Excuse me, who's Li Xianglan?

I'm annoyed by the spring breeze/why is my heart annoyed by the spring breeze/I can't tell you/I don't want to drink wine/the rain is frozen at night/the raindrops are transmitted to/in the photo/I look back like a dream can't bounce/I'm fascinated by staring at you/in the faded photo/Ah, like a flower is not red ... "

This song by Jacky Cheung is a somewhat mysterious name for the people of China in the 193s-< p It is difficult for people under 4 to feel the spoony and sad atmosphere brought by adagio, because Shanghai was a gap in China's cultural feelings at that time. The influx of foreign culture and China's new culture have collided and impacted here. However, through this popular singer, we may be able to get a glimpse of some intriguing situations at that time.

China-born Japanese

In order to become popular in Shanghai, Li Xianglan has long found and identified his own sparkling temperament. Her original name was Shuzi Yamaguchi, and her family called her Doudou. She is Japanese. She was born on February 12th, 192 in North Yantai, near Fengtian (now Shenyang), Liaoning Province, China, and soon her family moved to Fushun. Her grandfather Yamaguchi loved Sinology since childhood and admired the ancient China culture, so he came to China from his hometown Saga Prefecture in the thirty-sixth year of Meiji (196) and lived there for a long time. When she was born, the Puppet Manchukuo was founded under the banner of "harmony among five ethnic groups". Many Japanese thought that a new era was about to begin, but the fact was the opposite.

Puyi, the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty, was nominally the head of the Puppet Manchukuo, but in fact he was just a puppet. The real power was in the hands of the Japanese Kwantung Army, who tortured and killed the innocent and made the people miserable. Witnessing the misery of China, my father, Fumio Yamaguchi, who works in Shenyang Railway Bureau, and my mother, Ai Shiqiao, who also worships Japanese culture, are very sad but full of helplessness. They can only pin their hopes on the daughter who was born in China. They promised her to General Li Jichun, a good friend of the then president of Shenyang Bank, as an adopted daughter. The name Li Xianglan was given by Li Jichun, and "Xianglan" was his own pen name, which was later used by Li Xianglan as his stage name.

In p>1943, Li Xianglan, a young and naive girl, came to Peiping full of love for China and Japan and longing for her future life, and studied in Peiping Yi Jiao Girls' Middle School under the name of "Pan Shuhua". "Pan" is her other adoptive father-her father's sworn brother, the surname of Pan Zhengsheng, then the mayor of Tianjin; "Shu" is derived from the name of Yamaguchi Shuzi; And "Hua" means being born in China. Of course, this name also contains the meaning of hoping for friendship between China and Japan.

Beiping Yijiao Girls' Middle School is a complete girls' middle school with senior and junior high schools. It was there that she received a good education and laid the foundation for her future acting career. In her book My First Half Life-Biography of Li Xianglan, she recorded her study at that time: "I came from the northeast to visit my relatives. As a China-the adopted daughter of the Pan family-I went to the Yi girls' school, named Pan Shuhua ... When I went to school, three people went the same way, and sometimes I was the only one left after school. At that time, I often went to Beihai Park by the way, practiced Chinese pronunciation or looked up a dictionary on an uninhabited island, and also went to the ancestral temple in the distance. "

Because she was born beautiful, fluent in Chinese and had a beautiful singing voice, her artistic talent and special background were quickly attracted by the pseudo "Manchuria Film Association" manipulated and planned by the Japanese invaders when the "Li family had a daughter". They mobilized her to join the club, and decided to package her vigorously and launch her as a singer in China to make noise for the aggressive policy. Young and ignorant, she was filled with infinite hope for the pseudo-Manchukuo. She sang China songs such as Fisherman's Daughter, Zhao Jun's Complaint and Meng Jiangnv in the new program "Manchu New Songs" of Japanese Fengtian Radio Station, and became famous for a song "Cordate telosma". As a result, "singer Li Xianglan" was pushed to the foreground, and quickly became popular in the music and film circles, becoming a well-known "superstar". After the big hit, Li Xianglan also made some films to promote the Japanese army or whitewash the Japanese war of aggression. At that time, everyone thought that she was from China, which also brought her future misfortune.

