Every morning, in an ordinary family in Shenyang, the singing of urns will be heard regularly.
At that time, in the 1960s, the little girl who practiced singing was called Dong Wenhua.
Dong Wenhua was born in Shenyang in 1962.
At that time, almost all the people in the northeast were workers.
The Dong family is no exception, Dong Wenhua's parents are both workers, and she has two older brothers and an older sister.
A family of six, crammed into a bungalow, lived no differently from the lower masses.
Dong Wenhua's sister Dong Shuangqiu also liked singing very much when she was a child.
As her sister grew older, she often took her sister with her when she went to sing or perform in juvenile songs.
When my sister grew up, she did not continue to develop in singing, but entered the factory.
The baton for the love of music was handed over to his sister Dong Wenhua.
It may be talent, or it may be that when I was a child, I often followed my sister to the Children's Palace to sing and was influenced.
As Dong Wenhua grew up, her interest in singing also increased.
In order to practice singing, Dong Wenhua told his parents the night before that they would shout for themselves to get up at five o'clock in the morning.
The next day her father woke her up, and she ran alone to a park not far from her home to practice her voice.
Sometimes he would practice at home in the morning, and Dong Wenhua was afraid of disturbing the neighbors.
Just climb into the big vat of pickles at home to practice.
As a result, every morning, the voice of the sister's urn almost became the "alarm clock" of the whole family on time.
Dong Shuangqiu saw that his sister liked to sing so much, and he secretly made up his mind that he must help her.
As long as she has the opportunity, she will go around to find a music teacher for her sister, hoping to cultivate her in this regard.
So many years later, Dong Wenhua recalled her childhood experience and bluntly said that her sister was her leader in music.
In 1969, 7-year-old Dong Wenhua went to elementary school.
There were no classrooms, and students sat around the trees in the courtyard with blackboards hanging from them.
Dong Wenhua's classmate Shu Jinbiao still remembers that during primary school, Dong Wenhua was the class leader and the literary and art committee member.
Every day, I can hear Dong Wenhua singing and practicing.
When she comes home from school, she sings while picking up her backpack to buy groceries.
Often parents and sisters come home from work and the chickens are fed well.
There are also steamed buns or spread pancakes on the stove.
She also manages bookkeeping at home on a daily basis.
Whether it's food stamps, meat stamps, wages or daily expenses, she can remember them all.
At home, at school, Dong Wenhua and his classmates launched the Lei Feng Mutual Aid Group.
There are two disabled students in the class, and it is very inconvenient to go to and from school every day.
Dong Wenhua and the other two girls in the class carried them to and from school every day.
This is a matter of years.
After graduating from primary school, Dong Wenhua was admitted to Shenyang No. 4 Middle School, which is a key middle school in Shenyang.
During his middle school years, Dong Wenhua encountered the first opportunity in his life.
In the winter of 1977, the 39th Army of the Shenyang Military Region went to her school to recruit literary and artistic soldiers from the soldiers' amateur propaganda team.
Faced with a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, 15-year-old Dong Wenhua resolutely signed up for the exam.
On stage, she sang a song called "The Sun Is the Reddest, Chairman Mao Is the Dearest."
With this song, Dong Wenhua successfully passed the pass.
Along with her, there is also a classmate Zhu Xiaohong.
For more than two years, they worked as roommates for more than two years on the publicity team.
Since then, a new star in the singing world is about to be born.
In 1979, the amateur propaganda team was disbanded, and Dong Wenhua was recruited into the Shenyang Military Region Forward Song and Dance Troupe.
The young Dong Wenhua officially put on his military uniform.
When he first arrived in the troupe, the leaders trained Dong Wenhua as an opera singer.
The daily training, both the lines and the body type, are very strict.
As a result, Dong Wenhua once again resumed his life as he did when he was a child, and began to get up early to practice.
However, there are teachers watching at the school, the movements and sounds are slightly off, the light is criticized, and the heavy is beaten down.
In the eyes of the teacher, she is a good student.
Dong Wenhua's first vocal teacher was lu Menglan.
Teacher Lu still remembers many years later that some students can't learn a song for a week.
Dong Wenhua can recite it smoothly in one night.
Many students are either the children of high-ranking cadres or come from families in the intellectual class, and they do not study very hard and diligently.
In contrast, Dong Wenhua, who comes from an ordinary family, is relying on this effort to become excellent in the song and dance troupe step by step.
In addition to studying, she still has great respect for her teachers.
Every time she ate, she always put some dishes into the teacher's bowl first.
It is this kind of hard work and simplicity that makes the teachers like her very much during the study period.
At this time, there were not only teachers who liked Dong Wenhua, but also young male classmates in the group.
