In March 1930, a baby girl fell to the ground in Weijia Lane, Longmen, Anqing, Anhui Province. On the day she was born, her grandmother happened to have her 60th birthday, so she named her Yan Hongliu.
When he was three years old, his mother ran away from home, and since then Yan Hongliu has not known what maternal love is like.
His father, Yan Siming, was on an errand to copy a drama newspaper for the drama team, and the drama class specialized in singing Huangmei opera. Yan Hongliu loved to listen, and at night she would drill into the place where the opera team performed without a sound.
As long as she was not discovered, she could watch a few plays well when she was a child, and it didn't take much time for Yan Hongliu to sing along with her.
But the good times did not last long, and later my father ran away to avoid catching Zhuang Ding.
Before leaving, he reluctantly sent the young Yan Hongliu to his parents who lived in Luojialing and let her live with her grandparents.
Yan Hongliu likes to be lively, and he quickly plays with the children in the village in Luojialing. Luojialing people like to sing, as long as someone starts, someone will pick up later. In addition to herding cattle and beating pig grass, Yan Hongliu also likes to join the ranks of the song.
She would mix mountain songs and yellow plum tunes to attract passers-by to stop and listen.
Because of the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, her father Yan Siming was able to return to her hometown and teach her to sing Peking Opera when she was bored.
At that time, the Huangmei minor key, the content was mostly based on the love between men and women and the fate of women, which was considered to be "flower drum fornication" and was criticized by people.
At that time, singing was a despised profession, and singing Huangmei minor was the lowest. If they are known to the clan, they will be arrested and severely punished.
There was a young man named Yan Yungao in Luojialing, because he loved to sing the Huangmei minor key, if he hadn't run fast, he would have been tied up by five flowers and tied to a stone grinding lake.
When Yan Hong was in his sixties, Yan Yungao, who had been wandering for eight years, returned, and he opened a shop to make a living, and his main business was to make up pots.
Yan Hongliu and the other children usually find various reasons to approach Yan Yungao, quietly follow him to learn Huangmei tune, lower their voices to learn to sing, and learn one move at a time.
When Yan Hongliu was sixty-three years old, Yan Yungao organized an entertainment activity at the Jiangji Tea House in the village, which was the first time Yan Hongliu sang on stage.
Yan Yungao, who tasted the sweetness, actually pulled the "entertainment team" to the Tongcheng Liantan Zhangjia Ancestral Hall for a stage performance, and "Erlong mountain" won a lot of praise from the audience.
But for Yan Hong's relatives, officially taking the stage means "bad customs and bad customs", which is a great rebellion, and the patriarch wants to open the door of the ancestral hall, tie her up, and press her into the pond to drown.
Yan Hongliu quickly ran to the mountain and hid. Yan Yungao looked anxious in his eyes and suggested that Yan Hongliu go to Liantan and find the "republican class" of his brother Cheng Jishan.
This year, Yan Hongliu was 15 years old.
Cheng Jishan took Yan Hongliu in and often took her out to run the docks.
At first, Yan Hongliu could only play some small roles in the play, but she studied carefully, and even if she played YaHuan, she could interpret the role beautifully.
There is a Zheng Hongxia who sings Dan horns in the class, and "Little Dictionary Shop" is her classic repertoire. Every time she performed, the studious Yan Hongliu pondered below, accurate to one move and one style, word by word.
Once, Zheng Hongxia was tired of her voice, could not sing, and gave the opportunity to others.
Yan Hongliu volunteered to make a temporary appearance. Unexpectedly, this substitution made her a celebrity in Anqing.
"Little Dictionary" is very difficult to sing, and since ancient times, it has been popular in the drama circle that men are afraid of "visiting friends" and women are afraid of "quitting the shop". With more than 300 words and melodies, the female Dan will be completed in a few hours.
Yan Hongliu, who has a mellow voice and a sweet appearance, is deeply loved by people, and she has become the top card in the drama class, as long as the water sign of "Little Dictionary" is hung outside, it must be a sea of people. And because she played Liu Fengying in "Little Dictionary", people affectionately called her Yan Fengying.
Since then, Yan Hongliu has officially changed his name to Yan Fengying.
As the saying goes, "blessings and misfortunes lie." Behind the infinite scenery, the disaster has quietly arrived.
A certain party self-defense force captain named Zheng Haicheng had already targeted Yan Fengying when she played "Xiao Ci Dian".
When Yan Fengying was removing her makeup in the background, Zheng Haicheng rushed in with a gun and grabbed Yan Fengying, wanting her to be his third aunt.
The captain's eldest wife saw Yan Fengying and pounced on her to tear up and scold her for seducing her man. Yan Fengying struggled to break free, quickly fled into a room, and closed the door.
When Zheng Haicheng smashed open the door of the house, he saw Yan Fengying hanging high on the beam, and he did not expect that Yan Fengying's resistance was so strong.
Zheng Haicheng's heart was touched, and after desperately rescuing, Yan Fengying came back to life, but someone held a gun to her eyebrow and made two requests to her: one is that Yan Fengying can no longer sing on stage, and the other is that Yan Fengying can no longer marry.
