The romance of Shenzhen is worth seeing ...

Many years ago, most people would use the "Gold Rushfield" to define Shenzhen Huaqiangbei, because there were countless entrepreneurial stories here, and the "one -meter wealthy rich man" was born.

But now, the free piano placed in Huaqiangbei Pedestrian Street has formed a more strange existence: it accommodates the workers who need comfort, the frustrated artist, and the wanderer who escape from reality.

Huaqiangbei's legend is still writing, and the 8 street piano is connected to a real version of "Six Topiars, but people are still willing to look up at the moon".

Goodbye, Qinyou

In the spring of 2022, a small memorial service was quietly carried out in the corner of Huaqiangbei. More than a dozen strangers surrounded a open space with beer and small circle candles, singing "Thanksgiving Heart" in the cold wind.

They are commemorating a piano friend named Lu Xuefeng. Not far away, it was the 8 street piano that they often played together. Lu Xuefeng had counting countless spring breeze there.

Lu Xuefeng was only 59 years old. She looks young and elegant. In the past, she always liked to wear colorful floral skirts and high heels to play piano. The bright large earrings flashed with her jumping fingertips.

Lu Xuefeng's old photos. Photo/Interviewee provided

She appears in Huaqiangbei almost every night. Initially, she just wanted to play the person who was off work late at night with a free piano, and slowly gathered a small community -as soon as she played, everyone sang beside her, like a holiday.

In order to take care of her family while playing the piano, people often see her father and mother who suffered from Alzheimer's disease to Huaqiangbei to walk around and listen to the street concert together.

In spring, people are used to the romantic silhouette of Huaqiangbei.

Therefore, the day she left suddenly, many people were incredible. A group of more than 300 people named "Huaqiangbei Romantic Piano Night" exploded. Not allowed.

Xiao Yang is Lu Xuefeng's daughter. It wasn't until her mother left that she knew that so many people loved her mother's long greetings to her like a snowflake. She saw the little recovery meeting in the group and touched it.

She also saw that a vocal friend had two small paintings to commemorate her according to her mother's daily way.

Qinyou painted the "daily photos" of Lu Xuefeng. Photo/Interviewee provided

In Xiaoyang's opinion, the mother gave up many dreams for the family, and the piano was one of them. In the most toil, the mother can only learn from the gaps of life. At night, she also recommends some cafes to play the piano -from 20 to 23, accepting the casual point of customers, no money. Lu Xuefeng also loved photography. After retiring, he went to the primitive tribe in Ethiopia, Africa to collect style, and stayed with children in the slums of Bangladesh. On her piano, the paintings of the Louvre, Russia's dolls, Turkey dishes ...

However, in recent years, the mother has become more and more timeless, because the grandfather's body is getting worse and worse, the mother can't bear to send the old man to the nursing home and always take care of it.

As a result, Huaqiangbei's piano has become the biggest comfort in her life. But Xiao Yang found that since her mother joined the big family of Huaqiangbei, she even had a dinner time every night. 30 is about to start. "

In the past, Lu Xuefeng often took his parents to play the piano in China. Photo/Interviewee provided

At the beginning, Xiao Yang was puzzled, and she felt like "street art." Later, she learned that her mother was doing something to illuminate others in silence -she not only helped a blind piano friend to find a job, but also recognized a violinist to do "dry son".

This boy is at a rebellious age and often quarrels with his parents. Lu Xuefeng enlighten him patiently, and sometimes he will mediate at his house.

About a month before Lu Xuefeng left, she continued to organize the K song contest for the Qinyou organization to help build the stage, invite singer, photographer, and makeup artist. A tireless permanent motor.

"Since my mother knows them, her birthday is endless every year, and the piano friends have to give her in batches." Xiao Yang said.

In this way, these strangers who should have been passing by on the road, because eight piano gradually connected into a active community of hundreds of people.

It is like a kaleidoscope. When the stereotypes such as "high efficiency, material, indifference" are folded, they re -rotate people's imagination of this city.

Elderly people who can't lose their speech

Huaqiangbei in Shenzhen was originally a legendary street.

From the roar of the machine to the hypermarket to the world, Huaqiangbei created countless grassroots and wealthy dreams. It is the "China Electronics First Street" that can exceed 100 million yuan a day. Ma Huateng also founded Tencent here. Essence

However, Huaqiangbei probably never thought that there would be a day that would coexist with the piano.

The sharp sound of the car spreads in every corner. The broadcast of nucleic acid broadcasts and the audio of the mall 360 degrees surrounded. The shops are mixed with dialects from all over the world. Wandering on this street.

