"I must go to Tibet once in my life!" This is a wish listed on the list of life by countless friends, but few people can actually reach it. Maybe because of the busy work and timidity... The trip that you want to leave has gradually become an unreachable dream.

And 27-year-old Zhejiang girl Chen Jiawei dares to dream. In 2019, she went to Tibet without hesitation, and spent three years learning fluent Tibetan and Tibetan music that made her fascinated.

Find answers to life on top of the world

Since 2019, I have used the winter and summer vacations to travel back and forth between Zhejiang and Tibet to explore traditional Tibetan music scattered among the folk. At the same time, I also posted the videos of Langma dui and Tibetan songs that I played and sang on social media. At first, I just wanted to record my learning results in Tibet, but I did not expect to gain a lot of fans.

With the attention of more and more people, an idea sprang up in my heart: Can I use myself as a bridge to connect the two places, so that more people can understand the charm of Tibetan music and get closer to this haunting land with me .

Many people are curious, as a child born in a water town in the south of the Yangtze River, why did he go to the roof of the world at all costs?

It all starts with my college days. At that time, I was on a national tour with the school's "Eight Seconds Choir", and one of them was a modern Tibetan song composed by a Han music professor. It used dissonant intervals, and the elusive atmosphere came to me.

For us, we always like to use our imagination to figure out the unknown, and use black to express the mystery. I started to think: what is the real Tibetan music?

It is either elegant, ethereal, or brisk, and it is thousands of miles away from the mystery I imagined. Of course, this is what I learned later.

The desire to let the public understand the real Tibetan music has been planted in my heart, and slowly took root, leading me to the real Himalayas.

The journey of collecting wind:

More precious than music is the human heart

Walking in Tibet, in addition to the shock of the soul brought by the music itself, is more important to get along with others. This is the conclusion I came to during the process of collecting wind on this land.

I once listened to Bai Zhen's elegy in Lazi until the sadness overwhelmed me; I learned Reba dance with Teacher Zeji and felt the burning passion... But the most impressive thing is when I get along with vivid people, the soul moment of intersection.

I still remember when I first went to Gannan to study, my teacher took me to a party of Xiahe folk artists. A large table of people chatted in Tibetan, and only I was at a loss.

But in fact, before I came here, I had been learning Tibetan for a period of time with the idea of "respecting others in order to be accepted". Therefore, in the hot chat, I mustered up the courage to say a Tibetan language, which immediately attracted everyone's attention. They probably did not expect that a Han girl could speak Tibetan.

What moved me the most was that everyone started to communicate in Chinese. Although it was very lame, I felt the heart-to-heart communication in this unfamiliar environment. When you give your heart to him, he will open his heart to you.

I once composed the inspiration I got in Tibet into the song "Hope". At that time, there was no complete equipment. The singing was recorded in the toilet, and the accompaniment was typed out by my mobile phone, but it was my most satisfactory work. ——

Those emotional notes, carrying a landscape, a journey, and a story, are the most beautiful scenery I have encountered in this snowy area.

For Tibetan traditional music, what I want to do is...

Recently, due to the epidemic, I cannot go to Tibet, and I often regret it. But no matter where you are, the ancient power contained in traditional Tibetan art can always give people spiritual comfort.

The deepening of my studies and the experience of the Conservatory of Music prompted me to think from multiple dimensions: what exactly is Tibetan music?

For years, I've been trying to find a word to sum up Tibetan music, cheerful? High pitched? So I went to ask Teacher Dorje Thondup for advice, but he denied it very sternly: "It can't be generalized!"

Tibetan music, like the land that nurtured it, is vast and colorful. It is just that the styles of each county are very different, and the Tibetan areas under the general environment of U-Tsang, Amdo, and Kham are even more different. With the extensive knowledge and in-depth understanding of these music, I can feel that my heart has also become vast.

However, with the rapid development of society, these ancient arts are facing severe inheritance challenges. This has also strengthened my footsteps - let more people know about intangible cultural heritage culture and fall in love with Tibetan music.

Now, I have become a junior high school music teacher. In addition to my daily teaching, I also bring Tibetan music into the classroom. When the Zha Nianqin sounded, I saw the curious, yearning and eager eyes of the students.

"The teacher first played a piece of Tibetan music, and then jumped to the music. Everyone was stunned. After the song, we applauded the teacher with all our strength. What's even more amazing is that the teacher also picked up a With the national characteristic qin, we play and sing, and we seem to have gone to a remote Tibetan area..."

After class, the students would always chat around me: "So folk music is not boring at all!" "Tibetans are so different from what I imagined!" "I also want to go to the field to collect folk music in the future!"

Seeing the glow in their eyes, I imagined possible scenarios:

Han Chinese, Tibetans, and perhaps more ethnic groups sing Tibetan songs together on the side of the sea and between heaven and earth. The melodious melody of Zhanian took us to the snowy land 3,000 kilometers away.