Every city should have its own "Mohe Ballroom"
Dongyuan
In late October, the song "Mohe Dance Hall" became popular. A small border town, a small town dance hall, and a love story were pushed into the spotlight.
The creator Liu Shuang introduced that the song is based on the story of a solo dancer "Zhang Dequan" (pseudonym) in the dance hall and his loss of his dead wife in the fire.
The loyal love story in the song evokes people's painful memories of the "May 6" huge forest fire in Daxinganling in 1987.
A beautiful love story is widely known because of a song, and a song also has a soul because of a love story, so it is widely spread.
According to reports, in March this year, the video account of the local cultural and tourism bureau posted the song "Mohe Dance Hall", but it did not produce much response.
It wasn't until mid-October that someone extracted the love story behind it and posted it on a short video in the form of a narration with a song.
Between the song "Mohe Dance Hall" and "Mohe Love Story", it is hard to say who made it happen. This is the result of the superposition of the charm of love and the charm of music.
There were many in the past, and there will be many in the future, and it is difficult to predict whether this love story will become a powerful IP and get more artistic presentations.
This actually brings enlightenment to the current literary and artistic creation, and even song creation-where is the direction of creation?
Is it to be divorced from reality, or should it be for the times and creation for the people?
There are many such love stories in every city, and there are many of them. The key is whether there is a pair of eyes to discover, and whether they can be unearthed and promoted.
This is what the creator should think about, and what the city needs to think about.
The city is the person, and the person is the image. Now many cities are trying to find the hot spots and recommend their own city image with all their strength.
Compared with the grand narrative and the one-way output of the slogan of the gorgeous concept, paying more attention to details, focusing on characters, stories, and emotions, is likely to receive unexpected results.
A song "Chengdu", I don't know how many fans it brought to Chengdu!
In addition to stories and songs, the ballroom as an entity is also worthy of attention.
According to Li Jinbao, the ballroom operator, he didn't know the song "Mohe Ballroom" before, and he didn't know the love story. After the song became popular, he learned later.
In his impression, "In 2019, there is indeed an old man who often dances in the ballroom, and everyone else dances in pairs and dances, and he is the only one to dance solo".
This is the only ballroom in the small town now. Due to poor management, Li Jinbao once wanted to close the ballroom. As "Mohe Ballroom" became popular, he changed his mind, "Open the ballroom so that the old dancing people can continue to dance. "In December 2019, the musician Liu Shuang went to Mohe to collect music. It was here that he met "Zhang Dequan", heard the story in the chat, and then came up with this song.
Without this ballroom, the story would not be discovered, and more importantly, the local elderly would be missing a place for old people to have fun.
The ballroom charges are very real, 5 yuan for the "General Zone" and 10 yuan for the "Card Zone", and only open for half a year, starting from October 1st to May 1st of the year.
In summer, people like to dance in the square, and in the winter at minus 40 to 50 degrees Celsius, they come to the warm dance hall.
In a sense, this is another form of square dance.
In fact, this is also enlightening the city. Can we provide more public space for the elderly so that they can spend their old age in peace?
Of course, the activity space does not necessarily need to be paid for by finances, and more social capital can be absorbed, even if some policy support is provided.
Every city should have its own "Mohe Ballroom".
On the one hand, as an entity, it should provide the elderly with more space for activities; on the other hand, as an image, city promotion requires more thoughtful work.
Recall that if there is no such ballroom, then "Zhang Dequan" will have a lot more loneliness in his old life, and he will not meet musicians here, let alone this song.
From the current point of view, "Mohe Dance Hall" may become the music that once again popularizes a city after "Chengdu", which is also a windfall.