This is a long time old song, but it seems to have been sung until now. It's actually a very touching song, but it's slowly being covered by singers who have changed the original flavor. First it was Su Rui, who sang it well. Then to the current Dick Cowboy, has become more and more tends to a simple rock song, no tear-jerking feeling.
Men, women and children in Minnesota and Taiwan will sing at the top of their lungs a few lines of "Wine dry if you sell nothing, wine dry if you sell nothing ......".
This is a Minnan dialect, which roughly means, "Do you have a bottle of wine to sell?". The people who buy discarded empty bottles and sell them to recycling centers to make a little money in southern Fujian and Taiwan all walk the streets and alleys while shouting, "If you have any bottles to sell, don't sell them". If anyone has an empty bottle to sell, he or she will call out to the waste collector.
When I was very young, I used to yell this song - "酒干干倘卖无,酒干倘卖无......"。 I never knew who the original singer was, only as a folk song circulating folk; never knew how to sing the complete song, only this most popular one.
To a little bit older, went to elementary school, will listen to the song, know the general lyrics, know that singing this song is a female singer. However, I have never been able to figure out what the vague lyrics have to do with this song. Just listening to this line, I always thought that this is just a powerful rock song, but I did not realize that behind it, hidden behind the story of the poignancy.
I don't know if that story is true or not, but after reading that story, I can't help but cry every time I listen to this song.
It's a movie about "Wine and Dine". The name of the movie is "The Wrong Car" - maybe I'm stupid, until now I still don't understand the connection between the title and the content of the story. But what is touching is the movie, which could care less about its name.
At that point, it was more than a decade ago.
At that time, there were few VCDs, and the movie was a rented videotape.
At that time, I was still in elementary school.
The movie is about a movie that I can only pick up the fragments that remain in my memory.
The story is about a deaf and mute man, I don't remember what he did for a living, but I remember that in his house, the walls were made of empty wine bottles stacked on top of each other. The whole so-called "wall" is a rounded bottom of a glass bottle. Green. Neat. Simple. Now that I think about it, his occupation should be to buy empty wine bottles. No wife and children. No friends. I have a vague impression that because he could not speak, so it seems to use another kind of sound, such as knocking ah hit ah instead of "wine dry if sold without" shouting it.
The poor deaf-mute man found a baby one day. It was a girl. He was all smiles and happily took her home. A single and poor deaf-mute man raising a baby under the age of one, the hard work, can be imagined. He was busy every day, but as he watched her grow up little by little, the hard work turned into joy on his face.
The baby girl finally grew up. Good behavior, filial piety, cheerfulness, pavilion. The man is finally old. The man is finally old. Wrinkles, gray hair, thin, old.
Unchanged is the man into the old man is still loving and kind, the family is still not rich, the wall is still those bottles.
The man then used the little money earned daily to raise a person.
The young girl loved to sing and had a good voice. She later met a young man, handsome and talented. Only, the talent was not recognized, just an unnamed songwriter.
They are like-minded and in love with each other, often together, say something about music, singing together.
The young girl was not very well, one day, the old man bought a puppy ready to kill the young girl to eat, let her make up the body. But the girl could not give up, so the dog left to raise, probably named "Wang Cai" or something like that. The first thing I'd like to do is to ask you to give me a chance to see what's going on in your life.
The young man often went to the girl's home, to help their family some favor, and she fed with the wangcai tease wangcai. The youth has almost become a part of their family.
The time has passed, and the old man's temples have become as frosty as ever. The first time I saw this was when I was a little girl, and the second time I saw it was when I was a little girl, and the third time I saw it was when I was a little girl.
The young girl got better and better. Later, she finally became famous. The first time I saw this, I was so happy to see you, and I was so happy to see you. But it is so busy that there is no time to go home, no time to accompany the old man, no time and youth together. The young girl and the youth even had a quarrel. They grew farther and farther apart. Until finally, the girl has become a red half of the sky female singer, while the youth is still a few words and songs.
The girl became famous, but lost her freedom. Her manager did not allow her to go home, did not allow her to interact with the young man, and did not allow her to meet with the deaf and mute old man. Because, a big star, how can there be a poor home, how can there be a hopeless boyfriend, how can there be a disabled old father. That, it said, will affect her image in the eyes of fans.
The young man persuades the girl not to abandon the old man who raised her with so much hard work, but the girl falls out with him.
One day, the girl held a press conference, and the young man pulled the old man to see her. The old man looked at his daughter with a smile on his face, longing to see her call him Dad again. The young girl's agent was beside her and kept preventing the young girl from recognizing the broken old man. With the limelight flashing, the young girl, after a few moments of agonizing struggle and hesitation, ruthlessly denied that the old man was her father. The old man could not hear, but he knew that his daughter did not want to recognize him. Disappointed eyes and muddy old tears, simply to let people fall into the abyss of doom, called the heart of the people hard to tighten.
