Shi Zhanming

essential information

Early experience

family origin

Over the past thousands of years, Taihang has a rich and unique historical and cultural heritage, created many heroic figures, and handed down many touching myths and legends.

From the remote village, the legend of "simplicity, simplicity and simplicity" is that people can't find a real and honest village It is the source of ecological folk song "king of songs", which is famous on both sides of the Yellow River, and creates a grand dream of "mountain village shepherd" about singing; it creates a kind of pure and simple, loud, broad range, difficult to simulate, unique folk song singing style.

He has absorbed the rich soil culture nutrition of Taihang Mountain and qingzhanghe river. He has witnessed a young man's persistent struggle for his dream. The bitterness behind his legendary experience tells us the truth of "Heaven rewards diligence", and his resolute spirit sets a benchmark for us. The author hopes that his story can be popularized and spread, so as to expect more people to understand and pay attention to the original We hope that we can inspire and understand more people.

Shi Zhanming's family has lived in Hongdu village, more than 20 kilometers west of Zuoquan County for generations. They belong to Shixia township of Zuoquan county and are buried in the mountains. This village is famous for the famous "red capital campaign" in the Anti Japanese war. But because it is too remote, few outsiders go. A few years ago, the government planned the construction of new countryside and asked Hongdu village to move out. But the villagers here, out of deep attachment to this hot land and unwilling to give up, always refused to leave, guarding this mountain, still living a free life of herding sheep and cattle.

When Shi Zhanming was born, his family was very poor. For generations, he lived by herding sheep. His father was no exception. He was an old shepherd. He released sheep and sang songs all his life. My father is a very optimistic person, the word sorrow in his life seems to have nothing to do with him, and he is looking for that happiness in his hard work. In the early years, when the agricultural society was disbanded, his father drove home the few sheep that were sold by the society and no one wanted. He carefully cared for them and raised them. Like hens laying eggs, several sheep were put into dozens, and dozens into more than 100.

My father is a popular folk singer in the local area. All the villagers call him "the boss of folk songs". As soon as he goes out, no matter where he goes, his songs will spread. In the fields, by the streams and in the valleys, he can always hear his cheerful songs. Even sometimes, when someone asked his father to sing a paragraph or two on the village road, he would sing without hesitation, and gather more people to join in the fun. Half a day later, the sheep ran around to eat other people's crops, and his father had to carry his own food to compensate them. My father never complained or cared. At the age of 60, he still sang with emotion and melody.

My mother was hardworking, simple, kind and virtuous. At that time, the family was in a bad situation. My mother was responsible for all the meals of the family throughout the year. I had to plan carefully for firewood, rice, oil, salt and sauce.

The influence of his family on Shi Zhanming is very great. Every night, he nestles up to his grandfather and listens to his grandfather's suona. The undulating suona sounds all over the mountain village. It's clear and loud. It's ringing in his ears, but it's blown farther by the wind. It seems that there's a kind of force pulling him. In addition, grandma also has a good voice. Shi Zhanming still remembers a song that grandma often sings, called "to sit in front of the house to take the upper of shoes, tears drip on the top of shoes". This song makes him remember deeply. Every time grandma sings, her tears flow, releasing her inner feelings. Her singing touched his young heart at that time, and felt the endless bitterness and tears in his grandmother's heart. When Shi Zhanming was very young, he especially wanted to follow his father to herd sheep in the mountains every day, because when he got to the mountains, he could hear his father's folk songs, which were so loud and high, and the bold and unconstrained songs echoed in the valley, which was so exciting.

Almost everyone in the Shijia generation can play, play and sing. For many years, in the village, when there are weddings and funerals and social fires in the first month, it's all up to the Shijia family to gather together the scenery. There is also a blowing and singing team. Outsiders praise the "Shijia class". In the early days, my grandfather and my fourth uncle were good at playing suona. My third uncle played drums, my aunt clapped cymbals, married one, and the second youngest one came up. Later, my fourth aunt took the double cymbals and my father was a good singer. This Shijia class can really afford everything, or with a few helpers, there will be no big scenes that can't be dealt with. It also takes over some of the local red and white funerals, playing and singing. It's very popular among villagers in all walks of life.

