assembly in the afternoon, saying,
Every time I return to Tianjin from the army, I go to the Xinlian Photo Studio to take a few photos as a souvenir! Now that I am old, I know how precious the photo was at that time, and it recorded my youth!
These photos were taken in Tianjin Xinlian Photo Studio in 1973 during the visit to relatives in Tianjin!
On the National Day of November 1971, comrades-in-arms took a group photo at the Summer Palace!
A few of our Tianjin soldiers and comrades took photos at the Summer Palace! From left to Qi Man, (played as Ah Qing's sister-in-law in the Peking Opera "Sha Jiabang"), Ma Zengqi (played Tie Mei in the Peking Opera "Red Lantern"), Chen Meiran (played Grandma Sha in the Peking Opera "Sha Jiabang", played Grandma Li in "Red Lantern"), Fang Jie (dancer)!
Photo at the Beijing Exhibition Center in 1971!
Female soldiers took a group photo in the compound!
Gao Doudou, Liu Congyi, Sun Haiying, Fang Yan, Zhang Manlin in the front row from left. From the left in the back row are Chen Meiran, Guo Yongping, Lu Jun, Qi Man, and Ma Zengqi.
^Front row from left: Chen Meiran, Lu Jun, Guo Yongping, Qi Man, Ma Zengqi, back row from left: Liu Congyi, Fang Yan, Zhang Manlin, Sun Haiying, Gao Doudou.
^Some female soldiers took a group photo in the division headquarters compound
Front row from left: Zhang Manlin, Gao Doudou, Fang Yan, Sun Haiying, back row from left: Chen Meiran, Guo Yongping, Qi Man, Kou Jing'an, Ma Zengqi!
Dance "Embroidered Army Shoes" from left: Gao Doudou, Sun Haiying, Fang Yan, Zhang Manlin, Qi Man, Kou Jing'an!
Dance "Embroidered Army Shoes", from left: Qi Man, Zhang Manlin, Gao Doudou, Fang Yan, Sun Hainian.
Remember that Captain Xue borrowed the camera from the Publicity Section! We have taken a lot of practice photos for many of our comrades-in-arms, which is really an unforgettable memorial!
Our original Xinjiang dance "Great Beijing"! Look at how young and slender these old comrades-in-arms were back then! Full of youthful vitality!
Our original operetta "Walking the Subway"! When Metro Line 1 was just opened, the play depicted the excited scene when the parents of the railway soldiers who built the subway came to Beijing to visit the subway!
Front row from left: Fang Yan, Sun Haiying
The second row starts from left: Zhang Manlin, Huang Xiao'an, Chen Meiran, Qi Man
Back row from left: Gao Doudou, Ma Zengqi
Original three-person dance! "Female Projectionist"
From left: Qi Man, Liu Ping, Gao Doudou.
I sang the excerpt from Hebei Zizi's "Red Lantern" "All Have a Red Heart"!
The photo is washed back and the band should be on the right side of the stage! These bands are old comrades- and we still have regular parties and connections! The old comrades-in-arms set up a WeChat group, I am the group owner! Everyone chats in the group every day! Very happy! Every year on the eve of the Spring Festival, I have to hold a group Spring Festival Gala in the group! Everyone sent their own singing, recitation, performance, music and other program video recordings to the group, as well as calligraphy, paintings, original poetry works, etc. into photos to make beautiful pieces and other forms of send to the group, the party let everyone watch, and sometimes August 1 also engaged in a group party!
The leaders all said that this was the end, and I had to learn magic! I learned magic from Teacher Yang Xinying of Tianjin Acrobatic Troupe, Teacher Zeng Guozhen, Teacher Chen Hongzhang, and Teacher Zhang Yanrong of Beijing China Acrobatic Troupe!
These two stills are the balls of my performance, and the magic term is "Miaozi"! This is pure hand color work, not prop work, from one ball to 10 balls! It's all about the kung fu of the fingers! Otherwise you won't be able to catch the ball! I didn't leave the ball in those days, the ball didn't leave my hand, and even in the meeting I put the ball in my pocket to practice rolling. I practiced hard for more than three months before I performed.
