"Autumn Moon over Pinghu" was originally a Cantonese song, derived from the northern minor tune "Dance of the Boudoir", also known as "Drunk Peace". It was later adapted into a national music piece by Lu Wencheng, a famous Guangdong music master, and is widely circulated in the country. Cantonese opera music. It uses scenery to express emotions, has a fresh style, and has strong local characteristics and continuous lyricism. The melody is bright and smooth, and the tone is gentle. It depicts the poetic and picturesque scenery of the lake, moonlight, and beautiful scenery in the south of the Yangtze River in China. It has an indifferent, distant, and ethereal artistic conception. It expresses the author's feelings and love for the natural scenery, and it has become a masterpiece in Guangdong music.

In 1975, composer Chen Peixun adapted it into a piano solo, making this piece of music with Chinese characteristics more widely known. Basic introduction Chinese name: Pinghu Qiuyue Composer: Lu Wencheng; Chen Peixun playing instrument: national musical instrument; piano creation year: 1930s; 1975 creative background, music appreciation, performance skills, Lu Wencheng version, Chen Peixun version, social evaluation ,About the author, Lu Wencheng, Chen Peixun, Creation background In the 1930s, Lu Wencheng took a trip to the West Lake in Hangzhou during the Mid-Autumn Festival. The beautiful scenery of the West Lake made him deeply moved and moved by the scenery, so he created this poem describing the scenery of the West Lake on a moonlit night and praising nature. The works with good scenery and soft and beautiful tunes express his feelings about the beautiful scenery of West Lake. In 1975, the composer Mr. Chen Peixun adapted this piece into a piano solo. The arrangement uses rich and colorful accompaniment textures to express the sparkling and flickering scenes in more detail, making it an excellent piano piece that combines the characteristics of Chinese national music with impressionistic sound effects and romantic composition techniques. Music Appreciation This is a masterpiece among Guangdong lyrical music. With a fresh, lively, melodious and gorgeous melody, the song describes one of the scenic spots in Hangzhou's West Lake, "Autumn Moon over the Flat Lake." The West Lake is quiet and charming under the bright autumn moon. The autumn night scene is peaceful and quiet, with the gentle evening breeze and the quiet moonlight. A pool of calm lake water reflects the bright autumn moon. The sky is blue and the waves are twinkling. The green hills, trees, pavilions and pavilions seem to be covered with a layer of gauze under the moonlight. The entire West Lake seems like a fairy tale world. The music creates a poetic artistic conception, and also expresses people's yearning for a better life, desire for peace and love for nature. It depicts the lake, moonlight and poetic night sceneries in Jiangnan, China, expressing the author's feelings and love for the natural scenery. Performance Techniques Lu Wencheng Version The melody of this piece is mainly composed of pentatonic classes, and the main instrument of the melody is Gao Hu. A large number of sliding finger techniques are used in the performance to show the quiet side of the autumn moon in Pinghu. In the performance of the melody, Gao Hu expresses the bright and clear timbre, as well as the timbre characteristics and unique charm of national musical instruments such as dulcimer, horizontal flute and qinqin. The tune adopts the folk music of Zhejiang, but also has the style of Guangdong music. The music is composed of Gaohu and has a beautiful melody. The band adds a little embellishment and absorbs the materials of Zhejiang folk music in the creation. The whole music sounds both Cantonese and Guangdong. The style of the music has the charm of Jiangnan music. Lv Wencheng's music score and Chen Peixun's piano version of "Autumn Moon over the Pinghu" has a strong national charm and noble and elegant musical style. It mainly expresses the void realm of Chinese traditional culture. Players should pay attention to the piano when actually playing. In this state of the music, the breath should be as permeable as possible, so that it can give people a feeling of endless aftertaste when playing. This piano piece has four parts: "start, continue, turn, and close". At the beginning of the performance, the player should pay attention to using the empty fifth in the bass area of ??the left hand to let the sound spread quickly; and when it comes to "succession" During the part, the performer should pay attention to his breathing; in the "turn" section, the music gradually turns from soft to exciting, the dynamic becomes more and more obvious, and the musical image becomes more vivid. Between bars 18-22 of Section 4 At this point, the music enters the final part very calmly, which is also the most emotional part of the whole piece of music, presenting the ethereal and dreamy world more cheerfully. When playing, the performer should pay attention to the thoroughness of breath and maintain a state of continuous excitement. The last part is the "joining" part of the music. This is the final paragraph of the whole music. The artistic conception it expresses is relatively empty and distant. When playing, the performer should make the music form an illusory and erratic timbre. Chen Peixun's music score Social evaluation The two composers Lu Wencheng and Chen Peixun used musical notes to depict the freshness and tranquility of the moonlit night, as bright and charming as the moonlight. The moonlight in "Autumn Moon over a Flat Lake" embodies the artistic conception of tranquility, emptiness, lightness and distance in the minds of Chinese literati, as well as the bright and festive colors of Chinese music. The nature of the music tends to be extroverted, and the sound can make people feel the connection between nature and life. Beauty makes people more open-minded. "Autumn Moon over a Flat Lake" reflects the Chinese nation's traditional aesthetic principles of pursuing purity, beauty, delicacy, and harmony, as well as the Chinese literati's mind-set of "tranquility, far-reaching, and indifference to clear aspirations." The bright and beautiful moonlight embodies "May people live long, The beautiful sentiments of "Thousands of Miles to the Moon". The two composers portrayed two different bright worlds under a bright moon. About the author Lu Wencheng Lu Wencheng (1898-1981) was a Guangdong music performer and composer. A native of Zhongshan County, Guangdong Province. He lived in Shanghai in his early years and was greatly influenced by folk music in the Jiangnan area and Western music culture. He returned to Guangdong in the late 1920s and later moved to Hong Kong. According to incomplete statistics, he has written more than a hundred pieces of music.

Recorded a large number of Cantonese music records. Many of the music pieces include "Autumn Moon over a Flat Lake" (China M-383A), "Evening Singing of Fishermen's Songs" (China 3-5768A), "Phoenix on Qishan" (China 3-0914A), "Galaxy Club" (China 36089 A), "Backgammon" (China 36078 B), etc., are widely popular. In terms of performance, he can play all kinds of string instruments, string instruments and other instruments, and is particularly good at Gaohu (Cantonese Hu). For the first time, the silk strings of the erhu were replaced with steel strings, and the playing method was adopted in which the piano tube is held between the appropriate parts of the knees. Lu Wencheng Chen Peixun Chen Peixun (1922-2006) musician, educator, native of Hepu, Guangxi, born in Hong Kong. He studied piano with his uncle since he was a child, and studied piano, organ and composition in Hong Kong and Shanghai. During the Anti-Japanese War, he traveled to various parts of the motherland. In 1939, he entered the Shanghai National Music College to study Hindemith's composition techniques under Tan Xiaolin. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, he taught in art academies in Hong Kong, Qujiang, Chongqing, Shanghai and other places. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he served as an associate professor and professor in the Composition Department of the Central Conservatory of Music for a long time, as well as the director of the Orchestration Teaching and Research Section. His major works include piano music "Selling Groceries", "Spring Love", "Double Flying Butterflies Variations", symphonic poems "Heart Chasing the Waves" and "Over the Head", music and painting "Flowing Water", fantasy overture "Wang Zhaojun", symphony "I" "Motherland", "Qingming Festival", etc.

Chen Peixun