Jay Chou is a music all-rounder who composes, lyrics and arranges music, and he also has strong image narration ability, since 2004, Jay Chou will shoot several mVs as a director every year, and with the mv of "Mr. Magic", he successfully won the 20th Golden Melody Award for Best Music Video Director.
In the mv world where music and light and shadow intersect, Jay Chou can be both a rebellious and obsessive ancient puzzle boy in "Retreat", or a small follower of the big star in "Battle of the Trapped Beasts". But in these more than thirty mv works, I believe that many people, like me, have always been obsessed with "Hair Like Snow".
In this mv work released fifteen years ago, Jay Chou is just a singer who chants and watches from the sidelines, and the three protagonists of the story dedicate a poignant and timeless love story to us.
Five minutes of the film, filtered by candlelight, Jay Chou even accurately predicted the lives of the two heroines after that.
After the new rains of early summer, the swordsman came to a noisy but three-point winery. Here, he first met a woman in red. The two of them lay down and drank wine, and their eyes were not mixed with any disturbance related to the afterth of tonight.
The melodious sound of the guqin in the distance suddenly awakened the slightly drunk swordsman, who got up to look for it, followed the sound of the piano, and effortlessly found the woman in white. The two of them saw each other as they were, and when the candle was bright, they talked about everything.
When the woman in red saw this scene, she was jealous and put poison into the wine glass of the woman in white. The woman in white drank half a sip of wine, and then she lost her strength and snuggled in the arms of the swordsman, sleeping in the red dust.
The swordsman vaguely felt that this was the work of the woman in red, and carried the long sword to confront the woman in red. Unexpectedly, the woman in red Tarzan collapsed in front of her and the color did not change, which also reassured the swordsman, who believed that the woman in red had nothing to do with this matter, and the two even embraced each other and reconciled.
Time comes to the twenty-first century, transitioning from a past life to this life. The swordsman and the woman in red are still sweet and loving couples. And a chance encounter between the swordsman and the woman in white in the elevator room awakened part of their memories of their past lives, but whether in the past life or in this life, the love between the swordsman and the woman in white has long been separated and the dust has settled.
The story conceived by Jay Chou himself complements Fang Wenshan's beautiful lyrics, and is incomparably beautiful.
Just like the past and present lives of "Hair Like Snow" intersect and intersperse, we may as well flash back to see what kind of life the two heroines in the mv have experienced in reality.
In October 2000, Jay Chou released his first self-titled album, announcing that a generation of music kings will open their own era. Coincidentally, it was also this month that Jay Chou's close friend Liu Qihong met the model Wang Wanfei at a notification event, and the two were like-minded and quickly fell in love.
In July 2003, Jay Chou included his first aesthetic Chinese style song "Dongfeng Broken" in the "Ye Huimei" album, "Dongfeng Broken" as the third wave of the album's main hit, must be to shoot a mv that matches its aesthetic style, but the classical beauty is not easy to find, Jay Chou thought of Wang Wanfei, so it has achieved our earliest memory of Chinese style.
Since then, Jay Chou and Wang Wanfei have cooperated with a number of mV, but every time they are promoted, Jay Chou will mention it smoothly: "This is the girlfriend of my good friend Liu Qihong." "As a witness to the love of friends, Jay Chou hopes that they can be happy and complete more than anyone.
Therefore, Wang Wanfei in MV is always a dignified and decent, almost holy image. Now that I think about it, this may be Jay Chou using his art works to express his wishes to his friends.
In October 2007, on the day of their seventh anniversary, they made a vow of fidelity to each other's love in a church in Taipei City.
Since then, Wang Wanfei has suspended her artistic activities, although the two are not very well-known artists, but their marital status can definitely make many couples in the entertainment industry envious. In 2011, 2013 and 2015, Wang Wanfei gave birth to a son and two daughters for Liu Qihong, and the third child was even born with uterine fibroids.
The body shape made Wang Wanfei's body go out of shape for a while, and Liu Qihong saw that his wife was so tortured for herself, but her heart was more and more grateful. Stewed tonics, accompanied by fitness, twelve years of married life, they interpreted the love they loved the most, and now the joy of a family of five is the best reward for their loyalty.
"Zhi" in Chinese means gorgeous and gorgeous. There are no less than thirty mv heroines who have been enabled by Jay Chou. But in the beautiful part, Jay Chou praised Xia Ruzhi with four slightly eccentric words of "the most beautiful heroine".
Xia Ruzhi's half feminine and half elegant temperament is indeed difficult to find a second in the entertainment industry.
Jay Chou's love for Xia Ruzhi is not just to say, since 2005, "Hair Like Snow", "A Thousand Miles Away", "Blue and White Porcelain", "Orchid Pavilion Preface" four Chinese wind god song mv, Jay Chou all used Xia Ruzhi as the heroine.
The singers of "A Thousand Miles Away" and the princesses of the fallen country in "Blue and White Porcelain" are particularly classic. But in the decade from 2007 to 2017, the woman in red in "Hair Like Snow" is xia Ruzhi's appearance in the media.
In 2007, Xia Ruzhi and the handsome brother Dou Zhikong collaborated on the idol drama "Angel Wings", and there were frequent scandals about the two during filming. The most amusing one is that during the kissing scene, Xia Ruzhi seduced Dou Zhikong. But as the TV series ended, the scandal dissipated overnight, and it was obvious that this was the usual hype of that era, but Xia Ruzhi's "wolf girl" image inexplicably made reporters take it seriously.
2010 was Jay Chou's emotional window period, and it just so happened that the mv of all the songs in the album "Cross-Era" did not see Xia Ruzhi's figure. Therefore, there were suddenly manuscripts such as "Xia Ruzhi asked Jay Chou why he did not love her".
In 2012, Xia Ruzhi's new "gossip boyfriend" became Luo Zhixiang's dance teacher Damu. He, Xia Ruzhi, and Tian Fuzhen are written as a love triangle story with hundreds of turns, in which Xia Ruzhi is also a "wolf girl" image that is open to no bottom line.
From 2013 to 2016, Xia Ruzhi and actor Zhang Yanming talked about love for two and a half years in public, and temporarily got rid of the reporters' inaction.
But in 2017 after the breakup, Xia Ruzhi and Yuanjie, two friends, went to the tea restaurant for a meal together, and then sprouted the "gossip" written by the Taiwan media. But the story of the wolf coming has already polished the eyes of the reader, and Xia Ruzhi really has no problem with her life style.
On February 24, 2020, in the presence of many friends, 37-year-old Xia Ruzhi promised her 31-year-old boyfriend Zhang Jie. In the commemorative group photo she sent to the fans, Xia Ruzhi did not apply powder, but her smile was particularly moving, and there was the joy of living in the sun in that smile, and the pride of living in that smile.
The mv script written by Jay Chou for "Hair Like Snow" inadvertently predicted the life of the woman in white and the woman in red for more than ten years.
And in reality, the woman in white and the woman in red have the same ending, and it is hidden in the lyrics - even if qingshi has turned into ashes, I love it!