"You say you love lilacs the most because your name is it, what a melancholy flower, a sentimental person." This 2002 song "Lilac" sung all over the streets can be said to be a childhood memory of the post-80s and post-90s, and in people's impressions, it is a catchy love song, always with seven points of melancholy and three points of poignancy.
In 2004, "Lilac Flower" won the 12th Oriental Wind and Cloud Chart "Chantri Night" Top Ten Golden Melody Award, and Gao Xiaosong also personally participated in the production, he himself also said that it is a very happy thing to participate in the production of such an excellent album.
But in fact, behind the infinite scenery of this song is a real love story, when we hum its moving tune, open the mobile phone to play the pleasure of satisfying the brain nerves, we do not know that behind it is really a metaphor for a living life.
01 With a musical dream, he became the first generation of Internet celebrities
In many Chinese film and television dramas and literary works, the love of young plum bamboo horses is praised as a good story, and people are eager to "win the hearts of one's hearts, and the white heads are not separated." ”
The same is true of Tang Lei, the author of "Lilac", but the difference is that he is a big boy with great musical talent and sensibility, and love has become his best source of inspiration.
"I didn't know what color the lilacs were, and there wasn't anyone in our dormitory, so I knocked on the door of the dormitory next to me and asked the classmate who was on the top bunk."
In 1998, when tang lei was 20 years old, he was still in college in Jinan, because he liked music since he was a child, so even if his major was computer, he never gave up his hobby.
At that time, he and his classmates formed a "balcony band", he was the lead singer, and at the same time he was the lyricist of the band.
At that time, it was not as convenient as online media now, but for them who like music, this is already the biggest shortcut that Tang Lei can find.
At noon in the middle of a summer, the weather was so hot that it was irritating, and Tang Lei just wanted to write about lilacs, but he hadn't seen them, so he was distressed. At that time, his classmates were not there, so he ran to the next dormitory.
"Purple."
The classmate told Tang Lei that the lilacs were purple, and after learning about it, Tang Lei went back to the dormitory to prepare.
"I wrote this song together, the lyrics were all in one go, I didn't write the song first and then fill in the words like this, no."
At that time, the inspiration in Tang Lei's mind did not allow him to have a gap of time, so with a heart full of good wishes, he wrote this "Lilac Flower", but it was not sent out at the first time.
Later, he went to Shenzhen to work, as an IT he had many opportunities to contact the computer, in that era, the only way to listen to music and share with each other was MP3 and QQ.
So in 2002, one day in his spare time, he passed the song to QQ and shared some friends, but he did not expect that he would become famous in this way.
"Later, many people listened, many people said they liked it, but they didn't expect to become the first generation of Internet celebrities, and that era could really be said to be the first generation of Internet celebrities."
As described in Zhou Dunyi's "Love Lotus Saying": "Jin Tao Yuanming loves chrysanthemums alone, since Li Tang came, the world loves peonies very much." ”
When you want to express your love, there are bright red blood roses on the street, and when you want to give them to your lover, there are lilies that look gentle and lovely, but the lilacs suddenly enter the public eye in this way.
At this time, Tang Lei's "unique taste" instantly set off a lilac fever, and also made this song popular overnight.
"The flowers bloom in front of the grave, how beautiful you long for."
Fresh and beautiful lilac flowers, coupled with the pure love of just out of the campus, while playing the music to the greatest humanization, but also showing the humanistic care in the song to the extreme, it can be said that Tang Lei's talent has undoubtedly been deeply recognized by the public.
The flower language of lilac flowers has waiting for love, the glory of heaven, sorrow and longing, happy youth, etc., so at that time, Tang Lei's "Lilac Flower", as if the lilac flower immediately became the representative of the "light sorrow" of that era, pinning people's infinite thoughts at the same time, but also let the listener empathize and spit out their regrets.
So, why can Tang Lei, a young boy, write such a poignant and extremely sad and empathetic song, is it just a coincidence? Is he inherently sentimental and delicate?
No, this song is meant to commemorate a girl who died unexpectedly in a car accident.
02 The basis of true love is the truth, the love story behind the song
Flowers can express a variety of emotions, and although 20 years have passed, we will still be touched to hear the song "Lilac Flower".
Therefore, since the lilac fire, many people have also begun to speculate about the story behind this song, whether Tang Lei has experienced life and death, or was abandoned by his first love.
The most eye-catching rumor is a girl named Zeng Mengjie, she was weak and sick since she was a child, and later met Tang Lei and fell in love, but finally died of an accidental car accident, Tang Lei was very sad to write "Lilac Flower", the purpose is to commemorate her, but this is purely a rumor.
"This song is actually to commemorate the girlfriend of a good friend of mine, she died unexpectedly in a car accident, my friend was very sad, I have feelings, with lilac flowers to express sadness, but also to remind everyone to cherish the people in front of you, cherish everything you have now, has nothing to do with me, and it did not happen to me." 」
It is not false that a young girl died in a car accident, but it has nothing to do with Tang Lei.
