At the CCTV Spring Festival Gala in 1985, Dong Wenhua's song "Fifteen Moons" conquered the audience.
Since then, Dong Wenhua has become a well-known singer, and he has appeared on the Spring Festival Gala stage 13 times since then.
With her short hair and impressive appearance in military uniform, Dong Wenhua, as China's top female singer, brought too many popular songs to the audience.
But why at the peak of his career, Dong Wenhua suddenly disappeared, until now he can only rely on commercial performances to earn gold, this former CCTV Spring Festival Gala familiar face, what has been experienced.
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Dong Wenhua was born in Shenyang, Liaoning Province in 1962, and the basic livelihood of a family of six depends on his parents' part-time work.
Dong Wenhua, as the elder of the family, has a sister and two brothers above her, and her parents work outside most of the time in order to support their families.
Dong Wenhua was carried by his sister, and when he was a child, Dong Wenhua liked to imitate the people on the TV set to sing, often posing as a singer in front of his sister.
It just so happens that my sister also likes to sing, so in her spare time, my sister Dong Shuangqiu will take Dong Wenhua to the Children's Palace to play together, where there are many people practicing songs together, and whenever there is an event in the Children's Palace, the sister will take Dong Wenhua to participate together.
Although born in an ordinary family, heaven seems to have given the children of the Dong family a good voice, and when the father found out that Dong Wenhua also had the talent to sing, he was very supportive of his daughter's preferences.
In order to let Dong Wenhua develop the habit of bearing hardships and standing hard work from an early age, his father would get up at five o'clock in the morning every day, ride a bicycle, and drive Dong Wenhua to a park not far from home to practice.
Every time at home, Dong Wenhua also has to practice his voice, but opening his throat will inevitably affect the neighbors, so his father let Dong Wenhua climb into the big vat used to pickle vegetables at home, and the big vat has a radio effect, and the natural interference with the neighbors will not be so big.
Sister Dong Shuangqiu saw her sister practicing so hard, determined to let her sister must take the road of singing, in order for Dong Wenhua to make faster progress, Dong Shuangqiu repeatedly ran to find a teacher to teach her sister to sing.
Naturally, her sister Dong Shuangqiu became the leader of Dong Wenhua's music world.
But when her sister was getting older, she gave up continuing to explore the road of music, and she went to work in the factory and handed over the stick of future singing to her sister Dong Wenhua.
After entering the primary school, Dong Wenhua served as the class leader and literary and art committee member because he liked to sing, as long as the school had activities, it must be Dong Wenhua who took the lead.
Her positive finally in exchange for good results, every time she performed on stage, Dong Wenhua could hear the applause of the audience, and with everyone's recognition, Dong Wenhua became more confident.
Of course, in school, Dong Wenhua's academic performance is also very good, never need parents and teachers to worry, as the class leader, Dong Wenhua also organized everyone to set up a Lei Feng group to help two disabled students who are inconvenient to move in school.
Back home, Dong Wenhua is the living treasure of his parents, every day after school, Dong Wenhua will go to the vegetable market with his sister to buy vegetables, the chickens and ducks raised at home, before his parents come home from work, Dong Wenhua will feed them full.
After several years of primary school life, Dong Wenhua was admitted to the key high school in Shenyang with excellent results, and during the study period of the fourth middle school, Dong Wenhua encountered the opportunity to change his life.
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In the winter of 1977, when Dong Wenhua was 15 years old, the Shenyang Military Region came to Dong Wenhua's high school to recruit literary and artistic soldiers, who, as the name suggests, could learn a lot of artistic and physical knowledge in the army.
In order to embark on the road of singing as soon as possible, Dong Wenhua desperately signed up.
At that time, Dong Wenhua, as the daughter of a worker, had no acquaintances and could only rush forward alone, and at the examination site, Dong Wenhua sang a song "The Sun is the Reddest, Chairman Mao is the Closest."
After the whole exam, Dong Wenhua sang the best and scored the highest, and after entering the publicity team, Dong Wenhua and Zhu Xiaohong became roommates, one lived in the upper bunk, and the other lived in the lower bunk.
