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This article was first published on Huxiuyoung content public account “That NG” (ID: huxiu4youth). Here, we present the faces, stories and attitudes of young people today.

Another season of Le Xia is over. When the young music fans stretched out their hands to the stage and shouted that the summer that belonged to them and the band was over, the show was sitting on the second floor with a dense explosion of “Professional Music”. “Mysterious” Guo Xiaohan has an outsider’s calm.

As a former cultural reporter, music critic, and folk agent, the stories of these bands have been played by her side for decades, partaking in almost all of her adult life and continuing.

It can be summed up with the title she wrote about five people seven years ago: The best scenery I have seen.

Seven years ago, on the third day of the Lunar New Year, the Wutiao people held the “Return to Haifeng” concert for the seventh time. Guo Xiaohan also rushed to hear the news.

As usual, Nishina and Amao, carrying musical instruments, squeezing into the bus, returned to Haifeng, borrowed money from the west to set up the stage, and friends and relatives all came to help. It is differently gorgeous, according to Guo Xiaohan’s account, full of “rural violence and romantic aesthetics”. Five people sang old songs and new songs. Finally, the general on the stage rushed into the night market next to the stage and fell drunk in the night of Haifeng.

Guo Xiaohan, who can watch hundreds of live shows a year, is also the first time to see such a rock performance. The record of this trip to Haifeng, which is full of five people, is included in Guo Xiaohan’s new book “Sand Growth”.It is one of 33 articles.

In the last part of the preface of this book, she wrote this sentence: We can see how folk musicians exchange their vigour for history. On Tiger Radio she told me that she didn’t expect it to be The Wujo people performed this county performance for the last time.


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At this time, the five people have become the hottest band in China this year. Such a pristine scene is now impossible to be copied from any angle. She became the recorder and participant of this out-of-print memory.

Before Le Xia started, PeopleSoft, who had not contacted for a long time, sent Guo Xiaohan a message, asking her if she would like to come to the rivers and lakes to watch a five-person secret performance. Guo Xiaohan went and stood one and a half meters away from the stage. , She was convinced that they were really going to Le Xia. This was a secret performance, and it was also for the purpose of filming some program materials in advance. After the performance that day, they drank like before. She jokingly asked them: “What do you do if you become popular? ?”.

In Hucha, Guo Xiaohan recalled: “I think that may be our most recent moment in these years.”

The progress of things exceeded many people’s expectations, and the past quickly seemed like a lifetime. Guo Xiaohan naturally turned sideways and watched the most shining Nishina Amao passing her and walking towards the larger stage.

For the observer, all stories are born of sorrow and joy. In fact, they are the least sorrow and joy. It is enough to record truthfully. As a result, Guo Xiaohan, who believed that he “did not trigger controversial discussions and flow capacity,” and therefore did not have too many views on the show. After Le Xia ended, he quietly published two books: Born to Rock. And “Sand Growth”.

“Born to Rock”, picture from Guo Xiaohan

“Born to Rock” tells the experience of 13 Chinese bands, including New Pants, Hedgehog, and Houhai Shark. The subtitle of “Sand Grows” is: Chinese Contemporary Folk Songs Walking Record, which includes Guo Xiaohan’s past The three generations of folk song leaders written, from the old wolf Pushu, to the wild boy Zhou Yunpeng, to Li Zhiwutiao…

Someone saw these names overlap with Le Xia’s lineup so much and accused Guo Xiaohan of chasing hot spots naked. Guo Xiaohan was helpless: “When I wrote their first edition (referring to the old newspaper page) with more than 3,000 words, they were still playing Nobody with no more than 50 people in the performance.”

Actually, her experience is irreplaceable. At first, she interviewed them as a reporter, then became the agent of some bands, and then according to Osamu’s words, “They accept that I can take a long walk. After walking around, she later established her own music internet company.

In the face of the long home time of the epidemic in the spring of 2020, Guo Xiaohan determined to organize the manuscripts and put them together into a book. Everything went smoothly.

In order to avoid the so-called hot spots, Guo Xiaohan tried not to emphasize those personal memories with bands and musicians in recent interviews. When it comes to Yezi, Zhang Weiwei, Wan Xiaoli, and Song Dongye, they are all like this. She Sometimes I say: “Look at this million-character manuscript, almost all of us overlap.”

