Xiao Zhiyuan: The affectionate singing of poems and songs
Always walks with his head held high, thin, short-haired, smiling, and wise behind his glasses. When he was on the street, he would stop and say hello: What's the matter? With the most authentic local questions, have an intimate conversation. Zhiyuan is popular and gathers a group of friends from all over the world; Zhiyuan's poetry is good, and it frequently appears in major newspapers and magazines; Zhiyuan's lyrics are good, and friends in the ** circle know it.
About ten years ago, I met Xiao Zhiyuan in a literary activity in a small town, and he liked to sit in the corner and listen silently, he seemed to be a little green, and he was full of modest expressions. When I saw the prose poems of "Mother Land Book" published by him, I was really surprised, it was actually from the hand of a young man, but it was so thick and so hot, intertwined with the sweetness and bitterness of life and tears, and cut the sourness of life with spiritual writing, like a large piece of yellow vitex flowers blooming in the spring cold.
Standing up from the body of the village, a cloud turned into the colorful color of my dream"" The unscreaming pain and the heart-rending voice of my father woke up the night of the village again and again. He must have had a lot of unforgettable pain in his heart, and perhaps he has a keener ability to perceive more than ordinary people, so he wrote words that go straight to the heart.
The literary height of a writer does not lie in how long and thick he writes, but in the star-like light he writes. Xiao Zhiyuan grew up in the countryside and naturally had a different experience, so much so that most of his works have rural themes, and bundles are piled up on his hillsides. Sometimes he is very desolate in his heart, and he laments the helplessness of the passage of life: "For so many years, I have repeated the same action after shaving off my beard, and secretly thinking about a person's life." Sometimes his thoughts on urbanization turn into a different kind of nostalgia: "Leave the crops, leave the cattle and sheep, and in the end, whoever guards the land will tell their children that there is also a need for cultivation." Sometimes his eyes were filled with tears: "The moment I received the admission letter, the wheat in the mountains turned yellow, and my mother sent more than a dozen acres of wheat to the wheat field in the autumn of that year, when the scorching sun was in the sky, and the wheat was golden The dream of college that matured for many years pushed my father to the road of migrant workers." ”
I think that a writer with character, in addition to the accumulation of life and artistic expression, ideology and cultivation determine the level, whether he uses simple human nature to judge the world, whether he can distinguish the truth of history, whether he reads a lot of books and opens up his humanistic horizons, at least he can distinguish between black and white, beauty and ugliness, at least he will not be confused. Just imagine, the face of the vicissitudes of wind and rain and the face of pampering are completely different, and they contain the lightness and weight of the years. It's like looking at the ** posts in the WeChat circle, and it is easy to see a person's "three views"; Reading literary works is the same, the words exude the author's clear and turbid atmosphere. Literature is just like what Zheng Banqiao said, "Yazhai lies down and listens to Xiao Xiaozhu, which is suspected to be the voice of the people's suffering", focusing on the joys, sorrows, and sorrows of people and life and the depths of the complex society, rather than the mood of life on the surface. Xiao Zhiyuan's people and things are weighty, writing about the complexity of fate, he knows very well how to go on the road of literature, and his thoughts have special features.
Reading Xiao Zhiyuan's poems often resonates with my heart, triggers a lot of thinking, is intoxicated by the fragrance of language, and enters the vast space to ask questions one after another. He changes his perspective to make the countryside clearer, either standing in front of a cave and looking out at the hustle and bustle of the city, or standing on the streets of the city and looking at the corn groves in the mountains. I like this kind of local feeling, I like this expression.
