Text | Li Xiaobai
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The 2020 CCTV Spring Festival Gala has ended, but netizens are still discussing the topic of the Spring Festival Gala. In all the topics, everyone is also very concerned about the old artists, just this year's CCTV Spring Festival Gala, Cai Ming, Feng Gong, Pan Changjiang and other old artists did not perform on stage, so that netizens feel regretful. This also reminds everyone of the whereabouts of other old artists, such as Zhu Mingying, Guan Mucun, Jiang Dawei, Zhao Benshan and other old artists.
Today we will first talk about Zhu Mingying, what kind of life experience does Zhu Mingying have? What kind of story does she have with the Spring Festival Gala? How is she doing now?
The past is like a cloud, and everything has to start from the beginning of the story.
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Zhu Mingying was born in Shenyang in 1949, and her father's grandfather was Zhang Zhidong, a famous minister in the late Qing Dynasty. She followed her mother to Beijing when she was 2 years old, and when she was five or six years old, her mother remarried, and she followed her stepfather to change her surname, and has always been called Zhu Mingying ever since.
When she was young, she followed her mother to the Popular Theater of the Commentary Theater to see a performance, and the first performance she watched was "Liu Qiao'er" performed by Xin Fengxia, and Zhu Mingying was very surprised to see Xin Fengxia sing while performing on stage. Later, she saw a program list of "Yu Meiren", which also had a dance sketch drawn by Ye Qianyu, and Zhu Mingying had the idea of learning dance.
In the fifth grade of primary school, Zhu Mingying decided to apply for the Chinese Dance School. At that time, her mother was already suffering from cancer, but her mother was very supportive and despite her physical discomfort, she was busy applying for the Chinese dance school. However, during the examination, the examiner said zhu Mingying: "This child looks quite well-behaved, but the conditions are not good, too hard." Zhu Mingying was brushed off.
The phrase "too hard" deeply stung Zhu Mingying's heart, but she did not give up, she continued to practice dance, and successfully entered the Chinese Dance School a year later.
At the Chinese Dance School, Zhu Mingying studied diligently and constantly improved herself, but her mother died of cancer, and before her mother died, she said to her: "A person can have nothing, but he can't do without a career!" This sentence, Zhu Mingying remembered in her heart, and later her life can also be said to have been practicing this sentence.
In 1966, Zhu Mingying graduated from the Chinese Dance School and was selected by the Oriental Song and Dance Troupe to become a dancer. However, a change has made her dancer's road not smooth.
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Soon after Zhu Mingying entered the Oriental Song and Dance Troupe, a movement began in China, and Zhu Mingying and the people in the troupe were sent to the countryside. Once Zhu Mingying sang a song in the field, and the farmers who worked together said that she sang well, which made Zhu Mingying unexpectedly find that she could also sing well.
It was also during this period that Zhu Mingying got married, and her husband was her partner in Qingmei Bamboo Horse. After marriage, they gave birth to a son, Wang Jue.
Later, after the end of the exercise, Zhu Mingying was 27 years old. At this time, she had to face a very serious problem, in the Oriental Song and Dance Troupe at that time, dancers over 25 years old would not be trained. Faced with such a situation, Zhu Mingying must find a path for herself to develop, otherwise her career will soon end.
Zhu Mingying found a way to break through, he learned English, but also learned Vasili, which is widely used in Africa, and she learned 31 languages back and forth. In addition to learning the language, she also learned to really sing, and she went everywhere to find teachers to learn, tirelessly.
When the Oriental Song and Dance Troupe reviewed the Spring Festival Gala program in 1979, Zhu Mingying introduced herself to the song she prepared, she sang the African song "May Everyone Succeed", which surprised her colleagues, they did not know that Zhu Mingying would also sing African songs, and the result was that Zhu Mingying sang very successfully, which also made Zhu Mingying the first person to sing African songs in China, because she would Chinese more, at that time, at the party activities of receiving foreign heads of state, Zhu Mingying often performed songs from the corresponding countries, and Zhu Mingying slowly became famous.
Zhu Mingying's real fame was in 1984, and on the spring evening of this year, Zhu Mingying sang "Back to Her Mother's Home", "Mo Sorrow Ah Mo Worry", "The Sea! Hometown" three songs, these three songs quickly became popular throughout the country. Even 1985 was called "Zhu Mingying's Year" by many people.
When Zhu Mingying achieved great success in her career, her family had problems.
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Because she and her husband are busy at work, Zhu Mingying does not have much time to take care of her children. At that time, she had a show, and could only take her son backstage and let him play by himself, but she did not allow him to cry and make trouble.
Because of work, Zhu Mingying's life is very irregular, and her son follows her to eat a full meal. Even when her son was sick, she didn't have time to take her to the hospital, so she could only give him some tetracycline, so that her son grew a mouthful of "tetracycline teeth".
For Zhu Mingying's behavior of focusing on her career but ignoring her family, her husband slowly had an opinion, and once his husband said to her: "What is this like a family?" Can you spend more time at home with your son? However, for Zhu Mingying, who is in the ascendancy of her career, she cannot take care of these things.
However, after all, mother and son are heart-to-heart, once Zhu Mingying said that she would go to school to pick up her son from school, but the performance was temporarily added, and when she rushed to school, her son was already gone. She hurried to the house, found her son in the corridor of the house, frozen and trembling, seeing this scene, Zhu Mingying cried, she hugged her son and said to him: "Child, mom is sorry for you." ”
In addition to not being able to accompany her son to grow up, Zhu Mingying's relationship with her husband also had problems, they divorced, and the son lived with her husband. A year later, the husband remarried, and his wife was very kind to her son Wang Jue. But Zhu Mingying also clearly feels that since she divorced her husband, her son has become very introverted, which makes her sad, she knows that she owes too much to her son.
