In the 1980s, Teresa Teng was popular all over the country, and her sweet and fresh voice could be heard everywhere.
At that time, everyone will ride a bicycle and hum a few words in their mouths:
There are many stories in the small town, full of joy and joy...
For decades, Teresa Teng is still unforgettable, and her position in the hearts of fans has never changed.
However, what many people don't know is that Teresa Teresa's initial popularity was not recognized by mainstream values.
There are many people who regard her melancholy as a flood beast, and it must not be mentioned in public or official occasions.
There are seventy-eight songs such as "Love Brother", "Happy Tonight", "Crazy Weekend" and so on, and 60% of the content is unhealthy, believing that most of the other songs are pretentious and the tune is pretentious.
Moreover, in the formal conservatory of music, this kind of popular music is difficult to be elegant. Therefore, Zhou Xiaoyan, the titan queen of the Chinese music industry, was once not optimistic about Teresa Teng.
She said:
Teresa Teng was not famous in Hong Kong and Taiwan, and as soon as the mainland engaged in it, Taiwan was afraid that she would come to the mainland, so it praised her. She was originally a third- or fourth-rate person, and the concert hall in Hong Kong did not allow such people to sing. Now the mainland has become famous in one fell swoop.
I have to say that with Zhou Xiaoyan's status in the music circle at that time, her evaluation of Teresa Teng was almost an official opinion.
At that time, Zhou Xiaoyan was the dean of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, and trained many singers who had won world awards, such as Liao Changyong, Wei Song, Zhang Jianyi and so on.
For Zhou Xiaoyan, her goals and the music learning she received are too far from Teresa Teng. She studied under a number of famous Russian musicians, competed with world-class masters in Paris, France, and sang solo at the Musikverein in Vienna.
From the time Zhou Xiaoyan first stood on the world-class stage, she was known as the "Chinese Nightingale" and the Queen of Opera.
She was awarded the Golden Bell Award, the highest honor of Chinese music and art by the Chinese Musicians Association, and the French National Officer's Medal from the French government.
Few people know that Zhou Xiaoyan's singing path is not smooth, when she first learned to sing, she often broke the tone, and there was a big gap with others.
But years later, she became the one on top.
In the summer of 1917, Zhou Xiaoyan was born in a well-to-do business family.
His father, Zhou Cangbai, studied finance at New York University in the United States, and after returning to China, he entered the newly founded Bank of Shanghai.
Holding this pink daughter, it is time to take a name, Zhou Cangbai thought about it, just call Xiao Yan, hoping that she will fly higher and higher like a swallow in the future.
At that time in Shanghai, the banking industry was still a new thing, Zhou Cangbai was particularly brainy, taking the lead in opening a one-yuan passbook, attracting many ordinary people to deposit, and the business was booming.
Just after turning one year old, Xiao Yan left Shanghai, followed her father back to Wuhan, Hubei Province, to establish a branch, and lived in the main house of the Zhou family, which was very large, and there were three brothers living in her father.
In the family, Xiao Yan ranked second, and there were many younger siblings in the back, she had a special personality, often leading everyone to play various games in the house, laughing and making a lot of noise.
Much more noisy, my father installed two horizontal bars in the yard to try to drain some of her strength. But one day, when my father came back from work outside, he found Xiaoyan standing on the horizontal bar, swinging left and right, and smiling happily.
This scared the parents stupid, and they began to worry that if they continued like this, Xiao Yan would probably not be able to be a lady in the future. So my father went into a shop selling musical instruments and bought a four-stringed violin with a fingerboard, a mandolin. This is similar to the violin, but is a supporting role in the instrument.
(Zhou Xiaoyan's parents)
Xiao Yan got this piano, liked it at first sight, and began to learn the piano every day after school. In the study, she slowly became fascinated with singing, singing in the house every day, and everyone was surprised to find that the songs sung by Xiaoyan were the most popular songs at that time, that is, her tone was not good, and she sounded very hoarse.
Xiao Yan herself did not have such troubles, she just liked musical instruments, and learned guitar, violin, pipa and piano. Indulge in movies every weekend.
