In the spring of 1985, a song "Back to Mother's House" was sung to this day.
A chicken in the left hand, a duck in the right hand, simple lyrics with iconic movements,
For a time, it became a song that audiences across the country competed to imitate.
And that sweet singing voice, a mole on the chin of Zhu Mingying has also been remembered since then.
But after 85 years, she seems to have disappeared.
This song also became her only masterpiece that is remembered,
What has Zhu Mingying experienced over the years?
In 1950, Zhu Mingying was born in Shandong, with four sisters.
Her original surname was Zhang, and her ancestors were zhang zhidong, the governor of Liangguang.
But her parents divorced when she was very young.
She followed her mother back to her hometown of Shenyang and married her stepfather surnamed Zhu.
Since then, it has been renamed Zhu Mingying.
Zhu Mingying's mother's musical talent was inherited from her mother,
Her mother was a singing actress and sang very well.
She has a good voice since she was a child, and she is a person who comes crazy,
No matter who comes to the house, they take the initiative to perform, and many songs and dances are self-created.
Zhu Mingying's mother was a knowledgeable woman,
Seeing that her daughter loved song and dance so much, she encouraged her to develop in this direction.
Not only did he teach her to sing, but he also took her to an interview.
Later, my mother was transferred to Beijing because of her work.
Several of the children followed them to Beijing.
But unfortunately my mother had a cancer, or cancer.
And just in time for the three-year famine period, a large area of the country was affected,
Many people can't fill their stomachs, and their mothers who have just completed surgery are due to lack of nutrition.
Her wounds were slow to heal, and they always became purulent after a while.
The whole person is getting weaker and weaker, in order not to let the daughter worry that she has never revealed her illness,
Regardless of his body, he insisted on taking ten-year-old Zhu Mingying to the dance school for an interview.
Zhu Mingying's first application was at the Chinese Dance School.
But she didn't practice systematically, and she didn't know the technique of stretching tendons.
The teacher thought she was too hard and eliminated her.
But the mother did not give up and encouraged Zhu Mingying to practice well.
The next year continues to take the exam, this year Zhu Mingying practiced every morning and evening,
Make dancing a top priority.
A year later she came outside the exam room again.
This time the enrollment attracted tens of thousands of children of the same age,
The number that Zhu Mingying got in his hand was already more than 20,000 numbers.
Of those tens of thousands, only seven were chosen, and she was one-seventh.
Zhu Mingying was finally admitted to the ideal school, but her mother's condition could no longer be hidden.
At the end of her life, the mother repeatedly told her daughter to have a career and have her own career.
It was her mother's words that became the norm for her life.
In 1966, Zhu Mingying graduated from the China Dance Academy.
She was assigned to the Oriental Song and Dance Troupe as a dancer,
This troupe gathers the best artistic talents in the country,
What was originally a very glorious thing, but it was in the wrong time.
It was the year when Zhu Mingying entered the Oriental Song and Dance Troupe that the domestic environment changed.
She was assigned to the countryside for labor, leaving her missing out on the golden age of dancing.
But during this time in the countryside, Zhu Mingying fell in love and got married.
Her husband is Wang Mingqi, a playmate of Qingmei Bamboo Horse, and is an actor in the Zongzheng Song and Dance Troupe.
Wang Mingqi's family is all boys, Zhu Mingying's family is all girls,
The mothers of the two families are also very familiar with each other, and Mother Zhu was very fond of Wang Mingqi when she was alive.
He often joked that it would be good to change my family Ming Ying with you, and that you would come to me as a son.
Unexpectedly, this statement turned out to be true, and in 1969, 19-year-old Zhu Mingying married Wang Mingqi.
At that time, both of them were very poor and did not have the money to have a decent wedding.
Wang Mingqi sold his most beloved watch for hundreds of yuan.
Buying two beds, preparing a table of dishes, and some sugar is considered to be a marriage.
After marriage, Zhu Mingying gave birth to a son, named Wang Jue, and the character Jue means double jade.
Later, the domestic environment improved, and Zhu Mingying also returned to the Oriental Song and Dance Troupe.
But a dancer's acting career is limited,
All the actors in the troupe who are more than 25 years old will no longer focus on training.
Zhu Mingying, who was supposed to dance on the stage, has been working in the countryside,
She was long past her age when she returned to the stage.
But Zhu Mingying is a character who does not recognize life, she has not stopped training, stretching,
After returning to the regiment, he also actively introduced himself and strived to become the protagonist.
In 1979, the troupe focused on Asian, African and Latin American songs and dances.
