Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 1823 Best Song of the Year

This is a very delicate job that requires good eyesight, so my fourth cousin can't do it. He can only be responsible for cleaning. The repairing step has to be done slowly by Zhou Zhi and my fourth aunt.

The restoration was officially completed one month later. The four paintings broke the traditional style of the Yang School, which was to only preserve the core of the painting and restore it to its original state, while replacing other accessories as much as possible. Instead, the principle of "maximum preservation" was adopted for the overall style, which can be regarded as keeping up with the times.

On the day when the paintings were repaired, godfather Wu Lingjun came. He wanted to personally escort the four paintings and fourth cousin and aunt to Beijing.

Because it was inconvenient for my fourth aunt to travel, Zhou Zhi mobilized the foundation's Three Gorges scientific research vessel to send several people to Yuzhou to take a plane.

After arranging everything, it was time for him to set off.

Because we are driving from Jiachuan to Lianhe Township, the route this time is different. First, we will go along the Yangtze River from Jiachuan to Yizhou, then along the Minjiang River from Yizhou to Qianwei in Jiazhou, and then pass through Muchuan to reach Mabian.

Although Mabian belongs to Jiazhou, it is a Yi autonomous county, which means it has entered the Yi area.

After that, we will go up along the valley of Mabian River until we reach the end of the valley, then climb up Jigong Mountain through the winding mountain road, pass the highest Dafengding Pass, and finally go down the mountain to reach Lianhe Township.

After the car entered Mabian, both sides of the road became completely deserted. Apart from an isolated national highway, there were only some scattered towns on both sides of the road.

There are dry hillsides on both sides of the valley, with limited cultivated area and most of it covered with forests. From time to time, clear mountain springs flow down from the culverts under the road into the Mabian River.

The scenery along the way is so beautiful, with a cool climate, humid air and lush vegetation.

This area is the origin of tea. Zhou Zhi saw that many of the hillsides were not cultivated land, but tea gardens.

The tea produced in this area is generally made into black brick tea and sold to Yi and Tibetan areas. Since ancient times, it has been a sacred tool for controlling the southwestern ethnic minorities in exchange for livestock from the two regions. This is the origin of the name "Ancient Tea-Horse Road".

The national highway that Zhouzhi uses today was actually one of the important transportation routes to the Southwestern Yi in ancient times.

Now, a thousand years have passed, and apart from the fact that the road has become a highway that can run on cars, the scenery on both sides of the road has not changed much.

The bamboo resources on this side are particularly rich, with all kinds of bamboos everywhere in the mountains and plains. Zhou Zhi even saw a cute giant panda by the water, but unfortunately wild giant pandas are agile, and before he could take out his camera, the panda had already disappeared into the bamboo forest with its butt shaking.

However, there is a plant that is as precious as the giant panda and cannot escape - Davidia involucrata.

The best time to identify Davidia involucrata is in April and May. At that time, its flowers look like white doves with spread wings, so it is also called "pigeon tree". Now it is the fruit ripening period of Davidia involucrata. The fruit is like a spherical chestnut, with three or five seeds in one, but it is not edible.

Fortunately, there are a lot of things to eat on the roadside, including wild bayberry, wild grapes, kiwi fruit, wild sweet potato...all of them have reached their full maturity.

Wild sweet potatoes are very sweet. When you are driving, you will suddenly be greeted by a fragrant aroma. Stop the car and quickly dig out a large handful of wild sweet potatoes from the vines growing on the roadside.

If Zhouzhi were asked to select the most delicious wild fruits, wild sweet potatoes and jujubes would probably be at the top of the list.

Kiwifruits have to be taken back and covered with rice bran to ripen. They are delicious after being ripened, but they are sour and astringent now. Wild grapes and wild bayberries are very sour even after they are ripe, and the taste is not friendly when eaten directly, but these two are good materials for making wine and bayberry wine, so they cannot be missed.

So Zhou Zhi walked and stopped. It took him only one day to run the 400 kilometers from Jiachuan to Mabian, and it took him another day to run the more than 100 kilometers from Mabian to Lianhe Township.

If the scenery had not changed after crossing the top of the wind, from subtropical and temperate forests to plateau meadows, Zhouzhi might have been delayed even longer.

The scenery along the way is quite impressive. The sky and meadow under the sunset have a unique beauty. Zhou Zhi thinks it would be nice if Xu Wei could sing on the CD at this time.

However, although Xu Wei has sung more than a hundred songs, the only ones that are somewhat famous are "Blue Bird" and "Two Days". Even his band disbanded last year. Now he is just labeled as a guitarist and the author of the popular song "Persistence".

Thinking of this, Zhou Zhi turned on Guan Tingting's new album CD and put it on the record player.

Guan Tingting's CD was released during the summer vacation as usual, targeting the student market.

But in addition to a few sweet songs, this CD also contains six songs specially selected by Zhou Zhi to improve the quality - "Water Town in Dreams", "Moonlight in the City", "Laughing at the Wind and Clouds", "Legend of Love", and "My Heart is Too Confused".

There is also a song called "Listening to the Sea" which attempts a new style.

Among them, "Water Town in Dreams" and Guan Tingting's famous song "Homeland" are almost in the same style, which firmly captured his old fans. "Legend of Love" is actually the Cantonese version of Tai Zhengxiao's "One Thousand and One Nights", and the style and range of "Hassayaqi" are also somewhat similar. Guan Tingting can also handle it with ease. Together with the chorus of "Laughing at the Wind and Clouds", it can be regarded as her attempt at Cantonese.

The remaining songs, "Moonlight in the City", "My Heart is Too Confused" and "Listening to the Sea", are the foundation works for Guan Tingting's attempt to change her style from "sweet song princess" to "versatile singer".

"Moonlight in the City" is her best lyrical style, which is particularly suitable for her sweet voice, but the emotions carried in the lyrics are much stronger, and to perform it well, there must be a change in singing style.

"My Heart is Too Confused" is the second song chosen by Zhou Zhi for Guan Tingting to perform after "Hassayaqi" by Zhou Chuanxiong. Everyone admits that this song is much better performed by a female voice than a male voice, and the lyrics include "My heart is too confused, I'm afraid of betrayal in love, I want to cry, like a lost child", which is also very suitable for Guan Tingting's age.

This song took a long time to be polished. In addition to being polished by Tu Huiyuan herself, Zhou Chuanxiong also attached great importance to it. The main reason is that the feeling of collapse before realizing that one will be hurt by love in the song is very difficult to express.

However, this problem was solved soon after. There is a method in literary creation called empathy and expression of emotions. Although Guan Tingting did not say it explicitly, after knowing that Zhou Zhi and Jiang Shuyi broke up, her interpretation of this song suddenly made Tu Huiyuan and Zhou Chuanxiong exclaim that this little girl was "smart".

These songs all became hits as expected, but the one that could be described as extremely popular was "Listening to the Sea", for which Zhou Zhi could only feel sorry for A-mei in his heart.

This song is very suitable for interpretation in jazz and R&B style. The requirements for high and low ranges, the conversion between true and false voices, the conversion between strong and weak high notes, the use of dolphin sounds, flexible and changeable key changes, etc. can all be expressed through this song.

In addition to the fact that the emotion of this song is very suitable for Guan Tingting, the 18-year-old girl can already express emotions such as longing and sadness skillfully, and the rest is just a show of skill.

In this song, Guan Tingting applied various techniques learned from Mariah Carey's style with ease. I wonder how much effort it took for her and Tang Qi.

Zhou Zhi also believes that this song is the highest-level song Guan Tingting has ever sung. This song has now swept all major music charts and has become the undisputed "Best Song of the Year".