The song has an aftertaste that cannot be sung

【Editor's Note】"Yu Zhijian's Original Song Collection (continued)" is completed before the festival, and this article is the preface to the book.

Greeting the God of Wealth on the fifth day of the first year, I wish my friends good luck in the Year of the Tiger!

The song has an aftertaste that cannot be sung

Wang Dan

The beauty of Huangshan Mountain is shaped by external nature; the beauty of Huizhou is contained in the inner humanities. Huizhou people love to read and enjoy music, and have been deeply immersed in Confucian culture since ancient times. The Ming Dynasty pianist Wang Zhi edited "Xilutang Qintuo", which became one of the three most important collections of piano scores in Chinese history; Wang Daokun, a famous anti-Wu general and opera master, created "Dayatang Lefu", which profoundly influenced the development direction of miscellaneous opera in later generations; and Wang Yuting, a modern musician, compiled the "Wang Yuting Pipa Notation" and passed down to the world, forming an important Wang Pai pipa. Huizhou people believe in filial piety and poetry, and this first good thing is reading. Those who have achieved success in learning, written books and lectures, and passed on the torch are the fine traditions that Huizhou readers have always had.

Mr. Yu Zhijian is such an authentic Huizhou person. In 2016, "Yu Zhijian's Original Song Collection" was released. In the history of Huizhou, this is the first original song collection, which has special benchmarking significance. Today, he will publish a second collection of original songs, hundreds of new works, which is the result of hard work and unremitting efforts in the past five years, and it is not easy to produce, high efficiency and high quality.

Mr. Yu is not a professional songwriter, and his full devotion to songwriting is only a matter of nearly a decade after retirement. He is a "veteran" on the cultural front, and has been engaged in cultural-related work all his life. In his early years, he worked in the Huizhou Regional Cultural and Labor Troupe as a vocal actor, "with a good image, a rounded character, a thick timbre, and a good resonance cavity", with a solid professional foundation; later transferred to Huangshan (Huizhou) Television Station, from announcer to station director, honed in multiple positions, and practiced a unique perspective of journalism skills. The TV essay "Huangshan Guan Waterfall Building Reverie" won the first prize of the National Television Poetry Essay. Later, he was transferred to the deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the Huangshan Municipal Party Committee. During his work, Mr. Yu has already begun to compose songs, and works such as "May, the Most Beautiful Season in Huangshan Mountain" and "Unforgettable Instructions" have received good social responses. After retiring in 2010, he became the vice president of Huangshan University for the Elderly, and has been immersed in songwriting ever since. As the saying goes, doing a line is tired of a line, but he always does a line of love, drill a line into a line, this spirit is precious. I think it is precisely because of this that he has gradually trained from an ordinary vocal actor at the grassroots level to a leading cadre of party members, and has become an expert figure in the press circles of Huangshan City. Today, Mr. Yu has achieved such fruitful results in songwriting, which is deeply surprising at first glance, and it is reasonable to think about it.

Known as huizhou people, they are known for their diligence and tenacity. Poor and strong, do not fall into the ambition of Qingyun, the name "Zhijian" itself pinned on the ardent hopes of parents. Mr. Yu was born in Xiuning, Huizhou, to a family of scholars in China's first County. His father is a Chinese teacher at Xiuning Middle School, his mother is a primary school teacher, he is the eldest son, and he has three younger brothers and sisters, and a family of six. However, in the era of the national movement, his father was mistakenly labeled "rightist" "because of the apportionment of indicators", and died two years later in the labor camp, when he was only 10 years old. Later, he went to junior high school, but in 1966, he caught up with the Cultural Revolution, and as a student of the "third class of junior high school", he went to the mountains and went to the countryside to become a young intellectual, and has since left his beloved campus. In 1970, he applied for the Huizhou Regional Cultural and Labor Troupe, and although the vocal conditions were very good, he could not be admitted due to family reasons. Fortunately, a door was closed and a window was opened, and as a "child who can be educated", he was recruited into the Xiuning County Cultural and Labor Troupe, and the cultural journey began, which is also a blessing in misfortune. The opportunity was not easy to come by, so he cherished it, and every step he took since then, he walked exceptionally solidly and steadily.

In order to make up for the lifelong regret of losing the opportunity to study in middle school, Mr. Yu went to the University of Electricity after working. "Because of my obsession with singing", my graduation thesis started from the perspective of combining philosophy and vocal music, and wrote "Guiding Singing with Materialistic Dialectics", which deeply explored the theory and practice of singing. Since then, no matter how busy his work is, his study and research of music has not been interrupted, and after his retirement, he has written a music thesis - "Balance, Jin Tielin's Golden Key to Open the Door of Singing for Us". This article is in line with its graduation thesis of the University of Electricity and Electricity, and still explores the academic issue of how to grasp the balance and achieve the best singing effect from the perspective of philosophy, from the antithesis and unity of multiple groups of singing-related factors such as exhalation and inhalation, horizontal line and vertical line.

Songs can be lyrical or chanted. On the basis of singing, Mr. Yu also hopes to go further, to appeal to the pen of what he has seen, heard, thought and thought, and to turn his emotions into a flexible song to convey the love and positive energy in his heart. In order to write good songs, he taught himself composition theory and constantly honed it in practice. He learned the accordion in his youth and later taught himself the piano. The comprehensive literacy of all aspects, accumulation, superposition, collision, sublimation, trickle all converge into song creation, while playing and singing, repeated chanting and deliberation, with good sound and beautiful sound as the criterion, in order to polish the perfect work of water and milk in the mind.