In 1980, 18-year-old Dong Wenhua was confessed for the first time.
The boy who confessed to her was called Zhang Nan and sang tenor in the group.
The reason why this boy from a high-ranking cadre family will be impressed by Dong Wenhua stems from a performance in the army.
Once, they went to the highland area to offer condolences and performances.
Worried that the team members could not withstand the thin air in the highland area, the group stipulated that each person could only sing one song when performing.
When it was Dong Wenhua's turn to take the stage, the soldiers in the audience liked her singing very much.
After she finished singing, everyone hoped that she would sing another song.
Therefore, Dong Wenhua ignored the possible altitude sickness and sang three songs in a row.
It is this selfless attitude that makes Zhang Nan's psychology have a strange feeling.
Since then, he has been impressed by Dong Wenhua.
In the winter of that year, Zhang Nan confessed to Dong Wenhua for the first time: Can our friendship be further sublimated?
Who knew that Dong Wenhua was silent.
After a while, Dong Wenhua told him: "I am only 18 years old, and I don't want to fall in love so early." ”
Zhang Nan told her, I can wait for you, even if I wait until my hair is gray.
In this way, Dong Wenhua began her first love.
Every time no matter who got off the army to perform, the one who stayed in the regiment would find a way to call the other party long distance.
At the same time, her singing career is about to really take off.
Because of his acquaintance with the composer Tie Yuan, Dong Wenhua has had an indissoluble relationship with "The Fifteenth Moon" since then.
One summer in the early 1980s, the Shenyang Military Region's song and dance troupe and opera troupe performed a joint performance at the Bayi Theater.
At Tieyuan offstage, I saw a little girl come on stage and sing "When I Became a Warrior" composed by herself.
When a song was finished, Tie Yuan's heart was also shocked.
This girl's voice is so good.
In early 1984, during a discussion of creation, Tie Yuan gave Dong Wenhua his new work "Fifteen Moons".
The song was composed by Shi Xiang and composed by Tie Yuan and Xu Xiyi.
Different from other exciting and heroic military songs, this song is portrayed gently and long from the perspective of military homesickness.
Dong Wenhua liked it after listening to it, and Tieyuan took her to Liaoning Radio to record.
At that time, the recording facilities were very old, and once they started, they had to be completed in one go, and there was no pause in the middle.
Dong Wenhua recorded "Fifteen Moons" that day, and recorded five other songs.
At that time, Liaoning Radio had a column called Weekly Song, and after this song was played, it quickly became the song with the highest on-demand rate.
In 1985, Dong Wenhua, dressed in military uniform, stood on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala for the first time and sang "Fifteen Moons".
The song quickly spread throughout the country, and 23-year-old Dong Wenhua was also red half the sky.
And just before that, she still remembered the agreement with Zhang Nan and did not forget him because she was becoming more and more famous.
At the end of 1984, Dong Wenhua and Zhang Nan married.
Then in 1986, Dong Wenhua once again stepped onto the stage of the Spring Festival Gala.
A song "Looking at the Starry Sky" let her song echo between heaven and earth for a long time.
At this moment, her song not only fluttered in China, but also on the front line of southern Xinjiang.
With military songs such as "Fifteen Moons" and "Blood-Stained Style", Dong Wenhua still set foot on the old mountain.
She did not forget her military responsibilities and mission, and at the main peak of the old mountain, she sang for her comrades who fought bloodily.
At that moment she didn't think about anything, just wanted to sing for the warriors.
When I arrived at Ma Li Po for the third time, the martyrs' cemetery there had just been repaired.
At that time, Dong Wenhua had already been admitted to the People's Liberation Army Academy of Arts from the Shenyang Military Region's Song and Dance Troupe.
Officially put on the military uniform from 1977,
In 10 years, the song and dance troupe went from more than sixty people to only her and the other two.
It is precisely by relying on this effort and persistence that she can step by step to success.
After graduating in 1989, Dong Wenhua officially entered the General Political Affairs Song and Dance Troupe as a soloist in the troupe.
She is popular all over the country, but listening to her voice, you can be recognized.
During that time, she and Mao Amin were good friends who talked about everything.
At the same time, new opportunities are beckoning to Dong Wenhua.
In 1992, composer Meng Qingyun was composing a song about the Great Wall.
The task of composing lyrics was given to Yan Su.
After all, there are many songs about the Great Wall, and it is normal to not find the angle of creation.
Meng Qingyun feels that it should be more humane, so that there can be feelings and then burst out of the appeal.
Yan Su had an idea after listening to it, and he said that he would come up with the lyrics in two days.
It turned out that Yan Su had gone to the ancient Great Wall a few years ago to collect wind, and had seen the sunset of the Yangtze River and the lonely smoke of the desert.
