Xia Qing

Xia Qing

Xia Qing, whose real name is Geng Shaoguang, was born in Hulan District, Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province in 1927. In 1948, he joined the Chinese Department of Northeast University (today's Northeast Normal University) and took part in the revolution. In May 1950, he graduated from the first phase of Beijing journalism school sponsored by the General Administration of information and was assigned to the Central People's broadcasting station. He joined the Communist Party of China in 1953. He was once a member of the broadcasting Arts Committee, broadcasting business director and deputy director of the broadcasting department. In 1986, he was one of the first batch of broadcasting directors with the highest professional title of broadcasting series. In 1991, he enjoyed special government allowance. He was the president and honorary president of the broadcasting Research Committee of China Radio and television society. He has been a member of the fifth, sixth, seventh and Eighth National Committee of the CPPCC. Comrade Xia Qing is the first generation of broadcasting artists cultivated by our party in New China and deeply loved by the people. He is also a model of broadcasters and hosts in China.

The origin of "Xia Qing"

Xia Qing, formerly known as Geng Shaoguang, was born in Hulan District, Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province in 1927. In his early years, he studied civil engineering in the first National High School of Harbin. After graduation, in order to make a living, he worked as an assistant of civil engineering teachers in Harbin Institute of technology and a teacher of Majiagou primary school. In 1948, he was admitted to the Chinese Department of the College of liberal arts of Northeast University (the predecessor of Northeast Normal University), where he joined the progressive organization "China Democratic Youth League". In 1949, he entered the Xinhua news agency training class for news cadres. In May 1950, he graduated from Beijing journalism school and worked as an announcer in the Central People's radio station. He changed his name to "Xia Qing", which means "Chinese youth". Since then, he began his 40 year broadcasting career.

Xia Qing culture and Art Museum

In order to inherit and develop the spirit and works of Xia Qing, the first generation broadcasting artist in China, and let the people remember this outstanding artist who came out of the core area of Hanan industrial new town, on July 24, 2014, on the 10th anniversary of Xia Qing's death, Xia Qing culture and art Museum, located on the third floor of Building 2, China Cloud Valley, No. 9 Songhua Road, Hanan industrial new town, officially opened.

Xiaqing culture and art museum was established in December 2013. During the preparation period, Mrs. Xia Qing donated 20 CDs, more than 500 photos, and more than 280 tapes, certificates, manuscripts and other items. At the same time, he has won the friendship and support of more than 30 celebrities in the broadcasting industry, such as Xia Qing's friendship, Wang Tiecheng, Fang Ming, Zhao Zhongxiang, Qu Xianhe, Jing Yidan, Chen duo and Hong Yun. The Museum covers an area of more than 420 square meters and is inscribed by Comrade Li Lanqing. The design of the whole exhibition hall is divided into seven parts: "preface, learning road, broadcasting years, teaching and solving doubts, broadcasting achievements, lasting memory and concluding remarks". It has three functions: cultural function, educational function and research base.

Xiaqing culture and art museum is another patriotic education base in bungalow district after the exhibition hall of the 731st Japanese army. After the completion of Xiaqing culture and Art Museum, the Publicity Department of Pingfang district Party committee, together with relevant departments, will gather Harbin local broadcasting fans to participate in the interaction by holding recitation art salon, recitation broadcast competition and other forms. Xia Qing recitation Art Association should be established to create a new cultural brand in Harbin and develop a new cultural industry chain to form a perfect cultural model.

Broadcasting career

Start by chance

On the sleepy night of October 1, 1949, in order to celebrate the birth of the people's Republic of China, Changchun held a grand lantern parade. As a member of the China Democratic Youth League, Xia Qing also took part in the March. But he did not expect that this day would become a turning point in his career and even in his life.

Xia Qing, who had just returned to the campus after the parade, received a notice from the school asking him to report to Beijing News school. The predecessor of Beijing News school is Xinhua News training class, which aims to cultivate news talents, improve the political theory level and news professional quality of news propaganda and related personnel. This time, it asked the northeast region to recommend ten students, Xia Qing is one of them.

After receiving the notice, Xia Qing applied for the exam and passed the exam successfully. In this way, at the age of 22, he bid farewell to his short life in the Chinese Department of Northeast University and came to Beijing journalism school. There, he went through seven months of intense study. In early May 1950, he and several other trainees were assigned to work in the Central People's broadcasting station.

At that time, the group of students who went with Xia Qing were all studying and interviewing business, but the radio station was in urgent need of announcers. In a hurry, the radio station decided to let all of them who can speak Mandarin go to audition, including Xia Qing.

