8 years ago, with "My Skate Shoes" quickly became popular, a song 25 million 8 years later, "nonsense" "beating father", was sent to a psychiatric hospital
The Dream and Pain of Rural Youth Pang Mailang
Pang Mailang and his "Old House"
The place where I have been away for a long time, treasures the worn-out clothes of my childhood, it is the earthwork made of earth, which breeds my thousands of beautiful dreams;
The mud that my father plowed is the arithmetic square on my manuscript paper, and the seedlings that my mother hoe is the colorful image under my brush;
How much time we roll under the plow, there will be so much suffering we will share, and how many years will flow under the hoe, we will share as much reunion;
You burn my hopes, I will treasure them forever, you hurt me
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Pang Mailang, whose real name is Pang Mingtao, was born on January 19, 1984 in Ningqiang County, Hanzhong City, Shaanxi Province. He is a male singer from Mainland China.
In 2014, the song "My Skate Shoes" quickly became popular, which was selected as the first of the "Top Ten Divine Comedies" of the year.
Director Jia Zhangke once cried for this song. He took out the lyrics "Time, time, will give me the answer" and described it as a kind of "how accurate loneliness"; singer Xiao Jingteng said that this song "I feel very sincere when I hear it." ".
Hidden in the mountains of southern Shaanxi, the silence of the remote mountain village "Gulag Shnyak" was broken again.
Eight years ago, the villager Pang Mingtao, after leaving for many years, used a song "My Skateboard Shoes" which was "should be ridiculous" and hit the spotlight of the music scene.
When his relatives and friends were surrounded by the media for the first time, they knew that Pang Mingtao had become a star.
"Gulag Shnyak" is the name Pang Mingtao gave to Nanshahe Village, Daijiaba Town, Ningqiang County, his hometown hidden deep in the Qinba Mountains.
And the name he gave himself "Josephhan Pangmailang" is better known outside the small village.
The ups and downs in the past 8 years, from a song of 250,000 to the cost of the process of "traveling the hole" have to be paid by "Huabe".
This young man who used to be "North Drift" with a dirty bed sheet and a small print book full of lyrics seems to be back to the original point again-the old house deep in the mountains, plowing, feeding ducks, Daily corn planting.
Of course, there is a little more difference.
For example, he went out less and less and shut himself in his house; for another example, he sometimes even skipped meals for seven or eight days in a row, and would be scolded for asking him to eat.
Then, "nonsense", "smashing things", and then "beating father"... 8 years after becoming popular, because of the news that "schizophrenia has been severe enough to harm one's own or other people's lives," rural youth Pang Mingtao once again Back to the center of the public opinion field.
There is no "smooth ground" in Nanshahe Village, just like Pang Mingtao's music and dreams that have hardly been recognized.
Send to a doctor
Zhang Qingmei recalled that her son's "illness" occurred around 2018. "At that time, he was talking nonsense and often locked himself in the house. Throwing things at home was good and bad."
Starting from Ningqiang County, head north along the Beijing-Kunming Line National Road, passing through the Qinba Mountains, about 50 minutes to reach a mountain col, which is the hometown of Pang Mailang-Nanshahe Village.
Asking the old man in the village about Pang Mailang, he may not get an accurate answer.
But when asked the young man who sang "Skate Shoes", "You said Pang Mingtao", the old man pointed to a slightly outdated bungalow on a slope not far away, "That's it."
In this place called "Gulag Shnyak" by Pang Mailang, the fields are blooming with golden rapeseed flowers.
In the distance, several farmers are working, several ducks are vying for food, the orange cat is basking under the cherry tree in front of the yard, and its owner is receiving treatment at a rehabilitation hospital 20 kilometers away.
The hospital was sent to the hospital on March 1st.
Mother Zhang Qingmei recalled that her husband Pang Dehuai was roasting in the kitchen that morning. After getting up, Pang Mailang slammed his father with a bench, "I hit my right arm, no effort, and no one was injured." After the attack, Pang Mailang went straight out of the house and took the car. Went to Daijiaba Town.
The couple knew that their son was "ill again."
