Editor's Note:
Mr. and Mrs. Yi Mingleilei are famous "husband and wife stalls" in China's music scene. For more than 30 years, they have composed songs for many film and television works, "Longing", "The Gate of the Great House", "Water Margin"... The husband and wife have won numerous awards and their works have become classics. Mr. Yi Ming (Li Nangang) was also a classical literature teacher in the Department of Chinese of Northeast Normal University, and cultivated students all over the world.
On the occasion of another Teachers' Day, I would like to pay tribute to teachers all over the world with this article!
Screenshot of CCTV's "Tribute to the Classics" video of "Chinese Literature and Art"
In CCTV's "Tribute to the Classics" program of "Chinese Literature and Art", when I saw the famous lyricist and our mentor Yi Ming, my heart beat faster and my eyes were moist. The students at that time were also very excited, and they were broadcast in the WeChat group, which became a hot topic for a while.
35 years ago, it was also such a golden autumn season, we gathered in the beautiful spring city of Changchun to enter the northeast normal university Chinese department to study. Li Nangang (pen name Yi Ming) was a classical literature teacher at the time, and also served as a counselor for the 84th class of our Chinese Department. At that time, he graduated from the school in 1976 and stayed on to teach, and he was very prosperous and very old, almost every day wearing a blue Zhongshan suit with tight buckles, full of books, and a body of books. In the past 4 years, teachers and students have studied and lived together, leaving an unforgettable journey in life. Just 3 years after we graduated, the teacher also returned to Beijing to work, thus starting a new life struggle as a songwriter.
I remember that it was still 1990, after the TV series "Longing" was broadcast, the theme song "Longing", the interlude "Good Man's Life is Safe" and "Every Time" reverberated in the streets for a while. The rational thinking of "searching up and down the long road of life, longing for a sincere life in the heart" and the melody of crying and complaining are integrated, and the combination of song and song is perfect and harmonious. In fact, artistic identity stems from the tacit understanding in life, the TV series lyricist Yi Ming and the composer, the famous composer Lei Lei, were originally two couples in life.
Mr. Yi Ming's handwritten lyrics of "Longing"
During the work of Northeast Normal University, the school housing was quite tight, and although Teacher Yi Ming was nearly a year old, at that time, in the school in the department, he could only be regarded as a young teacher. The couple lived in a one-bedroom apartment on the first floor of our student dormitory. The burrow is not large, more than ten square meters, the bedroom and study, and it is also Lei Lei's piano room.
Lei Lei, a composer who graduated from the Shenyang Conservatory of Music and worked at the Changchun Film Studio, composed music such as the TV series "Four Generations Together" and "Plainclothes Policeman" in this dark room. As the daughter of Lei Zhenbang, a great musician in China (who has composed music for many films such as the movie "Five Golden Flowers", "Liu Sanjie", "Visitor on the Iceberg" and so on), she obviously inherited her father's musical talent. In the evening, the students of Sanshe often heard Lei Lei's melodious piano sound. Career and family cannot be combined. At that time, the couple could only live with their youngest son in the home of their parents in Beijing.
During this period, Teacher Yi Ming, writing lyrics, writing TV scripts, and creating novels, was only engaged in "side business", and his main business at that time was "preaching and teaching karma to solve puzzles". According to the curriculum arrangement, Teacher Yi Ming taught classical literature in the Wei and Jin dynasties, the Tang and Song dynasties. Speaking of the first Tang Zhiwei, Wei Jinfeng bones, Tang poetry and Song poetry, it is often witty and full of spirits, which makes the students under the seat praise the festival. We see in the journal that he wrote a paper entitled "The Aesthetic Characteristics of Sancao Poems", which is both well-written and meticulous, as well as extravagant and eclectic. During the college period, the college classmates of Hao Jin Yong and Xi Liang Yusheng once said: Teacher Li has also engaged in a martial arts novel "Catching the Wind and Taking the Clouds".
