China News Service, Beijing, March 4th (Reporter Wang Shiyao) On March 4th, the famous performing artist Huang Wanqiu passed away at the age of 80.

　　Huang Wanqiu's ancestral home is Meixian County, Guangdong Province. She was born in Guilin City, Guangxi Province in 1943. She was admitted to the Guilin Opera Troupe at the age of 13 and has since embarked on a career in performing arts.

In the 1960s, the movie "Third Sister Liu" became popular at home and abroad, and Huang Wanqiu's name became a household name.

　　According to the "Red Star News" report, on the evening of the 21st, the famous dramatist Wei Minglun reposted Huang Wanqiu's "last WeChat message in his life" in his circle of friends, and noted in the message: Liu Sanjie Huang Wanqiu is dying of critical illness.

　　Looking back on her life at the end of her life, Huang Wanqiu still cared about the "Liu Sanjie" culture, and used her last remaining energy to promote her hometown Guilin, Guangxi.

Video screenshot of the movie "Liu Sanjie"

She concretized the image of "Liu Sanjie"

　　What does Third Sister Liu look like?

Danfeng eyes, oval face, wearing colorful flowers, dressed in colorful clothes, the picturesque scenery of Guilin, resounding with her crisp voice... For decades, people only left the image of the young Huang Wanqiu in the movie "Liu Sanjie" .

　　In fact, Liu Sanjie is not a specific real person.

The story of "Liu Sanjie" appeared as early as in the notes of Song people. She is a beautiful woman in folklore in Guangxi.

In the epic of Buluotuo, the ancestor of the Zhuang nationality, there was also a record of "the third sister Liao made a song".

　　For thousands of years, various legends have made "Liu Sanjie" famous all over the world, and hundreds of literary and artistic works with "Liu Sanjie" as the theme, such as Caidiao dramas, movies, and dance dramas, have brought her from legend to the world.

　　Among these works, the movie "Third Sister Liu" has the most extensive influence.

In 1960, Changchun Film Studio went to Guangxi to shoot the film "Liu Sanjie". This film was directed by Su Li, written by Qiao Yu, and composed by Lei Zhenbang.

　　When the crew was selecting actors in Guangxi, 17-year-old Huang Wanqiu was not included in Liu Sanjie's candidate list at first because she was too young, but played the role of "Xiao Zhoumei".

　　When the trial filming of the film began, Liu Sanjie had 4 older actors test filming.

However, no matter whose turn it is to film, Huang Wanqiu always stays attentively by the camera, not missing any learning opportunities.

　　After watching the samples, the leader asked whether he could choose a more ideal actor who was more suitable to play Liu Sanjie.

Director Su Li said: "I think this Xiaozhou girl is good." In this way, after careful consideration and several adjustments, the superior department and the crew finally decided to play "Third Sister Liu" by Huang Wanqiu.

Video screenshot of the movie "Liu Sanjie"

A role affects a lifetime

　　In fact, in addition to acting in "Liu Sanjie", Huang Wanqiu also starred in "The White Haired Girl", "Yellow Spring Flower", "Serf Halberd", "Rent Collection Yard", "Jiang Jie", "Honghu Red Guards", "Yang Kaihui", "The Man Who Was Not Allowed to Be Born", etc. , there are operas, Gui operas, and dramas.

But Huang Wanqiu felt that the only one she acted really successfully was "Liu Sanjie".

　　Someone once asked Huang Wanqiu why she didn't make new films, and her answer was sober and straightforward: "I don't think I can make a classic character like 'Liu Sanjie' anymore. I know this is the pinnacle of my art, so I cherish it very much." !"

　　From then on, Huang Wanqiu devoted her whole life to inheriting the culture of "Liu Sanjie".

She founded Liu Sanjie Art Troupe, participated in the investment and construction of Liu Sanjie Landscape Garden, re-arranged and created a large-scale national song and dance drama "Singing Fairy Liu Sanjie", innovatively created "holographic magic musical" "Meet Liu Sanjie" and so on.

　　At the same time, Huang Wanqiu also tried her best to cultivate the successor of "Liu Sanjie" and brought her daughter and granddaughter to the stage.

"Our family is three generations of 'Liu Sanjie', who sing folk songs on the same stage."

　　Huang Wanqiu's daughter, He Yanyun, has been the lead actor in the song and dance drama "Song Fairy Sanjie Liu" for more than ten years. Now she is engaged in the cultural dissemination of Sanjie Liu at the Guilin Mass Art Museum.

Granddaughter Li Yueshan has been performing on stage since she was 5 and a half years old, and is now a student majoring in music and theater performance at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music.

The data picture shows Huang Wanqiu, the actor of the movie "Liu Sanjie", singing a song.

Photo by Tang Mengxian

Bring Chinese folk songs to the world

　　As one of the most influential and longest-lasting screen images in Chinese movies, "Third Sister Liu" not only became the Chinese movie with the largest copy distribution at that time, but also went abroad and was released in many countries and regions such as Europe, America, and Southeast Asia. It created a record of two consecutive film screenings of 120 days each.

When the film became popular in Southeast Asia, it was selected as one of the "Top Ten Films in the World" in Malaysia.

　　After the reform and opening up, Huang Wanqiu went to Southeast Asia, Europe and other places to perform, bringing the image of "Liu Sanjie" and Chinese folk songs to the audience there.

Music has no borders. "Liu Sanjie" made many foreigners who don't understand Chinese fall in love with Chinese folk songs.

Huang Wanqiu said: "This confirms the saying that for art, the more national it is, the more global it is. Excellent national art will definitely resonate with the world."

　　The times have advanced, and art must also keep pace with the times.

Huang Wanqiu is well aware that the art of an era has the style of an era. In recent years, she has devoted herself to creating literary and artistic works that meet the cultural needs of the younger generation. Therefore, "Holographic Magical Musical" and "Meeting Third Sister Liu" came into being.

And the "Liu Sanjie" culture inherited in this new way has also been favored by young people.

　　In 2022, the 79-year-old Huang Wanqiu is still active in the front line of promoting "Meeting Third Sister Liu".

She said in an interview: "As long as I still have the energy, even if I am old and can't be on stage, I will continue to do my best to pass on the 'Liu Sanjie' culture." (End)