In the 1985 Sino-Vietnamese Laoshan War, Xu Liang, a first-class hero of resistance against Vietnam, became popular at the 1987 Spring Festival Gala because he sang a song "Bloodstained Style", which was famous in the north and south of the country, and was in the limelight for a while. However, ten years later, he was imprisoned for more than a year because of the rumors of "participating in a fight and causing death", and he also lost his wife, and his life fell into a low point. After the confinement ended, Xu Liang appeared in public for the first time in many years in "Luyu Appointment", he said with emotion: "For more than 20 years, I think that being a celebrity is not as comfortable and comfortable as being a common person." ”
The Sino-Vietnamese War made meritorious contributions, and the Spring Festival Gala performance became popular
In 1985, Xu Liang, a fourth-year student at Xi'an Conservatory of Music, was selected by the school to perform on the front line of Vietnam's self-defense counterattack. Xu Liang took the initiative to enlist in the army and become a soldier. At that time, only Xu Liang, a college student in the entire division and even the entire army, volunteered to join the army, and was one of the earliest college students to join the army.
At that time, the Sino-Vietnamese War had not long begun. Xu Liang was only 3 days after he joined the army, and his unit was transferred to the front line, in which Xu Liang served as the deputy instructor of the company. The war was very fierce, Xu Liang was also ejected in the leg by Gao Ji in the war, due to the failure of conservative treatment, he amputated his leg twice before and after, and underwent nine surgeries before he saved his life by losing a leg.
Xu Liang's heroic performance made him a first-class meritorious service. In the Spring Festival of 1987, at the Spring Festival Gala held by CCTV, Xu Liang sang a song "Bloodstained Style" with passion, which impressed countless audiences and became popular ever since. The media rushed to report Xu Liang's heroic deeds, and he became a well-known hero.
A set of figures can illustrate how famous he is: in more than a year after he was injured, he made more than 500 reports, four times in the Great Hall of the People, and at the most four times a day, each game lasted two hours; There are 50,000 or 60,000 letters written to Xu Liang from all walks of life, and he said that if you read one a day, you will never finish reading it in a lifetime. In addition to this, he began to enjoy some honorary "privileges" in his life. Once, Xu Liang wanted to catch a plane from Xi'an to Beijing, but when Xu Liang arrived at the airport, the ticket had not yet been bought, and the plane was about to take off immediately. At this time, the airport staff recognized Xu Liang and used the walkie-talkie to tell the staff on the tower to let the plane come back from the runway and wait for Xu Liang to get on the plane. Another time, Xu Liang took a taxi to catch a train, and was recognized by the taxi driver, who saw that he was in a hurry, so he risked all kinds of dangers to speed and run a red light to rush for him. Later, when he walked to an intersection, the taxi was stopped by the police, and the police came to issue a ticket aggressively, and the driver told him: Xu Liang was sitting in the car, and he was in a hurry. After the police confirmed, they only asked Xu Liang for a signature, and then let them go.
Xu Liang recalled: "At that time, my privilege was not to hold any certificate or card, but because of my military uniform and heroic aura, many people gave me a lot of help with a very simple and kind feeling." In fact, Xu Liang was very disappointed to lose a leg after the war, he used to carry the gas canister to the home on the 3rd floor, but now he has to listen to the two elders carrying the gas canister up and down the stairs, and his heart is very uncomfortable. The fame brought by "Bloodstained Style" once brought some comfort to Xu Liang.
Rumors are rife lawsuits, and the "hero" crown is difficult to wear
However, while this fame added color to Xu Liang's life, it also brought him pain and trouble. First, there were rumors that his heroic experience was completely denied, saying that all his comrades-in-arms were sacrificed during the Vietnam War, and only Xu Liang and the company commander Huang Haoli were left, and Xu Liang was greedy for life and wanted to escape from the battle, so he pushed Huang Haoli off the cliff, injured one of his legs and went back to deceive others and became a hero; There are also rumors that Xu Liang's company commander did not die after being pushed off the cliff, but was captured by the Vietnamese army, and returned to China after the war against Vietnam, and took Xu Liang to court, resulting in him being sentenced to life imprisonment.
In the face of these nonsense, Xu Liang didn't know how to clarify that he didn't justify it, and the absurd thing is that some people began to believe these rumors. But it was not this rumor that brought Xu Liang the most pain, but an article titled "The Shock Caused by the Asking for 3,000 Yuan" published in the Shanghai Culture and Art News on December 18, 1987.
The article reported, "On November 27, at a youth seminar held by the Research Office of the Youth League Municipal Committee and other units, an explosive news came out: when a news unit invited an old mountain heroic model who won the love of the masses with his moving singing voice to participate in the Shanghai Golden Autumn Gala to sing, the heroic model offered 3,000 yuan, not a single cent; Despite repeated explanations from the comrades of the newspaper that remuneration should be paid as appropriate for various reasons, such as funding, he never changed his tune." Although the article does not name the characters, it is not difficult for the reader to imagine who the article is about.
