With the song On the Island of the Sun, Zheng Xulan, born in Beijing, became famous. After the movie Shaolin Temple became popular, her Shepherd's Song which was the film’s episode quickly spread all over the country. Becoming a smash hit singer in the 1980s, she appeared on the CCTV Spring Festival Gala several times.
In the midst of her popularity, Zheng who graduated from the Central Conservatory of Music, decided to leave the Oriental Song and Dance Ensemble which she belonged to, and traveled to the United States, completely disappearing from the audience's sight.
She did not give up music entirely, on the contrary, she devoted herself to creating and re-interpreting the song ‘Dream of Red Mansions’, for which she held a solo concert in Singapore in 1999, which caused a great sensation.
Afterwards, Zheng returned to China. A pastor’s wife, who loved her deeply and witnessed the ups and downs in her life, often shared God’s message with her, sending her a Bible and other Christian books, which she (the singer) all left in a corner.
Though thinking she did not need faith, she was beaten by a small bowel obstruction operation in 2003. At first, she could still continue to perform, relying on taking painkillers, but then she was completely bedridden.
Zheng had to seek medical attention everywhere, but doctors could not find out the cause of her pain. In her despair, the pastor’s wife came to see her again.
"She said, ‘Lanlan, it's time for you to come to God.’ I suddenly felt alerted at the time and wondered what she meant by this?", Zheng recalled.
After she left, Zheng sought those books discarded in the corner and read. "I could not understand much of them, but I kept reading them page by page, as I felt only they could give me the strength to overcome these hardships", she added.
After lying in bed for three years, Zheng was left nothing but her skin over her bones. After three years of suffering, Zheng, who was desperate, began to think about her life.
She said, "I just know how limited human abilities are. How far can your eyes see? How far can your hands reach? How far can you smell? Look, this is the range of human abilities! I met the Lord while in my trouble and knew God’s power."
During the days accompanied by the Bible, she kept calling on the Father God to heal her strange disease. Finally, through a friend's introduction, she met a doctor who said that the previous doctor made a cut at the wrong place, and then proceeded to cure her.
"Through this three years’ experience, I believe that God wants me to know that I cannot do anything on my own. If I had not experienced this pain, I would have felt that I could. I was very weak, so I could not come back to Him without His power”, she admitted.
A week after the surgery, Zheng was able to get out of bed. With faith in God, she began to actively prepare for her solo concert.
"At the end of 2007, I held my first concert. At that time, I was still very, very thin, and as my body was injured, my voice was also hurt."
Ten days before the concert, she suddenly lost her voice. She tried all kinds of methods, but none worked. The only thing she could do was to pray to God: "I just wanted the Lord to magically heal me. Because I knew that if I lost my voice, I could not get cured in a day or two. Only through a miracle could I complete the performance, otherwise I was dumb."
A miracle indeed happened, as she performed 11 concerts in a row, each day in a different city. Not only did her body recover, but she also performed successively better at each preceding concert.
She shared, "I just have faith in His real existence. There are many wonders in my life, and my existence right now is also a miracle. The Lord Jesus Christ repaired my singing wings and took me out of my predicament, drying my tears and healing my wounds. I want to sing for the Lord who supports me with love and trust, and takes me on clouds to the sky."
- Translated by Abigail Wu
凭着一首《太阳岛上》郑绪岚一唱成名。随后电影《少林寺》的热映，郑绪岚演唱电影插曲的《牧羊曲》也迅速火遍中国的大江南北。郑绪岚随即成为八十年代红极一时的歌唱家，并几次登录中央电视台春节联欢会的舞台。就正当红时，郑决定离开她所属的东方歌舞团，并远走美国彻底从观众视线中消失了。
但她并没有彻底离开音乐，而是潜心创作，重新演绎红楼梦歌曲。1999年，她在新加坡举办了《红楼梦》独唱音乐会，引起了极大的轰动。
随后，郑回国。目睹她坎坷起伏生活并深爱她的一位基督徒师母，常常给她讲说上帝的信息，也不断送给她圣经书籍，但都被郑绪岚丢下了角落里。可谁知自觉不需要信仰的郑绪岚却被03年的一个小小肠梗阻手术打到了。起先，她还能靠吃止痛片她还可以坚持演出，后来她便彻底卧床不起。
郑只得四处求医，医生却也查不出来结果。正在她绝望之时，她的基督徒师母来看她。
“她说岚岚，是时候了，你要到上帝的面前来。就这么一句话，当时我突然就有警醒的感觉，她这个话是什么意思？”
师母走后，郑绪岚找到曾经被自己丢弃在角落的圣经和福音书籍，开始读了起来：“很多读不懂，但是就是捧着它一直读，一页一页地读着，然后我觉得只有它能够给我跨越这些困苦的力量。”
三年卧病在床，郑绪岚瘦得只剩下皮包骨头。人的尽头是上帝的起头，三年的煎熬让走投无路的郑绪岚开始警醒思考自己的人生。她说：“我这才知道，人的能力是多么有限。你的眼睛能看多远？你的手能伸多远？你能闻到多远？瞧，这就是人的能力范围！我在困境中遇见了主，认识了上帝的世界。”
