make up for mistakes
In ancient times, Qi Xuanwang, the monarch of the State of Qi, was fond of music, especially listening to playing music, and he had 3 musicians who were good at playing music. Qi Xuanwang likes to be lively and ostentatious, and always wants to show the majesty of being a monarch in front of people, so every time he listens to the flute, he always asks these 3 people to play together for him.
A Mr. Nan Guo heard about Qi Xuanwang's hobby, and thought it was an opportunity to make money. He ran to Qi Xuanwang and boasted that he said, "Your Majesty, I am a famous musician. No one who has heard me play the flute is unmoved, even birds and animals will dance, and flowers will tremble with the rhythm. I would like to dedicate my stunt to your Majesty." Qi Xuanwang listened happily, without investigation, and readily accepted him, and put him into the 3-person blowing team.
After that, Mr. Nan Guo played for Qi Xuanwang with the 3 people, enjoying the generous treatment like everyone else, and he was extremely proud.
Actually, Mr. Nan Guo told a big lie, and he can't brag at all. Every time he plays, Mr. Nan Guo is mixed in the team with a shovel in his hand. When people shake his body, he shakes his body. When people shake his head, he also shakes his head. His face pretends to be emotional and forget me. He looks as devoted as others, and he really can't see any flaws. In this way, Mr. Nan Guo muddled through day after day by deception, getting a salary for nothing.
But it didn't last long. After a few years, Qi Xuanwang, who loved to listen to the ensemble, died, and his son, King min, succeeded to the throne. King Qi Min also likes to play the flute, but unlike Qi Xuanwang, he thinks that it is too noisy for 3 people to play together, so it is better to play solo. So King Qi Min issued an order to the 3 people to practice hard and get ready, and he would let the 3 people take turns to blow them one by one for him to appreciate. After receiving the order, the musicians all practiced actively and wanted to show their skills. Only Mr. Nan Guo, who was just making up a few words, was anxious like a cat on hot bricks. He thought about it, and felt that he could not get along this time, so he had to pack up and escape overnight.
a man like Mr. nan Guo, who is ignorant and deceives for a living, can cheat for a while, but not for a lifetime. What is false is false, and eventually it can't escape the test of practice and is exposed and disguised. The only way for us to succeed is to study hard. Only by practicing a perfect real skill can we stand all the tests.
"The Sound of Decadence"-Idiom Story
It turns out that a long time ago, there was a musician named Shi Juan in China. He was an official who collected and arranged music when he was in Xuanyuan Huangdi.
He is very proficient in music. As long as he plays the piano gently, the underground gods will ascend to the sky. When he plays the flute, then the gods in the sky will come down to earth.
The tyrannical Zhou Wang heard that Shi Tears could play a good piece of music, so he arrested him and asked him to play for himself. However, no matter how good the music Shi Juan played, it was not to Zhou Wang's taste, so he ordered Shi Juan to be killed.
Shi Juan is a clever man. He knows the power of music and that different people have different hobbies. How can a dissolute and shameless fool like Zhou Wang understand music that inspires people's feelings?
So, Shi Juan came up with an idea. He created a song and dance called "decadent music, dancing in the north", which made people feel soft and didn't lift their spirits at all. Zhou Wang, however, was very excited and indulged in this kind of singing and dancing all day.
In this way, where does Zhou Wang have the heart to govern the country? The result was defeated by Zhou Wuwang! From then on, the soft music that lost people's morale was called "decadent music", that is, "decadent sound" Look, how harmful the decadent sound is, and it will make a country perish!