During the peak, Huaqiang's northern daily traffic can reach 500,000. Photo/Wells Outsiders Video

But the existence of the piano has gathered many unexpected people.

The elderly are the most interesting group of people on the street piano. In the impression of some people, Shenzhen seems to be a city without the elderly, and there are young people under the feet. The elderly are speechless and hidden.

But in Huaqiangbei, you can see all kinds of elderly people walking here.

Lao Su was a 61 -year -old tramp who was a carpentry in his early years. He has repeatedly wanted to switch to "art", studied root carving and painting, participated in vocal contests, and also became temporary actors. Everything has achieved small achievements, but he has been intercepted by fate.

Lien Lao Su Liechi on the side of the piano. Photo/Wells Outsiders Video

His closest time to the Dream of Dream is the 2003 movie "Life and Death Line" in Shenzhen. Old Soviet has finally been shortlisted after several hardships, but before the official start was officially started, he was inserted into his chest by an unexpectedly flying tile, almost almost in the chest, almost almost in the chest, almost almost in the chest, almost almost he almost flew. Lost life.

Later, he had worked as a security guard, worked hard, and had zero workers. One of the eyes was blind due to work injury. For a while, he sprayed the forestein with full -time. What kind of colors of the spray paint that day were visible in the sputum the next day. "The doctor told me that there was a thick layer on the lungs, like calluses."

Today, Lao Su has reached the age of retirement, but in his later years, he did not have any losses, and he was accustomed to sleeping and sleeping. Hua Qiangbei became his favorite place -because playing the piano can make him feel peaceful and stable blood pressure.

The doctor said that his blood pressure had reached the stage of "extremely high risk." "I really realized for the first two days. Don't think too much about anything. Forget the past and try to let memory disappear." Lao Su said.

He likes to play a song he repeatedly modified, called "For that Dream". This was written by him for the first TV series to participate in. Twenty years have passed, and this TV series has been difficult to find on the Internet, but his "dream" is still like a unwilling cactus, and has been piercing in the desert.

Lao Su sang his own "For that Dream". Photo/Wells Outsiders Video

There are also people who have been accompanied by the piano for most of their lives, and they have pinned their lives in their old age.

72 -year -old Chen Yunchang is the oldest frequent visitor to Huaqiangbei. Since learning that there is a piano three years ago, he came over for more than an hour every night.

Chen Yunchang said that he was a person who had gone for decades. In the early 1950s, there was no formal piano teaching in New China, but Chen Yunchang had begun to learn the piano.

At the age of 13, Chen Yunchang was admitted to the Conservatory of Music as expected, but in the end he did not succeed -at that time it was 1963. The examiner told him that the school mainly opened a folk music class such as Erhu, Flute, Pipa, Guzheng, and Suona. The piano he wanted to learn is not open for the time being. Chen Yunchang could not accept the transfer of professionalism, but he could only regret leaving. But in the following decades, he did not give up the piano, and he has been watching the changes in the Chinese piano industry.

Chen Yunchang was kindly referred to as "Piano Grandpa" by the neighborhood. Photo/Wells Outsiders Video

He did not agree with the practices of some piano students, and felt that they knew nothing about the beauty of the piano. "The piano is not a dance, and does not need to move the whole body. Some young people are sweating in the summer, and what is it hard to play the piano than the farm?"

He takes "Dedicated to Alice" as an example: "Many people like this song, but do you know what the relationship between Beethoven and Alice? Alice is a student of Beethoven and his lover. In that era, the teacher, the teacher Falling in love with students is not allowed, it is not possible to write a letter, but it is okay to give the first song. "

Chen Yunchang started playing the piano while talking. In the first paragraph, he played with little caution: "This is Beethoven's love and love, like a whisper. Many people play very loudly, so there is no feeling."

In the middle, he played sweetly and cheerful: "This is the day when Beethoven recalls that they get along very happily."

At the end, the emotions on his keys were obviously anxious. "Does it sound annoying? This is Alice who knows that Beethoven is uncomfortable. Everyone can't be together, and it is like a chest." Chen Yunchang said with his fist and stunned himself. Bang. "

Whenever he seizes a person who has the spirit of exploring the piano, Chen Yunchang will expand this detailed expression. This is why he likes Huaqiangbei. Here, he is self -contained and is not subject to any college theory.

Chen Yunchang taught at the "street college". Photo/Wells Outsiders Video

There are also some elderly people who think of street piano as a bridge that integrates them into young cities.