Over the years, we have experienced many things together, drank happily countless times, went to distant places to see the mountains and rivers together, and stored the friendship of pampering and forgetting. Each time, he applauds the literary achievements of him and his young friends, and also spurs himself to continue to work hard. His works have been selected for more than 10 anthologies, such as "2008 Selected Chinese Prose Poems", "Chinese Contemporary Poetry Library", "Chinese Poetry Appreciation", "Love Since the Song Dynasty", "2009 Chinese Poetry of the Year", etc., and have won many awards in the national literary essays. published a collection of poems "Light or Heavy Narrative", and co-authored the film script "Shandandan Blossoms" and "Oh, Youth"; In the autumn of 2023, Baihua Literature and Art Publishing House published his second collection of poems, "Becoming a Tree". He served in the Federation of Literary and Art Circles, but also to support poor villages, and concurrently served as the deputy editor-in-chief of "Yan'an Writers", busy every day, spinning like a top, and never delaying his creation, he was a powerful figure in the first phalanx of young writers in Shaanxi, and was promoted to the ranks of members of the Chinese Writers Association.
Xiao Zhiyuan started from poetry and stepped into film and television, and he was unexpectedly prosperous and impressive. Not long ago, in the autumn, I went to Xi'an to run errands, and ate in a restaurant by the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, when a familiar new folk song sounded on the table next to me, and a group of men and women who looked like college students surrounded their mobile phones, excitedly imitating the original sound, babbling and singing: If you are willing, let's take a ride and a ride, and ...... a ride
I can't help but get excited, the song "One Ride", the lyricist Xiao Zhiyuan, and the songwriter Li Xianxian, are all good friends of mine. In the ancient city of Xi'an, in the modern city, in the place where the Qin dialect is loud, I saw that the college students liked it very much, and I really wanted to go over and tell them that this song is popular in every street in northern Shaanxi, and I can sing it. I forced myself to be quiet and quietly listened to their singing: Erdao Migu Yang Wawa is long I look at that sister is a good person Handsome face Liu Yemei You ...... my brother's soul and soul
Xiao Zhiyuan and Li Xianfeng are based on the land of northern Shaanxi and jointly create dozens of new folk songs, which are popular on the Internet and folk, and the Internet in northern Shaanxi has set off a wave of enthusiasm, calling them ** partners. For this reason, the county held the "Zhidan Original ** Meeting", invited the provincial and municipal ** celebrities to come, and gave enthusiastic appreciation in the art seminar. The theme song of the movie interlude "Good Night, Youth" they collaborated on has won the favor of many young people: how many people have insomnia late at night How many people dream of tomorrow The youth buried in their hearts Who walks in a hurry ......
In the past few years, Xiao Zhiyuan has written more than 100 lyrics, with the charm of new northern Shaanxi folk songs as the soul, more aesthetic and thoughtful, most of the lyrics were scrambled by singers, composed, produced, and first sung, and released on the whole network. His lyrics have stood higher than the traditional love theme, the realm is broader, the expression is more profound, and the taste of singing is more intriguing. For example, "Clay Man" "You are the loess of my previous life, I am your clay man in this life; Plain face to the sky to live in this world, joy, anger, sorrow, happiness and warmth are life", does not belong to the easy song of love, infiltrated into the thinking about life, with prayers, but also full of regret and helplessness. The words of "The Wind Blows the Peach Blossom Red" are so beautiful that they pierce the heart, "The peach blossoms are red to welcome the spring breeze, the world is bitter but people think about people, who has that heart disease who knows the pain; A tree and peach blossoms are drunk in the spring breeze, and people have a heart and a heart, and whoever does not feel emotion will not be sad." I have experienced unforgettable love, I know what it tastes like, and I also know that "I see the peach blossoms in my eyes, and the wind blows the peach blossoms" love and can't, and I need to turn around in the face of entanglement, and choose again between gains and losses. Restrain your emotions in time and disguise the waves in your heart as the wind and sunshine, which may be the truth of loving and being loved.
Reading poems and listening to songs is to purify oneself and let the heart gain more warmth. "I like to listen to the wind, especially the wind from the plateau, and when I stand on the top of a mountain, I can hear the sound of life in the wind......"Of course, I would like to hear a more powerful voice of life and a soulful chant of humanity in his works.
