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Whether you appreciate this popular young artist with diversified development or not, from this article, you can see that this Christian mother knows her son’s talent and persistence in not giving up, which has created today’s Jay Chou~

Jay Chou comes from a broken family and is “willing to give everything for his mother” because when he was the loneliest and most helpless, it was his mother who supported him with warm and loving arms, Jay Chou, an emperor superstar who was obsessed and worshiped by thousands of teenagers for his singing, and had a deep affection for his mother Ye Huimei because when he was the loneliest and most helpless, it was his mother who supported him with warm and loving arms. So Jay Chou has always said, “As long as my mother is happy, I am willing to give everything for her!”

The home of a musical genius cracked

Jay Chou was born in January 1979, his mother Ye Huimei is an art teacher at Tamkang Elementary School in Taipei, and his father is a physics teacher at Tamkang Middle School. When Jay Chou was 4 years old in kindergarten, Ye Huimei sent him to the Danjiang Shanye Preschool Music Class to learn piano. As soon as the usually lively and active little Jay stood in front of the piano, he was surprisingly quiet, and he could repeat it after listening to the teacher play it once, and the teacher told Ye Huimei that this child was very talented!

To cultivate Jay’s musical quality, Ye Huimei advocated using her family savings to buy a good piano for Jay and asked the best piano teacher to tutor Jay. Jay’s father thinks that there is no need to be so serious, boy, be casual, there is no need to invest all your savings. In the end, Ye Huimei still bought a piano for Jay behind her husband’s back, which made Jay’s father very unhappy. When he was in the third grade of primary school, Jay happened to hear the world-famous song “Swan Lake” and was fascinated by the sad and poignant tune of the cello.

Jay’s father scoffed at his wife Ye Huimei’s “desperate” approach, and when he came home, he accused Ye Huimei of not being the same, there was less and less warmth in the family, and there were more and more quarrels.

Jay didn’t know why his father always had to quarrel with his mother, so he used his immature poems to record his confusion and sadness:

Since I was a child, I only had my mother’s warmth, why was my father so fierce

If it’s true, I have a pair of wings, two pairs of wings, and I can go at any time

Secretly set off I will take my mother.

This sad poem Jay later composed a song for, which is the song “Dad, I’m Back” which made thousands of fans sad.

When Jay Chou was in the second grade of junior high school, his parents finally divorced. 14-year-old Jay Chou wrote: “Mom and Dad don’t love each other, is this the true meaning of life?” Silence, stubbornness, and rebellion have shaped another Jay Chou.

The world does not know the wandering in the anguish of the king

Jay Chou has a musical talent, but his schoolwork is terrible. The total score of the high school joint examination is only more than 100 points, and he has not even been admitted to ordinary high school, and the future is bleak, and the mother and son are relatively speechless.

Because he plays the piano well, plays the cello well, and is often active on the basketball court, Jay Chou has become the object of attention and discussion among many female students. However, Jay Chou is often expressionless, rarely showing a smile, except for their outstanding music scores, almost all other subject scores are red, teachers think he is mentally inferior, and his English teacher even bluntly said to Ye Huimei that Jay Chou has intellectual disabilities. Ye Huimei fell into deep thought, but she still decided to train Jay Lun to become a talent, at least to be a pianist. Ye Huimei did not blame Jay, she believed that Jay’s indifference and rebellion to the point where he is today was caused by the disharmony of the family, and she was convinced that her children had no intellectual disabilities, so she tried to “tame” Jay Chou with sister-brother care, stipulating that she had “three nos”: no nagging, no accusation, and no coercion of her son.

Sure enough, as the teachers predicted, Jay Chou was not admitted to university. After Ye Huimei inquired in many ways, she encouraged Jay Lun to take the music department at Taipei University, but he was not admitted. Jay Chou gritted his teeth and took the test for the second time, but he still failed. Mom and grandma are worried about Jay’s future, what can this child do in the future?

Jay Chou, who was extremely confused, had nothing to do, so he had to wait for his military service in the Navy, during which he got ankylosing spondylitis, which is frustrating because there is no cure for this disease, and it can only be relieved by drugs, and in the late stage, the whole body will even be stiff like a zombie, which may also lead to paralysis. Ye Huimei and her grandmother wept when they talked about Jay.

Mother’s love and care soared into the sky

After the illness was relieved, Jay Chou went to work in a restaurant, and as a serving worker, he was almost deducted half of his monthly salary because he often knocked over the dishes. There is a piano in the restaurant, and Jay Chou plays the song “Chopin Dance” in his spare time, which stuns the boss, and the boss has an idea, telling Jay Chou not to serve the plates, so he plays the piano in the restaurant, and then invited TV reporters to hype, which not only made the restaurant business boom, but also saved a lot of money for hiring a pianist.

