In the 1980s, after a film and television work became popular, its theme song and interlude would always be sung in the streets. The movie "Shaolin Temple" is such a representative work, and in that era, almost no one would not hum the "Shepherd Song".
In 1983, CCTV held the first Spring Festival Gala, and due to the great influence of the theme song "Shepherd Song" of "Shaolin Temple", they invited Zheng Xulan, the singer of this song, to the stage on this landmark Spring Festival evening.
On the slightly rudimentary stage, Zheng Xulan sang three songs "Shepherd Song", "Sea, Hometown", "Sun Island", a 25-year-old girl, she was wearing a pink turtleneck sweater, jeans, high heels, although today it seems that this dress is not so formal, but it was indeed fashionable at the time.
The 10-minute performance time brought a major change to the fate of Zheng Xulan's life, and almost all the audiences in the country were conquered by Zheng Xulan's gentle and melodious singing. Overnight, she became the soul mate that boys dreamed of. During that time, Zheng Xulan received a sack of love letters almost every day.
Everyone around her walking on the street was talking about her, and in Zheng Xulan's view, the star chasers at that time were far crazier than they are today.
What is more interesting is that because of a song by Zheng Xulan, many young people with romance began to embark on a journey to find Sun Island. Because of her song "Sun Island", this originally unknown scenic spot became lively, and this golden song that was familiar to audiences across the country became the most successful advertisement for Sun Island.
But probably no one would have thought that such a "popular lover" would disappear after only a few years. It was one night in 1987, Zheng Xulan met the American boy Edward in a performance, for a girl who grew up in the beijing military compound, the boy with a high nose, deep eye sockets, and curly hair was as mysterious as the hometown where he grew up, and all her imagination of the United States on the other side of the ocean was projected on the boy named Edward.
Although everyone likes Zheng Xulan, everyone will be unable to extricate themselves from immersing themselves in her singing, but it seems that there is always something special about Edward, he can hear a deeper meaning from Zheng Xulan's singing, we don't know how much Edward knows Zheng Xulan, and how deeply he understands the content expressed in Zheng Xulan's singing, maybe it is really a foreign monk who will chant, maybe it is just a boy's consistent trick of his sister.
But no matter what, at this time, the American Edward has become the enemy of the people, Zheng Xulan followed him to the United States, in order to live with the Prince Charming in her mind, she gave up everything she had in her hometown, faded the aura, she is just a housewife who moves in the open kitchen, and the husband and son become her only job.
Zheng Xulan's fans could not accept the fact that edward had robbed their lover, and this selfish guy took Zheng Xulan, who had the sound of nature, for himself.
In the late 80s and early 90s, just in time for a wave of going abroad, everyone wanted to go out and see, to go around the world. Xie Jin said that year: "In the future, nothing can make these girls become famous prematurely, and they will run to foreign countries when they get the award." ”
Xie Jin's statement is not out of thin air, in the boom of going abroad at that time, nearly half of the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Best Actress winners went abroad after winning the award, like Chen Chong, Zhang Yu, Gong Xue, and Si Qinggaowa, who were red to hot at that time. As a singer, Zheng Xulan is naturally no exception, he also left his hometown with honors such as "one of the ten most popular singers in the country" and "China's first Golden Disc Award".
In fact, according to Zheng Xulan's own account, when she married an American and resigned from the Oriental Song and Dance Troupe, such an act also caused great dissatisfaction among the teachers, and in their eyes, her own approach was simply too lawless. The resignation of her old club, which had no precedent at the time, made the teachers furious and stopped all her performances.
Zheng Xulan was more willing to use sadness to describe his situation at that time, that is completely a disaster, without the support of his old owner, Zheng Xulan was unable to move, there was no source of income, he could only rely on the generosity of his friends, and this encounter also became a catalyst for Zheng Xulan to decide to leave his hometown.
Life in the United States is calm and beautiful, but after the passion is burned, it is only ashes, and the conflict of culture, customs, professional habits and other aspects has made their marriage a red light. In just six years, this transnational love affair is coming to an end, and the disheartened Zheng Xulan returned to Beijing with her child.
As Wang Shuo depicts in the novel, Beijing in the mid-1990s has begun to become a fashionable city, with more and more people on the streets, and the streets often see little girls wearing bodybuilding pants, toad mirrors, wearing leather jackets, riding Honda and Yamaha motorcycles. At night, Sanlitun is brightly lit, and the bar is full of foreigners who drink from side to side. There are more and more private cars on the road, and overpasses are rising on the ground. What I heard from the mouths of the neighbors was that our neighbors were who went to the sea to do business and sent it again.
The booming metropolis was so forgetful that less than a decade later it had forgotten the fairy on the stage, and the disguise that Zheng Xulan had carefully designed for herself seemed to be useless, and no one would recognize her when she took off her sunglasses and veil.
Huge billboards printed on the streets with Faye Wong and Na Ying were the size of balconies, and they were the city's new darlings, and Zheng Xulan, standing under the billboards, was reflected in a more small and lonely place.
What is even more fatal is that the domestic music vane has undergone a huge change in recent years, pop music has taken over the bel canto singing method, Zheng Xulan's desire to re-enter the stage has become more slim, and Zheng Xulan, who was once affectionately called Teresa Teng by the audience, is fleeting like a meteor.
During that time, Zheng Xulan could not find too many opportunities to perform, and no record company was willing to build music around former female stars who had already passed. The name Zheng Xulan has gradually become a deep memory of a generation, and her experience has become a past that is not easy to be mentioned.
But Zheng Xulan still misses the days when the audience had a stage to accompany her, and the warmth of the light on her face made her unbearable. Now that she has entered middle age, Zheng Xulan will still occasionally enjoy a moment of stage time, when the accompaniment melody of "Shepherd Song", "Sea, Hometown" and "Sun Island" sounds, her eyes are full of her own shadow when she was 25 years old.