Introduction: Shanghai, an inclusive city with a wide mind, allows Chinese and Western cultures to integrate here. The legends of the ten miles of the old era are continuous, and the "Haipai culture" between the tides of the times of the present dynasty is showing the vigorous vitality of the city, and a new legendary chapter is written for this "magic capital".
Recently, the famous high-end liquor brand Shuijingfang, deeply integrated with the local culture of Shanghai, launched a new product - Shuijingfang Jingtai (Silk Road Version - Shanghai), and launched a discussion on the topic of "Great, My Shanghai". Focusing on the topic of "Great, My Shanghai", the reporter interviewed a young Chinese baritone singer, a guest of "Sound into People's Hearts", and Yu Di, a teacher of the Acting Department of Shanghai Theater Academy.
Empires: An elegant gentleman who emerges from the world of bel canto
In everyone's stereotype, the people who sing bel canto are all big fat people, who stand on the stage and will not move, not so close to the people, let alone face value... Fortunately, not long ago, a real "phenomenon-level" variety show "Sound into People's Hearts" turned out to be a perfect combination of bel canto and pop, which has circled a large wave of new fans for bel canto, but also a group of professional singers with characteristics such as "big long legs" and "small fresh meat", which effectively justified the bel canto singers: we not only have high pitch, strength, and appearance!
Among the 36 singing members, as a vocal teacher of the Shanghai Theater Academy, Yudi, who is 37 years old this year, should be regarded as a well-deserved "big brother", in the face of many powerful younger brothers, Yudi not only showed a brother-like demeanor, known as "Mainland Pei Yongjun" by netizens, but also showed more rich stage experience and more solid professional skills, gained an exclusive fan group "Fish Pond", and became one of the most popular singers in this show.
From Sichuan to Shanghai: It's a gorgeous transformation
After the big hit, Yu Di's fans and sisters also began to gossip about his various materials, from graduation to academic experience, to past honors have been "pickpocketed", and the most surprising thing is that he seems to be full of Haipai temperament, and he actually comes from Zigong, Sichuan. "Since childhood, our clothes and towels will be printed with the words 'Made in Shanghai', and at that time I felt that Shanghai was the closest place to the world, so I chose the Shanghai Conservatory of Music at that time." When Yu Di recalled the reason why she chose to come to Shanghai, many people were also surprised: it was only because of the four big characters on daily necessities.
From the wonderful sense of déjà vu that first set foot on this land, to the final root of the ten miles of ocean field, in the past twenty years since coming to Shanghai, Yu Di has gradually faded the youth of that year, and through continuous learning and breakthroughs, has completed the gorgeous transformation from a scholar Yu Di to "Teacher Yu".
As the voice business card of Shanghai, in 2016, Yu Di was invited by the Shanghai Municipal Tourism Bureau to participate in the filming of the Shanghai tourism image promotion film "Our Shanghai", and together with Hu Ge, the image ambassador of Shanghai tourism, infected Chinese and foreign tourists with music, promoted the magic capital and Yangtze River tourism, and sang the character and temperament of the city that embraces all things.
Shanghai, with its all-encompassing demeanor, gladly accepts thousands of people who come here to pursue their dreams like the empipe, and also pass on their elegance and refinement to everyone living in the city without reservation.
Heritage and pioneering: the unchanging spirit of Shanghai Beach
In the interview, Yu Di admitted that she was engaged in the matter of pop bel canto because she was "influenced by the spirit of Shanghai", and for "pop bel canto", an art form that combines tradition and modernity, Shanghai is undoubtedly the most suitable place for it to grow.
As Yu Di believed when he was young, Shanghai is indeed China's "closest place to the world", as the earliest port in modern China, Shanghai has long been baptized by the culture of various countries, and has also injected rich connotations into the Shanghai culture and Shanghai spirit. This collision and fusion of cultures makes art more possible here.
During the filming of the Shanghai tourism image video, when Yu Di took a cruise ship sailing on the Huangpu River, he saw that on the other side of the strait was the Bund's wanguo building that had been baptized by time, and on the other side was a high-rise building full of fashion atmosphere in Lujiazui, he deeply felt that in Shanghai, "inheritance and pioneering development can exist at the same time, there is no contradiction at all, a Huangpu River, separating our tradition and modernity, but in fact it is one."
History and the future, tradition and modernity, East and West, and of course, bel canto and pop, in this city of all kinds of rivers, continue to integrate and sublimate, and finally converge into a kind of Shanghai's "inheritance and pioneering" spirit, affecting more than 24 million Shanghai children.
The road to the world: Great, my Shanghai
Not long ago, the famous high-end liquor brand Shuijingfang joined hands with the Shanghai media to carry out a topic discussion activity called #Awesome, My Shanghai#, which touched many people like Yu Di who came to Shanghai from home to pursue their dreams, and also made many native Shanghainese feel a lot of emotions.
At the end of the interview, Shuijingfang presented the newly listed Shuijingfang Jingtai (Silk Road Edition - Shanghai) as a special surprise to Yudi, which integrates the three cultural landmarks of Shanghai, the City God Temple, the Bund and Lujiazui, which is a fine wine exclusive to Shanghai, and also hopes to pay tribute to Shanghai (an important hub of the "Belt and Road" of the 21st New Silk Road), respect the spirit of inheriting and pioneering the Silk Road, and pay tribute to every Shanghainese who continues to develop in life.
For Yu Di, this special gift condenses the past, present and future of Shanghai, a city intertwined with his life, into a small bottle of fine wine, which is enough to remind him of his own growth, and also let Shanghai's "inheritance and pioneering" spirit accompany him to the bigger world stage that he expects.