This article is from the public account “ New Weekly (ID: new-weekly) “, author: Zhao Jingyi, photography: Yang Dahai.
Liang Long has been busy recently.
He was starred in a Northeast realistic comedy movie. Throughout the month, he has been filming and has 120 plays in the script. On the morning of January 12, the day before the movie was killed, we met with Liang Long in Dandong City, Liaoning Province. He wore a 20th anniversary commemorative sweater with a gorgeous phoenix on his chest and back.
Liang Long / Yang Dahai wearing a commemorative sweater
“This month is quite experienced. If you want to perform a play well, you have to enter the role. You are not Liang Liang of second-hand roses, you are not Liang Long in life. During the New Year’s concert, the band members Also joking: ‘You haven’t come out yet, you are still the old left in the movie.’ “
Liang Long’s hair is slightly curly, and it is no longer his iconic bald on the stage in recent years. He said that everyone is the same and needs to play a lot of images. In the summer of 2019, Liang Long released a short makeup video, which immediately became a topic. In 6 months, the band Weibo, which originally had 390,000 fans, rose 140,000.Before Roundtable, I was still Liang Long. “
After 6 months, he has made more than a dozen videos, and the update frequency is not high. In the meantime, he took over the brand’s advertisement and also launched Liang Long color lipstick. Liang Long’s make-up video rarely takes other time. He said that if he has an idea, he will start shooting, and it can be completed in less than an hour. “Not so professional, they just want to see you like this.”
Liang Long color lipstick / Yang Dahai
“Beauty is a new communication medium for me. This is something I didn’t discover.” Liang Long is 43 years old this year, and most of the band members are in their 30s. He feels that the band wants to stay with young people. communication. “In the past, we could only use music to communicate with fans at the scene. Now there is a short video as a medium.”
In 1999, Liang Long formed a second-hand rose band in the suburbs of Harbin, and wrote 10 songs including “Plucking Flowers” in less than a month. A year later, he came to Beijing and started attracting attention. He won a lot of awards, but he didn’t make any money. In 2003, the second-hand rose sang at the “North Exhibition”, and the fire broke out. In the past, only Cui Jian had performed concerts in the rock world.
Concert for second-hand roses
That year, the second-hand rose released its first album of the same name. Liang Long wrote a song called “Allow some artists to get rich first.” The lyrics were full of jokes:”I was forced to live as a worker, I was forced to be a businessman, I was forced to be a poet, and I was forced to be a waste …”
“There were cars and no roads at the time.” Liang Long commented on his early career. After the second-hand rose began to receive commercial performances, they would even arrange for them to sing even during the mid-time break of the Super League. “That’s the same as you going to the top of the sky, I dare not imagine. Fight back. ”
A few years after that, the band was at a standstill. During that time, Liang Long mingled in the art circle, and went to the artist’s studio to soak all day long. It wasn’t until 2007 that Liang Long picked up the band again. As more and more music festivals took place, the income of the second-hand rose rock band gradually improved.
Liang Long at the concert
Liang Long no longer has the idea of becoming a rock star. “Some people always say they want to be the second Cui Jian, you can never be. Cui Jian, Tang Dynasty, Black Panther, they seized the big background of the times. At that time there was no rock music in China, and their appearance became amazing.” < / p>
“Everyone is more realistic now. The past was dreaming, and entertainment is breaking the boring dreams of the past.” Liang Long did not want to die anymore, but embraced this era, understood entertainment, and also had serious things. “This era is very Rich, people want to look at your legs, or just look at your legs, in addition to listening to your songs. Talking about the band, you can say that the guitarist is handsome and the drummer is cute. You can say that the angle of reading has become single , Can also be said to be another kind of richness. “
Play together, don’t worry about revival but not revival
When talking about the Northeast Renaissance, Liang Long felt more like a joke or a reason: “This is a gem. I can see his contradictory state. He thinks there should be a Northeast Renaissance, but again Who thinks this can be done? “
“TheyI hope that people from the northeast will think that it is a funny short video, which is too one-sided. Northeast is not everything, but there are a group of people who are engaged in literary and artistic creation, and they have such a small ideal. In the Northeast, it has been a long time since the concept of a new wave. In the new era, we can do something serious, lively, and a little kernel in some new ways. “
Liang Long on the set / Yang Dahai
In 1990, Zhao Benshan became the star of the Spring Festival Gala show after performing the sketch “Blinds” in the Spring Festival Gala. More than just sketches, Zhao Benshan later directed a series of TV series such as “Marshal”, “Country Love Story” and “Liu Laogen”. These Northeast humorous cultures conveyed by the duo Zhuan, sketches, dialects, etc., have become part of the memory of contemporary Chinese through television.
Into the era of new media, although the past film, television and sketch works are still popular classics, the Northeast has long lacked bright creators. A large number of spoof videos, yells, and social culture have become the new business cards of the mainstream Northeast culture. On the other hand, the less mainstream version also appeared in the film “Steel Piano”, Ban Yu, and Shuang Xuetao’s writings on the Shenyang Workers’ District, the music of second-hand roses, and the life of Northeast families shown by the fourth child on the short video platform. Various states etc. These more serious expressions are scarce and dazzling.
