He specializes in Chinese and Western percussion instruments and composes folk percussion music. His main works include People Pentium, Celebrating Four Good Days, Unity between the Army and the People, Heart to Heart, Song of Victory in Southern Xinjiang and Great Victory. He has won many awards at home and abroad. Over the years, as a leader and main executor, he has visited more than 50 countries and regions in the world on behalf of the country; Awarded "Lifelong Contribution Award" by China National Orchestra Association.
No one has forgotten the music "Dongfanghong" sent back to the ground when the first artificial satellite "Dongfanghong 1" was launched, but perhaps few people know that it was played by Liu Hanlin, a master of national percussion instruments in China.
Mr. Liu Lao is 7 1 year old this year, but his body is still hale and hearty. He speaks like a drum, and his laughter is shocking.
Since 13 years old, he has traveled to more than 50 countries and regions, witnessed many major historical events and made gratifying artistic achievements. "Don't lose money in this life!" Sitting in the living room surrounded by honors and medals, Mr. Liu's thoughts returned to the past.
Empress Dowager Cixi's apprentice
Royal band
1935, Liu Hanlin was born into an urban civilian family in Babaolou, Suzhou Hutong, Chongwenmen, Beijing. His childhood life was extremely poor, ragged and often covered with muscles and intestines. In winter, he and his friends pick briquettes and help people sell sugar. In the old man's own words, "all he needs is begging."
In February, Liu Hanlin 13 years old. At that time, the People's Liberation Army was approaching Beiping City, and some people in the city were happy and some people were flustered. On a starry night, Liu Hanlin quietly followed a neighbor named "Liu Bohan" to climb the wall outside Beiping from the East Gate. When he left, he was wearing a tattered coat and his shoes showed his toes.
This brave and resourceful "underground party" uncle took Xiao Hanlin to Tongxian in the east of Beijing overnight and joined the People's Liberation Army. This unit belongs to the Northeast Branch of the Military Management Committee of Beiping City. At that time, he was not as tall as a gun. The person in charge of the unit thought for a long time and said, "What should such a small child do? Go to the art troupe! " At that time, the main tasks of the art troupe were two: first, acting and educating the wounded and sick of the Kuomintang. At that time, the white-haired girl, the prodigal son and Baoshan joined the army were the most popular performances. The second is to brush slogans, such as "cross the Yangtze River and capture Chiang Kai-shek alive". Liu Hanlin often borrows props from his hometown to help the team, or carries buckets of white ash for his comrades who are responsible for writing slogans.
1July, 949, troops entered the city, renamed as "Beiping Public Security Corps", with Luo as the team leader and Wang Heyuan as the political commissar. Soon, the propaganda team of Beiping Public Security Corps was established. Most members of the propaganda team have never been exposed to musical instruments. Their teacher is a member of the "Beiping Police Station Military Band" which has just been incorporated by the People's Liberation Army. The predecessor of this team is the imperial band of Empress Dowager Cixi, and the musicians are skilled. Under the guidance of these first teachers, Liu Hanlin began his music career. At first, the leader arranged for Liu Hanlin to play alto, then changed it to trombone, bass and snare drum Jr., and finally specialized in percussion. Since then, drums have formed an indissoluble bond with him, and drums have become his favorite in life.
In the early days of its establishment, the propaganda team undertook two tasks: First, it went to all parts of the city to publicize "reporting household registration" with the slogan "Everyone should have a household registration" and "If the household registration is unclear, you can't feel at ease". The main purpose of organizing residents to apply for household registration is to find out the latent Kuomintang agents at that time; The second task is to maintain law and order in the whole city and defend the new revolutionary regime. The soldiers shouted loud slogans: "Public security soldiers have high morale, stand up with guns, defend Chairman Mao, defend the Party Central Committee, and defend the victory and glory of the people's democratic dictatorship." 195 1 year, the central military commission decided to set up a public security force with Luo Ruiqing as its commander. The tasks of this unit are: to defend the Party Central Committee and Chairman Mao, to defend factories, mines, railways and bridges, and to defend embassies and military facilities of various countries. The costume is the PLA military uniform, and the left arm has a public security shield. Accordingly, the original "Public Security Corps Propaganda Team" was changed to "Public Security Forces Political Department Cultural and Art Troupe". Liu Hanlin is a professional drummer with superb skills.
