Chengdu, a city that you don't want to leave when you come.
Everyone who has come or stayed has their own and Chengdu's stories to tell, and Chengdu's cultural structure and economic development are created by the interlacing of such a story. Coming here is not a matter of success or failure, it is all because of each doing something.
Today (December 12th), the N-TALK Chengdu Special Speech Show "Come, The City Has Great Potential" hosted by Southern Weekend was held in Rong. Writer and self-media person Liu shen Lei lei, Best50 star chef Lin Shuwei, former idol group group Kemi Boy lead singer and dentist Xu Junhao, convenience music manager and electronic music producer Gong Heling, "Post-90s" and "Southwest United Congress" documentary director Xu Bei, "Love Song Diva" Thousand Hundred Hui gathered in Chengdu to go to an ideological feast.
Xu Bei:
"After the nineties, young people have a lot to offer!"
In 1989, Xu Bei was admitted to Sichuan University, and she took a 10-hour express train from Chongqing to Chengdu, where she attended her first dance party and talked about her first love. In 1993, Xu Bei took a friend's car and returned to Chongqing from Chengdu along the old Chengdu-Chongqing Highway to start a documentary film career.
▲ Documentary director Xu Bei
Her documentary "Post-90s" tells the memories of 16 Southwest United University students with an average age of more than 96 years old, in the war-torn era. During the filming process, she saw Ma Zhitu, who was once a student of Sichuan University, the first draft of "Let the Bullets Fly" was completed, the tumor shadow of Ma Zhitu's lungs disappeared, and he was successful in fighting cancer.
In 2021, Xu Bei returned to Chengdu with the story of "Post-90s" and participated in the speech activities of the public welfare organization "Aisi Youth". In that cultural collision with the youth of Chengdu, she felt the magnificent youth atmosphere and cultural vitality.
Among the chengdu youth who collided with it, there was Ernie, a Chengdu girl who had been teaching AIDS children in the Indian countryside and sailing the sea with a group of sailors and artists for more than a month, and now an independent writer, documentary filmmaker and photographer. There are also young people in the McQuenta community, "who have a unified temperament, clean, quiet and calm." They breathe the same air, drink the same water, have the same vision for the countryside, and are paying the same idea. ”
"They gave me a very special feeling, that is, the group of "post-90s" people I met, and some of their traits or temperaments were continued in this group of people." When she met these Chengdu people and new Chengdu people in Chengdu, she felt the time of youth and the breath of youth many years ago, through time, to the current era, and she will rush all the way forward, because there are these young people.
"In the new era, there is great potential for young people, and it is also a great possibility for Chengdu." She said.
Six Gods Lei Lei:
"Chengdu's Fate with Tang Shi and Du Fu"
When talking about Chengdu, Liushen Leilei said that he likes Chengdu very much, "Chengdu has a warm feeling for me. In addition, he was also a fan of the poet Du Fu.
▲ Writer, self-media person Six Gods Leilei
He said that du Fu spent the warmest period of his life in Chengdu. When Du Fu was in Chengdu, his life was peaceful, tranquil, and joyful. "The old wife draws paper for chess, and the child knocks on the needle to make a fishing hook", the wife drew a chessboard on the paper, and played chess together.
Chengdu gave Du Fu a quiet and peaceful life, and the six gods Lei lei, as a fan of Du Fu, crossed the ancient and modern through Du Fu to share the fate of Chengdu city and Tang poetry and Du Fu.
In his view, the attraction of a city is first the prospect, then the background, and finally the temperature. "Du Fu is like this. He was attracted to the stable prospects, and because of the background, he lingered. Here are his idols, such as Zhuge Liang and Zhuo Wenjun, who are amazed. And the last thing that made him fall in love and linger for five years was the temperature here. ”
Xu Junhao:
"Meet your second hometown 1,800 kilometers away"
Some people are looking for flavor in Chengdu, some people choose to take root here, and regard Chengdu as the second hometown of adult life, Xu Junhao is one of them. From the idol Xu Junhao, to the dentist Xu Junhao, from the treasure island of Taiwan to the Tianfu Chengdu, all started from the accident that shattered his dreams, but also let him harvest his second hometown in Chengdu, thousands of miles away.
▲Dentist Xu Junhao
Before coming to Chengdu at the age of 24, Xu Junhao didn't even know where Chengdu was. Before coming to Chengdu, he had a dream, that is, to find a stage of his own. Later, at the age of 23, he broke his upper jawbone and front teeth due to an accident.
Xu Junhao's father was a dentist, and after the accident, he began to think about what he wanted to do, and finally calmed down to prepare for his studies and successfully became a preparatory student at the West China College of Dentistry. His story with Chengdu began.
From 2004 to Chengdu, he has also witnessed the development of the city, "from the subway, free trade zone, the stationing of the world's top 500 companies, and the new first-tier cities with a population of 20 million." Chengdu's rapid pace of progress has also strengthened his determination to stay here and start a business.
As a "Rong Drift" dentist, Xu Junhao's musical dream was not broken in the city, he met many music-loving fellows here, so he organized "Taiwanese Rock" to let Taiwanese youth in a foreign country get together.
