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Preface
There is a lyric in rock music: "Have you ever loved someone so madly that you even gave up everything for him/her?"
Zheng Xulan, a popular singer in the eighties and nineties, paid such a price.
Her life trajectory has attracted the attention of the world, with many twists and turns, ups and downs.
She once chose to go away at the peak of her career, leaving her family and business just for love;
In the face of the relentless blow of fate, how did she see the light of day? Let us explore the life of this legendary singer.
The interweaving of love and dreams
Zheng Xulan's obsession with music stems from the absurd encounters of a musical family.
She was born in a military family in Beijing, and was carved by her parents with a tenacious and resolute military temperament since she was a child, and she had no connection with music.
It wasn't until she was three years old when she was sent to Tianjin with her parents that she got her first glimpse of the intellectual charm of art in the slow pace of life in this seaside city.
A melody from her childhood, a melody from her childhood, like a spark, deeply engraved the pure art of music on her young heart.
So, driven by her ever-expanding dreams, Zheng Xulan gradually fell into madness, singing non-stop regardless of the occasion.
It's a pity that for that era, art had no status at all, and how could a singer ever be a profession?
Chance to reach the pinnacle of life
What is surprising is that although Zheng Xulan has never received formal training despite her musical dreams, she has never received formal training.
In this way, she stumbled all the way, and when she graduated from middle school, she could only obediently enter a state-owned enterprise factory and live a life contrary to her dreams.
But the god of fate regards her as the jewel of his palm, and he will not allow this vitality to be lost.
When I saw the workers singing, Zheng Xulan's ethereal voice jumped on the paper, like a Kunpeng spreading its wings, turning into bursts of crisp melodies that penetrated people's hearts.
In a singing competition for factory workers, she was out of the limelight and became a blockbuster, and attracted the attention of a mentor of the Oriental Song and Dance Troupe, so that she was lucky and was able to join this top group.
Since then, she seems to be alone in the sea of music.
If she only glimpsed the corner of the note by chance before, at this moment she has absorbed the vast essence of art through the platform of the Oriental Song and Dance Troupe.
In 1979, she was given the opportunity to sing the theme song "Sun Island" of the TV series "Summer in Harbin", and her fame soared in one fell swoop.
In the following years, CCTV Spring Festival Gala and toured all over the country...... All of them pushed her musical charm to the peak.
Leaving the scene at the peak leads to the bottom of life
At this time, Zheng Xulan is almost sincerely living out her young dreams, and I don't know how many artists envy her like a fish in water.
But just when her career was blooming, a vigorous love disturbed her mind and completely rewrote the course of her life.
It was an American man named Edward, who was fascinated by Zheng Xulan's singing voice and elf-like stage style.
He pursued relentlessly, determined to tame the singer's arrogance and coldness, and finally made her surrender with her equipment under his enthusiastic and lingering offensive.
Everything is like a secret love when she was young, Zheng Xulan is crazy about love, and she made an incredible decision:
She decisively resigned from her job in the Oriental Song and Dance Troupe, gave up her career glory, and left the country with Edward in a desperate attempt to go on an expedition to the United States, the fan's hometown.
This decision undoubtedly caused an uproar at the time.
Colleagues in the music industry are all secretly amused, thinking that she is too young and naïve.
The public was also in an uproar, questioning that she left home in a madness and abandoned the family and country career that had accumulated for many years.
But in Zheng Xulan's heart, she seemed to be a thriller at this time, and she was finally able to fly freely in Alice in Wonderland.
A foreign country has experienced hardships
It's a pity that there will always be a day when you wake up from a sweet dream.
The nightmare that has not been seen for a long time finally dragged Zheng Xulan back to reality in a foreign country.
As the morning sun recedes, the beast of love begins to exude its bloody fangs—life in a foreign country is far more difficult than Zheng Xulan imagined.
For a while, relying on happiness and love, Zheng Xulan was fortunate to be able to get by.
But soon, the weight of reality completely smashed the young couple and fled.