Ye Huimei felt Jay’s musical potential, and she signed up for her son’s entertainment program “Super Fierce Rookie King” on Taipei Starlight TV. Jay Chou carefully created a song “Dreams Have Wings”, but he was not confident in his singing, so he invited a singer to sing. The singers couldn’t understand his style, and his piano accompaniment was so weird that the audience booed, and a fledgling performance was completely messed up.

Ye Huimei was anxious, and she mustered up the courage to find the host Wu Zongxian, and showed him the score of “Dream Has Wings”. Wu Zongxian was the boss of Taiwan’s Alpha Music Company at the time, and his first impression of Jay Chou was not good, so he picked up the score and glanced at it, his eyes lit up, and the score was not only copied neatly but also very complicated. The discerning man immediately changed his mind: “This kid is okay, call him to work in my company tomorrow!”

Jay Chou joined the music company as a music production assistant, and with the encouragement of his mother, he took the initiative to help his colleagues buy boxed lunches every day, everyone had a good impression of this taciturn but diligent young man. And Ye Huimei is always worried that Jay Lun is indifferent and stubborn, and he is not good at words, for fear that he will inadvertently offend the boss and employees, so she often stands at the door of the company during off-duty hours, prepares some delicious pizza and fried chicken for the employees, and asks them to bear with Jay. After going back and forth, Ye Huimei is more familiar with the company’s employees than Jay Chou, and colleagues know that Jay Chou has a good mother.

Jay Chou quickly wrote a large number of songs, but what made Wu Zongxian feel incomprehensible was that the lyrics he wrote were always weird, and almost no one in the music circle liked them. Once, Jay Chou took his proud work and sent it to Wu Zongxian for review. This time, Wu Zongxian didn’t even look at it, so he crumpled the song into a ball and threw it into the trash can next to him. Jay Chou’s tears couldn’t help but flow out.

Mom comes to the door of the company every day has become a landscape, if you give up, I’m so sorry Mom, Jay Chou is stubborn to support, he eats and lives in the office, and creates at the speed of one song a day. Ye Huimei visited Jay Lun in the company every night, looking at her son who was getting thinner, she held back her tears and tried to say some happy words of encouragement, and then took back the dirty clothes that Jay Lun had changed to wash them. For more than a month, when Wu Zongxian went to work at 8 o’clock every morning, he could always see Jay Chou’s new work on time. Finally, he was deeply moved by the young man’s diligence and talent, and he “sniffed” that Jay Chou’s songs had a faint smell, and promised to find a singer to sing the songs he wrote.

Wu Zongxian recommended Jay Chou’s “Knowing Tears” to the king singer Andy Lau, but Andy Lau rejected it after a glance. Soon, he recommended his “Nunchucks” to Zhang Huimei, who was popular in the Chinese music scene, but unexpectedly, Zhang Huimei refused without hesitation. Wu Zongxian decided to give Jay Chou one last chance to sing the songs he had written, and if that didn’t work, he had no choice but to ask Jay Chou to leave! He called Jay Chou to his office and said very solemnly:

“Aaron, give you 10 days, and if you can write 50 songs, and I can pick 10 out of them, then I’ll help you make a record. 」

The boss’s words stimulated Jay Chou excited, and after he called his mother to tell him, he ran to the street to buy a large box of instant noodles. He thought, that even if he fought hard, he had to do the last fight. Jay Chou wrote 50 songs as promised, and each song was written in a reasonable structure and neatly scored. Wu Zongxian finally had an approving smile, he picked out 10 songs and made Jay Chou’s first album “Jay” in early 2001.

The company didn’t have much hope for the record, and it would be nice if it could recoup the production costs. However, after “Jay” came out, it was like a violent typhoon that swept across Taiwan, and it was quickly snapped up by fans. “Jay” won three awards in one fell swoop: Best Pop Music Singing Album, Best Producer, and Best Composer in Taiwan that year. The success of “Jay” caught the company by surprise, and Taiwan’s singers were shocked, asking where Jay Chou came from. If the first album was a small achievement, then Jay Chou’s second album “Fantesi” has formed a storm, sweeping the entire Chinese music scene in mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia, and various awards have come one after another.

Jay Chou finally succeeded, he deeply understands that without the warmth of his mother’s light in the dark, he would not be able to support himself today, his mother has never remarried for him, and every bit is a love for licking calves. He gave all his income to his mother, and even though he had an apartment, he still went home every weekend to enjoy family fun with his mother and grandmother.

Ye Huimei had mixed feelings, her husband’s ridicule, the teacher’s shaking of her head, and the hardships of life all went with the wind.

