At the end of 2019, a website that "focuses on youth culture" held a New Year's Eve party.
Unlike most galas that invite stars to rush the flow, this party successfully went out of the circle with a Chinese music master and a symphony orchestra.
The Guole master is named Fang Jinlong, who has white hair, is about to run six, wears a modified version of zhongshan suit, and the website 'young culture' label seems to have nothing to do with it.
But he was the performer who gained the most knees of netizens in the party, soaring 600,000 fans overnight, and website users also invited this crane hair master to settle in with "100,000 fan blood books".
What is the magic of Fang Jinlong, just by virtue of a party performance, it conquered the hearts of netizens?
时间拉回2019年末，某站跨年演唱会，节目开场，方锦龙怀抱琵琶，和虚拟歌手洛天依，贡献了一场突破次壁元的弹唱。
Subsequently, he played dozens of instruments in one breath, including erhu, zhongruan, shakuhachi, bone flute, Okinawa shamisen, sawqin and other unpopular Instruments in China and the West.
The most amazing thing is that the performance of these dozens of instruments, the "Ten Faces Ambush", "General Order", "Laughing Pride", "Contra", "Oh Susanna", "The Godfather" theme song, "I play in the northeast mud" and other types of music are skewered together, interspersed with network divine songs, rock music, etc., with the "way talk show" commentary, the whole process is completed in one go, and the mixing and matching is amazing: can the instrument playing still play like this?
Immediately after, Fang Jinlong suddenly put down the instrument and slapped his face, and the sound of "meowing" with different heights actually complemented the rhythm of the orchestra, which once again stunned all the audience, and the bullet screen area was brushed by the "humanoid instrument" in a moment.
Overnight, the "whole high-energy" Fang Jinlong, with the Chinese music out of the circle quickly, countless netizens N brush replay video, addicted to it can not extricate themselves, marvel at the instrument playing, the original has such a charm.
After Fang Jinlong soared 600,000 fans overnight, he hit the iron while it was hot and frequently appeared on variety shows.
He took instruments that netizens were not familiar with, and with his "net red" playing form, he left a deep impression on the audience.
In particular, the five-string lute in his hand, he once used it to simulate 18 kinds of instrument sounds such as electric guitar, and won the title of "Pipa Essence" in one fell swoop.
Fang Jinlong also cooperated with the Huaxia Ancient Orchestra, using dozens of instruments, adapting and skewering traditional repertoire, opera repertoire, and popular songs, and when playing in the spring evening in Henan, he "randomly" entered the background music of the landlord in it, which can be called a stroke of God, allowing the audience to instantly cross and truly feel the joy of "Passing the New Year".
Since then, every time Fang Jinlong makes an appearance, he will attract "Magnificent Chinese Music!" With his unique creative choreography, he let The Chinese Music enter the audience's vision with a new look, and grabbed people's eyeballs, and was considered to be the well-deserved "King of The Great Joy".
However, innovation is always accompanied by doubts and controversies, although Fang Jinlong has set off a wave of Chinese music boom, but under the fame of "National Music Internet Celebrity", there are more and more doubts.
What is Guole?
It usually refers to court performances and music at the national level, including nationally inherent and traditional music, which is mainly used in celebrations and sacrifices.
Such a solemn literary and artistic repertoire, but Fang Jinlong let it be skewered with pop music and Internet divine comedy, is it appropriate in the end?
It is said that Fang Jinlong can play more than 300 kinds of instruments, is it not bo but not refined? Each time the skewer choreography, is it a routine showmanship?
Fang Jinlong is also in the variety show, for the traffic student Ren Jialun, accompanied by "Pipa Line", the master of Tangtang Chinese music, is it too self-degrading?
Has Fang Jinlong's behavior of attracting young audiences with internet divine comedy, explosive animation theme song, and pop music, and pleasing netizens in order to go out of the circle, changed the essence of Chinese music?
Playing more than 10 kinds of instruments in one go, and most of them are unpopular, is Fang Jinlong just for show?
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In the face of all kinds of controversy, Fang Jinlong did not care much, the more controversial, the more excited he was: "There will be controversy if there is attention, young people have noticed me and Guole, it seems that this road is right!" ”
As the saying goes: one minute on stage, ten years offstage.
No one knows that in order to make Guole walk into the eyes of the majority of young people, Fang Jinlong has worked hard for decades.
From the age of 25, he gave up the fame and fortune of pop music, and when he returned to folk music, he made up his mind that historical folk music should not only be inherited, but also attract more young blood to join.
Born in 1963 in Anqing City to a family of plucked musicians, Fang Jinlong learned to play more than 10 traditional instruments when he graduated from elementary school.
Later, because of mistakes, he was not admitted to the troupe, and finally practiced hard, and at the age of 15, he joined one of the four major families of Chinese national music - the avant-garde Chinese Orchestra.
