He was once a legend of the Bright Avenue, but now he has become a strange person in the mouth of the public, and Bao's life is full of dramatic waves. Po
How should we look at his past and present?What did his heart crave?
Cattle and sheep grazing in the mountains and wilderness, what led him to this path?
On a cold winter day in 1987, in a remote mountain village in Shaanxi Province, Abao quacked and came.
In the early days of reform and opening up in the rural areas of northwest China, life was still very harsh and barren.
As an unexpectedly born baby, Po endures all this without choice.
The newborn Po was abandoned by his parents, and his grandparents became his raisers.
In this environment, little Po is alone, and his only companion is the grazing cattle and sheep.
Every day before dawn, he gets up and leads his animals to the ravines and ravines in the wilderness to forage for food.
This kind of day-to-day work is tedious and lonely for Po.
However, fate gave the young and unworldly child another heavy burden.
Little Po spent his childhood herding cattle in the remote countryside.
Whenever the cattle and sheep were grazing leisurely, Bao looked up at the sky in a daze, listening to the mountain songs rippling in his ears.
It's the only life in the wilderness.
The old people in the mountain village often hum simple folk songs softly, full of nostalgia and poetry.
These beautiful notes are like fresh spring water in the mountains, nourishing Bao's dry heart.
He is obsessed with this simple melody and dreams of one day being able to sing a song that touches people's hearts.
When Po stepped into the village's primary school, he was recognized by his teachers and entered the county's middle school due to his outstanding grades.
For Po, who has never left the mountain village, this is undoubtedly an adventure of life and an opportunity to realize his dream.
The bleak years when city life tempered dreams.
In the autumn of 1995, Bao, from a small mountain village, stepped on a train for the first time and arrived in a county-level city in Shaanxi Province.
For him, the train not only took him away from home, but also introduced him to a completely different world.
Ah Bao, who first arrived in the city, looked around, high-rise buildings, and busy traffic, everything was so unfamiliar to him.
The once peaceful and pleasant life of herding came to an abrupt end, replaced by the noisy bustle of the city.
In front of the new classmates, Po's dress and personality look very eccentric.
He didn't know anything about urban fashion and wasn't good at socializing with people.
It didn't take long for his classmates to start teasing him, calling him a "dirt bun" and a "cowherd baby".
In class, Po often looks foreign and becomes the object of ridicule of his classmates.
This made the introverted Po feel embarrassed, with a strong local accent, and did not dare to communicate with others.
His only pleasure was secretly humming the mountain songs and ballads of his hometown between classes.
This is his only connection to his hometown, and it is also a solace for his soul.
In this way, Po had a difficult time in middle school in the city.
The original yearning for the ** dream has gradually dimmed.
He is rejected by his peers, and everything around him denies his existence.
Until one day, chance changed his fate.
It was a weekend night when Po was wandering the streets alone and stumbled upon a bar.
The deafening rock** and the blurry lights in the bar stimulate Po's nerves, and he revels in the passionate ** atmosphere.
This intense sensory experience is like a liberation of the soul for Po, who has been suppressed for a long time.
He rediscovered himself in ** and regained his dream that was about to disappear.
Since that day, Po has spent almost all of his spare time at this small bar.
He rekindled his passion for **, and even secretly climbed the wall every night to escape from school and went to a bar to sing for a living.
In order to support Po's ** dream, his grandparents promised him to enter art school after graduating from high school.
However, the good times did not last long, and a school dance competition changed Po's fate.
The place that originally belonged to Bao's art school was transferred to the principal's son under the control of the principal.
This huge injustice made Po see the ugliness of society clearly, and the road he had been looking forward to for a long time was easily taken away by others.
Angry and desperate, Po could no longer tolerate the hypocrisy of city life and the trampling of his dreams, so he resolutely dropped out of school and stepped into society.
Folk songs can't sing about the taste of money, so he chooses to wander.
At the age of 16, Bao came to Xi'an, the capital of Shaanxi Province, and began a long life of wandering.