I am this character, to do a line of work, you have to work hard and seriously, do it well! Worthy of art, worthy of the audience, but also worthy of the trust and cultivation of leaders!
This still is a change of duck, as well as a change of flowers, a big change of live fish, a fish tank into a goldfish, a change of rabbit, etc., nearly fifty years have passed, and I have forgotten the name of many shows!
In short, the railroad comrades really like to watch magic shows! We also lined up a magic show too! It reflects the story of tunnel warfare during the War of Resistance Against Japan! The live effect of the show is particularly hot! Unfortunately I don't have any stills here!
In 1972, the Spring Festival first went home to visit relatives, and I took a family portrait with my parents, two brothers and younger brothers!
The singing voice of this character is particularly good! And you need to have a good running round field skill and Peking Opera dance skills! That is, Peking Opera jargon ~ the body should look good! Because the drama Ding Xiuqin has a hand-held prop, that is, ~ flashlight! In the play, this flashlight is always sung and danced! So in life I always carry this flashlight on my back and practice when I have the opportunity! When it comes to the stage performance, the performance can be done with ease!
On the holiday of The Eleventh National Day in 1975, we toured Beijing Xiangshan en masse to alleviate the fatigue of rehearsals and performances day and night! Look how happy everyone is!
A few of our female soldiers took photos at the highest point of Xiangshan ~ "Ghost See" to commemorate the occasion! It's dangerous! The person with the fingers in the front row is me!
Filmed in 1978, it's already a perm!
On May Day 1976, the dance "Embroidered Army Shoes" was performed at the Zhongshan Park Amusement Park in Beijing! In the evening, a party will be performed in the auditorium of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference in Beijing! The 2nd from the right is Qi Man!
At the end of 1976, group photo!
From left: Cui Ning (after demobilization, he was the head of the Beijing Song and Dance Troupe and vice president of Beijing Renyi) Jing Na, Qian Weihong (son Qian Feng is the host of Hunan Satellite TV's "Every Day Upward")
Practice the basics of dance!
From right: Cui Ning (retired former vice president of Beijing Renren Art), Wang Jingbin (later transferred to vocal music, now a famous opera writer and director), Gao Zeyi (former retired actor of the Chinese Armed Police Cultural and Labor Troupe) Li Yinwei!
Front row from left: Kang Meige, Zhou Minglun, Jing Na, Gao Chunling, back row from left: Bailing, Su Jiang, Liu Yan, Yang Xiaoling
In 1977, the dance "Embroidered Gold Plaque" was performed from 3 from left!
Second row 2 from the left. It is Gao Baobao, she was a figure skater before joining the army, joined the army at the age of 12 to become a dancer here, was admitted to the acting department of the Beijing Film Academy after demobilization, and is now a famous film and television actor!
On National Day in 1978, he and his neighbor Guan Mucun visited the park in the water park.
In 1975, the Tianjin Municipal Bureau of Culture gave my parents a new three-bedroom house: Fuxingmen Building in Hexi District, which happened to live in the same building as Guan Mucun, my family lived on the second floor, and Guan Mucun lived on the fourth floor! She has also just been transferred to the Tianjin Song and Dance Theater, and the Municipal Bureau of Culture has given her a house! Later, when guan Mucun emerged as an amateur singer in the early 1970s, my father once recommended her to many military literary and art groups in Beijing, such as the Zongzheng Song and Dance Troupe, the Military Orchestra, the Comrades-in-Arms Cultural and Labor Troupe, etc. I once went to the military band with my father! I personally saw my father recommend Guan Mucun to the regiment, but because of her birth problems, she was not admitted!
In the winter of 1971, I was training in the recruit company and taking a picture with my recruit comrades, and I was in the back row 1 on the right.
Lin Li performed a female solo singing, and later transferred to the General Political Song and Dance Troupe, and after changing careers, she went to work in the All-China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and served as the director of the association!
