Since Mao Zedong arrived in Yan'an, Yan'an has become a glorious castle shining with truth, a beacon of suffering China and a symbol of the new era. Like a magnet, it attracted a large number of aspiring young people to break through the blockades and come to the holy land of Yan'an to join the Chinese revolution. Among them are some democrats and foreign friends who sympathize with the Chinese revolution.
Mao Zedong is dancing ballroom dance (data map)
Mao Zedong is also a hospitable person. He likes to interact with people, in the interaction, to obtain new information, absorb new cultures, broaden new horizons, and increase his knowledge and talents. Therefore, others come here especially, and he is also willing to socialize and talk to them.
At the end of January 1937, Agnes Smedley came to Yan'an after Snow, as an interview for more than 7 months.
Smedley is an American and a reporter for the Frankfurter Zeitung. Her translator and secretary is Wu Lili, also Wu Guangwei. Wu Lili is young and beautiful, with long hair and shawl. After graduating from university, she wrote poems and acted in movies, and she was inseparable from Smedley. Occasionally appearing with them is Ding Ling, who has thick eyebrows and big eyes, who first went to northern Shaanxi and is known as a literary star.
When Smedley and Wu Lili came to Yan'an, the entertainment programs that had been popular in the revolutionary team were collective singing and mutual "song". Smedley is not good at singing, but can dance. As a result, she set off a wave of ballroom dancing in Yan'an.
Regarding this, she later recalled: During a meeting of senior military cadres held by
in Yan'an, I tried to teach some of them how to dance. They were diligent and studious. They asked everything and were not afraid of losing face. Zhu De and I dispelled superstition and unveiled the scene of ballroom dancing. Zhou Enlai then jumped up too, but he danced like a person working out a number study problem. Peng Dehuai likes to watch from the sidelines, but he refuses to come down and dance once. He Long danced with the music melody on the floor of the blue brick pavilion. He is the only dancer with a sense of rhythm.
This is the early ballroom dance in Yan'an, and it was mostly performed at entertaining evening parties where senior officials gathered. The scope is small, half hidden and half open. However, ballroom dancing has a strong western flavor, although it is a performance program, it is very exemplary. Soon, a private ballroom dance party appeared in Smedley's residence under Phoenix Mountain. Slowly, ballroom dancing gradually appeared in the public evening party held in Yan'an.
As a result, more and more people are interested in ballroom dancing, and more and more people learn to dance. Finally, the ballroom dance begins in Yan'an. Every weekend and holiday evening, there are almost all literary evenings or ballrooms in the Great Hall of the General Office of the Communist Party of China, Luyi Hall, Academy of Natural Sciences Hall, Wangjiaping Eighth Route Army Headquarters Hall, Women’s University Hall, and Marxist-Leninist University Hall. Of course, music and accompaniment are indispensable for ballroom dancing. The musical accompaniment of each dance party is very simple, mostly live musical instruments. Harmonica, organ, accordion, violin, bamboo flute, and erhu are all used. Most of the musical instruments are hand-made temporarily; some people play and sing, and most people dance on the yellow soil.
ballroom dancing brings a new breath to people living on the Loess Plateau, which has a powerful attraction. On the dance floor, among the gray uniforms, those lesbians who had recently arrived from the big cities tightened their waists and tied belts to show their graceful body curves; some even saved allowances and bought a piece of white cloth Or blue cloth, made into a short-sleeved shirt with a small flower embroidered on the placket, making it even more unique. People regard ballroom dancing as a very important place for fashion and social interaction.
Among all the dance halls in Yan'an, Wangjiaping and the Central Auditorium dance hall are the highest politically-ranked and are often visited by military and political leaders. At the beginning of
, He Zizhen and some of the chief's wives were fresh about ballroom dancing and went to patronize. After dancing a few times, they soon realized that something was wrong. In their opinion, combing their hair beautifully is a manifestation of petty bourgeois sentiment; and because of dancing, the dance hall often performed many love stories, which were passed on from time to time. The news that “××” and “××” are in love. Gradually, these "old revolutions" regarded ballroom dancing as a foreign country's "a vice" and felt very fooled, so they collectively resisted dancing.
However, after work, Mao Zedong was also a frequent visitor to the dance floor. In this regard, Mao Zedong later recalled wittily: "We also often held dance parties in Yan'an, and I was considered a frequent visitor in the dance hall. At that time, not only I liked dancing,I also like to dance when I come and Bute, and even Mr. Zhu also goes for a few exercises (describe Zhu De's dance steps as the steps of an exercise). But my noble wife, He Zizhen, doesn’t like dancing, she especially hates me dancing..."
Mao Zedong’s dancing partner is mostly Smedley’s female translator Wu Lili. Source: www.cn
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