In every MP3 of the post-90s childhood, there is a song called "Lilac Flower".
This qi qi wan song is a pair of lovers who are separated by life and death. The girl in the song was kind and gentle, but she passed away at the most beautiful age.
Singer Tang Lei became popular throughout the country with this song, and then he was invited to participate in many music competition programs, and also sang with Qi Qin, and also published other original songs.
However, after "Lilac", Tang Lei had no other widely circulated works.
At one point he disappeared from the music scene.
Regarding the background of the creation of "Lilac", there are many opinions on the Internet, and until now it is possible to find a variety of different versions.
The most common version says that this is a real incident that happened to Tang Lei, and that the girl was someone that Tang Lei had loved deeply.
The reason why this edition is the most popular is that in July 2005, a bound edition of Reader magazine published an article about Tang Lei's creation of "Lilacs".
In the article, it is described that a girl named Zeng Mengjie lost her father from a young age, and she has been weak and sick since childhood, often "taking medicine barrel by bucket".
She was fed a medicine jar when she was 12 years old and had a heavy rain, causing severe pneumonia and vomiting blood, and removing her right lung.
Since then, Zeng Mengjie, whose body cannot support her studies, only goes to school for half a day every day, but her grades are excellent, but unfortunately she cannot pass the physical examination and cannot participate in the college entrance examination.
Zeng Mengjie's health is getting worse and worse, it has affected the heart, she does not want to involve the family, rejected her mother's suggestion to send her to Beijing for treatment, and quietly waited for the last day of her life.
The brother who could not bear the suffering of his sister used the money from his part-time job to buy a computer for his sister, opening the door to a new world for Zeng Mengjie.
How fresh the online world is, Zeng Mengjie, who has loved literature and art since childhood, is deeply attracted, and she has met many like-minded people.
Among them is Tang Lei.
The two became acquainted with the screen name "Falling Snow Flying Flower", which was originally just an ordinary name, and even from the current point of view, this screen name is both tacky and outdated, but it is a popular screen name in those years.
Zeng Mengjie talked about the allusion of "falling snow and flying flowers", and her knowledge and temperament shocked Tang Lei.
Since then, the two have become netizens who talk about everything, and Zeng Mengjie also told Tang Lei that she likes lilac flowers the most.
It turned out that Zeng Mengjie had a dream about lilacs.
In the dream, a small white pony ran with her, full of flowers and flowers, and the sunset was full of sky. The last place where the ponies stopped was a cemetery full of lilacs.
Zeng Mengjie thought that this must be her final destination.
The authenticity of this story is not very big, so I boldly complained here, like this kind of sentimental to some disease-free moaning articles, I did read a lot when I was a child.
Not only "Reader" magazine, but also "Youth Digest", "Zhiyin", "Story Club", etc., when I grow up, I can't help but smile when I think about it.
The development of the story is like all dog blood novels, Zeng Mengjie's body is not as good as a day, in the last days of her life, she finally agreed to go to Beijing for treatment, only because Tang Lei is also in Beijing.
In the ward of the Beijing Affiliated Hospital, the two netizens finally met.
At that time, Tang Lei had no inspiration for writing songs, and he was depressed all day long, it was Zeng Mengjie who told him that the simplest is the best, why not use the accompaniment of the acoustic guitar to express his feelings?
Is this advice the same as not saying, the creator of no inspiration, will really open up because of this empty three words?
However, Tang Lei in the story was still touched by Zeng Mengjie's words and wrote the song "Lilac Flower".
The most false place in this story is that it does not conform to the logic of normal people, according to the story, when Tang Lei created "Lilacs", Zeng Mengjie was still alive, and even sang to Zeng Mengjie, is the lyrics of "the grave is full of lilacs" really appropriate?
Didn't Zeng Mengjie's family beat Tang Lei out?
So this kind of plot is only seen in the novel, what man in real life would write such lyrics when the girl he loves is still alive?
At the end of the story, Zeng Mengjie died late at night on February 14, 2004, and Tang Lei was in pain and named his upcoming album "Lilac Flower".
In 2013, this story also deceived many people's tears in the Douban group, until 2017, there were still netizens who posted this story under the question of "What is the real background of the creation of the song "Lilac Flower".
It can be seen how many people it has deceived.
In fact, Tang Lei clarified as early as 2013 that the article published in Reader magazine was fictional.
The background of the creation of "Lilac" is indeed a real story that takes place around him, but the protagonist of the story is not him, but his friend.
The friend's girlfriend unfortunately died in a car accident, the friend was very sad, wanted to comfort the friend, but also accompanied by his own confusion about the future and love, which prompted Tang Lei to create this song.
However, at that time, the information was not widely disseminated enough, so that many people did not have the opportunity to hear Tang Lei's clarification.
Some time ago, Tang Lei once again recorded a video to clarify the authenticity of this story, and he also said that the reason why everyone remembers the song "Lilac" is because the love in the song is very pure, which is different from the increasingly impetuous mentality of modern people.
In short, for so many years, we have been deceived by Reader magazine.
And further on, you will find that this article is very similar to an article titled "Blood-Stained Keyboard" published in Youth Digest magazine in February 1999, and I will not delve into it here.
Fortunately, the self-protection mechanism of the artists in those years has not yet been opened, and if it is put into the present, the life of such a fictional adaptation of the family may be sued in court.
Fast forward 18 years, with a song "Lilac Flower", Tang Lei's name often appears in front of netizens.
After "Lilac Flower", although there is no more heirloom, Tang Lei has never given up music.
Now Tang Lei is an associate professor at the School of Music of the University of Jinan and the head of the Department of Modern Music, and he has passed on his talent and love for music through teaching and educating people.
After watching Tang Lei's latest clarification video, he is no longer the spirited young man of 18 years, although he still has the hairstyle of that year, but his hair is much less, the whole person is mature and stable and elegant, and his speech is also eloquent, quite a teacher's style.
"Lilac Flower" is a poignant love story in the childhood of the post-90s, we love the lilac-like girl in the song, she should not be a fictional character to some fake, nor should readers pay for this sentimental article.