1990: Starting from Baojia Street

Although the theme of today is music, the host still introduced Zhou Yan's other identities, and each time he introduced an identity, he would introduce his works.

Because "Don't Let Me Go" is really popular recently, the host also specially introduced Zhou Yan's identity as a writer, and also talked about the new book.

Seeing this, Chu Changsong smiled and said, "Mr. Zhou's new book is on CCTV again, and the sales will be even better now."

"The book was originally out of stock, and now it's even harder to buy."

"Yes, but we don't care, anyway, we have already bought it."

Their fan club cooperates directly with booksellers. When "Don't Let Me Go" was published as a single volume, the fan club directly bought hundreds of copies. Now most of their fan club members have this book, so they are naturally not worried about not being able to buy it.

"I heard that the sales of this book have reached several million copies. I wonder if it's true."

"It may be true. My cousin is in Shanghai and he said that this book is no longer available in many places."

"Yes, my hometown is Luzhou. I called my dad two days ago and he said that every student in his class has a copy of Never Let Me Go. He said that the biology teacher recommended it."

"The biology teacher... that makes sense."

"The last book that sold so well was Wasted City."

"Wasted City doesn't seem to be so popular. Many people buy it secretly."

"Wasted City" was not as popular as Never Let Me Go at the time. Wasted City was marked as a pornographic book, so many people bought it secretly, and even went to book stalls to buy pirated copies, not even to regular bookstores.

In addition, some middle school students dared not buy it because they would be beaten if caught by their parents.

Lin Juan listened to their discussion and just smiled without saying anything.

She knew something about the sales of Never Let Me Go. Although it was not very detailed, she was sure that the sales were definitely not several million copies. This was too exaggerated.

The reason why everyone has this feeling is that, on the one hand, the book was sold out right after it came out, and it did perform well, and on the other hand, it was also due to piracy.

Before the official single volume of "Never Let Me Go" came out, the pirated version had already come out, and some unruly pirates directly used the first part of "October" to fill in the gaps.

Many readers did not read it carefully, and bought it when they saw that the content in the front was correct. When they went home and read the back, they found that the goods were not the same as the picture. When they wanted to go back to confront the bookseller, they found that they could not find anyone.

The book that Akina Nakamori bought before was in this situation.

After the official single volume came out, piracy became more rampant, and the piracy at this time was very formal, and the quality of some pirated books was almost the same as that of the official books.

Because the book sold so well, some pirates did not have time to print it a few days ago.

However, the situation has been much better in the past few days, because more pirates have entered, and large and small workshops are printing together. At least now there is no shortage of pirated books.

While everyone was discussing the new book, the host's introduction on TV had ended and the special program officially began.

"In 1973, three-and-a-half-year-old Zhou Yan received his first bamboo flute in his life, a gift from his mother..."

Everyone present had seen a lot about Zhou Yan's deeds, and they all knew that Zhou Yan started learning bamboo flute from his mother when he was very young, which Zhou Yan had mentioned in an interview before.

But this program was very different, and the time was accurate to three and a half years old.

As the narration narrated, a color photo appeared on TV.

A delicate little child with a small red dot on his head was holding a flute and pretending to play it.

This was a qu flute, very long and large, and it looked even bigger in the hands of a three-year-old child, as if he was holding not a musical instrument but a golden hoop.

Seeing the photo, everyone exclaimed.

"Is this Teacher Zhou?"

"Wow, Teacher Zhou was so cute when he was a child."

"He was really handsome from childhood to adulthood."

"I envy you. Teacher Zhou started learning bamboo flute when he was over three years old, and I was still playing in the mud when I was over three years old."

"Oh, I don't have any photos of my childhood."

It is normal to have no photos of childhood, especially these daily photos.

This photo of Zhou Yan was taken in 1974, when color photos were also quite rare in the city.

If ordinary people wanted to take photos, they had to go to some large photo studios and make appointments in advance.

And this photo of Zhou Yan was obviously taken at home. At that time, it was definitely not an ordinary family to have a color camera at home.

