In the long road of life, we will meet all kinds of people, and we will encounter sad or happy things. Everyone will experience a different life, in the eyes of outsiders, may be wonderful, may be bland, may be mixed, may be tragic and desolate, but when most people care about whether you fly high or not, there is always a person who silently waits in place, just to give the exhausted us a warm embrace, to the scaly soul a haven to rest.
In your heart, what is maternal love? Today we mainly tell the story of dance artist Zhao Qing and her mother Ye Lucy.
Dancer Zhao Dan
Speaking of Zhao Qing's father, Zhao Dan, I think people who like to watch old movies are very familiar. He has participated in or directed dozens of classic old films such as "Cross Street", "Children of China", "Before and After the Qingming Dynasty", and has won the Best Actor Award of the Chinese Film Century Award, the 100 Outstanding Actor Awards of Chinese Cinema, etc., and is an important "big coffee" in the history of Chinese cinema.
But who knows, this film celebrity who has achieved extraordinary achievements in his career has a very bumpy life. Life is like a drama, but the scenery in the play is difficult to make up for the pain in life, and the biggest pain is his deep and shallow love with Ye Lucy...
During the Republic of China period, there was an actor named Jinshan, who was both a peer and a good friend who talked about everything. At that time, Jinshan served as the instructor of the Shanghai Commercial School Theater Troupe, and Zhao Dan was already a famous movie star with red and purple.
Zhao Dan
One day, Jinshan invited Zhao Dan to watch the school troupe perform, and Zhao Dan, who did not want to go, was hindered by repeated invitations from friends and gladly went there.
As soon as I arrived at the school gate, I met a group of student actors from the troupe, including Ye Lucy. It was the cardamom age of Ye Lucy, not only ChuChu moving, but also has a pair of talking eyes, although Zhao Dan as a well-known actor has read countless people, but in the moment of seeing Ye Lucy, he was attracted by it, and even forgot to say hello.
As a person who came over, Jinshan immediately saw the thoughts of his friends, so he became an old man under the moon to lead the young couple. The two became acquainted, one was a popular movie star, and the other was a talented "school flower".
The two, who had received a modern education and were avant-garde in thought, held a group wedding in 1936 under the Liuhe Pagoda in Hangzhou. Soon after the marriage, Ye Lucy became pregnant, although she was very reluctant to leave the stage of her dreams, but for the sake of her husband and the children in her belly, she resigned at home and became a housewife. Soon after, their first child, Zhao Qing, came to the world.
Born in a chaotic world, I can't help myself. Not long after the birth of her daughter Zhao Qing, the gunshots at the Lugou Bridge broke the originally peaceful life. Zhao Dan and Ye Lucy, who had the ambition to save the country, entrusted their daughter Zhao Qing to Ye Lucy's mother to raise them, and the two embarked on the revolutionary road of resisting Japan and saving their lives.
After inadvertently reading an article in the newspaper about the Xinjiang warlord Sheng Shicai, I naively thought that this was an enlightened gentry, and broke through difficulties and obstacles to come to Xinjiang, ready to open up a blue sky for the cause of revolutionary drama.
When Zhao Dan arrived in Xinjiang, he found that he had made a big mistake, and the "king of Xinjiang" Sheng Shicai was not only not an enlightened gentry, but an authoritarian dictator who had long expressed dissatisfaction with the progressive group. With the defeat of the Soviet army in the Soviet-German War, he casually found a reason to arrest Zhao Dan and other progressives.
At this time, Ye Lucy, a weak woman, faced with the situation of unfamiliar life and no relatives and no reason, sold her property and went around inquiring about news related to her husband.
Later, under the coaxing and kidnapping of Sheng Shicai, Ye Luxi left Xinjiang and came to Lanzhou, and after several twists and turns, returned to Chongqing. She hoped that her husband would return safely one day, but what she was looking forward to was the news that Zhao Dan had been shot. At first, he did not believe that this was true, until the Chongqing side held a memorial service for Zhao Dan and others.
At this time, Ye Lucy had dried her tears, standing there, as if there was only a shell left, she wanted to die, but think of a pair of children, Ye Lucy had to live strongly.
