text｜Wu Qingqian
The variety show "Endless Sound·Family Years" has been broadcast for 8 episodes so far. If you want to judge the most crying song among the songs sung by the guests, it should be "Chengdu" by Han Hong and Huang Qishan 》. The reason why this version of "Chengdu" is so moving is because the song itself has many subtle things that touch people. When the audience listened to the original singer Zhao Lei express his love for the city of Chengdu, many of them actually had a love for a certain city. Secondly, after Han Hong and Huang Qishan added their own stories when singing, the song has a stronger sense of story, including family love, dreams, wanderings, and twists and turns... And who has not touched these things?
So when everyone is listening to their version of "Chengdu", when listening to their stories, they will actually think of many, many stories from the past, just like Hu Yanbin said after listening to it, "There are too many stories in this song." It is precisely because there are many stories integrated into the song that no matter who listens to it, they will think of one of their own stories, which triggers the tear ducts.
Objectively speaking, although Han Hong and Huang Qishan's singing is very good, if they did not add their own story narration in the song, and Han Hong talked about the beauty and pain of her childhood after the song, "Chengdu" might not be the best. Not that contagious. No matter how good the story is, no matter how good the song is, if the person listening does not understand the creative background, the touch they receive is often not comparable to what it would be if they understood it.
During the singing, Han Hong and Huang Qishan respectively inserted their own stories about Chengdu.
Han Hong’s story about Chengdu is - In the winter of 1974, my parents and I came to Chengdu for the first time. I was still a child at that time, and my father was still alive at that time. It was still winter in 1979, and I took a train alone to the distant Beijing, beginning my unknown and fearful childhood life. Chengdu is my eternal home, it is deeply rooted in my heart; Chengdu has my most complete short-term happy reunion. My future is on that train, and my thoughts about Chengdu will remain on that old platform forever.
Huang Qishan’s story about Chengdu is - In 1986, I rushed to Chengdu from Chongqing, more than 200 kilometers away, to sing. It was my first time in this city. I remember that when I went out, I saw the ginkgo tree. The street was filled with yellow. I thought I was just a passerby, but I never thought that all the twists and turns that followed would happen next to the ginkgo tree. Fortunately, these past memories disappeared after three rounds in the tavern on Yulin Road.
After singing "Chengdu", both the singer and the listeners were in tears. Perhaps the narration just now touched Han Hong too much, so she added the story she wrote. She said that she spent her childhood in Chengdu, and her family were all soldiers. There were no faster trains at that time, and it took three days and three nights to travel from Chengdu to Beijing. There were many caves to pass on the way from Chengdu to Beijing, so the memory was very unpleasant. At that time, everything was unknown to her, and she didn't know what the future would be like. She has never dared to sing the song "Chengdu" because she came to Beijing to see her grandma. Grandma went to Beijing Railway Station to pick her up. It was already eleven o'clock. It was already twelve o'clock when she entered the house. She saw a broom and took it to sweep the floor. Grandma asked her why she was sweeping the floor so late?
"I told grandma that I can work, and I don't like eating meat. I will study hard in the future, and I will be successful...it came here in a blink of an eye. Today Han Hong can stand upright here because of grandma , I do charity because of my grandma. My grandma taught me to give and help more people. I believe that my grandma should be satisfied with me in heaven."
Even if I don't know Han Hong well enough, her narration alone The story and the subsequent additions are enough to make people stunned. If you know anything about Han Hong's childhood experience, you will burst into tears. Han Hong, who was born in 1971, was only three years old when she arrived in Chengdu in 1974. She was still a child as she said. In 1979, when she left Chengdu, she was only eight years old and still a child. But this child was I have endured many things that I should not have to endure at this age.
Because her father passed away when she was six years old, the happy life of the family of three was gone. Her mother performed frequently to make a living and had little time to take care of her. She later remarried, and Han Hong's relationship with her stepfather, including her mother, was not that good. Going to Beijing to find my grandma was actually to get rid of this disharmonious relationship. But she was nervous on the way there and didn't know whether her grandma would take her in, so she said, "My unknown and fearful childhood began." It was obviously very late when she arrived at grandma's house, and she must have been very tired after riding the train for three days and three nights. But in order to stay at grandma's house, she took the broom and took the initiative to sweep the floor, saying that she would be a good child. Because if her grandma doesn't take her in, she has nowhere to go and can only return to Chengdu to continue her unhappy life.
As an old friend of Han Hong, Sun Nan knew all about Han Hong. Listening to her old friend talk about her bumpy childhood, she burst into tears just like Han Hong. In addition to sympathy for his old friend, his cry also contained empathy, because he also had Han Hong's sense of wandering when she left a familiar place at a not-so-young age to live in another distant and unfamiliar place - "We all I am a wanderer who left home when I was young. I basically left home when I was seventeen years old and started singing outside. We also have this feeling of traveling from east to west and from south to north." Moreover, like Han Hong, he is here During his wandering, he met many people who helped him. When Han Hong told her story, he would also think of those who had helped him.
As a singer, it is not easy to impress others, especially for people who are not very good in appearance. However, Han Hong finally became a well-known singer. The bitterness of this made Hu Yanbin, Sun Nan, Zhou Shen, Chen Chusheng, etc. People are filled with emotions. Hu Yanbin said that Beijing should be a place where many singers have stories. Sun Nan said that when he was in Beijing in the 1990s, he heard that there were 50,000 people making music at that time, but only a few dozen people could be heard. Zhou Shen said that there are more people making music in Beijing now, and they are countless. Chen Chusheng, who comes from a grassroots background and has also hit rock bottom, said that many of these singers actually have a hard time. Yes, those who are not famous as singers may just have to make ends meet, and sometimes they may even end up eating one meal without finishing the next.
Good songs are really not only about melody and lyrics, but also about stories, such as "Chengdu" by Han Hong and Huang Qishan. If they just sing simply, without putting their attachment to family, persistence to dreams, and Putting wandering and tortuous exclamations in it may be difficult for people to resonate strongly. And because of their stories, many people can find their own reflections in the stories, either missing their happy and healthy home, or experiencing a lot of wandering in a certain city, or experiencing traveling to a distant and unknown place. places, or have shown maturity that is inconsistent with their age in order to stay in a certain place... So when listening to "Chengdu" and listening to the stories of Han Hong and Huang Qishan, those who also sang along had tears in their eyes.
This article was originally written by Qing Qianzhishuo and may not be reproduced without the authorization of the author! Welcome everyone to pay attention and explore the meaningful entertainment life together!
