Late one night in July 1930, Nie Shulun was preparing to rest when he suddenly heard a rapid knock at the door. When he opened the door, he saw that the person who came was his good friend, the son of the provincial secretary general.
Seeing that his friend was emotional, he grabbed his arm and said, "Something is wrong, your brother Nie Shouxin has been on the arrest list, and he found it on my father's desk." I asked him if these people really want to be arrested? He said that all arrests should be made, and none of them should be left out. ”
Nie Xulun was stunned, and immediately consulted with the elders of the family, and then informed Nie Shouxin: "You hurry up, go to Shanghai, find the boss of 'Yunfeng Shenzhuang' there, and say that he is holding a post for me." ”
With the help of relatives and friends, Nie Shouxin barely managed to make up enough travel expenses, simply packed up his luggage, and finally took a look at the old house and set off. The 18-year-old, who only knows that he is about to leave here and will leave his beloved girlfriend, does not know that he will never have a chance to come back in this life.
Figure | Nie Shou trustworthy
<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" data-track="12" >01 Musical enlightenment</h1>
Eighteen years ago, on February 14, 1912, in the "Chengchuntang" medicine shop at No. 72 Nanyongdao Street in Kunming, Yunnan Province, a loud baby cry was heard, and Nie Shouxin was born.
Nie's father was a Chinese medicine practitioner who also ran a medicine shop, and his family was considered to be middle-class in the local area. Unfortunately, only four years later, this middle-class life came to an abrupt end. Nie's father died of tuberculosis, and his mother Peng Xiaokuan and 6 children were suddenly in trouble. Peng Ningkuan immediately made a decision: to study medical books on his own and continue to run a drug store.
Relatives and friends were shocked and shook their heads, only because Peng Xiaokuan had not entered the school for a day, and everyone thought that she was an ordinary housewife. In fact, Peng Xiaokuan had already read through the classic books only by self-study, and even some of the words that Nie Shouxin knew were taught by her hand.
This stubborn woman really passed the doctor's qualification and re-propped up the façade of "Cheng Chun Tang". However, she sat in the hall to inquire, sell medicines, and carry two heavy burdens on her shoulders to solve the problem of food and clothing. At the end of the day, Peng Ningkuan would sit in the dim light, taking stock of his income and sighing softly.
No matter how hard and tired, it is Peng Xiaokuan's belief that children must read. When Nie Shouxin was 6 years old, he was sent to the Kunming County Normal Affiliated Primary School, and then enrolled in the high school of Kunming Private Qiushi Primary School.
The mother's hardships, Nie Shouxin saw in his eyes, pain in his heart. In order to save money, he never bought a textbook, and each time he borrowed his classmates' books and copied them by hand word by word. Nie Shouxin quipped that he was consolidating his memory. He was soon rewarded with a tuition and fee waiver and assumed the position of class leader.
In the eyes of teachers and classmates, this scholar is still a literary and artistic youth, he formed a "family band", participated in various performances, served as the conductor of the school orchestra, and his music initiation teacher was his mother Peng Xiaokuan.
Figure | Mother Peng Xiaokuan
Peng Ningkuan's ancestral home is Mosha Town, Xinping County, Yuxi, the local popular Yuxi flower lantern, she has heard from childhood, is a master of singing lamps. After giving birth to and raising children, the flower lanterns in his hometown became a spiritual comfort, and Peng Xiaokuan often hummed casually in the children's ears.
The little baby Nie Shouxin always fell into a dream with a beautiful tune, or when he was awake, he listened attentively to his mother's narration and was moved to tears. Yuxi flower lanterns have become Nie Shouxin's musical enlightenment teaching materials.
There is a carpentry shop near Nie's house, and the owner, Qiu Carpenter, loves music, and Nie Shouxin can always hear the flute every time he passes by. After a long time, he came to be interested, worshiped the Carpenter qiu as a teacher, and learned to play the bamboo flute. Then, he learned to play erhu, play three strings, and play the moon piano.
Figure | Nie Shouxin's family photo
<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" data-track="86" >02 Revolutionary New Youth</h1>
The happy days were beautiful and short, and in the year of graduation, Nie Shouxin chose Yunnan First Union Middle School. The school's low fees allow for day schools, which can save a lot of money.
