With this article, we would like to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China
Show your ambition - always be the loveliest person in the motherland (5)
Huang Rongsen, the lyricist of "Railway Soldiers In the Four Directions"
Li Xiaoqin
Fifth, show the ambitions of the birds
The 6444 Factory, a regimental unit belonging to the Logistics Department of the Railway Corps, was founded in July 1969, and in order to meet the needs of combat readiness, the factory site was selected near Wuling Mountain in Xinglong County, Hebei Province, about 150 kilometers according to Beijing. The factory has more than 600 active soldiers, cadres and workers, and its main task is to produce construction machinery parts for the railway construction troops.
In the autumn of 1972, Huang Rongsen was ordered by Tiehou to report to the 6444 factory with his whole family of four. The factory's family area is far away from the factory, and the factory leaders considered the practical difficulties of Huang Rongsen's lover's illness and decided to live in a bungalow behind the canteen.
In 1975, when the propaganda team of the Railway Corps 6444 Factory went to Beijing for a performance, they took a group photo in front of Tiananmen Square. Fifth from the left in the back row is Huang Rongsen.
Suddenly there was an additional active soldier in the factory - bright eyes, gentle face, elegant style, deep connotation, and a well-fitting military uniform set off his extraordinary style. When I learned that he was transferred from the Railway Soldiers' Cultural and Labor Corps as a propaganda officer, my heart was full of freshness and mystery, and I guessed that he must be a very capable person, hoping to do a better job of propaganda work under his leadership in the future. Later, I learned that the publicity work that Officer Huang was responsible for had nothing to do with me, and I regretted that I did not have the opportunity to get his guidance.
The 6444 factory is located in the canyon of the Xinglong Da Grey Kiln Ditch, the silent mountain forest surrounds the narrow factory area at the foot of the mountain, and the workers walk in the workshop, canteen and dormitory every day with the loud sound of military trumpets, there is no reading, no television, cultural life is extremely scarce, and the only thing that is favored is basketball. In 1971, the factory recruited a group of intellectuals from Weichang County into the factory, which strengthened the strength of the factory basketball team, and played all over the Xinglong invincible in those years, which was the pride of the whole factory staff. Every game, the stadium is full of life, the outside of the stadium is crowded, the shouts and cheers of the helpers are continuous, and the excitement and joy are written on everyone's face.
On Labor Day in 1976, the factory propaganda team performed a one-act drama "New Look of Mountain Villages" in the factory. Photography by Huang Rongsen.
Huang Xiaochuan said: "My father had a bumpy fate during the Cultural Revolution, but he always faced everything optimistically. After arriving at the factory in 1972, his father did not want to return to his old business, but seeing that the amateur life of the factory was so monotonous, the simplicity of the workers and the attention of the factory leaders, he spent his efforts to form a literary and artistic propaganda team and created many literary and artistic works close to real life. ”
It is gold that always shines. Huang Rongsen has accumulated a lot of experience in the past in the formation and management of the propaganda team of the troops, and now he has brought these fine traditions to the factory, led the propaganda team members to exercise and run, practiced uprightness, and took a short rest, and built the propaganda team into a team with vigorous, strict discipline, and military style.
In 1975, the factory propaganda team went to a certain railway unit to perform the dance "Chairman Mao is the Red Sun in the Hearts of the People of All Nationalities." Photography by Huang Rongsen.
Li Zhiji, a fitter in the knife class, who is the captain of the factory's amateur propaganda team, wrote in a reminiscence article: "In the early days of the establishment of the factory in 1969, the rehearsal program of the propaganda team had great limitations, one was that there was no stage program, and the second was that the overall performance level of the program was not high, basically staying at the level of the party. In particular, there are fewer band members and fewer instruments to play. ”
"After Tianjin Zhiqing entered the factory in September 1971, some Tianjin Zhiqing with literary and artistic talents joined the propaganda team, which greatly improved the performance level of the propaganda team and the level of creation of literary and artistic programs."
In September 1972, Officer Huang took office and invested a lot of energy in the construction of the factory propaganda team. In order to increase the strength of the propaganda team, Huang Sent Special Personnel to Beijing to purchase musical instruments and costumes and perfected the hardware and equipment of the Propaganda Team; sent the backbone of the writing staff to professional groups for further study and improved the level of creation; organized performances in various workshops to discover literary and artistic talents and promote cultural activities at the grass-roots level; and personally organized programs for the performances of the workers during the New Year's Festival, thus changing the quality and performance level of the factory's literary and art propaganda team. ”
"The members of the propaganda team greatly admired The work ability of Officer Huang, whether it is to be a person or to do things, they have learned a lot from Officer Huang and benefited a lot. Officer Huang is kind, approachable, very patient in his work, never loses his temper, and has an extremely harmonious relationship with everyone. Many employees in the factory envied the atmosphere of unity and joy of this special team, and joked that the factory propaganda team was the 'HuangJia Association'. ”
In March 1975, the factory propaganda team went out on a tour, and before leaving, Commissar Liu Shilong spoke. Photography by Huang Rongsen.