Erquan reflects the moon
Erhu
A Bing A Bing (1893~195), formerly known as Hua Yanjun, was a folk musician. Born in the 19th year of Guangxu reign (August 17th, 1893), A Bing was born in Yihe Mountain House next to Leizun Hall in Wuxi. Later, he became blind due to eye diseases. His father, Hua Qinghe, is the master Taoist of Leizun Hall, a Taoist temple in Sanqing Hall in Wuxi City, and he is good at Taoist music. Hua Yanjun lost his mother at the age of 3 and was raised by his aunt. At the age of 8, he worked as a Taoist priest with his father in Leizun Hall. I began to study in a private school for three years, and then learned drums, flutes, erhu, pipa and other musical instruments from my father. At the age of 12, he has been able to play a variety of musical instruments, and often participates in activities such as confessing, chanting and playing music. He studied hard, kept improving, and widely absorbed the tunes of folk music, breaking through the shackles of Taoist music. At the age of 18, he was praised as an expert in Wuxi Taoist music.
At the age of 22, his father died, and he continued to be the Taoist priest in Leizun Hall. Later, due to carelessness in making friends, he was infected with the bad habits of prostitution and drug abuse. At the age of 34, his eyes were blind. In order to make a living, he carried the erhu on his back, took to the streets, wrote and sang, rapped news and became a street performer. At the age of 4, she lived with the widow Dong Caidi. Singing in the paddock in front of Chong'an Temple Sanwanchang Teahouse every afternoon. He dares to cut to the chase, attack the social darkness, and attract the audience with popular rap forms. After the 28 th Incident, he composed and sang the news of "The 19th Route Army bravely fought against the enemy in Shanghai" and played March of the Volunteers with erhu. In the campaign against Japanese goods, he used passionate language to inspire people's patriotic enthusiasm. Many of his news have sung the hearts of the masses and won the love of ordinary citizens. Every night, I walk around the streets, playing erhu with my hands, and playing while walking, with a touching tone. The "Two Springs Reflecting the Moon", which is famous in the international music world, was created during this period. After the Japanese invaded Wuxi, A Bing and Dong Caidi took refuge in their hometown together. He soon went to Shanghai, worked as a pianist in Kunqu Opera Banxianni Society, played Sanxian, and acted as a blind person in the movie seventh heaven. At this time, his "Listening to Song" was a heroic and emotional erhu solo, which poured out his patriotic enthusiasm of not wanting to be conquered people. In 28 years, he returned to Xicheng and went back to his old job. He goes to the teahouse every morning to collect all kinds of news, comes back to conceive and create, and sings in front of Chong'an Temple teahouse in the afternoon; Playing the erhu in the street at night and playing his "Cold Spring Breeze". His piano skills are superb. He can put the pipa on his head and play it. He can also use erhu to imitate the voices of men, women and children talking, sighing, laughing and crowing dogs. After War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's victory, he was forbidden to rap news in a fixed place in Chong'an Temple. In 36 years of the Republic of China, he suffered from lung disease and vomited blood in bed. Since then, he has stopped busking in the streets and made a living by repairing the huqin at home.
On July 23rd, 1949, when Wuxi was liberated, A Bing and his music "Two Springs Reflecting the Moon" were reborn. In the summer of 195, in order to explore, study and preserve folk music, the teachers and students of the Central Conservatory of Music entrusted Professor Yang Yinliu and others to make a special trip to Wuxi to record three erhu songs, such as Two Springs Reflecting the Moon, Listening to Pines and Cold Spring Breeze, and three pipa songs, such as Big Waves for Sand, Dragon Boat and Zhaojun Out of the Plug.
Hua Xuemei is proficient in various musical instruments and Taoist music. A Bing showed a rare musical talent when he was young. When he was 1 years old, his father taught him to beat the stone against the cold and practice various rhythms (and later became a famous local drummer). At the age of 12, A Bing began to learn to play the flute. His father often asked him to play against the tuyere and hang iron rings on the end of the flute to enhance his wrist strength. Later, he simply replaced the iron rings with weights. When A Bing studied erhu, he worked harder. His strings were stained with blood and his fingers were pulled out with thick cocoons. The outer strings of the erhu played by A Bing were much thicker than the ordinary ones, which was inseparable from his perennial practice. At the age of 17, A Bing formally participated in Taoist music playing. He was handsome and had a good voice. He was known as "Little Tianshi".
