"Tavern" is a song originally sung by Li Xianda. It was written by Li Xianda, composed by Li Xianda, and arranged by Liu Daming.

Li Xianda, a new generation original singer and founder of Shanhai, released his first single "Hangshou" on April 13, 2016, and released the album "Looking for Fragrance" in 2018. The spring breeze passes through someone's yard in search of fragrance, carrying away someone's harvest and enjoying themselves. This is a lyric from "Looking for Fragrance", which is very classic. The bistro was not made famous by Zhao Lei, it has always been on Yulin West Road in Chengdu.

Zhao Lei became popular because of his song "Chengdu". The "tavern" he sang in the song really existed and has existed for 20 years. Yulin West Road was immediately crowded with media and young literary and artistic people who came to "tour". Some even said that "the tavern cultivated Zhao Lei." In the face of these high-profile publicity and exaggerations, Tang Lei, the owner of the tavern and "rock nanny", has long since disappeared from Lijiang, Yunnan.

Creative Background

Those things are my daily life. The daily life that Tang Lei talks about is in this independent space that resembles the appearance of a southern teahouse. For Sichuan-born artists in the 1990s, it was a golden era where they spent their youth. The tavern represents the youthful years of countless artists and musicians. The impression of the tavern by the avant-garde artist, the logo of a hand reaching down and bent at the joints, has been hanging on Yulin West Road for 20 years.

In the past 20 years, some of the avant-garde artists have returned across the ocean, and some have just broken free from the old shackles of art criticism. This group of artists is eager for artistic independence. They gathered in Yulin Community. Unlike Beijing's Painters Village, which was destroyed by demolition, this former vegetable plot disappeared during Chengdu's real estate boom, and the neighborhood that was beginning to take shape attracted a new class.