After watching more movies, Xiao Yan led her siblings to imitate Chaplin together. Using the curtain as a stage curtain, wrapping the sheets to make an apron, and putting the adult's hat on the head, sticking a fake beard, and using a branch as a crutch, everything looks the same. This time, the performance attracted the neighbors around to see, and they all agreed that Xiao Yan was very spirited.
When Xiao Yan was 12 years old, her tonsils were removed from a cold, and who knew that after that, her original hoarse voice became clearer and clearer.
At that time, Wuhan set up the first band , the Yamei Orchestra, these amateur members gathered together because of their hobbies, the invited conductor teacher was very good, he thought Xiaoyan had great potential.
After Xiao Yan successfully entered, she slowly became the lead singer in it, that is, at this time, her father had the idea of letting Xiao Yan take the Shanghai Music College.
At the age of 18, Xiaoyan once again set foot on her former birthplace, Shanghai, which will also become a place that will change her destiny.
That summer, Xiaoyan stood on the Waibaidu Bridge on the Bund, although she did not understand what Gothic and Baroque really were, she was so excited that she repeatedly called out to her mother, "Come and see this house to look good."
After visiting the Bund, she was going to take the Shanghai National Music College Exam.
Compared with her parents' worries, Xiao yan was not nervous at all, she walked into the garden-style campus and immediately liked this place.
The school, whose full name is the National Conservatory of Music, was founded in 1927 by the famous Cai Yuanpei with the purpose of learning advanced European music theory and cultivating international musical talents.
This time the exam went well, and the teachers unanimously decided that she was very good.
Xiao Yan initially chose the piano department because she had extensive piano playing experience in the Wuhan Band and knew the knowledge of music theory. She thought that in the music club, like in Wuhan, it would naturally become the focus of the audience.
Obviously, Xiao Yan thought wrong. In Shanghai in the 1930s, many world-class piano masters gathered, including Sakharov, a musician who served at the Russian court. These masters taught many students, and after the establishment of the music school, the scattered folk disciples all went in.
Compared with these famous teachers and disciples, Xiao Yan from a small place naturally lost its color. In addition to the pressure, she was depressed, and after a period of consideration, she finally decided to major in vocal music.
After learning vocal music, Xiao Yan soon encountered problems again, she could not sing the treble, and every treble was broken. The skillful singing skills of the past did not seem to be of any use at all. Seeing that the classmates were singing smoothly and naturally, Xiao Yan was anxious and annoyed in her heart.
She inquired in many ways to find a classmate named Lang Yuxiu, knew that this classmate was very talented, and also studied Peking Opera with Mei Lanfang, and took her teacher named Professor Su Shilin.
After Xiao Yan officially transferred the department, she took the initiative to find Professor Su. Professor Su rated her as a "sub-high" and carried out targeted exercises.
In the face of the teacher's intentions, Xiao Yan herself was timid. Every time she went to class, her mood was very low and scared, and in this state, Xiao Yan's practice did not progress for a long time.
Until 1937, Xiao Yan, who returned to Wuhan during the summer vacation, led the Wuhan Yamei Orchestra to sing everywhere to speak out for the Anti-Japanese War amid the rumbling of cannon fire.
At that time, Xiao Yan's eldest brother had been playing the violin in the band, and there were many patriotic progressive young people together, who went everywhere to perform every day.
I have to say that for the young people at that time, patriotism was a real action, not an empty language.
Every day, Xiaoyan shouted with enthusiasm and passion in various schools, restaurants, and churches, telling people to resist bravely.
It is also in these passionate singing that Xiao Yan actually broke through the bottleneck of the previous fear of difficulties - the bottleneck of the high pitch.
This change surprised Xiao Yan, and then she worked harder to sing everywhere.
Maybe that saying goes well, when you do what you want to do with all your heart, there are always surprises waiting for you later.
At this time, Liu Xue'an, a composer who was the master brother of the National Music College, came to her and thought that the songs he composed were the most suitable for her to sing. This song is Xiao Yan's classic "Ballad of the Great Wall" that was later remembered.
The lyrics of "Ballad of the Great Wall" are emotional and the tune is passionate and heroic, which is an interlude in the movie "Guan Shan Long".
Coincidentally, during that special period, all of Liu Xue'an's songs were banned. The Taiwanese music scene has been singing this song, including Teresa Teng.
