Seeing a Gentleman
by Yang Yong
About This Novel
The blind person is good at hearing, and the deaf person is good at seeing. With one source of absolute profit, we can use our troops ten times; if we return to day and night three times, we can use our troops ten thousand times. --"Yellow Emperor's Yin Fu Jing". It was not unusual in the 1950s for Zhang Kuiming to play the dongxiao and become China's first-class performer as a blind folk artist. Prior to this, New China had discovered the blind man A Bing who created "Two Springs Reflect the Moon". At the end of 1950, the government invited Abing to perform in Beijing, but by then he was vomiting blood every day and was on the verge of death. He regretfully said to the people who came to pick him up: "Thank you Communist Party, I'm afraid I won't be able to go." Zhang Kuiming's situation was much better. Not only did he perform in Beijing, he also entered Zhongnanhai and was received by Zhou Enlai, Zhu De and Liu Shaoqi. Two years later, he was invited to perform for Chairman Mao.
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