However, everyone's mind is not on the color photos now. It is the first time they have seen Zhou Yan's childhood photos, so they are very excited.

And behind the child who surprised them, CCTV was obviously well prepared this time. There are not only photos of Zhou Yan receiving his first bamboo flute, but also videos of Zhou Yan's first performance on stage.

Yes, it is a video.

In the second semester of the first grade of primary school, when the school held the Children's Day party, Zhou Yan was already able to perform on stage. He played a song "Wheat Harvest Season" very calmly and presented it very completely.

Xu Yongke, who had learned bamboo flute, was surprised, "Is Teacher Zhou so good at bamboo flute?"

Others laughed, "What? Is this the first day you know that Teacher Zhou is so good?"

Yes, everyone who likes Zhou Yan knows that bamboo flute is his main instrument and he can solo difficult pieces.

For other instruments, such as piano and violin, Zhou Yan has never played difficult music in concerts.

But bamboo flute is different. Zhou Yan has played difficult music such as "Fragrance in the Dark" and "Journey to the West Fantasy" in concerts, and his performance was very good.

Therefore, when everyone heard Xu Yongke say this, they felt strange.

Xu Yongke explained, "I know that Teacher Zhou is good at bamboo flute, but I didn't expect that he was so talented. At that time, Teacher Zhou was only six or seven years old. Many people who learn bamboo flute have not even come into contact with this instrument or have just come into contact with it. For example, I started learning bamboo flute at the age of six. At that time, the students of my teacher were basically the same age as me, and the earlier ones were only five years old. In theory, if you start learning at an older age, you will make faster progress in the early stage. The older you are, the stronger your understanding ability and the more energy you have. But among our batch of students, even the best ones, none of them can reach Teacher Zhou's level in four years."

"You mean, if Teacher Zhou keeps learning bamboo flute with this talent, he can become a bamboo flute master?" a girl asked.

"I dare not say he is a master, but he is definitely a first-class bamboo flute player."

To become a master of a musical instrument, you need a lot of things, not just good skills.

But to become a performer with superb skills, the difficulty is lower, and you can accomplish it with talent and time.

Zhou Yan was able to reach such a level when he was six or seven years old. As long as he keeps practicing, he can't be bad when he grows up.

Although Xu Yongke didn't say it explicitly, everyone understood what he meant.

Zhou Yan's current bamboo flute level actually does not fulfill this amazing talent.

And when Xu Yongke was talking, the introduction of Zhou Yan's learning career on TV had reached high school.

At this time, Xu Yongke found that Zhou Yan's bamboo flute level in high school had made very little progress.

Zhou Yan had a performance video in the first year of high school and another performance video in the third year of high school. The two videos were two years apart, but Zhou Yan's bamboo flute level did not make obvious progress.

It stands to reason that Zhou Yan at this time would have had enough time to reach a higher level in two years, but he didn't.

Xu Yongke probably understood that Zhou Yan had not only learned bamboo flute but also piano since the third year of junior high school, which was mentioned in the video.

Although he did not take piano as his main subject, he had to spend a lot of time on it, after all, piano is also an instrument that requires a lot of time.

After high school, in addition to bamboo flute and piano, Zhou Yan also started to learn violin.

No mistakes, one post, one content, one 6, one 9, one book, one bar!

Now it's good, learning three instruments at once, no matter how talented you are, you can't master them.

Let's not talk about piano, after all, if you learn it casually, you can fool outsiders, but if you don't learn violin seriously, it's like sawing wood, and it's useless except for disturbing people.

The key is that piano, bamboo flute and violin are three types of instruments, which are more troublesome to learn.

As for the same three instruments, the combination of piano, bamboo flute and violin is definitely more difficult than the combination of erhu, violin and cello or bamboo flute, dongxiao and saxophone.

The latter two are similar instruments, and many things are the same. If you learn one, it will be much easier to learn the other two.

But it is precisely because Zhou Yan learned three types of instruments that he was able to easily master so many instruments when he later learned to compose, because most of the instruments in the world have the shadow of bamboo flute, piano and violin.

