Lead to the mountain, the beast can not walk, blow to the water, the fish can not swim. It is a praise for those who have a skill, and "everything in the world depends on the hands", which clearly shows that if a person has a skill, he needs to think hard with both hands, which is not easy for everyone to get.
Movie stars, in the present point of view, is the identity that many people dream of, it seems that showing their faces can be full of pots, and the line is difficult, although the film stars at the beginning of the founding of the country have different colors and different talents, but each of them has won a place in the art world with their own talents.
Looking back on the past, this is probably the most appropriate portrayal of Li Lilian and all those who have experienced the War of Resistance and the founding of the country.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="3" > transition from singer to movie star</h1>
The work that made Li Lilian famous in the First World War was "Wang Zhaojun". Li Lilian, born in Shanghai in 1914, because of her ancestral home in Guangdong, is very proficient in Cantonese opera, and her singing voice is also very gentle and moving, and as soon as she debuted, she was known as "Lingnan Singer".
In 1930, the 16-year-old Li Lilian became famous for her first cross-border appearance in the opera "Wang Zhaojun". The opera "Wang Zhaojun" is considered to be the pioneering work of serious Chinese opera.
The director and screenwriter is Xiao Mei, Li Lilian's poignant singing, sincere acting skills, and moving crying scenes make Xiao Mei very satisfied with Li Lilian, who starred in Zhaojun, and it is precisely because of starring in this opera that Li Lilian opened the road of cross-border drama from singer.
The following year, that is, in 1931, Li Lilian joined the Tianyi Film Company founded by the Shaw brothers and became a movie star, starring in the film "Miss Shanghai Han Xiuwen", and successively starred in "A Wife", "The Flower of Society", "Husband with a Wife", "Qiankun in Dreams" and other films, completing the transformation from singer to movie star.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, acting, watching and appreciating opera existed as revolutionary activities, and the Fudan Opera Society, founded in 1925 under the guidance of Professor Hong Shen, the "founder of modern Chinese drama", was one of the earliest drama groups in China.
Artistically, the Fudan Drama Society held drama lectures to popularize the knowledge of drama; in revolutionary activities, the Fudan Drama Society has been rehearsing and performing for the Chinese proletarian movement.
Li Lilian also came to prominence in the rehearsal of Fudan Drama Society, in 1936, the drama master Ouyang Yuqian as the director of the Rehearsal "Thunderstorm" in Fudan Drama Society, let Li Lilian provoke the beam, play the soul role of Zhou Fanyi, this performance will push Li Lilian's acting career to the peak, so that major newspapers rush to report.
After the July 7 Incident in 1937, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression broke out in an all-round way, and the personnel of the Playwrights Association in Shanghai in China launched a patriotic propaganda campaign to save the lives in order to adapt to the situation of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, and proposed to launch the Shanghai Theater Circle Salvation Association.
Hoping to mobilize the people of the whole country to fight the War of Resistance through drama interpretation activities, Li Lilian was influenced by patriotic feelings, and li Lilian also participated in the rescue drama team, and arrived in Yan'an at the end of 1937.
In 1938, the "Lu Xun Academy of Arts and Literature" led by Chairman Mao and Premier Zhou was a comprehensive literary and art school founded by the Communist Party of China to train literary and artistic cadres of the War of Resistance.
During the difficult period in Yan'an, li lilian continued to study as the first batch of "Lu Yi" as the first batch of students of "Lu Yi", in order to launch the mission and role of art in the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and explore along the path opened by Mr. Lu Xun.
In Yan'an, she shed the gorgeous cloak of an actress and turned to the teaching of entertainment culture in the remote areas of Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia, and after completing her studies, she served as a music teacher in one of the three major departments of "Lu Yi", personally participated in opera, becoming one of the most active literary and artistic artists in Yan'an, and also becoming a well-known beauty in Yan'an.
And her fate with Li De also began from the time she stepped into Yan'an in 1937.
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In 1933, Chiang Kai-shek, commander-in-chief of the Nationalist Army, disregarded the national peril and insisted on taking the line of "outside the country must first be at home.".
In Jiangxi and Fujian, a large-scale "fifth encirclement and suppression war" against the Communists was launched, and in this anti-encirclement and suppression campaign, the Red Army failed to win as easily as the previous four anti-encirclement and suppression campaigns, but was forced to move out of the base areas and embarked on a long and tragic "Long March" trip.
The failure of the anti-encirclement and suppression campaign was mainly due to the erroneous military strategy and operational principles implemented by the CPC Central Committee, and during the fifth anti-encirclement and suppression period, Chairman Mao was squeezed out of military decision-making power.
The actual instructors of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army at that time were Bogu and Li De, who was born in Germany, was arrested twice after Germany joined the Communist Party, escaped from prison in 1928 and fled to the Soviet Union, where he was valued and entered the "Frunze Military Academy" focusing on the training of senior military officers.
After four years of study, he was sent by the General Staff of the Red Army of the Soviet Union to northeast China in 1932 to collect Military Intelligence on the Japanese side and served as an intelligence officer.
In a plan to send money to rescue Niu Lan and his wife, they met Bogu, who had just become the interim head of the CPC Central Committee, and the two hit it off, one was a professional military adviser with a deep foundation in military theory, and the other was a political leader who did not know much about military strategy. The two began the leadership of "foreign monks chanting the Chinese scriptures".
In the "Fifth Anti-Encirclement and Suppression Campaign", first adventurism was practiced, then opportunistic escapeism was practiced, and repeated battles and retreats were repeatedly fought, resulting in a smaller and smaller area in the Central Soviet Region, the situation was not optimistic, and finally forced the Red Army to embark on a long march of 25,000 miles.