However, before she could make up for her son, Zhu Mingying made another major life decision.
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In 1985, Zhu Mingying was sent by the Ministry of Culture to the United States at her own expense to study modern music, and she wanted to go to the United States to see what pop music really looked like. When she told her son about this decision, the son cried his heart and lungs, and he cried and said to Zhu Mingying: "Mom, don't you want to go?" I want to see you often. Zhu Mingying cried and said to her son: "Child, after your mother has established a foothold in the United States, she will pick you up." ”
Resisting the pain of parting with her son, Zhu Mingying embarked on the road of studying in the United States. She entered the Berkeley School of Music to study music. While studying hard, she also had to work to earn money on her own, and when she was most cruel to herself, she worked 4 jobs a day and was busy until two or three o'clock in the morning before going to bed.
Although the study is very hard, the part-time work is very tired, but Zhu Mingying did not complain, is very much of her son, every time she calls her son in China, she will always cry, and the son always asks her: "Mom, I miss you so much, when will you pick me up?" ”
But Zhu Mingying could not take her son over, even if she was the only student in the school's 3,000 students to receive full scholarships for eight consecutive semesters, which were only enough for her to live, and she could not afford to live alone.
When Zhu Mingying brought her son to the United States, it was 5 years later, and in these 5 years, she did not see her son. She was able to bring her son to live in the United States because she met Mr. Subin, a director of Harvard Business School, who, at his recommendation, Zhu Mingying joined the multinational company Goldman Financial Group, responsible for Far East affairs, with an annual salary of $70,000.
However, when her son first arrived in the United States, Zhu Mingying stayed with him in a friend's house, and her son was very puzzled and asked her: "Mom, you haven't seen me for 5 years, we have a hard time getting together, why do you want to separate me from you?" Zhu Mingying said to him: "Child, the mother is also doing this for your own good, so that you have a good language environment to learn English as soon as possible." ”
Zhu Mingying's method was indeed effective, and soon his son Wang Jue would be able to speak fluent English.
When Wang Jue was about to graduate from high school, Zhu Mingying hoped that he could learn financial management, and she did not want him to take the road of music like herself, because she knew how difficult the road was. However, Wang Jue just wanted to learn music, and he deliberately told Zhu Mingying not to learn, but he was secretly learning.
At that time, Zhu Mingying gave Wang Jue $1,000 a month for living expenses, but Wang Jue used the remaining $300 to buy music CDs and equipment after paying the rent, and usually ate instant noodles every day, which also made Wang Jue lose weight day by day.
Watching Wang Jue getting thinner and thinner, Zhu Mingying thought that the money he would give him would not starve him like this, so she ran to the house where Wang Jue lived and found that the room was full of music CDs and equipment, and she knew that her son really wanted to learn music, and she chose to support him.
Wang Jue also worked hard, and he was admitted to the Berklee College of Music, where his mother had attended, to study popular music and production, and like his mother, he received a full scholarship every semester.
When Wang Jue was eager to study at the Berkeley Conservatory of Music, Zhu Mingying made another major decision.
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After Studying at the Berkeley Conservatory of Music, Zhu Mingying decided to return to China in 1995 to start a business, and her life in the United States made her deeply aware of the differences between the cultural industries in China and the United States, and she wanted to go back to develop China's cultural industry and be a part of promoting China's cultural industry.
After returning to China, Zhu Mingying cooperated with Hollywood to do film and television, make records, engage in performances, and engage in training centers. She was deeply aware of the serious shortage of cultural talents in China, so she worked tirelessly to run a comprehensive college that combined art education and cultural industry.
For such a hard school, someone asked her if she was bitter? Isn't it difficult? Zhu Mingying replied: "Of course it is difficult, of course it is bitter." One of the things I often say is that the trolley doesn't fall and just pushes. Live to do, dead to count. I lived a frank, peaceful, and happy life. Seeing what I do succeed one by one and produce benefits one by one makes me feel that I have not lived in vain in my life. ”
What Zhu Mingying did not expect was that Wang Jue also chose to return to China after completing her studies in the United States, and also signed her company. But Wang Jue told Zhu Mingying that he did not want to use her fame to promote himself, he did not want to live under the aura of his mother, and he wanted to prove himself with his own strength. Therefore, the mother and son agreed not to mention each other's names in front of the media and the public.
For the mother not to help her son, some of Zhu Mingying's friends around her did not understand, so they asked her why? Zhu Mingying told them: "In the development of the music world, the fight is strength, if Wang Jue really has strength, there is no need to use my influence; if he does not have strength, I am no longer how to help him, he is at most short-lived." ”
Wang Jue was also very competitive, and in December 2002, he released the album "Tomorrow", which became famous in one fell swoop. He also appeared on CCTV Spring Festival Gala in 2004, and Zhu Mingying was happier than anyone else about Wang Jue's achievements.
Perhaps under the influence of her mother, since 2005, Wang Jue has also devoted herself to the wounded business sea and entered the cultural industry. In 2014 he also served as chairman of a well-known cultural company. Just one year after Wang Jue served as chairman, Zhu Mingying once again appeared on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala, performing the opening show "Four Generations Together with Family" with Tao Yuling and Lei Kesheng.
Today's Zhu Mingying has not remarried, her son has become a talent, she has no worries, she will focus most of her energy on cultivating talents, she always wants to do her part for the Chinese cultural industry, and she is really working hard and practicing for this.