On November 8, 2021, a song "Lone Brave" sung by Eason Chan was popular all over the Internet, and the number of plays broke through 200 million that night. At the same time, a girl who has walked on the road of anti-cancer for 10 years, Tang Tian, has also entered the public eye, and she is the lyricist of this song. 10 years ago, she and Eason Chan made a ten-year contract.
Mistakenly hit and bumped into a "nameless person" in the entertainment industry
In 2004, Tang Tian, a post-80s Hunan girl who had just graduated, entered the entertainment channel of Hunan Television Station under the introduction of acquaintances and opened her first job. In the beginning, she was mainly responsible for writing promotional documents and communicating with the outside world.
After a few months, she learned things quickly because she was well written and capable of fighting. She was seconded to assist another teacher in making records, and at this opportunity, she began to get involved in the work of record production.
During that time, although life was plain, but doing the work he liked, Tang Tian did not feel bored, but full of energy and fun. However, the following year, she was pushed by life out of her original comfort zone, and it was this jump that made her indissoluble with the lyrics.
In 2005, the "Super Girl" program team brought a group of dream-chasing girls to the audience. From the audition to the promotion match after promotion, the audience followed one excellent girl after another to stand out. At that time, it was still voting through mobile phone text messages, a dime, and everyone was happy to cheer for the players they supported.
In June of the same year, the 22-year-old Tang Tian was transferred to the Beijing branch to be responsible for the recording of "Super Girl", and also shouldered the burden of selecting songs and writing lyrics for the contestants.
When he first changed the environment, Tang Tian could not adapt to living alone in a foreign land. In the face of new work content, environment, and colleagues, she stayed up for two months with sincere trepidation and finally found her original enthusiasm for work. The main thing is that this job is exactly what she expects, and she likes to stay with words.
Tang Tian has loved to write articles since she was in school, and she has written many novels and essays under the pseudonym "Ink ink". She expresses her inner world in words, recording everything she sees, hears, and imagines. But after work, she apparently didn't have the free time she had before to write long articles. So she took a different approach and began to write lyrics, because there were fewer lyrics.
It was clear that she was spiritual and that she was diligent. A "Note" was sung by Zhou Bichang, and that song "Sing Loudly" also became the youth memory of a generation. And Tang Tian, who wrote these songs, quietly entered the entertainment circle, and few people at that time could notice the line under the song title: "Composer: Tang Tian".
"Fate with ill-intentioned humor" bumped into her
Then in the next six years, she wrote the beautiful and moving "If Love" for Zhang Liangying, he Jie wrote the very infectious "You Must Be Happy", and also filled in the lyrics for Chen Kun, Zhou Xun and so on. At this time, her career is booming, and she does not know that fate is setting a big hurdle for her life.
On Chinese New Year's Eve night in 2012, a friend who helped me get my medical report called. On the phone, a friend who has always been grinning profusely said the results of the examination: nasopharyngeal cancer stage III.
Nasopharyngeal carcinoma is a tumor lesion that occurs in the nose and throat. Because the location rarely attracts attention, the early symptoms are not obvious, and after the general examination, 80% are in the advanced stage. The third stage of nasopharyngeal carcinoma is in the middle and advanced stages, and the survival rate is not high.
At this time, the family was eating Chinese New Year's Eve meal, and she did not dare to tell the news to her family. It was only after the soulless meal that he found a reason and went back to the room to collapse and cry. That night she looked up a lot of information about NASOPHARY and wrote a lot of wishes, the most important of which was: "I want to live through my parents." ”
Next, she returned to Beijing alone, used 5 days to arrange work, and went to the hospital for a comprehensive examination. By this time she hadn't told her parents she was sick. It wasn't until she was hospitalized for chemotherapy that she dared to tell her parents about her condition.
In two months, 2 rounds of chemotherapy, 33 times of radiation therapy, 8 times of targeting made her hair loss, oral ulceration, almost unable to drink water, let alone eat, in a short period of time let her directly lose 10 pounds. At the same time, she felt that her sense of smell and taste was gradually losing, but in order not to worry her parents, she did not tell them, but suffered in silence.
One day, she and her mother were wandering around the hospital garden. At this time, my mother took a deep breath and said, "The osmanthus flowers are all blooming, so fragrant." Tang Tian silently shrugged her nose and sniffed, but did not smell any smell, but she still echoed: "Yes, it is so fragrant." ”
The gradual disappearance of her senses seemed to be a countdown to her life.
"I want to write a song for Eason Chan"
With the slow decline of the sensory organs, Tang Tian had a sudden idea: I want to write a song for Eason Chan.
Hearing her daughter say this, Tang Tian's mother secretly hid in the stairwell of the hospital to wipe her tears. It is not that she did not pay attention to the abnormality of her daughter during this time, but her daughter did not want to worry herself, so she could only pretend not to know.
In May 2012, Tang Dad and Tang Mama decided to help their daughter realize their dreams after a discussion, and they secretly put their daughter on the stage of the "China Dream Show".
On the stage, Tang's mother choked up and recited "Honor" written by her daughter during her illness, which made her slow down and think, and also made her cherish every day even more.
In addition to her parents, she also has friends who have come all the way, grown up together, and experienced storms together. When she was sick, The first thing He Jie said to her was: "You don't have to worry about money, there is me." It was also she who accompanied Tang Tian and Tang's mother through that difficult time.