After Ye Huimei retired, Jay Chou was always worried about his mother’s loneliness, as long as he was in Taiwan, he would go home to live with his mother. On weekends, he will ask his mother to watch a midnight movie together, his mother likes to watch classic movies, and Jay Chou will accompany him to watch them, Jay Chou likes to watch avant-garde films, Ye Huimei also accompanies his son to watch them, and the warm current of happiness lingers in the hearts of mother and son. Jay Chou’s fourth album is called “Ye Huimei”, which is a gift from his son to his mother.

On September 1, 2013, Jay Chou, the singer-songwriter of “Sanfang”, stood on the Sunday podium of the New Life Group Church in Taipei, publicly announcing that he had been officially baptized last year and joined the “big family of the Lord’s love”.

Jay Chou said that “Jesus Fashion” is the most popular faith and the most fashionable worship.

It was a great challenge for him to write the popular hymn “Jesus Fashion” for the church because it was not only for the brothers and sisters and the gospel friends but also for “God to hear”.

Moms are an important spiritual help

In Jay Chou’s life, he has met many “noble people”, among them, his mother Ye Huimei, and “Maji” friend Liu Genghong are not only “mentors and helpful friends” in his life, but also important others who led him to know and experience Christianity more deeply through “life testimonies”.

“If I meet Jesus now, I will say thank you to him and thank Him for giving me a good mother,” Jay Chou said, adding that when he went to the radio program of the church to Brother Wu Jianheng during the promotional period of the release of his latest album “12 New Works” last year, he drew the topic “If Jesus were with you now, what would you say to Him?”

Jay Chou said that God rewarded him with his talent for making music, and led him to have some achievements in the entertainment industry, and he wanted to give thanks to God for everything, especially his mother Ms. Ye Huimei.

Jay Chou’s mother cultivated that he could insist on developing on the road of music, and supported him unconditionally, Liu Genghong has been “accompanying” him when Jay Chou has not yet made some achievements in the entertainment industry and “has no friends”, not only playing with him, but also becoming his “good brother” in life and spirituality, and because his mother and Genghong continue to pray for him, now he can become a member of JESUS FASHION, and he and Genghong also open a film company together. Restaurants, become business partners.

Thank you to the church and friends for their prayer companionship

Gu Qiyun, the senior pastor of New Life Group Church, recalled that more than 10 years ago, Liu Genghong had just led Jay Chou to the church, and now he can stand up and testify for “Jesus Fashion” through music creation, Pastor Gu said that judging from Jay Chou’s achievements in the entertainment industry, it is already “Jesus Fashion”, but the Jay Chou he knows has always adhered to the attitude of “having the courage to try and break through himself”, constantly pursuing professional excellence and his spiritual thirst is also increasing day by day.

Pastor Gu Qiyun emphasized that for the New Life Group Church, many people do not get along with Jay Chou with the attitude of “superstar fans”, but like Liu Genghong, they naturally make friends with him and establish a relationship of mutual trust, everyone can discuss life and faith issues together, pour out their hearts and care for each other, and as time slowly accumulates, Jay Chou finds a sense of trust and security in the New Life Group Church, and when God’s time comes, he is baptized and joins this big family of Lord love.

“Evangelism, we must build relationships slowly and gradually, so that life can affect life,” Jay Chou said that when he first came to the New Life Group Church to participate in fellowship and Sunday services, he was often moved by poetry and found that music has the effect of healing people’s hearts. Jesus Fashion”.

Poetry is dedicated to God

“It’s a big challenge for me to write songs for God, and it’s not easy, because not only people in the world are listening, but even God is listening,” Jay Chou said.
Music can lead more people to know God and understand God’s plan to create heaven and earth, in the past, he came to the church and was Xi sitting silently in the audience as audience.
Don’t interfere with the meeting, this time to be able to stand on the stage and share God’s leadership and grace for him, and the spirit and poetry of Jesus Fashion,
If we can continue to preach, more people will be able to come into church and know Jesus.

Share the positive power of love and faith 

From 2011 to 2013, Jay Chou also served as the care ambassador of “iQier” together with Liu Genghong. Jay Chou said that God allowed him to have some influence among the young people, and his mother, Ms. Yip Wai Mei, taught him Matthew 6:3 from a young age, and when he has the ability, he should use his actions to encourage and help those disadvantaged groups, which is what he should do.

Lin Zhaocheng, CEO of the Angel Heart Family Foundation and deacon of Taipei Bread of Soul, said that in the process of contacting Jay Chou, he could feel that he lived a completely different life from many artists because of “listening to his mother’s words”, especially Jay Chou understands his position and influence in the entertainment industry, he strives to stand firm in his behavior and teachings of holding on to the truth, and when they meet together, they will pray for each other’s blessings together. God’s time has come, so it will come naturally.”

“Be thankful to God in everything, because everything is God’s guidance and reward,” Jay Chou encouraged his brothers and sisters.