Once upon a time, in the movie "Eternal Life in the Fire", the actor Yu Lan's "Sister Jiang" left an indelible impression on the people, and in the movie "Heroes and Children", actor Tian Fang played the political commissar of Wang Dongwang and became a classic screen image that the audience will never forget.
Yu Lan and Tian Fang are a real couple in life, the two of them are married together for the second time, at the beginning, for the sake of career, in order to better take care of the lives and feelings of the 2 stepsons, Yu Lan had endured 2 times of fetal beatings in the process of 34 years of marriage.
In the end, life still gave Yu Lan the same amount of returns - her eldest son Tian Xinxin and her youngest son Tian Zhuangzhuang have become famous filmmakers and directors, while Yu Lan, who has dedicated his life to the film industry, won the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Golden Rooster Awards of Chinese Film.
In 1961, Premier Zhou attended a film industry conference held in Xiangshan, and when he saw Yu Lan, who was inconspicuous in the crowd, he immediately went forward and shook Yu Lan's hand with enthusiasm and concern, and praised him loudly: You have played a good mother!
In the movie "Revolutionary Family", Yu Lan starred as a heroic revolutionary mother Zhou Lian, and in real life, she is also a warm and amiable good stepmother, a good wife, and a good actor in the film industry and a good artist of the people.
In 1921, Yu Lan was born in Xiuyan Manchu Autonomous County, Anshan City, Liaoning Province, which is a good place with beautiful mountains and beautiful jade. Soon after Yu Lan turned 1 year old, he moved to Harbin with his parents and settled down.
Yu Lan grew up to the age of 7 under the care and care of her parents, and at the age of 8, her mother unfortunately died prematurely. In 1931, because of the turmoil of the situation, Yu Lan and his family went south to seek peace, they traveled to many provinces, and finally settled in Beiping, and lived a few years of relatively peaceful youth.
In the turbulent times, people's entertainment methods were really limited, and the young girl Yu Lan liked to watch movies. In 1936, the movie "Top Gun" was released, and after the 15-year-old Yu Lan watched the film, he had a good impression of Tian Fang, who played a young farmer in the play, and Tian Fang played the rural young man who gave up love and heroically sacrificed in order to fight against the invaders, because of this movie, Yu Lan immediately became a loyal "little fan" of Tian Fang.
On July 29, 1937, the Japanese army invaded Peiping City, the school could not be opened, and Yu Lan, who had dropped out of school, could only relax at home. However, the burning patriotic enthusiasm in Yu Lan's heart made it difficult for her to be at ease, and after several days of hard thinking, Yu Lan finally decided to pack her bags and go to Yan'an to find the strength of the revolution and seek the hope of salvation and survival.
In the early autumn of 1938, Yu Lan finally arrived at yan'an, the holy land of revolution in his heart. Yu Lan, who originally loved literary and artistic activities, actively joined the literary and artistic team of publicizing the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression in addition to studying and working, and after graduation, she naturally became a drama actress in the "Lu Art Work Troupe".
Later, in the process of a performance, Yu Lan found that an actor on the stage was so "familiar", she looked down and thought for half a day, and then suddenly realized - isn't that the movie star Tian Fang?!
Compared with Yu Lan, Tian Fang, who was 10 years older than her, was an "old revolutionary" who was active in the front line of anti-Japanese propaganda. At that time, Tian Fang was 29 years old, and in the early years, he had married a wife in a marriage arranged by his parents, and his wife gave birth to two sons for Tian Fang, but unfortunately died prematurely due to illness.
Later, for the sake of the revolutionary cause, Tian Fang had to entrust his 2 children to the care of his parents, and he threw himself into the torrent of the revolutionary cause without hesitation, and after several twists and turns, Tian Fang also came to Yan'an.
Soon, his good friend Zhao Lu asked Yu Lan to help introduce the object, and the man Zhao Lu fancyd was no one else, it was Tian Fang, who worked in the same drama troupe as Yu Lan.
Yu Lan had no choice but to go to Tian Fang, but Tian Fang refused the other party's kindness. Yu Lan did not understand, and asked Tian Fang why he did not think about it anymore, or meet to talk about it. Tian Fang said with a piercing gaze: "When I first saw you, I couldn't hold anyone else in my heart, and you were my ideal revolutionary partner!"