Lost Northeast Industrial Base, Laid-off Steel Mill Workers / “Steel Piano”
Xiaotao Xiaoyue series is the reason for many people to be on the fourth / @ 老四 的 快乐 生活
The fourth child said that he was imitating, and rarely said it was acting. “It sounds humble, too.” The plot of these short videos is mostly inspired by observations in life. When eating in a restaurant, in a bath center, in front of a kindergarten where children are picked up, all are places he observes. The fourth child said that he was good at observing since childhood: “I will see whether the relationship between men and women is normal through the eyes and pupils. The expressions of the two are very relaxed, they must be two people; the two have a meaning of eye contact, there must be some conditions.”
The fourth child distinguishes between private life and short video creation. He never changed his family and relatives into stories, fearing that he would be seated in the right place. “If you use them, you can’t finish them in two years.” The son who went to kindergarten has already watched the short video he took, but the fourth son said that he would never shoot in front of the child. “Afraid he murmured, wondering why his father is a woman. He is too young. Do n’t touch these “.
Every fourth shot is done quickly. When in good shape, I can shoot more than two episodes at noon. He never used a mirror and was unwilling to see his performance. He was worried that the traces of the performance were too heavy: “If you look in the mirror, it means one thing. The winning mentality is too strong. It must reach the extreme and be recognized. This is not the case. Playing. “
“I’m acting in life, using short videos to restore life. It’s hard to say who is right and who is wrong with the characters I play, but these people get together with many contradictions. But where are the contradictions, it is worth our excavation And thinking. I hope my short video can bring happiness and think a bit more. “
“When people are willing to use humor to deconstruct their lives, a humorous culture in Northeast China arises”
“No matter how hot the day is, I can’t take off my fur coat.” The fourth child really liked the lyrics in “Wild Wolf Disco”, “As a Northeastern, I felt deeply. At that time, some people were willing Go singing and dancingThe hall proves its worth, the fur coat proves its identity, and there is no BB machine on the dance floor. “
But the 90s were also bitter for the fourth. He was a primary school student at the time, and his parents were employees of a local sugar factory. The performance of the factory is not good, often failing to pay for several months, until the factory finally closes. The fourth child took a short video about a mother working as a domestic worker who took out a ham sausage at the dinner table to give her son who was studying high school a meal. This section comes from the real life experience of the fourth child.
“My childhood impression is that after moving from a bungalow to a building, my family has been paying off debts and has no money. I eat radishes, cabbage and potatoes every day. I have n’t eaten meat for a long time. The shop owner credited the beef and gave me a solution. The fried beef slices, cumin, I still remember the taste. I usually have nothing to eat. The ham sausage is good, it ’s meat. “
Chinese cabbage that cannot be eaten in winter is engraved in the memory of a generation of Northeast Chinese.
The fourth child said that there was a feeling of anger and ileum in the 1990s. At that time, it showed a lot of human side. What I want to eat, my neighbors don’t move. ”
When the factory was good, the fourth child was still in kindergarten. He still remembers the green Haier refrigerator at home, and the freezer was full of ice cream. The sugar factory has benefits, and the family’s white sugar, brown sugar, and cube sugar are constantly on. At that time, the fourth child often saw the ashes of Coke in the store. “Few people bought it, and I didn’t drink any drinks at that time.” He will mix rice vinegar and tap water with the sugar in his home, stir it and chill to make a sweet and sour drink.
While working in Japan, the fourth child has watched the TV series “Ma Shuai” played by Zhao Benshan and Fan Wei dozens of times. He can still remember the specific plot inside: “Every time I watch” Ms. Marshal “, I have something to gain. Ms. Marshal is just like a person around me. The attitude towards life dilemma is the same. For example, in the end, Mr. Marshal has no house. During the New Year, I still have to fire my guns and walk through the customs. You can see from hereThe courage of the Northeast. “
It is also the series of “Marshal Marshal” starring Zhao Benshan, which has a completely different temperament than “Rural Love” / “Marshal Marshall 2”
Now, the fourth child occasionally goes to the supermarket to buy a few pounds of pork ribs. He no longer feels bad about the money. He remembers his childhood feelings: After the factory closed, his father found a new job and drove a Dongfeng car to Hegang to pull coal. After taking a lot of salary for a month, I bought two or three pounds of spare ribs after returning home. “To me, ribs are extravagant food until now.”
Liang Long believes that humor comes from bitterness: “When people are willing to use humor to deconstruct life, the Northeast humor culture rises.” Northeast people’s sense of humor is in their bones. Twenty years ago, rock bands were very serious and had long hair. “I didn’t say” Thank you “after the show, and I went on.” But Liang Long liked to talk to the audience, “spatter and roll.”
“In the past, Northeast China only worked for half a year, playing cards during free time, and listening to the duo turning. Why did Zhao Benshan or post-Zhao Benshan receive so much attention? For today’s people, humor is a very interesting way of doing things. Can make a difference in life. In the past, people did n’t know much about humor, but later they thought it was important.
Second-hand roses have always been known as the “dual duo band”, but Liang Long never liked the duo. Until 2019, because of a friend making a documentary, Liang Long made in-depth contact with the traditional duo. He spent half a month with a group of actors who sang upright dramas. “This group of people are unwilling to pull the calves and only sing upright dramas. Compared to Peking Opera and Huangmei Opera, the two are a bit reckless and are word of mouth, used generation after generation. The mouth teaches you to sing and tell the story inside. In the past, people called the two to jump and jump, which was to make everyone happy. The traditional two turned to tease, it can make you cry for a second, and a second of joy. Big joy, big sorrow, big red and green .