Zhang Weiwei, picture from Guo Xiaohan

She put these clips into a larger background, with only a very simple wish: to leave evidence for the past days related to music. She even selected a paper that would turn yellow quickly for “Sand Growth”. A friend sent a message to her after receiving the book for a while, saying: “I looked at it from a distance and suddenly felt that a certain period of my life Got oneevidence. “Guo Xiaohan was moved, this is what she wants.

No music theory, no pretentious analysis, but it’s strange that when you see her writing their text, you will immediately feel connected to the universe-it turns out they are like this, it turns out that everything was like this in the past. different.

For example, in 2015 Wan Xiaoli’s “Wan Xiaoli: Why is the Sun Round”, Guo Xiaohan wrote from Wan Xiaoli’s 12 years old to the release of the album “The Sun Looks Round” in 2015 , Wan Xiaoli was 44 years old that year, and had already experienced the hardships of the North Drifting, late bloomers, an overnight boom, and the sudden “loneliness and desolation”.

If you start from the premise, Wan Xiaoli, you can only think of “Fox” and “Daughter Love”, then in this article, you can see the county where he was married at the age of 19 and was unwilling to work in the Bureau of Agriculture. Boy, you can see that Bob Dylan is said to be Bob Dylan, but he doesn’t even know who is Bob Dylan’s resident singer at the North Drift Bar. You can see the newcomer who eagerly signed the first contract in half a minute. You can see a poet who is not good at words in front of strangers, and drank alcohol but accidentally leaked his heart. You can see a taxi galloping in the night, laughing and making the driver drive north, eager to escape Soul…

Guo Xiaohan opened the manuscript of more than 10,000 words several times to rewrite, rewrite, increase and decrease, and cleverly used the name of the song to string up the changes that Wan Xiaoli had experienced in her eyes. Sometimes she was there, sometimes she was absent, but she still tried to provide countless moving details:

“He wrote “Potato” while he was cooking, “The sun looks round” at the gate of the swimming pool before the opening, and “The sun looks round” on the train back to Beijing from Hangzhou. “Old Dog” and “Early Summer”.”

“One day Xiaoli and his friend came down from the mountain and walked to the middle step to rest. He took out his phone and wrote a few words on the notepad. Yes, this is this one. The lyrics of the last song of the album “Velvet Butterfly”.”

For example, “Wild Child: Don’t Ask Who I Am”, with a specific date as the subtitle, which is quite historical in folk songs. This article weaves Guo Xiaohan’s personal life journey and important moments of Chinese folk songs. Together, the album will automatically play in your mind after reading it:

From the millennium, to the first 15 years, on the green leather car, in the river bar, in the unnamed highland, on D22, there is Zhang Weiwei, Zhang Quan, and a small river…There is heavy rain in the world, Zhang Quan finally appeared, singing quietly by himself, one day Xiaohe jumped off the stage frantically, fell fractured, and changed his temperament…

There are countless young people like Guo Xiaohan, just like that, Livehous who are muddy on the grounde In the dim and chaotic lights, we witnessed the process of “folk songs from saplings to trees to woods”. The second half of this sentence is what PeopleSoft left on the cover of “Sand Growth”.

Guo Xiaohan, who has seen the best scenery, hopes to be a biography of the rivers and lakes, people come and go, she has been close to them infinitely, and was accepted by them to embark on the journey of “walking the rivers and lakes”. Is watching from a distance.

In such a river and lake, it is too easy to meet or forget each other. For her, this distance is just right for her, and it’s just right for recording.

Like the words of Old Wolf on the cover of “Sand Growth”: “Guo Xiaohan is not an interviewer in the traditional sense. She is more persistent and devoted to the changing scenes of folk songs. She is a friend of these people, and even a workman. Buddy. This book is the story of this group of folk musicians, as well as her own story.”

In Tiger Radio, Guo Xiaohan’s words Speed ​​is still as fast as ever. She throws a lot of sensitive and fine thread into the microphone without reservation. I am sure I missed a lot of opportunities to seize and follow up.

I admire her for her description of the past, both accuracy and poetry. As a person who has devoted all her adolescence to a certain kind of love, I know that the driving force of this expression is strong and lasting love and belief.

So I asked her how firmly she believed in music. She said that music is “universal Wi-Fi” for her, which can connect any two people in the universe.

In the book, this statement can be corroborated by the story of her meeting with Li Zhi, in On the radio, she told the story that she was touched by the James Band and wanted to meet Yong Zhu. SheShe left a message on Weibo forever, but did not wait for her friend who came to stay forever to verify. One day she was relieved and wrote in the memo:

The universe does not need to reply.

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