The Chinese music scene has a long history, surging winds and clouds, wonderful and talented, and there are many singers with talents and characteristics who have achieved brilliant achievements to make a deep impression and leave an indelible footprint in the music world.
Speaking of the great influence and personal charm of the Chinese music scene, singers who are still loved and respected by fans to this day, in addition to Luo Dayou, Huang Jiaju, Wang Jie, Jay Chou and others, I believe that many fans are also talented, distinctive, works with great depth of thought, and enhance the level of Chinese pop music. His name is Zheng Zhihua.
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Zheng Zhihua was born in An ordinary family in Taiwan, originally a well-off family, his parents were doubly fond of him, his childhood was originally happy and beautiful, carefree, but fate tricked, sudden injuries, took away his heartfelt laughter, added infinite troubles and sorrows to him and his family, and also changed the direction of his life.
At the age of two, he suffered from polio, which made Zheng Zhihua's legs and feet disabled, and he has been unable to move since then. However, Zheng Zhihua was optimistic and physically disabled, and did not give up on himself, nor did he have inferiority and depression. Rather, it is brave to face life and face the challenges of life with a positive attitude.
Although Zheng Zhihua has limited mobility, his living state is almost indistinguishable from that of normal people, and he is outgoing and lively in fighting with classmates, falling in love, selling learning and daily necessities in school, and his youth can be described as colorful, and also provides rich materials for future music creation. Integrating his real life experience and his unique ideological perception that is different from ordinary people makes his works more three-dimensional, more connotative and more vital.
Zheng Zhihua, who began his love of music from childhood and expressed his feelings through music, worked for an advertising agency as an adult to write his first song "To Happy Girls". This advertising song has a high popularity through the spread of television, showing Zheng Zhihua's talent, but also triggering the favor of the owner of the Taiwan Point Record Company who loves talent and cherishes talent, after several lobbies, he finally recruited him to his subordinates, poured resources into planning the development of the music scene according to Zheng Zhihua's special quality. A music legend that makes people enjoy and reminisce endlessly, has a special significance and a pivotal position in the history of the development of Chinese pop music, and writes a strong and colorful legend has also begun.
Zheng Zhihua officially released his debut album in 1988, which caused a huge sensation. This year has a special significance for the Chinese music scene, and it can even go down in history. In the past year, many singers who have made dazzling achievements in the music world and made great contributions to the development of Chinese pop music have sprung up thanks to the good soil cultivation of Taiwanese pop. For example, Wang Jie, Zhao Chuan, Zhang Yusheng, Zheng Zhihua, Huang Shujun, Wu Sikai, Pan Meichen and others have all stunned an era.
And Zheng Zhihua's personal style, the depth of his works, the degree of singing and the influence of these superstars are not far behind, even in terms of the humanistic color of the works.
Zheng Zhihua's first attempt in the song world is called "The Story of Lao Mi", Zheng Zhihua ranks the old man in the family, as the name suggests, this album is based on his personal experience and mental journey as the creative model, coupled with his deep understanding of life, condensed.
As soon as this album was released, it aroused a warm response from the outside world, showing a sharp and profound and humanistic style that was inconsistent with Zheng Zhihua's appearance, just like a bright color in the Taiwanese music scene with the theme of mournful and lingering, disease-free moaning love songs and poetic romance, and praising beautiful folk songs, which won the recognition and praise of the industry and the love and attention of fans, and also laid a solid foundation for his song world journey.
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And Zheng Zhihua really stood out in the Taiwanese song scene where classic singers gathered and the competition was fierce, his reputation rose, and he became popular all over the taiwan strait and three places, and laid the foundation for the status of the king of national songs, which also lay in the way that he joined the taiwan record company giant, and after the flying saucer records led by the Rolling Stones with superstars such as Luo Dayou, Li Zongsheng, and Qi Qin, he was reborn and burst out of the huge creative energy.
The launch of the albums "Young Age", "Private Room Song", "Stars And Lights", "Tearful Drama", and "Game People" shocked the entire Chinese music scene like a thunderbolt, and also made fans remember and like this disabled singer with strong ambitions, talent and distinctive characteristics, leaving a deep imprint on the heart.
Zheng Zhihua's unique and otherworldly musical talent and cynical, tragic and compassionate depth of thought are fully revealed in this. Inspirational, criticism of reality, analysis of life, exposure of the dark side of society and human nature, humanistic care, ordinary pop songs rarely dabbled in or dare not express the elements in Zheng Zhihua's album without reservation, full of color, such as a sharp scalpel to cut through the camouflage, directly degrade the shortcomings of the times, with artistic ways to show the real society, the real human nature and the mental journey of ordinary people, but also emit dazzling brilliance to illuminate people's increasingly desolate and indifferent hearts, re-stimulate the long-suppressed emotions.
