After more than a decade of silence, Dao Lang’s comeback has reached its peak. The “Where the Folk Songs Resound” tour concert is incredibly popular. The online jokes about Dao Lang are likely mostly from middle-aged people who have experienced the vicissitudes of life
My wife asked me who Dao Lang was, and I immediately took her to the Civil Affairs Bureau;
My son said that Dao Lang's songs are not good, so I got angry and filled his entire summer vacation with extracurricular tutoring classes；
A friend borrowed hundreds of thousands from me. One day, he said that Dao Lang's songs were not good. In a fit of anger, I forced him to sell his house and pay me back all the money......
Dao Lang’s concert is like a clear stream, making people yearn for it: there is no host, no guests, no dancers, no makeup, no flowers, dressed as usual, just a T-shirt and casual pants, singing one song after another, without changing clothes, and no intermission, singing for more than three hours; his voice is highly recognizable, hoarse, rough, cool, experienced and full of atmosphere. Listening to his songs, you will always listen to your heart, and can’t help but cry.
Videos of concerts in Chengdu, Guangzhou, Nanjing, and Macau are all available on Youtube, and they are all complete versions. Everyone doesn’t care about copyright, just put it up and talk about it; the domestic internet is very strict, and infringing rights will be deleted. I have watched the videos of several concerts that have already been toured. It is really crying on stage and off stage, crying inside and outside the venue. Dao Lang choked and couldn’t make a sound. The chorus of thousands of people under the stage was so touching that tears filled their faces. This scene is really unprecedented, shocking. What power makes the audience so emotional, tears full of faces and thousands of people singing? Some people say that he is the spokesperson for ordinary people, just like us, they are all ordinary people, and they have to face the confusion and challenges of life, and they have to stand up no matter how difficult it is. How many spines have been bent by a word of home, and how many lovesickness has been eaten by a word of love. Dao Lang’s songs sing the hardships and helplessness of ordinary people, and sing the efforts and persistence of ordinary people. Dao Lang’s crying awakened our dusty memories in our hearts and found the once self. We also once had expectations and dreams, desires and pursuits, but were forced by life, hijacked by the world, and lived into a look that we don’t want to see now; Dao Lang’s songs made us see the purity outside the world, restarted the courage to persist, and found the direction to continue moving forward. The return of Dao Lang is no longer the Dao Lang of yesterday.
He is not a singer
He is not an internet celebrity
He is a poet, writer, and philosopher
Perhaps some people think that Dao Lang is over-praised to such a high level , in fact, those who appreciate Dao lang are more afraid of killing him by glowing words. Dao Lang’s 2023 album “Rare Folk Songs” 11 songs and 2020 album “Tanci Huaben” 10 songs, each song is a classic, but it seems not easy to understand, it takes some time to check and understand and feel, but, worth it! Here, take “Flower Spirit” as an example, try to appreciate it:
The background story of the song is as follows (for details, please refer to Nisang CNNP – Music Studio)
Different versions of “Flower Spirit” naturally carry different tastes. Let’s enjoy the original singer Dao Lang’s cross-dressing performance, the murmurs of the Jiangnan Wu dialect, and Xu Ziyao’s erhu accompaniment below
The final stop of Dao Lang’s tour concert is set in Urumqi, his second hometown. The people of Xinjiang really love him in earnest. In Xinjiang dialect, it is said that “everyone will face all kinds of ridicule”, but Dao Lang has long thrown these pains into ‘Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio‘ , integrated into the Book of Songs, and returned to the son of the European steel boss, Wittgenstein!
I told my wife that I must go back for Dao Lang’s final tour. During the past ten years that Dao Lang was silent, I have also been wandering in a foreign land. This time when I go back, I will first go to Balou (a bus stop in Urumqi) not far from home to see if the No. 2 bus parked there has left, and then go to the scene to feel the atmosphere of everyone singing together with tears streaming down their faces, to cry together, release the suppressed emotions in my heart, relax, and then come back to continue doing what I should do!
