The first time I met Teacher Li Yin was during the summer vacation eight years ago. When my mother took me to the Nanjing Children’s Palace Folk Music Class Registration Office for consultation, a medium-sized female teacher came over and introduced me very enthusiastically: Girls are suitable for learning guzheng, which is the king of national musical instruments. Although I majored in piano. A week later, my mother received a call from Teacher Li, asking me to take guzheng lessons at Jiefang Road Primary School on Saturday afternoon. Professor Yu Xiaodong, a national first-class performer from the Frontline Song and Dance Ensemble, would give lectures.
Later I learned that Jiefang Road Primary School is the folk music center of Nanjing’s primary education system. It offers guzheng, erhu, dulcimer, flute and other national musical instrument classes in their spare time, all of which are under the responsibility of Teacher Li. There are two guzheng classes, and she provides specific tutoring. I have been learning the piano for half a year, but I feel that it is very difficult. Firstly, I am young and have poor fingering, musicality and rhythm control. Secondly, my mother does not understand music and is really "music blind". She cannot usually tutor me, so I want to give up. After Teacher Li learned about it, he repeatedly talked to me. It is not easy to get started with any musical instrument. The key is persistence. As long as you work hard and work hard, you will definitely be able to master it. She also offered to my mother to use her lunch break to teach me how to play the guzheng for free. I was deeply touched by her. In this way, under Teacher Li's careful guidance, I continue to play the piano to this day. I remember that during the first exam, Teacher Li rushed to the examination room? The teaching building of the Music Department of Nanjing Normal University encouraged me not to be nervous and relax, just like when I practice piano. I was very confident and successfully passed the Level 3 guzheng exam and received a certificate from the Jiangsu Provincial Music Association. Teacher Li specially gave me a teddy bear.
Teacher Li left a deep impression on me. She does things neatly and neatly, never sloppily, and her personality is very much like that of a northern aunt. After having more contact with Teacher Li, I naturally developed a strong interest in music. First of all, music is an international language that can be communicated without any barriers and is easily accepted by foreign audiences. Secondly, Chinese music has a history of five thousand years and has a very precious heritage. It has long been in a leading position in the history of world music development. In addition, , Chinese music has distinctive characteristics. It is linear in structure and famous for its beautiful melody. This is very different from the block structure of foreign music that uses harmony and color to structure music; and the musical instruments are different from foreign countries and have unique expressive power.
I think people who love music are probably optimistic and love life. That’s what Teacher Li is like. She is a busy person, which everyone admits; she is the only music teacher in the school and teaches Music classes for grades one to six sometimes lead groups to participate in social performances and are sometimes responsible for children's palace activities. Come and go, Teacher Li has been tutoring me for two years. In early July 1998, there was a violent storm in Nanjing. Overnight, the entire city was flooded by rainwater, buses and cars were unable to drive, and many houses were flooded. According to the meteorological department, this is a flood that Nanjing has never seen in a century. As soon as Teacher Li entered the school, regardless of his serious illness, he went straight to the school piano room to drain water, where there were more than a dozen guzheng and dulcimer. The water was drained and the piano room was saved, but Teacher Li fell ill. Later, I heard from other teachers in the school that Teacher Li was sent to the hospital for emergency treatment that night. I originally thought she just had a common cold and fever. My mother took me to the hospital to visit Teacher Li. I heard from her lover that she was in the late stage of lung cancer. I couldn’t believe my ears that Teacher Li, who was so energetic, cheerful, and strong, would be terminally ill. Teacher Li was lying on the hospital bed receiving oxygen, and it was very difficult to breathe. She smiled at me, gestured to me with her weak hands, and asked me to sit next to her. I gave her a basket of flowers. As soon as I got out of the ward, I couldn't help but shed tears. This was the first time in my life that I shed tears for someone who was not my relative. I wished her to always be as beautiful as music and as beautiful as flowers.
Late at night a few days later, my mother received a call from Teacher Li’s lover, saying that she stopped breathing in the early morning of August 3. Music and flowers accompanied her when she passed away. That year Li The teacher was only 40 years old. She left too early. There are still many things waiting for her to do in the folk music center. I heard from her lover that before her death, Teacher Li told me that she would leave her beloved piano nails to me as a souvenir. I spent those days in tears. I always wore Teacher Li's fingernails and played the song "Tears of the Fragrant Concubine" repeatedly. I played it so euphemistically and sadly, expressing my deep love for Teacher Li. The feelings of reverence and nostalgia also make me indulge in the flowers of music.
Hard work pays off. The progress of me and my classmates in the guzheng class is inseparable from the hard work of Teacher Li. So far, many students have obtained the tenth level guzheng certificate.
I believe that they will definitely live up to Teacher Li's expectations and will play the guzheng well and continue to play it. Let us remember this teacher Li Yin who dedicated his life to promoting national instrumental music.