It was a pair of hands covered in cocoons, rough and dark. These hands have been accompanied by gravel, bricks, and reinforced concrete for many years, but they flew on the guzheng in front of them and played a pleasant song.
The owner of the hand, Chen Jiangshan, sat in front of the piano, not like the one who expected—not a graceful girl, not a dancing teenager—he wore a bright yellow vest, an orange hard hat unique to the construction site, and an overly prominent dress that indicated his identity as a "migrant worker." These three words, and the dashing "Sword Like a Dream" piano that came out of the short video, were really abrupt. Some people in the comment area marveled and some questioned, but people familiar with Chen Jiangshan knew that this young man who had been with scaffolding all day long, after encountering the guzheng, entered another "chivalrous jianghu".
Chen Jiangshan, 23 years old this year, lives as an ordinary worker working at a construction site in Jimo District, Qingdao, Shandong Province; in the short video, he is a "Guzheng Man Chen Jiangshan" who loves music without an identity. More than 200 Douyin videos recorded his love and persistence in Guzheng, gained the attention of 270,000 fans, and also appeared on the stage of CCTV many times, becoming popular overseas and being praised by global netizens on YouTube.
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When Chen Jiangshan really saw the guzheng for the first time, he didn't know its name at all, he only knew that it was "qin".
It was 2016, and Chen Jiangshan was only 18 years old. His cousin, who loves music, is learning the instrument, and he vaguely remembers seeing it in martial arts dramas on TV as a child. Out of curiosity, when he was fine, he would always imitate his cousin's fingering and practice on the guzheng. The cousin saw that he was interested, so he introduced him to apply for the guzheng class in his spare time to study.
At first, everyone thought it was a fruitless thing. The most basic social workers, migrant workers, and the elegant guzheng, an elegant national musical instrument, seem to have nothing to do with each other. Chen Jiangshan's cousin also felt that he would be "three minutes of heat" - before that, he really hadn't been able to insist on doing anything.
Chen Jiangshan was born in the rural areas of the Miao ethnic group in Guizhou, and his family conditions were not good, and he dropped out of school until the second year of junior high school, and later moved to various construction sites. During this period, he also changed other jobs, but he still felt free on the construction site and returned to the industry. Although he has always liked music, playing guzheng seems to be something That Chen Jiangshan never thought of.
At first, the study was not easy, the guzheng class lasted for less than two days, because of the job change, Chen Jiangshan had to give up. The income on the construction site is not much, and it is too luxurious to ask the teacher to study one-on-one. Without a systematic teacher to teach, he would go to the Internet to pick videos and watch tutorials. With a bit of gambling to prove himself, and the love for guzheng in his heart, Chen Jiangshan contributed all his rest time to guzheng.
Usually, the construction site will get up at 5:30 in the morning, start work at 6 o'clock after a simple breakfast, rest for an hour at noon, and leave work on time at 6 o'clock in the evening. In the middle of the time, he would put on headphones, watch some famous research and explanation videos by himself, and then when he left work in the evening, he would grope for fingering and accumulate little by little.
The first guzheng was given by the teacher of the training class at that time, because there was too much practice, the protection on the construction site was not so meticulous, the piano broke a lot of strings, although it seemed a little shabby, but Chen Jiangshan always took it with him. When he was transferred from Liaocheng to the Weihai construction site, he also carried the piano, but he did not expect that the work was transferred again later, and he could not return to Weihai to take away his only guzheng.
Until he returned to Liaocheng in 2019, the teacher learned that he was still obsessed with the guzheng, so he gave him a second piano and told him to practice well.
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Practicing on the construction site is already Chen Jiangshan's daily routine, sometimes, after tea and dinner, sometimes when it is rainy and not working. When the excitement comes, the workers will also gather next to Chen Jiangshan, tapping with chopsticks and tools at hand, and humming a few words with melodious music.
The video also began to be filmed at that time, and in his spare time, Chen Jiangshan would put his mobile phone on the opposite side, record his own actions, and simply edit and share them on the Internet. On March 13, 2020, Chen Jiangshan sent a video of himself practicing guzheng before on a whim, but he did not expect to be on fire.
In just a few tens of seconds of video, he wears a red hard hat, wears clothes that have not been changed after a day of work, the dust on his body has not had time to dust off, and the fingering practice is slightly rusty. But it is such a simple video that has touched tens of thousands of netizens. The news notification continues to become 99+, the likes and comments of the video are rising, Chen Jiangshan was very surprised, he did not expect that his original guzheng practice could be liked and recognized by so many people.