Li Bo is an uncle who settled in Shenzhen with a white hair but a bright spirit. He wore a white T -shirt and carried a backpack with a backpack.

More than ten years ago, he just retired from a listed company, had a lot of problems with his body, and suffered from annoying Parkinson. The whole person was a bit sluggish.

But since he knew that Huaqiangbei could practice the piano, "it was as vigorous as young people." At 8 o'clock in the morning, he set off a bike -sharing of a bicycle. Later, he found that he was a bit "grabbing" with the office workers. He consciously postponed it to 9 o'clock and practiced until 12 noon before returning home.

Although he started to play the piano in his 60s, this made Li Bo find the spirit of the era of reading. "If the trend of Parkinson's disease, people will be decadent. Finally, it is difficult to swallow, difficulty in activity, fracture, and lying on the bed to get dying. Music. "

He likes Shenzhen, a creative city, and has become quite advanced. He will actively learn new words such as "lying" and "inner volume". He also applied for body donations not long ago. The family was shocked.

Wearing a young Li Bo, come to check in every day. Photo/Wells Outsiders Video

In the past consensus, piano meant Western aesthetics and even aristocratic temperament. But here in Huaqiangbei, they are randomly played by passers -by. They do not need a luxurious carpet and high -end stage. The inherent impression is dissolved one by one.

Whether it is a successful person in a secular sense or a frustrated person, a frustrated elderly or a person who needs self -healing can forget the hobbing years in front of these pianos.

Workers seeking exports

In the group of "Huaqiangbei Romantic Piano Night", another wonderful sense of conflict will be seen: some nicknames with "mobile phone accessories wholesale", "Bluetooth speaker headset explosion", "5G new retail", the words, Will discuss the topic of piano seriously in the group.

These migrant workers with "Huaqiangbei attributes" are frequent guests who play piano besides the elderly.

Since the market economy has driven the city with the most amazing courage in the 1980s, Huaqiangbei has become a well -known worker paradise.

Walking on this street at any time, you will see thousands of small electric vehicles and courier cars. There are hot fast food restaurants nearby. "Deep drift" in various places are not worried about being hungry.

But what they need is not just these. Their happiness and sorrow also need a vent.

Huaqiangbei everywhere can be seen everywhere. Photo/Wells Outsiders Video

Wang Qihe is a decoration worker looking for a living in Huaqiangbei all year round. In the severe period of the Shenzhen epidemic, many shopping malls were sealed. He had almost no job and was depressed, but fortunately, there was a piano to accompany him.

If it wasn't for his fate to let him fall in Huaqiangbei, Wang Qihe would probably not learn piano in his life. When in his hometown in Hubei, Wang Qihe was a farmer facing the back of the loess. He buried his head in the fields full of cotton, watermelon and rice all day long. Because of the meager income, his brother took him to Shenzhen for decoration in 2002, and it was twenty years.

But Wang Qi and the workers around him were not very fun, because they only liked to play cards and drink. Occasionally found on the street piano just gave him an outlet that escaped from mediocrity.

Today, Wang Qihe has studied himself in Huaqiangbei for three years. The dark and rough hands after all years of work have also begun to run on the piano keys. "You can't see the five fingers," he said. He also took the cleaning of cleaning, and every week he would wipe each key with disinfection water.

Wang Qihe, who stayed for a few hours a day. Photo/Wells Outsiders Video

It is not just that "idlers" need piano. Xiao Yin is an ophthalmologist who is working nearby. He often comes out of the scorching sun at noon.

The work pressure of myopia surgery is very high. Xiao Yin is so busy every day. He has to take care of the child when he goes home at night. Therefore, he can only breathe in a lunch break.

But every capital of him played very quickly, like a 2.0 -fold performance, because when a patient came, he would rush back.

Although he grew up in Shenzhen since he was a child, he also clearly felt that the rhythm of the city was getting faster and faster.

In retrospect, Xiao Yin thanked his parents forcing him to learn the piano when he was a child. At least he could stop him occasionally and go back to his heart.

Dr. Xiao Yin's classic logo. Photo/Wells Outsiders Video

Another lost love brother, silently playing "The Moon Represents My Heart" in a corner. He said that he was an IT man who "didn't know much about falling in love". He always said something wrong, and eventually missed a sincere feelings.

He had always wanted to practice this song before, and proposed to girls when the timing matured. But in the end, the song had not yet been practiced, but the relationship had come to an end.

"I wanted to be her dependence and her harbor before, but in the end it became an obstacle on her growth, and a wall that couldn't be detoured. Then I thought, then I would rather become your footsteps. The stone is not willing to become your wall on the road, "he said.