Dancer Yoshinori Takazawa, his dance skills are very good! Gao Zeyi and Liu Yi performed the dance "Wedding on the Execution Ground"!
^Group photo after the May Day garden performance in 1977
Front row from left: Su Hong (her father is the famous film director Lin Nong, the representative works "Daughter of the Party", "Jia Wu Fengyun" Li Lijuan, Fu Fengling, Zhang Huan, Bai Zhiqun, Liu Yi, Zhang Jing, Chen Yifan, Liu Ping;
From left in the second row: Cui Ning (retired former vice president of Beijing Renyi), Qian Weihong (son Qian Feng is the host of Hunan Satellite TV's "Every Day Upward"), Ye Kunfu, Dong Dai, Qi Man, Yue Zhihong, Wang Yaohua, Feng Lin, Fang Xiaohua, Zhang Ling, Cui Dezhi, Zhang Cheng (before retirement, he was the vice president of the Peking Opera House in Jilin Province);
Back row from left: Sun Jianqiu, Yan Gang, Gao Zeyi, Xing Yuguo, Sha Jingchang, Peng Yansheng, Zhang Jie, Zheng Xiaochuan, Yu Jiangang.
Behind me is the stage where we perform at the Temple of Heaven!
These are all soldiers of our squad! I am the class leader (3rd from the left). Wang Ying (2nd from the right, later went to China Children's Arts as an actor and director of the performance department)
Lin Li (front row, right 2, later to the General Political Song and Dance Troupe as a soloist, transferred to the China Federation of Literature and Literature, as the director of the association)
Zheng Xiaochuan (4 from the right, later went to the CCTV Children's Department as a choreographer, famous voice actor)
This is the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1977, in the Xiangshan Botanical Garden, we participated in the filming of the art film "Spring of Literature and Art" after taking a group photo! I'm 2 on the right in the front row.
Bai Zhiqun (1st from the left), originally a dancer of the General Political Song and Dance Troupe, was later transferred to our propaganda team, transferred to the CCTV Literature and Art Department as a director, and the director of the "Dance World" column!
Su Hong (front row, 3rd from the left), is the daughter of Lin Nong, a famous director of the Changying Film Factory (the representative works "Daughter of the Party", "The Storm of The Afternoon Storm", "Soldiers Under the City", "The Mysterious Traveling Companion", "Sunny Days", and "Golden Light Avenue").
Zheng Xiaochuan
This is the Mongolian dance we performed in the art movie "Spring of Literature and Art"! Then I can still get down the waist! Unfortunately there are no stills!
I recruited four Tianjin literary and artistic soldiers, Yue Zhihong (front row left, dancer) Qi Man (center) and Gao Chunling (right, soprano).
Li Lijuan (back row right, dancer) Bian Mei (back row left, soprano)
In 1977, it was performed at the Beijing Children's Palace on Children's Day.
On May 2, 1990, some comrades-in-arms in Tianjin and Beijing gathered in Beijing, and our comrades-in-arms were full of talents! The person in front of us is our captain Xue Bingwen, who is also from Tianjin, and many of the programs we perform are original and composed by him.
