Written by | Katsurada Field
Today (February 12) "broke the fifth", but the people who were busy opening the market to welcome the god of wealth sent away a kind and respectable old man. According to the official microblog of the Air Force, at 3:07 a.m., Comrade Yan Su, a famous artist and creator of the Air Politics Cultural and Labor Troupe, died in Beijing due to illness.
Some people commented that Yan Su, who died at the age of 86, was a "red singer" with a story.
One is "I Love the Blue Sky of the Motherland" written to the Air Force and an opera "Sister Jiang", which sings about the north and south of the river, and also makes many people remember his name.
As a member of the Air Force Cultural and Labor Corps and a national-level screenwriter, Yan Su is the longest-serving veteran of the Chinese army so far, enjoying the living conditions of the region's full-time post. In the course of many years of creation, he has also gained many leaders and "fans".
Literary and Art Forum "Praised" by Xi Jinping
"I agree with Comrade Yan Su's 'Wind Flower Snow Moon'"
On October 26, 2014, an event entitled "Qing Le Hua Zhang - One Two • Nine in the Hearts of Three Generations" was held at Tsinghua University. As a representative of the older generation of artists, Yan Su, who is 84 years old, sat in the new Tsinghua Academy and talked with the young generation about the spirit of "one-two-nine".
[Yan Su sings "Barracks Manhood" with his friends]
That evening, when attending the concert of "Echoes of the Qingle Huazhang Years", he was also named "Male God" by many students, and was awarded the student's calligraphy work "Wind and Snow Night".
It's not just college students who remember these four words.
On the morning of October 15 of that year, Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, presided over a forum on literary and art work in Beijing. Yan Su, as a delegate to the meeting, said the following passage at the meeting:
"I can be called a veteran of the literary and artistic front of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, and I still often sing in my heart the songs of 'catch up and catch up without letting the enemy breathe'. We also have wind and snow moon, but the wind is the 'iron horse autumn wind', the flower is the 'battlefield yellow flower', the snow is the 'night snow of the building ship', and the moon is the 'border pass cold moon'. It is this kind of liver and guts, this kind of soul that teaches me to follow and move forward, and I am willing to serve the soldiers for a lifetime! ”
Yan Su recalled that the "Forum on Literary and Art Work" mainly talked about three issues. First, the relationship between literature and art and the people, literature and art come from the people, literature and art serve the people; second, we must produce new creations, produce fine works, quantity is useless, we must have quality; third, literature and art cannot be completely led by the market.
After listening to Yan Su's speech, Xi Jinping said humorously: "I agree with Comrade Yan Su's wind, flowers and snow. The audience burst into heartfelt laughter. Xi Jinping went on to say: "This is the wind and snow of a strong army, and our military literary and art workers should mainly do what they should do around the goal of a strong army." I particularly agree. ”
After "Sister Jiang" became popular, she was received by Mao Zedong
"Comrade Yan Su 'wrote very well'"
Political knowledge circles (WeChat id: wepolitics) noted that this is not the first time That Yan Su has "dealt with" state leaders.
Go back in time to 1964. After the opera "Sister Jiang" was rehearsed in September of that year, once it was performed, it caused a sensation, and it was performed 257 times in a year, and many audiences watched it with tears in their eyes, watched it twice, and watched it twice and three times.
When "Sister Jiang" was performed at the Wangfujing Children's Art Theater, Zhou Enlai and his wife Deng Yingchao bought tickets to see it themselves, and then recommended it to Chairman Mao Zedong.
[Yan Su created]
On October 13, Chairman Mao Zedong and some central leaders watched the performance of "Sister Jiang" in the Great Hall of the People.
One night, Yan Su had just come out of the theater, and suddenly, a jeep stopped next to him, and the people in the car shouted: "Yan Su, I have been looking for you for half a day, get on the car, there is an urgent task." Yan Su was stunned and thought to himself, "What task is there at such a late hour?"
When the car entered Zhongnanhai, Yan Su realized that Chairman Mao wanted to receive him after reading "Sister Jiang."
In an interview afterwards, he recalled, "(It was) Saturday, I didn't wear a military uniform, I didn't shave, I was really embarrassed, I just, the salute was not right, I gave him a big bow, to Chairman Mao." As soon as Chairman Mao stood up, that one was much taller than me, big and tall, and that hand was outstretched, big hand. Shake hands, Comrade Yan Su, this is Hunan dialect, praise me, just say that I write well, write very well, I like it. ”
During the meeting, Mao Zedong delivered a set of Selected Works of Mao Zedong to Yan Su. A few years later, Yan Su still remembered his "promise" to Chairman Mao at that time: "We must work hard!" ”
Resisting pressure to create "Daughter of the Party"
Jiang Zemin commented on it as a "vivid party lesson"
In 1991, Yan Su received the task of composing the opera "Daughter of the Party" to present the party's 70th birthday. At this time, coinciding with the drastic changes in Eastern Europe and the collapse of the Soviet Union, as a screenwriter, Yan Su withstood the pressure and completed the creative task in only 18 days.
After the opera came out, Jiang Zemin, who was then general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, also became one of the audience members. Jiang Zemin once said, "This drama has given us a vivid lesson in the party and let us always remember that our political power was not easy to come by." ”
The media once invited Yan Su to share his experience in creating this opera, and his answer was: "I will grasp one, first of all, the political task must be completed, and I will try to complete it as artistically as possible." Use art to express what is said politically. ”
Hu Jintao affirmed his outstanding contribution
Yan Su told himself, "Don't take yourself too seriously."
In the creation of the large-scale music and dance epic "The Road to Rejuvenation" for the 60th anniversary of the founding of New China, Yan Su, who was 79 years old at the time, once again took on a heavy responsibility - as the director of the Literature Department.
On February 9, 2009, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China held a Lantern Festival gala at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Hu Jintao, then general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, had a cordial conversation with intellectuals in the capital at the party, and Yan Su attended the meeting as one of the deputies. At the end of the same year, when Hu Jintao received representatives of the literary and art circles in the capital, he once again had a cordial conversation with Yan Su and fully affirmed his outstanding contributions to art.
Although he was well received by many national leaders, Yan Su still said, "Don't take yourself too seriously, I am an ordinary person." ”
After last year's "symposium on literary and artistic work," he also made suggestions for the cultural affairs bureaus and propaganda departments in various regions -- he could no longer be satisfied with "writing a few plays this year to enter Beijing" and "winning several 'five one project awards' this year", but should do some practical things that were closer to the public.
One detail that impressed the political knowledge circle (WeChat id: wepolitics) is that every year on the anniversary of the "12.9" movement, he goes to Tsinghua University to serve as a judge of the "12.9" student choir competition. He once said that he liked to be with young people the most, and often laughed that he was also a "post-80s".
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