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Northern Shaanxi storytelling has a long history, a three-string, a pair of flinging boards tied to the legs, coupled with a fixed rhythm of singing lyrics, through the wonderful performance of the storyteller, you can say the ancient way to the present, and when it comes to northern Shaanxi storytelling, there is a person who cannot fail to mention, he is the famous people's artist Han Qixiang who once told Chairman Mao, today's red mark series reports We will listen to his story together.
Han Qixiang, born in 1914 in Hengshan County, Yulin City, when he was 3 years old, due to a serious illness, blind in both eyes, his mother in order to find a livelihood for him, sold Zhongtian land, let the 13-year-old Han Qixiang worship into the northern Shaanxi storyteller Du Weixin's door, Han Qixiang was talented and smart, three months can independently speak, after growing up Han Qixiang is keen on revolution, as a propagandist of the Northern Shaanxi Red Army.
Zhang Duo, a docent at the former site of Lu Yi: (Han Qixiang) hid the crimson slogan in a three-string shell, secretly propagated the Red Army in the name of telling and selling books, and became a secret red propagandist.
After the Yan'an Forum on Literature and Art in 1942, Chairman Mao called on the vast number of literary and art workers to go deep among the masses and create new literary and artistic works.
Lu Yi's former site docent Zhang Duo: In 1944, Lu Yi's He Jingzhi met Han Qixiang when he went to the countryside of Wangjiatun, the seat of the Yan'an County Government, and he found the light of art in Han Qixiang's lyrics, so he brought him to Lu Yi and introduced him to Zhang Geng of the Drama Department, Lü Ji, Marco, An Bo of the Music Department, and other comrades.
Han Yinglian, the only daughter of Han Qixiang, is 60 years old, and she is the heir of Han Qixiang's storytelling, and Han Yinglian told reporters that her father often told himself and his family about the story of telling Chairman Mao about books.
Han Qixiang's daughter Han Yinglian: One day in August 1946, a man came, after tying up the horse in the old locust tree, walked up to him and patted him on the shoulder and said, You are Comrade Han Qixiang, Chairman Mao asked you to write, at that time, after hearing this news, my father was very excited, and he was very excited and afraid, he said at that time, I am a northern Shaanxi person, the dialect is particularly heavy, afraid that Chairman Mao will not understand, the man said, it does not matter, you say slowly, Chairman Mao will definitely understand.
Han Yinglian said that his father recalled that Chairman Mao was very careful, and after Han Qixiang arrived in Yangjialing, Chairman Mao specially arranged his lunch and dinner and kept Han Qixiang to stay in Yangjialing for one night.
Han Qixiang's daughter Han Yinglian: The chairman thought very thoughtfully, settling the guard and saying that he was a storyteller, and he could not let him eat too much before the performance, and when he ate too much and sang, he would be hurt, and after the performance, he would give him a little food, and left my father to live in Yangjialing for one night, saying that he was a fellow countryman who was used to living in the hot kang and burned the kang hot.
At that time, Han Qixiang played two pieces to Chairman Mao, one was "Zhang Yulan Participated in the Election Meeting" and the other was "Biography of Current Affairs", Chairman Mao after listening to Han Qixiang's storytelling, he greatly appreciated this way of performing, encouraged Han Qixiang to bring more apprentices, and create more works that reflected the life of Yan'an and the workers, peasants, and soldiers.
Han Qixiang's daughter Han Yinglian: He is a blind man, the first feature of his creation is to rely on him to listen, that is, to listen to some to the countryside, some new things, some is which village has happened some good people and good deeds, and then one is to touch, no matter what he writes, such as this year's harvest, how long the ears of wheat grow, how big the stick is, he has to touch it personally, he is on crutches, the traffic is not convenient at that time, so it is all walking, walking over the mountain, walking closer, he has encountered many, many difficulties, he has fought with wolves, He has also been bitten by dogs and has fallen off a cliff.
After the founding of New China, Han Qixiang was successively elected as the director of the Northwest Qu Art Improvement Association and the vice chairman of the China Qu Art Research Association, and he changed from an ordinary literary and art worker to a leading cadre of the party's literary and art work, but he still went down to the grass-roots level, devoted himself to the development of storytelling in northern Shaanxi, and followed Chairman Mao's instructions, bringing out a batch of apprentices one after another.
Han Qixiang's daughter Han Yinglian: Because the disciples trained in the past are blind artists, northern Shaanxi storytelling has been blind artists since ancient times, so it is said that in the 70s he wanted to cultivate a group of young, clear-eyed, cultured storytellers, at least above the level of high Chinese, that will be after I graduated from high school, he will do my job, let me learn to tell books, of course, after he did the work, I was the first to take the lead in signing up, under my leadership, at that time, just like us young people, signed up for more than 20 young men and women, after passing the examination selection, There are 6 of us enrolled, and it can be said that we are the first generation of female storytellers in northern Shaanxi.
Han Qixiang devoted his life to the development of northern Shaanxi storytelling, creating more than 570 large and small works, such as "Liu Qiao's Reunion", "Zhang Yulan's Participation in the Election Meeting", "Turning Over" and other works have also been handed down to this day, and the Northern Shaanxi Storytelling book was listed as a national intangible cultural heritage in 2006.
Reporter: Yang Liang, Bai Zhe
Editor: Li Jiaxin