They called the village party secretary and the police station, and then the village party secretary called the psychiatric hospital.
In the afternoon of that day, after Pang Mailang returned home, several people joined forces and drove him to the hospital.
"He doesn't go, saying that he is not sick, and that we are sick."
In Zhang Qingmei’s memory, his son’s “illness” occurred around 2018. “At that time, he was talking nonsense and often locked himself in the house. Throwing things at home was good and bad.” Pang Dehuai also found that something was wrong with his son. He regretted not taking his son to treatment earlier.
Pang Dehuai is 62 years old. In his early years, he worked in the Changzhi coal mine in Shanxi. Later he became a concrete worker and moved to Shandong, Shanxi, Shaanxi and other places with other villagers.
Last September in the lunar calendar, Pang Dehuai returned home, and his son's condition was still good and bad.
When his son returned from the Xi'an performance, he lied to have a nucleic acid test and took his son to a psychiatric hospital.
Just three days after the son was admitted to the hospital, he heard that he "ran away."
proud
"Good, good composition" is Pang Dehuai's summary of his son's childhood memories. Like most peasant children, Pang Mailang used to plow, weed, and do farm work in addition to going to school when he was young.
On March 12, the agent announced on the Internet that Pang Mailang was admitted to the hospital.
The media verified that the village party secretary learned that Pang Mailang was admitted to the hospital because of "beating his father."
However, in subsequent media interviews, the dark-skinned, thin, and wrinkled farmer once denied the plot of the beating; he did not send him to the hospital forcibly, "it was persuaded"-he tried to maintain his son's image.
Pang Mailang is the second son in the family. "Be good and write well" is Pang Dehuai's summary of his son's childhood memories.
Like most peasant children, Pang Mailang used to plow, weed, grow corn, feed pigs, and do farm work in addition to school when he was young. He kept this habit until last year.
According to media reports, Pang Mailang Elementary School attended Nanshahe Elementary School and later Daijiaba Middle School. He failed to pass the high school entrance examination because of a difference of three to five points. The family sent him to Ning Qiang Vocational High School.
In Ning Qiang's post, Pang Mailang's composition also appeared in the school newspaper.
After staying in the post for less than half a year, he saw Xi'an Foreign Affairs College on TV and went to the Foreign Affairs College for two more years.
"In the first year of the College of Foreign Affairs, I scored 98 points in the composition test." Pang Dehuai remembers this. "His writing is also beautiful, in my opinion it can be ranked first." However, after two years of studying in Xi'an, Pang Mailang So he went to work in Shandong with a few lads quietly. He didn't find a job and didn't call his father until he had no money.
After that, I didn't go to school and went to work in Guangdong.
Regarding when the son became obsessed with creation, the couple couldn't remember a clear time.
I only remember that after my son came back from a part-time job, he "locked himself in the house and wrote songs, and didn't even go to the banquet."
The couple felt that their son was fooling around at first. Seeing that he was so persistent, they had no choice but to say, "When the people are big, they can't control it" and "He just likes to do things to the end."
An interview with Pang Mailang showed that in 2008, Pang Mailang decided to go to the city to "look for the future", first went to Ningqiang, and then went to work in a KTV in Hanzhong.
Here, he accidentally clicked on a Michael Jackson song that was "shocked", especially after hearing that "one song could sell for hundreds of thousands", he determined to be "China's most international singer".
He worked while writing songs, and "My Skate Shoes" was written in this period.
dispute
He first publicly declared in the media that he was born in Keelung, Taiwan, causing many netizens to scold him for "forgetting his ancestors and betraying the ancestry"; then he fled Shanghai after signing a contract with Wasu for 5 years...
In February 2013, Pang Mailang, who had accumulated more than a dozen songs, felt that "the development of Hanzhong is small". He bought a ticket and sat in a hard sleeper for 18 hours to Beijing. In the denim bag he brought with him, there was only one that was too dirty to show the color. Sheets, and a small print book full of lyrics.
The couple didn't know how their son spent his days in Beijing. They only knew that he lived in the basement and wrote songs "day and night".
