Chapter 277 "Farewell" by Teachers
In the applause, the soldiers on the stage saluted in unison, and then walked off the stage steadily.
Backstage, Xu Nuo stood up straight, saluted, and watched them go. These people deserved his respect.
Everyone responded in unison, not only to the person Xu Nuo, but also to the song.
Modu Media’s graduation ceremony has been going on for two hours and is coming to an end.
However, everyone was still unsatisfied and had no intention of quitting.
The same goes for the audience in the live broadcast room.
“There are three more songs!”
“Let the storm come more violently!”
“In fact, these seven songs of Promise have already made me a god. One graduation The ceremony has reached this point, and Modu Media has already left its name in history.”
Yes, the graduation ceremony was able to be watched by more than 10 million people, and it accounted for 20 hot searches, which is enough to go down in history.
In 2019, Qingdao University’s song “The Wind Rises” quickly became popular and has been popular for five consecutive years.
Every graduation season, when it comes to the graduation ceremony, Qingdao University will be mentioned, which is better than any promotional brochure.
But the 2022 Qingdao University graduation ceremony was watched by only 2.5 million people, which is four times less than Blue Star’s Magic City Media.
Netizens’ discussion, Xu Nuo didn’t have time to read it, and he didn’t know either.
But when arranging the program, after arranging the song "The Motherland Will Not Forget", the principal became excited, "I think this is enough! Modu Media will definitely become a household name university!"
Many school leaders expressed support and believed that seven songs were enough.
Until Xu Nuo came up with a new song.
The whole audience was silent.
This song has a well-known name, called "Farewell".
One hundred and nine years ago, Master Hongyi Li Shutong wrote this song "Farewell" when he was bidding farewell to Xu Huanyuan, one of the "Five Friends from the End of the World".
With heavy snow falling, Xu Huanyuan said three words, "Brother Shutong, my family is bankrupt. We will meet again later.".
After his friends left, Li Shutong stood in the university for a long time, speechless and choked.
Wars are frequent, Xu Huanyuan’s second revolution failed, and tens of millions of family properties were wiped out. This time he wants to go north to seek justice.
Seek justice with your life.
So this time, it’s a farewell and a farewell forever.
Under such circumstances, a work that spans a hundred years and is still great was born.
Some people are really geniuses.
Li Shutong is one of the best among geniuses. He is not only a musician, but also an art educator, calligrapher, drama activist, and one of the pioneers of Chinese drama.
In 1916, 37-year-old Li Shutong became a monk, named Master Hongyi, and gradually became a master.
"Farewell" was written by Li Shutong and composed by John Pound Otway. In addition to crossing national borders, music can also travel through time and space.
For more than a hundred years, "Farewell" has remained popular.
Many people even push the time to 1915 when taking stock of the songs for graduation season every year, just so as not to miss the song "Farewell".
This shows the status of this song in everyone's heart.
Without the graduation season song "Farewell", it always feels like some inheritance is missing.
On the stage, the host took the microphone and continued, "On this day of farewell, senior Xu Nuo has written seven songs for us. The next song will be sung by our teacher representative, "Farewell"."
The teachers lined up and walked onto the stage.
The audience suddenly became lively because most of the people were counselors.
Compared to teachers, counselors are the ones who have the most contact with students, just like head teachers in middle and high school.
The leading teacher on the stage held the microphone and said, "Today's weather is very good, just as good as when you entered the school four years ago. Farewell today, I wish you all a bright future and a smooth journey."
The atmosphere of parting became stronger.
This graduation ceremony will be unforgettable for everyone present, but no matter how reluctant you are to leave, the graduation ceremony is almost over.
Everyone felt a little sad.
The melodious music sounded, and the teachers on the stage began to sing.
“Outside the long pavilion, beside the ancient road, the green grass reaches the sky,
The evening breeze carries the faint sound of willow flutes, and the sun sets outside the mountains. "
The long pavilion, the ancient road, the fragrant grass and the willows are all images of farewell.
As soon as these two lines were sung, everyone immediately had a sense of the picture in front of their eyes.
It was as if They are not in the stadium in midsummer, but they are appearing on the side of the ancient road, saying goodbye.
The young people may not have much feelings about the Changting Ancient Road, but in fact, in the 1980s, an era when transportation was underdeveloped, saying goodbye was. Like this.
There is no train or car. How to say goodbye? Of course, it is not delivered to the doorstep. It has to be delivered out of the city, town, and village. But it is impossible to send the Buddha to the west. The other party can only be sent to the wilderness.
Taking out "Changting Ancient Road" alone is actually a bit sad, because it easily reminds people of bleak scenes such as "Ancient Road West Wind", and the following sentence "The grass is green and the sky is green". The emotion was pulled back, letting the sadness stop there.
Too much is not enough, and it will affect the experience of the entire song.
The students sat quietly and listened quietly.
