All Difficulties Are The Signs Of Life

"Give me a blue sky, a rising sun; Give me a piece of grass that stretches far away; Give me an eagle, a mighty man; Give me a harness and hold it in his hand..."

When "Matching Horse Poles", a familiar grassland song, is sung, people naturally think of "grassroots" lyricist Liu Xinhua.

Born in Pingdingshan village, Henan province, Liu dropped out of junior high school due to the famine in his hometown. Poor children do not stay at home for half a month, his father arranged for him to go out to work.

When he went out, he carried three things in his bag: paper, a pen, and a badly torn copy of the Romance of The Three Kingdoms.

The WORKERS laughed at him: "YOU are not like a part-time worker, but like a nuking class!"

When he ran out of paper, he would pick up any paper he saw that had no words on it. A tattered "Romance of The Three Kingdoms" read again and again, really no book to read, he picked up the rest of the book will read.

He worked during the day and returned to his rented house at night. When the power went out, he would turn and look under a kerosene lamp, his nostrils blackened by the fumes. Liu tried to write poems, essays, and novels, some of which turned into type to his delight, but most of which fell into oblivion.

At the age of 22, Liu and several other fledgling poets were spotted by a publishing house in Hubei province and promised to publish a collection of poems called "Peach Blossom in Flood." He thought he would be able to support his family with the proceeds, but a month later, he received a notice and rushed to the post office to find only a sack of unsold poetry waiting for him.

Liu realized that writing may no longer be able to change his living conditions. Is it to insist, or give up? At this time, if you give up, it means putting an end to your life pursuit. Life, only stop, no period! Creative stagnation, perhaps they have not found a good breakthrough.

When Liu Xinquan was lost and helpless, a confidant suggested: "Your writing style is good, write lyrics, practice."

There were similarities between writing poetry and writing lyrics, but they were very different, and he knew nothing about music. He used to love poetry, just practice, and often write lyrics into poetry, but his net friends constantly remind him and help him to modify, slowly found a bit of the way to write lyrics.

In 2007, after seven years of walking in the dark, Liu finally wrote his first decent lyric, "You are a potato, I am a sweet Potato", and got 500 yuan for the manuscript.

Later, the second lyric, Looking Up at the Tianshan Mountain, was sold for 2,000 yuan. Slowly, some record companies began to pay attention to him, and netizens also joked that he was a "dark horse in the poetry world". But this achievement is not enough to be proud of, Liu Xinquan from their experience of life to write meaningful and influential lyrics, not just for publication, to earn a few manuscript fees.

Soon, he found that people today, no matter the people around him or himself, life is very difficult, the spirit is also very depressed, and wants to have the heart to return to nature, and live a free and beautiful life.

"If it can be written as a grassland lyrics, there is a vast grassland, there is an empty melody, it will dispel everyone's tired and depressed state of mind." Once this idea flashed in my mind, Liu Xinquan was a little uncontrollable, this long-term accumulation of emotion, once found a point to express, just like a waterfall.

An hour later, the lyrics "Horse Pole" appeared.

To make his creation lasting, Liu Xinhua travels more than 20 times a year. One winter, Liu Xinquan came to the Root River in Hulunbuir. In a small village, he found that most of the young people went out to work, while the old stayed at home. In this chilly village, old people cry silently when they talk about the children who work abroad.

The scene touched on Liu's inner past, and he wrote the lyrics "Winter in Hulunbuir" that night without a break.

Since then, Phoenix Legend's "Sounds of Nature", Tenger's "Ten Thousand Horses Gallop", He Jing's "Gesang Flowers in the Sky"...... All were written by Liu Xinhua. So far, he has composed more than 300 lyrics.

From a grassroots poet to a dark horse in the poetry world, Liu Xinhuan's life is full of legends. His experience once again tells people that all difficulties are temporary, just like the stop sign in a sentence, just a pause, a pause, at most a little rest in the way. Defy it, cross the past, success is not far away.