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Someone once described the pattern of Taiwan's lyrics industry as follows: "Men have Yao Qian, and women have Li Manting." ”
Li Manting, who is it?
She is a myth in Taiwan's lyric world, and many of the songs written by her have become enduring classics for thirty years.
Your tears are crystal clear in your heart, and there must be a dream why you don't hold my hand and watch the sea and the sky become one color
She wrote "Flower Heart" for Zhou Huajian, which makes this Japanese imported song really have a soul.
Li Manting's works are "appropriate" and "catchy".
Later, Chen Shuhua's "Laughing Red Dust", Xin Xiaoqi's "Two pairs of forgetting", Jacky Cheung's "Leaving People", and Jin Haixin's "So Proud" have all become Li Manting's representative works.
About a year ago, Li Manting was invited to write "Unspoken Meaning" for Pin Guan.
This idyllic and melodious song says "unspeakable confession".
The two people have been together for a long time, and many love words have been buried in their hearts.
The words in the chat dialog were written and deleted, deleted and written, and they were not as direct as this song.
This feeling, Li Manting pinched really well, she was writing a man's heart.
Although Yao Qian is low-key, at least he is the "humble brother" in the mouths of Li Wei and Liu Ruoying, and he has also served as the main marriage of Li Zongsheng and Lin Yilian.
In contrast, Li Manting's exposure rate is extremely low.
In the past thirty years, very few people have seen her true face, and even on the Internet there is not a single photo of her that must not be easy.
Some people say that the one who took the photo with Zhang Yu is her, but not everyone agrees.
In short, yes or no, it is difficult to determine.
Although she is in the noisy entertainment circle, she seems to be a guest of the mountains and wilderness, and does not ask about the jianghu.
This is a state of mind, but also a kind of open-mindedness.
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In 1989, Li Manting was also the editor-in-chief of you, me and him magazine.
She deals with record companies and singers every day, manages her staff, and pays a lot of money.
Bright and beautiful, envious of others.
In this year, Li Manting, who was smooth sailing, said goodbye to her comfort zone.
The contacts accumulated during the magazine period helped her enter the point record company.
Many things are accidentally implied by necessity, li Manting stepped into the lyrics world, and step by step became a gold medal lyricist, completely for her own struggle.
At first, Li Manting worked in the planning department of Dianjiang, and Yao Qian was responsible for writing lyrics in the production department.
In addition to exerting her planning expertise, Li Manting also firmly believes that she has a talent for writing.
In the record company, writing lyrics is undoubtedly the best choice.
She wrote "Too Late to Change Her Heart" for Jiang Shuna in 1989, which did not cause much of a stir, but helped her open Pandora's box.
Since then, regarding the matter of writing lyrics, Li Manting felt that she could.
From 1989 to 1993, Li Manting changed several owners and worked as her own studio.
Although he has published no more than five works, he has never put down a pen to record his transformation.
Eventually, Rolling Stone Records pulled Li Manting ashore.
She entered the production department this time, and finally could say goodbye to the planning work that she had been together for many years.
However, at that time, the production was all in charge of Li Zongsheng, and Li Manting felt that she was "a senior person who was idle".
The scene was once very funny, Li Manting waited for the company to divide the task, but the company seemed to forget her.
Later, Li Manting realized that it was her own problem.
"The Rolling Stones are putting you in a sea and letting you swim on your own to see what sparks you can hit."
She went to her supervisor and expressed her desire to write lyrics.
This surprised the supervisor, after all, Li Manting was still an "ugly duckling" at that time.
Fortunately, the supervisor still gave her the space to create, just in time for Zhou Huajian to make songs, she wrote two lyrics.
One of them is "Flower Heart".
It is this song "Flower Heart" that makes "Ugly Duckling" become "White Swan".
"I didn't take the title of the song because I didn't know what I wrote." Li Manting later commented on "Flower Heart".
The insult is not shocking, it is precisely from her dream. Originally it was a try, what about success or failure?
The lighthouse is bright, but still. Li Manting, like a swan, said goodbye to the warm nest on the lighthouse.
On a moonlit night, she flew forward along the blue smoke-filled sea, rushed out of the shackles, and returned to her own Swan Lake.
Sometimes, choice is really more important than the effort itself. On the short road of life, be kind to yourself and let the white rice you hate in front of you become a warm cinnabar mole in your palm.
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Since the beginning of "Flower Heart", Li Manting's talent has revealed the tip of the iceberg.
There are many people who have written a good word, but it is inevitable that they will be successful just by saying that they are successful based on a good song.
The instantaneous glow of a meteor burning cannot leave a lasting mark on the Milky Way.
Li Manting also ushered in a key moment in her lyrics career.
At that time, Li Zongsheng, Yao Qian, and others had already opened up their own territories in the field of Taiwanese lyrics.
Li Zongsheng's old man's vicissitudes and Yao Qian's anti-string women's thoughts are obviously not Li Manting's dishes.