Middle school student Nie Shouxin, who did not want to be a musician at that time, his idol was General Cai Yi. After the May Thirtieth Massacre, he joined the May Thirtieth Massacre Support Association and was exposed to progressive publications for the first time. He enrolled in an English tuition class and became acquainted with Berhivan. Berhivan instilled advanced Western ideas and encouraged him to learn about music theory.
Although his musical literacy has improved, Nie Shouxin's gaze has become farther away from the musician, and this young man has just entered the Yunnan Provincial First Normal School and participated in the patriotic student movement. After joining the school Communist Youth League Reading Club, Nie Shouxin came into contact with Marxism and secretly joined the "Relief Society". He also took the opportunity to post notices of literary and artistic activities to secretly paste propaganda slogans and leaflets in an inconspicuous place, but he was never discovered by the school leaders.
Nie Shouxin, who had lofty ambitions, wrote a "My Outlook on Life" with a stroke of his pen, and put forward the ideal of "overthrowing the evil society and building a new society."
He did not want to be a good student of tradition anymore, so he signed up for the "student army" without his family, went to other places, and began to receive military training.
The ideal is very full, the reality is too bone. After traveling to Vietnam, Hong Kong, and Chenzhou, Hunan, the young soldiers dispersed in Guangzhou. Nie Shouxin, who was exiled to a foreign land, fell behind the Huangpu Military Academy because of his lack of seniority, and had to rely on his friends to help him, and returned to Yunnan in despair.
When the road to the soldiers was not feasible, but the literary and artistic journey had an unexpected harvest, after becoming friends with the music teacher Zhang Yuhou, Nie Shouxin began to learn the violin. Zhiyin met and hated each other late, they were very compatible, composed by Zhang Yuhou, composed by Nie Shouxin, and a "Provincial Division Attached Primary School Song" was born. The song became popular both inside and outside the school, and Nie Shouxin became famous in one fell swoop, when he was only 16 years old.
Nie Shouxin also set up the "Ninety-Nine Music Club" with a group of friends, interestingly, due to the implementation of the male and female branches at that time, Nie Shouxin often had to play the female lead when participating in dramas, and he created one of the most successful roles, named "Malia", over time, "Malia" became his nickname.
Figure | The lively Nie Shou trustworthy
<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" data-track="87" >03 The most beautiful first love</h1>
In a drama performance, 16-year-old Nie Shouxin met the girl Yuan Chunhui, one year younger than him, the common musical rhythm touched two young hearts, their dating scene is usually like this: Nie Shouxin improvised a song, Yuan Chunhui followed the melody while singing and dancing, about music, they always have endless topics, sitting on a park bench can discuss for several hours.
Yuan Chunhui loves to eat snacks, and Nie Shouxin remembered the store she visited most often, worked hard to save money, and silently bought some. Staying up until the rest day, as soon as the two met, Nie Shouxin could always take out the exquisitely packaged snacks from his pocket like magic, which made Yuan Chunhui both surprised and happy.
After in-depth understanding, Nie Shouxin learned that Yuan Chunhui also died prematurely from his father, and his mother raised him alone. With the same disease, the distance between the two is closer, and the title becomes interesting, Yuan Chunhui will half-jokingly call him "Nie Si Dog", and Nie Shouxin will directly give her the nickname "Blowing Ash".
In front of the house in Yuan Chunhui's hometown, there is a Burmese osmanthus tree, and every year under the tree, there will be a place of Burmese osmanthus flowers. Yuan Chunhui made these flowers into handicrafts and hung them on the buttons of the clothes on his chest, Nie Shouxin saw that he liked it, and also picked up some books as sticky notes, and slowly, the Burmese osmanthus flowers became a special code for the little couple.
Knowing that Er was better than her mother, Peng Xiaokuan realized that Nie Shouxin was in love, and she was quite satisfied with this girl, but she did not know that Yuan Chunhui was in the center of gossip at this time. Everyone around Yuan Chunhui felt that the man's family was poor and did not deserve her at all. Coupled with the boyfriend's heavy career and thinking about saving the country all day, Yuan Chunhui urgently needs a commitment to the future.
She poured bitter water on her friends, saying that when she went to sleep every night, she closed her eyes, and her mind was full of pictures of Nie Shouxin being abducted by other women. Unfortunately, all this, Nie Shouxin could not see.
