Zhou Xuan's precious audio and video of "The Songstress of the End of the World" from 70 years ago is worth collecting. Click to listen to Tianya Haijiao

Looking for a soulmate

The little sister sings and Lang plays the piano

Lang, we are of the same mind

Oops, ouch

Sir, we are of the same mind

Home mountain, looking north

Tears on my breasts

My little sister misses him until Today

Lang, we are friends in adversity and our love is deep

Oops

Lang, we are friends in adversity and our love is deep

Who wouldn’t< in life? /p>

Cherish your youth

My little sister is like a thread and my husband is like a needle

They wear each other together and are inseparable

Oh my god

Lang and Ya are inseparable

"Song Girl from the End of the World" is one of the theme songs of the 1937 Chinese movie "Road Angel". It was composed by He Luting, lyrics by Tian Han, and originally sung by Zhou Xuan. Zhou Xuan became famous all over the world with this song.

"Song Girl at the End of the World" is an episode of "Road Angel" filmed by Shanghai Cathay Film Company in 1937. The songwriters are the famous Tian Han (1898-1968, the lyricist of the national anthem) and He Luting (1903). -1999, former president of Shanghai Conservatory of Music), sung by the famous singer "Golden Voice" Zhou Xuan (1920-1957) in the 1930s and 1940s. The tune adopts the musical material of Jiangnan folk songs. Zhou Xuan also relied on her outstanding performance in this film to establish her unshakable position in the Shanghai film industry at that time and later in the history of Chinese films.

Zhou Xuan, one of the top five singers in Shanghai in the 1930s and 1940s. She became famous for her role as the singer Xiao Hong in "Road Angel". In her short life, she filmed more than 60 movies and recorded more than 200 songs. In particular, "Song of the Four Seasons", "When Will You Come Again", "Beautiful Flowers and Full Moon", and "Picking Red Water Bottles" are the most widely circulated.

Movies in the 1930s, like Shanghai in the 1930s, always have a slightly damp petty bourgeoisie atmosphere that remains in people’s memories, but in the movies starring Zhou Xuan, a large part of them But it reflects her positive and patriotic feelings of saving the country and loving the people.

In the film "Street Angel", she played the heroine Xiao Hong, successfully portraying the image of a singer who has been insulted and damaged, but has beautiful ideals for the future. It is a masterpiece of her performing arts. It is also a representative work of Chinese films throughout the 1930s.

In that film, the singer Xiao Hong was humiliated and suffered all kinds of hardships. As a weak woman, she desperately emerged from her suffocating fate and used her immortal longing and sweet love to The song showed the "In the Mood for Love" side to people, used ideals to unfold the weak but hopeful pursuit of life, and also tried to awaken the indifferent hearts of the people who were slowly numbed in that era.

Outside of the film, Zhou Xuan herself also has such a life experience and such a personality. Sometimes, "Xiao Hong" is simply a reflection of herself. In terms of career, Zhou Xuan became very popular and ranked first among the top five singers in Shanghai. She was known as "Zhou Xuan with the golden voice". If you saw Zhou Xuan singing in the glamorous Shili Foreign Market, with her body like a willow, delicate cheongsam, and the extravagance, prosperity, arrogance and unapproachability unique to Shili Foreign Market, you would never imagine that her life would be full of A sad and mournful voice.

Zhou Xuan's life experience was miserable. When she was 3 years old, she was abducted and sold from Jiangsu to a family in Shanghai by her uncle, who smoked heavily. As the family fell into decline, her adoptive father wanted to sell her away. He went to a brothel and was thankfully saved by his adoptive mother. Thanks to his innate sense of sound, he was discovered by musician Li Jinhui and has since embarked on the path of singing and acting.

During her childhood, Zhou Xuan lived in a petty bourgeois family and was never aware of her unfortunate life experience. Although she was treated like a maid by her adoptive parents, her spiritually intact family still gave her a wonderful time, which was also the best time in her life.

It was just by chance that she understood her own life experience, which surprised and shocked her like never before in her life.

Growing up, she has always treated her adoptive parents like all children treat their biological parents. She is close to them, trusts them, and is filial to them. She hopes to receive gentle love and selfless protection from them. , but she never got it.

Regarding the deception she had received, she suddenly felt at a loss, loneliness and emptiness she had never experienced before. At the same time, I understood the real reason why her father had the heart to push her into a pit of fire and let her become a prostitute, and why her mother was as cold and heartless to her as a maid.

For more than ten years, she has been tortured and tortured by life, and now it has only added to her depression and indelible inner trauma, which also laid the foundation for her subsequent mental breakdown.

From the moment Zhou Xuan learned about her life experience, she spent almost her whole life looking for her biological parents. The adoptive father is Zhou Xuan's only clue to find his mother. In order to find a relative, Zhou Xuan gave most of the money she earned to her adoptive father and asked him to help her find her mother.

The cruel adoptive father squeezed every penny out of Zhou Xuan's body. When he was dying, he still asked for money, but he did not leave any information about her parents to his adopted daughter. Therefore, Zhou Xuan's wish to find his relatives was not fulfilled until his death. Even before his death, he still lamented with regret: "I am so miserable... I have never been able to see... my biological... parents!"

( Zhou Xuan: August 1, 1920 - September 22, 1957, born in Changzhou, Jiangsu, Chinese film actor and singer. In 1946, he went to Hong Kong to develop. He returned to Shanghai from Hong Kong in 1951 and was sent to the hospital due to sudden mental illness. Hospital treatment. Died in Shanghai on September 22, 1957 at the age of thirty-seven).