In other words, Zhou Yan's purpose of learning from this time was no longer to become a bamboo flute player, but to become a composer.

At the graduation ceremony of the senior year of high school, Zhou Yan played an original song "Summer Lotus", which further proved that Zhou Yan had already opened up his own path of composition.

"This song sounds familiar." Chu Changsong said.

In fact, without his reminder, most people heard the feeling of déjà vu, but they couldn't remember where they had heard it for a while.

But soon, when "Summer Lotus" was played to the middle, a girl suddenly shouted, "It's "An Xiang Fu Yang", this part is very similar to the melody in "An Xiang Fu Yang"."

Others also heard that "Summer Lotus" and "An Xiang Fu Yang" have some similarities. It seems that the composer's creation did not appear out of thin air, and there are traces to follow.

They also sighed that Zhou Yancai was able to make a song like "Summer Lotus" in middle school. He is undoubtedly a genius.

Some people even think that this "Summer Lotus" is worse than "An Xiang Fu Yang".

The main reason is that "An Xiang Fu Yang" uses a lot of techniques, which sounds really cool, but it is not as comfortable and free as "Summer Lotus" that flows naturally.

Listening to "Summer Lotus", I feel like I am under the willow tree by the pond, watching the wind blowing the lotus leaves and the lotus fragrance.

Some people remembered the time when they finished the college entrance examination. They were also carefree, comfortable and full of hope for the future.

"I wonder if this song "Summer Days" can be released as a single, it's really nice."

"It's okay if it's not released as a single, we're already recording it anyway."

The VCR at Chu Changsong's house has a TV reception function, which can record TV programs.

"I can't just come to Chu Changsong's house to listen to this song, and the TV doesn't play the full version, it would be nice if it could be released as a tape."

"Haha, if you want a tape, you'll probably have to buy a pirated one. After this TV comes out, it won't be long before pirated tapes appear." A boy laughed.

This is almost inevitable. Pirate dealers know that Zhou Yan has a large amount of traffic. If they find that a song has not been released yet, they will naturally not miss such a business opportunity.

"Well, there will definitely be pirated tapes, and maybe they will use the photo of Teacher Zhou performing on stage as the cover."

"Haha, it's possible."

While everyone was chatting, the program had already talked about Zhou Yan's college years.

What surprised everyone was that Zhou Yan had videos almost every year from elementary school to high school, but after college, not only were there no videos, but there were also very few photos.

And even if there were photos, many of them were group photos, and there were very few individual photos of Zhou Yan.

Therefore, the introduction of Zhou Yan's college years was much less interesting. It was basically narration, and there were also some other photos.

However, after 1991, Zhou Yan's video materials increased again, because at that time, although Zhou Yan was still in school, he had already started working.

Later on, there were more video materials and richer introductions.

However, the students still felt that the first part was more interesting, because they, the loyal fans, had seen these things after Zhou Yan's work, and there was no surprise.

The duration of "Music Bridge" was not long, only about 20 minutes in total, and it felt like it was over in a short while.

When the film ended, the TV screen returned to the studio, and the host smiled and said, "Hello, audience friends, thank you for watching this episode of "Music Bridge". At the end of the program, I have a good news for everyone. Zhou Yan's Forbidden City Concert will be held on May 2, 3, and 4, and the tickets for this concert will go on sale on April 10."

After this news came out, the scene went crazy.

"What, a new concert is coming?"

"Didn't you hear? It's the Forbidden City Concert."

"Wow, CCTV is so good to Teacher Zhou. They not only help him sell books, but also help him sell tickets."

"Of course, Teacher Zhou is CCTV's treasure."

"I've been looking forward to Teacher Zhou coming back to Yanjing for a long time."

"What's the point of looking forward to it? I don't know how many tickets there are this time, and whether we can get them."

When it comes to grabbing tickets, everyone is a little discouraged. Yes, the tickets are so hard to get, can they get them?

Why can't the concert be held in the stadium? In that case, they will definitely be able to get tickets for three consecutive shows. (End of this chapter)