He relied on his singing voice to make a living in bars and song and dance troupes, but unfortunately the rustic folk songs were not popular at the time, and Po's life became very poor.
In order to fill his stomach, Po had to wander around, singing folk songs and begging from passers-by.
Sometimes you get lucky and get some money, but more often you are disliked by others.
This hard life did not wear out his love for **, but made him more eager to one day his folk songs can be appreciated by more people.
In these years of wandering, Po has seen too much of the world.
But ** is still his belief in survival, and this persistence supports him not to sink in the whirlpool.
Just when Po almost lost hope for the future, one day in 2005 changed his fate.
This year, Hunan Satellite TV launched the national talent show "Avenue of Stars", and Bao plucked up the courage to sign up for the competition.
For him, this is undoubtedly the last chance given to him by God.
Avenue of Fame: The Rise of a Rising Star of Folk Song.
When Po took the stage of the Walk of Fame with his guitar, many judges and the audience looked at the disheveled and sweaty contestant with strange eyes.
However, when his voice sounded, many people's eyes widened in shock.
Such a pure and moving voice and such a penetrating folk song instantly pull people back to the Northwest Desert and feel the vastness and breadth of nature.
Po's singing voice is like the hissing of a goshawk in the northwest, hovering on the stage of the Avenue of Fame.
The judges and the audience, who were originally biased against him, were also moved by his performance.
Folk songs show the power to move people's hearts, and finally shine on this stage.
At the end of the song, Po received countless applause.
Some of the judges even burst into tears on the spot.
I didn't expect this seemingly sloppy young man to have such a beautiful singing voice and sing such a touching mountain village song.
On this show, Po went through several rounds of brutal elimination, and finally won the championship in front of nine million TV viewers.
From an unknown wandering singer to a nationally renowned singer, Po seems to have realized his dream for many years.
He finally proved himself and gave the national audience a taste of the beauty of folk songs.
The pinnacle of life with both fame and fortune, the price of singing a song.
After "Avenue of Stars", Po ushered in the most glorious years of his life.
He has continuously appeared on the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, issued personal **, held tours, and gained fame and fortune.
Luxury cars, mansions, gold, silver and jewelry, as if they were all owned overnight.
However, in such a glorious moment, Po's heart is not as peaceful as it seems.
As a person with a low level of education, it is not easy to gain a firm foothold in the entertainment industry.
In order to gain a foothold in this circle, he had to fabricate his family background and create an image of a "graduate of a higher ** college".
Ah Bao deliberately avoided his hometown and relatives, and studied at a higher ** college before declaring that he was the "Avenue of Stars".
In fact, he is just a Chinese mountain village herding cow.
These hypocritical images have brought great mental pressure to Po, and he is always on the lookout for fear that his true identity will be revealed.
In addition, Po's temper and personality also became a reason for the public to criticize him.
He is often arrogant and arrogant in the show, provoking other artists.
This is his inner agitation, wanting to gain a higher status in the circle.
However, this angered many fans, who posted online criticism and attacks on Po, causing his popularity to drop dramatically.
From the top to the bottom, he was looking for something.
After the decline in popularity, Po became extremely anxious and emotional.
He was running around, constantly trying all sorts of tricks to regain attention.
He created a new image, made a short **, and even pretended to beg, all of which were accused of hype.
However, the public's antipathy accompanied him, and Po put a lot of effort into it with little effect.
His frustration and pain could not be told to others, and he could only howl alone in the middle of the night.
Today, Po is 53 years old.
He is still trying to survive alone in the big city, and he has endured all the hardships of life.
was once a legend of the Avenue of Stars, but now he has become a strange person in the mouth of the public.
Epilogue. We can't help but ask, what exactly is Po after?Fame, fortune, status, money and wealth, he once had.
Why keep your voice down to please those who despise him?What is the dream in his heart?
Perhaps, we will never be able to fully understand a person's heart.
Po's life trajectory is full of waves, and he is still persevering, and this is his choice.
May this young man from the northwest countryside find his own singing voice again in the noise of the city.