On the eve of the July 1st Founding Day, a grand ceremony was held in the Great Hall of the People - the "July 1st Medal" award ceremony. Among the 29 people who won the July 1st Medal, there is an old man with a strong spirit who has attracted the attention of netizens, he is the 94-year-old famous director and drama actor Lan Tianye.
In the live broadcast, the elderly Blue Sky Wild was full of energy, wearing a straight suit, gray hair neatly combed to the back of the head, a pair of reading glasses on the bridge of the nose, under the support of others, slowly walked to the podium and received the medal that symbolized the highest praise of the country.
In the award speech, the identity of Lan Tianye was introduced as "actor and director", and his reason for winning the award was "to dedicate his life to the people's literary and artistic cause and make a major contribution to the prosperity and development of China's drama art", which is probably the highest praise for an artist, and is a moral and artistic artist who is stamped by the state. Being able to get the party's affirmation and praise, Blue Sky Wild's hands were trembling slightly with excitement.
On the list of winners of the July 1st Medal, Blue Sky Wild is the only person in the art world, an ordinary actor, why can he get a different look from the country? Only because under the cover of his identity as a drama actor, he was also an underground party that threw his head and spilled blood for the state, and he embarked on the road of art to obey the party's arrangements, and even the name of Blue Sky Wild was changed for revolutionary work.
From a painter to an underground party, to a drama actor, director, and TV actor, Lan Tianye's life experience is probably more thrilling than any role he has played.
In 1927, Lan Tianye was born in Raoyang, Hebei Province, studied painting since childhood, and after graduating from middle school, he was admitted to the oil painting department of Beiping Art College, specializing in oil painting, and wanted to be a painter. Who knew that fate accidentally turned a corner, although still in the art world, but Blue Sky Wild changed from a painter to a drama actor.
The turning point in Lan Tianye's life of "abandoning painting and acting" has a lot to do with his sister Shi Mei, and it can be said that Lan Tianye's ups and downs in life are all due to this sister who is a communist party member.
In 1945, the third sister Shi Mei, who had been wandering alone for six years, suddenly returned to her hometown, and her sister's return home brought the joy of reunion to the family and also brought a new ideological atmosphere to The Blue Sky Wild.
Originally, the sister had been wandering for the revolutionary cause all these years, and now that the War of Resistance was victorious, Shi Mei was sent back to Beiping by the organization to develop the underground party strength, and Lan Tianye's home thus became a base point for the underground party in Beiping.
Under the influence of his sister, Lan Tianye accepted the baptism of communism and Marxism, and consciously became a non-staff member of the Beiping underground party. He was only 18 years old at the time, unable to do more work for the party, and could only use his painting expertise to assist his sister in printing propaganda materials.
Lan Tianye's home happened to be located in the occupied areas ruled by the Kuomintang, and it was very inconvenient and risky to communicate with the comrades in the Liberated Areas. The newborn calf, who was not afraid of tigers, volunteered and took on the task of passing on information. He always rode a bicycle back and forth between Xizhimen and Xishan, secretly passing information and information from the occupied areas to the liberated areas.
This task seemed thrilling to others, and if he was not careful, he might be caught and imprisoned, but in the eyes of Lan Tianye at that time, this was not a big deal, and he never felt dangerous, and he felt that it was a great honor to be able to contribute to the work of the party. Blue Sky Ye only hated himself for being too young to do more for the Communist Party.
Seeing that the younger brother was working so hard, her sister Shi Mei was deeply relieved, and under her introduction, Lan Tianye successfully joined the Communist Party. Blue Sky Wild clearly remembers that the day he joined the Party was September 23, 1945, and every little thing that happened on that day, Blue Sky Wild still remembers it vividly, this is a more important moment than his birthday, and he will never forget this day.
The "regularization" of non-staff personnel aroused more enthusiasm for work in Lan Tianye, and the party organization also assigned him an important task - to establish the party branch of the Beiping Opera Federation and publicize the party's ideology through theatrical performances. "Everything is arranged by the party", Without saying a word, Blue Sky Ando gave up his beloved art career and became a drama actor, so he began his acting career by mistake.
After the founding of new China, in response to the chairman's artistic policy of "a hundred flowers blooming", the beijing people's art theater was established in Beijing, and the 25-year-old Lan Tianye became the first batch of main actors. The first performance presented after the establishment of Renyi was "Tea House".
In order to play Mr. Lao She's masterpiece, the actors, including Lan Tianye, experienced the life of the tea house for 3 months, a group of young people wandered through the streets of old Beijing, walked through the big and small tea houses in Beijing, and deeply observed the every move of the old Beijingers, Mr. Storytellers, and shop guys in the tea house, and even the last old eunuch in Beijing became their interview and observation object.
It is also with this careful consideration that Renyi's first performance of "TeaHouse" can be a great success. Today's actors can no longer take so much time to savor life, the tea houses that once opened all over the streets have been replaced by skyscrapers, and the scenery of the past is difficult to see, whenever this is mentioned, the elderly blue sky is always sighing.
From 1952 to 1987, Blue Sky Wild dedicated the entire young adult period on the stage of renyi, shaping the image of countless classic dramas, and at the age of 60, he also reached the moment of saying goodbye to the stage. In the more than 20 years since then, Blue Sky Wild has not appeared on the stage again. During his retirement, he picked up the paintbrush that he had put down for many years and opened several painting exhibitions, which also fulfilled the dream of a painter when he was young.
The old blue sky wild full of vitality, challenged many different professions, he has been a director, but also participated in the filming of TV series, played by him Jiang Ziya, is undoubtedly the most colorful stroke of his acting career. However, when the invitation of the TV series "List of Gods" was handed to him, he refused.
Lan Tianye is a typical old artist, serious and stereotyped, Fu Yiwei's version of the "List of Fengshen Gods" in his view is nonsense, the screenwriter has not read the original book at all, the plot is rotten, and the service is also very bad.
But the drama side was quite patient, in order to invite him out of the mountain, modified the script countless times, and finally touched the blue sky wild, but also let the audience see a Jiang Ziya who is most suitable for the original. When the blue sky field with bright eyebrows and pine-shaped crane bones appeared on the TV screen, it was Jiang Ziya of the Xianfeng Dao Bone who was alive.
Although he has filmed many TV series, Blue Sky Wild's heart is still tied to the stage, and the stage is his life home. In 2011, coinciding with the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Party, the director of Renyi approached the 84-year-old Lan Tianye and implored him to return to the stage and star in the tribute drama "Home". On the one hand, it is not the warm invitation of friends, on the other hand, it is also impossible to let go of the stage dream in my heart, after 14 years, Blue Sky Wild finally stood on the stage where the soul dream has been around for most of his life.
Since then, Blue Sky Wild has been active on the drama stage for another 10 years, not only starring in dramas, but also trying to pick up a guide to direct plays. Directed by Lan Tianye, "The Noble Lady Returns Home" and "Wu Wang Jinge Yue Wang Sword" won the praise of the audience, and the performance was full. Art comes from life, and eventually it must return to life, and it can get the approval of the audience, which is happier for Blue Sky Wild than to take any award.
Blue Sky Wild's acting life, starting from a directive of the party, has now been affirmed by the party, and life seems to have drawn a perfect circle. The 94-year-old Lan Tianye is still active on the stage, guiding the younger generations, planning performances, busy and happy, he really dedicated his life to the people's literary and artistic cause.