In the past two days, a sharp Weibo post has been forwarded by netizens one after another, and it has also become a hot search. This person said this -
These days, anyone who is willing to show off is called a goddess, and anyone who has appeared on a variety show is called an artist. , participate in a singing competition and be called a singer!
So if I hammered nails into my hands today, can I also call myself Jesus?
I don’t know if you remember that in 1992, there was a singer from Taiwan who was on crutches but had extremely strong eyes. He brought melodies across the strait and brought us such memories: the songs saved on your mobile phone, your His posters on the wall of the house when you were a boy, your tickets to his concerts at that time, your photo with him, your league clothes and the signature on your notebook...
Do you Remember, his name is - Zheng Zhihua .
Stars light up Zheng Zhihua - Stars light up
I learned to lie and chase fame and fortune
Only when I got lost in reality did I realize my fragility
Watching you leave in tears, thinking about the vast future
Please light the stars in the distance for me A light of hope
Stars light up the door of my house
Let the lost children find their way back
24 years later, he checked into Weibo, and he was still the same Zheng Zhihua who dared to speak and sing. Before that, his daring to speak and sing was clearly reflected in his lyrics. A large part of the reason why " sailor " and "Star Lighting" have become classics lies in the lyrics in them.
Sailor Zheng Zhihua - Private Song
Always imagined that there is another world at the end of the ocean
Always thought that brave sailors were real men
Always looked like a weak coward
When being bullied, I always heard sailors say
He said that this little pain in the wind and rain is nothing.
Wipe away your tears and don’t be afraid. At least we still have dreams.
Zheng Zhihua’s songs seem gloomy and negative when you first listen to them, but songs like "Children of China", "Present Progressive", "Middle Class" "Class", "Youth", etc., you will know after listening to these songs several times - the negative surface contains the shadow of the spirit. This is the belief conveyed to us by Zheng Zhihua, a deep understanding of reality and society. , his understanding of love, good and evil.
Young Age Zheng Zhihua - Young Age
I always thought that I had grown up
I had to pretend to be cool when I smoked
I always thought that the earth was under my feet
I wanted to wander around the world when I was young
Young Age When I was young, I was a little naive and a little stupid
In my youth When he was young, he was a little crazy and a little handsome.
He is a heterogeneous singer. His songs are negative inspirational, rhetorical questions, sarcasm, and naked criticism of society. This is just his thinking, but it has a humanistic color and the shadow of ordinary workers and farmers. His songs will not be eliminated because of the lyrics. In fact, every song he sings is every truth he tells the society. This is a truth that no other singer can express.
He has been guiding us to recognize, learn, and think about life in the negative. He is an eternal sailor, a musical genius who should not be forgotten by the times.
Single Escape Zheng Zhihua - Single Escape
A person walks towards the long street
A person walks towards the cold night
A person is running away from something that is not others but himself
A person is afraid of something that is not cold but loneliness
"Fallen Angel" is him It is written based on a promiscuous woman I met in reality. For the sake of love, this woman resolutely left her wealthy family and exchanged her body for the lives of two people.
Fallen Angel Zheng Zhihua - Fallen Angel
Where are you going with heavy makeup? Your pale eyes
Inadvertently looking back, what is at a loss is the familiar neon light
I can't find it in the sobbing alleyway. Your first tears
Put your soul into the void pocket towards another stranger
He used this song to plead for those women who are wandering at the bottom of society and have no choice but to fight for their lives. They have been oppressed for too long, resisting but have no way out, struggling to get out of the circle of midnight love. Being ruthlessly torn apart in a materialistic and carnal society, fallen human nature and sinful animal desires are born in evil and perish in ethics.
Zheng Zhihua dares to criticize this society full of vanity and glitz. Due to the ugliness of face, it seems to be bright and beautiful on the outside. "It's a matter of face, I'd rather die than give in", using money and power to compare, to cover up one's own ugliness, in the hope of continuing to deceive oneself. Living in a corrupt reality, walking on the road with masks, they are actually just slaves who love vanity. This is Zheng Zhihua's "The Problem of Face" -
The Problem of Face Zheng Zhihua - Game World
Fighting for a little vanity A fight to the death
Spend a lot of money without frowning and remain calm
Compare yourself to others
In the end, it’s just about face
I give you face (I give you face)
you don't wanna face (you are shameless)
you lose your face (You are so shameful)
I ture my face (I will fall out)
He lamented for those students who are rooted in the education system, "Studying is for the sake of parents' face, and the results can prove the teacher's ability to guess questions." Zheng Zhihua also knows that education is the way to change his family and his own destiny, but he still wants to sing this song to everyone because he sympathizes and feels sad and angry. Although he is powerless, he can write these words into the lyrics and sing them out. He is not criticizing society or being negative, he is using his own way to guide us to find the true direction of life.
