Jay Chou
When he was young, Jay Chou was a bit autistic and stupid. The high school English teacher thought Jay Chou had a learning disability: "The expression on his face was very dull, and I thought he was stupid." This kid couldn't concentrate on math and science classes, and even his English homework was wasted. But Zhou's mother, Ye Huimei, noticed that this quiet and shy child had been particularly sensitive to Western pop or classical music since he was a child.
“He was keen on music before he could walk,” she recalled. Zhou's mother sent him to piano class when he was four years old, and he played well, like a piano fanatic. A high school piano teacher said that when Jay Chou was a teenager, he could perform improvisationally. After leaving the piano room, Jay Chou was an ordinary teenager. While other classmates were playing basketball nearby, he repeatedly watched Kung Fu movies and played games. While others were busy preparing for the college entrance examination, he skipped classes, practiced twice as much, and lived aimlessly.
Music saved him and brought him luck. A school girl helped him sign up for "Super Rookie King", Taiwan's idol selection program. The producer of the show later contacted the surprised Jay Chou and asked him to participate in the show. But Jay Chou didn't dare to sing solo. Eventually, he played piano accompaniment for a friend who wanted to be a singer. Very poor acting. At that time, the host of the show, Wu Zongxian, was always looking for new people. He glanced at the nervous piano accompanist and the singer whose voice sounded like a crow, and thought, forget it! Wu Zongxian said: "I don't think it sounds good at all. The singer sang really badly." However, he looked at the music score: "I glanced at the music score from behind the referee's shoulder, and the result was amazing. It was very complicated. Great job." After recording, Wu Zongxian walked backstage to find Jay Chou, who was wearing a baseball cap that covered almost his eyes. Wu Zongxian recalled: "My first impression of him was that he was very quiet and shy. I thought he was autistic."
Wu Zongxian signed him to write songs full-time. A year and a half later, Wu Zongxian decided to After handing over the management rights of Alfa Records to his friend and singer Yang Junrong, Jay Chou moved from behind the scenes to the front and became an idol singer. Within 3 months, Jay Chou completed his first album.
In a sense, Jay Chou has brought us more than just great music. When a singer has a certain degree of influence, it can drive the healthy development of many industries.
p>Beethoven
Beethoven was born on December 16, 1770 in Bonn on the Rhine River near Cologne, Germany. His father, John, was mediocre and addicted to alcohol. Beethoven had no happiness at all during his childhood.
At the age of twelve, Beethoven was employed as a court piano and organ musician, and also took on the responsibility of supporting the family. Beethoven gradually received more attention in the court, but he had great ambitions and in 1787 he went to Vienna to worship Mozart. Unfortunately, his mother was critically ill in Bonn and died shortly after returning home. This was a huge blow to Beethoven, who stayed in Bonn for another five years.
In order to realize his ideal, Beethoven went to Vienna again in 1792. Count Waldstein helped a lot this time. In order to repay the favor, Beethoven later wrote Piano Sonata Opus 53 and dedicated it to Waldstein.
When he arrived in Vienna, Beethoven studied under Haydn for a year, and also sought advice from famous teachers such as Schenck, Abretzberg and Salieri, especially the latter, whom he studied for ten years. for a long time.
Beethoven wrote the excellent Violin Sonata No. 9 "Kreutzer". In 1804, he completed Piano Sonata No. 21 "Waldstein". The following year, he completed the Piano Sonata No. 23 "Passionate" and the unique opera "Fidelio". In this series of works, he showed his true skills, such as "Waldstein" and "Passion", which mesmerized the world. In 1806, he composed "Piano Concerto No. 4" and "Violin Concerto in D major".
In 1808, Beethoven published Symphony No. 5 "Destiny" and Symphony No. 6 "Pastoral" at the same time. In 1809, he completed the Fifth Piano Concerto "Emperor". These are all immortal masterpieces.
