Star Maker: the Starlight Code of Lao Cai

Deep in the old street paved with bluestones, the lights of the "Zhiyin Musical Instrument Store" are always on until late at night - the down-and-out musician Lao Zhou and three young apprentices formed the unknown "Old Street Starmaking Cluster". They don't chase traffic, they only do one thing: salvage the sounds buried by life from the fireworks of the city. Aunt Zhang, who fried fried dough sticks, had a voice that contained the warmth of the morning mist and the fire; Lao Chen, the shoe repairman, had his toolbox filled with lyrics about life; these ordinary people whose sharpness had been worn away by time sang "The frying pan at three o'clock in the morning" and "The years of sewing and sewing" to the band's folk music accompaniment. But after the grassroots singing unexpectedly became popular, capital came with a gold-plated contract: Aunt Zhang was asked to quit the breakfast stall, Lao Chen's lyrics were changed to be "more popular", and the erhu and harmonica that were full of pyrotechnics were also replaced. When rumors and suppression followed, and when their partners were shaken by fame and fortune, this group of star-makers, known as "rustic", stood on the "Avenue of Stars" holding musical instruments and shoe repair boxes. There is no gorgeous packaging, just aprons and tool boxes; there is no assembly line arrangement, just the harmony of erhu and pipa. What they sang was not a song, but the light hidden in the folds of life of every ordinary person. In the end, the fireworks melody of the old street conquered the national stage, and this group of star-makers still stayed at the entrance of the alley, letting the fragrance of fried dough sticks wrap their singing and illuminate the path of pursuing dreams for every ordinary person.