Recently, the launch of "Summer Band 2" caused a lot of controversy, a 23-year-old fat man criticized Mizuki Nianhua's songs as boring, uninvited, middle-aged greasy, causing a heated discussion.
After watching it, I was very distressed about Mizuki Nianhua, a high-achieving student at Tsinghua University who once sang "A Lifetime with You" and "In Other Places", how did he fall into standing here to accept a bunch of young and sharp comments?
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In 1970, the principal of Yingkou High School in Liaoning Province named his newborn son Lu Gengjiao. Lu Gengzhi may be influenced by his family, and has been the first in his grade since he was a child, winning first prizes in various competitions.
In 1989, when filling in the college entrance examination volunteer, Lu Gengzhi, a municipal science student, filled in only one university: the Department of Architecture of Tsinghua University. Determined to be "Liang Sicheng second", let The history of Chinese architecture also leave his own name.
Lu Gengzhi found that a classmate randomly pulled out on the Tsinghua campus and asked whether it was a provincial champion or a municipal champion, and finally understood what is called "there is a sky outside the sky, and there are people outside the people."
What is even more tragic is that seeing 6 boys on campus may only meet a girl, and it may be a little difficult to successfully find a girlfriend in Tsinghua Garden with their looks. Inadvertently, Lu Gengzhi watched a school singer competition and found that all the girls liked boys who could play guitar and sing.
In order to make a girlfriend, Lu Gengzhi spent 98 yuan to buy a red cotton guitar and a copy of "Learn to Play Guitar in a Month" without saying a word. The head of the science master was indeed not covered, and he learned to play the guitar in less than a month.
In his sophomore year, Lu Gengji participated in the Tsinghua Guitar Grand Prix and won the second place. Finally, a girl screamed for him, and Lu Gengzhi was very excited.
Since then, Lu Gengzhi began to play and sing by himself, rampaged through the Tsinghua campus, and successfully chased a beautiful girlfriend.
Also in 1989, Li Jianyin, a junior high school student in Harbin 69, watched the movie "Roadside Guitar Team" and knew the guitar for the first time in his life, and the male protagonist drove a car and played the guitar.
Li Jian, who was cold on the outside and sullen on the inside, felt that he had to learn a musical instrument, so he asked his parents to buy him a guitar, who thought that this guitar would change the fate of his life.
This year, Miao Jie, who was in Peking University Affiliated High School, has won the first place in the Hua Luogeng Gold Cup Competition, and is busy participating in various Olympic number competitions at this time, attending various Olympic number remedial classes and special classes.
Young people who had wanted to come from three different places, a few years later met miraculously because of the guitar because of the guitar because of singing.
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In 1991, Gao Xiaosong, a tsinghua brother, returned to campus with his "You at the Same Table" and the old wolf. In Mizuki Garden, Lu Gengzhi became the first audience for the song.
Lu Gengzhi, who aspired to become the "second Liang Sicheng" in the architectural world, forgot his original intention of coming to Tsinghua and established a campus song association with several classmates, and under the influence of his brother Gao Xiaosong, Lu Gengshu began to write songs.
In the winter of the sophomore year, Qi Qin held a concert in Beijing, and the talented teenagers of the Department of Architecture bought two tickets for 50 yuan, and with their solid painting skills, they drew 6 tickets and mixed in.
The cheers and atmosphere at the concert scene made Lu Gengji, a scholar, suddenly have the urge to become a singer.
In 1992, Lu Gengji, Qu Lei and Wei Chenyang formed the "Dream Prairie" band and won the first place in the Tsinghua Campus Song Contest, becoming a Prominent Figure in Tsinghua. There were more schoolgirls screaming for them.
This year, li Jian, a sophomore in high school, was affected by the typhoon in Hong Kong, wearing a black trench coat and sunglasses every day, singing Tan Yonglin and Zhang Guorong through the school, and formed a band with his classmates to practice every day, because the learning was too good, the teachers turned a blind eye.
This year, Miao Jie, the "Olympic Number Boy" who won the first place in an Olympic number competition, was rewarded with an 80 yuan guitar by his father.
In that summer of 1992 Miao Jie seemed to have found something he was interested in, and no matter how hot the weather was, he had been sweating and practicing chords.