In the war years when the cannon was rumbling, normal families were worried about their livelihoods, and you can imagine how difficult it is for a weak woman with a child. At this time, the playwright Du Xuan (an underground party member) appeared in Ye Lucy's life, originally Du Xuan only sympathized with Ye Lucy's suffering, and gave a lot of help, Ye Lucy was only grateful, and did not have other intentions, but the same revolutionary ideals made the two more close to each other.
Under the mediation of Jinshan, the two formed a revolutionary couple, and later under the influence of Du Xuan, Ye Lucy also joined the Communist Party of China.
Couple
There is no script to refer to life, and sometimes jokes will be more dramatic than drama. In 1945, Zhao Dan and other progressives who were arrested and imprisoned returned to Chongqing alive.
There were many people who came to greet him, and Zhao Dan, who was eager to see his wife and children, became both excited and anxious. But soon the news of Ye Lucy's remarriage was like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, so that Zhao Dan, who had just escaped from purgatory, suddenly returned to a deeper "hell".
At this time, Ye Lucy was pregnant, and the appearance of Zhao Dan made her more remorseful, guilty, painful but helpless, but in the end she chose her current husband. The departure of his wife caused irreparable harm to Zhao Dan, a pain that he could not face in his life.
Although such marriage tragedies were very common in the war years, more marriages became fragile due to the hardships of life, countless families were crushed under the weight of gun smoke and life, and the original happy families were broken and reorganized in the war.
The love story of Zhao Qing's parents, Lao Yan, is a complete and utter marriage tragedy, and all the sources of this tragedy are wars.
Ye Lucy and Zhao Dan
The change of fate has left an unsynchable scar on the original precious love, but innocent children have also borne everything that should not be endured.
When Zhao Dan and Ye Lucy rushed to the revolution, Zhao Qing was only a two-year-old child, and at this time Ye Lucy had already given birth to her second child, Miao Miao, but the cruel revolutionary road could not allow her to take care of two young children at the same time.
After a very fierce internal struggle, it was finally decided to leave the slightly older daughter Zhao Qing in the care of her mother. As a mother, who wants to leave her two-year-old daughter, who is lively and cute, who has tried to learn to sing and dance, and as a daughter, although she cannot understand the decision of adults, but leaving her mother's harbor, where can she find warmth?
Under the meticulous care of her grandmother, Zhao Qing's childhood, although not perfect, is also carefree.
Zhao Qing and his mother
Born in an artistic family, Zhao Qing has an unparalleled talent for dance, at the age of 12 she became a student of the Russian dancer Marglam, later entered the dance troupe of the Central Academy of Drama, and later entered the Beijing Dance School for further study, and after graduation, she officially became a dancer in the Chinese Song and Dance Theater.
It has been said that in the long river of history, each of us has become so insignificant; but a speck of dust in the tide of the times that falls on everyone will be a mountain.
In Zhao Qing's childhood memories, there is not a single impression of living with his parents, for his father Zhao Dan and his mother Ye Lucy, they are also mentioned by their grandmother and the adults around them, and the two words that are often mentioned as father and mother are distant, vague, and very eager but impossible to have for Zhao Qing in childhood.
This is cruel and ruthless for a child living in peacetime, but for Zhao Qing, who was born in the war years, it is a microcosm of many children across the country, and even compared with those children who are difficult to guarantee their lives and basic food and clothing because of the war, they may still be lucky.
Zhao Qing
In 1962, the 26-year-old Zhao Qing was already a "pillar" of the China Opera and Dance Theatre, but due to frequent performances and overwork, he injured his right knee and could not continue performing.
Later, with the special approval of Premier Zhou, Zhao Qing returned to Shanghai with her husband for medical treatment. But where to stay has become a problem, Zhao Qing's grandmother's family has five children of aunt and uncle, her father Zhao Dan and his later wife also have three children, and after Zhou Xuan's death, her two children also live in Zhao Dan's home, making the already very difficult life more difficult.
Only the mother Ye Lucy, although there are also seven children, but the house is still quite spacious, Ye Lucy and Du Xuan consulted, specially vacated a room, which also became the first time that Zhao Qing and her mother Ye Lucy lived together after 24 years of separation in childhood.
Although the most difficult period of three years has passed, in the face of the new China, which has just been established for more than 10 years, materials are still relatively scarce, and under the planned economy, everyone's grain, meat, eggs, and cloth are purchased by bills.