Although the boyfriend did not know, but his mother seemed to sense it, Peng Xiaokuan wrote a letter to persuade Nie Shouxin: "You are also old, you should consider getting married, other girls can't afford to wait." Who knew that Nie Shouxin refused: "Talk about marriage and marriage now, have children, and you will fall into the small circle of the family and can't get out." I was born for society to do great things in this human society. ”
Seeing that his son's heart had been decided, Peng Xiaokuan had to give up. Yuan Chunhui on the other side was angry and anxious, and at this time came a person who added fuel to the fire, that is, Yuan Mu. She constantly did ideological work for her daughter, repeatedly emphasizing her difficulties as a single mother. The filial piety Yuan Chunhui was very distressed about her mother, and she made a painful decision: she proposed to Nie Erxin to break up, indicating that the two should not contact each other again.
Yuan Chunhui actually still had a hint of illusion, she thought that Nie Er would take the initiative to come to her and ask her not to leave herself, who knew that this idiot did not have any expression. Where did Yuan Chunhui know that Nie Shouxin believed her words to be true, and he chose to stay where he was and wait for his girlfriend to change his mind. In between, the story of the two pressed the pause button, and the time froze in 1930.
Figure | The person sitting in the middle is Yuan Chunhui
<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" data-track="88" >04 Dream showbiz</h1>
At this time, Nie Shouxin, who was about to graduate, was blacklisted by the government for arrest, and he could only flee Kunming in a hurry and rush to Shanghai.
When Shanghai Drift first arrived, it was very difficult to survive alone, and Nie Shouxin, who was dragging his luggage, took the introduction letter of the third brother Nie Xulun and walked into the Shanghai semicolon of "Yunfeng Shenzhuang". Nie Shouxin's main job was to buy, pull, pack and mail cigarettes, with a monthly salary of 15 yuan, which was worse than the low-level laborers at that time.
Despite his hard life, Nie Shouxin used the money he saved to buy books and learn English and Japanese. Once, he helped a friend rent film, got a generous reward of 100 yuan, and immediately sent 50 yuan back to his hometown, and the remaining half was used to buy a second-hand violin after deducting rent and living expenses.
Therefore, in the depths of the cramped alleys of "Paris of the East", the sound of violins sounded, the works of Beethoven and Mozart, Schumann and Bach, Nie Shouxin practiced without sleeping, and the beautiful melody echoed over the city wells of pots and pans.
The violin was played for less than half a year, the Kunming headquarters of Yunfeng Shenzhuang was sealed down for tax evasion, the Shanghai semicolon was closed down, and Nie Shouxin was unemployed.
The young man flipped through the newspaper, looking for a little bit of job information. There is no invincible road, and an advertisement on the "Declaration" attracted him: Shanghai Lianhua Film Company's "Mingyue Song and Dance Drama Club" recruited trainees, wrapped up food and housing, and a monthly allowance of 10 yuan.
Nie Shouxin decided to give it a try, and he set off with his beloved violin. With 6 admissions and hundreds of people taking the exam, the competition is extremely fierce.
At the beginning of the first round, Nie Shouxin stood uneasily in front of the examiner, dressed in rustic and worn clothes, introducing himself with a thick local accent, and the hand holding the piano was so nervous that there was no place to put it. Unsurprisingly, he played abnormally, stumbling and making mistakes frequently, and not a single piece of music was finished.
In the next few rounds, he performed piano, ventriloquism, and erhu, and the whole process was blinded, and even he himself did not know how it ended. The staff asked him to go back and wait for the news, and at that time Nie Shouxin felt that he was out of the play.
Who knew that a few days later, the good news came, and Nie Shouxin was admitted "out of the box". It turned out that the chief examiner was the famous Lai Kam-fai, a prominent figure in the Shanghai Beach showbiz circle that year. In the examination room, as soon as Li Jinhui heard the sound of the violin, he felt the potential of Nie Shouxin, and he said to the people next to him: "This child lost his father at an early age, it is not easy to run around alone, it does not matter if the music foundation is worse, we can teach him." ”
Figure | Nie Shou's nobleman Li Jinhui
<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" data-track="89" >05 Mr. Nie Er</h1>
Li Jinhui did not break his word, and immediately arranged for the band's chief musician Wang Renyi to personally tutor, in the face of rare learning opportunities, Nie Shouxin especially cherished. A few months later, he graduated and became a regular worker with a monthly salary of 25 yuan.