With the escalation of the Japanese invasion of China and the outbreak of the Pacific War, the United States and Britain declared war on Japan. Japan has become the enemy of the people of the world and is deeply mired in the mire. On the one hand, it is murderous, and on the other hand, it is a triumph of singing and dancing. In the shadow of swords and swords, her singing is like wine mixed with ecstasy, which soothes people's hearts and kills their exuberant fighting spirit. Although she is in troubled times, her popularity is increasing. In the early days of the Pacific War, her performance in the "Japanese Theater" was enthusiastically supported by the audience, and there were actually seven and a half circles of fans around her, which caused chaos and became a sensational news. At that time, she had received a letter from Kenichiro Matsuoka, the eldest son of Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Matsuoka. The letter said: "The value of a person cannot be measured by fame or not. People's value is not shown on the surface, you should take care of yourself. Now is an era when personal values are being fooled. You must respect yourself more, or you will only be at the mercy of the national situation. I hope you will always respect yourself. " These words are intriguing. In the darkest period of Japanese history, the son of Foreign Minister Matsuoka, who was designated as a war criminal after the war, wrote such a letter to a female star who pretended to be a China (or "Manchurian") and worked for Japan's Far East policy. This makes people feel the strength of liberalism and the weakness of liberalism. It can only be used as a boycott, and it won't work.

Fluency in Chinese and Japanese, amazing appearance, and European vocal singing like Di Anna Du Ping, a Hollywood actress at that time, fully reflect the Japanese's ideal vision for women in China. In this way, Li Xianglan became the "sugar-coated cannonball" of the Kwantung Army's war policy.

singer years

Li Xianglan's experience is unique. Although she is a pseudo-China actress made by the Japanese, she made films to publicize Japan's Far East policy to express her condolences to the Japanese army and became the goodwill ambassador of the puppet Manchuria and China needed by Japan, but these are not enough to obliterate all her artistic achievements.

her singing is euphemistic and touching, and her singing attainments are profound. When she was a student, she studied coloratura soprano with a famous soprano, Lady Porto Lesov, and later worked as a singer in a radio station, which was the starting point of her singing career. She sang countless classic love songs in her life. According to her own memoir My Half Life, the three most popular songs are When will you come again, Suzhou Nocturne and Cordate telosma. "When will you come again" is an episode of the film "Three Stars with the Moon" in 193s. Although the original singer is Zhou Xuan, her singing has a different style. Just like some old photos of her, with a gorgeous and charming face and wearing a cheongsam, they are from the East but not from China, and there is a trace of ambiguity between her eyebrows. "Suzhou Nocturne" was written by Japanese composer Hattori Yoshiichi based on China's melody and referring to American love songs, especially for her.

"Cordate telosma" is probably the most well-known song. This song was written by Li Jinguang, a specially invited composer of EMI Record Company, referring to China folk tunes, but the melody and rhythm in it completely adopted European and American styles, and it became a brisk slow rumba, which spread all over the colorful occupied areas. Unfortunately, this is a song that has not been banned so far. Although it is very nice, many people can only sing it privately. In her autobiography, she said: "Although this song was very popular, it didn't last long. Later, both Japanese and Chinese versions were banned from selling ... on the grounds that any soft foreign love song would make the discipline disorder." Not only that, in 1945, she sang this song in Shanghai and was summoned by the Ministry of Industry. She said: "They suspected that I sang this song in the hope that the Chongqing government or the * * * Party government would come back." Until the second half of her life, she still remembered Li Jinguang, the lyricist of this song. In 1981, she specially invited him to visit Japan. They sang "Cordate telosma" on stage at a cocktail party, and a group of "Cordate telosma" fans sang and walked around the venue.

In her autobiography, she also mentioned another song that was banned because it was accused of "decadent and demoralizing enemy music"-"Parting Blues". This song was very popular with Japanese soldiers. When the actor was asked to sing this song, although the officer pretended to have something to leave the meeting, he also hid in tears and quietly enjoyed it. The episodes of her Three Years, One-night Love, and When I Don't Meet You Before I Marry make fans feel nostalgic. In June 1945, when she performed this song in a concert in Shanghai, Chinese and Japanese fans who were in a state of war were crazy about her. This was also her last public performance in Shanghai. Two months later, after the war, she was arrested on the charge of "collaborating with the Japanese army".

in addition to singing, she has also made many films in pseudo-Manchu, Shanghai, Japan, Hong Kong and Taiwan. In April, 1991, she personally selected seven films she shot and participated in the Hong Kong Film Festival. These seven films are: A Night in zhina, The Cylon Clock, My Nightingale, The Brightest Day of My Life, Escape at Dawn, Scandal, and The Demon Love of Lady White. Among them, "My Nightingale" is a film that she shot in the pseudo-"full movie" era. It took nearly two years to make this film, costing 25, yen, which is equivalent to five times the investment of ordinary movies. The film describes the story of the joys and sorrows of the father and daughter. She thinks it is "a worldwide musical film and a real musical film in the history of Japanese film." The most glorious day of my life is her masterpiece after she returned to Japan after the war. It was produced by Matsutake Film Company of Japan, describing a dancer who fell in love with the enemy who killed her father, and was selected as the fifth of the ten best films. Escape at Dawn is a love tragedy written by Akira Kurosawa, and was once rated as the third of the ten best films of that year. Lady White's Demon Love is a film adapted from China's folk story The Legend of the White Snake. Zhina Night left the audience with the impression of a beautiful China woman and her sweet singing voice.

