Pang Xueqin was one of the 22 movie stars selected by the Ministry of Culture in 1962.
His fate with the film began with "Border Village Beacon" and reached the peak of his acting career after filming "Youth in the Fire of War".
After starring in a series of excellent films, he became the helmsman of Changchun Film Studio.
In his career, Pang Xueqin can be said to have achieved fame, but in life, he was once arranged by fate to become the male protagonist of a bitter melodrama.
Pang Xueqin and his wife Yang Huan are a pair of like-minded filmmakers, but Yang Huan's father was worried about their combination and had a long conversation with Pang Xueqin.
In the face of the father-in-law's push, Pang Xueqin made a vow that he would treat Yang Huan well in this life.
So did he keep his promise? Find out in his story!
01
In 1929, Pang Xueqin was born in a small town called Dongkan in Jiangsu Province.
It was a turbulent time, and he witnessed a lot of suffering in his growth, and he also developed an independent and capable character early.
At the age of 10, Pang Xueqin became the leader of the local children's group, which is enough to prove that he is outstanding among his peers.
At that time, Pang Xueqin not only put up slogans and propaganda with his companions, but also often took the initiative to disturb the enemy's vision.
A few years later, the county set up its own cultural and labor troupe, and the hard-working Pang Xueqin also became one of them.
At that time, he was only fourteen or fifteen years old, but he could still be appointed as the deputy leader of the troupe, leading more than a hundred people in the troupe to perform around.
In April 1945, Pang Xueqin's county cultural and labor troupe was incorporated into the New Fourth Army's Northern Jiangsu Cultural and Labor Troupe, and he became the main member of it.
For several years, this cultural and labor troupe has been active in Yanfu, northern Jiangsu and central China, propagating anti-Japanese ideas in the form of literature and art, and cooperating with the armed forces to jointly fight the enemy.
Pang Xueqin is also a multi-purpose in the troupe, in addition to playing roles in the drama, he is also a member of the choir team.
In the intense and fulfilling work, two years passed in a hurry. At this time, Pang Xueqin was heroic and active, not only joined the People's Liberation Army, but also joined the party.
He also grew from a grassroots regimental member to a capable instructor, a leader of the innovation and research team, and also participated in the Battle of Huaihai in 1948.
Compared with the students who are now immersed in heavy schoolwork every day, pang Xueqin's generation's adolescence can be said to be thrilling.
02
In 1951, artillery instructor Pang Xueqin received a new task arranged for him by the organization and went to the Beijing Film Academy to study.
Thus, Pang Xueqin began his film career.
During his time at the Beijing Film Academy, Pang Xueqin met many new talents in the film industry, and also met a beautiful female classmate, Yang Huan.
Yang Huan is a native of Beijing, her father is a very learned elder, and she also tries her best to cultivate her daughter.
Before entering the Beijing Film Academy, Yang Huan was an actor at the Central Conservatory of Music, and his professional quality was outstanding.
In the process of studying at the school, the students often had to participate in the dance, and on such occasions, Yang Huan was naturally like a fish, but Pang Xueqin, who was from the army, did not know anything about it.
In this way, Yang Huan became Pang Xueqin's dance teacher, and a kind of affection also began to spread and grow in the hearts of the two.
At that time, it was not allowed for trainees to fall in love, and if they were discovered, they would be expelled, so neither Pang Xueqin nor Yang Huan acted hastily.
It was not until the time of graduation that Pang Xueqin, a man, invited Yang Huan to a small bridge in Beihai and took the initiative to confess his heart to the object of his choice.
Although Yang Huan was also full of tenderness, she did not agree to him immediately, and she felt that she should seek her father's opinion.
Pang Xueqin did not expect that in the process of meeting his parents, he learned a secret about Yang Huan.
03
In Pang Xueqin's eyes, Yang Huan's father was a very cultivated old man.
