He is an eyewitness to the development of Chinese pop music; He has served as a judge of the CCTV Young Singer TV Grand Prix for many times.
His works such as "Let the World Be Filled with Love", "Loess High Slope", "Go West", "Blood-stained Style", "The Last Moment", "The Same Song", "A True Story" and other works are well-known and popular.
He is casual and cute, peaceful and funny, full of great love in his heart, and his lyrics are calmly stretched, deep in concern, flowing with true feelings, full of inspiration, hope and touching, almost completely recording the changes of the times.
His three lyrics were selected as "30 Popular Golden Songs for the 30th Anniversary of China's Reform and Opening-up" in 2008. He is Chen Zhe, a lyricist and music producer.
"Chinese Literature and Art • Tribute to the Classics" – lyricist Chen Zhe
CHEN Zhe
Chen Zhe as a guest on "Chinese Literature and Art: Tribute to the Classics"
01 Song "Let the World Be Filled with Love"
- Rise to fame in one fell swoop
In 1986, the song "Let the World Be Filled with Love" was performed
Chen Zhe in 1986
On May 9, 1986, the Beijing Workers' Stadium staged an unprecedented "100 Singers Concert", in which 128 Chinese singers sang passionately to celebrate world peace. This concert has left a strong mark in the history of Chinese pop music, sounded the clarion call for the great development of Chinese pop music, and is known as the milestone and declaration of Chinese pop music. "Let the World Be Filled with Love" was the theme of this concert. As the main lyricist, Chen Zhe also became famous because of "Let the World Be Filled with Love".
As an iconic song in the history of Chinese pop music, the "Let the World Be Filled with Love" suite consists of three parts, the first part "remembers so far away", the second part "gently holding your face", and the third part "We have tomorrow". The whole work pours out people's desire and longing for peace, full of the vigorous vitality of the new era, with cordial and euphemistic lyrics and melodies flowing with sincere emotions, exuding a charming charm with emotion.
Since its creation and performance in 1986, this work has been a sensation, popular and widely circulated. In the more than 30 years since the birth of "Let the World Be Filled with Love", this song has been sung many times in different versions at important moments, in the song, people have found their own youth, and this song has also become one of the important representative works of Chen Zhe's lyrics.
Producer Wu Haigang:
"Fill the World with Love" is the fruit of collective intelligence
Singer Wang Kun (alive):
"Make the World Love" is of great social significance
From the "Year of World Peace" in 1986 to the "Beijing Winter Olympics" in 2022, "Let the World Be Filled with Love", which has gone through 36 years, will be sung at every important moment and given more connotations, like an endless flame, transmitting warmth and touching.
At the scene of "Chinese Literature and Art: Tribute to the Classics",
Galaxy Junior TV Art Troupe sings "Let the World Be Filled with Love"
02 Chen Zhe's artistic path
Chen Zhe in his youth
Chen Zhe was born in Beijing in 1954 and after graduating from high school in 1970, he joined the factory as an electrician. Thoughtful and taciturn, he wrote poetry, painted, and did handicrafts in his spare time, showing a strong interest in literature and music. He sublimated his desire for love and warmth into a reflection.
Chen Zhe in his youth
Chen Zhe's diary
This is Chen Zhe's diary back then, almost all of which are glittering aphorisms and aphorisms, behind these words, hidden in his inner confusion, society gave him space and opportunity to find answers, and finally, let him change from an ordinary worker to a lyricist.
In February 1986, Chen Zhe, who had 15 years of service, resolutely resigned from his official position in a state-owned enterprise with good efficiency because he was tired of his ordinary life day after day, and devoted himself to the work of lyric writing. At that time, the 32-year-old Chen Zhe took the initiative to break the "iron rice bowl" envied by many people and became a free music creator, which was not understood and accepted by people. It wasn't until a few months later that a warm and touching song "Let the World Be Filled with Love" finally achieved Chen Zhe's identity as a lyricist. Since then, many works with different styles and distinctive themes, such as "Blood Stained Style", "Loess High Slope", "Go West", "10,000 Tenderness", "The Last Moment", "The Same Song" and "A True Story", which have been popular all over the country and widely circulated, establishing Chen Zhe's position in the Chinese pop music scene.
CHEN Zhe
03 Song "Same Song"
- The truth is still the same
11th Asian Games in 1990
The times will choose singers who tell their emotions, when the familiar melody sounds, the love and heart of a nation, the dream that a nation has never given up, in the spring, summer, autumn and winter we have walked together, those beautiful emotions that touch the heart are sung by "The Same Song".
In 1990, the 11th Asian Games sang "The Same Song"
"The Same Song", composed in 1990, was processed and modified as the opening song of the opening ceremony of the 1990 Beijing Asian Games, and was sung at the 1991 CCTV Spring Festival Gala. Since then, the song has been widely sung.
At the scene of "Chinese Literature and Art: Tribute to the Classics", Cheng Fangyuan sang "The Same Song"
04 Song "Loess High Slope"
——Leading the "Northwest Wind" in the music scene
CHEN Zhe
In 1987, Chen Zhe was invited by the reporter of CCTV's "Observation and Thinking" program to go to the yellow land of Shanxi to collect style, and this program turned the perspective of attention to the countryside.
Manuscript of the lyrics of "High Slope of Loess"
Chen Zhe was facing that vast yellow land at that time, and his heart was shocked. After returning to Beijing, Chen Zhe had been typing in the dormitory, brewing how to write, at this time someone in the corridor called his name and asked him to answer the phone in the communication room, it was winter, he looked at the bare telephone pole, listened to the howling north wind in his ears, and remembered what he saw and heard on the high slope of the loess, and it took about twenty or thirty minutes to write this poem "Loess High Slope".
At the scene of "Chinese Literature and Art: Tribute to the Classics",
Hu Yue sings "Loess High Slope"
Tribute to the guests in this issue
Director Wang Xianping
Music critic Jin Zhaojun
Tribute
You use the collective confession of a hundred singers,
Witness the era of the awakening of humanity in the pop music scene.
Those eyes that gaze deeply with you,
Since then, the color of hope has bloomed.
Whenever the wind blows over the slope,
People will remember the heroism of "High Slope of Loess".
Whether the brother of "Go West" has come back or not,
The Yellow River around me is still surging around.
A thousand strips of water, thousands of mountains,
We walked by singing "Same Song".
Only love the whole world with your heart,
will "fill the world with love".
"Chinese Literature and Art: A Tribute to the Classics"
Lyricist - Chen Zhe.
Tribute written by: Yang Qifang
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