Zhou Xiaoyan's "Ballad of the Great Wall" is full of affection, and in that period of anti-Japanese resistance, it can touch people's hearts even more. It was at this juncture that Xiao Yan found that her eldest brother was missing.
It turned out that the eldest brother followed others to participate in the "Anti-Enemy Drama Seven Team", and during the performance, he died suddenly due to overwork.
The first half of Xiao Yan's life is intertwined in loss and gain, on the one hand, the loss of relatives, and on the other hand, the recognition of musical achievements.
In those two years, during the vigorous anti-Japanese movement, Xiao Yan has been leading the Yamei band to sing everywhere, and she is busy every day without touching the ground.
Her busyness made her parents a little worried.
Father believes that there will always be a day of victory in the war, and Xiao Yan's music study should not stop, if you go abroad to study, it is just right to wait a few years to come back.
After discussion, it was decided to let Xiaoyan study in Paris, France.
This time, the journey was originally to escape from suffering, but in fact, the difficulties were even greater.
Xiao Yan went with her second brother, and the second brother learned to compose music. When the two arrived in Paris, the first was the language barrier, and they were taken to a luxury hotel as soon as they got off the plane.
Fortunately, the two took the map a little bit of groping and found the embassy in France, and the ambassador Gu Weijun received the brothers and sisters, helped them find a place to live, and recommended a language school.
With the help of the ambassador, Xiao Yan met the famous Russian musician Qi Erpin, who used to be a teacher at the Shanghai Music College and married Xiao Yan's sister Li Xianmin as his wife.
Qi Erpin warmly contacted the school for Zhou Xiaoyan and introduced her to the Paris Normal School of Music. In the entrance examination, Xiaoyan performed particularly well, and the school's famous professor Brownge named her as her teacher.
With the guidance of a famous teacher, Zhou Xiaoyan should grow up very quickly, but it is not so easy.
Under the guidance of the professor, Xiaoyan has to practice for 7 hours a day, there are piano and conducting lessons, etc., and as the course deepens, her high voice encounters problems again.
Not only can not sing, broken tones appear more frequently, every class teacher must sternly correct her, Xiao Yan is afraid and anxious, coupled with language barriers, she can only sneak away tears in a hurry many times.
Once in class, she couldn't even sing the tone, and when she came out of school, tears kept rolling down her eyes. She hated herself for traveling thousands of miles to study, but why couldn't the simplest courses be completed.
Later, Zhou Xiaoyan couldn't help but run to cry with her sister Li Xianmin. After listening to her encounter, Qi Erpin saw through the truth at a glance, and he thought that this teacher was not suitable for Xiao Yan and should change a teacher.
Under the contact of Qi Erpin, Zhou Xiaoyan transferred to the Russian Conservatory in Paris, and this teacher told her not to sing for half a year, and only did the most basic vocal exercises every day.
Zhou Xiaoyan had almost lost confidence and thought that she was not suitable for singing. But in this slow way of teaching, I slowly find a little feeling.
Just when Xiao Yan was expecting that everything would be better, unexpected suffering came again.
In 1940, the Germans attacked France, breaking through the Maginot Line, and the whole of France was instantly in a panic.
Almost all of them were busy escaping, hiding everywhere.
Zhou Xiaoyan and her brother met a Polish family at a language school, and the well-wishers planned to let the sisters and brothers flee with them. First leave the south of France, and then take the route back to China through Spain.
They went all the way to the border between France and Spain, but they did not think that the most feared thing had happened, and they encountered the German army.
When the Germans found out that they did not have identification, they ordered them to come from and return to where they were, or to be severely punished.
Xiao Yan's sisters and brothers could only follow the Polish friends and family to be stuffed into the stuffy tank truck like stuffed cattle, and after countless bumps, they returned to Paris again.
At that time, the whole of Paris was in chaos, the German army blocked France's contact with China, and the sisters and brothers had no income and no relatives. What is more difficult is that after this thrilling escape career, the second brother is sick, has a fever and cough, and is very seriously ill.
Xiao Yan was anxious like an ant on a hot pot, not knowing what to do.
At this time, Xiao Zisheng, a well-known scholar studying in Paris, learned about the situation of the two brothers and sisters and rushed to send the second brother to the hospital. However, due to the delay of the disease, coupled with the fear and fatigue on the way to escape, the original simple appendicitis has become untreatable.