Watching the lofty progress of her peers, it is impossible to say that Li Manting does not have a ripple in her heart.
She could have followed the routine of "Flower Heart" or imitated Li Yao and others.
But she insisted on continuing to be herself, labeling the words she wrote as "Li Manting".
Compared with "Flower Heart", Li Manting's "Laughing Red Dust" written for the martial arts movie "The Undefeated Rise of the East" is more atmospheric.
Some people say that Xu Ke, Chen Shuhua, Li Zongsheng, and Lin Qingxia have jointly completed an "undefeated east."
This evaluation only falls behind Li Manting, the lyricist of "Laughing Red Dust".
△ Lin Qingxia's version of the East is undefeated
Red dust is ridiculously infatuated, the most boring to see everything is good in this life, but it has no trouble, but it is only in exchange for half a life
Without such words, the whole song would have lost a lot of color.
A few hours before the lyrics of "Laughing Red Dust" came out, Li Zongsheng had already written the song, but he was still anxious to send a message to Xu Ke, and the godfather occasionally had a time to resign.
At noon, when Li Zongsheng invited his colleagues in the production department to dinner, he shouted for Li Manting to help think of words.
In the afternoon, after writing in the café for two hours, Li Manting handed in the papers.
Li Zongsheng took the lyrics and was silent for a long time.
Finally, he told Li Manting: "I still have to ask director Xu Ke, and he will have no problem nodding."
In this way, the classic song "Laughing Red Dust" cooperated by Li Manting and Li Zongsheng met with the audience and was also sung to this day.
Man, what he has to do is to stick to the inner sea of stars, rather than to act in a chaotic way. This is a truth that many people can't understand in their lifetime.
Li Manting, when her career started, she was not blinded by random flowers, and she was not eager to draw rules and regulations for life.
This is also paving the way for herself to become a versatile wordmaker in the future.
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The writer Qian Zhongshu once quoted an ancient fable to satirize the chaos in cultural circles.
God will choose the most beautiful bird to be the king of birds, and the crow will drape the long hair of the peacock on his body, insert it on his tail, and go to God to be chosen, and sure enough, he will choose for God. The other birds were furious and pulled off all the feathers they had inserted, still showing the true appearance of the crow.
The story is that talent, wisdom, virtue, all these good qualities, have a good heart within them.
Otherwise, what is put on will not last long.
Li Manting's lyrics are always beautiful, and from time to time she uses philosophy to cross her own people.
Among them, the most representative ones are "Two Two Forgetting" and "Leaving People".
Pick a smiling flower to think about the changes in the world to win or lose in the end, what is the obstacle to the day and the moon to consume each other, rich and noble for a long time, this morning's face is older than last night
At that time, with the popularity of the 93rd edition of "Yitian Slaughtering Dragon", the ending song "Two Pairs of Forgetting" was also deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
The lyrics are Zen and endlessly evocative. The Ming Sect advocated no scruples, holding the hands of red faces, and stepping on the dangers of the rivers and lakes, and finally changed from a stinking teenager to a tall person who saw through mortal dust.
Most people have never seen Li Manting, but through this song, the audience saw a clean woman Hui Zhi Lanxin.
And the picture sense of "Leaving People" is also rare to see.
When she wrote this song, Li Manting was in Beijing, and she was completely touched.
Perhaps, at that moment, there was a layer of "closer homesickness and more timid" thoughts in the mind.
Perhaps, at that moment, there was a heavy sadness of "it seems that the old man came" between the eyebrows.
The silver boat swayed and hung in the velvet sky, and your heart stopped on my ghostly heart
Such overlapping words are sung a hundred times and thousands of times, like Li Qingzhao's "Like a Dream Order".
The heart is bright and pure, sprinkled on the paper to become a poem of its own.
If you live with a utilitarian heart, the more you want to get it, the easier it is to die. This is fate's joke with the "smart people".
Everyone loves to work with brush strokes, which one really knows how to write well?
Instead of racking your brains and making your life and career into "doing addition", it is better to learn to express that true self.
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Although Li Manting had received help from nobles when she left the magazine, in fact, according to her own words, "there are no friends in the circle." ”
Inability to distinguish between love and friendship is a common problem for many people.
Moreover, for the opposite sex, there is no boundary between the two.
When she was young, Li Manting liked a feeling of "ambiguity", and later realized that it was an ignorance.
It is better to be at ease alone.
You can take it and put it down. What's harder than making friends is that you can enjoy solitude.
While not a few lyricists are trying to work well with singers, Li Manting has never been kidnapped by so-called friendship.
Even the famous Li Zongsheng, even if they were colleagues in a department, even if they had collaborated on "Laughing Red Dust", Li Manting said, "Completely unfamiliar." ”
She respects Li Zongsheng, but because of her personality, there is not much intersection.
