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At the end of October, there was a song that became a single loop in many people's playlists.
In just two days, it has been played on a short video platform with 680 million views.
This is a song released on June 15, 2020, under the title "Mohe Ballroom".
From the melody to the lyrics, people can think of a sense of distant age and a long-lost beauty of hurt.
At first, on a certain sound, I inadvertently brushed the dance steps of a certain male star with this music as the background, and I was instantly attracted.
How to say it? My first impression was sadness, loneliness and decadence, but after brushing through the message area, I found that I had seen it.
The background of the song's creation stems from the style of a folk singer, a fire that shocked the whole country, and an old man who exchanged his life for an eternal love.
In the cold winter of 2019, folk singer Liu Shuang came to Mohe to collect wind, and accidentally met the old man Zhang Dequan (pseudonym).
In the 5-minute dialogue, Liu Shuang learned the story of the old man and returned to Beijing to compose this song with the consent of the old man.
In June 2020, the song was included on Liu Shuang's album 1st Planet.
At first, Liu Shuang was only a niche folk singer, graduated from the Public Security University majoring in traffic management, and did not systematically learn music theory knowledge.
Music, entirely out of his personal hobby, before "Mohe Ballroom" became popular, he was just an amateur singer with little fame.
But when the song suddenly became popular at the end of last month, he was not happy, but felt a wave of "discomfort".
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Why is that? Look at the various versions of "Desert River Ballroom" and the story behind this song and you will know the answer.
This is a film cut version of "Mohe Ballroom", the picture is humorous and funny.
This is the "Mohe Ballroom" of a certain operation number, and the picture is vulgar and funny without beauty.
Someone's account of "Mohe Ballroom" is still a shallow funny wind.
The vulgar "Mohe Ballroom".
The "Mohe Ballroom" with beautiful legs of girlfriends.
Scratch your head in "Mohe Ballroom".
The enchanting dance version of "Mohe Ballroom"...
The above versions, go to the major short video platforms to search at a glance, abound.
Whether it's a song or a movie, everyone will have different annotations, which is understandable.
But you have to use a work in a painful background to win eyeballs and grasp traffic without any limit, not to mention that the creator does not do it, and everyone who listens to the work with heart does not want to see this scene.
"Mohe Ballroom" is not just a song that exploded on the Internet, but behind it is a huge tragedy, 211 lost lives, the displacement of more than 10,000 families, the scars that more than 50,000 people do not want to reveal, and the thoughts of an old man for his deceased wife for 30 years.
It was early May 1987, and a fire was raging.
The fires hit 17,000 square kilometers of land from the Daxinganling area of Heilongjiang, dispatching more than 58,800 rescuers and losing more than 100 million yuan, with 266 people burned and 211 dead in the fire.
Among them, there is a woman known as Kang, who is the wife of Zhang Dequan, the archetypal character in "Mohe Ballroom".
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Zhang Dequan and Kang's first encounter was in front of the Shiche flower bed in front of the radio agency, and while he lit a cigarette, she and her friends walked past him.
During the conversation, she inadvertently turned in a circle and raised her hand once, and she called him a dream.
That picture, like the sunshine in spring, is pure and beautiful.
After that, he stood in front of the Stone Flower Bed in front of the radio agency every day, waiting for her to appear.
He was more adamant that if he lit another cigarette, she would appear again.
In this way, he inquired about her name and kept writing poems to her, he knew that she loved to dance, and he was attracted by her light dance steps.
So he began to learn to dance with her for some reason, and despite his clumsy gait, he enjoyed it.
Later, he borrowed his work to get the key to the warehouse. So it became their secret ballroom.
In 1983, in Mohe County, the streets suddenly became lively, as if they were cheering for Zhang Dequan and Kang's wedding banquet.
After that, they really turned their lives into poetry, and in their spare time, under the dim light of the warehouse, they must have danced together.
However, this candied sweetness came to an abrupt end the night before the renovation and expansion of the warehouse.
That night, the warehouse was piled up with more debris than ever before, and the lights seemed dimmer than usual.
The two dancing young people could not have imagined that after a feast in a secret ballroom, there was a pain in the heart of the heavens and the people.
On May 6, 1987, after Zhang Dequan went to a different place with the team, a "heavenly fire" mixed with a level 9 wind swept through the entire Mohe County.
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The fire lasted for 28 days before it was completely extinguished, and this unprecedented forest fire since the founding of New China was the 5.6 Daxinganling forest fire that shocked China and foreign countries.
After learning the news on the news, Zhang Dequan drove back to Mohe like crazy.
When we arrived at the county entrance, we saw the image of the fire that had gone everywhere.
Or the body of his wife is difficult to identify, or he is afraid that he is sad and out of control, in short, Zhang Dequan has not been able to see the last side of Kang.
At that moment, the extreme pain had been replaced by numbness, and he stood on the land full of ruins, only to feel that he was in hell.
"What makes man beautiful, and why he withers, whether he is a god who is angry and resting, or whether even he is jealous of your beauty, descends upon your hot appearance, and retreats from the heat..."
After the disaster, Mohe built a lot of low-rise buildings, and on the street not far from the old site of the warehouse where Zhang Dequan and his deceased wife had danced, a dance hall was opened, which he called "Mohe Ballroom".
For more than 30 years, he did not remarry, nor did he have children with his deceased wife, he still wrote to her and insisted on dancing.
However, the huge dance hall no longer had his dance partner. Just like the streets of Mohe, how to renovate is difficult to dispel the pain of those who have lost loved ones in this fire.
Looking back at the fire, the bones that were swallowed up by the fire were mostly unrecognizable, men and women...
Among them are women who, until death, hold their children in their arms and lean toward their husbands;
There are breeders who save cattle and sheep and are finally burned to death in cattle pens;
There was the daughter of the party secretary who was burned to death on the way to escape, and when the father came home after a busy night, he found that his daughter was no longer ... ...
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Ordinary or heroic, they were all like you and me in this world, living and jumping around.
Behind a fire that burned for 28 days, behind an incomparably painful story, a young man with a reverence for life and music was born, and the "Mohe Ballroom" that was popular all over the Internet 34 years later was born.
Today, after 34 years of restoration and protection, the land that has been burned by the fire has re-grown large areas of forest, and the forest cover rate in the Daxinganling area has increased from 61.5% after the fire to more than 87%.
Everything seems to be new, and it seems to have always been so, and only those who have experienced its pain understand how difficult it is today.
Even if you see your hometown devastated, you still have to rebuild a beautiful home; even if you turn around and separate from your dearest yin and yang, you must start again with pain.
It is the new life and contemplation given to us by 211 undead with the pain of flesh and blood, and we can make a strange gesture at any moment, but its annotation is by no means aimed at a work like "Desert River Ballroom".
Sadly, living today, we will always unconsciously fall into the blind trend of following the trend, what fire we follow, we seem to be able to rely on following the trend and show to achieve the display of personal charm, but often ignore the meaning of things themselves.
Although I was not a musician, although I was instantly moved by the sad and poignant melody of "Mohe Ballroom", from the time I heard the story behind it, I did not dare to easily offer it to the altar, just as I did not dare to desecrate it easily.
Not because of how noble I am, but because I can't bear to let a painful past be erased by the overwhelming "show" that erases its original appearance.