Boys still love plum blossoms when they grow up. He often composes with plum blossoms and plays with a flute, with a melodious voice. When night falls and all is silent, he plays the Di Mei, which is tactfully quiet for a long time. People usually think this is Yue Xian.
Emperor Jincheng often asked the man to play plum blossom flute, during which he listened to plum blossom flute and did plum blossom dance. He is Huan Yi, a famous Eastern Jin Dynasty star.
The Book of Jin praised him:
Good music is a moment's wonder, and Jiangzuo is the first.
In 383, Fu Jian, the former king of Qin, led a million troops to invade the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Huan Yi, Xie An, Xie Shi, and Xie Xuan led 80,000 nomads to fight in the water, which was called the Battle of Surging Water in history, and was defeated by one to ten. After the war, Huan Yi abdicated. In 385, he took his beloved Ke Tingdi and lived in Yunjin Temple in Hengyang again.
This Curtin flute is no ordinary flute. Elaborated by Cai Yong, a writer and calligrapher of the Eastern Han Dynasty. It is said that the Cai Yong family had moved to Huiji. The bamboo forest there aroused Cai Yong's interest, and he wanted to take a bamboo flute to eliminate the fatigue of the journey.
One afternoon, Cai Yong went to the bamboo forest alone to pick bamboo materials and didn't find the right one. He had to come to Keting in disappointment, but this small and exquisite bamboo pavilion attracted him. He went in, looked around and suddenly counted the bamboos under the eaves. He stopped at the sixteenth root and stared blankly, as if thinking something.
Cai Yong immediately moved a ladder to climb up, looked at the bamboo and touched it. The more he watched it, the more he liked it. He shouted, "Somebody! Somebody please. Help me get rid of these sixteen bamboos! "
The waiter said inexplicably, "The pavilion was built only yesterday and can't be demolished! You want bamboo, there are plenty of bamboo forests in the back. I will cut it for you. "
Cai Yong said anxiously, "What I want is not ordinary bamboo, but bamboo with fine grain, round and straight, neither coarse nor fine. Look, this bamboo is light yellow with black stripes. It is a perfect flute-making material from the inside out. I searched all the bamboos in the forest, but it was not so good. Please remove it for me! "
After the attendants cut down the bamboo, the flute made by Cai Yong was really remarkable. Because bamboo is made of Curtin, it is named "Curtin flute". Huanyi loves this guzheng very much, and often thinks about when she can have a bamboo forest of her own, so that she can be blessed by God and make more beautiful music.
But compared with the bamboo forest, Huanyi loves Yun Jin 'an's Xiang Mei more, and he is crazy about it. One winter night, it snowed heavily on the mountain where Yunjin 'an was located. In the morning, Huanyi looked out of the window, and the buds on the branches of plum trees stood proudly in the snow. What a wonderful picture of "the trees are frozen with snow, full of fragrance and full of wind".
Inspired by the surprise attack, Huan Yi immediately picked up the flute in his hand and played the Plum Blossom Introduction, which was improvised for Wang Huizhi by the river. Elegant and leisurely flute sounds bypass the temple, pass through Meilin and reach the sky. As night fell and all was silent, Huan Yi played this piece again, as if to dedicate it to the world.
Unexpectedly, the flute of Huanyi is no longer lonely. He heard the sound of guzheng in the meditation room echoing the music. Huanyi didn't expect to meet a bosom friend on this barren mountain. He was so surprised that he followed the sound, but Zheng's voice stopped. Huanyi quickly asked the monk, but the monk said that there was no one in the temple who could play the guzheng.
Huan Yi returned to his room in disappointment, laughing at his stupidity, and found a bosom friend in the barren hills. This is a rare blessing for Boya and her son. But I am not ordinary. How can a person who likes music have such an honor? May be the plum viewing time is too long, resulting in hallucinations.
One morning soon after, in Chuqing after the snow, Huan Yi opened the window and saw plum blossoms still blooming in the snow. Mei Xue is an organic whole, with snow in plum and plum in snow. Against the background of snow, Hongmei looks like a girl who has just taken a bath, and her blushing face is more charming. Huan Yi was fascinated by feelings, and divided into two tones of plum blossom, which were closely linked with the former tune of plum blossom.
Huan Yi played the flute and played it twice in another position with overtones. At this time, like the quiet West Lake, it is full of blue waves; Another example is the sudden appearance of iron horses and galloping horses on the grassland. The rhythm of the tunes keeps changing one after another, vividly depicting a mountain plum blossom, full of pride and snow. Therefore, the introduction of plum blossoms has become more fascinating.
In the evening, when Huanyi played the plum blossom intro again, the voice of guzheng echoed in a meditation room. In the silent night, the mellow timbre becomes clearer. At this time, Huan wade quickly followed the voice to the window, but before he found anyone, Zheng's voice came to an abrupt end.
It was another heavy snow in early spring, and the plum blossoms in the temple actually bloomed for the second time, dancing jade turned silver, and the shadows were fragrant. Huan Yi couldn't help it, so he synthesized the three tones of plum blossom and "merged into one" with the two tones. Since then, the three tones of plum blossom have been completed, and the introduction of plum blossom has been perfected to the extent that Huan Yi thinks it is perfect.
Huan Yi plays the flute, and the overtone is repeated three times in different positions, in one key,
The two tones are repeated in different positions, and the three tones are merged, and the rhythm is gradually stable, but the artistic conception is deeper. Through the change of tone, the music is pushed to a climax, and then gradually melodious and lingering.
In the evening, an old monk knocked at the door in the moonlight and asked to see Huan Yi with A Zheng. Huan Yi immediately got up to meet him: "Why is the old Zen master late?"
The old monk replied, "I heard the general play the flute and played" Three Tones of Plum Blossom ".I also learned it, so I took the liberty to come and play it with the general's flute and Zheng. What do you think? "
Huan Yi said happily, "That's what I thought. Please ask the old Zen master for advice. " Therefore, "Three Tones of Plum Blossom" composed by these two flutes and Zheng is a perfect combination, with rich and simple timbre, meaningful charm and more beautiful and moving.
After playing a song, Huan Yi was overjoyed. When asked, I learned that the old Zen master was the abbot of the temple, whose legal name was "Zhikai" and his common name was "Xiaoting". He is a descendant of Boya disciples, and his piano skills are superb.
Later, after Huan Yi's death, the three tones of plum blossom were widely circulated. Yan Shigu, a famous pianist in the Tang Dynasty, adapted Three Tones of Plum Blossom into a piano piece of the same name. In the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Quan included the three tones of plum blossom in the Collection of Magical Secrets, and renamed the song "Three Fairs of Plum Blossom".