Chapter 5 [Recommendation sequence five] The width of the island

Zhang Zhaowei When I came here, I realized that the island is much wider than I thought. Many people are curious about the island: celebrity idols, Riyue Ali, Forbidden City cabbage, and Hongshan Daobian; this is the typical impression most people have of the island. But there is another group of people whose familiarity with the island is not from what the news media presents.Through their personal network and their respective relationships, they are familiar with Hou Xiaoxian, Zhu Tianwen, Lin Huaimin, Hu Defu, Lai Shengchuan, Eslite, Rolling Stones, new movies... For them, the island is their secret love for the humanistic paradise.

I have only been here for a year and a half, and I am fortunate to be able to meet such a group of friends who are full of curiosity and concern for the island. After I leave the island, I can use another way to maintain a long-term relationship across the strait. The umbilical cord reaches thousands of kilometers; this kind of tolerance can slightly relieve the deep pain in the scars deep inside, which are as stiff as dinosaur skin. Roads are one of them. First of all, it was a chance meeting, and I saw Gonglu's blog.The surprise at the time was, on the one hand, the admiration for her expressiveness in words, and on the other hand, it was impossible to imagine that someone here had such a deep understanding of Taiwan's music scene.

The words written by Lulu on the blog, and even the ordinary dialogue scenes, can all be vividly displayed on paper, oh no, on the screen, within a few strokes.Whether it is pungent, self-deprecating, mocking, or time-sensitive... There are various springs flowing between the words, full of charm and wit. In islands, it is rare to see such movement of characters and flow of Qi.Over the years, too many adjectives, discursive words, news terms, loanwords, literary accents, and cute suffixes have stagnated the writing atmosphere of the current island; It lacks a kind of vitality, natural and healthy smoothness that comes from life.In contrast, here, I have seen many young people with such enviable, breezy expression skills!

This habit of using words is actually close to folk songs.Letting the words flow out of the chest without any worries is like letting the lyrics be sung naturally from the work and rest of life. I understand. When I was far away from the island, I occasionally listened to folk songs in the 1970s, whether it was Li Shuangze, Yang Xian, Hu Defu, or the Golden Rhyme Award, I could feel the natural flow and simplicity.What kind of a group of people can have such a blessing to jointly create this kind of vigorous air vibration, which is completely different from the stagnant aura deliberately created by another group of folk song contemporaries on the island today?

More than ten years ago, because of my love for island folk songs since I was a boy, I carried out a writing project such as "Who Sings My Songs Over There" under the system of the research institute; more than ten years later, Gonglu also Because of her love for island folk songs, she wrote her own folk song history.Looking at the manuscript sent by the highway, it seems to see a twin brother with a difference of ten years; and this brother, apart from the similarity, still has its own outstanding personality, especially the description of the musician, which is my book. It is far behind, and it is also the most fascinating part of this newborn brother.

A person who has never set foot on an island can go deep into the flesh and blood of island music, just because everyone is willing to share their love for folk songs, which is the magic of music and words.Because of the highway, there are still many caring people who want to widen the island and narrow the strait. May 12, 2007 written in Beijing