When his father died at the age of 22, he continued to be a Taoist in Leizuntang. Later, due to carelessness in making friends, he became addicted to prostitution and drugs. At the age of 34, he went blind. In order to make a living, he took to the streets, wrote songs, rapped news and became a street performer. At the age of 40, she lived with the widow Dong Caidi. Singing in the paddock in front of Sanwanchang Teahouse in Chong'an Temple every afternoon. He dared to cut to the chase, attacked the darkness of society and attracted the audience with popular rap forms. After the 28th Incident, he wrote and sang the news of "19th Route Army Heroically Resisting the Enemy in Shanghai" and played March of the Volunteers with erhu. In the campaign against Japanese goods, he used passionate language to inspire people's patriotic enthusiasm. Many of his news sang the hearts of the masses and won the love of ordinary citizens. Every night I walk up and down the street, playing the erhu by hand and playing it while walking. The timbre is moving. It was during this period that Er Quan Ying Yue, which is well-known in the international music scene, was created. After the Japanese invaded Wuxi, A Bing and Dong Caidi took refuge in their hometown together. Soon I went to Shanghai, worked as a pianist in Kunqu Opera Banxianni Club, played the three strings and played the blind man in the movie seventh heaven. At this time, his "Listening to Songs" is a heroic and emotional erhu solo, which poured into the patriotic enthusiasm of his unwilling conquered nation. In 28 years, he returned to Xicheng and returned to his old job. He goes to the teahouse every morning to collect all kinds of news, comes back to conceive and create, and sings in front of Chong'an Temple teahouse in the afternoon; At night, I played the erhu and his "Cold Spring Breeze" in the street. His piano skills are superb. He can play the pipa on his head. He can also imitate the voices of men, women and children talking, sighing, laughing and hitting dogs with erhu. After War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's victory, he was forbidden to rap news in a fixed place in Chong'an Temple. In 36 years of the Republic of China, he suffered from lung disease and vomited blood in bed. From then on, he stopped performing in the street and made a living by repairing the huqin at home.
1On July 23rd, 949, Wuxi was liberated, and A Bing and his music "Two Springs Reflecting the Moon" were reborn. /kloc-in the summer of 0/950, in order to explore, study and preserve folk music, the teachers and students of the Central Conservatory of Music entrusted Professor Yang and others to make a special trip to Wuxi to record three erhu songs, Tingsong, Cold, Big Waves for Sand, Dragon Boat and Zhaojun's Embarkation.
On February 4th, A Bing died at the age of 57.
A Bing's life is full of dramatic ups and downs. It is said that the only image he left in his life was a standard photo on the "Good Citizen's Card" during the Japanese and Puppet rule in Wuxi. In the photo, a skinny middle-aged man, wearing a pair of blind glasses and a broken felt hat, shows hardships and vicissitudes. Perhaps A Bing's fate is the reason why his music is touching. The illegitimate child of Hua was deprived of the right of affection at birth. When his biological mother reluctantly ended her life to resist secular discrimination, some hidden parts of the child's personality could already be seen. The teenager who has been in foster care for several years has returned to his biological father, Hua Qinghe, and his eyes may be more puzzled. I know from the information that his name is "Master" and I came to see him as a Taoist father. Hua Qingjiang, known as Xue Mei, is proficient in all kinds of musical instruments. A Bing studied hard and soon mastered the playing skills of erhu, sanxian, pipa and flute. At the moment, A Bing still thinks that he is just an orphan who is taken care of by good people. However, when he was 2 1 year old, A Bing suddenly understood his life experience before Huaqing and died.
The days that followed were also awkward. Hua, the new leader of Leizuntang in Wuxi Taoist Temple Virtual Palace, seems to be very laissez-faire, eating, drinking, gambling and even smoking opium. The absurd life brought absurd results: because syphilis invaded his eyes, he lost control of the Taoist temple. After living on the street, the tribe arranged Dong Caidi, a rural widow in Jiangyin, to take care of him. Things are so contradictory. A Bing didn't break the jar in pain and despair. In the following days, a creative folk artist who rapped about current events and entertained on the street was born again. He is the famous "A Bing the Blind". An article recalled by an eyewitness at that time said that after the Japanese army invaded Wuxi, A Bing and Dong Caidi went out to take refuge and worked as pianists playing sanxian in the Xianni Society of Kunqu Opera in Shanghai, and even played a mass role in the film seventh heaven filmed at that time.
