In 1985, a female singer sang "Fifteen Moons" at the Spring Festival Gala, and the lyrics of the song were very evocative of people's homesickness, and it had a majestic atmosphere, which is why the singer has been on fire ever since.
The next ten years, she became an old friend of the Spring Festival Gala, when she was more red than Mao Amin, even Na Ying and Wang Fei are honored to call her "teacher". But then people only remembered Song Zuying on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala, but no one remembered her anymore.
Who is this female singer? She is because she was once popular all over the country, and then because it is suspected to be involved in the "smuggling case" was blocked Dong Wenhua.
What made the former "Queen of Folk Songs" so popular that she never came back to the stage?
In 1962, Dong Wenhua was born in Shenyang, an ordinary family, parents are workers, there are two brothers before her, a sister, the youngest daughter Dong Wenhua was born for the family brought unlimited joy. As a child, Dong Wenhua is a set of thousands of favorites in a small princess.
Her older sister, Dong Shuangqiu, loved to sing, and she often took Dong Wenhua to perform in various shows with her choir at the Children's Palace.
Little Dong Wenhua was very proud to be able to stand on the stage with her sister, and so with the repeated performances on stage, Dong Wenhua became very enthusiastic about singing, even more than her own hobbies.
Because of his sister's careful guidance, Tung knew how to practice singing from a young age, but because their family was not very rich, all six members of the family were crowded in a small house, so Tung did not have a place to practice his voice.
These difficulties not only did not let her stop practicing, but also stimulated her interest in learning. In order not to disturb the neighbors rest, she let her parents fluke her at five o'clock in the morning every day, and then she ran to the park alone to practice, no matter in spring, summer, autumn and winter never stopped.
How hard did she work? Once when her father was too tired to wake her up in the morning, she cried and stayed angry with him all day.
Going to the park to practice is not enough, every day back from school will continue to practice at home, when every home in Northeast China will have a pickle vat, she drilled into the vat to practice, and every day to hear their own echo in the vat and a little bit of progress, she felt a special sense of accomplishment.
Other children may be happy with a toy, but Dong Wenhua is always happy with her progress in singing, and sometimes her parents are amused by Dong Wenhua's appearance, and they all say that this child is really good to raise.
At that time, Dong Wenhua became a small star in the school because she sang especially well. Many teachers and students liked Dong Wenhua, and she was chosen by her teachers to be a member of the Arts Committee, which made her even happier.
Day by day, Dong Wenhua's father is watching, he knows his daughter has a talent for singing, so his father looked for Dong Wenhua's class teacher to plan Dong Wenhua's development. After a lot of thinking, they always decided that Dong Wenhua should take the path of singing.
A person who has both talent and willingness to work hard will be favored by God, and Tung's chance will come quietly.
In the winter of 1977, when the 39th Army of the Shenyang Military Region was recruiting literary and artistic soldiers in various regions, her father and teachers encouraged her to enroll, and she hoped that she would be able to engage in singing in the future.
She signed up successfully, in front of all the judges and teachers face a show of voice, voice beautiful unique songs at once so that the judges were all stunned, which thought a head is not tall, not particularly beautiful girl can have such a strong explosive power.
In this way, only 15-year-old Dong Wenhua without pressure to become a military region of the civilian soldiers, but also from this time onwards, accompanied by her life singing journey officially opened.
Because Dong Wenhua has been practicing singing since she was a child, she has no problem with the basics of singing, and when she arrived at the army, she had to practice not only singing, but also bodywork, and the teacher who recognized her was particularly appreciative of her, and was incredibly harsh on her.
She had to get up every morning before dawn to practice, and if she made a mistake in practice, the teacher would use a ruler to beat her, so that she would remember not to make mistakes again, and sometimes Dong Wenhua would be beaten by the teacher in tears.
Since childhood, she has not suffered from this kind of pain, but for the sake of her beloved singing career, she did not feel bad.
Under such harsh practice conditions, Dong Wenhua made rapid progress, and soon became the main singer of the military region's cultural and artistic forces, often representing the military region to perform in various places.
Once Dong Wenhua was sent to perform in a brother troop, the troop was stationed at a particularly high altitude, and many of the actors suffered from plateau reaction, and the troupe asked each of them to sing just one song.
Dong Wenhua surprised everyone with her first song, and the applause from the stage was unending, with many soldiers shouting "one more song". Dong Wenhua was so overwhelmed by the hospitality that he sang three songs at once.
Because of this performance, it attracted the attention of a tenor actor in the regiment, Zhang Nan, who thought that this girl with curved eyes when she smiled was really beautiful, and at the beginning of this performance, Zhang Nan had already fallen in love with Dong Wenhua.
But Dong Wenhua is relatively young, Zhang Nan did not rush to confess, whether in life or work to give Dong Wenhua a lot of care, the two are both friends and confidants.
After two years of this, Dong Wenhua has grown into a generous beauty, in a winter, Zhang Nan can no longer restrain his feelings, he took Dong Wenhua's hand, ran to a place where no one, and finally drummed up the courage to confess to his beloved girl.