Officer Huang paid special attention to the creation of the program, first directing the team members to seriously learn to perform other people's programs, such as performing and singing "Leave a Shadow in Front of Tiananmen Square", sitting and singing the two people to "There are relatives everywhere in the motherland". On this basis, he led the team members to create their own shows. To this end, he took the lead in creating many songs and programs, such as the small drama "Inside and Outside the Classroom" that participated in the performance. At the same time, he also used his experience and knowledge to cultivate and help the team members improve their creative ability, and carefully revised the scripts and music written by the original team members themselves, so that the original very ordinary programs were renewed. For example, the dance "Washing Cotton Yarn", which expresses factory life and advocates thrift and diligence in running a factory; the Tianjin Allegro drama "Family Cooking Class", which shows the overtime work of workers, has been soaked with countless painstaking efforts of Huang Guan in revision. Later, the two shows were selected for the Iron Queen's Propaganda Team and performed in several fraternal units. Tianjin Allegro drama was also adapted by the brother units into Sichuan Allegro and Hubei Allegro, which was very popular and praised at that time. Officer Huang's efforts to this end have been well rewarded. ”
In 1975, the factory propaganda team went to the military hospital to perform the boys' small chorus "Military Soldiers Learn Lei Feng" and "Revolutionary Enthusiasm Is Red like Fire" Huang Rongsen composed lyrics and composed music. "The Song of the Forge" is written by Xu Hu and composed by Liu Tieli, Guo Qingsheng and Chen Youren. Photography by Huang Rongsen.
"Since entering the factory, I have liked to write things, and the most written is the literary and artistic programs of the propaganda team, like what allegro books, oral words, Jingdong big drums, Tianjin Allegro, etc., I think of what to write, the writing is very childish, in fact, it is all smooth, big vernacular, there is not much literary and artistic taste." At that time, no one taught me how to write, I was blindly thinking about it myself, and the progress was very slow. In 1972, Huang Guan came to the factory, and his arrival was really 'a long drought and a bright light for me to like writing'. At first, I didn't dare to ask him for advice, but when I became familiar with it, I gave him some of my 'works' and asked him for advice very nervously. Later, he picked out two programs from it, one was the Tianjin Allegro drama "Family Cooking Class" and the other was the dance "Washing Cotton Yarn". He took my original manuscript to explain to me, especially "Family Cooking Class", he from the intention layout of the program, to the use of words to make sentences, from the plot characters of the program, to the beginning and the end, it is equivalent to Huang Guan's rewriting. The original music of the dance "Washing Cotton Yarn" was written by me, and there are obvious traces of Jiangnan's "Tea Picking Dance", and Huang Guan helped me re-conceive and write it. The original song was a 2/4 beat rhythm from beginning to end, but after Huang Guan rewrote it, a soothing 3/4 beat rhythm was added to the middle part, which made the whole dance music change much richer. Perhaps It is huang who likes these two programs to be original works that directly reflect the lives of workers, so he has made so much effort to revise them. Later, these two programs participated in the post-iron performance and tour with the factory propaganda team, and then were later selected by the iron post publicity team, and performed many times with the iron post propaganda team. Through the revision coaching of these two programs, I have gained a lot. Especially in writing, Officer Huang opened a new window for me, allowing me to see beautiful scenery that I had never seen before. ”
Han Yiqun, a forger who was the creator of the propaganda team, said: "Officer Huang is the most talented person I know, and at work I and my co-workers call him 'officer', but privately we call him 'sir' (that was not allowed in those days)." Because of his too straight personality and not appreciated by some leaders, he was unmotivated all his life, but for me, he was a mentor and a confidant, and my writing ability in literature and art mainly benefited from him. ”
In 1975, the factory propaganda team went to a certain part of the railway soldier to perform the Shandong qin book "A Generation of New Winds". Han Yiqun composed lyrics and compositions, and Huang Rongsen photographed.
"During the Cultural Revolution, what I wrote was full of bold words and revolutionary slogans, and in order to make my works more like literary and artistic works, Mr. Li always did not say anything at first, but he never bothered to let me revise it over and over again, until I was exhausted, he only expressed his opinion, or personally revised it and then told me the reason for the revision. Sometimes, my work is modified by Mr. To be left with only one idea, and Mr. still insists on writing my name, saying that it is also my achievement. With the help and cultivation of Mr. Li, I really understood how literary and artistic works can be written to make the audience like, not just express their feelings. In order to improve my writing ability and broaden my horizons, Mr. Li arranged for me to participate in the literary and artistic creation group of the railway soldier system many times, and together with some writing experts to create programs to participate in the all-army literary and artistic performances, many times wrote letters of recommendation to let me take my own works to Jiao Naiji (the editor-in-chief of the Spring Festival Gala), Gao Yuanjun (the first person in Shandong Kuaishu) and other predecessors to guide me, and arranged for me to participate in the observation and performance in various places many times..."