Since the age of 18, Fang Jinlong has accompanied the orchestra to perform in various countries in the world, and has also shared the stage with the world's top musicians many times, he has conquered foreign artists with Chinese folk music, and has also been conquered by foreign music culture.
Fang Jinlong in the collection at the same time, but also as far as possible to learn to understand a variety of instruments, in the accumulation of time, he can play more and more instruments, after the popularity, his fans of the Verl Track: "Everyone don't make a fuss, in fact, Teacher Fang can only play, all the instruments that can make a sound!" ”
However, he can play a variety of folk instruments, and he almost changed careers, running to compose and sing pop music.
In 1988, 25-year-old Fang Jinlong went south to Guangzhou, when Guangzhou's pop music industry was developing and rising, he was a young man, he was also fascinated by Hong Kong and Taiwan pop music, in curiosity, chasing fashion, dyeing his hair, wearing flared pants, learning to sing pop songs by Hong Kong and Taiwan stars...
Although he did not have a great reputation, he also received a lot of applause on the stage, if he insisted on it, perhaps with his musical achievements, he would become a famous pop singer, fame and fortune.
But after the initial freshness passed, Fang Jinlong began to get confused, always feeling that if he continued to sing, everything he had learned in the first 20 years would lose its meaning.
Thinking of the folk musical instruments he had learned since he was a child, and thinking of his love for various folk instruments in the world, Fang Jinlong suddenly found that no matter how good pop music was, in his bones, he preferred folk music.
Young people are hungry for fame and fortune, but "if I throw it away and our generation doesn't pass it on, we will become sinners of history." ”
Without hesitation, Fang Jinlong, who had tried pop music, returned to folk music that was not mainstream.
Thanks to this experience of entering pop music, Fang Jinlong found a breakthrough in the exploration of the inheritance of Chinese music.
Why is it easier to spread pop music, internet divine comedy, etc. than Chinese music?
The answer given by Fang Jinlong: "It is because the Chinese music is high and low." ”
Chinese music condenses the musical wisdom of human beings in traditional history, and pop music and network divine comedy must be in line with the current environment or the status quo.
But the two have one thing in common - the meaning of music's existence is to resonate with people's spirits.
If this is the case, then why can't Guole use the current popular form to attract the audience and enter the crowd?
Fang Jinlong has always held an open and inclusive attitude, never rejecting various types of music, after summarizing, he believes that the focus of the inheritance of Chinese music is to be accepted and paid attention to by most people, so "music must be grounded and music with the people." ”
Before The B station became popular, in the past few decades, Fang Jinlong has released more than forty solo albums, including concertos, solo pieces, traditional repertoire, etc., but it is far less popular than today because of an innovative form of the party.
Give traffic accompaniment, skewer different types of music, add talk shows to the performance, play more than ten instruments in one breath... Whether praised or questioned, for Fang Jinlong, it is not important, the key is to attract more people's attention, greatly improving the exposure and popularity of Guole, which is one of the goals that Fang Jinlong wants to achieve.
After all, the inheritance of history, the main force should be young people, and only by understanding what young people like can we attract them to understand and inherit.
Just like the Huaxia Ancient Orchestra, after cooperating with Fang Jinlong, it attracted more audiences, and now the performance tickets have been full, and there is a situation where it is difficult to find a ticket - questioning or controversy, in Fang Jinlong's heart: "As long as it is beneficial to the promotion of traditional culture, it is worth it!" ”
Fang Jinlong also said that the "show" of Chinese music and the show of musical instruments are deliberately done by himself, because the effect he wants is that while the audience appreciates the performance, it can cause doubts -
Why do these people have to play on their knees?
What instrument is the bone flute he plays?
Why do you wear finger covers?
"You have to let everyone listen little by little, and you have to listen with questions, and when you are happy to listen, you want to listen, and it is gone!" This is the interesting Chinese music! ”
Someone always asks," how do you evaluate Fang Jinlong?" "How is Fang Jinlong's level?"
There was no shortage of praise and reverence in the answer, as well as words of doubt and derogatory.
But it is undeniable that Fang Jinlong was able to go out of the circle at the age of 58 "advanced age" in the website where young people gathered, and the fire was risen, proving that many young people like his creative and eclectic performances.
As Fang Jinlong said: "The music of music and the music of happiness are the same." ”
Once solemn and serious learning, to this day, more respect for "happy learning".
Then the same solemn and serious Chinese music, to inherit the revival, of course, can also change the form, penetrate into the present.
Knowledge that has no practical significance is bound to wither.
Fang Jinlong knows that if traditional music is always high and low, it will only be shelved, and what is the inheritance?
No matter how the outside world judges his popularity and how to question his level, he always remembers: whether it is an Internet celebrity or a master, the first thing to do is to play for the people.
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Edit | Daniel Lee]
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