At that time, he had the intention of writing a song about the Great Wall, but he put it aside afterwards.
With the discussion with Meng Qingyun, his inspiration was flashed, and the lyrics were quickly written.
Meng Qingyun got the lyrics and quickly composed the music.
As for who to sing, everyone unanimously chose Dong Wenhua.
A year earlier, Meng Qingyun had written a poem to Dong Wenhua called "Happy Tonight".
For her singing style, Meng Qingyun is very familiar with it.
But in this year, Dong Wenhua became pregnant.
At this moment, she and Zhang Nan have been married for 8 years, and her husband is very happy to learn that she has children.
However, some people persuaded Dong Wenhua that at this moment, his career is in an upward period, and if he is pregnant and has a child, it is not conducive to his own development.
But Dong Wenhua said that he had owed enough to his husband for so many years, and the child would be born.
In 1993, Dong Wenhua's son was born.
Also in this year, the first China Television Music Competition was held.
Dong Wenhua sang "The Great Wall Chief", and the director of MTV was Zhang Guoguo.
Finally, "The Great Wall" won three awards: the Gold Award for Works, the Gold Award for Directing and the Gold Award for Singing.
With this song, Dong Wenhua's popularity in the country is getting higher and higher.
Dong Wenhua once said that "The Story of Spring" is "a song to be sung for a lifetime."
In March 1994, composer Wang Yougui and lyricist Ye Xuquan got together all day.
The question the two men were thinking about was who would sing the newly written song "The Story of Spring".
Eventually, in mid-March of that year, the two men rushed from Shenzhen to Dong Wenhua's home in Beijing.
After she read the lyrics, she felt that the lyrics were very good after a little audition.
More importantly, she consulted with the two authors and made some changes to the lyrics.
One of the sentences, "You have unfolded a new picture of a hundred years", the original lyrics are "You are the experimental field of Shenzhen's reform and opening up".
After modification, it is more in line with the spread of music.
Once the song was sung, it once again quickly became popular throughout the country.
In those years, whenever Dong Wenhua sang everywhere,
In addition to "Fifteen Moons", "The Story of Spring" is also a song that the audience asked to sing.
In 1995, "The Story of Spring" won the "Five Ones" Project Award of the Central Propaganda Department.
In 1996, he won the Golden Bell Award, the highest award for Chinese music.
At this time, Dong Wenhua was not only the bearer of the Chinese folk song industry, but also appeared on the spring festival gala stage for many years.
However, just as her career was in full swing, she suddenly disappeared from all stages without a trace.
Immediately afterward, a lot of gossip about her went away.
In 2000, the East Window incident of the Xiamen Yuanhua case involved 38-year-old Dong Wenhua.
It is said that at the opening ceremony of Xiamen Yuanhua Group that year, the Zongzheng Song and Dance Troupe was invited to perform many times.
At that time, Dong Wenhua was the main actor in the troupe, so these performances were definitely indispensable to her.
After the Yuanhua case, these rumors began to surround Dong Wenhua.
Even Lai Changxing, who fled to Canada, publicly expressed his position through the media in 2009.
Saying that he has no culture, how can he have anything to do with Dong Wenhua.
But the cunning client soon admitted that she was indeed a good friend, and that the friendship lasted for four or five years.
When it came, he also said that public opinion was unfair to her.
In any case, the smuggling tycoon of that year was well versed in the way of media communication.
Dealing with journalists, provoking the nerves of the public, and inadvertently bleaching themselves, it is like a cloud flowing in one go.
Later, the famous composer Gu Jianfen once learned about the situation with the special case team.
The reply was that Dong Wenhua had nothing to do with the Yuanhua smuggling case and Lai Changxing.
In 2008, Dong Wenhua, who had been silent for a long time, appeared at the recording site of Hunan Satellite TV's special party commemorating the 30th anniversary of reform and opening up.
"Invisible" for so many years, the media must have too many questions to ask.
And when the performance ended, Dong Wenhua's sister quickly left the scene with her.
There was no response to any media requests for interviews, and then Dong Wenhua disappeared again.
From the sauce tank practice of that year, to the red all over the place when I was young,
Dong Wenhua's achievements in singing are not only blessed with talent, but also flow with the sweat of hard work.
The silence left her unable to take the stage for years.
But her singing achievements, in a way, had reached their peak before.
Recently, 59-year-old Dong Wenhua appeared on a commercial performance stage to seek gold.
She devoted herself to singing, and what she wanted more was perhaps the feeling of standing on the stage.
A red dress with short hair, smart and full of mature charm, which is not the same as her image of the military costume over the years.
But in any case, far away from the turmoil and right and wrong of that year, her life has already entered a new track.
After all, the years have put her in red.
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