Huang Wanqiu
Huang Wanqiu performed on stage at the age of 14. When she played the role of Liu Sanjie in the movie in 1961, she was only 17 years old. At that time, the Guangxi Autonomous Region was producing a high-quality Cai Diao drama "Liu Sanjie". There were many theater troupes and amateur groups rehearsing the play. There were more than 100 actors playing the role of Liu Sanjie. The movie "Liu Sanjie" was adapted from the Cai Diao drama. The first musical scenery feature film. Huang Wanqiu was very lucky. She stood out from more than 100 "Liu Sanjie" and stepped from the stage to the screen. The image of the pure and playful Liu Sanjie she played, together with the film's witty and vivid story and the popular song, has been popular in China for generations. It has left a deep mark on people's hearts, and it can be said that it has truly become a household name. There were also "star-chasers" in that era. These movie fans seemed to be more persistent in pursuing their favorite stars. There was once a viewer who wrote a letter to Huang Wanqiu about his viewing experience every time he watched "Sanjie Liu". Until the eve of the "Cultural Revolution", he sent Huang Wanqiu 99 letters about his viewing experience. Altogether, there was a thick stack. son. If the "Cultural Revolution" hadn't started, he said he would have written the 100th letter!
Not only at home, "Liu Sanjie" is also deeply loved by Chinese overseas. The late Yao Meiliang, chairman of the Malaysian Wing Fong Group, was a very famous Chinese entrepreneur in Southeast Asia. He went to Singapore to watch the movie "Liu Sanjie" and watched 10 scenes in one go. He once said affectionately: "Liu Sanjie is China's largest united front minister. She can bring the hearts of the Chinese people together." After the 1980s, "Liu Sanjie" had the opportunity to be performed on the stage in Southeast Asia. Once again, among the Chinese in Southeast Asia, The "Sanjie Liu craze" started, and the tickets were often sold out before the troupe arrived. Huang Wanqiu became the "favorite", with hundreds of audiences queuing up to ask for her autograph almost every day. At that time, Malaysia had not yet established diplomatic relations with China. A Malaysian overseas Chinese was punished for encouraging some overseas Chinese to go to Singapore to watch the performance of "Liu Sanjie" and was jailed for 15 years. However, he still thought afterwards: "In order to watch "Liu Sanjie", I sat for 15 years. The years in prison are worth it, no regrets!”
Sanjie Liu brought Huang Wanqiu a high honor, but it also made her reach a height that she could never surpass in her artistic career. This is of course related to the fact that her image is suitable for the role of Liu Sanjie, but it is also inseparable from the objective background of the times. Because just as the golden age of her acting career was approaching, an unprecedented cultural catastrophe ruthlessly destroyed her bright future. Liu Sanjie condenses Huang Wanqiu's entire youth. Huang Wanqiu's joys and sorrows of honor and disgrace over the past forty years are closely connected with the artistic image of Liu Sanjie.
At the beginning of the "Cultural Revolution", "Liu Sanjie" was criticized as a "poisonous weed". As a result, Huang Wanqiu was charged with unfounded charges and began 15 years of labor reform. She was deported, paraded through the streets, reviled, and even threatened with being dragged out and shot to make her confess the so-called evidence of her crime. During those days of confusing right and wrong, Huang Wanqiu had many thoughts of suicide after being criticized. However, when she thought of the audience who had given her warm applause and unlimited support in the audience, she told herself to live strong. Come down.
If Huang Wanqiu was lucky in that disaster, it was that she met the real-life "Brother A Niu" He Youcai. He Youcai is 6 years younger than Huang Wanqiu, but he is the pillar of her life. He always said with a happy face: "Because the third sister will always be more famous than me, she is the sun and I am the moon. Let the moon go with the sun." "Now, I am her driver and personal assistant, with almost full power. Take care of her life and career. "Wanqiu has suffered too much. I should help her develop herself better and let people who love her and care about her see her artistic development again." They have been together through thick and thin, and all the bitter memories and hurts have been indifferent in the sweet smiles of the couple...
The sun will eventually shine when the shadows block it. In 1978, the Central People's Broadcasting Station broadcast the recording of the movie "Liu Sanjie" for the first time after the Cultural Revolution. A few years later, Huang Wanqiu was finally able to get out of her nightmare. Although she has reached middle age and her youthful appearance is no longer the same, the audiences who once gave her courage gave her the same warm welcome.
For the audiences who love her, Huang Wanqiu continues to dedicate her artistic talents.
In addition to serving as the deputy director of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Song and Dance Troupe (1983) and the deputy director of the Guilin Municipal Cultural Bureau (1991), he also successively filmed the movies "Chunlan Qiuju" (1984) and "The Great Battle of the Great Wall"; the TV series "Dad, "Mother and Child" (1982), "Huangshan Love" (Huangmei Opera, 1990), "Opera Fan Shenglaole" (1998), etc. Among them, "Huangshan Love" won the "Golden Eagle Award", "Feitian Award", "Flying Eagle Award" and the Best Opera Film Award in six provinces and cities in East China. The folk art "A Journey to the Li River" directed by her in 1995 won the "Peony Award" Director Award and the Autonomous Region Excellence Award at the Second China Folk Art Festival; in 1997, the "Chunlan Song" directed by her won the national "Wenhua New Program Award" and the autonomous region's "Bronze Drum Award" award". The musical "Hundred Birds' Clothes" she starred in won the Outstanding Actor Award at the First Guangxi Drama Festival; her cassette recording of "Song Fairy Liu Sanjie" won the "Tongmei Cup" award from the Ministry of Radio, Film and Television in 1987.
Huang Wanqiu’s favorite character is Liu Sanjie. "Guangxi Liu Sanjie Huang Wanqiu" is the title on Huang Wanqiu's business card. As for why it is written like this, Huang Wanqiu explained: "Although I have many positions, I feel that those things are temporary, and Liu Sanjie is eternal." , embodying a healthy and honest traditional virtue, she transcends regional cultural differences and breaks historical time and space.
The movie "Sanjie Liu" left such a deep impression on people, so Huang Wanqiu's image became the Sanjie Liu in people's minds. No matter where she went, people called her "Sanjie Liu", and she herself was deeply I fell in love with this character and hoped to promote traditional Chinese culture through this character.
In order to cultivate folk song successors, Huang Wanqiu resigned from his position as deputy director of the Guilin Municipal Cultural Bureau in 2002, and jointly built a "Liu Sanjie Landscape Garden" in Guilin with a company in Dalian. This landscape is located on the bank of the pleasant Taohua River, with the theme of Liu Sanjie culture and the culture of Guangxi Zhuang, Yao, Miao, Dong and other ethnic minorities. In the past few years, she has trained more than 30 actors here, and two of them who played "Liu Sanjie" have certain acting qualities and have great development prospects. Now, as long as she is in Guilin, Huang Wanqiu goes to the landscape garden every day to meet the audience and perform on stage to sing in person. Sometimes the whole family will come together to sing for friends who are traveling to Guilin.
“It was Guilin’s landscape that created Sister Liu and me. I was blessed by Sister Liu, and the audience gave me all their love for Sister Liu. I returned to the stage that I was deeply attached to, I just want to sing Sister Liu’s songs all over the country again, even abroad, so that the whole world knows about Sister Liu and Guilin.”
Being attached to art and Sister Liu, Huang Wanqiu’s heart will always be young and beautiful.