Many people asked him why he came to Chengdu, and this time, he gave a different answer: "When I chose Chengdu, in fact, Chengdu also chose me." Why is Chengdu my second hometown? Because it's a part of my life, a part of nourishing me, a part that makes me grow, and this city makes me very promising. He said.
Gong Heling:
"Chengdu is the ideal city for musicians"
Rhythmic music sounds, and the stage is full of light and shadow. Gong Heling stood in the center of the stage, and after the speech, he brought a wonderful electronic music performance to the audience.
Some people say that electronic music may "rule" the future, which may also be seen in Chengdu's music industry. Gong Heling is one of the musical forces that injects electric inspiration and creativity into the city.
▲Gong Heling, director of convenience music and electronic music producer
"As an open and modern city, Chengdu has a soil that can truly accommodate all kinds of art forms, such as electronic music, which is an emerging musical form that is accepted and loved in the city." In Chengdu, he said, there are many musicians like him who are dedicated to electronic music, "proving that Chengdu is a very open-minded city." ”
"Chengdu is the ideal city for musicians." What makes him feel this way is because of the music road in Chengdu for many years.
"There is life to create, and Chengdu's low cost of living allows artists to ensure a continuous creative state." He mentioned that some European friends once commented that "Chengdu is like the Berlin of Europe", precisely because of Chengdu's cost-effective cost-effective living costs. He believes that Chengdu may attract many young people and young artists like Berlin in the future.
In Chengdu, he also explored more possibilities of music scenes. For example, he once took some musicians to a deep mountain performance at an altitude of 3500 meters, and all the equipment was pulled up by horses and mules; he also performed AR virtual scenes on ships, and so on. "This is enough to show Chengdu's support for the cultural industry, and some whimsical creative music activities can be successfully landed here."
In Chengdu, the city of music, Gong Heling has a stronger sense of belonging and mission.
Lin Shuwei:
"Chengdu, why don't you want to leave when you come?"
The broth is slowly infused and the carved cabbage "blooms" in a glass bowl. In the middle of the theme sharing, Lin Shuwei invited the audience to conduct a half-time interaction, so that the audience could experience the beauty of the "boiled water cabbage", a state banquet boutique originating in Sichuan.
The flavor of Chengdu is always stuck in the streets and alleys. In the summer of 2019," "Chinese Restaurant," "Little Brother Lin" Lin Shuwei was impressive, bringing classic Sichuan flavors such as hui pot meat, mapo tofu, and fish-flavored eggplant to Sicily, Italy, to spread the charm of Sichuan cuisine to the world on the Mediterranean islands.
▲ Best50 star chef Lin Shuwei
10 years ago, Lin Shuwei traveled from Xiamen to Chengdu, from hotel chef to deputy secretary general of Chengdu Food City Promotion Association, he is an experiencer of Baiwei life and one of the founders of Chengdu flavor.
He said that Sichuan cuisine has the saying of "one dish and one grid, one hundred dishes and one hundred flavors", which is closely related to the historical context and geographical orientation of Chengdu. Located in the basin, the climate is humid, and the flavors of various places are fully fermented in the country of Tianfu, which has created the tolerance of Sichuan cuisine.
During his ten years working in Chengdu, he has also witnessed the development of Chengdu's gastronomic culture. For example, Chengdu, as the capital of gastronomy, has hosted countless grand banquets; in the past, Chinese delegations were organized to study abroad, and now foreign counterparts have organized delegations to chengdu for inspection and exchange.
As a gastronomic practitioner, he also found a world in Chengdu. "Now, I started a business in Chengdu, and I really like the entrepreneurial ecological environment in Chengdu, for example, convenient transportation, leisurely environment, people who love food, livable and suitable for work."
Qianbaihui:
"Stay in Chengdu and be an 'ordinary' citizen"
“……
The Journey of Life There are many more encounters
Frequented snack bar Smiling faces of strangers
The desired life Dreams are slowly realized
Stay in Chengdu
……”
In the 1980s, with "Walking Through the Coffee House" and "When I Thought of You", it was the memory of several generations of people who became popular in the Chinese music scene. Sharing the scene, Qianbaihui laughed and said that what he was best at was singing, so he used the song "Stay in Chengdu" to express his feelings for Chengdu.
▲ "Love Song Queen of Heaven" Thousand Hundred Benefits
"I decided to settle in Chengdu because I miss home, I miss my family." In Hsinchu, Taiwan, where Qianbaihui grew up, there is a snack street where Sichuan dishes such as Hui Pot Meat are her favorites. "Every time I come home from school, I smell the scent of chili peppers, and I feel at home when I come to Chengdu, because the scent of chili peppers wafting in the air is exactly the same as my hometown."
In addition to the food and the leisurely pace of life, she specifically mentioned the national treasure giant panda. For her, the giant panda is a particularly cute and healing animal. "When you watch the giant pandas roll from here to there and play with their friends, no matter how much pressure and thoughts there are, they will be solved."
Chengdu has also always attracted her with a unique charm, including the music capital that Chengdu is building. QianBaihui said: "Food, comfortable living environment, people's love of life, especially the inclusiveness of Chengdu, let me see unlimited possibilities. ”
Red Star News reporter Peng Xiangping photojournalist Wang Qin
Edited by Tan Wangyu
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