If Yan Fengying did not do it, Zheng Haicheng threatened to shoot.
In order to continue singing, Yan Fengying could only flee Anqing.
She begged along the way, and when she arrived in Qingyang to perform on stage, she was snatched up and locked up by the local powerful Chen Laosan. Yan Fengying cried and made trouble, preferring to die, and finally committed suicide by swallowing gold.
Chen Laosan asked the old mother to forcibly swallow leeks for Yan Fengying, and Yan Fengying only then picked up a life. Because he was afraid that things would make a big fuss, Chen Laosan let Yan Fengying go.
Yan Fengying fled again and again, but was still often harassed by a party garrison and local gentry.
In 1949, at the age of 19, she went into exile in Nanjing, and due to the compulsion of life, she worked as a dancer in the MGM Dance Hall on the Qinhuai River Temple, singing popular songs, and changing her name to Yan Daifeng.
At this time, Yan Fengying's life was difficult, and every time she went on stage to perform, the spectators on the stage would throw the burning cigarette butts at her legs.
However, fortunately, in the spring of 1950, Yan Fengying met Gan Luzhi, the third young master of the famous "Gan Family Compound" in Nanjing at that time, in the "Youyi Ji" Peking Opera Café.
The Ganjia compound, covering an area of more than 20,000 square meters and more than 300 houses, is a local famous family and opera master. Mei Lanfang and many other famous characters in pear garden are his family's guests.
Gan Luzhi loves opera, old and young students can sing, and also hold a good hand of Jinghu, and Yan Fengying saw the same, gradually, the two naturally fell in love.
During the period, Yan Fengying participated in "Royal Monument Pavilion", and also cooperated with Gan Luzhi in "Meilong Town", and the "Li Fengjie" she played and the anti-string role Zhang Fei were memorable.
Later, Gan Luzhi took the lonely Yan Fengying to the Gan family compound. Gan Luzhi's father, Gan Gongsan, was very appreciative of Yan Fengying and personally taught her to sing Kunqu opera, and Yan Fengying received good artistic influence here.
In 1951, Mao Zedong proposed at the Central Conservatory of Music that "a hundred flowers bloom and the old are introduced.".
With the support of the policy, Anhui Anqing Qunle Theater also wants to seize the opportunity to perform. When they found out that Yan Fengying was in Nanjing, they sent someone to ask her to come back and sing the opera.
In this way, 20-year-old Yan Fengying is faced with a dilemma, one side is a lover, the other side is a career.
Knowing Yan Fengying's hesitation, Gan Luzhi decided to fulfill her, and he bought a "line head" for her and encouraged her to return to the stage of Huangmei Opera.
The two of them, although together, were not married, and now Gan Luzhi agreed to Yan Fengying's return to Anqing, which meant that the relationship between the two would be difficult to say in the future.
After returning to Anqing, Yan Fengying immediately threw herself into the sorting, adaptation, rehearsal and performance of Huangmei Opera with great enthusiasm.
A year later, Yan Fengying met Wang Zhaoqian, because he was preparing for the competition of the East China Opera Festival, and Huang Mei participated in a total of three plays in the play, "Playing Pig Grass", "Blue Bridge Society" and "Willow Well". And Wang Zhaoqian is the person responsible for adapting "Willow Well".
Wang Zhaoqian, born in 1928, was 2 years older than Yan Fengying and graduated from Guiyang Normal College, where he was being transferred to the Anqing Local Theater Troupe.
When Wang Zhaoqian first saw Yan Fengying, he felt that the other party had a pair of talking eyes, water spirit, and immediately liked her.
Going round and round, the two eventually came together.
"Fighting Pig Grass" was originally a love drama. Yan Fengying successfully changed it into the story of two rural teenagers, who did not fight and did not know each other due to misunderstandings, and finally became good friends. The whole process was fun, lively and cute, and was unanimously affirmed by the judges and the audience.
This East China competition made Yan Fengying and Huang Mei opera popular all over Jiangnan together.
In 1953, the superior leader arranged a task for Yan Fengying to go to Nanjing to perform a friendship performance with the Polish song and dance troupe "Mazov Society".
Wang Zhaoqian, who was in love, decided to accompany Yan Fengying. But a letter shattered their happiness.
One day, Yan Fengying received an invitation letter from Gan Luzhi.
In the letter, Gan Luzhi invited Yan Fengying and her lover dragon boat festival to visit the Gan family. Because the Gan family helped Yan Fengying when she was most depressed, Yan Fengying has always been grateful. However, after Wang Zhaoqian knew that it was Ganlu, he resolutely did not go and let Yan Fengying go alone.
When he picked up Yan Fengying and returned, he didn't want to run into Gan Luzhi. Yan Fengying pointed to Wang Zhaoqian's words to Gan Luzhi, "This is my lover Wang Zhaoqian," and then pointed to Gan Luzhi and said to Wang Zhaoqian, "This is Gan Luzhi."
Ganlu held out his hand politely.
