Text | Wang Zhenyi

Editor | Sun Dasheng

In 1993, a young man named Zhao Jian received a gift from his grandmother in Fushun, Liaoning. A guitar, he owned the first piano in his life.

In this year, a Shanghai boy named Xue Zhiqian and his father depended on each other. His mother had died many years ago.

In this year, a boy from Ji'an named Dong Chengpeng was crazy about the band Beyond.

In this year, a young man named Xu Zheng studied at the Shanghai Theater Academy, and he was about to graduate from college a year later.

In this year, Zhao Jian would not have thought that these three people would appear at a node in his life and witness his unrestrained life.

01

Before meeting Joker Xue, Dong Chengpeng, and Xu Zheng, Zhao Jian’s life deviated from the track arranged by his parents.

Zhao Jian’s parents have always worked in banks. In their plan, Zhao Jian will also work in the banking system after graduating from university. Zhao Jian originally had no objections to the path arranged by his parents, but when he came into contact with guitars, video studios and beat tapes, he opened up a new world.

In order to listen to Ye Qianwen singing "Drunken Life", he could go to different video halls to watch "The Bloody Heroes" multiple times.

He can spend 50 yuan to find an after-school training teacher to teach him how to play "My Deskmate".

He fell in love with music.

However, in order not to make his parents sad, Zhao Jian entered a bank and worked as a clerk after graduating from college, but this did not mean that he gave up music.

Because he came into contact with Nirvana and the Rolling Stones, he found three like-minded friends to form the Impossible Band.

When they are not at work, they practice. Sometimes they rent a venue and hold rock concerts, charging 5 yuan per ticket. Soon after, Zhao Jian became a celebrity in Fushun. Many people said that he was the Cui Jian of Liaoning's underground rock scene.

But being a band was too expensive. In order to support the band, Zhao Jian worked in a bank during the day and sang in bars at night. Although it is a bit harder to make money this way, he is still happy because of music.

However, as time passed, Zhao Jian gradually became unhappy. He found that many young people in Fushun came to him for advice on how to form a band and how to play the guitar.

He found that after teaching them, he was exhausted and found that he had no progress.

In order to change this situation, Zhao Jian walked into the door of the Internet cafe, not to play games or watch videos, but to learn new knowledge.

When Zhao Jian came into contact with the Internet, he realized that he was too ignorant. He frantically studied music-related knowledge, and he even quit his job in a bank for this reason.

His rhythm of life became singing in a bar at night, studying in an Internet cafe until the next morning, and then sleeping all day.

As the study progressed, Zhao Jian had a particularly strong idea. He wanted to leave Fushun and go out to work. He wanted to go to a place with more resources and more powerful people. He wanted to become better.

Zhao Jian did what he thought of. In 2002, he took 700 yuan and went to Beijing to drift.

Before leaving Fushun, he had a party with his band friends, and they asked him why he was going to Beijing?

He replied: "Be a star."

When Zhao Jian got on the train to Beijing, Joker Xue also fell in love with music, but he was so unlucky that he met a scammer company, which asked him to pay 300,000 yuan in packaging fees to package him. He later got a role in the live-action version of "Singing Crazy", but due to copyright issues, the film could not be filmed.

Joker Xue doesn’t know where his future will lie.

During this year, Dong Chengpeng was still obsessed with music, but he didn’t know at this time that he would be defrauded of 38,000 yuan by a fake record company two years later. In order to get the money back, he also wanted to pursue his dream. , he began to drift north.

In this year, Xu Zheng has become a promising new star in the entertainment industry with "Springtime Pig" and "Li Wei is an Official".

In this year, there are still 3 years until Zhao Jian and Joker Xue meet, 7 years until Zhao Jian and Xu Zheng meet, and 13 years until Zhao Jian and Dong Chengpeng meet.

02

After arriving in Beijing, Zhao Jian lived with his friend, but the house where his friend lived was too small. The friend and his wife slept on the bed, and Zhao Jian slept on the wall and the bed. In the gap in the middle.

In order to make a living, Zhao Jian went to the bars in Sanlitun to find a job as a singer, but no bar wanted him. He finally found a bar that wanted him, but the fee was very low, only 50 yuan a day.

In order to survive, Zhao Jian agreed, but he soon discovered that the daily meal and round-trip fare cost 55 yuan. When he sang in this bar, he had to pay 5 yuan every day.

Fortunately, he met an old friend soon after, changed his job, and no longer had to pay for his job.

