The timeless "Five Golden Flowers"

Released in October 1959, the musical love movie "Five Golden Flowers" is still delighted, addicted and sought after more than 60 years later, clicking on or downloading and watching on relevant websites. That innocent and simple love without mixed with material conditions triggers infinite yearning and resonance; the melodious and gentle national music is always haunting the mind, long-lasting aftertaste, unforgettable.

At the traditional "March Street" event in Dali, Yunnan, A Peng, a horseback riding expert from Jianchuan, fell in love with Vice President Jin Hua at first sight. The two young men agreed to meet again when "flowers bloom and butterflies fly next year". In the next year, Ah Peng arrived as promised, but what he did not expect was that there were many women named Jinhua there, in addition to the fat model jinhua, there were also golden flowers from the livestock farm, gold flowers from steel smelting, and golden flowers for tractor drivers. Ah Peng and two artists who went to collect wind traveled all over the villages of Cangshan in the Erhai Sea to find golden flowers. After repeated misunderstandings, a lover finally "pulled out the clouds and fog" and became a relative of "the earth is long and long".

In the new Chinese films before the reform and opening up, "Five Golden Flowers" is one of the few films without political overtones: there is no so-called ideological consciousness, no class struggle, no factional opposition, no political party composition, and no political terminology. From the perspective of completely human nature, praise love and pursue progress, but at the same time express the glory of labor and the yearning for a happy life. This is a major reason why the film has endured and lasted for a long time.

At the beginning of the preparation of the film, the musician in charge of composing, Lei Zhenbang, first proposed to the screenwriter to change the dialogue of the characters on many occasions to duets, which was also affirmed and supported by the director. As a result, a fresh and unconventional tune with the characteristics of the ethnic minorities in the southwest frontier, such as a trickle of streams, was sung in the play. But it is also these mountain songs without bold words that sing the simple feelings of the characters from the heart, and express their joys and sorrows about life and the diligent pursuit of identification emotions. Even today, half a century later, it still sounds like a natural sound. For example, the interlude "Embroidered Lotus Bag" slightly mournfully drinks out the heroine's anxious state of mind looking forward to her lover:

Gold thread picked silver thread embroidery,

Embroidered spring color flying upstairs;

Who knows?

Inexplicable lovesickness.

Swallows fly over the window of the building,

Shy to carry letters;

Mo is the sword river flower blooming late,

Missed a good time.

The theme song of "Five Golden Flowers", "Butterfly Spring Side" and the ending song "The Sun Rises out of the Clouds and Mist Disperse", are even more popular and intoxicating. The success of this film, and the following decades did not fade from people's memories due to the change of the social environment, did not develop due to the changes of the times, nor did it become history because of the slight backwardness of the shooting technology in that year, obliterated in the film grave, disappeared in the long river of time, but with vigorous artistic vitality, passed down, became a rare classic. It can be said that the songs in the film are indispensable.

Artistic creation, including film and television works, has left the characteristics and imprints of the times, which is natural and justified. But we must not go against human nature, and we must not destroy human nature. This can also be regarded as the inspiration given to us by the movie "Five Golden Flowers"!