"journey to the west" and "black myth: wukong" have a dream connection because of him
2024-09-08
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how many times has "cloud palace swift sound" become popular? xu jingqing couldn't answer it either.
four years ago, he learned about a game called "black myth: wukong" and also knew that there would be a song of his called "diu diu diu" or "deng deng deng deng" in the game.
the game became popular, and "cloud palace swift sound" became popular again.
xu jingqing and liu xiaolingtong, who plays the monkey king, at the filming site
mr. xu called this sudden wave of attention "the music of that time shining brightly in the popular game today." "that time" refers to 40 years ago.
in 1984, xu jingqing officially joined the crew of journey to the west when he was 42 years old. during the four or five years he was in the crew, he wrote 140 to 150 pieces of music."my favorite is probably the opening song "cloud palace swift sound", which is the iconic music and the most used and expressive music in journey to the west."xu jingqing said.
xu jingqing and yang jie, director of the 1986 version of journey to the west
before xu jingqing became the composer of the tv series "journey to the west", director yang jie had contacted 7 composers, all of whom had famous works. at that time, xu jingqing had worked in a film studio for nearly 20 years, and his main job was to compose music for agricultural science and education films.accustomed to the visible and tangible wheat ears and rice flowers, xu jingqing was sweating as he went into the battle to write about gods and monsters that no one had ever seen.
pressure comes from tasks and people:"not everyone can write myths. they have to be fascinating. when i first joined the crew, they didn't trust me very much because i wasn't famous."xu jingqing feels that he has a good ability to absorb pressure. "i am not gloomy or sighing every day. once i think about it and feel it, i can write it down."
xu jingqing wrote the music for "where is the road"
after joining the crew, xu jingqing soon received a task from director yang jie to write a 2-minute 40-second opening music piece. what was the content? "no content, i can write whatever i want."
how to write "how to write love"? xu jingqing quickly came up with an idea.while having lunch at noon, he happened to see some migrant workers knocking on their lunch boxes with spoons. the notes they made gave him inspiration.starting from the famous "waiting for the light", xu jingqing finished writing it in one breath, 2 minutes and 40 seconds, not a second off.
xu jingqing still keeps the original score
"soaring, determined, imaginative, upward", xu jingqing wrote down the key words of the journey to the west in his mind word by word on the yellowed music score. he wrote and realized it - the melodies of the guzheng, pipa, bamboo flute, and drums and the rhythm of the electronic drums were combined together,xu jingqing used "earth-shattering" music to support the "earth-shattering" monkey king.
opposition voices also arose, and xu jingqing also heard rumors that he would be replaced. at that time, the filming of "journey to the west" was nearing its end, and xu jingqing had completed a lot of music.he lamented in his heart that "so many paragraphs were written in vain", but he didn't expect that director yang jie had been under pressure and didn't even reveal the outside voice to xu jingqing.xu jingqing then pretended to be ignorant and said, "we should do what we should do."
the breakthrough of creation is what people say later. during the years of composing music for journey to the west, xu jingqing experienced the joy of full devotion and the sweetness of being recognized. under xu jingqing's hand, tang monk has his own music, zhu bajie has his own music, and sun wukong has his own music. at the age of 17, he began to learn piano and music theory by himself. he was selected from a hundred people to be admitted to harbin art college. he used his great strength to blast out a new world.
young xu jingqing
xu jingqing's music became popular along with the tv series. people said that the theme song "should only exist in heaven", but the name "cloud palace swift sound" was not known until much later. until now, xu jingqing still doesn't know who gave this name: "i don't know who gave this name when and under what circumstances, and this name has spread more and more. just carefully experience these four characters. cloud means clouds and sky; palace means making trouble in the heavenly palace, fighting in the heavenly palace, fighting in the heavenly palace; swift means fast; sound, you can talk about it as sound or music.it’s a very good name, very appropriate.”
what is popular is the song, not the composer. who doesn't know "journey to the west"? but people are more likely to remember the actors and singers on the screen. the composer xu jingqing joked that "no one cares about it." in the first few years, when he heard others humming "cloud palace swift sound", he wanted to tell others that this was his "child".
xu jingqing wrote down the improvised melody
forties, fifties, sixties, seventies,xu jingqing is getting older, but he is becoming more and more like a child. when will he be able to get the praise from his teacher and the admiring looks from his classmates?when xu jingqing was 70 years old, everyone around him knew that he had the idea of holding a concert of his works. the limited copyright fees were not enough to support his dream, so in 2016, he received a suggestion: crowdfunding.
what is crowdfunding? xu jingqing bluntly said that it is "a form of begging". he said that he is not good at socializing, but he is willing to lose face for this concert. what he fears most is that even if he loses face, the concert still cannot be held: "it's ok if the crowdfunding is successful, but if it's not enough and the concert can't be held, i'm afraid it will be like this, i can't get up or down."
the crowdfunding campaign was finally launched. 29,016 people donated 4.615 million yuan to push xu jingqing and his music onto the stage of the great hall of the people.
after the concert, xu jingqing shook hands with the audience
on december 4, 2016, the two-day "journey to the west" theme concert began. when the music started, xu jingqing didn't dare to look at the stage, and he hid backstage.
"after the first song was finished, the applause was quite enthusiastic. when the second song was being sung, i couldn't control myself anymore. i walked out, and i thought that the thing i had dreamed of for so many years had actually come true in front of me..." after nearly eight years, xu jingqing still felt emotional.
at the end of the concert, xu jingqing returned to the stage, his voice choked with sobs, and all he said was thank you to the tens of thousands of audience members.
on the afternoon of august 29, xu jingqing was at the sun yat-sen memorial hall in guangzhou, talking about a new concert that might be held next. in the hall, which is more than 70 meters deep and can accommodate 5,000 spectators, the 82-year-old xu jingqing sat alone on a red chair. he could hear his own breathing and the sound of the cloud palace.
"the memories evoked by music are often very subtle. if he was experiencing something at the time and there was a piece of music floating around, he would remember that music first. many years later, if that music is played again, he would remember the scene back then." this is also what xu jingqing understands, the feelings of several generations towards "cloud palace swift sound"."this memory is precious and will never be erased."
source: cctv news