A few years later, the propaganda team was disbanded, and Dong Wenhua and Zhu Xiaohong entered the Shenyang Military Region Forward Song and Dance Troupe together, and when they came here, Dong Wenhua and Zhu Xiaohong both put on the military uniforms they had dreamed of.
At the beginning, Dong Wenhua was trained as an opera singer in the troupe, whether it was the form or the lines, and he was very strict when practicing.
Every day before dawn, I get up to practice, as long as I don't do a good job, the ring ruler in the teacher's hand "snaps" and hits it, even if it is tears, you can't stop training.
At that time, Dong Wenhua's music enlightenment teacher was called Lu Menglan, and in Teacher Lu's impression, Dong Wenhua was a very clever female doll.
In the regiment, she did not work hard, but when it came to the examination, she always scored the highest.
Many students could not memorize the lyrics for a week, and when they went to Dong Wenhua, they were ripe in less than one night.
Those children who were born into families of high-ranking intellectuals are really inferior to Dong Wenhua, who came from an ordinary worker family.
Relying on talent and diligence, Dong Wenhua gradually became outstanding in the regiment, not only training hard, but also knowing the etiquette in the treatment of people and things.
Every time he eats and dinner, Dong Wenhua always gives dishes to his teacher first, and always gives the delicious food to other partners first, because Dong Wenhua's humble personality makes her very popular in the group.
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In this way, there will naturally be boys who appreciate Dong Wenhua, and at that time, the song and dance troupe has a member of the tenor team, who will be Zhang Nan.
In Zhang Nan's view, she thought that Dong Wenhua was an ordinary female soldier, and did not know that she was admitted to the song and dance troupe as a soloist.
By chance, Zhang Nan and Dong Wenhua participated in a group to participate in the performance, because the event had to arrange the venue, and the work was all miscellaneous goods.
Originally, Zhang Nan thought that Dong Wenhua would shout tired and hide, but he did not expect that Dong Wenhua not only did more but also did not have a word of complaint.
Because the performance site was at the top of the mountain, the car could not drive up, so it could only hike to the top, when Dong Wenhua wore a pair of unsuitable big-headed leather shoes and struggled to climb to the top of the mountain.
On the way, a male colleague wanted to pull Dong Wenhua, but Dong Wenhua refused, bluntly saying that he could do it.
Finally climbed to the top of the performance, but everyone was already tired and breathless, so the troupe took into account the physical condition of most people, and only asked each person to perform one repertoire.
When it was Dong Wenhua's turn, her singing voice was loud and clean, and everyone present was fascinated by her singing, including Zhang Nan.
After singing a song, the soldiers felt that it was not enough to enjoy it, so they coaxed Dong Wenhua to have another song, Dong Wenhua also promised to be very crisp, and sang two songs in succession, and the colleagues watching the stage saw Dong Wenhua's strong lung capacity, and they all rushed to clap their hands and applaud.
After the event, Zhang Nan chased after Dong Wenhua and began to ask this and that, until Dong Wenhua opened his mouth, Zhang Nan did not know that Dong Wenhua came out of a low bungalow, no wonder there was a very simple, very real atmosphere on his body.
Since then, Zhang Nan has liked Dong Wenhua more in his heart, this little girl who is not simple is destined to be entangled with Zhang Nan for a lifetime.
In the cold winter of 1980, Zhang Nan took the initiative to invite Dong Wenhua to a silent uninhabited trail, and under the witness of snowflakes, Zhang Nan plucked up the courage to express his admiration for Dong Wenhua.
Hearing such words, Dong Wenhua was a little overwhelmed for a while, and she quickly replied: "I am only 18 years old, and I don't want to fall in love so early now."
Zhang Nan was also very anxious, he said busily: "It doesn't matter, I am willing to wait for you, a year or two, even if it is five years, I am willing to wait for you."
But Dong Wenhua was a little unable to bear such a promise, she was afraid that she had failed Zhang Nan, but Zhang Nan seemed to be a little mad at Dong Wenhua, and his heart had been completely invaded by Dong Wenhua.
A few months later, Zhang Nan found Dong Wenhua again, and he once again expressed his wishes to Dong Wenhua, saying that even if his hair was gray, he would be willing.
Looking at Zhang Nan's affectionate appearance, Dong Wenhua could no longer cruelly refuse in his heart, so this time, she agreed to Zhang Nan.
