On July 19, 2017, Li Zongsheng celebrated his 59th birthday. Can you imagine? This unshaven man is about to enter his 60s. I thought that the soulful singer would never grow old. It turns out that time is a thief and has already stolen our youth.
He entered the industry in his early twenties and wrote more than 300 songs in more than thirty years. Listening to his songs is like drinking a cup of white tea. The first taste is light, but the aftertaste is sweet, and the aftertaste lingers on the tongue for a long time.
As you get older, meet a few people, and fall in love a few times, you will be able to see another version of yourself in the songs.
The songs written by Li Zongsheng have no obscure images and rarely make sense. The simple words and phrases are enough to tease your secretly fermenting emotions and stir up your dreams that are about to happen.
Sylvia Chang said: "There is a Li Zongsheng in everyone's heart."
I want to say that every Li Zongsheng has a true and painful story.
Coming across the ocean to see you, love is like longing for a long time, but also parting.
The original singer of "Across the Ocean to See You" is Wawa (Jin Zhijuan), and this song is also her true story.
In 1990, Wawa and Alu met by chance in Beijing. Ah Lu is a poet (some versions say he is a piano teacher). His handsome face, elegant conversation, and romantic and versatile temperament have attracted the doll's artistic heart in one fell swoop.
Back in Taiwan, Wawa never forgot Alu. At that time, although Taiwan and the mainland were across the sea, they were still far away.
Wa Wa worked part-time to save money, and spent more than half a year of his savings traveling from Taiwan to Hong Kong, and from Hong Kong to Beijing, just to meet the man he loved.
But this love is destined to be fruitless, not because Alu is heartless, but because he is affectionate, but this affection does not belong to the doll. Alu had a wife long before she met the baby.
Distance cannot defeat love, but morality and ethics can. The baby returned to Taiwan in despair. From then on, I was here, and my beloved was there, looking at each other from a distance, missing each other to no avail.
Twenty years later, Wawa talked about this bitter love again and laughed at himself: "During that period, I worked as an eight o'clock heroine for about two years."
Later, when I talked about the matter with Li Zongsheng, I had already put down the doll and only spent a few minutes talking about it lightly. Two days later, I met Li Zongsheng again. He was very excited and took out a napkin stained with oil. On it were the lyrics of "Across the Ocean to See You".
"A girl traveled across the ocean to Beijing to see her boyfriend, but her knowledge of Beijing was always limited to her boyfriend's residence. As soon as I heard about it, I decided to write a song for this story."
< p> It turned out that Li Zongsheng suddenly remembered the story of the doll when he was eating beef noodles, and he was inspired to write the lyrics. The baby burst into tears, and Li Zongsheng was like a probe, condensing the thousands of words in her heart onto this crumpled napkin.When Dowa recorded this song on the first day, the music started playing, and all the past memories came to mind. He was so sad that he could only pause the recording.
The next day, the recording still failed, and the memories slowly accumulated and could not be erased in her heart.
After a while, Wawa adjusted his emotions and finally finished recording the song.
But Wawa sang a wrong word, singing "I am so sad that I can't help myself (yǐ)" instead of "I am so sad that I can't help myself (jǐ)". Since the production was completed, I simply released the wrong one. Later, when the baby sang this song again, it was sung as "can't do it myself (jǐ)".
After the release of "Across the Ocean to See You", it touched the hearts of countless long-distance lovers. When the baby was eating, he met a waitress, "She came to me specifically and said, I want to thank you for this song. I am doing this job now to save money and then go see my boyfriend."
Someone commented on this NetEase Cloud Music song:
I have been in love with him for seven years, so I took a 31-hour green leather train with no seats and a high temperature of 37°C for him in a different place. , I already had a fever when I got off the car, and I didn’t want to break up just to see him.
The second time, during the Lantern Festival, I ran away from home with 300 yuan and traveled alone from the north to the south. I searched in three cities in Guangdong Province and returned home crying. After seven years of falling in love, I can no longer remember his appearance. My heart is empty and I wake up from dreams every night. Youth is really stupid.
I look forward to being with you forever, but I only have regrets for a lifetime. The hugs, sighs, and comforts in the past have all gone with the wind and sand in the sky. Love is longing for lovesickness, but also longing for separation. Whether you laugh or suffer, don't ask if you are stupid or not, it is all worth it.
Don’t ask whether the price of love is worth it
In July 1985, Sylvia Chang released her first album "Busy and Blind", which became an instant hit. I have to mention the story behind it. Hero: Li Zongsheng.
Li Zongsheng worked very hard on this record and wrote seven songs for her in one breath. The inspiration came from the long conversation between Sylvia Chang and Li Zongsheng about life, love and other aspects during a certain journey.
In 1992, Sylvia Chang and Li Zongsheng collaborated again on "The Price of Love". Lao Li almost finished the song in tears. At the same time as the record was released, Li Zongsheng and Sylvia Chang appeared together in the movie "The Season I Miss Most", playing a couple who have been in love for a long time.
There are good songs, good movies, and scandals. Some people say that "The Price of Love" is about Li Zongsheng's feelings for Sylvia Chang.
Sylvia Chang is not a peerless beauty, but she has a good temperament. She was the goddess pursued by many people back then.
In 2006, Sylvia Chang attended Li Zongsheng’s Reason and Sensibility concert at the Taipei Arena as a guest. She shouted to Li Zongsheng on the stage: "Have you ever loved me?"
< p> Li Zongsheng was speechless for a moment and could only cover it up with singing. That night, the melody of "The Price of Love" sounded, and Li Zongsheng choked up several times while singing. Afterward, he joked: "Because you were already married when I recorded "The Price of Love," and I wrote this album with you in mind. "Why did you marry someone else?"Sylvia Chang said that Li Zongsheng loved her more when he was recording "Busy and Blind", but he loved her less in "The Price of Love".
