A word to the wise.
So what exactly is national.
Perhaps the answer can be found in this program.
01 "Village Chief" Jiang Liang's "Really Happy"
It begins with the phrase "We the people are really happy".
With nature as the disco, people shouted and whistled as they worked, chickens crowed, horses barked, and everything was happy.
What is electro-acoustic, I do not understand at all, I used to think, maybe it is synonymous with noisy.
What is the theme, I also do not understand, maybe it is labor, maybe it is happy, maybe it is man and nature.
All I know is that I played it back almost twenty times, and every time it made me feel like I was lying on the ground, back in my mother's arms and so moved.
This program has succeeded with this kind of work; electro music has succeeded with this kind of work, and it's enough to subvert people's prejudice against electro music.
This village chief is particularly interesting, his hairstyle and clothes don't matter, the cows and ducks are put at random, he lives purely in his own world, the world of music.
Dazhong Wei said that he would rather not get it in order not to lose it. In order not to lose his own persistence, he would rather not have a handsome hairstyle, not have gorgeous clothes, and not have fame and fortune. How hard his life, pants are torn, but he not only does not feel bitter, but happy to save his time.
The hairstyle and clothes were a delay for him, a delay in being happy with his cows, his chickens and ducks, his horses, his earth.
In front of him, who is qualified to talk about love, who is qualified to talk about the dream, if he does not appear, I really can not imagine, in this world, there are still such people, living such a life.
Dazhong Wei said he is the Tao Yuanming of the music industry, I think, he may feel more like he is the village chief of the peach blossom garden under Tao Yuanming's pen, or an ordinary villager.
Regardless of whether one understands electro-acoustic music or not, regardless of whether there are lyrics or no lyrics, and even without an artificial melody, it is possible for everyone to see their own souls, or joy, or shame, or tears. This kind of music is national, but also the world.
02 "Monkey Says"
Two unassuming young men with brittle openings.
In this life, I have a father and a mother, but no red face
I came to the master on the ocean
I ate a few peaches of immortality and was found by the Jade Emperor
I was told to go with the Longevity Monk to fetch the scriptures
I have to catch the demons and lead the horses, but I was scolded for practicing
The monkeys on the Mountain of Flowers and Fruits can't keep the time
The road ahead is long, and the danger is hard to overcome
The Jade Emperor is not angry and hears my words.
Lend me the two immortals
Buddha told me to go home
Look at the seventy-two transformations of my grandson
Others laughed at me for my madness
I was crushed by the Five Elements Mountain for a hundred years
The white bones are my grandson's companions
The master and disciples embarked on a four-day journey
The journey was rough and bumpy
When will I have a family and a career? I'm not going to be able to do that.
The interpretation of the traditional classic, issued a modern young people's cry.
When people in the future hear this song, they know what we are doing now; when people in foreign countries hear this song, they know what young Chinese people are thinking.
A good work can travel through language and time.
It is of the time and of the nation, so of course it is of the world.
03 "god like"
It is said that this work is adapted from the glory of the king.
Electro music and hand games are all areas I've never touched before, and this piece, suddenly made me understand why so many young people play music and King of Honor.
Please feel free to command Daji, Luban, mending, bronze king I don't understand at all, this music, I hear insist, hear brothers, hear heroes, listen to the burning.
What interests me is, what is art?
I'm interested in what is art and what is vulgarity?
Is gaming vulgar, is electro music vulgar, is online fiction vulgar, is online games vulgar? Some parents once used electric shock to pull their children out of Internet cafes, but now they are happy to say that their children are game anchors and earn ten million dollars a year.
Daji said please do everything you can to command me master, captured the cool point of the geeks, many people think vulgar, but this sentence, really affect countless men is not a good husband, good father?
Playing mahjong and square dancing which is more elegant, perhaps many years later, later generations seem, these are art.
A person can only cover the coffin to finalize, we in the end experienced the times forward or backward, only the descendants, only qualified to finalize.
What I am thinking about is how far art and culture can go if they do not have their own vitality and rely solely on protection.
The suona, for example, should be protected as a treasured animal, or should it be integrated into electro-acoustic music, handheld games, and all the things that young people like.
Confucianism has gone through countless evolutions and interpretations from Confucius to the present, and it is anyone's guess whether the current interpretation of Confucianism is really what Confucius wanted to express. It just bursts into life again and again with the changing times, interpreted by each generation, and future generations continue to interpret the interpretation of it by their predecessors.
It is said that Chinese web novels have gone global, like Japanese av and Korean soap operas.
There is a trio in this program that Zhang Yixing wants to break up, and they say no, their friendship, the beginning of all collisions and all sparks.
There's also a duo that tries to ditch all instruments and use the human body itself as a musical instrument.
I think an art, a craft, a culture, is ultimately for people to use, to see, to appreciate.
Only by getting people, especially young people, can you get everything.
Perhaps no useful art is ever truly lost.