After a long journey of 23 days, the Chang'e-5 returner finally landed safely at the Four Princes Banner of Inner Mongolia at 1:59 a.m. today, marking the completion of the three-step plan of China's lunar exploration project "around, falling and returning" as scheduled.
People's attention to the starry sky has never stopped. Liu Cixin's "Three-Body" trilogy has brought Chinese science fiction to the world, and Guo Fan's "Wandering Earth" has triggered the public's discussion of distant interstellar... Recently, Yin Lin, a graduate of NTU and a well-known original singer of ancient style, cooperated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences with the new work "Moon" to produce a popular science video to trace the Chinese lunar exploration project.
Did you glance at me casually?
The light blue gravity is enough for me to rejoice
I'm secretly thinking of you toward twilight
It is the most gentle mystery in the galaxy
- Silver Pro, "The Moon"
From Campus to "Professional Musician"
Yinlin is a 2010 undergraduate student at the School of Foreign Chinese of Nanjing University. In an interview with Nanda New Biography, Yin Lin said that after many years of absence from Nanda, she still recalls the night when she rehearsed with her friends in the drama club until she could not extricate herself and cried, recalled the tension and cramping when she first participated in the choir, and recalled the doubts and confusion of being eliminated when the top ten singers were eliminated during the audition. All of these fragments are put together into Silver Pro's "Musical Memories" at NTU. She once sang a "Ballad of Jinling", wrote all the nanjing customs, and more or less expressed her thoughts about that good time.
Compared with making music on campus based on pure interest, most full-time musicians who are just starting out may have an "less stable job", and the upfront income is sometimes not enough to support their life in the big city. When they wander, they will also cry silently in the middle of the night, feeling exhausted in the face of pressure. But the original love for music makes Yin Lin always "walk towards the light" and firmly follow the love in his heart. Nowadays, for Silver Pro, music is an indispensable way of expression, like a painter painting and a poet writing poetry. Looking to the future, she hopes that she can be unguarded by the market and boldly challenge some works that are more atmospheric and emotionally expressive.
"Moon" is such an attempt.
Behind the creation of "Moon"
Human beings naturally have a desire to seek the unknown, and this instinct drives the progress of civilization. It is not only the aerospace engineers who look up at the stars, but also ordinary people who pay attention to and imagine space and pour their own beautiful feelings. 2019's "The Wandering Earth" was all the rage, bringing a wave of science fiction. Yin Lin, a well-known original musician who graduated from NTU, also created the song "Moon" precisely because he saw this movie.
Seriously, this original music selected by the Chinese Academy of Sciences also stemmed from a "beautiful misunderstanding". In an interview with NetEase Cloud Music Life & Live, Silver Pro said that after watching the movie, he was curious about the earth leaving the solar system to wander but did not take the moon. She saw an answer on Zhihu and was surprised to find that "the moon does not have much impact on the entire ecology of the earth." This discovery made her sigh for the moon, and she thought of shaping the moon into the image of a crush, telling the story of "the moon has a crush on the earth" with songs.
But in fact, the existence of the Moon is crucial to life on Earth. If the moon is lost, the tidal action on the earth will no longer exist, and the marine ecosystem will suffer a catastrophe; in addition, the rotation and rotation of the earth will accelerate, and the climatic conditions will be difficult to maintain stability; at the same time, the earth will lose a protective barrier and be more exposed to the dangerous cosmic environment.
A small misunderstanding at the beginning of the creation did not affect the sincerity and moving of Silver Pro's singing voice. Although it is a love song, Silver Pro and the creative team are not satisfied with the general love song paradigm, hoping to show a sense of alienation and cosmic sense in this "Moon"; in terms of composition, Silver Pro has also changed several times, and repeatedly modified to make this song that is called "not in line with the conventional creative process of popular songs".
A group photo of the Earth and Moon taken by the Chang'e-5 T1 tester launched in October 2014
However, what is unusual is precisely what is special and breakthrough. The olive branch of cooperation thrown by Popular Science China is undoubtedly an affirmation of this song. In an interview, Yin Lin mentioned that he would not force changes in order to "tear off the label", but also hoped for more innovation and exploration.
Explore the stars without stopping
For billions of years, the Moon has been with the Earth at a distance of about 400,000 kilometers. Chinese has had a special affection for the moon since ancient times, believing that the image of the moon is noble and pure, and is used to lament its own loneliness and purity; that the moon is a symbol of reunion, and often uses its imagery to pin homesickness and family feelings. Mythical stories such as Chang'e Running Moon and Wu Gang Fa Gui not only reflect the ancients' beautiful imagination of what the moon has, but also show their simple understanding of the distant celestial body of the moon.
Modern astronomical knowledge tells us that there is no Chang'e and jade rabbit on the moon, nor is there a toad palace and a laurel tree, but the moon is indeed cold and lonely. The development of science and technology has unveiled the mystery of the universe for human beings little by little, and gradually has a deeper understanding of the earth where they live and the stars around them. Since China officially launched the lunar exploration project in 2004 and named it the "Chang'e Project", Chang'e-1 has explored the moon, Chang'e-4 landed on the moon, Chang'e-5 successfully sampled, and the returner returned safely... More than ten years have passed, and the three phases of the "orbit", "fall" and "return" projects have been completed as scheduled, and China's lunar exploration project is about to enter a new chapter.
Chang'e 5 sent back images of the lunar flag display
The Chang'e-5 returner landed on the extremely cold snow of the Four Princes Banner of Inner Mongolia, which was successfully recovered by the search and rescue team and embarked on the road back to Beijing. The lunar exploration project is about to enter a new stage, and China's aerospace industry is taking a big step forward.
Every child who looks up at the stars is like this, once walking alone in the silent universe and the vast snowy fields. The moment I was seen, I began a new journey of beauty.
Source: Nanjing University