Life in this world should not be just for the pursuit of material satisfaction and compromise with reality. We should also be full of beautiful imaginations about the world, and we should also pursue the satisfaction of our inner world. This sentence comes from "Gao Xiaosong's 184 Days in Prison: Life Still Has Poetry and Distance".

Creative background

In 2013, Gao Xiaosong created "Life is More Than the Present". The opportunity for him to write this song came from a sentence his mother once said: "Life is more than just the present." Not only the ease in front of you, but also the poetry and the fields in the distance. You came to the world with bare hands, desperate to find the sea."

After Gao Xiaosong finished writing the song, he thought it was a suitable song. Xu Wei sang the song and then put the manuscript aside. Because he believes that after writing a song, put it aside. If you can still think of it after a year, it means that the song is good; if you forget, it means that it is a bad song. In 2016, Gao Xiaosong remembered the song and decided to collaborate with Xu Wei to release the song.

Extended information

Original text:

"My mother said that life is not just about the present, but also about poetry and the distance. My sister and I are deeply educated by this . If you think that this is your life, then your life is over.

Life is about going as far as you can go; if you can't go far, you won't have a penny. , then when you read poetry, it is the distance as you sit here. The older you get, the more you can understand my mother’s words. It doesn’t matter if I am not popular. That’s what matters.”