Zhu Mingying volunteered to provoke the girder,
As a result, the teacher in charge looked at her and said, if you can jump, I can go to the United Nations to make a report.
Zhu Mingying was not defeated by this ridicule, and she began to think of her own way,
She found the cassette of the famous African singer Alberti, and took the tape recorder to find the African students.
You have to learn the lyrics word by word, from rote memorization to the fusion of song and dance,
After some time, she has been able to fully interpret the Song and Dance of Asian, African and Latin American styles.
At the same time, there was a lack of actors in the troupe to sing foreign language songs, and Zhu Mingying began to learn English again.
At that time, she didn't have much money, and she only had 40 yuan a month in the countryside.
The place where I learned English was far away, and I took the car back and forth for several hours.
And without any basics, she had to start learning the English alphabet.
No one can understand what Zhu Mingying's motivation is to do this.
Even her husband didn't understand, because she didn't have time to take care of her son.
In the end time and effort gave everyone the answer.
During the review of the Spring Festival Gala program, Zhu Mingying painted her whole body black,
Performed a Song and Dance in the Style of Asia, Africa and Latin America, and the four seats were amazing,
Not only does it make her the focus, but it also adds glory to the Oriental Song and Dance Troupe.
Since 1979, Zhu Mingying has moved from the dance team to the singing team.
She has represented the Oriental Song and Dance Troupe many times in the performance of receiving foreign guests.
Zhu Mingying finally realized her dream, from a marginalized dancer,
She became the core singer in the troupe, but she was indebted to her family.
At that time, Wang Mingqi's work was also busy, and sometimes Zhu Mingying had to take her son to the backstage.
When she was about to take the stage, she put her son in a corner and warned him not to run around.
For the wife who performs everywhere and often does not leave home,
Wang Mingqi was quite critical, he only wanted a virtuous wife,
I don't want a celebrity wife, but Zhu Mingying can't do it.
In 1981, the two divorced, and Wang Mingqi's mother was still alive and could take care of her grandchildren.
So the son lived with his father.
Originally, the mother-in-law was very fond of Zhu Mingying, and often proudly told others that this was my daughter-in-law.
Even after the two divorced, she often advised the two to remarry.
But Wang Mingqi soon remarried, and the object of his second marriage was not someone else.
It is zhu Mingying's sister-in-law.
This complicated relationship has embarrassed the two families,
Slowly, there were fewer and fewer contacts, and Zhu Mingying also put all her thoughts on her career.
In 1985, Zhu Mingying was invited to participate in the Spring Festival Gala.
She sang three songs in a row: "Back to Mother's Home", "The Sea, Hometown", and "Mo Sorrow, Mo Sorrow".
And everything from the hairstyle to the costume was designed by herself.
At that time, the most suitable costume in the troupe was just an old sweater with flowers.
And some Hong Kong singers such as Zhang Mingmin have already appeared on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala.
They dressed up in a foreign style, the makeup was trendy, and this old sweater looked a bit humiliating.
So the regimental commander Wang Kun gave a Hong Kong businessman the clothes in the regiment.
A bright yellow tulle skirt was lent to Zhu Mingying as her performance dress,
Zhu Mingying also matched a red velvet flower on the clothes, which made the whole dress have a highlight.
The day before the performance, Zhu Mingying decided to change a trendy hairstyle,
She used to have long, shiny black braids,
It was the most popular hairstyle of the era.
Zhu Mingying decided to cut off her long hair and change it to a light short hair,
So he asked the makeup artist to cut her head.
In this way, Zhu Mingying wore a short hair and wore a beautiful skirt to the Spring Festival Gala.
And in order to make the song and dance more vivid,
The dance moves at the Spring Festival Gala are performed on the spot, not choreographed in advance.
After the Spring Festival Gala, Zhu Mingying was on fire, especially the song "Back to Mother's Home" became the golden song of the times,
At the same time, she also led to record sales that year, which was known as the "Year of Zhu Mingying".
When Zhu Mingying was most popular, she did not take advantage of the victory to pursue,
Instead, he chose to retreat from the rapids and step into the great upsurge of going abroad.
In 1986, 36-year-old Zhu Mingying came to Boston, USA.
When I went to be at the Berkeley School of Music, everything started from scratch.
At that time, Berkeley's tuition cost $750 a month.
And Zhu Mingying, who has always received a fixed salary in the Oriental Song and Dance Troupe, does not have much savings.
Singers of that era were not like today's stars who could make money by going to the cave.