Teacher Yi Ming's profound literary accomplishment and diligent spirit of struggle are like a literary beacon, guiding us into the sacred temple of literature. He taught and educated people, turned stones into gold, and trained a batch of talents of all kinds with outstanding business and people's teachers who were willing to dedicate and be loyal to their duties.
Lei Lei, the master's mother, composed "Young Ambition Without Sorrow", which was famous throughout the country and won the national award. For this reason, Yi Ming was very excited, and he was happy to play "guarantee tickets" to invite us to eat at the hotel. It was just that it was close to graduation at that time, and everyone's heart had already flown out of the campus, and this promise was really unfulfilled.
Lu, who works at the Heilongjiang Provincial Institute of Education, recalled that Teacher Yi Ming invited her classmates to dinner, and she still remembers it vividly. That time, Teacher Yi Ming led some of the student cadres and students in the grade to engage in theme activities, and returned from the visit of Changchun South Lake and FAW, and it was past the canteen meal time. Teacher Yi Ming led everyone to a very decent hotel, took out a handful of five yuan or ten yuan from his pocket on the spot, and said happily: "This is the manuscript fee I just got back, I invite you!" He ordered several big dishes. The students ate in the canteen for a long time, rarely ate such a rich meal, opened the chopsticks one by one, ate a belly round, and returned home with fun.
"There is a fate at the end of the world, and this love warms the world", and the literary language and the musical language are integrated to form a colorful world. Teacher Yi Ming also plays Go well, often as a sports project, practicing his brain. The "stinky chess basket" among college classmates often pestered him, picked up a few plates, learned a few tricks, and he did not refuse to come. Teacher Yi Ming played chess, just like reading and teaching and learning, he was also extremely serious, sometimes slowly playing chess, often red in the face for a son. Of course, there was joy on the side after the game, and everyone was "happy".
And Lei Lei, in life, deals with some thorny problems, and she is much more free. I remember that one day after enrolling in school, my classmates were chatting in the dormitory. A classmate talked about the rise and spilled a bowl of water along the window. In less than 5 minutes, a tall, thin woman with long hair and a shawl knocked on the door of our dormitory, "This is the song I composed for the TV series "Four Generations Together"! She lifted up a stack of wet manuscripts and said pleasantly. Later, I learned that she was the famous composer Lei Lei, where she knew that she lived under our dormitory, and the key was still the master and mother!
In 2008, the 20th anniversary of the graduation of the 84th grade of the department of Chinese of Northeast Normal University, more than 100 students from the four classes of the whole year gathered in Changchun. Unfortunately, I did not see Teacher Li Nangang, who has been missed for many years. The teacher received the invitation and entrusted Yu Classmate, the head of the senior class who is also working in Beijing, to read a warm congratulatory letter, to the effect that today I would like to invite Yu to bring good wine and good cigarettes to talk about my little heart. Thousands of miles away, I wish the students a smooth work, a happy family, and a complete success in the gathering!
Or the cute teacher who was a little shy in lecturing and had a very personal personality. The word "sincerity" inscribed on the guestbook of the CCTV "Tribute to the Classics" column group is not exactly the expression of his true temperament!
Mr. Yi Ming left a message for the students' graduation
This reminds us of The Message of Teacher Yi Ming, in the graduation commemorative book of the 84th grade students in our Chinese Department: "Win the world with your sleeves and compete for the first place." Victory is gratifying, and defeat is not complained. What a life coach full of positive energy!
Now Teacher Yi Ming has become famous in the world. For more than 30 years, he has created lyrics for more than 300 film and television works, such as "Longing", "The Great Mansion Gate", "Water Margin", "Three Kingdoms", "The Granary of the World", "Qiao Family Courtyard", "Smiling Proud of the Rivers and Lakes" and other film and television works that have had a major impact, all of which have lyrics created by Teacher Yi Ming, and his works have won countless awards, been sung for many years, and have become classics.
May the literary career of the teacher be even younger and usher in a vigorous second spring.
In 1982, Mr. and Mrs. Lei Zhenbang, with their daughter Lei Lei and son-in-law Yi Ming
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Author: Gao Mingshan
Editor: Wu Ming