Soon, the second brother went like this, Xiao Yan came out of the hospital and cried, her heart was even more sad and desperate, she wanted to go home, but there was no way to go.
She didn't dare to tell her parents the news, thinking that their lives should not be good.
In the most difficult times, Polish classmates often came to accompany her, afraid that she would do something stupid. Although Zhou Xiaoyan was sad, he thought that the war had not yet been won, and his two younger brothers had died in the war, and he must not fall.
After a short period of depression, Xiao Yan slowly got out of the predicament through the help of many compatriots and began to re-learn vocal music.
Once again, she found the teacher who taught her not to sing and insisted on reviewing the basics. One day, the professor told her that she could sing and brought out a well-known sheet of music for her.
Xiao Yan stood there, singing selflessly with the accompaniment of the piano music, she remembered the unfortunate death of her two younger brothers, the despair that she could not return to the country, and the full emotion flowed out.
After the song was sung, the professor applauded enthusiastically next to him, and Xiao Yan was also surprised to find that the nightmare of the high pitch was once again self-defeating.
That half a year of rest, and the suffering along the way, finally exchanged for this time to take off.
In the later days, Xiao Yan followed a number of French singing masters to learn, including the processing of musical sentences, the allocation of musical colors, etc., all of which made great progress.
4 years later, the liberation of Paris, France, the long-suppressed musicians ushered in many opportunities to sing, Zhou Xiaoyan after several years of tempering, the skills became more and more skilled, and gradually in the Paris music circle has been a lot of recognition, but also formed their own style.
At the end of almost every big concert, the articles praised by the media are like snowflakes:
Zhou Xiaoyan was praised as a "Chinese nightingale", "pure as snow, radiant like a diamond", "vibrato, broken tone, through the sentence, huacai section" with a mature and superb treatment.
In order to promote Chinese culture, Xiao Yan and Qi Erpin adapted many poetry and operas together, such as "Peach Blossom Shop, Xinghua Village", Meng Haoran's "Spring Dawn", and "New Year", which was adapted from local folk songs in Yunnan.
For Xiao Yan, who has returned from the past, every day that follows is like earnings.
In many previous blows, she had wanted to give up more than once, feeling that she had no talent.
But there seemed to be a power in the darkness that could help her find her way again when she was at her most difficult.
Since 1946, Zhou Xiaoyan's performances have been successful.
He started with a solo concert in Luxembourg, which was very well received.
Soon he was invited to a concert in Berlin, Germany, which attracted many European musicologists and ordinary listeners.
At the same time, she also performed at the "Prague Spring" concert and began touring in five major Czech cities.
In frequent performances, Zhou Xiaoyan received unprecedented honors, and people praised her as the Chinese nightingale singing Schubert's love interest.
But at the end of the singing, Zhou Xiaoyan was not really happy inside.
One day, when she came home from a performance, she saw a letter from her parents written a few years ago, which suddenly aroused her homesickness.
In 1942, she plucked up the courage to tell her parents the news of her second brother's death, but it was 5 years after receiving the reply.
Her parents did not blame her for not taking good care of her brother, but told her to take care of her body.
(Elderly Zhou Xiaoyan)
Looking at the letter from her parents, Zhou Xiaoyan's hatred for the war burned up again, and she wanted to go home immediately. But at that time, Paris and China were not directly connected.
After inquiring around, she learned that Amsterdam in the Netherlands had a ship to China. Zhou Xiaoyan hardly hesitated, and quickly packed up everything in Paris.
When she came to the Netherlands, she inquired everywhere where there was a ship going to China, and after looking for a long time, she found one, and she did not care about doubts, so she did not hesitate to sit on it.
Who knows, this ship will never leave again when it arrives in Singapore.
Zhou Xiaoyan contacted a friend of her father's again to buy a ticket back to Shanghai.
(1947, Young Women's Fundraising Conference)
In 1948, after returning to Shanghai again after 9 years of absence, Zhou Xiaoyan cried at once, looking at her elderly parents and two grown sisters, she remembered her two younger brothers who died early in the war, and she could not say a word.
People in Wuhan heard that Zhou Xiaoyan had returned, and invited her everywhere to give a solo concert. Wuhan University, various theaters and schools, etc., Zhou Xiaoyan is busy singing everywhere every day.