For a moment, he felt that he began to talk again, and laughed: "So I think boys must learn to be silent, and they will talk more and talk less in the future."

Huaqiangbei's piano has accommodated these people who need comfort. In the past two years, the cities that had been operating quickly from time to time were like being stuck in the staged clockwork. The people in it could feel that they were small when they were facing accidents.

The piano on the streets faithfully records the voice of the people of the city, and fights with them to fight reality and complications.

Huaqiangbei's piano accepted countless tired people. Photo/Wells Outsiders Video

The sweetness and trouble of "street"

Sun Yonghong is the person in charge of the operation of Huaqiangbei Piano Piano. When he received the project of "Piano Campaign" in 2018, she was managing the piano museum in Shenzhen Musical City. The street office hopes that she will collect some old piano graffiti display with reference to foreign creativity. I did not expect to attract many migrant workers to play.

However, it is not easy to continue to operate this project, because piano is an expensive precision instrument, and wood products are not suitable for long -term outdoor.

Sun Yonghong first solved the problem of people. How a new thing is treated by citizens determines its survival space. From time to time, the piano placed on the street will be malicious. The keys are burned, and the stools will be stolen everywhere. She can only install monitoring and chain the stool.

At the same time, in the southern cities such as Shenzhen, the piano exposed outside the country is inevitable that the wind is blown by the wind. It is particularly susceptible to moisture, and the graffiti has been repeatedly eroded. Sun Yonghong can only be painted and coated again, and she also posted her phone on each piano, just to be known for the first time after the piano was damaged.

Each piano has a small detail of the operator's intentions. Photo/Wells Outsiders Video

Fortunately, Sun Yonghong met a lot of ingenious craftsmen when he was in the city of Music.

The easiest to cause disputes is the problem of disturbance of the people. Sun Yonghong will receive noise complaints from the police station for a long time, saying that the sound of the piano is too harsh. So the street office set the rules that the piano is open only from 9 to 13, 14 to 22 every day.

However, some piano friends still do not follow, and after the conflict is upgraded, there are nearby residents to smash the piano. "Some people say that there are college candidates at home, and some people say that he is insomnia every day. We can only coordinate both sides, and finally have to lock the piano or move the piano."

Sun Yonghong, the trivial matters of these management, encountered almost every day, but she still loves this place of Huaqiangbei. Since graduating from 1986, she has been assigned to Shenzhen, and she has spent nearly 36 years here. Watching various types of electronic digital markets has sprung up this old street like after the rain.

She also witnessed Huaqiangbei as synonymous in Shenzhen, representing the rising economy, the concentration of cutting -edge technology and the tireless businessman.

The piano in Huaqiangbei is like a warm symbol, full of humanity. Here, some people will be applauded, and no one laughed at it. Sanitation workers will run to take photos with the piano. Middle -aged and elderly people will start dressing carefully to participate in the civilian concerts here.

Not everyone's home has no piano, but it will form a magical field here. Monsters will circulate and interact, and they can also strongly feel the phrase "I'm Yours" on the piano.

Maybe it was ears, and Sun Yonghong later bought a piano to go home, but because he was too busy, he never learned. Now she thinks about learning, so that after retirement, she can come here to play a song.

Those who come to Huaqiangbei to play the piano are not at home. Photo/Wells outsiders Video on one of the pianos in Huaqiangbei, saying "Books are the stairs of human progress."

This sentence has nothing to do with the piano, but it shows the social functions similar to the public piano to the library: accept and include everyone, and provide the ladder to knowledge for free, so that ordinary people can also strive for artistic equality, rescue the rescue A life that may always be mediocre.

It is a flow carrier, and the mark left on everyone is different.

A blind piano friend named Zhang Dan was appreciated by the public after practicing the piano here and was invited to perform in some shopping malls. This may be a transfer of his career.

Wang Qihe found another spiritual sustenance of life. He does not make money or become a musician in order to open a class, because playing the piano itself is a kind of enjoyment, and he does not have to bear the shackles of "hard work to become talented".

It has nothing to do with identity, status, class, and interests, just like the bright moonlight that can be seen when you look up, free and precious.

For Lu Xuefeng's daughter, Huaqiangbei's piano made her better understand her mother during her lifetime. Seeing them, she seemed to be able to hear the sound of her mother left by her mother -especially when she was a child of her childhood, and the piano could only be placed next to the bathroom, so whenever she took a bath, she would specify her mother to play her favorite "Beauty. With the Beast "and" Wedding in Dreams ".

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