"It was all made up on the Internet, and I actually didn't know the girl, I didn't know her name, and she did die unexpectedly, and I regret knowing her in this way."
The fact is that Tang Lei has a very good friend named Lei Jing when he was young, Lei Jing and his girlfriend are university alumni, studying in the Chinese Department, but the girlfriend is his sister who is one year older than him, but because this girl not only has very good grades, but also has a cheerful personality and looks beautiful, so Lei Jing quickly heard about her.
Coincidentally, at that time, Lei Jing participated in the school newspaper reporter club in the school, and it happened that this outstanding student sister was also there, and Lei Jing was moved the moment he saw her.
He felt that this girl was young and beautiful and had a very deep connotation, and was also very popular in the school club, like the stars holding the moon, so he decided to fight for himself.
Later, after unremitting efforts, Lei Jing finally embraced the beauty, the two people were very affectionate, almost every day together in class, go to the library together, out of the double is very sweet, is the school's famous golden boy and jade girl.
Lei Jing thought that such a life would last a lifetime, and they also planned to get married after graduating from college, but Tian's jealous face, on the way home from a vacation in his girlfriend, a sudden car accident took the life of this proud daughter of heaven, spending the same age, she died after rescue.
Since then, Lei Jing has lived in the dark every day, and an originally lively and active teenager has begun to become taciturn, and he washes his face with tears every day, wondering why he did not protect his girlfriend.
Later, Lei Jing, who was deeply in pain, wrote a song in honor of his beloved girlfriend: "My pain is so deep, your appearance is so true, but with the passage of time, you have been deeply burned into my soul." ”
Therefore, looking at his friend's daily loss of soul and liver and intestines, Tang Lei was very unbearable, although he did not know this girl who died of incense, he felt sorry for this young life, and also understood that life was fragile, but love was priceless.
During that time, Tang Lei had been with Lei Jing, and while he was trying to enlighten Lei Jing, he listened to Lei Jing read the song he had written, and later, Tang Lei suddenly had an idea.
"He really wanted to share his girlfriend's story, and I felt that this thought was particularly heavy and precious, so I wanted to write a song and share it to tell everyone to cherish life and cherish the people in front of them."
That is to say, with this original intention, Tang Lei expressed his nostalgia for the deceased with the title of "Lilac Flower".
"We will encounter too many people and things in our lives, and we will also encounter too many memories and feelings that are difficult to give up, and I wrote this song including its story, which is actually just a microcosm of our long life, death does not mean the end, but forgetting, it is really over." 」
In Tang Lei's heart, the painful nostalgia of a good friend is the most precious thing in the world, and it is also the basis for the infinite continuation of this feeling.
Although the girl's life is terminated, in Lei Jing's heart she has always been there, and their love will continue in each other's hearts, which is the true meaning of time and life.
I believe that this is also the appearance of love, goodness and beauty in Tang Lei's heart.
03 Now fade away the "jianghu", just like lilacs
In this way, after the song "Lilac Flower" turned out, it also pushed Tang Lei's life to an unattainable height, and later he not only released an album, but also specially published a 100,000-word youth novel "Lilac Flower".
Only after that, Tang Lei seemed to have stopped moving, "Lilac" was his peak, but it was also the cage that imprisoned him.
Even today, twenty years later, whenever Tang Lei is invited to participate in the event, he still can't escape the fate of being asked to sing "Lilac Flower", which also shows that some of the songs he later composed are more unremarkable.
For Tang Lei, music is something he loves, it is his dream, as long as he has been sticking to the road, he feels very at ease.
Today, he has never given up on music creation, and in the same way as the gentle and romantic style of "Lilacs", his depiction of realism has formed his unique style.
From an amateur singer to a professional singer and composer, Tang Lei's way is to rely on "love music" to insist, his fans may not be the most, but absolutely the most loyal.
A few years ago, he returned to his alma mater as an associate professor at the Conservatory of Music, and even when he got off the stage, he still accompanied music, and today, he is just an ordinary music teacher, but also a successful dreamer.
Even after twenty years, Lei Jing would visit the "Lilac Girl" every year, carrying a bouquet of her favorite lilac flowers in his hand.
In front of the modern tombstone, there is no condition to "bloom full of lilacs" as in the song, because it is not allowed to be planted, but the flowers that Lei Jing insists on sending can still bloom all over the mountains.
It is said that time is the best elixir to heal pain, but in the end, it depends on what kind of pain it is, and some pains will only accumulate deeper and deeper with the passage of time, such as Lei Jing's thoughts.
Tang Lei used his love and sensibility to bring the world "Lilac Flower", and even more with his innocence and kindness to warn us to cherish everything.
There is a real friendship between him and Lei Jing, although Tang Lei has long passed the age of confusion, his original intention will never change, and their friendship has not changed.
It is said that reminiscing is like a year of water, but there are not many people who really remember with their hearts, and learning to remember all the pain, injustice, and even shame can make us better progress, of course, including pure love, and spotless sincerity.
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