To this day, the song of "Ninety-Nine Sunny Days..." still flutters from time to time, and the "eighteen-year-old brother" of that year will forever be recorded in the annals of Chinese film history. He used to be so graceful and heroic.
——Liu Yonglai, "Unforgettable "Eighteen-year-old brother"——Posthumous drama actor Liao Youliang"[i]
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > Liao Youliang: 18-year-old brother in the sunny day of Nine-Nine, who had a sister next to him, but went to the United States</h1>
Now, few people may know about Liao Youliang. But if you mention the movie "The Story of Liubao", the song of "Nine Nine Sunny Days" will definitely fall into the hearts of many people. Such an experience also makes us have more of a pursuit of vicissitudes of history, and there is a feeling of Su Shi's "Nian Nu Jiao Chibi Huaigu" "Great River East Go", but "Xiao Qiao first married" but has nothing to do with Gongjin, it should be Liao Youliang.
"The Story of Liubao" is a romance film produced by Bayi Film Studio and directed by Wang Ping. Released in 1957. The film is adapted from Hu Shiyan's novel of the same name, telling the story of the period of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Li Jin, the deputy squad leader of a company of the New Fourth Army, and the second sister of the young girl had a pure love, and after the help and education of the instructors, they temporarily shelved their children's love and actively threw themselves into the revolutionary struggle.
Playing the deputy squad leader Li Jin is Liao Youliang, just like "Gong Jin was that year", handsome, bright and happy in that year. His "second sister" is like little Joe, pure, beautiful and sweet. But in real life, Liao Youliang and the "second sister" Tao Yuling are pure comrades-in-arms. Tao Yuling is still alive today, and one year, in an interview with a TV reporter, she said: "We are very emotional... Later, when he was alone, he fell ill, and I went to the hospital with my comrades-in-arms to visit him and take care of him, all of which were the friendship of comrades-in-arms. ”
"He" is Liao Youliang.
Let's start with the history of "his" upbringing.
Liao Youliang, born in 1937, is a native of Jiading, Shanghai. The ancestors were once rich landlords, and they also produced two soldiers. But around the time of his birth, his family's fortunes suddenly declined, and he did not even have the ability to support him. As a result, after he was born, he could only be fostered in the homes of relatives.
In 1950, Liao Youliang was 13 years old, not much taller than a three-eight gun, and he loved literature and art very much.
Coincidentally, that year, Liao Youliang's hometown came to the army's cultural and industrial regiment, and he insisted on joining, but the regimental commander disagreed, thinking that he was too small.
This matter should be thrown at ordinary people, and perhaps it will be abandoned, but Liao Youliang will not live or die. Every day before dawn, he took more than a dozen children and played waist drums on the side of the road near the cultural troupe. At that time, the troops had not yet gotten up, and the regimental commander was always woken up and came out breathlessly to ask what was going on. Liao Youliang was not only not afraid, but also asked the regimental commander how good his waist drum was. The regimental commander did not evaluate, he continued to fight; the regimental commander said it was not bad, he said: "Then why don't you let me join the literary troupe?" "The regimental commander saw that he was very persistent and had a good personality, so he followed him.
During the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, Liao Youliang came to Korea with his troops and did combat service and agitation work for the front-line troops on the battlefield and in the tunnels. This life course made him closely linked with the soldiers of the front-line troops, and because of the help of his comrades and leaders of the literary and artistic troupe, his literary and artistic talents were further discovered, and he gradually grew up, with favorable conditions for playing the character of Li Jin in "The Story of Liu Fort".
In 1957, Liao Youliang was selected to play the male lead of the movie "The Story of Liubao", deputy squad leader Li Jin.
This year, Liao Youliang was just 20 years old.
The selection criteria of that year were higher than many of our drafts today, and Liao Youliang was selected only after being selected, but the reason was very simple: he did not have a cool hairstyle, no beautiful fashion, no gossip hype, a pair of radiant eyebrows, a simple and innocent smile, a slightly Jiangnan Mandarin, a white shirt, an old military uniform, and he behaved so refreshingly and naturally that sunny "deputy squad leader". [ii]
At the same time, the heroine "Second Sister" was also finalized - Tao Yuling, who graduated from the drama team of East China Military and Political University and was assigned to work in the frontline drama troupe of the Nanjing Military Region, co-starred in "The Story of LiuBao" with Liao Youliang. Their performance in "The Story of Fort Willow" made each of them famous overnight and became an idol in the hearts of countless young people at that time.
