In 2001, Zang Tianshuo was still alive, but Xu Wei was almost dead.
One day, Zang Tianshuo received a phone call from Xu Wei's wife, Yuan Feng, who was severely depressed, had frequent suicidal tendencies, could not work, and left Beijing to return to Xi'an. Yuan Feng hopes that he can survive, the doctor says that effective communication can alleviate the condition, Yuan Feng asked Zang Tianshuo to take time to accompany Xu Wei to talk.
Zang Tianshuo was the Nth person yuan feng asked for help, there was almost no success in front, Xu Wei was famous at that time, but he was penniless and sick, and no one was willing to take care of a terminally ill "poor ghost", even if it was a so-called brother.
Zang Tianshuo fought against righteousness, and he and Yuan Feng said, "I set aside half a month to lay down in your place, and if someone else comes to launch it, you can rest assured." ”
Sure enough, Zang Tianshuo pulled a car of people, with a guy style who made music, and became lively in Xu Wei's house. Leaving the noisy Beijing, in the courtyard of his home, when the drums and music sounded again, Xu Wei burst into tears...
Gibran said, "Your children are not your children, they are beside you, but they do not belong to you." What you give them is your love, but it's not your idea, because they have their own ideas. ”
This sentence is really too right to use on Xu Wei, from the family point of view, Xu Wei and music are almost impossible to beat, he was born in a teacher's family in Xi'an, his parents are not engaged in literature and art, from the point of view of birth, Xu Wei is an "art generation".
Parents originally hoped that Xu Wei could be knowledgeable and thoughtful in the cultural class, shining on the lintel, Xu Wei was not bad, the culture class was very good, but he was particularly fond of music.
At the age of 16, Xu Wei was admitted to a key high school, so that his parents who were teachers also had a lot of face, and as soon as his parents were happy, they rewarded Xu Weiyi with the guitar he dreamed of, hoping that he would continue to work hard in terms of grades, wander in the ocean of knowledge, and then win back an admission letter from a key university.
Who knows, this piano just makes Xu Wei's life and his parents' expectations run in the opposite direction.
In the three years of high school, Xu Wei in addition to learning is to practice the piano, he is too obsessed with music, his parents originally bought him a piano idea is that he can have a hobby of his own, appear elegant, or good. But parents don't know that for Xu Wei, music is life, not a simple hobby.
In 1986, Xi'an held the first guitar playing and singing competition, Xu Wei and one of his friends signed up to participate, the two duo sang, and as a result, in the competition registered by more than 2,000 people, Xu Wei and his friends easily won the first place.
This stinking young man is famous throughout Xi'an.
After the game, many performance groups came to Xu Wei and invited him to join his team and perform together across the country. Xu Wei had not finished high school at that time, the college entrance examination was imminent, but his heart was hooked farther and farther away by music... On the one hand, obsessed with music and charming distant places, on the other hand, the college admission letter expected by his parents made Xu Wei embarrassed.
After careful consideration, Xu Wei became a bad rebellious teenager and made the decision of "great rebellion" - to abandon the college entrance examination and travel around the country with the performance troupe.
Xu Wei thought that by following the performance troupe, he would be able to achieve his ultimate goal and become a big star; in fact, the so-called travel was nothing more than a cave. They often perform until the early hours of the morning, and then they don't even have a decent bed, lie behind the stage to sleep, get up before dawn and leave for the next place, the guy style also has to move by themselves, Xu Wei is a musician, a stevedore, a tramp, a hit worker... Several identities, salaries are paid only once every few months, and it is common to be hungry.
For such a life full of gaps, Xu Wei began to reflect, I gave up the college entrance examination, paying such a big price, am I just to live such a life?
After reflection, Xu Wei decided to go back home, he wanted music, not cave walking and wandering.
In 1987, the 19-year-old Xu Wei returned to Xi'an, the college entrance examination had been missed, the musical dream was shattered for the first time, and Xu Wei's life was full of the word "confused".
Just when Xu Wei could not find the coordinates of life, he was given the opportunity to recruit a special literary and artistic soldier in the army. For Xu Wei, who has guitar expertise, it is just right, and he is back on the right path of life, and his parents are also particularly happy, and their expectations for this "contrarian son" have sprouted again, and they hope that he can be admitted to military school through the army, and it is very good to know that his culture class is very good.
Subsequently, Xu Wei enlisted in the army and began life in the army.
In the army, he is still a silent person, he only wants to practice the piano, in addition to training and the special requirements of the army, he can practice the piano without eating or sleeping for a day, and a practice is more than ten hours, so Xu Wei is not to say that in the eyes of normal people, it is also a different kind of person who is professionally engaged in music.