Gao Shihong: Add color to the folk songs of northern Shaanxi
About ten years ago, it was a bright April, and green grass grew on the ground. I carried the camera to Yongning Mountain to shoot a feature film, and it happened that a provincial TV station column group was also filming, and a local singer was also invited to restore the folk scene. I saw a young man wearing a white sheep's belly handkerchief, a sheepskin gown, and black crotch pants tied around his waist, from the Chiyan path on the southern slope of Yongning Mountain, singing Xintianyou, while swaying uphill.
At that moment, it was as if time had returned to the past, and the poetic painting of the pastoral songs was faintly displayed in the warm and clear love songs, high-pitched and melodious, and swirling in a roundabout way, like the sound of heaven floating, and everyone looked and listened in a daze. The young singer approached, and Xintianyou finished singing, and the people around him applauded. He had deep eye sockets, straightened the bridge of his nose, smiled, panted, wiped a handful of sweat beads from his face, and said with a smile: The sheepskin coat is too hot. This made everyone laugh and praise him for his tasteful singing of folk songs.
I asked others, and I learned that this young man's name was Gao Shihong, and he was a singer and actor in the county song and dance troupe.
Soon, Zhidan County prepared to rehearse the large-scale song and dance drama "Hanging Red Lantern" with great boldness, and invited the big director in Beijing to select actors, and I met Gao Shihong again. In the lobby of the hotel, he sang out with a voice, the voice was like being kissed by an angel, if the mountain wind swept through the spring field, like a big river flowing happily after a thunderstorm, like a mountain road winding with the fragrance of the ripe season, like the earth waking up hazy in the morning mist, he kneaded the excitement of the four seasons with his feelings into a wisp of soul-grabbing singing, echoing and spreading in splendor. The director of Beijing was very excited, gave a thumbs up, and said a series of good, good, your remote county has such a great talent!
Gao Shihong has a simple heart, laughs first when he meets people, and speaks only when he laughs. Be generous, righteous and kind. Although the pressures of life made him lose his head prematurely, the pursuit of art made him appear lively and handsome. Later, I chatted and learned that he and I were fellow villagers, still from an administrative village, and had relatives not far away, and I was two generations older than him, and fate made the world so small.
gradually learned that his singing talent was not born, and his grandmother had a good voice, and she was very famous for singing folk songs in the surrounding area. When Gao Shihong was a child, he and his grandmother babbled to learn to sing Xintianyou, and he put a lot of original songs in his heart for many years. During the primary and secondary school periods, during the winter and summer vacations, he stood on the hillside, regarded the world as his own big stage, and sang with other adults across the ditch with you and me.
* The dream has taken root in the heart of his youth. After that, whether it was hugging bricks, pedaling three wheels, or doing handymen, he never stopped pursuing singing. Whenever I have free time, I visit the old artists in the neighborhood, record and learn more folk songs, constantly encourage myself with singing, and also use singing to fight the bitterness of life. Once, he was forced by life, went to Shanxi to work, and almost died in the black coal kiln that the king of Hades knew, maybe the Ji people had their own heavenly care, he cleverly escaped from danger, returned to his hometown to work hard to make a living, engaged in handling, and learned to cook, experienced the dangers of life, and continued to look for a new way out.
Coincidentally, his singing talent was accidentally discovered by the owner of the distillery and asked him to be a liquor sales singer. So, Gao Shihong started a new career with his expertise. In those years, I was so tired and tired that I sang this banquet and rushed to the next wine party, singing dozens of times a day, and I was so exhausted that I sang hoarsely. Although it is not an easy business to push the wine, he has exercised himself, seen the truth of society, and can support himself.
In 2005, Gao Shihong signed up for the 12th CCTV Young Singer Grand Prix in Shaanxi Province and won the Excellence Award, which gave him unprecedented self-confidence. In 2006, he won the special prize in the Yan'an Thousand Performances. In 2007, with his singing talent, he was admitted to the newly established Zhidan County Song and Dance Troupe. This is a big turning point in his life, he has served an iron rice bowl, and his life has a basic guarantee, especially on the road of career development, with broad prospects and unlimited future.