Material life was guaranteed, but the teacher Wang Renyi left the drama club. Nie Shouxin then approached the Italian violinist Puduska, a weekly lesson, with tuition accounting for half of his salary. In the world of flowers and flowers in Shanghai, temptation is everywhere, and other young people are pursuing a fashionable life, only Nie Shouxin stays in the dormitory building to practice the piano hard, seven hours a day.
Practicing, he was promoted to the chief violinist of the drama club. Acting in dramas, rehearsing dances, filming, contacting big stars, opening up the new world Nie Shouxin is still not satisfied, taking the opportunity of the national tour, he found Li Jinhui on the steamship from Shanghai to Tianjin, said that he wanted to learn composition, Li Jinhui laughed, advised Nie Shouxin to change the rural tone first, and then teach him after Chinese learned well.
Li Jinhui was a pioneer in promoting Chinese in that era, and had written books and works with rich experience. Coupled with Nie Shouxin's great talent, it took only two or three days to learn more than a thousand standard pronunciations of Chinese characters. This was followed by a simple composition exercise, and Nie Shouxin not only improved rapidly, but also wrote more than 30 musical works in a row.
Nie Shouxin has a magical skill, that is, the ability to imitate is super strong. eyes, shrunk noses, mimicking various vocals, and moving ears. The members all sighed, "As long as it can go through the ear, it can come out of Nie Shouxin's mouth." Nie Shouxin's ears caught fire, and insiders began to call him "Mr. Ear."
Mr. Ear, who is lively and cheerful, once again showed the movement of the ear one after the other at the party, and the program is called "Dr. Nie Er's Speech". The performance is witty and humorous, making Lai Jinhui lean forward and backward. Afterwards, Li Jinhui specially bought a gift to send, and the box was impressively written "Dr. Nie Er received". Nie Shouxin simply accepted the boss's suggestion and changed his name to "Nie Er".
<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" data-track="90" >06 Honorably joined the party</h1>
Nie Er became more and more important and was promoted to a management position, but this happy day did not last long, in 1932, the "January 28" incident broke out, and friends wrote from Yunnan, reminding Nie Er: "Don't sink in the entertainment industry." ”
He fell into thought, then picked up his camera to secretly photograph the Japanese warships and also the chaotic Shanghai. The 20-year-old had mixed feelings and decided to be an idealist again.
He became acquainted with Tian Han, joined the Left Wing Drama League, and grew tired of the mesmerizing voice of The Lai Family Class. It just so happened that Li Jinhui received the task of filming "Poems on Banana Leaves", and when the two discussed their creative ideas, Nie Er strongly opposed the addition of vulgar content, and the two sides dispersed unhappily.
What Li Jinhui did not expect was that his conflict with Nie Er's ideas would bring disaster to himself and his team. In July of that year, Nie Er signed "Black Angel" and published an article in "Film Art" titled "A Short Treatise on Chinese Song and Dance", which was full of criticism of the drama company and Li Jinhui personally. Sharp language and some extreme views caused a huge negative impact on the Mingyue Song and Dance Society, and rumors spread for a while.
Li Jinhui was still angry, and then a heavy hammer shocked him, and in August, Nie Er announced his withdrawal from the Mingyue Song and Dance Troupe, the former love general and comrade-in-arms, and did not buy a ticket to Beiping. Li Jinhui did not keep it, but personally sent Nie Er to the dock.
The three months in Beiping were short and busy, here is a gathering place for literary and artistic youth, Nie Er's circle of friends continues to expand, they perform together, together to publicize the anti-Japanese salvation. In the overpass and slums, Nie Er heard the voices of the low-level laborers and collected more creative materials.
Before leaving Beiping, Nie Er also did an important thing: submitted an application to the organization to join the party. After entering the Lianhua Film Company, in early 1933, Nie Er stood in the secret corner of the company's studio, solemnly swore an oath in front of the party flag, and gloriously joined the Communist Party of China.
Nie Er started from miscellaneous in the film circle, did scene notes, drama, accompaniment, served as an actor and director, and performed well in various fields, so he won the title of "Golden Oil". When the film "The Light of Motherhood" began filming, Nie Er showed the rhythm of life with a labor trumpet, and the film interlude "Mine Opening Song" was born and became his debut work, which was also the beginning of Nie Er's cooperation with Tian Han. The two hit the iron while it was hot, and then created a new opera "The Storm of the Yangtze River".
