In June 2019, the 51-year-old singer Lao Wolf appeared on a variety show and sang a song "Winter in Beijing" with a guitar.
Beijing's Winter (Live) Old Wolf - Evergrande Starlight Music Festival
Winter in Beijing
When the lips become dry and chapped
Someone began to grieve
Missing friends from the past
The day the north wind blew in
Migratory birds have flown far
Our love
It becomes endless anticipation
......
When he finished singing, several post-90s stars on the scene were indifferent, and only one host burst into tears.
He Jiong.
25 years ago, the two of them performed on a common stage and became famous in the First World War.
He Jiong is a college student who often feels inferior because of his small stature, and he still studies Arabic; the old wolf has just graduated a few years later, working as a technician in a company engaged in industrial automation.
In June 1994, the graduation party for college students, jointly sponsored by the State Education Commission and CCTV, was broadcast on CCTV II.
The host invited Yang Lan at her peak, and the "Chia Tai Variety" she hosted at that time was the highest-rated program in the country.
This year's universities have not expanded, and there are only 600,000 college graduates in the country, less than one in 15 of the current year. College students are still scarce resources, the pride of heaven.
Another male host at the scene, who is also Cheng of "Zhengda Variety", has not gone to college.
At this party, He Jiong performed a skit, played a campus radio host, and in the interval between interviews with a campus female poet, he saw a stitch and inserted into the advertisement of the sponsor Happiness Insoles, and the audience continued to laugh.
Looking at it now, this show predicted his future career in advance.
As soon as He Jiong's sketch ended, a light suddenly hit the audience.
A young man with a middle part, wearing a white shirt, held a guitar and sang.
Will you remember tomorrow, the diary you wrote yesterday;
Tomorrow, do you still remember that you used to cry the most...
Title: "You at the Same Table".
Singer: Wang Yang.
At this time, the people who listen to the song cannot imagine that the person in front of them and this song will arouse the remembrance of the beautiful youth in their hearts countless times when they gradually enter middle age many years later.
Just like after wiping away tears 25 years later, He Jiong said:
This is our best time to listen.
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In fact, "You at the Same Table" also has a meat version, which is recorded in the "Dangling Leisure" of Shi Kang, a classmate of Old Wolf University:
Who lifted your long skirt and mouthed (the author deleted 7 words)
It's just that the same table is Gao Xiaosong's table, the old wolf does not have the same table, only Shi Kang, who is also an engineering student, is bent on making some small literary and artistic colleagues.
There is also a high school sister who later went to the United States to study for a master's degree at a prestigious school, gave up Yahoo's original shares and came back to marry him.
After graduating from high school, Lao Wolf was originally admitted to Harbin Institute of Technology, but Wolf's father and mother were bent on letting him stay in Beijing.
Probably because a year before he entered the university, the graduate distribution system had begun to have problems, and if he stayed in Beijing, he would not be unemployed.
So he scored more than twice as much as the second place and went to a university that sounded like a private office, Beijing Union University.
This decision made Wang Yang, one of the hundreds of Thousands in China, a unique old wolf.
Staying in Beijing, this is the story of going to Gao Xiaosong's band to interview the lead singer.
The interview place is at the old wolf's house. When I first met Gao Xiaosong, a dusty servant, he later wrote a song called "Love Wind and Dust".
What is not good to say is that it is short and tight with long hair, while playing the piano while falling dirt, the wolf mother came home, thinking that there was a rogue sitting in the house.
When their band was first formed, they had no money, and it was not easy to have a summer vacation, and there was a song hall to call Gao Xiaosong to let them sing in residence, 10 yuan a night.
When I inquired, the song hall was in Haikou, and only the old wolf was willing to go with him.
Because he was breaking up with his girlfriend, the later wolf sister-in-law, he caught everyone and had to sing to others. It's all sad songs.
On this trip, he and Gao Xiaosong formed a deep revolutionary friendship.
At that time, there was no direct train to Haikou, and to go to Haikou, you had to take a three-day train to Guangzhou, then take a day and a night bus, and then take a boat.
When I got to the song hall, I had to try to sing first, which was the first time that Old Wolf and Gao Xiaosong shared the same stage and sang a song by Cui Jian's "Nothing". Because they were not allowed to sing their own writing, the people there had only heard this rock song.
The old wolf sang three degrees higher with one mouth, and Gao Xiaosong almost thought that the two of them were going to return to Beijing so directly. I didn't expect the old wolf to sing hard.
