Great dance, great song!

The singing continued from the MV:

"Waiting for a jade ruyi"

"A barrel of wine ah"

As this line ended, Xu Jianwei circled behind Nan Ye and patted him three times on the shoulder.

Nan Ye made a gesture of being suddenly startled awake.

He looked around but found nothing.

Sorrow arises from the unknown, going deep and far!

Seeing this scene, Immortal Hu couldn't help but pound the table:

"Fake... all of this is fake!"

"Awesome, awesome, this choreography is truly amazing!

The previous bell-shaking movement symbolizes summoning the souls of the living to dance with the deceased.

Why is Xu Jianwei the deceased?

Not only because of the scene with bloody tears, but also because she was holding a bead in her mouth while getting her makeup done.

In ancient times, this kind of bead was called a face-setting bead, used for encoffining.

Only the deceased are encoffined...

Now, Xu Jianwei patted Nan Ye three times on the shoulder, which is to wake Nan Ye up.

If he delays any longer, there might be danger.

The underworld is not a place for the living to go!

That's why Nan Ye felt lost looking around, because his soul had returned to its place, and he could no longer see Xu Jianwei.

This part of the choreography should trend on hot search!"

Once Immortal Hu truly explained it, everyone understood.

[Holy crap, if he hadn't said it, I really wouldn't have known that bead was a face-setting bead!]

[I guessed the same as Immortal Hu, so when Xu Jianwei patted him three times, I got goosebumps.]

[I don't know who choreographed this dance, I want to go see his work.]

[...]

While they were discussing, the song continued with the accompaniment:

"This time she couldn't say a word"

"She was smiling and crying"

"Guess how she was smiling and crying"

"Crying"

"Look how she was crying and smiling"

During this part, Xu Jianwei danced alone on the side.

Meanwhile, Nan Ye took out a pair of black long socks from somewhere and then put them on.

Immediately after, the two danced together again!

This time, even Immortal Hu didn't understand this scene.

He didn't make any comments, just wanted to see if there were any hints next.

Who knew that at this moment, the sound of the suona rang out again.

However, the feeling this time's suona sound gave was different from the previous one.

The part where they bowed to the parents was the bride's cry, her unwillingness in her heart, her voicing injustice for herself.

But this part had a different flavor in different people's hearts.

Was it the end of the wedding?

Was it the end of the tragedy?

Or... the beginning of a great joy?

"The eighteenth day of the first lunar month, this auspicious day"

"The eighteenth day of the first lunar month, this auspicious day"

"..."

In the sound of the suona, the beginning part was repeated continuously.

The dance of Nan Ye and Xu Jianwei ended here.

In the final shot, the two, hand in hand, crossed a bridge in the misty rain lake.

On the bridge, they exchanged tokens of love.

Then, they slowly disappeared into the mist created by dry ice.

The song ended with a strike of a cymbal.

The screen turned gray, until it was dark!

A complete MV had finished playing.

But everyone was still immersed in the dance of Nan Ye and Xu Jianwei, still immersed in their love story.

Everyone had a question: was the ending ultimately a great joy or a great sorrow?

At this moment, Immortal Hu in the live stream room forcefully slapped the table.

Even though this slap made his hand hurt, he didn't have time to cry out in pain.

Instead, he shouted in the fastest, most excited voice:

"I understand, I understand!

Everyone, do you still remember the scene where the two walked onto the stage? Xu Jianwei was wearing black socks, and Nan Ye was barefoot but smeared with some black ash.

This means the woman has passed away, and half of the man has gone with her.

In fact, it was when Shi Xiaoyan and Shen Chengcheng had their ghost marriage, his heart had already gone with Shen Chengcheng.

Finally, Nan Ye putting on black socks means Shi Xiaoyan committed suicide by poison.

He truly and completely went with Shen Chengcheng.

Therefore, the ending is both a great joy and a great sorrow.

The sorrow is because they were both victims of Shen Qing's gambling and left the world in despair.

The joy is because they met in the underworld, exchanged tokens of love on the Bridge of Helplessness, and promised to meet again in the next life, not forgetting each other.

Hence the final part with the suona, which is indeed a great joy and indeed a great sorrow!

So, the dance is good, and the song is good!

I'm impressed by Nan Ye, truly!

To be able to shoot such an MV in three days is amazing!"

Yes, most people had the same view as Immortal Hu and were utterly amazed by this MV.

However, some people still offered different opinions:

[Although it also talks about the ghost marriage, couldn't it be easier to understand? Does it have to use such strange words?]

Indeed, if it weren't for the assistance of that dance, many people wouldn't have understood the meaning of the lyrics.

Whenever they encountered such things, Netizens' first reaction was to @Lou Zhihe.

"Lou Zhihe, it's your turn to perform!"

Lou Zhihe didn't refuse, but this time he said he needed time to look up some things.

After all, he didn't know much about ghost marriages.

So, at eight o'clock in the morning, Lou Zhihe finally posted an article analyzing the lyrics:

First, a disclaimer: I don't know much about ghost marriages, so please forgive any inaccuracies!

The opening line, "The eighteenth day of the first lunar month, an auspicious day."

The eighteenth day of the first lunar month is indeed an auspicious day, but sometimes it coincides with conflicting elements and year-Sha (evil spirits).

At this time, it is not suitable for living people to marry, but it is suitable for ghost marriages.

Therefore, this date in the lyrics is actually the date of the ghost marriage.

Secondly, "Sorghum carried."

Using sorghum stalks, which ward off evil, to carry the red clothes that the bride should have 'worn', represents that the bride can no longer wear them.

Here, 'one chi, one hate' means that the deeper the shovel goes into the soil by one chi, the more the bride's hatred increases by one point.

"Pushing the door, the mist opens by itself" is the time of the ghost marriage, while weddings for the living are usually at noon, and there is no mist.

"Even wild cats followed for several streets, their necks twisted on the trees."

This indicates that the cats smelled the scent emanating from the bride's corpse and followed for several streets.

"This village is also strange, they closed all the doors."

Generally, when a family gets married, people will gather to watch and help; closing the doors does not conform to custom.

Only for ghost marriages will everyone stay far away.

Therefore, the lyrics were not deliberately designed or intentionally obscure.

Rather, everything conforms to common sense.

As for Wang Ergou, it's just a pseudonym Nan Ye used for this story.

...

Besides analyzing the lyrics, I also want to talk about the song itself.

This song not only features traditional instruments like suona, erhu, and pipa, but also incorporates Rap, dialect, and opera singing, breaking the usual barriers of ancient-style songs.

Making the vocal style of the entire song rich and the elements varied, giving listeners a refreshing feeling.

It makes people more and more hooked the more they listen, and they won't stop listening just because of the strong underworld vibe.

To be honest, when I was listening to it in the early morning, it really grew on me the more I listened.

It's just that you shouldn't listen to it in the middle of the night like I did, as it gets creepier the more you listen.

...

It was through Lou Zhihe's analysis that everyone understood the true nature of this song.

It was also after understanding that many people went to Nan Ye's Weibo and TikTok to apologize: