Wang Jianzhong

"Three Plum Blossoms" was originally a guqin piece, which was later adapted into a piano piece by Wang Jianzhong based on traditional Chinese music. The whole song praises people with noble integrity through the plum blossom's noble character, cold resistance and perseverance. The adapted piano music is full of distinctive national characteristics and fully embodies the emotions contained in national music culture. The historical allusion of "Three Tunes of Plum Blossoms" is that the Eastern Jin Dynasty general Huan Yi played "Three Tunes of Plum Blossoms" for the madman Wang Huizhi. This allusion has been recorded in "Book of Jin·Biography Fifty-one" and "Shishuo Xinyu·Ren Dan No.23".

Wang Jianzhong (1933-2016), composer and pianist. His ancestral home is Jiangyin, Jiangsu Province, and he was born in Shanghai. Started learning piano at the age of 10. In 1950, he was admitted to the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and studied in the composition department and piano department. After graduating in 1958, he stayed at the school to teach. In the 1970s, he served as a composer of the Central Orchestra. In the 1980s, he returned to his alma mater to teach. He has successively served as associate professor, professor, deputy department director, and deputy dean of the Composition Department of the college. Many of the piano works he created and adapted successfully integrated Chinese folk music with the expression techniques of Western musical instruments. They are deeply loved by audiences at home and abroad, not only in the music and piano education circles, but also to many people outside the music circle. It is familiar to music lovers and even those who are not very fond of music. He passed away in the United States on the morning of February 11, 2016, Beijing time, at the age of 83.

Plum Blossom Three Lane Guqin Music

Also known as "Plum Blossom Yin", "Plum Blossom Song", "Yu Fei Yin", based on "Taiyin Supplement" and "Jiao'an Qin Score" According to legend, it was originally a flute piece composed by Huan Yi of the Jin Dynasty, and was later adapted into a guqin piece. The music score of Qin music was first found in the "Magic Secret Music Book" in 1425 AD. "Three Lanes of Plum Blossoms" describes two images of plum blossoms, static and dynamic. The music uses the white fragrance and cold resistance of plum blossoms to express feelings through objects, praising people with noble moral integrity.

Three Nongs

The Qin music "Three Nongs of Plum Blossoms" plays the main tune with overtones, and repeats the same tune three times in different emblem positions, so it is called San Nong. There is a saying that "the first lane is called the sun, the second lane is across the moon, and the third lane is across the river."

Plum blossoms

Plum blossoms are among the top ten famous flowers in China. Together with orchids, bamboos and chrysanthemums, they are listed as the Four Gentlemen. Together with pine and bamboo, they are also known as the "Three Friends of Suihan". In traditional Chinese culture, plum blossom inspires people to work hard with its noble, strong and humble character. In the severe cold, plum blossoms bloom before hundreds of flowers, and spring is the only one in the world.

Plum is a small tree or sparse shrub, 4-10 meters high; the bark is light gray or greenish, smooth; the branchlets are green, smooth and hairless. The leaves are ovate or elliptical, 4-8 cm long and 2.5-5 cm wide, with a sharp tip and a pointed tail, and a wide wedge-shaped to rounded base. The edges of the leaves often have small sharp serrations, are gray-green, and are covered with pubescence on both sides when young. Gradually fall off when growing up, or only have pubescence between the veins and axils of the lower veins; petioles are 1-2 cm long, hairy when young, fall off when old, and often have glands.