When they were singing in the song hall, they also encountered the underworld. The other party wondered:
We can't understand what you're singing.
When they returned to Beijing from Hainan, they only had enough money to buy a ticket to Beijing. This ticket was given to the old wolf, and Gao Xiaosong turned his head and went to Xiamen, for a girl there.
One morning, when he was combing his girlfriend's hair, Gao Xiaosong suddenly came to the inspiration and quickly took a paper brush to write it down. Afterwards, he interpreted this as:
God took my hand and made me write "You at the Same Table."
From then on, he began his most productive years, and he attributed them all to hormones.
These exuberant hormones were sung by the old wolf and spread all over the country.
After the college graduation party was broadcast in 1994, in the words of Gao Xiaosong, "You at the Same Table" was almost vomited.
Turn on the TV at home, you see the melancholy side face of the old wolf; driving to listen to the radio, hearing the warm voice of the old wolf; even when you go to the public toilet, the big brother next to you still hums in his mouth: Who made you the wedding dress...
The front-footed wolf mother still doubts that the old wolf can still sing? The back foot received a call from the commercial performance, and it became:
30,000 is not enough, but it is good to 70,000.
In 1995, the old wolf appeared on the Spring Festival Gala, singing "You at the Same Table".
At that time, the Spring Festival Gala was basically invited by whoever was on fire.
When college ceased to be a utopia, that era was over.
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In 2001, a bar was opened in Sanlitun South Street in Beijing called River Bar.
The campus era passed, and it became a new folk gathering place, and old wolves often came to this bar.
The owner is a band from Lanzhou, called Wild Children, and later the silver man Zhang Weiwei also joined them.
At this time, the silver case did not have such a big reputation, and the band did not do a political trial to ask him.
Among the people who liked to come here at that time was a French girl, who was an international student at Beijing Normal University, named Anna Isa Martin.
She was well known until 8 years later, in another capacity: Liu Ye's wife.
At the River Bar, Anna and her international student friends quickly became acquainted with Zhang Weiwei.
In Zhang Weiwei's words, their friendship is based on poverty.
They were all about the same age, in their early twenties and had little money, but they came from the West and we came from the Northwest.
Beginning in early 2002, Anna, as an AFP photographer in Beijing, photographed the best times of the River Bar.
At this time, among the regular customers of the River Bar, there was a young man who was thin enough to be a fairy wind. If you asked him to introduce himself, he would say something like this:
Xiaohe, formerly known as He Guofeng, was born in 1975 in Handan, Hebei Province, the third son of He Pingsuo and Tian Qiaoyun.
The old wolf liked to call him "River Fairy"; Zhang Weiwei was called "Wei Brother".
There was also a young man from Nanjing, and the old wolf called him "net red". Later, he did become popular, but he went back to Nanjing and became a citizen.
Xiaohe formed the band Beautiful Pharmacy, and they would come here every Wednesday night to perform, riding motorcycles from Tiantongyuan in the North Fifth Ring Road to Sanlitun 20 kilometers away.
Often they sang on stage, and suddenly jumped up a drummer, then a saxophone, an accordion, and finally the whole stage became a symphony orchestra. In this way, each of their performances is different.
Xiaohe is a particularly childlike person. Sometimes when you drink too much, you will suddenly run out, hug someone when you see it, or stop a taxi and have to pull the driver to dance.
The most exaggerated is that in 2010, Foxconn had 14 consecutive jumps. During a performance, Xiaohe suddenly jumped off the two-meter-high platform, saying that he wanted to feel what it was like for the workers to jump.
As a result, he broke his heel and lay at home for two months.
He once compiled a story of a suicide of a lonely widow and an elderly man into a song word for word, named "Lao Liu", and said that he could not stand the indifference of people watching the news in the face of this tragedy.
During the Spring Festival of 2003, Beijing encountered SARS. The river bar was closed and never opened again. Many singers left Beijing.
However, many singers outside Beijing felt this force and began to relay.
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Among the people influenced by Xiaohe, there was a Shanghai man named Lu Chen.
Lu Chen is a part-time music maker, his job is a customs civil servant, this profession, in his words, basically does not occupy the brain, only the benefits are not harmful.
In 2001, he founded the "Circus on the Top Floor" in a lane in Shanghai.
He first met Xiaohe in 2002 when he went to Beijing for the Midi Music Festival. After that, every time they came to Beijing, they drank with Xiaohe and them. In his words:
Xiaohe made me feel the four words "free music" strongly.
