Dan Tianfang, a storyteller, why do you want to marry a wife eight years older than you? Why is my voice hoarse?

In Dan Tianfang's autobiography of storytelling, there is such a prologue:

Life is hard, bitter, sour, bitter, spicy and salty;

Get up early and be greedy for black, and strive for fame and profit without stopping.

Bad things happen in 789, and good things happen in 23;

Meet the changes of the prosperous times and meet China with a smile.

Although this limerick is not enough to describe his life, it also outlines his life.

0 1 Deping, Shandong,1Born in Tianjin in February, 934, this list.

Father Shan Yongkui is a string player.

Grandfather Wang was one of the earliest folk artists to enter Kanto, and he was good at storytelling and drumming.

At first, I hired Dan Tianfang's father as an accompaniment. Seeing his honesty in daily life, I gave him my daughter.

His mother Wang is eight years younger than his father. She is the best of Xihe drum musicians. She can talk, sing and play. She is nicknamed "White Girl".

It is quite famous in Northeast China and North China, and it can be said that "when the drumstick rings, there are two thousand gold".

On the day of labor, my mother was still talking about Yang Jiajiang, and Dan Tianfang was born almost by telling stories.

In a word, the members of his family are either storytellers or singers of Hexi Drum.

Such a family background, at present, can definitely be called a literary family, but at that time, it was called the "lower class."

In order to make a living, since childhood, Dan Tianfang has been following his parents around as an entertainer.

They talked about books and performing arts on the stage, and he watched them backstage.

There was no such thing as an appearance fee at that time. When an artist finishes writing a book, he takes a small basket to beg for money.

If someone gives it to you, please continue. You can't help it if others don't give it to you.

Earn more and earn less, depending on the spectators.

In this way, Dan Tianfang told his parents to change places, and he had traveled all over the Northeast when he was a child.

In the winter when he was five years old, his family let him study in a private school.

However, the winter in the northeast is MINUS 20 or 30 degrees, and every day I tremble with cold, and my hands and feet are frostbitten.

The elders in the team felt sorry for him and told his mother that the child was so young, why should he suffer that punishment?

So, after studying for more than ten days, he went home and had a good time.

It will be warm next year, and his parents will send him to school again.

In a private school, he mainly reads words and learns some traditional bibliographies.

Because he is the eldest son in the family, his parents have high hopes for him, hoping that he will have a bright future and honor his ancestors.

Although the society was in turmoil and his family was homeless, his parents tried their best to make him read more books.

When Dan Tianfang was 8 years old, his parents tried their best to send him to the official primary school in Fengtian (Shenyang) for formal education.

However, after not studying in Changchun for a year, they moved to Changchun with their families, and then Dan Tianfang stayed in a private school for a while.

After studying for several years, I can almost read. When mother learns a new book, she asks him to take notes and copy words and paragraphs.

Children have good memories and smart brains, and often remember them before their mothers remember them.

At the age of thirteen or fourteen, Dan Tianfang had memorized several long books.

Although Dan Tianfang is very good at telling stories, he never wanted to follow his parents' footsteps and become a storyteller.

I dream of going to college and becoming a doctor or engineer.

However, at that turbulent time, it was difficult for ordinary people to survive and had no chance to study in peace.

Under the war, in order to take refuge, Dan Tianfang went from Changchun to Jilin, and from Jilin to Shenyang with his family, and lived everywhere without a fixed address.

It was not until the founding of New China that he returned to the primary school where he first studied and finished his studies.

However, this calm did not last long.

In the early spring of 02 1950, his father, Shan Yongkui, was detained and sentenced to six years' imprisonment for helping a "counter-revolutionary" with a pseudonym of Wang.

One year and three months later, my family received a letter from my father.

After mother Wang learned the real situation of her father, she divorced her father and left her father and sisters forever.

Soon after, he remarried and lived another life.

His father went to prison and his mother remarried. As the eldest son, 17-year-old Dan Tianfang had to support the burden of life, take care of the housework with her grandmother and fight for survival.

While Dan Tianfang was standing at the crossroads of his life, he didn't know what to do. He met a woman eight years older than him-Wang Quangui.

The woman not only encouraged him to continue his studies, but also helped him take care of his sisters.

With her help, Dan Tianfang successfully completed high school and was admitted to Northeast Institute of Technology (now Northeastern University).

As a result, not long after he entered school, he had three operations in a row and was absent from school for several months due to illness.

Dan Tianfang had to give up his dream of becoming an engineer and drop out of school to make a living.

Later, he took Li Qinghai as his teacher and formally studied storytelling.

According to Quyi, he belongs to Tian, so his stage name is.

During his apprenticeship, Dan Tianfang had no income, and the whole family was taken care of by Wang Quangui.

In order to repay this kindness, Dan Tianfang decided to welcome her into the house.

At that time, his father had just been released from prison and expressed strong opposition to his son's decision.

One is that Wang Quangui is too old, and the other is that she is too uneducated.

But Dan Tianfang's mind was made up, but his father was unable to cope with it. In the end, he had to let go.

1 9541June1day, Dan Tianfang, who is under 20 years old, officially married Wang Quangui, who is 8 years older than him.

After marriage, Dan Tianfang studied art by correspondence in the History Department of Liaoning University.

Daily expenses depend entirely on his wife's performance income.

His wife, Wang Quangui, does housework and makes money by selling books. She supports the whole family by herself.

Seeing that she worked so hard, Dan Tianfang decided to go into the sea.

Subsequently, he moved to Anshan, Liaoning with his wife's performance group and settled in Anshan Quyi Group.

Later, with the encouragement of Zhao Yufeng, the founder of Xihe Drum "Zhaomen", Dan Tianfang found Zhang Shuling, president of Anshan Quyi Artists Association, and applied for the stage storytelling.

