"Pingsha Luoyan" is also known as "Pingsha Luoyan" and "Pingsha". It was first published in the "Guyin Zhengzong" compiled by the vassal king Zhu Changzi in the seventh year of Chongzhen in the late Ming Dynasty (1634). The author is said to have been Chen Ziang of the Tang Dynasty, Tian Zhiweng of the Song Dynasty, Zhu Quan of the Ming Dynasty, etc., but it is impossible to verify it. Since its inception, there have been more than a hundred genres of music scores. The first volume of the 1962 edition of "Guqin Music Collection" alone included the performance scores of six qin players.
After this piece came out, it has been deeply loved by piano players. Not only is it widely circulated, but it has also been processed into multiple versions with many differences and characteristics in terms of number of sections, mode, tuning, artistic conception, etc. It is one of the most popular and popular piano music in the past three hundred years.
There is an extremely vivid description in "Guyin Zhengzong", which comprehensively and meticulously reveals the graceful, smooth, fresh and timeless beauty and connotation of this music. It can be used as a guide for us to find new ways to appreciate this music. .
As for the content of this song, as "Guyin Zhengzong" said, it expresses "the air is crisp in autumn, the wind is calm and the sand is flat, the clouds travel thousands of miles, and the sky is flying", and "borrowing the distant aspirations of the swans to write about the Yishi" of mind".