Dedicated to chairman Mao
Accompanied by "Winter Tea and Winter Tea"
195 1 after the establishment of the art troupe of the political department of the public security forces, the tasks increased significantly, that is, from that time on, Liu Hanlin had the honor to start dancing with Chairman Mao. According to his memory, in the early days of entering the city, the central leadership did not have a fixed time for entertainment. Considering the health of the leaders, the relevant parties held a dance in Zhongnanhai, and then began to hold a dance attended by the heads of the Military Commission in Sanmen. The Cultural Department of the General Political Department handed the task of dancing for the leaders to the public security art troupe orchestra where Liu Hanlin was located, and Liu Hanlin led the performance as the "chief" drummer. At that time, the dance in Zhongnanhai usually started around 10 in the evening, and Chairman Mao didn't show up until after 1 1: 30. Generally come early, but will leave with his wife Wang before 1 1: 30; The time when Zhu De came is not fixed, sometimes early and sometimes late; However, Premier Zhou Enlai seldom saw him on the dance floor because he was on official business.
Speaking of Chairman Mao's dance, it is very interesting. It should be said that the chairman is not good at dancing. His dance steps are more like "walking" than "jumping" because he can only dance "2/4", that is, the rhythm of "dong cha dong cha", and it must be at a medium speed. Therefore, whenever a female companion invites Chairman Mao to dance, Chairman Mao readily agrees, and director Deng Bin, who is in charge of conducting live music, will give him a jazz drum. At this time, Liu Hanlin, who is only 17 years old, will always pay attention to Chairman Mao's movements, drop the drum hammer in his hand at the right time, and the music will start. When Chairman Mao and his partner turned around on the dance floor for two weeks, and turned to the position where he had just sat, Deng Bin would give Liu Hanlin another gesture, and Liu Hanlin beat the drum hard, and the music came to an abrupt end. Then, Chairman Mao will sit back in his position with the help of his companions.
What impressed Liu Hanlin was that the chairman dressed very simply. When the chairman was dancing, the socks on his feet suddenly slipped off his legs. That's a pair of thick socks, very long, knee-length, with several patches on it. Seeing that the socks fell, the chairman stopped dancing calmly, bent down, rolled up his trouser legs, pulled the socks to his knees and continued dancing. With ease and grace. After a few dances, the chairman usually starts smoking, or listens to the Beijing opera and cross talk with a wire recorder. Sometimes the dance lasts until two o'clock in the morning, and then the chairman slowly walks away, as if thinking about something. Of course, the band members will be the last to quit, and each of them will get a bowl of noodles for dinner.
This kind of life has lasted for four or five years. Liu Hanlin saw Chairman Mao many times at close range. He said he was so lucky that he couldn't hide his excitement every time he went to accompany him.
Relationship with Dongfanghong
1955, the central military commission decided to form the public security army, becoming the fourth service after the army, navy and air force. Luo Ruiqing served as the commander and minister of public security, and at the same time established the "Cultural and Art Troupe of the Political Department of the Public Security Army". At this time, after several years of basic practice and performance practice, Liu Hanlin's artistic accomplishment has advanced by leaps and bounds. 1957, the 6th World Youth Student Festival was held as scheduled. Liu Hanlin competed with artists from all over the world on the same stage with the national instrumental music "Great Victory" arranged by teammates He Huajun and Hu Tianquan, and finally won the gold medal.
1957, the public security army completed its historical mission and withdrew from the historical stage. Although the public security army art troupe is famous at home and abroad, it doesn't know what to do at this time. Yang Dezhi, then commander of jinan military area command, asked Luo Ruiqing, an old comrade-in-arms, to "want" this troupe, so all members of the Public Security Army Art Troupe collectively moved to Jinan and established the "jinan military area command Avant-garde Song and Dance Troupe", while the original "jinan military area command Song and Dance Troupe" was collectively classified as "Shandong Song and Dance Troupe".
