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Music, presumably, is the way most people know Zhong Lifeng, and it is also the way I know Zhong Lifeng.
Three years ago, I took a train to Beijing to start a new life in a new city. After hearing "Summer in Hangzhou / It Rains Every Day", I always liked to look for the city in the folk song during that time.
The northbound train passed through the mountains of my hometown, the tunnels alternated, disturbed the signal, and after several consecutive failed transmissions, I sent a song about Wuhan to my cousin who was about to go to school in Wuhan, and that song was "Wuhan has been raining these days."
Listening to this year's zhong lifeng remake of "Wuhan has been raining these days", it seems to pull me back to the train where the signal is intermittent.
If a song has life, it must be connected with the person listening to the song, and the creator may not think about the circumstances under which his song will be heard, and most of what he depicts is also what he thinks at the moment. If there is a remake in the future, perhaps the experience in it will change, and the expression of emotions will be reflected in a new way, and in a new way, there is his new life.
Zhong Lifeng said that the "playing method of the 2017 classical jazz version of Wuhan has been raining these days" is "all learned by watching film noir", which includes classical guitar and jazz piano.
Did you go to a film noir specifically to learn jazz piano in order to remake a song? Not necessarily, this is just a choice in the accumulation of his ordinary life.
Regarding the creation of music, he wrote about his ordinary life.
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In addition to musicians, Zhong Lifeng has another identity as a writer. Some people ask him whether his creation is inclined to songs or literature, and he cannot say that his creation of music complements literature or literature supplements music, and everyone is taking a balance in creation.
A brown writing desk, an ivory lamp, a few photographs of the writer in a frame next to the desk, a chair similar to the color of the desk, an elegant curve on the backrest, a bookcase with glass, and the bookcase handle is very good.
This is Zhong Lifeng's study, and from the photos I began to imagine Zhong Lifeng sitting in front of this desk, or playing the piano, or writing, or reading.
He published his first book in April 2011, "Sad like a Sexual Encounter," which is not the song. For Zhong Lifeng, music, literature, travel, and film are all his "needs of life."
Looking at the books he has written, he will sigh at the breadth of his reading, he looks at Xu Zhimo, who is known to everyone, and also at Shao Xunmei, who is slightly lesser, he looks at the author's character stories, and also looks at the author's own life.
In The Book Traveler, he wrote about Tolstoy's relationship with Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy had a "critical word" about his opponent: "A patient cannot write a healthy novel." ”
But Dostoevsky openly acknowledged that the other's talent was above his own, and believed that Anna V. "Karenina" is definitely the premier literary masterpiece of European literature.
Perhaps literature is really the nourishment for his music, he said in an interview: "When creating music is confused, this is when literature enters his heart, and then he begins to create with great joy." ”
Maybe you listen to his song, and at some point you will think it is Patti Smith, or you will feel that there is a Zhang Ailing living in the song.
Reading has become a part of his life.
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"Lazy to go out, few friends. Stay at home and do nothing. Read books, buy groceries, cook. Go to the park to join the ranks of the elderly and exercise. Occasionally, I make a long trip and wander aimlessly in a different place. Looking for a used bookstore, lost in the old deserted alleys, returning to the hotel at night, just remembering some encounters and impressions. ”
This is his self-description.
People who are lazy to go out love to find used bookstores, he said: "Reading is traveling, and traveling between words." "Through reading, I go to the far side where my feet have not yet been measured.
He himself had opened a bookstore, in Wuxi's Nanxiatang, on the banks of the Ancient Canal.
Nanxiatang/Walking Bookstore Perspective
It was an old building from the Republic of China period, the old time of the extinguishing meeting, and the extinguishing meeting was the fire station at that time. The name of the bookstore is "Walking", which was opened by Zhong Lifeng and his good friend in 2015, and the name of the store comes from a sentence by Zhong Lifeng:
"I'm not walking, I'm in the bookstore. And reading is also walking between the lines; just like traveling, it is also reading landscapes and human feelings. ”
In April this year, the bookstore had to close because of the continuous losses, and in the live introduction of the bookstore's closure, Zhong Lifeng said: "The rescue meeting will also be 'extinguished', but please take the book away, there is a flame there." ”
It seems that he has borrowed the meaning of the "extinguishing meeting" of the bookstore building, which in the old days protected the fire safety of thousands of homes, but the walking bookstore protected the "fire" hidden in the book.
Presumably, his ideal life is indispensable to a bookstore, let people meet books, but also let people meet people, give people who love to read a space, pick a good book, in one afternoon, drink a cup of fragrant tea, and play music in the store.
Maugham said: "Reading is a small shelter to carry around. ”
Regarding the bookstore, that is the ideal space for Zhong Lifeng.
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In 2006, Zhong Lifeng released his first album and won the Best Newcomer Award, and later recalled: "The first time I came out of the album, the first time I stood on such a big stage, it was not the same as my current mood. At that time, I felt that I was not going to become famous. ”
In 2011, Zhong Lifeng published his first book, and since then, it has been the rhythm of one book a year.
No matter what a singer is singing, his creation cannot escape the radius of his own life; no matter what an author is writing, his work is also recording his life in different ways.
Behind the continuous creation, what kind of life does he live, outside of songs, reading, and bookstores, what is his definition of the "ideal life"?
Some people say that the ideal life, you just need to taste the meticulous beauty of life.
If you break apart this ideal life and put it in an ideal afternoon, you can look at and listen in a comfortable state, shallow and taste, and walk away.