After living in Beijing for a year, Zhao Jian heard the news that his favorite singer Alan Tam would be a guest on a show called "My Style, My Show".

In order to meet Alan Tam, Zhao Jian signed up for this show.

After participating in the first competition, Zhao Jian found that the participants were all young people and he was unwilling to compete with them for opportunities, so he voluntarily withdrew from the competition.

Although Zhao Jian is no longer competing, his talent was noticed by the top management of "My Style, My Show", and they invited Zhao Jian to serve as the music director of "My Style, My Show".

Zhao Jian did not refuse.

The next year, Zhao Jian became a judge of "My Style, My Show" and discovered talents such as Qi Wei and Wang Xiaokun. It was also in this year that Xue Zhiqian took "My Type, My Show" as a breakthrough in his music career, and he met Zhao Jian.

Zhao Jian admired him very much, and the two became very good friends in private.

Also in this year, Zhao Jian was very angry about the popular music at that time. He felt that these songs were too similar. To express his anger, he composed 23 popular songs into a song called "Excitement 2005". In order to match this song, he also gave himself a very rustic name. After thinking about it, he felt that the name "Zhao Yingjun" mentioned by Zhao Benshan in the sketch "I Want to Have a Family" was very rustic, so he signed it Zhao Yingjun.

What Zhao Yingjun didn't expect was that "Excitement 2005" became a hit very quickly after it was uploaded to the Internet. The song was playing in the streets and alleys, and many people were asking who this Zhao Yingjun was.

It's just fire returning to fire. Because of copyright issues, Zhao Yingjun didn't make any money, and his life still hasn't changed much.

Zhao Yingjun’s mood became very low.

One day he watched an environmental documentary and was touched when he saw the plastic bags in the film. He felt that the plastic bags were very much like himself and were useless.

So he devoted himself to writing a song called "Plastic Bag". Although he was very depressed at the time, in this song he still had hope for the future. The lyrics read: Don't try to bury me, there will always be strong winds to take me away

Take me to fly over loneliness, take me to fly to pain, take me to fly to happiness, take me to fly to your heart.

Later, many people wanted to buy this song, but Zhao Yingjun was reluctant to sell it until he met Dong Chengpeng.

But before meeting Dong Chengpeng, Zhao Yingjun and Xu Zheng met first.

03

In 2007, because of "My Style, My Show", Zhao Yingjun met a director named Li Xin, who invited him to star in a film called "Big Talk" Stock God" movie.

While filming a promotional video for this movie, Zhao Yingjun met Yang Qing, who had been in the entertainment industry for four years. Yang Qing thought Zhao Yingjun acted very well and encouraged him to become an actor.

What Zhao Yingjun didn't expect was that two years later, Yang Qing would become a director. He was going to make a movie called "Night Club" and he was invited to play a role.

Zhao Yingjun did not refuse. He left Shanghai for Beijing, joined the crew of "Night Club", and met Xu Zheng, the actor who starred in the film.

When Xu Zheng met Zhao Yingjun for the first time, he did not have a good impression of him. He thought he was very amateur.

But before the filming of "Night Club" was completed, Xu Zheng felt that Zhao Yingjun was too talented.

When the filming of "Night Club" was completed, Yang Qing hoped that Zhao Yingjun would stay in Beijing. He felt that Zhao Yingjun would definitely be able to do well in Beijing with his ability.

Xu Zheng also persuaded Zhao Yingjun to stay in Beijing and develop. He persuaded him to open a music studio in Beijing so that he could do film soundtracks.

Zhao Yingjun did not choose to stay in Beijing at the first time. He returned to Shanghai. He was already familiar with life in Shanghai. He had many friends in Shanghai and lived very comfortably.

Should I leave Shanghai and go to Beijing to start over? Zhao Yingjun thought about this problem.

In the end, Zhao Yingjun decided to go to Beijing because he wanted to make himself better, just like he chose to leave Fushun.

04

In 2011, Zhao Yingjun returned to Beijing, but unlike in Shanghai, he had no resources and his income was also a problem. Most of the time, he relied on his previous income. Savings live.

During such a difficult time, it was his good friend Joker Xue who extended a helping hand to him. At that time, Xue Zhiqian had already become famous with "Serious Snow". He gave Zhao Yingjun to produce many songs such as "How" and "A Few Miles Around" sung by him, and the production fee was higher than what was offered outside.

At that time, Zhao Yingjun would not have thought that a year later, his life would turn around.

In 2012, Xu Zheng directed the movie "囧". As a result, there was a problem with the film's soundtrack, and Xu Zheng was very worried.