A Bing died of illness on December 4, 195, at the age of 57.
A Bing's life is full of dramatic ups and downs. It is said that the only image left in his life is a standard photo on the "Good Citizen's Card" during the Japanese and Puppet rule in Wuxi. In the photo, the skinny middle-aged man with blind glasses, under a broken felt hat, shows the hardships and vicissitudes of life. Perhaps A Bing's suffering from fate is the reason for his touching music. This illegitimate child of Hua Qinghe was born deprived of the right of family love. When his biological mother reluctantly ended her life to resist secular discrimination, some hidden parts of the child's personality were already visible. The teenager who has been in foster care for several years has returned to his biological father Hua Qinghe, and his eyes may be more puzzled. I know from the information that he called "Master" and came to his father who was a Taoist. Huaqing and Xuemei are proficient in all kinds of musical instruments. A Bing studied hard and soon mastered the playing skills of erhu, sanxian, pipa and flute. At the moment, A Bing still thinks that he is just an orphan who is taken care of by good people. However, when he was 21 years old, A Bing suddenly understood his life experience before Huaqing and died of illness.
the days ahead are also embarrassing. Hua Yanjun, the new Taoist in charge of Lei Zun Hall in the virtual palace of Taoist Temple in Wuxi City, seems to let himself go, eating, drinking, gambling and even smoking opium. The absurd life brought absurd results: because syphilis invaded his eyes, he lost control of the Taoist temple. After living on the street, the tribe arranged Dong Caidi, a rural widow in Jiangyin, to take care of him. Things are so contradictory. A Bing in pain and despair didn't break the jar. In the days that followed, a creative folk artist who rapped about current events and entertained in the street was born again, who was famous as "A Bing the Blind". There is an article recalled by a witness at that time, saying that after the Japanese invaded Wuxi, A Bing and Dong Caidi went out to take refuge, and worked as pianists playing sanxian in Shanghai's Kunqu Opera Banxianni Society, during which they even performed a mass role in the film "seventh heaven" filmed at that time.
A Bing composed his most touching music during this period of busking for a living. There are many stories about the spread of Erhu music "Two Springs Reflecting the Moon". I accidentally read one of them, saying that Li Songshou, a professor at Nanjing Normal University, was a neighbor with A Bing when he was a child, and he liked erhu when he was a teenager, and he often got instructions from A Bing in playing techniques. Later, he was admitted to the folk music department of Nanjing Art Institute. It's getting cold every day. He moves his fingers outside the teacher's piano room and pulls a piece of music that A Bing taught him. At the end of a song, a man came over and asked him what song he was playing. The teacher told him that the gentleman who asked him was Professor Yang Yinliu from the Central Conservatory of Music. Li Songshou said that this piece of music was taught by a folk artist in his hometown, without a name. Yang Yinliu said that this piece of music is good, and that they are collecting folk music, and they want to record such good folk music with a steel wire recorder just imported from abroad. Li Songshou made an appointment with Professor Yang and returned to his hometown until September, when Yang Yinliu, Cao An and two professors came to Wuxi. This time they brought the task of recording Taoist music in Wuxi. After recording these Taoist music, Li Songshou insisted on asking them to record A Bing's music. When A Bing finished playing a song, Professor Yang Yinliu asked the name of the song softly, but A Bing said there was no name. Professor Yang said that you can't do it without a name. You have to think of one. A Bing went on to say that it is called "Two Springs Printing on the Moon". Professor Yang also said that the name "Printing on the Moon" is too heavy for Cantonese music. If it is not called "Reflecting on the Moon", is there a mountain and lake in Wuxi? A Bing said, well, if you are knowledgeable, I will listen to you.
