After 95, Chen Jun, a doctoral student at the School of Social Sciences of Tsinghua University, is a Taiwanese girl who has just been in Beijing for two years. "I had been studying in Taiwan before because I came to Beijing as an exchange student. After coming, I liked the environment here - whether it was life or scientific research, so I decided to stay and study for a PhD. In Beijing, one of the songs Chen Jun often listened to was "Legend" sung by Li Jian, "I heard the version sung by Faye Wong when I was a child, and later Li Jian sang this song when he returned to his alma mater, Tsinghua." The song is beautiful and peaceful, and when I hear it again, I feel that my childhood and the present are connected."

After 95, Xin Chenxi, a boy from Jiangxi, is a civil aviation pilot, and this job that often flies in the sky fits very well with one of his favorite songs - "Starry Sky" on May Day. "This song was released in 2011, when I was in my third year of high school, and I encountered academic pressure in my adolescence, and I overheard "Starry Sky", which gave me an outlet for my emotions at that time and found new strength. This song is about although there is fear in the future, but also think about the memories that once warmed life..."

After 00, Taiwanese artist Chen Linong is known for winning the second place in a mainland reality show in 2018. Recently, in the hit music variety show "Endless Sound - Treasure Island Season", he sang a Hokkien song "The Gas Stove of the Old House", "This is a song for my mother, and it is also a song for all wanderers in a foreign land".

Hu Dev, who once promoted the enlightenment of the entire Chinese pop music, sang the song "Olive Tree" again in "Endless Sound Treasure Island Season". Before singing this song, he remembered his hometown in Taitung; Now, when he travels almost all over the continent, he thinks of farther places, farther thoughts.

Same song, same youth

"Endless Sound Treasure Island Season" has a link other than singing, that is, the same cultural life issue, in Taipei and Changsha to carry out street collection. The first question is, "the top 90 favorite film and television dramas of the post-5s audience" and "the top 90 favorite Chinese pop music of the post-5s audience". A girl from Changsha talked about her experience: "The evening self-study before the college entrance examination, hiding in the toilet to listen to "Invisible Wings", wiping away tears, washing my face and returning to the classroom to continue learning. There are also Taipei boys who imitate the scene in "The Legend of Zhen Huan" without saying a word: "The emperor, the concubines can't do it."

Although it is a program setting, such problems often occur in daily life. Xin Chenxi can't remember how many times he watched Lin Zhiying's version of "Peerless Double Pride", "When I was a child, during the summer vacation or winter vacation, the TV station was replaying, every little boy had a martial arts dream, and the love and hate of the rivers and lakes were very attractive."

"When I was in middle school, I only listened to music on tapes, CDs, or the radio, but no one didn't know Jay. At that time, there were no smartphones or computers, so I relied on the humming of my classmates who didn't know where to learn, and everyone worked together to fill in the lyrics one after another. Xin Chenxi said that all the songs written in his lyric book at that time were Jay Chou's songs, "Even if I haven't listened to them for many years, those lyrics are deeply imprinted in my mind, and if I guess the song by looking at the lyrics', I will win." ”

And in Chen Jun's childhood memory, "The Legend of Sword and Fairy" occupies an important position, "Hu Ge's 'Xiaoyao brother' is so handsome, Liu Yifei's 'Linger' is too beautiful, it is a fairy!" "From the first part to the later sequel, Chen Jun watched an episode without landing. Looking at it, she also grew up: "When I was a child, I liked the spells inside, and when I grew up, I found that everyone in the play has their own troubles and responsibilities, although it is not a happy ending, but everyone is moving towards the goal, there is pain, but still have to move forward." ”

In the first program of "Endless Sound Treasure Island Season", Chen Linong sang two songs from Taiwanese film and television dramas - "Ambiguous" in "The Devil Is Around" and "Wish Post-it Notes" in "Destiny I Love You". These classic idol dramas have made boys and girls on both sides of the strait cry and laugh with the protagonists who are divided and merged, Chen Linong said: "Behind each song there are memories and beautiful stories belonging to that age, and I hope to reminisce with everyone about the touching of that time." ”

Chen Linong has many mainland friends, eating together, chatting music, playing games, playing billiards..."In fact, making friends is the same as listening to music, there are no boundaries, as long as you like it, we are all the same." Recently, Chen Linong liked the song "Wumeizi Sauce", "When everyone is busy working, this song brings sweetness and is also very healing." ”

The map of popular culture has changed radically

"Whether it's music or theater, we must communicate more, because we are of the same language." Wang Weizhong, a Taiwanese television producer who walks through his hometown in Taipei's military village, said.