This explosive news has stirred up a thousand waves with one stone and has attracted widespread attention. According to records, the average salary of workers in Shanghai at that time was 1,893 yuan. Some people believe that Xu Liang's approach is in line with the "socialist distribution system"; Some people advocate that heroes should have a new understanding, so that they can boldly pursue their own material interests; However, more people think that heroes should not talk about conditions, requirements, and calculations. Various domestic and foreign media also began to publish reports unfavorable to Xu Liang, especially the Hong Kong magazine "Baimin", which published an article entitled "Is it Bloodstained Style or Money Addiction" to criticize Xu Liang, and newspapers and magazines such as "Beijing Evening News", "Newspaper Digest", "Wen Wei Po", "New Observation" and other newspapers and magazines also commented on this time.
Although the unit that hosted the Shanghai Golden Autumn Gala at that time issued three statements in the "Newspaper Digest": first, the article "Asking for Price" was published, and there was no contact with the organizer in advance; Second, the so-called hero's request for 3,000 yuan in performance fees is purely untrue; Third, the hero never had any "bargaining" behavior during the invitation to perform. These three statements confirmed that the report was not true, and public opinion from the outside world still had a relatively big impact on Xu Liang's life. First, the leader of Xu Liang's unit set up an investigation team to go to Shanghai to investigate, and transferred him from the Central Conservatory of Music to Lanzhou for introspection; Xu Liang was also blamed by relatives, friends, and neighbors, causing great pain in his life.
On January 18, 1988, the miserable Xu Liang finally entrusted a lawyer to sue the Shanghai Culture and Art Newspaper and the main writer of the article, Zhao Weichang, for the damage to his reputation caused by the "shock caused by the 3,000 yuan demand". Xu Liang put forward the following demands: "Order the two defendants to stop the infringement, restore their reputation, eliminate the impact, publicly publish a formal apology, and pay compensation of 3,000 yuan and bear the trial costs of the case." "Interestingly, the amount of compensation sought in the complaint is exactly the same as the amount of money that Xu Liang was falsely accused of demanding.
This reputation case has also received widespread attention, not only because the protagonist of the incident is a well-known "hero star"; It is also because before 1987 when people's right to reputation was violated, there was no way to deal with it, and there were too many tragedies in the meantime. In 1987, under the guidance of the Third Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the General Principles of the Civil Law began to formally incorporate citizens' right to reputation into the protection of the Civil Law.
In the end, under the testimony of the relevant personnel of the organizer of the Shanghai Golden Autumn Gala, Xu Liang won the lawsuit. Even if Xu Liang won the lawsuit, the negative impact and pain caused by this incident were still great, and Xu Liang gradually stopped performing in other places and slowly faded out of the public's field of vision.
"Heroes" also yearn for a peaceful life
10 years later, another unfortunate thing happened to Xu Liang that changed the trajectory of his life. In July 1997, Xu Liang went out to a party with a friend, but unexpectedly the friend had an argument with someone. At that time, although Xu Liang was unable to move, he was still involved in this conflict. In the chaos, Xu Liang was pushed down, and when his friends came to pick him up, he went to chase the other party in the conflict and killed people in the fight. At that time, Xu Liang was not negligent, and the court ruled that he did not need to bear legal responsibility, but as a soldier, he was still imprisoned for more than a year. After this incident, Xu Liang not only lost his freedom, but also indirectly led to his divorce and the loss of his wife. For him at this time, it can be said that his life has fallen into a trough.
Xu Liang was released at the end of 1998 and returned to Beijing in 2000 to start a new life. Since then, Xu Liang has tried many jobs, including opening nightclubs and helping out at real estate companies, but none of them have lasted long. Later, I was introduced by a friend and went to help in the molybdenum mining business run by my friend.
In 2001, Xu Liang met his second wife, his former comrade-in-arms Xiao Ning, and gave birth to a child together. Xiao Ning worked in the company, and his colleagues didn't know the relationship between Xiao Ning and Xu Liang, and they lived a peaceful and peaceful life. After going through so many ups and downs, Xu Liang began to walk on the street worrying that others would recognize him, and when others asked him what happened to his leg, he would answer that it was a car accident. Even though Xu Liang's leg injury still caused him pain from time to time, Xu Liang still loved life, learned to drive on one leg, and also liked to swim and climb mountains.
In 2006, after Xu Liang faded out of the public eye for more than 20 years, he appeared on a TV show for the first time, recalling the experience of that year, he concluded: "Any celebrity can be a celebrity, but there is only one kind of celebrity that cannot be a hero." Because in the eyes of ordinary people, the hero is not a human being but a god. Heroes actually need to eat, sleep, and even occasionally swear. But when people find out that the hero is an ordinary person, it doesn't feel good. Finally, he said, "It is better to do nothing than to be a citizen."
Resources:
""Hero Star" Xu Liang first disclosed the secret of more than 10 years of silence——— Xu Liang: Actually, I don't want to be a hero" Ding Yaozhong
The Law of 'Truthful Reporting' of False Rumors The controversy caused by the case of Xu Liang's right to reputation in the later period "Wei Yongzheng".
"Xu Liang - The Hero's Laurel is Too Heavy" Chen Lei