With three words and two words, Tian Fang showed his heart and love, and Yu Lanxin understood the spirit, and the two became deeply rooted in love and became boyfriend and girlfriend.
A year later, on the anniversary of the October Revolution in the Soviet Union, Yu Lan was officially married to Tian Fang in the presence of his brother and the comrades of the troupe. This year, Yu Lan was only 19 years old, and on the day she nodded her head and promised to marry Tian Fang, she was ready to be the stepmother of the two boys.
After Yu Lan married Tian Fang, he took the initiative to mention that he would take his two stepsons from his hometown to Yan'an to live together. Because he did not live with his father Tian Fang for many years, at first, the two children were timid and appeared very restrained and uneasy. The 19-year-old Yu Lan shyly accepted that the 2 children called themselves "mothers", while trying to give the two children care and warmth, and took good care of the 2 children.
But just after the honeymoon period of the new marriage, Yu Lan found out that she was pregnant. Although Yu Lan, who was pregnant for the first time, was reluctant to have this child, she thought about the days to come, thought about the growth and future of the 2 children, and finally did not tell Tian Fang about her pregnancy, and quietly found her best sister and asked her to help her perform the abortion operation.
While Yu Lan was busy with the revolutionary cause, he took care of his family and tried his best to let Tian Fang have no worries. Later, Yu Lan became pregnant again, but out of love and responsibility for the 2 stepsons, Yu Lan once again endured the pain of taking away the child in his belly.
Many years later, the youngest of the two stepsons was also an adult, and Yu Lan was relieved to conceive and give birth to tian xinxin, the first son of her and Tian Fang, and a few years later, Tian Zhuangzhuang came to life again.
When he grew up, Tian Xinxin became a voice actor, while Tian Zhuangzhuang inherited the mantle of his parents and became the fifth generation of famous directors in China, widely acclaimed.
After the founding of New China, Yu Lan began to transform, from an excellent drama actor to a film actor. In 1949, the film "White Soldier" directed by director Feng Bailu was released, and Yu Lan appeared on the film screen for the first time as the female number one. Since then, Yu Lan has successfully starred in the female number one in many films such as "Cuigang Red Flag", "Lin JiaPuzi", "Longsugou", "Revolutionary Family" and so on, and has thus become a shining new star in the new Chinese film industry.
In 1965, the feature film "Eternal Life in the Fire", adapted from the novel "Red Rock", was released, and it was precisely because of this film that generations of Chinese people remembered the good actor Yu Lan who played the heroine "Sister Jiang".
In that year, in order to play the role of Sister Jiang, Yu Lan personally went to Hebei, Chongqing, Chengdu and other places several times to conduct field study, and wrote down more than 300,000 words of experience notes. In the end, "Sister Jiang" played by Yu Lan became a classic hero image of a generation of screens, and the movie "Eternal Life in the Fire" also became a classic template for revolutionary struggle films.
Then, ten years of turmoil began, Tian Fang and Yu Lan were hit and tortured because of their artistic resumes, and 8 years later, Tian Fang was diagnosed with bile duct cancer, and from March to August 1974, Yu Lan had been in the hospital to take care of The gradually ill Tian Fang.
The night before Tian Fang's death, he reluctantly opened his eyes and told Yu Lan in a trembling voice: I have a diary, which is locked in the drawer of my office, where there are my thoughts, and the organization will understand me.
In addition, there is a passbook in the drawer, which contains the money I have saved from the monthly living expenses, about two hundred yuan, not much money, you hold it, it should still be useful.
Yu Lan gently rubbed the back of her husband's hand with her hand, asking him to retain a little strength and sleep a little more. Who knows that the next day, Tian Yi died forever due to the ineffectiveness of rescue, and he was only 63 years old when he died.
In 1978, Yu Lan was found to have breast cancer during a medical examination, and in order to fight the disease and survive well, Yu Lan had to leave his beloved film career. When his condition stabilized, Yu Lan re-entered the children's film industry in 1981, laying a solid foundation for the development and take-off of China's children's film industry.
On June 27, 2020, Yu Lan, who was 99 years old, passed away in Beijing China-Japan Friendship Hospital, this era screen goddess, with a lifetime of feelings and as an interpretation of the love for the film and the motherland, she ran for the motherland's artistic cause for a lifetime, let us always remember "Sister Jiang", always remember Yu Lan's outstanding contributions to the motherland and the people!