Text/Sun Haifan
In 1936, Fang Peipei, a young director of Shanghai Yihua Film Company, hurriedly came to liu Xue'an, a special composer of the company and had just graduated from the Shanghai Music College, and he asked Liu Xue'an to write a tango dance song for his new film "Three Stars with the Moon", and he was in a hurry.
Liu Xue'an (1905-1985)
At this time, Liu Xue'an was 31 years old, and he did not immediately promise Fang Peipei with a calm personality, but carefully asked what the film was about, and which plot this dance music was intended to be used in, and Fang Peipei immediately gushed about the film to Liu Xue'an.
Fang Peipei said that this film is a song and dance film, mainly showing the story of national industrial and commercial and foreign capital struggle, the protagonist of the story is called Jiang Zongliang, he decided to open a radio advertising business for the development of the factory, so he needs to recruit a singer to sing, the result is that the unemployed female singer Wang Xiuwen came to apply, after some twists and turns, Jiang Zongliang's new product trial production was successful, at the celebration party, Wang Xiuwen, who fell in love with him but could not be together, also came, she sang a song at the party, What Fang Peipei asked Liu Xue'an to write was the song of this song.
Stills from the movie "Three Stars with the Moon"
After listening to Fang Peipei's introduction, Liu Xue'an immediately thought that the students in the lower grades at the graduation party of the Shanghai Music College wanted each of the senior graduates to improvise a song, and he wrote a tango dance song on the spot, and immediately handed it to the Russian students present to play after writing, and the effect was very good. Liu Xue'an hummed the melody of this song to Fang Peipei, and Director Fang's eyes lit up, and he also felt that it was particularly appropriate with the plot, so he immediately asked Liu Xue'an to hand over the score to him as soon as possible.
After Fang Peipei got the song, he immediately found Huang Jiamo, the screenwriter of "Three Stars with the Moon", and asked him to fill in the lyrics for this song, Huang Jiamo is also a "fast gunner", after listening to the song, there are words in his head, so he wrote down the lyrics with a wave:
Good flowers don't bloom often, good scenes don't often exist; sorrowfully dissolves smiling eyebrows, and tears spill acacia belts. After parting this evening, He Rijun will come again.
Xiaolu wet atrium, agarwood floating outdoors; jackdaw jade tree miserable, bright moon shines on the high platform.
Jade leakage is frequently urged, and the good day cannot be returned; a moment of gold is worth a thousand gold, and the pain is not lingering.
Stop singing Yang Guan Stack, re-energize the white jade cup, and pay close attention to frequent speeches, firmly caressing Junhuai.
Because this song expresses the complicated feelings of Wang Xiuwen when he is about to leave Jiang Zongliang, Huang Jiamo gave this song a song a song name, called "He Rijun Comes Again", so the original meaning of this song is a love song, which fully expresses the heroine's pain and sorrow of love setbacks with its affectionate and mournful melody and touching lyrics.
This "quick" song makes Fang Peipei very satisfied, Huang Jiamu is also very proud, but the composer Liu Xue'an is not satisfied, because the song has become a song to limit the artistic conception of the music, the connotation has become narrower, which makes Liu Xue'an a little awkward, in addition, singing is just that, the middle also added "after drinking this cup, please come in a little dish" such lyrics, Liu Xue'an also feels that this seems to be more vulgar, Liu Xue'an said his opinion to his friend, screenwriter Pan Xiaonong, but because he is a newcomer to the company, Therefore, he did not mention it to the director Fang Peipei for the sake of face, but only asked to use the pseudonym of "Yanru" instead of his real name Liu Xue'an when signing, and gently expressed his dissatisfaction.
"Three Stars with the Moon" was released in 1937, in the movie, Wang Xiuwen's actor Zhou Xuan sang "He Rijun Again" for the first time, her singing voice deeply touched the audience, which made "He Rijun Come Again" was immediately sung, especially after the release of the record, "He Rijun Come Again" immediately became a popular song in China, but at that time, few people knew that its composer was called Liu Xue'an, in fact, there were many famous songs that became popular later, and few people knew that their author was Liu Xue'an.
The old record of the circumscribed version of "When the Sun Comes Again"
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In 1984, Hong Kong singer Zhang Mingmin sang a song "Ballad of the Great Wall" at the Spring Festival Gala on Beijing Television, the lyrics of which sang "The Great Wall is ten thousand miles long, outside the Great Wall is the hometown, sorghum fertilizer, soybean fragrant ---", this song made many viewers feel moved, but many young people mistakenly thought that this was a "Hong Kong and Taiwan song", and at this time, the real author of the song, Liu Xue'an, who was 79 years old and blind, also heard this work that had been banned from singing on the radio, and he was expressionless.