At the same time, Zheng Zhihua's songs have also raised the level of popular music, changed fans' perception of popular music, and amazed fans. It turns out that music can also be written in this way, so with soul, with temperature, so thoughtful and profound, can make people feel a lot, produce deep feelings and reflections in addition to love, and also sublimate the soul.
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Songs such as "Sailor", "Stars And Lights", "Great Nation", "Hero's Song", "Happy Birthday Song", "Don't Cry My Favorite" and other songs have become popular and have become the spiritual sustenance and comfort of more than one generation.
"Sailor" is Zheng Zhihua's most well-known and most influential work, and it is also the work that best reflects Zheng Zhihua's musical thoughts and styles, and its social and humanistic nature is very strong. This song is a representative of Chinese pop music inspirational songs, condensing Zheng Zhihua's personal experience and feelings, singing about the pursuit of ideals and indomitable to reality for ordinary people.
The lyrics are simple and sincere, the melody is gradual, the enthusiasm is passionate, and the combination of the two reveals perseverance and courage, so that the listener feels that this is their mood portrayal, and unconsciously stimulates an invisible force of struggle and resistance.
“... He said that this little pain in the wind and rain is nothing, don't be afraid to dry the tears, at least we still have dreams, he said that this little pain in the wind and rain is what to dry the tears, don't ask..." "Sailor" has touched a generation, countless people are inspired by such vivid lyrics, in the face of difficulties and wind and rain, with their heads held high, and zheng Zhihua's image has also continued to rise in the minds of fans. For fans, Zheng Zhihua is a fighter with disabilities and does not bow to fate, and he is also a messenger who expresses his ideals and demands on behalf of countless ordinary people.
"Sailor" is the benchmark of inspirational songs in Chinese pop music, and Zheng Zhihua's "Great National" and "Hero's Song" are the rare conscience of the Chinese music scene full of Yingge Yan with the label of realism and social criticism. Personally, I think that the depth and criticality are not inferior to the shocking and world-famous works such as Luo Dayou's "Lukang Town" and "Seventy-Two Changes in Phenomena" that are also full of humanistic spirit. The song's lashing of political metaphors and the ugly phenomena of social existence is to the point, and the intensity is deafening, shocking, and thought-provoking.
Zheng Zhihua's songs have inspiring elements, exposure and criticism of undesirable phenomena in society, and warm pulse and humanistic care. "Happy Birthday Song", "Don't Cry My Favorite Person" and other songs thought it was a description of friendship and love, but in fact, when carefully tasted, it was like a Daigo empowerment, suddenly enlightened, it was originally a profound expression of literature and art to portray the bitterness and difficulty of being born as a person, strong and free, in-depth and simple, full of emotional color, realistic and warm, sensual and moving.
Zheng Zhihua's music is like a lighthouse that guides many people who have experienced wind and rain in their lives to move forward, giving people the strength to struggle. His songs have gone beyond the category of popular music, injected with thought and soul, the listener can experience a profound understanding, can bring people thinking, can soothe people's hearts, which is why Zheng Zhihua's influence remains high to this day, and his works are still enduring.
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Zheng Zhihua was tired around 1999, began to focus on the family business, and gradually retired from the music scene, and now rarely sees him in public, which makes people miss him very much.
Elevating the level of popular music, making popular music gorgeous and colorful, flesh and blood, he left a glorious legend in the music world, combined with the current situation of the music world, it also makes people feel heartfelt, this song world lacks Zheng Zhihua to become boring and boring, becomes lost its personality and connotation, but sadly the possibility of a second Zheng Zhihua in the song world is very small, and this era does not deserve to have a second Zheng Zhihua.
The so-called heroes of the times, the social environment of different eras and the changes in the masses' outlook on life and values have led to shallow and subtle changes in the standards and ideas of popular music creation today, too content with the status quo, losing individuality, losing the spirit of criticism, losing the ability and courage to use a magnifying glass to examine and describe various levels of society and human nature, conservative thinking, rat throwing, and cowering.
Today's atmosphere and creativity of the music scene are no longer the same as the golden age of cultivating top musicians such as Luo Dayou, Li Zongsheng, and Zheng Zhihua, who have philosophers' temperament and use pens as knives, and naturally the possibility and qualifications for the birth of a second Luo Dayou, Li Zongsheng, and a second Zheng Zhihua have been lost under the premise of losing the soil and environment they should be.
This is the sadness of this era, and it also requires reflection on music practitioners.