That year's cover photo| 1964 Issue 1 "People's Pictorial" cover is forever Ashima - Yang Likun 1964 "People's Pictorial" 1st issue cover is forever Ashima - Yang Likun, photo: Wu Yinbo. Yang Likun (April 27, 1942 – July 21, 2000) was a Chinese dancer and film actor of the Yi ethnic group. Representative works include the 1959 National Day gift color feature film "Five Golden Flowers" and the 1964 color music and dance film "Ashima" two films. In 1958, at the age of 17, Yang Likun filmed the blockbuster "Five Golden Flowers", which won the Best Actress Award at the 1960 Asian Film Festival.

In 1964, the cover of the first issue of the People's Pictorial was the eternal Ashima - Yang Likun

In 1958, at the age of 17, Yang Likun filmed the blockbuster "Five Golden Flowers"

Stills from the movie "Five Golden Flowers"

Poster for the movie "Five Golden Flowers"

Introduction to the movie "Five Golden Flowers"

The movie "Five Golden Flowers" takes Ah Peng's search for golden flowers as a clue, connects a comedy story, so that the five golden flowers active in different positions present colorful life scenarios and positive and upward spiritual outlook, and the innocent love between Ah Peng and Jinhua is also quite touching. This film with exquisite artistic conception, constitutes a unique comedy style, the whole style of fresh and elegant, interesting, with strong national characteristics, lyrical color and strong atmosphere of the times, the film on the Cangshan Erhai, March Street, Butterfly Spring and other strange mountains and rivers, national customs depiction, full of poetry and painting, is a relaxed and pleasant, pleasing set of human beauty, song beauty, human beauty, landscape beauty as one of the life comedy film. The film depicts a positive and motivated picture of life, showing the purest and most simple emotions between people, and through this tortuous and warm comedy story, it shows the positive and upward attitude of the five Jinhua who are active in different positions. The characters in the film are sincere and natural, interspersed with pleasant music and the beautiful landscapes of Dali, Yunnan, bringing the audience a pleasing spiritual enjoyment, making this film a classic.

Poster of a color widescreen stereo music song and dance film

The first color widescreen stereo music song and dance film "Ashima"

In 1963, filming began on the first color widescreen stereo music and dance film in the history of Chinese cinema, a film that tells the love story of the Sani people in Yunnan, starring Yi actor Yang Likun. "Ashima" is a beautiful song that has been handed down to the mouth of the Sani people, and it is the collective creation of the Sani people for generations, which fully embodies the living habits and customs of the Sani people. China's first color widescreen stereo music song and dance film "Ashima" won the first International Music Best Dance Film Award in Santander, Spain, in 1982. Since then, the folk narrative poem "Ashima" has become famous at home and abroad. Since then, the image of Ashima, who is industrious and kind, can sing and dance, and is not afraid of power, has lived in the hearts of the chinese people.