After the meeting, he and Pang Xueqin had a separate conversation, in which Yang Huan's father revealed the situation of his daughter to Pang Xueqin, hoping that he would carefully consider the relationship between the two.
It turned out that Yang Huan now looked normal, but in fact, during adolescence, she had a tendency to suffer from mental illness.
Although her illness has not been repeated for so many years, no one can guarantee what will happen in the future.
This not so good news made Pang Xueqin feel very surprised, thinking about the time he and Yang Huan spent together for several years, he finally decided not to give up on this cute girl.
Yang Huan's father did not say anything more, but asked him to treat his daughter well in the future, and Pang Xueqin solemnly agreed to it.
At that time, the fiery career and love made Pang Xueqin full of hope for the future, and he would never have thought that the road under his feet would be so rugged and difficult.
The days of love are always sweet and beautiful, and in 1955 Yang Huan won the praise of the examiner in an examination.
In order to celebrate his lover, Pang Xueqin cut a plate of tomatoes at home, sprinkled with cotton sugar, and hung it early in the well to ice, and when Yang Huan returned, he immediately brought the cold tomatoes to her with a surprise.
In those days, it was not easy to eat such a sugar mixed with tomatoes.
In 1958, Pang Xueqin and Yang Huan married each other to form a happy little family, and the following year, bad luck came.
That year, Yang Huan was filming the film "Sisters on Ice", and one person in the crew had a contracted pink eye disease, and many people, including Yang Huan, were infected.
In order not to let her eyes affect the shooting schedule, she used a hormone drug called cortisone, but she did not expect that because of the dosage problem, she caused more serious eye diseases and periretinitis.
The disease was very tricky at the time, Yang Huan was sent to Beijing for treatment, the process needed to inject into the eyeball, her vision was almost blind, which made Pang Xueqin very distressed.
It was a tough time for the little couple.
04
Since Yang Huan went to Beijing for medical treatment, Pang Xueqin began to live a life of traveling between the two places.
During that time, because of rare natural disasters, there was a shortage of food.
Fortunately, at that time, Pang Xueqin's troupe would go to the fishery or the army from time to time to perform, and the other party would prepare some fish and pork for the actors as a reward.
Every time Pang Xueqin got his share of fish or meat, he was reluctant to eat it, he always processed the ingredients and then made them into fried products that were easy to preserve.
When he learned that anyone in the regiment was going to Beijing, he asked someone to help yang Huan carry it.
Occasionally, when he had free time, he would immediately take a car to Beijing to see his wife, and Pang Xueqin hoped that his unexpected appearance would bring surprises to Yang Huan, and hoped that his sick wife would be happier.
Yang Huan's blindness is 4 years, during which he has to do many vision correction surgeries, and Pang Xueqin is afraid that his wife will cause eye bleeding because of heavy work.
Therefore, he not only took on the work of the family inside and outside the home after work, but also reluctantly let his wife do some work when he arrived in Beijing.
Like washing and cooking, cleaning up the room, even Yang Huan's underwear is also washed by Pang Xueqin.
In 1964, after consulting with the advice of several doctors and learning that pregnancy was harmless to Yang Huan's eye disease, Pang Xueqin and his wife put the birth of a child on the agenda.
The following year, their eldest son was born, and Pang Xueqin named his son Pang Hao, hoping that his arrival would give his wife the hope of recovering from her illness.
Maybe God was also touched by Pang Xueqin! After that, Yang Huan's eye disease did have some improvement.
A few years later, when his youngest son was born, Pang Xueqin named him Yuezi, which also means that he hopes that his wife's illness will get better and better.
The two sons brought joy to the family, and Yang Huan's illness really got better and better every day.
05
In those years, Pang Xueqin not only cared for his wife Yang Huan, but also had a lot of achievements in his career.
As early as 1959, he became famous for his role as Lei Zhenlin in the film "Youth in The Fire".