Tian Xin (front row from left, famous percussion expert of China Broadcasting Orchestra) Chen Meiran, Liu Ping, Zhang Xinghua, Guo Yongping, Ma Zengqi, Zou Yuhua (Secretary General of China Acrobatic Association), Qi Man (Front row right 1, National First Class Director of Tianjin Television Television Drama Production Center)
(Second row from left) Li Xiaoming (I am the Beijing Huqin master of the propaganda team, grandfather Li Peiqing is the royal organist of the famous Peking Opera Yu Pai old student Yu Shuyan, and his father Li Zhiliang is the beijing Peking Opera House organist) Sun Haiying, Zhang Manlin, Gao Doudou, Liu Qun, Liu Yanlai, Yu Tao, Han Lingquan (second row right 1, co-played "Sha JiaBang" Guo Jianguang, and later went to Tianjin Peking Opera House as the captain of the actor team)
(Back row from left) Guo Shaohua, Zhou Jian, Mi Shuyi,
Sha Jingchang (5th from the right in the back row, a national first-class actor of the National Drama Theatre, played a grandfather in the TV series "Love Man Courtyard"). Li Zhibang (back row right 4, director of Tianjin Mass Art Museum, director of Tianjin Intangible Cultural Heritage Office) Li Bingjiang, Wang Xiaoran (back row right 2, big bass musician, played the traitor Wang Lianqi in our peking opera "Red Lantern", band conductor, former president of China Audio and Video Corporation, Zheng Zongqi (as Li Yuhe)
Everyone bid farewell to Officer Zhang (front row 4th from left) back to Beijing and took a group photo in the square in front of Tianjin Railway Station! Qi Man (front row left 1) Chen Meiran (left 2, director of the ticket office department of Tianjin Railway Station) Li Zhibang (back row 2 from right, later director of Tianjin Mass Art Museum, now director of Tianjin Intangible Cultural Heritage Office)
On May 2, 2013, he gathered with some comrades in beijing Olympic Village.
Jia Ding (1st from the right, a famous lyricist, director, later transferred from the infrastructure engineering corps to the comrades-in-arms cultural and labor corps as deputy regimental commander, his father is The comrade-in-arms literary and labor corps famous lyricist Hong Yuan, representative works "Learning from Lei Feng's Good Example" and "Beijing Ode") (from right to left) Bailing, Fang Xiaohua, Li Lijuan, Qi Man, Zheng Xiaochuan, Chen Yifan. Zheng Xiaochuan (CCTV Children's Department Choreographer, famous voice actor, now settled in the United States) Lin Li (front row seated) Director of the China Federation of Literary and Art Associations (bureau level)
(From left) Zheng Xiaochuan, Liu Yi, Gao Doudou, Qi Man
In mid-April 2016, some of our comrades-in-arms in Tianjin and Beijing went to visit Zhang Chengshan, a former railway soldier compound on Yuquan Road in Beijing, who was more than 80 years old! Officer Zhang has the grace of knowing me! He was the one who changed the trajectory of my life! Without him recruiting me as a literary and artistic soldier, I would not have the artistic life I have today! I wish the old leader Zhang a long and healthy life! Happy life and good health!
After the dinner, some old comrades-in-arms in Beijing and Tianjin took a group photo with Officer Zhang! (Front row from left) Mou Jinhe, Mou Jinhai, Wang Jianhua, Zhang Guanguan, Zhang Yunyou (former deputy general manager of Tianjin Changqing Group) Xue Bingwen, Wang Chunsheng, Liu Jianrong (back row from left) Chen Meiran, Sun Haiying, Song Yaohua, Qi Man, Xiao Yao, Shen Lanying, Dayao, Gao Doudou, Ding Lixin.
Comrades in arms of the Propaganda Team of the 12th Division of the Railway Corps took a group photo with Officer Zhang! (Front row from left) Liu Jianrong (trumpet player of my propaganda team, later transferred to the railway soldier cultural and labor troupe trumpet player), Chen Meiran, Zhang Guanguan, Xue Bingwen (former propaganda team captain, who played Diao Deyi), Gao Doudou, Ding Lixin (former pipa player of the propaganda team, photographer in the Hebei Provincial Court after transferring careers) (back row from left), Song Yaohua (husband and wife with Ding Lixin), Sun Haiying (wife of famous director Tian Zhuangzhuang, simultaneous translator of the China Film Archive, director of a certain department), Qi Man (author of this beautiful article).
In 2004, several comrades-in-arms in Beijing drove to Tianjin to meet with their comrades-in-arms in Tianjin! (Front row from left) Xu Wanfu, Chen Meiran, Qi Man, Li Zhibang, Sun Haiying.
(Back row from left) Han Lingquan, Liu Jianrong, Sha Jingchang, Gao Doudou, Liu Ping, Liu Yanlai.
On October 31, 2019, tan Lizeng, an old comrade-in-arms, came to Tianjin from Beijing to visit his old comrades-in-arms!