People rarely have purely good or bad, which is fully reflected in the small figures in the wave of history. Their personality defects, fueled by the wind of power, become increasingly larger and more mistakes.

people, few are purely good or bad, which is fully reflected in the small people in the wave of history. Their personality defects, fueled by the wind of power, become increasingly larger and more mistakes. Liu Qingtang is such a character. He should have been a performing artist in the dance drama , but he took a step forward in the "ten years of turmoil" and fell into a deep abyss.

Liu Qingtang, born in 1932, is from Gai County, Liaoning Province. His first contact with the serious "art" was probably in the late 1940s when the Liaodong Art Troupe came to his hometown - a small village that had just undergone land reform and was liberated. The villagers who have only watched the performance of the Grass and Platforms surrounded the three floors and the three floors of the art troupe performance. Unlike the costume dramas in the past, the dramas that play music and dance are all about everyone. After the

program was performed, Liu Qingtang joined the leader of the art troupe and asked him to join the art troupe and be a choreographer. Liu Qingtang had a beautiful face and a smart and clever spirit all over his body, so the art troupe readily accepted it. Liu Qingtang learned to play waist drums, dance yangge , sing 2 person transfer , and perform newspaper dramas. He traveled all over the Liaodong region.

In the early 1950s, 17-year-old Liu Qingtang was already a backbone of the art troupe. Seeing that he was young and a good seedling, the leader sent him to a wider world - Beijing, specializing in learning folk dance. Later, due to his excellent academic performance, he was left in Central Song and Dance Troupe as a national dancer. At the age of 24, he was flirting with the leaders of the singing and dancing troupe and became a monk and changed his career to learn ballet .

Liu Qingtang was not young at that time, and his joint flexibility was poor. It was somewhat difficult to learn ballet again. But with his strong perseverance and hard-working spirit, he began to make some achievements in the field of ballet. During this period, he was sent to the Soviet Union to study ballet. In the days that followed, Liu Qingtang performed many large-scale ballets, such as the Prince in "Swan Lake", as well as " Sea Hero ", " Tears Spring ", etc.

Liu Qingtang's female partner is named Bai Shuxiang, and his reputation and influence are greater than him, and his status is higher than him. This made Liu Qingtang very jealous. Why was she not as good as her? So Liu Qingtang found Bai Shuxiang's weakness - his father was "suppressed" and began to spread everywhere. Soon, this "white swan" that everyone praised became an ugly duckling that made people look sideways. Liu Qingtang felt inexplicably happy and replaced Bai Shuxiang's position.

When Liu Qingtang was 32 years old, he became famous all over the country for playing the male lead in " Red Detachment of Women ", and became the "prince charming" that countless Chinese girls yearned for. Not long after, Jiang Qing came forward and began to "catch" the drama. Liu Qingtang, who has gained great benefits and pleasure from punishing Bai Shuxiang, has realized the importance of political power, and has paid special attention to Jiang Qing's move and judged that this is a rare opportunity.

Although Liu Qingtang is a popular actor, he is just a low-ranking actor after all. He is not satisfied with the status quo and wants more! After that, every time Jiang Qing visited the troupe, Liu Qingtang would finish it. His calculations were not in vain, and they left a deep impression on Jiang Qing and established a straight line connection.

In the summer of 1966, Liu Qingtang often played a heroic role in the "model drama" with the "five red bloodlines" from a farmer and the sign of a party member. In addition to his special relationship with Jiang Qing, he rose up and called for "revolutionary rebellion". A few people gathered under his command, and he began to seize power in a planned manner.

For a moment, the vibrant and graceful ballet became a purgatory on earth with a gust of wind. Many leaders were beaten by him. A vice president and chief commander, after being criticized and fought, could not bear such false accusations and insults, so he hanged himself and proved his innocence. Liu Qingtang was also criticized and sometimes suffered unlucky times, but he insisted on writing letters to Jiang Qing to express his loyalty. Jiang Qing was very satisfied with this and stood up for him again and again.

In the end, Liu Qingtang came back to power.After "popularity", Liu Qingtang responded to a sentence that was often quoted during this period, "A son is a Zhongshan wolf, and he will be arrogant when he succeeds." When he faced his benefactor Jiang Qing, he was so grateful that he was afraid that he would not be loyal to him. On the other hand, he began to retaliate against those who had opposed him and created a wide range of witness movements. In a campaign in 1970, more than 400 members of the literary and artistic troupe were retaliated against.

And Liu Qingtang's career was also unobstructed and advanced with the help of Jiang Qing. First, he was a representative of the nine of the , a member of the presidium, and a cultural group that went back to the highest level, coordinated national literary and artistic creation. He became a member of the Central Committee in 1974 and a deputy minister of the Ministry of Culture in 1975. At this point, he completely transformed into a loyal accomplice of the "Gang of Four", helping him show off his power and fight for power in the literary and artistic circles.

At the same time, he was involved in a relationship between men and women and was reported and exposed again and again, but Jiang Qing protected them all, and did not cause any substantial problems to him at all. The net of heaven is vast and sparse without leakage. Doing unrighteous things will cause you to die. In October 1976, after the "Gang of Four" was smashed, Liu Qingtang was also quarantined and investigated. No matter how he defends himself, he can't escape the judgment of history.

In April 1983, the court held a public trial of Liu Qingtang, and all the people in the Beijing literary and art circles applauded and rushed to report. In the end, Liu Qingtang was sentenced to 17 years in prison. Many people think that his punishment is too light, but his evil retribution has not yet ended: his wife resolutely divorced him, his children were disconnected from him, and suffered from cirrhosis in his later years. After medical parole , he was taken to his hometown to live in rural areas of Gai County because he was homeless in Beijing.

Liu Qingtang has played so many heroes, but he has done bad things in the "ten years of turmoil". He is really two kinds of people on stage and off the stage.