Nie Er has a very childlike relationship, he met the newspaper girl "Little Hairy Head" and bought all the newspapers on the day the two met. A few days later, Nie Er found her again, and when he learned about the girl's pitiful experience, a "selling newspaper song" brewed from his mind. Nie Er taught the song "Little Hairy Head", accompanied by girls walking the streets and alleys, "seven copper plates can buy two newspapers" into a children's classic melody.
After entering the Oriental EMI Records Company and serving as the deputy director of the music department, Nie Er ushered in his own music era. In 1934 alone, he wrote "Graduation Song", "Pioneer of the Way", "New Woman", "Road Song", "Golden Snake Dance", "Green Lake Spring Dawn" and other excellent works.
<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" data-track="91" >07 An unexpected farewell</h1>
Nie Er, who is full of opportunities, describes himself as "really busy, and there is no time to fall in love." But there was always one person hidden in his heart, and that was Yuan Chunhui. Finally, he learned from his friends that Yuan Chunhui had married a businessman at the urging of his relatives and friends, and the last glimmer of hope in his heart was shattered, and Nie Er could not slow down for half a day.
Perhaps regretting it, Nie Er wrote to tell his friend that he was "thinking hard", the first love ended regretfully, and life had to go on. In 1935, his old partner Tian Han drafted the story framework of the script "Children of the Storm" and created the theme lyrics "March of the Volunteer Army" for the film. Nie Er learned the news and took the initiative to ask Miao to ask for music.
Before he could get the manuscript, Tian Han was arrested by the authorities. Fortunately, under the fiery eyes of Xia Yan, the screenwriter of "Children of the Wind and Clouds", people found the manuscript paper with lyrics written on it, and several words were obviously soaked in tea and were not easy to recognize. Nie Er took over the lyrics, the inspiration poured out like a tide, and it took only two days to complete the first draft.
When Nie Er was preparing for the next revision, the party organization came to the news that he was on the arrest list again and now needed to go to Japan for temporary refuge. In the early morning of April 15, Nie Er boarded the "Nagasaki" on the mail ship bound for Japan, and only half a month after arriving in Tokyo, he revised the score and sent it to his friend Situ Huimin in China.
On May 9, Oriental EMI Records recorded the song for the first time, and on May 24, "Daughter of the Wind and Clouds" premiered at the Shanghai Jincheng Grand Theatre. The "March of the Volunteer Army", which resounded throughout the land of China, sent out the strongest sound of the times.
Less than two months after the film's release, misfortune came, and on July 17, Nie Er came to Fujisawa City, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, and when he was swimming on the shore of the Hoonuma Beach, a big wave slammed in, and Nie Er disappeared from people's sight. By the time it was salvaged, it was already a cold corpse. Heaven does not indulge in talents, nie er's life is fixed at the age of 23.
His friend Zhang Tianxu hurried from Tokyo, claimed Nie Er's body, and brought it back after being cremated locally.
When Tian Han heard the bad news, he burst into tears and wrote a eulogy with trembling hands: "A series of Jinling may be more, so there are a few swallows." Sing together to shock the world, and the little one does not wait for death and life. The country of the countryside has only fallen into a huge flood, and the frontier is the second bad Great Wall. The heroic soul should return to the waves, so as to complain about the injustice of our people. ”
Xia Yan was grief-stricken, and after dressing up in disguise, he risked his life to go to the Jincheng Grand Theater and made a final farewell at Nie Er's memorial service.
After his death, the musician returned to his hometown when he was 18 years old, and he was buried in Xishan, Kunming, Yunnan Province, and the March of the Volunteer Army became the masterpiece, and Nie Er eventually failed to hear the complete synthetic version.
Nie Er's mysterious death caused speculation from all sides, some people said that Nie Er's swimming skills were not very good, which was purely an accident; some people said that Nie Er's body had blood on his body, suspecting that he was assassinated by secret agents; others said that the agents did not know Nie Er's itinerary, and he may have committed suicide. However, these claims are full of controversy, and his drowning is still a mystery.
Later, when the world was sorting out Nie Er's relics, they turned over a large number of dried petals, some sandwiched in books, some placed in boxes, which were clearly the favorite flowers of yuan chunhui of their first love, and the Burmese osmanthus flowers that hung on the buttons on their chests that never withered...
Text | Shinobu bow