Zhu Mingying had to go out to work in order to pay for the tuition and living expenses of the United States.
She used to be glamorous and now she has to brush the dishes,
I even worked four jobs a day.
But Zhu Mingying, who has experienced three years of famine and has also experienced going to the countryside,
Hard work is not nothing, she did not leave school at the same time as working.
Zhu Mingying's courses are very many, there are ten courses in a semester,
She had a poor foundation in English and often studied alone until midnight.
In order to save money, she used the winter and summer vacations to continue to save credits so that she could graduate early.
In the end, she spent four years to complete the six-year course and graduated with eight A's in all eight courses.
Among more than 3,000 outstanding students from all over the world, they successfully won scholarships.
After Zhu Mingying graduated, she met Mr. Su Bin, a director of Harvard Business School, by chance.
He once accompanied President Nixon on a visit to China, and he knew China very well.
Su Bin has seen Zhu Mingying's performance and praised her talent,
And marvel at her talent and legendary experience.
Mr. Subin extended an olive branch to Zhu Mingying and let her enter the Gelmand Group,
This is a multinational financial company, the strength is very strong,
Zhu Mingying's position is the director of the Far East, with an annual salary of up to 70,000 US dollars.
At that time, financial capital had not yet taken root in China.
Seventy thousand dollars is also an income that the working class at home does not dare to imagine.
Zhu Mingying unexpectedly entered a new field, and finally mixed up the appearance,
At this time, she had not seen her son Wang Jue for five years.
She took her son to the United States to live with her, but did not take him with her.
Zhu Mingying wanted her son to adapt to the American way of life and learn English well, so she put him in a host family.
Sure enough, the son did not live up to his mother's painstaking efforts, and mastered English in a very short period of time.
After starting a life of studying in the United States, Zhu Mingying also embarked on her own business path.
Zhu Mingying is decisive in doing things, not afraid of hardship, and good at seizing opportunities and never giving up,
In line with the most basic qualities of a successful businessman,
She led far east to create high profits for the company,
Soon after, he became president of a high-tech company.
The economic environment in the United States makes Zhu Mingying full of confidence, and she looks back at her own road from art.
It is full of bitterness, and the efforts and income of domestic singers and dancers are far from proportional,
And for a long time there was no respect, and the last thing she wanted was for her son to go his own way.
However, perhaps genetically, Wang Jue prefers music.
He concealed his mother from saving up his living expenses,
I'd rather eat instant noodles for a week than save ten dollars for a record of my liking.
Suddenly, one day, Zhu Mingying went to visit Wang Jue where he lived.
Seeing that the table was full of popular CDs and boxes of instant noodles,
I knew how much my son loved music.
She stopped her son from learning music and sent him to her alma mater, Berkeley.
Let him study music systematically.
Perhaps it was his son's love for music that rekindled Zhu Mingying's original intention,
At that time, China was in a period of rapid development after the reform and opening up.
Actively invite overseas students to return to China to participate in economic construction.
In 1995, Zhu Mingying resigned from her job in the United States and resolutely decided to return to China.
During this period, she accumulated a large amount of funds and advanced management experience abroad.
She decided to set up 'Zhu Mingying Cultural Development Co., Ltd.' to continue to engage in literary and artistic work.
At the same time, an art academy was established to cultivate outstanding singing and dancing talents.
Wang Jue also chose to return to China for development after completing his studies.
Zhu Mingying and Wang Mingqi are both peugeot-looking actors,
Wang Jue inherited the advantages of the two, more than one meter eight in height,
Three-dimensional facial features, the appearance is very superior.
In 1995, he released his first single "Tomorrow" as a signed singer of Zhu Mingying's company.
Quickly jumped to the sixth place on the Chinese song chart and became the most watched newcomer.
However, Wang Jue did not insist on developing on the road of music.
Instead, like her mother, she chose to engage in business, occasionally shooting film and television dramas.
In 2002, he released his self-titled album "Wang Jue".
Zhu Mingying was full of guilt for her son, and she never married again.
Sons are also afraid of marriage because of their parents' unhappy marriages.
Zhu Mingying personally went to enlighten his son and encouraged his son to get married.
Organize your own happy family,
Later, the son really got married, and he was very affectionate with his daughter-in-law.
Now Zhu Mingying is 71 years old and no longer performs on stage.
Only occasionally appearing in interviews, the crooked smiling eyes still make people feel very kind.
Who would have thought that such a legendary singer would experience so many stories,
She has been strong all her life, never bowed her head, and tried her best in all fields,
She became the best heroine of her life.
| Nancy
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