However, Xu Wei, who is slightly different, not only lives freely, but also gains love. Xu Wei, who was silent and quiet and skilled in playing the piano, attracted a female soldier in the army, Yuan Feng.
Yuan Feng was from a cadre family, beautiful in appearance, and excellent in people; as if God was destined to let a red thread of the old moon hang on her and Xu Wei, who did not take the usual path.
Under the circumstance that the army strictly prohibited comrades-in-arms from falling in love, Xu Wei and Yuan Feng fell in love! They quietly cover their underground love, one protection is eight years, and the other protection is lifelong.
In 1990, Xu Wei and Yuan Feng faced demobilization, and there were two roads in front of them, one was to enter the military academy and become a soldier for life; the other was to take the transfer fee and go home to choose a career on their own.
Xu Wei and Yuan Feng were both commended people in the army, and the entrance examination to the military academy was a good way out for them, and both of them successfully received the notice of the military school, and Xu Wei's next stop was the dentistry major of the Shanghai Fourth Military Medical University. The parents were overjoyed, and finally the child became enlightened and turned back from the crooked road.
However, Xu Wei caught his parents off guard again. He gave up the opportunity to go to military school, he still had to pursue his musical dreams, whether the road ahead was smooth or guttered, this road was the road he identified in this life.
How much disappointment there was in the eyes of his parents, how much firmness there was in Xu Wei's eyes. After many times of communication, his parents took out all their savings, plus Xu Wei's transfer fee for a total of more than 5,000 yuan, and bought an electric guitar for Xu Wei, which is the last time his parents fully supported him on the road of life. When his parents sent it here, the road ahead would depend on how Xu Wei went.
It was 1990, in an era when everyone was vying to become a million yuan household, and the piano with more than five thousand yuan in Xu Wei's hand was really more valuable than life. Of course, Xu Wei also lived up to expectations, and with a good cultural foundation, he embarked on the path of singer-songwriting, and the lyrics were written by himself.
In 1991, he wrote "Don't Cry Baby", the song "Persistence", which later won Tian Zhen all the charts in the mainland.
This song was given to Yuan Feng, who had left the army, and the two of them endured the test of long-distance love, the opposition of Yuan Feng's parents, the embarrassment of economic conditions, and other difficulties; Yuan Feng's parents were cadres, and they could not accept their daughter in military uniform and Xu Wei, a rock singer who wore a zippered leather jacket and combed long hair.
Yuan Feng was often arranged by her parents to go on a blind date, and in order to make her parents happy, she also went, but the first words she said when she saw each other were: "I have a boyfriend... For the sake of parents, so..." So none of them have been successful.
When Xu Wei first officially sang "Don't Cry Baby" to Yuan Feng in 1993, Yuan Feng, who was sitting in the audience, was in tears, she had supported for so long, it was difficult and tired, and he knew it.
Until 1998, Yuan Feng, an "old girl" who stayed up from the early 20s to the age of 30, finally waited for the nod of her parents, and under the blessing of her family, she became Xu Wei's wife as she wished.
But just like Xie Ye, who knew that marrying Gu Cheng was an abyss and still desperate to be together, Yuan Feng's life after marriage was not much better, Xu Wei had already moved to Beijing and signed a contract with Red Star; leaving Yuan Feng still endless waiting and loneliness, and Yuan Feng accepted this waiting and loneliness in its entirety, and then warmed it into a heart of love and full support, pushing Xu Wei on the road of music to go forward.
During the Red Star period, Xu Wei successively released the original songs "Two Days" and "Blue Bird", which were original and the lyrics were extremely beautiful, and Xu Wei soon became a heavyweight music idol group, becoming a singer of the same level as Zheng Jun and Zhang Chu. I have to say that many people think that the cultural knowledge of artists is really not flattering, and Xu Wei is different, his lyrics of "Two Days", has been selected by literary experts into the "Selected Contemporary Chinese Poetry", it can be seen that as early as the 90s of the last century, Xu Wei may not only be an artist, but also a poet with deep cultural cultivation.
In 1997, Xu Wei released his debut album "Elsewhere".
Before embarking on the road of rock and roll, someone once said to Xu Wei: "Mr. Lu Xun said, 'There are two kinds of people in China, one is to wave the flag and shout, and the other is to do things silently.' Let's do the latter together! This sentence shocked Xu Wei a lot, and it was also in line with his unobtrusive personality, so at the time of the release of "Elsewhere", Xu Wei went against his way, did not do any publicity, and relied on the word of mouth of the lovers; and this album actually sold 500,000 copies by word of mouth, and also won the Best Album of the Year award in the best album of the year selection event that year.