So who can solve this problem? Xu Zheng thought of Zhao Yingjun.

As soon as Zhao Yingjun heard this, he helped Xu Zheng solve this problem without saying a word. He took Xu Zheng's matter as his own and efficiently handed over a song called "I Want to Be with You." 》song without charging a penny.

In 2013, "囧囧" was released and grossed 1.267 billion at the box office, breaking the box office record in Chinese film history at that time. In order to thank Zhao Yingjun, Xu Zheng gave him a reward.

But it was also because of the success of "囧囧" that Zhao Yingjun became famous in the film and television industry. Many film crews approached him to produce movie soundtracks. He was called a "music genius" by the outside world

Xu Zheng He did not give up on continuing to cooperate with Zhao Yingjun. In 2015, when he was filming "囧 in Hong Kong", he still asked Zhao Yingjun to write songs. Zhao Yingjun wrote a song "Breeze Xu Lai", which was sung by Faye Wong, and it became a huge hit.

When Zhao Yingjun became famous, Dong Chengpeng, who had already become famous with the online drama "Diaosi Men", also wanted to cooperate with him. In 2015, Dong Chengpeng directed his first big movie in his life, "Pancake Man", and he contacted Zhao Yingjun.

As usual, Zhao Yingjun successfully completed the task assigned by Dong Chengpeng and produced the song "Pancake Man" with the same name of the movie.

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Even Zhao Yingjun willingly handed over the song "Plastic Bag" to Dong Chengpeng. In 2017, Dong Chengpeng filmed the movie "Sewing Machine Band", which is a movie about chasing dreams in music. This movie has the shadow of both Dong Chengpeng and Zhao Yingjun. Zhao Yingjun knew that it was time for "Plastic Bag" to be released to the world, and he also wrote a song "Choose C" for "Sewing Machine Band".

However, no one would have thought that one year later, Zhao Yingjun's fate would undergo a huge change.

05

In 2018, Zhao Yingjun felt more and more unwell. After going to the hospital for examination, he was diagnosed with liver cancer. This year he was 41 years old.

In order not to worry his friends and the outside world, he chose not to announce the news and silently fought against the disease.

During the days when he was sick, Zhao Yingjun participated in activities and met with friends as usual. He was still as humorous and optimistic as before.

But the paper could not contain the fire. When Xue Zhiqian knew the news, he almost went crazy.

In order to cure Zhao Yingjun's disease, he bought various special medicines and new cancer drugs from all over the world. He contacted the hospital for Zhao Yingjun, arranged the transfer, and even Zhao Yingjun's surgery was signed by him.

He knew that Zhao Yingjun still had a wish to fulfill, so he actively helped him fulfill it. In 2020, Zhao Yingjun launched the "Re-Singing Project of Certain Works of Zhao Yingjun", and Joker Xue was busy contacting singers for him.

What shocked the outside world later was that even though he was terminally ill, Zhao Yingjun still took over the soundtrack production of the anti-cancer movie "A Little Red Flower for You". He composed the song of the same name. After taking painkillers, he insisted on finishing recording "A Little Red Flower for You". On the day the song was officially released, he said: "I will give you a little red flower for everyone who has watched the movie and listened to the song."

Unfortunately, the disease took the life of Zhao Yingjun on February 3, 2021, and Zhao Yingjun lived forever at the age of 43.

When the news of Zhao Yingjun’s death was reported, the public was shocked and lamented that they were jealous of talents. His suicide note made countless people cry. Many people learned that Zhao Yingjun was such a gentle person through his suicide note. .

In his suicide note, Zhao Yingjun wrote, "I love this world so much, this era so much, the life I live so much, music and movies so much, and I haven't married me yet. The one I love is a wife, but I haven’t given birth to a child yet, I haven’t taken my parents to the beach to surf, I haven’t gone to the Bird’s Nest to hold a concert, I haven’t become a movie director, I haven’t seen the reunification of the motherland, I haven’t seen the ending of One Piece... "

He hoped that friends would not cry in memory of him. He hoped that everyone would "put on the most handsome and beautiful clothes, put on the music, get high, drink a little wine, and send me your carnival." The last ride was so cool!”

He also said: “I hope you won’t forget me so quickly. As long as there are still people who remember me and my singing, I may still be there somewhere. , to accompany you."

Zhao Yingjun is gone. As a young man from a small town, his story of working hard for the things he loved and changing his destiny inspired many people, and his music will accompany everyone who encounters it. people.

Zhao Yingjun’s life is inspiring and warm.