Su Shi
Su Shi (1037-1101, born on December 19, 1037 AD), also known as "Dongpo layman", is known as "Su Dongpo" by the world. He was a famous writer, calligrapher, painter, poet, and poet in the Northern Song Dynasty, and a representative of the bold and unconstrained poets. A native of Meizhou (now Meishan, Sichuan, Meishan City in the Northern Song Dynasty). Han nationality. In the second year of Xining (1069), he sued the court for the judge. He had political disagreements with Wang Anshi and opposed the implementation of the new law. In the second year of Yuanfeng (1079), he suffered from the "Wutai Poetry Case". He, his father Su Xun, and his younger brother Su Zhe are both famous for their literature, and are known as the "Three Sus" in the world; they are as famous as the "Three Cao Fathers and Sons" (Cao Cao, Cao Pi, and Cao Zhi) in the late Han Dynasty. "Sansu" refers to three of the Eight Great Masters of Tang and Song Dynasties. The Eight Great Masters of Tang and Song Dynasties are the collective name of the eight representative prose writers in the Tang and Song Dynasties. As an outstanding poet, he pioneered a bold style of poetry. He is also known as the famous poet Xin Qiji together with the outstanding poet Xin Qiji. "Su Xin". In poetry, he is called "Su Huang" together with Huang Tingjian. His works include "Dongpo Seven Collections" and "Dongpo Yuefu". In politics, he belongs to the old party led by Sima Guang. He has made great achievements in calligraphy, and together with Huang Tingjian, Mi Fu and Cai Xiang, he is known as the "Four Masters of Song Dynasty".
Su Shi’s life: In the first year of Jiayou (1056), Su Shi, who was twenty-one years old, left Sichuan for the first time and went to Beijing to take part in the imperial examination. The following year, he took the examination of the Ministry of Rites and won the appreciation of the examiner Ouyang Xiu with his article "On the Perfection of Honesty in Punishments and Rewards". However, he accidentally got the second place in the high school Jinshi. In the second year of Xining (1069), Shenzong ascended the throne and appointed Wang Anshi to support the reform. Su Shi saw the harm the new law had done to ordinary people, and he disagreed with Wang Anshi's approach. He believed that the new law was not convenient for the people, so he wrote a letter to oppose it. One result of this was that, like his mentors and friends who were forced to leave Beijing, they were not tolerated by the court. So Su Shi asked for a post and was transferred to Hangzhou Tongpan. In the second year of Yuanfeng (1079), less than three months after Su Shi arrived in Huzhou, he was arrested and imprisoned for writing poems that satirized the new law and "slandered the emperor and prime minister in writing". This is known as the "Wutai Poetry Case" in history. Su Shi was repeatedly demoted for not cooperating with the new policies. In the eighth year of Yuanyou (1093), the new party came to power again and was demoted to Huizhou (today's Huiyang, Guangdong) again. Later, Su Shi was demoted further to Danzhou (now Hainan). It is said that in the Song Dynasty, banishment to Hainan was a punishment only slightly lighter than the crime of execution. After Huizong came to the throne, he transferred Lianzhou resettlement, Shuzhou Tuanlian deputy envoy, and Yongzhou resettlement. In the third year of Yuanfu (1101), a general amnesty was granted, and he was reinstated as Chaofeng Lang. On his way back to the north, he died in Changzhou, and his posthumous title was Wenzhong. He died at the age of sixty-six.
Su Shi's literary views are in the same vein as Ouyang Xiu, but he emphasizes the originality, expressiveness and artistic value of literature. His literary thoughts emphasize "doing something for something", advocating nature, getting rid of constraints, "creating new ideas in laws and regulations, and expressing wonderful principles in boldness". He believes that compositions should reach the artistic realm of "like flowing clouds and flowing water, with no definite quality at first, but always doing what they should do and always stopping at what they must do. Natural literature and science, full of gestures" ("A Letter of Thanks to Minshi").