A Bing composed his most touching music during his life as a busker. There are many stories in Erhu Opera "Two Springs Reflecting the Moon". I accidentally read one of them, saying that Li Songshou, a professor at Nanjing Normal University, was a neighbor of A Bing when he was a child. He liked erhu when he was a teenager, and he often got advice from A Bing on playing techniques. Later, he was admitted to the folk music department of Nanjing Art Institute. It's getting colder every day. He moved his finger outside the teacher's piano room and pulled out a piece of music that A Bing taught him. At the end of a song, a man came up and asked him what song he was playing. The teacher told him that the gentleman who asked him was Professor Yang from the Central Conservatory of Music. Li Songshou said that this piece of music was taught by a folk artist in his hometown and has no name. Yang said that this song is good. They are collecting folk music, and they want to record such good folk music with a steel wire recorder just imported from abroad. Li Songshou invited Professor Yang back to his hometown until September, when Yang, Cao An and two professors came to Wuxi. This time they brought the recording task of Wuxi Taoist music. After recording these Taoist music, Li Songshou insisted that they record A Bing's music. After playing a song, Professor Yang asked the title of the song softly, but said there was no name. Professor Yang said that you can't do without a name. You have to come up with one. A Bing went on to say that it is called "Two Springs Reflecting the Moon". Professor Yang also said that the name "Yinyue" is too heavy for Guangdong music. If it is not called "reflecting the moon", Wuxi has mountains and lakes.
On this matter, Mr. Li Songshou said in his reminiscence article:1On September 20, 950, my wife and I accompanied Yang, Cao An and two gentlemen to find and record, and the recording didn't end until 7: 30 that evening. At the time of recording, A Bing was in poor health and exhausted. The piano was also found temporarily, so the recording of "Two Springs Reflecting the Moon" was not the best. A Bing's last performance was on September 25th, 1950, the fifth day after recording, which seemed to be a literary performance of the inaugural meeting of Wuxi Stomatological Association. A Bing propped up his sick body and went out. Because he walked slowly, when he got to the venue, the performance was almost over. I helped A Bing onto the stage and sat in front of the microphone. This is the first time and the only time that A Bing has ever performed in front of a microphone. At first, A Bing played the pipa, and then someone in the audience asked A Bing to play the erhu. My wife and I told A Bing to pay attention to his health and not to play. A Bing said: "I play the piano for the villagers in Wuxi, and I am willing to die." Then he played "Two Springs Reflecting the Moon" many times. I remember people everywhere, even the windows were crowded with people. At the end of the performance, the audience applauded and cheered. A Bing took off his hat and nodded. On the third day after that performance, A Bing died.
More than 80 years ago, the piano played by A Bing, a street performer and beggar, often fluttered in the streets of Wuxi. His impromptu performance not only achieved the sad song of "two springs reflecting the moon", but more importantly, he got rid of the mentality of watching the play and rose to a sense of destiny with me. Concern for the world, self-thinking and suffering make it easy for some people to compare him with Beethoven. It's not that people live a hard life, nor that the ancients said that "the day will bring great Sri Lankans", but their real behavior. A great work is a history of the soul, which reflects the reasons why people stand. What I often feel in A Bing's music is that at that moment, I can tell right from wrong. I remember a passage introducing Japanese conductor Seiji Ozawa, saying that when he first heard the song "Two Springs Reflecting the Moon", he told others with tears: "Music like this should be listened to on your knees."
Because of the recording of 1950, A Bing kept six pieces of music he composed, namely, Er Quan Ying Yue, Listening to Song, Cold Spring Breeze, Pipa, Big Waves for Sand, Dragon Boat and Zhaojun Out of the Plug, which are well known to the world today. This is a lucky thing. As a folk artist, his hard life may be just one of countless blood and tears in history. Fortunately, he had an opportunity not only to express himself with his own hands and notes, but also to infect other people's hearts with music.