novelweb Chapter 277 Teachers’ Farewell
Chapter 277 Teachers’ Farewell
Amidst the applause, the soldiers on the stage saluted in unison, and then walked off the stage with steady steps.
Backstage, Xu Nuo stood up straight, saluted, and watched them finish. These people deserved his respect.
Everyone responded in unison, not only to honor Xu Nuo, but also to the song.
The graduation ceremony of Modu Media has been going on for two hours and is coming to an end.
However, everyone was still unsatisfied and had no intention of quitting.
The same goes for the audience in the live broadcast room.
"Three more!"
"Let the storm come more violently!"
"Actually, these seven songs of Promise have already been enshrined. With a graduation ceremony like this, Modu Media is enough to leave its name in history."
Yes, the graduation ceremony was able to be watched by more than 10 million people, and it accounted for 20 hot searches, which is enough to go down in history.
In 2019, Qingdao University's song "The Wind Rises" quickly became popular and has been popular for five consecutive years.
Every graduation season, when it comes to graduation ceremonies, Qingdao University will be mentioned, which is better than any promotional brochure.
However, the 2022 Qingdao University graduation ceremony was watched by only 2.5 million people, which is four times less than Blue Star’s Modu Media.
Xu Nuo didn’t have time to read the discussion among netizens, and he didn’t know either.
But when arranging the program, after arranging the song "The Motherland Will Not Forget", the principal became excited, "I think this is enough! Magic City Media will definitely become a well-known university!"
Many school leaders expressed support and believed that seven songs were enough.
Until Xu Nuo came up with a new song.
The whole place was silent.
This song has a catchy name, called "Farewell".
One hundred and nine years ago, Master Hongyi Li Shutong wrote this song "Farewell" when he was bidding farewell to Xu Huanyuan, one of the "Five Friends from the End of the World".
The snow was falling heavily, and Xu Huanyuan said three words: "Brother Shutong, my family is bankrupt, we will meet again later.".
After his friend left, Li Shutong stood in the university for a long time, speechless and choked.
War broke out frequently, Xu Huanyuan's second revolution failed, and tens of millions of family properties were wiped out. This time he wanted to go north to seek justice.
Use your life to seek justice.
So this time, it’s a farewell and a farewell forever.
Under such circumstances, a work that spans a hundred years and is still great was born.
Some people are truly geniuses.
Li Shutong is the best among geniuses. He is not only a musician, but also an art educator, calligrapher, drama activist, and one of the pioneers of Chinese drama.
In 1916, 37-year-old Li Shutong became a monk, named Master Hongyi, and gradually became a master.
"Farewell" was written by Li Shutong and composed by John Pound Otway. In addition to crossing national borders, music can also travel through time and space.
For more than a hundred years, "The Farewell" has endured.
Many people even push the time to 1915 when taking stock of the songs for graduation season every year, just so as not to miss the song "Farewell".
This shows the status of this song in everyone's heart.
Without the graduation song "Farewell", it always feels like something is missing from the legacy.
On the stage, the host took the microphone and continued, "On this day of farewell, senior Xu Nuo has written seven songs for us. The next song will be sung by our teacher representative, "Farewell"."
The teachers lined up and walked onto the stage.
The audience suddenly became lively because most of the people were counselors.
Compared with teachers, counselors are the ones who have the most contact with students, just like head teachers in middle and high school.
The teacher at the head of the stage held the microphone and said, "The weather today is very good, just as good as when you entered the school four years ago. I say goodbye today and wish you all a bright future and a safe journey."
The atmosphere of parting is getting stronger.
This graduation ceremony will be unforgettable for everyone present, but no matter how reluctant you are to leave, the graduation ceremony is almost over.
Everyone felt a little sad.
The melodious music sounded, and the teachers on the stage began to sing.
"Outside the pavilion, beside the ancient road, the green grass reaches the sky.
The evening breeze carries the faint sound of willow flutes, and the sun sets outside the mountains. "
The long pavilion, ancient roads, fragrant grass and willows are all images of farewell.
As soon as these two lines were sung, everyone immediately had a picture in front of their eyes.
It seemed as if they were not in a stadium in the middle of summer, but still on the side of the ancient road, saying goodbye.
Young people may not have much impression of the Changting Ancient Road, but in fact, in the 1980s, an era when transportation was underdeveloped, this was how farewell was.
There is no train or car. How to say goodbye? Of course, it is not delivered to the doorstep. It has to be delivered out of the city, town, and village. But it is impossible to send the Buddha to the west. The other party can only be sent to the wilderness.
Taking out "Changting Ancient Road" alone is actually a bit sad, because it easily reminds people of bleak scenes such as "Ancient Road West Wind", and the following sentence "Fragrant grass and green sky" brings back the emotion and makes people feel sad. The sorrow stops here.
Too much is not enough, and it will affect the experience of the entire song.
The students sat quietly and listened.
