Interview Appreciation: The Missionary

Even though the years are not as I wish, I will turn them into notes and poems.

Only by persisting in an unextinguishable faith can one create an immortal life legend.

——Excerpt from Dong Rongcan’s Quotations

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“How did he learn to play the piano?”

Sentence structures like these are very common in popular literature. They don’t seem cool or original, and this is definitely not my writing style.

When Mr. Kong Xiangdong introduced his piano learning history, he said: his mother first helped him make a 1:1 simulation of the black and white keys of the piano with a piece of horse manure paper. He also talked about how his family had to collect about 800 yuan and moved the first piano back from the home of an old lady in need. From then on, he began to love it!

But do you know that the real situation of Dong Jun's piano learning is actually more vivid?

One day when he was 20 years old, by chance, on the stage of the cafeteria of his unit, a piano appeared. At this moment, he suddenly had a belief: "Such a piano must be his future——"

At that time, he was not in a dream, but in a time when the years were not as expected!

When he was talking about the above, my Yi thinking made me think of something else: what he saw that day was not just a piano, but the Virgin Mary was also in the scene of time and space, she was awakening her people in the world, wake up! That day his soul was leaving his body, the gods were calling, and this wonderful idea came out! Otherwise, there is no theory to explain it!

The piano is the king of musical instruments! He began to prepare to embrace him. Remember: embracing is a two-way process. Only when God has endowed him with certain capital and an unknown nature, will he dare to do such a thing. At this time, Dong Jun already has all of these! From this, I read that it is because he is alive and has a sense of mission in life. In this world, it is his turn to shine - John Christopher in Romain Rolland's mind!

“Use music to describe the world and to monologue the inner world.”

When he introduced himself to me that day, he was still being modest!

"I was 20 years old. I fell in love with the piano at first sight and started to dream of playing it. I started to learn the five-line music by myself with the 'Thomson Piano Teaching Materials' for children who are now 4 or 5 years old..."

Yes, fate was kind to a young man obsessed with music. As expected, he was admitted to the Piano Department of Shanghai Conservatory of Music from a layman and became a tester of the educational reform line of "whether workers, peasants and soldiers can learn piano."

This is the arrangement of fate and also the arrangement of God.

A year and a half later, the academy had sent him to Beijing to write a summary of "Red Lantern with Piano Accompaniment", and then transferred him to the music research room. From then on, his history of learning piano under the guidance of a teacher ended.

Not long after that, he was admitted to the composition department.

When he talked about this, he was also joking: Teacher Chen Gang only spent fifteen minutes teaching him composition, but it took him an hour to teach his female classmates!

Haha, I added a sentence for him: Geniuses can do it even without being taught! Girls are better than boys - long live understanding!

In addition, he also mentioned the contribution of teacher He Zhanhou in composing the main melody of the violin piece "Butterfly Lovers"!

I listened and I interrupted. I think the earliest version of Liang Zhu should come from the folks, and it has existed since ancient times! Just like some of Wang Luobin's songs, he admitted that they came from folk songs in the northwest...

Here, I heard that he had some bias towards those who loved music among the workers, peasants and soldiers. He Zhanhao also entered the Shanghai Conservatory of Music with this identity! Because he really loved music! (I later sent a text to Mr. Dong, which I learned about the creation process of "Butterfly Lovers" for his reference. From this, we can see that no one is perfect, including Chen Gang's father Chen Gexin. I think so!) Of course, Dong did not forget his teacher, which was also right.

That day, Dong was still concerned about his junior, and he also mentioned Kong Xiangdong's depression. Is he better? I supplemented his comments.

This is the generation of elites in our Chinese music scene, how they once got together!

Take Yu Lina for example, she is the goddess of music in my heart - because she is defending the sanctity of music! She dares not do anything against her conscience!

Back to the point, I heard someone say this in episode 90 of SGM’s series “Truth About Music”:

“China only has 10% of music knowledge (in fact, it is extremely scarce)”

Someone in the comment section also said:

"It would be good if we could have 5%. Nowadays, mobile phones are so popular that even when music was at its most developed, the inheritance of music was probably less than 10%."

"I've heard our university teacher who teaches form, harmony, sight-singing, and ear-training talk about these things before. But our undergraduate music theory textbooks don't cover these things at all. I don't know if I haven't taken graduate school, but only 10% of undergraduate graduates have this knowledge, maybe even less than 10%..."

Comments and more!

Are these words true? I wonder!

But there is one thing I do understand!

Physics, chemistry, biology, music, etc. in the world all belong to a very broad individual field. Even if it is Newton, a master figure in physics, can we, modern humans, really master all the physics in the universe? It is impossible. At present, we can only master a small part, not even 10%. This is the rational way to position ourselves and treat science!

No wonder Mr. Dong was at my house that day. He was right to be low-key in the field of music. It turned out that it was just a reflection of his character. I was reading him! (To be continued)