"I have been kind all my life and have never done anything bad, but the human world is suffering, and nothing has spared me."
She only starred in 2 works in her life, but they have become classics.
She lost her mother at the age of four, became popular at the age of 17, went crazy at the age of 26, relied on drugs to suppress her nerves all her life, and when she was crazy, she met a man who loved her all her life.
At the age of 58, she left her loving husband and two sons forever.
Her life was miserable and happy and seemed to never accompany her.
Two monuments and two tombs, Shanghai and Kunming are always concerned.
This hard-working, hard-working girl did not usher in her "Ashima" life.
Here is a small love letter from the movie, and today let me talk about the daughter of Yunnan, the eternal "Ashima" - the tragic life of Yang Likun.
01
In April 1942, Yang Likun was born into a Yi family in Mohei Town, Pu'er County, Yunnan.
There are many children in the family, and Yang Likun ranks ninth, so everyone calls her "Little Nine".
Four or five years old should be a happy age, with the love of a father and the company of a mother. But Yang Likun's mother left the family forever because of overwork.
Just like the song sings, "a motherless child is like a grass", Yang Likun, who lost her mother, is even more helpless, has no one to support herself, and becomes introverted and taciturn.
Little Yang Likun did not have the opportunity to go to school, but did farm work for the family.
Until 1952, Yang Likun's eldest sister returned home to see her sister who had just turned 10 years old, and her sister who did not have a mother to take care of her sister and even 10 years old did not know a word, and the eldest sister really couldn't bear it, and brought her 10-year-old sister back to Kunming and put her second sister's home.
Due to the relatively good conditions of the second sister's family, Yang Likun also came to the school to study.
In 1954, the second sister took Yang Likun, who was already 12 years old at the time, to see a performance, and it was during this casual movie viewing that Yang Likun attracted the attention of Hu Zonglin with her beautiful appearance.
Hu Zonglin, the leader of the Yunnan Provincial Song and Dance Troupe, noticed that Yang Likun had a well-proportioned body proportion and good softness, and Hu Zonglin realized that Yang Likun was a good seedling for dancing.
In this way, Yang Likun, who was only 12 years old, was selected to join the provincial song and dance troupe and became the youngest dancer in the song and dance troupe. More because of his diligence and hard work, Yang Likun soon became an independent leading dancer in the troupe.
Later, it came to prominence in "Spring River Flower Moon Night", Yang Likun's dance posture is beautiful, steady with a hint of subtlety.
Used at that time
"Like a pure and pure baran"
It is most appropriate to describe her beauty and outstanding dancing.
02
At the age of 12, Yang Likun has become a pillar on the stage, and at the same time, she has also started her acting career.
In 1959, the Preparations for the National Day tribute drama "Five Golden Flowers" began, which was produced by Changchun Studio and directed by Wang Jiayi.
During the preparation of the work, director Wang Jiayi interviewed many actresses before and after, but none of them could satisfy him.
Until Wang Jiayi saw Yang Likun, Yang Likun suddenly broke into the heart of director Wang Jiayi with a window-opening action, and director Wang Jiayi could not help but shout, she is "Golden Flower".
This year, Yang Likun was 17 years old, and she starred in the film "Five Golden Flowers" without any acting experience.
The success of the film also made Yang Likun a popular actress of that era and a household name.
It's just that Yang Likun, who is very popular, did not share her filming with her family, she was still the low-key, lonely, uneasy little girl, a little girl who did not have her mother around since she was a child, and did not share the happiness.
It wasn't until 1961, when someone brought her a movie ticket for "Five Golden Flowers," that her accomplishments were known to her family.
The film has been screened in 46 countries and regions, once it came out, it caused a sensation, the first Asian-African Film Festival Yang Likun also won the "Best Actress Silver Eagle Award", the Egyptian president also named Yang Likun to receive the award.
In 1964, Yang Likun participated in the filming of the Shanghai Studio film Ashima, which tells the story of her own national legend.
It is said that at that time, many actresses wanted to win this role, and some even bribed the director of this film, Liu Qiong.
However, the director still chose the agile Yang Likun, and the film achieved great success with its release.
This drama pushed the 22-year-old Yang Likun to the peak, and the limelight was unique for a while.
However, while this drama gave Yang Likun honor, it also buried hidden dangers for her a lifetime of pain.
03
From the 17-year-old "Five Golden Flowers" to the 22-year-old "Ashima", Yang Likun only took 4 years.
But behind the brilliance is the bleak second half of her life.