Tang Hua, director of the Institute of Cross-Strait Relations at the Institute of Taiwan Studies of Xiamen University, introduced that the early cross-strait popular music exchanges mainly spread from Taiwan to the mainland, and the streets and alleys were listening to Teresa Teng's love songs, as well as Taiwanese campus songs such as "Grandma's Penghu Bay" and "Treading Waves"; In the 20s and 80s of the 90th century, mainland pop music began to rise, and cross-strait popular music began to influence each other, for example, Cui Jian set off a wave in Taiwan; Later, with the rise of "karaoke", concerts and music festivals, cross-strait music exchanges began to enter an interactive stage.

After 2005, singing auditions and music variety shows emerged on the mainland, and record companies on both sides of the strait tapped talented singers from them, and cross-strait popular music entered a stage of in-depth exchanges; In recent years, it has entered a new stage of "short video platform" exchange and creation, and the mainland in the Internet era has begun to strongly influence Taiwan.

In the past decade, the territory of cross-strait popular culture has undergone fundamental changes, in the early days, Taiwan's film and television works and popular music deeply influenced the mainland, and now the mainland is exporting backwards to affect Taiwanese young people. In Tang Hua's view, Taiwan's young people's love for mainland music and film and television dramas is mainly because of the natural closeness brought by the same clan and culture on both sides of the strait, "popular culture has become an important medium to break through the gap between young people on both sides of the strait, and more and more young people in Taiwan feel the three-dimensional, real, open and progressive mainland in it."

Previously, Taiwanese media reported a news that talked about the KTV rankings, "half of them are mainland songs." Tang Hua also found that many of the mainland music that is very popular with Taiwanese young people are hot songs on short video platforms, such as Ren Ran's "Birds and Cicadas" and Xiao Ah Qi's original songs, etc., "they especially like this kind of close to life and colloquial expression and observation."

"Crazy" became popular in Taiwan, and the "common people's culture" touched people's hearts

A large number of fine products have emerged in mainland film and television dramas in the past decade, such as "The Legend of Zhen Huan", "The Age of Awakening", "In the Name of the People", "The World", and even "Crazy" at the beginning of this year, which quickly caused a boom in Taiwan. Compared with Taiwan, which is mainly good at idol dramas, mainland film and television dramas have developed in a variety of genres and are very popular among young people in Taiwan.

In Chen Jun's understanding of the mainland, music has many connections with TV series, and a lot of music is heard in TV series, forming part of her shared memories with her peers in the mainland. Gradually, she found that whether a song or a drama is a Taiwanese or mainland work sometimes cannot be blurted out. "There are many Taiwanese actors in some mainland TV dramas, and the appearance rate is quite high, which is very cordial to me. Now many mainland variety shows, such as "Sister Lang" and "Endless Voice", as well as the previous "The Voice of China"... As long as the show is good, I will watch it. ”

Chen Jun feels that which song, which film and television drama, or what kind of literary and artistic works you like is the difference in interests between different young people, not the difference between the two sides of the strait. We will only say which band or singer we like the music, it has nothing to do with geography." Moreover, even if there are different hobbies, what are young people that cannot communicate with each other, "there is no gap in culture, you can feel it with emotions."

"Endless Sound Treasure Island Season" begins with the owner of a noodle restaurant in a military village, and the chorus at the end shows the life of Taiwanese people. In Tang Hua's view, cultural exchanges can often not be touching elite culture, "'elite culture' is more used to appreciate, but 'common people's culture' can trigger emotional resonance and move people's hearts."

Hudev talked about why he came to participate in "Endless Sound Treasure Island Season", because "life is that something new emerges and continues". Tang Hua has participated in some cross-strait youth cultural exchange activities, and at the scene of music festivals and music variety shows, she saw the young people on both sides of the strait talking about their favorite music and singers and idol dramas without obstacles and enthusiasm.

Perhaps, no matter when, no matter where we are, we can sing "Don't ask me where I'm from" because we all come from the same place.

Jiang Xiaobin, reporter of China Youth Daily Source: China Youth Daily