Cao Cao
Cao Cao (155-220): Emperor Wu of Wei. A statesman, military strategist and poet during the Three Kingdoms period. The courtesy name is Mengde, the nickname is Amo, and he was born in Qiao County, Peiguo (now Bozhou City, Anhui Province). He was promoted to Xiaolian for the first time, appointed as the Northern Wei of Luoyang, and moved to Dunqiu Ling. Later, in the war to suppress the Yellow Turban Uprising and conquer Dongzhuo, the military power was gradually expanded. In the third year of Chuping (AD 192), he served as the herdsman of Gunzhou, divided and lured part of the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army to surrender, and organized it into the "Qingzhou Soldiers". In the first year of Jian'an (196), the imperial capital Xu (now Xuchang, Henan) was presented. From then on, he issued orders in his name and successively defeated Lu Bu and other separatist forces. After the Battle of Guandu defeated the Hebei separatist force Yuan Shao, he gradually unified northern China. In the thirteenth year of Jian'an, he ascended the throne as prime minister and led his army southward, but was defeated by the coalition forces of Sun Quan and Liu Bei in Chibi. Conferred the title of King of Wei. His son Cao Pi proclaimed himself emperor and pursued the title of Emperor Wu. He farmed in the north and built water conservancy projects, which solved the problem of shortage of military rations and played a certain role in the recovery of agricultural production. He employed people based on their talents, recruited people from the middle and lower classes of the landlord class, restrained tyranny, and strengthened centralization of power. The social and economic development of the areas under their control has been restored and developed. He is an expert in the art of war and has written books such as "Sun Tzu's Brief Explanation" and "The Art of War". He is good at poetry, such as "A Walk in the Grass" and "Viewing the Sea", which express his political ambitions and reflect the suffering life of the people in the late Han Dynasty. They are majestic, generous and desolate. The prose is also clear and neat. His works include "Collection of Emperor Wu of Wei", which has been lost and was edited by Ming Dynasty people. Now there is a compiled and typeset version of "Collection of Cao Cao". ("Cihai" 1989 edition) Taizu had been in the army for more than thirty years and never let go of his books. The book talks about military strategies, and the night is spent thinking about the classics. When you climb high, you must write poems, compose new poems, and orchestrate them, all of which become music. ("Book of Wei") Shangya loves poetry, books and literature. Even though he is in the army, he can't let go of the scrolls. Every time I study, I calmly say: If a person is young and loves to learn, he will be good at thinking, and if he grows up, he will be good at forgetting. When he grows up, he can be a diligent scholar, but I am like Yuan Boye. ("Dian Lun·Autobiography", Yuan Boye's famous legacy, Yuan Shaocong's brother.) Cao Gong is an upright man, and he has very sad words. (Zhong Rong's "Poetry")
Edison
Edison has liked to use his distinctive big head to think about a series of problems since he was a child. When he saw the blacksmith burning iron in a raging fire and then hammering it into various tools, he shook his big head and asked one question after another. His main research area is in electricity. After he mastered telegraph technology, he worked hard day and night and completed two-way and four-way telegraph devices and automatic transmitters. In 1877, the Bell telephone device was improved, extending the telephone transmission from 2 to 3 miles to 107 miles. In the same year, the phonograph was invented. During this period, he devoted great efforts to the development of incandescent electric lamps. Except for arc lamps, "electric lamps" in the past often burned down as soon as they were lit. In order to find suitable filaments, more than 1,600 heat-resistant materials and more than 6,000 plant fibers were experimented. Finally, on October 21, 1879, carbon filament was used. The filament is made into an incandescent lamp that can burn for 40 hours. After that, it continued to be improved and perfected repeatedly, and a series of inventions such as threaded lamp holders, fuses, switches, and electricity meters were completed. On this basis, the development of the lighting circuit system was completed. "Waste, the greatest waste is time." Edison often said to his assistant. "Life is too short, you have to think of more ways to do more things with less time."
Zhuge Liang
Zhuge Liang's courtesy name is Kongming and his nickname is Wolong.
In the twelfth year of Jian'an (207 years), when Zhuge Liang was 27 years old, Liu Bei "visited the thatched cottage three times", met with Zhuge Liang, and asked about the plan to unify the world. Zhuge Liang analyzed the situation at the time incisively and proposed to first seize Jing and Yi as base areas and carry out internal reforms. In politics, he united with Sun Quan in foreign affairs, pacified the Yi and Yue in the south, and made peace with the Rong in the west. Waiting for the opportunity, he sent troops from both directions to the north to unify the country's strategic thinking. This conversation is the famous "Longzhong Dui" (i.e., "Thatched Cottage Dui") ). Liu Bei sincerely asked Zhuge Liang to come out and help him complete the great cause of reviving the Han Dynasty. Zhuge Liang then went out to assist Liu Bei, joined forces with Sun Yat-sen to fight Cao Cao, and defeated Cao's army in Chibi. The three kingdoms formed a tripartite force and captured Jingzhou. In the 16th year of Jian'an, Yizhou was captured. Then he defeated Cao Jun and captured Hanzhong. In the twenty-sixth year, Liu Bei established the Shu Han regime in Chengdu, and Zhuge Liang was appointed prime minister to preside over the government. In three years (223 years), Liu Bei was critically ill and asked him to take care of his future affairs. Liu Chan succeeded to the throne, and Zhuge Liang was granted the title of Marquis of Wuxiang and led the pastoral care of Yizhou. Be diligent and prudent, handle all political affairs personally, strictly enforce rewards and punishments, alliance with Soochow, improve relations with all ethnic groups in the southwest, implement farming, and strengthen war preparations. In the fifth year of Jianxing (227 years), Shangshu (i.e., "Chu Shi Biao") came under Liu Chan's command and led his army to station in Hanzhong. He made six northern expeditions to the Central Plains, mostly using food but without success. After twelve years, he finally became ill due to overwork and died in the Wuzhangyuan Army. He left his funeral affairs to Jiang Wei. Zhuge Liang was an outstanding statesman, thinker, and military strategist in Shu during the Three Kingdoms period. For thousands of years, Zhuge Liang has become the embodiment of wisdom, and his legendary stories have been recited by the world.