Gao Shihong, who entered the song and dance troupe, insisted on practicing his voice, practicing the piano, and studying vocal music theory every day, and took the excavation and promotion of the original ecological folk songs of northern Shaanxi as his main direction. He has consulted with famous singers Wang Xiangrong and He Yutang, and also studied with vocal professors Meng Zongzhi and Chen Qin, constantly improving his artistic accomplishment.
On the road of art that he is striving for, Gao Shihong has his own higher pursuit, and proposed to form the "Red Capital Group", the three male voices have won many praises with novel singing methods, and have appeared on the ** stage and Shaanxi TV station many times, for him and them, this is the biggest spur and encouragement, indicating that the direction of art is right.
After the original northern Shaanxi folk song "Little Pink" was adapted and arranged, they sang euphemistically and affectionately on the big stage in Beijing, and it became popular all over the country, and people couldn't help but marvel at this ever-changing era, this folk song hidden in remote villages was so beautiful, infecting countless hearts who have sincerely loved and still longed for simple love. Experts particularly favored and highly praised this song, and invited Gao Shihong to go to Beijing to record and sing this folk song for the national intangible cultural heritage protection project.
For more than ten years, Gao Shihong, a first-class person, has made fruitful achievements and is famous. He has won the "Star Award" of the 10th China Arts Festival, the Singing Award of the 6th China Original Ecological Folk Song Contest and more than 30 other important awards, and has been invited to perform in important events at home and abroad more than 10 times, and has been recorded on ** TV station more than 10 times. At the same time, dozens of folk songs in northern Shaanxi, such as "Return to the Ravine", "I Love to Sing Xintianyou", "You in My Hometown", "Singing Love Songs on the Liangliang", "Yan'an Waiting for You", etc., have been widely circulated, and have also been filmed into various short ** on the Internet to imitate and copy in a blowout.
Gao Shihong believes that the inheritance of the original ecological folk songs of northern Shaanxi needs the participation of more people, and only when everyone sings can it be continued. In the spring of 2020, Gao Shihong, who served as the chairman of the Zhidan County ** Family Association, formed a Northern Shaanxi Folk Song Choir of more than 20 people, regularly carried out learning and singing activities, and was invited to perform more than ten times in Yan'an and other places.
Maybe it's persistence, maybe it's the love of northern Shaanxi folk songs, he put a lot of thought into the choir, carefully communicate with members from all walks of life, treat each other sincerely, in addition to personally teaching singing and patient guidance, he posted money to play song scores, and often paid money to manage food. Many people didn't understand, Gao Shihong smiled and said: The artistic effect of singing the folk songs of northern Shaanxi in a multi-part chorus is indeed very good. The formation of a folk song choir is my greatest wish, not only to be able to sing folk songs with like-minded people, but also to meet soulmates in the inheritance of folk songs.
Usually, he is busy. or be invited to perform at events all over the world; or guide the rehearsal of the Northern Shaanxi Folk Song Choir; The second is to invest in the artistic activities of the unit; Whenever he had the opportunity, he indulged in songwriting, playing and singing without knowing hunger.
I don't have many encounters with Gao Shihong, as long as we meet, we will definitely drink. He only drinks a few glasses, never let himself be drunk, he chats more, talks about art, chats, talks about his songwriting, and of course, he will sing a few newly collected ancient folk songs, so that the intimate atmosphere will burst instantly. This is the happiest time for everyone, indulging in a space away from the distractions, hoping that time will stay here forever.
Especially after being busy, I often think of Gao Shihong, and I especially want to have a drink with him, listen to his heavenly singing, and talk about the various tastes of life, and his wise eyes will inevitably flash with artistic sparks.
Ren Yinsheng: In search of the poetry of life
I've known Ren for a long time, and it seems that it was due to some literary activity.
