your idol no collapse house.
Jay Chou is back again. This singer who has accompanied the generation of post-80s and post-90s returns with an album called "'s greatest work ". On July 6, the MV of the new album's title song became a hot search as soon as it was launched.
Before this, Jay Chou had not released a new album for six years. Some people say that he "has been over" and can only "refresh the rice". However, in six years, his name never left the public eye.
May 12, 2022 is the 14th anniversary of the Wenchuan earthquake. The Weibo topic #Jay Chou Daoxiang turned out to be the hot search again. While following "The Fragrance of Rice", the fans expressed their gratitude and reassurance that when they were young, they loved the right person and "the idol did not collapse the house."
In addition to music works, Jay Chou's charity and kindness are also a hot topic, with his donations ranging from well-documented 500,000 yuan to 42 million circulating among the public. Fans are willing to believe that idols who have followed for many years are not only speaking with their works and winning with their talents, but also a good example of low-key charity.
In 2012, at the Bazaar Celebrity Charity Night, Jay Chou sang the song " Blue and White Porcelain ".
Digital mystery
2008, known as the "first year of China's charity", can also be regarded as the starting point of Jay Chou's charity journey.
That was the ninth year of Jay Chou's debut. The "Jie Fan" in Chongqing finally came to Jay Chou, who had been waiting for for a long time. The sudden Wenchuan earthquake on May 12 shocked and saddened the whole country. The Chongqing station of Jay Chou’s global tour on May 24 also changed from an ordinary tour to a charity fundraising concert for earthquake relief.
In fact, after the Wenchuan earthquake, Jay Chou, who was in Taipei, commissioned his agent to call the Chongqing concert organizing committee. According to local media in Chongqing, because the telephone line was once busy, the agent did not dial the phone until the early morning of May 13. After learning that the school building of Liangping School in Chongqing was seriously damaged due to earthquakes, it immediately decided to donate 500,000 yuan for campus reconstruction.
On May 24, 2008, Jay Chou called on fans to donate to his compatriots in the Wenchuan earthquake at a concert in Chongqing.
On May 24, 2008, Jay Chou invited friends such as Su Rui , Liu Genghong , Zhou Hui , Nanquan Mama and other friends to participate in this donation concert. S.H.E, Pan Weibo , Zhou Yumin and others also recorded videos to call on everyone to donate money and materials.
At the entrance of the concert, Chongqing Charity Federation has set up two donation boxes. Each audience participating in the donation will receive a special "love sticker" signed by Jay Chou. That night, Jay Chou brought 30 students from Chongqing Bashu Primary School to sing the song " Snail " together, cheering for his compatriots in the disaster area with the courage of "climbing step by step"; the scene of "Sichuan, rise up" loudly in the hearts of fans also became a classic picture in the hearts of fans.
3Jay Chou shouted "Sichuan, rise up" to cheer for his compatriots in the disaster area.
According to reports from multiple media, Jay Chou donated all the 7.5 million yuan ticket revenue of Chongqing concert to the Chongqing Charity Federation. A total of 3.0566 million yuan of donations were raised at the concert. In addition, Jay Chou also added his personal donation from the previous 500,000 yuan to 2 million yuan. There are no public news reports on the high donation of 42 million yuan that is rumored in the market. However, under Jay Chou's call, more than 40 companies and overseas artists participated in the donation, with the donation amounting to 29 million yuan.Many years later, Jay Chou said in an interview with the interview program "Extraordinary Way": "We won't talk more about the numbers."
After the earthquake in Ya'an, Sichuan in 2013, Jay Chou wrote his blessings to the children in the disaster area.
low-key "Love"
After 2008, Jay Chou also "goes northward" on the road to love.
In April 2010, Jay Chou and his friend Pan Weibo donated 600,000 yuan to China Poverty Alleviation Foundation (now China Rural Development Foundation ) for the "Green Rain Action" to support poor families in drought-affecting drought relief in the drought-affecting areas in the southwest. In November of the same year, Jay Chou, Pan Weibo, and Yuan Yonglin and participated in the China International RV Street Competition in Shanghai. The three artists donated 1.5 million yuan through their agency to support the Western Maternal and Child Health Plan of the Soong Ching Ling Foundation .