In the past 20 years, the large-scale musical and dance epic "Dongfang Hong" was grandly released nationwide, of which "Songhua On the River" sung by Li Guangxi was also a widely sung anti-Japanese salvation song, people thought that the songwriter of this song was Zhang Hanhui, no one knew that its composer was actually Liu Xue'an, and at that time, Liu Xue'an was working as a data clerk in the library of Jiangnan Normal College in Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province, honestly undergoing "transformation".
So far, liu Xue'an's name is still not found in the information of "Songhua River" on the Internet
The tv show singing "Songhua On the River" also does not see Liu Xue'an's name
Today, people can often hear the song "Treading Snow and Looking for Plums" at various parties, but most people only know that this is an "old song", but they don't know that the lyrics of "Snow Ji is sunny, Lamei is fragrant everywhere, riding a donkey dam bridge, and the bells are jingling ---" are also from Liu Xue'an.
"Treading Snow and Finding Plums" has become a classic children's song
For decades, music educator, composer, and lyricist Liu Xue'an has been obscured and erased in the history of Chinese music, and the main reason for all this is that he wrote the song "He Rijun Again".
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Because "He Rijun Comes Again" is really "too hot", so after the release of the "Three Stars with the Moon" movie, other directors and singers are still "unfinished" and keep "relaying" the song.
In 1939, Cai Chusheng, the director of "Fisherman's Light Song" in Hong Kong, filmed an anti-Japanese film "Lonely Island Paradise", in which the actor Li Lili, who played the northern dancer, sympathized with and supported a group of patriotic young people, and developed feelings with their leader. When she sang the last two sentences, "After parting tonight, He Rijun will come again", she watched the anti-Japanese youth leave, at that time and place, a pun, this song played a role in the movie as "the finishing touch".
Stills from Far Cry Paradise
As the saying goes, "music has no borders", originally "He Rijun Again" was used for a war movie, but this song was liked by the Japanese and quickly spread to Japan. Japanese singer Hamako Watanabe converted the lyrics to Japanese, and released a hugely popular record. Another Japanese singer, Shuko Yamaguchi, loved the song and sang it on various occasions.
Shuko Yamaguchi's father worked in northeast China, she herself grew up in Fushun, was adopted by her father's friend li Jichun, the general manager of Shenyang Bank, named Li Xianglan, and later became a singer and actor, she later sang "He Rijun Again" in the movie "The Song of Bailan" and "Symphony of Tribulations" that advocated japan's invasion of China, although it was also a love scene, but after she sang, people began to look at this love song "He Rijun Again" with different eyes. The first song was also mistaken for Li Xianglan, although Li Xianglan was also summoned by the police of the Ministry of Works (the administrative organ set up by imperialism in Shanghai) for singing this song at a solo concert in Shanghai, asking him" "Is it hoping that the Chongqing government will come back when Singing this song?" And "get into trouble with the upper body."
Li Xianglan's "When The Sun Jun Comes Again" record cover
Liu Xue'an is a very diligent and enthusiastic songwriter, after the fall of Shanghai, he traveled to Wuhan, Chongqing, Hong Kong and other places, and many patriotic musicians used music to participate in the rescue and anti-Japanese activities with music, he ran the publication "Battle Song", wrote anti-Japanese and anti-Japanese songs, from a musician who specialized in lyrical songs and art songs to "music fighters" who wrote anti-war songs, at this time, he had no time or ability to pay attention to and change the use and direction of "He Rijun's Return", and he did not expect this song to be insignificant in his opinion." Xiaoqu later became a "time bomb" that would have influenced his life, and the bomb "exploded" 20 years later.
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In the early 1980s, nearly half a century had passed since the publication of "He Rijun Again", the atmosphere was much more relaxed, and reform and opening up had come, but Liu Xue'an, who was more than 80 years old, blind in both eyes, and still had a miserable life, could not usher in his own "spring" because of the involvement of this song.
After 1978, Hong Kong, Taiwan, And European and American pop music began to pour into the Chinese mainland, and the most popular singer Teresa Teng lijun sang a new modern version of "He Rijun Again", which was once again sought after by young people. Her tone of "mesmerizing voice" has aroused the great attention and tension of the mainland cultural department, so Teresa Teng's "He Rijun's Return" has become the object of criticism.