A few months later, Dan Tianfang's application was finally approved.

Although he is not allowed to say "the head of the bench (the blank time between halftime and evening performance)", at least there is a future.

1956 On the third day of the first month, Dan Tianfang made his debut in a teahouse in Anshan, and a book "Ming Ying Lie" officially started his storytelling career.

A person, a desk, a chair, a folding fan and a ruler, tells the story of a thousand years of history and vicissitudes.

Dan Tianfang became the only storyteller with a college degree in Liaoning Province at that time.

At that time, he talked for two hours at a stretch.

Although it was the middle of winter, he was still hot and sweaty.

Looking forgetful, manager Zhao of the teahouse went to the table, knocked on the table and reminded him, "Mr. Shan, you are addicted to books here. Look, what time is it? "

In a word, Dan Tianfang was not only awakened, but also made the audience burst into laughter.

He quickly apologized, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, that's all for today, if you want to listen to me tomorrow."

With this investment, it didn't take long for Dan Tianfang to become the "bench king" of Anshan.

After becoming famous, Dan Tianfang soon had his own family, transferred to Yichang Teahouse, and successively said "The Story of Tonglin" and "Three Heroes and Five Righteousnesses".

With his unique voice and storytelling skills accumulated since childhood, he became a celebrity in the storytelling industry in just one year.

1958, Anshan Quyi Troupe changed from an individual to a collective, and Dan Tianfang also changed from a vagrant artist to a formal actor.

Storytellers have social status and a stable income, and they are no longer the "low-income people" who used to be difficult to be elegant.

In response to the "new book" movement in the field of Quyi, Dan Tianfang was ordered to adapt Gunshots on the Plain, Red Rock and Fire on a prairie into storytelling based on literary works.

At this time, Dan Tianfang has become a well-known figure in Anshan storytelling circle.

Although Dan Tianfang gained a firm foothold in Anshan and became famous, he didn't want to stop there.

In order to make a name for himself, 1962, he and his wife left Hailar and went it alone. In one year, he said 30 books, including Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Ming Ying Lie, and The Fire of Starting a prairie fire.

When the couple returned to Quyi Troupe, Dan Tianfang became a "gray figure" because of the birth problem and the "outflow" incident.

Later, because he made a mistake, he was caught and became a "current counter-revolutionary" and was beaten.

Not only did he have nine teeth knocked out, but his hearing was also impaired. For the next two years, his ears were so noisy that he could hardly hear anything.

Subsequently, he experienced a series of torture such as arrest, imprisonment, criticism and reform.

Finally, it was decentralized to the countryside.

During this period, his wife Wang Quangui never gave up on him, suffering and suffering.

In order to take care of her husband, she worked tirelessly, riding a bicycle every day, shuttling between the city and the countryside.

If farm work is heavy, she will help; If she doesn't eat, she sells clothes for food; When her husband was depressed, she talked with him and encouraged him to cheer up and stick to it.

In a word, she tried her best to take care of this husband who is older than small 8.

Although his family is well-off, Dan Tianfang's decentralization is the "poor among the poor" in the northeast.

Even if we work with our backs to the loess for a year, we won't get enough food.

He grew up in the city, regardless of grass and seedlings, and didn't know how to take care of crops at all.

Plus, I was put on a "hat" and exiled, and no one around me was willing to help, and my life went from bad to worse.

He worked hard for four years and sold everything at home, but in the end he ended up without food and had to flee.

Soon after, his wife and children also escaped to find him, and the family remained anonymous and hid for several years.

Later, a nationwide "rehabilitation" campaign was launched, but Dan Tianfang went south to Anshan and rehabilitated everywhere, regardless of his old age.

After running back and forth for nine months, his "historical problem" finally came to the fore and was rehabilitated.

In order to rehabilitate his grievances, he got angry in a hurry and finally choked up his voice, resulting in hoarseness.

In order to make up for the lack of sound lines, he tried to pronounce every word clearly, and finally formed a unique "single tone"

Shortly after the rehabilitation, Dan Tianfang was appointed as the leader of Anshan Quyi team, organized two teahouses, namely "Spring Festival" and "Hundred Flowers", and at the same time recruited talents and trained young people.

Dan Tianfang finally returned to the world of books, and truly ushered in what he called a "prosperous smile".

Later, with the progress of science and technology, radio and television gradually became popular, and storytelling in teahouses became out of fashion. Dan Tianfang began recording radio and drama again.

From Romance of the Gods, Heroes with Bridled Eyebrows, Heroes of the Republic of China to a series of later red classics, he has spoken 100 books in his life.

At the peak, about 654.38 billion people are listening to his story every day.

Even let people change "where there is well water, you can sing Liu Ci" to "where there is well water, you should listen to Dan Tianfang".

Unexpectedly, while Dan Tianfang's career was in full swing, his wife died of illness.

That was 1992, the 38th year of their marriage.

After his wife died, Dan Tianfang was so heartbroken that he even shut himself up at home for a time.

Although, Dan Tianfang has repeatedly publicly stated:

Quangui and I are not congenial, and getting married is ok.

I accept her, in a word, just to repay this kindness.

But because of his wife's deep affection and loyalty, he accompanied him through all the difficulties and hardships. After decades, kindness and love have long been confused.

What used to be a make-do will never be seen again, leaving only the distressed couple who love each other.

Therefore, the early death of his wife became the biggest regret in Dan Tianfang's life.

Dan Tianfang was only 58 when Wang Quangui died. Later, many people around him advised him to find someone to take care of himself.

But he devoted all his experiences to telling stories and never talked about feelings again.

2065438+September 2008, 84-year-old Dan Tianfang died of illness, and the story of the storyteller became a story.

People can no longer wait for his "next decomposition".