On this matter, Mr. Li Songshou said in his reminiscence article: On September 2, 195, my wife and I accompanied Yang Yinliu, Cao An and two gentlemen to find A Bing for recording, and the recording didn't end until 7: 3 pm that day. When recording, A Bing was in poor health, and his strength was not enough. The piano was also found temporarily, so the recording of "Two Springs Reflecting the Moon" was not the best. A Bing's last performance was on September 25th, 195, that is, the 23rd day after recording, which seemed to be a literary performance of the inaugural meeting of Wuxi Dental Association. A Bing supported his sick body to go out. Because he walked slowly, the performance was almost over when he arrived at the venue. I helped A Bing onto the stage and sat in front of the microphone. This is the first time that A Bing has performed in front of the microphone in his life, and it is also the only time. A Bing played the pipa at first, and then someone in the audience called for A Bing to play the erhu. My wife and I told A Bing to pay attention to his health and not to play. A Bing said: "I play the piano for the folks in Wuxi, and I am willing to die." Then he played "Two Springs Reflecting the Moon" for many times. I remember there were people everywhere, even the windows were full of people. At the end of the performance, the audience applauded and cheered constantly. A Bing took off his hat and nodded.
more than 8 years ago, the piano played by A Bing, a busker and beggar, often fluttered over the streets of Wuxi. His impromptu performance not only achieved the self-described elegy of "Two Springs Reflecting the Moon", but more importantly, it got rid of the mentality of enjoying the play and rose to a sense of fate that was with me. Concern for the world, self-thinking, and suffering make some people easily compare him with Beethoven. It's not that it's hard for people to live, or that the ancients said that "heaven will be great for people in Sri Lanka", but their true behavior. A great work is a history of the soul, which reflects the reason why people stand. What I often feel in A Bing's music is that at that moment, I can distinguish between right and wrong. I remember a passage introducing Japanese conductor Seiji Ozawa, saying that he told others with tears when he first heard the music "Two Springs Reflecting the Moon": "Music like this should be listened to on your knees."
because of the recording in 195, A Bing kept six pieces of music that he composed: Erhu music, Two Springs Reflecting the Moon, Listening to Pines, Cold Spring Breeze, Pipa Music, Big Waves and Sand, Dragon Boat and Zhaojun Out of the Plug, which are well known to the world today. This is a fortunate thing. As a folk artist, his hard life may be just one of countless blood and tears in history. Fortunately, he had an opportunity, not only to express himself with his own hands and notes, but also to infect other hearts with the help of music.
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People say that A Bing is not poor: people are not poor (not afraid of power); People who are poor are not poor (don't eat for free); People who are poor are not poor (honest).
In Wuxi city, a landlord raped a 13-year-old girl in his family. When A Bing knew about it, he immediately made up words and sang about it, exposing the evil deeds of the landlord, arousing public anger and scaring the landlord into fleeing for several months.
On one occasion, Tang Enbo, a warlord of the Kuomintang, asked A Bing to sing a birthday party for his thirteenth aunt. A Bing flatly refused and was severely beaten, but A Bing did not give in, and made up lyrics and played the erhu to lambaste them.
During the Anti-Japanese War, when the Japanese occupied Wuxi, a man named Zhang Shijun became a traitor. When A Bing found out, he made up words to scold him and was beaten up again. Later, the traitor was killed by the Japanese. A Bing clapped his hands and sang a song "The Traitor's End" along the street, which was applauded by Wuxi people.
[ Edit this paragraph] Musical Works
Huishan Spring in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, is known as "the second spring in the world". Naming the music "Two Springs Reflecting the Moon" not only introduces people into the artistic conception of quiet night, clear spring and cold moon, but also makes them feel like seeing the person when listening to Bi Quan-an upright and tenacious blind artist pouring out his bumpy life to people.
after the short introduction, the melody goes up from the Shang tone to the angle, then stops at the sign and the angle tone, and ends with the Gong tone, which is a microwave-shaped melody line, just like the author sitting by the spring and meditating.