But in zhou xiaoyan's heart, Shanghai is the place she wants to sing the most. Unexpectedly, the invitation of the National Music College also came quickly, hiring her to teach at the school and cultivate more outstanding talents.
But at that time, there was still more than a year before the founding of New China, and it was also the darkness before the dawn of Shanghai.
His father, who had served in the Nationalist government, was once again facing a crisis, and many people came to lobby them every day, and only a few people knew that Zhou Xiaoyan's father had supported the workers' and peasants' army for 3,000 oceans.
He also contributed to the front-line resistance many times in the dark, including sewing cotton clothes for soldiers at home, making military uniforms, and helping to transport a large number of relief materials.
These acts of kindness, in a special period a few years later, both father and Zhou Xiaoyan were implicated at the same time.
But at that time, Zhou Xiaoyan was naturally the most concerned person after the new China, and she was invited to participate in the "First WenDai" and also visited India and Myanmar.
In the more than two months of performing literary and art performances in Beijing, Zhou Xiaoyan met the tall and handsome composer Zhang Junxiang.
Zhang Junxiang is 7 years older than Zhou Xiaoyan, from Jiangsu, from a wealthy family, was admitted to the Department of Foreign Literature of Tsinghua University, and with excellent results, he was admitted to study at public expense and entered the Yale University Theater Research Institute in the United States for further study.
(Zhang Junxiang, Yale University, USA)
Moreover, Zhang Junxiang has always had a high vision, picky until he was in his 30s and not married.
This time I met Zhou Xiaoyan, and the two were almost love at first sight.
Later, they visited together, and in the day and night together and common cooperation, the two hearts were deeply attracted to each other. Zhang Junxiang said to Zhou Xiaoyan, "I'm sorry to know you too late." ”
Compared with Zhang Junxiang's objective calmness, Xiao Yan is a bit arrogant.
In India, they saw the poor days of many poor people, Zhou Xiaoyan felt very uneven, and sometimes opened his bow with his left and right hands at the same time when eating, which was criticized by Zhang Junxiang.
In 1952, Zhou Xiaoyan was 35 years old, a properly old young woman. After falling in love with Zhang Junxiang for more than a year, the two decided to get married.
Zhang Junxiang asked if he wanted to buy a ring, and Zhou Xiaoyan replied, "How cheesy the ring is, don't." Zhang Junxiang smiled and said, "Then you are not afraid of me lying down?" ”
Zhou Xiaoyan replied without showing weakness, "I am not afraid." ”
(Zhou Xiaoyan and Zhang Junxiang)
It was a very simple wedding, only Invited Xia Yan, He Luting, the dean of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, and Xiao Yan's uncle, a total of 10 people attended.
My father was busy with construction in Wuhan, Hubei Province, and my mother was also worried about working for women, but she did not come.
After marriage, Zhou Xiaoyan was still busy with work, just three months after giving birth, when the very hot land reform activities began, she did not hesitate to wean her daughter and rushed to the past.
As a mother, Zhou Xiaoyan later admitted to being incompetent many times.
She was busy answering the call all day long, and she had to go to every most difficult place, go to the countryside to exercise, encourage the workers and peasants engaged in infrastructure construction, and go wherever Zhou Xiaoyan was the most miserable.
(Zhou Xiaoyan condolence performance)
The two children in the family, Zhou Xiaoyan almost did not take care of much, daily by her mother-in-law Qian's mother-in-law to take care of, when the child is sick, Zhang Junxiang is busy taking care of it.
Many times in daily life, Zhang Junxiang and the children are locked in the room to play, and Zhou Xiaoyan teaches students in the living room outside. Even if the noise was turned upside down, Zhou Xiaoyan was still immersed in teaching.
Later, during that special period, Zhou Xiaoyan was locked up in a "cowshed" and wore all kinds of unwarranted hats.
Zhang Junxiang was also detained as a "foreign TW" for secret review.
In the beginning, Zhou Xiaoyan became a sweeper in her once favorite campus, cleaning everywhere with a broom during the day, and began to interrogate her at night and not let her go home.
