Wu Jinglue devoted his life to the study of guqin art and was good at playing guqin. He understood the national music and China traditional culture and art, accumulated decades of profound foundation, studied and created, and formed a unique artistic style.
Wu Jinglue's Artistic Features
Wu Jinglue was fascinated by two famous songs "Xiaoxiang Yunshui" and "Eighteen Beats of Hu Jia" circulated in Wuzhizhai in Qing Dynasty. He played over and over again, almost immersed in the artistic conception described by these two songs all day.
Xiaoxiang is the work of Guo Mian in the Southern Song Dynasty. It covers the image of Jiuyi Mountain with swift clouds and water, which shows the author's full indignation at the humiliation of the Southern Song Dynasty imperial court. Although the whole song is dominated by scenery, it contains strong indignation. When Wu Jinglue played this piece, he paid great attention to momentum. From the beginning, he created the artistic realm of water, clouds and scenery with majestic momentum and sonorous rhythm.
Hu Jia is a ballad describing Cai Wenji, a poetess in the Eastern Han Dynasty. According to the original story of Eighteen Beats, the whole piece of music depicts the tragic experience of Cai Wenji. When he played Hu Jia, he gave priority to emotion, and vividly portrayed Cai Wenji's complex ambivalence of joys and sorrows with delicate and changeable scenes and rhythms.