"One autumn night many years later, I dreamed of my husband, and when I woke up, I remembered many things of that year. The next day I wrote a poem: It is difficult to find a friend in life, let alone know what to do? Knowing the voice is a friend, is the resonant of life, and the acquaintance is a ladder, which is actually the initiator of life. ”
Huang Rongsen's earthquake shed. From left: Huang Xiaochuan, Cui Mulan, Huang Xiaoyin. Huang Rongsen in 1976.
Li Zhiji, the leader of the propaganda team, introduced: "In March 1975, the Logistics Department of the Railway Corps selected several units of propaganda teams to go to Beijing to participate in the exercise, and the propaganda team of our factory was also one of them. Officer Huang led the propaganda team, with a thirteen programs carefully created, carefully rehearsed, and self-written and self-performed, and participated in the performance on the military stage in Fengtai, Beijing, and was very successful. ”
"Because of the outstanding performance of the factory propaganda team in the Tiehou tuning exercise, after the meeting, it was designated by the Tiehou Political Department to perform in the Railway Soldier Compound, and toured to Tianjin, Hebei, Shanxi and other places for the brother factories, railway troops and Beijing Military Hospital, which was widely praised. When performing in the railway soldier compound, because the people in the compound usually watched the performances of the railway soldiers and other professional cultural troupes, Leng Ding saw the performance of an amateur propaganda team of a factory and felt very fresh, and the performance was warmly received and the laughter was continuous. ”
In the era of the most lacking culture, in less than three years, the amateur propaganda team led by Huang Rongsen stood out and won praise in participating in the literary and artistic performances of the Tiehou system, becoming the only factory-level amateur propaganda team in the Tiehou. A small factory of 600 people was able to appear in the railway army compound of the military organ in more than three hours with a self-created variety show for more than three hours, and people had to admire his ability, and colleagues who had worked together in the railway corps congratulated him one after another.
Guo Qingsheng, a member of the factory's propaganda team and later deputy secretary of the factory's party committee, once participated in the iron post propaganda team, and he recalled: "After the iron post-iron literary and artistic performance in 1975, the iron queen formed a propaganda team in the summer of the same year, and selected excellent programs from the factories to which it belonged. In order to further improve the quality and appreciation of the program, seven people were dispatched to set up a creative group to create the selected programs for the second time. The Tiehou Propaganda Team has a party branch secretary, and Officer Huang serves as the leader of the propaganda team, responsible for the writing, rehearsal and daily administration of the program, and is tirelessly busy every day. After more than a month of rehearsal, led by the propaganda officer of the Tiehou Political Department, we toured the factories, warehouses, offices and the 'May Seventh' cadre school of the railway soldiers in Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Henan, Shanxi, Hubei and other places, and everywhere we went, we were warmly welcomed and praised. In 1976, the railway soldiers planned to hold a literary and artistic performance in the autumn at the Nenjiang Farm in Heilongjiang, and in July, tiehou arranged for a propaganda team to go to the Xinglong warehouse for intensive training. On July 28, the Tangshan earthquake struck, and we set up our tents to continue rehearsals, and the progress was not affected in the slightest. Xinglong warehouse and 6444 factory is only separated by a river ditch, after the earthquake Officer Huang built an earthquake shed for his family at the foot of the mountain, whenever we ate or rested, he hurried home to take care of his sick wife, extremely hard. In September, in the literary and art show, nearly 20 performance units, the iron queen was arranged in the last show, did not expect to reflect very well, turned out to be a 'finale good play'. Summarizing the life of the two-year post-iron propaganda team, it can be said that Huang Guan has a high level of business and strong cohesion, and the members of the propaganda team are willing to work with him. When people's hearts are united, Taishan moves, and they work together to achieve good results. ”
Facts have proved that Huang Rongsen's original choice was very wise, and the grassroots level is the fertile soil for the creation of literary and artistic works, and it is an excellent place to show his skills, display his talents, and realize the pursuit and value of life.
Huang Rongsen saved the folding program list of the 1975 publicity team outing tour.
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, and Huang Xiaochuan donated to the Chengde Archives the "Program List" that his father had carefully preserved for 46 years for the 1975 factory propaganda team tour, the text and music materials of the self-created programs, and the photo album of the performance photos, enriching the content of the factory's historical materials.
When I see these "treasures", I can't help but marvel at the details of their contents. In the "Chinese People's Liberation Army's 6444Th Factory Amateur Literature and Art Propaganda Team Report Performance Program List", not only the name of the program, the author and the list of participants were introduced in detail, but finally it was not forgotten to write "Please ask the chiefs and comrades to put forward criticism and correction." The report performance program is divided into a literary part and a music part, and the cover is listed in detail, which makes people understand at a glance. In addition to pasting photos in the order from rehearsals, makeup, performances to visits and group photos, the album also indicates a schematic map of the tour itinerary. In September 1976, after the group photo of the amateur literary and artistic team after the Railway, which participated in the Railway Soldiers' Parade, a chart was attached, marking the name and unit according to where each person stood, which reminded me of Li Zhiji's very good evaluation of Huang Rongsen: "Officer Huang is extremely organized and meticulous. There is always a plan in advance and a summary after the fact. Rough and sloppy doesn't exist in his dictionary of doing things. ”
(To be continued)