Next to it is the music conservatory attached to which the two children attend, separated by a thick fence. One day, Zhou Xiaoyan wanted to see the child, she used her hand to pull the wire for a long time, and her hand cut and bleed, but she still didn't see anything.
(Zhou Xiaoyan and daughter)
Later, Zhou Xiaoyan was sent to GX to work.
When she came home from the college, she found that her husband Zhang Junxiang was also missing, and she wanted to look for it, but she couldn't find it. I can only entrust my mother-in-law to inquire.
In fact, when Zhou Xiaoyan worked at GX for more than two years, one day she suddenly found that there was an old man who was her husband Zhang Junxiang, but his hair was gray, his figure was rickety, and he was carrying an old bag, which almost made her dare not believe it.
Zhang Junxiang is responsible for raising pigs, and Zhou Xiaoyan is responsible for raising chickens. The two could only secretly say two words and look at each other twice when they ate in the cafeteria.
Sometimes in order to encourage each other, they laugh and say that one is a "pig cock" and the other is a "chicken woman".
Probably because GX has the company of her husband, Zhou Xiaoyan is most worried about her two children. When she came to GX for a year, her daughter graduated from junior high school and was assigned to Heilongjiang as a zhiqing for family reasons.
Knowing that her daughter was going to that distant and cold place, Zhou Xiaoyan worried that she might never see her daughter again in her life.
She asked the leader for leave and wanted to go back to send her daughter.
But by the time she hitched a ride from the countryside of Shanghai to the train station, she was a few minutes late. The 16-year-old daughter sat in the carriage, silent.
Seeing Zhou Xiaoyan's arrival, the daughter was not excited, but just looked at her blankly with her eyes.
Zhou Xiaoyan knew that she was sorry for her daughter, but she still couldn't say a word.
When her daughter's train rumbled forward, Zhou Xiaoyan looked at her daughter's increasingly blurred shadow and stood there wailing and crying.
After crying, she dried her tears again and went back to raising chickens.
(Family of 4 in the 1960s)
Within two years, my son also graduated from junior high school, but because of family reasons, he could not continue to study, but fortunately, his son could stay in Shanghai and was assigned to work in the bus company.
Moreover, the family really has no money to study, and Zhou Xiaoyan and her husband's salary is gone, and there is only 15 yuan per month for living expenses.
Therefore, in those years, Grandma Qian was trying to find a way to help take care of it. In order to save money, you can only buy the cheapest vegetables when the market is about to close, or buy a lot of cabbage as pickles and eat them for a long time.
That period of suffering was very deep in Zhou Xiaoyan's memory, and she often had to secretly sing a few songs while feeding the chickens to comfort her.
In 1970, Zhou Xiaoyan's father was seriously ill.
She wanted to take a leave of absence to go back to see, but this time the leader disagreed and said to her: When her father dies, her mother will take care of her organizationally, and you don't have to go.
In fact, when Zhou Xiaoyan went to work, her father's life was not good.
Some people say that why he has always been so prosperous, he was a banker before, and now he is an official, there must be some power behind him, or an ulterior secret.
But in reality, they couldn't interrogate anything. Because, after the liberation, Zhou Xiaoyan's father donated a piece of land he bought in Wuhan to ZF and prepared to build it into a large leisure park.
Originally called Cangbai Garden, this land was later renamed "Haiguang Agricultural Garden", which is now very popular with the public "East Lake Park".
That's why he was appointed director, mainly to manage the development of the park.
But in those years, my father fell ill and could not be cured, and lived in a room next to the boiler.
At the last moment, the father still worried about this most prominent daughter, but Zhou Xiaoyan could not rush back.
After my father's death, because there was no suitable place to bury, my mother found a lot of ice cubes to put around the body, and finally a big person came forward, and then cremated and put into the public fundraising.
Years later, Zhou Xiaoyan couldn't stop crying when she talked about this paragraph.
One day after her father's death, she was informed that she was going to meet a foreign friend.
Zhou Xiaoyan's first reaction was to be afraid, would it be something bad again.
After the meeting, she did not dare to say a word, because she had already been assimilated by the "chicken mother-in-law" who guarded her, and she looked at this childhood partner who was once familiar, not knowing that the sentence was in line with the policy, and could only rub the corners of her clothes and answer simply.