Liu Hanlin was born and raised in Beijing, and became a "Jinan native" in his early twenties. Although he was reluctant to leave Beijing from the heart, he still happily settled in Jinan. At this time, he has established the position of "the first drummer" in China's national instrumental music performance with excellent results. Since then, he has visited Asia, Africa and Latin America for many times on behalf of the country, and his frequent performances abroad have also given him the opportunity to get in touch with drum art from all over the world.
From 65438 to 0964, Liu Hanlin began to participate in the rehearsal of the large-scale dance epic Dongfanghong, and served as the lead singer of percussion in a national band. Premier Zhou, then the general director, instructed that the performance should be "serious, well-organized and strict". Liu Hanlin clearly remembers that it was1June, 964, and thousands of cast members who participated in the performance of "Dongfanghong" all gathered in the North Hall of the Great Hall of the People, waiting for them. Premier Zhou stepped forward and could see that he was very excited. After the crowd quieted down, Premier Zhou said, "I have good news for you." At this time, the venue was silent, and Premier Zhou paused. Second, Khrushchev stepped down! Third, Chairman Mao is coming to visit everyone! "Taking his word, a flood of applause rang again. Liu Hanlin recalled that he felt that "the ceiling was about to be shattered. "On that day, he met with almost all the party and state leaders at that time.
1969, Liu Hanlin's army is on leave. Suddenly, he received an urgent task and rushed to Beijing with another comrade-in-arms Zhao Xingru, but he didn't know what the task was. After arriving in Beijing, they immediately went to china national radio. In a closed recording studio, the leader handed over a piece of music. When he saw it, he just played "Dongfanghong" countless times. The leader asked him to play this song with his comrades-in-arms, but not once. Let's do it again. Looking at the seriousness of the radio leader, Liu Hanlin knew that this must be a glorious and important task. He didn't dare to neglect and didn't ask much. He just hung his head and concentrated on playing. A few hours later, the leader asked them to change the drum hammer, hard hammer, soft hammer and rubber hammer, and tried all kinds of hammers. Finally, they were asked to use the knuckles of their middle fingers as a hammer clock, which Liu Hanlin jokingly called a "finger hammer". It is obviously not appropriate to knock on the bronze bell with your fingers. Liu Hanlin only knocked once, and his knuckles hurt badly. It took almost a whole day, and he and his comrades recorded the music of Dongfanghong for more than ten times with different hammers and different clocks. After completing the task, they quickly returned to Jinan. Until the end, no one told them more details.
1970, the satellite "Dongfanghong 1" was launched, and the music of "Dongfanghong" came. Liu Hanlin suddenly realized that this was not the melody he played on the radio with the bronze bell in Zhoucun, Shandong. At that time, his heart was full of pride and pride
Mo Dao sang-woo is late.
Twilight still fills the sky.
1997, Liu Hanlin retired from the avant-garde song and dance troupe. Considering that his ancestral home is in Beijing, he deliberately moved his household registration back to Beijing. Organizational concern turned into his motivation to continue his struggle, and soon another magnificent national percussion work, The Battle of Chu and Han, came out and won the Excellent Works Award from the Ministry of Culture.
Although Liu Hanlin is now seventy years old, his body is hale and hearty, and he is full of breath when he speaks. Speaking of excitement, he is used to waving his powerful big hands that have been hammered all his life. Looking back, Liu Hanlin said with emotion that he was very lucky, and the work arranged by the organization happened to be the place where he was talented; In my life, I found a virtuous wife, Liang, a soloist of the original avant-garde song and dance troupe. The two love each other, and a pair of children have a successful career. In particular, the son followed his father and became famous in percussion. The lovely little granddaughter's favorite toy is also the drum hammer of grandpa and dad.
Liu Hanlin, who has been regarded as the deputy commander of the Legion, now spends more time with his students and takes part in the social test of national percussion instruments. He likes talented students. A worker's daughter learned drums from him at the age of five, never paid a penny for tuition, and finally embarked on a career path. At present, Central Conservatory of Music, China Conservatory of Music and PLA Military Orchestra all have his students.
The sonorous drums, mellow drums, small and smart drums and hammers have accompanied Liu Hanlin through his artistic life for more than 50 years. For this artist whose soul has been national percussion all his life, the wonderful chapters in his life will continue to play.