Chi Ling is a song written by Kiyohiko, composed by Lee Kin Heng, and sung by ancient singer HITA, released on September 27, 2018, and later covered by many people such as Waiting for Jun, Li Yugang, Tan Jing and many others.
This song can be covered by many people and loved by the public, in addition to the song song to move people, but also because the story background of the song is touching.
On July 7, 1937, with the sound of Japanese gunfire, the whole country fell into a deep water, at this time, the city of Anyuan County, which had not yet been affected by the war, was peaceful, and the stage of the theater was still singing the sad and joyful "Peach Blossom Fan", you sang I appeared on the stage, but I don't know whose sorrow and joy and whose clutch is sung outside the play.
Pei Yanzhi is the "horn" of this theater, on the square inch stage, only to see his soft sleeves and beautiful Kun, in the midst of the applause, he played Li Xiangjun, who dared to love and hate, and did not hesitate to stain peach blossoms with blood.
However, the country is broken, the mountains and rivers are drifting to zero, who can be spared? Soon, the war spread to this point, the Japanese surrounded the county seat, and came to the theater to ask for a separate performance for them, in order to comfort all the Japanese soldiers, and named Pei Yanzhi to appear, if he dared to refuse, he burned the entire theater and even the county seat, and everyone could not escape death.
Pei Yanzhi smiled, did not refuse, turned and sat down in front of the dressing table, and drew his eyebrows. It was night, and the small county town was silent, reflecting the bright lights in the theater, and the Japanese were sitting under the stage, drinking wine and eating meat, talking and laughing wildly. The gongs and drums sound, the curtain opens, and the good play begins.
The singing on the stage is not knowing what happened, and it has always been deep. Sitting in the audience were jackals, tigers and leopards, and evil spirits were in charge. With the eagerness of the drums, the singing voice became more and more sad and indignant, and the jackals in the audience seemed to be frozen, and at this moment, "Li Xiangjun" on the stage shouted "ignition." ”
Until the enemy found out that the fire had already spread, they wanted to escape but found that the door had long been blocked tightly, and the whole theater building was unconsciously sprinkled with oil.
The drama on the stage was still singing, and was singing: "I once saw the warblers of the Jinling Jade Hall crying dawn, the Qinhuai Water Pavilion flowers blooming early, who knows that it is easy to ice." Watching him rise up the Zhu Lou, watching him entertain guests, watching him collapse the building. This mossy pile of green tiles, I once slept in the wind, and watched the rise and fall of fifty years full..." The building collapsed, but the play did not end.
Although in fact history does not have Pei Yan as a person, we can regard him as a representative of the thousands of literary and art workers who were not willing to be slaves to the country at that time and made their own contributions to defending the country.
There are not a few patriotic literary and art workers who have been recorded in Chinese history, among whom Mei Lanfang, Xu Beihong, Ji Xianlin and others are more familiar to everyone. Today, I would like to introduce a famous figure recorded in the history of the Party, Lu Sujuan, who is known as "Female Mei Lanfang".
Lu Sujuan, female, Peking Opera Danjiao, Suzhou Wu County, born in 1907 in a poor family, the family has a large population, relying on renting a few acres of land and her father to do odd jobs to make a living, still can not make ends meet, living a difficult life. When she was seven years old, her father had no choice but to send her to a tea house in Suzhou to work as a maid.
Lu Sujuan's eyebrows are clear-eyed, smart and clever, and the boss sees that she has aura, so he hires a violinist to teach her to sing opera and Gusu folk songs, and learns to play three strings, play erhu, and play pipa. Lu Sujuan is very enlightened, concentrated in learning art, and her progress is very fast, and it is even more rare that her voice is sweet, which is quite popular when performing in the tea house.
In 1923, when Lu Sujuan was 16 years old, she was very good at blowing, pulling, playing and singing, and her Kunqu opera, Peking Opera oratorio and erhu and pipa solos had become the reserved program of the tea house, and tea guests came to visit.
Soon after, the owner of the tea house died of illness, the boss lady did not know how to operate, coupled with the chaotic battle between Qi Xieyuan and Lu Yongxiang warlords, Suzhou fell into trouble, and the tea house was given to others.
At this moment, a richly dressed guest came from Beiping, claiming to be the housekeeper of a playground in Beiping, and came to Suzhou on the orders of Boss Jin to find talents. Only when I entered the tea house, I took a fancy to Lu Sujuan at a glance and was willing to pay a big price to buy Lu Sujuan away.
Lu Sujuan is simple and kind, but also wants to go out and break in, after the Beiping guest paid her a large settlement fee, tearfully bid farewell to her parents and relatives, and then went to Beiping with the guest via Shanghai.
This Jin boss was afraid of the inside, did not dare to beat this girl's idea, but treated her with courtesy, wanted to train her to sing and act, hoping that she would become a famous artist in the pear garden of the capital in the future. Lu Sujuan saw that Boss Jin's attitude was quite sincere, and she believed him.
