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Comment丨How many more "Mohe Ballroom" are there waiting for us to be moved?

This is a song written by independent musician Liu Shuang and released in June 2020. A year later, the song became a hit on the Internet platform and was subsequently widely circulated. It became the background music for many short videos and also set off a trend of "second creation".

"Mohe Dance Hall" is originally a niche song. It originated from Liu Shuang's trip to Mohe to collect music and met an old man named Zhang Dequan (same pronunciation). More than 30 years ago, his wife Kang died in the Daxinganling fire. Since then, he has been alone and often danced at a dance hall near the incident to miss his late wife who loved to dance. Based on this touching story, Liu Shuang wrote this song and said, "I would like to dedicate this song to Zhang Dequan and his deceased beloved wife."

In March 2020, Liu Shuang posted on the WeChat official account that the old man dancing alone in the center of the ballroom in the picture is the prototype character Zhang Dequan (same pronunciation) in the background story of "Mohe Ballroom". Picture source screenshot of WeChat official account

With the popularity of "Mohe Ballroom", Liu Shuang's first-person letter to Kang in March 2020, "Goodbye Evening Star", was also rediscovered by netizens A large number of reposts make the emotions in "Mohe Ballroom" more concrete, more real, and more reliable.

It is not difficult to see that the attraction of "Mohe Ballroom" is not only the wildness of the lyrics such as "The evening star is like your eyes, killing people and setting fires" and "You didn't say anything, the wild wind disturbed me" The lyrics are poetic and the story behind them lies even more. It brings back memories of a past event, the trauma of seeing a fire. The loneliness and poignancy of being alone, and the loyalty to love are the most common emotions of human beings, and they are also people's advanced imagination of tragedy and love. Therefore, songs like this and stories like this can instantly "break down" people's defenses and open up those layers of wrapped hearts one by one.

However, there are also some fans of Liu Shuang, and even Liu Shuang himself is not comfortable with this sudden "fire". Liu Shuang wrote that after experiencing a short period of excitement and joy, he transitioned to discomfort later on. He and his team hope that netizens’ promotion of the song will be limited, and they don’t want to pair a mournful song with inappropriate images. He also said that nothing is too much and sloppy and empty things will not be left by time, but emotional content should not be consumed in a "carnival" style.

Liu Shuang's hope of "enough is enough" is, in a sense, a resistance to the unrestrained "copying" of songs, and it is also his sobriety. According to past experience, when a song becomes popular, it is likely to become a brainwashing song due to abuse, or even cause people to abandon or even get bored due to its excessive frequency. This process of being constantly copied is the process of meaning dissolution. Obviously, Liu Shuang does not want the emotion conveyed by this song and this story to be swallowed up by the Internet. I can understand this feeling. They don't want to see this song become a catalyst in other people's traffic pool and throw it away after use. They don't want their cherished musical works and the emotions expressed to be tampered with and generalized at will.

While writing this article, I have been thinking about a question. Is there only one song "Mohe Ballroom" in this world? Does it only exist in distant lands? Can we only imitate and copy based on this story?

Listening to the song, I remembered the short story "The Fairy Tale of Arctic Village" by the writer Chi Zijian. The story also happened in Mohe. A child who was sent to his grandmother's house in Arctic Village because of "talkativeness" met An old man who was isolated and neglected by the village, two lonely people formed a long-lasting friendship; I also remembered the movie "The Piano of Steel" directed by Zhang Meng, in which a worker in a northeastern steel factory was laid off and couldn't afford a piano in order to keep his children. A steel piano was built... In fact, the emotions in these works are the same as those in "Mohe Ballroom", which directly touch people's hearts. However, some are seen and some are not.

The story will always be there, and Zhang Dequan has been dancing solo on the streets and in dance halls. Those touching and romantic things are not only in Mohe, but also around us.

Therefore, I always feel that we should not only be moved by the distant "Mohe Ballroom", but also be able to see such stories and discover such emotions like Liu Shuang. In this way, creation will have vitality and our hearts will be fuller. .

Red Star News Commentator Huang Jing

Editor Wang Yintao

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