At 16:00 on June 19, 2024, Mr. Chen Chun, a famous broadcasting artist and one of the first broadcasting instructors in the country and the former Shanghai People's Broadcasting Station broadcasting artist, passed away due to sudden heart failure at the age of 91.
Chen Chun is one of the first five people in the country to receive the "Senior Broadcasting Instructor". As a nationally renowned broadcasting master, his broadcasting tone is majestic, his style is deep and resolute, and it is endlessly memorable.
His voice has appeared in every corner of Shanghainese life
"Shanghai People's Broadcasting Station, now a news and newspaper summary program."
"I am Zhang Zhi." "I am Chen Chun." From the 1950s Since the 1990s, generations of Shanghainese have been very familiar with this sound. In the past half century, Chen Chun’s voice has appeared in every corner of Shanghainese life.
Chen Chun is broadcasting
Chen Chun joined the broadcasting work in 1951 and served as the announcer of Xuzhou People's Broadcasting Station. In 1953, he was transferred to Shanghai People's Broadcasting Station and served successively as announcer, deputy leader of the broadcast team, deputy director and leader of the broadcast department, and art director of the broadcast department.
In 1954, 21-year-old Chen Chun received the first arduous task in his broadcasting career-broadcasting and reading my country's first "Constitution"; in 1955, Indonesian President Sukarno visited Shanghai and held a welcome meeting in Shanghai People's Square. He conducted interviews on the spot; in the 1956 "Nanjing Road Good Eight Company" naming conference, Chen Chun did a live broadcast on Nanjing Road...
Recalling the program more than half a century ago, Chen Chun said that in an era when recording equipment was scarce , any program is "turn on the microphone and broadcast live". Not only the host broadcasts live, but also the singing and performing artists come to the studio to perform directly live. As one of the first broadcasting directors in the country,
is unique with his "deep, steady, and relaxed" broadcasting style. He became the first broadcaster of Shanghai TV Station in 1958. Participated in the establishment of professional organizations such as the Broadcasting Research Committee of the China Radio and Television Society, the Shanghai Language and Literature Workers Association, and the Shanghai Speech Studies Research Association. He is also an enthusiastic participant and promoter of the popularization and development of recitation art in Shanghai, and has contributed greatly to Shanghai. Make important contributions to the high-quality development of the city’s recitation industry.
As for the content of the broadcasting work when he first came to Shanghai Channel, Chen Chun recalled: "I did it all, regardless of the program. At the beginning, I quoted prices every day on the second set of East China Channel, how much is millet, how much is flour, and how much is a foot of cloth? How much is it? As far as I know, in those days, everyone’s salary was paid twice a month. I don’t know how much they paid each time. How to determine it based on the price of the day? "
Well-known in Shanghai. Host Cao Kefan posted an article last night recalling his past collaboration experience.
Many well-known hosts posted messages to mourn
Liu Jiazhen, a national first-class actor, famous voice actor, and host of Shanghai TV, told The Paper, "The last time I saw Teacher Chen Chun was a few months ago at the Shanghai Language Working Committee. At a meeting, there were forty or fifty people in attendance. When we were taking a group photo, we saw that Mr. Chen was not in good spirits and left immediately after taking the photo. A few years ago, I went to see him at his home. He had just been discharged from the hospital and he was elderly. He has some physical problems and has always been weak and thin. But he is still very energetic." Liu Jiazhen said that his first impression of Chen Chun was in 1986. "I entered the industry in 1986. Before that, I listened to him broadcast novels. When I was a child, I lay in front of the radio in the chest of drawers, listening to the broadcasts, both from the Central People's Broadcasting Station and from Teacher Chen Chun. "
His broadcast works cover the field of literature.
His voice accompanied Ba Jin's last words. Time
In the field of literature, Chen Chun’s representative works include short and medium-length literary works such as "Okay, The Bund!" ”, “Praise to the White Poplar”, “Wish to Turn to Earth”, “Pipa Play” and the novels “Fire and Steel”, “Unforgettable Battle”, “Journey” and “Red Rock” are not only repeatedly broadcast on the radio and have become repertoire, but also Winning awards in relevant national competitions demonstrates Chen Chun's outstanding achievements in the field of broadcasting art.
Chen Chun has also read and published a variety of audio-visual products, including an album of Ba Jin's works recitation "Sunrise on the Sea", an album of Xu Zhimo's poetry recitation "Cambridge in Dreams", etc. He has read more than 100 audio-visual products for many publishing houses in Beijing, Shanghai, Zhejiang, Jilin, Hunan, Guangdong, etc., further enriching his artistic career and contributions.
Chen Chun also enjoyed the short story "The King of Stories"
Chen Chun's performance was not only loved by the audience, but also recognized by the original author. After "Shan", Chen Chun even praised Chen Chun's broadcast as "better than what he wrote", and the two formed a deep friendship and became a good story. After the two got acquainted, Chen Chunchang asked Ba Jin which works he wanted to listen to, and then recorded them on a tape and gave them to Ba Jin. According to Ba Jin’s family, these tapes accompanied Ba Jin during his final days.
Chen Chun and Ba Jin
Chen Chun: How to prepare a manuscript? go out!
Chen Chun also made a lot of contributions in the broadcasting work. He held a teaching position at the former Beijing Broadcasting Institute (now Communication University of China), and founded the broadcasting and hosting major of Zhejiang Communication Institute in 1990. He is a generation of broadcasting educator. He is also an expert on the Broadcasting and Hosting Business Steering Committee of Shanghai Radio and Television Station and has taught many outstanding announcers and hosts.
Chen Chun has also published many papers and condensed many concepts and key points. Wang Tao, Chen Chun’s student and former chief announcer of Shanghai People’s Broadcasting Station, said that the teacher’s summary of the “Five Character Classic” of audio language art expression: “emotion, meaning, taste, smoothness and accuracy” has very strong practical guidance, “ I remember one time, he gave me instructions on how to recite classical poetry. He said that we cannot simply use the rhythm of modern vernacular to process classical poetry. We need to look up more information, inquire more about it, find its source, and then express it accurately.
Chen Chun often said that when preparing a manuscript, you not only need to understand the "upper emotions", but also take root in the "lower emotions". The vast real life has the richest nourishment.
"If you want to broadcast a novel truly and well, it depends on how much effort you spend." Chen Chun gave an example. There was a book called "Advance to Northern Jiangsu". The author accompanied them on the trip. On the road of "Advancing into Northern Jiangsu", I traveled all over Northern Jiangsu and introduced them in detail. For another example, when preparing "Ten Thousand Mountains Are Red", Chen Chun and his party went to Nanjing to visit the author and asked the author to help them draw a map and conduct character analysis.
Deepness, stability and ease are the epitome of Chen Chun’s decades-long broadcasting career style, which has become an everlasting echo in the history of Chinese broadcasting.
Chen Chun’s manuscript
(This article is synthesized from : The Paper, Shanghai Recitation Association, Voice of China, Broadcast China, Huaxiazi, etc.)