The teachers continued to sing:
"At the end of the sky, at the corner of the earth, there are only a few acquaintances, and a ladle of wine has exhausted the remaining joy. Don't sleep in the cold tonight."
After graduation, students from all over the world will Travel to different destinations. Except for a few classmates and friends who have a good relationship.
Other people may never meet again, and the relationship cultivated over four years will be worn away bit by bit under the erosion of time.
This is true among classmates, and also true with teachers.
From then on, close friends were scattered all over the world.
Many people feel sad. Looking at their friends around them, they can’t help but want to ask, "Will we meet again?"
Maybe, but more often than not, Won't.
In the story of life, everyone is the protagonist, has his own life, and the chance of meeting each other is slim.
"Thousands of love, a glass of wine, the sound of the flute urges you to ask when you are going to come, don't linger when you come~"
Every lyric is like a knife piercing the heart.
When the teachers on the stage sang this, some of them were already crying.
Four years of love can never be forgotten. Although they have experienced countless farewells, this time was the hardest time they cried.
It’s so tear-jerking, one song after another, I can’t even cry anymore.
The graduates in the audience also burst into tears. They used more than one pack of tissues, and their makeup was stained and there was no time to touch it up.
Saying farewell to someone else will make others feel uncomfortable as well.
There is no feast that lasts forever. After today, they will no longer be students.
Although I can still go back to my alma mater, my title at that time has become alumnus.
Alumni, what a strange title.
At this moment many people have the urge to stay.
The sound of sobbing and crying infected the entire audience.
In the live broadcast room, netizens once again acted as crying companions.
This song is sad but not sad. It not only made the graduates cry, but also made netizens who had the same experience cry.
As for how good this song is, most of them don’t know, and there is no need to know. Just cry along and that’s it.
Farewell is a very important and common scene in Chinese culture, so there are many farewell poems throughout the ages, and this song "Farewell" is one of the best.
Write and send in front, and the farther you send, the farther you will go. Changting Ancient Road, with fragrant grass stretching to the sky, the evening wind blowing the flute, the setting sun on the distant mountains, and the mountains outside the mountains.
I will send you away until I can no longer see you.
Writing farewell to Xiaque, it is far but close.
It has been sent out of sight, and the ends of the world are still far away. I borrow wine to dream, and the dream is further than the ends of the world.
With just a few dozen words, "Farewell" was written as a swan song.
Simple and implicit, within a limited number of words, it inspires everyone's association. The common combination of intentions has the effect of 1+1>10. The whole song is sad but not sad, and has become a classic.
After singing this song, the students at the scene applauded with tears in their eyes.
The teachers bowed on the stage.
The applause kept ringing and the teachers kept bowing.
Finally one student noticed this and stopped applauding.
After the applause died down, the teachers stood up and walked off the stage.
At the end of the eighth song, the explosion of popularity is no longer enough to describe the graduation ceremony of Modu Media. The number of people in the live broadcast room exceeded 12 million.
Not only netizens, students from other schools, but also a large number of military personnel, official personnel, and university professors gathered here.
"Qili Xiang" hit the hearts of young people, while "The Motherland Will Not Forget" aroused the awe of those who had military careers.
Among them is the father-in-law of Xu Nuo. They all say that the mother-in-law likes her son-in-law more and more, and he is the father-in-law who likes her son-in-law more and more.
He must be a perfect son-in-law with character, talent, and good looks.
"Farewell" uses poetry-like lyrics and has conquered many old professors who pay attention to the live broadcast.
Someone took down the lyrics. When I first read them, I felt that the words were ordinary and just piled up. Then after thinking about it carefully, they all felt ashamed of their previous opinions.
Nothing can be changed.
It seems that changing any word destroys the original artistic conception.
So a professor interpreted the lyrics of "Farewell" and posted it online, which immediately aroused a lot of discussion.
At this time of the graduation ceremony, the teachers had already left.
But this time the person who walked onto the stage was not the host, but the principal, holding a manuscript in his hand.
The scene became quiet, and people were wondering if the graduation ceremony was about to end. What could the principal do when he came on stage? He just gave a speech and then announced that it was over.
The principal stood on the stage and picked up the microphone, "Dear students, good afternoon, everyone. Standing on this stage for the second time today means that our graduation ceremony is coming to an end, but don't panic. ”
As he spoke, the principal waved the paper in his hand and said with a smile: "This is not a manuscript. In fact, it is the lyrics promised to me. I am old and can't remember it, so I had to bring the lyrics with me."
The students present were all shocked. No one expected that the principal came on stage not to speak but to sing? !
"Let me go, can the principal also sing?"
"Just kidding, when I was young, the principal was also a singing prince."
The scene became quiet a little, and the principal He continued: "Although I am very reluctant to say goodbye, I still want to send you off to graduation with a song "Goodbye". From now on, you will embark on a new journey."
(End of this chapter)