"In the past, I was a child, I later, and I in the future, it seems impossible to be together. Everyone was devastated. My world seems really ruined. I'll never find love again. Suddenly, miraculously, one day, just when I was most depressed, I walked thousands of miles to the Rishat Iceberg in Greenland, and finally I found it vaguely. I seem to feel a flag calling me in the distance. It seems that my soul is waving a flag. In the distant sea, in the sea, it is calling me. It seems to say to me, come on, butterfly, this is the world where you fly. Don't fly on the water. Come to the seaside, this is your world. You know, you can fly better and deeper on the sea. ...
-Excerpt from The Divine Comedy
200 1, Zhang Hongliang chose to quit at the most brilliant moment of his music career and disappeared from public view. Although his work "Love in Hiroshima" and "Do you know I'm waiting for you" have been sung for 15 years, Zhang Hongliang's name is completely unfamiliar to young people. What they don't know is Zhang Hongliang's extremely tortuous life course: when he was a teenager, he eavesdropped on "Enemy Taiwan" at his home in Miaoli, Taiwan, worked as a dentist in Taipei, studied for a master's degree in film in new york, and investigated the origin of the yellow race in Lake Baikal ... Zhang Hongliang, now 55, found that he needed to rediscover his meaning in life.
In 20 14, Zhang Hongliang finally resigned from the dental clinic and came back with the divine comedy and the yellow book. Divine Comedy is actually a combination of more than seven minutes of Guqin music and Zhang Hongliang's long poems of more than two thousand words. Once it was launched on the Internet, it raised questions: "Is this a song?" .
The Yellow Book is an academic work written by Zhang Hongliang after years of world travel, and its content is as controversial as its name. But these Zhang Hongliang didn't take it to heart. "My income as a dentist in Taiwan Province Province is quite high. I can live a good life. Why should I be scolded by everyone? In fact, there are still many ethnic things in my bones, and I hope to express them. " In an exclusive interview with a reporter from Beijing Evening News, Zhang Hongliang expounded his experience.
Dentist Zhang Hongliang: My dad hasn't been happy since I left the clinic.
Zhang Hongliang embarked on the music road, which was opposed by his family from beginning to end.
Zhang Hongliang's father grew up in Taiwan Province province during the Japanese occupation. At that time, people in Taiwan Province Province had low social status, so it was difficult to seek higher positions. In the eyes of Taiwan Province people at that time, being a doctor was the most enviable profession. At the request of his family, Zhang Hongliang couldn't stick to his opinion. He went to the Department of Dentistry of Taipei Medical College and became a dentist after graduation.
1987, Zhang Hongliang released his first album Elegy, but the sales volume was not good. He is jealous of the sales of other singers' records. He was tired of being a dentist, so he closed his clinic two years later and went to Rolling Stone Records as a music producer. Later, recalling this experience, Zhang Hongliang told reporters: "My father told me later that he has never been really happy since then. In his mind, doing this line is still a player, inferior. "
1989, Zhang Hongliang became popular with two love songs, My beloved sister's eyes and Do you know I'm waiting for you? But soon after the music circle became famous, his mind changed again, and he found himself with a deeper complex for movies. While making music, he once took making music as an opportunity, and spent a month lurking in Chen Kaige's Farewell My Concubine crew, sitting next to the director's monitor and learning to make movies. Discovering his own shortcomings and disappointed with the record industry, Zhang Hongliang decided 1995 to go to the Film Academy of new york University to study for a master's degree in film and become Ang Lee's younger brother. What he didn't expect was that "Love in Hiroshima", which he later sang the most and topped the KTV duet songs all the year round, was written at this time.
"I don't have enough time to love you. I should stop this romantic game ..." Many people mistakenly think that Love in Hiroshima has anything to do with Hiroshima, but few people know that this song is about Zhang Hongliang's own emotional experience. At that time, Zhang Hongliang met a Canadian woman, and the chance of life made them meet in Taiwan Province Province, Lake Baikal and new york. This kind lady volunteered all over the world, which greatly changed Zhang Hongliang's impression of westerners as "self-righteous". Although the love affair with her was actually only over a month, this exotic love affair became the source of inspiration for Zhang Hongliang's creation. As a film student, he was watching alain resnais's film "Love in Hiroshima", which was also about exotic love. He felt it fit, so he simply borrowed the name. "In fact, I have never even been to Hiroshima now."
200 1, Zhang Hongliang, who returned from school, didn't become a film director. Because his film "Butterfly in Siberia" is a "great epic", he was frustrated when he applied for a film coach grant in Taiwan Province Province. Plus, my father is old and has a family. Zhang Hongliang went back to his family and his old dentist. He treats dental implant patients in the clinic from nine to five every day. At home, he cooks for the children and washes diapers. The clinic sometimes watches stars among fans, so he deliberately assigns such patients to other doctors to avoid fans watching.
Musician Zhang Hongliang: The Divine Comedy is a failed attempt.
In this way, 15 passed, and 65438+ 10/4 of 20 1 0/became a new turning point in Zhang Hongliang. "I didn't know what it was. I looked back on my life and asked myself: What is the meaning of life? I can't be my master when I have dental implants. My talent is still writing songs and making music. " Zhang Hongliang decided to leave the clinic and go out for some time to think. He sent a message to his work partner, Ms. Yang, asking her not to contact herself and to think about where her life is going. At that time, Ms. Yang was very flustered, didn't know what he was going to do, and even thought that he had something hard to think about and wanted to commit suicide. A month later, Zhang Hongliang came back and told her that she wanted to make music again.
"I didn't come back to compete with newcomers. I hope to provide a different possible direction and use myself as a model for young people to choose a route. " Zhang Hongliang said that although he retired from the music circle, he still had many unfinished ideals in music, and the most important point was to revive China culture through music.
Zhang Hongliang's first work, Divine Comedy, was a blockbuster, accompanied by guqin music. He said that when 1993 first came to Beijing to record an album, he tried all the national musical instruments he could think of, even the cucurbit. In the album Free Will, he also tried to mix Mongolian, Tibetan and other national languages. This is his favorite music experiment. The lyrics of Divine Comedy, which is more than 2,000 words long, are regarded by him as a continuation of Love in Hiroshima-a narrative of personal love history.
Quebec, Lake Baikal, new york and many other place names mentioned in the lyrics of Divine Comedy are all places where Zhang Hongliang's emotional experience was recorded. This song is very popular on the Internet, but his Lithuanian wife doesn't know it. "Let her know that she is likely to be scolded to death. This is the advantage of marrying a foreign wife. She doesn't understand Chinese. " Zhang Hongliang laughed.
Zhang Hongliang did not deny that The Divine Comedy was a failed attempt: "My initial idea was to make a song that could be played by combining Chinese and Western music, but when Guqin music took shape, I found it too difficult to break, so I had to change the lyrics." Nevertheless, Zhang Hongliang said that recording The Divine Comedy is an arduous task. The sound engineer is a foreigner and doesn't know Chinese. It is impossible to match the recorded words with the music through editing. This requires Zhang Hongliang to read a long poem of more than 2,000 words in one breath. The bigger difficulty is that when the music ends, the lyrics must also be completed. He is very proud of his success: "Those who are not convinced can try to challenge and see if they can do it."