Original singer of "Embroidering the Red Flag": Ren Guizhen.

"Embroidered Red Flag" is a song written by Yan Su, composed by Yang Ming, Jiang Chunyang, Jin Sha and others, and sung by Ren Guizhen. The opera "Sister Jiang" was created by the Kongzheng Opera Troupe in the 1960s and was included in the album "Sister Jiang" and has been widely sung.

Introduction to Ren Guizhen

Ren Guizhen (1933-October 10, 2020), born in Linyi, Shandong, is a famous opera performing artist. In 1953, he went to North Korea and participated in an important event to express condolences to the Chinese People's Volunteers. He has been a principal actor of the Shanghai Opera House since 1956, and has successively served as the artistic director of the Shanghai Opera House, a director of the Shanghai Musicians Association, a member of the Chinese Musicians Association, a member of the Chinese Dramatists Association, and a member of the Central Committee of the Chinese Peasants and Workers Democratic Party. On October 10, 2020, Ren Guizhen died in Huashan Hospital at the age of 88 after rescue efforts failed. ?

Biography

Ren Guizhen is a native of Shandong, born in Linyi, Shandong in 1933. When she was 15 years old, she sang songs, joined the revolutionary ranks, and followed the troops all the way south to Shanghai.

Ren Guizhen has loved singing since she was a child. When she was 15 years old, she joined the Cultural Troupe of the National Revolutionary University. At that time, she performed with Feng Xiao, who later became an actor at Shanghai Film Studio. The two of them performed "The White-Haired Girl" together on stage. Ren Guizhen plays Xi'er and Feng Xiao plays Dachun.

In 1952, she entered the Shanghai Opera House as an actress. The first national opera she starred in was "Xiao Erhei's Marriage". It was the opera "Red Clouds" that really made her famous. After watching it, many viewers knew that there was an excellent opera singer in the Shanghai Opera House, and Ren Guizhen became a famous singer.

Comrade Ren Guizhen has been engaged in opera art all her life. She has performed in dozens of productions such as "Tianmen Island", "Red Coral", "Liu Sanjie", "Honghu Red Guards", "Sister Jiang", "Love in the Sakura Sea", etc. Playing the heroine in the opera creates many vivid images of women with different personalities, regions and identities. His singing voice is pure and mellow, his enunciation is clear and true, his speech is free and smooth, and his emotions are simple and delicate. He is known as "Guo Lanying in the north and Ren Guizhen in the south".