Chinanews.com, Beijing, March 3rd (Reporter Ying Ni) Sixty years ago, with the upsurge of learning from Lei Feng across the country, a classic song "Learn from Lei Feng", which is well-known to the whole society, was born. all over the country.

　　Sixty years later, Wu Hongyuan, the lyricist of the song "Learn from Lei Feng's Good Example", joined hands with the producer, screenwriter, and director Jia Ding of the musical "The Story of Lei Feng", and the father and son continued to write the story of Lei Feng.

　　At the press conference on the 3rd, the 93-year-old lyricist Wu Hongyuan was in good spirits.

He recalled that it took him only two hours to write the lyrics of "Learn from Lei Feng's Good Example". It was not a day or two before I wanted to write about heroes. "It was an era when heroes emerged in endlessly. Lei Feng, Wang Jinxi, Jiao Yulu, Shi Chuanxiang, Ouyang Hai... Everyone was always inspired by the deeds of heroes, but what can I do as a lyricist? ?So when I received this task, passion poured into my pen, and I wrote it quickly, because it came from true feelings.”

　　At the scene, Wu Hongyuan solemnly handed over the pen he used to write the lyrics to his son Jiading, and told him to take good care of it and not lose it, "This is the treasure I brought back from the battlefield."

Jiading introduced the musical "Lei Feng's Story" on the spot. Photo courtesy of Jiading Culture

　　Jia Ding will take over the pen from his father's generation and continue to write Lei Feng's story. This is the release of the musical "Lei Feng's Story".

In the second half of the year, the musical "Lei Feng's Story" will premiere at the Erqi Theater in Beijing.

The repertoire revolves around the story of "love" and "being loved", and seeing "big love" from "little love" highlights the social fashion and the spirit of the times.

　　Jia Ding introduced that the whole play will use three vehicles, namely tractors, bulldozers, and Jiefang cars as story carriers to show Lei Feng's life and career trajectory. Through the extension of each story, it reflects the warmth of ordinary people and ordinary things in society. and moved.

In the play, there are Lei Feng's love for the people and his career, his love for colleagues and comrades-in-arms, his love for the party and the country, and Lei Feng's personal love and cute personality. It is him who caused Lei Feng's "big love" The "love" given by the party, the country, and the masses of the people to an orphan who grows into an ordinary soldier can be felt at all times.

The creation of the repertoire will focus on grasping Lei Feng's sense of faith, embodying Lei Feng's spirit of the times, and grasping the empathy between Lei Feng and the audience.

And in the form of musicals, which are popular among young people, compose an ode to Lei Feng's spirit of the times.

Father and son are on the same stage, Wu Hongyuan solemnly handed over the pen he used for writing lyrics to his son Jiading Jiading Culture for photo

　　It is reported that the musical "Lei Feng's Story" is a 2022 funding project of the Beijing Culture and Art Fund.

The Beijing Culture and Art Fund is a public welfare fund initiated and established by the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism.

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