Her singing gives people dreams, and her movies are also a sensation. She filmed Mulan Joining the Army and Forever, and in Forever, she became famous in China cinema for playing the daughter of Lin Zexu. She has different interpretations of these two films. She thinks that they can be completely understood by Japanese audiences from the perspective of patriotism and resistance to the enemy-resistance to Japan. She even said that these films are acceptable to both China and China. However, her real success was several films made at the invitation of Hong Kong film companies after performing Hollywood movies and Broadway operas in the 195s, including Jin Ping Mei, One-night Romantic, Mysterious Beauty and so on, and all the episodes were interpreted and recorded by her. Although some people accuse her of being full of Japanese militarism, art can't be a propaganda tool of militarism. In addition, she also participated in the filming of documentary art films, Yellow River and Russian-style musical My Oriole, which was followed by spies from the Soviet Union and Japan. For these, she said: "Japan is definitely defeated, but because of the defeat, it is even more important to leave good art films." When American troops occupied Japan, it can be proved that Japan not only made war films, but also made excellent art films as good as European and American business cards ... "

Love and friendship

Li Xianglan and Zhang Ailing had such a conversation at a cool party held for a literary publication supported by the Japanese. Zhang Ailing said: "Even when you are 3 years old, you must still be as lively as a little girl!" She

said, "Yeah, it's really not much fun for these old people to play shallow pure love scenes. I'd like to play something extraordinary!" Therefore, Zhang Ailing later said: "She doesn't want that kind of ordinary, formulaic love, but' passionate'."

According to Chen Gexin's son Chen Gang, she and his father may have had an unknown and passionate love affair in Shanghai. Chen Gexin wrote a lot of songs for her, such as Night, Dawn, Stream, Lake, Fisherman's Daughter, I hate not meeting you before I get married, A Girl Without Sorrow and the coloratura soprano solo Haiyan written for her. At that time, when the head of the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Mr. Kazuo Kusama, and Japanese TV stations visited Shanghai, she told TV reporters that she almost married Chen Gexin. When the reporter asked her why she didn't mention anything in her published autobiography, she laughed: "The most important thing is that it can't be written in books."

when she came to Shanghai again in p>1992, Chen Gexin had died. As soon as she saw Chen Gang's face, she asked Chen Gexin about his life and recalled their deep affection 47 years ago. When leaving, she choked at Chen Gang: "Your father and I are fine ..." When she saw Chen Gang again in Tokyo later, she also said to him: "Your father is a handsome man, but for your mother and you, I would have married him ..." She hummed Chen Gexin's A Girl Without Sorrow for her over and over again: "Love, the sky is scattered with stars, and you are here. Love, the world has fallen asleep, and I don't feel empty with you around. I meditated on your name in the mud, forgetting this worrying day. Lover, although it seems that the water is ruthless, my leaves will last forever with you in my dream. "

In any case, she was born in the puppet Manchukuo, which was full of Japanese aggressive ambitions, and showed her deference to Japan as a China actress. It is absolutely impossible for her to become an aria of love. After returning to Japan in 1952, she married Noguchi, an American sculptor 15 years older than her, and broke up four years later. When talking about the reasons for breaking up, she said: "It's neither the third party's problem nor the economic problem. It's just that time can't be together, which leads to differences in personality." In fact, before they got married, they agreed on the so-called "divorce conditions": respect each other, do not affect each other's work, and once there is a contradiction, break up as friends. In the four years of marriage, they actually lived together for less than one year.

After her divorce from Noguchi, she was invited to perform the opera Shangri-La in new york. During the performance, she met a young Japanese diplomat, Daihiro, who was sent to work in the United Nations. The 28-year-old Japanese youth sent her a bouquet of bright roses every day and visited her backstage several times in succession. Under such bold and enthusiastic courtship, they soon fell in love and finally got married. In order to cherish this rare feeling, after marrying Dayinghong, she changed her name to Dayinghong Shuzi. Soon, with the support of her husband, she retired from the film industry and became a member of the Japanese parliament (senator of the Liberal Democratic Party), and was re-elected for 18 years.

Although her love life has experienced many twists and turns, it is commendable that she always has a precious friendship. When she was 1 years old, she was in the third grade in Fushun Primary School. On the train to Shenyang for an autumn outing, she met a Russian Jewish girl of the same age who lived in Shenyang-Liu Ba. She attached great importance to this friend. She said, "Liuba is my most precious friend. I became a singing Li Xianglan because of Liuba; I became a living Li Xianglan because of Liuba. Liu Ba is like an amulet arranged by God in my life, sometimes like the sun and sometimes like the moon. She will always be with me. " With the help of Liuba, she began to learn coloratura soprano from the famous opera singer Porto Lesov of the Soviet Grand Theatre and a friend of Liuba's family. Because of wave column.