A Bing (1893- 1950) folk musicians. Originally known as Hua Yanjun, A Bing was born in Wuxi, Jiangsu. When he was young, he suffered from eye diseases and became blind, and his life was bumpy. After he became blind, he often played the lute on his back and the hand-held huqin on the streets of Wuxi and Huishan, so he was called "blind A Bing". His representative works are Two Springs Reflecting the Moon, Listening to the Pine, Big Waves Washing the Sand, Cold Spring Breeze, Dragon Boat and so on.
Biography
1Aug. 89317th A Bing was born in the Yihe Mountain House next to the Leizun Temple in Wuxi. His father Hua Qinghe (No.Xuemei) was the Taoist priest in the Leizun Hall of Wuxi Dongxu Palace, and his mother Qin was born in a peasant family. She was widowed soon after her marriage, and her marriage with Hua Qinghe was reviled by her people. She died of depression after being born in A Bing for one year. When A Bing was born, he was sent by his father to his hometown in Xiaosifang Lane, Dongting Town, Wuxi County to be raised by his family. After he was 8 years old, he was brought back to the Taoist temple, taking his scientific name Hua Yanjun and his nickname A Bing, and was sent to a private school to study.
Hua Xuemei is proficient in various musical instruments and Taoist music. A Bing showed a rare talent for music when he was young. At the age of 10, his father taught him to beat the stone against the cold and practice various rhythms (and later became a famous local drummer). /kloc-at the age of 0/2, 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 flute tail to enhance his wrist strength. Later, he simply changed the iron rings into 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. /kloc-when he was 0/7 years old, A Bing officially took part in Taoist music playing. He was handsome and had a good voice, so he was called "Little Tianshi".
19 14, when Hua Xuemei died, A Bing became the master Taoist in Leizun Hall, and took turns to take charge of the incense income of Leizun Hall with his cousin Hua Boyang. Later, due to poor management, A Bing became addicted to opium, and his life gradually fell into poverty. At the age of 34, he became blind one after another, and was forced by life to wander the streets and busk for a living. 1939, A Bing married Dong Caidi, a rural widow in Jiangyin.
/kloc-in the summer of 0/950, Professor Yang Yinliu and Professor Cao Anhe from the Central Conservatory of Music made a special trip to Wuxi to play a recording for A Bing. At this time, A Bing had completely abandoned music for three years. After three days of practice, he recorded it twice, leaving three erhu works, Two Springs Reflecting the Moon, Listening to Pines, Cold Spring Breeze and Dragon Boat. However, A Bing's own favorite "Three Lane of Plum Blossoms" was not recorded because there was not enough recording wire. After that, "Two Springs Reflecting the Moon" and "Big Waves Wasting Sand" won the 20th Century Chinese Classic Music Award.
1In September, 1950, the Chinese Music Department of the Central Conservatory of Music planned to hire A Bing as a teacher, but at that time he was seriously ill and unable to apply./kloc-0 died on February 4th, and was buried in the "Yihe Mountain House" cemetery at the foot of the western suburbs of Wuxi. 195 1 On March 27th, his wife Dong Cai.
A Bing's achievements in music have gone far beyond the barriers inherited by his family, and he has learned from others' strengths and absorbed many skills, and reflected all his feelings about the painful life through music. His music works are permeated with the essence of traditional music, revealing a healthy and deep breath from the bottom of the people, which is sincere, gripping and full of strong artistic appeal.
Anecdotal anecdote
People call A Bing "three are 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 at home. 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 to flee for several months and dare not go home.
On one occasion, Tang Enbo, a Kuomintang warlord, asked A Bing to give his thirteenth aunt a birthday party. A Bing flatly refused and was beaten, but A Bing did not give in, and made up the lyrics and pulled up the erhu to lambaste them.
During the Anti-Japanese War, the Japanese occupied Wuxi, and a man named Zhang Shijun became a traitor. When A Bing knew about it, he made up words to scold him and was beaten 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.
music composition
Huishan Spring in Wuxi, Jiangsu, is known as "the second spring in the world". The author Hua Yanjun named the music "Two Springs Reflecting the Moon", which not only introduced people into the artistic conception of quiet at night, clear spring and cold moon, but also made them feel like meeting the person when listening to the complete music-an upright and tenacious blind artist pouring out his rough life to people.
After the short introduction, the melody goes up from the Shang tone to the corner, then stops at the sign and corner tone, and ends with the Gong tone, which is a microwave-shaped melody line, just like the author sitting by the spring meditating on the past (fragment 1). The second phrase has only two bars, and * * * appears six times in the whole song. It starts at the high octave of the ending of the first phrase. Swinging up and down around the Gong Yin broke the silence in front and began to be high, revealing the author's infinite feelings (fragment 2). When entering the third sentence, the melody flows in the high-pitched area, and new rhythm factors appear. The melody is soft and firm, and the mood is more exciting. The theme gradually changed from calm and deep at the beginning to high spirits, which profoundly revealed the author's inner life feelings and tenacious and proud will to live. The frequent use of his notes in his performance makes the music feel a little sad, which is the emotional expression of a blind artist who has suffered a lot from human bitterness and pain.
The theme of the whole song is changed five times, and with the statement, extension and expansion of the music, the expressed feelings are more fully expressed. Its variation technique is mainly through the expansion and contraction of sentence width, combined with the rise and fall of melody activity range to express the development and circuitous progress of music. Its many variations are not to express different musical emotions, but to deepen the theme, so the musical image shaped by the music is relatively single and concentrated. The speed of the whole song changes little, but its strength changes greatly, from pp to ff. Whenever playing music longer than quarter notes, the bow changes in weight, strength and weakness, and the music rises and falls, which is exciting.