According to a report in People Magazine, Pang Mailang does not rent a house in Beijing, does not trust intermediaries, does not have a place to live, and can only go to Internet cafes at night, and when he gets tired, he lay down on a chair and fell asleep.
In the end, I didn’t even have the money to go to the Internet cafe overnight, so I just spent the night on a bench in the leeward part of the park.
Regarding the reasons for Pang Mailang’s fame, there are reports that the "Xiami Musician" platform discovered him, and there are also reports that Wasu Records has spent a lot of money to package him, "6 companies announced, 24 hours and 3 shifts, buy keyword search , Please write a big V paragraph to create a trend." Either way, "My Skate Shoes" is on fire. This song describes his personal experience. After searching and searching, a young man in a small town finally bought his beloved skateboard. The joy of board shoes was successfully selected as the first of the “Top Ten Divine Comedies” in 2014.
The villagers in Nanshahe also knew that a young man in the village was "famous".
The young man saw Pang Mailang's video on his mobile phone and told the old man that when the old man saw it, "Isn't singing like singing or reading like reading, what kind of song is this singing?" There is fame and fortune that accompanies controversy.
According to media reports, in 2015, Pang Mailang opened a "station" for a hotel chain, 20,000 a day; sang at an entertainment exhibition, 40,000 in two days; wrote songs and sings for a game company, a song of 250,000.
However, Pang Mai Lang from "Gulag Shnyak" seems to have not had time to accept all this.
He first publicly declared in the media that he was born in Keelung, Taiwan, which caused many netizens to criticize him for "forgetting his ancestors and betraying his ancestry." Later, he escaped from Shanghai after signing a contract with Wasu for 5 years... In early 2015, "People" The magazine "Frightened Pangmailang" once again sent him to the forefront.
His sloppy, funny, grotesque, and alarming image in the article aroused ridicule by netizens.
patient
"In 2018, I felt that his condition was getting worse and worse. From 130 Jin when I met him, to 80 Jin now, I feel his life is gradually disappearing."
"Since then, I have been confused again..." Pang Mailang has rarely been seen in media reports since.
Back to the public eye again-he held "old metal out-of-print concerts" in live houses in major cities across the country, accompanied by his newly signed agent Bai Xiao.
However, the "comeback" did not receive much response. Instead, the news reports were mainly keywords such as "false singing", "single-digit audience" and "shoe selling".
In his self-reported article "My Boss Pang Mailang", Bai Xiao mentioned that in the first half of 2016, the box office of their live house tour was not bad, and at most they could make more than 200,000 yuan a month.
Entering the second half of the year, the tour began to be unsustainable-appearance fees dropped from tens of thousands to thousands, and audiences from hundreds to dozens. There were fewer places to arrange accommodation and transportation, and the bills during the tour slowly Started to pay in the form of Alipay Huabei.
The couple also realized their son's difficulties.
In 2017, Pang Mailang returned to his hometown that he didn't want to recognize after returning to Xi'an with an annual rent of more than 30,000.
The frequency of going out is also getting lower and lower. Later, when going out, they will even ask them for the fare.
In my hometown, parents found that their son's language was becoming less and less, and often locked themselves in the bedroom.
At the beginning, he would help his mother with farm work, feeding ducks, and last year, the situation became more and more serious. He didn't even leave the door. Sometimes he didn't eat for seven or eight consecutive days. His mother even asked him to eat and even scolded him.
Bai Xiao also said in the video, "In 2018, I felt that his condition was getting worse and worse. From 130 Jin when I met him to 80 Jin now, I feel that his life is gradually getting better. The land disappeared." On March 12, after Bai Xiao announced the news, Pang Dehuai answered no fewer than a hundred calls a day, all asking about Pang Mailang's condition, and he had to repeat it over and over again.
Finally, he looked a little impatient and hung up the phone, "What's the use of asking so much?"
In the past two days, Pang Dehuai went to the hospital again.
Because he was worried that his son would be emotional when he saw him, he had to look out the window quietly. The son was sitting in the hospital bed blankly, looking at his feet, he seemed to be humming something.
Chengdu Commercial Daily-Red Star News reporter Li Wentao