In 1962, together with Qin Yi, Chen Qiang and others, he was named one of the 22 biggest movie stars in New China by the Ministry of Culture.
In 1965, he also participated in the classic film "Eternal Life in the Fire", in which he played the husband of Sister Jiang.
According to this momentum, yang huan should have been more active in the film industry after the gradual recovery of yang hu eye disease, but in fact he did not have such an opportunity, because a bigger disaster for the family occurred, and Yang Huan's mental disorder recurred.
At first she just became silent and didn't like to talk, and it wasn't long before she developed into a mania.
When the onset of the disease, she will attack the closest people around her, and Pang Xueqin cannot think about anything with the patient, but can only bear it silently.
At that time, Pang Xueqin gradually shifted to behind-the-scenes work, and later became the director of changchun film studio.
But no matter how busy he was working outside, when he got home, he immediately transformed into an all-round husband.
Cooking and washing dishes, singing songs to coax his sons to sleep, and when the family fell asleep, he quietly got up to wash clothes and read scripts.
What awaits Pang Xueqin every weekend is not a good leisure time, but two large basins of clothes that the whole family has taken off.
Sometimes his wife's condition is really difficult to control and interferes with Pang Xueqin's work, and he will take advantage of the fact that his two children are not at home to send his wife to the hospital.
Before Yang Huan left, it must have been a struggle, and Pang Xueqin, who was physically and mentally exhausted after sending his wife away, could not avoid crying.
Such a day can be said to be dark, but Pang Xueqin has never complained about his wife, nor has he ever thought of giving up.
In the face of a person who is persistent and has a sunny heart, even bad luck will be scared away. Under the careful care of Pang Xueqin, Yang Huan's state gradually returned to normal.
From the 1980s to the death of Yang Huan in 2004, Pang Xueqin and she finally lived a peaceful life as an ordinary couple.
These new students after suffering have become the most beautiful memories in Pang Xueqin's heart.
06
After Yang Huan's death, Pang Xueqin could not get out of the grief of losing his relatives, and during that time, it was the sensible grandson who accompanied him, brushing away the sadness in his heart little by little.
Everything his father did for this family, Pang Xueqin's two sons saw it in their eyes.
They admired their father, and they felt even more sorry for him, and the two brothers did not want their father to work for half a lifetime, and when he was old, he still had to taste loneliness.
A bold idea gradually took shape in their minds, they wanted to find a wife for their father to talk about, and Hideko Takayama, who had been friends with their family for many years, was undoubtedly the most suitable candidate.
Takayama Hideko lived in Changchun in her early years and was a neighbor of Pang Xueqin and his wife, and she had a very good relationship with Yang Huan.
Later, she left Changchun for some reason and went to Japan. In the process of several tossing and turning they lost contact.
Some time after Yang Huan's death, Pang Xueqin's younger son found the contact information of Hideko Takayama and learned that her good sister had passed away, and Hideko Takayama was very sad.
She called Pang Xueqin with a condolence phone, and her old friend was contacted again after many years of absence, and they naturally felt all kinds of emotions in each other's hearts.
They met and talked for hours in one breath. The heart also slowly drew closer.
With the support of her sons, Pang Xueqin, who is over 70 years old, plucked up the courage to make clear her thoughts to Hideko Takayama, and although Takayama Hideko had some concerns in her heart, she finally accepted him.
With the company of Hideko Takayama, Pang Xueqin's later life became no longer a single shadow.
On October 12, 2015, Pang Xueqin, who had tasted all the hardships and harvested happiness in this world, left forever.
Did he keep the promise he had made to his father-in-law?
The answer is obvious.
Many, many years ago, Liu Xiu, who had not yet gained power, once issued an exclamation of "marrying a wife and marrying Yin Lihua", after reading today's story, there will probably be people who have the idea of marrying Pang Xueqin.
There are thousands of men in this world, but men who know cold and warm and have responsibility are too precious.