When Shi Zhanming was in primary school, the teaching environment and equipment were quite poor. The classroom was simple and there was no writing pad, so he could only write with polished stone slabs. Shi Zhanming loved singing since he was a child, so he said that he liked to herd sheep in the mountains, learn to sing folk songs with his father, and play suona with his grandfather. When I was 13 years old, my grandfather said to him, "if you learn how to play suona, you can at least have a bite to eat. When I get old and can't play, you will take over my class and pass on our craft and my wish from generation to generation." Although Shi Zhanming did not receive professional training, it helped him to sing folk songs.

It is in such an environment that Shi Zhanming was influenced by his grandfather, grandmother, father and mother when he was young. He was deeply influenced and loved folk songs. Happiness, anger, sadness and music are expressed through self editing and self singing, to show a good life and rich thoughts and feelings. He has been singing since childhood, and he feels the happiness brought by the original folk songs; he feels that this hot land and his relatives give him the greatest driving force, constantly pushing him to take the oldest and most primitive art out of the mountains, inherit and innovate; he also understands the true meaning of the sentence "folk songs are good in poor villages" that teacher Tian Qing told him. Facing the mountain, singing freely and with open throat is a feeling and effect hard to find on the narrow stage.

Acting experience

As soon as he graduated from junior high school, Shi Zhanming, who loved to sing and play since childhood, did not continue to study. Instead, he went up the mountain with his father every day, followed the sheep, and kept shouting, driving thousands of sheep. The sheep all over the mountains were dissatisfied with the one kilometer radius. His shouting must be heard by all the sheep. Therefore, this kind of shouting is the best way to practice your voice. But his mother didn't want him to accompany the sheep all his life, just like his father. She often said, "you just want to herd sheep, you want to beat a generation of bachelors!" Shi Zhanming just smiles honestly. As a result, he often went out to work. Although he was as thin as his father, he was no worse than the big and well-off villagers, but he still wanted to make a living by his talent for singing.

In the days when he left home, relying on his natural good voice, Shi Zhanming was selected into Zuoquan County Art Troupe in 1994 because he could play suona and sing folk songs. In the troupe, his performances were very few, and he was rarely allowed to perform. Because he couldn't speak Putonghua, and he thought he was too "rustic", his performance had no aura, so he was dismissed by the troupe half a year later.

After he was dismissed, he felt that this work experience was not a blow but an inspiration for him. He was determined to learn the lesson of this resignation and to find his own way for his career. He deeply knew that small art troupes could not stay, because their own conditions were not good enough and there was no bright spot on them. So he put himself into the new environment with the confidence and courage of constantly improving, perfecting and developing himself.

It wasn't long before he was absorbed by the art team organized by yongfosi coal mine and participated in some small-scale performances. This time, Shi Zhanming fully cherished every performance opportunity and adjusted his mental state to the best. He was appreciated by the leaders and recognized by his colleagues, which greatly encouraged Shi Zhanming. He wanted to develop for a long time, but it didn't last long, It wasn't long before the art team was suddenly cancelled for some unknown reason. Of course, Shi Zhanming's work was gone.

At that time, thinking about the parents who were affected at home, in order to improve the living conditions at home, Shi Zhanming was not discouraged. After leaving the county, he went to a small private blowing and singing group in Qilidian village, where he sold arts with his class. From small mountain villages to larger towns, Shi Zhanming's name gradually spread. It was not only his suona playing stick, but also his singing sound What we want is his good character and loyalty.

At one performance, the audience liked his performance and kept asking him to go on the stage. Finally, the boss asked Shi Zhanming to sing one more time and add 50 yuan. As a result, he kept singing until 12 o'clock in the night. His throat was sore, but he insisted on it and didn't stop one more time. Finally, he earned 2400 yuan. At that time, the money was not small, and it was almost small A year's salary for sheep. Instead of taking the money alone, he shared it equally with several other people who were in charge of playing, playing and singing for his accompaniment. They were so happy at that time that they became famous for their loyalty. Many literary and art clubs were scrambling for him.

Because of his good singing, kindness and justice, Shi Zhanming met his wife when he was performing in Dongxiang County in 1999. Half a year later, the straightforward and kind-hearted girl, who was more than 100 li away from him and deeply admired his singing, was called waicun guini

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