Li Bai
Li Bai cared about national affairs throughout his life, hoping to make contributions to the country, but was dissatisfied with the dark reality. His 59 "Ancient Styles" are representative works in this regard. The dark corruption of the late Tang Xuanzong politics was extensively exposed and criticized, reflecting the sorrow and indignation of the capable people who had no way out. The first of the poems begins with a clear meaning, inheriting the tradition of "elegance" in the Book of Songs, and clearly shows the creative spirit of caring about reality. Li Bai claimed that "it is a pleasure to travel to famous mountains all my life" ("A Ballad from Mount Lu sent to Lu Shiyu's Xuzhou"), and he wrote many poems describing natural scenery. He loves and praises mountains and rivers. In his works, the Yellow River roaring for thousands of miles, the Yangtze River with white waves like mountains, the Sichuan Road with "nine twists and turns in a hundred steps", and the Lushan Mountain with "turning back to the cliffs and towering mountains" are all majestic and majestic. There are more than 60 of Li Bai's proses in existence. There are also many couplets, and it does not break away from the parallel prose style that was popular at the time. But the language is more natural and smooth, and there are similarities with his poetic style. He spent most of his life wandering. In the first year of Tianbao (742), due to the recommendation of Taoist Wu, he was called to Chang'an to worship Hanlin. The style of the article made him famous for a while, and he was highly praised by Xuanzong. Later, because he could not be accepted by the powerful, he gave up his official position after only three years in Beijing, and continued his wandering life. In the second year after the Anshi Rebellion, he was indignant about the difficult times and joined the shogunate of Yongwang Li Lin. Unfortunately, King Yong and Suzong fought for the throne. After their defeat, Li Bai was implicated and exiled to Yelang (in today's Guizhou), but was pardoned on the way. In his later years, he wandered around the southeast, where he followed Li Yangbing, the magistrate of Dangtu County, and died of illness soon after.
Du Fu
Du Fu was born in Gong County, Henan Province in 712 AD. Lost his mother at the age of five. He was able to compose poems at the age of seven, and his eloquence was extraordinary: "Thinking at seven years old makes you strong, and you chant the phoenix with your mouth." He traveled to Jin Dynasty at the age of 19 and to Wuyue at the age of 20. At the age of 24, he failed to win the imperial examination. At the age of 25, he traveled to Qi and Zhao. At the age of 44, the Anshi Rebellion broke out. At the age of 46, "When I see the emperor in hemp shoes, I shed tears and teach him to pick up the lost things." In June of the following year, he was demoted to Huazhou Sigong and joined the army. After the Beginning of Autumn in July of that year, he wrote a poem titled "After the Beginning of Autumn" and immediately abandoned his official position and moved his family to Qinzhou. Du Fu lived in Qinzhou for nearly 100 days.
Zimei, who calls himself Shaoling Yelao, Du Shaoling, Du Gongbu, etc., is a great poet in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, known as the "Sage of Poetry" in the world, a realist poet, known as Du Gongbu and Du Shiyi in the world, and his representative work is " "Three Officials" ("Xin'an Officials", "Shihao Officials", "Tongguan Officials") and "Three Farewells" ("Newlywed Farewell", "Elderly Farewell" and "Homeless Farewell"). Originally from Xiangyang, Hubei, born in Gong County, Henan. The grandson of Du Shenyi, a poet in the early Tang Dynasty. During the reign of Emperor Suzong of the Tang Dynasty, official Zuo collected the artifacts. After he entered Shu, his friend Yan Wu recommended him to be a staff officer of Jiannan Jiedu Mansion and a member of the school's Ministry of Industry. Therefore, later generations also called him Du Shiyi and Du Gongbu. He was concerned about the country and the people, and had a noble personality. He wrote more than 1,500 poems in his life, and his poetic skills were exquisite. He was honored as the "Sage of Poetry" by later generations.