Over the years, Lu Sujuan has become famous in Beiping, and many people with status and status have come to admire Lu Sujuan's talents and listen to her oratorio plays. It is said that Zhang Xueliang, a young marshal at that time, made a special trip from Shenyang to Beiping, disguised as a young rich businessman to Huancui Pavilion to listen to Lu Sujuan's singing, and in admiration, left a red envelope of seven unique pieces and two hundred silver tickets, which flattered Boss Jin and his wife.
At that time, Mei Lanfang, who was popular all over the sea, was performing in Shanghai, Nanjing, Hangzhou and other places, and the fans of the northern theater were waiting and wandering, and suddenly found such a "female Mei Lanfang" who was unique in color and art, which was naturally a surprise intersection and flocked to it. The name of "Female Mei Lanfang" quickly became popular throughout the Imperial City.
In 1937, when the Lugou Bridge Incident began and the War of Resistance Against Japan began, Lu Sujuan took the initiative to join the Beiping Relief Labor Group from all walks of life and took a truck to the Wanping front to comfort the anti-Japanese soldiers. The agitated singing section of "Liang Hongyu" she starred in won the applause of the officers and men of the 29th Army, and even more inspired the fighting spirit of the Japanese Kou.
At the end of 1937, Lu Sujuan married Wang Shaoxian, the general manager of the Beiping Salt Industry Bank, and became the aunt of the rich man. Wang Shaoxian is a fan of drama, he has stayed in the west, has knowledge, has demeanor, and after marriage, he does not interfere with Lu Sujuan's acting on stage, and still personally drives to pick him up.
After the fall of Beiping, Lu Sujuan advised her husband not to stay in Beiping City and become a slave to the state. Although Wang Shaoxian had contacts with some pro-Japanese politicians, he was sincerely patriotic and always advocated anti-Japanese resistance, and after listening to his wife's persuasion, he left Beiping with his family.
Lu Sujuan cares about the situation far more than her husband, and she is eager to contribute to the sacred War of Resistance. When she heard that the Tianshui Xing Battalion, with Cheng Qian as its commander, had organized a Peking Opera field performance team, focusing on serving the officers and men of northern nationality in the two theaters of the northern battlefield, she was overwhelmed with emotion and proposed to her husband that she wanted to return to the interior to make some contributions to the anti-Japanese officers and men within their capabilities.
This time, it was Wang Shaoxian's turn to persuade her, and he explained to Lu Sujuan the dangers of the battlefield, the fierceness of the battle between the enemy and us, and the hardships of living conditions. But Lu Sujuan was fierce, unmoved, and determined to leave the comfortable Hong Kong.
In desperation, Wang Shaoxian sent reliable people to escort Lu Sujuan through Guilin, Guangxi, to Hengyang, Hunan, and to the mouth of the Old River in Hubei. There were two divisions of troops stationed there, who had participated in the "August 13" Songhu War and suffered heavy losses, and after resting and replenishing here, they went to the front line to continue the anti-Japanese resistance.
Laohekou already had a temporary anti-Japanese performance team, and Lu Sujuan immediately participated in their performance. Her Peking Opera oratorio was so popular that soldiers and ordinary people competed to see her performance, and everyone was proud of the "female Mei Lanfang" who came to Laohekou to perform.
Due to the fatigue of the journey and the successive performances, the body originally had a chronic illness, and Lu Sujuan fell ill again. After examination by the doctor, it is a recurrence of lung disease. After more than ten days, Lu Sujuan's condition worsened, and she unfortunately died in the Fumin Hospital in Laohekou Town, only 31 years old! She was buried by the local military and civilians in the foothills of niutou Mountain at the mouth of the Old River, and a generation of Peking opera masters fell prematurely in the mountains of Ezhong.
Some people feel that literary and art workers did not produce real goods to support the war like the workshop workers, nor did they carry knives and guns to kill the enemy like the soldiers on the front line, so they played little role in the struggle to defend the family and defend the country.
In fact, this view is wrong, because war is not only a material confrontation, but also a confrontation of human wills and a contest of wisdom. Good works of art can cultivate people's temperament, open people's wisdom, stimulate people's fighting spirit, and ignite inner hope. Sometimes a song is more of an inspiration to a soldier than a drawer of buns, or a machine gun.
In 1941, Leningrad, besieged by the Germans for a year, faced a predicament in dire conditions, with 430,000 people dying of starvation. Just as people began to lose, discourage and panic, the Leningrad Concert Hall sounded the Leningrad Symphony (also known as the Seventh Symphony), composed by the Soviet composer Shostakovich, which celebrated the magnificent Great Patriotic War.
The majestic melody reached every corner of Leningrad through radio and loudspeakers, evoking the fanatical patriotic passion of millions of people and inspiring their belief in the struggle to coexist and die with Leningrad. It was this conviction that inspired the vast number of Soviet soldiers and people to fight with passion and crush the enemy's attacks one after another. Undoubtedly, the Leningrad Symphony was an indelible contribution to the final victory of the Soviet people in the anti-fascist war.
Turning over the history of human society, whenever there is a war, there will be music and art to accompany and serve it, art has become an indispensable part of war, and it is often an important magic weapon and secret weapon to win war, and it will inevitably become a special war weapon that politicians and military experts in various countries attach great importance to.
The humble did not dare to forget the worries of the country, mo zai dao drama is ruthless, the drama also has a patriotic heart.
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