With no musical background, she has nowhere to land on the territory of the United States, so she can only work hard to survive.
The hardships and hardships of life gradually corroded the initial love, and the conflicts between the two grew day by day on issues such as housework and livelihood, and within a few years they evolved into chattering and endless accusations.
Accidentally, the two ushered in the brink of divorce.
Although she gave birth to a son for Edward in the same year, she couldn't save her unrecognizable love.
Six years later, she finally dragged her other half out of the house, and she was devastated and penniless, and homeless with her son.
Started again and stumbled on his knees
From then on, the journey back to his hometown began.
However, after a six-year music window period, Zheng Xulan, who became popular back then, has become an outdated person.
In order to fill her mouth, she had to re-woo her old employer, so that she could be accepted by the Oriental Song and Dance Troupe again, and she was a little transparent and silently did the lowest work.
In the following years, Zheng Xulan gritted her teeth and worked hard silently, regaining the glory of the past little by little in the absence of anyone.
She was eager to learn, practice, and hone her singing skills.
Over time, the characteristics of the year finally regained their brilliance on the stage.
Just when Zheng Xulan's career was climbing all the way and she was still longing to relive the sweetness of sweet love, a Tianjin man quietly broke into her life.
This man was mature and understanding, and he took in orphans and widows in the house and Wudi.
Perhaps the god of fate finally decided to favor her for once.
Under the considerate care of this Tianjin man, Zheng Xulan seems to have regained the good old days of love.
The two looked at each other and smiled, slept with each other, and even secretly gave birth to the longing of husband and wife to help each other.
However, just as they were about to stride into the marriage hall, providence once again revealed its dark side.
A sudden health crisis made Zheng Xulan regretfully diagnosed with intestinal obstruction and had to undergo high-risk surgery.
Painfully, during the treatment, she found out that it was the result of a medical malpractice!
Looking at her lover who is like her brother, she is in pain and would rather bear all the sins.
But the misfortune is not a one-way street, just when she was still recovering from surgery, a bad news came like thunder - her lover was found to have cancer! This was like a heavy hammer, which smashed Zheng Xulan's heart on the head.
She had thought she had entered a peaceful time, but now fate had once again sung its harshest drama.
Faced with a double blow, Zheng Xulan completely lost her mind.
She suspended all her work, guarded her lover's sickbed, and served this person who had brought her endless warmth wholeheartedly.
Although she knew that her lover's illness was beyond her ability, she still tried her best to save this last ray of love.
In order to fulfill her lover's last wish before her death, she specially held a concert for him, roaring to fate with her singing voice, trying to wake up this dying person with music.
Unfortunately, providence made people, her lover finally passed away a few months after the concert, and this time he left her completely.
The last push turned the tide
Zheng Xulan, who lost her beloved and was over half a hundred years old, fell into a trough again.
Since then, she has only been left with her own solo music career.
In order not to let it die, she began to fight desperately.
After several years of hard training, she finally regained the recognition of the CCTV stage in 2024.
During the performance that night, she deliberately wore the pink turtleneck sweater that amazed the stage of the Spring Festival Gala that year.
Dressed in red, how could she hide the devastation of half of her life? Who would have thought that this former celebrity in the music world is now covered in scars.
But it is this vicissitudes of life that makes her voice more of a life flavor and releases a majestic power.
epilogue
It can be seen that Zheng Xulan has written an epic about love and dreams in her life.
She is crazy about love, and she is full of ambition several times, and she is persistent in her dreams, and she has experienced ups and downs repeatedly.
Although fate is ruthless, it is through this desperate struggle with it that she has never given up the original pursuit of music.
Now, she has suddenly opened up in this legendary life course.
has a son who has started a family abroad, and her former stage career has rekindled her fighting spirit, and she is finally able to enjoy an ordinary and happy old age.
Everything was hard-won, but Zheng Xulan used her tenacious willpower to live the way she wanted, which was the greatest fulfillment of her life.