The song "Unusual Words" became popular on the Internet. The post-90 s creators: The harder it is, the more they want to learn.

Changsha Evening News Pocket Changsha 65438+1October 29th According to the Voice of China report, recently, Chen Keyu, a post-90s young man in Suzhou, wrote a song called "Rare Words", which became popular on the Internet. Almost all the lyrics of the whole song use all kinds of uncommon words, and netizens shouted, "After listening to this song, the language level has soared."

With the popularity of this uncommon word, Chinese medicine version, Japanese version, dialect version and so on have appeared one after another. How did this "uncommon word" come into being? What impact has it brought? Let's listen to this song first:

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For example, the Chinese character "Dragon and Tiger" consists of three traditional dragon characters. Without pinyin, many people may find it difficult to understand these lyrics. However, Chen Keyu, a post-90s boy in Suzhou, wrote a song which contains more than 70 uncommon words. Speaking of his original intention, he said that he was actually inspired by Weibo. Chen Keyu said: "Now the Internet is very popular, so what about me? One is another, one is double, one is ruo, and the other is zhu. I don't know this joke, and neither do I, so I want to know what it is. I'll look it up in the dictionary. "

Chen Keyu, who graduated from a professional music school and composed more than 40 songs, became interested in these common words and had the idea of writing them into a catchy song.

Chen Keyu said: "I sorted out a lot of words, and then I wrote slowly according to my own ideas. For example, I think that some of the things to be tested in the college entrance examination are first and some are rhyming. "

Reasons for popularity: The more difficult it is to learn, the more people want to learn.

In fact, Chen Keyu wrote and published the song "Rare Words" on June 20th, 200711,but the popularity of this song originated from his uploading a video of singing this song on Tik Tok last February. Chen Keyu believes that this song is popular because the more difficult it is for people to learn these rare words, the more they want to learn them: "Maybe at first everyone thought I didn't seem to know these words, and then they wanted to learn them. The harder it is, the more I want to learn. It's like being sung slowly. In fact, I thought this song was hard to imagine at first, but later I found that the fewer people knew it, the more he wanted to learn. "

Regarding the sudden popularity, Chen Keyu said that it didn't have much impact on his life, but he performed a little more. Although there is no intention to continue writing the "Rare Words" series of songs, other songs are still being written. There are different opinions and heated discussions.

Author: A little meaning is enough

Of course, some netizens have questioned the "uncommon words", thinking that the lyrics are just a bunch of seemingly complicated words, let alone much contribution. Regarding these questions, Chen Keyu said that as long as this song has even a little meaning, he thinks it is enough. "This meaning" may be as small as making a candidate feel comfortable with the rare words that happen to appear when answering questions, and as big as letting more people know about China Chinese characters through songs. Chen Keyu said: "For example, I received a message that someone said that she passed the exam alone, so if she didn't know the song, she wouldn't know it very well, but it would be easy to understand it with him. Although it won't be said to be particularly helpful, it is enough that this song can actually achieve a little meaning. "

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The popular influence of the song "Rare Words" is gradually spreading. On the one hand, the cover and re-creation of songs in China has extended to various fields. For example, The Rare Words of Traditional Chinese Medicine recently published by Shanxi Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine borrows the tune of the Rare Words and rewrites the words with the rare words involved in traditional Chinese medicine.

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Zhao Huifeng, founder of Rare Words Edition of Traditional Chinese Medicine and propaganda minister of Shanxi Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, introduced the song creation process to Voice of China and expressed the hope to spread the culture of traditional Chinese medicine through this work. Zhao Huifeng said: "If you are a word, it is more troublesome to find these words. Unusual words you don't know, you should know what they mean, how to pronounce them, and mark the pinyin well. In addition, reclassification, Chinese medicine, symptoms, diseases and so on. According to the original music after classification, rhyme, otherwise it will be awkward and awkward to sing. Check the information in the early stage, more than a week. There are also many uncommon words in Chinese medicine. It is a relatively novel form to spread Chinese medicine with this carrier. Walking in the street, holding a person, I tell you this is a rare word in Chinese medicine. Who wants to hear it? In this relaxed way, first arouse interest, say this thing, if you have the heart, he will check it. "

On the other hand, in addition to the spread in China, the influence of the song "Rare Words" has also spread overseas. On a video website in Japan, Japanese who are learning Chinese wrote a Japanese version of the song "Rare Words" called "Four-character Idioms" and made a MV to show the Japanese pronunciation of China's idioms. Foreigners with different skin colors and cultural backgrounds have also uploaded their own videos of covering "Rare Words" on various platforms.

The creator Chen Keyu hopes that this song can show the world the confident side of China culture. He said, "When I went abroad, I also saw China's Chinese characters outside. Our Chinese characters have spread all over the world. I hope this song can also convey the very strong point of China culture now. "