When you don't have time to do something, you feel that time is particularly precious. Playing guitar is not a major for three people, but because of interest, the three schoolmasters work hard in different places to play their favorite guitar in their own way.
Even so, they were only interested in at that time, not even dreams, Li Jian and Miao Jie's dream was to be admitted to Tsinghua, and Lu Gengji's dream was to be "Liang Sicheng second" in China.
At that time, singers in China were not doing their jobs, and the arrogant Tsinghua scholars did not despise singing as a weapon for eating.
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At the end of 1993, Lu Gengzhi and his "Dream Grassland" group participated in the literary and art evenings of CCTV and Beijing Television.
In 1994, at the graduation party hosted by Yang Lan and He Jiong, Lu Gengzhi and his "Dream Grassland" sang their own "Growth".
In July, Lu Gengzhi and his "Dream Prairie" band held a graduation concert on the Tsinghua campus, no longer for the girl but for the farewell. After graduation, Lu Gengzhi began working as an architectural designer at a design institute in Beijing.
Also in 1994, Li Jian, who won the first place in the Tsinghua Winter Camp with a song "Speak from the Heart", was escorted to the Department of Electronic Engineering of Tsinghua University. Miao Jie, who was admitted to Tsinghua University with the second place in the whole school, became a classmate and bunk bed.
Miao Jie, who no longer attended various cram schools on weekends, had two days to play guitar, and formed a group with Li Jian, who was bunkbed, and participated in the campus singer competition, winning the first place in the competition.
In 1995, Li Jian and Miao Jie, two 20-year-old Tsinghua talents, holding guitars and singing "Collecting Youth" written by Lu Gengzhi, won the gold medal in the national campus song competition held by CCTV and became the school's "heroes".
Under the influence of their brothers Gao Xiaosong and Lu Gengzhi, they also began to write and sing by themselves.
In July 1998, Li Jian and Miao Jie held a farewell concert at the school, and when the screams ended, they bid farewell to Tsinghua Garden, held the title of Tsinghua University, and found a good job.
Li Jian went to the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television and became a network engineer, installing cables for every household. Miao Jie went to the foreign company IBM as a project manager, and his salary exceeded 5 figures per month.
Without Lu Gengzhi's phone call, perhaps the lives of the three people would have gone on like this, becoming the best in the industry they were engaged in.
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In 1998, Lu Gengzhi, who had been an architectural designer in the design institute for several years, saw That Gao Xiaosong and the old wolf were becoming increasingly popular, and some of them could not help their hearts that liked to sing.
In 2000, Lu Gengjiao, who had saved some money, used 100,000 yuan to produce an album "The Future of the Future" at his own expense. Soon a record company came to buy a song, but Lu Gengzhi refused, and he wanted to sing it himself.
Those companies that make money for the purpose of making money have analyzed Lu Gengzhi, who can impress the audience with his lyrics, but his singing ability will not, and many songs his voice cannot be controlled, and the high notes cannot go up.
Lu Gengshu saw that Gao Xiaosong and the old wolf cooperated so well, and also decided to get a combination, composing his own lyrics and playing guitar, and partnered with the lead singer.
In 2000, Lu Gengshu dialed the phone of his apprentice Li Jian, who was not happy at work at that time, either to install a network cable in the village or to pick up people and send people in Beijing.
Li Jian heard his brother Lu Gengshu say that there was Tian Zhen in the company he signed, and he immediately resigned.
In April 2001, two depressed Tsinghua students took one or two characters each named "Mizuki Nianhua" in "Mizuki Qinghua" and "Fantasia Nianhua", and their fate has changed since then.
Lu Gengzhi took out the "Collecting Youth" that he had previously written for Li Jian and Miao Jie and changed it to the name of "A Lifetime with You", and became the name of the first album.
In September 2001, Mizuki Nianhua released his debut album "A Lifetime with You", against the poetic promotional copy of Tsinghua Caizi and Mizuki Nianhua, "A Lifetime with You" became popular and won various awards.
After the two became popular, there were more commercial performances. With the increase of activities, the personality difference between the two people is also obvious, and there is gradually a contradiction.
Lu Gengzhi likes to be lively, is a participant, and can quickly integrate into various environments; while Li Jian likes to be quiet, and also maintains the purity of Tsinghua students, and is an observer.
Lu Gengzhi wanted to follow the trend and incorporate rock elements into their music, making big changes to cater to the market; Li Jian believed that music and life were one. Musicians do whatever kind of music they have in life.
