Mom is a very famous local opera actress in her hometown.In the early 50's, the county troupe was just established, and Dad served as the director, recruited three actresses, among them, Mom. At that time, mom was only nineteen years old, she was young and beautiful, beautiful dress, sweet voice, good body, play the role of Qingyi, learn who is like who, and soon became popular. At that time, mother's one-day salary of 50,000 yuan (equivalent to five dollars now), like to see her play people called her "50,000 Dan", and later "50,000 Dan" became her stage name. Her performance posters had one name written on three sheets of red paper. In order to chase after her, some people often lost their shoes. When she went to the countryside to perform, every place she went to was "an empty alley for ten thousand people", and people in a radius of ten miles came to see the opera. Almost no one in her hometown knew about the "50,000 Dan". Dad was proficient in percussion, which helped mom a lot in her art and life. Soon after, they fell in love and got married.
Just when Mom's artistic life was in full swing, bad luck struck her.
My hometown is a mountainous area with poor transportation, so when I went to the countryside to perform on stage, I was on foot, and only the main characters could ride donkeys or something.
On a trip to the countryside in 1959, my mother rode a camel while carrying two theater boxes full of costumes. When I walked to a pagoda in front of the village, due to the shortness of the arched door of His Excellency, my mother was knocked down, and the theater box hit her right leg, fracturing her "face bone".
The county hospital at that time, both medical skills and medical equipment are very backward, broken bone after connecting a check, bone misalignment is not correct. This is the first time I've ever seen a person with a broken bone, and I've never seen a person with a broken bone. This is undoubtedly an unbearable blow to the parents. It would have been cruel if the leg had ruined my mother's life as an artist, and she was only 25 years old. Unwilling to give up, Dad took his mother to Beijing to seek medical treatment.
When we arrived in Beijing, we were in two places. The hospital said the surgery was difficult and the beds were tight, so they wouldn't accept it. The father softly persuaded, finally moved the doctor, the hospital to mother is an actor for the reason that the decision to special care allowed hospitalization. After hospitalization, a checkup, need to cut and reattach; and after the leg is cut, the wrong outside the bone needs to be ground off the new stubble in order to dock. However, after grinding and joining them together, the leg would still be shorter, and could not go on stage. It was necessary to add a piece of bone between the broken bones and fix it with a steel plate. At that time, it cost a lot of money to buy a bone. Although my father was the director of the troupe, the troupe was a self-financing unit, and as a party member, he couldn't take the money out for his mother's leg, so he decided not to buy it. Only the hip bone can be taken from the human body, but at that time the mother was pregnant with the second brother, the hip bone can not be taken after moving, Dad resolutely decided to take his. In this way to take a piece of Dad's hip bone, divided into thumbnail so big six pieces, connected to the mother's leg ...... more than forty years, Mom leg with Dad's bones, on the stage to shape a multitude of artistic images, loved by the people, until the retirement is still often performances.
In life, mom is a typical virtuous wife and mother. Her salary is higher than Dad's, fame is greater than his father, but they raised their eyebrows, respect each other, in the wind and rain has gone through forty-seven years. From them, I learned that the essence of love is to give, although I have never heard my parents say "I love you", but they are the love of knowing each other, the love of suffering, the love of life and death. This is the love that makes modern people envious. Nowadays, all the popular songs are I love you, you love me, even the kindergarten children are singing brother and sister. And what about love in life? Parents' love than the modern people, although less frivolous, manic, but more deep and sincere. Dad's bones grow on mom's legs, and the rose of love blooms in their hearts.