"There is a beautiful legend, exquisite stones can sing..." In 1985, the popularity of the TV series "The Legend of Muyu Stone" made the theme song "A Beautiful Legend" popular all over the country, and its singer Liu Shiming was also well known by thousands of audiences. But such a beautiful song will always stay in people's memories. At about 5 p.m. yesterday, Liu Shiming died at the age of 81 at the Beijing Friendship Hospital due to ineffective medical treatment.
Liu Shiming is a man of integrity and has a very good relationship in the circle, and the news of his death has made many friends feel very surprised and sad
Liu Shiming is a man of integrity and has a very good relationship in the circle, and the news of his death has made many friends feel very surprised and sad. In the morning, when the reporter dialed the phone of the famous singer Liu Bingyi, he was rushing back to Beijing from other places. "It can't be said that he didn't have a little preparation, because he has been suffering from cancer for many years, good or bad, for a long time," Liu Bingyi said, "but I still didn't expect him to go so suddenly, in the end he still didn't survive cancer." We have been friends for decades, he is a little younger than me, I have been 'Xiao Liu', 'Xiao Liu' called him, until his death did not change, in fact, he is also an eighty-year-old person. ”
Despite years of suffering from prostate cancer and bone cancer, Liu Shiming's mentality has always been very good. In his eighties, he still holds art exhibitions, insists on performing, and can sing without a microphone, without electric sound, and with a piano accompaniment, which many young people can't do. In 2015, when the China Opera and Dance Theater rehearsed the opera "White Haired Girl", he was already in the advanced stage of cancer and insisted on going to the troupe to give young actors a hand-in-hand play. In a previous interview, Liu Shiming said that he was optimistic and optimistic, but he was more open-minded after getting sick, and he solved difficulties when he had difficulties, and he never complained about himself. "The doctor told most of the cancer patients to die like this, one is that they scared themselves to death, the other is Hu Zhizhi's death, I have a friend who found himself with lung cancer, in fact, it is very mild, that is, the mentality is not good, he died in fifty days", Liu Shiming once said, "Whoever gets sick will be uncomfortable, my bone metastasis is particularly painful in the back, up and down the steps have to be supported, walking for at most 5 minutes, but when I am in pain, I never think about it, but find some ways to make myself comfortable." ”
However, such a cheerful and optimistic old man finally left. "Fighting the disease is actually a very painful process, but during his treatment, we also participated in a lot of performances together, every year the concerts of the old artists, he almost did not fall", Liu Bingyi told reporters, "I asked him how to take the illness to act, he said, hey, acting or not acting is like that, acting is like this, not acting is also weird, staying at what you want, can act." In Liu Shiming's own view, it is also his greatest wish to dedicate his life to the stage, "because this is my favorite career, singing and performing make me physically and mentally happy." Liu Shiming's old friend and singer Li Guangxi has also always admired his good attitude, "This spring we are still working together, but people have life and old age and illness and death, no way, in fact, it is quite helpless." The seventy- and eighty-year-old actors of our generation have stood the test, and his death is a loss to our cultural construction. Recitation artist Cao Can, like Liu Shiming, has been suffering from cancer for many years, "I myself am a cancer victim, and his mentality has always been very good, so he said to me, 'It's okay, don't be afraid!'" This one is nothing. We were still partying together in May, so it was a surprise to hear the news of his death. He's a very nice guy, and it's really a pity, a great pity, that he's gone. ”
One of Liu Shiming's yearless friends specially wrote a poem to express his grief: "Yang Bo yi Haimo cultivates, and the green leaves are willing to smell the world." The most upright with a frank mind, who dares not think of the king. The legend of the beauty of a long farewell, the tears of miss drifting into the clouds. Since then, there has been no master Liu, and everyone is sad and inseparable. ”
Once the "reddest green leaf" on the opera stage
Born in Beijing, Liu Shiming is a famous tenor singer in China. Although he was weak when he was a child, he could not really speak until he was five years old, but Liu Shiming has always loved art very much, and has been listening to the conversation box since he was a child, and one day listening to Liu Baoquan's "Great West Chamber" on the radio, Liu Shiming somehow sang along. In 1958, Liu Shiming was admitted to both the School of Foreign Languages and the Central Academy of Drama, and has since embarked on the road of literature and art. After graduating from the Department of Chinese Opera Performance, Liu Shiming was assigned to the Then Central Experimental Opera House as an actor and studied under the famous vocal educator Jiang Jiaxiang. On the opera stage, there seems to be no actor who does not want to become the protagonist of the big beam, and there are few people like Liu Shiming who have been playing good supporting roles for more than twenty years. In 1962, the famous singer Guo Lanying wanted to perform the opera "White Haired Girl", and the gorgeous Liu Shiming took over her elderly original partner and became the actor of the new generation of Yang Bailao, and the two worked together for more than twenty years. "White Haired Girl", "Little Erhei Marriage", "Dou E'er", "Liu Hulan"... Many of Guo Lanying's important works were completed together with Liu Shiming. Although he did not play the main role, Liu Shiming never complained and has always played every role with all his heart. "But he never thought about why I wanted to be a green leaf." Guo Lanying said, "He has been diligent all his life and is the reddest green leaf. ”
In 1985, a song "A Beautiful Legend" made Liu Shi open fire, when he went to the northeast to perform, the audience was enthusiastic, as soon as they heard him sing this song, they clapped desperately, the voice was so loud that they could not listen to the song well, they could only sing it again, and the vendors of the vegetable market near his home also affectionately called him "Uncle Muyushi". In addition to "A Beautiful Legend", Liu Shiming often sang folk songs such as "Ussuri Boat Song", "Animal Spirit", "Hengshan Down Guerrilla", etc., his singing voice is bright and sweet, especially the folk songs in northern Shaanxi are more mellow. "Singing with heart and being humble" is Liu Shiming's life creed, and his life of bowing to art is also the most true portrayal of these eight words.
Source: Beijing Evening News intern reporter Gao Qian
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