I have terminal cancer, and you want me to sing an inspirational song?

The countdown bell-ringing ceremony was highly anticipated in the past only under two circumstances...

One is for the company to ring the bell to go public, and the other is the countdown to the Spring Festival Gala!

It was the last second of New Year's Eve. The so-called New Year's Eve also represents the traditional custom of bidding farewell to the old and welcoming the new. Ringing the bell only intensifies a sense of ritual. It is just a convention in recent years, and naturally it has become the most popular part of the Spring Festival Gala. The highly anticipated 'How to Play'!

In previous Spring Festival Galas, most changes were made in the form of bells...

For example, changing the bell into a chime and the bell into a giant drum, but this is essentially changing the superficial meaning of the bell-ringing ritual without touching the underlying meaning.

So the first thing Zhang Chen did after becoming the music director was to change the rules of this year’s Spring Festival Gala for the Year of the Monkey...

The bell-ringing ceremony can even be eliminated directly from the surface, but a core issue needs to be touched upon, that is, what the audience wants to see is the ‘touching point’ of that second!

Another year older...

So Zhang Chen specially arranged a program for this year's Spring Festival Gala, and put it in the few minutes between midnight and night, instead of ringing the bell...

I vow to become the memory point of this year’s Spring Festival Gala!

At this moment, on the stage of the central stage, when Zhang Chen slowly rose from the screen in a 'monkey' costume and appeared in front of everyone...

Music followed suit.

Zhang Chen had been operating behind the scenes for the entire first half of the Spring Festival Gala. Now he finally entered the stage under the spotlight, and the barrage naturally exploded!

"What? The head coach is warming up..."

"Zhang Chen, Director Zhang, come in person!"

"Good guy, I'm just a good guy. I'll keep the most exciting stuff to myself, right? I'm looking forward to it!"

"Brothers, look at the time. The time for the bell-ringing ceremony is coming soon. Does Zhang Chen's appearance on the stage indicate that this year's bell-ringing will involve flowers?"

"Looking forward to it, looking forward to it, looking forward to it so much..."

At this moment, the enthusiasm that the fans had been holding in all night was released instantly, and many viewers who were almost dozing off until now became energetic instantly.

After all, seeing Zhang Chen on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala was different from usual. That was the star they had been chasing for a year. Zhang Chen represented them!

The whole group of young people…

Everyone hopes that Zhang Chen can perform a great miracle next to the Spring Festival Gala that represents the old tradition!

Then, blow it up, blow it up hard for me~

Explode everyone’s doubts and all the fans’ frustrations. Blow up! Explode! Explode!

With such an ardent expectation, when everyone saw Zhang Chen's familiar 'monkey' costume, memories suddenly came to their hearts.

"Journey to the West", one of the four great classics, is not only well-known to everyone in China, but it is at least a household name.

The monkey in the 86 version is the first impression most people have of monkeys. In the eyes of many people, that is what monkeys should look like...

Zhang Chen was standing under the curtain lights. The next second, his figure turned around, giving the audience a slightly bleak and sad figure from behind.

Everyone seemed to see a slightly melancholy and lonely 'monkey' image...

Zhang Chen sang inspirational songs when he debuted. He has always been famous for his sunny and upbeat music style, but now he is uncharacteristically different, which makes people curious.

Without waiting for everyone to doubt

Immediately, he slowly opened his voice in front of everyone!

"The moon splashes on the stars, the road is long..."

"The wind and smoke are exhausted, and the lonely shadow fades away."

"Who told me I'm extraordinary?"

"Who makes me feel torn between love and hate?"

"Later, my liver and intestines were broken..."

These lyrics immediately stunned everyone who sang them. What was Zhang Chen playing? That's a monkey, a great sage, why do you sing so melancholy...

There is no hint of arrogance at all!

subversion?

Still a little sad~

"Has Zhang Chen infected Shen Na? How come he sings so emo?"

"Shh~ Listen carefully and feel the lyrics carefully. Have Zhang Chen's songs disappointed you? Don't jump to conclusions so early!"

At this moment, as some people came out to stop the discussion, slowly, more people chose to listen quietly instead of questioning whether Zhang Chen's song broke the inherent image of the great sage in their hearts!

And Zhang Chen and his fans seemed to slowly reach a consensus in this song...

He was still singing, and the accompaniment of the song also included traditional musical instruments such as bamboo flutes and guqins, adding a sense of loneliness to the whole song.

"The fantasy world is in the sky, and the grievances and grudges are forgotten."

"Abandoning enlightenment and delusion, the six dusts will not change."

"You are angry, sad and crazy. Are you a human, a ghost or a monster?"

"It's just that there is a devil's debt in my heart."

Listen, appreciate, and slowly, fans, understand...

They suddenly felt that the song was not about monkeys, but about those people who had the ambition of a great sage in their hearts, but actually did not have the ability to be a great sage!

The song is about all living beings!

As soon as the mind opens up, the world becomes wider. In just a moment, everyone brings the intention in the lyrics into themselves. In an instant, the feelings are different.

Some people feel that middle-aged people rely on others but have no one to rely on. They can only enjoy the loneliness of staying alone in the car for a while after get off work...

Some people see the ups and downs of life, and suddenly one day they pass by the basketball court and see the boys sweating profusely, and the girls applaud them, and they think of their own youth in the sun, green grass, and white shirts...

As soon as I turned my head, before I could express my feelings, my hands were filled with advertisements for cram school.

The separation between life and ideals magnifies this loneliness exponentially.

In imagination, I have extraordinary skills; in fact, I am in a dilemma of love and hate...

It’s like walking on the road, you can hear someone pointing behind you...

"Look at him, he looks like a dog~"

At this moment, the eyes of countless "lost dogs" in life were red. At first, they were laughing and joking, thinking that Zhang Chen's song made the great sage feel depressed and depressed.

It turned out that after discovering that the song was about me, a submissive little monkey who had been punished by life, I couldn't laugh anymore.

Several people lit up a cigarette and heard sighs at this moment.

How many people, listening to this, feel like they want to punch themselves twice...

But Zhang Chen is still singing, and is about to reach a climax!

"Call out to the Buddha, and there will be no turning back."

"Kneel down and become your teacher, life or death has nothing to do with it..."

"Good and evil float in the true and false realms, and the separation and gathering of the world are not clear."

“It’s hard to break~~”

This long opera melody before the climax directly greatly lengthened the emotions that were being cut off from reasoning and returning to chaos...

But it also caused heated discussions among those in the Chinese Music Association!

"How do you understand the phrase, kneeling down for the teacher has nothing to do with life or death? It was written about Xuanzang, no, no!"

"This sentence is written about Bodhi. The only real master in Wukong's heart is Bodhi!"

"That's the mentor. It's written in Journey to the West. Bodhi gave Sun Wukong his name, and when he drove him away, he also said that the future... has nothing to do with life or death!"

"Oh my god~ There are details and knives in Zhang Chen's song~"

At this moment, this group of top lyricists are as happy as having discovered a new world. Their real-time analysis has also become a reference answer for many fans to better understand the emotion of this song...

It made countless people shocked, moved, and their eyes turned red~

Bodhi and Xuanzang are the difference between a high school teacher and a college counselor. They seem to be the same, but in fact they are far different!

Before he reached the climax, there was an actor backstage who was nervously changing into a majestic costume and hanging a wire...

Ready to play!

At this moment, there is only one and a half minutes left before the Spring Festival Gala of the Year of the Monkey and midnight on New Year’s Eve!