At the Zunyi Conference in 1935, Bogu was relieved of his position as the supreme leader of the CCP, and Li De moved with the large troops and returned to his post as a military adviser.
He still actively participated in the people's War of Resistance Against Japan and always contributed his strength to the War of Resistance Against Japan and Salvation. In line with the advancement of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Li De's personal life problems have always been paid attention to by the CPC Central Committee.
Because Li De was an intelligence officer sent to China by the Soviet Union, during the CCP period led by Bogu, Li De became a "foreign teacher", and it can be said that food, clothing, housing and travel can be said to be a priority.
He was very enthusiastic and unrestrained in his life style, and there were even incidents of "harassment of married female comrades" when he was in the base area.
In order to avoid the recurrence of such things, finding a daughter-in-law for this "foreign teacher" became a "political project" sent by Degu to Li Jianzhen of the Women's Committee, and Xiao Yuehua became Li De's first wife.
According to the data, Xiao Yuehua's appearance is not very outstanding, born in the countryside, she likes to play basketball, is a very simple life of a girl.
In the early stage of saying that he was not very willing to marry this "foreign teacher" who did not understand the language and had a different style, he did the work of the organization before reluctantly agreeing to the marriage, and Xiao Yuehua was holding the spirit of dedication to the revolution.
After marriage, Xiao Yuehua accompanied Li De on the Long March, and had a son with Li De in the base area of Yan'an, named "Ning Ning".
Although he also had a vision of married life, and his relationship with Li De also eased up in the Long March, in the end, due to the intimate relationship between Li De and another woman, the marriage came to an abrupt end.
This woman was none other than Li Lilian, the female warrior who had walked from actress to Yan'an.
The end of the "Yan'an Wind" actress
The woman in the clouds is not a hero, and wanli rides the wind alone to the east. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, there was such a group of people who traveled with the Red Army to Yan'an, who were beautiful and determined, weak and slender, and had a smooth posture.
In Red Yan'an, female comrades are a firm force that cannot be ignored in the revolutionary ranks, and it is difficult for Li Lilian, as a beautiful female fighter, not to notice.
Li Lilian and Li De's first encounter was at a dance party in Yan'an, where the beautiful Li Lilian greeted Li De in English and invited Li De to enjoy the opera she participated in.
Her euphemistic singing voice deeply attracted this husband with a wife, and the two began dating, and it was precisely because of the continuous heating of their relationship that eventually caused the breakdown of the marriage between Li De and Xiao Yuehua.
Li De's original partner, Xiao Yuehua, found out about the relationship between the two and directly approached Chairman Mao to apply for approval of divorce, and Chairman Mao took into account the political engineering factors at the beginning of Li Xiao's marriage at that time, and finally responded.
Li Lilian was officially married to Li De in March 1938. According to the data, the two are very sweet and harmonious after marriage, and everyone can often see the post-marital life scene of the two working together on the dance floor and the vegetable market, and they have also met baitou, planning to live in Yan'an for a long time and stay together in China.
However, in 1939, Li De received a note from the order to return to the Soviet Union to report for duty, which coincided with premier Zhou's need to take the opportunity to go to the Soviet Union for medical treatment, so Li De took the opportunity to return to the Soviet Union.
Li Lilian chased to the airport, but because she did not have a passport and visa, li de had to return to the Soviet Union alone, and also ended the seven-year road of foreign intelligence. After returning to the Soviet Union, Li De was unable to continue his political career and was sent to work for a publishing house.
Ten years later, Li De returned to Germany, where he served as president of the East German Literary Association and first secretary of the Writers' Association, but in August 1974 he died in East Germany at the age of 74.
After Li De left, his marriage to Li Lilian ended without any problems, and the two never saw each other again in their lives. Li Lilian, who remained in China, did not sink because of this, but continued to teach and act, although she failed to kill the enemy head-on, she has always contributed her "supporting role" strength as a literary and artistic worker to the Anti-Japanese Salvation War.
In 1940, Li Lilian once again participated in the drama directed by Ouyang Yuqian, the content of the performance was Cao Yu's "Sunrise", this time the performance was attended by Premier Zhou, the performance was performed for eight days, the audience was nearly 80,000 people, and the performance was unprecedented.
In 1946, Li Lilian married Ouyang Shanzun and returned to Shanghai to star in "Brothers and Sisters Open Up the Wasteland", conveying the enterprising spirit of revolution to the Chinese before liberation, and also showing the new literary and artistic atmosphere of Yan'an.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Li Lilian served as the director of the Children's Work Department and the International Liaison Department of the All-China Women's Federation, devoting herself to the cause of women and children and the united front work in New China; in the development of literature and art, she contributed to the preparatory work of the Beijing People's Art Theater and the Central Opera and Dance Theater.
It can be said that Li Lilian, a female film star who returned from Yan'an, no longer exists simply as a film and television actress, and after experiencing the life of Yan'an and the War of Resistance Against Japan, she is engaged in literary and artistic undertakings for the happiness of the people and the strength of the country, and does her part for the country and the people in the field of art that she knows well.
Until April 1965, Li Lilian died of illness in Beijing, and a generation of Yan'an beauties died of incense.
War has always been accompanied by killing, and it has always carried the legendary color of beauty, and the beauties who entered the new China are no longer embattled and self-destructible, nor are they from the camp prostitutes to the tragic color of female generals who died of serious injuries, they are tenacious, independent, thoughtful, and assertive, with hope for the arrival of new China, and become women in the new era with Chinese characteristics.
Text/Zhao Helan