Author: Insight Annabésu
Want to buy osmanthus flowers with wine, the end is not like, juvenile tour.
On July 19, Li Zongsheng ushered in his 63rd birthday, no hot search, no topic.
Unconsciously, the teenager who held the guitar and sang a low chant had reached the age of flower armor.
Through the storms and rains of the world, during the struggles and ups and downs, he wrote all his feelings in the song.
Zhang Aijia said that in everyone's heart, there is a Song Li Zongsheng.
At every threshold of disappointment, at every lonely night, those songs, expressing their heartfelt feelings, soothed every tired passerby in the world.
Those jumping notes, the flowing melody, listened to years later, strung together has become a person's life.
01
Life is in a hurry, you have to wait for it to be cooked.
Li Zongsheng was born in Taipei to an ordinary family, the later "godfather of Chinese music", and his youth was miserable and wandering.
He's not very talented.
Most people can be admitted to the national high school, he can't pass the exam, make up for 10 months and then take the exam, or fall behind.
Later, it was difficult to go to industrial college, and by the fifth year, everyone else had graduated, and Li Zongsheng had studied intermittently for two more years, but he still hadn't finished.
Later, when he had nothing to do, he helped his family to send gas.
In "Three Things about Azon", he speaks plainly of his youth:
"I am the son of a gas shop owner, and before I could prove that I had the ability to make money independently, my father asked me to help deliver gas at home;
I had to take advantage of the light afternoon of business, tie a phone sign to the poles in the new neighborhood, and I had to carry the gas through the stinking night market..."
On his wandering and dreary days, fortunately he had music and guitar.
After busy work every day, Li Zongsheng taught himself music theory in a small room, went to the restaurant to sell songs in the evening, and formed a "acoustic guitar" folk band.
At the age of 24, he gained a foothold in the recording industry with his album "The Rain Came Just In Time".
Later, he joined the Rolling Stones and became an ace producer, writing songs for Zhou Huajian, Zhang Xinzhe, Xin Xiaoqi, Liang Jingru and others along the way, opening the golden age of the Hong Kong and Taiwan music scene.
Many people think that Li Zongsheng's success is due to talent, but it is not.
When everyone thought he wasn't out of the way, he didn't give up and he wasn't in a hurry.
A guitar, a piece of sincerity, a few years of time, even out of their own miracles.
I have heard a saying that many things in life are urgent, and you have to wait for him to be familiar with it.
Everyone has their own time zone, some people are young and ambitious, and some people are late.
Life is not afraid of unambitiousness, afraid that we will lose our own direction in comparison with others.
When you have made a lot of efforts, endured a lot of loneliness, strengthened your faith, and are not in a hurry, everything that is arranged for you will come sooner or later.
02
Friendship is rare and long,often life is long and scattered.
On January 30, 2010, Li Zongsheng, Luo Dayou, Zhou Huajian and Zhang Zhenyue sang at the Taipei Arena, and the four-person group "Vertical Line" officially announced its dissolution.
I'm afraid I won't get a chance
Say goodbye to you
Because maybe I'll never see you again
I'm leaving tomorrow
To separate, my tears fell
A generation of legendary combinations has ended, and many people's youth has also ended.
Once a young teenager, eating and swimming together, finally defeated the torrent of fate.
It is often said that friendship is rare and long-lasting, and life is mostly scattered.
In the years that followed, everyone's life inevitably went to a different end.
Once a close friend was admitted to a prestigious school, but you went to an ordinary second book, and when you meet again, you have nothing to say;
The girl who was clamoring to be your bridesmaid when she got married never made a phone call to talk to you for hours when she encountered life problems;
Friends who once agreed to buy a yard to retire with are now scattered in various cities and have become passers-by in your life.
If you want to grow up, it is a process of continuous loss, as one writer said:
"Life is a process of walking from a wide plain into a forest path, and once you traveled together, talked and laughed, but in the end you had to go your separate ways." 」
The train of life, some people come, some people go, the crossroads of life, some people go to the left, some people go to the right.
When the fate comes, cherish it, and when the fate goes, it is relieved.
03
If love is always wounded, it grows after pain.
Li Zongsheng and Lin Yilian, one is a well-known talent, and the other is a delicate and agile talented woman.
The two came together, it seemed natural, but the feelings were too strong, and it was inevitable that they would look bleak when they were separated.
In 2014, the two sang "When Love Has Become a Thing of the Past" in the air, and before he could speak, Li Zongsheng had already covered his face and shed tears.
They became acquainted with this song and eventually separated because of this song.
On the divorce statement, Li Zongsheng said earnestly: "If our love is wrong, may you and I not suffer in vain." ”
Lin Yilian responded lightly, "Greeting each other's future does not seem so far away..."