In 1980, the Beijing Evening News published nine critical articles in a row on "The Return of He Rijun," in which it said that the song had previously "corroded people's fighting power against the Kuomintang and the Japanese," but now it is very targeted and directly directed at the Chinese mainland, and it aims to destroy the spiritual foundation of socialism and the "four modernization" construction line.
After another two years, "He Rijun's Return" did not disappear because of criticism, but "the more criticism became more and more popular", almost everyone would hum. In 1982 and continued until 1984, the mainland launched the "movement against bourgeois liberalization and the elimination of spiritual pollution", and "The Return of He Rijun" once again bore the brunt of it, becoming a negative teaching material and receiving fierce attacks. In the early stages of the movement, the People's Music Publishing House published a 60-page pamphlet called "How to Identify Yellow Songs," and two of the 10 articles with different authors were explicitly written for "When the Sun Comes Again."
Cover and table of contents of "How to Identify Yellow Songs"
Under such circumstances, the song's composer Liu Xue'an is difficult to have the opportunity to get a great deal of political and life improvement, he still "can't lift his head" for this, when a reporter Sha Qing interviewed him for this song, he still said with a "bowed head and confessed" attitude: "The unhealthy elements in the song reflect the problems that existed in my outlook on life at that time", indeed, most of my life was criticized, Wrote millions of words of inspection, "When the Sun Jun Comes Again" like a street rat, Liu Xue'an has become a "bird of fright", He only honestly bears all the charges of this song, and it is completely "alone".
The director Fang Peipei who let him write songs was killed in a plane crash in 1948, the lyricist Huang Jiamo had long since moved to the United States to die, the photographer wang Yusheng of "Samsung With the Moon" died in a car accident during the War of Resistance, the lead actor and the original singer Zhou Xuan also died of illness in the 50s, "When the Sun Jun Comes Again" All the originals are left with him, this "crime" He does not bear who to bear?
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It is not an exaggeration to say that "He Rijun Returns" is an "unlucky song", this song was actually "criticized" by the Kuomintang, the Communist Party and Japan before 1949, and was listed as a "forbidden song" at the same time, and after liberation, it was banned in the mainland and Taiwan.
After Li Xianglan sang "When the Sun Comes Again" and was judged by Japanese censors to be a crime calling for "when the national army will return to Shanghai", the song was banned in Japan.
However, some Japanese people have tampered with the title of the song "He Rijun's Return" to "He Rijun's Return", and this "Jun" has become "Taijun" and "Imperial Army", and in the eyes of the Kuomintang, this "Jun" character still has the expectation of the Communist Party's return to Shanghai, so Chiang Kai-shek personally ordered that the whole country ban the singing of "He Rijun Again".
But even so, the Communist Party did not "appreciate the feelings", believing that at the juncture of the nationwide joint resistance against Japan and the attempt to save the country, this "mesmerizing voice" was corrupting people's will to struggle, and the young people represented by the word "Jun" in the song were being persuaded by the lover who was a dancer to enter the struggle against Japan and the Kuomintang, and it was obvious that this song was not loved by the Communist Party.
A song is written, like a child leaving its mother, and how the child is later transformed and powdered is beyond the mother's control. And at that time, it was the golden age of Liu Xue'an's music creation, and as one of the authors, he obviously could not and did not have the heart to pay too much attention to this piece.
After composing "He Rijun's Return", Liu Xue'an mainly devoted himself to the creation of anti-war songs, and a large number of works that later became classic anti-war songs were created, including "Departure", "Forward", and "Going to the Front Line", which issued a call for resistance to thousands of compatriots, "Chinese Air Force Military Song", "Chinese Naval Military Song", "I Am a Soldier", the most exciting "Exile Trilogy", including "Ballad of the Great Wall", "Sons and Daughters of China", which inspired soldiers to fight bravely and heroically resist the war, "Sons and Daughters of China". Lonely Island Paradise", "Defend hometown" created the theme song, as well as "ManJiang Hong", "Defend the Great Shanghai" and other more than 100 anti-war songs, in addition, he also wrote the guo moruo historical drama "Qu Yuan" that is known as "famous songs six que, antique, can be called a masterpiece" in the interlude, this period, immersed in the creation of his head did not because of "He Rijun Again" was not affected by any impact and influence, he, in the national disaster, with music to send out his own battle roar.