The teachers continued to sing:
"At the end of the sky, at the corner of the earth, my close friends are half scattered.
A ladle of turbid wine will extinguish all the remaining joy. Don’t sleep in the cold tonight. "
After graduation, students from all over the world will go to different destinations. Except for a few classmates and friends who have a good relationship.
Others will probably never meet again, and the relationship cultivated over four years will be worn away bit by bit under the erosion of time.
This is true among classmates, and also true with teachers.
From then on, close friends were scattered all over the world.
Many people feel sad. Looking at their friends around them, they can't help but want to ask, "Will we meet again?"
Maybe, but more likely not.
In the story of life, everyone is the protagonist, has his own life, and the chance of meeting each other is slim.
"Thousands of love, a glass of wine, the sound of the flute reminds you when you are going to come, don't linger when you come~"
Every lyric is like a knife piercing the heart.
When the teachers on the stage sang this, some of them were already crying.
Four years of love can never be forgotten. Although they have experienced countless farewells, this time was the hardest time they cried.
It's so tear-jerking, one song after another, I can't even cry anymore.
The graduates in the audience also burst into tears. They used more than one pack of tissues, and their makeup was stained and there was no time to touch it up.
Saying goodbye makes the person giving it away feel uncomfortable, and others feel uncomfortable too.
There is no feast that lasts forever. After today, they will no longer be students.
Although I could still go back to my alma mater, my title at that time had become alumnus.
Alumni, what a strange title.
At this moment, many people have the urge to stay.
The sound of sobbing and crying infected the entire audience.
In the live broadcast room, netizens once again acted as crying companions.
This song is sad but not sad. It not only made the graduates cry, but also made netizens who had the same experience cry.
As for how good this song is, most of them don't know, and there's no need to know. Just cry along and that's it.
Farewell is a very important and common scene in Chinese culture, so there are many farewell poems throughout the ages, and this song "Farewell" is one of the best.
Write and send in front, and the farther you send, the farther you will go. Along the ancient pavilion road, fragrant grass stretches to the sky, the evening wind carries the flute, the sun sets in the distance, and there are mountains outside the mountains.
I will send you away until I can no longer see you.
Write farewell to Xiaque, although it is far away, it is close.
It has been sent out of sight, and there are still the ends of the world. The ends of the world are already far enough. I use wine to dream, and the dream is further than the ends of the world.
In just a few dozen words, "Farewell" was written as a swan song.
Simple and implicit, within a limited number of words, it inspires everyone's association. The common combination of intentions has the effect of 1+1\u003e10. The whole song is sad but not sad, and has become a classic.
After singing this song, the students at the scene burst into tears and applauded as hard as they could.
Teachers bowed on stage.
The applause kept ringing and the teachers kept bowing.
Finally one student noticed this and stopped applauding.
After the applause died down, the teachers stood up and walked off the stage.
At the end of the eighth song, the explosion of popularity is no longer enough to describe the graduation ceremony of Modu Media. The number of people in the live broadcast room exceeded 12 million.
Not only netizens and students from other schools gathered here, but also a large number of military personnel, official personnel, and university professors.
"Qilixiang" hit the hearts of young people, and "The Motherland Will Not Forget" awe-inspiring those who have had a military career.
Among them is the father-in-law of Xu Nuo. They all say that the mother-in-law likes her son-in-law more and more, and he is the father-in-law who likes her son-in-law more and more.
He must be a perfect son-in-law with character, talent, and good looks.
"Farewell" uses poetry-like lyrics and has conquered many old professors who pay attention to live broadcasts.
Someone picked up the lyrics. When I first read them, I thought the words were ordinary and just piled on top of each other. Then after thinking about it carefully, they all felt ashamed of their previous opinions.
Nothing can be changed.
It seems that changing any word destroys the original artistic conception.
So a professor interpreted the lyrics of "Farewell" and posted it online, which immediately aroused a lot of discussion.
At this time of the graduation ceremony, the teachers had already left.
But this time the person who walked onto the stage was not the host, but the principal, holding a manuscript in his hand.
The scene fell silent. People were wondering if the graduation ceremony was about to end. What could the principal do on stage? He just gave a speech and then announced the end.
The principal stood on the stage and picked up the microphone, "Dear students, good afternoon, everyone. Standing on this stage for the second time today means that our graduation ceremony is coming to an end, but don't panic."
As he spoke, the principal waved the paper in his hand and said with a smile: "This is not a manuscript. It is actually the lyrics promised to me. I am old and can't remember it, so I had to bring the lyrics with me."
The students at the scene were all shocked. No one expected that the principal came on stage not to speak, but to sing? !
"I'll go. Can the principal also sing?"
"Just kidding, when I was young, the principal was also a singing prince."
The scene became quiet for a while, and the principal continued: "Although I am very reluctant to say goodbye, I still want to send you off to graduation with a song "Goodbye". From now on, you will embark on a new journey."