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Music for reciting ancient poetry

1. Two Springs Reflect the Moon

"Two Springs Reflect the Moon", a famous erhu song, is the representative work of Chinese folk musician Hua Yanjun (A Bing). The work was compiled in the early 1950s by musician Mr. Yang Yinliu based on Abing's performance, recorded and notated, and recorded into a record, which soon became popular all over the country.

This piece of music reveals from beginning to end the thoughts and emotions of a blind artist who has experienced the bitterness and pain of the world. The work shows the unique folk performance skills and style, as well as the unparalleled profound artistic conception, showing the Chinese Erhu art With its unique charm, it broadens the expressive power of Erhu art and has won the "20th Century Chinese Music Classic Award".

2. High Mountains and Flowing Waters

"High Mountains and Flowing Waters" is a Chinese guqin tune and one of the top ten ancient tunes in China. It is said that Boya, a luthier in the pre-Qin Dynasty, once played the zither in a barren mountain. Zhong Ziqi, a woodcutter, was able to understand that this was a description of "the mountains are as tall as Mount Tai" and "the vast ocean is like rivers". Boya was surprised and said: "How wonderful, my heart is the same as mine." After Zhong Ziqi's death, Boya suffered from pain and lost the sound of his friend.

"High mountains and flowing water" is a metaphor for a close friend or close friend, as well as a metaphor for wonderful music. In later generations, it was divided into two pieces: "High Mountain" and "Flowing Water"; there is another zither piece with the same name, "High Mountain and Flowing Water", which has no inheritance relationship with the guqin music.

3. Flowing Water

Flowing Water, Chinese Guqin music. It was first seen in Zhu Quan's "Magical Secret Book". But nowadays, those who play "Liu Shui" all use Zhang Kongshan's "Liu Shui".

Zhang Kongshan's "Flowing Water" can only be found in one engraving of "Tianwenge Qinpu" (1867), but the biographical version of Zhang Kongshan's "Flowing Water" handed down by Gu Yucheng (1808-1876) in Huayang, Sichuan But not very different. The genealogy handed down to Wuhan by Zhang Kongshan around 1850 is different.

4. Guangling San

This is the ancient "Nie Zheng's Assassination of Han Puppet Song". Ji Kang, a qin player in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, is famous for his good playing of this piece. Song, and sighed with emotion: "Guangling San" is now extinct!"

There are three important "Guangling San" scores that we have seen today, with "Guangling San" from "Magical Secret Score" being the earliest. It is also relatively complete and is the version that is often played today. The whole song has 45 sections. The whole song is filled with an indignant and unyielding aura, "splendid and full of swords and spears".

The origin of "Guangling San": According to the "Book of Jin" records, this song was given by an ancient person when Ji Kang visited Luoxi. There is also a legend about gods and ghosts in "Taiping Guangji", which talks about Ji Kang's love for the harp. Once, Ji Kang stayed at the Yuehua Pavilion at night and could not sleep at night. He sat up and played the harp. The elegant sound of the harp moved a ghost, and the ghost passed away. "Guangling San" was written by Ji Kang, and he even made an agreement with Ji Kang: this song cannot be taught to others.

In 263 AD, Ji Kang was killed by Sima Zhao. Before his death, Ji Kang was not sad at all, but sighed: "Yuan Xiaoni asked me to learn this poem, but I, Jin Gu, refused to agree. Guangling San is now extinct!".

5. Goose Falling on Pingsha

"Goose Falling on Pingsha", also known as "Goose Falling on Pingsha", is a famous Chinese guqin song, which is spread by many schools. Borrowing the distant ambitions of wild geese, I wrote about the ambition of a wise man. It was first published in "Guyin Zhengzong" (1634) of the Ming Dynasty.

Since its inception, more than fifty collections of music scores have been published, and there are many genres of music. Only the first volume of "Guqin Music Collection" published in 1962 included the performances of six qin players. As for the author of this music, some say it was written by Chen Ziang in the Tang Dynasty, Mao Minzhong and Tian Zhiweng in the Song Dynasty, and some say it was written by Zhu Quan in the Ming Dynasty. Because there is no reliable historical data, it is difficult to confirm whose hand it came from.