Although there are often performances in the troupe to be busy, Zhang Nan will try his best to contact Dong Wenhua, and he just wants to make Dong Wenhua feel safe at all times.
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It is said that good things come in pairs, and at that time, Dong Wenhua's singing career gradually became clearer.
In a performance, Dong Wenhua was favored by the author Tie Yuan, who greatly appreciated Dong Wenhua's singing skills.
And this Tieyuan teacher has written many well-known songs, such as "Where the Peach Blossoms Bloom" and "I Stand Guard for the Great Motherland".
After listening to Dong Wenhua's singing, Tie Yuan decided to hand over the song "Fifteen Moons" that he had already written in his hand to Dong Wenhua to sing.
So Tieyuan took Dong Wenhua to Liaoning TV station for song recording, but the recording equipment at that time was somewhat rusty, and it often happened that It was impossible to complete the recording at one time, fortunately, Dong Wenhua's singing skills were solid, and a song was recorded only once and completed.
With this song, Dong Wenhua participated in the Liaoning Provincial Singer Television Grand Prix, and with his moving singers and tieyuan teacher's excellent songs, Dong Wenhua successfully won the first place in the competition.
Soon this song "Fifteen Moon" was favored by the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, because this song is different from other military songs with passion and heroism, the fifteenth moon is mainly based on the soldiers missing their hometown as the starting point, and the whole song is melodious and elegant.
So on the Spring Festival Gala stage in 1984, Dong Wenhua officially shouted in front of the national audience.
"The fifteenth moon shines on the hometown, shines on the border, and in the quiet night, you miss it, and I think it misses it."
After Dong Wenhua's heartfelt interpretation, "Fifteen Moons" was completely popular all over the country, and Dong Wenhua, who was 23 years old at the time, did not expect that the musical dream he had been stationed in his heart since childhood would be realized so quickly.
Dong Wenhua slowly ushered in the peak of her career, but Zhang Nan, who had been guarding behind her, began to be a little timid.
Because Dong Wenhua became famous overnight, Zhang Nan felt that he was a bit unworthy of Dong Wenhua.
In Zhang Nan's heart, there has always been a voice urging him: "A girl in her early twenties, who has become a household name singer overnight, can she still look at herself who has nothing?"
When he met Zhang Nan again, Dong Wenhua seemed to see Zhang Nan's concern, but Dong Wenhua did not say anything, or as usual, walked and chatted with Zhang Nan.
In the moonlight, Dong Wenhua is still the shy girl, still gentle and considerate, and the smile on her face is equally charming.
Zhang Nan saw that Dong Wenhua was still the same as before, and her hanging heart finally slowly let go.
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At the end of 1984, zhang nan and Dong Wenhua's 5-year contract ended, Zhang Nan was no longer as promised as before, he told Dong Wenhua very directly: "Let's get married."
Dong Wenhua saw that her career was getting better and better, and she also felt that it was time to consider her life's events, so she nodded her head vigorously and said yes directly.
The other is each other's first love, and after years of engagement, they have spent this life hand in hand with each other.
Soon, the two held a low-key wedding and officially married.
For the sake of his career, Dong Wenhua discussed with her husband not to have children first, and Zhang Nan was also very supportive of his wife's idea.
So in 1986, Dong Wenhua was invited again by the Spring Festival Gala, a song "Looking at the Starry Sky", which made the audience in front of the TV set have endless memories.
But at that time, Dong Wenhua always felt that she was still missing something in her body, and she began to realize that her professional knowledge reserves were insufficient, after all, she had entered the army before she finished high school.
Under all kinds of difficulties, Dong Wenhua found that her academic qualifications were far from meeting the conditions for standing on the stage, so after marriage, she applied for the People's Liberation Army Academy of Arts.
Entering the school to study, that means that Dong Wenhua has to live separately from her husband, and in the following years, Dong Wenhua relies on writing letters to contact her husband.
Although studying in school, Dong Wenhua still appears on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala every year, "Sun, Moon and Stars" in 1987 and "Road" in 1988.
In 1989, Dong Wenhua successfully graduated from the People's Liberation Army Academy of Arts, and finally did not have to think bitterly about her husband.