However, Wang Zhaoqian, dressed in military uniform, arrogantly put his hand in his pocket, did not shake hands with Gan Luzhi, and immediately turned his head and walked back.
The atmosphere was a little awkward, and Yan Fengying chased after him and asked Wang Zhaoqian why he was like this.
Unexpectedly, Wang Zhaoqian raised his hand and slapped Yan Fengying.
Yan Fengying, who had a strong personality, could bear this breath, so the two broke up like this.
This incident is only the fuse, in fact, the deep-seated reason is that the two people have incompatible personalities.
Yan Fengying did not like Wang Zhaoqian's eyes and self-righteousness; Wang Zhaoqian did not like Yan Fengying's squandering of money and giving charity at will, and when he saw who had difficulties, he would give money, and he would give money to his sister and sister.
However, at this time, Yan Fengying was pregnant, and someone advised her to beat the fetus, but Yan Fengying could not get her hands on it. Later, Yan Fengying entrusted someone to bring a letter to Wang Zhaoqian, telling him that the child was about to be born.
Unexpectedly, Wang Zhaoqian did not go, but Gan Luzhi arrived.
Gan Luzhi regarded Wang Zhaoqian's children as his own, and has been dutifully taking care of Yan Fengying's mother and son, and Yan Fengying was touched and decided to make a promise to him.
At the time of the child's full moon, 23-year-old Yan Fengying and Gan Luzhi were officially married in Nanjing, and the main marriage was Mei Lanfang, a master of Peking Opera.
Since then, Yan Fengying has ushered in the peak of her career.
"Tianxian Match" and "The Legend of Chunxiang" are both works of this period. Especially in "Heavenly Immortal Matching", Yan Fengying and Wang Shaofang's male and female vocal duet "Husband and wife both bring home back" is even more popular.
At this time, Gan Luzhi followed his brother-in-law Wang Jianyun (Meipai Qingyi) to perform in Shandong, Hebei and other places, although separated, but the relationship between husband and wife has always been very good.
However, with the fame of Yan Fengying, she was taken as the object of key cultivation by her superiors, and Gan Luzhi Gan Third Young Master, people always felt that he was Xiao Kai (Shanghainese, idle rich second generation), not worthy of Yan Fengying.
Yan Fengying has always been asked to draw a clear line with her capitalist husband.
It is easy to fall in love and difficult to keep, and on January 29, 1955, Yan Fengying and Gan Luzhi officially divorced.
In the same year, because of the new drama "Wang Jinfeng", Yan Fengying met her later husband Wang Guanya.
Wang Guanya, a native of Wuhan, Hubei Province, graduated from Anhui Normal University and is one year older than Yan Fengying.
At that time, Wang Guanya was the director of the Huangmei Drama Troupe in Anhui Province, who had just returned from the army, was young and vigorous, and was very strict with people and things.
And Yan Fengying, herself is also very good, coupled with a straight personality, the two often stalemated on the details of filming, and cooperation almost stopped.
Fortunately, the leader of the regiment, Lü Bo, patiently did his work, so that they could create good works in the process of running into each other.
What is even more unexpected is that the two noisy people, the feelings are getting deeper and deeper, and they are married in the second year of acquaintance.
Soon, their son Wang Xiaoying was born.
Yan Fengying ushered in the second peak of her artistic career.
"Playing golden branches", "jasper hairpins", "female ponies" and so on have always been talked about. Especially "Female Pony", Yan Fengying herself regarded as the most satisfactory work in her life, in the early stage of filming, Yan Fengying also specially studied Kun opera and Peking Opera, wanting to integrate them into Huangmei opera and strive for excellence.
Subsequently, Yan Fengying premiered works such as "Liu Sanjie", "Right Lesson", "Catching Lang" and so on, and the effect was very good.
After 7 years of marriage, 33-year-old Yan Fengying starred in the Hong Kong-funded Huangmei drama "Cowherd Weaver Girl", and the weaver girl she played was deeply involved in the role, which made people feel heartbroken.
The line in the last scene is: "Life and death go to the world, and it is difficult for a loving couple to reunite." A word that foreshadowed her soon-to-be sad ending.
In 1968, Yan Fengying was so humiliated that he swallowed the entire bottle of sleeping pills after writing a suicide note.
After Wang Guanya found out, he quickly asked Wang Xiaoya to go to the doctor and call an ambulance to send him to the hospital for rescue. But in the end, the best rescue time was missed, and Yan Fengying died at 5:25 a.m. on April 8.
She was still more than a month away from her 38th birthday.
At this point, the death of a generation of Huangmei opera masters cannot help but be sad
After Yan Fengying's death, Wang Guanya has not remarried, and when people asked Why Wang Guanya was no longer married, Wang Guanya pointed to Yan Fengying's photo and said that she would never meet such a good woman again.
For the rest of her life, Wang Guanya has been standing up for Yan Fengying, and later made a TV series "Yan Fengying".
In 2013, the respectable old man overworked and died of illness at the age of 84. Wang Guanya and Yan Fengying may reunite in heaven.
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