The dilapidated home, all of a sudden became silent, without the girl's laughter, leaving only a boundless void. The old man's lonesome figure, in the roadside sullenly moving. Followed by the side, is that raised for many years Wang Cai, the same low head, as if knowing the owner's heartache.
Suddenly, a motorcycle sped over, and the old man was deaf, so he couldn't hear the roaring motor. Wangcai a dart, pounced on the back of the old man, pushed the master to the side of the road, while he was hit by the motorcycle, rolled over, from the stomach a run over, turned over, lying on the side of the road, the abdomen undulating, full of blood.
To this day I still wonder if that shot was real, and if it was true that a motorcycle was allowed to run over that dog's belly when it was filmed. That shot was so real, so real that it gripped my heart.
The old man took Wangcai home. The vet shook his head, meaning it was hopeless.
Wangcai lying on the table, covered with blood, the body of the body together and down, breathing rapidly, a pair of eyes miserable and painful to look at the master. The old man was in tears. It is always going to die, rather than letting it endure the agony of pain, it is better to let it leave in pain. The old man painfully raised a stick, hesitated, and then ruthlessly smashed it towards Wangcai's head ......
Everything became even more desolate. The old man had nothing left. Then came the disease. The old man had a terminal illness.
On the one hand, there is a falling curtain-like coldness; on the other, there is the clamor on the stage.
On the one hand, it is the bleakness of the end of the song; on the other hand, it is the warmth of the opening of the play.
On the one hand, there is the sadness of loss; on the other, there is the joy of success.
The father and daughter never saw each other again. The success of the young girl blocked their contact. The girl knows nothing about her father's illness.
The young girl is not cold-blooded, she is also struggling and conflicted in helplessness.
The young girl is going to have a concert. The day of her concert happens to be the day the old man goes into surgery.
The youth writes a song for the young girl in order to wake her up and the title of the song is "Wine is Dry and Sells Nothing". The young man delivered the song to her before the concert and told her that the old man's days were numbered. Perhaps, if she still does not realize, the youth will also be disheartened.
The young girl read the lyrics and wept bitterly, and all the scenes of her father's hard work in raising her came to her like a tide.
She kept learning the song, and at the end of the concert, as the finale, she sang Jiu Gan Rang Mou:
"What a familiar voice/How many years of winds and rains have accompanied me/Never need to think of it/Never forget it
Without the sky there is a land/Without the land there is a home/Without the home there is a home/without the home there is a you/Without the you there is a me
If there is no heaven there is a land.
If you hadn't raised me/given me a warm life/if you hadn't protected me/what would my destiny have been/
It was you who raised me/told me my first words/it was you who gave me a home/allowed me to share it with you/
Though you didn't speak a single word/you understood the black and white of the world and the true and the false better//p>
Though you didn't express your true feelings/never needed to remember/never forgot/
Though you didn't express your true love/never needed to remember/never forgot Though you have never expressed your true feelings/You have given your life with passion/
Your familiar voice from afar/ Reminds me of your kind heart/
When will you come back to me/ Let me sing with you again/
"Wine for sale, wine for sale, wine for sale..."
What is the meaning of "wine for sale"? ..."
The fans listened quietly until the end of the song, the girl has tears.
After the concert, the girl did not remove the makeup did not change down the performance clothes, they rushed to the hospital.
The old man lying on the hospital bed is dying, see the daughter, but hard to move the corner of the lips to show a smile.
The young girl at this time in the old man's bedside, no longer care what reporters, media, agents, fans, she kept calling "Dad -", guilt, regret, despair and crying ... ...
The old man's bedside, no longer care what reporters, media, agents, fans, she kept calling "Dad -", guilt, regret, desperately crying ... ...
After that, I was finally able to match the plot of the movie with the lyrics of the song, bit by bit, and finally understood the meaning of the lyrics. Perhaps, this could be the true story of the original singer himself.
The story is this. The fragments in my memory are incomplete, but they are engraved in my heart. After writing these words, I actually also shed two lines of tears. The movie was made more than ten years ago, and because I didn't fully understand it in my childhood, I've always wanted to revisit it again, but it's hard to find it. If you see "The Wrong Car" somewhere, just borrow it and watch it at home. After you watch it and listen to "Wine Dry If Sold Without", you will be touched by the movie hovering in your heart, and there will be tears hovering in your eyes. And I will continue to pursue it, hoping that one day there will be a chance to be moved and cry again.
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