Cover News Reporters Zhang Jie, Wu Deyu, Xun Chao, Zhou Bin
Many years later, friends will definitely remember that afternoon at the end of 2023. We traveled through most of Beijing, carrying camera equipment, to the 34th floor of the Westin Hotel to interview singer Cai Guoqing face-to-face. Not long after the first heavy snow fell in Beijing, the sky was blue and clear, refreshing. Through a huge glass window, you can see the conspicuous "China Zun" building. Cai Guoqing is wearing a burgundy sweater and white jeans over a gray shirt. He looks very young. When faced with reporters' exclusive interviews, he answered all questions. He treated every question sincerely and talked eloquently. When he said something, he would laugh and his eyes would moisten.
The winter afternoon sun just shined in, and his whole body was shining. For a moment, I seemed to have traveled back to the era when there was a "karaoke station" or MTV on the TV. Cai Guoqing, dressed in a white suit and under a beam of light, sang "Three Hundred" on the stage with a graceful and light step. "Sixty-five Blessings": "Auspicious light surrounds you, like the rising sun that is so brilliant..."
Why do you have to travel thousands of miles to interview Cai Guoqing? Just because he appeared in "Brother Overcoming Troubles" in the summer of 2023 and became popular again? No no, it's not that simple. There is no shortage of celebrities in the Internet age. The world has changed a lot in the past few decades. Some become famous overnight, while others disappear. Amid various disappearances, disappearances, and changes, although Cai Guoqing is not a top performer, he has always been good, singing, and living a down-to-earth life, with a happy family and a just-right career. From the era of karaoke stations to the era of the Internet, he has not been lost, he has always been there. See you again after many years, and you are still the boy with the white horse. Rather than saying that we are interviewing a celebrity, we want to feel, capture, express, and spread the vitality of life up close. What kind of life methodology he has is the real original intention of our interview report.
"I have always been full of love for life. I have understood a truth since I was a child: you cannot be 'angsted' to death by anyone or anything, that would be too unfair. Even if others hurt me, I will still seek a way of self Protect, take care of my life, and be able to live happily." "No matter what kind of problem you face, when you find a new perspective, it can become an opportunity to learn." "Life will teach you many lessons, The key is that you have to be good at absorbing. Absorbing is actually like doing a program. Review it, correct the loopholes, and do better next time. In short, while living, try to be a thoughtful person."
Listening to these words, I suddenly felt Understand why Cai Guoqing's "mental state is 20 years ahead of the entire network." It’s not hard to find people with acting talents, and there are also many lucky people who stand in the spotlight. But the problem is that no artist can always be at the forefront of trends and bathe in the spotlight. So, what do you do when you are not so high and when you are at a low point?
Cai Guoqing usually tells others that there are no low points in his life. "But how can there be no troughs? How can there be no troughs in life? I say this just out of an optimistic attitude and let me look at these things from a different angle. I will call the troughs in life a dull period, and despair as Motivation to inspire fighting spirit. In my nearly 60 years of life, I have always been a person with a strong fighting spirit. Although I look gentle on the outside, I am definitely a warrior at heart."
55-year-old Cai Guoqing said that he is "about to enter the age of hearing. ." He once said that he "doesn't care about age," but this time he confessed his heart, "It's a lie to say he doesn't care. How could I not care about age!" It is precisely this contradictory state that makes him so real and adorable. "I know too well that life goes by too fast. It's because I care too much, so I cherish the present moment especially and try to live out my true nature."
Behind a person's strength, there is the nourishment of love. He told how his family was poor when he was a child and had no new clothes to wear during the New Year. His mother told him that although there were no new clothes to wear, "every time the clothes your mother puts on you are clean, when you walk out of the house, people will know that you are a well-educated child. This is more important than anything else." ."Hearing such words, I understand even more where this Beijing boy's righteousness comes from.
I don't like to use "idol" to describe an artist. Just like Faye Wong sings in her song, "The idols who have been addicted disappear one by one. ". The word "role model" may be more suitable for Cai Guoqing, not only because of his acting talent, but more importantly, 's methodology for dealing with the ups and downs of life and the passage of time: Life is like waves on the sea, sometimes rising and sometimes falling. The key is how not to waste time in the ups and downs. Whether it is sinking or floating, always remain optimistic and naive, and maintain a state of progress in thinking, review, and learning.
This state of progress is not a "volume" or a relationship with others. Comparison, but the spontaneous progress of individual life. As the translator Yang Yi said, make the most of every day (make full use of every day).
After the interview, my friends and I carried large and small bags for photography, lighting The equipment left the hotel. After discovering the reason why Cai Guoqing's "mental state is 20 years ahead of the entire network", we tacitly understood each other, stood on the curb, and began to verbally review our respective gains this afternoon. Among them, the cameraman who was born in 1999 , posted a long "essay" in the group to express his "intellectual" shock.
In Beijing that day, the evening was particularly beautiful, with a bright moon in the sky. Crimson rosy clouds in the sky Changing shapes. Sometimes to the left of our car windows, sometimes to our right, running with us and chasing each other.
British writer G.K. Chesterton said that the purpose of the new year is not to have a new year, but to have a new year. It is to have a new soul. Whether it is Cai Guoqing in the entertainment industry or we in other industries, we should find a methodology that tends towards truth, goodness and beauty.
follows Teacher Cai here to send you a blessing: New Year , find your own methodology, take off the tired old self and put on the new self. I wish you happiness.
