Interview Appreciation: The Missionary

Most of the guests who visit my house know that there are no routines here. I don’t like to wear a mask, and there is no need to read texts according to a script, so we can all drive trolley buses with each other - speak casually!

At this time I asked Dong: "What are you doing back this time?"

Dong answered me: "I brought my mother's - back to my hometown, like a fallen leaf returning to its roots!"

There is something sad in saying this.

After hearing what he said, I was not polite at all in front of him this time and said, "What bullshit! It seems that you met me a few days late! Because you haven't seen the article I wrote "My Cousin Yin Baoxiong", what he said before he died, he said, "So be it! Let me stay here beside my children forever - the global village! ”

Then, his children and grandchildren did as he said - and were buried in the same place.

It seems that Mr. Dong has not yet considered whether we humans will have an afterlife! And my cousin is trustworthy (he is a very highly educated person), so he is deciding his own funeral arrangements!

Mr. Dong was stunned by what I said, and seemed a little confused. His reason was: because everything his father had was here.

What I wanted to ask him in my heart was: "Where will your future descendants be on the earth? Haven't you thought that as a parent, you still want to be with your children and grandchildren? Guardian of the soul!"

At this point, let me try to use a montage method to write like I do in filming a movie:

There is a little-known story about Mr. Dong! (I also found out later).

Ever since he left his hometown and went to a foreign country to seek his career, he has been working hard and diligently.

Didn't Mr. Zhang write in his poem: "When Carnegie sang the song, the four people in the audience exclaimed that they were so drunk!"

Yes, he had begun to show his talent not long ago, but his liveliness was not here, but there!

With his talent, Mr. Dong Rongcan won the first prize in the New York Mark Brunzwick Young Composition Competition in 1989 and 1990, and he could have received a generous prize. But surprisingly, he said to the organizing committee: "I don't want the prize money, I just want to bring my parents here to meet me after many years of separation." Such a request was so touching that the organizing committee agreed to his request.

After his parents came to the United States after many years and saw his difficult living conditions, they decided to stay and take care of their son. They also found themselves a job taking care of many children for female workers in the garment factories of new immigrants in Wenzhou and Fuzhou.

This was to supplement the family income and support his music creation.

Unfortunately, a disaster occurred a year later.

On October 7, 1991, the front page of the local news in New York's World Journal published a bold headline: "Two elderly people died and one was seriously injured while crossing the road on a slippery day in the rain." It turned out that Dong Rongcan's mother had been in a serious car accident.

He rushed to the hospital and cried as he threw himself on his mother who was seriously injured and unconscious: "Mom, I'm sorry! When you get better, we won't stay in the United States anymore. I will take you back to China."...

His mother was in a coma for three days, and he stayed by her side for three days and three nights. He also witnessed countless scenes of life and death in the hospital. After learning from his mistakes, he developed a stronger desire than ever before to hold a concert of his personal works in American society and then change his career.

What is touching is that after experiencing such hardships in life and the misfortunes of his relatives, Dong Rongcan did not sink into despair. Instead, he strengthened his personal beliefs and continued with his career!

Having written this, I would like to take a breath and let me say this: the filial piety of the Eastern people can still move Western people! But our nation is still backward and poor! Is there right or wrong, good or bad here? I ask God for all this! I have a fan friend who said: "He is just gifted, God has blessed him, it's magical!"

Of course, for Mr. Dong, this price is a bit too high! The problem is that there is a social problem here, and the question is: "Why did you resolutely wave goodbye to this place? Have you ever thought about it?" Of course, through such a life script, an artist was later added to the plot, expressing his love for his parents. This is a virtue of being a human being, and God is also moved!

I also recalled another scene. After a dinner, Kong Xiangdong asked his host Chen Xiaoyuan for a bag of Huangshan pancakes, saying, "I want to take them home for my mother!"

On this day, on this sentence, I think Kong Xiangdong's action was more beautiful than any other song he played that day! Because it's not artificial.

Similarly, Mr. Dong later composed a song called “A Song Dedicated to Mothers of the World”, which is so beautiful!

Now your mom over there might be thinking the same thing! yes! I wonder if she will need a visa from the embassy when she visits you in the future. Otherwise, everything will be free!

My thoughts now came back, and I asked Dong: "What did you compose?"

No, in fact, I would like to see if the artist still has a childlike innocence, a nervous streak, and the inertial characteristics of his profession?

As a result, he was really lured out by me. That day in my house, he sang an old song from 1954 with me. We were so excited that I even saw him tapping the rhythm with his feet! This is a musician with inertia, and here I recognize him again.

The song I chose that day was because I thought of a sentence said by Ms. Wu Yili: "Music is not only used to show off talent, but also to change lives."

Here we should pay tribute to the real artists! (Down)

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