Before 2002, the nutcracker was two people, the nutcracker was him and the walnut was his cousin. At the age of eight, he and his cousin began to compose music. Although he has never studied music theory and doesn't know musical instruments, he has an excellent sense of music and often hums a few self-made songs at will. His family picked up the melody he hummed and adapted it into music. In 2002, after entering junior high school, he separated from his cousin, and "Nutcracker" became his exclusive name.
In 2004, after listening to the opening music of The Legend of the Sword and the Chivalrous Man, he was deeply attracted by this quiet and elegant melody. The opening music of the new fairy sword begins with a piano piece, and the symphony reproduces the melodious sound of flying cranes in the mountains. At the end, it repeats the melody of the piano music, as if the story is over, love is over, and it has returned to the detached and open-minded world. He listened to it for more than ten times, and the lyrics gradually formed in his mind, so he had this well-known "I can't hold your hand in a dream", the title of which was taken from a sentence he read at that time: "Spring dreams are long, but dreams can't hold your hand."
He posted the lyrics on the Xianjian forum he often went to, and it was soon covered by other players. Two years later, a fan game named "Legend of the Sword and the Chivalrous Man: The Continuation of the Shine" was circulated among the players of the sword, and its theme song was Miss Tang's cover song "I can't hold your hand in a dream".
) "Now it seems to belong to the level of limerick, which is related to experience." Said the nutcracker. After entering high school, one day, he chatted with a girl in his class about the fairy sword. The girl is a "heavy building fan". Knowing that the Nutcracker is a good writer, she encouraged him to write more songs for Xianjian. "So she made a mistake." During the two years from Grade Two to Grade Three, the Nutcracker filled in more than 30 lyrics for Xianjian, including Rain (Episode of Fairy Sword, Shining for Rain), Peach Blossom Dream (Episode of Fairy Sword, Taoyuan Village), Lonely Dream (Episode of Fairy Sword, also known as Song of Water Dragon) and Promise of Promise (). His own favorite is "Little Feelings" written for the abortion fan game "The Fate of Wounds". This lyric is not famous and has never been covered. Although there are only six short sentences, they are quite poetic: "I don't know when a look makes my heart beat faster/a little ignorant trouble gradually breeds in my heart/moonlight accompanies my sleepless heart/who knows that little feeling?"
For the nutcracker, writing lyrics is an interest. He never forces others to know or accept his lyrics. After writing the lyrics, the lyricist usually tries to sing by himself, demonstrating how to break sentences, how to use singing methods and how to put feelings into the cover singer. Moreover, after he finished writing, he threw the lyrics directly on the internet, leaving something as purely ornamental as a written work.
In 2007, Nutcracker was admitted to the Mathematics Department of Shandong University. After the college entrance examination, I joined the "Mo Qi Ming Miao" created by Friends, which is an original music team with ancient works as its creative route.
In Mo Qi Ming Miao, he learned a lot and understood that the creation of lyrics should not be arbitrary, not just for pleasure, but to think about the meaning and rationality of words from the listener's point of view. Before writing, he will do a lot of homework in advance, collect video and text materials related to the game, reawaken the memory of the plot, listen to the music to be filled repeatedly, and remember the whole melody. When composing formally, he plays the music over and over again, conceiving the theme while listening, and the lyrics will naturally come to mind; Choose the most suitable sentence as the beginning, then put other words in it like building blocks, and adjust them while putting them; After the first draft is completed, check it word by word to see if there is any digression, whether the words are rigorous, whether the words are unsatisfactory, and whether there is rhetoric suspicion.
Many times, the lyrics are not done in one go. When writing lyrics for Dong Zhen's Drunken Dream Fairy Forest, he even typed several drafts repeatedly. The first draft was dominated by emotional entanglements, but it was quickly rejected by him. He feels that the fairy sword has always been too powdery and deviated from the theme of traditional Taoism. Therefore, in the final version of the lyrics, there is an old and embarrassing saying that "misty rain breaks the clouds in the middle of the sky/listening to the wonderful sounds of Sanqing, so I smell/flip my hand/restore my life/become a monk/why distinguish".
Sometimes, he still misses the days when he wrote whatever he thought. At that time, most of the lyrics were playful, funny to watch, and more playful.
The online Nutcracker and the real Nutcracker are two parallel lines, and there is no intersection at all. On the internet, he is a musician who deals with notes and words; In reality, he is a student who deals with digital symbols all day. A year ago, he cooperated with his teammates and won the first prize in the national mathematical modeling competition for college students. The topic is "Calculation and correction of oil storage tank volume and fuel meter". This summer, he graduated from college and was recommended as a graduate student majoring in financial statistics in our school.
He deliberately made these two identities independent of each other. As a musician, he seldom talks about things in life. As a student, he never talked about writing his own lyrics in front of other students. It was not until the anniversary CD of Mo Qi Ming Miao was sent to him that the students in the dormitory discovered that the people who had lived with them for so long were actually writing lyrics.
"Everyone has his own secrets and hobbies, and there is no need for others to know or accept them." He said indifferently.