Three years later, Xu Wei released "That Year," which is now unanimously considered to be the best record in the history of Chinese rock music.
Xu Wei finally proved himself to his parents, and also proved himself to Yuan Feng; their support and trust did not drift, he Xu Wei has always been doing the right thing, not taking the usual road can still shine the lintel, live into their pride.
But no one knows that in fact, when creating "That Year", Xu Wei was already depressed. In order to write a word that satisfies him, he often sleeps all night; from the beginning of the lantern to the dawn, he endlessly overstretches his spirit in order to capture the essence of inspiration, and finally loses support, and the whole person collapses and collapses.
When the unit asked Yuan Feng to take Xu Wei home, he said that this person should go to a mental hospital, he was already crazy. But Yuan Feng did not agree, she firmly believed that he was just sick, not crazy. This brings us to the scene at the beginning of the article. Yuan Feng in order to prevent Xu Wei from jumping from the 5th floor to commit suicide, moved the residence to the small courtyard, every day Xu Wei cried, she accompanied him to cry, he could not get up, she helped him get up, dressed him, walked with him, asked friends to wake him up with music.
At that time, Xu Wei had to fight with ten thousand suicidal thoughts every day, and he had already made up his mind to quit the music circle, and it was a luxury to be a normal person.
One day, Yuan Feng accompanied Xu Wei to a run, and when he ran to the underground passage of the Bell Tower, there was a group of people, Xu Wei and Yuan Feng heard someone singing, and they looked closer, it was two young people, one after another, all Xu Wei's songs. Xu Wei froze for a moment, he didn't know that there were people who liked him so much, life was actually not so bad, and his music was recognized and followed by someone. This incident gave Xu Wei a lot of touch and encouragement.
In 2001, when the depression eased slightly, Xu Wei accepted Song Ke's invitation to serve as the producer of Hua Dan Ye Bei's new album at the time, and the album "Pisces" also became Xu Wei's transition from illness to recovery.
After that, Xu Wei returned to the musical journey, still diligent, still high-spirited, and became a prolific musician; in 2003 and 2004, Xu Wei's two albums "Time Walk" and "Every Moment is New" came out one after another. "Time Walk" won three awards in the selection of the fourth season of the "Chinese Media Music Awards" selected by music media people, led by 11 nominations in the annual award nominations of the "Music Chart", and finally won the two heavyweight awards of "Best Rock Singer" and "Best Rock Album", "Every Moment is New" was also nominated for the Best Album Award of the Fifth Pepsi Music Award, this time Xu Wei proved himself to music, to the audience, to the world, the road of music, not in vain, did not live up to it.
Since then, Xu Wei has publicly announced: no longer walk the red carpet, no longer accept awards, participate in award ceremonies, and only perform. He rejected all commercials and reality shows, improper judges, improper contestants. He wants to be only a musician, and if you want to see me perform, I'll go, and the rest of the neighborhood will be left to talk. Just like the promise of the year: "A kind of flag waving, a kind of silent work, we do the latter kind..."
When Lu Yu interviewed Xu Wei, he bluntly said that he was not very rich, because he relied on the income from the performance, but he was so happy; he said that as a musician, he did not dare to say that he was leading the way, at least he had to have a benign responsibility, take the people behind him, and concentrate on doing what he should do.
Moreover, it is interesting that in 2015, Xu Wei's mother fell ill, and when he returned to the Fourth Military Medical University to contact his mother and was hospitalized, his comrades-in-arms, classmates, and leaders at that time asked him curiously: "(Is the wife) still the original one?" Xu Wei understood very well, because divorce is too common in the entertainment industry, but Xu Wei said frankly: "Yes, or Yuan Feng." ”
Xu Wei and Yuan Feng went from their teens to their forties, nearly thirty years, and they frothed each other, clasping each other's hands and being loyal to each other in the slightly cloudy environment of the entertainment industry.
To some extent, Xu Wei is also practicing the invisible but important responsibility he defined for himself, doing a good job of himself and playing a good role in setting an example for future generations. Many responsibilities may not be imposed on Xu Wei, but he has always carried it and has never put it down, and he has been doing "people who do things silently".
Today, the 52-year-old Xu Wei is just like his own singing of "Blue Lotus": "The free world in my heart, so clear and lofty, blooming and never withering!" ”
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