Comparing the two song collections, it is not difficult for us to find Mr. Yu's unremitting efforts and progress. In the collection of new songs, the creative genre is more diverse, the share of choral works has increased significantly; the creative techniques are more skillful and refined, and the interest is more energetic and grounded, such as "Wandering in the Rain": "I am refreshed, I play an umbrella, wear slippers barefoot, and go out to hang out." The subject matter of the creation is more extensive, "The Great Wang Maoyin" praises the only Chinese mentioned in Marx's "Capital", and writes this Huizhou fellow into the song, which is estimated to be the first time in history.

As a native of Huizhou, the mountains and rivers, grass and trees, and one person and one thing in his hometown seem sparse and ordinary, but under the author's unique perspective, everything has become so affectionate and long, so interesting, and the length of singing hometown in the work is naturally very large. However, in the second song collection, there are obviously more works about Beijing. This is because after retirement, he needs to go to Beijing to take care of his little granddaughter, so he sneaks around and writes his new life into the song. Once, he took his child on a bus, and the flight attendant immediately stepped down from the ticket counter and helped find a seat while helping - "To be kind to the elderly is to be kind to yourself, and what you give up is not only a seat, but also a love." This sentence deeply touched the author, so he created the "Song of The Beijing All the Way Bus" and sent it to the motorcade to express his gratitude. The driver and crew were very surprised to receive such a song of their own, and everyone was the first time in their lives!

Mr. Yu is such a person. Knowing his background, I was curious and emotional. Teenagers are bumpy, or there are sad voices. However, throughout this song collection, whether it is lyrics or compositions, it is always a warm, bright tone, full of positive energy. "People who have survived the harsh winter know the warmth of spring. I love Huangshan deeply, I love my hometown deeply, and I devote myself to songwriting with a grateful heart", this is Mr. Yu's heartfelt words. Indeed, in his works, this warmth is everywhere. I was particularly touched by the fact that keeping my grief to myself and passing on the warmth to others is simple to say and not easy to do.

The lyrics of "My Pretty Wife" are half in the lyrics: "My pretty wife, I am happy all day." She invited a group of pretty dancers to dance and sing. The waist is not thin, the two sideburns have more white hair, but they can dance and swing the willow gracefully. Dancing place, happy songs, she danced youth to praise the hometown, praise the motherland. My pretty wife, like a flower, with a big smile tells me how happy she is. "My wife loves square dancing, especially folk dance, so Mr. Yu wrote this song for his lover and thousands of sisters who love square dancing. The brushstrokes are relaxed, witty, jumping, and outlined in three words, the charm of the dancers, the warmth of the family, and the love of the husband and wife have already come to the fore, which has deeply infected and touched the reader.

"Sunshine In Autumn" describes the joy of the harvest in the hometown in this way: "Sunbathing in autumn, drying autumn, spring sowing hope for autumn harvest, people who are sunbathing in autumn are drunk." The mountains are covered with layers of forest, and the maple leaves are fiery red. The autumn harvest in the field is busy, and the big cart is loaded with a small cart to push. The drying field is full of grains, and the front of the house is like a mountain pile. The dustpans were full of joy, and the bamboo plaques were spread out warmly. Wrapped in that emblem wind, and that emblem rhyme, the beauty of the autumn I depict, happy life sweet and beautiful. "Rural life is in nuance, and the joy jumps out on the paper. This work was rated as an excellent work in the Anhui Musicians Association's enhanced "four forces" education practice work and the provincial creation competition.

Mr. Yu is an all-rounder, composing, composing and singing in one piece. In his collection of songs, there is a part of the composition works for the songwriter. Among them, Mr. Jiang Zhiwei is a good partner for his cooperation. Mr. Jiang is the vice chairman of the Huangshan Writers Association, and lyrics such as "Love in Huangshan Mountain" and "Xin'anJiang in the Moonlight" are very distinctive. I like the song "Into the Peach Blossom Garden" that they cooperated with: "Peach Blossom Garden, Peach Blossom Garden, Peach Blossom Garden' Peach Blossom Blossom." Peach Blossom Garden, Peach Blossom Garden, the village girl of Peach Blossom Garden smiled sweetly. Peach Blossom Garden, Peach Blossom Garden, the mountain wind of Peach Blossom Garden is intoxicating. Peach blossom garden, peach blossom source, peach blossom source cooking smoke is the most entangled. Recently, at the invitation of the Balizhuang Choir in Beijing's Chaoyang District, they jointly wrote a song for the Winter Olympics, "We Are the Beijing Winter Olympic Cheerleaders", which has now completed the choral recording and will soon be broadcast on Beijing Television.

Huizhou architecture, Dewa white wall, hidden between green mountains and green water, the color is idyllic and simple, but the Huizhou people full of books are full of different passion and enthusiasm. Reading this song collection, a touch of sunshine warms the heart, a touch of green clear eyes, although I am not from Huizhou, I am willing to sing for Huizhou with the beat.

Written on December 30, 2021

About the Author

In his early years, Yu Zhijian was a vocal actor in the Huizhou Regional Cultural and Labor Troupe. Later, he worked at Huangshan (Huizhou) Television Station, successively serving as an announcer, reporter, director of the Information Department, and director of the Station, and then transferred to the deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the Huangshan Municipal Party Committee and the director of the Municipal Foreign Propaganda Office. After his retirement, he served as vice president of the Municipal University for the Elderly.

Wang Danzi Zilu. Senior statistician, editor-in-chief of The WeChat public welfare platform of Anhui Music, the fourth generation of the Qinjia and Mei'an Qin sect, known as the "Camel of the Emblem of the Qintan".