Don't mention the past again
Life has been stormy
Even if the memory cannot be erased
Love and hate are still in the heart
It's really going to break the past
Let tomorrow continue well
Don't bother to ask for my news
A few numbers, write all the resentment and obsession of men and women in red dust.
Márquez wrote in Love in the Time of Cholera:
"You can't live together in a different way, you can't love each other in another way, there is nothing more difficult in the world than love." 」
If love is always wounded, after the pain, it is growth.
As the saying goes, someone comes into your life and just accompanies you on a ride and teaches you something.
It is inevitable that there will be separation when we are together, and when we love, we will cherish it with all our strength, part with our own joy.
When you bravely wave away your old love and become a better self, there will naturally be a new life waiting for you.
04
The biggest regret in life is to cross the hill and find that no one is waiting.
Compared to the mother's, it is always worried
He was more like a casual bystander
It's a shame I never wrote him into my song
And then I lived all at once
It's easy to cry
When in vain the world is entangled
Cash into wind frost folds
Dad I miss you
This "Newly Written Old Song" was written by Li Zongsheng to his deceased father.
Like most fathers and sons in China, the two had little communication, so much so that Li Zongsheng exclaimed that "two men, most likely, will only look likely in their lifetime."
At that time, he was anxious to prove himself, but he had never received his father's praise, and he had some doubts and resentment.
It was only when he himself was also wandering around in the world and shouldering the burden of the family on his shoulders that he understood his father in silence and silence.
"It seems that when he finally understands that it is too late, he is not waiting for you, it is too late, he has waited for you, it is too late." 」
When I was young, I didn't understand my father's love, and when I read it, my father was no longer there.
Li Zongsheng's regret is also the regret of many people.
In the comments section of the song, countless people wrote about their guilt for their fathers:
Wanted to buy him another coat, which he could no longer wear;
I wanted to have another drink with him, but I couldn't...
The biggest regret in life is to try your best, but find that you have crossed the hill and no one is waiting for you at the end.
There is a passage in "Mr. Deca's Mailbox" that says:
"We always put our hopes on the future, and the days pass day by day, and there is no change in life."
It turned out that I was negligent, where there are so many futures, some are just the present. ”
We always think that the future can be expected, but we forget that there is no regressive key in life, and not all waiting can wait until the coming day.
In a life that cannot be repeated, please be kind to your parents, because whether you love or not in the next life, we will never see each other again.
05
Ordinary is the only answer to life.
In 1991, Li Zongsheng wrote a "Mortal Song":
You and I are mortal, born in the world
Running and suffering all day long, not idle for a moment
At that time, Li Zongsheng had just stood in the year of his standing, standing in the music feast, and living his life freely.
But later, he experienced emotional injuries, drifted outside for more than ten years and then returned to his hometown, and his life had passed the flower year.
After a thousand sails, like the "Mortal Song" he sang when he was young, he became an ordinary ordinary person in the crowd.
He immersed himself in making acoustic guitars, he indulged in material selection, design, and then used a planer to grind out the shape of the guitar little by little, and the days were simple and satisfied.
When he is idle, he will accompany his family to buy vegetables, feel the warmth of fireworks in the world, and live a life of peace and tranquility.
The writer Diane once said that the greatest maturity of a person is to accept that he is an ordinary person.
No matter how prosperous and amazing life is, it will eventually return to the ordinary.
Just like many years later, the girl who swings on the swing will eventually become a mother who silently folds clothes for her children, and the teenager who once dressed freshly and angrily will become a running back on the street.
When we were young, we all thought that our lives would be golden, and later we learned that we would eventually meet only an ordinary life.
In the second half of life, it is time to learn to reconcile with one's own ordinary, and to wait for the happiness of the firm in the ordinary flow of years.
As long as the heart has love, there are also poems and distant places in chai rice oil and salt.
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Li Zongsheng said that many people from Li's youth heard my two sideburns white.
At the age of 20, he sang "The Man from the Wind Cabinet": Youth is the long wind, from the boundless and without a trace.
At the age of 30, he wrote "Mortal Song": how short life is, why should it be bitter.
At the age of 40, he was depressed and depressed: life in middle age is a chicken feather, and it is getting more and more difficult to write a song that everyone is happy about.
At the age of 60, he finally reached a reconciliation with himself, and the reason why "To MySelf" and "The Hill" are poking people is because he has kneaded all his life experience into the soul of music.
In his songs, there is himself, and there are you and me.
There is the attachment to earthly affairs, there is the heartache of not being able to ask for it, there is the dilemma of being confined to the present, and there is also the relief of a thousand sails.
You think you have read Li Zongsheng, but in fact, he has already read us.