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In the process of making music, the two gradually had differences.
Companies that only pursue money, they hit the iron while it is hot, quickly produce songs like "A Lifetime with You", in order to increase the exposure of them to make them disagree with rumors, let them find a female friend to eat outside food and send people home, the company finds someone to shoot.
Frequent awards and publicity let Li Jian have no time to create, he feels tired and troubled, plus the company has been letting him out of some scandals, he is most annoyed by these things, and he has withdrawn.
Once the two won Chen Guanxi and F won the Most Popular Singer Award, when they came on stage, Lu Gengshu had to high-five Li Jian according to the company's regulations, but Li Jian did not cooperate, and Lu Gengshu was a little disappointed.
On the flight back to Beijing, the company's leaders criticized Li Jian for why he didn't do what he said.
The two began to talk from the high-fives, talking about the end of the day when no one could convince anyone. Everyone has their own persistence and original intentions. But all science students have been groping and playing in society for several years, and they are more rational.
In the end, the two simply and without hurt agreed on the idea of separating, and Li Jian withdrew and stopped singing the song "Mizuki Nianhua".
Li Jian seems to be gentle and quiet, but he has a tenacious strength that can break through any obstacle and eventually reach where he wants to go. And Lu Gengzhi pursues growth, to blossom, to bear fruit, to desire to flourish, and to leave an influence beyond the times.
After the separation, Lu Gengzhi was like before the college entrance examination, and the insomnia at night was very anxious, and he gave up the "Mizuki Nianhua" created by the iron rice bowl and was dissolved, and he was very unwilling.
After entangling for N days, Lu Gengshu invited his disciple Miao Jie and Yao Yong as partners (both of them were in the same class as Li Jian) to form the 2.0 Mizuki Nianhua.
Yao Yong is the nephew of writer Wang Xiaobo, who is developing an online game 3D engine, when Lu Gengzhi found him, he struggled for several days, and finally he could not put down his long-cherished wish to be a musician and joined "Mizuki Nianhua".
Switching back and forth between game development technology and the band, after making two albums, Yao Yong became sick and eventually gave up the band and continued to work on his 3D engine.
In 2003, after Yao Yong left, Lu Gengji told Miao Jie, who was still working at IBM' large company, that if you wanted to maintain the "Mizuki Nianhua", you had to resign.
Thus began the 3.0 "Mizuki Nianhua" era of Lu Gengzhi and Miao Jie, which was also the most brilliant era.
In 2004, Mizuki Nianhua released the "Graduation Commemorative Book", "70.80", "Double Fantasy", "Departure", and the 2007 Mizuki Nianhua National Tour Tour, each of which was full.
Mizuki became an idol of the students of the 70s and 80s, the youth of the people of that era, and in the era when school singers were popular, they took advantage of the time and place.
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Lu Gengji and Miao Jie, who have achieved fame and have smart heads, are not ordinary characters, in addition to constantly releasing albums, they have a bigger dream: to turn "Mizuki Nianhua" into an all-encompassing brand.
In 2008, Lu Gengzhi went to Shijingshan for tourism and felt that the local mineral water tasted good, so he opened a mineral water factory of "Mizuki Jingshi", which closed down in less than 3 years.
In 2009, Mizuki Nianhua made music mobile phones, selling tens of thousands of units a month, Lu Gengzhi was out of control, and he had great confidence in entering the industry.
In 2011, Mizuki Nianhua established Mizuki Nianhua Science and Technology Culture Company, launching different electronic products such as MP3 and tablet computers.
In 2012, Lu Gengzhi opened a Mizuki Nianhua Milk Tea Music Station in front of a university in Beijing and founded Mizuki Nianhua brand guitars.
These industries just started to make money with the name of "Mizuki Nianhua", but Lu Gengzhi was not a businessman, did not understand the operation and did not have a long-term plan, and the electronic products were eliminated too quickly, and finally died prematurely.
In the past few years when Lu Gengzhi entered the commercial industry, foreign rap R&B, Trap and Urban Hiphop began to become popular in China, Jay Chou and Pan Weibai began to become popular, and young people began to like and appreciate such styles.
The original music of the campus folk songs has suffered a heavy blow, not to mention the age of Mizuki, even the old wolf and Ye Bei have been angry.
