Chapter 277 Teachers' Farewell

Amid the applause, the soldiers on the stage saluted in unison, and then walked off the stage with steady steps.

In the backstage, Xu Nuo stood straight, saluted, and watched them leave. These people deserved his respect.

Everyone saluted in unison, not only to Xu Nuo himself, but also to the song.

The graduation ceremony of Magic City Media has been going on for two hours and is coming to an end.

However, everyone is still not satisfied and has no intention of leaving.

The audience in the live broadcast room is the same.

"There are three more songs!"

"Let the storm come more violently!"

"In fact, these seven songs of Nuoyan have already become gods. A graduation ceremony that has been held to this extent, Magic City Media is already famous enough to go down in history."

Yes, being able to hold a graduation ceremony to more than 10 million people and occupying 20 hot searches 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 year during the graduation season, when mentioning the graduation ceremony, Qingdao University will be mentioned, which is better than any brochure.

But only 2.5 million people watched the graduation ceremony of Qingdao University in 2022, which is four times less than that of Magic City Media of Blue Star.

Xu Nuo didn't have time to watch the discussion of netizens, and he didn't know about it.

But when arranging the program, after arranging the song "The Motherland Will Not Forget", the principal was excited, "I think this is enough! Magic City Media will surely become a household name!"

Many school leaders expressed their support and thought that seven songs were enough.

Until Xu Nuo took out a new song.

The whole audience was silent.

This song has a well-known name, called "Farewell".

One hundred and nine years ago, Master Hongyi Li Shutong wrote this "Farewell" when he bid farewell to Xu Huanyuan, one of the "Five Friends of the World".

It was snowing heavily, and Xu Huanyuan said three sentences, "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.

Wars were frequent, Xu Huanyuan's second revolution failed, and his millions of family property disappeared. This time he wanted to go north to seek justice.

He used his life to seek justice.

So this time, it was a farewell, and also a farewell forever.

In such a situation, a great work that spanned a century was born.

Some people are really geniuses.

Li Shutong is one of the best geniuses. He is not only a musician, but also an art educator, calligrapher, and drama activist. He is one of the pioneers of Chinese drama.

In 1916, 37-year-old Li Shutong became a monk and was named Master Hongyi. Then he gradually became a master.

"Farewell" was written by Li Shutong and composed by John Pond Otway. In addition to crossing national borders, music can also cross time and space.

For more than a hundred years, "Farewell" has been enduring.

Even when counting the songs of graduation season every year, many people have pushed the time to 1915, just to not miss this "Farewell".

This shows the status of this song in everyone's heart.

Without the song "Farewell" in the graduation season, it always feels like some inheritance is missing.

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 to walk onto the stage.

The audience suddenly became lively because most of them were counselors.

Compared to teachers, counselors are the positions that have the most contact with students, just like the head teacher in junior high and high school.

The leading teacher on the stage took the microphone and said, "Today's weather is very good, just as good as it was four years ago when you entered the school. After today's farewell, I wish you all a bright future and a smooth journey."

The atmosphere of farewell became stronger.

This graduation ceremony will be unforgettable for everyone present, but no matter how reluctant they are, the graduation ceremony is about to end.

Everyone became a little sad.

The melodious music sounded, and the teachers on the stage began to sing.

"Outside the long pavilion, beside the ancient road, the grass is green and connected to the sky.

The evening wind blows the willows, the sound of the flute is faint, and the sunset is beyond the mountains."

The long pavilion, the ancient road, the grass, and the willows are all images of farewell.

When these two sentences are sung, everyone suddenly has a sense of picture in front of their eyes.

It seems that they are not in the stadium in midsummer, but appear on the ancient road, saying goodbye.

Young people may not have too many feelings about the long pavilion and ancient road, but in fact, in the 1980s, when transportation was not developed, farewell was like this.

Without trains and cars, how to say goodbye? Of course, it is not to send to the doorstep, but to send out of the city, town, and village, but it is impossible to send the Buddha to the west, so you can only send the other party to the wilderness.

Taking out "the long pavilion and ancient road" alone is actually a bit sad, because it is easy to make people think of the bleak scenes such as "the ancient road and the west wind", and the following sentence "the grass is green and connected to the sky" pulls the emotion back and stops the sadness here.

Too much is as bad as too little, which will affect the experience of the whole song.

The students sat quietly and listened quietly.

The teachers continued to sing:

"At the end of the world, at the corner of the earth, half of my friends have left.

A cup of muddy wine will make me happy. Don't dream of the cold tonight."

After graduation, students from all over the world will go to different destinations. Except for some classmates and friends who have a very good relationship.

Others may never meet again. The feelings cultivated in four years will be worn away little by little 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.

The relationship of four years was never forgotten. Although they had 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 farewell to someone else will make others feel uncomfortable as well.

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 alumni.

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>10. 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."