与圣经相伴的日子里，郑绪岚不断的呼求天父上帝能医治自己的怪病。终于，她通过好友的介绍，找到了一位医生，对方说之前的医生切错了地方。
三年的痛苦成了过去，郑坚信这一切都是上帝让她经历的：“我不经历这个痛苦，我就觉得我行。这三年的痛苦让我觉得我不行。这个时候，祂让我知道，我真是不行的，我很软弱、很微弱，所以不借助神的力量我回不来。”
手术一周后，郑绪岚便能够下床了。倚靠对上帝的信心，郑绪岚开始积极筹备个人演唱会：“07年年底，我就开了自己的第一场演唱会了。那时候，我还是非常非常瘦的。而且人身体受创，你的声音一 定受创。”
在演唱会的前十天，郑突然失声了。她用尽各种方法都不管用，唯一能做的就是向上帝祷告：“我就希望主能够给我带来一个神迹。因为我知道嗓子失声的话，不是一天两天就能够恢复的。只有神迹出现才能够完成这场演出，要不然就是哑的。”
奇迹出现，郑绪岚一连11场演唱会，每隔一天一个城市。她的身体不仅恢复得越来越好，歌也越唱越好。
她分享说：“就是一个信，就相信祂真实的存在。在我身上就是很多神迹，我就是一个神迹，现在此时就是一个神迹。我的经历是主耶稣基督为我修复了翅膀，是主耶稣基督帮我擦干泪、抚平伤，是主带我走出困境，用爱、用他信赖的目光托着我，乘着彩云飞向穹苍，我要为主放声歌唱。”
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基督徒歌唱家郑绪岚信仰见证：主耶稣基督为我修复了歌唱的翅膀
With the song On the Island of the Sun, Zheng Xulan, born in Beijing, became famous. After the movie Shaolin Temple became popular, her Shepherd's Song which was the film’s episode quickly spread all over the country. Becoming a smash hit singer in the 1980s, she appeared on the CCTV Spring Festival Gala several times.
In the midst of her popularity, Zheng who graduated from the Central Conservatory of Music, decided to leave the Oriental Song and Dance Ensemble which she belonged to, and traveled to the United States, completely disappearing from the audience's sight.
She did not give up music entirely, on the contrary, she devoted herself to creating and re-interpreting the song ‘Dream of Red Mansions’, for which she held a solo concert in Singapore in 1999, which caused a great sensation.
Afterwards, Zheng returned to China. A pastor’s wife, who loved her deeply and witnessed the ups and downs in her life, often shared God’s message with her, sending her a Bible and other Christian books, which she (the singer) all left in a corner.
Though thinking she did not need faith, she was beaten by a small bowel obstruction operation in 2003. At first, she could still continue to perform, relying on taking painkillers, but then she was completely bedridden.
Zheng had to seek medical attention everywhere, but doctors could not find out the cause of her pain. In her despair, the pastor’s wife came to see her again.
"She said, ‘Lanlan, it's time for you to come to God.’ I suddenly felt alerted at the time and wondered what she meant by this?", Zheng recalled.
After she left, Zheng sought those books discarded in the corner and read. "I could not understand much of them, but I kept reading them page by page, as I felt only they could give me the strength to overcome these hardships", she added.
After lying in bed for three years, Zheng was left nothing but her skin over her bones. After three years of suffering, Zheng, who was desperate, began to think about her life.
She said, "I just know how limited human abilities are. How far can your eyes see? How far can your hands reach? How far can you smell? Look, this is the range of human abilities! I met the Lord while in my trouble and knew God’s power."
During the days accompanied by the Bible, she kept calling on the Father God to heal her strange disease. Finally, through a friend's introduction, she met a doctor who said that the previous doctor made a cut at the wrong place, and then proceeded to cure her.
"Through this three years’ experience, I believe that God wants me to know that I cannot do anything on my own. If I had not experienced this pain, I would have felt that I could. I was very weak, so I could not come back to Him without His power”, she admitted.
A week after the surgery, Zheng was able to get out of bed. With faith in God, she began to actively prepare for her solo concert.
"At the end of 2007, I held my first concert. At that time, I was still very, very thin, and as my body was injured, my voice was also hurt."
Ten days before the concert, she suddenly lost her voice. She tried all kinds of methods, but none worked. The only thing she could do was to pray to God: "I just wanted the Lord to magically heal me. Because I knew that if I lost my voice, I could not get cured in a day or two. Only through a miracle could I complete the performance, otherwise I was dumb."
A miracle indeed happened, as she performed 11 concerts in a row, each day in a different city. Not only did her body recover, but she also performed successively better at each preceding concert.
She shared, "I just have faith in His real existence. There are many wonders in my life, and my existence right now is also a miracle. The Lord Jesus Christ repaired my singing wings and took me out of my predicament, drying my tears and healing my wounds. I want to sing for the Lord who supports me with love and trust, and takes me on clouds to the sky."
- Translated by Abigail Wu
Christian Singer: "God Repairs My Singing Wings"