Dong Wenhua thought for a long time, lowered his head and said, "I'm only 18 years old, I do not want to fall in love so early."
Zhang Nan heard immediately anxious: "It's okay, I'm willing to wait, I can wait for you for 5 years."
Dong Wenhua quickly replied, "That will delay you."
I didn't realize that Zhang Nan is still a romantic person, he said to Dong Wenhua: "I'm not afraid, even if I wait until my hair turns gray, I'm still willing."
Hearing Zhang Nan say this to himself made Dong Wenhua very touched, in fact, they have been together for such a long time, Dong Wenhua also like Zhang Nan's, so Dong Wenhua did not want to wait so long, so she agreed.
The two of them fell in love with each other in an open and honest way.
Although she fell in love, it did not affect her career at all. In 1985, she also appeared on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala and sang the song "Fifteen Moons", which became a hit overnight with her skillful singing.
Their own persistence for many years of career finally took off, so that Dong Wenhua happy, but Zhang Nan was worried, he was worried that Dong Wenhua after the popularity of Dong Wenhua will like someone else, after all, more resources to know people are not the same.
Every day Zhang Nan spent in this fear, because of this reason, Zhang Nan decided to propose to Dong Wenhua, many friends in the circle advised Dong Wenhua, hoping that she would not be hasty, just become popular to get married will certainly be a big blow to the career.
But Dong Wenhua also did not want Zhang Nan to wait for himself again, and knew his concerns, she defied persuasion and did not hesitate to marry Zhang Nan.
Until the moment of marriage, Zhang Nan's heart is put down, everyone says that after the marriage of the circle of women's careers are also even come to an end, Dong Wenhua is not the same, her career not only did not stagnate, and ushered in a new peak.
She was admitted to the People's Liberation Army Academy of Arts with honors, and began a deeper study of folk songs. In 1989, at the age of 27, Dong finally graduated from the school, and successfully entered the General Government Song and Dance Troupe to play the role of soloist, which is one of the few soloists.
After entering the General Government, her career once again ushered in the peak, she has been on the Spring Festival Gala for nine consecutive times, her songs are catchy, but all the songs that are sung will be spread all over the streets.
Basically everyone sings Spring Story, and it's no exaggeration to say that wherever there's a stereo, there's a song sung by Dong Wenhua.
Dong Wenhua was not only the most popular singer in China, but also won various awards, such as the "National Audience's Favorite Singing Actor" and the "Best Folk Song Award".
At that time, Dong Wenhua was known as the "Queen of Folk Songs", and even Faye Wong and Na Ying, the two Chinese music divas, called Dong Wenhua "Mr. Dong".
Dong Wenhua's career was in full swing, but an accident caused her to leave her favorite stage.
At that time, Wenhua took a commercial show from Xiamen's ace enterprise Yuanhua Group. During the show, many fans clamored for Wenhua's autograph, and Wenhua kindly signed for her fans, and then more and more people got out of control.
Good in the group chairman Lai Changxing pull Tung Wenhua out, so she and Lai Changxing became friends, but how she did not expect, because of this accidental acquaintance for their own careers brought an indelible blow.
In 1999, Lai Changxing was investigated for "smuggling". Dong Wenhua as his friend was also involved in which gossip also came, such as Lai Changxing and "popular star" Dong Wenhua between the untold story, was spread all over the place.
Because of this, Dong Wenhua became a target and was blocked, and all the performances related to her disappeared.
One night, Dong Wenhua fell from heaven to the bottom of the valley.
After the incident, although Dong Wenhua has repeatedly come forward to clarify her innocence, but public opinion is to magnify her things infinitely.
Over time, Dong Wenhua also did not explain, after so many years of wind and waves she became very open-minded, she believed that the rumors will one day be clarified, and gradually she disappeared in people's sight.
Although there are no more performances, but in no way can not stop her love of music, over the years she is still immersed in the world of music.
She read books and studied lyrics at the same time, and that's how she came up with a song called "Harbor" that fit right in with her own situation.
There seems to be very few stories about Dong Wenhua over the years, but it's not as if rumors uttered that she was depressed, and in 2019 she also sang "Dragon Wen" with popular star Zhu Yilong***.
Narrating the heritage of Chinese civilization and the spirit of the Chinese nation through this song, it immediately reached the first place on the popularity list.
Netizens commented, "Ms. Dong Wenhua is still the same Ms. Dong Wenhua, after so many years, the pursuit of music has not changed."
Now Dong Wenhua is also almost 60 years old, once experienced great ups and downs, she has long looked down on life, after many years, the truth has surfaced, but Dong Wenhua seems to care less, because she always believe that the public's eyes are bright, and she can sing her favorite songs like this is already enough.
Someone asked Tung if she would choose to start over again, she smiled and said, "I would still choose to sing, because singing can delight myself and others ."
We also hope that we can be as persistent as Ms. Dong Wenhua, and that we will be able to come out of the darkness and see the sun in the future.