At that time, he was a Chinese teacher and also served as the vice principal of the middle school, with thinning hair, walking with the wind, and showing two tiger teeth when he smiled; There is not only the rigor of the teacher in his speech, but also some cold arrogance in his behavior. Later, they gradually became familiar with each other, and every time there was a larger literary activity, they were worried about going to the ** borrowed place, and he appeared like a timely rain, so he naturally held the event in the auditorium of their school, which was not only wide and bright, but also sound well-equipped, and also attracted teachers and students who love literature to come to interact, the atmosphere was warm, the applause was repeated, and everything was successful.
Lei Ensheng's obsession with literature is as affectionate as "My Fair Lady and Gentleman", no matter how sad the wind and rain of life are, how troublesome the vulgar days are, his firm eyes have never left his love, and he keeps chasing with his feet. His writing is relatively broad, and he has published a lot of literary works in newspapers and periodicals at all levels, including poetry and **, but most of his works are prose, he should be a prose writer, and he has written more easily in recent years, and the affinity of his works is also strong.
Since Wren was ten years older, he was always referred to as a big brother, and although I ate a lot of salt, I did not have as much life experience as he did. He is familiar with the folk customs of Beiluohe, and knows the details of weddings and funerals, New Year's joint orders, agricultural mulberry six animals, folk songs and slang, etc., and can also talk about them casually, attracting everyone to listen quietly. Undoubtedly, this is the strength of his literary creation, and it is also the natural style of his writing. The accumulation of life determines how far, how high, and how long a writer can go. If there is no life in rice, no matter how much you manipulate and modify the words, you will definitely not be able to cook a sweet taste.
Days with Sheep includes a lot of works that depict rural life, which are simple and honest, and full of fun. Many details about the sheep are unique and novel, such as the fact that he and his brother can distinguish the differences between their own sheep and give different sheep names, which are simple and clear, and particularly vivid: "Big flowers are four-sided, small flowers are four-sided, Jiao four-sided, high-horned skull, wrapped horn skull, large flat horn, big twisted angle, hugging ears, velvet face egg, white waist wrapping, single white hoof, double white hoof, four white hoof, .......""Subtle, discerning, incredible. He wrote about the sheep running green, using concise words to tell the unfictional experience: "Spring returns to the earth, the grass and trees germinate, the sheep who have eaten a winter of hay, smells the smell of grass, and runs crazy as soon as they arrive at the pasture. At this time, no matter how fast the sheep shovel is picked, shouting and breaking the throat, it will not work. "These languages are alive, with a local flavor, pulling me back to the past years, a kind of long-lost warmth comes to my heart, the beauty of life is before the youth, I don't know the hardships of the world, my heart is carefree, and my perception of life is limited to simple campus life.
Ren Shengsheng wrote about the soul call. This kind of witchcraft is usually performed in the middle of the night, and ordinary people do not see the scene of raising the god tower to call the spirit. He delicately wrote about the serious soul-calling process, and the parties concerned would suddenly understand and become open-minded and self-deprecating: "The sixth grandmother is sick, and after drawing lots and divination, she said that she wanted to call the soul." The daughter of the sixth grandmother is my aunt in terms of seniority, she stutters a little and bites her tongue a little, and when she calls for the soul, the uncle screams: Mom- Come back. My aunt replied: Return, return, return - the sixth grandmother heard "the ghost is coming", and shouted loudly without a good voice: Don't scream, call all the ghosts back, what kind of soul do you call me? It made everyone present laugh. Reading this, I couldn't help but laugh and burst into tears. However, it was a sad time, it was a helpless and miserable era, lack of medical treatment, remote areas, and the pressure of seeking food and clothing was particularly heavy, like being trapped in a closed cocoon, living without relying on the power of the spirit, what other good way was there.