It is not difficult to understand that in 1985, Sylvia Chang met Hong Kong businessman and married man Wang Jingxiong through a friend. In August 1990, Sylvia Chang gave birth to a son for Wang Jingxiong. In September of the following year, Wang Jingxiong married Zhang Sijia after completing the divorce procedures.
Li Zongsheng met Zhu Weiyin in 1986 and married him in 1988.
Maybe the audience was fascinated by the song, or they were too deeply involved in the drama, or maybe Li Zongsheng really fell in love with Sylvia Chang in and out of the drama.
The complicated relationship between them is difficult to distinguish. Li Zongsheng has not publicly confessed to Sylvia Chang, and Sylvia Chang has not publicly accepted Li Zongsheng.
As Sylvia Chang said: "They all guessed wrong about us."
And as Li Zongsheng said: ""The Price of Love" was actually written by me. My sister’s song is considered a love song by everyone. I dare not teach others how to fall in love, because every relationship is a unique case. I want to tell everyone that all the costs of love are worth it..."
When love is a thing of the past, it is not easy to forget you
"I would like to introduce the next person to you. I have already mentioned it. I would like to introduce to you my good friend, Ms. Lin Yilian!"
Lin Yilian appeared as a special guest at Li Zongsheng's "10 Years Farewell Concert in 1994".
Lin Yilian on the stage, with long flowing hair, sexy single eyelids, and a smart suit jacket, said the first sentence "Don't mention the past again", Li Zongsheng smiled knowingly, and seemed to have found a treasure.
Li Zongsheng said that Lin Yilian is the kind of woman who will fall in love with her as soon as she hears her voice. Li Zongsheng really fell in love with this woman. He completely ignored the accusations and pressure from the outside world about his extramarital affair. Even if he was blown by the cold wind and shed tears of loneliness, he would let her go.
How obsessed is Li Zongsheng? He wrote it all in the song.
I used to be as helpless as duckweed
Inexplicable fear of love
But God allowed me to meet you
My first time Seeing you alone and beautiful in the crowd
You seem to have a kind of magic
At that moment I was speechless
From now on, I can no longer avoid being wronged for love
In 1997, Li Zongsheng divorced Zhu Weiyin, and married Lin Yilian in Vancouver in February 1998. Lin Yilian was five months pregnant at that time.
In 2000, at Luo Dayou's Hangzhou concert, Li Zongsheng was a guest. As soon as he came on stage, someone shouted: "Why don't you bring Lin Yilian?" Li Zongsheng said with a smile: "I'm taking care of my children at home. I'm taking care of my children at home."
"Although the words are simple, the happy expression cannot deceive people.
Falling in love is simple, but getting along is complicated. A musical talent and a popular singer are a match made in heaven, but in the vast sea of ??people, they are still the same. Separated.
This passionate love came to an end in 2004, when Lin Yilian was 38 years old, Li Zongsheng was 46 years old, and their daughter was only 5 years old.
Li Zongsheng said: “If our love is wrong, may you and I not suffer in vain. Sandy... I wish you happiness and find what you want and what you think is worth it. "
Lin Yilian said: "I think we are all doing well and have made some preparations to face our respective futures. This doesn't seem so far away, let's add another color to life. "
In 2014, Li Zongsheng sang "When Love Is a Past" with Lin Yilian at a concert. It was still the same melody, and she sang "Don't Mention the Past Again" first, but this time Li Zongsheng sang again There is no joy like finding a treasure.
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Ten years ago, she was sexy and charming. , he was in full bloom, and she was on his left hand with affection and a smile like a flower.
Ten years later, her charm was still there, his hair was gray, and the only uncle left on the stage was sighing that he was young again. I couldn't keep it, and before I finished singing, I choked up and burst into tears.
It might be possible to forget the pain.
But it's not easy to forget you.
You didn't. Really gone
You are always in my heart
I still love you
I can't do anything about myself
Later, Lin Yilian has a new destination, and Li Zongsheng has no good man around him.
On the eve of Li Zongsheng's 59th birthday, the MV for "Over the Hills", a collaboration between Gao Xiaosong and Yang Zongwei, was released to pay tribute to Li Zongsheng.
The sand paintings here are perfect for the scene, and everything in the world is experiencing the spread of sand paintings. On the other side of the hill, Li Zongsheng gestures with his haircut and carries a guitar, his smile is as warm as light, calm but lonely
< p> (Only three videos can be inserted into the article. If you want to see the background of the MV, reply "Hill" to get the link)The woman I love most in this life found what she wanted, and she thought it was worth it, but he There is no longer a lover. He said that the guitar understood him best and understood his frustration and anxiety.
He put his understanding of music and life into every string and note of the guitar. He said he was greedy. He had written and sung songs, and he had lived a lifetime.
He had fulfilled his mission of music, and he wanted to live another life.
p>This unshaven old man has written a lifetime of love songs and sang a lifetime of life.
It is said that he is the man who understands women best, understands their pain of being separated, and understands them. They understand the price they pay for love, but no one understands his playful smile and helpless heart.
I once thought that beyond the hills, there was a girl I loved deeply. The old friend who returned. After crossing the 60-year-old hill, I found that the girl I loved had already married Wang next door. The old friend had long since disappeared, and there was only one person waiting for love.
Meeting me at sixty years old
Leaning on a white cane and listening to the singing of birds
I asked him if he was happy, and he smiled and waved his hand
< p> He was surrounded by a group of friends who had returned from exileHe said you don’t have to keep him, love is a person’s waiting
When the flowers bloom on the roof, here is In the world
There are always people who grow old happily, and there are always people who cry when they break up
Whether they meet or not, it is a prelude dedicated to the years
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