And how this friend did not believe that the once energetic band premiered, how the lively and intelligent Zhou Xiaoyan had become a peasant woman. This friend, who was once a member of the Yamei band and the daughter of a priest, later married the founder of Time Magazine in the United States, visited China this time, and asked to see Zhou Xiaoyan by name.
This time, the meeting invisibly helped Zhou Xiaoyan leave GX.
But she was formally notified and waited for more than a year, in late 1973.
Just when Zhou Xiaoyan was used to working in the field every day, feeding chickens and cleaning toilets, she was suddenly informed that she could go home.
Back at home after a long absence, Zhou Xiaoyan had mixed feelings, especially her daughter returned from Heilongjiang to visit her relatives, looking at the dark face of her thin daughter, Zhou Xiaoyan couldn't stop crying.
At that time, his son Zhang Ben was recommended to be a driver because of his good job performance.
After returning home, Zhou Xiaoyan is 56 years old, but she still began a very busy teaching task, serving as the deputy director of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, bringing a lot of students, and often holding meetings.
(A family of four in the 1970s)
But no matter how busy she is, Zhou Xiaoyan must also try her best to make up for the debt to her two children, she learns to make good food, stew soup to supplement the child's body.
Later, her daughter was transferred back to Shanghai, and through hard work, she went to the United States to study and was admitted to the university.
His son Zhang Ben also went to the United States in the late 1990s to study computers.
Although the children have come out, Zhou Xiaoyan still feels that she owes too much.
Zhou Xiaoyan's remaining days were almost entirely spent educating students.
In the face of each student, her method is different, and this kind of differentiated teaching is undoubtedly a good way to cultivate talents.
Including Liao Changyong, who was admitted to the Shanghai Conservatory of Music in 1985, he is a rural child who has come out step by step, but compared with urban children, his foundation is much worse.
But Zhou Xiaoyan could see at a glance that Liao Changyong was a good seedling.
Sure enough, Liao Changyong won the first prize in the first world-class singing competition in 1994, and has since won a number of blockbuster world-class awards. Including the first prize in the "Domingo World Opera Singing Competition" and the first prize in the "Norwegian Queen Song yam International Vocal Competition".
Later, Liao Changyong's mother took Zhou Xiaoyan's hand with her calloused and rough hand, and couldn't stop thanking.
It was also from then on that time that before Zhou Xiaoyan gradually faded out, many people no longer called her a famous musician, but became "Liao Changyong's teacher".
In those years, his wife Zhang Junxiang's health was getting worse and worse, in order to take care of him, Zhou Xiaoyan gave up all opportunities to go out, cooked at home every day, and then took it to the hospital, accompanied by talking, and only went back when it was dark.
(Zhou Xiaoyan and Zhang Junxiang in their later years)
The elderly Zhang Junxiang was deaf in the ears and did not like to use hearing aids, Zhou Xiaoyan said softly to his ears, this rare quiet time is a rare beauty and warmth in the marriage of two people for more than forty years.
When he was confused, Zhang Junxiang could not recognize her, took her hand and said:
You're late, Bethune just now.
When his mind was clear, he leaned down again and asked her worriedly, "I'm gone, what are you going to do?" ”
In 1996, his wife Zhang Junxiang really left.
Zhou Xiaoyan wiped away her tears, silently packed up her inner sadness, and continued to insist on her teaching career until the age of 92 and was still on the front-line podium.
Liao Changyong once said, "Sir, I think work is life. ”
In 2016, Zhou Xiaoyan fell ill again and was hospitalized. Liao Changyong went to see her, and Zhou Xiaoyan, who was lying on the hospital bed, complained that she couldn't do anything in the hospital, couldn't teach students, and even wanted students to come to the hospital.
Of course, the hospital did not agree.
A few months later, Zhou Xiaoyan quietly closed her eyes in the hospital at the age of 99.
And Liao Changyong recalled the first time he saw his teacher Zhou Xiaoyan on campus:
A well-tailored cheongsam, a pair of exquisite high heels, a dignified and elegant temperament, the style walks on the road, the eyes are high, but also passionate.
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Author: Liang Xiaoxiao
Resources:
Wang Jianqiang's "Hundred Chinese New Year's Eve Warblers In Flight: The Biography of Zhou Xiaoyan"