At the age of 20, he is six on the Spring Festival Gala. How does the 20-year-old Wang Yuan face his "grown up" self?
On the stage of CCTV Spring Festival Gala in 2021, Wang Yuan partnered with Sister Moon and virtual singer Luo Tianyi to sing a children's song "Listen to Me".
This is the 20-year-old Wang Yuan who has appeared on the CCTV Spring Festival Gala for the sixth time.
Student Wang Yuan: "Like gives me unlimited motivation, I want to make my own pop music"
The three people who once appeared on the same stage as the juvenile idol group "Come on Boys" have all grown up and are showing their own style in different fields.
Since the release of his first solo songwriting and composition single "Because I Meet You" at the age of 15, Wang Yuan has been dissatisfied with simply singing. He has worked hard towards a singer-songwriter.
In 2019, Wang Yuan made an important decision in his life to go overseas to learn music.
Reporter: What
was the motivation for making this decision?
Wang Yuan:
First of all, I like it. It gives me unlimited motivation.
The second one might be blind confidence. I want to make my own popular music and let others hear my popular music, so I feel that learning is a very correct way.
Reporter:
What is the biggest gain in the past two years?
Wang Yuan: I
was forced to learn a lot of music that I didn't hear before, such as English, Cantonese, Spanish, Japanese and even Korean. I listened to music genres that I hadn't heard before. Although I can't imitate them completely, I will absorb some inspiration from them.
Reporter:
Will this change your understanding of popular music?
Wang Yuan:
My very good friend Dou Jingtong told me that she said Yuan'er, no matter what song you sing, even if you sing Doremifa now, as long as you are happy, it is enough. Her words make me aware What is music?
I always think that music is a very magical thing. It can convey emotions across language, time and space. Beethoven and Chopin have passed away for many years, but their music still lives here.
I am Chinese, and Americans like my music, and my music spans space.
One hundred years later, there are still people who like me, my music spans time, and music is a super wonderful language.
Idol Wang Yuan: "You need to think ten times more than others, but also need to embrace life"
The popularity of idol stars in the Internet era means more personal freedom than ever before.
Young people who become famous will sooner realize the conflict between ideal and reality, the pull of freedom and imprisonment.
With a huge idol halo on his head and enthusiastic fans following him, Wang Yuan has endured different growth troubles than ordinary people.
Reporter:
Have you accepted the fact that the word idol is embedded with you?
Wang Yuan:
I feel very good.
How many people want to be an idol but can't be, how honored I am to be an idol.
Reporter:
When you want to do a lot of attempts, you have to see if I can break through this boundary?
Wang Yuan:
That's true. When you choose to go this way, you need to think ten times more than others.
For example, a 20-year-old boy wants to learn skiing, he is super handsome.
If he wants to learn, he can do it well. Even if he is injured, he can rest for two months.
But if it were me, I would consider whether it would affect my work if I fell and would cause more people to worry about it, so I would think about ten times more deeply than others.
Reporter:
Will you feel tired?
Wang Yuan:
I think it's good to be more cautious, not only responsible for yourself, but also for the people around you.
Reporter:
Will you allow yourself a moment of rebellion?
Wang Yuan:
Will allow it, and rebel without affecting anyone.
Reporter:
In an interview in 2019, you said that you often feel panicked.
Wang Yuan:
It's okay now, telling myself that I am also an ordinary person, and I can go shopping and eat with friends if I want to drive.
Art creators need to draw inspiration from life. If they are too closed to contact with life, it is actually difficult to absorb inspiration, so I am embracing life now.
Keep trying to be your own "captain"
In 2017, Wang Yuan set up his own studio and started multiple attempts in his personal acting career.
Musically, the "ambition" remains the same; in the film, as a newcomer with his works set foot on the red carpet of the Berlin Film Festival.
Fashion, variety shows, hosting...You can see him working hard to expand his potential in many fields.
After adulthood, Wang Yuan began to have more autonomy in his own life. In the voyage of life, he wanted to be his own captain.
Wang Yuan:
If the time goes back to 5 years ago, when I was only 15 years old, I did not have the ability to accurately judge the industry, and my team would help me decide whether to do this or not.
Now they will still list the good and bad for me, but in the end it is up to me to make the decision.
Reporter:
How to choose in front of huge resources?
Wang Yuan:
Suitable, then like it.
Columnist Wang Yuan: "Work hard on the road to becoming a role model"
Since 2018, Wang Yuan has written articles for "Global People" magazine and is the only columnist in the history of "Global People" who has written articles for four consecutive years.
On the last page of each month's magazine, he shared his experiences, insights and thoughts without interruption.
In this column, nicknamed "Family Letter" by fans and readers, he uses words that represent the personality, style and pursuit of "post-00s" to outline the distinctive characteristics of post-00s.
Reporter:
Many fans use role models to describe you. Do you think this word is important to you?
Wang Yuan:
Actually, it is very important. They describe me as a ray of light for me. They feel that it is important because I feel that I have not been a role model. I can only work hard to become their role model.
Reporter:
On the way forward, what do you think is the most important thing that can match the role model?
Wang Yuan:
I think I may never touch these two words, but I think I want to go forward on this road without turning back, keep love, keep sincere, keep hard, keep kind, keep humble, these five Maintenance is the basic condition.
"The eyes of the outside world are not shackles, but urging me to become better"
At the beginning of 2017, Wang Yuan was invited to participate in the UN Economic and Social Council Youth Forum and became the first Chinese teenager to board the UN speaker.
In the same year, Wang Yuan established the "Yuan Special Public Welfare Fund" and served as the UNICEF Youth Education Envoy.
At that time, he could still see the appearance of some children, but what he did had gradually surpassed the responsibilities that matched his age.
Wang Yuan:
Two years ago, my team would help me block any problems, but slowly I realized that I had to carry some things for them, including watching my parents get older, sometimes it is not very convenient for them to lift heavy objects. Now, these will be subtle, making the word responsibility more and more important in my heart.
Including so many people who like me and follow me, I need to pass on positive energy and positive values to them. This is also my responsibility to the public.
Reporter:
I think you took on such a responsibility when you debuted. Why do you have a stronger sense of responsibility when you become an adult?
Wang Yuan:
Maybe I was already shouldering these responsibilities at that time, but I didn't clearly realize that I had these responsibilities. I was just doing what I should do and doing what I wanted to do, but now I think about the depth of the problem. More mature than before.
Reporter:
These responsibilities will appear in any details of your life, supervising you anytime and anywhere.
Wang Yuan: To
discipline people first to discipline yourself, I think the outside world is staring at you, it is not a shackle, but urging you to become a better person.
Although he is overseas, Wang Yuan, who has more than 80 million Weibo fans, is not far from the public eye.
Ten years later, people discovered that the once immature and ignorant little boy was already an adult on his own.
Producer丨Zhang Shifeng
Reporter丨Wang Ning
Planning丨Huang Ying
Director丨Ding Fang
Editor丨Zhang Hongfei
Video丨Liu Hongbo Yang Fan
(Editor Sui Boyu)