Lei Ensheng's prose works are close to rural life, and truly describe some people and events, and there are many pains that cannot be directly spoken. The truth of life is not that the years are quiet, but more about the pain that cannot be avoided, and while maintaining kindness, you can deal with it calmly, and cherish the friendliness and smiles that appear around you. After reading chapters such as "Calling the Soul", "Carrying Water", "Congratulations on Birthday", "Marrying a Daughter-in-law in Northern Shaanxi", "Missing My Grandmother", etc., I fell into an incomprehensible thought, how should people live to be worthy of themselves? How much is the difference between the meaning of life and flowers, birds, fish and insects? Did you come into this world to suffer diligently? Therefore, reading in doubt, being sober in reading, and analyzing in sobriety, there seems to be no answer.
The depth and quality between people play a decisive role, and the friendship with Lei Ensheng and several other confidants is also based on character, and they are frank and hearty with each other. In the winter of the previous year, the Cui Zimei Literary and Art Studio, which was selected and listed by the County Talent Office, began to operate, with the direction of cultivating local talents, and the function of a writers' association and salon. Every time, Lei Yinsheng would drive his private car with a smile to fulfill his obligations. Faced with the dilemma of having no activity funds, relying on enthusiasm and love, he went to the countryside to collect wind and actively wrote the same topic, which was also prosperous. After close contact, I found that Lei Ensheng was clumsy and talented, so I called him Master or Teacher Lei, he pouted and said modestly: I am a sheep doll wearing a leather jacket, and it seems to be possible.
Friends are deep, the wine games are one after another, there is no excitement without him, and it is prosperous with him. He shakes the dice to "pull out his teeth", wins many battles, crushes everyone, and can't stop laughing. However, his alcohol consumption fluctuated, and when he was too strong to drink, he opened his mouth to sing: Make friends, you have to make friends with the brother who stops the sheep, and the hemp grandmother who locks the cow and the cow picks the ...... for meHe can sing a lot of original folk songs, "White Cloth Shirt", "A Match", "The Wind Blows the Peach Blossom Red" is a must-sing song on the wine table. In addition, Gao Shihong's mellow and full singing, as well as Xiao Zhiyuan's original song, the atmosphere of the gathering wave after wave to the climax, life is happy, happy to drink, this is the happiest moment of my daily life, how many such beautiful gatherings can there be in life?
In retrospect, Cui Zimei's literary and art studio gathered more than a dozen members, frequently collected styles, wrote diligently, chased each other, and published more than 100 literary works in public newspapers and periodicals in central provinces and cities in one year, which was ten times the number of publications in the county every year in the past, and wrote a new record for literary creation. Of course, people who are really engaged in literary creation, regardless of rewards and applause, have already done their best to put literature and life first. Since the summer of this year, there has been a succession of blockbuster good news, Li Liang's long ** "Da Luo River" was published by Baihua Literature and Art Publishing House, and the work has received rave reviews since its inception, and has been included in the key support projects of the China Writers Association, and it has also been listed on the list of good books jointly recommended by literary institutions. Then, Xiao Zhiyuan's poetry collection "Become a Tree" was published by Baihua Literature and Art Publishing House, and his works were widely praised by all walks of life, and he himself was also honored as a member of the Chinese Writers Association. Looking at Lei Ansheng's manuscript now, I can't suppress the joy in my heart, and soon this collection of essays will be printed and published, which will plant another beautiful flower tree in the splendid literary garden.
I am very pleased to be a team with literary friends and poets, to treat each other with each other, and to see them progress and achieve great achievements, which is the charm of literature, and the opportunity to meet in life, and the inevitable result of their talents. Ying Norren has been promoting the preface for a long time, and he was busy shooting educational feature films in the summer, and he was not idle day and night. In the autumn, he went to Xi'an, took his wife to be busy in the ward, and his wish went smoothly.
At this moment, in the face of the birthday cake and the colorful candles lit for me, I was moved and silently made a wish: may my relatives and friends be safe and auspicious, may the flower of literature bloom freely, may I continue to use literature to brighten myself in the years to come, and I wish to write wonderful words to thank readers and friends for their expectations.