The Story of Lao Yao is Zheng Zhihua's first solo album, and all nine songs in the album are written, composed and sung by him. His talent for music creation has been fully demonstrated in this album. In fact, before this album, Zheng Zhihua was already a hot creative genius in the advertising industry. What is even more surprising is that in painting and writing ... he also showed his unique creative talent. Create, create! Only creation is the only purpose and reason for his existence.

Lao Yao's story is about the mine disaster at 1984 Haishan Coal Mine. At that time, there was a big coal mine in Banqiao Haishan, Taipei. Because of the negligence of employees, a mine explosion occurred, killing 74 people. This is a very serious occupational mine accident. Coupled with two other disasters in the same year, the coal industry in Taiwan Province Province came to an end ahead of schedule. Now it's hard to imagine that there was a mining industry in Taiwan Province Province before, and it was in Banqiao.

Zheng Zhihua said such a passage:

"The two mine changes in Haishan and Jingshan Park have left an indelible memory in my mind.

The initial motivation for writing this song comes entirely from a kind of compassion for the unknown.

With a passion, I came to Jiufen and visited some local people.

Try to find out more facts and understand the damage caused to them after ore exchange. To my surprise,

Their reaction to the problem is not excitement or sadness, but calmness, a kind of indifference that is almost resigned.

The death of relatives is painful, but it is fate for miners;

Rather than the social problems that urbanites exaggerate.

The second time I went to Jiufen, it was a rainy afternoon.

The whole Keelung Mountain is shrouded in white fog ... I think of an old woman who told me:

Dig carbon! What's so sad about dying in a pit or in bed?

Life ... is like a passage in the lyrics:

People in their hometown were flooded by mines and lost their lives; People in the city are drowned by desire, but they lose their souls.

Miners are not necessarily poor, but we are likely to be poor. 」

It was precisely because there were two major mine accidents in Jiufen, Taiwan Province at that time, which touched Zheng Zhihua's young heart and touched his feelings of compassion, so he decided to write a book with great enthusiasm, calling on Chinese people to pay attention to the problem of miners, and personally visited Jiufen twice. Let's think about it. Without any interest-driven, without any agreement, do young people still have this blood and impulse? Even journalists or scholars, I'm afraid few can do it. Besides, it's still under the condition of inconvenient body. Because personal experience changed his original intention. In Jiufen, he felt the human touch and security that he had never felt in Taipei. There, the death of miners is not a social problem that urbanites are used to exaggerating, but is just despised as a fate. I deeply feel that I am an outsider, and I am not qualified to stand in a subjective position and express some self-righteous views in a condescending manner, and even feel guilty for my original ideas. Finally, he wrote this song, which rose from a social problem to a human problem, and put forward a thought-provoking point: people in their hometown were submerged by mines and lost their lives; People in the city are drowned by desire, but they lose their souls. The city is not a paradise for people, but a paradise for desire! In the modern battlefield where there is no true feelings between people, there are only intrigues and naked desires. And Lao Yao is lucky, because he knows how to reflect on his dreams and know how to see the road.