Maybe it's predestined that this audition is a bit "tailor-made" for Xia Qing, who has a unique voice. Xia Qing's father is a Chinese teacher. When Xia Qing was young, his father stipulated that he must read the ancient Chinese aloud several times a day. In primary school, he took part in the oboe program and speech competition. In middle school, he won the first prize in singing competition. Later, when he studied in Northeast University and Beijing journalism school, he also participated in singing team All these experiences whet out Xia Qing's good voice. There is no doubt that in the end, he was chosen because of his excellent voice talent. A few days later, Xia Qing went into a mysterious studio, sat in front of the microphone and began his broadcasting career.

Everything is difficult at the beginning. Xia Qing, who has just entered the radio station, has a high voice talent, but she has many difficulties in pronunciation. There is a difference between his northeast accent and Putonghua, which is based on Beijing dialect. Sometimes he even reads "Guo" as "Guo", which needs to be changed word by word. Glenn, who was also an announcer, became his teacher. Whenever he said a wrong sound, Glenn would learn from him and laugh at him. In this way, he was determined to attack the pronunciation with stubbornness. In those days, Xia Qing with the initial loss, the effort is huge. "In order to learn standard pronunciation, he broke the dictionary," Glenn once said A journey of a thousand miles begins at this time.

Do everything for Yi

With the determination to admit defeat, Xia Qing "long-term adhere to the basic skills of pronunciation training.". From the war period of resisting U.S. aggression and aiding Korea, to the peaceful period of economic construction, and to the period of reform and opening up after the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee, he has consciously insisted on training this basic skill.

With the diversification of radio programs, Xia Qing also tries to adapt her broadcasting language to this change through various learning ways. In view of his weakness in enunciation, he "learned from his sister experts in art, from teachers of conservatory of music, from single string actors, and from teachers of Film Academy.". Until the 1960s, he had made great achievements in the field of broadcasting. He still humbly consulted linguist Zhou Dianfu, listened to the recording repeatedly and practiced diligently.

According to the Kangxi dictionary and its addendum, there are more than 40000 Chinese characters, and more than 5000 are commonly used. Broadcasters need to master more. Xia Qing insisted on enunciation for a long time. At the same time, he also tried to learn and master the shape, pronunciation and meaning of each Chinese character, and to understand its origin, evolution process and anecdotes. In the end, he had the reputation of "walking dictionary" and "phonetic government". Once someone asks him for a difficult word, he will immediately tell them the pronunciation and meaning of the word in detail, and will open reference books to verify whether his statement is correct. His strictness and seriousness run through the whole broadcasting career.

Hold a thousand songs and watch a thousand Swords

In addition to "the government of pronunciation" and "the walking dictionary", Xia Qing also has a name of "old Buddha" in the broadcasting industry. These appellations, no matter which one, reflect Xia Qing's erudition in a certain way.

As a student, Xia Qing not only studied engineering, but also liberal arts, with comprehensive knowledge. After setting foot on the job, in addition to constantly training basic broadcasting skills, he also seized every opportunity to assimilate nutrients from other disciplines.

Xia Qing loved classical literature very much, and visiting Liulichang used to be the greatest pleasure in his life. He once bought a set of commentaries on the spring and Autumn Annals without punctuation and studied them carefully in his spare time. In the blank space of the book, it was filled with his regular script. This has created his profound knowledge of classical literature and contributed to his broadcasting career. In the program "reading and appreciation" of the Central People's radio station, he once explained some difficult classical literary works, which were loved and praised by the audience.

In addition to classical literature, Xia Qing has been devoted to the study of linguistics and phonetics for a long time, and has been constantly summing up his discoveries and gains, as well as his practical experience accumulated in the broadcasting process. He has written articles on phonetics, such as the problem of different readings in Putonghua broadcasting. He also read this paper at the first annual meeting of Beijing Linguistics Society in 1983.

Xia Qing likes to talk about three "ten thousand", that is, "read ten thousand books, travel ten thousand miles, and make ten thousand friends.". Only by reading and hearing more, can we become familiar with knowledge. He demands so much from others as from himself. Many people praise Xia Qing's political articles: "reasonable", "powerful", "chaste", and "statesman's mind" and "orator's Agility", which is related to his erudition.

Both teachers and students

Despite the events before June 1950, Xia Qing has been on the road of continuous learning and accumulation of knowledge since he sat in the studio of the Central People's radio in June 1950. After decades of precipitation, he gradually formed his own broadcasting style, gradually formed his own broadcasting theoretical knowledge, and also developed his own broadcasting style

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