After returning from school, Dong Wenhua entered the Zongzheng Song and Dance Troupe as a soloist, at that time, her husband Zhang Nan also worked in the song and dance troupe, and the husband and wife performed together as companions, and their lives were plain but also happy.
As Dong Wenhua had to participate in various evenings, she could often be seen on TV stations, and Dong Wenhua properly became the "big name" at that time.
To know that women are better than men in their careers, men will have a sense of inferiority, and even feel a lot of pressure.
Although in Dong Wenhua's view, her husband did not show such emotions, but the careful Dong Wenhua still thought a lot, she only wanted to take care of her husband, so that he did not have too many concerns.
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So in 1992, Dong Wenhua became pregnant with a child, when Zhang Nan, who was already 38 years old, jumped to his feet happily.
But Dong Wenhua's friend said of her: "Your current career is at its peak, there are good prospects for development, if you choose to give birth to a child at this time, then you will disappear for at least a year, this year, enough to let the audience like you forget you."
When Zhang Nan heard such words, she also felt that it was very reasonable, but Dong Wenhua was determined to give birth to the child, because she felt that she owed too much to her husband, and even reached the point of irreparable.
Dong Wenhua only wanted Zhang Nan to experience the taste of fatherhood quickly, and in June 1993, Dong Wenhua and Zhang Nan's son was born.
Zhang Nan saw this child, the mood is very excited, holding this hard-won baby, Zhang Nan is kissing and kissing.
Seeing such a warm scene, Dong Wenhua also knew that his original insistence was not wrong, and the arrival of his son did not let Dong Wenhua pay all his attention to the child.
For her husband, she still loves her very deeply, every time Dong Wenhua goes to perform in other places, she will talk to her husband for a long time, even if she has been married for many years, the two still have endless love words.
Dong Wenhua believes that a family must have a husband and children, the family is lively and lively, be a kind and virtuous wife, and educate her son well, which is a real woman.
After re-entering the embrace of his career, Dong Wenhua sang the song "The Great Wall Long", which finally won several awards, and Dong Wenhua's popularity as a singer was once again raised.
In 1994, the song "The Story of Spring" was sung by Dong Wenhua.
"In 1979, it was a spring, and an old man drew a circle on the south coast of China."
This song is written in a popular way, full of life, and after Dong Wenhua sang, the taste of the song was played to the extreme.
In those years, Dong Wenhua's representative works were many, together with Jackie Chan and Zhang Yimou, he was rated as "the people's favorite artist", and Dong Wenhua was the same for a time.
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But at the peak of his career, 38-year-old Dong Wenhua suddenly disappeared in front of the TV screen, and for a time, everyone was speculating about what happened to Dong Wenhua and why the popular singer suddenly disappeared.
Although there are all kinds of speculations from the outside world, no one has ever known the exact reason for Dong Wenhua's retirement.
In this way, Dong Wenhua's career fell to the altar under verbal criticism, and overnight, there was no longer any news of Dong Wenhua everywhere.
Various reasons are mixed together, Dong Wenhua is indefensible for a while, but fortunately, the husband around him has not abandoned.
At such a helpless moment, husband Zhang Nan unconditionally chose to believe in his wife and stood on the side of his wife to face gossip together. In the end, Dong Wenhua slowly stepped out of the shadows, but she rarely appeared in front of the public.
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Although Dong Wenhua has rarely appeared on the big stage since then, she is still working hard and trying to complete every performance of herself.
As for why he no longer appeared in front of the stage, Dong Wenhua admitted that he had never left, but changed from a former singer to a behind-the-scenes worker.
Recently, the 59-year-old Dong Wenhua will occasionally take some commercial performances and go around digging for gold, because no matter the size of the stage, she enjoys the feeling of singing.
After a public opinion storm, Dong Wenhua seems to have seen through a lot, and he has also released a lot, and he once fell to the bottom at the peak of his career because of his fame.
Now that life has rekindled hope, Dong Wenhua has once again gained a new life.
With her husband for 37 years, the two have gone through ups and downs together, Dong Wenhua also responded to the sentence that I did not marry the wrong man, and my son is slowly growing up, perhaps after the fame and fortune, the plain life is what Dong Wenhua wants most.