In 2014, Lu Gengzhi was addicted to directing again, directing his own film "Goodbye to Youth in Bloom", and the theme song "Goodbye to Youth" invited Li Jian and Lao Wolf to sing, but the box office result was less than 10,000.
After Lu Gengjiao's film came to a dismal end, his brother Gao Xiaosong put his "You at the Same Table", He Jiong's "Gardenia Blossom" and Liu Reuying's "Later Us" on the screen with great success, and they were very successful.
When Lu Gengjiao's "A Lifetime with You" was released, because the actors were not popular small fresh meat, Lu Gengjiao's coffee position was not Gao Xiaosong, He Jiong, and Liu Ruoying, and finally gained more than 40 million at the box office.
Repeated failures, so that Lu Gengji finally recognized a fact that he is not suitable for business or director, these things are not as simple as doing high number problems and writing songs and playing guitar.
In the era when everyone can "campus singer" today, Lu Gengzhi, Old Wolf, and Ye Bei have paid less attention, and "campus singers" have begun to decline.
This is the inevitable development of society and culture. In the 90s, singers always gave people the impression of not doing business, and the emergence of famous college students such as Old Wolf, Ye Bei, and Mizuki Nianhua gave people a lingering label.
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When Lu Gengzhi is busy with his movies, what are Mizuki's Miao Jie and Li Jian doing?
Miao Jie founded a platform to help farmers, "Hometown Visitor", which entered the public's vision in the form of purchasing instead of donating compensation. Miao Jie used the platform he built to allow the cultivation and agricultural products in those remote areas to be sold.
While helping farmers, Miao Jie did not delay his creation. He wrote songs such as "Hometown", "The Future Has Come", and "The Power of Youth".
During the Epidemic in Wuhan in 2020, Miao Jie delivered home-produced products such as cabbage, radish, green onions and pork to many areas in Wuhan and Xiangyang in Hubei Province through his agricultural assistance platform.
Li Jian, who left Mizuki Nianhua, has been adhering to his original music style, the album "Like Water Flow Year" is still 9.0 points in Douban, 17 years have passed, even Jay Chou's album has not broken the high score of 9.0, Li Jian is still ranked first.
In 2010, Faye Wong sang a cover of Li Jian's "Legend" at the Spring Festival Gala, and Li Jian's name also became popular throughout the entertainment circle.
In 2015, Li Jian was on fire in "I Am a Singer", and the audience added a lot of characters to Li Jian: Gao Leng male god, music poet, Qinghua Prince, etc.
Various advertisements and commercial activities poured in, and most of the activities and interviews were rejected. Almighty netizens also picked up the social account of Dr. Li Jian qinghua's wife, which frightened her into immediately shutting down. Disappeared into the adult's field of vision with Li Jian and went on a journey.
The three members of "Mizuki Nianhua" once had the same dream, because they liked music to get together, and they also disagreed because they liked music.
Fortunately, although they are no longer together, they still love music.
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Until recently, the names of the three people have been on the hot search, first Li Jian was exposed and Shanghai bao raised a little wife, and two days later, Lu Gengshu and Miao Jie were sprayed by two young people. Zhou Xun's face changed, and Zhang Wei, who was crazy, couldn't sit still.
A skinny music critic said he couldn't understand why people in their 40s still sang "Goodbye youth", the songs were boring and had no novelty;
A 23-year-old fat man said directly that he was not impressed by the greasy middle-aged man of Mizuki at all.
Although the young man said ugly, you have to admit the fact that their "Goodbye youth" arrangement is indeed old-fashioned and not innovative. It's not that "Goodbye Youth" is not good, it is that their songs can't burn the scene and can't resonate with the young people on the scene.
For the online non-facts and discussions, Mizuki Shows the tolerance and generosity of a middle-aged man in his 40s: Since we have chosen to participate in this program, we must be mentally prepared to face any possible outcome.
In any case, since Mizuki Nianhua has come out to sing again, they are willing to accept the judgment of this society and the new rules, and they are willing to embrace and face the free growth of everything.
All results are good results. As long as the heart is beautiful, then the world is beautiful.
I look forward to mizuki in 2020 to continue to contribute talent and energy to this society, and also look forward to more good works from them. Create more works like "A Lifetime with You" that can stand the test of time and become classics.