However, when Tang Dad and Tang Mama boarded the "China Dream Show" to realize her dreams, Eason Chan was touring outside, and there was no way to come to the scene, and there was no way to realize her dream for the time being.
A month later, at the annual ceremony of the "China Dream Show", Eason Chan connected tang Tian online: "You are a beautiful, strong and talented girl, I will not live up to your work, you have to cheer up!" ”
A few months later, on the same stage, Eason Chan and Tang Tian finally met for the first time. Eason Chan shook Tang Tian's hand and said repeatedly, "I hope you will wait for me and give me some more time." ”
It was the support of the people around her and her strong desire to survive that she survived the first five years of nasopharyngeal cancer, which was most likely to recur. As a result of this illness, her outlook on life changed.
Life goes on, turning a new chapter in life
Walking in front of the door of life and death, she used her own unique way to say goodbye to the past of fighting the disease: she threw away all her colorful clothes and began to prefer plain and solid colors.
Probably because she has seen the colors and pains of the world, she has been able to look at life with a peaceful state of mind. Along with this, her style of composition has changed.
The words she wrote have less of the sorrow and sorrow of the children's feelings, and more open-mindedness and freedom to face life calmly. Her words reduce the output of depression and add a few more healing colors.
Because she had experienced the darkness, she knew what it was like to walk alone at night. So, when she meets fellow travelers, she hopes to be able to express "I understand" through music. She knows how much comfort a person in the dark can feel when she hears a word of empathy.
Therefore, when she faced Yao Beina, who was also suffering from cancer, she could write, "We have loved to laugh and laugh, we have been defeated by time, fate has a malicious humor, I still remember, you desperately, holding me and letting me fall", with Yao Beina's eloquent and powerful singing, showing the strength and strength of a woman's treatment of feelings. But unfortunately, Yao Beina did not survive the torture of cancer cells. Before her death, Yao Beina offered to donate her cornea.
On January 16, 2015, Yao Beina passed away at the age of 34. Her pair of corneas help 3 patients with eye diseases to see the light again, and they will continue to look at this great river and mountain with her eyes.
If Tang Tian in the past was a brave and angry little girl, then after experiencing this life and death test, she paid more attention to her inner resonance. She said that after experiencing pain, she understood what pain looks like, and she understood the pain of others. So she learned to peel away from her emotions and learn to reach out more tentacles to soothe the hearts of others.
Someone is waiting for you in the future
After a long and difficult treatment, Tang Tian broke free from the shackles of fate, like a butterfly breaking through a cocoon. A song called "The Lone Brave" sings the determined appearance of walking in the dark night, after confronting despair.
Ten years of appointment, she finally waited for Eason Chan, and Eason Chan did not live up to the waiting of this decade. For Tang Tian, this song carries more than just a wish and an agreement.
More than that, it was the 60 days when she struggled with nasopharyngeal cancer, which was the most difficult 60 days, and the 60 days that allowed her to block the gun of destiny. Although she was embarrassed, in the end she did not bow to fate.
The release of the song "Lone Brave" coincided with the epidemic. Many people have matched it with realistic heroic pictures. Sanitation workers who raise brooms, fire fighters who sleep on the floor, border fighters who build a "Great Wall" on the frontier, medical personnel who stage the most beautiful retrograde under protective clothing, astronauts who travel in space, and you and I in the busy crowd. As the song goes, "Whoever says he who stands in the light is a hero!" ”
Later, her words became more and more warm and powerful, and a song "In the World" depicted a plain and warm life: accompanying her mother to grow old slowly, listening to her tell the story of her childhood. Not afraid of the years, not afraid of time, only willing to accompany you to imagine together, like a seed, a lifetime of sunshine.
A song called "Decent" tells men and women who are experiencing breakup struggles, "The breakup should be decent, no one should say sorry", I loved you, so a neat and crisp breakup is the greatest respect for a relationship.
A song "Wish", sung to the father in the tone of a daughter, full of love. The accompaniment gives people a sense of time traveling through time, with Faye Wong's ethereal voice returning to those glorious years of the past. Maybe in the 40s, on the battlefield where my father defended his family; Maybe it was the 60s and 70s, in the desert where scientific research was immersed; Maybe in the 1980s, under the spring breeze of reform and opening up; Or maybe a few years ago, in the square cabin hospital that fought the new crown virus to the death.
Now the mountains and rivers are unharmed, the fireworks are common, and this prosperity is as you wish. A song sung to the fathers, although the lyrics are not so direct, but it has more of a magnificent atmosphere of history, so that we can remember that today's beautiful life is bought by generations of blood, sweat and tears.
The greatness of life is not that it never falls. The reason is that after falling, it can rise again. Few people can have a smooth life, we often encounter difficulties and bumps, and we also need to face gains and losses. I believe that people who have fallen into the trough know that it is easy to say and difficult to do if you want to get out of the trough.
Tang Tian was not convinced by the judgment given to her by fate, she accepted and faced it, and at the same time tried to change it. Now she has survived, not only becoming the light in her own life, but also through one paragraph after another, full of warm and energetic lyrics, becoming a beam of light that illuminates the way forward in the darkness of others.
So, don't be anxious about the outcome, just do it, time will give us the answer.