Wang Xiaoling: It is not accidental that the clever hand is accidental

Source: Guangming Network - Guangming Daily

【Approaching the Writers】

Guangming Daily reporter Guo Chao

At the same age as the Republic, he has been an artist for nearly half a century, and can write music works that lead the trend of the times in almost every period. Musical works such as "Three Singing Zhou Premiers" and "The Man Who Became a Soldier" have been sung continuously, and operas and dance dramas such as "Yimeng Mountain" written by him have been continuously staged. On the basis of adhering to his own style, he advocated that songwriters should absorb the strengths of others.

"There is a charming view in the distance, feel free to paint. The flying heart, the multicolored dream, lit up the morning glow. Recently, a youthful, enthusiastic song has become popular on the Internet. This is "A New Journey To Go", written by Wang Xiaoling, composed by Meng Wenhao, and sung by Yunfei. Although Wang Xiaoling has exceeded the ancient rarity, the lyrics of his writing are not only not twilight, but also full of youth and close to the times.

Wang Xiaoling recently took a bright picture

A white hair stubbornly grows upwards, feet often wear a pair of old Beijing cloth shoes, Wang Xiaoling does not like to spend more time on dressing, just be comfortable. He always had to answer reporters' questions. Talking about the past of the music world, Wang Xiaoling's voice is full of emotion, and when it comes to emotion, his eyebrows will be slightly raised. When it comes to the development of popular songs, the head is the Tao, which makes many young people feel ashamed of themselves.

In the spring of 1949, the Party Central Committee advanced from Xibaipo to Beiping. Among the large troops that followed the footsteps of the party Central Committee into Beijing to "catch up with the examinations, there was a special literary and artistic contingent -- the Anti-Enemy Drama Society of the Political Department of the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region. Ding Li, Du Feng, Hu Ke, Tian Hua, He Chi, Zhong Yitang and other literary and art celebrities are all members of the Anti-Enemy Drama Society. Among this well-known literary and artistic team is a young couple, Wang Yinlong and Liu Wei. At this time, Liu Wei was already pregnant with Liujia. At dawn one day, the cry of a baby boy pierced the silent night sky. The parents looked at the hazy mountains at dawn and named the baby boy Wang Xiaoling.

Wang Xiaoling, who is the same age as the Republic, is destined to be associated with music. His father, Wang Yinlong, was a composer, the former head of the Comrades-in-Arms Song and Dance Troupe of the Political Department of the Beijing Military Region, and his mother, Liu Wei, was the first generation of female lyricists of the People's Liberation Army.

Wang Xiaoling's teenage memories were filled with the whistle of pigeons and the loud military trumpets of the army compound. "It was a clear morning, and the whistle of the pigeons was accompanied by the sound of the wake-up call. But the world is not peaceful, and there are turbulences in peacetime. Years later, the lyrics he wrote in "When the Day Comes" are the silhouettes of his youth. Wang Xiaoling's lyrics emphasize the brewing and immersion, paying attention to the first sentence of the opening to grab people first, and from this lyric that has been brewing for decades, it can be seen that his lyrics skills are deep.

In April 1969, Wang Xiaoling went to Shanxi to serve as a soldier. One night, while standing guard, Wang Xiaoling looked at the moon in the sky, and a military poem surged in his chest. After writing it, he sent the poem to his mother in Beijing. This slightly immature poem "Standing at the Outpost and Looking at Beijing" was seen by Shi Xiang, the lyricist of "The Fifteenth Moon". Shi Xiang thought that his widow was teachable, and changed the first two sentences to "the geese from the south, the wind from the north, standing at the outpost looking at Beijing." How the original poem began, Wang Xiaoling has long forgotten, but he always remembers Shi Xiang's polishing.

Her mother's solid style of creation has benefited Wang Xiaoling for life. "Her style of words is very simple, basically no adjectives, it is the vernacular of the warriors." For example, in "Seeing You Extra Dear", "Eating is a pot of rice, lighting a lamp of oil", "Walking on the training ground" in "One day without touching the gun, the hand itches." A shot is not aimed, and the meal is not fragrant", there is no flowery rhetoric, all distilled from the language of the warrior.

