Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 771
Li Lehai, who was driving, immediately laughed: "What he said is true, he didn't make it up at all! Besides, this thing happens often in our Hong Kong Island!"

"No way?" Director Wang was really startled: "How could such a thing happen?"

Zhang Bin smiled and said, "I guess this person fell asleep. The buses on Hong Kong Island are double-decker, and he sat on the upper deck. When he just woke up, he forgot."

"Ah?" At this time, there was a bus catching up outside the window, and it really was a double-decker.

Director Wang was so angry that he slapped Zhou Zhi twice: "You son of a bitch, you're still scary!"

After this, the tense and dull atmosphere in the car disappeared completely. Accompanied by Eric Clapton's melodious "Tears In Heaven", the car quickly turned off the inner city expressway and got back on the normal street. .

In [-], not only was the Chinese music scene the pinnacle of glory, but the foreign language music scene was also very popular, with golden songs coming out one after another, Mariah Carey, Xi Li Dion, and one of Zhou Zhi's favorite songs, Mike Bolton's "Said I Love You But I Lied".

Today's Hong Kong Island is also in a state of impetuousness and arrogance when it reaches its peak of glory, and there is also a faint panic about the outside world.

But in the eyes of mainlanders, this place is still a prosperous place full of luxury and luxury.

There are many high-rise buildings, a dazzling array of high-end goods, a variety of colorful delicacies, the spirit of passers-by's clothing and hairstyles, and their hurried footsteps...

All of these will greatly shock the inlanders who arrive for the first time.

But in fact, Zhou Zhi’s impression of Hong Kong Island is far worse than that of Xinjiapo. The main reason is that the width of the streets here is too narrow and narrow compared with the skyscrapers on both sides. uncomfortable.

Anyway, he is used to leisurely life in a small county town, and someone who is still running around in the vast fields in the countryside when he has nothing to do, can't stand the tense and hasty work and living atmosphere here.

Fortunately, the Lingering Garden is a nice place. There are not many tabletops and the private rooms are large. Although it is centrally air-conditioned and artificially lit, the environment is still very comfortable.

According to Cai Nan, this is the oldest restaurant with Hangbang cuisine on Hong Kong Island, but when everyone walked into the box, they saw that the first few people were still drinking Kung Fu tea with Cantonese and Hong Kong characteristics instead of Longjing on the coffee table. Tea.

It seems that Lingering Garden is still doing as Romans do.

Zhou Zhi immediately recognized the person who was pouring tea in the middle, and it was Li Qiyan who came to negotiate this time.

The other person next to Li Qiyan is fat and big, and the inland people still don't know anything about him, but Zhou Zhi admires him a lot, so he stepped forward and stretched out his hands: "Master Ni, I finally see you!"

The big fat man didn't realize it: "Why kid...you still know me?"

"Of course I know you." Zhou Zhi grabbed his fat hand forcibly, shaking his luck excitedly: "Your major series are examples for us web writers to learn from!"

"My book isn't published in mainland China?" The big fat man was even more puzzled: "Where did you read my book? What else is a web author?"

"Ah this..."

Instead, it was Cai Nan who helped Zhou Zhi explain: "Your book elbow has been paying attention, and every time a new one comes out, I have to send it to him. Wangwen's author must be his modest name, which means that as the name implies, he learned more about writing from his predecessors." ability."

I... do you mean that?

"Ah, I remembered, the books you asked me to sign were sent to him, right?"

"Yes, that's him." Cai Nan introduced: "Elbow, didn't you say that you want to talk to the boss about the publication and distribution of his works in China? I invited you here today, and you two will have a face-to-face meeting."

Another old man dressed in fashion next to him said in strong Cantonese: "It's not easy to meet each other. The little old man is now living in seclusion in San Francisco."

"Do you know this guy?" Cai Nan asked Zhou Zhi with a smile.

"Don't dare to ask?" Zhou Zhi really didn't know him.

"Hehehe, he is the godfather of music on Hong Kong Island. You must have heard of "A Laugh in the Sea", right?"

"Oh, Huang Zhan! Oh, no, slap me..." Zhou Zhi quickly patted his mouth, and then extended his hand to Huang Zhan: "Master Huang! It is true that not many people in the mainland know your appearance, but your song, we really grew up Hearing now. Wherever there is running water, the lyrics you wrote must be sung..."

This saying is an allusion of "Where there is well water, you must sing Liuci", but Huang Zhan's more than 2000 songs in his life also match.

"Shanghai Beach", "My Chinese Heart", "A Laugh From the Sea", "A Man Should Be Self-Reliant", "A Chinese Ghost Story"...

Huang Zhan is the only one who can integrate the classics into the tastes of modern people, and his lyrics can control people's mood to death.

"Huh? The kid is from Guangdong Province?" Huang Zhan and Zhou Zhi shook hands, "Didn't you say they were from Central Sichuan?"

"I am indeed from central Sichuan, but I am learning ancient Chinese, and Cantonese is a must." Zhou Zhi hurriedly introduced himself.

"Really?" Huang Zhan nodded: "Indeed, Cantonese retains a large number of ancient sounds. Can you tell us about the ancient sounds?"

Zhou Zhi began to read aloud: "The world's winds and clouds came from my generation, and the time has passed since I entered the rivers and lakes. In the chatting and laughing of Huang Tu's hegemony, I can't bear the drunkenness of life. He raises his sword and straddles and swings the ghost rain. The bones fly away like mountain birds. Chaotic people are like water, only a few people from the rivers and lakes come back."

This is "Journey to the Rivers and Lakes" written by Huang Zhan, and it was later quoted in "Swordsman" starring Li Lianjie, and it is considered a household name.

In terms of rhythm, this poem is actually unqualified, but compared to those "masterpieces" that pile up words and sentences for the sake of rhythm, this poem writes the real martial arts world and the flavor of the world, it can be called a classic, and Zhou Zhi likes it very much.

"Okay!" Li Qiyan beside him was delighted when he heard it: "Okay! This sentence can be heard to be related to Cantonese, but many pronunciations are different...but it sounds good too! It's interesting!"

Huang Zhan was ashamed: "If you read it in this way, the phonology in many places will not be smooth enough."

"Is this Yin Xiao's kung fu?" Li Qiyan was rather "shameless to ask".

"Yes, this pronunciation is actually based on Cantonese, supplemented by Southwestern Mandarin, and based on the pronunciation rules of Lu Fayan's "Qie Yun" in the Sui Dynasty, combined with the method of singing and screaming." Zhou Zhi said.

To put it this lightly, in fact, too much effort was spent here. Every sound in "Qie Yun" was finally determined by Zhou Zhi and Gu Shigong through rigorous textual research, exchanges and discussions.

In the previous life, someone once said in a book review of Zhou Zhi's novels that there are no phonetic symbols for Chinese characters, which led to the loss of ancient sounds. That kind of statement is purely a lack of research on linguistics.

If Western phonetic symbols are taken as the standard, British English, American English, Australian English, and Hindi English are all different in just a hundred years. How can this be explained?
In fact, the records of phonology by the ancient Chinese are the most detailed among all ethnic groups. Therefore, as long as detailed research is combined with various documents, the remains of dialects can be completely restored.

But if you want to read any language well, it is like singing, and it has its own specialties.

(End of this chapter)