Tutoring Street Zheng Zhihua - Star Lights
Studying is for the sake of parents' face
Scores can prove the teacher's ability to guess questions
You look like you are lingering under pressure and expectations
It seems that you never have the right to protest
Who can squeeze in? Who is waiting foolishly outside the narrow gate?
Who is controlling this game of competition?
Is academic qualifications the ultimate goal of education? A life of hard work. "Will we grow old ordinary like this?" I think everyone doesn't want to think about it. "Our burden is heavy and our shoulders are painful." But is there anything we can do to survive? No, I can only "save face". A person's life has no length, only width. It's like walking on the road. The road has no end. The decision of whether you will grow old ordinarily depends on where you go and where you look. Find your own way. Don't follow the crowd. You can't. It's just "middle class" now, not a lifetime.
Middle Class Zheng Zhihua - Private Song
My burden is heavy and my shoulders hurt
I carry my face and wander among the crowd
My vision is very high and my strength is very small
I fall secretly when no one sees
My bed is big but I never sleep well
I am afraid that after one night I will be forgotten by the world
I have many desires and my salary is very small
I lost my feet on the street in Taipei
Zheng Zhihua never went to college, or even Although he never went to junior high school, he was able to write a large number of songs. The lyrics have profound philosophical meanings and criticize society. A singer-songwriter creates meaningful things and sings them from his heart. This is truly worthy of admiration. Zheng Zhihua did it.
Cat Zheng Zhihua - Single escape
A group of mysterious cats live in the trash can under the neon sign
We are looking for goals in forgotten corners
Apart from games, we sleep
The night is our stage and I am the protagonist of the stage
The lane is our territory No one in my world can care about
We are cats, happy cats
Solitary, no hypocrisy, won’t please
We are cats, naughty cats
This song "Cat" sounds like it is about cats, but in fact it is Use objects as metaphors for people. But it is not all people in real society, but a kind of people who "live alone, have no hypocrisy, and will not please". But it seems that these people are far away from us, or absolutely, this kind of people can no longer be found in reality. "Cat".
In Zheng Zhihua's world, it seems that only the interactions between animals and humans are real friends, because they have no fame, fortune, or scheming, and just eat, sleep and play every day. In other words, Zheng Zhihua hopes that he can become a cat, a "happy cat" and a "naughty cat".
At the end of the Beijing concert in 2005, Zheng Zhihua said this: Everyone knows that my songs have influenced a generation of Chinese people. I think that is wrong. My songs have influenced a generation of people who are just like me, who are helpless in life. People who have lost their goals and ideals, like me, have a bit of low self-esteem, so they feel something in my songs.
Game World Zheng Zhihua - Game World
The world is too wordy and there is no distinction between right and wrong
People like me, who will care about me
Being rich and being the boss is a sad life without money
Even if I can't stand it, what can I do
Zheng Zhihua The lyrics he writes are not just conscience, they are more critical, helpless and unyielding lyrics. From his lyrics, we can understand profound truths and learn many, many things from them.
From "Sailor" to "Fallen Angels" to "Game of Worlds", he spent most of his life interpreting reality. He dared to criticize "corrupt officials, covering the sky with one hand"; he set an example for the people at the bottom, he insisted on leaning on He stood on crutches to end the several-hour concert; he was very real: "A Fei and his woman, in order to survive, go to the bar to drink and make money"; he is a sad person, but he is not succumbing to the twists and turns of life. Restraint: "Is this how ordinary you will grow old?"...
No! He uses his own will to do things every day. He is not like some singers who write empty checks and rely on the media to tell them: Where and how much has been donated. He just uses his crutches to go to those in need, silently Use the money from singing to help disabled children.
He is a singer in the Taiwanese music scene who directly addresses the weaknesses of human nature.
He directs his lyrics to the unfair and dark society.
The fragile human nature and the ignorant reality. Called Zheng Zhihua
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