Tao Yuling Isliang is 3 years old, and coincidentally, their birthdays are october 28. Because of this coincidence and acquaintance in "The Story of Fort Willow", coupled with the fact that they are comrades in arms of the same troupe, the two have formed a deep friendship in later life. Movies, or movies that made them famous, didn't change the trajectory of their respective lives.
Tao Yuling's husband is Huang Guolin, an actor in the Frontline Repertory Theatre, and after marriage, the two have three daughters. One year, due to Tao Yuling's postpartum physical weakness and her husband was far away, Liao Youliang moved to the downstairs of Tao Yuling's house after learning about it, and took the initiative to take care of the "sister" who needed to be taken care of.
In 1963, Liao Youliang starred in the drama "Sentinel under Neon Lights", and Tao Yuling played Chun Ni, and the two appeared on the same stage again. In 1964, the play was made into a movie, and the two once again left an unforgettable impression on the audience.
This year, Liao Youliang was 27 years old and Tao Yuling was 30 years old, both of which were like flowers and jade, but after that, the two did not intersect on the silver screen. And this couple on the silver screen, there is only the friendship between sisters and brothers and comrades in life.
Soon after the release of the movie "Sentinel under Neon Lights", Liao Youliang married Xie Liyue, a dancer in a song and dance troupe, and soon had a son. After that, he was sent to a place in East China for labor reform because of the movie "The Story of Liubao", and only returned to Shanghai in the late 1970s, where he successively worked as an actor in the Shanghai Children's Art Theatre, the Shanghai Youth Repertory Theatre, and the Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center. At that time, he had entered the year of confusion, although he found the career he loved and participated in dramas such as "Into the City", but love ushered in unfortunate changes.
In the 80s, it was popular to go to the sea, and some people also liked to go abroad. In 1982, Xie Liyue took his son Liao Hai to the United States. Liao Youliang did not go with his wife, proposed to divorce Xie Liyue, and the couple who had gone through the difficult years finally broke up bitterly in the tide of reform and opening up. After xie liyue changed careers in the 1970s, he worked as a dancer in the Shanghai Opera House Dance Troupe. When she went to the United States, she was about 40 years old, good at choreographing, and the three-person dance "Frolic" that she created won the second prize in the dance performance of six provinces and one city in East China held in Shanghai.
Liao Youliang suddenly grew much older, and because he was in a bad mood, he often smoked and drank, inducing liver disease. In 1999, he died of liver cancer in Shanghai. Before his death, Shanghai city divided a house for him, lonely and miserable, he wanted to move in quickly, but because he had been engaged in acting for a long time, he was not very good at dealing with people in real life, and he was suddenly cheated out of more than 100,000 yuan of decoration fees by scammers.
When the comrades-in-arms of that year heard about it, they were very unhappy in their hearts and decided to pool money to decorate the house for Liao Youliang, but Liao Youliang could not afford to be ill. The house was quickly renovated, but Liao Youliang was gone forever.
At that time, Su Shi's "Nian Nu Jiao Chibi Huaigu" said that he was wandering in chibi, and people could laugh at his sentimentality and prematurely produce white hair. We say that in the face of "The Story of Liubao", the deputy squad leader Li Jin is always shy but clean, but it is this appearance that allows the iron-blooded military brigade to have the tender oasis that it should have, and this oasis can allow heroes and mortals to come to a nap together. Su Shi said that life is like a dream, and a statue is still in the moon. We hear --
Nine-nine that sunny day came
My eighteen-year-old brother wanted to bring the army to join
The windmill followed the east wind
The brother remembered Ah Xiao Yinglian
The direction of the wind is uncertain, and the car is difficult to turn
Determination not to say anything...
A person's experience also reflects a period of social history. Liao Youliang's brilliant image is stuck in the movie, and he uses his most beautiful youth to interpret a beautiful love story, but all this is far from real life. In addition to these, the real-life version of "The Story of LiuBao" also has Liao Youliang's son who came to Shanghai to see him after his death and never returned. Xie Liyue, who had accompanied Liao Youliang, did not even come. Therefore, when Liao Youliang left, there was no relative around, and he recorded his "last words" with a tape recorder and said to his comrades-in-arms: "How good it is to be alive!" ”
[i] Xinmin Evening News, 5 May 1999, 13th edition;
[ii] Tianjin Ajian, "Liao Youliang, Do You Know What You're Doing Wrong", Film Pictorial, No. 9, 2013.
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