In 2013, Jay Chou shared his life story in the program " Starting to Talk " and encouraged the college student group to work hard for their dreams.
On the eve of the Bazaar Charity Night in 2012, Jay Chou participated in the "micro auction" event and donated all the proceeds from the auction of the work "Blue and White Porcelain". Jay Chou donated 1 million yuan and 500,000 yuan respectively in the Ya'an earthquake in Sichuan in 2013 and Ludian earthquake in Yunnan in 2014. In 2014, Jay Chou served as the image ambassador of China's anti-drug propaganda, saying that he would set an example and let more young people know the importance of health.
In 2014, Jay Chou participated in anti-drug propaganda activities.
Jay Chou’s latest donation record was during the Henan flood in July 2021. The official website of Zhengzhou Red Cross Society showed that Jay Chou Kunling and his wife donated 3 million yuan.
Zhengzhou Red Cross Society issued an announcement on July 26, 2021 that Jay Chou and Kunling donated 3 million yuan to flood control and disaster relief.
Jay Chou does not have his own foundation, nor does he have a special fund. The only event closest to a public welfare identity is that he has been the spokesperson for Taiwan’s Fubon Charity Foundation for decades. However, this seems to be Jay Chou’s style of doing charity - every donation comes suddenly, but it seems very low-key.
In the name of basketball and music
Jay Chou's public welfare road low-key donation is the norm, and charity activities participated in in the name of basketball and music are the highlights.
Many well-known, Jay Chou is a basketball enthusiast. In order to realize his basketball dream, he also filmed the movie " Slam Dunk ". Although the movie is mixed, according to Jay Chou, if you have a dream, you can realize it, no matter what others say.
In the name of basketball dreams, Jay Chou cooperated with his idol, basketball player Kobe to release the basketball theme song "A Fight in the World" in 2011. In an era when mobile phone ringtones are full of Jay Chou's works, he announced that he would donate the income from downloading ringtones in "One Dou of Heaven and Earth" to the Hope Project of the China Youth Development Foundation .
In 2012, Jay Chou and basketball superstar Kobe jointly launched a basketball charity exhibition match.
In 2012, the Sprite Star Charity Basketball Exhibition Competition was held at Shanghai Oriental Sports Center . Jay Chou and Kobe led the green team and the yellow team respectively to confront each other. Singers of Jay Chou's Chinese music scene, such as JJ Lin, Wu Zun, , Jay Zhang, , etc., became members of Jay Chou's team. One minute free jump shot and three-point shooting, the two teams fought fiercely. After the performance, Jay Chou and Kobe announced that they would donate more than 2.6 million yuan in ticket revenue that night to the China Youth Development Foundation to transform the basketball facilities of Hope Primary School and promote the popularization of basketball.
In 2012, the entire department of the basketball charity exhibition tournament was donated to the Hope Project to promote the development of children's basketball.
The charity and charity action jointly initiated by basketball superstars and idol singers has a huge influence. The public is also happy to see such cross-border cooperation - public figures have fun on the court and audiences have fun watching it off the court, and public welfare projects can also get more attention and even substantial help.
In August 2010, Jay Chou was invited to participate in the Yao Fund Star Basketball Charity Invitational held in Taipei Dome.
On May 11, 2020, Jay Chou participated in the "Salute to the Angels in White Charity Cloud Concert". Jay Chou in the video still looked generous and sang the familiar "Rice Fragrance". Jay Chou promised tickets to the front row concert of several medical staff. At the moment when the epidemic has not yet subsided, the promise of the concert may be difficult to fulfill for a while, but at the moment "The Fragrance of Rice" was played, the audience may be able to get some comfort in front of the screen.
During the epidemic in 2020, Jay Chou and JJ Lin collaborated to sing songs to pay tribute to medical staff. (Photo source: video screenshot)
Jay Chou's musical journey will continue, and the road of charity may also continue as "Buddhist". His new album and the craze that has been set off not only reminiscent of Roman Rolland 's famous quote: It's important to be great, not to look great.
Written by /Keyan
Pictures /Visual China, Internet
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Hour editing /Qiu Yu
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