▲On September 15, YOU Chengdu Public Number posted a message from netizens

▲Cui Jian, the first performer of "Cactus Music Festival"

On the evening of September 22, in response to YOU's message from Chengdu netizens and Chengdu's natural closeness to rock and roll, Cui Jian chose to start his performance with such a guitar: on the rough wooden surface of the guitar, the words "512" were engraved.

▲Cui Jian engraved "512" on his guitar.

We may still remember Cui Jian's passion for rock and roll in Chengdu half a month before the disaster ten years ago.

History more recalls that after the disaster, people all over China and even the world paid attention to the disaster areas, including Cui Jian and Chinese rock singers represented by Cui Jian. Ten days after the "May 12" Wenchuan earthquake, he launched a disaster relief performance called "Beyond that day", which raised more than 400,000 yuan for the disaster area.

▲Zhang Chu, Zheng Jun, Xie Tianxiao, Second-hand Rose

This time, Cui Jian, Black Panther, Tang Dynasty, Zhang Chu, Zheng Jun, Xu Wei, Pushu, Xie Tianxiao, Li Zhi, Li Quan, second-hand roses... They are in Chengdu, as Zheng Jun said, "to create history".

This time, it is not only the history of rock and roll that will not happen ten years ago, but also the new history created in Chengdu, the capital of music. As the opening performance of this year's "autumn of Chengdu", Chengdu chooses "rock and roll" as its voice. Chengdu really is. A young, fashionable and qualified city.

Such a golden field of Chengdu appears in the music background of Cui Jian's Rolling Egg. Cui Jian said that if Western rock music is like hard rock rolling from top to bottom, then Chinese rock and roll is a soft egg rolling from bottom to top. That strong egg rises in the dizzying hardship and ambiguity of life, waiting for the day when it takes off.

On September 22, the egg finally rolled back to Chengdu, rolled over the noise of the wide and narrow lanes, and finally, like a knife, plunged into the soil of a sea of flowers in Chengdu.

Responding to Cui Jian and his band with great enthusiasm was the audience who "scattered" on the lawn of the flourishing sea of flowers.

It is not the privilege of young people to devote such enthusiasm to rock and roll and to life, at least not in Chengdu: among the jumping crowds on the spot, we can see the figures of your uncles and uncles, whose sideburns may have been infected with the dust of the years - the old are more powerful, and Cui Jian has not deceived others.

▲Little music fans at the cactus Festival

At the opening performance of the "Rongcheng Autumn" cactus music festival, rock musicians of different ages, like the audience, unqualified display of the halo of their live performances:

In the hot afternoon sun, the second-hand Rose Band appeared as amazing as ever: as fans expected, the skirt of the lead singer Liang Long was colorful and lively, and the leather shoes were covered with shining water drills.

They blended the performance of the two-person duet style, and still maintained the strict and precise level as before. Hidden beneath their playful appearance is their uncompromising demand for music and live performance.

With such a dedicated artisan musician list for music, naturally there is no lack of Xie Tianxiao.

On the evening of the performance, under the moonlight of the clean Chengdu, Lao Xie's performance opened with the same clean zither performance. The image of playing a zither in a meticulous white shirt seems peaceful.

▲Thank God for not smashing his guitar this time.

But what Xie Tianxiao and his band present on the stage is painted with restless metal colors: compared with the zither, the electric guitar is more suitable for Lao Xie; the roar of his riff and solo, like the magma from the earth that supports the stage, blossoms in the night sky of Chengdu, looking forward to the future. Yang flower.

Also back to the place of music, there is Zhang Chu, one of the three magic rock masters. Of all the musicians present, years seem to have left the most imprints on Zhang Chu: his thin body, his dark face with knife-and-axe wrinkles, and his husky and rough voice are all the vibrations of time.

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However, Zhang Chu chose to use the sound of rock and roll over the sound of time: he sings that lonely people are shameful - really shameful, perhaps give up; and Zhang Chu and his music, obviously, never give up.

We can see the history of rock and roll in Cui Jian, Zhang Chu, Zheng Jun, second-hand rose and Xie Tianxiao, while we can see the future of rock and roll in Mr. Will and Bin Binyou, two young bands.

Of course, both past and future rock and roll are now rock and roll, the current rock and roll: they find the same stage in Chengdu, the music is displayed in front of the same audience.

       

▲Left: Mr. Will's Band; Right: Binbin Rational Band

From the hot sun in the sky to the full moon in the sea of flowers, this long time was filled by the opening performance of Chengdu International Music Season.

It is rock music that gathers musicians and audiences in this noisy time. It is also rock music that enables Chinese people born in different time and space, from different regions, and with different accents to meet in Chengdu and move with the same rhythm to spend the night of this era.

Chengdu is a city of time: its openness and tenacity connect the past, the present and the future. The reason why people living in Chengdu love rock music is probably that the rhythm of rock music is the swing of the heartbeat of time.

The cactus Music Festival is only the opening performance of Chengdu International Music Festival in the autumn of Chengdu.

Beginning on September 22, more than 200 performances and 121 outdoor music activities have taken place in 48 days, linking up 22 districts and counties in Chengdu. A wonderful musical melody will be staged in the music space of Chengdu.

The next music feast, which is very close to our present moment, is the original concert of the 87 edition of A Dream of Red Mansions.

On September 26, Mr. Wang Liping, the founder of the 87 edition of Dream of Red Mansions, will join hands with Mr. Wu Bixia, a Lyric soprano, Mr. Zhang Lie, a national first-class conductor, Mr. Tuo Fan, an actor from the mainland of China, and Chengdu Orchestra, an internationally renowned orchestra, to create a dream of red mansions.

Chengdu, this music city, invite you to play and listen。

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Editor: Mushu Design: Chen Shuangyi

Photo Source: Organizer, Wang Xiao, Chengdu Business Daily, partly from the Internet