"I feel surprised to have the support and attention of many netizens on Douyin, and I feel that my persistence over the years has also been encouraged." He said.
The video is recorded more and more, Chen Jiangshan's guzheng fingering is becoming more and more skilled, some people feel that he can play so smoothly without wearing false nails, he replied lightly, "Working on the construction site for many years, the calluses on his hands are already very thick, and you can wear it or not." ”
Once, during the break, Chen Jiangshan put the guzheng on the cement pulling car, and on the other side was an empty bucket that he had picked up, and one hand played the piano and the other hand knocked on the barrel, which had an unexpected performance effect. Many people in the comments section took him as an example, saying that he should love life and have dreams no matter where he is, like him; others say that he is a "musician" who has been delayed by the construction site.
Chen Jiangshan often said that life is not only in front of the eyes, but also in poetry and distant fields. Guzheng is his poetry and far away.
After becoming popular on Douyin, Chen Jiangshan's story has received a lot of attention. Television interviews poured in, CCTV made his story into a video to inspire young people who chased their dreams, and CCTV News Network also reported on the natural sound flowing from the scaffolding of the construction site.
Some netizens spontaneously made his video into a collection and put it on overseas social media, saying that he was "a king when he raises his hand.". The video quickly attracted a large number of netizens, with 460,000 views. Everyone marveled at this young construction worker, although he was on the construction site, but he was full of skills, pursuing his musical dreams, and was impressed by the way he sat in front of the guzheng.
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In Chen Jiangshan's video, there are many tracks played. Sometimes popular music, there are also classic "Swords Like Dreams", "Mountain Flowing Water" and so on. The tracks change a lot, but over the years, the scene behind him and the hard hat on his head have remained as rustic as ever.
After learning Guzheng, Chen Jiangshan felt that he was getting closer and closer to the "martial arts dream" of his childhood. In the past, he liked to watch martial arts dramas, such as "Yitian Slaughtering Dragon", "Tianlong Babu", "Xiao Shiyilang", "Fengyun", these TV, he was like a family treasure. When he was a kid, there was no TV at home, and he had to travel far to his neighbor's house to watch a few episodes. When watching, you must also imagine the protagonist as yourself, use wooden sticks to cut wooden swords and pistols, and imitate the heroes in the play with the children in the village.
After growing up, because of his work relationship, he traveled through Henan, Shandong, Jiangsu, Anhui and other provinces, and like the heroes in martial arts dramas, he went south and north, and made the world his home. Playing the guzheng on the construction site of piano cement brings him closer to the characteristics of "chivalry" - freedom and uninhibited, the pursuit of love, and high admiration in a poetic life.
Chen Jiangshan admits that playing the guzheng on the construction site requires a lot of courage at the beginning. Workers are older, and everyone stereotypes that the guzheng should be played by girls, not to mention hooked up with migrant workers. Sometimes a song is practiced repeatedly, and the workers around them will feel irritable.
"But I have a very firm belief in my heart, and I don't think I'm doing anything bad, I'm doing what I like and showing my true life." Chen Jiangshan said that the positive feedback of netizens on Douyin also made him more confident to stick to his hobbies.
Because of the guzheng, Chen Jiangshan found his own jianghu. The construction site is always with machinery, and after a day of work, the noisy resonance and knocking sound are often exhausting. But as long as he sits in front of the guzheng, Chen Jiangshan enters the world of music, no matter how he dresses, at the moment when the piano sounds, he can instantly make people feel calm and happy.
He said in his own top, "What about the rough clothes in the burrow, life is like a dream, a flick of a teenage dream, the song looks back at who knows me."
Becoming popular did not bring too much trouble to Chen Jiangshan, but helped him find his life goals more clearly. In the past, on the construction site, he only worked, lived, and read novels day after day, but after playing the guzheng, Chen Jiangshan found a place of peace of mind and brought a lot of fun to the workers around him.
Under his influence, some people on the construction site will use leaves to blow out pleasant music, some people will play the flute, some people will pick up many guitars that do not play, and some people will learn guzheng with him. One night, after eating and idling, everyone picked up their instruments, singing, playing the piano, and playing the flute. The surrounding workers were very happy, and they also picked up the bowl in their hands and knocked it. After the song, everyone spontaneously applauded and took pictures, as if ending a small concert.
At that moment, Chen Jiangshan felt that he had truly become a "guzheng man" in the music jianghu.
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