Liu Xue'an (first from left) and Guo Moruo (second and third from left) in 1940 in Zhangjia Garden, Chongqing
However, although Liu Xue'an participated in the progressive student movement in his early years and enthusiastically composed anti-war songs, he always stood on the side of the patriotic and progressive forces after the War of Resistance, commanding the "Yellow River Chorus" of 1,500 people in Chongqing, the Kuomintang region, resisting the Kuomintang's "anti-communist parade" with Xu Deheng and other progressive professors, being on the Kuomintang's "blacklist" for participating in the "anti-hunger, anti-civil war, and anti-persecution" movement in Suzhou, and resolutely opposing the Kuomintang's relocation of schools to Taiwan and the "school protection campaign" after the Battle of Huaihai. Any contributions and efforts he made because of his "The Return of the Sun" were later "written off".
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After liberation, Liu Xue'an successively taught at the Southern Jiangsu College of Culture and Education, Jiangsu Normal University, and East China Normal University in Shanghai, and was a deputy to the First People's Congress of Wuxi. In 1956, Liu Xue'an was transferred to Beijing to prepare for the establishment of the Beijing Normal College of Arts (the predecessor of the Central Conservatory of Music), and then taught at the academy and served as the vice president, during which he was still full of enthusiasm as always, writing a large number of songs such as "The People's Liberation Chorus", "Digging Up the Roots of the Thousand Years of Poverty", "Turning Over dance", "The Unity of the People of the World", at this time, people seem to have forgotten that he once wrote a song that was not welcomed by many political forces, "When the Sun Jun Will Come Again". In a way, he himself reminded the organization of such a thing.
After the "rectification movement" began in 1957, the Chinese Music Association organized a series of "symposiums" for musicians in Beijing, and Liu Xue'an, as a tongliang man in the land of Bashu, actually had a straight and frank side in his personality, and he was the first to speak at the forum, and he gave his opinions to the leaders of the music association with a straight heart, as a result, he caused trouble, and was quickly severely criticized by many articles in the press, and was denounced as "the enemy of the anti-party and anti-socialism" and "the poisonous snake hidden in the class ranks" "Named", "spokesperson for yellow songs" and "traitor literati" and "big rightists", Liu Xue'an began his journey of "hell on earth".
After becoming a rightist, Liu Xue'an's position plummeted, and he was first dismissed from the administration, retained for inspection, his salary was demoted to three levels, and he was sent to the library as a data clerk. Qiao Jingyun, his wife, who also works at the academy, was also beaten as a rightist for helping her husband argue a few words. In addition, all the songs created by Liu Xue'an before cannot be signed, including new works created later.
However, Liu Xue'an was not depressed, nor did he consider whether his works could be signed, and in the process of endless examination, he still insisted on creation and music theory research, and successively composed music for many poems of Mao Zedong, including "Seven Laws • The People's Liberation Army Occupies Nanjing", "Seven Absolutes • Photographed by female militia titles", "Manjiang Hong • Comrade Guo Moruo", "Bodhisattva Man • Yellow Crane Tower", etc. At the same time, he also wrote "Preliminary Music Theory", "Tune Composition Method", "New Solution to Chinese Simple Harmony", etc. For him, as long as the flesh is not destroyed, he will continue to write, and at this time his "stupid" energy has prevailed.
From the news, he heard that "two-thirds of the world's people still live in deep trouble", and he disregarded the poor living conditions of the family of eight, took 60 yuan out of his salary of less than 150 yuan per month, and donated it in the name of "Liu Shi" to support the "world revolution", this donation was ten years, but even so, he did not receive any "leniency".
In the "ten years" that followed, Liu Xue'an was constantly affected, and his wife died in 1971. Because of a song, Decades later, Liu Xue'an's family was destroyed, which Liu Xue'an could never have imagined, and what he could not have imagined was that after his "problem" was "corrected" in 1979, the relevant documents still positioned "He Rijun Again" as a "yellow song". In October 1982, Liu Xue'an participated in the National Literary Congress, at which the artists who survived the disaster gathered together to indulge in the happy mood after being "liberated", but at the conference, someone came out to "liquidate" "He Rijun Again", Liu Xue'an was finally knocked down by this endless torture, he was so angry that his eyes were bleeding and his retina was detached, he could no longer see the bright "spring of art", he was blind.
Liu Xue'an in his later years
In 1985, disheartened and in a difficult situation, Liu Xue'an was hospitalized due to a situation of pressure sores, because he was not eligible to enjoy an independent ward, he was invaded by his fellow patients, Mycobacterium aeruginosa, and finally came to the end of his life. On March 15, Liu Xue'an, a generation of outstanding patriotic composers and music educators, left this world with deep regret and pain.
It cannot be said that composers like Liu Xue'an are "latecomers", but in the history of Chinese music creation, such composers as Liu Xue'an are absolutely rare, will we still have composers like Liu Xue'an?
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