Truck-driving lyricist makes literary splash

"Your face is like the morning sun and your laughter is like the gurgling spring.Braided hair flowing with the wind, which spices up the ancient town…"

In 2018, the popular love ballad Girl with Braids, sung by Chongqing singer Hu Haijian, is about a young man who falls in love at first sight with a girl with braids in Ciqikou ancient town of Chongqing but ends up with the frustration of unrequited love.

The song soon became a hit, and the ancient town and heroine went viral online. More dramatic still, the song also turned the spotlight on the lyricist Zhou Liangguo, a truck driver with 21 years on the job, adding literary light on his seemingly humble life.

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