"China in the lights, youth and grace, China in the lights, with a broad heart." At the 2021 CCTV Spring Festival Gala, Zhang Ye and Zhou Shen jointly sang a song "China in the Lights", singing a beautiful life in the lights, showing people's good wishes for the motherland and their happy yearning for the future.
The beautiful melody and simple lyrics made the song quickly popular throughout the country and was widely sung. As the composer of the song, Shu Nan witnessed this unforgettable moment.
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Recently, the MV of Zhou Shenzhang's edition of "China in the Lights", jointly produced by the Central Radio and Television Corporation, the Propaganda Department of the CPC Guangdong Provincial Party Committee, the Propaganda Department of the CPC Shenzhen Municipal Party Committee, and the Dapeng New District Working Committee of Shenzhen Municipality, was officially released. Composer Shu Nan was interviewed by a Beiqing-Beijing headline reporter and told the story behind the creation of this song. Talking about how to create works that touch people's hearts, Shu Nan said that he should "walk the heart" and "use the language of art to convey emotions to the audience through the silent way of moisturizing things." ”
Zhang Ye and Zhou Shen's two singing methods are integrated with each other to sing the tranquility of the prosperous and prosperous people
"China in the Lights" is an original song composed by Shu Nan, lyrics filled in by Tian Di, guided and supported by the Propaganda Department of the Shenzhen Municipal Party Committee, and organized by Dapeng New District.
"Speaking of the fate with this song, it goes back to 2018." Shu Nan revealed that at that time, he went to visit his son who was studying in Shenzhen's Dapeng New District, and it happened that the local government wanted to create an original song, hoping that Shu Nan, who had a good understanding of dapeng's scenery and history, could serve as a composer. At that time, the lyricist Tian Di wrote several lyrics, and when he saw the words "China in the lights", Shu Nan was immediately attracted.
Composer Shu Nan
"For a long time since the reform and opening up, many songs have been singing about China during the day, mountains and rivers, and the bright land of China... These are all China in the sun, and there are few songs that praise China at night. "The special perspective ignited Shu Nan's creative enthusiasm, and he composed the song in a short time, almost without any modifications." I didn't think about this song for a long time and waited hard, but I thought about it before I started writing. We are in today's China, very happy, especially after the outbreak of the epidemic, only China in the world can control the epidemic so well, and the people can be so peaceful and happy, thanks to the good management of the party and the government. People's smiling faces are as bright as lights, and I think it is a song that praises the happiness index of ordinary people, with a wide range of vitality. Shu Nan said.
After the completion of the work, Shu Nan invited Wang Li, a soprano singer of the Air Politics Cultural and Labor Troupe, to sing, and Shenzhen was very satisfied. Later, the director of the Spring Festival Gala hoped that this song could follow the duet form of a man and a woman like the song "Don't Forget the Initial Heart", and considered the singer who decided to choose two singing methods for a long time, "One is a popular singing method, the other is a folk singing method, so that the two people can both integrate with each other and have the feeling of singing with each other." So they locked their eyes on Zhou Shen and Zhang Ye. Shu Nan said, "Zhou Shen's high pitch surprised me, he can sing high C, the vocal range is particularly wide, Teacher Zhang Ye sang with her particularly simple folk singing method, and the two cooperated very well." ”
The Spring Festival Gala stage is fiercely competitive, but "China in the Lights" has never been won
The Spring Festival Gala stage is notoriously fiercely competitive, and until the last minute, no one knows if the show will eventually be presented on this stage. Shu Nan revealed that when the song "China in the Lights" was sent to the 2021 Spring Festival Gala program group, "this song has always been there, and it is the only program that has never been won." Not only that, the director team also specially created a special stage for this song with a special sense of technology. The beautiful chorus of Zhang Ye and Zhou Shen, combined with the beautiful stage design, created a brilliant scene of thousands of lights and urban neon, which became a highlight of the 2021 Spring Festival Gala.
During the rehearsal of the Spring Festival Gala, the director of CCTV decided to first use the song "China in the Lights" in CCTV's "2021 New Year Concert - Sailing to the Greater Bay Area", sung by baritone singer Liao Changyong, and the "first appearance" surprised the audience. Later, after being sung at the Spring Festival Gala, it became popular all over the country. Even in the following months, the song also triggered a "network-wide homework" style of singing in major music academies across the country, and the song's online hit rate reached hundreds of millions of times.
Before "China in the Lights", Shu Nan had already created a series of songs that were deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, such as "New Heaven and Earth", "Don't Forget the Initial Heart", and "Stand Up".
Talking about how to create a song that touches people's hearts, Shu Nan said that the most important thing is to "walk the heart" and "convey the party's ideas to the people in an artistic language through a silent way, such as "Don't Forget the Initial Heart", which sounds like a love song, which can be sung to relatives and lovers. "China in the Lights" is the same, it does not use a march-style way to sing, but use piano, violin and other instruments to create a soft feeling, so that this song that shows a grand theme becomes particularly euphemistic, into the heart, and easy for the people to accept. The theme of the song "China in the Lights" is very grand, but because its arrangement is so delicate, its interlude will make you feel from the bottom of your heart how happy you are to be born in China. ”
Text/Beijing Youth Daily reporter Tian Wanting
Editor/Ying Qiao