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Chapter 34 Part Three: One Chant and Three Sighs "The Story of the Red Lantern" and "The White-haired Girl" regained their glory and won international acclaim

It is precisely because of the widespread influence of operas, feature films, ballets and the art film "White-haired Girl" based on ballets in the folks. Looking forward to the red sun in the deep mountains" and the chorus singing "Looking at the World", "The Sun Comes Out", "Big Red Dates for Relatives", plus the beautiful ballet shapes "Window Flower Dance", "Rise to Resist", "Escape into the Mountains" ", "Moon Night Love", "Grandma's Temple Rebukes the Enemy", "Out of the Cave", "Revenge", "Take Up a Gun and Make a Revolution" and other well-known songs and dances have been popularized as early as the mid-1960s. It was the first to introduce the ballet troupe to Japan for rehearsal. Later, the Japanese Matsuyama Ballet Troupe, which first rehearsed this ballet, officially visited Beijing to perform. Actor Wang Kun and Tian Hua, a famous film actor from Bayi Film Studio, once left a group photo of the three Xier together with Premier Zhou Enlai. In August 1996, the four generations of Xier Wang Kun, Tian Hua, Shi Zhongqin, Xin Lili, and Qu Xiaoyi met again in Beijing.In addition, the names of Wang Qifeng and Yang Xinhua who played Xi'er and Dachun are also well known.

Regarding "The White-haired Girl" itself and other than "The White-haired Girl", there seems to be endless topics and stories to tell.In the new millennium, "Xi'er Mao Huifang Sued a Sichuan Writer's Honorary Litigation Case" is particularly attracting attention.What is the reason?It turned out that it was a writer from Sichuan who had written some influential works. From the novel "Crazy Shanghai" written by Hu Yuewei from Sichuan Literature and Art Publishing House for more than ten years, it was about Fang Fang, a ballet school student who did not hesitate to sell her body. Inspired by the plot of the commander of the rebels, he wrote a documentary literature by name to point to "Xi'er Mao Huifang" who starred in the ballet "The White Haired Girl", and the article eloquently recorded Mao Huifang's life during the turmoil Ups and downs, and focused on her jumping from the ballet stage to the political stage, and from the political stage to the prison stage.The documentary literature was published in a literary journal in Zhengzhou, which not only caused an uproar in the society and readers, but also alarmed Mao Huifang, who had already settled in the United States. The public publication of this "explosive" article gave Mao Huifang herself And social public opinion has brought immeasurable influence.Mao Huifang couldn't bear the sudden disaster and personal insult that flew out of nowhere. She argued hard and took the Sichuan writer and the literary journal in Zhengzhou to court with one page of pleadings.As a result, of course, Mao Huifang, who had been framed, won the lawsuit, and the kind-hearted Mao Huifang finally forgave the Sichuan writer tolerantly.This is of course a digression in "The White-haired Girl", but the well-known Sichuan writer made a mistake at this time. In order to seize and create "secret secrets", he ignored the facts and mistakenly The fictional characters in the novel are equated with the characters in real life. Without meeting the person to be written, he once again hurt the person to be written with publicly untrue words. In the end, "Xi'er" once again Dramatically raised his eyebrows and washed away his grievances.

Since the 1970s, the famous opera singer Guo Lanying, who was also trained in the Holy Land of Revolution, took the lead in rehearsing the opera "The White-haired Girl" after smashing the "Gang of Four". Li Yuanhua of the Central Opera and Dance Theater who played the role of water lotus in "Ode to the Dragon River" also played the role of Xi'er, and the most popular famous singers such as Peng Liyuan and Wan Shanhong have re-run the classic opera "Ode to the Dragon" in different periods. Leading role in The White Haired Girl.This "White-haired Girl", known as the 20th-century Chinese classic business card representing the Chinese folk opera, the classic business card of China, and the highest achievement of Chinese ballet, not only conquered the Chinese audience with its magical charm of three different artistic expressions, And also conquered the world audience.

One Chant and Three Sighs "The Story of the Red Lantern" Chinese classic business cards "Southern Expedition and Northern War" and "Reconnaissance across the River" have become the most familiar old movies that are familiar to the audience and deeply remembered.In addition to those thrilling and tortuous storylines that the audience will never forget, the film also remembers the famous actors Feng, Xiang, Zhang Ruifang, Bai Mu and Sun Daolin, Li Lingjun, and Statement who starred in the two films.However, enthusiastic film fans, do you know the screenwriter of these two films - Mr. Silence?He was one of the original creators of "The Story of the Red Lantern" among the famous "Eight Model Operas" that became well-known to everyone.

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