Sometimes I can't help but sigh that the life of my mother who lost her mother since childhood is pitiful enough, but God is still joking with her.
Because of the intention and theme of "Ashima" and "Five Golden Flowers", the lead actor Yang Likun has been seriously criticized, and "Ashima" is no longer the embodiment of "beauty and love", but the totem of people's thoughts.
Yang Likun had no way to understand why this role full of justice had been slammed into that way, she argued hard, and even began to lose sleep, unable to sleep all night.
This mental and physical stimulation made her already neurasthenia even more fragile. This year, she was only 26 years old, the age of a woman like a flower, but she was completely crazy.
It was not until later that Yang Likun was sent to Kunming Changpo Psychiatric Hospital for treatment, but the best time for treatment was missed.
Once a big star like a flower, he began to doubt the ghost, and at the age of 28, no one dared to marry.
In 1972, 30-year-old Yang Likun had no way to get out of that painful memory and was transferred to the Nanchenzhou Mental Hospital for treatment.
It was also here that she was introduced to meet the man who loved her the most, Tang Fenglou.
It's just that the woman in front of her now no longer has the style of the stage in the past, but her eyes are sluggish and her face is sallow.
However, Tang Fenglou was deeply in love with this once beautiful girl, she was still the kind Yang Likun in her bones, even if she no longer had that bright and moving eyes, she no longer had the figure she had once been, and she had forgotten that she had once been a dancer.
On May 22, 1973, after more than a year of correspondence, the young couple, who had met in times of tribulation, finally forged a good relationship.
Just two months after marriage, Yang Likun's "auditory hallucinations" appeared again, and the most serious thing was that she did not even know her husband. Her husband, Tang Fenglou, did not abandon him, but he still took good care of his beloved wife.
On the afternoon of May 25, 1974, Yang Likun gave birth to a pair of twin sons in the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department of the District Central Hospital, named Tang Yan and Tang Tao.
In 1978, Yang Likun was transferred to the Shanghai Film Studio, where she was reunited with her husband and son for many years.
The once big star has lost her slim spirit, because of the side effects of the drug, she has begun to be obese, the eyes are lightless, this excellent girl, has been tortured into this look.
04
In 1979, in order to improve the family environment, her husband Tang Fenglou resigned behind Yang Likun's back and started a business in Shenzhen.
In 1996, Tang Fenglou bought a villa for Yang Likun, but the experience of persecution made Yang Likun dare not live in the villa.
Unexpectedly, not long after, Yang Likun began to have kidney failure because of taking a large number of psychotropic drugs, paralyzed in bed, and her husband took care of her wholeheartedly at home.
She could only cry to her husband over and over again:
I'm sorry, I'm dragging you down, the next life change me to take care of you.
The husband looked at his wife in front of him and said with tears in his eyes:
You will always be the big star in my heart, I am willing, I am willing to take care of you for a lifetime, just beg you not to go.
It's just that God still hasn't heard her husband's pleading.
In July 2000, Yang Likun, who was in pain, left forever at the age of 58.
At this point, yang Likun, an actor with a bad fate and a life of ups and downs, ended her life.
Before her death, Yang Likun never returned to Kunming, the land that made her brilliant and made her miserable.
After her death, Yang Likun finally returned half of her soul to her hometown, and half of her ashes returned to the city.
So far, Yang Likun has been dead for 20 years.
After watching Yang Likun's life, she was once strong, and she had unremitting efforts.
Sometimes I can't help but lament the twists and turns of her life
A miserable girl who lost her mother from childhood has a talent for acting that is superior to that of others, but because of her role, she is persecuted and goes crazy all her life.
I might even wonder if it would be better not to star in "Five Golden Flowers" and "Ashima" so that she would not be destroyed.
Will she be able to fulfill her dream of taking care of her husband.
However, there are many things that there is no way to start over.
She still shaped the classics on the screen, and she also used her lifelong persistence to let us see the brave "Ashima".
She has spent her life telling us that insisting on being kind is worth the love of her husband's life.
No matter what you live, some people say that we only come once in this world, eat the food we want to eat, meet the people you want to meet, have favorite scenery, and do what you like.
If there is an afterlife, I hope that Yang Likun can go smoothly in her life, find a person who loves her as soon as possible, someone will leave a lamp for her to go home, when an ordinary person no longer faces the hustle and bustle of the city, so that all year round, three meals a day, the family sits idle, and the lights can be expected.
Finally, I hope that if Yang Likun can come back to the world, only be her own daughter, adoptive parents will grow old, do my own thing, and do whatever she wants.