"I don't have that, if you are an artist, I will worship you, protect you, take care of your good temper, artists, celebrities are just people, just like you and me, there is no special, personal independence and respect for each other must have." 」
People of Li Manting's personality are defined in the dictionary as "lonely patients".
A mainland scholar once said: "We walk side by side in the dark, walking on our respective pilgrimage paths." ”
Loneliness is a state of life.
Especially when a person has a dream and a faith, his loneliness will become stronger.
Like Li Manting, her interest is to write words, that is her destiny, and everything else is up to it.
"Becoming famous because of writing words" and "writing words for fame" are really not the same thing.
Open-minded people, enjoy solitude. Don't think about the past, don't fear the future.
Nowadays, time seems to pass faster and faster, and clocking in to work, socializing after work, and going home to sleep have become the daily routine of many people.
A day follows a month, a month follows a year.
"Between the car door and the door of the house, there is always a distance of a cigarette."
This is a true portrayal of men who are not in a hurry to go home after parking, and that moment truly belongs to themselves.
And for women, why not?
People always hate loneliness and yearn for loneliness.
The love that was once longed for is always something less,
The girlfriends who once said nothing were busy with their livelihoods,
The wish that was made did not come close to reality with the progress bar of the first half of life.
Yang Lan said a passage, perhaps the best antidote to deal with "time anxiety disorder".
"The least suspenseful thing in life is that we will all grow old slowly, and the biggest suspense in life is how we will get old." Women's appearance has quietly changed over the years, and we can make a deal with time in exchange for wisdom in life and inner accommodation. ”
Li Manting is a wise and accommodating woman.
Thirty years of quiet lyrics, loneliness and aging, can you help me?
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In a rare interview, Li Manting was proud that she had the talent to write lyrics, which was a bit surprising, so successful, why can't she be modest?
She said, "There's nothing remarkable about this circle. Anyone with a little bit of writing skills can do it. ”
In fact, if you want to write a good poem, "Kung Fu is still outside the poem." ”
People who don't understand life, can't write good words, Li Manting's own so-called "talent", EQ is more than IQ.
She was killed no less than others, and that made her despair.
As a lyricist who was halfway out of the family, Li Manting's initial work was not even related to literature and art.
Li Manting studied French at university and went to work as a French secretary in a trading company after graduation.
She didn't like it and resigned after three months of work.
Later, she applied for the recruitment of "TV Synthesis", and originally held the idea of trying it out, but unexpectedly passed the exam.
So, slowly, there is a later story.
She knew when and what to do.
When I was young, I didn't know how to make magazines.
When you see clearly, you can start writing words lightly.
Later, return to the family to find the true self.
The family is a haven and a kaleidoscope.
Chai rice oil and salt, so that Li Manting can see a lot of life shining points.
She knew what she wanted, and she knew why.
She doesn't like to make money because she doesn't care much about spending money herself.
"My plan for the future, the statute of limitations is one year, I will calculate my savings next year and whether there is money to spend, there is a good, I will not care, the next year's matter, next year." 」
In fact, the truth of life is hidden in trivial details.
Every experience has a reason for its existence.
People with hearts will think, why does such a thing fall on my head?
Should I accept such a life?
This is the process of finding the true self.
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Life is a practice.
How we treat it, it will respond to us.
Li Manting, the thirty years that she has insisted on the road of writing lyrics in obscurity is the thirty years of friendship with her own life.
There have been peaks and lows, and she can face them calmly.
Glorify her, but be an appendage of the lyrics.
It also allows her to experience the true meaning of life more easily and happily than others.
This is reminiscent of China's last "gentleman" Yang Dai, who lived a longer and more profound life, and she once walked through an open-minded and peaceful 105-year-old life.
Yang began translating Cervantes' famous don Quixote in 1956, for which she taught herself Spanish until 1978.
When readers read this 720,000-word classic translation, no one remembers Yang Dai's efforts of more than 20 years.
She also did not become a star in the limelight.
Later, Yang Dai still enjoyed it in the academic world, because it was her own spiritual home and had nothing to do with others.
In 1997 and 1998, his daughter Qian Yuan and her husband Qian Zhongshu died one after another.
Once happily ever after a lifetime, this time, "We both scattered." ”
Yang Dai later said:
"God does not let all happiness be concentrated in one person, and having love does not necessarily have money; having money does not necessarily lead to happiness; having happiness does not necessarily have health; having health does not necessarily make everything come true."
She put all her energy into writing, and at the age of ninety, she published the tear-jerking "The Two of Us."
The manuscript fee of Qian Zhongshu and the research literature that condensed the husband and wife's painstaking efforts for many years were donated by Yang Dai to the state.
Ordinary life becomes different because of excellence, and excellent life is more precious because of open-mindedness.
Li Manting is closer to us than Mr. Yang Dai, and her life is closer to the real today.
Just when people are struggling to explore life, she has already given the answer with her past life.
Grass-colored human affection and leisure, non-fame and fortune.
Article reference: "Li Manting: This circle can't be, what a great thing"
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