They wrote all the small citizens, small white-collar workers, and foreign sisters in Shanghai into the song.
In 2003 SARS, they wrote a song with lyrics that were sung for today:
Keep a distance in extraordinary times
In extraordinary times, wear masks and gas masks
In extraordinary times, people have fear on their faces
The coronavirus spreads in the air
Come, come, come, come...
Wear a mask and wash your hands frequently
Outsiders are requested to register with the community consciously
Migrant workers should postpone their return to their hometowns
In fact, all the songs in the world have more than one life.
In 2009, Lu Chen and they went to Beijing to participate in the After Party of the Strawberry Music Festival, and at the end of the performance, they sang "Welcome to Beijing" as "Welcome to Shanghai" on the spot.
They feel that as a Shanghai band, they must promote their hometown:
Welcome to Shanghai Welcome to come and buy things
Don't forget to bring RMB
Welcome to Shanghai What's so great about the Olympics
Let's meet again at the Expo
The subway runs through the city center, and the skyscrapers are everywhere
Prime locations on both sides of the Pujiang River Billion Marriott houses have risen
Group rental housing in three squares to survive
The next trip to find my little citizen had to go to the suburbs
Not long after the song was sung, their underground rehearsal room in Shanghai was demolished.
After a few years, Dingma began to transform into a small and fresh route, and released an album with the name of Shanghai: "Talk about money hurt feelings Talk about feelings and hurt money and hurt feelings".
This is their last album.
Because it is getting hotter and hotter, there are more and more commercial performances on top of the horse, and it begins to rehearse non-stop, more and more full-time, and Lu Chen, who is almost 40 years old, feels tired and quits.
In the past, they drank a big drink and it only took one day to ease up, but now it can't be done for three days.
Old.
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When The Beauty Pharmacy was first founded, Xiaohe said that they only emphasized the dark side of human nature and did not provide a beautiful reality.
Years later, he also started doing some good things.
In 2012, he did a project to spend a day with a stranger every month, writing a song for them.
In 2018, he made another plan to go to the alley to find old people who could sing nursery rhymes and compose music for those unrecorded, word-of-mouth nursery rhymes.
It is called:
Rumor Hunting Program.
In Xiaohe's view, nursery rhymes are the carriers of music in a specific time and space. That particular time and space rises and falls in the song, making people aware of their unique, deceased hometowns, and the emotions given by childhood.
The next time you play it, something you might remember will be triggered by it.
He found a hundred old men, and after listening to them tell countless life stories, he recorded 12 nursery rhymes.
He expanded the plan to Hangzhou, Changsha, and in 2020, to Shanghai.
This time, Lu Chen also joined his team. The two no longer had a hangover when they met, but got together to sing nursery rhymes, undressed and jumped on stage, and the momentum of confrontation with the whole world seemed to be so reconciled.
Joining them this time, there is also Kuaishou, and there is nothing better than Kuaishou to dig up the treasure hidden in the folk.
On Kuaishou, there are already people sharing nursery rhymes from their hometowns, in dialect versions, as well as versions of ethnic minorities.
What Xiaohe wants to do, in fact, Kuaishou has been doing all these years.
Countless folk music and non-hereditary heirs on Kuaishou are all discovering various cultures and connecting certain emotions.
As Xiaohe said, music can connect parts that should not be separated.
Like a pro-clear drum
Mongolian Sihu
If there is no kuaishou, these folk arts are really difficult to be known and appreciated by more people.
From this point of view, Xiaohe and Kuaishou are doing the same thing. Use music to find the story of time, let that emotion be recorded, and let different people connect because of music.
With the help of Kuaishou, Xiaohe's nursery rhymes can radiate to more people, who help each other and complete this beautiful thing together.
In addition to Lu Chen, Xiao He's friends from that year also came back to support him one by one, Old Wolf, Anna, Zhong Lifeng, Mo Xizishi...
There is also a man named Liu Kun. If you want to know anything else about him, that Nanjing citizen won't give you his phone number either.
At 20:30 on The evening of March 14, 2020, they are going to have a concert on Kuaishou together and sing nursery rhymes together.
The most passionate years have passed, and this group of them can finally get together peacefully.
SARS completely changed their lives, and 17 years later, during this equally special period, they sat down to sing nursery rhymes to everyone.
Songs can best soothe emotions, nursery rhymes are the most innocent memories that connect the heart, and at this sad and anxious moment of the people of the whole country, those good memories of childhood can bring infinite comfort.
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Listen to the old cannons sing nursery rhymes to you tonight