In 1977, Wang Xiaoling's lyrics "Three Singing Zhou Premiers" was sung by Han Zhiping, and he also became a well-known lyricist. Zheng Yuanjie, who worked in the air force as a ground crew, was a friend of Wang Xiaoling's. After demobilization, Zheng Yuanjie wrote a song "Song of the Ground Soldier". After the lyrics were written, he gave them to Wang Xiaoling, who was a songwriter in the General Political And Military Orchestra. Wang Xiaoling thought it was well written and recommended it to the editorial department of "People's Liberation Army Song". Soon, the lyrics were published in lyrics, the internal issue of the People's Liberation Army Song. To celebrate, Wang Xiaoling invited Zheng Yuanjie to a meal at a Moscow restaurant in Beijing. More than 20 years later, when Zheng Yuanjie learned that Wang Xiaoling wanted to publish an anthology of lyrics, he offered to publish and preface it for him, and the cost of publication came from his own writing fee. He invited Wang Xiaoling to eat at the old place. Their friendship between gentlemen across the ages has achieved a good story in the literary world.

With the spring breeze of reform and opening up, Hong Kong and Taiwan pop songs have become popular on the mainland, while mainland pop music is still in the bud.

In October 1984, CCTV broadcast a special song called "Kyushu Fangyuan" to present the achievements of reform and opening up through music. To this end, in the spring of 1984, Wang Xiaoling came to Shenzhen, the window of reform and opening up. The scene of taking a taxi to shenzhen at night was written by Wang Xiaoling into "Night Shade": "The evening wind blows, how refreshing, the night in Shenzhen is gorgeous and bright." People who come to Shenzhen from all over the world to work hard have become the protagonists of "Wind and Rain": "Today you go on a long journey, it is the wind and rain that are thick, the mountains and rivers are uneven, may you take care of yourself." ”

After the program was broadcast, "Wind and Rain", "Night Shade" and so on immediately spread throughout the streets, and "Wait until this day next year" also became the ending song of many evenings.

On August 1, 1994, a party called "Colorful SandBox" was broadcast on CCTV. Wang Xiaoling's "Soldier Man" created for the party became popular overnight.

"The Man Who Became a Soldier" was inspired by what Wang Xiaoling saw on the front line eight years ago. "I spent half a year in the cat's ear hole, followed the performance team to send the soldiers out on the battlefield, and witnessed their sacrifices." In peacetime, where is the value of soldiers? Are soldiers and ordinary people the same or different? The questions that Wang Xiaoling put forward to himself are also the questions of the times. Wang Xiaoling used lyrics to show that soldiers and ordinary people are "the same" flesh and blood, will miss their hometown and miss their parents, they are "different" from the people, and they also shoulder the heavy responsibility of defending their families and defending the country. "In peacetime, soldiers are still the most lovely people, and the motherland is still inseparable from the dedication of soldiers." "The Man Who Became a Soldier" was sung into the hearts of the soldiers, and Wang Xiaoling was also known as "the most beautiful lyricist in the hearts of the soldiers".

Over the years, Wang Xiaoling has been the chief writer and literary coordinator of major national literary and artistic performances such as "Struggle for the Sons and Daughters of China" and "The Great Journey" several times. Opera and dance dramas such as "Yimeng Mountain", "Yanling Team" and "Dream of the Red Chamber" written by him are constantly staged. At the same time, Wang Xiaoling is also very concerned about the music of young people. Through Teresa Teng's songs, he became acquainted with the lyricist Zhuang Nu. Through Jay Chou's songs, he met the lyricist Fang Wenshan. Whether it is the beauty of Zhuang Nu or the elegance of Fang Wenshan, he appreciates it very much. He said: "Literature is not a gun, it is not a machine gun that comes with a soil gun." On the basis of adhering to his own style, he advocated that songwriters should widely absorb the strengths of others.

While some experts reject certain popular songs, Wang Xiaoling is analyzing why these songs are popular. He relished the suspense of "Nanshan South" and the literary means of breaking the usual thinking. He praised the poet Ouyang Jianghe's cross-border song writing. He believes that the reason why "The Shepherd of the Cocoto Sea", "Mohe Ballroom", "Wanjiang" and so on are liked by everyone is because the songs contain emotional power.

"The world laments the difficulty of creativity, and the clever hand is not accidental. Shan Shan lights thousands of degrees, Bishu West windbreaker bandwidth. In the book "Lyrics Gate - How to Write Lyrics", Wang Xiaoling, who is well versed in the creation of Samadhi, said so.

Guangming Daily ( 2022-05-04 05 edition)