"The Illuminated Mountains and Rivers"

【The Ninth Batch of New Songs on the Theme of "Chinese Dream" (8)】

In 1986, the field came to Shenzhen from his hometown of Hunan. So far, he has worked hard in this hot land of strivers for 35 years and has created a large number of songs that reflect the spiritual outlook of the SAR people.

Last year marked the 40th anniversary of the establishment of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone. Shenzhen's music industry and the special zone have grown together, not only "The Story of Spring", "Into a New Era", "Under the Brilliant Sunshine", "Towards Rejuvenation", "The Flag Fluttering in the Wind", "Heavenly Glory of China" and other main melody songs, as well as "Mary", "Late Autumn", "Above the Moon", "Lilac" and other popular songs.

Among the "40 Songs of Shenzhen Original Songs in 40 Years" selected by the Shenzhen Music Association, there are 7 songwriters such as "I Belong to China", "South of the South", "Love in the Distant Mountains", "There is a Mountain in the South", "See Xibaipo Again", "Representing the People", "Yearning" and other 7 songs. These songs are not only a vivid portrayal of "Shenzhen Speed", but also witness the process of Tian Di growing from a "deep drift" to a well-known lyricist.

Building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way is a great achievement made by the party in leading the people to shake the past and the present. There are already many songs praising the achievements of the party and the state, especially many of which write about the sunny mountains and rivers and the earth. Tian Di wanted to go his own way and write about the China of the night.

Looking back at the party's century-old struggle road, in the field's mind, two old objects such as horse lanterns and torches often appear. When he collected wind in the old revolutionary areas, he often saw horse lanterns and torches, which once illuminated the way forward for the revolutionary pioneers. Today, as the elders wished, the city and the countryside are illuminated at night, and on the night of the grand festival, beautiful fireworks illuminate the night sky. Isn't China in the midst of these ten thousand lights coming from the horse lanterns and torches step by step?

The lyrics can't be all-encompassing, and the field has chosen a few points to show today's prosperity. "The streets and alleys of the city", "the villages of the distant mountains", "the sails of the ships returning to the port", he believes that the light and fire in these places are the most human fireworks.

Like a master of Chinese painting, Tian Di is good at writing songs and leaving blanks, he just "jumps to write a few points" of the lamp, "let people think of other places that are not written". "Dreaming of footsteps and staggering under the moon" is both real and imaginary, which is deeply rooted in the beauty of the old style poetry. "The mountains and rivers of thousands of miles with lights" are like the grand artistic conception of large-scale landscape paintings. The little light of the horse lanterns and torches finally converged into the brilliant lights of the "rolling mountains and rivers". Composer Shu Nan's song "youth, rhythm, fashion" is very popular with young people. On the stage of the 2021 CCTV Spring Festival Gala, "China in the Lights" performed by Zhang Ye and Zhou Shen became one of the audience's favorite songs. In the past few months, the song has triggered a "whole network homework" style song boom in major music colleges across the country, and the number of online hits of the song has reached hundreds of millions of times.

(Reporter Guo Chao)