That year, Faye Wong sent a text message to Li Jian: I want to sing your "Legend" at the Spring Festival Gala, okay?

That year, Faye Wong sent a text message to Li Jian: I want to sing your "Legend" at the Spring Festival Gala, okay?

There are no personalities in the entertainment industry, and there are more people coming out to hang out. , and then there is a character.

In order to make a living, some people create their own characters and perform them conscientiously. There are also people whose personas are passively carried, and the outside world keeps throwing all kinds of things at them, turning them into a persona museum. In fact, they don’t want or need any personas at all. Li Jian is this kind of person. , his real personality is "no personality".

One morning in 1974, in Harbin, the son of Li Jiuliang, a martial arts student of the Heilongjiang Provincial Peking Opera Theatre, was born, named Li Jian. Li Jian learned Peking Opera from his father since he was a child, practiced martial arts, and performed somersaults. The house was full of sticks, swords, guns, hooks, forks, axes, and axes. After practicing for a long time, I always want to go out and try my hand. Li Jian often got into fights when he was a child. Northeastern folk customs are both tough and simple. If you get a bloody fight, you don't have to pay for it. You can just buy some fruit. Li Jian later recalled his childhood, which basically felt like "Sunny Days".

Li Jian feels that this kind of violent environment is actually very humane, and he can grow faster in battle. Fighting made him think, "Fighting as a child can tell you, fight if you can, and run if you can't." . After the fight, you have suffered a loss and you have to reflect on it yourself.” The root of Li Jian's pondering lies here.

Harbin has winter for half of the year. It is freezing and beaten at the same time. It is tempered by nature and society all the year round. People who grow up in this environment will live their lives smoothly and everything will go naturally. , no need for personal presence.

Li Jian lives in a literary compound where people from the Peking Opera, Acrobatic Troupe, and Opera House all live. Fu Disheng lives downstairs in his house, and Sun Yue lives not far away. Li Jian's nickname is Daliang, he has a bright voice, loves music and singing. In 1988, Li Jian wanted to learn guitar, so his mother spent two months' salary to buy a red cotton guitar for the 14-year-old. Harbin is a colonial city with rich music. The Japanese and Russians brought guitars and accordions. Li Jian learned five-line notation as soon as he started. He spent his whole middle school life playing classical guitar like "Memories of the Alhambra" Play music.

Li Jian also likes pop music. He first listened to Qi Qin and Zhang Mingmin, and later heard Alan Tam. He was completely obsessed and followed the tapes line by line. Many years later, Li Jian met his childhood idol and sang one of his songs in Northeastern Cantonese in front of Alan Tam. Alan Tam liked it very much and Li Jian was very happy. "Alan Tam thinks I am more like Alan Tam than him."

In his senior year of high school, Li Jian participated in a literary winter camp organized by Tsinghua University. The purpose of the winter camp is to select literary and artistic talents. Good singing can get extra points in the college entrance examination, but it is limited to folk songs and bel canto. Li Jian only knows popular singing methods and cannot be relied upon. Later, Li Jian, who had never studied vocal music, had to study folk songs for four months unexpectedly. The person he was trying to figure out in the folk song world was Yan Weiwen. In the end, Li Jian won the first place with two songs: "Speak From My Heart" and "Three Gorges Love". He could get 50 extra points for the college entrance examination. He felt that with these 50 points, he would work harder and be more stable. Unexpectedly, both Peking University and Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications wanted him at that time. When Tsinghua University saw this, they became anxious and immediately sent Li Jianbao to the Department of Electronic Engineering of Tsinghua University without taking the examination.

In 1994, Li Jian entered school. Gao Xiaosong and Lao Lang held a campus party at Tsinghua University that year. Li Jian was shocked. He hoped that one day he could sing on stage and enjoy performing like Lao Lang.

In the second year, Li Jian and his classmate Miao Jie won the championship in the campus song competition. Li Jian was a good guitar player and was hired as a musician by nine bands in the school. Later, he also joined the school choir. When they graduated, Li Jian and Miao Jie held a farewell concert in the school's thousand-seat auditorium, which was packed with seats.

After graduation, Li Jian entered the Film and Television Network Center of the Ministry of Radio, Film and Television and had a very stable job. Li Jian was arranged to provide access to every village, which meant that all villages could watch TV. Li Jian's specific job is to climb telephone poles and install cable television amplifiers. He climbed telephone poles in Shijiazhuang for three months and was paid 500 yuan a month.

In 2001, Li Jian returned to his hometown to celebrate the New Year. Lu Gengxu, a Tsinghua alumnus whom he had not seen for a long time, called and asked him if he still wanted to sing and release a record. Li Jian was so tired of climbing telephone poles that he resigned without giving it much thought. He signed with Lu Gengxu to a record company and formed a group named Shuimunianhua.

