On the stage of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala in the Year of the Rooster, the song "Don't Forget the Initial Heart" sung by Han Lei and Tan Weiwei was described by netizens as "one of the few wandering hearts and minds". Many people do not know that zhu Hai, the lyricist of this song, is a literary and art consultant in Hangzhou, and he is also the chief planner and writer of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala for many years.
Since the first singing of the "Literary and Art Evening Commemorating the 80th Anniversary of the Victory of the Red Army's Long March" in October last year, "Don't Forget the Initial Heart" has received tens of millions of auditions in various channels, and even become a one-way track in many people's mobile phones.
"The spirit of the 'Chinese Dream' that it wants to express has no age limit." Yesterday, in the studio of Xixi Creative Park, Zhu Hai accepted an exclusive interview with reporters, "and using popular songs to interpret is undoubtedly more intimate." ”
This is a walking song
It was carefully conceived
On the stage of the Spring Festival Gala of the Year of the Rooster, Han Lei Tan Weiwei sang "Don't Forget the Initial Heart".
In Tan Weiwei's fan bar, the evaluation of the song "Don't Forget the Initial Heart" is surprisingly consistent. "Walking the heart", "affectionate", "full of poetry" are the words that appear most frequently, and fans lament that "it is not at all the 'red song' in our post-90s impression."
Zhu Hai, who was sitting in front of the reporter, said in a loud voice, "I am actually very disgusted with the classification standard of the so-called 'red songs', how can songs be defined by color?"
Agile thinking, clear stance, completely unable to see that he is already a 60-year-old person.
At the end of last year, when Zhu Hai took a taxi in Beijing several times, he heard "Don't Forget the Initial Heart" on the radio waves, and the taxi driver said, "Every time there is a traffic jam, the radio is allowed to play this song."
Zhu Hai still relished this matter.
At first, Zhu Hai was still a little surprised, and then his friends on CCTV told him that from the first time he sang it to now, "Don't Forget The Initial Heart" has been broadcast on CCTV at least a thousand times, and Zhu Hai secretly thought, "It seems that this song is really quite popular."
However, the creative process is not so easy.
Around July last year, Zhu Hai was tasked with writing a song for the "Literary and Art Evening Commemorating the 80th Anniversary of the Victory of the Red Army's Long March", with the requirement of "having feelings and not shouting slogans."
When collecting wind before, Zhu Hai had traveled almost all the red base areas, "The accumulation of materials and emotions is actually relatively sufficient." ”
Who knows, three drafts were written before, but they did not pass. The leader's comment was "every draft is very good, all are fine, but there is still a little bit of something left."
Depressed, Zhu Hai went straight to the home of the composer Shu Nan one night. The two pondered the lyrics and adjusted the melody sentence by sentence, and were busy until 1 a.m. "It was a particularly emotional one, and it was basically more than 80% of the final version."
Like the lyrics of the lyrics, "The tree is thousands of feet high and deep in the fertile soil, you are the earth to give me all kinds of care, life is endless only for that one trust, no fear of wind and rain to usher in a new sunrise" These few finishing touches are the springs of that night.
In the final draft, the echoes of "Ten Thousand Waters and Thousand Mountains Do Not Forget the Road of The Coming" and "Ten Thousand Waters and Thousands of Mountains, the Most Beautiful Chinese Road" were added at the beginning and the end, respectively. The first time Han Lei heard the song, he joked: "Great, I can sing this song for a whole year." ”
Every generation has its own long march
What remains unchanged is the original intention
Zhu Hai
Zhu Hai himself, his understanding of the song "Don't Forget Your Initial Heart", mainly lies in the key 3 sentences.
The first sentence is "Thousands of rivers and mountains do not forget the road of time.". "A nation that does not remember the way out is a nation without a way out. The lyrics go straight to the point and point out that we have to remember where we come from and why we start. Zhu Hai said.
The second sentence is "You are all I have and everything I have": "We must bear in mind the kindness of the masses of the people, repay the people, and return the fertile land that nurtured us."
Finally, there is the closing sentence "Thousands of rivers and mountains, the most beautiful Chinese road": "The Long March is a great expedition of the human spirit and will, and it is also a great march for the Red Army led by the Party to seek national rejuvenation." Each generation has its own Long March, and each generation must take its own Long March. ”
Zhu Hai quipped that in fact, the current younger generation is also taking its own "Long March", and the pressure is greater and the competition is more intense. "The goals and methods of the Long March are different, but what remains the same is not to forget where you came from. The lyrics of "Don't Forget Your Initial Heart" express exactly this meaning. ”
Last year, Zhu Hai wrote three songs - "Go Forward, The Communist Party of China", "Magnificent Voyage" and "Don't Forget the Initial Heart", and each capital was put on the national stage. Regarding the matter of writing words, although he is not from a professional background, Zhu Hai has been writing for nearly 20 years as soon as he writes. Many of the evening parties where he was the chief planner, Zhu Hai and the team discussed the creativity and direction of the theme song, often talking about the end and finding that the lyrics were not very satisfactory, "Then simply write it myself." ”
A good friend and famous composer Yin Qing once commented: "The river is rushing for thousands of miles and seeing a trickle, the mountain is tall and towering and feels graceful and beautiful, in my opinion, this is the style of Zhu Haizi's composition."
Zhu Hai said that from this year to next year, he will also write some works for Hangzhou, including planning some good evenings and performances, "After all, I have a deep affection for the city." ”