It is already very difficult for Ye Lucy and Du Xuan to support 9 people with their salaries, and coupled with the arrival of Zhao Qing and her husband, the pressure on the family can be imagined.
But after the baptism of the revolutionary wave and the ups and downs of life, Ye Lucy not only did not show a little embarrassment because of the difficulties of life, but also became particularly happy about the arrival of her daughter.
In addition to working and taking care of the family's life, Zhao Qing personally accompanied her every time she went to the hospital for follow-up consultation, and insisted on boiling Traditional Chinese medicine to treat her daughter every day, and ran to the Shanghai Municipal Government to specially approve nutritious food for Zhao Qing to eat alone. Seven young children saw the eldest sister eating eggs and eating fish, and none of them squeaked.
Zhao Qing's legs have gradually recovered, but at this time, her husband Liu Dekang suddenly suffered from a blood disease and was hospitalized, although there was no danger to his life, but it added a heavy "weight" to this family that was originally under great pressure.
Not only to take care of the sick daughter, Ye Lucy and Zhao Qing's grandmother also took turns to go to the hospital to take care of Zhao Qing's husband. All of this, Zhao Qing saw in his eyes, remembered in his heart, and the slight incomprehension of his mother in childhood slowly became relieved.
Under the meticulous care of Ye Lucy, Zhao Qing's legs slowly returned to normal, and her husband Liu Dekang was also pulled back from the death line.
Zhao Youth Youth Period
Zhao Qing, who regards dance as a life, after hearing the violin concerto "Liang Zhu" during his illness, came up with the idea of creating a dance drama and told Ye Lucy the idea for the first time.
Ye Lucy was not only very happy, but also helped to get a tape recorder and tape, and contacted the big practice hall of the "Shanghai Opera House". After hearing about his daughter's plan, father Zhao Dan went to the scene to help Zhao Qing choreograph scenes and plots in his free time at work, and put forward many creative ideas.
The eldest uncle Ye Chunzhi (a famous composer) took Zhao Qing to the home of Chen Gang, one of the composers of Liang Zhu, to understand the concept of creation.
Zhao Qing and his wife not only recovered, but also completed the creation of the dance drama "Liang Zhu", and Zhao Qing returned to the stage with gratitude to her mother. In the public performance of the "National Dance Show", the small dance drama "Liang Zhu" shined, and later made into a movie, which became an eternity in the memory of a generation.
Zhao Chunzhi
The heart of the beloved son is endless, the homecoming is happy and tatsumi, the cold clothes are densely threaded, and the ink marks of the family letter are new. Meet pity and thinness, Hu'er asked bitterly; lowly ashamed of the son of man, did not dare to sigh the wind and dust...
As a birth mother, although Ye Lucy has not always accompanied her daughter Zhao Qing, she has done her best to dedicate her mother's love to her daughter in the days when mother and daughter do not get along much. It was also this great mother who made Zhao Qing feel the greatest and most touching love in the world.
Zhao Qing later began to paint, many of which came from her mother, such as the oil painting "Milk", that is, when Zhao Qing saw her daughter-in-law breastfeeding her granddaughter, she thought of her birth mother Ye Lucy, and through this work, told the world that she was grateful for the universe, the earth and the mother's nurturing grace to us.
When Zhao Qing commemorated the 100th anniversary of the birth of her birth mother Ye Lucy, she once wrote the following paragraph:
Old Zhao Qing
"In this life, as long as I mention my birth mother and mother, my heart is like a imprisoned hand pressing a chord on the key, hammering on my heart one by one, so painful!" It hurts! It is like a imprisoned finger in the treble area, a key of the piano key continuously played under the treble, like tears drop by drop, dripping on the tip of my heart, so bitter! So poignant! This pain, this bitterness, this resentment, this hatred, are all sins created by the Japanese fascist war of aggression against China, so opposing the war and praying for peace have become my hopes and pursuits in this life. ”
Mother's love is like a spring drizzle, nourishing the dry land on the hearts of children; mother's love is like a beacon of trek, guiding the way forward for our wandering bodies and souls; maternal love is more like the winter sun, warming the children's seemingly strong but incomparably soft hearts...
This is not only our understanding and praise of maternal love, but also a gratitude to the great mother who gave us life and selflessly dedicated love.