Shui Mu Nianhua quickly became famous with his first album "My Life With You" and won the "Mainland's Most Popular Newcomer Award" in the global Chinese music list organized by Channel V that year. Taiwan was F4 and Hong Kong was Edison Chen.

As the cooperation deepens, the rift also deepens. The two people like different music directions, and the differences in their works are getting bigger and bigger. When the second album was released, there were a few songs that Li Jian particularly disliked, but for the sake of the group, he had to endure them. Lu Gengxu wrote a song and said, Li Jian, listen, my song is too awesome. When Li Jian heard this, he felt completely offended, but he was still afraid of hurting Lu Gengxu, so he couldn't say it clearly. When the songs he wrote were played to Lu Gengxu, it was the same situation. Both of them made a lot of compromises musically in order to protect each other. "This is particularly painful for me. For the combination, one person must have to sacrifice something, or both people have to compromise."

In September 2002, Li Jian and Lu Gengxu proposed an agreement. Let's go, that was the most popular time of Shuimunianhua. They got together because of music, and they separated because of music. Both Li Jian and Lu Gengxu have depressed personalities, and they broke up peacefully without ever blushing. Li Jian told Lu Gengxu, it would be better for me to release a solo album by myself, and it would be better for you to find someone else to continue this group.

It is said that Li Jian is true. He is truthful not only externally but also internally. He does not lie to himself. If he cannot accept it, he cannot accept it. He does not compromise. He only recognizes what he thinks is right.

In the years after he left Shuimunianhua, Li Jian lived in a very old courtyard house in Beijing. His neighbor was an old man in his eighties who used to be a carpenter in the Forbidden City. He was so deaf that he was basically deaf. You can safely play the cello and listen to music on the stereo in the middle of the night. Li Jian slept very late, often until dawn. A neighbor upstairs told him that one night, a thief broke in and wanted to steal Li Jian. At one or two o'clock in the middle of the night, he opened the window and looked, but Li Jian was not asleep. He came again after a while, but Li Jian wasn't asleep yet. In the end, Li Jiansheng defeated the thief.

In those years, Li Jian gave up his former great fame and hid in a courtyard, steadily writing his favorite songs one by one and releasing his own solo albums one by one. He said more than once that he just wanted a relaxed life.

In a relaxed state, Li Jian wrote many masterpieces. Although his new songs no longer have the popularity they once had, they have quietly gained another group of fans, and Faye Wong is one of them.

The first time Li Jian and Faye Wong met was at a party. There were many people in a dark room with very dim light. They were introduced by a friend and they connected, but it didn’t matter much. When it comes to talking, Faye Wong is a relatively shy person socially, and Li Jian is not the kind of person who takes the initiative to talk to people. The two of them became acquainted at another party, where they sang a song. Communication between musicians is smoother through music.

Faye Wong has always liked Li Jian’s songs and bought a lot of Li Jian’s records to give to friends. In 2008, Li Jian began to prepare for his first solo concert in his life. Faye Wong sent him a text message, which was a playlist. Faye Wong said that she wanted to hear the following songs, more than 1 to 20 songs, covering the tracks of Li Jian's first three solo albums. The song Faye Wong chose was also Li Jian's favorite song, and it was the song he planned to sing.

That concert was called "Persistence", and it was packed with people at the Candy Starlight venue. Faye Wong, Na Ying, and Wang Feng all went, as did Lu Gengxu and Miao Jie, and the three sang "With You in My Life" on the same stage. Li Jian specially sang "Reserved" for Faye Wong in the audience. Faye Wong has countless loyal fans, but she is definitely a huge fan of Li Jian. Later, when we had dinner together, Faye Wong still questioned Li Jian: There is a song that I wrote, but you didn't sing it.

One morning, Faye Wong sent Li Jian a text message: "I want to sing your "Legend" at the Spring Festival Gala. No objection." Li Jian replied: "No objection, just sing whatever you want." Li Jian didn't realize What changes will this cover bring to me?

In 2010, Faye Wong sang "Legend" at the Spring Festival Gala, adding to her own legend, and also pushing Li Jian, the man behind "Legend", into a legend.

After eight years of silence, Li Jian surfaced and returned to the public eye because of Faye Wong's cover. The songs written by Li Jian have gained more listeners, and Li Jian himself has also entered a larger level of fame and fortune. He appeared on "I Am a Singer" and "The Voice of China" and was smashed by various definitions of personality. Museum for adults.

Li Jian, who had no personality, was not knocked unconscious. He was as clear-headed as ever, "The only happy thing about becoming more famous is that you have more choices. You can get rid of those things that you are unwilling to accept." Instead of forcing yourself to do things you don’t want to do for the sake of your livelihood.”